Re: How do I find out who's using port # xxxxx

1998-05-23 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Martin Bialasinski writes: [snip] > Try lsof |grep smtp You can also try: # fuser -v 25/tcp Nice, isn't it? -- Adriano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: POP3 with Qmail

1998-03-28 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: [snip] > If I use Qmail's POP3 daemon, it supports only Maildirs and Pine > does NOT support maildirs? Is there some patch for pine to make it support > maildirs? Yes, I think you can find a pointer to it at www.qmail.org. As an alternative, you can use the '/var/qmail

Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

1998-02-09 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues writes: > David Maslen writes: > > I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. > > qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your > procmail binary also uses flock, there should be no problem. T

Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

1998-02-09 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
David Maslen writes: > I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your procmail binary also uses flock, there should be no problem. Try 'procmail -v' to check: Locking strategies: dotlocking, flock() > If I use

Re: [Q] 56K US Robotics?

1998-02-01 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
> Would anyone know how to verify that I am connecting to > Internet at 56K. I run Debian hamm + 2.1.78 kernel. I also have an USR 56K modem, and I am getting the following connect messages Feb 1 11:23:08 pequod chat[310]: CONNECT 33600/ARQ/x2/LAPM/V42BIS

hamm & PATH -> MANPATH

1998-01-22 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
In bo this mapping in /etc/manpath.config used to work. An user just needed to have the binary location is his PATH to be able to read the respective manpages. Am I missing something? [pequod:~] > manpath /usr/man:/var/qmail/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man [pequod:~] > man -d qmail-send ... foun

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-22 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Orn E. Hansen writes: > For those who are having trouble, you need to set the environment variable > MOZILLA_HOME to the path where netscape is located. On my machine, it is > located in... > > MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape Also, it may be possible that the line that sets the LD_LIBRAR

Re: Is Perl 5.004.04-3 Package Routine Broken?

1997-12-13 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Wintermute writes: > New problem. > > When I attempt to install the Perl 5.004.04-3 file, it breaks at the > post-installation phase. > As such, other updates that require Perl will not configure themselves. > > I have even fetched the file manually and used dpkg (with most all of > the d

RE: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

1997-12-09 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Daniel Martin writes: [snip] > is all that they can do). Also, you may wish to create a > directory under /home (for example, called /home/nologin) with mode 755 > owned by root, and then set all the users' home directories to that > instead of the default. (Of course, you can't do this if

Re: debian 2.0

1997-11-20 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
> On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > > > > I think this question has been asked before and I'd like to bring > > it up again since it been a while. > > > > Is there a set day for the Debian 2.0 (or the next release after 1.3.1)? If your machine isn't a critical production one

Re: tripwire segfaults

1997-10-31 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Walter L. Preuninger II writes: > I am trying to use tripwire, but when running > walterp# tripwire -init > ### Phase 1: Reading configuration file > ### Phase 2: Generating file list > Segmentation fault (core dumped) You may want to install the tripwire package from

nis & weak passwords

1997-10-29 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Hello, apparently yppasswd in the nis package wasn't compiled with -DUSE_OBVIOUS to check for weak passwords. I found out that more than 20% of the user passwords in a Debian net I was managing were _very_ weak (eg login name). Not a very comfortable figure (even if one's using shadow passwords)

Re: shadow and nis

1997-08-22 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Behan Webster writes: > For the life of me I can not seem to get nis to work with shadow > passwords. I can get each to work seperately, but not together. > Can anyone with experience with using these two together please > explain how to set it up properly? I'm stumped. Yes, apparently the c

Re: Smail is getting confused

1997-08-04 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Bruno O. M. Simoes writes: > Based on RFC #1035,974, there's no such problem about IP addresses on MX > entry. Are you sure? According to RFC 974, "Each MX matches a domain name with two pieces of data, a preference value ... and the name of a host." There's no mention about IP addresses, and

Re: Smail is getting confused

1997-08-04 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Bruno O. M. Simoes writes: > I have a Bind driver router configured in smail (/etc/smail/routers). When > it finds a MX entry in the target host where is its IP number (x.x.x.x) > instead its name (target.com) it doesn't accept this kind of MX entry. > What can I do? You can play by the rules.

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Rick Hawkins writes: > I don't mean fortran in generall, i mean the available linux versions. >From what I've read so far, Linux fortran tools aren't exactly state of the art (as you know, chances are that gcc is going to optmize your code much better). > I'm familiar with Fortran, C, C++, etc.

Re: just how bad is Fortran?

1997-07-22 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Sorry, I can't resist ;-) fortran (77) is horrible. Well, it _was_ ok, Backus was a pioneer, etc. But we are in the end of the '90s (and I thought only *my* profs were forcing students to use it!) You will be much better writing your code in ANSI C (pointers aren't difficult once you get to know

Solved! Re: Quotas & AMD

1997-06-25 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Just FYI: Felix Almeida writes: > I'm using the AMD to mount the home directories by NFS on the clients. > I've read all of documents related to quotas, but with no success... The problem was in the way I built the amd map for poor Felix's network ;-) The home server has two file systems un

Re: NFS and netgroups

1997-06-11 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Joerg Delker writes: > Does anyone define his nfs-exports access-permissions via netgroups? > What I meen is a exports entry like > > /usr/local @hosts(ro) > > I've defined netgroups in /etc/netgroups and serving them via NIS (yp). > > A 'ypcat netgroups' lists me all my groups, so the

Netgroups won't work

1997-04-03 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Hi, I have put together a handful of PCs and installed the latest rex on them. nis is working ok, but I can't make netgroups work. The clients (and servers) can retrieve the netgroup map: % ypmatch tudog netgroup (turing,-,) (ritchie,-,) (knuth,-,) The hosts are also in the hosts file. All host

Re: "ICMP redirect" kernel message

1997-01-20 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
mike horansky writes: > Looking through /var/log/messages, I see > > Jan 18 18:23:34 bigbox kernel: ICMP redirect from > Jan 18 18:23:34 bigbox last message repeated 3 times > > every few days. > > Is that an indication of Ping Of Death? Some other problem? ICMP redirects are sent by y

Upgrading rex's libc, was Re: Bug in libc5.4.13

1997-01-20 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Tadeusz Bak writes: [SNIP] > The bug is fixed in libc5.4.17 (from "bo" directory). So I think that > libc in "rex" should be upgraded. Yes, why not upgrade rex's libc? Nothing would break, the packages are ready... If we want rex to be stable, that would be part of the normal bug fixing routi

Re: ping reply without OS (was: Re: Unidentified subject!)

1997-01-03 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: > I experienced such situation when my nameserver was down for a > warm reboot, so that I couldn't telnet to it, but ping got response from > the machine during the reboot. I can't explain such situation, but it is > quite strange to me. Nothing strange ab

qmail, was RE: mta suggestions?

1996-12-30 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Hamish Moffatt writes: [SNIP - Virtual Domains Config question] > Can anyone suggest a way to do this? Either another MTA (eg sendmail), > or how to do it with smail? I'd prefer to stick with smail as possible, > since I understand it to some extent, and have UUCP working with that > already.