Debian Centralized Management
Hi! I looking for a package/program/whatever that it will allow me to manage many Debian boxes remotely and centrally. Somewhere I could say: install this package on all the systems with only one command. Or a centralized view of dselect, etc... Also, any good monitoring software recommendations? Thanks! ps: pleae reply directly to my inbox as I'm not subscribed to the list due to its high volume. -- p.
squid, snmp and mrtg
Hi! I've managed to get squid's snmp daemon running so far. However I can not get mrtg to work with it. cfgmaker doesn't work and I don't know enough of mrtg to start scripting stuff. Can anybody that has got this working send me his /etc/mrtg.cfg file? FYI, I'm running only squid's snmp agent on port 161 and I can get a snmpwalk output of .1.3.6.1.4.1.3495.1.1 Thanks! -- p.
Linux: static NAT and proxy-mac
Hello! I'm quite experienced in using ipchains as a static packet filtering device and Linux masquerading for our hide NAT (1:n) needs. However, I am now in the need of doing full static (m:m) NAT and I'm wondering if there's any way to get Linux to do it. I haven't researched ipfilter || ipnat on *BSD as I'd like to stick with Linux (Debian Linux to be more precise) as all our i386 Unixes are Debian Linux. Also, does anybody know if you can get Linux to reply to arp requests on a different MAC address than it's own without any subnetting involved. Something like the "proxy-only" option in ARP in the Nokias. I can't find the option on arp(8). Maybe I have to install a user-space arp daemon... Thanks for your help! -- p.
Intel PRO/100 VM
Hi! Can anybody tell me what driver to use to get the "re" NIC working? Thanks! -- p.
default font size for X
Hello, I've just installed potato (upgrading from slink) on my brand new labtop and I've found that at 800x600 all the fonts are too big. What file do I have to look for in order to change the default font size? It is not dependent on the window manager, as communicator is always big, on twm, ice, anything... even after configuring the control panel. Thanks! ps: please reply directly to my inbox as I'm not subscribed to the list due to its high traffic. Thank you. -- p. Pere Camps Schlumberger Omnes @ London mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 (0) 20 7517 4025 Main: +44 (0) 20 7517 4000 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7517 4002
possible netstat bug
Hi! I'm running Debian Slink with the 2.0.38 kernel on a AMD K6 and I found a weird problem. When executing 'netstat -a', I get (from other usual stuff): tcp0 0 *:smtp *:* CLOSE That should mean that the SMTP server (exim, via xinetd), should accept any connections (weird enough already to be in this situation), but if I 'telnet localhost 25' I get the usual SMTP banner and everything works fine. In fact, 'lsof | grep smtp' shows: xinetd29746 root 22u inet 0x04afe4140t0 TCP *:smtp (LISTEN) So it makes me thing there's a netstat bug. Has anybody found the same thing? ps: please answer directly via email as I'm not subscribe to the list due to its high volume. -- p.
limiting directories in a virtual host
Hi! I've got many directives in my main apache config. Now I've got some VirtualHosts and I want them to be able to access what I want... that is, deny everthing and tell them what they can acces on a per VirtualHost basis. I fond out that I had to make a "deny from all" for every directive I had on my main config, as I haven't found a global "forget what you had before, from now on you deny everything except what I'll tell you on this virtual domain"). Has anybody solved this problem before? Thans for your help! ps: please reply directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I'm not subscribed to the list due to its high volume. Thanks. -- p.
virtual domains under exim
Hi! I'd like to setup a virtual domain with exim. So far I've managed to make it able to accept emails for the virtual domain, but it now sends the emails to the local users. I'll give an example: The machine is named machine.org and has tons of local users that receive email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So far I've managed to make exim accept emails for virtual.org. Exim now sends these emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (without rewriting headers, it just puts them in the /var/spool/mail/$USER). I've done this with the local_domains seting. Now I want to make exim send all the mail for virtual.org to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A nice plus will be to have an independent aliases file for this domain. Is there an easy way to do this? Can anybody who has done it before please send me his exim.conf file and any other appropiate files? Thank you very much! ps: Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly, as I'm not subscribed to the list due to its high volume. Thanks. -- p.
Re: HP Laserjet 1100
Cyrus, > Yes, the HP1100 is very well supported by magicfilter. I use > the hp4l filter and it has so far handled everything I have > thrown at it. Ok. Thanks for the info. -- p.
HP Laserjet 1100
Hi! I'm in the process of buying a new printer, and as I can not afford a Postscript one, I was wondering if the HP Laserjet 1100 is well supported by magicfilter. Has anybody used it? Does it work allright? What printer do you choose on the magicfilter config? Thanks for your help! ps: please reply by email as I'm not subscribed to the list due to its high volume. Thank you. -- p.
slink ssh linked against RSAREF2?
Hi! Is slink ssh linked against RSAREF2? I can't find any place where it says something about it, either yes or no. Does anybody know for sure? Thanks! ps: please reply directly to me as I'm not subscribed to the list now as it has too much traffic. -- p.
web email packages
Hi! What's the best GNUd web mail program you people know? Where can I find it? It would be ideal if there were a .deb for it, put I can also cc it if necessary. Thanks a lot for your help. -- p.
full duplex sound
Hi!
I'm trying to find out if the /dev/dsp interface for
playing/recording sound is full duplex if the Sound Card is.
Can anybody confim it and/or give me some references on where to
find the specifications of the /dev/{dsp,mixer,etc} devices?
TIA!
please email replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as this is for a friend of
mine.
-- p.
apache-ssl or mod_ssl
Hi! Can anybody give me some advice/hints/personal opinion about which SSL http server to choose? Thank you! -- p.
Re: kernel series v2.2 and new deb packages
Phil, > You don't need to install any glibc2.1 packages to run kernel 2.2 - I'm > doing it right now. You just need to update some programs as per the > kernel documentation (best by compiling from scratch, imo). Yup, you're right. I didn't explain myself clearly enough. I have installing programs from scratch, and I found out that many of the program versions that are needed for v2.2 which are in the potato distribution need libc6 2.1 in order to run. I was just wondering if somebody had made a version of them that runs with libc6 2.0. Something like netbase_3.12-2_i386, which is from potato but is compiled to run ok on slink. -- p.
kernel series v2.2 and new deb packages
Hi! Does anybody know where to get the deb packages needed to run linux v2.2.x which don't need libc6 > 2.1? I want to install 2.2.13 but I can't install libc6 > 2.1 with the slink system as I'm worried that it will break too many things. Thanks for your help. -- p.
ipfwadm rule
Hi! Finally I got the question from my previous message working. I had to deny only the packets with the SYN set. -- p.
Re: ipfwadm rule
Hi! > set your default policies to DENY (instead of ACCEPT) and try again > ..everything will be blocked except what you specifically state should be > allowed in (dont try this from remote! you may lose access to the machine) I've already tried that way, but it doesn't work out the way I like it. -- p.
ipfwadm rule
Hi! I'm trying to set up my home box (connected via PPP to the internet to do the following): a) Deny everything incoming (tcp,udp,icmp) b) Accept only DNS udp connections c) Accept incoming tcp data for only the connections that I have initiated. So far I've got this working: a) no problem b) I accept udp connections from the domain port to the 1024:65535 c) I accept tcp connections from any port that's below 1024 Problems: c) They can still telnet me if doin'g it as root. The same for b). Does anybody know the right ipfwadm rule for what I want and even if this setup is possible? TIA! -- p.
mailman error
Hi! Whenever an email is sent through the mailman interface to the news server I get to classes of errors: Exception os.error: (2, 'No such file or directory') in ignored Exception NotLockedError in ignored Should I just ignore them or should I worry? Should I tweak something or install a new package? It seems to me as the OS is not locking the files as it should. -- p.
Re: Running MySQL not as 'root'
Joachim, > What about the mysql-server.preinst script then?: I'm running slink's mysql-server. Doesn't add new users. :-/ I can't wait for potato to freeze. -- p.
Re: Running MySQL not as 'root'
Uurcus, > safe_mysqld --user=nobody & > Might be better if you use the pseudo-user `mysql': > safe_mysqld --user=mysql & Doesn't work. (root) ~ # safe_mysqld --user=mysql Starting mysqld demon with databases from /var/lib/mysql mysqld demon ended > I believe the default Debian config already changes the ownership of MySQL's > private dirs/files to be owned by the user `mysql'. Debian doesn't even create the user 'mysql'. I think I can remember Red Hat doing that. Of course I've created it for the testing MySQL. Thanks for your help! -- p.
Running MySQL not as 'root'
Hi! I've just installed MySQL and I'm trying to run the server not as root for security reason (any bug in a MySQL running as root could compomise the system securirity). I'm brand new to MySQL so please don't blame me for obvious work-arounds. I've read the manual page and it says that you can run MySQL as an ordinary user changing the ownership of the var files and starting the server mysqld as the new user. However, it says that I don't have to touch anything for 'safe_mysqld', and as Debian uses safe_mysqld for launching MySQL, I don't know how to make mysql run as user 'nobody' with the less of modifications to the standard distribution. Can anybody help, please? TIA -- p.
xemacs20 and default font
Hi! I'm trying to set up a default font under xemacs20. I've changed the default font to my tastes with the Options menu, but even after using the same menu's "Save Options" option, my font doesn't come back after relaunching xemacs. I'm very new to xemacs (and emacs too) and I'd like to know what's the name of the function that implements this so I can put it in my .emacs file. TIA! ps: I've played with the .Xdefaults file/options to no avail. -- p.
exim's .forward ulimit
Hi! Does anybody know how to limit the resorces available for the program that runs when somebody uses the ability of the .forward file to pass the contents of the email onto a program? TIA! -- p.
Re: apache + cgi
Aphro, > i have found that ulimit works very well with apache. i have my default > ulimit set to a max of 12 processes per user, but with apache i gotta > increase it to 40-50 before i start it or it may puke with cannot spawn > child process on some cgis. How do you ulimit apache? Editing /etc/init.d/apache and adding ulimit commands at the top? I just played with the RLimit directives and they work out pretty well. Check them out! -- p.
Re: Limiting cgi resource usage (was Re: apache + cgi)
Joe, > Use cgiwrap. You can configure exactly how much cpu they get to use. > I used it on a solaris machine that we were teaching a course on digital > media on, and magically the load problems disappeared. There's a deb package for it too. The problem is that it has a not standard log file for debian... /usr/log/cgiwrap.log! I'd guess I'll have to submit a bug report... -- p.
cron'ed, at'ed, exim'ed user limits
Hi! How can I set user resource limits a la /etc/limits for the programs executed by cron, at and exim's .forward? This is to avoid possible DoS by massive resource grabbing by untrusted users. Thanks in advance for your help. -- p.
Re: apache + cgi
Brian, > Perhaps you can set the ulimit manually (don't ask me how to do > this from C...). And make Apache use those values for every son with user www-data that it breeds? ... too much work. :-/ > This is only read (AFAIK) by /bin/login. It doesn't even work for ssh > logins (I could be out-of-date now, with the increased usage PAM - > anyone know for certain?). You're not out of date. Both ssh & ssh2 don't use /etc/limits. Thanks for pointing that out. It's a pity that slink doesn't implement PAM. I hope potato does for all of this stuff.. > Another package you may want to look at is lshell. This will help fix > the problem with sshd, but I am not sure if it will work for your > situation. I only have one shell available (bash) and only two user bases (the good ones -ie, two people + me- and the rest of the world)... if [ $USER in /etc/profile is enough for me. Thanks for point the package out anyway. -- p.
Re: apache + cgi
Nathan, > :Apache United Enterprise? ;) > Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Don't have that one. Myself: K&R C 2nd edition, man pages and looking at tons of .c files. > I'm very interested in your problem since I see that to some degree I > have the same problem :) I guess the only true solution will come with ture PAM integration and then limiting the resources of the www-data user. -- p.
Re: apache + cgi
Nathan, > If you want to limit by actual clock time, you could use alarm and catch > the signal (I know how to do it in Perl; I'd have to stumble a bit to do > the same thing in C :) The problem is that I have an 'untrusted' user base I everything has to be implemented by the parent process or by the system itself. I have no way of making the users behave themselves (in fact, they misbehave for the fun of it) with good cgi programming. For example, today an user executed the C program I posted before and almost made the machine stop. Thanks God I was logged and I could kill all the processes. I took the ExecCGI permission from the user and told him a couple of things... > For further ideas I'd have to grab my APUE by Stevens (an excellent > book!) Apache United Enterprise? ;) -- p.
apache + cgi
Hi!
Is there any way to limit the execution time/child processes of an
CGI executed by apache?
I want apache to be able to run the following...
void main(void)
{
while (1) {
fork()
}
}
And after too much time of CPU usage and/or child processes, kill
'em all. :)
Any help available?
ps: /etc/limits with user www-data doesn't work.
-- p.
UDP logger
Hi! Does anybody know of connection loger like 'iplogger', but also for UDP? TIA! -- p.
RE: building a package
Sean, > a) debian/rules binary > b) dpkg-buildpackage -us > > That will make the deb for you. Be prepared to install other debs to meet > compile time depends. Got it. Thanks for such a quick reply. -- p.
building a package
Hi! I trying to learn to build packages from their source packages and I've run into trouble. I've just downloaded an source package from my mirror and now I'm triying to make a compiled package. The package is ppp from the unstable tree. After downloaded I've executed: $ dpkg-source -x ppp_2.3.9-1.dsc $ dpkg --build ppp-2.3.9 And I get: dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file `ppp-2.3.9/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or directory I've renamed ppp-2.3.9/bebian to ppp-2.3.9/DEBIAN but now I get: dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `ppp-2.3.9/DEBIAN/control' near line 6: missing package name I'm sure I could dig more info and start looking more deeply into the references, but I must be missing something here if this doesn't work now. Can somebody help me? TIA! -- p.
syslogd mail
Hi! How can I make syslogd mail somebody an incident (aka log) when it happens? TIA! -- p.
2.2.* on slink
Hi! Can I run 2.2.12 on slink without problems or do I have to update some packages from potato? Thankx! -- p.
strange xkb problem
Hi! While running X as root I get the following error: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Error:Cannot open "compiled/server-0.xkm" to write keyboard > description > Exiting Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap And my keyboard doesn't work right. The weird thing comes when I run X as another user and everything works fine. :-? Any ideas anyone? -- p.
problems with htaccess
Hi! My apache seems to be ignoring the .htaccess file. Everythings correct (the permissions, etc). I've even tried to copy the same .htaccess to a different server and it worked there. Then I looked into the configuration files of the other server and everything seems like mine. Does anyone know of something that could affect apache's behavior for htaccess? I'm loading the appropiate module and the .htaccess file is well defined in srm.conf Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- p.
limiting connections for each IP
Hi! Is there anyway to place an upper limit in the number of connections from a machine? Let me explain myself, I want to limit the number of tcp connections from a machine to my server in order to limit possible DoS attacks from a single IP. How can I do that? TIA! I'm using Debian 2.1 with xinetd and kernel 2.0.37. -- p.
Re: xinetd & rpc.mountd/rpc.nfsd
Robert, > Well, I don't have a solution to offer, unfortunatly, though xinetd currently > is my concern, too. I have looked at the FAQ page of http://synack.net/ (the > maintainers of xinetd), and according to what they wrote, your problem seems > to be generally unsolved. Too bad that I can't offer a more positive answer. I looked the page before posting to this group... it's very curious that xinetd can not handle well RPC services. :-( > At least inetd and xinetd can coexist on one box. So you can use NFS via > inetd and use everything else via xinetd. Sounds strange, doesn't it? Yup. Now I've got rpc.mountd & rpc.nfsd running in 'daemon' mode. At least I can 'delete' inetd. Thanks for your help. If I ever find a way around the problem, I'll post it here. -- p.
xinetd & rpc.mountd/rpc.nfsd
Hi! Has anyone got working the re:? If so, would you please send me your /etc/xinetd.conf. I've tried almost all combinations without any luck. :-/ TIA! -- p.
Re: email acknowledging/confirmation
Jonathan, > That is not a standard e-mail feature. There are a VERY FEW Microsoft-ish > e-mail clients that have a "Request return receipt" feature, but that ONLY > works when the receiving mail client supports that feature as well, and > has it enabled. That's why I was asking. Too bad. :( > In other words, it'll happen maybe once in a blue moon. I'll resort to the usual method: first line of the message -> I want an ack!!! ;) -- p.
email acknowledging/confirmation
Hi! Can somebody point me to the place where an standard for automatically acknowledging/confirming email (that is, I want to know if my email has been read by the receiver) is -it there exists one-? I'll be also be very grateful if you point me to software that supports it and its also supported by debian. Thanks! -- p.
Re: silly question about /dev/log (fwd)
Hi! Is debian prepared for having these special kind of permissions for /dev/log? -- p. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 13:58:56 +0100 (GMT) From: Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mike Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: silly question about /dev/log On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Mike Johnson wrote: > While looking for world writeable files/directories on one of my Linux > boxes, I came up with this (to me) surprise: > srw-rw-rw- 1 root root0 Jul 4 04:02 /dev/log Yes, I also hate this legacy UNIX design flaw. A simple step in the right direction would be srw-rw 1 root log 0 Jul 4 04:02 /dev/log Then, we analyse what really _needs_ to write to the log, and give out the relevant permission. Note that most of the stuff that you _really_ want logged, is logged by things running as root anyway, e.g. login failures, connection attempts, kernel logs. Essentially, the approach of changing /dev/log permissions as above, and seeing what breaks, would be both interesting and useful. Chris
ATX power on
Hi! Does anybody how to make an ATX motherboard boot without having to press the 'power' button everytime? That is, I want an standard AT behaviour: if there's power in the line, then I want the machine running without having to press anything. TIA! -- p.
weird booting question
Hi! I've got a weird question for all the 'booting gurus' in the list. My question: is it possible to make a hard disk that's mounted on /dev/hdc to be bootable if it gets plugged into /dev/hda? If so, how? TIA! p.d.: the application? a ready-to-boot backup of the system. -- p.
UPS suggestion
Hi! I need an UPS for my system (say 300 W plus 15" monitor) and I would like to spend as little time seting it up as possible. What UPS do you reccomend me in order to plug it, connect it to the serial port (the UPS should bring the cable, I don't want to use the soldering machine!), edit a /etc/* file and be ready to run in smart mode? TIA! -- p.
Re: loggin 'su'
Steve, > By default all these attempts are logged to the /var/log/auth.log. I > suppose that if you wanted to, you could edit the /etc/syslog.conf file > and change the log choice for auth,authpriv.* from /var/log/auth.log to > /var/log/syslog. The problem was that slink's 'su' doesnt log anything. You have to compile it by yourself. See the other postings in this thread. cu! -- p.
Re: loggin 'su'
Wayne, > If you can, it would be in the manual page, right. > man syslog.conf. I've already looked, but nothing's show. I don't mind if it's not via syslogd. cu! -- p.
loggin 'su'
Hi! Is there any way to log with syslog all attepts (good & bad) to user 'su' ? TIA! -- p.
login 'su'
Hi! Is there any way to log with syslog all attepts (good & bad) to user 'su' ? TIA! -- p.
/tmp symlink problems in man
Hi! Is debian affected too? For the message it seems it is as slink uses 2.3.10. Any confirmation would be appreciated. -- p. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:02:19 +0200 From: Marc Heuse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /tmp symlink problems in SuSE Linux 6.1 Hi, we confirmed the link vulnerablity in the man package. The culprit is zsoelim which creates the file without looking left and right. :-( All linux distributions using man 2.3.10 should be affected. A fixed package from us will be available soon. Greets, Marc -- Marc Heuse, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Function: Security Support & Auditing "lynx -source http://www.suse.de/~marc/marc.pgp | pgp -fka" Key fingerprint = B5 07 B6 4E 9C EF 27 EE 16 D9 70 D4 87 B5 63 6C
Re: redirecting ports from machine to machine
Hi! Please ignore the previous message. I've already found the way with rinetd. -- p.
redirecting ports from machine to machine
Hi! What do I use in order to transparentely forward all packets that connect to machine a on port 1 to machine b on port 2? I have to make believe the client that the server is really machine 1. TIA! -- p.
security problems in innd
Hi! I've just installed innd and besides the tipical allowing of access for some hosts that I guess it must exists, are there any other security considerations I should follow? I've noticed that it runs as user 'news' which is an advantage. TIA! -- p.
Re: mounting nfs when server down
Joey, > hard The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file system will hang >when the server crashes. The pro cess cannot be interrupted or >killed unless you also specify intr. When the NFS server is back >online the program will continue undisturbed from where it was. This >is probably what you want. I've tried it, but I see two problems with it: a. 'root' can not login as it looks for it's mail on /var/spool/mail (also nfs-mail). I can put a .hushlogin and anyway root never receives email (admin does it for him), but if root tries to ls /var/spool/mail it hangs. Maybe I'm too much of a purist here. b. Imagine bot the client and the server fall (power out, for example). The client boots up faster than the server and when it tries to mount the partition it can't. Idea for this: make a C program that looks for well mounted directories and if they aren't good it mounts them. C because the program will run 'suid' from /etc/profile (and mount is not suid). Of course the C program will not accept any parameters nor configuration (I don't know much of C program security, so better make it simple). What I'm looking for exactly is if it exists a standard solution for problem b. Thanks for your help! -- p.
mounting nfs when server down
Hi! I now have a mini NIS-network with /home directories mounted from a central server. Imagine this sceneraio: the two systems boot up together. The server is slower while booting up and the clients can't mount the nfs-partitions, but 2 minutes after the server is up and running. When my users try to log on the client machine, they can't because their directories are not mounted. Is there a standard solution for this besides a cron'ed script that looks for well-mounted directories? TIA! -- p.
majordomo
Hi! I'm trying to setup majordomo and I'm having difficulty with it. Can somebody please send me his configuration for a working list? Please send me /etc/aliases, /etc/majordomo.cf, and the contents of the /var/lib/majordomo/lists/sample-list* files? Thanks a lot in advance. -- p.
netscape, navigator, communicator...
Hi! Can somebody explain me what's in each package and what are their inter-relationships? What's the bare minimum if I want to have just a 'lightweith' netscape 4.5 browser? TIA! -- p.
limiting per user CPU time
Hi! Is there any way to do that? I've read ulimit(1), but that only applies to bash(1) and it's sons (and it can also be changed). Another option would be automatically nicing proceses that use more CPU time than their quota. TIA! -- p.
VB asp on Apache
Hi! Can apache serve VB asp pages? TIA! -- p.
hard drive test
Hi! I need a hardware-intesive testing program for hard drives. One of my drives has just blown, and I want to try to figure out what has happened. Does anyone know of any program that would do the job? TIA! -- p.
Re: cd-to-cd burning
Hi! > dd if=/dev/cdrom1 of=/dev/stdout bs=1048576|cdrecord dev= speed=?? -v > -xa2 /dev/stdin An straight: cat /dev/cdrom1 | cdrecord ... - Will work. :) cu! -- p.
system load
Hi! Can anybody explain me how the system load is measured? For example, for this statistic, is it the same to have 3 processes wanting 100% of the CPU with a 0 priority than having 3 with, let's say, 10, 15 and 20 priority? If there's a FAQ or README please point me to it. Thanks for your help! -- p.
Re: alarms: disk full
George, > mon Thanks for the input. I'll take a look at the program. -- p.
alarms: disk full
Hi! Does anybody know of a prgram that monitorizes the use of hdd, and when one of the gets full it sends an email to a designed address? Is easy to do it in a shell script, but why do it if it's already done? Thanks a lot for your help! -- p.
apache: browsing only what you want
Hi! I've found that if an user makes a soft link from his public_html directory into /, then an external user can browse throughout all the directory hierachy. Can anybody tell me how to make apache server only the pages which are directly under the public_html directories and /usr/lib/cgi-bin? Thanks in advance! -- p.
cdrom problems
Hi! I'm getting these reports whenever I access my new cdrom (Samsung 32x max). I'm using kernel 2.0.37prelatest. Everything works fine, I just get these annoying messages and the access to the CD-ROM is slower. Can anybody help? Thanks! -- p.
test - please ignore
This is a test. please ignore.
bash: /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc,
Hi! In /etc/bashrc, do I put anything else than the 'aliases'? I've put all the rest in /etc/profile, but if I do a non-login interactive shell, all the 'exports' don't load so all the rest. What exactly goes where? TIA! -- p.
very stable AGP or PCI video card
Hi! I need a very stable and cheap AGP video card for my system. I currently have a S3 Virge GX/2 AGP which curruntly crashes the whole system every once in a while. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- p.
remote X programs
Hi! What do I change in order to prohibit running X programs in any place except the console? ie: no export DISPLAY=... Thanks in advance for your help, -- p.
Re: mailing list software
Padraic, > I like GNU mailman (http://www.list.org/). All commands through web > interface and subscriber commands also through email. Any .deb for it? -- p.
mailing list software
Hi! berolist, majordomo or smartlist? This will be a very low traffic mailing list server, so I prefer it to be easy to install/manage/use than to be lightweight. Any hints would be greatly appreciated! -- p.
Re: xfs and fonts
Branden, > Needless to say, you can have the X server use local fonts AND a font > server. > xfs is in no way required to have a functional X installation. Thats what I needed. Thanks for the input. :) -- p.
re: exim and smarthost
Hi! (this is a reply to message I accidentally deleted, please try to find the original in order to understand it). I consider an email is "difficult" to send when it has been more than 4 hours in my mailq or when it's something like uucp. All of these mails I'd like to send to the smarthost. Can exim be tricked for these settings? Thanks for your help, -- p.
xfs and fonts
Hi! Does xfs need to be running in order to have the fonts installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* in your system or with the references in /etc/X11/XF86Config is enough? I suppose is the later. TIA! -- p.
Re: exim: smarthost
Grep, > Run eximconfig and select the proper option is the easiest way. I've seen the option, but I dont want to send _all_ outbound mail via the smarthost, only the 'difficult' ones. -- p.
exim user
Hi! Exim runs himself in inetd.conf as user 'exim'. This user doesn't exist in my /etc/passwd, so I've changed it to user 'mail'. Am I doing the right thing? TIA! -- p.
exim: smarthost
Hi! Any easy way of configuring exim so it sends all the mail it has not being able to send for himself to a smarthost? Something like smail offered before... -- p.
cdrecorder
Hi! I want to buy a CD-R drive, and I'm between these two: Panasonic CW-7502-B 4X Recorder / 8X Reader TEAC CD-R55S 4X Recorder / 12X Reader TEAC CD-R56S 4X Recorder / 24X Reader What's best supported? Does anybody around have anything to say in favour/against any of these two drives? TIA! -- p.
S3 Virge/GX2 + AGP
Hi! Is this supported by hamm? If so, do I have to install anything special? I've tried choosing the video card directly from the list of xf86config, but it doesn't work. Thanks for your help! -- p.
I need a kernel guru
Hi! Does anybody know where do I have to write / what mailing list can I join in order to find somebody who understands of Linux's "General Protection Faults" and "Ooops!" messages. I need to know what's going on with my system (and its not signal 11...) TIA! -- p.
killing all processes on a tty
Hi! What can I use in order to kill all the processes on a tty using only one command? Something like: killall /dev/ttyS1 ? Thanks! -- p.
accepting talk from only some users
Hi! I'd like to accept only talk from a list of users I specify... something like: if you're not on the list the "your party is refusing messages" pop-up shows up, and if you're on the list the as usual. Does anybody know how to make this? TIA! -- p.
smail and time
Hi! Does anyone know how to make smail put your local time in the emails and not the GMT time plus your time. For example, to put 22:00 CET and not 23:00 GMT-1. Thanks in advance for your help! -- p.
upgrading to slink from hamm
Hi! What update procedure should I use in order to upgrade to slink from hamm? Just point dftp to the new ftp directory and upgrade? What are the main differences between the two releases (ie: smail vs exim), that I need to look up to make sure they work after upgrading? I'm running a server for 400 people here and if something goes wrong, I'll get beheaded... ;) TIA! -- p.
"VFS: iput: trying to free free inode" and so on...
Hi! Can anybody explain me what's going on here? The system hals after spitting for some time these messages... It has already happened thrice. My Computer data: AMB K6-200, 96 MB RAM, Linux 2.0.36, Debian hamm Any clue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. Feb 27 05:27:20 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:27:20 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156377, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:31:19 casal kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 01e25898, next= 02757000, order=1 Feb 27 05:31:35 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:31:35 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156377, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:32:07 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:32:07 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 242175, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:33:18 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:33:18 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 242175, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:35:51 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:35:51 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156472, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:36:55 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:36:55 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156377, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:37:07 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:37:07 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156377, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:37:08 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:37:08 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156377, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:37:20 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:37:20 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156377, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:37:26 casal kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 03811018, next= 042b3000, order=1 Feb 27 05:37:27 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:37:27 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156377, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:38:26 casal kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 03811d18, next= 042b3000, order=1 Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: invalid operand: Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: CPU:0 Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: EIP:0010:[ext2_find_entry+562/716] Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: eax: ebx: 000a ecx: 001ea118 edx: 000a Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: esi: 03f42998 edi: 000a ebp: 0c00 esp: 05df7e94 Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: Process grep (pid: 17612, process nr: 47, stackpage=05df7000) Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: Stack: 01b52900 05df7f74 0068 049f1000 0011b164 0002 0445e400 Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: 001ea118 ffe4 01b52900 051bfe98 01b52900 051bfe98 Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel:0068 00098021 01610306 02959098 01078998 03f42998 030a0c98 030a0498 Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: Call Trace: [do_no_page+444/808] [ext2_lookup+256/368] [lookup+222/248] [_namei+90/228] [namei+48/72] [sys_newstat+41/88] [system_call+85/124] Feb 27 05:39:56 casal kernel: Code: d3 e7 8b 44 24 70 39 78 14 7f 07 31 f6 eb 1e 8d 76 00 8d 4c Feb 27 05:40:01 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:40:01 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156377, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:40:04 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:40:04 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156472, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:40:05 casal kernel: iput: inode 4163 on device 03:01 still has mappings. Feb 27 05:40:05 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:40:05 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156377, mode=00100600 Feb 27 05:40:05 casal kernel: VFS: iput: trying to free free inode Feb 27 05:40:05 casal kernel: VFS: device 00:00, inode 156472, mode=00100600 My /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hda1 / ext2defaults 0 1 /dev/hda5 none swapsw 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /home ext2defaults,usrquota,nosuid 0 2 /dev/hda6 /tmp ext2defaults,nosuid 0 3 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,noexec,nosuid,unhide 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppyext2noauto 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/xtd ext2defaults,usrquota,nosuid 0 4 TIA again! -- p.
lynx + cookies
Hi! What do I touch in order to have lynx accept all cookies always? I've looked at the /etc/lynx.cfg file, and the cookies options looks like it makes lynx 'ignore' cookies. TIA! -- p.
Re: chmod script
Ben, > chmod -R og-rwx /path But if my files are 400... Thanks for your help anyway! -- p.
chmod script
Hi! Does anybody have a script for changing all the dirs and subdirs into mode 700 and all the files into mode 600 ? If I do a chmod 700 -R then all the files get changed to 700... :-/ TIA! -- p.
vfat32 support
Hi! Does anybody know if there's a patch for being able to access vfat32 formated partitions? Thanks! -- p.
Re: password security: john, cops, etc
Jean, > There's cracklib which is a proactive checker in that it checks > passwords as the users set them. > Currently there are several bugs for the package but I'm actively > working on them. Should see a new upload in a few days. Please tell me when you do. Thank you very much. -- p.
password security: john, cops, etc
Hi! Is there any debianized program to check the 'strictness' of passwords. Something like john, cops, etc. I'm also looking for a passwd replacement that enforces 'strict' passwords. TIA! -- p.
fileutils + w95
Hi! I know this is not the appropiate forum but... I'm trying to find a compiled version of fileutils that runs under a DOS box in W95. I currently have an old version of the fileutils that doesn't support long filenames. Can somebody point me to the right URL? Thankx! ps: anybody knows is the DOS fileutils also include the todos & fromdos programs? TIA v2.0! -- p.
Re: umask: file & dirs
Remco, > > Is there any way to have a umask that creates files in 640 by > > default and directories in 750 ? > umask 027 Thanks. I think I got the umask thing the wrong way around. I think I've got something the other way around with permissions and umask. Lets see: for files 4 is read, 2 is write and 1 is execute. For directories: 4 is 'ls' cabailities, 2 is add/delete files and 1 is the 'go through' and be able to read the files is they have the proper attributes. If I have an umask of 027 then I should get the following result independent of it's a file or dir: 750 -> rwxr-x--- And now I'm geting 640 for files. What am I missing here? I guess that an you have to subtract 1 when dealing with files... TIA! -- p.
umask: file & dirs
Hi! Is there any way to have a umask that creates files in 640 by default and directories in 750 ? TIA! -- p.
Re: vfat -> cp: file: Operation not permitted
Hamish, > > > (I would prefer VFAT to silently ignore that) > > Me too. > Yes, "quiet" in the options line does this IIRC. Great! Problem (almost solved)! > "zip" for example encounters the same problem when creating a zip on > FAT/VFAT, and removes the created zip file! Most annoying. Is there anyone who we can "complain" about this. Don't know, some option that fakes chmod/chown while in FAT... Let me check who's the FAT maintainer... I've got these: N: Gordon Chaffee E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D: vfat, fat32, joliet, native language support N: Henrik Storner E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D: vfat/msdos integration, kerneld docs, Linux promotion Do you think it's proper to email any of these two guys? -- p.
Re: vfat -> cp: file: Operation not permitted
Tino, > No, there is probably not. It comes from the fact that cp tries to set > some permissions on the destination file. That is actually not possible > for VFAT. That's a sensible explanation. > (I would prefer VFAT to silently ignore that) Me too. Thanks for your help! -- p.
