Re: now what ?

[CS/MATH stud.]

In Adri's email, 15-06-2001:
> Ok,
> 
> I didn't install the module for my ethernet card.
> 
> What now?  Shall I reinstall and indicate the ethernet card correctly or 
> can I fix this up from where I am now?

You can specify modules to be loaded at boot time in the file /etc/modules
Each line should contain one module name, if you need to pass parameters, 
you can put them on the same line. 

> 2)  I managed to remove X (it didn't work) with dselect but how to remove 
> stuff with apt?

`apt-get remove ` should remove the package and all packages which
depend on it.  you can also use `dpkg --purge ` afterwords to
also remove any configuration files related to the package.

> 3) How do I get a list or an overview of all what I have installed on the 
> system? dselect only?

`dpkg --list` gives you a list of packages and their states.
`dpkg --get-selections` is nice for packages that show up in `dpkg --list` but
whose whole name doesn't show.

> Thanks
> Bye
> Adri
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Re: oldtimer pc

[CS/MATH stud.]

In MaD dUCK's email, 20-06-2001:
> so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb
> RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only,
> but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible
> to make it be a masquerading router. it's probably going to fail, but
> i want to try anyway.
> 
> question is: 2.2.x kernels or 2.4.x? i'd tend for the latter, but i
> don't know is that's harsher on the hardware and needs more space, or
> not...
> 
> any hints, tips, thoughts welcome!
> 
> martin;  (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
>   \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -- 
> only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.

Hi! 

Well, I can only tell you what I'm doing now - I have a 486/33 in my room doing
all the rouiting and masquerading for my internal network of about 6 boxen right
now out to my high-speed internet..  I'm using 2.2 mostly because I don't quite
grok the ipfilter or whatever the 2.4 kernel uses right now.  Other than that,
the machine is puttin away with 2 ne2k ISA cards in it and giving out dhcp and
dns for the internal network.   I think I have 16mb of ram though.
"Don't dis the 486" :) 

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Re: RAM size.

[CS/MATH stud.]

In Dave Sherohman's email, 13-07-2001:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:13:20PM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Alexey wrote:
> > > You know, while running DOS or Windows, the CPU is hot (I can touch it),
> > > even if I do nothing. It becomes cool under Linux!!!
> > 
> > strange, never heard of that. 
> 
> Linux (and NT, incidentally) sends HLT (HaLT) instructions to the CPU
> telling it to shut itself down (until the next interrupt) when there's
> nothing for it to do.  So if your linux system tells you you're at
> 30% CPU utilization, the CPU is essentially turned off 70% of the
> time.
> 
> DOS, Win3.x, and Win9x aren't that smart.  They don't use HLT - I
> suspect they send NOP (No OPeration) as an idle, but I'm not certain.
> Instead of turning off the processor when there's nothing for it to
> do, they have it twiddle its thumbs.  Even at 1% CPU utilization,
> these OSes keep it running 100% of the time.
> 
> I would guess, based on their respective legacy codebases, that Win2k
> uses HLT and ME/XP don't, but I haven't heard anything definite about
> them to date.

Not that this isn't off-topic or anything - but as a owner of a
processor that gets hot often (Athlon 1.2Ghz), I can confirm that
like linux, XP, win2k and NT all sent HLT.  DOS, Win9x, and ME send NOP
or something similar. 

Of course this is all going off of my lovely sensors package on my
motherboard telling me they're cooler after I wake up in the morn.. 

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Re: diskus on distribution contents?

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Message from To debian-user@lists.debian.org at 28/06/00 12:07:55PM:

> >I wonder why nisplus is not provided by Debian's...
> 
> Probably because no-one has so far been interested in packaging it, or
> adding it to an existing package.
> 

Not so:

http://www.realbodo.de/debian

these packages work very nicely and are currently running on 15 or so
lab machines for me.   They were a godsend when we phased out yp
compatibility mode, and I was trying to hack the stuff from SuSE.. 

I would think that the NIS+ stuff has some licensing issues (sun
binary licence BAAAD!), or something as such. 


Michael Janssen
CNS Network Administrator
University of Northern Iowa
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Ping and traceroute not working on new potato install

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Hi --

  I recently installed a machine with debian.  I only have one problem
with the install.. I can't ping.. whenever I try to ping:

<3 bleh:~ >ping 127.1
ping: socket: Protocol not supported

traceroute has this error also:

bleh:~# traceroute 127.1
traceroute: icmp socket: Protocol not supported

All other networking on this machine works fine. I can telnet, ssh,
web browse, etc.  I just can't ping or traceroute.  I'm baffled.  

Thanks, 

Michael Janssen

Re: firewall script

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Message from To debian-user@lists.debian.org at 04/07/00 04:50:21AM:
>   Hi all Debian users,
>   anyone has a firewall script that can send me.
>   I already know ipchains well but with a script (commented) it will 
>   better. :)
>   Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Hi -

   You might try using the package ipchains included in debian - 
it has a nice "auto-probing" ruleset that is generated, and it is
easily customizable for individuals needs.. `apt-get install ipchains`

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Re: How stable is WINE?

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Hi!

  IMHO, vmware is a rather large solution to just running windows - 
if you're looking for something commercial, you might take a look at
win4lin (www.trelos.com).  I have been using the eval version for
about a week and I like it alot - it required a modified kernel, but
once you get that done, it's amazing.  It installs very quickly
(windows media required, of course) and runs alot fo the windows
applications (starcraft, word, IE, mIRC, ICQ, etc.)  no sound support
yet, no "real" networking support, no DirectX stuff (as you would
expect).   We compared side-by-side win4lin running word and win98
running word and win4lin was actually faster than the box running
windows natively.  I give it high recommendations. Of course, YMMV.  

Michael Janssen
(not associated with trelos)


Message from Cc debian-user@lists.debian.org at 18/07/00 08:01:38PM:
> In my opinion WINE isnt all its cracked up to be, but better than it has
> been in the past.  If you want to run windows apps in linux, install vmware
> (www.vmware.com).  It runs VERY fast depending on how much virtual ram you
> can afford to allocate.  I use 128mb for my virtual machines.  Ive even had
> execellent results with fullscreen windows media player under vmware.
> 
> -Ethan
> - Original Message -
> From: "Frank Copeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: How stable is WINE?
> 
> 
> > Cameron Matheson wrote:
> >
> > >I'm waiting for the new Debian to come out, and I need some information
> > >about WINE.  In Potato, how stable is WINE?
> >
> > In my experience the wine currently in potato is as stable as any version
> of
> > wine I've used, and better than most. However, it is classified as alpha
> > software for a very good reason. It comes nowhere near running all windows
> > software. Each monthly snapshot improves some aspects but often breaks
> > something that worked previously; very much a two steps forward one step
> > back process.
> >
> > >Does it run better than windoze?  Also, What's the speed like, is it as
> > >fast as the app would run in windoze?
> >
> > No and no. If it works at all with a given application then it works well
> > enough, but you may have to work around an annoying bug or two (like
> > shift-clicking the mouse occasionally freezing the app or even crashing
> X).
> > Speed is sufficient considering the source is full of debugging code and
> not
> > optimised in any way.
> >
> > If you are looking for a general replacement for windows that runs
> whatever
> > windows runs then expect to be disappointed. If you have a specific
> > application you need to use then the only way to find out if it will run
> > under wine is to try it. If you have trouble then ask for help on
> > .
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
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Re: apt-get and growing cache

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In christophe barbe's email, 19-03-2001:
> Why all downloaded packages are saved in the /var/cache/apt/archives 
> directory.
> Can I delete these files ?
> Where can I tell to not keep these file ?
> 
> I see only one interest in keeping downloaded files, It' s to download only 
> the diff when upgrading a package.
> But it's not what is done.
> 
> Christophe
> 

In the future, `man apt-get` -- it contains a wealth of useful
information.  

`apt-get autoclean` will remove all the packages that can't be
downloaded from the debian archive (old versions of packeges, etc.) 

`apt-get clean` will remove all the packages in the
/var/cache/apt/archives directory.. 

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Re: parallel clusters of single cpu boxes

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In Darryl Röthering's email, 21-03-2001:
> I am curious if anyone knows anything about clustering several single cpu 
> boxes together and attempting to run a multi-cpu build of Linux on top of 
> them. Has anyone figured out a way to thus put together a relatively cheap 
> emulated parallel architecture?
> 
> I have searched for info on this, but am not finding any.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Darryl

Darryl: 

  Someone else already suggested a beowulf cluster - you might
consider a MOSIX cluster as well.  It's in a less mature state than
the beowulf model, but it works decently (I'm testing it now) by
migrating CPU-intensive processes to other nodes and keeping I/O bound
processes on the machine they are I/O bound to.  Works rather well. 

http://www.mosix.org

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Re: Pool administration

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In M G Berberich's email, 22-03-2001:
> Hello,
> 
> are there any tools/hints/recommendationshow to adminstrate a pool of
> debian-systems. 
> 
> At the moment we have connected stand-alone-systems sharing some
> resources via nfs and nis. From a users view this is O.K. but from
> administrators view it is not. Package-installations/upgrades and
> configuration has to be done on every machine.
> I'm thinking about
> 
> - automatic installation/upgrades of packages on _all_ machines.
>   without the need to ssh into every machine by hand.
> - centralised configuration (nfs-mounted config-files, ...)
> 
> I had a look at cfengine but does not like it very much.
> 
>   MfG
>   bmg

Hi! 

I administrate ~70 machines on the campus here, currently using SSH
with rsa keys from a secured computer that all the lab machines
trust.  This works out quite nicely, but my only problem is
configuration (debconf and otherwise)..  with just plain text
conf-files, I have a simple bash script that copies the common config
file via scp to the lab machines.   Debconf isn't so easy.  My current
setup is to use a bash script to download and configure and install
the packages with forwarded xterms from each machine.  This is a
little tedious, but alot better than when I need to update the NT side
of things (all of these machines are dual-boot to NT, unfortunately).

The most recent incarnation of debconf seems like it is my godsend
however.. It has many backends, to use a separate file or a ldap
database or sql database or whatever.  This is a *very* cool solution
for the same debconf answers for many machines, and I am glad for it.
Now I just need to figure out how to use it in my labs. :P   

Anyway - that's what I do, I use SSH with RSA keys (no passphrase,
it's useless anyway, as I would have to either a) type it in 70 times
or b) keep it in another script, which makes it a moot point). It's
alot easier than our RedHat variant a couple years ago, which
practically never got updated software. 

Mike Janssen
CNS Lab Admin
University of Northern Iowa

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Re: apt-get and customized kernel

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In Jack's email, 13-10-2000:
> Hi,
> 
> I always compile my own customized kernel.  However,  it brings one
> thing annoying when using apt-get dist-upgrade.  As you can see as
> following it tries to install debian provided kernel instead.  
> 
> Can I shut it off?
> 
> thanks,
[ snip of apt/dpkg replacing custom kernel.. ] 

Jack: 
 
  the problem you're having is that the package on the debian end is
coming up as a higher version number than you're make-kpkg compiled
one.  I had this problem for a while, and I fixed it by using
epochs in my local versions..   i.e. make-kpkg --version 4:custom.4
kernel_image ..  This seemed to fix all my problems, and hopefully
they won't ever get an epoch of 4 on the archive versions :P

Michael Janssen
CNS Lab Admin
UNI

Re: task-x-window-system list of packages

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In Dwight Johnson's email, 13-10-2000:
> I need to get the list of packages installed by 'task-x-window-system', so
> that I can uninstall the ones I do not want. But 
> 
> # dpkg --listfiles task-x-window-system
> 
> does not give it and
> 
> /user/share/doc/task-x-window-system/README.debian
> 
> does not show it.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Dwight
> --
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dwight: 

  Try: 
 apt-cache show task-x-window-system 

  The packages should be listed in the dependencies section. 

Michael Janssen
CNS Lab Admin
UNI

Special dev access for users @ the console?

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Hello debian ppl! 

I am a lab admin.  I need to give access to the floppy (/dev/fd0), zip
drive (/dev/hdd), and sound (/dev/dsp) to the person logged in at the
console (x or tty).   If this was my personal machine, I would just
put the users in the group console.  Unforfunately, this cannot be the
case.  I have around 6500 users, and they are all able to login to
these machines remotely.   While I agree it would be a good practical
joke to start playing loud music in another room, it wouldn't be
prudent in a lab setting.   I have similiar problems with the floppy
and the zip (ide floppy version).. these devices would be even worse
because another user could steal code from another (NOT GOOD!).   

I was wondering if anyone had any solutions for me.  I have thought of
two different solutions: 

1) Use pam_console, compiled separately.   I don't really want to do
this, because debian doesn't include the file for a reason: it's got a
gaping security hole, users can hold open file descriptors on devices
after they're not using a console (through screen, perhaps) and that
basically makes the changing users a moot point. 

2) Use pam_group, and add them to a group when they're logged in on
the console.  This works on ttys, I've read, but not on xdm sessions.
It's important that it works in X because this is what most of our lab
users (and newbies to linux sometimes, yay!) use most of the time.
Forcing them to login to a tty isn't really desireable. 


My question is:  Does anyone have any other solutions?  Or can one of
my solutions be modified to negate my problems with the solution? 

Mike Janssen 
College of Natural Sciences
Lab Administrator

Re: Installing Debian (Potato) did not install kernel source...

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In Samuel Hathaway's email, 10-11-2000:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hmm... I ran the following commands...
> 
> # cd /usr/src
> # apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.17
> # bunzip2 kernel-source-2.2.17.tar.bz2
> # tar -xf kernel-source-2.2.17.tar
> # cd kernel-source-2.2.17
> # make dep
> # find . -name moduleversions.h
> 
> The find comes up empty, and the linksys driver still fails to make! Does
> anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks.
> -samuel

Samuel: 

   In order to get moduleversions.h, you need to configure the kernel to 
set versions on all modules before doing a `make dep`.   This can be
accompliched by `make config` (long), `make menuconfig`, or `make
xconfig`.  Then you should get moduleversions.h in your
/usr/src/linux/include directory. 

Michael Janssen 
CNS Network Assistant 

Re: recommended TV/radio cards for potato

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In robert_wilhelm_land's email, 21-11-2000:
> Would someone kindly share his experiences in using a combo TV/radio
> card on Deb 2.2.17?
> 
> Having a look on the internet I found the two cards at reasonable
> prices:
> 
> 
> 1.) Hauppauge WinTV Primio FM TV/Radio-Karte PCI Mono/Stereo 

I can attest to this card working fine.  I have one installed in my system.  
Just compile the support in, and install xawtv (and some radio app, I don't use
mine for radio so I can't tell you about that part)

This is in the USA, mind you.  I can't attest to non-NTSC formats :P


> 2.) Terratec Terra TV Radio+ TV/Radio-Karte PCI Stereo 

This might work - just check the decoder chip that the card contains, if it is 
on 
the supported list for video4linux, you should be fine. 

> 
> Which one should I choose when aiming for a good TV and radio quality,
> mostly in Germany?
> 
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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Re: Debian / Redhat comparison

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In Ard Righ's email, 02-12-2000:
> ([<> On 1 Dec 2000, some witty mortal wrote: <>])
> 
> > RedHat has kickstart which greatly simplifies the install process.
> > Currently users here can fill out a webform and get a customized boot
> > disk that will do the right thing, just boot from it go to lunch and
> > when you come back the machine is partitioned, installed and configured,
> > just just type your NIS password and go.
> 
>  I must say, scripted installs of OSes are such a great thing, I'm 
> suprised the Linux distributions haven't done similar to this earlier.
> 
>  NT4, while not the greatest operating system, has one saving grace in 
> it's unattended installs run from a boot floppy. You boot from the 
> disk, wait until the files are installing (from network for most 
> installs I've done like this), then take the disk out and walk away.
>  When you return, the install is complete, and you can get about 
> installing software (and rebooting a few times ;o)).
> 
>  I think the package layout of Linux would be ideal for this sort of 
> installation. Especially with the ability to install an OS from an FTP.
> 
>  Of course, it wouldn't be the easiest thing to setup, and like NT4, 
> configuring the unattended install files would take some time and 
> research. But the end result would mean easier installation, if you for 
> example, reinstalled from scratch.
> 
>  If the Debian folks have the inclination to look at this sort of 
> thing, I'm sure it would add so much more to Debian's already great 
> list of benefits to users (especially the corporate ones).
[bobbit .sig] 

AFAIK, the debian boot-floppies team is already looking into this
issue for their next version - there has been a innumerable amount of
emails to boot-floppies about unattended installs. 

Also, what's really nice about the kickstart-like utiilities for linux
is that if you have a large amount of systems, configured to network
by DHCP, you don't even need monitors for the install.  It will
install the OS and any packages that you need (from a specific host,
if needed), without even needing a keyboard.  This simplifies setting
up beowulf clusters immensely(sp). 

Michael Janssen 
CNS Lab Administrator
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Re: amd home map

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Message from Barak Pearlmutter at 15/05/00 03:54:29PM:
> > From: Graeme Mathieson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > For autofs ...
> > I have the actual home directories on the server in /disk/home>
> 
> Doesn't this mean that all your home directories live on a single
> server?  The reason we are considering amd (or autofs if it is
> capable) is to be able to have different users' home directories live
> on different machines.
> 
> 
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I am interested in this thread also - we keep all of our user's directories 
on a server, but I would also like to have the CDrom, zip, and floppy auto
mount for the users locally (I'm working on a new image for the labs on
campus here)..  It seems, after looking at the init.d script, there's no
default way to automount something locally AND by NIS also.. 

anyone have insight on this problem? 

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NIS+? Alternatives?

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Some of you probably have seem me asking about this in #debian: 

I'm trying to setup NIS+ on Debian.. I have a number of machines which
I would like to use NIS+ for authentication and also for autofs
mapping..  Has anyone actually succeeded in using NIS+ with Debian? 

I've currently taken nis-utils.tar.gz from ftp.kernel.org and hacked
into it a bit.   It's half-working.. it asks for the password twice on
login, and autofs doesn't see the auto_master table on NIS+..

Also, if NIS+ is just plainly out of the question, are there any good
alternatives to NIS+?  Keep in mind that it should provide security
like NIS+ (column & row permissions), and work with sun and linux
clients..  

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Re: OT. Debian w/s in schools - info needed.

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Message from Lindsay Allen at 23/05/00 09:54:58PM:
> 
> I'm a very inexpert sysadmin who assists at a local school.  We have a
> Debian box now for mail, squid, modem server and so on and they are very
> receptive to the idea of running Linux workstations and eventually
> breaking away from you-know-who.
> 
> Possibilities:
>   Booting Debian from the server.
>   Home DIRs on a Debian/Samba box.
>   Home DIRs on a straight Debian box.
>   Using NFS mounted applications.  (Star Office etc.)
>   Using X in lieu of NFS and running things on the server.
> 
> All this is way outside my experience so I really could use some help.
> 
> Can anyone give me some URLs for information on how to set things up, or
> people to talk to?
> 
> Lindsay

In my school, we keep the home dirs on a NFS server (which, incidentally, 
doesn't allow logins) and the autofs options to mount home directories
"on the fly".  We also use NIS+ to keep all of our user data in line, 
which makes it alot easier.  I would not suggest using NIS+ though, 
because Debian support is not good at this time.  NIS works good, but 
is an insecure protocol.  Possibly look into OpenLDAP w/SSL for username
lookups? (We're looking into that ourselves lately).  Here, we found it 
easier to install all the applications locally with apt-get.  After I 
finish the first station, I put an image (dd | bzip2 -) up on the 
network and then use my specialized version of tomsrtbt to image the 
systems from a NFS mount. 

Hope this helps.
Michael Janssen - Jamuraa
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Re: Centralizing Logins

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Message from To debian-user@lists.debian.org at 05/06/00 12:22:52PM:
> We are currently building up several servers, all of which will be
> hosted here locally.  The thing is, it's going to be more than 25
> servers.  Maintaining user accounts on all these bastards is going to be
> hell. 
> 
> I've managed to get the pam_radius_auth module to work on solaris,
> linux, and BSD.  THe problem is that this module is limited to
> authentication and that's it.  Is there some method of centralized
> authentication that will pass session data AND accounting data?  NIS is
> no good for us because of the security issues.  I've looked at NIS+ but
> it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for?
> 
> I'm assuming someone else out there has had to do this?  Before I go
> writing another PAM module, I want to see if this is going to be
> easy
> 
> Any help would be great.. Thanks!
> 
> Benjamin

Benjamin: 
  We are currently looking into solutions for this on our campus where we
have approximately 60 linux boxen and need to have a way of keeping accounts
centralized.   

  We are right now using NIS+, however, it has very patchy linux support 
and is proprietary (read: evil).  Just recently we got a OpenLDAP server
working with libnss_ldap, through a stunnel connection for secure transport of 
NSS info.  We're going to implement this later this summer.. If security
between these servers isn't a huge deal (read: internal network), you 
shouldn't even need to mess with the stunnel.  It is a much more open protocol
and the only thing that it is lacking to NIS+ right now is that netgroups
is not working.  

Michael Janssen
CNS Network Administrator
University of Northern Iowa

Re: Nessus & potato

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Message from Cc debian-user@lists.debian.org at 07/06/00 02:20:12PM:
> Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > You do need to install nessusd on the machine you are going to scan, right?
> 
> Really?  I don't think that is the case.  I thought the whole point
> was to be able to scan a machine from the outside
> 
> The solution to my problem turns out to be a missing directory:
> /var/lib/nessus
> 
> Dan
> 

 I can confirm that this isn't the case..  You install nessusd on the 
computer you want the scan to originate from.   Then you can run the 
nessus client from any machine, connecting to the nessusd.  

 For EOF problems, have you installed nessus-plugins?  Nessus isn't very
useful without them. :) 

Michael Janssen 
College of Natural Sciences
University of Northern Iowa

Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro / 10 not recognized.

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In hanasaki's email, 12-01-2001:
> Support was added to the kernel when Potato was installed.  The system
> does not seem to see the card.  Any input would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank you
> 

Is this a eepro100 card, or one of the Intel integrated ethernet
controllers (on the motherboard).   I have a lab full of the integrated
controllers (Called Intel Ether Express Pro 100/VE+ I believe), and for
older kernels I needed to install and compile a proprietary intel driver
available from the website.  

Recent kernels (2.2.18, 2.4.0) have support for the card, but the support
doesn't stand up to much stress (randomly, a reboot will make the driver
break, and when you try to actually push 100Mbit through it, it dies 
like a fish in a lava tank). 

Michael Janssen 
CNS Lab Adminstrator

Marking all messages read in mutt?

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

Hello!  This is a simple question, but my 15-minutes of scouring the web 
didn't turn up anything, so here goes. 

Is there any way to mark all messages in a folder read in mutt? 

This function would be particularly useful after coming back to 300+
mail messages from debian-user after a 2-day break, for example. :)

Jamuraa - Michael Janssen
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Re: maple 6.01 on debian 2.2

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In A.E. Roy's email, 05-02-2001:
> I`ve noticed that maple 6.01 conatins an install script for suse and redhat, 
> does anyone know how it is like installing maple 6.01 on debian 2.2?
> A. Roy
> 

Simple.  You just install like a normal Linux, and it installs all the 
RedHat stuff in /usr/local/maple6 or wherever.  the only prpoblem I had 
is because I'm using woody, the libc6 is newer, and I had to move some of 
the provided libraries out of the way (as suggested on their web site
as the fix for redhat 7)..  

Michael Janssen 
CNS Lab Administrator
University of Northern Iowa

Re: debian & poster

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In Allan Andersen's email, 07-02-2001:
> Hi,
> 
> Right now I have a poster with Corel Linux (better than nothing
> I think) hanging on my door. But I don't use the Corel Linux
> disto - so I thought if there were anyone out there who have a
> good quality of the debian logo which could be used to make a 
> poster.
> 
> I thought about these logo's but anything (almost) have
> interest:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/logos/openlogo-25.jpg
> 
> or
> 
> http://www.debian.org/logos/banner_64.gif
> 
> Best regards
> Allan

I made a big debian poster using the open use logo GIMP file available
from http://dusknet.dhs.org/~deek/debian/ -- it works quite nicely. 

Michael Janssen 


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Re: Unidentified subject!

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In Tham Kine Seng's email, 10-05-2001:
> Hello people,
>   I had mounted a windows partition.  Now I am trying to give "write"
> permission to my user to this windows partition. Anybody knows how to
> go about giving this permission?
> 
>   All suggestions are greatly welcomed. Thank you.
> 
> =
> Cheers,
> Just Me!!
> 

I created a new group 'windows' with the `addgroup` command, then
mounted it in /etc/fstab as that group with the umask of 007.  Then I
added myself to the group, of course.   At first I was hesitant to add
the execute bit, but then I couldn't store executable stuff on the
windows partition.   mind, I mount it with 'nosuid' to be sure that I
don't have any weird hybrid viruses sneaking up on me through
windows.. probably paranoia on my part though. 

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Re: How do I set route at boot time ?

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In Franck Routier's email, 10-05-2001:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to set up the route to a new box on my LAN.
> If the route is not set, the connexion is refused (I think this is an otion 
> in the kernel networking configuration)
> 
> Where should I put this route ?
> 
>  From the docs I have found it should go in /etc/network/interfaces, but I 
> can't figure out what the syntax is...
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Franck

taking a quick glance at interfaces(5), the most obvious thing for you
to do would be to add a 'up' command that gets executed.  Then after
the interface comes up you could have a short script that just calls
`route` to set the correct route.  If it's a dynamic IP and route this
might be a little tricky though.  There are other similar methods for
'down' to remove the routes.. 

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Re: I don't get it.

[Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)]

In Karsten M. Self's email, 10-05-2001:
> on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:19:32AM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:04:23PM -0500, ktb wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:01:42PM +1000, Craig Holyoak wrote:
> > > > potato => stable
> > > > woody  => testing
> > > > sid=> unstable
> > > > 
> > > > I believe woody will soon(?) become stable.
> > > 
> > > When was a debian release ever "soon";)
> > > kent
> > 
> > In geological terms releases occur quite frequently :)
> 
> In geological terms "releases" are "earthquakes".
[.sig bobbbit] 

Hmm.. I would have thought that releases would be more
analagous to volcanic eruptions..  

At least debian 'releases' don't burn down everything in it's path and
leave ash trailing from your computer for miles.. :)

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