Re: recomended POP server?

2003-03-28 Thread Aaron Isotton
ng qmail instead of whatever MTA you are using now, because it has integrated pop3 support. But beware; I have no idea about how easy to set up or how powerful it is, as I have never used qmail. -- Aaron Isotton [ http://www.isotton.com ] -- It is better to live ri

Re: debian 2.0: some intruder broke in

2003-03-20 Thread Aaron Isotton
system any time he wants to. It is far more work (if not impossible) to check your whole system; the only thing you can do is backing up your data hoping that nothing got destroyed, doing an fdisk and reinstalling everything. If possible you should upgrade to the

Re: Firewall/init scripts problem

2003-03-17 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 05:05, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:21:08AM +0100, Aaron Isotton wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 16:03, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > > Ditch the idea of iptable-save and iptables-restore. Create your > > > scr

Re: Firewall/init scripts problem

2003-03-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 16:03, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:05:07PM +0100, Aaron Isotton wrote: > > > I use a shell script in /etc/init.d to configure my firewall > > (iptables). Currently, it works as follows: > > > > - if it is called w

Re: Firewall/init scripts problem

2003-03-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 16:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16 Mar 2003 15:05:07 +0100 > Aaron Isotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My problem is: where should $STORAGE_FILE go? > > I vote for a directory called /etc/iptables. No, that's a bad ide

Firewall/init scripts problem

2003-03-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
I could check a pidfile for staleness and delete $STORAGE_FILE if necessary), as it isn't necessary; do you see any clean ways to solve this problem? Using a ramdisk could do the trick, but it's overkill just for a single stupid file IMHO. Aaron Isotton [ http:

RE: Debian and LDAP

2003-03-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
gt; > HTH. > > j. Thank you (and all the others who answered). Your help is very appreciated. Another question: programs like Evolution and Outlook allow one use an LDAP directory as backend for Contacts. Which entries are used exactly for all that? Aaron Isotton

Debian and LDAP

2003-03-15 Thread Aaron Isotton
tion. It'd be ideal if it could be done by group (ex. all users in the group "it" can log in on the server, the others can't). Is there any solution for this? Thanks a lot. Aaron Isotton [ http://www.isotton.com ] -- If you can't understan

Re: External MySQL NAT Problems

2003-03-06 Thread Aaron Isotton
and sometimes it doesn't, then it's *probably* not related to your iptables setup. If you think it's the fault of iptables anyway, you might want to post your iptables rules. Aaron Isotton [ http://www.isotton.com ] -- My GPG public key:

Re: ATI Rage 128

2003-02-25 Thread Aaron Isotton
"(Name of the boot image) video=vga". I'm not sure about the boot parameters, though; read the kernel documentation found in Documentation/fb. > Why is this happening to me - and do I need/want the framebuffer module > anyway? Only if you want the console to be displayed

Re: Kernel Configurations

2003-02-22 Thread Aaron Isotton
or if it is read dynamically now; if it isn't, you'll have to recompile libc. BTW: why add user www-data to all groups, and not just chmod +r the files which need to be served by apache? Aaron Isotton [ http://www.isotton.com ] -- I choked Linda Lovelace.

Re: 'Slow' ifup/ifdow

2003-02-22 Thread Aaron Isotton
Debian 3.0rl1 (STABLE and TESTING) > > Does anybody know a solution to this realy annoying behavior? > > Regards, > Ulf Janitschke Can you post your /etc/network/interfaces? Aaron Isotton [ http://www.isotton.com ] -- impotent loser, n.: Som

Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-16 Thread Aaron Isotton
I've installed Debian on a machine with less than 16 MB of RAM (more swap, though). What's the exact error you're getting? Aaron Isotton [ http://www.isotton.com ] -- Sex; it's always best when one partner is at least a little bit desperate. -

Re: help needed with Samsung 900NF trinitron monitor and X11

2003-02-02 Thread Aaron Isotton
.ca > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Aaron Isotton http://www.isotton.com/ My GPG Public Key: http://www.isotton.com/gpg-public-key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Recursively export NFS file systems

2003-02-02 Thread Aaron Isotton
e individual /etc/exports, WITHOUT osiris knowing anything about that. Can that be done? How? Thanks. -- Aaron Isotton http://www.isotton.com/ My GPG Public Key: http://www.isotton.com/gpg-public-key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect first impressions

2002-06-09 Thread Aaron Isotton
tion: base > > dselect is "standard" by any reasonable definition of standard, > regardless of what some people would like to think. Strange. Having read http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg02366.html I thought that aptitude was the new standard. Why

Re: dselect first impressions

2002-06-08 Thread Aaron Isotton
time. I suppose I should try some of > the newer dselect alternatives. Anyway, [snip] Try aptitude instead of dselect; it doesn't have many of its problems. It's IMHO much better, and it is the new "standard" package managing tool. -- Aaron Isotton http://www.isotton

ALSA and VT8233

2002-01-14 Thread Aaron Isotton
programs don't work though. amixer says The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system. although the driver *is* installed. alsaixer says: alsamixer: failed to open mixer #0/#0: No such file or directory I have no clue to what that means; can anybody help me? Thank you, Aaron Isotton

Problems with VIA 8233 Audio

2002-01-09 Thread Aaron Isotton
Hi, I have a Gigabyte KT7VXE motherboard with integrated AC97 audio. As far as I know, the chip is a VIA 8233. Actually, I am not sure that that one is the audio chip, but I know that I have it on my mb and it is one of the available ones in alsa; so I think it is quite probable that it is th