Re: Samba issues

2004-10-04 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I had very similar symptoms. The solution I found was to add: use sendfile = no to your global section. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:[SOLVED - for me at least] Samba upgrade to 3.06 is causing problems

2004-09-08 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Andrew Pritchard wrote: I'm getting the same problems as the original author. Whilst we are investigating the problem/waiting for the next bug release - how do I go back a step to the previous version of samba? I've just been looking at the Samba website for the solution: http://lists

Re: Re: Samba upgrade to 3.06 is causing problems

2004-09-08 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I'm getting the same problems as the original author. Whilst we are investigating the problem/waiting for the next bug release - how do I go back a step to the previous version of samba? Regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: run command as root within script

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> Is there a way within a bash script to temporarily > su to the root user, then run some commands, > then go back to the original user? Yes - learn to use sudo >From the man page: DESCRIPTION sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as sp

RE: USB watches [Currently a work in progress, but mostly working]

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > I was given a rather funky Xmas present - a USB flashdrive/watch > > (http://www.memixdirect.com) which says it's bootable. It also claims to be > > Linux 2.4 compatible, though I've not yet tried connecting it to a Linux > >

Re: USB watches

2003-12-28 Thread Andrew Pritchard
>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Andrew Pritchard wrote: >> >> I was given a rather funky Xmas present - a USB flashdrive/watch >> (http://www.memixdirect.com) which says it's bootable. It also claims to be >> Linux 2.4 compatible, though I've not yet tried co

USB watches

2003-12-27 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I was given a rather funky Xmas present - a USB flashdrive/watch (http://www.memixdirect.com) which says it's bootable. It also claims to be Linux 2.4 compatible, though I've not yet tried connecting it to a Linux box. The programs which come with the watch allow you to set the watch as bootable,

Re: Why should non-root users have a password?

2003-12-07 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> If I have a firewall, and I'm the only person who uses my computer, do I > really have to have a password on my non-root account? > > I know the answer is "yes" but -- why? They can't do anything to my > machine anyway, except use it. And due to the firewall that never > happens anyway. There

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen > > a lot of these types of messages: > > > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > > SeekComplete Error } > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { > > Uncorrectabl

Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-24 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439,

MySQL 4

2003-03-18 Thread Andrew Pritchard
With the recent release of MySQL 4, I was wondering when (if ever) Debian was going to be incorporating it into at least the 'testing' tree (let alone the stable tree). TIA, A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spam filter reviews?

2003-03-17 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> Anyone know of any spam filter reviews? > > I went from junkfilter to spamfilter and I'm currently using > spamassassin. But for some reason, I've gone from 1 or 2 messages in > my +inbox to day to dozens. Are there other filters that are more > state of the art? Can anyone compare spam

Re: I need a little help

2003-03-17 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> Greetings to all: > > I was wondering how I can configure apache 1.3 to not allow visitors to view > the source code of the page when they click on View ->Source > > Is there any option in apache to do that?, any hint will be appretiated. > > Didier. In a word - no! Why would you want to? The w

Re: Webadmin

2003-02-25 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> Can someone please tell me if Webadmin is available in Debian (woody). Do you mean webmin? In which case - yes: orion:~# apt-cache show webmin Package: webmin Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 3432 Maintainer: Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 0.94

HOW DO I: Copy the package list from one machine, and install it onanother machine?

2003-02-22 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've got one debian box, and I want to duplicate the package list onto another machine - how do I go about doing this? I've done a dpkg -l to get a list of files from the first machine. It's got a whole load of extra information (package version no. etc) which I've filtered out. How can I get apt

Access denied on imapd - but not ftp or ssh is allowed

2003-02-11 Thread Andrew Pritchard
The problem I've got is on a Debian 3.0 r1 (stable) box, where I can't collect my imap mail. Looking in /var/log/auth.log I can see a line: Feb 11 13:28:44 orion imapd[1979]: Login disabled user=andrew auth=andrew host=] Why is my login disabled and how can I enable it? I can ssh in, and I can ft

Re: Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? > > > > don't tell them the root password? > > iain I can just see some jokers trying to guess the root password. I realise this will come out in the logs, but I don't want them even able to try. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Limiting SU

2002-12-31 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? TIA Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ACCK! Disk crash

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew Pritchard
It looks like one of the disks in my fileserver has crashed - loads of data lost. Not an issue - that's what backups are for! However, I want to know if the hardware is sound (I'm not convinced it is - or was to begin with but that's another issue). Under DOS/Windows I'd run scandisk - what is th

Re: apt-get automated

2002-12-11 Thread Andrew Pritchard
This is quite simple - I do it myself: You have one line in your crontab like this: 5 1 * * * /usr/bin/apt-get update ; /usr/bin/apt-get -d -y upgrade -d is better because it will download the file, but not upgrade. -y is needed so that it will say 'yes' to downloading the files. That way when i

Re: Promise Ultra133tx2 Cotroller Card Problem.

2002-09-30 Thread Andrew Pritchard
>I use the Prose Tech. Ultra133tx2 IDE Controller Card to interface > with my Hard Drive. I have been unable to get Debian to install and I cant > find any information on how to resolve this issue. Can you offer any > suggestions? I've been using this card for over a month now, no probl

Ad removing proxies

2002-09-19 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've decided that I'm bored of waiting for the latest and greatest ad to come down doubleclick's apparently slow link. So I've decided to resolve this problem with a technological solution. I've been looking at proxies, in the debian testing branch: filterproxy - A filtering proxy, which can amon

Re: running ntpdate as user

2002-09-19 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> I think a better way to handle this is to forget about running ntpdate > as a user. Instead, setup ntpdate, as root, in crontab to run every 12 > or 24 hours. -mk > I remember when I first started using Linux, it was as a internet firewall/connection sharing box using a dial-up connection. I

Re: running ntpdate as user

2002-09-18 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > Anyone know what I need to change in order to run ntpdate as a user > > without using su sudo ...? > > Without looking I assume that changing the time is a root privilege > operation. Otherwise anyone could change the time and play games with > the system. Therefore what you would have to ch

Re: Looking for good usenet binaries downloader

2002-08-31 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> Hi, > > In your oppinion what's the best program for downloading a lot of > binaries from usenet servers? > > At the moment I'm using pan, which is a very nice one, but ideally I > would like to have something that can combine posts from several servers > automatically for multipart messages etc

Re: Centralized /etc/passwd ?

2002-06-26 Thread Andrew Pritchard
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Paladin" == Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Paladin> can the root account be centralized too? > > I don't know if it can or not, but it is probably not a good idea. > Consider what happens if your LDAP server goes down for some re

Error in my syslog file

2002-06-26 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've noticed a repeating error in my syslog: Jun 25 14:55:58 thebox named[195]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on thebox.192.in-addr.arpa? named is running on thebox. What is NXDOMAIN and how can I fix this problem. It's a woody box running the latest woody release of bind. TIA, Andrew Whet

Re: Odd entry in my log files

2002-06-20 Thread Andrew Pritchard
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.20.1033 +0200]: > > What is happening here? And is it something I should be worried about? > > There doesn't appear to be anything different about my bind config on

Odd entry in my log files

2002-06-20 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've got check log running on my woody box. The box is running an internal only DNS server behind a firewall that should be denying access to the outside world. 'checklog' picked out a couple of 'unusual' entries which I've not seen before in my logs: Jun 19 11:56:13 thebox named[202]: invalid RR

Re: PHP4 setup problems [SOLVED - kinda]

2002-05-29 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > It means that the kernel didn't know how to execute that file. Perhaps > > you need '#! /usr/bin/php4' as the first line of the PHP script? > > Or add the following lines to /etc/apache/httpd.conf, preferably between > and its ending tag > > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > Ad

Re: PHP4 setup problems

2002-05-28 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Quoting Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:12:07PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > However when I try to go to the test script I wrote, it comes up with > > a "500 error message". Looking in the error log I notice this: > > >

Re: PHP4 setup problems

2002-05-28 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> You're right, it is very simple. > > Move the script to /var/www or where your other content is, then access > it via your web server. > > http://localhost/hello.php > > I wouldn't be surprised if we all forgot to mention that in the > documentation! Hmmm - now it comes up with a 403: Permiss

PHP4 setup problems

2002-05-28 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've been trying to setup PHP4 on my Woody box at home. I've installed the php4 package, and then went through the apache config and uncommented the php shared object libraries and added the .php document handler. I stopped and then started apache to make sure I've got the .so's loaded. However

Re: Watch TV Card over remote X?

2002-05-28 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > I've got a small home LAN. One box has an ATI All-In-Wonder card. I can > > watch TV on it no problem with xawtv. I can "ssh -X firstbox.ip.address" > > into it and run xterm remotely, but when I try to run xawtv it complains > > that there's no such device as /dev/video0 and no video grabbe

Auto-ripping music CDs

2002-05-20 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've been using the rather excellent abcde cd ripping software for some time in one of my servers at home. I've got it setup now so that it hardly ever requires any intervention from a user - apart from logging in and starting the script off and that's a step I'd like to get round if I can. I w

Re: Mail server

2002-05-07 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> - An smtp server to receive mail for serveral virtual hosts. Most smtp servers will allow you to do this. Exim is the default SMTP server. I don't have any experience on the above, so I comment further. > The mail users should not be the same as the login users (eg. no entries in > /etc/pass

Re: dns web configurator

2002-04-25 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> I'm looking for a web dns configurator. > > François I assume you mean you are looking for a web front end for DNS servers on Debian. In which case I can highly recommend Webmin. Which is useful for LOTS of things, not just configuring your DNS servers. Andrew "I do not agree

broken apt upgrade

2002-04-18 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Ran my morning apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade, and now netsaint is playing up. Can someone tell me where I've gone wrong, and how I should fix it! djelibyebi:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libpgsql2.1 T

Re: Need utility to search for duplicate files

2002-04-14 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> My desktop system is used by 3 users, each having a few thousand files > in their home directory. Since we primarily have the same interests, > there are a LOT of duplicates to be found. Earlier I found an mpeg movie > that all three of us had that was 120 MB. That's 240 MB of wasted space. > Unf

Icecast Server

2002-04-03 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Does any one have a step by step guide to configuring IceCast etc on a debian (testing) box? Cheers, Andrew "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Windows/Linux network

2002-03-20 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> I would like to ask people what they think is the best solution for > networking a windows/linux network. > > Keeping in mind that the ultimate goal is to develop a linux only > network (but that that will not be accomplished anytime soon), I see 2 > options. > > 1. Install samba client on a

Re: Perl package

2002-03-11 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > Hello, > > > > I looking 4 debian perl package including LWP::Parallel modules. > > I'm using a Woody distro. > > > > > > I'have installed thoses packages but don't have LWP::Parallel. > > > > > > > > -- >

Re: ssl for webmin

2002-03-08 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> Any ideas why enabling SSL support for webmin through the webmin browser > doesn't work? I have uninstalled and reinstalled webmin many times > thinking something just must not have gotten installed right, but that's > apparently not the issue. > > I should note that there are no firewalls b

Re: web-based email for debian?

2002-03-01 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> i saw in an old post (from alvin oga -- thanks alvin) that there are several > options available for those of us who are thinking of offering online (http) > access to our email servers: > > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Mail/webmail.txt > > the question is: > > which debian packages

Re: Bastille on Debian?

2002-02-27 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> What magic, if any, must be worked to have Bastille run on Debian? > > TIA > > Lance There is a bastille package available for testing and unstable machines: # apt-get install bastille # InteractiveBastille If you want to run bastille from an console then you also need to install libcurse

Ask Slashdot: How Well Does Windows Cluster? Turned around

2002-02-21 Thread Andrew Pritchard
For those of you who read Slashdot (http://slashdot.org), there was a recent question about Linux/MS clustering. The query was about a computational clustering and everyone was suggesting that Beowolf was good for that. The consensus seemed to be that MS Clustering was good for High Availability

Woody -> Laptop

2002-02-20 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I have a laptop I'd like to put Woody on. I've started the install with the 'standard' set of discs, but when I try to configure the PCMCIA card it fails. It's a 3COM 3C589 - a well supported card. Cheers, Andrew "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to s

Re: fetchmail like prog to retrieve mails from mail.com?

2002-01-25 Thread Andrew Pritchard
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:36:04PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > First reflex was to take curl and write my own retrieval script to circumvent > that problem, and sorta recreate that forwarding service, fetching the mail > through a script from that server and reinjecting it into my mail system

Using Sendmail as a relay

2001-12-28 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Is there an easy way to get sendmail to relay? All attempts so far to get it to relay mail has failed. Cheers, Andrew "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)

Re: (fetchmail) configuration problem

2001-12-22 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> hi folks! > i get errors with fetchmail and i totally have no plan whats it about > can someone help me? Try sending us your .fetchmailrc file (sans password of course!!!) "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1

Woody on CD

2001-12-21 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Is it possible to get (or build using the pseudo image kit) a snapshot of woody on CD(s)? Cheers, Andrew "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)

Weird problem installing Debian

2001-12-13 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've got a spare machine which I'm trying to put Debian on. It's a K6-2 450, 128MB RAM, 10GB HD. Not a bad machine at all. I've had trouble putting Debian on it before, and ended up using Redhat. I'd love to get Debian working on it, cos I find Debian so much easier to use (that sounds almost bl

Fetchmail --ssl

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I need to connect to a remote IMAPS server, using a stable debian box. The testing tree has fetchmail-ssl as an option, but there isn't a package for it under the stable tree. What would people suggest? Cheers, Andrew "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right

Uptime

2001-12-06 Thread Andrew Pritchard
>From the Man page: uptime gives a one line display of the following informa­tion. The current time, how long the system has been run­ning, how many users are currently logged on, and the sys­tem load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes. What exactly does the 'load averages'

VPN software

2001-11-28 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Is there a Debian package to set up a VPN? Or am I going to have to go down the Free SWAN route? Cheers, Andrew "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)

imaps taking a very long time to complete

2001-11-08 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've got an IMAP server setup at home - which works internally just fine. However, I'm about to go on holiday and would like to be able to collect my email over the net. However I don't want to send my cleartext password over 3000 miles of internet. So I've set it up with IMAPS. BUT it's ta

pppoatm

2001-10-23 Thread Andrew Pritchard
common ppp over ethernet. Cheers, Andrew Pritchard "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778)

Alcatel Speedtouch USB ADSL modem

2001-10-20 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Has anyone managed to get this working under Debian in the UK? I've got a client who wants an ADSL connection. I'd love to use Linux, preferably Debian. However all the instructions I've seen are for RH. I've tried following the instructions, but I fall almost at the first hurdle when I try an

Suggestions please for a 10/100MB Network card

2001-10-17 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Has anyone had any experiences (good or bad) with 10/100Mb Network cards. It's going to go into a Debian potato box running the 2.4 kernel from Bunk. Any more queries, please email me direct. I'll any conclusions. Cheers, Andrew Pritchard "I do not agree with what you say, bu

Re: Any HOWTOs for firewalling?

2001-10-08 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I need to setup a firewall box for my ethernet cable modem. Is there a > checklist or HOWTO I can use to set up the Debian based firewall? > > E.g. > 1. What is the minimal number of packages I need? > 2. How should I setup dhcp ( external to ISP ) and internal to NATe

Fwd: Re: IRC DCC through a firewall

2001-10-04 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Quoting Fredrik Jagenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:02:12PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > Quoting dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I've got a Debian firewall setup, which is working ok. I can DCC > > > receive files, but

Re: IRC DCC through a firewall

2001-10-04 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Quoting dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:58:21PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > | I've got a Debian firewall setup, which is working ok. I can DCC > | receive files, but I can't DCC send. The ip_masq_irc module is > | installed on the firewall.

IRC DCC through a firewall

2001-10-04 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've got a Debian firewall setup, which is working ok. I can DCC receive files, but I can't DCC send. The ip_masq_irc module is installed on the firewall. If I try to send, it starts trying to send, the receiver gets the right IP address, and sends the acknowledgement, but the transfer never sta

Weird network setup problem

2001-09-24 Thread Andrew Pritchard
et up loads of other Debian boxen - so I don't think it's a newbie fault. Any suggestions would be most welcome cos I'm flumoxed (what a wonderful word :) Cheers, Andrew Pritchard, Whether you think you can, Or whether you think you can't, You're right!

Hardware Question: Which TV/video capture card?

2001-08-30 Thread Andrew Pritchard
blems with other pieces of hardware, for example the speed of a harddrive? Is lots of RAM a necessary? Your experience would be greatly appreciated, Andrew Pritchard Whether you think you can, Or whether you think you can't, You're right.

Re: How secure am I?

2001-08-03 Thread Andrew Pritchard
ed to get files onto the firewall them ftp them on from the console. Andrew Pritchard Whether you think you can, Or whether you think you can't, You're right

RE: Linux in the workplace: NT Domains

2001-08-03 Thread Andrew Pritchard
ministrator for the Windows NT Domain must have used the program "Server Manager for Domains" to add the primary NetBIOS name of the Samba server as a member of the Domain. Assuming your machine can resolve the PDC's hostname, I suggest you check this next. Andrew Pritchard Whether you think you can, Or whether you think you can't, You're right

apt-get testing package on an otherwise stable box

2001-08-02 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Is there a way you can install a package from the testing branch using apt-get, from a box which is in every other way 'stable'? I remember seeing something like this I think on debianplanet - but I can't now find the reference. Cheers, Andrew Pritchard Whether you think you

Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-08-01 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Quoting "Christopher S. Swingley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The command I would expect to work: > > > > convert -sample 50% * > > Another method that I often use is: > > $ find ./ -name '*.gif' -exec convert -geometry 50% {} {}.png \; > > The {}'s are replaced by the filenames that 'find' fo