Re: root and .rhosts file
On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 03:53:42PM +0200, Jeppe Buk wrote: Hi I'm a student programmer at the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Odense University in Denmark. I've installed Debian 1.2 on one of our PC's in the Unix network. This works great (not surprisingly). Now I've installed Debian 1.3.1 on another PC, and I can't get this new machine to accept root rsh requests from our primary server (running SunOS), or any other machine, for that matter. Both Debian machines have the same .rhosts file in the root homedir, but the 1.3.1 host gives permission denied replies. Try adding -h after rshd in your /etc/inetd.conf. This flag allows your in.rshd to use the root .rhosts file. Without it /root/.rhosts will be silently ignored. I think I saw a mail on this list a while ago about that flag being removed. BTW, rlogin works the same. BTW: I'm not using shadow passwords on any of the systems. I'm lost, and if I don't solve the problem my system manager will not let me install Debian on new PCs in the department (Not Good!). That would be awful!! I hope things work out for you. Let me now how it turns out. Cheers, Bengt-Ove! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm and getting to the console..
On Wed, Aug 20, 1997 at 10:44:31AM -0700, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Marc W. Brooks wrote: At 01:09 PM 8/20/97 -0400, Paul wrote: hi, x runs on console #7 you can go controlalt1 through6 to get to a regular prompt. hope this helps. Paul Thanks, I guess what I was really wondering is whether I can actually shutdown X and sit at the console. After shifting to the console on F1, as root, you may type /etc/init.d/xdm stop. This will shut down xdm. To restart it later, you can use /etc/init.d/xdm start. Syrus. Try pressing ctrl-R when looking at the XDM login screen. That should make XDM exit. Then type /etc/init.d/xdm start as root to restart it. Regards, Bengt-Ove! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Managing a network of Debian machines?
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Nelson Minar wrote: I've been a user of RedHat for the last year and a half. RedHat in general is a nice distribution, but the only reason I really use it is for RPM, the package manager. One thing that RPM cannot really help with is managing a whole network of workstations. Say I have ten Linux machines with a package manager I want all ten to stay synchronized, to have the same version of all packages. How do I do this? Something I've been thinking of doing is mounting an nfs filesystem which contains the packages to install on each client. This filesystem could be either common for all clients, for some clients or individual to each client. On each client there should be a script started with crontab that ran dpkg on all packages on that nfs mounted directory. All you have to do is to copy the packages you want installed to this directory on the master server. One problem is how to handle dependencies on each client. You must have the possibility to specify that some packages should be installed before others. And I do agree with you; managing a small network with debian machines is doable by mounting a cdrom from one machine to all the others and then run dpkg with rsh. But with a larger network this will become tedious. Cheers, Bengt-Ove Johansson! -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: PPP link kills routing table
On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, Thank's to all the people who have helped me recently. Every time I solve one problem, another appears. I tried establishing a ppp link and found it didn't work. To find out what was going on, I ran route and got: What exactly happens when you try to run pppd? Any messages in /var/adm/messages or /var/adm/debug? [...] I tried several things to try and get it to work. Previously ppp had worked when I had nothing in my /etc/modules file, so I tried commenting out the entries and rebooted. PPP now works (as you can see by the fact that I am typing this), however I think ppp working is the result of a side effect: namely, that as a result my local ethernet network wasn't setup. If I now type route, before running pppd, I get: Remove the eth0 entries by using ifconfig and try to run pppd. It could be as simple as an interrupt conflict between your ethernet card and the serial port pppd is using. I had that problem a while ago. My ethernet and my ppp link was mutually exclusive. /Bengt-Ove Johansson!
