Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Karl Ferguson
that is your problem. > >The gateway was set up after approval by Bruce. How about mangling the From headers in the news postings? Would be a lot nicer, and of course, a lot less Spam for people. That is, if that's what's causing the problems here. Regards -- This message i

Re: debian mirror via http ?

1997-08-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
* WWW: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/debian in the US. You could try that, or if you find another mirror that has web access that isn't listed please email me. Regards -- Karl Ferguson - Mirror Site Co-Ordinator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Quotas & Mail Spool file

1997-07-30 Thread Karl Ferguson
If anyone's got a solution under this with smail I'd like to hear it :-) Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61 8 9456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61 8 9455 2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mai

Re: Apache + CGI

1997-07-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
re should be heaps of documentation about that at http://www.apache.org and in the actualy config files itself. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61 8 9456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61 8 9455 2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: "1FA:" prompt at boot

1997-07-19 Thread Karl Ferguson
ld should remove the "1" at the end of the "boot" line (or whatever partition it is). To read up on some LILO documentation browse the /usr/doc/lilo directory. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61 8 9456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online

routed in netstd and gated compilation problems.

1997-07-11 Thread Karl Ferguson
ated] Error 1 If someone can help me on this gated compilation issue it'd proboly be best to keep it off the list. Thanks -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61 8 9456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61 8 9455 2776[EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

1997-06-12 Thread Karl Ferguson
shadow system, see if you've got the /etc/shadow file with all your passwords in it or not. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)

1997-06-12 Thread Karl Ferguson
ng the setup as well (I think it defaults to yes if you press enter). Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61 8 9456 [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61 8 9455 2776[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Re: Setting limit on mailbox size with smail

1997-06-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
andwidth (if you just install quotas it'll receive the whole message and bounce the whole thing back) - have a look at the max_message_size variable in /etc/smail/config . Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Karl Ferguson
orks fine too. However, as I said, a 'fresh' install of 1.3 (and making sure there's nothing later in bo) I can't setup a slave server. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776

Re: Shadowconfig

1997-05-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
this machine ... it's not >supporting dedicated users. If I understood X better I'd probably use >it and export to an xterm, but for now I want shadow passwords :) > >I looked at the script and figured I could comment out the lines >pertaining to xdm ... but I need some opi

Other remote passwd servers?

1997-05-15 Thread Karl Ferguson
Hi... Other than NIS itself, are there any other NIS-like administrations out there? From and administrators point of view, NIS works great - but users can simply examine the passwd file by using ypcat (sure, all be-it a mangled passwd field) - is there any way to stop that? (Hence my question fo

Re: samba whoes ...

1997-05-14 Thread Karl Ferguson
7;s the case, then you can override using dpkg with the --force* commands - however, I don't recommend it unless it's a last resort. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROT

Shadow installation.

1997-05-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
package that pertain to this in the base directory, but installing these don't convert my system to shadow. Can someone enlighten me? Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-8-9456-[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61-8-9455-2776[EMAIL PRO

Re: utmp troubles

1997-05-01 Thread Karl Ferguson
>another which that user is still logged into. [...] I take you you've got sysvinit version 2.70-1 installed. I reported a bug on this and I'm pretty sure it should be fixed in sysvinit-2.71-1 try installing it - it'll be in the archive soon. Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Netwo

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
/etc/issue > >(no need to save original issue, as ">>" appends to the file rather >than writing over it). This won't work right - >> appends to the end of the file and what'll happen is that the issue will spit out and then clear with "name login: "

RE: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 05:58 PM 29/04/97 +0100, Alec Clews wrote: >I think /etc/issue might be a better choice 'cause it gets displayed by >getty I believe Sorry - my aplogies - I meant /etc/issue, hey it's 1am here :-) -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PRO

Re: clear screen on logout

1997-04-29 Thread Karl Ferguson
#x27;m >sure there is a better way. > >any ideas? Best way (the way I do it) is to do this: clear > /etc/motd However, make sure you make a backup copy of your original MOTD so you can then edit the file and after all the ascii characters put it back. Regards -- Karl Ferguson, To

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-28 Thread Karl Ferguson
thing about a mailing list over Usenet is that with a mailing list you can remove the offender forcing them to re-subscribe again where as you can't get rid of them from Usenet (this has been the basis in discussions of 'The end of Usenet'.) Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking

Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup

1997-04-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
st asking to be put on the latest spam stuff for the rest of your life :( Thankyou to whoever shut it down :-) Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
and everything went fine. That's certainly not the case with me :-) I take it your logging into this box via a serial port? I believe that's the cause of it - Consoles and telnet logins appear fine for me. -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EM

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
n. It seems like it's a real mess. I'm not *entirely* sure about the sequence of the utmp corruption - but the wtmp I'm sure of. However, they're both corrupted - suddenly a user appears in a 'who' and then they disappear into thin air (after another user logs in). Reg

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
t100 terminal to a serial port on a different machine with 2.70-1 and used plain getty (well, really agetty in disguise) and found the exact same thing - if I downgrade, it works a treat. Baffling. -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Onli

Re: wtmp problem

1997-04-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
ould solve this problem. In the meantime I'll examine some bug reports on this package and see if it's been reported, if not I'll do so. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776

Re: Apache web server POSTing.

1997-04-16 Thread Karl Ferguson
> >I hope this helps. I don't know why this wouldn't be configured correctly >as apache worked fine for me 'out of the box'. -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-9-455-2776 [

Re: Apache web server POSTing.

1997-04-16 Thread Karl Ferguson
and the directory is: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 19 05:48 /usr/lib/cgi-bin I figured there would be some sort of option to enable to make POSTings happen... Also keep in mind I'm not trying to do POST stuff, my users are - so obviously it'd be /~someuser/cgi-bin/where

Apache web server POSTing.

1997-04-16 Thread Karl Ferguson
much luck, and there's not much about this on their web site. Does anyone know what options I must enable to allow apache to accect these requests? Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax:

Re: finger from remote site will not list .plan

1997-04-02 Thread Karl Ferguson
nd your .plan 644 - should work fine - ie: drwx--x--x 23 karl staff2048 Mar 31 19:31 /home/karl -rw-r--r-- 1 karl staff 364 Aug 4 1996 /home/karl/.plan Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-31 Thread Karl Ferguson
doing this: fuser -uvm What I mean by mounted system is /var or /home and the like. This will print out process ID and the USER who's controlling it (and what the process is - ie: named). Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-9-455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do Ienable NIS (client) on my Debian system.

1997-03-30 Thread Karl Ferguson
e - well, it did for me anyway. Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-9-456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-9-455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to boot single-user

1997-03-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
7;ll also ask for the root password). Regards -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___

Re: Unarj

1997-03-20 Thread Karl Ferguson
at least, not with source code. Unarj is merely an experimental thing that the author was working on and seems to not want to support it anymore... I just read a reply you got about unarj'ing each a.0x and that's probobly the best way to handle it. Regards -- _

Re: My screen gets messed up :-(

1997-03-18 Thread Karl Ferguson
V ^O (CTRL-V CTRL-O) and it should give you back a readable prompt. Works for me anyway. Regards -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services

Re: nis problem...

1997-03-13 Thread Karl Ferguson
PROTECTED] http://www.pg.gda.pl/~magic phone(office): 47.27.88 > Dzialac mozna dopoty, dopoki sie ma marzenia. > > > -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___

Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
two >> lines are in my /etc/passwd file: >> >> +::/bin/bash >> -karl Just a follow up note: this actually DISABLES the login (just says login incorrect all the time) but the finger information remains. -- ___

Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
es this domain Pushed netid.byname map. make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/tower.net.au' NIS Map update completed. This however does work fine and it does get to the slave. -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd

NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
oing wrong? Regards -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___

Re: PLIP setup?

1997-03-01 Thread Karl Ferguson
, edp0 is defined as the gateway on edp1: > >/sbin/route add default gw 10.0.0.1 plip0 > >Slow machines like mine need "klogd -c4" to stop plip errors from going to >the screen. > >To take the network down: > >/sbin/ifconfig plip0 down >rmmod plip > > >-

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-02-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
ng it under the Debian name which I consider to be the best thing we can do for the project. In fact, I'd like to see more involvment in things as the Debian name - as I said before, if we exploit our name a bit we may start getting donations of machines from big companies l

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-02-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 07:03 PM 25/02/97 PST, Bruce Perens wrote: >It was OK for us to participate as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the RSA Data >Security Challenge as long as we didn't have any chance of beating >the "Linux" group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It would be real >embarassing to beat them. So please, if

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
, we're going to be able to get to number 3 easily - however, I'm not sure if we'll be able to get any further! In any case, if you would like to get started at cracking please do so. Regards -- ___ Karl Fer

Re: poppassd_1.2-4_i386.deb bug?

1997-02-24 Thread Karl Ferguson
change the password with Eudora either. It times out waiting for the server to respond. Regards -- ___ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services

Re: Debian logo?

1996-11-22 Thread Karl Ferguson
derful Debian logo spinning or something :-) ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.tower.net.au/~karl -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: What does Debian mean?

1996-10-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
a long time already. The Debian project was started by Ian Murdock - his wifes name was Debra (I think that's the spelling of it - not sure) so hence forth Debian was formed. And as such it should be pronounced "Deb-ian" and not "Dee-b-an" as so many do :-) Regard

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
(32meg) and a 486dx33 (8meg) so it wasn't powerful, but it's definately the CPU that judges speeds. I say again though, there's no substitute for quality between ne2000's and smc/3com cards :) ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMA

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
es out there that claim to be NE2000's though... >You might consider a 100MBPS/10MBPS card that is a PCI bus-master. For sure! If you've got the money that is :) Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EM

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
e am. I have known a couple of friends that have 16bit cards and when they upgraded them both to a PCI (I can't remember what it was now) they went from 250kb/sec on their lan to around 600kb/sec. I think that's a substantial increase IMO. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, T

Re: ethernet card

1996-10-24 Thread Karl Ferguson
them perfectly. They're cheap and there's heaps of clones out there of them, but it's definately no comparason to SMC's or 3com's (then again, I suppose you're paying for quality). Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 3

Re: resetting a virtual console

1996-10-11 Thread Karl Ferguson
e? Try hitting ^V ^O and it should reset it - works for me. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.s

Re: Can't getty on ttyS1

1996-10-05 Thread Karl Ferguson
te thing I found with normal getty (I think it's agetty) is that it's rather flakey for dialin lines. Try installing the mgetty package - it works great and is very flexable. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a

Re: scd0 not recog. as block dev. (what is "insmod driver")

1996-10-01 Thread Karl Ferguson
nt -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device > (maybe `insmod driver`?) > # I take it that you've tried to "insmod iso9660" and then try to mount the cdrom as you have there just above? When I re-insta

Re: Scsi errors

1996-09-26 Thread Karl Ferguson
t it was the cable and I've never had any trouble since then. Perhaps it could be the hard drive, but then again, I wouldn't know about that - both my scsi disks are SCSI-2 and yours is a SCSI-3, perhaps it doesn't like them for some reason? Regards ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower

Re: Dr. Paul Vio, Paediatrics

1996-08-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
bian User mailing list? Have you got a question Linux related? ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au/

Re: Isn't it a security hole...

1996-08-14 Thread Karl Ferguson
it's exactly that -- experimental :-) I however have run it fine and it does seem to work (though I'm not using it now because I reformatted). ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services

Re: debian mirror in Australia

1996-08-13 Thread Karl Ferguson
get from debian.org. It should be back up within a few days after we've isolated the problem further - in the mean time you may like to try getting them from ftp.it.com.au:/mirrors/linux/debian, however I don't know how up-to-date they are. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Towe

Re: The Game is afoot

1996-06-19 Thread Karl Ferguson
(I think?) 1.1 has been released and done. The unstable directory is basically an exact copy of the buzz directory, but that's where the newer packages will go and where 1.2 is now being developed (that's right - we don't stop working) :-) ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networkin

Re: superuser telnet login refused

1996-06-11 Thread Karl Ferguson
binnxr9gL1hks.bin Description: application/pgp-message

Re: Cron

1996-05-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
a "2>&1 > /dev/null" on the end of it. Works here anyway :-) ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 Network Manager, A/h: +61-

Re: Quotas problems

1996-05-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
So, if someone has > managed to do that or possesses a good documentation, could he send me all > the useful informations. I mentioned this to the devolper a while ago. Aparantly the new quota package will have a how-to-do-this type file in /usr/doc/quota. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Fer

Re: BUG? /etc/cron.daily/find doesn't run

1996-05-18 Thread Karl Ferguson
e already bug-reported this and it's being worked on. Thannks, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 Network Manager, A/h: +61-9-480-5958 Tower Net

Re: Australian mirrors

1996-05-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
over 10 people from Australia coming in our link is flooded (not forgetting that I have clients too). Maybe an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] might help? ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-4

Re: uudecode?

1996-05-06 Thread Karl Ferguson
e Contents file in unstable: usr/bin/uuencode sharutils So, it's in the sharutils package which is in the misc directory. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Tel: +61-9-455-3446

Re: Avance Logic

1996-05-04 Thread Karl Ferguson
my Win95 box (I doubt that'll help, but listen anyway). The unfortunate problem I had was that I needed specific drivers for it - I'd give up if you are going to try to use it for X-windows I think. Unless there's a specific driver in X for it. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Fe