Re: [techtalk] Debian ISO question

2001-05-21 Thread Carla Schroder
> > Howdy gang. It only took two days, but I finally successfully created a good > > Debian ISO image. By gosh I am now the Rsync queen. After I burn the ISO > > file to a CD, what's it supposed to look like? Will it have lots of files > > and a regular file structure? Or will it still be a single

Re: [techtalk] Debian ISO question

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel Manrique
> Howdy gang. It only took two days, but I finally successfully created a good > Debian ISO image. By gosh I am now the Rsync queen. After I burn the ISO > file to a CD, what's it supposed to look like? Will it have lots of files > and a regular file structure? Or will it still be a single mondo I

[techtalk] Debian ISO question

2001-05-21 Thread Carla Schroder
Howdy gang. It only took two days, but I finally successfully created a good Debian ISO image. By gosh I am now the Rsync queen. After I burn the ISO file to a CD, what's it supposed to look like? Will it have lots of files and a regular file structure? Or will it still be a single mondo ISO file?

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Penguina
Mary: >At the same time, some boxes probably do need to have a message to let people >know they can't have shell when they log in. yup. Kai: >> (Probably the "real C programmer" way to do it would be to have just one >> script, with a variety of canned messages, that checked what name it had >

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Aaron Malone
> Michelle Murrain wrote: > > qpopper is a good all purpose POP server: http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/ > > http://www.imap.org/products/longlist.htm#Server is a list of IMAP servers - > > the generic one is the UWash server. A note on POP3 daemons -- a lot of information I've read indicates that

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Elizabeth
Michelle Murrain wrote: > > On Monday 21 May 2001 05:10 pm, Elizabeth wrote: > > > I'm programming the site as well as administering. I've purused the > > webmail offerings. I will definately check into these two suggestions. > > I like simplicity though, so I will most likely program the webm

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Elizabeth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Elizabeth wrote: > > > I can't ping the thing. It worked > > the day it was configured and the next, > > but then it stopped. > > If one has access to > > the hardware itself one can break it. > > Is it still plugged in? I asked. He said yes. > Is their mail

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread jenn
Elizabeth wrote: > I can't ping the thing. It worked > the day it was configured and the next, > but then it stopped. > If one has access to > the hardware itself one can break it. Is it still plugged in? > Yes. After the server is configured and the site programming complete > all access

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread jenn
Elizabeth wrote: > I didn't mean to be arrogant at all. Somewhere I have the > feeling they did it, because > I am a girl...which is how I came across this group. I find that a lot > of males in the comp > business don't appreciate my knowledge because I am a girl. I could be > imagining thin

Re: [techtalk] windows sucks

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel Manrique
> 6gb laptop had windows installed on it .. i wanted linux, so i booted with > some linux bootdisks, designed a nice partition table, wrote the changes, > and then i recovered windows with the recovery cd. > > however, windows recognizes the 2.2gb partition it is on as the whole 6gb > hard drive.

Re: [techtalk] OpenSSH Trusted Host Setup Question

2001-05-21 Thread Mark Foster
As far as im aware, OpenSSH2 uses /etc/hosts.allow ? [blakjak@phoenix blakjak]$ telnet localhost 22 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to phoenix. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_2.3.0p1 Other than that, chec out the config files in /etc/ssh ? -.-. --.- Mark Foster - [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT

[techtalk] windows sucks

2001-05-21 Thread coldfire
question entailing windows ... baffles me. i hope someone can shed some light. 6gb laptop had windows installed on it .. i wanted linux, so i booted with some linux bootdisks, designed a nice partition table, wrote the changes, and then i recovered windows with the recovery cd. however, windows

[techtalk] OpenSSH Trusted Host Setup Question

2001-05-21 Thread Pete Durst
Hi, I would like to be able to setup up a trusted host environment on my home network (behind the firewall!) and one of the machines I am using, does not support .rhosts files. That's ok, as I want to be able to setup SSH to do the work any ways, so I set out to try and setup the syst

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel Manrique
> > Is it then better to write a script, or for me to do it myself in C, when I'm > not a terribly experienced C programmer, especially wrt the UNIX interfaces to > uids, and signals, and have never really had to write anything that avoids > overruns? > > Or should every admin know C? For the r

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:44:33PM -0700, Kai MacTane wrote: > Well, I know pathetically little C -- basically, enough to write "Hello, > World!" -- but then again, that's enough to write a program the prints out > "Your account has been suspended." You could write two or three canned > message

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Kai MacTane
At 5/21/01 04:46 PM , Mary Gardiner wrote: >At the same time, some boxes probably do need to have a message to let people >know they can't have shell when they log in. Agreed. >Is it then better to write a script, or for me to do it myself in C, when I'm >not a terribly experienced C programmer

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:46:47AM +1200, Penguina wrote: > Yikes! A script that echos? How can you be absolutely sure > it runs as the correct user and group, and always exits > in exactly the same way, always returning the same value > (even if the user repeatedly types ctrl-C's and such at >

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Elizabeth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Elizabeth wrote: > > > Hello. I've been lurking for a bit. > > Welcome. Thanks. :-) > > > I got ignored out one of the perl groups, because I came off too arrogant or > > something. Which is funny, because one of the three virtues of a > > programmer is hubris

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Penguina
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:14:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It seems a pretty > > > straitforward thing to ask...no shell access, but I'm finding it > > > extrememly difficult to find good documentation on it. > > > > Set their 'shell' to

Re: [techtalk] Star Office - failed to load necessary component

2001-05-21 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:42:55AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a problem with Star Office 5.2 on RedHat 7.1. > > Star Office is being installed with the /net option on a local > harddisk. The user's homes get mounted from an HP server via NFS. > > (...) > > I've also been told t

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:14:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It seems a pretty > > straitforward thing to ask...no shell access, but I'm finding it > > extrememly difficult to find good documentation on it. > > Set their 'shell' to /bin/false or /bin/true. Either will block them > fro

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Penguina
Hi Elizabeth! As an also-ignored newcomer, I'll welcome you. On Mon, 21 May 2001, Elizabeth wrote: > Hello. I've been lurking for a bit. I don't remember if I actually > mailed anything to this group yet. I realy wanted to when that one > chick was going on about the security breach. oooh

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread jenn
Elizabeth wrote: > Hello. I've been lurking for a bit. Welcome. > I got ignored > out one of the perl groups, because I came off too arrogant or > something. Which is funny, because one of the three virtues of a > programmer is hubris. So the creator of Perl says. :-) Ah, but only a v

Re: [techtalk] Raid 1+0?

2001-05-21 Thread s h
Michelle Murrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've heard about RAID 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring) and 5 (parity) I think what you may be referring to as RAID-5 is actually RAID-4. RAID-4 is a stripe set with a single dedicated parity disk. RAID-5 is similar to RAID-4 in that it is a stripe set

Re: [techtalk] Brain farts

2001-05-21 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Anyway, pouring through the strace info did the trick. That's a new > one for me - I haven't used that tool, but I see it is incredibly > useful. The output is amazing - a bit too much, but very informative. You can use the -e switch to filter strace output. Also logg

[techtalk] Brain farts

2001-05-21 Thread Michelle Murrain
OK, today is definitely my day for brain farts: First, I mess up my reply about sendmail, then I realize that the reason that my apache-ssl isn't working, is an old virtual host setting that I forgot about (we'd set up apache-ssl long time ago, then got rid of it, but the config file was left)

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Monday 21 May 2001 02:40 pm, Kai MacTane wrote: > At 5/21/01 06:35 AM , Michelle Murrain wrote: > >I'm going to put a pitch in for Sendmail. I know that many people don't > > like it because of its complexity, and you do need an MTA to go with it. > > ??? Sendmail *is* an MTA. > > >But it's the

Re: [techtalk] apache-ssl

2001-05-21 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:55:52PM -0400, Michelle Murrain wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2001 01:16 pm, JLG wrote: > > Did you build everything yourself, or apt-get apache-ssl? > > I apt-got it. > > > Is the user your web server runs as (www-data on my Progeny box) > > able to write to the error.lo

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Kai MacTane
At 5/21/01 06:35 AM , Michelle Murrain wrote: >I'm going to put a pitch in for Sendmail. I know that many people don't like >it because of its complexity, and you do need an MTA to go with it. ??? Sendmail *is* an MTA. >But it's the most used mail server, there's an O'Reilly book on it, and >l

Re: [techtalk] Raid 1+0

2001-05-21 Thread s h
RAID 1+0 (or RAID 10 as I've always heard it) is a RAID-1 of RAID-0's. Create two separate RAID-0's first. Then, create a RAID-1 using the two arrays you've just created. The RAID-10 array will be seen simply as a single sd. HTH, Sally -- Original Message -

Re: [techtalk] Raid 1+0?

2001-05-21 Thread James Sutherland
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Michelle Murrain wrote: > I've heard about RAID 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring) and 5 (parity) and 10 > (mirroring and striping?) But what's 1+0? RAID 1+0 is the same as RAID 10 - striping+mirroring combined. 1+0 is a slightly more sensible name than 10, IMO - a little cleare

[techtalk] Raid 1+0?

2001-05-21 Thread Michelle Murrain
OK, here I am about to show my ignorance again (it's a good thing y'all don't mind that!) I've heard about RAID 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring) and 5 (parity) and 10 (mirroring and striping?) But what's 1+0? (Actually, I'm going to have to implement a RAID (I think 1) system fairly soon, so th

Re: [techtalk] apache-ssl

2001-05-21 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Monday 21 May 2001 01:16 pm, JLG wrote: > Did you build everything yourself, or apt-get apache-ssl? I apt-got it. > Is the user your web server runs as (www-data on my Progeny box) > able to write to the error.log specified in yout httpd.conf? Yup. Checked that. > Been down this road and

Re: [techtalk] Raid 1+0

2001-05-21 Thread JLG
I've set up a few 1+0 on some db servers, but I've used my scsi controller's bios to create the actual raid, simply making a raid 1 then a 0 on top of it (or was it the other way around?) did the trick. Installing Linux was the same as installing it on a single disk. Jen On Mon, 21 May 2001,

Re: [techtalk] apache-ssl

2001-05-21 Thread JLG
Did you build everything yourself, or apt-get apache-ssl? Is the user your web server runs as (www-data on my Progeny box) able to write to the error.log specified in yout httpd.conf? Been down this road and trying to help, Jen On Mon, 21 May 2001, Michelle Murrain wrote: > On Monday 21 May

[techtalk] Raid 1+0

2001-05-21 Thread Harry Hoffman
Hey All, I'm hoping that someone has experience with RAID setup on linux. I'm looking to setup a raid array 1+0. I have searched high and low for docs about this but have only come up with setting up lvl 1, 0, or 5. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Harry __

[techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #480 - 6 msgs

2001-05-21 Thread Joseph Barney
Thanks for the link - I'm going to try to upgrade my kernel asap. I tried upgrading it to 2.4 this morning but that didn't work - so I'll try the latest of the 2.2.x series. >I believe there were problems with a recent 2.2 >kernel. >I think it was up to and including 2.2.16 but I'm >sure >s

Re: [techtalk] apache-ssl

2001-05-21 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
Hmmm, odd. You can also check the ssl_engine_log, if you have one. This assumes Openssl with mod_ssl, of course. If you have it, see what it says. Naomi At 09:43 AM 5/21/2001 -0400, you wrote: >On Monday 21 May 2001 09:29 am, Naomi Hospodarsky wrote: > > hey Michelle, > > I just went through

Re: [techtalk] apache-ssl

2001-05-21 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Monday 21 May 2001 09:29 am, Naomi Hospodarsky wrote: > hey Michelle, > I just went through this process myself with Redhat. > Check your error_log, and it should give more information > as to why the daemon isn't starting...then we can work from there. I wish - problem is, the error.log file

Re: [techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Monday 21 May 2001 08:52 am, Elizabeth wrote: > The one I've been doing most of my testing on is here in my apartment. > It has the latest and greatest Debian release (I know, I know, not good, > but it's only a test server. The real server will have the latest > *stable*). I'm running Postf

Re: [techtalk] apache-ssl

2001-05-21 Thread Tricia Bowen
what does the apache error log say? -tricia On Mon, 21 May 2001, Michelle Murrain wrote: |Hi everyone, | |I've been trying to get apache-ssl to work - and I keep running into trouble | |I've set up the certificate, and when I try to start the daemon, it gives me |the following: | |Starting web

Re: [techtalk] apache-ssl

2001-05-21 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
hey Michelle, I just went through this process myself with Redhat. Check your error_log, and it should give more information as to why the daemon isn't starting...then we can work from there. Naomi At 09:19 AM 5/21/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I've been trying to get apache-ssl to

[techtalk] apache-ssl

2001-05-21 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hi everyone, I've been trying to get apache-ssl to work - and I keep running into trouble I've set up the certificate, and when I try to start the daemon, it gives me the following: Starting web server: apache-ssl. Reading key for server nanuuq.norwottuck.com:443 /usr/sbin/apache-sslctl start:

[techtalk] Hi.I'm new.Postfix/mail server questions...

2001-05-21 Thread Elizabeth
Hello. I've been lurking for a bit. I don't remember if I actually mailed anything to this group yet. I realy wanted to when that one chick was going on about the security breach. oooh boy. I got ignored out one of the perl groups, because I came off too arrogant or something. Which is funny

Re: [techtalk] IRC security with Linux

2001-05-21 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:16:45PM -0700 or thereabouts, Joseph Barney wrote: > This is such a newbie question but here goes. Someone > in the IRC channel #linuxhelp on undernet told me > about a patch I should get for IRC security (kernek > patch) and I'm wondering which kernel needs to be > up