Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread nate
and there was no noticable impact either. of course theres the real picky kind of person who seems to be able to notice the slightest change in anything :) I think if such a person would "notice" any impact it would be their imagination. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: IMAP-SSL

2003-02-17 Thread nate
much of a problem :) (haven't tried compiling it in more then 2 years perhaps things have changed since). oh and debian has sslwrap as a package I don't mean to imply that you have to compile it to use it on debian! nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread nate
white. it was really simple to configure too, much easier then using magicfilter/apsfilter at least. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Glide3 Compilation Problems

2003-02-17 Thread nate
in /etc/apt/sources.list e.g.: deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free you may need to apt-get build-dep libglide3 before compiling. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Explorer-type file manager

2003-02-17 Thread nate
en the rest.(I prefer afterstep myself and do not use any file managers, my sister uses suse 8.1 with kde 3, my mom has suse 8.0 with gnome) kde/gnome system requirements are quite a bit higher though but thats what you get for fancy eye candy and that extra functionality. nate -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Removing Package Dependencies

2003-02-17 Thread nate
Lukas Ruf said: > Is there any way to get rid of package dependencies? The reason for this > question: I have been using VIM ever since I am using Linux -- and do not > want to have emacs installed at all. However, packets like cxref have the > idea they would depend on emacs -- but cxref, as an

Re: pcmcia + apm = no suspend

2003-02-18 Thread nate
forge.net still apply for 2.4.x or not..) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable

2003-02-18 Thread nate
d which don't warrant an upgrade(just a recompile of those packages on woody). I probably will never understand the need that some people have to use the absolute bleeding edge. nate (loyal debian user since '98) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mailman permissions weirdness.

2003-02-19 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > what difference do the permissions make, then? sounds like the mailman cgi interface may be calling a binary that is setgid list in order to function. I don't have mailman installed anywhere at the moment so I can't check.. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Can't launch Tuxracer since dist-upgrade a while back

2003-02-19 Thread nate
t "command not found". I don't know if it is a coincidence that > they are both 3D games. try doin a dpkg -L tuxracer (or whatever the package name is) to see where the file(s) may be located at, odd that it wouldn't be in the PATH though. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

unusual log entry(0.0.0.0 connecting to me?)

2003-02-19 Thread nate
HELO/EHLO with my own hostname penguin.linuxpowered.net perhaps it's another host that has forward resolution of blackhole.go-fishing.co.uk and postfix reversed it showing 0.0.0.0 ?? very odd. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: ppp server for debian

2003-02-19 Thread nate
shr-heng said: > hi. > excuse me , if i want to set " ppp server " in the debian system, > where i can get the "ppp server" software. I use portslave.. it's a PPP server with radius support. works well. another option is to use mgetty. nate -- To UNSU

Re: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-19 Thread nate
Paul M Foster said: > I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one on my desk. > (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious when I have to > pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a Woody, but the > system I'm setting up is testing. > > I have a list of pa

Re: bogomips ?

2003-02-20 Thread nate
in the background that skewed results, in any case you can get your bogomips from /proc/cpuinfo note this really is a bogus(hence the bogo) measure of performance I think it's only done to configure some sort of timing mechanism in the kernel during boot(not sure though). nate -- To U

Re: VMware 3.2 and Debian Woody

2003-02-20 Thread nate
sn't include a SCSI bios so the SCSI disks are not bootable inside vmware from my experience at least. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gibraltar, apache and samba at the same machine

2003-02-20 Thread nate
nd machine acting as a firewall, and blocking everything by default. That is the easiest way to a more secure network. You don't require a 2nd machine but with only 1 it significantly increases the risk and work required to secure it. That's not to say it isn't possible, just more dif

RE: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-20 Thread nate
le->stable then upgrade the new machine to testing *after* all the packages have been installed from stable. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Open Office 1.0.2 formats differently on different OSes

2003-02-20 Thread nate
he printer settings to get paper size or may default to LETTER.. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sniffing SSL (was OT: mod_ssl (apache) log entries -- wtf?)

2003-02-20 Thread nate
Vineet Kumar said: > > Is there an easy way to decode a snarfed SSL session given that he has the > server's private key? Theoretically it's possible, but I wonder if any of > the popular sniffing/IDS tools facilitate it. I believe dsniff can do this ... ?? nate --

Re: DHCP/DNS assistance

2003-02-20 Thread nate
ly sure what you mean here. for now don't worry I guess:) > > Anyhow, that's probably way more than I needed to say, > thanks for putting up with the length, snip at will if you > even got this far! good luck! nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recompiling php4

2003-02-20 Thread nate
php4 and watch the magic.. this won't get any dependencies for your new config option(if there are any new dependencies for it) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: thumbnail+web page tool in woody?

2003-02-20 Thread nate
different tools for doing this; > but the two they've suggested aren't in woody and I'd like to keep their > machines as Debian-pure as I can. Can anybody suggest a package that I > can get with apt? I use igal syntax is simple, for defaults just cd to the directory an

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread nate
i've never seen the movie myself. And don't plan to :) there was also hamm(2.0), and slink(2.1), not sure if those were part of toy story too ? nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread nate
d to any sites that focused on MS-only stuff. IE 4.0 beta 2 I think was the last version of IE that I used seriously, and it's part of what made me jump to netscape on linux. So, it's been much easier for me to be not attached to anything IE or MS-centric as a result. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Odd "which" behaviour - not finding shell script

2003-02-21 Thread nate
:/usr/games:/home/aphro/bin _=PATH the ~ was expanded maybe you could try $HOME instead of ~ that may be more compadible accross shells. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread nate
influenced the way I react to such things, but I can't say for sure. Same goes for most other disney(and disney-like) things. I did enjoy them when I was much younger though(maybe age 11 and under?) at the moment I'm watchin johnny bravo on my tivo so maybe not all hope is lost for me :

Re: bash not reading ~/.bashrc

2003-02-21 Thread nate
Roberto Sanchez said: > Why is it that when I switch to a text console with -- that > bash does not read in my ~/.bashrc? > I think .bashrc is for non-login shells? logging into a console or logging in via ssh/telnet/etc is a login shell. you probably want ~/.profile ? see the bash manp

Re: trimming ~/.maillog

2003-02-21 Thread nate
Andy Saxena said: > Hello, > > I use ~/.maillog to log the actions of procmail verbosely. However the > file keeps growing by the day. Is there any way to trim the file size and > keep it under 100 Mb? check out logrotate. it's very flexible. It's installed by default na

Re: Cd destroyed in cd drive

2003-02-22 Thread nate
x I think. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iptables: not recommended by Debian?

2003-02-22 Thread nate
he the primary firewalling method for the 2.4.x. I am almost certain it is highly reccomended. I have done several debian installs and have never seen such a message.. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel Configurations

2003-02-22 Thread nate
ings differently perhaps using acls or something(acls should be available in ext2, probably ext3? and xfs at least, not in reiserfs as far as I know). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iptables: not recommended by Debian?

2003-02-22 Thread nate
calyth said: > Nate, > It may have been the iptables package which provides the init.d script. > the comments in the /etc/defaults/iptables says that not even the author > likes it. looks like he's bitching about the init scripts, not the iptables product itself. for me, I al

Need to restart postfix after adding user?

2003-02-22 Thread nate
configured to read mail from that other folder). I switched to postfix from sendmail when I upgraded the machine to woody back in august 2002, sendmail had no trouble with adding users. All my other postfix systems get user data via LDAP . any thoughts? thanks nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread nate
at the moment, most of it to my account. I'd highly reccomend raid 10 over raid 5 anyday of course! nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-24 Thread nate
pies if you have a floppy drive.. http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian3.0r1a/main/disks-i386/current/bf2.4/ nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hwto play .mpg files

2003-02-25 Thread nate
#x27;t get it workin so.. not sure what all xine can play I've only used it for MPEG-1 and VideoCDs(MPEG-1 as well). if xine doesn't play it, chances are it some other format.. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to compare and choose anti-virus software ???

2003-02-25 Thread nate
of the other branches other then the official one. Lars & Rainer have quite a software package with amavis. this concludes my biased opinion. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to systemwide change MAIL=/var/mail/username to /home/username/Maildir

2003-02-25 Thread nate
sr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # You'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail in my /etc/procmailrc there may be another way but that's how I've been doin it for 3 years now. nate -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: cyrdeliver fails with errorcode 75

2003-02-25 Thread nate
ectly(if thats possible) and run strace on it. I've never tried this before. cyrus 2 is an entirely different beast and from my initial experiences with it, I doubt I will ever deploy it in it's current state, maybe in a few years ... good luck. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: woody, nsswitch.conf/hosts.conf ignoring /etc/hosts

2003-02-25 Thread nate
I helped another guy troubleshoot another sendmail problem on his redhat machine. So there are probably some apps out there that do something similar, so I wouldn't rely on such behavior. Perhaps it's a specific system call that the apps call ..I'm no programmer so don't know

Re: MRTG

2003-02-25 Thread nate
404 Not > Found sounds like that mirror is broken/out of sync. try one of the main mirrors @ http.us.debian.org I have tons of docs on how to deploy MRTG here: http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/MRTG nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: FreeS/WAN on PPPOE

2003-02-26 Thread nate
seemed to be among the first to support the ESP-over-UDP, which played well with most NAT setups. We also used vtun extensivly as well(which overall was more reliable then the cisco boxes). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation

2003-02-26 Thread nate
ral files and directories on the CD with the burned ISO. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-26 Thread nate
ment a better form of filtering, or just learn to live with it(& expect it). my "filtering" is done by email account, each email address has a different inbox, and mail is delivered directly to that inbox rather then to another which then gets filtered. works well, though very time c

Re: serial line laptop console for headless setup

2003-02-26 Thread nate
serial console enabled in the kernel config) connect a null modem cable between the laptop and other machine, I use minicom to communicate, it takes a bit of configuration to diable all the modem-specific stuff(takes 1 minute). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: MRTG

2003-02-27 Thread nate
/mrtg /home/mrtg/bin /home/mrtg/tmp /home/mrtg/public_html /home/mrtg/conf where I put the various things like config files, scripts, and html. you can see a sample layout of my structure here: http://mrtg.aphroland.org I also make /var/lock/mrtg a symlink to /home/mrtg/tmp nate -- To UNSUBSC

Re: XFree86 & Virutal Screen

2003-02-27 Thread nate
esolution changing though I haven't used it myself. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AW: Can debian detect a tape drive without rebooting?

2003-02-27 Thread nate
t and echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 5 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi to remove it I usually check /proc/scsi/scsi as well to be sure it's done properly. never had a problem.. I do this with a Exabyte Tape drive as well as another SCSI enclosure which has a toshiba SCSI cdrom and a HP

Re: mistypes IP-address

2003-02-27 Thread nate
ifconfig eth0 192.168.X.X or if you mistyped the netmask as well ifconfig eth0 192.168.X.X netmask X.X.X.X ideally you should edit /etc/network/interfaces and issue a: /etc/init.d/networking restart nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public wireless access and basic security.

2003-02-27 Thread nate
/POP sessions as well but it's not easy to exploit and, at least for openssl users it's pretty easy to "fix". Though I haven't noticed an openssl for debian woody yet. I'm in no hurry myself. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disaster recovery

2003-02-27 Thread nate
ven't gotten around to doing it. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread nate
into 1, tracks cut off..etc). I'm fairly sure my liko generates valid VCDs since it works on my portable likko player as well as my dreamcast vcd players, and in every computer-based VCD player I have encountered. MpegTV generates slighly invalid mpeg data(it errors out after each track) but

Re: backing up hidden files

2003-02-27 Thread nate
is: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ tar -cvf target.tar * .?* tar -cvf target.tar ~/temp or cd ; tar -cvf target.tar temp/ is what I do .. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Phoenix with java ..

2003-02-27 Thread nate
://java.sun.com/openstudio/applets/clock.html worked for me nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread nate
n't seen much in the way of tools, vcdtools seems to be the dominant package to use. there used to be a program called binchunker which I used to use to burn bin/cue looks like that's replaced with bchunk, though never used it, and don't know if it's a write-only program or if it ca

Re: Phoenix with java ..

2003-02-27 Thread nate
, it shouldn't be needed. and for what it's worth I got the info here: http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.2.1/#java was testing out java on mozilla 1.2.1 ..the same info seemed to apply to phoenix as well. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VCDs (was Newbie Functioning In Debian)

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Paul Johnson said: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:24:45PM -0800, nate wrote: >> there used to be a program called binchunker which I used to >> use to burn bin/cue looks like that's replaced with bchunk, >> though never used it, and don't know if it's a write-only

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread nate
w "kdelibs & kdelibs4", but neither of them is > installed. how about grep "^Depends:" /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -in kdelibs-data then go to the line number it spits out to find the package(I use vi, and hit :) or apt-get -s remove kdelibs-data and see what it

Re: secondary root account

2003-02-28 Thread nate
; I work for do not want to use "sudo" before every command. Does anybody > have any suggestions? you can configure sudo so all you do is sudo bash and you have a root shell. You can even configure it not to prompt for any password I think too. after sudo bash you can continue just

Re: howto select webmail ???

2003-02-28 Thread nate
rks good. though my backend is cyrus, and I haven't used mutt much though I keep wanting to try it out again someday. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing the functionality of a parallel port...

2003-02-28 Thread nate
ISTATE] be sure to remove the module before trying to re-load it. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adding eth1

2003-02-28 Thread nate
cifying irq's anywhere. just set the new interface in /etc/network/interfaces and restart networking (/etc/init.d/networking restart) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ogle

2003-02-28 Thread nate
ever played a DVD ever before(boycotting them myself). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives is big

2003-03-01 Thread nate
Alan Chandler said: > > Is there a command to shrink it? apt-get clean apt-get autoclean (see apt-get manpage) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Error msg :VFS: limit exceeded

2003-03-01 Thread nate
ed the problem . . .so far. what > was tat about? probably an out of control process eating all of the system's resources, check the logs it may give some hints. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Network booting with Grub

2003-03-01 Thread nate
n about removing the disks and running everything over NFS(both my local NFS servers are on raid). thanks nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto auto unpack/read "README.Debian.gz" ?

2003-03-01 Thread nate
nce, "less" could automatically unpack it for I use 'zmore' zmore README.gz zcat should work too wish there were such tools for .bz2 archives.. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Debian on a Proliant DL380

2003-03-03 Thread nate
mpact kernel(I always recompile my kernels after installation). haven't tried installing with 3.0 but I'm sure it works if 2.2 works! nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

VNC server not accepting keyboard input

2003-03-03 Thread nate
ould be glad it worked at all. need to use it more often, really tough trying to sit through an hour and a half tryin to explain what to click on over the phone. thanks nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on Dell Precision 420 and SCSI

2003-03-04 Thread nate
t(I think its a 2.2.20 kernel or something). I later recompiled my own kernel from scratch(as I always do ...) adaptec SCSI chips(2940 and up) are some of the best supported in linux in my experience. nate (proudly dell-free) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing a New Boot Loader on a Software RAID

2003-03-04 Thread nate
ble to test it without rebooting .. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: j2re1.4: packages have unmet dependencies ?!?!

2003-03-04 Thread nate
your trying to install testing/unstable packages on stable ...? something I personally wouldn't reccomend though I think it's possible using apt pinning or something. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail security flaw & fix

2003-03-04 Thread nate
I recieved is archived here: http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/313763/2003-03-02/2003-03-08/0 nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: j2re1.4: packages have unmet dependencies ?!?!

2003-03-04 Thread nate
.maybe contacting the maintainer of the package will help. the maintainer's address is in the Packages file(s) above. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian SCSI HD Install Failing

2003-03-05 Thread nate
subject like "ultra 160 cards in debian" or something. afterwards you can install whatever kernel you want. I prefer to compile my own. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread nate
estart). If your still wanting to turn on X-over-TCP then grep -nri nolisten /etc/X11/* and change the files that are returned & restart X & any display managers that you use(xdm/gdm/kdm/etc) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-05 Thread nate
eck -i #d = number of days before forced check -i #w = number of weeks before forced check so maybe.. tune2fs -c 30 /dev/whatever to run every 30 mounts.. or tune2fs -i 30d to run it once a month nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: annoying problem with TFT on dell laptop

2003-03-05 Thread nate
y cannot. I've experienced this for many many years on many different versions of Xfree86. > instead of using dselect ? or tasksel, yes. you told it to install 1 package, and as you saw, X is many packages. I do the same thing and usually caught with the same problem(lacking fonts, lack

Re: HELP

2003-03-05 Thread nate
evices are which ..then mount them directly, or make another link..e.g. if cdrom is /dev/hdc: cd /dev ; rm cdrom ; ln -s hdc cdrom and if dvdrom is hdd: cd /dev ; ln -s hdd dvdrom then mount the dvd using /dev/dvdrom .. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: please help! multi-boot problem, i think

2003-03-05 Thread nate
without more info. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MySQL over NFS

2003-03-06 Thread nate
nic in each one connected to an isolated switch for the communications between them(even a VLAN on an existing switch is probably good enough though not perfect). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppy qveshtion)

2003-03-06 Thread nate
wn itself to be quite useful in a number of special-purpose applications." so, I make my boot disks manually using lilo, there seem to be some boot/root disk tools(apt-cache search bootdisk). Gives me the flexibility I need. Haven't tried making a bootdisk with grub(very little experience

Re: where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread nate
A, and on install I believe it prompts you which account mail for 'root' should go. so check the /etc/aliases and your MTA config. you could also check the mail log. e.g. echo "test" | mail root ; tail -f /var/log/mail.log to see if it is forwarded to another account or not nate

Re: can't connect to mysql on debian

2003-03-06 Thread nate
t last I checked had the option 'skip-networking' for mysql, which disabled all tcp connections. I think the file is /etc/mysql/my.cnf, comment it out and restart mysql. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SNMP stats

2003-03-07 Thread nate
ata to MRTG. I do this with freebsd, though to track protocol utilization not individual IPs: http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/MRTG nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: security vs. proposed-updates

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Uwe Hees said: > Hello all, > > I have some computers running woddy with woody-proposed-updates. The > recent sendmail bug revealed the problem that the version number of the > security fix is less then the (older) version in proposed-updates. Thus > the sendmail does not get updated and the securi

Re: Too much work at interrupt

2003-03-07 Thread nate
er, not sure which driver your using. The message itself doesn't appear to be harmful, though there seems to be a hardware problem on your system that the driver is having to work around to avoid causing trouble. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Postfix Log Analyser

2003-03-07 Thread nate
you may have to create a temporary log file which has the contents of all your mail logs for processing. it does take a significant amount of time to run, depending on how fast a CPU you have. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: apt-get security question

2003-03-07 Thread nate
pdate again so the cache is flushed. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-07 Thread nate
e tricky(one reason I don't use it), your situation should be fixed by changing in.sshd to sshd. Check /var/log/daemon.log for the name of the daemon(s). You should see reject messages for the sshd service. another reason I don't use it is I prefer firewalls over it. nate -- To UNSUBS

Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-07 Thread nate
to point me in a direction. Is anyone using something similar, that > can point me in a few specific directions? my LDAP howto should get you goin I think..I have read reports of samba-tng and samba being used in networks with as many as 15,000 accounts so I'm certain it's possi

Re: apt-get security question

2003-03-07 Thread nate
need), the high QA quality, the long release cycles, the "reputation" for the "stable" tree for being "stable", etc.. you can even use dpkg-repack to backup existing packages before upgrading, though downgrading a package is not always foolproof, at least you'

Re: Installer Woes

2003-03-07 Thread nate
#x27;ll have a much easier time installing. once a system is fully installed and configured debian is a breeze to maintain(I only run stable, no testing/unstable for me). nate (experience running 2 dozen unix and linux variants for the past 8 years) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Hugh Saunders said: > There is no reference to ssh at all in daemon.log > But.. I changed in.sshd to sshd and it now works. it may be in /var/log/auth.log been a while since I used tcp wrappers :) if all else fails grep ssh /var/log/* :) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: X11 problems: Caught signal 11. Server aborting

2003-03-07 Thread nate
o turn off glx, disable the option in XF86Config-4, to disable DRI, I'm not sure what you need to do(or if it's even possible). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NVidia driver problem

2003-03-07 Thread nate
y them anymore. I can't find anywhere that has them at the moment you may have to either switch to another video card or upgrade to debian 3.0(reccomended), and install the binary nvidia driver. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Mark Roach said: > Hi, Nate. Not quite sure if this is what you mean, but I am certainly able > (on my samba server with ext3+acls and winbind) to > > setfacl -m g:"Domain\\Domain Users":rwx filename > > or use the nt file permissions dialog. Maybe I am misunderstandi

Re: snort log has a bunch of different attacks - should I be worried

2003-03-08 Thread nate
nshots of it on demarc.com. It also acts as a system file integrity checker as well as a network service monitor. Real nice program. I run it on FreeBSD mainly. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: snort log has a bunch of different attacks - should I be worried

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Shri Shrikumar said: > Thanks nate. Is there a site which lists these things in more detail so I > know if the ones that show up are safe or not. http://www.whitehats.com/ids/ is the only one I know of nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Subj: CUPS (configuration problem for NON-root) only root can print properly

2003-03-08 Thread nate
may be different. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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