Shuttle Spacewalker SV25
I have gotten a Shuttle Spacewalker SV25 mini-ITX computer. Can anyone tell me what drivers I should be using? Sound X graphics are my first priorities. rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting Woody
On 27 Jun 2002, Scott Henson wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 16:41, Matthew Tedder wrote: of different things including plenty of Potato and jigdo but where is Woody?? jigdo is the new way of getting woody iso's. You have to download a program and use it to get the iso's Is there any tool to build and/or update a debian ftp tree from iso image? rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help w/ attbi.com linksys BEFSR41
On 24 Jun 2002, Reid Gilman wrote: Reid, thanks for the response on the BEFSR41 attbi.com. I'll get back to you after I next have a chance to work on the problem. rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help w/ attbi.com linksys BEFSR41
After a lightning strike fried my modem, cable-modem, router, tulip card, motherboard, power supply, and mouse, I was happy that my disks survived intact. After replacing things I find that I have munged my network configuration fiddling with it. I can successfully connect directly to the cable modem, but when I put the router in the middle I can't get dhcp to work; and pings do not return to a static ip on my host. So I'm missing something. Anyone using attbi.com and a router willing to share some config info? I work with potato and woody, or could run an install on a free partition. Thanks rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deactivating swap ..... takes forever
On 18 Jun 2002, tvn1981 wrote: Hello, I just recompile the kernel for my old machine. I can boot into this new kernel and everything seems like what I wanted, except when I shut down the computer It tries to turn off all services and such but at the line Deactivating swap the HD led just blinks and it won't pass that stage. I have to physically powerdown the computer and restart. This may be another process hanging. What happens if you swapoff everything when the system is lightly loaded? rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian: abandon ship?
On 18 Jun 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote: then go ahead and get a service contract. If you're running a server than has to have five nines up-time, then you'd better pay to have somebody guaranteed on-site in 60 minutes from when the phone rings. And we're down to three nines already. For what I do (SW development) I invariably get better/quicker results from mailing lists and Usenet than I ever did from commercial support. I've worked in some small businesses where the software support contracts were priced up to about 5000.00$US per year. In more than 4.00$US of support I would say I've seen less than 400.00$US of value. This is aside from updates and fixes which I won't attempt to assign a specific value to; but on this Debian is clearly outperforming all the proprietary sources I've used. rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Size of debian?
How do I determine space required mirror the source and binary-i386 aspects of stable, unstable and testing? rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian source package usage?
I am trying to build 'ls' from source. Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. I find the /usr/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt file and follow it. Now, what do I do next? That is: When/what do I do with a debian/rules file? rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian source package usage?
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: At Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:46:55 -0400 (EDT), Rob Ransbottom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to build 'ls' from source. Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. I find the /usr/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt file and follow it. Now, what do I do next? That is: When/what do I do with a debian/rules file? I tell you how to build the local package: # apt-get install fakeroot # apt-get build-dep fileutils apt 0.3.19 for i386 compiled on May 12 2000 21:17:27 says build-dep is invalid operation. $ apt-get source fileutils $ cd fileutils-4.1 (Modify the source as you like.) $ dch -v 4.1-10+local.1 $ debuild -rfakeroot -uc -us $ cd .. # dpkg -i fileutils_4.1-10+local.1_i386.deb (`#' is root's prompt. I suggest sudo or su.) -- Tatsuya Kinoshita rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian source package usage?
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, G. L. `Griz' Inabnit wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday 12 June 2002 12:46 pm, Rob Ransbottom wrote: I am trying to build 'ls' from source. Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. I find the /usr/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt file and follow it. Now, what do I do next? That is: When/what do I do with a debian/rules file? Why not use apt?? (or weren't you aware you could?) Well, not really. I have a few packages with unmet dependencies this seems to queer the use of apt. I have libpgperl and postgresql from woody running on top of older perl. rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian source package usage?
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: I am trying to build 'ls' from source. Finding that ftp.gnu.org sources don't work, I grab the fileutils*[dsc|orig|diff]* files from debian. Being more of a GNU type of person than a Debian type of person (yet!) I would like to ask what don't work about the GNU sources? They should build out of the box on most machines just fine. tar xzf fileutils-4.1.8.tar.gz cd fileutils-4.1.8 ./configure make The latest I find is fileutils-4.1. shred.o fails with an undeclared CLOCK_REALTIME Ls compiles and links but a ./src/ls gives a few blank lines and a ls -l gives ./src/ls: : No such file or directory multiple times; about once for each directory entry. Note that you want dpkg to know about the files you installed. So I am *not* arguing to bypass the packager by doing a make install. On I don't really care in this case. the contrary I highly recommend installing to a system using a package manager and never do a 'make install' unless it is part of building a package. I am just saying that the GNU sources should work and am pained that you say they don't. Feel free to move the discussion to bug-fileutils@gnu.org if it is upstream specific. If the GNU sources have problems then read the FAQ first and then file a bug with bug-fileutils@gnu.org. Build bugs are usually addressed quite quickly. http://www.gnu.org/software/fileutils/doc/faq/ I find the /usr/doc/debian/source-unpack.txt file and follow it. Now, what do I do next? That is: When/what do I do with a debian/rules file? I am hoping for good discussion here as I am learning this side of things myself. Bob rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Petro wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:04:17PM -0400, Rob Ransbottom wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002, Petro wrote: Even then I ask: You _want_ to keep your users going when your shared libs are flakey??? I don't have users in the normal sense. I run clusters of web and database servers, A distinction without difference here. things that are hard to keep backed up 100%. I do have a few users, but they are mostly developers, and on their staging and dev boxes it might be necessary at some point to get in and recovery certain bits. But it's not just about *me*, I can, because of the resources I have available to me in a medium sized installation (currently around 100 servers) take a box down and replace it with another one until I have time to get down the colo and do things some other way. Not everyone has this luxury. This is not clear to me. I get out of this that you are scratching at an itch which isn't yours. Shared libs could implement a load_all_required_functions routine. This would let a program getuid and act like it had static libs. This sounds more complex, and unnecessary complexity is not a good thing. Actually this would simplify things -- most problems (discounting bugs) with libs have to do with mismatching and lacking libs. Of course it is an evolutionary solution, that is appealing when broadly accepted. I doubt much need is seen. What problem are you having or foreseeing? Don't waste time on problems you don't have. How can we help? I just keep a rescue partition loaded with debian-base. This has lots of benefits. And having your normal root environment is nice in stressful situations. That isn't a bad idea. It is even better than not bad. You may have an even smaller rescue/boot partition that simply serves out its filesystems. My last cigarette was roughly 31 days, 9 hours, 3 minutes ago. The traces of habitual patterns should vanish in a year or so. Then it becomes easy. Good going, and good luck going forward. YHBW YHBW? rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Petro wrote: on Tue, May 21, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: All I'm asking for at this point is something that the rest of the Unix World has done forever, a statically linked /sbin/sh for roots use. So it has been brought up before, over 2 years ago, and it's still wrong? It is not wrong, it just yields little protection. Just from the disk getting corrupted under an in core shell. This will only be of benefit if you need to keep your machine up about .9 of the time. Even then I ask: You _want_ to keep your users going when your shared libs are flakey??? Shared libs could implement a load_all_required_functions routine. This would let a program getuid and act like it had static libs. I just keep a rescue partition loaded with debian-base. This has lots of benefits. And having your normal root environment is nice in stressful situations. rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chmod
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Daniel D Jones wrote: I want to set specific permissions on a group of directories and all sub-directories. I can't figure out how to do this other than manually tracing through the directory tree. You got good answers pointing you to find(1). And if anyone's in a 'splaining mood, here's another one: how do you set all files so that the group permissions match the user permissions? (If you have three files who's permissions are, for example, 700, 600, 500, and you want them to be 770, 660, 550 respectively.) You sound like someone who is going to learn perl sometime. Also you might like to learn about the setgid bit as it pertains to directories. rob Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup of debian
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our last backup and got... nothing at all... the drives (we were told by the data recovery guys) gradually degrade with the heads physically dropping and writing lower and lower on the medium no other drive could read the backup. even expensive professional data recovery got us bugger all. What type of tape drives were you using? And thats why I backup to DVD-RAM now. I hope that's why you check your DVDs on other drives periodically. Otherwise you didn't learn the right lesson. I agree with Karsten that tape is preferable. The major argument favoring cdrw is that for a home user redundant drive hardware is more available. And that is a major argument. rob Live the dream.
Re: 486 SX
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:16:18PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: | I have the oppotunity to get hold of few omputers 486 SX | (33Mz, 25Mz, hard disk = 89 Mb or 127 Mb) | before they go to the rubbish. | I wanted install the minimum of linux for the mail | (exim, mutt, fetchmail, procmail, etc..) | but my CD-ROM drive is ignored by the bios of these machines | and so I must install linux with diskets 1.44, but I have two | questions: | is it possible to do it ? And if it's possible how can I do this. | Can someone help me or point the documentation in this matter. Yes it is possible. Lack of memory might be an issue if you have 4 or less megs. There is nothing odd about your install, just check out the disks-i386/current/ directory. Assuming you want dialup text mail clients you might want to see if any of the tiny distributions would be more convenient. This seems the best bet. Or you could build a Debian system in a partition and use a tiny distribution to nfs it to the target. Plip might be your best cable since it seems there is no ethernet. Or put the target drive in your development machine and just use cp instead.
Re: Tulip chip Netgear card
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a pair of Netgear FX-310TX NICs. (I'm uncertain of the precise model card running the PNIC chip (marked LC82C169), which is a Tulip compatible. installation isn't. This is undoubtedly a silly thing. What am I doing wrong? The CMOS setting for PNP OS may be wrong. This only seemed to matter for PCI cards on my latest installation, a new motherboard with 2.2 Debian. The setting of PNP OS to NO gets the bios to initialize the bus/card. This tripped me up as PNP OS used to effect PNP ISA cards only. rob Live the dream.
Re: cpio causes shoe-shinning on my tape drive
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: #find /home -xdev |cpio --create /dev/nst0 the tape spins and then stops and rewinds and then spins and stops etc... Any ideas how to make this work nicer? Try find ./home -xdev -depth | cpio -o -C 1024k -H crc -F /dev/nst0 -o for output or create -C for char's in buffer -H for type of cpio file (see the doc's)
Re: Netgear FA311
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:50:45AM -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Donna. wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: How do I get the module for debian? I downloaded a module from Last year, we had to use the 3com card to (1) install and (2) get the I've been using Debian tulip drivers with FA310TXs with success since FA311 (read the subject) uses the natsemi driver. I'm not sure which kernel first included it. OOPS. Good advice, I will attempt to follow it more closely in the future. Thanks.
Re: Netgear FA311
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Donna. wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: How do I get the module for debian? I downloaded a module from Last year, we had to use the 3com card to (1) install and (2) get the latest source from netgear.com, cuz the stuff on the floppy what came I've been using Debian tulip drivers with FA310TXs with success since they started retailing at about 35.00$us. I've never needed to use Netgear's drivers with Debian. rob Live the dream.
xRe: scsi-partitioning
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Michael B. Taylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:11PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: I have no idea why you are getting the error. Have you tried the fdisk command? I have seen it work in cases where cfdisk fails. Yes, first try fdisk. Sometimes a new disk will require a format from the host adapter's BIOS. rob Live the dream.
Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.
I've been running a small business network on about 16 linux machines and 1 mswindows machine since 1995. At that time I found NIS' special /etc/passwd entries to be a great aggravation. Ordinary passwd utilities, like adduser, would choke on them. Perceiving a lack of server power, I set up a network of freestanding boxes, serving just a couple of applications and DNS. Although the weakness of linux networking made it a reasonable choice, it was an inelegant and tedious solution with regard to administration. This with a stable and benign user base of office workers. Definitely serve the home directories. Putting apps on clients is low maintainance. Now I would look for other solutions than NIS, as I don't need another abstraction layer of user groupings. It doesn't sound like you need it either. I hear that Staroffice is going to be a quartered stuck pig. The one monolithic program is going to be split into separate tasks. I have found SO to be agreeable to people only familiar with MS Word. Win95 and Win98 have each been more trouble on one machine than the rest of the clients combined. The only reasons to go with mswindows are application compatibility and accumulated expertise. rob Live the dream.
Re: what command in linux such as mem in dos
On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, thomas anderson wrote: is there a command in linux to show a more detailed information on memory usage and alternatively also cpu usage? currently I use 'ps aux' but I need more information... An incipient *nix lover if I ever heard one. rob Live the dream.
Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)
I agree. See you don't know what part of whose post I agree with. More in readable order follows. On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:53:24PM -0600, John Galt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In case nobody told you, this is a mailinglist, not usenet. Wrong, it's both: I agree. See you now know what part of Karsten's post I agree with. It is obviously more readable to quote then reply. The nature of usenet discourse is interesting to consider. If you watch carefully, you will find repetitious patterns of misunderstandings and waste between the well intentioned. Dialog looping and dialog floods within threads are a couple of simple examples. A flood is when I ask How do I turn on my computer? and 40 well intentioned souls immediately say Hey I know this one and post There's a switch on the front or side. It may have an 'O' and a '-' or 'I' intertwined or side by side labeling it. Despite the fact that the thread already has 20 responses. A loop might happen when the thread broadens to discuss the proper location of power and reset switches and the meaning and history of o- An example: rir message: power reset switches shouldn't be near drive buttons. karsten message: (quote rir or not) also they shouldn't near the bottom where you might kick one by accident john message: true, but they should be away from the drive bays too If one watches for how misunderstandings occur and expand one can write so as to minimize them.
Re: Partitioning Advice
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, John Purser wrote: network gateway and provide DNS, DHCP, Web, and database service for my small network. Not a lot of users and not a lot of data. I'm a programmer who just wants a test network to play with. The partition scheme I'm considering is: / 243 Megs /boot 60 Megs Since both /boot ROOT are tender precious why not combine them. /home 1 Gig /usr 16 Gigs /var 1 Gig /tmp 1 Gig /swap 500 Megs All this looks fine. I prefer to shrink /usr (1-3 gigs) and put my excess space into /hostname. If you feel like you have lots of space I'd split this into 2, having a large /spare. /spare data being expendable, /spare space usable to move/resize your partitions. Another suggestion would be to dual boot linux. Have a gig or a half for a rescue partition. Also consider why you are creating all these partitions. Unless you implement the practices that follow from the reasons, you may as well just have /boot (if you need it) SWAP (I believe swapfiles are still second rate) /home (or /local with homedirs symlinked in) / (for everything else) rob Live the dream.
Re: OT: vim syntax highlight on C program files only?
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Osamu Aoki wrote: Just a thought and matter of taste, but... You may also embed commands near the start of your file: :vi set tabstops=4 showmatch: This has the dwindling advantage of working with most of the vi clones. rob Live the dream.
Re: Debian Tiny Install Suggestions
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Lance Peterson wrote: I would like to attempt to create a tiny install of Debian. Not as small as the Linux Router Project, but much smaller than the standard base Would it be possible to start out with just a kernel and the apt-get utility? Then I can use apt-get to install individual packages as needed (with dependents) from my Debian CD-ROM. Start with a base system and remove packages you don't want. Replace packages with your own smaller packages as you desire. Making a small linux system isn't difficult. Making a tiny-debian system which can be merged into the standard release might require a lot of attention to the dependency tree. And would be a nice thing! rob Live the dream.
Mouse problem w/ X
I have just changed from a Alps glidepoint PS/2 touchpad to a Logitech Cordless Trackman trackball. (The touchpad was occasionally flakey in high humidity.) The logitech has a two buttons and a clickable wheel. It is a nice unit. All the events seem to be properly generated. My problem is I can't paste into xterms, etc. I can't find the docs about cutpaste, so likely it is just my habits being disrupted by the change. Thanks. # Pointer section # ** Section Pointer #ProtocolPS/2 # for alps pad #ProtocolGlidepointPS/2 # for logitech cordless trackman wheel #ProtocolIMPS/2 ProtocolMouseManPlusPS/2 Buttons 5 ZAxisMapping 4 5 Device /dev/psaux # When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment # the following line. #Protocol Xqueue # Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice # or for the AceCad tablets which require 9600 baud #BaudRate 9600 #SampleRate 150 # Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice # Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms) #Emulate3Buttons #Emulate3Timeout50 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #ChordMiddle EndSection
telnetd log interpretation
Logchecker sent me this as an unusual event: Jul 30 06:30:32 phavl in.telnetd[8705]: connect from cr943209-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com A quick # cat /var/log/* /var/log/*/* | grep ^Jul 30 06: /tmp/log shows nothing else of concern. Does the above indicate a login succeeded or just that a telnet connection just wasn't refused. For completeness: # dpkg -l | grep telnet ii libnet-telnet- 3.01-2 Script telnetable connections ii telnet 0.16-4potato.1 The telnet client. ii telnetd0.16-4potato.1 The telnet server. Thanks. rob Live the dream.
Re: Restrict dhclient to 1 interface?
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Bagdanoff wrote:
How do you configure dhclient to only
seek servers on specified interfaces?
Ahh, just did this last night. In /etc/dhclient.conf:
interface eth0 {
send host-name your_hostname;
send dhcp-client-identifier 1:your_ethernet_address;
send dhcp-lease-time 86400;
}
Thanks.
Another look at the man page revealed the [if0 [ ... ifN]
parameters and my poor first reading of TFM.
Simply dhclient eth0 restricts the search. I added
a DHCLIENTSTARTOPTS variable to /etc/init.d/dhcp-client.
--
rob Live the dream.
Re: perl question
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Craig Dickson wrote:
What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that had files in it?
rm -rf directory
But if you don't want to spawn a sh.
Check all this as it is off the cuff and I would usually
use backticks or system to do this type of thing.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File:Path;
rmtree(/);# always be prepared
Even better what would be a nice command to delete all files
in one directory... (leaving the directory intact)
This is a vague question, so you get various answers.
Are subdirectories files?
Are hidden files to be counted?
Are files in subdirectories in the directory?
What about lost+found subdirectories?
rm -rf directory/*
This is shell to remove all unhidden entries in a directory
and all their contents. Leaves the .files in directory.
The perl is:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File:Path;
my @list = directory/*;
foreach my $en (@list) {
unlink $en if not -d $en;
rmtree($en) if -d $en;
}
which will delete everything in a directory, including subdirectories; or
find . -type f | xargs rm -f
This removes all the regular files in . and in its subdirectories.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File:Find;
find( sub { unlink @_[0] if -f @_[0] }, directory):
This would remove everything but directories.
find( sub { unlink @_[0] if not -d @_[0] }, directory):
to delete all files in a directory or its subdirectories, but keep the
directory structure intact.
Perl isn't required.
My treatment here is naive, but hopefully
brings some of the issues to light.
Look at the boot scripts under /etc which clean out
/tmp, to get an idea of some of the issues to consider.
--
rob Live the dream.
Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Dan Berdine wrote: The Redhat machine I use at work seems to include ./ in the PATH variable, I can always run executables from my current directory without using ./ like on my home debian system. This has always seemed more convenient to me and I wondered why Debian doesn't do this until I read that it is considered a security flaw. Is this always so? Is there a way to enable this without compromising security? If you put . in your PATH at least put it last, this will mininize the security risk. This risk is probably small if you don't have a connection to the net which is mostly up. rob Live the dream.
Restrict dhclient to 1 interface?
How do you configure dhclient to only seek servers on specified interfaces? rob Live the dream.
Re: md5 password authentication
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Andrew Dixon wrote: Jonathan Daugherty wrote: How can I get my passwords to be md5-authenticated? #dpkg-reconfigure base-config then answer yes when prompted for md5-authentication. Then change your passwords so the md5 can take effect. -- rob Live the dream.
Any MUAs like trn?
Are there any MUAs like trn? strn? -- rob Live the dream.
Re: which rc file for hdparm commands?
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Gladimir wrote: Of course, I have no such file on my system, and it would be futile to visit all 7 of the rc#.d directories and grep for the hdparm command because that command was not on my system until a few moments ago. This is not true you just: # cd /etc # grep -i hdparm *.d/* | less A handy sysadmin tool to finding where something is set, initialized, launched, etc. I just use less as it I see the stderr output, but then can page thru the stdout. Most normal services/features are commented out in their start files until the package is installed. -- rob Live the dream.
Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP
You have gotten a lot of responses, mostly addressing technical aspects and implying a scorn for an admin who doesn't want linux on his already hetero network. On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Brian Stults wrote: Hello, In the fall, I will be starting a new position as Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida. When I interviewed, one of my requirements was that I be allowed to run linux on my office computer. They said it would not be a problem. However, now that I have signed the contract and am soon to arrive, they have attached some conditions. The most serious condition is that I must sign a document stating that I am financially responsible for any cost incurred by the University if someone hacks into my computer and causes damage to their network. Although I have philosphical objections to this kind of policey, I am willing to sign this if that is what it takes because I am quite confident about my knowledge of security issues. Only a fool or a security contractor would say such a contract or amendment thereto. You are going to be financially responsible for the possible actions of millions of possibly malicious people. Ludricious, but likely binding if you sign. Most likely you have nothing in writing assuring your use of linux or even of a computer, this leaves you in a weak position if noone recalls your requirement. Don't sign and if they wish to fire you get a lawyer. Someone who runs a network of over 2000 machines is not clueless, just too busy to keep up with all the changes in yet another OS, and realizes the possible problems of not doing so. The auto updating of debian is not something that will endear debian to a SA, this means an changing target coming from some where out there. I wouldn't stress this. Anyway, here is the reason for this call for help. Tomorrow, I must talk on the phone with the sysadmin of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and explain two things: 1) they want to know why I need linux instead of using their unix system and having MS Windows on the desktop; and 2) they want to know that I am conscious of security issues. If anyone has any suggestions for the kinds of things to stress, I would be happy to hear them. I plan on emphasizing the fact that I disable most services in inetd. The only servers I run are an ssh server and an ftp server. I do not allow anonymous ftp, and I tunnel all my ftp transfers through ssh. I am the only person with an account on my box. I will also emphasize the fact that security updates are available on a daily basis through debian's dpkg system. Here is one concern of theirs, though, that I don't understand. They said one problem with linux is that it will trick their network into thinking that my linux box is the main server, thus bringing down a system of over 2000 users. I cannot imagine how this would happen. The only thing I can think of is the issue of the master browser in samba. If it is elected, I suppose my machine could force itself to be the server. I don't know enough about samba, though, to know if this is possible. However, if I don't run a samba server, it wouldn't be a problem, right? Can anyone else think of why this might happen? I would not worry about this too much, this sounds a little twisted by being second hand. Since they have Unix up, they should have a good handle on the proper setup of a linux box, though not all of the tools names, etc. Perhaps you can be a test case, they help configure and attack your box, and of course back it up. Be friendly, helpful, insistent on your need, adamant about your right (via assurances at hire). Don't sign. rob Live the dream.
innd and suck
I am using suck and inn. I am using a file feed to collect news to send out. I am confused as to the mechanism to get the INN system to fill the .outgoing/news.ultranet.com file. I thought ctlinnd flush news.ultranet.com would do this, but I guess there is a bit more to it, and I'm missing it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Summary: Re: memory over 64Meg
On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Rob Ransbottom wrote: I have just upgraded to 80Megs from 32Megs on a ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 board running Debian 1.1 (stable). free(1) only sees 64megs. Thanks for the help. The answer is use the mem=80M parameter to the kernel. More info is in the boot HOWTO.A -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
memory over 64Meg
I have just upgraded to 80Megs from 32Megs on a ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 board running Debian 1.1 (stable). free(1) only sees 64megs. POST shows the memory ok. I can't say how anything else works, as I only run linux. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which..
I'm from the whence side of things, but I would be surprised if which doesn't return something. Rob Ransbottom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
News
With the installation of 1.1, I would like to set up a news server to serve myself news which which will be snagged by 'suck' or equivalent. What package should I be installing? Any other tips appreciated. (I've stretched my knowledge of bnews far enough.) Thanks.
