Can NIS go through firewall

Hi We're trying to get NIS to work arround here. When testing locally everything is ok, but we wan't it to work across two different networks and there is a firewall in between. We've tryed to open up the firewall but without results. Has anyone got any comments on this? Thanks -- Mari

Opera running on linux

Hi I downloaded the opera deb but now i can't find libqt1.2 to install it and run. Has anyone been able to put opera to run. Thanks. PS : please cc this message to me. -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Mysql help

Hi I clearly remember that in slink's mysql it was possible to start mysqld with a switch that wouldn't require password to access any databases. Does it still exist in potato's mysql? What is the switch? I know it's bad policy, but i don't have any valuable information in it (just bugzilla and b

Multicast suport in Debian

Hi I'm creating a set of server's to spread arround several building's in our campus. Those server's will have multicast support. I configured the kernel and installed mrouted but there are a few things that i can't find and maybe you can help me. On the kernel, i said i wanted to use PIM-1 and

Re: Installing bugzilla

Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I'm currently in the process of installing bugzilla. Taking into > > consideration that i know nothing of perl and very little of mysql is > > making things a lit

Re: Installing bugzilla

Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Hi > > I'm currently in the process of installing bugzilla. Taking into > consideration that i know nothing of perl and very little of mysql is > making things a litte bit difficult. > > Right now i'm running a perl sc

Installing bugzilla

Hi I'm currently in the process of installing bugzilla. Taking into consideration that i know nothing of perl and very little of mysql is making things a litte bit difficult. Right now i'm running a perl script wich check if everything that bugzilla needs is installed. Apparently it is not. When

Mysql's root password

Hi I forgot mysql's root password. Anyone has any suggestion on what I should do to be able to clear it... Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Project Management

Hi I wonder if there is any open-source project-management (à lá MS-Project) tool available, even if not debianized? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Re: "Illegal isntruction"

aphro wrote: > > its possible one of the critical libraries is not installed corecctly or > is curropted(say libc)..try re-installing all the libraries that the > binaries that give those errors have. also upgrade or downgrade the How can i do this if even dpkg complains about the "Ille

Re: "Illegal isntruction"

aphro wrote: > > sounds like a package that was not compiled/compadible with your > processor? what kind of cpu do u have and what kernel are you using? Kernel 2.2.1 (it's very old, I know), and the processor is a k6 if i'm not mistaken, but it's definitely a i386! -- Mario Fil

"Illegal Instruction" - take II

Hi It's me again. I'm starting to believe that the problem is not perl but something else. I tried to start apache-ssl by hand and it gave the same result: Illegal instruction. Any suggestions ? Should i just reinstall slink on that s...y machine? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAI

"Illegal isntruction"

Hi While upgrading from slink to potato i started getting this message. I think it comes from perl because when i do perl i get that same error. when i do dpkg -l | grep perl i get this: ii data-dumper2.10-2 Store and retrieve perl data structures ii dpkg-perl 0.1-3.0

Apache-ssl going mad

Hi I'm running a local webmail site where the pages are served by apache-ssl. Since there is no real need for a real certificate i've used the ssl-certificate script to generate new certificates when the old ones expire... until today. Today i ran ssl-certificate, but now when i try /etc/init.d/a

Jbuilder in slink

Hi Has anyone been able to install jbuilder on a slink machine. I'm trying to install it now, but after i select the VM it just dies... -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

A question of location

Hi One of our servers arround here is having a strange behaviour. When it is in it's place it doesn't boot: stops at INIT. When removed from it's location e boot's fine. Any clues? -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

"Webalizer"like for squid

Hi I wonder if there is something like webalizer to generate squid usage graphs. I already know calamaris but it's all very textual and you know the bosses, it has to be in colors and with nice little graphics. Thank you -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.

Re: Is sendmail open to relay?

Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Hi > > Some time ago, i was handed the administration of the local mail server. > Unfortunately this is just one of the many things I've got to do and as > such I've never had much time to look through the config's, especially

Is sendmail open to relay?

Hi Some time ago, i was handed the administration of the local mail server. Unfortunately this is just one of the many things I've got to do and as such I've never had much time to look through the config's, especially sendmail. Today i received several messages indicating that the machine was us

Preventing parameters to lilo

Hi We have a few labs here whith dual-boot. Windows is protected with Fortress. Some students with a bit more of knowledge enter linux with the init parameter passed to lilo and then remove fortress from windows so they can install anything they want. Is there a way to prevent lilo from getting p

Gnome Pager...

Hi I'm using gnome with windowmaker-gnome. A couple of days ago i accidently rm -rf * part of my home (yes i know... that's stupid) including the GNUstep dir. I tryed to rebuild a couple of things with WPref and WMakerConf. Today my gnome-panel crashed hard (had to reset the machine). When i rebo

Still trying to backup...

Hi In one of my most recent attempt's to backup our mailserver i used afbackup. I defined a set of 5 tapes but used only 3. I did a full backup and everything went (apparently) ok. To test that everything was reaaly ok i did a afverify and it only complained on the files that had changed size,

How to recover a file from a backup...

Hi Last week i made a backup of our mail server using tar. I used the following command: tar cvMf /dev/st0 -g /tmp/backuped /var/spool/mail The whole thing went into 3 tapes. One of our users destroyed (a.k.a. deleted) all of his messages and now he want's them back. I know that his mai

Re: A Problem with jadetex

"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 15:19:37 +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > 15:11:33$ sgmltools -b ps backups.sgml > > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) > > I can't find the format file `jadetex.fmt'! > &

A Problem with jadetex

Hi I haven't used sgmltools in a while but today i needed it and when I did sgmltools -b ps file.sgml i got this: 15:11:33$ sgmltools -b ps backups.sgml This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) I can't find the format file `jadetex.fmt'! Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/sgmltools",

Upgrading to potato ...

Hi I have two machines. Machine A is connected to the internet and is running slink and i want it to continue running slink. Machine b is not connected to the internet but i would like it to run potato. My idea is to use A to upgrade B but i need your (the experts) advice on the way i thought i

Re: Support for ADAC ultra 2 pci RAID controller

Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Hi > > Anyone knows if the upper mentioned beast has any supoprt in linux. I > tend to believe that it hasn't but maybe someonehas got it to work with > some other controller's drivers... Found it! It's the Ami m

Support for ADAC ultra 2 pci RAID controller

Hi Anyone knows if the upper mentioned beast has any supoprt in linux. I tend to believe that it hasn't but maybe someonehas got it to work with some other controller's drivers... Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Compiling php to slink

Hi I'm trying to compile the latest php in a slink system. During compilation i get the following errors: -- cd apache && cc -shared -fPIC -DCOMPILE_DL=1 -I.. -I. -I/usr/include/apache-1.3 -I/usr/include/c-client -o imap.so ../functions/imap.c /usr/lib/c-client.a -lc cd apache && cc -shared -fP

Granting access

Hi I have a user arround here who has explicitly asked to have the permissions on his home directory to 0700. He wants to access some info on his home dir throug a browser (he will put it in public_html), but in a way that only he can access it. I suggested using .htaccess to ask for a password. T

Another error message

Hi Yesterday i asked what "Unable to load interpreter meant". Today I have another question related to an error message. In the very same machine where i was getting the interpreter message i started a memtest 2000 1000. This machine is a remote server and it crashes almost on a daily bases a

"Unable to load interpreter"

Hi What does the message in the subject mean ? Well i know what it means but what interpreter is the system trying to load and in wich situations does this happens. Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Problems with BigBrother

Hi I'm starting to use bigbrother arround here to monitor our network. Everything workin ok (after i tweaked it a bit) except for one small detail. I determined that a page (in my case an email) should be sent every hour if there is a problem. The problem is that after the logs are rotated it st

Re: Amanda tape definitions

Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Max wrote: > > > > Did you make sure that you have an entry like > > > > tapetype DAT > > > > before all the tapetype definitions. Also, you should have a line > > that says something like > > > >

Re: Amanda tape definitions

Max wrote: > > Did you make sure that you have an entry like > > tapetype DAT > > before all the tapetype definitions. Also, you should have a line > that says something like > > tapedev "/dev/nst0" > > If this doesn't help, e-mail me your amanda.conf file and I'll see if > there are any obvi

Amanda tape definitions

Hi My backup saga continues. I'm now trying to use amanda but i'm not sure that i have de definitions of tape correctly. /proc/scsi/scsi says this: Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.26 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 And my current amanda.conf sa

menus for wmaker 0.60

Hi I'm running slink but got wmaker 0.60 and compiled it. After installing it i tryed to run it but it would crash continually. After looking at the console i found that it was looking for a menu.hook that was referenced in WMRootMenu. The only way i could find to solve this problem was to run wma

Re: Refusing to deliver mail

> > You can use the access database feature: > http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti-spam.html > > With this feature enabled, you can use the file /etc/mail/access: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 We do not accept spam. > spamming.domain.com 550 We do not accept spam from your domain. > > I'm not su

Refusing to deliver mail

Hi Is there a way to configure the email server (sendmail 8.9.3) so that it refuses mail coming from a specified address to a specific email. Let me clarify: My user A doesn't wan't to receive mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible (with sendmail or something else) to make b's message bouce b

Re: [PHP3] IMP and folders

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote: > > Quoting Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm installing IMP on our mail server. Most users read mail using some > > POP3 client but some still use pine (don't ask, it's a long story). My > > problem i

IMP and folders

Hi I'm installing IMP on our mail server. Most users read mail using some POP3 client but some still use pine (don't ask, it's a long story). My problem is that i can't configure imp to read the folders that already exist in the mail directory. Does anyone have a clue on how to fix this! I'm cc'i

Help with afbackup

Hi We have four machine here that we wish to backup (better: we NEED to backup). After trying amanda and not getting anything we switched to afbackup. There is one machine with the tape (the afserver) and four clients (including the server itself). We are trying to do the four backups. We start

Firewall's and Real*

Hi With kernel 2.0.x and ipfwadm it was necessary to compile something into the kernel so that it would allow real* traffic to go by. Is the same still valid for kernel 2.2.x with ipchains? Thank you -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

2 questions

Hi I have two questions to pose to the enlightened ones in this mailing list (boy am i poetic today, maybe because a I've a couple of presentations to do today :( ): Number 1 : Is there a way to allow the users to create an auto-responder (so that their email sents a message for every message the

About backup's

Hi I'm setting things up arround here so that we can do a backup during this weekend. The boss want's me to put the machine where all the user accounts are in single mode before startting the backup to avoid corruptions !? Is this really necessary ? thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL

Backups

Hi I'm trying to backup some of the machines that we have arround here. We have one machine with a tape. My first attempt was to backup just the machine with the tape (wich is a critical one since it has all the users home's ) with taper, but taper kept segfaulting so nothing was achieved. Th

Re: Apt for bo

Brian Servis wrote: > I think this will work. > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/upgrade-older-i386/apt_0.1.10_i386-libc5.deb thanks! -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Apt for bo

hi Is there still a bo package for apt ? Where ? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Re: I need help with X

Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Hi > > like I sayd a few days ago my X is going bananas. Now when i run it it > tell's me this : > > Error Loading Keymap /var/tmp/server-o.xkm > couldn't load xkb keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap > > What

I need help with X

Hi like I sayd a few days ago my X is going bananas. Now when i run it it tell's me this : Error Loading Keymap /var/tmp/server-o.xkm couldn't load xkb keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap What does this mean and how do i fix it. I'm running slink since March without any problems and now in t

My X just went bananas!

Hi I had to restart my X (wicg was running for a few days) and now i can't get it to start (more on this in a while). I ran strace on xinit and the result was the file ola.txt wicg I attach. My .xinitrc looks like : xset fp+ unix/:7101 & exec esd& exec enlightenment & It just stops... The stran

Printing formfeeds

Hi Here on our office we have a HP Laserjet 4000 connected to a printserver. I'm trying to configure my machine to print to that printer. When i print saomething with lpr zzz the printer says it received the data but doesn't do any output. If i do enscript zzz then it prints. It looks like the pri

Win 95 and Linux Authentication

Hi I'm currently working on a Univeristy. All our servers are running Linux. We have a server where the students have their homes. There a few public rooms for students using win 95. I would like to know if there is a way to simulate the wn 95 authentications through Win NT with our linux servers

I can't receive e-mails

Hi I've been upgrading from one older machine to a new one! I am maintaing the same IP addr and hostname. I installed sendmail and then reconfigures it just like it was on the older machine! Now i can send mails but i can't receive them. Whenever i send an email to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) it crea

Compiling my own kernel

Hi I finnaly did it! I compiled my first kernel! Everything went (sort of) smoothly except for one thing. I got the kernel-source package from potato (2.0.36) and kernel-headers (is this one necessary?). I also got kernel-package! I made make xconfig. make dep; make clean. and then make-kpgp --

About glib and gtk

Hi I'm currently using potato (never had big problems!). My problem is that i have gtk 1.1.11 and 1.1.12 installed yet when i install libgtk-imlib-perl (for example) it tell's me that libgtk-imlib-perl needs libgtk 1.1 but libgtk1.1 is not available! Whats missing? -- Mario Filipe

Diagrams

Hi Is there any package that is good for DB diagrams (something close to a case program but just the for the diagrams) ? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.uevora.pt/~mjnf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [E

Re: News <-> Mail geteway

Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > > Hi > > Having installed majordomo, I would like to know if there is a > news<->mail gateway available as a Debian package. > > Thank you > -- > Mario Filipe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://neptuno.u

News <-> Mail geteway

Hi Having installed majordomo, I would like to know if there is a news<->mail gateway available as a Debian package. Thank you -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.uevora.pt/~mjnf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EM

Re: [QUESTIONS] starvation of writer under system load? (was deadlock)

Chris Albertson wrote: > There is one more thing you need to do, or so say the textbooks. That > is deadlock detection or if you can do it, deadlock prevention. This > is a function of a lock queue manager. > > Also you need one lock queue for each lockable object. If locking > were done at th

Majordomo again

Hi I think I have majordomo running. I can subscribe to my test list but whn i try to send messages to the list i get this : CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for this message |---

Configuring Majordomo

Hello I downloaded majordomo. While folowing the instruction on INSTALL, i was forced to stop on wrapper config-test because it tell's me the folowing : -- Checking to see if there are new variables that should be in your majordomo.cf file...BAD: Couldn't open sample.cf for reading, No such file

Permission Denied

Hi. Suppose I have X running. I have a shell and in that shell I telnet to the same machine but under a different user. When i try to run any X app (say xfig) i guet the following messages : Xlib: connection to "neptuno:0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Er

Xfig ->jpeg = blackness

Hi Can someone plesa tell me why when i ask xfig to export a figure to jpeg it just gives me a nice black square! Before I had an update a few days ago, i tried it and it worked, but now... just the void -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.uevora.pt -- TO U

Visio Like Program

Hi Is there any debianized Visio like program ? Thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.uevora.pt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Postgres

Hi Once again I'm here to talk about Postgres. It was suggested previously that a new package to exist should be created using libc6. But (and correct me if i'm wrong) libc6 will only be final with hamm, so it might make some sense to create a package still using libc5 and maybe another one with

Bo ? Hamm ?

 Hi    I'm  kinda new to this Debian stuff, so... What is the difference between bo and hamm and what do this names mean --      Mario Filipe     [EMAIL PROTECTED]     http://neptuno.uevora.pt