Re: /tmp got deleted! help
on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:57:55PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry sent 0.4K bytes on their merry way: > No offense intended, but you should almost never have to reboot a > Unix / Linux box. Simply change run levels, or stop and start the > daemons running. > Reasons to reboot: > new kernel > a daemon went nuts and used up all your sockets > lots of zombie processes What about change/add hardware? Linux isn't /that/ robust!! Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A pgpzPr9yDhBGs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Firewall/IP-masquerading
on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:59:25PM -0700, Nate Amsden sent 1.1K bytes on their merry way: > not sure what kernels your using but: I'm using 2.2.17 (woody) > - i've never gotten MASQ to work with DNS on 2.2 i've always had to put > a DNS on the masq machine and point machines to it instead, this was not > the case in 2.0 where it was able to masq without any trouble. DNS works fine fromt he other side of my MASQ router; Perhaps there is some difference between UDP dns requests and TCP? *shrug* I would suspect some stray ipchains rule is denying the DNS traffic. Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A pgprYhfW3voJj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Local network ip
on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:50:57PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal sent 20 bytes on their merry way: > I just want to ask which is the better ip network to be set up for a > home network: 192.168.0.x or maybe 192.168.1.x ?? I'm currently using > the second one... I have a network at home that is rather complicated; A ethernet cable actually runs next door to my fellow-geek neighbor. My internal house network is 192.168.1.x My friends subnet is 192.168.2.x Basically, you can use any number... i don't think you can use 0 however. Since they're private IPs you can use any IP addressing scheme you want. If you are only going to have one subnet, i would use the 192.168.1.x one. Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A pgpBPryryJdCK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ssh from nt?
on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:06:33PM -0500, William Jensen spewed forth on stone tablets: > At work we run NT but I like to access my home pc. We use a package > called KEA as our main telnet/term package. Does anyone have any > experience getting KEA to use any sort of ssh? Alternatively, does > anyone know of a windows terminal package that is completely > freeware that can use ssh? I would really like to shut down my open > telnet port and use ssh if I can. I am forced to use Win32 boxen and school, and I am able to SSH into my home box using an excellent SSH/Telnet utility called PuTTY. I beleive it is Free. URL: http://www.chiark.greenend.co.uk/~sgtatham/putty Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A pgpSKIr2sTduQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DNS problem
on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:19:27PM +, Pollywog spewed forth on stone tablets: > What about using GraniteCanyon (www.granitecanyon.com) or Centralinfo.net? > Wouldn't those work? My own experiences with GraniteCanyon and Centralinfo.net left me using Centralinfo. Granite canyon was more flakey and went up and down like a cheap whore on a busy night. CentralInfo handles DNS for isomerica.net now, and I have not had any problems since switching to them Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A pgpF3nue2plWM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: block pings
on Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:24:25PM -0700, Nick spewed forth on stone tablets: > how do you stop linux from replying to pings like > microsoft does. you can't ping www.microsoft.com or www.msn.com This is probably occurring because microsoft's servers are behind a firewall blocking ICMP pings. If you note /.'s servers also do not ping either. Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A pgpugmITujmPp.pgp Description: PGP signature
ftape on woody
debian-user-ers, I have a generic QIC-80 tape drive which I know works with Linux/Ftape, as it was installed and working with a redhat 5.2 system. However, i now wish to get it working in my Debian Woody system, and have encountered many problems. The drive is the only device hooked up to the floppy controller on the motherboard, and is plugged into the fd0 position at the end of the cable (after the twist). Firstly, the Ftape documentation/FAQs/HOWTOs/etc make mention of an ftape-internal.o module, yet this does not seem to be a module on my system. Also, I installed the 'ftape-utils' package, which created references to this module in /etc/modutils! If i insmod zftape and ftape, that goes okay. However, if i try and use the device it says 'Device not configured'. Modprobing zftape reports: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/ftape.o: invalid parameter parm_ft_fdc_driver Is there some blatantly obvious thing I am overlooking? Thanks very much, Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A pgpbusrTeoP0z.pgp Description: PGP signature
Setting proper From: lines
I'm not quite sure if this is an Exim issue or a MUA (Mutt) issue, but... here goes: I have a machine that is both my workstation and the Mail Exchanger for my domain (isomerica.net). Mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] works fine, however, mail sent from the host is instead tagged with the full hostname (From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) instead of the preferred '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' form. Is this an Exim issue (i did use isomerica.net as the 'outgoing mail name' during the Exim configuration) or if this is a Mutt issue. Thanks for your help, Dan -- Spinfire Magenta In Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hacker http://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A pgp3DCfV2Etpm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: still unable to get kernel source - solved
on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:56:42PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman spewed forth on stone tablets: > After reading your previous mail I was going to suggest that maybe you > have a corrupted bzip2, or corrupted RAM. I'm glad it's not the RAM! Most RAM problems manifest themselves during compilation, so you'd never get through a kernel compile with bad RAM. > To answer your question about the gzipped files in /usr/share/doc > directories, I assume they are gzipped to save disk space. There are > some file managers, like mc, that let you look at gzipped text files > without gunzipping them first. Lynx lets you do this very conveniently. Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A pgpVOJdCJZCCn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installing Debian on 486
on Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com spewed forth on stone tablets: > Servers, workstations, or what? While I could see a departmental > file/print/mail server, or a firewall system with reasonable > traffic, and possible a limited task workstation or X terminal, > based off of a 486, I'd have a really hard time seeing someone using > this as a full locally-homed GUI workstation. Actually, a 486 is surprisingly capable. I manage a small switched fast ethernet network of debian machines, consisting of a fast application server/workstation machine (Athlon 800) and a 3 486's and low end pentiums as X stations (with 'X --query fooserver'). With the switched network the performance is incredible and is nearly transparent to the user. Also, my site (http://isomerica.net) performs quite a few tasks including mail server, web server, mysql server, stereo :), and more i can't think of at the moment. This machine is only a pentium 133. Goes to show that linux can surely save an old machine from the dump. Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ 31 5B 89 66 F7 E8 73 34 50 6A 79 C4 32 E1 0E 4A pgpcabvVrBKeY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: pgp
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 09:54:21PM +0530, USM Bish wrote: > All packages of debian are listed at this URL: I beleive (from experience) that the problem he may be running into is trying to download the pgp packages from the US server. You need to set non-US.debian.org as a package source (or manually download the packages and install them) if you want access to the cryptographic packages. Personally, i would recommend getting GnuPG instead, as it is(IMHO) slightly better. Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ pgp3n1PXhb5Yt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Has Corel been violating the GPL for approx 6 months?
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:01:22AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > He should contact Richard Stallman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) about this. The > FSF retains attorneys for the purpose of enforcing the GPL. Makes me wonder exactly how much power of enforcement the FSF has. No one has ever tested the GPL in court, and its difficult to figure what the possible outcome of an actual court case would be. Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ pgpfM7CQadjpM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: A few misc. problems
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:39:03PM -0700, cxpx wrote: > 1. I installed xfstt which works fine but I am not able to change > the font size in netscape when using true type fonts. Anybody ever > have that problem? Are there some better fonts I could use instead? X.themes.org, i beleive, has a good selection of TrueType fonts that you can download. > Do I put this in a '/etc/rc?.d/S??postgres' file? What should go in > place of the question marks? Do I need a Kill file as well? The numbers deal with what order the services are started in; higher numbers mean the service will be started after lower numbers. Dan -- Spinfire MagentaIn Real Life: Dan Noe Freelance Hackerhttp://www.isomerica.net/ pgpML234SGSof.pgp Description: PGP signature
