Re: [OT] HUB question

2001-07-22 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:42:32 EDT, Sunny Dubey writes: >I have two hubs, and I'd like to be able to connect them to each other. Both >have a port called "uplink port", do I need to use a cross over cable to >connect both hubs using their uplink ports, or should I use a normal cable to >connect

Re: RBL for hire

2001-07-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:46:21 EDT, Noah Meyerhans writes: >Several people/groups have announced intentions to run services similar >to ORBS or the mail-abuse stuff. I don't know what's come of that. >There are links to a couple of possibilities at >http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/02/1540210_F.

q ad imapd

2001-07-25 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m using imapd 4.7c-1 and would need it to be slightly more expressive when syslogging. The manpage and /usr/doc/imap/ aren´t very helpful in that regard. The self-compiled uw-imapd 4.7c I´ve been using before logged when it was moving mail into the users mailbox, but I´d rather use t

Re: ipchains rules: REJECT vs. DENY

2001-07-25 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:38:19 EDT, Jason Healy writes: >The other problem is that if you DENY certain oft-used services, you >can cause problems. For example, if you DENY on the ident service >port, machines trying to connect to you will timeout waiting for ident >info. Some mail servers try to

Re: ipchains rules: REJECT vs. DENY

2001-07-26 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:12:22 PDT, Alvin Oga writes: >> >Moral of that story is to make sure that you either run an ident >> >server, or set it to REJECT. >> >> Well, I wouldn´t (and don´t) run identd, since I have no intention of >> revealing the name of the user running a particular service (i

sendmail logs

2001-07-28 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Since I re-installed a box, sendmail seems to be logging less information than before. Specifically, I had two entries for each mail, one for the receiving part, and one for delivery. Now when mail is sent to a local luser I only get a syslog-entry for the delivery part, but not for t

Re: ipchains rules: REJECT vs. DENY

2001-07-31 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:14:20 PDT, "Karsten M. Self" writes: >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 01:38:19PM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: >> > > Are there any drawbacks to DENY? Is there a general consensus on this >> > > subject? >The benefits are twofold: > > - For a two-stage scan, DENY gives the appearan

Re: imap-server: A neverending story?

2001-08-05 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 04 Aug 2001 21:12:58 +0200, Martin Puaschitz writes: >Thanks for all the help about my apt-get problem. Now there is somthing new. >I would like to run an imapserver on my debian-system 2.2 unstable. I have >an static-ip-adress with permanent connection and the server should relay >mails f

Re: XMMS hanging system?

2001-08-09 Thread Robert Waldner
On 09 Aug 2001 08:55:52 CDT, Michael Heldebrant writes: >Well at least we know it's not XMMS. Perhaps a downgrade to 4.0.3 X >will restore some stability for you. They don't call it "unstable" for >no reason sometimes ;> >> This is all included for completeness at his point - I removed XMMS, an

Re: best practice for tar and gzip?

2001-08-12 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 03:46:46 PDT, "Karsten M. Self" writes: >on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 02:46:42AM -0700, patrick q ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I have a lot of important archives, up to 10,000 files per ~10 Meg >> tar.gz tarball, that I like to keep as safe as possible. >> >> I test the archives wh

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-12 Thread Robert Waldner
>> > On 11 Aug 2001 16:37:58 -0500, Mike Brownlow wrote: >> > >> > > I suspect hardware failure caused it, but there are still a few software >> > > unknowns. I'm starting to lean on corruption due to using -m16 for >> > > hdparm. Any other suggestions appreciated... Just for good measure, I wou

stable sendmail w/ unstable libraries

2001-08-15 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Just a hint to be cautious, I´ve seen this on debian-isp (IIRC) before, and have been bitten by it myself some 2 or 3 times, but when it was now time again, I couldn´t find it in the archives. So, take my advice with a grain of salt, it´s just for the archives ;-) When upgrading some l

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-15 Thread Robert Waldner
On 15 Aug 2001 20:37:49 +1000, Joel Mayes writes: >> "gary" == gary p largess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > gary> I do not want to experiment with the computer I use for >gary> work/school, but I have a "project" computer I would like to >gary> install some version of Linux on. 13

Re: How to answer

2001-08-15 Thread Robert Waldner
>>Many people object to being cc'ed (and so having to remember whether >>they've replied to one copy of the message when they've encountered the >>other one). If there's a Mail-Followup-To: header or a 'Mail-Copies-To: >>nobody', it's a good idea to honour it. s/Mail.*/Reply-To/ Most MUAs will o

Re: How to answer

2001-08-15 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:59:40 CDT, Nathan E Norman writes: >On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:22:10PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> >>Many people object to being cc'ed (and so having to remember whether >> >>they've replied to one copy of the message when they&#

Re: How to answer

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:03:46 CDT, Nathan E Norman writes: >On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:43:34PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> >I don't think this is really true, at least not in GNU/Linux land. >> >mutt and gnus support Mail-Followup-To: ... what else is there? :) >&

sendmail 8.12 syslog question

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m now running sendmail 8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta7-8, which works quite smoothly, only that it doesn´t seem to syslog with facility mail.* but something else. So I can see the process "sm-mta" in my catch-all logfile bit not where I send facility mail.* to. Anyone round here knows the needed

Re: How to make ppp0 default gateway automaticly?

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:05:07 +0800, Tao Liu writes: >but how can I make ppp0 the default gateway automaticly when ppp0 is up? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep def /etc/ppp/options defaultroute hth+cheers, &rw -- -- "Women novelists are a bit like a dog walking -- upon his hind legs; he does not do i

picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Anyone knows of a good picture browser for Linux (preferrably .deb´ianized, of course, but I can live with compiling myself)? I can´t find one via freshmeat et al, but am in need of something which has browsing and preview capabilities like ACDSee on windos. cheers+tia, &rw -- -- Actua

Re: How to make ppp0 default gateway automaticly?

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
>> >> >but how can I make ppp0 the default gateway automaticly when >> ppp0 is up? >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep def /etc/ppp/options >> defaultroute >> > >I also believe that >route add default ppp0 >also works (although it is a while since I have done tis. dunno, but if you have to set t

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:33:22 PDT, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" writes: >> Anyone knows of a good picture browser for Linux (preferrably >> .deb´ianized, of course, but I can live with compiling myself)? >there are gobs and gobs of them. GNOME has some, KDE has some, plain GTK+ and >QT. Try Multimed

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:56:44 EDT, Sean Morgan writes: >> >> Anyone knows of a good picture browser for Linux (preferrably >> >> .deb´ianized, of course, but I can live with compiling myself)? >> Thanks, someone mentioned GQview in a private reply, which does exactly >> what I need (and it d

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
(when ignoring a set Reply-To it would be nice to at least include a short notice as of /why/ it was ignored) On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:40:32 +0200, Eduard Bloch writes: >Robert Waldner wrote on Thu Aug 16, 2001 um 11:24:55PM: > >> Actually, I have to disagree, gqview is (by "fe

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:39:12 +0200, Eduard Bloch writes: >Robert Waldner wrote on Fri Aug 17, 2001 um 12:09:33AM: > >> You got the bit about "slow hardware", didn´t you? And when I say > >The mail was not intended for you only. Yes, I got that. I mentioned it e

Re: picture browser for debian

2001-08-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 19:30:06 EDT, Wayne Topa writes: >Quoting Robert Waldner([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> >> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:39:12 +0200, Eduard Bloch writes: >> >The mail was not intended for you only. >> >> Yes, I got that. I mentioned it ev

Re: Failover for default gateway

2001-08-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 18:39:09 +0300, George Karaolides writes: >I would like to set up two Debian boxes as default gateways on my company >LAN. > >How can they be set up to failover, i.e. when one goes down the other >becomes the default gateway? Has anyone done this before? Have you had a look a

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Robert Waldner
> >>When I drop down to a console from X, or when I exit X altogether, the > >>screen that comes up is unreadable. It is a black screen with lots of > >>vertical white lines of varying width. When I type, it just produces > >>more verticle white lines where the text should be. > > It is likely

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:16:06 CDT, Kent West writes: >If I understand you correctly, what you're describing I've seen also, but it >wasn't related to Linux. It's related to a setting in the laptop's CMOS >("Expand Video", or some-such) and the way that setting interacts with video >modes. If you

Re: How to get a list of minimal Potato packages

2001-08-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:36:38 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >As far as I can tell, the most minimal Potato install occurs when selecting >the 'advanced' install option, and then quitting dselect without installing >anything. What I want to know is, is there any easy way of telling what >package

Re: OT: Collecting data in text files

2001-08-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:29:17 PDT, Abner Gershon writes: <...> >I currently collect lists of information on many >topics such as restaurants, phone lists, file folders, >slides using a database program, Lotus approach. Since >I am the only user of this information I thought I >could record this inf

Re: cdrecord

2001-08-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:59:32 EDT, Titus Barik writes: >I get the following when doing cdrecord -scanbus: > >chronos:/home/barik# cdrecord -scanbus >Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling >cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. >cdrecord: For p

Re: MPEG video viewer

2001-08-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:34:09 PDT, David Frischknecht writes: >Does anyone know where I can get a good MPEG video >viewer? From what I've heard, xanim doesn't do >justice to MPEGs. Thanks. from `apropos mpeg`: gtv (1) - MPEG audio (MP3) and video (MPEG-1) player with GTK+ GUI plaympeg (1)

q ad mp3-software

2001-08-29 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m on a rather slow machine, a Pentium running at 50 MHz. This is just fine for working, and should be reasonably fast for playing mp3´s. With mpg123 (stable) CPU-usage is ~ 70 %, but I get random clicks and other nasty distortions. Ok, renice mpg123 to -3, so it should be served befo

Re: Old BIOS does not support bootable cdroms

2001-08-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:25:38 CDT, ktb writes: >On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:12:17PM -0400, Ken Mead wrote: >> I was given on old P166 and want to put Debian on it however the old BIOS >> does not support bootable cd's. Can someone please point/help me make a >> floppy disk that will allow me to bo

Re: Partitioning Advice

2001-08-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:50:21 PDT, Mike Fedyk writes: >On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:49:19PM -0600, John Purser wrote: >> I'm installing Debian Woody as the only OS on an IBM PC with a 20 gig hard >> drive, 192 megs of ram, and two Ethernet cards. This machine will be my >> network gateway and provid

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:35:21 CST, hanasaki writes: >Is there some way to have: > >- Machine is assigned a DHCP IP >- Use the MAC to map to a hostname and then push the assigned IP into >Bind with the hostname? uargh, you're thinking of something like MSs "Active DNS" (or whatever it's called

Re: RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet driver for kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:36:51 +1100, mobtek mobtekl writes: >On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:57:35 -0600 >Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes. I solved it be throwing the cards in the garbage and installing >> real NICs. >> >> These cards were reporting overruns at a rate 10x that of properl

FQDN foobar

2002-03-01 Thread Robert Waldner
is, and there's another way to get the FQDN "the right way", or is this some serious brain-damage in the installation-process and a bug (against which package?) should be filed? cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \ \ <[EMAI

Re: Doubts about Quake II

2002-03-05 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:00:47 GMT, Alan James writes: >Also, can you try a smaller simpler OpenGL program to see if that works ? >Perhaps you can find one that gives an error message instead of segfaulting ? glxinfo/glxgears? cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Waldner
be able to get any meaning out of the broadcasted signals other than to deduce that it's not coming from a natural source. Same applies the other way. I guess one shouldn't confuse Star Trek too much with reality ;-) cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | C

exmh not starting

2001-03-25 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I installed exmh and nmh, but when starting exmh, it´s doing nothing. ii exmh 2.1.1-1.1 An X user interface for MH mail. ii nmh1.0.2-9A set of electronic mail handling programs. When I do an strace, the last output is: <...> read(4, "# main.tcl\n#\n# Main

Re: domain name: internet vs. intra-net

2001-03-26 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 03:17:00 MDT, will trillich writes: >what kind of naming setup do you use for the intRAnet? something >totally different from the public access point ("timmy.my.lan" >for example) or do you branch off the original public name >("timmy.private.mydomain.org" for example)? Well,

sendmail 8.9.3-23 woes

2001-03-27 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I have a stable box running sendmail 8.9.3-23 as a mailhub. Cleaning all masquerade-options off the .mc-file and re-running sendmailconfig still leaves DMdomain.net in the .cf. ka:/etc/mail# egrep domain sendmail.mc #Cwdomain.net #MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(ka.domain.net ka)dnl #MASQUERADE_AS(domain

Re: (OT) - Static electricity grounding device?

2001-03-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:25:49 PDT, Jason Gunthorpe writes: > >On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: > >> I really doubt very much that to connect your electric installation to >> your pipes installation is even legal.. ask an insurance company. > >It's common practice around here.. The pipe goin

Re: sendmail 8.9.3-23 woes

2001-03-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:07:00 CDT, Richard A Nelson writes: > >Try using `dnl ' instead of `#' a thanks to all who made me aware of m4. once I realised that sendmailconfig uses m4 to expand the macros (and installed m4-doc and walked through...) it slipped in place. cheers, &rw -- -- When you

Re: Recommended mailer software

2001-03-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:03:19 +0200, Joakim Nordlander writes: > The mailing list is currently using Majordomo, but I'm thinking of moving >to Smartlist. Try listar. Fast, flexible and with a _very_ helpful mailing list. cheers, &rw -- -- C'mon, which [luser] is it, standard or metric? I'd say

Re: Recommended mailer software

2001-03-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:30:18 BST, Gavin Hamill writes: >On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:03:19 +0200, Joakim Nordlander writes: >> > The mailing list is currently using Majordomo, but I'm thinking of moving >> >to Smartlis

X vs. monitor

2001-04-01 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m using xserver-svga (3.3.6-11potato) with a ViewSonic G800 monitor, "powererd" by an S3 Virge-based 4 MB RAM gfx-card. I ran XF86Setup and entered the h/vsync rates[0], chose 1600x1200x16bpp (which, if I did the math[1] correctly, fits nicely in 4 MB RAM), started the X-server and the

Re: ISDN setup

2001-04-03 Thread Robert Waldner
>On 02-Apr-2001 Matt Thompson wrote: >> We are a casualty of the Northpoint closure, but fortunately have our >> ISDN >> line still in operation. I'm considering purchasing the Eicon DIVA >> Pro >> PCI ISDN adapter to install in the Potato server here. >> >> Can anyone recommend or warn about t

XFree 4 and 2-button-mouse

2001-04-06 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m sure it´s in the documentation, but I can´t find it...I could only dig up "look it up in the documentation of the InputDevice-Module. Ok, this is mouse_drv.o, but I can´t find documentation for it, so I have to ask: What´s the magic to emulate Emulate3Buttons from XF/3 in XF/4? TIA,

Re: routing protocols

2001-10-12 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:55:09 +0200, martin f krafft writes: > >RIP, HELLO, OSPF, BGP, EGP, SPREAD > >all these are routing protocols. RIP, HELLO, and EGP are >distance/vector based, OSPF and SPREAD are link-state based, but what >exactly do these mean? do you have a comprehensive webpage? (long U

Re: bad file

2001-10-13 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) > >?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 guid >e.it.html Long shot: Have you tried `cat /dev/null >g

Re: bad file

2001-10-13 Thread Robert Waldner
>> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: >> >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up >> > >> >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) >> > >> >?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 g >uid >> >e.it.html >> >> Long shot: Hav

Re: bad file

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:18:55 PDT, Kevin writes: >its got nothing to do with the attribs or the perms > >lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on ./guide.it.html > >and i cant fsck it because im not local and cant go to single user. >oh well, thanks for the help Maybe you don

Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 02:19:26 PDT, Erik Steffl writes: >Martin Rowe wrote: >> >> On Saturday 13 October 2001 11:13 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: >> > > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my >> > > meager 56K connection stallin

Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:50:25 +0200, Oliver Korff writes: >today I come to my home Workstation and its locked up. Thats worring me >because it happened two days before at the same time. Research at the web >told me there is a bug report out about anacron (but closed). >The anacron package was de

Re: System freeze

2001-10-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:09:45 +0200, Oliver Korff writes: >> Run memtest86 for a night or somesuch. > >It didn't take the night, the second test showed the bad ram. >!AAAggghhh! > >Before I'm going to have a screwdriver session I wanted to say: "thanx" (and >I was so shure, because I tested t

Re: offtopic: perldoc

2001-10-15 Thread Robert Waldner
On 15 Oct 2001 12:19:16 +0200, "Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing" writes: >I am trying to get the perl core documentation, as found on > >http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/ > >It is nice, there I can see the online docs, but no ways to get the >offline version as an tarball etc. Either, wget won't also w

Re: How can I get ntp working?

2001-10-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:03:30 EDT, Tom Allison writes: >Additional comment. >ntpd on Server 'A' will not accept any time synchronization requests until it >is satisfied it's got a reasonable time, then Computer 'B' will be able to >synchronize with Server 'A'. >After you run ntpdate and start ntp

Re: How can I get ntp working?

2001-10-18 Thread Robert Waldner
(please don't Cc me on list-mail, I read all the lists I post to. sigh) >> Unfortunately, if you've got a whole bunch of servers waiting to start >> to synchronize with your main time server(s). In a hierarchical >> environment you can get up to hours until they all are in sync :( >> >> Runn

Re: Problem booting my system

2001-10-18 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 18:10:09 MDT, Kris Huber writes: >With the boot sequence having scsi first, a program (the kernel, I assume) >runs and prints "001 " in an endless loop, filling the screen until I >. I have an IDE drive in the system (ext2 file system), but >I've disabled it in BIOS in additio

Re: WHOIS Can't Access RIPE's RPSL Format

2001-11-02 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 23:13:24 EST, John Bacalle writes: >Running the latest whois from stable (Version 4.4.13), I needed a WHOIS >lookup as follows: > >whois -h whois.ripe.net 213.107.39.235 > >But, no results are forthcoming except I get a notification from RIPE >their format has changed[1] so

Re: Tulip chip Netgear card

2001-11-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:37:22 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >These are *not* new NICs, I've had them for a few years now. I am nearly >certain that they are 310s. As I said, both will run on SuSE 6.3 using the >standard tulip.c driver. I just need to know what to do to get them to work >with Deb

Re: q ad mp3-software

2001-08-30 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:56:59 EDT, Mike McGuire writes: >On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:56:54AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: >> I´m on a rather slow machine, a Pentium running at 50 MHz. This is just >> fine for working, and should be reasonably fast for playing mp3´s. >> &

q ad chrooted named and the FHS

2001-08-31 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m gonna get security a bit up and set up bind chroot()ed. No big deal, actually, but I want to conform with the FHS on that and can´t quite figure out where I´d put the chroot in my "normal" FS-hierarchy. Right now it resides in /var/local/bind, ´cause that´s my best guess fo far. H

fyi: howto set up bind chroot()ed on debian

2001-09-01 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! This is what I had to do to get bind chroot()ed on my debian (mostly) stable box, maybe it´ll be useful for others. This is "as is", your setup might differ, expect troubles, yadda, yadda. mkdir /var/local/bind mkdir /var/local/bind/etc mkdir /var/local/bind/etc/bind (cd /etc/bind; tar cv

Re: machine version and platform?

2001-09-03 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 13:26:38 BST, Rory Campbell-Lange writes: >Is there a command that will show my machine, kernel and (possibly) >debian version? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux shlurptopf 2.2.19 #9 Wed Apr 18 13:20:48 CEST 2001 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 2.2

Re: Security from others when server running

2001-09-03 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:33:50 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hi, I'm running a server in a public location, and the applications running >on the server run in their own virtual console (or an xterm window). However, >if someone came up and closed the xterm or hit ^C they could cancel the >serve

Re: Security from others when server running

2001-09-04 Thread Robert Waldner
(please, don´t Cc me on list-mail) On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 17:10:31 PDT, Alvin Oga writes: >extremely hard to protect a server if people have physical access >to it... > - they can hit ctrl-alt-delete > ( remove that option from /etc/inittab if you dont like anyone > rebooting it )

Re: What VPN is recommended?

2001-09-04 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 10:28:39 +0800, "Rino Mardo" writes: >> I think I can guess that if you're using Lotus Notes, most of your >> employee's are working on windows. if that's correct, then you should >> consider pptp instead of ipsec. I'm no windows whiz but I think that pptp >> is easier to set t

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Robert Waldner
>> -- backups for Win98 can be done similarly... >> - need to have samba installed on the linux box... >> and test that you can see the windoze shares >> - backup the windoze boxes from the backupserver itself Ok, so you can backup win9x-boxen, but what about other windos´s? The

Re: network backup advice - windoze

2001-09-08 Thread Robert Waldner
(*please* do *not* cc me on list-mail) On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 00:43:36 PDT, Alvin Oga writes: >havent had any problems using linux to backup windoze boxes... Think disaster recovery, think windos nt: I surely *don´t* want to have to re-install the OS, the applications, make 100k settings and then

Re: Web banner blocker

2001-09-10 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:09:14 EDT, Jason Boxman writes: >On Sunday 09 September 2001 02:40 pm, Ross Burton wrote: >> I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian >> unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball >> hasn't been updated since November 1999. :

junkbuster (Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-10 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:44:05 EDT, Jason Boxman writes: >Yeah, I used to use junkbuster extensively. But I found that everytime I >went to a new site, I was nailed with ads and needed to add yet-another-entry >to the block list. If a massively comprehensive blocklist was available >somewhere (

Re: "Webwasher" alternatives (was Re: Web banner blocker)

2001-09-11 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:48:32 EDT, Jason Boxman writes: <...> >> As far as tracking your surfing, I'm chatting with a guy who's pointed >> me to a site that gets direct logs from ISPs, on claim was they had >> about 35% of the market in their service area. Ties full demographics >> (they've got yo

Re: *Working* Modem problems

2001-09-14 Thread Robert Waldner
>> It's also interesting to note that the modem works fine under W2k. Oh, and >> I thought that that it could have been pppd not correctly telling my modem >> to disconnect, so I tried echoing "ATH0" to the device after the connection >> was brought down, which didn't help... >> >> Any ideas? >

Re: Modem Question

2001-09-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:24:32 EDT, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar writes: >I had recently posted a question regarding the availability of a driver >fpr a V.90 modem. Many replied saying that this much info was inadequate >to tell anything. So I have gathered as much info as i culd have >considering that

Re: Modem Question

2001-09-14 Thread Robert Waldner
(please: - do *not* cc me on list-mail - read http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mail/edit.html . search for "BAD: Block Replies", you´ll know what I mean..) >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:24:32 EDT, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar writes: >On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner

Re: Effects of promiscuous mode

2001-09-14 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:00:21 PDT, "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" writes: > >On 14-Sep-2001 Rino Mardo wrote: >> "I'm checking out snort, a network intrusion detection system. I >> noticed that when I start the snort daemon to listen on eth0 (my NIC >> connected to the Internet), the interface enters promi

Re: cdrecord

2001-09-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:37:21 PDT, jjheuring writes: >Linux 2.2.19pre17-compact #1 Mon Apr 2 01:35:19 PDT 2001 i686 unknown >ide BTC cdrw > >just did an 'apt-get install cdrecord' > >as I understand I should not have to recompile my kernel or edit >lilo.conf For IDE-writers you have to have IDE-S

Re: uptime

2001-09-16 Thread Robert Waldner
ach Robert Waldner (on Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:01:26AM +0200): >> Not to give NT any honour, but that´s probably FW-1. It runs reasonably >> (for commercial-firewall-software - values of) stable on AIX, Solaris and >> Debian, but the NT-port is...utter crap. > >ever done MFC prog

Re: cdrecord

2001-09-16 Thread Robert Waldner
On 17 Sep 2001 06:40:31 +0800, csj writes: >On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 06:07, Robert Waldner wrote: >> >> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:37:21 PDT, jjheuring writes: >> >Linux 2.2.19pre17-compact #1 Mon Apr 2 01:35:19 PDT 2001 i686 unknown >> >ide BTC cdrw >> >

Re: recompile [was cdrecord]

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:57:23 PDT, John writes: >On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:41:21PM -0700, jjheuring wrote: >> >> ok part of my problem is that I have 2.2.19pre17-compact kernel. 'cause >> that's the only image I could get to reconize my nic cards for a net >> install. Any way I was able to find t

sendmail or perl: which is the bad one..

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Just wanted to do a minor tweak to my sendmail-config at home, whilst stumbling into: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/mail# sendmailconfig Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] Updating sendmail environment ... Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions

Re: Error message at boot time

2001-09-17 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:21:14 PDT, "Karsten M. Self" writes: >on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 05:00:45PM +0100, Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED] >lueyonder.co.uk) wrote: <...> >> tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0x1000, 00:A0:CC:D3:72:BA, IRQ >> 11.

Re: sendmail or perl: which is the bad one..

2001-09-18 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:04:40 EDT, Richard A Nelson writes: >On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > >> Just wanted to do a minor tweak to my sendmail-config at home, whilst >> stumbling into: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/mail# sendmailconfig >> Configure

Re: sendmail or perl: which is the bad one..

2001-09-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 01:56:40 +0200, Robert Waldner writes: >On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:04:40 EDT, Richard A Nelson writes: >>On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: >Yup, perl is to old to understand character classes >> >>> sendmail is "8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta7-8"

Re: Procmail Recipes on old messages?

2001-09-19 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:03:41 EDT, Jason Rashaad Jackson writes: >OK. I have successfully gotten procmail up and running on my local host, a >nd it's happily filtering incoming mail. This is great for new stuff, but >what about all the old messages in my spoolfile that have piled (and piled >and

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:12:17 CDT, "Brooks R. Robinson" writes: >> > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it would >> > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. >> >> Not correct, it gets a Redirect as the response, and it's its >> responsibility to

Re: lilo trouble

2001-09-23 Thread Robert Waldner
(following up on myself and on an ancient posting, too. Just for the sake of completeness and the search-egines in case someone else experiences such a problem) On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:06:24 +0200, Robert Waldner writes: >I have a machine with a large IDE-disk (hda) and a smaller, but a

Re: apache .htpasswd problems

2001-09-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:11:44 +0200, Martin F Krafft writes: >trying to get apache to authorize users through .htaccess. this isn't >my first time, but it's not working and i am clueless. > >i can either configure the following settings via .htaccess (having >set AllowOverride AuthConfig for Direct

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:12:43 BST, Matthew Sackman writes: >Well, that's all gone through and worked - not quite as simple as I >thought, but I got there. Network performance seems a little faster >than before but still a little slow compared with what I thought >would have been possible with a 10

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-24 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:12:16 BST, Matthew Sackman writes: >Ah ha! >Things are not as bad as they seem. > >If I do cat /dev/zero | nc -u -p 1666 doris.namkas 1666 >and set up doris.namkas to receive correctly then knetload reports >around 98000KBit/s which doesn't seem too bad. > >Doing it the

Re: what's the proper size of the root directory

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:02:56 -, "Yuwen Dai" writes: >I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. My question is > >what's the proper size of the '/' directory? There is no "proper" size. You can stuff anything anywhere you like, but just for sureness I´d go for at least 100 MB. >Of cause, I e

Re: ntpd

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:49:20 EDT, Alan Shutko writes: >Right... some Unix programs get upset by too great a change in time, >though I don't know of any major problems. I've had kernel-panics when the time was set backwards. >IIRC, ntpd will eventually slew the clock to the correct time, it just

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:50:33 CDT, Dave Sherohman writes: >On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >> Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to >> say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures. >> >> I have no idea where this is happening

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:55:11 EDT, Noah Meyerhans writes: >Or switch to something other than mbox, mh-style. ;-) cheers+SCNR, &rw -- -- "Damn and blast British Telecom!" shouted Dirk, -- the words coming easily from years of practice. -- Douglas Adams pgpHSK2gF3o2m.pgp Description: PGP

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:28:10 EDT, dman writes: >On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >| I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. >| >| Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to >| say, this utterly borks things

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:56:41 EDT, Daniel Burrows writes: >On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:26:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: >> On Sep/27/2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> >> > vim 6.0 was released yesterday and I just finished the packages for it. >> >> Does this new version have

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 08:22:54 +1000, Craig Sanders writes: >i often have to install vim on a system, then run "vi" and find i'm in >nvi rather than vim. yuk! I'm doing base-installs every time, and, quite often, find that I'm in elvis (or -tiny, whatever). Which is ..unusable to me. Is this rea

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