Re: Question about bind configuration.
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 07 Jul 1997 13:23:32 PDT Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I was trying to set up bind for a small (half class C) subnet, and bind seemed to refuse to do the reverse lookups for the subnet unless I set it up to handle the entire C subnet. Is there some kind of masking trick I'm not aware of, or is there somewhere I should RTFM? I didn't see anything in the docs or a book I had... Reverse maps need to include at least a full class C subnet, yes, unfortunately. It's because reverse lookups work by doing recursive lookups in the in-addr.arpa special domain. Reverse looking up 127.3.4.5 will end up lookup up 5.4.3.127.in-addr.arpa. The minimum reverse table you need to have is 4.3.127.in-addr.arpa. There's a draft-RFC for setting up classless DNS at ftp://ftp.nordu.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-cidrd-classless-inaddr-02.txt This draft expired 970525, so there might be a more recent version, og perhaps a full rfc available by now. -- Vebjorn Forsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 13 6B 4B 7C 83 B7 DC 5C 9C A8 AE C0 AD 22 F4 2048/00952325 1995/05/13 To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mailers
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mutt can handle message status (read or unread) in folders other than your inbox where elm does not. It is very elm-like but seems faster and smaller yet just as functional to me. For the same reason, it may be too elm-like to meet your requirements. Emacs? Are the mail handling tools of emacs worth looking into? Obscure keystrokes. Obscure keystrokes and a userinterface that is a bit lacking aside: The Gnus newsreader for Emacs is very good for handling large volumes of mail and news. It even has built-in support for sorting mail into different folders (I use procmail instead, as I don't like Emacs, nor have I managed to wade through the rather large volume of documentation.) My mail is saved in 34 differend folders, sorted by qmail and procmail, and I also read about 10 different newsgroups on a regular basis. Gnus treats all mail as 'news' and this make it much easier to se what folders has new mail, how much mail there is, an in a folder it is very easy to pick out what you wan't to read and just purge the rest (mailing lists, anyone?). -- Vebjorn Forsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 13 6B 4B 7C 83 B7 DC 5C 9C A8 AE C0 AD 22 F4 2048/00952325 1995/05/13 To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Setting Up btmp
Paul Serice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've since deleted /var/log/btmp to get back to the Debian default. Knowing nothing about anything, I was wondering if someone could fill me in on why Debian defaults to no btmp. I don't know anything about why the Debian crew decided to remove btmp, but from my own experience a lot of people fumbles when they log in, and as a result they type inn the password instead of the username. Thus you can often find both the account-name and the password if you do lastb. -- Vebjorn Forsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 13 6B 4B 7C 83 B7 DC 5C 9C A8 AE C0 AD 22 F4 2048/00952325 1995/05/13 To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Striped swapping?
Long ago I used two swap-partitions with the same priority to make linux stripe the swap between the two partitions. However, the system still behaved as if the first swap-partition I mounted up had a higher priority than the second. The second hd didn't seem to do much of anything, and thing would really slow down if there was a lot of data being transferred to and from the hd with the first swap- partition on. I then installed the MD-driver and raid0'ed the two partitions together, and then used md0 as swap. This was OK with the /etc/init.d/boot too, as it mounted the md-partitions before it added swap. To me things seemed to improve quite a bit. Both hd's would now work if swapping, and high activity on first hd(my /usr-area) had lesser impact on system performance. Now the /etc/init.d/boot-file has changed to first mount swap and only much later mount the md-partitions. The comment in this file says that the striping ability of the swap code should be used instead. Some monts ago someone (possibly on the kernel list) said let the swap-code handle swapping, and the md-code disk-striping or somesuch. I'm feeling a bit confused now. Could someone with knowledge in this matter shed some light on wheter the md-code or the striping-support in swap is best for striping swap? And in the meantime, some warning when upgrading sysvinit would be nice. My system would have ended up without any swap on the next reboot... -- Vebjorn Forsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 13 6B 4B 7C 83 B7 DC 5C 9C A8 AE C0 AD 22 F4 2048/00952325 1995/05/13 To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy.
XFree86 3.2, XDM and Chooser
I'm trying to get the Chooser to work with XDM, so I can select what machine I want to use. (In other words, I want to use my own machine as an X-Terminal.) I've managed to get the chooser to select a couple of machines (including my own), but whenever I try to select one of them I end up with the xdm-login-promt for my own machine. Relevant configuration information: /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess (Added one line) blight.somewhere.net CHOOSER blight final retry maleficium anguish /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers (192.168.200.20 is my own machine, eg. blight) :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 -indirect 192.168.200.20 When I log in it seems to use rsh to start something on the machine I'm on (using remote, perhaps?). I tried starting xdm with -debug 9 and the output MIGHT indicate that something is going wrong: --- select returns 1. Rescan: 0 ChildReady: 1 Process chooser socket Accepted 6 Read returns 14 Read from chooser succesfully Got indirect choice back signals blocked, mask was 0x0 --- Manager wait returns pid: 16024 sig 0 core 0 code 0 Display exited with OBEYSESS_DISPLAY --- --- Also, I'm using xdm-shadow, not xdm. Vebjorn Forsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 13 6B 4B 7C 83 B7 DC 5C 9C A8 AE C0 AD 22 F4 2048/00952325 1995/05/13 To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy.
Re: Not keeping correct time
Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whenever I try to do a netdate to any site, I get a connection refused error, I done both tcp and udp. Could it be because I am behind a firewall? Don't know if this will help, but the xntp-docs says the following about ntpdate: -u Direct ntpdate to use an unprivileged port or outgoing packets. This is most useful when behind a firewall that blocks incoming traffic to privileged ports, and you want to synchronise with hosts beyond the firewall. Note that the -d option always uses unprivileged ports. Vebby
