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debian security y Potato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BSD Hola gente como andan? espero que bien, hace un ratio que acabo de hacer upgade a potato con el apt, todo una odisea con teniendo una dialup como tengo, estube 3 o 4 dias bajando paquetes :-) El mail es por que cuando yo tenia slink en mi source.list tenia una linea que decia deb http://debian.security.org stable updates o algo parecido, cual seria la equivalente en potato? por que no logro dar con ella Desde ya muchas gracias Salu2 Shalom ve Leitrahot Alejandro David Yashan (GNU-Rex en IRC) La contribucion mas grande y peligrosa que Micro$oft ha hecho a la industria del software podria ser el nivel al que ha bajado las expectativas de los usuarios. Acentos y e#es omitidas deliberadamente para evitar problemas de lectura con algunos clientes de e-mail Linux Registered User #120401 LUGAr Miembro #409 POWERED BY Debian GNU/Linux Potato Kernel 2.2.16 Linux is userfriendly, but is only a bit selective about its friends :-) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE5aTgaiS3xNWtJnS4RAgurAJ4hGLOk3RfitcEdIwKwTbf6aUJ98wCfYIiz Jlby6IjNmzII7cH45Bt34G8= =pNxe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Database program
The spreadsheet tsiag the console version of siag spreadsheet from the Siag Office Suite might fit your needs, I use it for my bookkeeping applications. It will save your data in a variety of formats and has minimal memory needs. A simple but fast database I use is NoSql, a flat file database which saves data in a tab delimited text file. Your data can be edited with a text editor. hope this helps Mike On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 09:35:29AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for some sort of database or spreadsheet application to use as a personal filing system. I'll be organising a lot of different things that I own and so I anticipate that the file may become extremely large. I'm running debian on an Intel 486 with 16mg RAM. I worried that if I don't get a good program that can handle a large file I may run into memory problems. This may not be a problem since when I installed debian I made a 64mg swap partition. I'm not sure. Can anyone suggest a program, preferably one that does not run on X? I just want a plain text based app that gracefully deals with low memory. Thanks in advance M.Henry -- --- Mike Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cant find bzImage
When its done just run make bzlilo, and then if you want to be really careful run lilo. But make bzlilo should be enough to reboot with your new kernel. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Jay Kelly wrote: Hello all, I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the option I want, I type make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install then it starts to compile and when its done I cant find the bzImage. I looked in the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot but nothing. What am I missing here ? I installed bin86. Oh yeah Im running potato if that helps. Thanks guys -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: HW for UPS
Slightly OT. I recently bought a MGE Pulsar Ellipse, the software it is certified to work with Debian 2.0, I have it working with Slink (though the cfg app segfaults, manually edited the config files). The software requires libc5 and ncurses3. I haven't put it completely through its paces though in Linux (did in Windows), but it seems to work. You could check the UPS howto it has the results of selected models connected to Linux boxes, but it is old. Bill Werner Reisberger wrote: Does someone know which UPS hardware could be used with the debian ups packet. TIA, Werner -- Werner Reisberger public-key available: voice: +41 1 3120086 Viktoriastr. 15http://www.gene.ch/mypubkey.txt CH-8057 Zurich -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
(solved) Re: simple dhcp questions...
Thanks for the help! For the record, to get it to work I had to do 2 things... 1. Add an entry in my ipchains rules to allow broadcast input over eth0 to pass through. (I had been previously dumping them since they seemed suspect). 2. Move all references in the dhcp.conf from freindly names to numeric names, as well as explicitely placing each one in the host section (the globals weren't working for whatever reason). Took me a while, but persistance prevailed. :) Thanks again Jonathan On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:09:25PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: That is weird. The option routers line is indeed supposed to set the default gateway. This works fine for me. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key available from http://lupavista.jamdata.net/gpg.asc -- Lament 1750: If I only had a radioactive decay source and a fast free-running oscillator... pgpk0EfNEJHN0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine uncleanly... or should another command be substituted for /sbin/shutdown, and if so, which one? echo root /etc/shutdown.allow and leave inittab alone. that way control-alt-delete will only work if root is logged into the console. (that is what the -a switch to shutdown does) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp61B3ND8O5K.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What drive is the dir on ?
On Jul 08 2000, Charlie Kroeger wrote: Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of the earlier generations? If this limit does exist, nobody told my kernel about it. :-) Seriously, though, I have a 12GB partition in this system where I'm composing this message. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/nectar/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
i like to remap ctrl-alt-del to go to runlevel 1, i set: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/init 1 i find it quite useful if something in startup hangs i can just go straight to runlevel 1 or if something crashes i can go there easily too, much faster then a reboot for me(it takes my machine a full 2 minutes from power on to stat to boot linux) nate On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: poobah Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to poobah simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: poobah poobah # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. poobah ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now poobah poobah or should another command be substituted for /sbin/shutdown, and if so, which poobah one? poobah poobah poobah -- poobah Bob Bernstein http://www.ruptured-duck.com poobah poobah poobah poobah -- poobah Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null poobah ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:35am up 29 days, 12:09, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00
Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook
The following is advice for anyone who runs into the syslinux problem (rescue disk doesn't boot, computer screen displays boot failed) when trying to install a Debian installation from floppies (maybe some other distributions, as well). The machine here is a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . 1) Download resc1400.bin from Debian via ftp. 2) dd that file to a floppy. 3) mount the floppy and copy the files named linux (kernel) and root.bin (ramdisk image) to a local hard disk or some other medium. I understand that some people prefer to use mtools for this task. I just mounted the floppy as msdos and copied the files out that way. 4) dd linux to a floppy. dd root.bin to the same floppy using an offset of 720 or so, e.g., dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k seek=720 (for a floppy disk at /dev/fd0 . the value for seek needs to be a bit larger than the size of the kernel file being installed). 5) use the rdev command as follows: rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 rdev -r /dev/fd0 49872 *** The resulting floppy will boot the machine you are trying to install Debian to. You will be asked to insert a root disk. Here you just hit the return key and follow the instructions for the first part of the installation. When you are asked for the driver disk you put a floppy which contains drv1400.bin (also from Debian via ftp). You may have to enter /dev/fd0/ if asked by the program where the device driver is. *** Note: Things should proceed from here without problem except for one important point. When you attempt to install the base files (from Devian via ftp) via nfs, hard disk, floppy, etc., you will be asked to insert the rescue disk in the floppy drive to start up the process. Here, the program is looking for files in resc1400.bin other than linux or ramdisk. In order to satisfy the program and move on to the next step in the installation, you have to insert a floppy which has the downloaded resc1400.bin dd 'ed to it (one that most people can boot from in the first place - with syslinux in it). Once you do that you can move on. In all you will need a regular rescue disk, a stripped rescue disk (w/ kernel and ramdisk files, prepared w/ redev), a driver disk and persistence. Tony Laszlo, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jiyugaoka, Tokyo
Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook - preferred version?
I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . I won't be running X and will just need to use: vim, pine (+fetchmail/sendmail), lynx, ftp, telnet and pcmcia and parallel port modules. Have gone through the installation steps from floppy to the point where the system boots from the hard disk. Next, I need to get an Corega EtherII PCC-T ethernet card working in order to point dselect to the Packages.gz on the debian ftp or www site. My questions: * In accordance with advice from someone who had installed Linux on one of these beasts, I chose Debian 2.0 distribution (/dists/Debian-2.0/). Is this the preferred version for this machine and these needs? * while uname -a shows that the kernel running is 2.0.36, somehow modules are 2.0.34 . I tried to insmod pcmcia.o , etc. and got an error message that the modules don't machine the kernel. How could this happen and what's the best way to reinstall so it doesn't happen or fix the problem without reinstalling? * To see what would happen, I downloaded the pcmcia-modules deb file (2.0.36) from the Debian-2.0 site (copying it over to the Toshiba via floppies). This I was able to install with dpkg -i ; so, while the modules are 2.0.34, there are two sets of pcmcia modules, 2.0.34 and 2.0.36 . The Ethernet card requires pcnet_cs.0 so I entered the necessary lines in /etc/pcmcia/config and started pcmcia with /etc/init.d/pcmcia start (I have this card working on a Linux box that runs with Turbolinux [quite similar to Redhat]). On the Toshiba w/ Debian it's not perfect yet, but the card is being recognized, at least partially. Anything else I need to do? Does the network need to be configured before the card will be recognized properly? * Finally, I downloaded the kernel source from /Debian-2.0/ and tried dpkg -i. It seems that I need to install binutils first, or at the same time. Anything else needed before I can recompile the kernel? bin86, maybe? kernel headers of some kind? Thanks! Tony Laszlo Jiyugaoka, Tokyo
dhcp network
I am trying to hook up my new Linux box, running Storm2000 to my existing network. There already is a router (Linksys BEFSR41) used to connect my DSL modem to the network and act as a fire wall. Could you please tell me how to set theDebian Linux to get the IP address dynamicallyfrom my router. Thank You Steve
Swat too slow
Hi List, it is not really a problem, but when I call swat from a windows client, it takes a very long time til I get an answer. (3-5 min.). After this time I can use swat normally. Can anyone help me? thanx
Re: What drive is the dir on ?
On 08-Jul-2000 Charlie Kroeger wrote: If you're running a recent 2.2.x kernel and you still have one of those partitions empty, Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of the earlier generations? What ??? 8 GB limit in the kernel ? Huh.. The 8 GB limit applies only to (mostly real mode) applications that are using the BIOS INT13 interface for hard disk access. Since the linux kernel communicates directly with the HD controller, there's no such limitation. The 8 GB problem is mostly a problem for boot-loaders (eg. lilo), beacuse they have to use the bios to load the kernel (so the kernel must be under 8g). Recent versions of lilo however can access the HD beyond 8 GB too.
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote: On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine uncleanly... No, it certainly won't. When this line is commented out, ctr-alt-del does nothing.
Re: networking questions
Am Sam, 08 Jul 2000 schrieb Franco Cone: Howdy! I have a few networking questions..hope you guys won't mind :) I have 2 networked machines (win98 debian GNU) as of this moment using ethernet 10baseT cat 5 connected to a hub. My questions are: 1.how do I let win98 see the debian box thru network neighborhood? 2.how do I make debian see win98? I don't thinks there's network neighborhood for debian..is there? I don't know if there's a deb for, but test linneighborhood -- freshmeat -- MfG Waldemar Brodkorb Linux rulez!
Solution: Re: apropos won't stop
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 05:34:58PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: if I start apropos [some command] apropos just won't stop writing what it found on the STDOUT. Seems like a loop, I have to terminate it. whatis works fine. What might be the problem here? I found some old posting in Deja. Reinstalling man-db created a new index and now it works fine.
Re: older packages
Hello! You can try out ftpsearch.lycos.com. I always find lots of outdated Debian mirrors with old packages there. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger - Original Message - From: Marcin Kurc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 10:20 PM Subject: older packages Where can I find older debian (woody) packages? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
Hi, actualy, it depends on how your distrib is configured: sometimes, it does nothing, sometimes, it reboots cleanly your computer. There's a file to change but I don't remember which one. They were at the wrong place in the worng time. Naturally, they became heroes. Leia Organa of Aldoraan, senator. - Visit me: http://altern.org/neuromancien/mainpage.htm - Original Message - From: Lehel Bernadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: Re: begone ctrlaltdel! On 09-Jul-2000 Ethan Benson wrote: On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:43:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: Suppose I want to dis-able the three fingered salute. Is it sufficient to simply comment out this line in /etc/inittab: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now i am uncertain what control-alt-delete will do if you comment this out, it might revert to DOS/Windows behaviour of rebooting the machine uncleanly... No, it certainly won't. When this line is commented out, ctr-alt-del does nothing. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Cant find bzImage
Jay Kelly hat gesagt: // Jay Kelly wrote: I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the option I want, I type make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install then it starts to compile and when its done I cant find the bzImage. I looked in the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot but nothing. What am I missing here ? I installed bin86. Oh yeah Im running potato if that helps. I would recommend to explore the beautiful world of make-kpkg delivered as part of kernel-package: $ apt-get install kernel-package bye -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
file permissions in /var/log
Hi all What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log? Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed unexpectedly / unintendedly? I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed some permissions with my logrotate.conf. This is what I have currently: # ls -lR /var/log /var/log: total 3376 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jun 4 12:07 apache -rw-r-1 root adm218944 Jul 9 17:55 auth.log -rw-r--r--1 root root 450626 Jul 9 17:31 daemon.log -rw-r--r--1 root root 183661 Jul 5 00:07 debug -rw-r--r--1 root root 3604 Jul 9 11:31 dmesg drwxr-xr-x2 mail mail 1024 Jul 7 08:20 exim -rw-r--r--1 root root24192 Jul 9 17:55 faillog -rw-r--r--1 root root 578067 Jul 9 11:32 kern.log drwxr-xr-x2 root root20480 Jul 9 11:32 ksymoops -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 294336 Jul 9 17:55 lastlog -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 3 17:46 lpr.log -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 3 17:46 mail.err -rw-r--r--1 root root10994 Jun 10 12:38 mail.info -rw-r--r--1 root root10994 Jun 10 12:38 mail.log -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 3 17:46 mail.warn -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 181920 Jul 9 17:51 messages -rw-r--r--1 root root99798 Jul 4 08:08 messages.1.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root27027 Jul 9 11:37 nmb -rw---1 root root0 Jun 3 19:45 ppp-connect-errors -rw-r-1 root adm 4786 Jul 7 08:21 setuid.changes -rw-r-1 root adm 4786 Jul 6 08:21 setuid.changes.0 -rw-r-1 root adm 703 Jul 5 08:21 setuid.changes.1.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 702 Jul 4 08:21 setuid.changes.2.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 705 Jun 30 08:21 setuid.changes.3.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 22428 Jun 29 19:21 setuid.changes.4.gz -rw-r-1 root adm37 Jun 29 19:21 setuid.changes.5.gz -rw-r-1 root root 372715 Jul 7 08:21 setuid.today -rw-r-1 root root 372715 Jul 6 08:21 setuid.yesterday -rw-r--r--1 root root 105913 Jul 9 12:46 smb -rw-r-1 root adm111830 Jul 9 17:44 syslog -rw-r-1 root adm 41605 Jul 7 08:20 syslog.0 -rw-r-1 root adm 6434 Jul 6 08:20 syslog.1.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 11561 Jul 5 08:20 syslog.2.gz -rw-r-1 root adm75 Jul 4 08:21 syslog.3.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 5394 Jun 30 08:20 syslog.4.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 22469 Jul 4 08:21 syslog.5.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 29 Jul 3 20:28 user.log -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 3 17:46 uucp.log -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 467328 Jul 9 17:55 wtmp -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp60426 Jul 4 07:33 wtmp.1.gz /var/log/apache: total 320 -rw-r--r--1 root root 291873 Jul 9 15:43 access.log -rw-r--r--1 root root29995 Jul 9 11:32 error.log /var/log/exim: total 299 -rw-r-1 mail mail 168534 Jul 9 17:07 mainlog -rw-r-1 mail mail81212 Jul 7 08:20 mainlog.0 -rw-r-1 mail mail 9446 Jul 6 08:20 mainlog.1.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail11360 Jul 5 08:20 mainlog.2.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail17933 Jul 4 07:30 mainlog.3.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail 185 Jul 4 08:20 mainlog.4.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail0 Jul 7 08:20 paniclog -rw-r-1 mail mail0 Jul 6 08:20 paniclog.0 -rw-r-1 mail mail 31 Jul 5 08:20 paniclog.1.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail 269 Jul 4 19:25 paniclog.2.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail 31 Jun 30 08:20 paniclog.3.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail 31 Jun 29 19:20 paniclog.4.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail 218 Jun 10 14:10 paniclog.5.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail0 Jul 7 08:20 rejectlog -rw-r-1 mail mail0 Jul 6 08:20 rejectlog.0 -rw-r-1 mail mail 32 Jul 5 08:20 rejectlog.1.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail 32 Jul 4 08:20 rejectlog.2.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail 32 Jun 30 08:20 rejectlog.3.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail 32 Jun 29 19:20 rejectlog.4.gz -rw-r-1 mail mail 366 Jun 11 18:31 rejectlog.5.gz /var/log/ksymoops: total 3898 [snipped] -rw-r--r--1 root root39986 Jul 9 13:31 2709133147.ksyms -rw-r--r--1 root root 718 Jul 9 13:31 2709133147.modules Sorry for this being so long. Thank you Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Re: Cant find bzImage
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 08:39:57PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Hello all, I am upgrading my kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 and after selecting the First of all, get the patch from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 if you're connected to the internet. There are security risks with 2.2.15. option I want, I type make dep;make clean;make bzImage;make modules;make modules_install then it starts to compile and when its done I cant find the bzImage. Instead of doing it all on one command line, just simply do a make dep; make clean; make bzImage. I'll bet there's an error that's getting covered up by the make modules; make modules_install. Better yet, put between all the make statements so that the whole process will stop after the first error. Cheers, Chris -- pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.
Re: Cant find bzImage
* Chris Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, get the patch from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 if you're connected to the internet. There are security risks with 2.2.15. http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/06/11/960780464.html
email to fax
Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq
Floppy/NFS Install Problem
Hello, I am trying to install debian from floppies on 2 old 486 machines. I can't use a CD as neither of them have drives. The floppies are ok as I have managed to install the base system ok on one machine. The other is an old Intel machine at least 10 years old. It has a SCSI card and 1MB disk and no IDE connectors. When I try to install the base system from the same floppies I get right through the installation until it tries to install the system from base2_1.tgz but then does nothing. I suspect the SCSI hard disk may be on the way out as it sometimes hangs when initialising the partitions, I can't test this easily due to the lack of IDE connectors. In case the floppy drive is suspect I have tried to use the NFS option to install base2_1.tgz from the other 486. When I enter Gamma:/home/mike as the path it generates an error message. I installed the NFS module on both the machines. If anyone can help I would be grateful. If not, the machine may get binned! I have tried using the floppies on 50+ occasions. The installation has worked on one occasion but I made a mess of the partitioning scheme so had to start again. TIA Mike Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am finding the latter to be correct here. The '-a' arg to shutdown strikes me as not very useful, since the presence of a root login will circumvent whatever is in /etc/shutdown.allow. It would seem to me that it is precisely _when_ root is logged in that an inadvertant or unauthorized ctrlaltdel reboot would be most unwelcome. But.. you have an open root shell! That someone presses ctrl-alt-del is the least of your worries, they could simply enter shutdown -r now. Or rm -rf /. Or echo 'toor::0:0::/: /etc/passwd. Or I suppose the moral of the story is, Don't leave root logins unattended. (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in /etc/shutdown.allow, none?) Simply don't use the -a switch then. Mike.
RE: Debian Printing Again
I just installed the ljet4 driver for my printer and used magicfilterconfig to do it. I think you mean modconf rather than modconfig and you should not have to do anything with it if you already had another printer working. If this is your first printer, you might have to use the command modconf and select misc drivers, then the lp and parport_pc modules. That's what I had to do to make printing work on kernel 2.2.12. -Original Message- From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:42 PM To: Jay Kelly Cc: Debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: Debian Printing Again I don't know what modconfig is, but if you select the ljet4 filter in magicfilterconfig, that should work with this printer, according to the database at www.linuxprinting.org. On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:13:42PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Hello Group, I was reading the list on printers and thought I would try to setup my Xerox DocuPrint 4508 Laser Printer. I installed magicfilter and as before it wanted me reconfigure the printcap. So I ran magicfilterconfig but I had no idea what input filter to use. Also do I need to recompile or should I use the modconfig. I have never used modconfig and have no idea how to start it. Any suggestions ??? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Xfree Mode Switching?
I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions. I was told ctrl-alt-+ should work but it doesnt for me. Do I need to have xnest installed? Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks -Ethan
Re: Xfree Mode Switching?
Ethan Pierce wrote: I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions. I was told ctrl-alt-+ should work but it doesnt for me. Do I need to have xnest installed? Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks -Ethan Make sure that you are using the correct + key. The one at the right end of the row above the letters won't work. You *must* use the + and - that are on the numeric keypad. It *does* make a difference. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today? | As far from Redmond as possible! '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
Re: Debian Printing Again
Hello, This will be the first time I have installed a printer on the machine. I ran Modconf and didnt see anything for a printer. All I see is Ipv4 and net drivers. What am I doing wrong ? I am running potato but I dont think that should make a difference. Thanks On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:44:56PM -0500, R. D. Loga wrote: I just installed the ljet4 driver for my printer and used magicfilterconfig to do it. I think you mean modconf rather than modconfig and you should not have to do anything with it if you already had another printer working. If this is your first printer, you might have to use the command modconf and select misc drivers, then the lp and parport_pc modules. That's what I had to do to make printing work on kernel 2.2.12. -Original Message- From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:42 PM To: Jay Kelly Cc: Debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Printing Again I don't know what modconfig is, but if you select the ljet4 filter in magicfilterconfig, that should work with this printer, according to the database at www.linuxprinting.org. On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:13:42PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: Hello Group, I was reading the list on printers and thought I would try to setup my Xerox DocuPrint 4508 Laser Printer. I installed magicfilter and as before it wanted me reconfigure the printcap. So I ran magicfilterconfig but I had no idea what input filter to use. Also do I need to recompile or should I use the modconfig. I have never used modconfig and have no idea how to start it. Any suggestions ??? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org
Re: Xfree Mode Switching?
Mike Werner wrote: Ethan Pierce wrote: I was wondering how to make X switch resolutions. I was told ctrl-alt-+ should work but it doesnt for me. Do I need to have xnest installed? Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks -Ethan Make sure that you are using the correct + key. The one at the right end of the row above the letters won't work. You *must* use the + and - that are on the numeric keypad. It *does* make a difference. If that doesn't work for you make sure you in fact have different resolutions to switch to in your /etc/XF86Config file. hth, kent
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 05:45:42PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: But.. you have an open root shell! That someone presses ctrl-alt-del is the least of your worries, they could simply enter shutdown -r now. Or rm -rf /. Or echo 'toor::0:0::/: /etc/passwd. Or I guess I had in the mind a scenario wherein someone, apparently with their back to a terminal, could in about two seconds twist around, hit ctrlaltdel, and twist back with an innocent look on their face and their arms folded across their chest. The other commands, above, would take some time. I suppose the moral of the story is, Don't leave root logins unattended. (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in /etc/shutdown.allow, none?) Simply don't use the -a switch then. I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?) Quite apart from all this, any user who knows the path '/sbin/shutdown' can execute it, at least with the permissions shutdown has by default. Eliminating this kind of possibility was the reason I started looking into the ctrlaltdel business. Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown has -rwxr-xr-x perms? -- Bob Bernstein | When you use some wickedly cool and at | obscure feature of the language, you Esmond, R.I., USA | reduce the number of potential readers | of your code. -- Paul Prescod
Re: email to fax
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:49:26 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email. Intercept the mail on delivery using procmail and feed it to one of the fax sending programs (mgetty-fax, hylafax or efax). HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in /etc/shutdown.allow, none?) Simply don't use the -a switch then. I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?) Ok, in that case, simply comment out the shutdown line in /etc/inittab Quite apart from all this, any user who knows the path '/sbin/shutdown' can execute it, at least with the permissions shutdown has by default. Eliminating this kind of possibility was the reason I started looking into the ctrlaltdel business. Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown has -rwxr-xr-x perms? Why not ? If you aren't root you can execute it but it won't do anything useful.. Mike.
Re: older packages
have a look at: http or ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/ - Bruce -- On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote: You can try out ftpsearch.lycos.com. I always find lots of outdated Debian mirrors with old packages there. - Original Message - From: Marcin Kurc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where can I find older debian (woody) packages?
ssh and extended keys
I've got two machines here and frequently hop between them with ssh. When I open a terminal window (Eterm or xterm) on one and ssh to the other, home, end, and the numeric keypad don't work. If I open another term window from within the ssh connection, they work just fine. How can I get ssh to pass the extended key codes cleanly when invoked from the command line within an [Ex]term? -- Two words: Windows survives. - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin. - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L+++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
Re: Font corruption under X
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 09:51:19PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: Rogerio Brito wrote: On Jul 08 2000, Mike Werner wrote: Looks like that's it, alright. I just popped my case to double-check, and I am indeed using an S3 Virge/DX vid card with the SVGA server. ::sigh:: Is there any reason why you don't use the specialized xserver for your card? The package is xserver-s3v (not to be confused with xserver-s3). I have installed that one for a customer and he doesn't seem to have those problems (I went to your page to see the corruption). Well, I had considered that server. But when I saw this ... snip Description: X server for S3 ViRGE and ViRGE/VX-based graphics cards xserver-s3v is an 8-bit PseudoColor and 16-bit TrueColor X server suitable for use with S3 ViRGE and ViRGE/VX graphic accelerator boards. In most cases use of this X server is deprecated in favor of the SVGA X server. ... that last line got me to use the SVGA server instead. However, between the realization that since I pretty much know that the SVGA server is the cause of my troubles it most certainly can't hurt to try and your recommendation, I am now downloading the xserver-s3v package as I type this. I've had a number of problems with the SVGA driver on my own ViRGE/VX card, documented in the nether depths of comp.os.linux.*. Followups from others indicated that even with identically specified cards, some worked with the SVGA driver, some required the S3 driver. Go figure. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpIZq3E0WG05.pgp Description: PGP signature
Using modconf
Hello All, I wanted to use modconf to add printer support to my potato box, but when I run it all that is in there is net options. How do I add more module options ? Is this down though the kernel ? And if so what do I need add to the kernel for printer support ? Thanks Guys -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org
Using Netmeeting thought a Debian Firewall
Will NetMeeting work thought a firewall or will I need to port the box to let it out. If I reme\mber right in the past I was able to send video out but not receive it for the other side. Anyone haveany ideas to fix this ? And what port will I need to open if this is the case ? Thanks Guys -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 03:13:11PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?) you could put one of the system account names in /etc/shutdown.allow say bin who cannot login anyway. but if commenting out the inittab line is the same as disabling control-alt-delete that would work just as well. Quite apart from all this, any user who knows the path '/sbin/shutdown' can execute it, at least with the permissions shutdown has by default. Eliminating this kind of possibility was the reason I started looking into the ctrlaltdel business. Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown has -rwxr-xr-x perms? [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ /sbin/shutdown -r now shutdown: must be root. [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ so long as a program does not have any s bits set thier is no advanatage to restricting its permissions. afterall anyone can download the sysvinit .deb, extract the shutdown program and execute it with the same permission as my above example. (if you want to see something interesting though try this: fakeroot /sbin/shutdown -r now) the only time restricting program permissions is worthwhile is when there are s bits set or perhaps in the case of the compiler (which is more difficult to install into the users' userland.) for the compiler one should change permissions on /usr/lib/gcc as well. it is also debian policy that all binaries have 0755 permissions when non-suid for the above reason, and suid binaries must have world read permission at a minimum (no 4111 or 4711 type permissions) again for the same reason, anyone can get and read the file out of a .deb. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgplfGhCofY0j.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: file permissions in /var/log
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 06:01:08PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Hi all What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log? Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed unexpectedly / unintendedly? I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed some permissions with my logrotate.conf. most logrotation scripts set the permissions to 640 (-rw-r-) root.adm, but oddly enough after an initial install most log files have 644 root.root permissions until the logrotations get done. 640 root.adm is correct IMO for most log files, wtmp, utmp, btmp, lastlog, dmesg are exceptions to this. (dmesg since anyone get can that info anyway) any users who should be allowed to read logs are added to group adm. one thing to watch for is your apache logs, by default the apache cron job will chown them to www-data.www-data mode 664, this is *wrong* they should be root.root 644 or root.adm 640 (depending on your preference) apache.org states that log files should not be owned by the user apache runs as. (otherwise anyone who is allowed to have cgi can tamper with your logs) This is what I have currently: # ls -lR /var/log /var/log: total 3376 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jun 4 12:07 apache -rw-r-1 root adm218944 Jul 9 17:55 auth.log -rw-r--r--1 root root 450626 Jul 9 17:31 daemon.log -rw-r--r--1 root root 183661 Jul 5 00:07 debug 640 root.adm IMO -rw-r--r--1 root root 3604 Jul 9 11:31 dmesg this is fine since anyone can run dmesg. drwxr-xr-x2 mail mail 1024 Jul 7 08:20 exim don't know anything about exim, but i don't like the looks of that. -rw-r--r--1 root root24192 Jul 9 17:55 faillog i am not quite sure who uses this file, the failed logins message you get when you login comes from btmp iirc. -rw-r--r--1 root root 578067 Jul 9 11:32 kern.log 640 root.adm IMO drwxr-xr-x2 root root20480 Jul 9 11:32 ksymoops i would change permission on the ksymoops directory to 750, i have seen alot of mode 0666 files created in there. -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 294336 Jul 9 17:55 lastlog correct -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 3 17:46 lpr.log -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 3 17:46 mail.err -rw-r--r--1 root root10994 Jun 10 12:38 mail.info -rw-r--r--1 root root10994 Jun 10 12:38 mail.log -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 3 17:46 mail.warn 640 root.adm IMO -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 181920 Jul 9 17:51 messages this is wrong, should be 640 root.adm. -rw-r--r--1 root root99798 Jul 4 08:08 messages.1.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root27027 Jul 9 11:37 nmb 640 root.adm IMO -rw---1 root root0 Jun 3 19:45 ppp-connect-errors good, your ppp password could find its way in there. -rw-r-1 root adm 4786 Jul 7 08:21 setuid.changes -rw-r-1 root adm 4786 Jul 6 08:21 setuid.changes.0 -rw-r-1 root adm 703 Jul 5 08:21 setuid.changes.1.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 702 Jul 4 08:21 setuid.changes.2.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 705 Jun 30 08:21 setuid.changes.3.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 22428 Jun 29 19:21 setuid.changes.4.gz -rw-r-1 root adm37 Jun 29 19:21 setuid.changes.5.gz -rw-r-1 root root 372715 Jul 7 08:21 setuid.today -rw-r-1 root root 372715 Jul 6 08:21 setuid.yesterday good -rw-r--r--1 root root 105913 Jul 9 12:46 smb root.adm 640 IMO. -rw-r-1 root adm111830 Jul 9 17:44 syslog -rw-r-1 root adm 41605 Jul 7 08:20 syslog.0 -rw-r-1 root adm 6434 Jul 6 08:20 syslog.1.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 11561 Jul 5 08:20 syslog.2.gz -rw-r-1 root adm75 Jul 4 08:21 syslog.3.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 5394 Jun 30 08:20 syslog.4.gz -rw-r-1 root adm 22469 Jul 4 08:21 syslog.5.gz good -rw-r--r--1 root root 29 Jul 3 20:28 user.log i have never had anything logged to user.log so this may be fine, mine are root.adm 640 though. -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 3 17:46 uucp.log root.adm 640. -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 467328 Jul 9 17:55 wtmp -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp60426 Jul 4 07:33 wtmp.1.gz good. /var/log/apache: total 320 -rw-r--r--1 root root 291873 Jul 9 15:43 access.log -rw-r--r--1 root root29995 Jul 9 11:32 error.log good, don't let this get changed to www-data, see /etc/apache/cron.conf (iirc) and set CHOWN_LOG_FILES=0 (or something like that) /var/log/exim: total 299 -rw-r-1 mail mail 168534 Jul 9 17:07
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 08:27:20PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Which brings me to ask, is there a reason shutdown has -rwxr-xr-x perms? Why not ? If you aren't root you can execute it but it won't do anything useful.. Ummm...yup. And with that I have met my quota for dumb questions this week!! g Thanks. -- Bob Bernstein | KILL THE BODY AND THE HEAD WILL DIE. at | -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Esmond, R.I., USA |
reboots while backing up
Hi all I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup package called sitback which uses the common tar/cpio commands to facilitate backups. I am using it to back up database files on a AIX system which has it's files shared through samba. To access the files i use the command mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint. 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!! why is this happening?? I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not contain any relevant info related to the reboot. Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba shares is not a good idea. Any ideas??? thanx Zane
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
Hi! On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: I suppose the moral of the story is, Don't leave root logins unattended. (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in /etc/shutdown.allow, none?) May I quote the man page[1]? [...] If shutdown is called with the -a argument (add this to the invocation of shutdown in /etc/inittab), it checks to see if the file /etc/shutdown.allow is present. It then compares the login names in that file with the list of people that are logged in on a virtual console (from /var/run/utmp). Only if one of those authorized users or root is logged in, it will proceed. [] So, why put none, or bin or anything it, if what counts is the mere existense of the file. And if root is logged in, shutdown always succeds. Just my EUR 0.0.2 yours, peter 1. Hehe, as if you could stop me :) -- PGP encrypted messages preferred. http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ pgpDUyOqhlCBr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
Bob Bernstein wrote: snip I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?) In other words you want to completely disable the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo? I'm not sure if this would work, but perhaps changing: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now to ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/false or something like that? Or perhaps replace /bin/false with the path to a shell script that put saomething like: Permission denied! Go away! onto stdout. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today? | As far from Redmond as possible! '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:35:12PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: (if you want to see something interesting though try this: fakeroot /sbin/shutdown -r now) The hard drive spun, a beep was emitted, and the process ground to a stunning halt. I am deciphering the error messages now. g All kidding aside, that is an educational exercise in the present context. it is also debian policy that all binaries have 0755 permissions when non-suid for the above reason, and suid binaries must have world read permission at a minimum (no 4111 or 4711 type permissions) again for the same reason, anyone can get and read the file out of a .deb. Thanks. Much light shed. This list is the *best*. -- Bob Bernstein | No country with a McDonald's outlet has at | ever gone to war with another. Esmond, R.I., USA | -- James Langton
Re: reboots while backing up
I just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package?? Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup package called sitback which uses the common tar/cpio commands to facilitate backups. I am using it to back up database files on a AIX system which has it's files shared through samba. To access the files i use the command mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint. 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!! why is this happening?? I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not contain any relevant info related to the reboot. Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba shares is not a good idea. Any ideas??? thanx Zane -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Floppy/NFS Install Problem
I am trying to install debian from floppies on 2 old 486 machines. I can't use a CD as neither of them have drives. The floppies are ok as I have managed to install the base system ok on one machine. The other is an old Intel machine at least 10 years old. It has a SCSI card and 1MB disk and no ^ If this is not a typo then you can forget about using this box until you get more HD space, it takes 40M to install Slink (Debian 2.1). It is a typo. I meant 1 GB. The annoying thing is that if I hadn't mesed up the partitioning when the installation worked I wouldn't be in this mess. I was hoping the NFS option would be a solution, or at least identify if the problem is due to the floppy drive. It isn't the floppies themselves as they worked when installing on the other machine. Anyone know what I did wrong when trying the NFS option? The path I quoted earlier is where I had stored the base2_1.tgz file. Mike Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: begone ctrlaltdel!
I changed my line to ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo Won't work (The line echo outputs is changed different, but means the same, it's dutch..) Ron Rademaker On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Mike Werner wrote: Bob Bernstein wrote: snip I had in mind 'none' in the sense of no one can use Ctrl-Alt-Del. Without the -a switch it's available to everyone. (Am I missing something here?) In other words you want to completely disable the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo? I'm not sure if this would work, but perhaps changing: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now to ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/false or something like that? Or perhaps replace /bin/false with the path to a shell script that put saomething like: Permission denied! Go away! onto stdout. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today? | As far from Redmond as possible! '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: email to fax
Chris Mason wrote: Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email. You could set up an alias on the email server that you are sending the message to that pipes the message to a daemon or process which is the fax server and extracts the number from say the subject line and faxes it on. This is pretty much what we do at work except on a large scale so we use a database for each order and depending on the destination media (fax or email) the table is looked up then sent to the appropriate local alias. Chris Hellberg
Re: reboots while backing up
It is for no specific distribution : sitback is only available as a source tar-ball that uses Gnu automake/autoconf. Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/07/2000 12:49:29 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: reboots while backing up I just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package?? Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup package called sitback which uses the common tar/cpio commands to facilitate backups. I am using it to back up database files on a AIX system which has it's files shared through samba. To access the files i use the command mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint. 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!! why is this happening?? I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not contain any relevant info related to the reboot. Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba shares is not a good idea. Any ideas??? thanx Zane -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: reboots while backing up
you can get it from http://www.mrbean.dk/sitback; i can backup the local /usr directory fine which is about 660MB but it reboots when it tries to backup an AIX samba shared directory of about 2Gig worth. Weird. Pperhaps i should try nfs sharing the AIX directory instead of samba sharing it. Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/07/2000 13:36:01 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: Subject: Re: reboots while backing up Where can you get it?? On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is for no specific distribution : sitback is only available as a source tar-ball that uses Gnu automake/autoconf. Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/07/2000 12:49:29 To: Zane Drysdale/Diagnostic Labs/64 cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: reboots while backing up I just checked, sitback isn't in woody... is it a debian package?? Anyway, is it a script?? If it is, I guess you add some commands to see where it reboots... (I would do this by adding echo lines). Ron Rademaker On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I have a new server which has 2 scsi tapes attched to it and a backup package called sitback which uses the common tar/cpio commands to facilitate backups. I am using it to back up database files on a AIX system which has it's files shared through samba. To access the files i use the command mount -t smbfs //aixserver/share /mountpoint. 5 minutes into the backup... the backup server reboots!!! why is this happening?? I have checked the messages, syslog files but they do not contain any relevant info related to the reboot. Perhaps I need a better backup package, or perhaps backing up samba shares is not a good idea. Any ideas??? thanx Zane -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Emacs ps-print-buffer omits a line
Just a minor problem I've experienced with printing from Emacs. Perhaps I've misconfigured, please let me know if so. Details below. Thanks. Nick Packages: emacs20 20.5a-1.99, emacs20-el 20.5a-1.99, emacsen-common 1.4.8, lprng 3.5.2-2, gs 5.10-9.1. Kernel is 2.2.14. Printer is an Epson Stylus Color 440. Here is printcap entry: lp440 :lp=/dev/lp0 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp :af=/var/log/lp-acct :if=/var/spool/lpd/epson440-hires :lf=/var/log/lp-errs :mx#0 :sh Here is epson440-hires: #!/bin/sh gs -q @stc_h.upp -sOutputFile=- - exit 0 Here is the problem: The default ps-font-size is pretty small at 8.5 points portrait. So I increased it to 10 - much nicer. Except that on page 1/2, line 62 is omitted (all but a thin slice along the top). Page 2/2 begins with line 63. A workaround: A couple of changes to defaults have fixed it for me: ps-header-lines from 2 to 1 and ps-header-offset from 28.346456692913385 to 14. This prints 64 lines on page 1 and page 2 starts at line 65 - much better.
ethernet card
Hey guys. My apologies if this is really basic, but I'm having a problem getting Debian to detect my new Soho PCI ethernet card on boot. What's the proper module name that I need to configure for this card, or how can I find out? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com:8080
checksecurity script
The script checksecurity which creates the setuid.* log file and is distributed with cron doesnt have a whole lot of documentation. How does it log? Can it be made to log through syslog? Also, I'd love to see this distrubuted in it's own package, so that it may be build upon further to do md5 checksums and stuff. Maybe some mechanism to store logs on remote servers? Log via syslog and then have the syslog box have some daemon to share the said logs? I mean, I'd write some tcl or perl script to do this maybe. Just wondering what sorta info is out there about the package so far. Altho, maybe since tripwire is open it'd be better to leave the checksum stuff to it :) Mathew Johnston
laplink for dos
do you have the laplink for dos ? you can send me ? i am from Brasil and my inglish is no good sorry an tank you very much Paulo Brasil
RE: samba Passwords
I have always found SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) to be very handy when it comes to managing your smb.conf and smbpasswd. Give it a try Cheers. Patrick My apologies to the person who coined this but I LIKE IT... Where do you want to go today? Far, far away from Redmond. Dead fish go with the flow of the river. -Original Message- From: Jay Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 7:39 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: samba Passwords Hello Group, Well thanks to the list I got Samba working for the most part. It seems I didnt have the smb.conf configured right. I have a shared directory that I can access fine but when I try to access the /home/user directory I am promt for a password. I then enter the password but it fails. I looked in the smbpasswd file but its empty. So I tried smbpasswd neutec but after entering the pass I receive an error that it failed to add it. So my first question is how to add new users to Samba ? And I read somewhere that if I want to share a CD-Rom I will need to add something to the fstab file. What do I need to add there ? I cant find the man page on this. And for my last question, Does anyone know where I can get some info on setting up Samba as a Domain Controller? Thanks again guys for all your help. Its been great Jay -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: What drive is the dir on ?
Run df -h. Sorry but I have not used mutt before -Original Message- From: Jay Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 9:32 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: What drive is the dir on ? Hey Guys, I have two ide drives install and I have mounted a dir from the secondary to /web. Is there a way to check that I have indeed mounted it to the secondary and not the primary ? Also while I have you guys, Is there a way to setup mutt to save all read mail into a directory unstead of deleting? Thanks -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
