Re: NFS

2004-11-16 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Tom Allison said on Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:31:39PM -0500: Um... I'm kind of stuck on something that seems too simple... NFS with kernel 2.6.8. I have nfs-common installed, but I can't seem to find any other packages to configure it. I'm a little stuck because I'm trying to install LTSP

Re: Multiple versions of gcc installed

2004-10-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Brendan Simon said on Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:11:49PM +1000: Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Unfortunately this is not practicle on a multi user machine where different users may want to use different versions of the compiler. gcc is designed to have multiple versions installed and be able to call

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-10-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Marc Wilson said on Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:58:07AM -0700: On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: - You don't have to rerun grub every time you changed the config file Except that you do, unless you believe in symlinks for your kernels.. Minor nit: you don't have

Re: chroot bind9 issue ( rndc stop)

2004-09-07 Thread Mark Ferlatte
saravanan ganapathy said on Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:40:26AM -0700: If I do # cp /var/named/etc/bind/rndc.key /etc/bind/rndc.key Then the bind stops without any error. How to make 'rndc' to refer the new chroot path? man rndc: specifically: rndc -k /var/named/etc/bind/rndc.key, at least

Re: Systemimager 3.0.1-11 on Sarge.

2004-08-16 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Michael Bellears said on Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:29:38AM +1000: I've been testing Systemimager 3.0.1-11 - I have created an autoinstall disk, booted the test client with this disk, and I am getting a segmentation fault during the partitioning section of the autoinstall process: Partitioning

Re: Samba in ADS Domain

2004-07-23 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Edwards, Thomas W. said on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:21:15AM -0500: Has anyone gotten samba 2.2 to join an ADS domain structure, is Kerberos required for this to work? I believe it is required to be installed but does it have to actually be configured to work. I believe that samba 3.x has the

Re: KVM (kernel memory interface)

2004-07-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
stan said on Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:45:12PM -0400: On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:43:36PM -0400, Stewart Flood wrote: I'm starting a project to port a very large application from FreeBSD to Debian. I've gotten past some of the initial porting issues, but I'm stuck on this one: under FreeBSD

Re: NTP IP via DHCP (using dhcp3-client)

2004-07-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:41:48AM -0500: I'm trying to get my laptop to use whichever NTP server is specified via DHCP and not having much luck. I have heard that dhcpcd will automatically rewrite your ntp.conf if it receives NTP info via DHCP, but I would prefer to stick

Re: NTP IP via DHCP (using dhcp3-client)

2004-07-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:44:18PM -0500: On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 11:57, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:41:48AM -0500: I'm trying to get my laptop to use whichever NTP server is specified via DHCP and not having much luck. I have

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:38:51PM -0500: On Wed, Jun 30 at 03:43PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500: questions: 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active daemons and restart them when

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500: questions: 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some utility already exists for this? or /proc/something? or `ps ax`? monit can

Re: ntp configuration

2004-06-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Zenaan Harkness said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 07:54:57AM +1000: On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 03:39, Bob Proulx wrote: Zenaan Harkness wrote: SERVER: --- whiskas:~# cat /etc/ntp.conf driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift server time-server.bigpond.net.au server tk1.ihug.com.au server tk2.ihug.com.au

Re: backport site

2004-05-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Hector Scaramelli said on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:02:42PM -0300: Hi, Can anybody recommend an updated backport site to add to the sources.list file so as to be able to upgrade the kernel and some packages. I am using 2.4.18-bf24. I like backports.org quite a bit. M pgphAXyB2vqdK.pgp

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
richard lyons said on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:59:23PM -0400: On Wednesday 19 May 2004 17:05, Bojan Baros wrote: Link: http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys So, what's everyone take on this? Another software patent. Any really good idea that is to become the new standard _has_ to be

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Katipo said on Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:43:58AM +0800: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Uh, it is open source, and copyleft: http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/ The only reference to possible patent issues is the general if we have a patent on it, you get a royalty-free license statement

Re: Aging commercial binaries on Sarge

2004-05-07 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Helgi Laxdal said on Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:08:25PM +: The error we get is rush start: /usr/local/rush/bin/rushd: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory That file is in the libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 package,

Re: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Michael Bellears said on Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:04:58PM +1000: 1. What is the recommended method to synch config files on all real servers (Eg. Httpd.conf, horde/imp config files etc?) - Have only one server that admins connect to for mods, then rsync any changes to the other servers? Not

Re: Creating pdf documents under woody

2004-03-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jonathan Schmitt said on Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:19:11AM +0100: There should be (in theory) a dvi2ps and then ps2pdf but dvi2ps is not installed on my system and I've no idea, where to get it. There is, it's just called dvips. It's in the tetex-bin package. M pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: ntp won't work

2004-02-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:21:25PM -0800: I am running woody with a stable/testing mix. I installed ntp using: apt-get install ntp-simple ntpdate I configured three servers from the ntp public server website here is an excerpt from my /etc/ntp.conf: server 209.81.9.7

Re: Cloning

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Gregory Seidman said on Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:12:51AM -0500: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:00:23PM +0100, Pedro Hernandez wrote: } Hello all! } } I'm about to install Debian on 12 computers (i*86). They will use the } same setup regarding software, but the hardware differs somewhat } between

Re: wanted: postfix incoming mail server HOWTO

2004-01-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Emma Jane Hogbin said on Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500: Sorry, I didn't explain the problem very well. I can send/receive mail on the (debian stable) box. Mail goes into /var/mail/username. But now I need to figure out how to: (1) let users pick up mail from the box You need to

Re: which email server to choose

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Will Trillich said on Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:54:06AM -0600: so, what's the best imap/webmail solution for a woody server? :) It really depends on your site. The three most well known are probably uw-imap, courier-imap, and Cyrus. advantages, disadvantages, why, why not... Cyrus will scale

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:42:11AM -0700: I wonder if a company could get brownie points with its employees and save bandwidth at the same time by proxying/caching some internet radio stations for their use? Only one user for as many internal users as wanted it? I

Re: Logbook - RCS

2003-12-17 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Rob Weir said on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:59:55AM +1100: I've started keeping my various /etc's in Arch, and it's working out quite well. Arch versions both the symlinks in there and the file permissions, as well as file changes/moves/deletions/etc. Not the file *ownership*, however, so I'll

Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-16 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Hugo Vanwoerkom said on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:34:24AM -0600: I want to make a script (which I am at present unable to do) that does this: su give the password from the script export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11 xsane exit from script Note: su insists on running from a

Re: Nagios not quite working

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
James Roberts said on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:53:54PM +: The system reports Warning: Monitoring process may not be running!and Process Status: UNKNOWN. The gateway box status is shown as 'Pending'. Well, it sounds like nagios isn't actually running. However, things to try: 1) Do you

Re: BIND can't find root nameservers

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
John Holland said on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:23:08AM -0500: I have a recurring problem on a Debian machine that is running named. The bind program becomes unable to get the address of the root nameservers and fills up /var/log/daemonlog,/var/log/syslog with messages to that effect.

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Nunya said on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:56:06PM -0800: I always thought I could have ssh listen on some port which gets through like FTP port or HTTP port to bypass all those restrictions. Two obvious, unavoidable problems will be: my employer probably won't want me wasting bandwidth and

Re: Command: ip

2003-12-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Frank A. Uepping said on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:35:49PM +0100: In what package is the cmd `ip' hidden? iproute. M pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Limit network speed

2003-12-09 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Ron Rademaker said on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:31:24PM +0100: Hello, I have a little network at home with 2 window$ workstations and 1 debian gateway / dns / dhcp server. My network speed is pretty high (both on upload and download), however I want to limit the upload speed (cause I have a

Re: FHS and other things Mark should have read with comprehension (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Marc Wilson said on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:01:12PM -0800: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:17:52PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Minor nit: netatalk requires a device node in /var to support Appletalk printing. Admittedly, for most people, this is not an issue. Not arguing, but what device node

Re: FHS and other things Mark should have read with comprehension (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Karsten M. Self said on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:35:54AM -0800: Given that 30% of spam is reported (Inquirer news story 3 Dec) to originate from broadband-connected systems, minimizing the exposed vulnerabilities of _any_ system should be a high priority. Specifically: allow device and SUID

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Greg Folkert said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:07:41PM -0500: On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:20, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Paul Morgan said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:49:52PM -0500: Right... so, again with the why put /usr on a seperate partition from /? Making / large enough to hold /usr certainly

Re: FHS and other things Mark should have read with comprehension (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Karsten M. Self said on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:15:29AM -0800: See, variously, the FHS, and my own partitioning guidelines: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning Good page. I should have known about the Jihad. - /var need only be writeable and executable (nodev, nosuid).

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Kristian Niemi said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:51:33PM +0200: I had that problem when mounting a windows partition. Solved it by adding, in my case, 'iocharset=iso8859-15' to fstabs; i.e. mounting it with that option. Don't know which charset is the proper one for american english though;

Re: Kernel Security Update - 2.2?

2003-12-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jacob S. said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:58:45AM -0600: Ok, I haven't seen anyone else ask it, so I'll ask the dumb question I couldn't find an answer for. :-) Is the 2.2 kernel series affected by the bug found in the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel tree? My assumption would be yes, but if not, it would

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Paul Morgan said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:49:52PM -0500: There are currently Debian packages which are needed at boot time which depend upon datafiles kept in /usr. discover is one of them, there may be more. In woody, therefor, a seperate /usr can cause problems. Does it gain you

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Greg Folkert said on Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:19:12PM -0500: root should only be enough to boot with... /etc = 45MB (with GConf taking 30MB of that) /bin = 3.5MB /sbin = 3MB /lib = 35MB /dev = 128KB /root = 15MB or so /proc = null /tmp = 50K or so (not a separate filesystem until

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Tom Vier said on Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:41:21PM -0500: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Is there any need for a /boot partition on modern hardware? Why do you like a seperate boot partition? yes, many bootloaders (aboot, silo, lilo) can only read ext2. I

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP Debian Woody

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Edward Murrell said on Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 09:31:42AM +1300: I've never understood the need for /opt/. Or more precisely, I've never understood the need for /opt/ when you have /usr/local/, and in my travels have yet to find any solid reasoning beyond what seems to be that the first person to

Re: spamc not putting headers on some mail?

2003-11-18 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:53:43AM -0700: I'm wondering if my procmail rule has something to do with it; should I not be using a lock file? The rule is #spam assassin #spamc requires spamd (/etc/init.d/spamassassin) to be running #f = consider

Re: cvs over ssh with non standard port

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Micha Feigin said on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:35:41PM +0200: I am trying to get cvs to access the repository through a ssh connection when the sshd is listening on a non standard port. I tried using cvs -s CVS_RSH=ssh -p port -d :ext:cvs:/var/lib/cvs co package but cvs insisted on trying port

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jigga Man said on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:30:02PM -0800: I am pretty much a new user to debian linux and i have a problem setting the correct time on my system. My hardware clock is set to GMT and when i installed debian i chose the time zone correctly. only thing is that we follow daylight

Re: Preventing Forkbombs

2003-11-12 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Florian Ernst said on Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:39:58AM +0100: Hello Tom! On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:56:37PM -0800, Tom wrote: How does one prevent a non-root user from locking up the system with: perl -e while(1){fork} System seems to become utterly unresponsive. (It's a loaded

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-11 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Iago Sineiro said on Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:28:52PM +0100: Hi. I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is it possible? Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that doesn't have command sudo and I don't want to install it. Why not? That's what sudo is for.

Re: [ssh] KeepAlive

2003-11-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Vincent Lefevre said on Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:00:09PM +0100: This worked for several months, but since a few days, my ssh sessions get closed again (for the last one, I could see in the logs that it was closed during an ADSL reconnection). So, I did some tests with ssh -v and the following

Re: [ssh] KeepAlive

2003-11-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Vincent Lefevre said on Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:48:21PM +0100: On 2003-11-10 13:24:28 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Have you looking into ClientAliveInterval? ssh v2 has a built-in keepalive mechanism that dodges some of the problems with regular TCP keepalive, and you probably need

Re: [ssh] KeepAlive

2003-11-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Vincent Lefevre said on Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:08:39AM +0100: On 2003-11-10 14:43:22 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Well, ClientAliveInterval exists in my version of ssh. :) ssh 1:3.4p1-1.woody.3 I don't remember from your first message; are you running unstable? testing with some

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
David Millet said on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:25:24PM -0700: 1) are these instructions http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install the best for a noob like me or are there some better ones out there somewhere? They are probably best. 2) i have 2 harddrives, hda and hdb, hda has

Re: spamassassin lock file in procmail?

2003-10-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:45:02AM -0700: Procmail's documentation suggests that you only need a lockfile if the rule delivers directly into a file, because applications should take care of file locking on their own. (Read this last night; can't recall where.)

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:34:25AM -0700: I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather than a rant or flame ... Huzzah! Polite questions are gold. For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing list, why do you do this? Is there some

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:41:56PM -0700: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 22:03 GMT, Mark Ferlatte penned: [snip] Most of the people who have this problem, I believe, have the technical abi= lity to setup such a filter, and for reasons that I don't understand choose

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:00:29PM -0700: Something about slrn not handling quoted-printable multi-part messages properly, I believe. I don't know the meaning of what I just said, but that's what I've been told. I guess I could write a vim script to clean it up on

Re: NFS server setup - 'nfs-kernel-server' or 'nfs-user-server' ! [SOLVED]

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Ferlatte
=?iso-8859-1?B?RW1pbCBI5Gdlcmx1bmQ= ?= said on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:00:38PM +0100: Thanks, is 'apt-get install nfs-kernel-server' enough or do I need to compile anything? If you are using a Debian supplied kernel, installing nfs-kernel-server is enough. If you're using your own custom

Re: Cursor dust

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Keresztes József said on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:54:12PM +0100: And this time when the cursor move to another place it leaves a line, or a part of a line. Sounds like you probably should try turning off the hardware cursor in X. Try setting the SWCursor option in the Device section of

Re: which one is better??

2003-10-27 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Paul Gatherum said on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:07:57PM -0800: Which NFS is better, the NFS-user-server or the NFS-kernel-server? I need to set up a box on a pretty large network to dump some pretty large files, and share them throughout. I have lebranet installed and have 400g to play

Re: What's rc.local in debian?

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Dennis van Turnhout said on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:53:07PM +0200: I want to set some hdparm parameters at boot for my system. According to a tweak guide this has to be set in rc.local for a redhat system. What's the file name for a debian server? Debian doesn't have one by default. To

Re: Setting hostname with DHCP

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Michael Ash said on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:52:09PM -0400: Dear list, I have scoured the web and even read the generally helpful Chapter 10 - Network Configuration from Debian Reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html, but I cannot figure out how to set

Re: Wins with DHCP

2003-10-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Alice Pinard said on Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:18:38AM -0700: Hi, I have a debian firewall set up as a dhcp server, dhcp3. Recently I set up a wireless subnet along with my wired subnet. Now windows machines on the wired subnet can't see the wireless machines for purposes of file sharing and

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Tom said on Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:49:11PM -0700: I know it's not the Unix way, but it takes me 30 minutes to blow away my HD and rebuild EVERYTHING (os, apps, user prefs). If my system gets the slightest bit untidy I just start over. Huh? a) Course it the Unix way. b) 30 minutes? You

Re: NFS V3, how do I get it working?

2003-10-07 Thread Mark Ferlatte
stan said on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:03:42PM -0400: The kernel is compiled with NFS V3 client _and_ server suport. However the problem is that when I built the machine I installed teh nfs-server package, and not the nfs-kernel-server package. Now life gets interesting. Okay, so this is your

Re: NFS V3, how do I get it working?

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
stan said on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:02:15PM -0400: I;ve recompiled my kernel enabling NFS V3, and rebooted. Yet rpcionfo still reports: 132 udp 2049 nfs What else do I need to configure to allow this machine to be an NFS V3 server? Be more specific: exactly what was the

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Mike Egglestone said on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:20:25AM -0700: I'm finding it difficult to convince them that OSX is not the way to go. We all know the reasons why Debian is so Great, but they can't see it. The biggest push is that the OSX server can have workgroups for accounts and thus lock

Re: Network attached storage and backup

2003-10-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Aaron said on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:50:51PM -0400: I lack any kind of realistic backup system, I'm not RAIDing my data (only a single 200 gig drive), my hardware is sub-par (Linux doesn't really *like* VIA too much), and I'm sure there are other things I could be doing differently. I'm

Re: seeking mailing list from SQL

2003-10-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
martin f krafft said on Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:22:56PM +0200: I am looking for a mailing list manager that can pull a single list's membership list from a configurable SQL datasource. Nothing like sympa, which can either completely live in a SQL database, or not at all. No, I want to be able

Re: seeking mailing list from SQL

2003-10-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
martin f krafft said on Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:11:15PM +0200: also sprach Mark Ferlatte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.10.02.2156 +0200]: remove_members --all mylist mysql -h localhost -e SELECT email from people mydb | \ add_members -n - -c n -w n mylist I know about the script

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Pigeon said on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:53:43PM +0100: A point about USB and modems is that USB is fast enough to make it possible to implement an external winmodem. It may well be safer/cheaper to use an RS232 modem with an RS232-to-USB converter. (having found one of those that's supported in

Re: Reiserfs and flies 2G

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
stan said on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:39:07AM -0400: What version of Debian do I need to be running to get a version of Reiserfs that will corectly support files 2G? woody with a 2.4 kernel image. I'm using woody with 2.4.21, and it has worked great. Many 14GB+ files here. AFAIR, 2.4.18 (the

Re: NFS version 3?

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
stan said on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:26:26PM -0400: How new a version of Debain do I need toprovide NFS V3 services? woody has NFSv3. NFS is provided by the kernel server, so you'll need to use a 2.4 kernel to get it to work. M pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: uhci

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Sidney Brooks said on Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:25:48AM -0700: I want to use a usb printer with Debian woody. From what I read, I must install the module uhci to do this. I do not know where to find this module and how to install it. I have tried apt-get with no success. This must be something

Re: Kernel Oops (was Re: Lots of scary segfaults)

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Kjetil Kjernsmo said on Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:03:27PM +0200: How about memtest...? This box is under some load, but usually not too bad, would it be a good idea to run it overnight? How would I go about to test a much as possible of my memory with it? It would mean taking your hardware

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-25 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Daniel L. Miller said on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:03:10PM -0700: From this sentence, I believe that you are mounting an NTFS partition on your Linux box, and are trying to get your data off of it that way. This probably won't work; the NTFS driver in kernel 2.4 is experimental, and for a

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:20PM -0700: I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition. From this sentence, I believe that you are mounting an NTFS partition on your Linux box, and are trying

Re: setting umask for an nfs mount

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Shri Shrikumar said on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:00:25PM +0100: Hi, I need different umasks for different nfs mounts and the mount page does not give any help since nfs doesnt seem to have the umask option. Any ideas on what I could do to acheive this ? BTW, I am running testing / unstable.

Re: Kernel Image for SMP + HIGHMEM

2003-09-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Stuart Johnston said on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:54:43AM -0500: Bob Proulx wrote: Stuart Johnston wrote: I have a couple of systems I am trying to setup as production servers using Debian stable. They have dual P3s and 2GB RAM. Should work very nicely. So far they seem a little

Re: autoinstall initrd size

2003-09-18 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:29:22PM -0500: Incidentally, I searched this lists archives for autoinstall and found very few posts. Is autoinstall the best way to go for automated installs? I know FAI is another option. I welcome your suggestions. We are currently a

Re: Bind 9 chroot now slave/tmp- failed

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Chad M Stewart said on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 11:07:56AM -0400: The following is in my logs named[1813]: transfer of 'domain.com/IN' from x.x.x.x#53: failed while receiving responses: file not found named[1813]: transfer of 'domain.com/IN' from x.x.x.x#53: end of transfer named[1813]:

Re: all those DHCP packages

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:57:44PM -0400: I'm confused by the large number of available DHCP client packages. There's dhcp-client, dhcp3-client, dhcpcd, udhcpc, and pump. Right now I'm using pump, but it's not very well documented and not as flexible as I'd like.

Re: Amanda or taper

2003-09-08 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Curtis Vaughan said on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:57:37AM -0700: I have been using taper for backups for some time now, but just read an interesting article about Amanda. Is anyone using Amanda and is it better than taper? Never used taper, but I have been using AMANDA for a while, and like it

Re: overnet, mldonkey, which one??

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Couldn't help it: Useless use of cat award! Olivier Robert said on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:08:08AM +0200: : :' :# cat Earth | sed -e s/microsoft/debian/g Better_World sed -e s/microsoft/debian/g Earth Better_World :) M pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Duplicating installs across the network

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Karsten M. Self said on Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:24:20PM +0100: I know that there are a whole host of tools out there that for imagining/backup, but I have no experience with any of them. Can anyone out there provide some pointers and insight? What do you all use? Does it work well? I

Re: Shared library versions

2003-09-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Russell Shaw said on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:42:43PM +1000: Hi, How do programs determine what version of a shared (.so) library they get when run? They use whatever version they are linked against. Sometimes they are linked against libfoo.so, which is a symlink to the current default, other

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Ron Johnson said on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:16:22PM -0500: The SDLC and corporate politics are independent. Academics should take corporate politics into consideration when coming up with these theories. There's a good reason they don't: corporate politics are not a benefit to the company,

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
John Hasler said on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:16:28PM -0500: Mark Ferlatte writes: If your company tolerates internal politics, well, you're going to be in trouble when your competitor, who doesn't tolerate that kind of crap, comes along. There are no organizations without internal

Re: CUPS - really did it now

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Tom Allison said on Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:27:39PM -0400: So I thought maybe there was something in the /etc/printcap file that might be of some significance. I had a remote printer defined from way back (years) and it was pointed to an IP address that was no longer in use. So I don't

Re: System clock GMT or not

2003-08-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Andreas Janssen said on Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:35:36PM +0200: Hallo Harry Brueckner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have my woody system configured to run the systems HW clock in GMT. This is kinda uncomfortable because I also have a windows system running on the same machine (shame on

Re: I want separate MUA/MTA/MDA

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Derrick 'dman' Hudson said on Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:58:52PM -0400: I heard (about a year ago) that RedHat now ships postfix instead of sendmail. I haven't checked it out for myself, though. It's an option, but I don't know if it's the default. | ( Never learned the syntax of sendmail

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Rob Weir said on Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:08:13PM +1000: Just as a point of interest, swap files are effectively as fast as swap partitions in 2.5/2.6. Really? That's cool; swap partitions always felt like a big hack to me. So then 2.6 based systems should be using something like swapd, right?

Re: Remote Filesystem Administration

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Todd Cole said on Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:58:06AM -0400: I have a Debian machine that is only accessible remotely via SSH (no keyboard or monitor attached). In order to perform filesystem maintenance with e2fsck, I believe I need to put the machine into single-user mode, but with SSH

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
J. Zidar said on Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:49:21PM +0200: I see. I'm pretty new to Debian and all. I've read that a swap partition is better than the swap file (as in Windoze). I created a 2gig swap partition because I like to be prepared. I'm using dialup but hope that I will soon be using a

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
J. Zidar said on Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:50:54PM +0200: I'm running stable with 1 or 2 debs from unstable and custom build 2.4.20 kernel with the High Memory Support and Highmem I/O support enabled. When the system is acting sluggish, what does top show you? I've had problems with systems

Re: I want separate MUA/MTA/MDA

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
MJM said on Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:32:45PM -0400: Recent threads have piqued my interest and desire to use separate MUA/MTA/MDA. MUA: The thing the user users to compose mail. Mutt, webmail, pine, Outlook. These often use SMTP to submit their outgoing mail, but that doesn't make them MTA's,

Re: nfs mount takes a really long time

2003-08-11 Thread Mark Ferlatte
nori heikkinen said on Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:58:54PM -0400: If not, then I am guessing I need more info. what more info can i provide that would help? thanks, Have you checked your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny? portmap uses them, as does rpc.statd/mountd. M pgp0.pgp

Re: nfs versus reiser?

2003-08-05 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:34:38AM -0400: So it has to do with the context of the mount. Anyway, having it automatically mounted at boot is not acceptable in the long term because it is a dismountable volume, and, in fact, most of the time it sits on a shelf serving as

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Kevin Buhr said on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:05:43PM -0700: The 2.55-3 source package builds fine on a vanilla Woody machine. (In fact, the unstable spamassassin binary package would install fine on a vanilla Woody system, too, except it has an apparently unnecessary dependency on spamc which

Re: nfs versus reiser?

2003-08-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:54:33PM -0400: Can a reiserfs not be nfs-remote-mounted? Yes. Or am I doing something else wrong? Probably. [EMAIL PROTECTED] hendrik]# mount /reiseroffsite/ mount: topoi:/reiseroffsite failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

Re: nfs versus reiser?

2003-08-03 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:53:21PM -0400: Serves me right for asking a negative question. I presume this meand Yes, a reiserfs can be nfs-remote-mounted. :) I use reiserfs via NFS faily often. When I try to mount topoi:/reiseroffsite onto /reiseroffsite on lovesong,

Re: appletalk

2003-07-31 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Louie Miranda said on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:16:24PM +0800: Do you have a reference there? Can you give me some insights.. Reference? apt-cache show netatalk http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/ M pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Andre Volmensky said on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:11:14PM +1000: What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like Windows with WinRoute on it, or even a hardware based firewall. What are the disadvantages etc. I know I am asking on a linux users mailing list, but I would also like

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:15:19PM +0200: On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:09:34PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: In /etc/modutil/aliases put in: ... If you don't need any of them... uncomment all of them. Then run update-modules Hmm, didn't help. :-( uncommented all

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