RE: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-11 Thread Michael Bellears
Ok this setup in the /etc/network/interfaces file is working great. One problem however is if I restart the machine the eth0:0 doesn't load at runtime and i have to manually run ifup eth0:0 before the interface loads. Is there any way to ensure that the eth0:0 loads at boot time? Yes -

RE: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-11 Thread Michael Bellears
Yes - Add: auto eth0:1 Bahfat fingers! Try auto eth0:0

RE: Why?

2006-07-12 Thread Michael Bellears
Ah, you just triggered a memory. /Robocop/. The DG logo reminds me of the OCP logo, Classic Movie!

RE: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Bellears
I have a few installs that are using webmin. What packages in debian provide similar functionality in a web based interface? I looked at gosa, but it is ldap centric and didn't seem to provide the general purpose web config interface that webmin does. Any reason you can't use the

Running script within chroot jail (OT)

2005-12-27 Thread Michael Bellears
Hi, I've got a shell script that I need to run(Via cron) from within a chroot jail (/var/chroot/apache) From command line, I can do the following: # chroot /var/chroot/apache/ /# cd /usr/local/awstats/tools/ /usr/local/awstats/tools# ./awstats_updateall.pl now Hoping someone can point me in

RE: Running script within chroot jail (OT)

2005-12-27 Thread Michael Bellears
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 12:09:20PM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote: Hoping someone can point me in the right direction as to how I would translate the above into a shell script, as my mediocre attempt fails: You were so close! You need to run chroot /path /command (As you can

Apache in chroot jail - Log rotation.

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Bellears
When logrotate rotates the apache logs (/var/chroot/apache/var/log/apache/), it appears to not be able to stop/start apache, therefore there is no further logging performed until I manually stop then start apache (/etc/init.d/apache stop then /etc/init.d/apache start) Any suggestions as to what I

RE: webmin help - module access reset

2005-11-21 Thread Michael Bellears
But I still have another problem. My root has no access to any modules. so when I login webmin using root I see nothing. just a message saying that I have access to no modules. What do I do now? I dont know which file to edit. I use admin instead of root for Webmin Administrator... You

RE: webmin help

2005-11-20 Thread Michael Bellears
I know this may not be a strictly debian issue but the list at webmin.com is not very active. I am hoping some of you experts will be able to help me. I have a debian sarge installed on a dell dimension 4000. i installed with the single minimal CD and then added packages as i needed

RE: dedicated debian server hosting

2005-11-16 Thread Michael Bellears
Anyone knows any hosting company who has Debian dedicated servers to rent? Yes - TekTonic http://www.tektonic.net/dedicated.php Regards, MB

Multiple NICs + GW's

2004-11-29 Thread Michael Bellears
I have a test webserver with two NICs: Eth0: xxx.xxx.ba.3/24 Eth1: xxx.xxx.bb.115/28 Route Table: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface xxx.xxx.bb.112 xxx.xxx.bb.113 255.255.255.240 UG0 00 eth1 xxx.xxx.bb.112 0.0.0.0

Apache 1.3.31 mod_include Vuln?

2004-11-01 Thread Michael Bellears
Just wondering if the following vuln has been confirmed to affect Apache 1.3.31-6(Testing)? http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0940 http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Oct/1011783.html Can't see any mention of it on http://www.debian.org/security/ Regards, MB

SSH Chroot Patch - Anyone successfully using it?

2004-10-21 Thread Michael Bellears
Asked on the chrootssh-users list, but it appears fairly inactive... Patched SSH3.8.1p1-8(Debian Sarge) with osshChroot-3.8.1p1.diff. Standard {chroot}/etc/passwd (i.e. no /./) works fine. Adding /./ to user results in login failure: mbellears3:x:1003:100::/./var/www/mbellears3:/bin/sh

RE: SSH Chroot Patch - Anyone successfully using it?

2004-10-21 Thread Michael Bellears
Hi Daniel, I might be reading your email wrong. The /var/chroot/apache/etc/passwd is not what matters. What does matter is the standard /etc/passwd. So, try adding something like this: mbellears:x:1001:1001:Chrooted user:/var/chroot/apache/./home/mbellears:/bin/bash If I do not

RE: Running PHP4 and PHP5 Simultaneousl on Apache in Debian!

2004-10-18 Thread Michael Bellears
Could you please tell me how to give 2 IPs to the same NIC on Debian. #ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Remember to place in /etc/network/interfaces to ensure IP remains post reboot. Regards, MB

Chroot Apache2/PHP

2004-10-18 Thread Michael Bellears
Looking at chrooting Apache2+PHP on Debian Sarge, and was wondering (Before I start!), if the following guide is applicable? (As it is based on Apache1) http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ap-chroot-apache -env.en.html If not, anyone aware of any other chroot howto's based on

RE: Debian on A Cobalt RaQ4

2004-09-15 Thread Michael Bellears
Cole S. Ashcraft wrote: I'd like to run Debian on my Cobalt RaQ4, but I can't exactly figure out what branch to use and how to do it. The RaQ4 is not a MIPS box. It has a K6 AMD processor. It doesn't have a CD or floppy drive, making the install process difficult. How should I do this?

Init stalls - ProLiant DL380

2004-09-08 Thread Michael Bellears
Sarge RC1 Compaq/HP ProLiant DL380 G3, Compaq Smart Array 5i Shutdown gets to: Sending all processes the TERM signal... And stalls - Power button is the only way to restart the server I saw an almost identical issues posted by Martin Schneider, and a couple of posters sugested installing

RE: Real Time monitoring/alerting utility..

2004-08-25 Thread Michael Bellears
Hi Michael, by 'realtime', do you mean : 1) an email sent to him every hour? No - He wants to be notified immediately if an FTP or SSH connection is established. The Server will have a Firewall in front of it, that will only allow certain IP's to FTP + SSH - Therefore the only FTP + SSH

Real Time monitoring/alerting utility..

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Bellears
We have a client who is wanting real-time notifications of FTP/SSH connections to there WebServer - Could this be achieved with a TCPWrappers script for those two services? Or is there a utility available that can do this? They will have a firewall sitting in front of the server, but would like a

RE: Help needed setting up Debian

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Bellears
I've tried all the keys and only the arrow keys and the enter key seem to do anything Have you tried the space key? Regards, MB

RE: Systemimager 3.0.1-11 on Sarge.

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Bellears
This is usually indicative of memory problems. Get a rescue CD such as 'lnx-bbc' and run memtest86, just to check the memory on the machine is OK. If it is (runninf it for 12 hours is a good idea), then it is probably down to poor coding, or you simply do not have enough RAM. :) Thanks

Systemimager 3.0.1-11 on Sarge.

2004-08-16 Thread Michael Bellears
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 /dev/sda ... Old partition table for /dev/sda: Segmantation fault

RE: Systemimager 3.0.1-11 on Sarge.

2004-08-16 Thread Michael Bellears
You're probably better off asking on the systemimager support list; see http://www.systemimager.org/support/. However, you should provide more details when you ask for help there; at least, the hardware you're trying to install onto (including type of SCSI card, and drives. You also

Re-read partition table without reboot?

2004-08-05 Thread Michael Bellears
Is there any way to re-read partition info, without resorting to a re-boot? # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/cciss/c0d0 BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy Regards, MB

Testing + Reiserfs + quota support.

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Bellears
Using Debian Installer Beta 4, it appears as though ReiserFS is not supporting quotas? With the partition as Reiser: Fstab entry: /dev/nasvg/datalv /data reiserfs usrquota,grpquota 0 2 # mount -a mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/nasvg/datalv, or too

RE: Testing + Reiserfs + quota support.

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Bellears
I've been through this the morning and as far as I can find out reiser doesn't support quotas without patches to 2.4. No idea on the stat of 2.6 patches Happy to patch the kernel - Does anyone have a patch location for 2.4.26 kern? Following only has up to 2.4.21..

Debian Installer + LVM

2004-07-01 Thread Michael Bellears
Is there any trick to using LVM with the Debian Installer? I partition the HD - Config the logical Vol. Manager - Configure Volume Group - Create Vol. Group. And I get: No physical volumes (i.e. partitions) were found in your system... I am obviously doing something incorrectly - So any

RE: Convert SVCD-Image to DVD

2004-06-23 Thread Michael Bellears
Man cdrdao says that I have to give one cue-file Statement, but I have two cue files. I have Movie_CD1.cue (and .bin) and Movie_CD2.cue (and .bin), and want them as one DVD. You would need to extract the movie component from the bin files, and splice them together, re-create .cue+.bin

HD about to die?

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Bellears
A co-located server unceremoniously had it's power cable pulled out, and after finally getting to onsite techs to plug it back in, I am seeing the following in syslog: Jun 19 18:35:05 syd-nf-01 kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jun 19 18:35:05 syd-nf-01 kernel:

RE: ftp server being slow

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Bellears
James Hosken wrote: Hello all I'm having performance issues with ftp servers on my LAN. I installed vsftp and the performace was really bad, 5kb/s or so. It was taking about 20 mins to move a 5Mb file! I looked at the config file and googled but couldn't find any solutions, eventually I

OpenSSH_3.8p1 (from Debian Installer) and Secure CRT

2004-06-16 Thread Michael Bellears
I have just tested the debian installer (Excellent work by the way guys!), and have found that Secure CRT(4.1.6 (build 251) and earlier tested) cannot login to the box via ssh.(Only allowing SSH2) The failure reason is: Unable to authenticate using any of the configured authentication methods - I

Replicating Kernel config produced by Debian Installer

2004-06-09 Thread Michael Bellears
If I copy the kernel config generated by Debian Installer (/boot/config-2.4.25-1-386) to /usr/src/linux-2.4.25/.config, should the resulting compiled kernel be identical to the Debian Installer generated kernel? If so, adding appropriate lilo entries should then allow me to use this new kernel -

Lilo - '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev'

2004-06-06 Thread Michael Bellears
I have just compiled a 2.4.25 kern (Using .config from /boot/config-2.4.25-1-386 generated from debian-installer) The only kernel options changed were: - (4GB) High Memory Support - Added Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support (Not as a module) When I add the newly compiled kern to lilo, I get the

Increasing Partition size.

2004-05-17 Thread Michael Bellears
We are in the process of testing our own NAS box (Compaq with Smart Array 6400). The Compaq box has a capacity of 14 Hotswap HD's - but due to budget restraints, we have initially only purchased 5 drives. Current data partition is ~409Gb - but we will be wanting to add additional storage(To the

RE: problem while unmounting a disk

2004-05-11 Thread Michael Bellears
the disk is configured as raid1 and mounts as /home while booting the system. i have not opened any other session than the session i am using to execute the command 'umount /dev/md1' But system shows that /home is busy. i have no idea where home is used. i am in / directory and have

RE: [OT] Populating LDAP

2004-04-21 Thread Michael Bellears
Anyone know of a user-friendly, lightweight Windows and/or Linux client that can be used to add individual records to the LDAP database? Google is your friend: (http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=ldap%2Badmin; meta=) http://phpldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ (Never used it

RE: Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?

2004-04-15 Thread Michael Bellears
Allan Wind wrote: On 2004-04-14T22:24:00+1000, Michael Bellears wrote: I also came across LVM (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html) - Can anyone comment on the effectiveness/stability and if it would be appropriate to my situation?..It certainly looks interesting. Installed LVM

RE: Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?

2004-04-14 Thread Michael Bellears
Alvin Oga wrote: the -m 1 is for things like mke2fs(fs formatting) not for cfdisk(low level partitions) Ah - ok. If I add an additional 146.8G drive, and update the array(Raid BIOS), if you changed the partition ( raid bios )... you lost all data - partitions are not dynamically

RE: Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?

2004-04-14 Thread Michael Bellears
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 03:04, Michael Bellears wrote: Wouldn't Reiser just be seeing the array as a single drive though? Sorry, I missed the beginning of the thread, but I'm assuming you're using a hardware RAID board? Yes - Smart Array 6400 As long as you're using

Create driver disk for install..

2004-04-13 Thread Michael Bellears
I'm trying to install Debian on a Compaq Smart Array 640x, and rather than create a custom install CD, I would rather just create a driver floppy (And use it during the pre-load modules from floppy section of install) I've found Redhat compatible driver disk image:

Create custom boot CD (bf24)

2004-04-13 Thread Michael Bellears
I'm attempting to create a bf24 CD, with 2.4.25 kern (Initially starting with default bf24 kernel config), but I cannot get my kernel image small enough. I'm following the following howto: http://www.net-track.ch/resources/aic79xx.php /usr/src# cp linux-2.4.25/arch/i386/boot/bzImage

RE: Create custom boot CD (bf24) (Solved)

2004-04-13 Thread Michael Bellears
I'm attempting to create a bf24 CD, with 2.4.25 kern (Initially starting with default bf24 kernel config), but I cannot get my kernel image small enough. I'm following the following howto: http://www.net-track.ch/resources/aic79xx.php /usr/src# cp

Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?

2004-04-13 Thread Michael Bellears
I have just installed Debian 3 on a Smart Array 6400 (4 disks (146.8G each) Raid 5) - This gives me a data partition of 409G. If I add an additional 146.8G drive, and update the array(Raid BIOS), the changes are not reflected when in Debian (i.e. It still only sees a 409G partition, not ~520G)

RE: Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?

2004-04-13 Thread Michael Bellears
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Michael Bellears wrote: I have just installed Debian 3 on a Smart Array 6400 (4 disks (146.8G each) Raid 5) - This gives me a data partition of 409G. that's pretty bad ... i'd have expected somewhere around 3x 146gb of usable space That is my data partition

2.6.x kern on production servers..

2004-04-12 Thread Michael Bellears
I'm considering running 2.6.x kern on some new production file+web servers - Is 2.6.x stable enough for production? I would be running 2.6.x on testing (I've heard testing is soon to be stable anyways?) Regards, MB

RE: Debian Backup ?

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Bellears
How to make a hole Debian O/S backup if I don't have any Backup Device..? SystemImager - http://www.systemimager.org/ Have not used it, but it looks excellent. Regards, MB

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-04-01 Thread Michael Bellears
Pigeon wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:24:36AM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote: [Michael, can you please leave in attribution lines, and perhaps fix your mailer so that it supports References: or In-Reply-To: headers to support other threading-aware mailers?] Lookout does not appear

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Bellears
The recommended install (Life with qmail) has qmail logging through multilog (part of the daemontools package), but yes, it can log through syslog. Came across this if anyones interested: The following describes how to log to remote host using multilog and tcpclient

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Bellears
[Michael, can you please leave in attribution lines, and perhaps fix your mailer so that it supports References: or In-Reply-To: headers to support other threading-aware mailers?] Lookout does not appear to have this feature - I'm sure I have seen an add-on though... MB

RE: Advice for setting up a file server

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Bellears
On (31/03/04 13:35), Stefan Goessling wrote: Which packages should I use? samba nfs for file and print services. I use both but you could use just samba and configure the linux clients accordingly. I was also in the process of setting up a file server to serve both Linux+Windows boxes -

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Michael Bellears
Another way is to set up a cvs or subversion repository and use this to distribute the config file. Has the additional bonus of being able to trace back how the config file was changed. Like it! Couple of other responses also suggested cfengine (And combining cvs with cfengine) - So I'll

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Michael Bellears
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? I asked a similar question a few months ago and someone

RE: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Michael Bellears
Not sure about recommended, but cfengine is pretty good. You can go a long way with CVS + cvsup, too, but I think the best solution is to put configs in CVS/subversion, and use cfengine to handle deploying new versions of configs. Like that suggestion a lot! - Thanks. 3. Imaging of

Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Bellears
We are in the process of migrating an overburdened Debian 3.0/Apache/qmail box into a webfarm setup. Looking at using a ServerIronXL for loadbalancing. Would appreciate anyone's experiences/recommendations on the following points: 1. What is the recommended method to synch config files on all

RE: Bf24 Install (2.4.20 Kernel?)

2004-03-25 Thread Michael Bellears
Is there a list of supported hardware for the 2.4.20 kernel? The documentation included in the kernel source can maybe help you. Also some distributions have databases about supported hardware. However probably you are more successful if instead of trying to find out what hardware the

Bf24 Install (2.4.20 Kernel?)

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Bellears
Is there a list of supported hardware for the 2.4.20 kernel? Regards, MB

Woody + Compaq ML570G2R Compatable?

2004-03-23 Thread Michael Bellears
We are about to purchase a Compaq ML570G2R, and I wanted to ensure that the following Hardware was supported under Woody (bf24 install) - Compaq SMART ARRAY 6402/128 CONTROLLER - NC3163 Network Card (Compaq?) Is there a supported hardware list available that I can check...or even better someone

RE: lilo problem

2003-09-16 Thread Michael Bellears
Fatal: open /vmlinuz: No such file or directory image=/vmlinuz ^^ label=Debian root=/dev/hdc8 boot=/dev/hdc8 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map read-only What should I do? Pretty self explanatory:

RE: lilo problem

2003-09-16 Thread Michael Bellears
Ensure that /vmlinuz exists. It does on /dev/hdc8 Please show the output of mount. MB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Building Spamassassin 'testing' package on woody

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Bellears
apt-get tried to build the package for a second and then failed a bunch of dependencies. So I was sad. Something that needs to be remedied! My question for the list is: has anyone done this? Certainly: I added the deb-src line (only) for Unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src

Logrotate and qmail

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Bellears
Is there anyway to configure Logrotate to 'skip' certain files? Logrotate is rotating /var/log/qmail/current once a week, and during this process it creates a 'previous' file(/var/log/qmail/previous) which causes qmail to stop processing mail (Fails with 'unable to set mode of