Re: How the average guy gets mail...

2001-05-09 Thread ahall
Hello, Run fetchmail in daemon mode like: fetchmail -d 900 This will check for mail every 15 minutes. Just run mutt to read your mail whenever you want. Andrew On Wed, 9 May 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I've been using mail for the past month (or two), by running 'fetchmail ;

Re: Need help; how to use apt/dpkg to upgrade mounted filesystem using chroot.

2001-05-09 Thread ahall
Hello, I don't know about apt but if dpkg has an option --root that chroots itself before it runs. For example dpkg --root /unstable -i /path/to/some/file.deb Drew On Wed, 9 May 2001, John Foster wrote: Here is what I want to do; I have a dual boot system with partitions: /stable and

Re: Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread ahall
Using the 2.2 kernel you could use ipchains to mark the packets then use ipmasqadm to forward based on the mark set. Andrew On Thu, 3 May 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: I've put to work portforwarding with a 2.2 kernel and it works wonderfull. However I want to push it a bit farther and

ssh question

2001-05-03 Thread ahall
All, I noticed today that openssh released version 2.9 Monday. Can someone tell me why debian is using 1.2.3-9.3. Is it that debian is only supporting ssh1, or is the version numbering just different? Thank you for your time. Andrew

Re: Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread ahall
Hello, Add a rule to your incoming chain something like: ipchains -A input -p tcp -s hostname.net -d you.local.ip 80 -m 100 to set a mark on all packets coming from some hostname to your local webserver ip. Then add an ipmasqadm rule something like: ipmasqadm mfw -A -m 100 -r ip.of.webserver

flush route table?

2001-04-26 Thread ahall
Hello, Is it possible to flush the route table in debian with the route cmd? I know its possible in freeBSD. If not what might be some other options? Thank you in advance for your time. Andrew

PPPoe question

2001-04-23 Thread ahall
Hello, I have been using the roaringpenguin pppoe package successfully. This morning I noticed that in the potato dist there is a pppoe pkg. This question I have is that if I run a pppoe -v the binary in the package reports a version of 1.0. rp pppoe is at version 3.0. Why the discrepancy in

dpkg -b exclude

2001-04-12 Thread ahall
Hello, I have a directory that I have in cvs and I would like to make a dpkg from said directory, but I would like to exclude the CVS directories from the dpkg. Is this possible? Thankyou for your time in advance. Andrew

bootp / tftpd

2001-03-31 Thread ahall
Hello, I am trying to get a machine to boot via bootp of a a 3c905CTX and not having much luck. Can anyone point me in the direction of documentation that describes the setup of this. I believe that this is enough off topic to warrent my asking to be replyed to off list. Thank you for your

RESENDNAT-ed ftp server and passive connections (fwd)

2001-01-30 Thread ahall
I am resending this in the hope that today I might receive a reply or two. :) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:07:11 + (GMT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: NAT-ed ftp server and passive connections Hello, I have an issue

NAT-ed ftp server and passive connections

2001-01-29 Thread ahall
Hello, I have an issue that appears to have been looked at many times before, yet I could not find a solution anywhere. I searched the list archives and google but did not find much. Here is what I have NAT-ed host --- NAT box --- Internet --- NAT box --- NAT-ed ftp server In this setup