testing, please ignore

2003-05-09 Thread David Bishop
Sorry, please ignore. -- MuMlutlitithtrhreeaadededd s siigngnatatuurere D.A.Bishop

Re: large files

2003-04-24 Thread David Bishop
On Thursday 24 April 2003 04:33 pm, Tarragon Allen wrote: > On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:43 am, David Bishop wrote: > > I have a user that really like to create files. Then, they don't clean > > them up. We have already put a quota* on them, but unfortunetly, their > >

large files

2003-04-24 Thread David Bishop
I have a user that really like to create files. Then, they don't clean them up. We have already put a quota* on them, but unfortunetly, their directory is so large and convaluted, that they can't even figure out where all the disk space has gone. Is there a sane way to generate a report showi

Re: replication

2003-03-19 Thread David Bishop
Thanks for your suggestions and the two people who replied off list. This will probably work well without too much time invested :-) On Wednesday 19 March 2003 12:32 am, Marcin Sochacki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:13:50AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As a favor to a friend, I'm t

Re: replication

2003-03-19 Thread David Bishop
Thanks for your suggestions and the two people who replied off list. This will probably work well without too much time invested :-) On Wednesday 19 March 2003 12:32 am, Marcin Sochacki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:13:50AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As a favor to a friend, I'm t

Re: SpamAssassin Causing Server Startup Failure

2003-01-10 Thread David Bishop
On Friday 10 January 2003 10:11 am, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 12:58, Fred Clausen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > server I can try this in. Unfortunately, I don't quite know how to > > > force a Debian server to stay in runlevel 1 during the boot process. > > > >

Re: SpamAssassin Causing Server Startup Failure

2003-01-09 Thread David Bishop
> non-critical server I can try this in. Unfortunately, I don't quite know > how to force a Debian server to stay in runlevel 1 during the boot process. from the lilo prompt: 'linux (or whatever image name here) single' -- D.A.Bishop -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: webmail

2002-06-16 Thread David Bishop
I'd also recommend squirrelmail, as I tried using imho and it was very crashy, I've also had painful experiences with imp, and none of the other ones seemed as nice. squirrelmail "just works", with any given imap server you have. Good luck, and have fun! D.A.Bishop On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11

Re: Spam filtering on the lists

2002-04-05 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 April 2002 6:48 am, Russell Coker wrote: > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:09, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote: > > > According to these headers contained in the message received from the > > > list, SpamAssassin has correctly tagged it as Spam. So why was

redundant office of redundancy

2002-03-06 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy! As you can tell from my subject line, I am interested today in making sure that I can always surf por^W^Wserve webpages. My business (consulting & small-time webhosting) is dependent on my always having an internet connection. Currently,

Re: SOME ITEMS THAT YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN OR BE ABLE TO ADVISE ME ON

2002-01-23 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That was pointed out to me off list :-) So far, I've got one person saying "it worked mostly, but got a couple false positives". The example he cited was a subject consisting soley of "ICQ" from a friend. Just FYI, in case someone else was int

Re: SOME ITEMS THAT YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN OR BE ABLE TO ADVISE ME ON

2002-01-23 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This reminds me, has anyone implemented a mail filter that will trash anything with all caps in the subject? If so, what's the false positive rate? I can't remember the last "legit" email I got with all caps, but I don't really want to take the s

Re: blocking ports

2002-01-11 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 January 2002 04:14 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach David Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.10.1634 +0100]: > > I'm running a server that's hot to the net, and running some insecure > > service

Re: blocking ports

2002-01-11 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 January 2002 04:14 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach David Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.10.1634 +0100]: > > I'm running a server that's hot to the net, and running some insecure > > service

blocking ports

2002-01-10 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running a server that's hot to the net, and running some insecure services (by necessity), like nfs. Of course, I used iptables to block all those ports, using nmap and netstat to double check all my open ports. However, what nmap reports back

blocking ports

2002-01-10 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running a server that's hot to the net, and running some insecure services (by necessity), like nfs. Of course, I used iptables to block all those ports, using nmap and netstat to double check all my open ports. However, what nmap reports bac

Re: tape drives

2001-11-07 Thread David Bishop
33992 Jun 2 19:15 > /lib/modules/2.4.5/kernel/drivers/scsi/st.o > > - jsw > > > -Original Message- > From: David Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 5:41 PM > To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org > Subject: tape drives > >

tape drives

2001-11-07 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just installed a scsi tape drive (Compaq EOD003) and was wondering how I can tell whether or not it is recognized. I have never used tape drives before (at least, that weren't already setup) and I don't know even the first thing about them. Sear

Re: mta confusion

2001-10-18 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 October 2001 08:56 am, Noel Koethe wrote: > On Don, 18 Okt 2001, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > Hello, > > > Whatever, if you stick with sendmail, I'll be happy to help - and in > > this case, going to at least testing buys you *ALOT* with

Re: mta confusion

2001-10-18 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 October 2001 08:05 am, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David Bishop wrote: > > Currently: > > Using sendmail with webmin and the webmin control module > > Using webmail based off of the webmin contro

mta confusion

2001-10-18 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a relatively new box hosting several websites with their own domain names. It also runs dns and email for the same domains. So far, my "solution" to the Email Problem (tm) has been to simply not allow each of them to have "generic" accounts

Re: mta confusion

2001-10-18 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 October 2001 08:56 am, Noel Koethe wrote: > On Don, 18 Okt 2001, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > Hello, > > > Whatever, if you stick with sendmail, I'll be happy to help - and in > > this case, going to at least testing buys you *ALOT* with

Re: mta confusion

2001-10-18 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 October 2001 08:05 am, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David Bishop wrote: > > Currently: > > Using sendmail with webmin and the webmin control module > > Using webmail based off of the webmin contro

mta confusion

2001-10-18 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a relatively new box hosting several websites with their own domain names. It also runs dns and email for the same domains. So far, my "solution" to the Email Problem (tm) has been to simply not allow each of them to have "generic" account

sendmail config issues

2001-08-27 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is probably fairly simple, but I'll admit to only slight knowledge concerning sendmail (not my choice :-). Here's the situation: we have a collection of unix machines that are all configured to send mail to a mailhub. That works. Then, if t

Re: Host my own box as my own ISP?

2001-08-14 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not to be rude, but you might try starting by emailing a list dedicated to Windows, instead of one for *Debian* *Linux*. HTH. On Tuesday 14 August 2001 01:05 pm, etalent wrote: > How do I set up/configure Windows 2000 Advanced server as ISP host

Re: eth1: Transmit timeout (...)

2001-08-10 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 10 August 2001 05:48 am, Jordi S . Bunster wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:42:45PM +1000, Toby Thain wrote: > > I had a lot of trouble with RT8139B under Debian 2.2 (Intel, on AMD-K6) > > - same diagnostics, corrupted transfers - with th

Re: weird tcp syn problem

2001-08-09 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 August 2001 08:09 am, Peter Billson wrote: > 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

weird tcp syn problem

2001-08-09 Thread David Bishop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just recently, I rebooted a machine and iptables hasn't worked since. I hadn't upgraded the kernel, or touched anything else (that I can remember). The particular error is this: /etc/iptables.cfg: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies: No such file o

redirecting mails to root

2001-07-20 Thread David Bishop
I have a problem, wherein I have a group of computers that are somewhat seperate from the rest of the computers around here, running various beta-level internal services but have the same @hostname.com email address. So, in my exim.conf, I have qualify_domain = foo.com and life is good (I can

Re: ATA Speed

2001-07-03 Thread David Bishop
ATA100 != 100Mhz pci bus. All that's doing is reporting the pci bus (to which the ide controller is attached). Nothing more, nothing less. All cards/controllers attached to your pci bus will run at that same speed. HTH. On Tuesday 03 July 2001 03:49 pm, R K wrote: > Does the following mean

Re: ATA Speed

2001-07-03 Thread David Bishop
ATA100 != 100Mhz pci bus. All that's doing is reporting the pci bus (to which the ide controller is attached). Nothing more, nothing less. All cards/controllers attached to your pci bus will run at that same speed. HTH. On Tuesday 03 July 2001 03:49 pm, R K wrote: > Does the following mean

Re: Qmail - huge performance increase

2001-06-27 Thread David Bishop
And on an Ultra-60 running Solaris 7 w/UFS: bash-2.04$ time /bin/ls | wc 63975 63975 1971245 real0m2.213s user0m1.160s sys 0m0.890s bash-2.04$ time ls | wc 63975 63975 1971253 real2m19.965s user0m1.490s sys 0m16.340s bash-2.04$ Sped it up "just a little bit"

Re: Qmail - huge performance increase

2001-06-27 Thread David Bishop
And on an Ultra-60 running Solaris 7 w/UFS: bash-2.04$ time /bin/ls | wc 63975 63975 1971245 real0m2.213s user0m1.160s sys 0m0.890s bash-2.04$ time ls | wc 63975 63975 1971253 real2m19.965s user0m1.490s sys 0m16.340s bash-2.04$ Sped it up "just a little bit

Re: Image disk for debian

2001-06-20 Thread David Bishop
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 07:10, Teun Vink wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Craig wrote: > > Hi ladies and fellas > > > > Is there a way of selecting packages and storing them in a flat text > > file, that > > debian uses to reference in the installation procedure. > > > > Thanks > > Craig > > dpkg --

Re: Image disk for debian

2001-06-20 Thread David Bishop
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 07:10, Teun Vink wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Craig wrote: > > Hi ladies and fellas > > > > Is there a way of selecting packages and storing them in a flat text > > file, that > > debian uses to reference in the installation procedure. > > > > Thanks > > Craig > > dpkg -

Re: Have you been hacked by f*ck PoizonBOx?

2001-06-01 Thread David Bishop
He even spammed debian-arm, for heaven's sake. Is *nothing* sacred?? :-P On Friday 01 June 2001 13:35, Jesse Goerz wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2001 13:28, Peter Billson wrote: > > "L@@K dont throw away!" wrote: > > > I've created an online community called "Have you been hacked by f*ck > > > Poiz

Re: Have you been hacked by f*ck PoizonBOx?

2001-06-01 Thread David Bishop
He even spammed debian-arm, for heaven's sake. Is *nothing* sacred?? :-P On Friday 01 June 2001 13:35, Jesse Goerz wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2001 13:28, Peter Billson wrote: > > "L@@K dont throw away!" wrote: > > > I've created an online community called "Have you been hacked by f*ck > > > Poi

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - Original Message - > From: "David Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 6:56 PM > Subject: Re: long hang time for ftp > > > > To follow up my own email, proftp has the exact same

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
To follow up my own email, proftp has the exact same problem. Any other ideas? On 12 Mar 2001 16:50:13 MST, David Bishop said: > > I'm getting it right now. I don't really care about which one works, just > that one *does*... :-) > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:37:

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
ever > figured it out. Proftpd does all I ever needed. > > Haim. > > David Bishop wrote: > > > > I just installed wu_ftp, and it's doing the infamous "hang for a minute, > then > > let you lo

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
2001 at 03:37:16PM -0700, David Bishop wrote: > > I just installed wu_ftp, and it's doing the infamous "hang for a minute, > then > > let you login normally" trick. I'm also using xinetd (for security > reasons, > > was told it was better) s

long hang time for ftp

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
I just installed wu_ftp, and it's doing the infamous "hang for a minute, then let you login normally" trick. I'm also using xinetd (for security reasons, was told it was better) so it isn't a default install. How do I get rid of this "hang-time" before the login prompt appears? I've searched fr

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - Original Message - > From: "David Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 6:56 PM > Subject: Re: long hang time for ftp > > > > To follow up my own email, proftp has the

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
To follow up my own email, proftp has the exact same problem. Any other ideas? On 12 Mar 2001 16:50:13 MST, David Bishop said: > > I'm getting it right now. I don't really care about which one works, just > that one *does*... :-) > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:37:

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
nd never > figured it out. Proftpd does all I ever needed. > > Haim. > > David Bishop wrote: > > > > I just installed wu_ftp, and it's doing the infamous "hang for a minute, then > > let you login normally" trick. I'm also using xinetd

Re: long hang time for ftp

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
2, 2001 at 03:37:16PM -0700, David Bishop wrote: > > I just installed wu_ftp, and it's doing the infamous "hang for a minute, then > > let you login normally" trick. I'm also using xinetd (for security reasons, > > was told it was better) so it isn'

long hang time for ftp

2001-03-12 Thread David Bishop
I just installed wu_ftp, and it's doing the infamous "hang for a minute, then let you login normally" trick. I'm also using xinetd (for security reasons, was told it was better) so it isn't a default install. How do I get rid of this "hang-time" before the login prompt appears? I've searched f

RE: transfering amongst partitions

2001-03-02 Thread David Bishop
es up fine > > Regards > > G.Brits > Linux Systems Engineer > Technology Concepts > Tel +27 11 803 2169 > Fax +27 11 803 2189 > > -Original Message- > From: David Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 March 2001 01:21 > To: debia

RE: transfering amongst partitions

2001-03-02 Thread David Bishop
es up fine > > Regards > > G.Brits > Linux Systems Engineer > Technology Concepts > Tel +27 11 803 2169 > Fax +27 11 803 2189 > > -Original Message- > From: David Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 02 March 2001 01:21 > To: [E

transfering amongst partitions

2001-03-01 Thread David Bishop
So, I trying to convert a machine that has been dual-booting NT and Debian for awhile, mainly because I just noticed that I haven't booted into NT in over two months :-) I want to reclaim that lost disk space that is currently an NTFS partition, and that's where I'm stuck. The current layout of t

transfering amongst partitions

2001-03-01 Thread David Bishop
So, I trying to convert a machine that has been dual-booting NT and Debian for awhile, mainly because I just noticed that I haven't booted into NT in over two months :-) I want to reclaim that lost disk space that is currently an NTFS partition, and that's where I'm stuck. The current layout of

Re: pam failure

2001-02-19 Thread David Bishop
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:46:10 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 02:37:29PM -0700, David Bishop wrote: > > [from /var/log/messages] > > Feb 19 15:29:56 server1 login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM masquerade.micron.com > FOR > > db, Authentication fail

pam failure

2001-02-19 Thread David Bishop
[from /var/log/messages] Feb 19 15:29:56 server1 login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM masquerade.micron.com FOR db, Authentication failure Feb 19 15:29:58 server1 login: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM masquerade.micron.com FOR (null), Conversation error This just started happening. Any normal user will recieve

Re: pam failure

2001-02-19 Thread David Bishop
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:46:10 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 02:37:29PM -0700, David Bishop wrote: > > [from /var/log/messages] > > Feb 19 15:29:56 server1 login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM masquerade.micron.com FOR > > db, Authentication failure

pam failure

2001-02-19 Thread David Bishop
[from /var/log/messages] Feb 19 15:29:56 server1 login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM masquerade.micron.com FOR db, Authentication failure Feb 19 15:29:58 server1 login: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM masquerade.micron.com FOR (null), Conversation error This just started happening. Any normal user will recieve

Backups to CD

2001-02-08 Thread David Bishop
I'm trying to make backups to CD, and of course, have 800-900 megs worth of data, compressed. What is the best way to split up large tar or cpio files, that will allow them to easily be put back together, booting off of a rescue floppy or the like? I don't need any scripts or direct-to-the-burner

Backups to CD

2001-02-08 Thread David Bishop
I'm trying to make backups to CD, and of course, have 800-900 megs worth of data, compressed. What is the best way to split up large tar or cpio files, that will allow them to easily be put back together, booting off of a rescue floppy or the like? I don't need any scripts or direct-to-the-burne