Re: Still Considering Debian - But Stuck!

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Billson
Just to follow up: If you do want to install Debian with the 2.4 kernel just use the BF24 boot option when installing from CD. A complete list of boot options is available when installing from CD. You then will have 2.4 options (i.e. drivers, ext3, etc.) available during the install process.

Re: Still Considering Debian - But Stuck!

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Billson
Just to follow up: If you do want to install Debian with the 2.4 kernel just use the BF24 boot option when installing from CD. A complete list of boot options is available when installing from CD. You then will have 2.4 options (i.e. drivers, ext3, etc.) available during the install process.

Re: 2.6 kernel network interface assignment order

2004-01-29 Thread Peter Billson
Take a look at: http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt This seems to be what you want. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Tommy Moore wrote: You won't be able to do this I don't think if the

Re: 2.6 kernel network interface assignment order

2004-01-29 Thread Peter Billson
Take a look at: http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt This seems to be what you want. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Tommy Moore wrote: You won't be able to do this I don't think if the

Re: SOP for debian isp/corporate server...

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Billson
Prasad, 1) There is a manual on securing Debian at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto 2) There really is no SOP on bloat because one man's bloat is another's needed service. You, however, can create your own. Basically do an install and add/strip whatever packages you

Re: SOP for debian isp/corporate server...

2004-01-20 Thread Peter Billson
Prasad, 1) There is a manual on securing Debian at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto 2) There really is no SOP on bloat because one man's bloat is another's needed service. You, however, can create your own. Basically do an install and add/strip whatever packages you

Root Hints Problem after Security Update

2004-01-08 Thread Peter Billson
Hello All, After applying the latest Debian Woody security update to BIND I am getting sysquery errors logged to the daemon log complaining that bind can't get an address for any of the root servers. Everything I can find says that the problem is an out-of-date root hints file but I have

Root Hints Problem after Security Update

2004-01-08 Thread Peter Billson
Hello All, After applying the latest Debian Woody security update to BIND I am getting sysquery errors logged to the daemon log complaining that bind can't get an address for any of the root servers. Everything I can find says that the problem is an out-of-date root hints file but I have

Re: Debian on a Dell-Server???

2004-01-02 Thread Peter Billson
Daniel, Debain works fine on Dells. A couple tips assuming you are installing from the Woody CD: 1) Use the BF24 boot option so that you are installing a 2.4 kernel and not the default 2.2 kernel 2) You may run into problems with your RAID array due to a chicken/egg problem with the driver.

Re: Debian on a Dell-Server???

2004-01-02 Thread Peter Billson
Daniel, Debain works fine on Dells. A couple tips assuming you are installing from the Woody CD: 1) Use the BF24 boot option so that you are installing a 2.4 kernel and not the default 2.2 kernel 2) You may run into problems with your RAID array due to a chicken/egg problem with the driver.

Re: two ethernet ports on one PCI NIC?

2003-10-09 Thread Peter Billson
Steven, Intel makes duel and quad port NIC cards that are fully supported and have worked great for me. http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/server_adapters.htm BTW - if you only need one Intel will sell you one evaluation card for a great price! Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com

Re: multi-terabyte disks

2003-10-08 Thread Peter Billson
Noah, The 2.4.x kernels do have a 2Tb limit but that is fixed in = 2.5.40 / 2.6 kernels. You could, of course, partition your 10Tb array into 5 logical drives to solve the problem with the 2.4.x kernel. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer

Re: splitting a subnet in an odd way

2003-09-27 Thread Peter Billson
Leonardo, I may not exactly understand what you are trying to do but if the only thing you are trying to accomplish is firewalling the machines differently, couldn't you just: 1) assign them different gateways. The open machines would use the real gateway. The other two groups would use the

Re: Routingtable vulnerability

2003-05-26 Thread Peter Billson
Thomas, My brother tells me that there has been some discussion about this on the kernel list. RedHat's patch was applied to 2.4.21 (plus 2.5.69) but people are reporting that the patch breaks other things so it is not yet ready for prime time. At this point this remains only a theoretical

Procmail weirdness

2003-04-26 Thread Peter Billson
Hello *, I'm having some procmail weirdness that I can't get my brain around. I have a box running exim with two domains that sort to various system users. Every user has a procmailrc file in their home directory like this: LINEBUF=4096 MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ :0 c

Re: NON-US can anyone reach aljazeera.net?

2003-03-25 Thread Peter Billson
From New York area of US I can resolve www.aljazeera.net, but not english.aljazeera.net. My traceroute dies on a nice.francetelecom hop. Pete Martin Wheeler wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone reach aljazeera.net or english.aljazeera.net from outside of

Re: Denial of Service via UCE

2003-01-30 Thread Peter Billson
Pulu, You may want to ask someone with a fatter pipe to act as your MX where they can bit-bucket the UCE then forward on the good stuff to you. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Pulu 'Anau wrote: Hi, this is not

Re: cybercafe management software

2002-12-16 Thread Peter Billson
Remi, You may want to check out the LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project - www.ltsp.org) mailing list. There has been several threads about public kiosks. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting RĂ©mi Letot wrote: Hi all,

Re: Problem while compiling wanpipe.o

2002-12-10 Thread Peter Billson
Michelle, As I understand it you do not compile Wanpipe into the kernel you compile wanpipe separately but you must have the kernel source that you used to compile your current kernel. My guess is that the symbols complaint is due to that fact that your kernel source does not match your

Re: Backup Web Server

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Billson
Rizal, Check out HA (High Availability) http://linux-ha.org Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone pls tell me how to setup a Backup Web Server..meaning if the primary Web Server

Bind8 to Bind9

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Billson
Hey *, I am planning the move from Bind8 to Bind9 on woody and was wondering if anyone has any tips, gotchas or pointers I should know before the move. Thanks in advance. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bind8 to Bind9

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Billson
Hey *, I am planning the move from Bind8 to Bind9 on woody and was wondering if anyone has any tips, gotchas or pointers I should know before the move. Thanks in advance. Pete

Re: Pipeline internet help

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Billson
Johnno, That depends on where the second pipe is coming from. If it is coming from a different NOC of the same upstream company then they should take care of all the messy routing details. If you use multiple providers then use BGP to provide multiple routes for your IP blocks. Your

Re: Pipeline internet help

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Billson
Johnno, That depends on where the second pipe is coming from. If it is coming from a different NOC of the same upstream company then they should take care of all the messy routing details. If you use multiple providers then use BGP to provide multiple routes for your IP blocks. Your

Re: APC PowerChute on Linux

2002-06-28 Thread Peter Billson
Andreas, It has been a while since I played with it, but if I remember correctly the documentation said that Linux can't be the master only a slave. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Andreas Rabus wrote: Hi, It's

Re: rm: cannot unlink `sendmail': Operation not permitted

2002-05-24 Thread Peter Billson
try chattr -i /usr/sbin Even if sendmail is set -i, if the directory is immutable you will not be able to rm it. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Jason Lim wrote: Hi all, This is happening on a Redhat 7.2

Re: rm: cannot unlink `sendmail': Operation not permitted

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Billson
try chattr -i /usr/sbin Even if sendmail is set -i, if the directory is immutable you will not be able to rm it. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Jason Lim wrote: Hi all, This is happening on a Redhat 7.2

Re: How fast can Linux-Firewalls be?

2002-02-23 Thread Peter Billson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What minimum characteristics would a Linux IP Masquerading Firewall Box need, to run a 100 Mbps link without slowing down traffic. There was some discussion last January (2001) about this type of thing. The problem you will run into if you are using POTS Intel

Re: How fast can Linux-Firewalls be?

2002-02-23 Thread Peter Billson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What minimum characteristics would a Linux IP Masquerading Firewall Box need, to run a 100 Mbps link without slowing down traffic. There was some discussion last January (2001) about this type of thing. The problem you will run into if you are using POTS Intel

Re: exim question

2002-02-21 Thread Peter Billson
Ward, Yes, it really does work for me. I thought the point of the original poster is that he wanted any address that didn't match a real user (and I assume another alias) to be delivered to a particular mailbox. He wanted the alias file to never fail. The original poster didn't mention

Re: exim question

2002-02-21 Thread Peter Billson
In your alias file, as your last rule, put *: username where username is the account the mail should goto. Username can also be a remote address i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Bernie Berg

Re: exim question

2002-02-21 Thread Peter Billson
Ward, Yes, it really does work for me. I thought the point of the original poster is that he wanted any address that didn't match a real user (and I assume another alias) to be delivered to a particular mailbox. He wanted the alias file to never fail. The original poster didn't mention

Re: exim question

2002-02-20 Thread Peter Billson
In your alias file, as your last rule, put *: username where username is the account the mail should goto. Username can also be a remote address i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting Bernie Berg

Re: Missing /proc/sys

2002-02-15 Thread Peter Billson
Jacob, Thanks! I forgot the golden rule: Use the Source. A quick grep through the source would have saved the public humiliation. :-/ Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting CONFIG_SYSCTL=y -- Jacob Elder

Missing /proc/sys

2002-02-15 Thread Peter Billson
Hello *, I have a weird problem on a server, the /proc/sys directory is not there. The /proc filesystem is mounted and the rest of /proc seems to be fine, but /proc/sys and it's sub-directories are MIA. I have turned up a few people that have had this problem, but no answers. I'm

Re: Missing /proc/sys

2002-02-15 Thread Peter Billson
Jacob, Thanks! I forgot the golden rule: Use the Source. A quick grep through the source would have saved the public humiliation. :-/ Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting CONFIG_SYSCTL=y -- Jacob Elder

SLow server

2002-02-11 Thread Peter Billson
Hello *, Got a weird server problem that I could use some pointers where to look. I have a PIII 600 Dell server with 1 IDE HD and 128Mb or RAM running 2.2.19Pre17 potato. The server is lightly loaded - basically IMAP and Apache Web mail for about 20 users. The problem is the thing is

Re: Debian in 100 MB ?

2002-01-31 Thread Peter Billson
We are running a router/firewall from a standard Debian distro using 111Mb, but this includes keeping a local set of logs so getting to your 100Mb mark should be easy. To duplicate the machine after the first set up either dd to a second disk, and change config files, or do a standard

Re: Raid 1 + lilo

2002-01-31 Thread Peter Billson
Earlier in this thread, there was a question of how hardware RAID would handle the failure of a drive on reboot. While at LinuxWorld I asked the Intel team how their controller would handle it. The answer was that the card would note the disk failure, notify you of the problem, rebuild the

Re: ftp.uk.debian.org

2002-01-29 Thread Peter Billson
Steve Wright wrote: Anyone else having problems reaching ftp.uk.debian.org ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't even resolve that name from here, but I can resolve ftp.debian.org... Pete --

Re: Webalizer

2002-01-29 Thread Peter Billson
I can't suggest alternative loggers, but one of the reasons that my webalizer kept breaking is because I had logrotate in the /etc/cron.daily as well. l comes before w. I changed the name of the logrotate script to 'zlogrotate' and webalizer hasn't had a problem since. Alternately, you

Re: new photos from my party!

2002-01-28 Thread Peter Billson
Bummer man, I clicked on this SPAM link in mutt hoping to see p0rn and it trashed my Linux box! Hope nobody else did that! :-) Pete PS what's with all the SPAM to this list lately... admins? I'll bet it's that WoW guy that's suing Russell! :-) My party... It was absolutely amazing! I

Re: rsync backup scipt

2002-01-26 Thread Peter Billson
Hereward Cooper wrote: Using the --exclude-from={FILE} switch then listing the things you want excluded in a separate file works well for me. Is this recursive? Can I just put in the line /mnt/ and it'll ignore everything in there? Yes it is. /cdrom will eliminate everything on the

Rsync

2002-01-26 Thread Peter Billson
Hey *, I just applied the security fix to rsync and now it is dumping core. Before I report this as a bug, I thought I'd check to see if anyone else is having trouble. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting -- To

Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack

2002-01-25 Thread Peter Billson
IMHO something that runs every minute should not be in cron, even something that runs every 5 minutes possibly shouldn't be in cron. Could you tell me why that is so? I often run things from cron that run every 5 mins and have never run into a problem... but then again I often do stupid

Re: EXIM, LDAP and some pop3 stuff?

2002-01-12 Thread Peter Billson
But I think this is an inherent UNIX / LDAP problem. LDAP seems a very powerful tool doing for UNIX everything the 'Regestry' has done for windows - and more. Whats missing here is some standardized way of how to do it. Now there is something to strive for. One monolithic, incomprehensible

Re: user-agent log problem

2002-01-12 Thread Peter Billson
Hmmm, seems right. A couple thoughts: 1) Do you have any other CustomLog directives that are not commented out 2) Are you running NameVirtualHosts where you'd have to define a CustomLog for each? Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting,

Re: EXIM, LDAP and some pop3 stuff?

2002-01-12 Thread Peter Billson
But I think this is an inherent UNIX / LDAP problem. LDAP seems a very powerful tool doing for UNIX everything the 'Regestry' has done for windows - and more. Whats missing here is some standardized way of how to do it. Now there is something to strive for. One monolithic, incomprehensible

Re: user-agent log problem

2002-01-12 Thread Peter Billson
Hmmm, seems right. A couple thoughts: 1) Do you have any other CustomLog directives that are not commented out 2) Are you running NameVirtualHosts where you'd have to define a CustomLog for each? Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet

Re: HP LC2000r trouble

2002-01-11 Thread Peter Billson
Adrian, I've not played with a HP with megaraid but I can point you to a Dell/Redhat specific site that may get you started http://domsch.com/linux/ - see the megaraid section. The basic problem is that you need the correct driver for your card to get the install to work and the older

Re: OT: secondary dns

2002-01-11 Thread Peter Billson
Stability of the Web in general. A domain should resolve regardless if it is reachable. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting i guess negative TTL, but is there another reason? after all, what use is it to me to be able

Re: HP LC2000r trouble

2002-01-11 Thread Peter Billson
I suspect the same problem ! So I write 3 floppies with resue.bin root.bin and drivers-1.bin from the debian 2.2r5 compact flavor of kernel. The kernel is 2.2.19. The boot works, the dboostrap start, but when I want to read the drivers from the third floppy the message is that this floppy

Re: HP LC2000r trouble

2002-01-11 Thread Peter Billson
Adrian, I've not played with a HP with megaraid but I can point you to a Dell/Redhat specific site that may get you started http://domsch.com/linux/ - see the megaraid section. The basic problem is that you need the correct driver for your card to get the install to work and the older kernels

Re: OT: secondary dns

2002-01-11 Thread Peter Billson
Stability of the Web in general. A domain should resolve regardless if it is reachable. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting i guess negative TTL, but is there another reason? after all, what use is it to me to be able to

Re: HP LC2000r trouble

2002-01-11 Thread Peter Billson
I suspect the same problem ! So I write 3 floppies with resue.bin root.bin and drivers-1.bin from the debian 2.2r5 compact flavor of kernel. The kernel is 2.2.19. The boot works, the dboostrap start, but when I want to read the drivers from the third floppy the message is that this floppy

Re: netscape o cosa ?

2002-01-09 Thread Peter Billson
There are products, that just runs under IE. But IE is freeware. So why not download it and intergrate with wine to your linux... Have you tried this? I'm wondering if IE runs reliably under WINE... at least as (un)reliably as it does under Windoze. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB

Re: netscape o cosa ?

2002-01-08 Thread Peter Billson
If you don't like Netscape, try http://www.opera.com Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cosa usate voi per navigare in internet senza problemi ? (e non mi dite lynx perche non supporta ne java

NFS Problem

2001-12-15 Thread Peter Billson
Hello *, I am having permissions problems with a NFS mount that I just can't figure out and I'm hoping someone can help. I am NFS mounting a drive on machine A by using automount on machine B. The drive shows it is mounted rwxrwxrwx and owned root.root. Any user can read and write to the

Re: Strange apache behaviour?

2001-12-08 Thread Peter Billson
Jason, Apaches log file ownership and permissions are set when they rotate in /etc/cron.daily/apache (about line 90 or so). As pointed out there are security issues to worry about so be careful. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting,

Re: Strange apache behaviour?

2001-12-08 Thread Peter Billson
Jason, Apaches log file ownership and permissions are set when they rotate in /etc/cron.daily/apache (about line 90 or so). As pointed out there are security issues to worry about so be careful. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet

Re: host DNS

2001-11-26 Thread Peter Billson
I am trying to understand how the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files work as well as DNS. So far, I have a nameserver, but kept getting an error: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 11: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname (gomez.star.cd) failed I finally figured out that something was

Re: host DNS

2001-11-26 Thread Peter Billson
I am trying to understand how the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files work as well as DNS. So far, I have a nameserver, but kept getting an error: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 11: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname (gomez.star.cd) failed I finally figured out that something was

Re: debian/cyclades .vs. cisco

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Billson
John Hawley wrote: Hi. I just priced out a Cisco to handle multiple T1's for our Internet access. $15K+, ack! Just wondering. Anyone have any experience using the Cyclades-PC300 boards? I've already converted the my network services from M$ to Debian/Linux and have nothing against

Re: debian/cyclades .vs. cisco

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Billson
John Hawley wrote: Hi. I just priced out a Cisco to handle multiple T1's for our Internet access. $15K+, ack! Just wondering. Anyone have any experience using the Cyclades-PC300 boards? I've already converted the my network services from M$ to Debian/Linux and have nothing against

Re: DELL perc3/di users

2001-11-19 Thread Peter Billson
Did you check out http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html ? He has Debian boot disks with the kernel you're looking for. I'd do a potato install then change your apt sources to woody and do a dist-upgrade. I have done a RedHat install on a similar machine and there really are no big

Re: DELL perc3/di users

2001-11-19 Thread Peter Billson
Did you check out http://www.merilus.com/~kevin/aacraid.html ? He has Debian boot disks with the kernel you're looking for. I'd do a potato install then change your apt sources to woody and do a dist-upgrade. I have done a RedHat install on a similar machine and there really are no big

Re: DELL perc3/di users

2001-11-19 Thread Peter Billson
The install that I did was using RedHat so it is a bit different then Debian but what I did was download the PERCRAID driver module from Dell's download area and loaded it during install when asked if you have any drivers on floppies. Once the module was loaded the rest of the install went

Re: policies for securing privacy systemwide against random wiretap/nettap

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Billson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given recent passage of the Patriot Act here in US, I'm re-evaluating privacy policies at the ISP I run. I'm curious what mechanisms and policies we might keep/implement to preserve the privacy and integrity of our clients. Some are obvious: * gnpgp/pgp email

Re: policies for securing privacy systemwide against random wiretap/nettap

2001-10-26 Thread Peter Billson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given recent passage of the Patriot Act here in US, I'm re-evaluating privacy policies at the ISP I run. I'm curious what mechanisms and policies we might keep/implement to preserve the privacy and integrity of our clients. Some are obvious: * gnpgp/pgp email

Re: Project 2000 on Debian (under Wine) ?

2001-10-25 Thread Peter Billson
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Thedore Knab I am looking for a Linux based tool that is designed to help manage a variety of projects. This tool needs to be able to schedule and track tasks MrProject from CodeFactory (codefactory.se) is kicking arse at the moment; perhaps you could

Re: Project 2000 on Debian (under Wine) ?

2001-10-25 Thread Peter Billson
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Thedore Knab I am looking for a Linux based tool that is designed to help manage a variety of projects. This tool needs to be able to schedule and track tasks MrProject from CodeFactory (codefactory.se) is kicking arse at the moment; perhaps you could

Re: A few questions

2001-10-18 Thread Peter Billson
Assuming you are using Apache as your Web server you want to add the following to your /etc/apache/http.conf file (where 192.168.1.2:80 is the IP and port you are using): NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.2:80 VirtualHost 192.168.1.2:80 ServerName www.domain1.com {any other directives for this domain}

Re: Webalizer

2001-10-18 Thread Peter Billson
Hassle with upgrading to 2.0 is that, AFAIK, it'll trash your history for that year (could be wrong...) Actually, the repaired .deb package has made it to proposed updates in stable and apt-get update, apt-get upgrade will install the fixed package. The README.1st file has a few, simple

Re: Webalizer

2001-10-18 Thread Peter Billson
Hassle with upgrading to 2.0 is that, AFAIK, it'll trash your history for that year (could be wrong...) Actually, the repaired .deb package has made it to proposed updates in stable and apt-get update, apt-get upgrade will install the fixed package. The README.1st file has a few, simple

Re: problem with php-cgi

2001-10-14 Thread Peter Billson
and this is the output: ./prova.cgi X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.3pl1 Content-type: text/html htmlQuesto e' solo una prova/html why apache tel me: Premature end of script headers: ?? I can't tell you why your script isn't working correctly but Apache is upset because you are returning

Portable Web Server Mirror

2001-10-14 Thread Peter Billson
Hey all, Here is a mind exercise for you all: I would like to provide my sales rep with a portable mirror of a Web server. The idea is that they'd be able to live demo our abilities without the need for any connection to the net. She's already got a Thinkpad running woody and I'd like to

Re: problem with php-cgi

2001-10-14 Thread Peter Billson
and this is the output: ./prova.cgi X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.3pl1 Content-type: text/html htmlQuesto e' solo una prova/html why apache tel me: Premature end of script headers: ?? I can't tell you why your script isn't working correctly but Apache is upset because you are returning

Portable Web Server Mirror

2001-10-14 Thread Peter Billson
Hey all, Here is a mind exercise for you all: I would like to provide my sales rep with a portable mirror of a Web server. The idea is that they'd be able to live demo our abilities without the need for any connection to the net. She's already got a Thinkpad running woody and I'd like to

Re: problem with php-cgi

2001-10-12 Thread Peter Billson
Sebastian Ezequiel Ovide wrote: Hi, just installed php4-cgi, fixed bad symlink in /usr/lib/cgi-bin The prob is, running as a standar cgi does not work ie #!/usr/bin/php apache complains [Thu Dec 21 20:18:36 2000] [error] [client 192.168.1.169] Premature end of script

Re: problem with php-cgi

2001-10-12 Thread Peter Billson
Sebastian Ezequiel Ovide wrote: Hi, just installed php4-cgi, fixed bad symlink in /usr/lib/cgi-bin The prob is, running as a standar cgi does not work ie #!/usr/bin/php apache complains [Thu Dec 21 20:18:36 2000] [error] [client 192.168.1.169] Premature end of script headers:

Re: duplicate network filesystems (was: HA mailserver (smtp, pop3, imap,imap/ssl))

2001-10-10 Thread Peter Billson
Then if one fileserver was down (even temporarily), then all the other fileservers (all four) would have to queue a message about the data and task and some heartbeat between fileservers could alert it when back up and then make sure that the particular filesystem is properly updated. What

Re: duplicate network filesystems (was: HA mailserver (smtp, pop3, imap,imap/ssl))

2001-10-10 Thread Peter Billson
Then if one fileserver was down (even temporarily), then all the other fileservers (all four) would have to queue a message about the data and task and some heartbeat between fileservers could alert it when back up and then make sure that the particular filesystem is properly updated. What

Re: ppp problem

2001-10-10 Thread Peter Billson
I am new to debian and I am having problem pinging outside my remote server when I dial-out. I've used the pppconfig to setup my dial-out. When I do an ifconfig ppp0 my ip addresses match but it says that Point -To-Point running NOARP MULTICAST. I can used my dial-out for Windows 2000 and my

Re: webalizer

2001-10-08 Thread Peter Billson
Take a look at your webalizer.current file. The second line will be the date of the last record processed. Webalizer will not process any files before that date to prevent duplication. I have manually changed the date to process older log files with success. Pete Billson --

Re: webalizer

2001-10-08 Thread Peter Billson
Take a look at your webalizer.current file. The second line will be the date of the last record processed. Webalizer will not process any files before that date to prevent duplication. I have manually changed the date to process older log files with success. Pete Billson --

Re: iptables and routing

2001-10-07 Thread Peter Billson
Take a look at using iproute2. http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/howto/Adv-Routing-HOWTO.html#s4 Robert Davidson wrote: Hi Everyone :) I've got a problem and I can't seem to find a solution without putting another computer in the works as a router, which isn't really a good solution.

Re: Roach Motel For Packets...

2001-09-30 Thread Peter Billson
Let me see if bad drawings help any: eth0(to Internet IP A.A.A.A)--|--| |Router|--eth2(192.168.1.1) eth1(to Internet IP B.B.B.B)--|--| eth2:0(10.0.0.1) and |---| --to router --eth0(192.168.1.2)---|PC #1

Re: Roach Motel For Packets...

2001-09-29 Thread Peter Billson
as is required by RFC, routing is disabled by default. to enable routing: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward use /etc/sysctl.conf to have it enabled automatically at boot. 100% correct you are, but I have already done this. Note that stuff coming in eth0 is getting forwarded correctly,

Roach Motel For Packets...

2001-09-29 Thread Peter Billson
Hi all, I have successfully created a Linux Roach Motel... packets check in, but they don't check out! Unfortunately, I was trying to create a router! :-) I have a Linux router with two connections from different service providers (eth0 and eth1) coming in and want to route all traffic to go

Re: exim remote outgoing mail

2001-09-28 Thread Peter Billson
matt wrote: nevermind my last post, i think i got it working:) -matt Matt, You should post your solution to the list for the archives. It will help others in the future who have a similar problem. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting,

Re: server mirroring spam

2001-09-28 Thread Peter Billson
PLL is a nice theory...{et al} I second that. Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: current cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Peter Billson
sorry, I should have been more specific, I need to get the output in a format a script could use. I have tried the uptime command however I'm a bit lost at what the numbers displayed represent ( how to turn these into a percentage). (If indeed this is a good way to do this) /usr/bin/top

Re: current cpu usage

2001-09-06 Thread Peter Billson
cat /proc/meminfo cat /proc/loadavg The meminfo would help him but he posted that he didn't understand load average and, anyway, needs percent of CPU used. You can not calculate CPU usage from load average. You could use /proc to get CPU usage but it would be rather involved to do and why

Re: Funny kernel antics

2001-08-30 Thread Peter Billson
Anyone know what causes this or seen this happen before? I have no idea why but I did have this happen to me running 2.2.19. Same exact symptoms. Only thing unusual was that I had patched the kernel to support an AACraid controller and made some modifications to run Oracle. At the time I

Re: Log analyser for general use ?

2001-08-29 Thread Peter Billson
Nicolas Bouthors wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a program that would allow the watching of logfiles (mainly syslog), and could choose to perfom an action (like sending a mail or other) when a certain line/sequence appears in the files. Idealy it would be easily configurable through

Anyone know what this file is?

2001-08-19 Thread Peter Billson
Hey all, I am getting requests for a file named: __wc_end_ in my Web server logs. Anyone know what this file is? Code Red makes me think this is another Windoze exploit that I am unaware of. A search on google only returns a handful of results and they are all server stats with this

Re: change NIC after install

2001-08-16 Thread Peter Billson
Andrew Kaplan wrote: How would I change my NIC from a 3COM to say a Kingstone (Tulip) card after the box was running with the 3com card. Re-compile your kernel with support for the new NIC card and reboot. If your box is multi-homed be sure that the new card is the same device - i.e. if

Re: change NIC after install

2001-08-16 Thread Peter Billson
Don't forget to run lilo again. You'll shoot yourself in the foot that way Good point! But as a grub user I no longer need to worry about that! :-) Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Services, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: weird tcp syn problem

2001-08-09 Thread Peter Billson
I'm sure you have already tried all this but: echo /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies That should be echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies However, after fruitlessly trying to echo /anything/ Does /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_suncookies exist? It should. got corrupt. So, I recompiled

Re: a few newbie problems

2001-07-31 Thread Peter Billson
Everytime I try to apt-get install xxx I get this error: Kris, If you are still having troubles, it is possible that your list of sites that apt uses to grab packages is not correct and that is why it can't find some of the dependencies. If you are still having trouble, could you post

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