Re: disk partition schemes

2001-06-15 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello Kevin, should I create a separate /var Yes, you most definitely should. IMHO, whatever config you're going for, logs reside in /var by default in all the linux distros I've tried used mostly for web-hosting used as an IMAP/SMTP machine In your case, given that mail would resides by

gateway settings for cistron-radius clients

2001-05-04 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello, Can the gateway address for windows clients of cistron-radius be defaulted in the /etc/raddb/users? or must it be specified in the radius startup script? Thanks in advance. Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

gateway settings for cistron-radius clients

2001-05-04 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello, Can the gateway address for windows clients of cistron-radius be defaulted in the /etc/raddb/users? or must it be specified in the radius startup script? Thanks in advance. Erik

verifiying porstsentry entries in '/etc/hosts.deny'

2001-04-25 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, Psionic's Portsentry automatically adds host addresses that perform 'active system attacks' into /etc/hosts.deny and so crackers can spoof attacks from the most popular sites and 'ban' access to them. Apart from tracerouting each ip-address, does anybone know of an easier way to

verifiying porstsentry entries in '/etc/hosts.deny'

2001-04-25 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, Psionic's Portsentry automatically adds host addresses that perform 'active system attacks' into /etc/hosts.deny and so crackers can spoof attacks from the most popular sites and 'ban' access to them. Apart from tracerouting each ip-address, does anybone know of an easier way to verify

samba over PLIP

2001-03-13 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, There's an Acer TravelMate here whose M$Windows was hit with an outlook macro virus (yes, such is the fate all who use this evil mailer). I need to save the data files and not truncate everything to 8.3 filenames. I will try for loss less repartioning; install Linux; mount the FAT32

samba over PLIP

2001-03-13 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, There's an Acer TravelMate here whose M$Windows was hit with an outlook macro virus (yes, such is the fate all who use this evil mailer). I need to save the data files and not truncate everything to 8.3 filenames. I will try for loss less repartioning; install Linux; mount the FAT32

installation errors

2001-02-02 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello People, I'm doing an install on an old server and everything is ok until I get to the REBOOT YOUR PC NOW. The server starts up and gets to: Starting internet superserver: inetd after which I get a screenfull of the following errors: /bin/sh: /sbin/termwrap: No such file or directory

questionable tcp ports

2000-09-20 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hi Folks, I'm almost sure that my server has been compromised by some heinous cracker and am taking steps to remedy this. I've grepped tcp from lsof and came up with this and would like to know if there is something there that shouldn't be. dnsserver 478squid0u IPv4508

questionable tcp ports

2000-09-19 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hi Folks, I'm almost sure that my server has been compromised by some heinous cracker and am taking steps to remedy this. I've grepped tcp from lsof and came up with this and would like to know if there is something there that shouldn't be. dnsserver 478squid0u IPv4508

what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, I had problems with the RAM (128MB SDRAM DIMM) of my server and the only spare I had was (64MB SDRAM DIMM). Hear is what top says: 70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used,

what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, I had problems with the RAM (128MB SDRAM DIMM) of my server and the only spare I had was (64MB SDRAM DIMM). Hear is what top says: 70 processes: 69 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle Mem: 63124K av, 61296K used,

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, Thanks for all the reponses. From most of the replies, can I gather that I'll have to observe my how much is being swapped to determine whether I should immediately up the RAM back to 128MB? (and pester the tight-wad suits who'll approve the requesition) To paint a better picture,

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello again, Robert Davies wrote: Why wait? Run the command vmstat, and observe how much is paged in /out, what is the scan rate? That indicates how hard the page stealer is looking for pages it can free off. vmstat 10 is usually a goodish, number but if you can run it a long time,

how to restrict user logons

2000-08-28 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, I need to be able to restrict some users from logging-on from 8am-11pm daily (a new discounted subscription plan) and I could use some suggestions on how to best deal with this. I intend to toggle the user shell (/bin/false - /bin/nologin) via the crontab but am still gun-shy on

how to restrict user logons

2000-08-28 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, I need to be able to restrict some users from logging-on from 8am-11pm daily (a new discounted subscription plan) and I could use some suggestions on how to best deal with this. I intend to toggle the user shell (/bin/false - /bin/nologin) via the crontab but am still gun-shy on

Re: RADIUS support for caller ID and call-back

2000-08-24 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, I've got something wrong somewhere and I'm trying to figure out where. Hello, you firstly need to get caller-id switched onto all the phone lines in question. I suppose our telco has this on by default so all I need to do now is... I'm not sure about this now, perhaps not

RADIUS support for caller ID and call-back

2000-08-23 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
. Thanks, Erik Peter P. Abella

apache wml/wap support

2000-08-16 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, I was told that I can tweak my apache mime extensions to support wml browsing? is this true and has anyone in the list been able to do this? and if so, where can I find some howto? Thanks, Erik Peter P. Abella

how to setup battlenet services

2000-08-03 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
issues, etc.). Thanks for your time, Erik Peter P. Abella

Re: SMB over public network

2000-06-14 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hi All, Here's the take of a windows-junkie turned linux lover: APPLICATION SAMBA NETBIOS | -| IPX/SPX TCP/IP | NETBEUI |

Nokia DNT128-sp / WANPipe S508/FT1

2000-05-31 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
Hello All, Is it possible to directly connect a Nokia DNT128-sp to a PCs com port? This server will run IPCHAINs; Squid; RADIUS; will have a WANPipe S508/FT1; and is intended to replace a Cisco 2500 that the DNT128-sp is connected to. Will this work? Cheers, Erik Peter P. Abella

Re: dns server

2000-05-09 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
webmin and would fill us in. Sincerely, Erik Peter P. Abella i am searching for a dns server that allows me to administrate it by web. additional features that i would like to have are setting up virtual dns servers (with its own web interface etc.) for my bigger clients and http forwarding. i

how to slave scsi drives?

2000-05-02 Thread Erik Peter P. Abella
appreciated. Cheers, Erik Peter P. Abella