Re: Chrooting bind 8.1.2 under debian 2.0

1998-07-14 Thread Amos Shapira
and maybe update /chroot-dns/etc/named.conf And learn UNIX. You were banging your head against known UNIX behaviour and documented Debian utilities. --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people

Re: network monitoring

1998-09-19 Thread Amos Shapira
e the easiest to get to use but MRTG 3 should impruve it dramatically once it gets out the door. (there is a debian package for MRTG, of course, as well as a helpfull mailing list) --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-17 Thread Amos Shapira
sts). You might also want to look at the debian archives for even better random number generators, or use Linux' /dev/urandom. Cheers, --Amos -- --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for | glory, for its people had been chosen [EMAI

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Amos Shapira
nix/X0 |Ok, but it wasn't my code (it was the upstream code.) I may include this |change in the next version, though. Thank you very much! Probably it helps a I was aware of that, maybe you want to send a copy to the upstream developer? Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Amos Shapira
n.cs.huji.ac.il) xauth extract - $RDISPLAY | rsh $i xauth merg - end (that was way before people were concerned so much about network sniffing, firewalls, encryption etc..). I suppose you can use a variation on this with ssh today. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of cours

Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.

1998-03-18 Thread Amos Shapira
using the socket(2) system call) in *A* domain (well, sort of). The two most well known socket domains are Internet and UNIX. Cheers, and let's hope the Debian project safely passes through the current storm. --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked f

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

1997-11-16 Thread Amos Shapira
51 usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/index.html |butch| Isn't UNIX lovely? :-) (The advantage? I was able to manipulate .deb files under SGI IRIX because of this fact) Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. |

Accepting fax using external SupraFaxModem 28.8

1997-11-18 Thread Amos Shapira
alled 11/16 20:48:24 yS1 do_makelock: lock='/var/lock/LCK..ttyS1' 11/16 20:48:24 yS1 lock made 11/16 20:48:24 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' 11/16 20:48:24 yS1 got: [0d][0a]RING ** found ** 11/16 20:48:24 yS1 send: ATA[0d] 11/16 20:48:24 yS1 waiting for ``CONNECT&#

Solved: Re: Accepting fax using external SupraFaxModem 28.8

1997-11-18 Thread Amos Shapira
tell Apache to agree to let me view faxes using the /usr/doc/mgetty/fronends/www/webfax_0.8.tgz package. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805

Re: Introduction for new users

1997-11-27 Thread Amos Shapira
uldn't resist...) Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL[EMAIL PROT

Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-27 Thread Amos Shapira
roblem. Unless I'm confusing it with another problem, check if the mail file isn't mangled. Hope this helps, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805

Re: kernel security?

1998-12-08 Thread Amos Shapira
tep - in addition to the router filtering, install a 2.0.36 kernel with the ipchains patch (and the secure-linux patches?) and add the same filters. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its peo

Re: A Qt alternative for KDE?

1997-04-03 Thread Amos Shapira
ig it for you myself when I get time tommorow. Good luck! Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England.&

Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS

1997-04-15 Thread Amos Shapira
revious point I raised of combining a few related packages into one (e.g. mgetty-{docs,fax,voice,}) and let the user pick from inside it. Reference - the SGI inst system. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. |

Apache 1.2.1 and Apache-SSL

1997-07-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Are there any plans to provide Debian packages for Apache 1.2.1 and Apache-SSL? www.apache.org sounds pretty clear about its recommandation to move to the latest version, and I need a stable Proxy implementation. Thanks, --Amos -- --Amos Shapira | "Of course Aust

Enlightment packaging

1997-07-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I though I saw that someone was packaging the Enlightment window manager (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~s2154962/enlightenment, US mirror at http://www.kickit.org/enlightenment/), but I can't find it in hamm's Packages list. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks, --Am

Re: Enlightment packaging

1997-07-15 Thread Amos Shapira
lightment package for Debian. That seems to give a positive answer to my question. (ok, so it will be in non-free, no big deal, though I suppose anyone on this list would like it to be in the dist. itself). Thanks for taking the time to answer. Cheers, --Amos

Autologin

1997-07-17 Thread Amos Shapira
y now, and until recently I used to boot my machine every night, so I consider them as testted. Would the people who's responsbile for this area (who are they? The XFree package maintainer?) consider adapting this into Debian? Any questions should be directed to me at [EMAIL PRO

Re: ssh

1997-07-19 Thread Amos Shapira
hine's /etc/ssh/sshd_config add "PrintMotd no". Read "man sshd" for more details. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805

Where is Apache 1.2's proxy module?

1997-07-19 Thread Amos Shapira
re. Could someone please point me to the right place? Thanks in advance, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for | glory, for its people had been chosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | by the finest ju

compiling apache 1.2.1 - where is -lcrypt??

1997-07-28 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm trying to build Apache 1.2.1 as a debian package based on the .diff.gz found in project/experimental, and the compilation process ("./debian/rules build" as root) bombs because the loader can't find a library for -lcrypt used when linking htpasswd. Could someone please point me to the

Apache 1.2.1 under stable - can it be done?

1997-08-04 Thread Amos Shapira
in Apache 1.2.1. Thanks, --Amos -- --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133/13 Shlomo Ben Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL[EMAIL PROTECTED] |

raw socket on my machine - where from??

1997-08-04 Thread Amos Shapira
Address State raw0 0 *:1 *:* I suspect a cracker is sniffing my network, but I can't find any suspicious process, nor does lsof(8) relate a raw socket to any process. Thanks for any help, --Amos -- --Amos Shapira| "Of course Aus

"AUTH"-capable POP server for Debian?

1997-08-06 Thread Amos Shapira
n USER/PASS on the net. Cheers, --Amos -- --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133/13 Shlomo Ben Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL[EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-16 Thread Amos Shapira
both main work places, depends on it. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL[EMA

Re: Qmail ./qmail-config does not work! hard error???

1997-08-17 Thread Amos Shapira
ents of these basic five files? Sorry to bother this list about that, but I haven't got an answer from Qmail's FAQ's and docs, not as far as I could find. Thanks, --Amos -- --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 1

Lilo boot get stuck after upgrade to 1.3.1

1997-08-17 Thread Amos Shapira
partitions, same hardware). Any ideas? Thanks, --Amos -- --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133/13 Shlomo Ben Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in Englan

Re: Current qpopper compatible with qmail? (~/Mailbox)

1997-08-29 Thread Amos Shapira
qmai.org. |What about cucipop? Look around at the page I mentioned above, there are some patches for popular POP servers, and it is claimed to be not difficult to tweak anything to start using MailDirs. Hope this helps, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked

Re: Who knows stuff about WAN cards?

1997-09-05 Thread Amos Shapira
nux. (Debian related - two of the three running cards (and my home machine) use it under Debian "bo" release, the other one runs RedHat). Hope this helps, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, f

Re: more mirror questions

1996-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
e forwarded your message to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Hope it's OK with you. (the mirror-people mailing list is a developers forum, *not* a users forum). Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.

Re: ftp+rcp: Connection refused

1996-05-25 Thread Amos Shapira
y in /etc/inetd.conf, uncomment (i.e. remove the initial '#' character) the line with 'ftpd' in it. (dunnot if Debian has a tool to do this?) Cheers. -- --Amos Shapira (Jumper Extraordinaire) | "Of course Australia was marked for | glo

Upgrading 0.93 to R6 - problems

1996-05-26 Thread Amos Shapira
't install libc5 and the other Elf stuff because the current kernel has Elf as a module, and I can't recompile the kernel to have built-in Elf support because I can't find its source. Can someone help me, please? Cheers. -- --Amos Shapira (Jumpe

Re: Upgrading 0.93 to R6 - problems

1996-05-27 Thread Amos Shapira
he AHA1542 SCSI controller, as static rather than dynamic modules. I havn't touched /etc/modules, but what shold I put there if everything I need is static? --Amos -- --Amos Shapira (Jumper Extraordinaire) | "Of course Australia was marked for | g

Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install

1996-05-29 Thread Amos Shapira
el or are Debian testers expected to grab the "raw" source? (BTW, thanks for the help with 1.3.100 - I recompiled 1.3.100 again, and this time I commented all the relevant entries in the modules file and things startted working). -- --Amos Shapira | "Of course

Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install

1996-06-02 Thread Amos Shapira
is now, it looks like ytou have to manually shift /System.map and /vmlinuz and add entries to lilo.conf, or am I missing something? Cheers, -- --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for |

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-02 Thread Amos Shapira
ian I saw lots of them lying around (and so I went to 0.93R6, which indeed prooved less stable than "unstable"), as well as when I mirrored unstable 1.1. Cheers. -- --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for | glory, for its

Re: big problems with installation

1996-06-03 Thread Amos Shapira
> Regarding the removal of 0.93 from ftp sites, can't we keep it available > as an "old" distribution? There may be some people who will want to > continue using it for some time. I suppose that should be a gentler aproach. Cheers. -

Re: Debian 1.1beta problems

1996-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
ession" (which must be the default). I'd suspect you forgot to make your .xsession excutable ("chmod +x ~/.xsession") Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been

Re: man dpkg

1996-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
at this file belongs to the "man" package. Do you have it installed (test with "dpkg -l man")? Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805

sendmail 8.7.5-4 is still a.out?

1996-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've just upgraded (or tried to upgrade) the rest of my packages to Debian 1.1. and noticed that sendmail 8.7.5-4 still contains QMAGIC binaries. Does anyone know if this is intentional or should I report it as a bug? Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "

Meta/Hierarchical packaging?

1996-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
rom it, things like: x11.motif.man x11.motif.lib x11.motif.extra And applying an example to the debian environment: perl5.base.man perl5.base.bin perl5.modules.www.man perl5.modules.www.bin xntp.server.bin xntp.server.man xntp.doc xntp.client.bin xntp.client.man Got the idea? Any comments about it?

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote: |I work for two years to build the system and this is what people use it |for :-) Forgot why UNIX was invented in the first place? :) --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. |

Re: sendmail 8.7.5-4 is still a.out?

1996-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
s match the ones in the .deb file (do 'dpkg -c sendmail-8.7.5-4.deb'). Strange. --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest

Re: POP forwarding

1996-06-15 Thread Amos Shapira
in inetd to control access. My first though went for SOCKS. Thought I never got around to use it, from what I saw it looks like this is an Internet standard for doing generic application-level proxying. In any case, make sure that wnatever you install on the firewall doesn't let outsiders to conne

Re: sendmail 8.7.5-4 is still a.out?

1996-06-16 Thread Amos Shapira
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: | |On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Amos Shapira wrote: | |> What are the sizes and times on your binary? | |$ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail |-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 235864 May 7 14:44 /usr/sbin/sendmail | |$ file /usr/sbin/sendmail |/usr/sbin

sendmail-8.7.5-4 fixed - bad copy at tsx-11?

1996-06-16 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, Thanks for the response. Looks like the file I fetched from tsx-11 was bad. Probably a very old copy which was renamed. I got a copy from ftp.debian.org and everything is fine - No a.out files on my system! Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australi

Re: rlogin localhost

1996-06-17 Thread Amos Shapira
ile and see if you have the |executables in the right paths. Ping uses ICMP-ECHO packets. So you can get "elvis is alive" while elvis has just configured the network card but before anything is running. That would comply with the "connection refused" message too. Just make sure

No "dir" on main Debian ftp servers!

1996-08-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi there, For the last 24 hours I keep getting empty output from "ls" and "dir" on master.debian.org and ftp.i-connect.net. My guess it's some mis-configuration at these servers (aren't they the same host?). Thanks. --Amos --Amos Shapira| &

Re: /dev/psaux problems

1996-08-27 Thread Amos Shapira
cat(1) know that it is supposed to be a device? :-) Try looking at your kernel's configuration and see if you have psaux there. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been c

Re: Using dump output from Sun under Debian

1996-08-28 Thread Amos Shapira
John D. Amidon wrote: > > Anyone know how to make Debain's `restore' command correctly read a DAT tape > written on on a Sun? The backup was made with the following command: > > dump 0bdsf 126 54000 6000 /dev/rst1 /home > > I've tried various things, I even read the SCSI-HOWTO and still no joy.

Re: Problem with Debian amd and Solaris server

1996-08-28 Thread Amos Shapira
Christian Hudon wrote: > > We're trying to automount home directories exported from a Solaris 2.5 > server onto a set of Debian boxes... And we're having problems. > > We got the amd maps set up correctly (I checked from another site which is > also using amd to automount home dirs). But when I s

libg++-2.7.2.deb is old?

1996-09-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, In order to test a local copy of buzz-fixed before burning it on a CD-ROM, we tried to run "dpkg --root=... --unpack", just to see if the files aren't corrupted. We got some results we don't understand completly: 1. Most packages finished fine, they produced output like: (Reading databas

A tiny program to help md5sum all debian packages

1996-09-10 Thread Amos Shapira
ers. (it found least 5 corrupted files in my local mirror of buzz-fixed, I'm re-copying these files to see if the problem is local to my copy). Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for | glory, for its peop

Re: libg++-2.7.2.deb is old?

1996-09-10 Thread Amos Shapira
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: |From: Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |> In order to test a local copy of buzz-fixed before burning it on a |> CD-ROM, we tried to run "dpkg --root=... --unpack", just to see if the |> files aren't corrupted. |[...

bug ins installation disks utilities?

1996-09-11 Thread Amos Shapira
e only explenation I can think of (which isn't very robust, I admit) is that maybe star finds the pipe from gzip to be empty sometimes, and quits instead of waiting for gzip to fill the pipe. This might also explain the fact that the point of complaint wasn't exactly the same all the time.

Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?

1996-09-13 Thread Amos Shapira
n they are gzip'ed. Thanks, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL

Will dpkg 1.4 work under buzz?

1996-09-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm encountering some annoying (and apparently well-known) problems with dselect from dpkg 1.2.14elf (e.g. after a search the arrow keys loose their function). I wander if it is safe to install one of the 1.4 version of dpkg on my mostly buzz-fixed system. Thanks, --Amos -

Two system admin suggestions, where to post them?

1996-09-30 Thread Amos Shapira
nto action and puts the standard "login" screen. This way you can let your computer login to your account automatically after boot, which is what most Linux users do on their homes machines, isn't it? Well, what do you think? I'm willing to implement both if I get a

[comp.os.linux.announce] Clarification - Linux-FT, The Road Ahead

1996-10-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Does the main figures in the Debian community have anything to say about this? Do you intend to cooperate in this important effort? Thanks, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for | glory, for its people had been c

Linuxthreads package for Debian - any plans?

1996-10-09 Thread Amos Shapira
level implementation. Are there any plans to provide Linuxthreads (Xavier Leroy's pthreads package)? Thanks, --Amos --Amos Shapira| "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 |