Re: Closest to Debian

2002-01-28 Thread Mark Janssen
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:35:43PM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: Of the Linux distributions supported by Promise (at http://support.promise.com/Linux/Default.htm), which is closest to Debian. That is, which requires the least modification to get working with Debian unstable? Why not just use

Re: new photos from my party!

2002-01-28 Thread Chris Wagner
FYI, no one bother decoding this, it's not a photo, actually a program/trojan. Malicious no doubt... At 10:24 PM 1/27/02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! My party... It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos.

Re: central authentication with LDAP

2002-01-28 Thread Florian Bantner
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello list, I just installed openldap and make my own address book on it. Now I'd like to make my Debian GNU/Linux login and authenticate from the LDAP server, where should I begin? I installed libpam-ldap, is it all I have to install? Is there

Re: central authentication with LDAP

2002-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:31, Florian Bantner wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Patrick Hsieh wrote: 2b. Create group-entries according to posixGroup Perhaps it is possible to combine them in one entry since debian uses the same number for uid, gid of one person. I'm currently trying this and it

Re: new photos from my party!

2002-01-28 Thread Peter Billson
Bummer man, I clicked on this SPAM link in mutt hoping to see p0rn and it trashed my Linux box! Hope nobody else did that! :-) Pete PS what's with all the SPAM to this list lately... admins? I'll bet it's that WoW guy that's suing Russell! :-) My party... It was absolutely amazing! I

Re: Closest to Debian

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Lim
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 19:16, Mark Janssen wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:35:43PM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: Of the Linux distributions supported by Promise (at http://support.promise.com/Linux/Default.htm), which is closest to Debian. That is, which requires the least modification to

Re: Closest to Debian

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Lim
I'm running the 2.4.17 kernels, so... I'm GUESSING Redhat 7.1 would be closest since 7.1 ships with a 2.4 kernel? Perhaps there are some other things to consider as well? The Red Hat version only supports kernel 2.4.2, expect it to fail on 2.4.17+ because there have been significant

Re: new photos from my party!

2002-01-28 Thread staf wagemakers
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 07:45:48AM -0500, Peter Billson wrote: Bummer man, I clicked on this SPAM link in mutt hoping to see p0rn and it trashed my Linux box! Hope nobody else did that! :-) This is just another outlook virus: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99332.htm it should be

Re: central authentication with LDAP

2002-01-28 Thread Michael Wood
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:10:09PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:31, Florian Bantner wrote: [snip] auth sufficient pam_rootok.so auth sufficient pam_ldap.so auth required pam_unix.so use_first_pass accountsufficient pam_ldap.so account

Re: Closest to Debian

2002-01-28 Thread Michael Wood
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:18:47PM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: [snip] The Red Hat version only supports kernel 2.4.2, expect it to fail on 2.4.17+ because there have been significant changes. Also expect it to work on the Red Hat 2.4.2 kernel but not a standard 2.4.2 kernel because Red Hat

mass email distribution software

2002-01-28 Thread jogi hofmueller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi! the following is not technical but more ethical or so. recently i was asked to develop some sort of mass email distribution software for someone sending monthly newsletters about music events to a list of about 3000 addresses. now, before

Re: mass email distribution software

2002-01-28 Thread Chris Hilts
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:46:46PM +0100, jogi hofmueller wrote: i know that everyone hates spam. therefore i think the idea to put a mailing-list-like mechanism with automated (un)subscribe procedure behind such a thing would be not so bad because it would make it possible to really

new photos from my party!

2002-01-28 Thread bounce-debian-isp=archive=jab . org
Hello! My party... It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos. Thanks! begin 666 www.myparty.yahoo.com M35J0``,$__\``+@`0```

Iptables and PPTP

2002-01-28 Thread Bender, Jeff
Anyone here have any luck with PPTP through NAT with IPtables? I have recompiled my kernel with PPTP VPN MASQ support and loaded the module. I have even verified that the modules is loaded with lsmod. It tells me that it is unused. I can't seem to authenticate with PPTP to my work's VPN. I

ScanMail Message: To Sender virus found and action taken.

2002-01-28 Thread TRI-EXCHANGE-01-SA
ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Sender = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient(s) = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject = new photos from my party! Scanning Time = 01/28/2002 18:13:47 Action on virus found: The attachment www.myparty.yahoo.com exists WORM_MYPARTY.A virus.

ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken.

2002-01-28 Thread TRI-EXCHANGE-01-SA
ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Sender = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient(s) = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject = new photos from my party! Scanning Time = 01/28/2002 18:13:47 Action on virus found: The attachment www.myparty.yahoo.com exists WORM_MYPARTY.A virus.

Re: mass email distribution software

2002-01-28 Thread jogi hofmueller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 28, 2002 Chris Hilts said: *| The problem with this rationale is that most people don't bother trying to unsubscribe, since the unsubscribe *| instructions are usually just a method of verifying valid addresses. i am aware of that and this

RE:

2002-01-28 Thread Bernie Berg
I don't think this was from me. If I have this virus I am soposed to have a task called msstask.exe running in the background, I don't. And I certanly didn't open an atachment called www.myparty.yahoo.com.exe. Also, no one in my office got this from me either. -Original

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Lim
Sincerely, - Original Message - From: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Software VS Hardware Raid On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:01, Jason Lim wrote: Case 1) I replaced one of the disks

Re: mass email distribution software

2002-01-28 Thread Lang Hurst
This is getting even further off topic, but the first person who figures out how to make micro payments with regard to the web will make a killing. There are a lot of newsletters, donations, etc. that I would be more than willing to pay $0.25 or more to on a regular basis, but there is no way,

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Lim
My question: if this was hardware RAID 1... would this have happened? Would the hardware RAID controller recognise the problem, and only stop briefly, then try the second disk automatically and transparently? I believe hardware RAID would have worked transparently here. With

Re: mass email distribution software

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Lim
Micropayments... many companies have tried, many have failed. The closest I've seen to a functional version of this is PayPal. They allow micropayments, so have a look into it. Not that I personally like them a lot, but many people use them, so it may be worthwhile. Also, if you're looking into

Re: new photos from my party!

2002-01-28 Thread David Stanaway
On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 09:43 AM, wrote: Hello! My party... It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos. Thank This is a new virus incase you hadn't guessed. W32/Myparty-mm

Re: central authentication with LDAP

2002-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 02:14, Michael Wood wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:10:09PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: auth sufficient pam_rootok.so auth sufficient pam_ldap.so auth required pam_unix.so use_first_pass accountsufficient pam_ldap.so account

Re: Closest to Debian

2002-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:18, Jason Lim wrote: The Red Hat version only supports kernel 2.4.2, expect it to fail on 2.4.17+ because there have been significant changes. Also expect it to work on the Red Hat 2.4.2 kernel but not a standard 2.4.2 kernel because Red Hat apply

Re: Closest to Debian

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Lim
If you install hardware that requires a binary-only driver then that's a mistake you will probably regret for years. Use software RAID, spend more money to get a Mylex DAC960 with SCSI drives, do anything but using a binary-only driver. Point taken. As far as I can see, only 3ware has an

Re: central authentication with LDAP

2002-01-28 Thread Tim Uckun
If the LDAP server accepts the connection and just does nothing then things can get bad. I am having a problem like this (I think). I installed slapd using apt-get and it did not complain. But very strange things are happening. When I do an ldapsearch it hangs for a long time and then returns

Re: mass email distribution software

2002-01-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach jogi hofmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.28.1815 +0100]: the thing with mailman is (we run 20 lists here too using it) that it provides for many-to-many communication and has proven to create even more unwanted mail for all the people writing unsubscribes to the list (just to

Re: mass email distribution software

2002-01-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lang Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.28.2013 +0100]: This is getting even further off topic, but the first person who figures out how to make micro payments with regard to the web will make a killing. ask bill gates. he's actually proposed something like this. you receive an

Re: Closest to Debian

2002-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:54, Jason Lim wrote: If you install hardware that requires a binary-only driver then that's a mistake you will probably regret for years. Use software RAID, spend more money to get a Mylex DAC960 with SCSI drives, do anything but using a binary-only driver.

Re: central authentication with LDAP

2002-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:10, Tim Uckun wrote: If the LDAP server accepts the connection and just does nothing then things can get bad. I am having a problem like this (I think). I installed slapd using apt-get and it did not complain. But very strange things are happening. When I do an

Re: central authentication with LDAP

2002-01-28 Thread Tim Uckun
Using the -x switch to disable SASL is one solution to this (and it's quite adequate for localhost connections). For network connections you may want to get SASL working (I don't know how to do this) or to use TLS (not currently supported in Debian packages last time I checked). Tried that

APC BackUPS 600 question

2002-01-28 Thread Nicholay P. Chuprynin
Hello, All! One of our debian potato servers connected to APC BackUPS 600. I want it to deal properly with power failures. There are several different packages in potato that seems useful. But before trying them one by one, I want to ask your suggestion. What package(s) can you recommend (or

scsi error ?

2002-01-28 Thread Thedore Knab
I am having backup troubles. I ran a e2fsck on my /dev/sda1. I then ran dump /sbin/dump 0uaf /dev/ht0 /dev/sda1 I got the following error: DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda1: [sector -1693761273]: count=512, got=0 DUMP: bread: lseek fails DUMP: short read error from /dev/sda1: