Re: aptitude failure to fetch
Hi, I'm getting the following errors in logs from Debian servers for last 3-4 days already: Mar 29 04:34:51 cron-apt: W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:xxx:x:x:xxx::: 80] Was lenny removed from repository updates I wonder? Thanks and regards, Yuriy
Re: aptitude failure to fetch
Hi Jochen, Can you advice what repository I can use instead for systems with lenny, please? Thanks a lot, Yuriy On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.dewrote: Yuriy Kuznetsov: Was lenny removed from repository updates I wonder? Yes. J. -- If I was Mark Chapman I would have shot John Lennon with a water pistol. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html
Re: How do I clone Computer A from Computer B?
Hi, If you need to do it frequently I would recommend to look at clonezilla( http://clonezilla.org/). It's very easy to set up and can be used in different scenarios: one to one, one to many, only certain partitions on HDD, whole HDD, completely remote access(I was cloning different labs with different images remotely at the same time)... It comes very handy for sys admin type of work. Hope it helps. Kind regards, Yuriy. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 03. 03. 2011 18:42:02 je Jason Hsu napisal(a): Computer A is running minimal Debian with a firewall and servers, including SSH. I can use Computer B to ssh my way into Computer A. How do I use Computer B to clone Computer A? So far, I've only been able to clone Computer A by booting up a live CD on Computer A and running PartImage. I assume that by use Computer B to clone Computer A you mean how do I clone A to B over the network. One solution would be piping dd through ssh, as was explained somewhere on this very list several days ago (apparently, dd can copy between hosts). A less daring approach would be to simply use rsync. It is capable of resuming broken downloads, and uses compression to save bandwidth. You should create and mount the target partition on the remote server in advance. I've cloned (actually, rsynced) data partitions with rsync and recently I've successfully cloned my /home subtree over my LAN with rsync -turboSzxpvg /home remoteserver:/destination_dir Caveats: rsync has a very complex set of command line options. You should study the man page in detail if you want things such as hard links and ownership/permissions preserved. You may need to allow root login in the remote ssh daemon, and then run rsync as root in order to copy your / partition with the correct ownership/permissions. I'm not sure how the virtual subtrees will behave though (/proc, /sys and the like); and I don't know whether, for the / partition, it can be done live. The other partitons should probably be OK. -- Cheerio, Klistvud http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Certifiable Loonix User #481801 Please reply to the list, not to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.orgwith a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1299177051.22428.1@compax
Re: Installing BSD on DomU Debian Dom0 XEN server
Hi All, I wonder whether it's possible to install FreeBSD on DomU on Dom0 Debian XEN server. If some one has completed successful installation of above I would like to know in what way it can be done. Thanks a lot, Yuriy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktino16vdciuvp_czkfj6tnvlzzlafryh32a6o...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.comwrote: On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Justin, This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel. It looks like the system can not see RAIDs at all. May be I need to install some Dell modules for my RAID controller to be recognized as one of he boot options? That is a possibility. Thanks a lot for your help, yuriy When you performed the install, how did you do it? Use the entire disk install or did you customize it? Justin. I have used entire disk alright.
Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Justin The Cynical cyni...@penguinness.org wrote: Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Justin, This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel. It looks like the system can not see RAIDs at all. May be I need to install some Dell modules for my RAID controller to be recognized as one of he boot options? Dell modules? Are you thinking like a kernel module? No, if the system doesn't even show the initrd loading, that won't do any good. I've never heard of anyone needing anything special to boot linux on a Dell. What is the last thing that displays on the screen when you power it on? A non-system disk error? Swear words in Mongolian? Knowing this should help diagnose the issue. There is no non-system disk error message, nothing which says disk at all. I'll check today what exactly is the last message during boot(I think it's something about DRAC but not 100%) when get to that machine tonight. And definitely I did not see anything in Mongolian on the screen ;-) Regards, yuriy
Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1
Hi Justin, This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel. It looks like the system can not see RAIDs at all. May be I need to install some Dell modules for my RAID controller to be recognized as one of he boot options? Thanks a lot for your help, yuriy On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Justin The Cynical cyni...@penguinness.org wrote: Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Check that the megaraid_sas driver is loading. When I installed Etch, I had to rebuild the initrd with that module after the initial install. Could advice on how I can check this please? I reckon that this is my problem as when system is trying to boot - it looks like it's not even reach as far as HDDs at all. Boot the system as far as you can and check the scrollback to see if the module is being loaded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1
Hi Nick, On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Nick Douma n.do...@nekoconeko.nl wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If your server is anything like mine, your RAID card should abstract the RAID array, and present it as a single disk. I have this on a Dell server with 3 discs in RAID5. Yes, that's right. But I can only see this when I go to RAID controller utility(there is PERC 6i installed) pressing CTRL+S on initial boot of the server. Did you by any chance install GRUB into the partition header instead of the MBR? That would explain not being able to boot into Debian. Yes, I did installed GRUB during the installation process; installer never asked me where I want to install it so I just assume it installed it into the partition. How can I change the location of GRUB now? Thanks a lot, yuriy Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi, In short: Dell Power Edge 2970; 6X3 HDDs: 2-RAID1, 4-RAID5 Installed latest Debian on RAID1, which is VD-00. Installation went through without any issue. After installation system can not boot. Checked BIOS and there are only 3 options to boot from: CD-ROM, NIC, Drive C(I'm not sure where drive C came from???). In the RAID configuration utility VD-00(2 HDD in RAID1)is set as boot device but it's still can not see the boot sector. Is it something wrong with the system or did I need to set some settings on software level? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance. Kind regards, yuriy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksPFKQACgkQkPq5zKsAFiiKzgCffE8w+N+E+cSKkRRGsZBXenXd qqUAmQF4mKlut4q8QeKTvSWWltUVK0fu =+25z -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1
Hi Justin, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.comwrote: You can also boot a Linux Live CD (or system rescue CD) or knoppix and fdisk -l - make sure you have a bootable partition and its the same one on each of the raid-1 disk members. Justin. Now when I go with rescue CD and do fdisk -l it's showing me RAIDs like a single drive, ie /dev/sda for RAID1 and /dev/sdb for RAID5. This is my first time experience with RAID but my impression is that as soon as you gathered disks under RAIDs they would show up as single units in /dev. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1
Hi Justin On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Justin The Cynical cyni...@penguinness.org wrote: Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: In short: Dell Power Edge 2970; 6X3 HDDs: 2-RAID1, 4-RAID5 Etch on a 2950 at work. Sounds pretty close so it's promising ;-) Installed latest Debian on RAID1, which is VD-00. Installation went through without any issue. After installation system can not boot. Checked BIOS and there are only 3 options to boot from: CD-ROM, NIC, Drive C(I'm not sure where drive C came from???). The C drive is from Dell (part of the OS/diagnostic stuff they include). You should be able to delete that if you like as, IIRC, the tools are available via a bootable CD that is included with the machine. I believe the ISO is also available for download, I'm fine to leave this as long as it won't course any issue with booting. In the RAID configuration utility VD-00(2 HDD in RAID1)is set as boot device but it's still can not see the boot sector. Is it something wrong with the system or did I need to set some settings on software level? PERC card, yes? Yes, you are right. There is PERC 6/i installed. Check that the megaraid_sas driver is loading. When I installed Etch, I had to rebuild the initrd with that module after the initial install. Could advice on how I can check this please? I reckon that this is my problem as when system is trying to boot - it looks like it's not even reach as far as HDDs at all. Also, do you have a DRAC in that box? If so, check the /dev/sd* list in the fstab and menu.lst files. The DRAC has a 'virtual drive' that is presented to the kernel as a USB device and in my case, was enumerated before the RAID card, throwing off the drive list (/dev/sda* became /dev/sdb* or some such thing) Is it about Remote Access Configuration? Yes, it's present on the system alright. In my case /dev/sda is RAID1 and /dev/sdb is RAID5 . PE2950 PERC RAID card one RAID 1 (/dev/sda) one RAID 10 (/dev/sdb) ~$ mount /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/vm_storage type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) ~$ fdisk /dev/sda -l Disk /dev/sda: 72.7 GB, 72746008576 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8844 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 28 224878+ de Dell Utility /dev/sda2 29 290 2104515c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda3 * 291849065866500 83 Linux /dev/sda484918844 28435055 Extended /dev/sda584918844 2843473+ 82 Linux swap / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.comwrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Justin, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com wrote: You can also boot a Linux Live CD (or system rescue CD) or knoppix and fdisk -l - make sure you have a bootable partition and its the same one on each of the raid-1 disk members. Justin. Now when I go with rescue CD and do fdisk -l it's showing me RAIDs like a single drive, ie /dev/sda for RAID1 and /dev/sdb for RAID5. This is my first time experience with RAID but my impression is that as soon as you gathered disks under RAIDs they would show up as single units in /dev. Correct me if I'm wrong, please. Hi, Disk /dev/sdb: 150.0 GB, 149989359616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18235 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa49f8981 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1209016787893+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb2 *2091 18235 129684712+ 83 Linux Does the partition containing /boot on your system have a '*' next to it as I show above (for /dev/sda)? Justin. Hi Justin, What does '*' mean? Thanks, yuriy
Debian can not boot from RAID-1
Hi, In short: Dell Power Edge 2970; 6X3 HDDs: 2-RAID1, 4-RAID5 Installed latest Debian on RAID1, which is VD-00. Installation went through without any issue. After installation system can not boot. Checked BIOS and there are only 3 options to boot from: CD-ROM, NIC, Drive C(I'm not sure where drive C came from???). In the RAID configuration utility VD-00(2 HDD in RAID1)is set as boot device but it's still can not see the boot sector. Is it something wrong with the system or did I need to set some settings on software level? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance. Kind regards, yuriy
exim4 query
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in console mode. Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? Kind regards
Re: exim4 query
Doug, Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4, please? Thanks a lot On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in console mode. Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? I think that the only way to dirctly tell exim4 to send mail is to speak SMTP to it, since it is a Mail Transfer Agent. Most people use a Mail User Agent to talk to it, e.g. mutt. Receiving mail, for most people, is done with a mail fetcher, e.g. fetchmail, that pulls the mail from a POP or IMAP server, hands it off to your local exim4 MTA, which puts it in your mailbox. You then read the mail with your MUA, e.g. mutt. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: exim4 query
Thanks a lot to all for your input. Kind regards, yuriy
Re: How to stop squirrelmail temporarily
Try to run the following on on your box and see what processes are listen to those ports: # netstat -lnp Normally these ports are used by imapd - normal and secure connections. On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:52 AM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:38 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: I need ports 143 and 993 for another test. I suspect SquirrelMail taking up those ports. Your imap server will listen on those ports; Squirrelmail will connect to one of those, but not listen on it. Hi Richard, Thanks for your advice. I'm testing perdition: Mail Retrieval Proxy http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/ but can't get it started; # tail -9 /var/log/syslog | grep perdition .. vanessa_socket_server_bind_sockaddr_in: bind: Address already in use Dec 24 03:37:44 xen13 perdition[3247]: vanessa_socket_server_bind: vanessa_socket_server_bind Dec 24 03:37:44 xen13 perdition[3247]: main: vanessa_socket_server_bind Dec 24 03:37:44 xen13 perdition[3247]: Fatal error listening for connections. Exiting. perdition uses ports 143 and 993 B.R. Stephen L Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian
This link appeared on gmail page. Kind of Micro$oft about Micro$oft propaganda. Nice one ;o) http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/getthefacts/default.mspx
How to set Samba and Cups on different servers ?
Hi guys, I'm looking for Samba printing gurus on this list and my sencere appologies for sending this email to wide alias. Could you help with your advice on how to set samba on one server and cups on another server? At the moment I have Samba+OpenLDAP+CUPS on the same server but I need to move CUPS to another machine for some reason. So lets assume that at the moment windows clients(and they are the most users on the network) can see printers on Server1(Samba+OpenLDAP+CUPS). CUPS installed on Server2(CUPS) and it is possible to print directly(using lp) to the same printers. So what changes need to be done so that users still will be loging to Server1 but print effectivly via Server2. I reckon that printers still would be shown on the network using Samba on Server1. I was trying the following : Added cups server = IP-address-server2 to /etc/samba/smb.conf on server1: printing = cups printcap name = cups cups server = 192.168.1.20 Also I have updated /etc/cups/printers.conf with printers' information on server2. After I have restarted samba on server1 I have lost connection to all printers which originally were on server1. Did anyone set something similar ? Could you give an example of smb.conf with external CUPS server configuration in it, please? Thanks a lot in advance, yuriy
Re: spam2
Hi Anthony, You have mentioned spamprobe, or qsf - did you mean to install this appz on client side or on the email server ? thanks, yuriy On Nov 27, 2007 10:07 AM, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Nov 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/26/07 16:24, steef wrote: m. forget my previous message; sorry. others got too a load of spam. try to make some filters. Doesn't Tbird have a spam filter? Or you could always set up postfix or exim, and spamassassin or bogofilter. - -- Or spamprobe, or qsf. I use both of these in tandem; spamprobe catches most, and qsf most of those that escape. But qsf has some false positives whereas spamprobe has almost none, so it's best to run qsf second. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spam2
Thanks a lot for your quick reply :o) cheers, yuriy On Nov 27, 2007 1:05 PM, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Nov 2007, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Anthony, You have mentioned spamprobe, or qsf - did you mean to install this appz on client side or on the email server ? thanks, yuriy Client-side. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Login Problem
1. login as root Type the following in the terminal: 2. groupadd anygroup 3. useradd -g anygroup -d /home/anyuser anyuser 4. passwd anyuser # anyuser123 5. mkdir -p /home/anyuser 6. chown -R anyuser /home/anyuser 7. chgrp -R anygroup /home/anyuser 8. logout 9. login as anyuser Cheers, Yuriy On 11/23/05, Rafal Czlonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used the gui, for adding users and groups, there i editted xyz to abc Since I don't know what kind of gui it was, please send the output of: # ls -la /home/abc # cat /etc/passwd|grep abc # cat /etc/group -- Rafal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing SANGOMA S518 ADSL PCI WAN Card on Debian
Hi, Did anyone install SANGOMA S518 ADSL PCI WAN Card on Debian(http://www.sangoma.com/products/p_s518adsl-specs.htm)? Could you provide with information on how to install it, please? Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Yuriy
Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
There's lots of improvements in Solaris that make it faster than linux (eg. we completely *smoke* linux in terms of TCP/IP performance) but also a few places where linux appears much faster, esp. filesystem operations. Usually that's because linux has fairly intensive disk caching turned on by default (so despite the fact that commands that write to disk finish much quicker, often the data isn't actually written to disk ! So if you have a power outage just after one of these commands has finished, on Solaris your disk will be in a consistent state (and the , whereas on linux you're screwed...) - it's not always about performance, reliability also comes into it. As regards most advanced os on the planet, that may sound subjective, but I'd say that SUN's implementations of DTrace, Zones, TCP/IP stack, Service Management Facility, Fault Management Architecture and probably other stuff I'm missing out make Solaris a better OS that anything else out there at the moment. Check out the following: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/whats_new_performance.jsp http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/benchmarks.jsp http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris10/fs_performance.pdf http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,97680,00.html http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=165491threshold=3mode=flatcommentsort=0op=Change Cheers, Yuriy
Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?
On 11/4/05, Lars Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/4/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Did you check the sun.com website which claims that Solaris 10 is the most advanced OS on the planet? Could anyone tell me what grounds is the claim based upon. I was surprised to see that claim and has anyone out there used it to testify on its truthfullness? Are there many such claims? Thanks... Well I am not a Solaris fan boy but I have worked with Unix for 10+ years (Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Tru64 Unix and Linux) and there is no doubt that Solaris is one of the better ones. It is very tightly crafted (i.e. a limited choice of software that does what it is supposed to do), very secure and just plain works. I personally would still any day use Debian on a Server (except for Woody, Debian has a very good track record in the server field) and Gentoo on my development laptop/workstation. But there should be no doubt that technologies like zFS (http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/), Zones (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/zones/) and dtrace (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/) gives Solaris a Edge. Note that all of the above technologies have equal sisters in the OSS world, but I suspect that one of the things that makes the enterprise (and partly myself) fell in love with Solaris is that these products comes in one neatly installable and maintainable package. But as I said if you know what you are doing then it is a no brainer to get the OOS equalities to do the same stuff in Debian - that is why I have 30+ Linux servers running Debian Sarge and I have no plans to change OS on them Regards. Lars Roland I do agree with Lars regarding Solaris being on edge of advanced technologies. Besides S10 now open sourced(visit www.opensolaris.org, download and try yourself, also plenty of blogs by different categories) to community and Sun is planning to work very close with community developing future releases of Solaris. I'm not here to say anything against Debian but it's very difficult to say which one is the best unless you give it a try... Cheers, Yuriy
Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system
On 10/10/05, Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:02 +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. --w.h-- Possible but not simple. E.g. you must manually set the drive and Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) path settings in Target Designer. Furthermore boot.ini settings, and drive letter issues have to be adopted. But this is not a windows-ML. Isn´t it? Florian Thank you for your responses -- I've decided the simplest solution for me is to backup up my data, reformat and install windows first -- a bit of a pain but easiest for me to comprehend. Roy P. Hi Roy, You are right, it would be much easier to install Win2k/XP first and then Linux. Mind you, while making partitions during win install if you go for NTFS for your win you would need one FAT32 partition in order to exchange files between two OSs. You also need to leave some space without partitioning at all - this will be taken by Linux then. Cheers, Yuriy
Re: OT: Wireless questions
Hi David, Just couple words about wireless equipment you can deploy for your home wireless network. With wireless PCI card you would get small(around 5dBi) antenna which would be at the back of your server. If your server is far at the back of the house(mine is in the garage, for example) your chances in getting stable signal is very low. I would suggest to go for Linksys WRT54GS unit. The beauty of this AP is that you can flash it with community firmware(see www.openwrt.org) and you would have nice powerful AP fully compatible with Linux(the openwrt firmware came from Debian, I reckon). And, of course, with Linux on your WRT you can put firewall, etc. Then you are free to connect it anywhere you like on your network. Cheers, Yuriy On 8/6/05, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 05:53:35PM +0930, David Purton wrote: I know, way OT, but I thought I'd pick people's brains on here anyway. I'm thinking about adding wireless connectivity to my home LAN. At present it looks like this: ++ | switch |-- wired private network ++ | eth0 | +-+ | debian linux| ++ | server/firewall |-- eth1 --| adsl modem |-- internet | gateway/router | ++ +-+ What is my best option? I was thinking of just putting another ethernet card in my server and getting a wireless access point to attach to it. Then I could only allow traffic through to/from the wired network through a VPN (probably using openVPN, since I have used this before and it's easy enough to configure). What are the disadvantages of doing it this way? And what hardware would you recommend to get this setup to play nicely with linux? I guess the other option is getting a wireless router which I could attach to my switch. How does this compare to using just an access point? Is it better? Presumably it would be possible to setup the router so that it would only allow VPN traffic through to my server and block everything else between the wired and wireless networks - giving equivalent security. Again what hardware would you recommend? Most wireless routers seem to include a wired switch as well - which I don't really need. You could just get a wireless card and make the server act as a WAP. That would be cheaper and more configurable. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
Fwd: iptables related query
Hi, I have aked kind of the same question regarding iptable last week. Look through replies and you'get an idea on how to start with your own iptables scripts from scratch :-) Regards, Yuriy -- Forwarded message -- From: J.A. de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 4, 2005 9:40 AM Subject: Re: iptables related query To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 2005-07-03 @ 21:40:06 (week 26) Mal Beaton wrote: I prefer to use sub chains to identify from the internet or from internal etc I do too, but as the corresponding webpage states: quote Note that this ruleset is written with readability and clearness in mind so anyone can fathom it. Thus it is optimized for understandability and not for speed. For a standard workstation or a server with limited amounts of traffic that won't pose any problem. In an environment with huge amounts of traffic or where Network Address Translation is used a more complicated ruleset will be needed. /quote I might redo it though (if I find the time)... I also learnt from a very experienced firewall administrator to use the long switches so anyone else can easily read the scripts That's very sound advice, which I couldn't agree with more. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
iptables related query
Hi, I'm new to iptables therefor I need your help with some basic operation. I have installed Debian with 2.6 kernel and now trying to set some iptables rules. From what I have found in some nice examples in google I understood that I need to start iptables by running /etc/init.d/iptables. But I can not see 'iptables' in /etc/init.d. Although I have installed 'iptables' and 'iptables-dev' I still can not find /etc/init.d/iptables on the system. There is /sbin/iptables but I think it's something different. Could you advice me on what I'm missing here, please? Thanks a lot. Regards, Yuriy
Re: iptables related query
Hi All, Thanks a lot for your help. I'll go alone from here with information provided and let you know if there is any issue. Kind regards, Yuriy On 7/3/05, Mart Frauenlob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: I'm new to iptables therefor I need your help with some basic operation. I have installed Debian with 2.6 kernel and now trying to set some iptables rules. From what I have found in some nice examples in google I understood that I need to start iptables by running /etc/init.d/iptables. But I can not see 'iptables' in /etc/init.d. Although I have installed 'iptables' and 'iptables-dev' I still can not find /etc/init.d/iptables on the system. There is /sbin/iptables but I think it's something different. Could you advice me on what I'm missing here, please? Thanks a lot. The /etc/init.d/iptables startup script from debian, has been removed. Info about that should be somewhere in: /usr/share/doc/iptables. You either need to write your own startup / fw script, or use some tools like i.e. firehole or shorewall, etc... to setup your iptables firewalling. Regards Mart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
