Re: (OT) UK broadband with open port 25

2005-12-27 Thread Dick Davies
Inbound or out? NTL don't restrict either (although they have a transparent http proxy). On 27/12/05, Jamie Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > >A quick OT: > > > >Anyone here found a UK broadband supplier (>=2G) who can provide an open > >port 25? > > > > > > > Freedo

Re: Where does LVM store its data?

2005-12-13 Thread Dick Davies
On 13/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:25:09PM +0000, Dick Davies wrote: > > As far as I can tell, It's stored in the PVs themselves > > (when I boot ubuntu it finds all my Debian LVs, for example) . > > With

Re: Where does LVM store its data?

2005-12-13 Thread Dick Davies
On 12/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where does LVM store its data -- where it identifies > where its logical partitions are. Can I take a volume > that's managed by LVM and physiclaly carry it from one > machine to another, and expect the other machine to > understand it (a

Re: Last stable kernel is from May

2005-12-12 Thread Dick Davies
http://squishy.cc/blog/?p=85 ps: that signature is ridiculous. On 12/12/05, Lazo Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, there are not only DoSes but also "Security Bypass", > "Exposure of sensitive information" and even "System access" > from local network > > What about http://secunia.com/a

Re: Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-08 Thread Dick Davies
On 08/12/05, Debian Users wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using a Win XP feature called "Offline Files", which is basically > like having a replica of files which are orginally on a network drive and > letting XP decide whether to work on the local replica or the actual > network files. The user does

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-05 Thread Dick Davies
On 05/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 08:36 +1000, Gerorge Reece-Howe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wanted to make an application that would create many thousands of > > databases in MySQL. > > Speaking as a DBA, I think you probably need to redesign your > applicat

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-02 Thread Dick Davies
On 01/12/05, Christian Folini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sudo/wheel approach is also a handy one when you want to update > the root password regularly, but you do not want to tell it to > everyone. Say you work in an heterogenous enterprise with lots of > admins having their unix workstatio

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-30 Thread Dick Davies
On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/passwd >/etc/passwd.tmp > mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd > > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/shadow >/etc/shadow.tmp > mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow > > grep -vE "^0:" /etc/group >/etc/group.tmp > mv

Re: Installing an SVN repository -- permissions, and general tactics?

2005-11-23 Thread Dick Davies
On 23/11/05, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About to set things up, and after reading the SVN book, I'm left with > some questions still. The book itself barely mentions permissions, and > when it does (at the end of chapter 6), it suggests I create a new group > (called "svn"), and add those us

Re: Adding LVM to an existing system

2005-11-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/11/05, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dick Davies wrote: > > That's weird. All I can say is that it's definitely possible to do LVM on > > logical partitions. > It does seem odd. Are you using Sid, or Etch? I am running Sarge. > Could tha

Re: exim4 and virtual domains

2005-11-17 Thread Dick Davies
On 16/11/05, Matt Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've used: > > * : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > in the virtual domain aliases, but if a mail is sent > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it bounces unless "matt" > has an linux account on the server. Find the 'ROUTERS' section of your exim config. If there's a 'r

Re: Adding LVM to an existing system

2005-11-16 Thread Dick Davies
On 17/11/05, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /dev/hda12 2201+ 48642664- 21398548+ 8e Linux LVM > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# pvcreate /dev/hda12 >Device /dev/hda12 not found. > > > As you can see, pvcreate does not appear to want to work on /dev/hda12. > This was the case

apt-get and missing init scripts

2005-11-16 Thread Dick Davies
I'm in the middle of building a custom squid package (on Sarge). Long story short, there isn't a /etc/init.d/squid anymore and apt seems to think there should be. When I run: apt-get install squid I get errors like: apt-get install --reinstall squid Reading Package Lists... Done Building Depend

Re: Adding LVM to an existing system

2005-11-15 Thread Dick Davies
On 16/11/05, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing that I have yet to see a conclusive answer to: Can I make LVM > Logical Volumes from logical partitions in an extended physical volume. > Since I have 4 physical volumes, including an extended volume, I would > have to create the

Re: Adding LVM to an existing system

2005-11-15 Thread Dick Davies
On 15/11/05, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I currently do not use LVM. > > I have a 40GB disk with 3 physical partitions and logical partitions > 5-11 on the remaining physical partition. Several of the partitions are > getting full. There is space on the disk. Just over half of the

Re: SSH attack

2005-11-15 Thread Dick Davies
On Oct 3, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Jared Hall wrote: > > It looks like I am being rooted right now. How do I toss this guy off > > of my system. [...snip...] I > > can't shut down ssh because that's my only connection to the system. It's probably not going to help now, but fireHOL (frontend to iptable

Re: pccardd: what is this ?!

2005-11-12 Thread Dick Davies
the braces ('[]') mean it's a kernel process - a module or something like that. On 12/11/05, Paulo M C Aragão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed today the following daemons running: > > UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > root 1121 1 0 Nov11 ?00:00:

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Dick Davies
On 07/11/05, Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the major advantages of Solaris is better support of obsolete > systems, which are only being used because Solaris does not support > the better, modern solutions? Have you been reading a different thread? Maybe people spend all day defend

Re: Root's Mail

2005-11-05 Thread Dick Davies
On 05/11/05, James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 08:30 -0500, C Shore wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:59:44PM +, Sean Whitton wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I just renamed the user that root's mail was being redirected to on a > > > fresh > > > install

Re: automated installs

2005-11-03 Thread Dick Davies
On 03/11/05, Marc PERRUDIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dick Davies a écrit : > > >I'm hoping to bulk build half a dozen debian Squid boxes next month. > > > >Does Debian have tools to help automated installs? > > > >At present something like a pre-re

automated installs

2005-11-03 Thread Dick Davies
I'm hoping to bulk build half a dozen debian Squid boxes next month. Does Debian have tools to help automated installs? At present something like a pre-recorded list of answers you could feed debian-installer and a list of debs to install would be more than enough. Thanks! -- Rasputin :: Jack o

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Dick Davies
the Exim package asks you a few simple questions and then does what you ask - why not just use that? postfix on ubuntu does the same thing effectively, too. Both have a jaw-dropping array of features, but neither particularly force you to understand them before using them On 24/10/05, Teemu

Re: Vim question

2005-10-23 Thread Dick Davies
On 23/10/05, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just started learning python (i think it is great). Now i have the > following problem: > How can i comment 10 lines of code in a shot? That is, how can i add a > # at the begenning of a range of lines? In command mode (hit 'escape' twice

Re: Novell Server

2005-10-22 Thread Dick Davies
ncpfs - utilities to use resources from NetWare servers On 22/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to access files on a Novell Server. How do I set up my > debian box to do that? Do I need some sort of Novell Client? > > Thanks everyone... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: creating and serving temporary files with apache

2005-10-21 Thread Dick Davies
On 21/10/05, Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear People, > > I'm fairly new to apache administraction, so I apologise in advance if > this an obvious question. > > I am running Apache, which is running some CGI scripts, which allow a web > client (browser) to upload data, process it, a

Re: rsync over ssh with disallowed login

2005-10-16 Thread Dick Davies
On 16/10/05, Aurelien Ricard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to be able to login using ssh (or rsync over ssh) on a > remote machine without password try to put the key of the user's login > (used on the local machine) to the .ssh/authorized_keys on the remote > $HOME_DIR. That's not qui

Re: /lib deleted

2005-10-16 Thread Dick Davies
Nice idea, but: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd `which dpkg` linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7ea6000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7feb000) theal - can you pull the disk? If so, rsync (or cp) /lib from some other debian box onto it. On 16/10/05, Ro

Re: MRTG with 3 arguments

2005-10-11 Thread Dick Davies
make some more graphs :) or use rrdtool instead On 11/10/05, Eriberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > How to make MRTG show 3 arguments? I need to show 3 collected data. The > MRTG works fine with 2 arguments. > > Thanks, > > Eriberto > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-11 Thread Dick Davies
On 11/10/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your machines are all exposed to the internet or to an insecure > LAN, then I don't see how you can safely use ssh at all. I would > never attempt such a thing, so you are much braver than I. > > What I would do instead is limit ssh logins to a s

Re: about find

2005-10-08 Thread Dick Davies
grep -r "welcome here" / On 08/10/05, Nevruz Mesut Sahin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello how can I find files which contents a string in it. For example > /www/xyz/hdx.php. File hdx.php conteins "welcome here" and I want to seach > all system( / ) which conteins "welcome here" then machine s

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-07 Thread Dick Davies
On 07/10/05, Ric Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:46:43PM -0400, Ryan Claycamp wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 at 2211 -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > >Best solution for filtering is probably what Roberto suggested. If > > >that's impossible, you should look into offli

Re: preferred method of using imap/mutt

2005-10-05 Thread Dick Davies
You're better off using something like sieve to filter mail into IMAP folders on the server. This way you get to use other clients (webmail, thunderbird, whatever) and still keep your filters. Most mail servers will have some way of sorting mail into folders as it arrives, check your docs. On 05/

Re: Want to move from root LVM/LILO to LVM/Grub

2005-10-03 Thread Dick Davies
On 03/10/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have yet to understand what advantage LVM gives me. Can anyone > explain why LVM was added, and what advantages/disadvantages > it has? LVM is great as an abstraction layer. The main benefits are: * ability to dynamically resize LVs (logic

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-27 Thread Dick Davies
On 27/09/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 08:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Dick Davies wrote: > > > > Yup, use SMP. I get 2 cpus in cpuinfo that way (although top does

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Dick Davies
On 27/09/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Dick, > > > > I'm actually starting to think about giving each user their own > > partition, since it's so little hassle. > > > Would that be feasable in an enviroment with 40.000 mail users ? ;-) I don't run an environment with 400

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Dick Davies
On 26/09/05, Daniel Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is it interesting to have a different partition > for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a > home > computer. Isnt it more painful to have to calculate > the size for each partition > > Thanks > Daniel off the top of my hea

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-26 Thread Dick Davies
On 25 Sep 2005 23:23:48 -0700, James He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine use SMP kernel, or stick to a > regular kernel? Yup, use SMP. I get 2 cpus in cpuinfo that way (although top doesn't see them for some reason). -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Dick Davies
On 25/09/05, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are planning on doing LVM, use XFS. XFS will allow you to resize > a filesytem on the fly - no need to umount, resize, remount, etc. I've > found this to be a very handy feature: > > $ lvresize --size +1G /dev/vg0/foo > $ xfs_growfs /fo

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Dick Davies
On 25/09/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For / , why not use ext3? Reiser is faster, isn't it? -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns

Fwd: What can I do with six new publicly available computers? now nis vs. rsync

2005-09-20 Thread Dick Davies
'anybody can log in from anywhere' with nis/ldap is just plain FUD. NIS and LDAP are designed to do this, they do it (reasonably) well. scping over password and shadow is an ugly hack and will bite you if you create users on a regular basis. Maintenance is a pain. You also have a single 'master c

Re: Common Users And Passwords For Multiple Computers

2005-09-16 Thread Dick Davies
On 16 Sep 2005 08:38:33 -0700, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up a about half a dozen linux boxes for my company. > I wanted to know how I can set one machine to maintain an user and > password list that would be accessible to all of the computers. > > Or alternate

Re: cron + ldap = disaster?

2005-09-16 Thread Dick Davies
Not exactly related, but I had very similar nasties on freebsd 5 with nss_ldap recently. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=81555 (basically make sure you're using the latest nss_ldap) On 16/09/05, Natxo Asenjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully deployed a s

Re: LDAP: SSL support unavailable ?

2005-09-06 Thread Dick Davies
That's a message from mod_auth_ldap - it means you haven't given it a valid CA certificate to authenticate the LDAP servers certificate against. See mod_auth_ldap docs on httpd.apache.org On 06/09/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:48:18PM +0700, F.X

Re: building source packages with custom options?

2005-09-06 Thread Dick Davies
Thanks, worked a treat! Can you point me at TFM? I'll be sure to R it next time :) On 06/09/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:15:34 +0100 > Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've just found out I can use 'apt-g

building source packages with custom options?

2005-09-06 Thread Dick Davies
I've just found out I can use 'apt-get source'/'dpkg-buildpackage' to roll my own packages from source, which is great for an old BSD boy like myself? But how do I specify a --configure option? I scoured a few manpages and saw nothing obivous... -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns

Re: getting ipw2100 to find its firmware at boot time?

2005-09-04 Thread Dick Davies
When I took the line out of /etc/modules, the centrino showed up as eth1 rather than eth2 and the errors disappeared. # echo 'auto eth1' >> /etc/network/interfaces helps too. Doh. Thanks for the sanity check! On 04/09/05, Alexander Pohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strange, because all I had

getting ipw2100 to find its firmware at boot time?

2005-09-04 Thread Dick Davies
I just built the ipw2100 module under etch according to http://blogs.cocoondev.org/michaelm/archives/002084.html everything seemed to go fine, and when I tweak /etc/network/interfaces I can # modprobe ipw2100 # ifup eth2 and dhcp etc works fine (eth0 = built in ethernet, eth1 = ip-over-firewi

Sarge d-i and serial install

2005-08-26 Thread Dick Davies
Hi, I hear rumours that if a machine has no video card, (sarge) debian-installer will try to open a serial console. I want to install on a mini-itx box with no monitor, but it's got a graphic card on-board that can't be disabled. Is there a way to have it start d-i on a serial console (say, no

Re: Problem with filenames

2005-08-09 Thread Dick Davies
Does novell 3 have a case-sensitive filesystem? On 09/08/05, N. Ganesh Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have newly installed Debian Linux on my network. My requirement is to > connect to Novell 3.0 server. I am using ncpmount command to connect. > After connecting all the folder

Re: Robots.txt for *all* virtual hosts?

2005-08-08 Thread Dick Davies
In 'section 2' (where the icons are set up), just add: Alias /robots.txt /path/to/robots.txt On 07/08/05, Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suppose I want every virtual host under Apache to reject > particular robots. Is there any way to set up a > robots.txt-equivalent that applies

Re: Swap always full

2005-08-07 Thread Dick Davies
On 03/08/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I said, I don't normally hit swap. But, it is interesting to know > that X uses more memory on your system. I frequently experience the > Mozilla memory leak, so I see a notable difference in memory consumption > from simply closing

Re: debian-exim mailing list

2005-08-07 Thread Dick Davies
Is there any reason that exim-users woudn't do? exim is (mostly) exim is exim, and it's a good list. On 07/08/05, Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list > > Hi does anyone know if there is a debian-exim mailing list? > > Kind Regards > Brent Clark > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

installing Sarge on a headless box?

2005-08-02 Thread Dick Davies
Hi, just wondered if there's a way to install Debian just over a serial console? I've got a MII 12000 I want to install it on, but no monitor. Is it supported by d-i, if not what do I need to change in the iso? (hmm. and how the hell do I change an ISO) Thanks!

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0723 19:23]: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 17:46, Dick Davies wrote: > > The OP asked 'how do I read MS Project files', and the response was: > > 'use less, hur hur' > > > > That's not newbie bashi

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-26 Thread Dick Davies
* Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0705 16:05]: > Hal Vaughan said: > > > > We can use whatever excuse we want, but I've found that the way clueless > > newbies are treated on this list is just plain rotten. There are polite > > ways > > to say RTFM, but it seems to many are in a hurry to shout

Re: Domain question

2005-07-14 Thread Dick Davies
* Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0745 18:45]: > >It is the job of the dhcp server to assign them IP numbers. > > > But that doesn't guarantee that a given named machine will get the same IP > each time which is what the OP > wanted. Why don't you just map MAC addresses to IPs? isc-dhcpd can

Re: exim3, mbox, maildir, exim4

2005-07-07 Thread Dick Davies
* Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0708 15:08]: > I would like to upgrade from exim3 to exim 4 (now that I have > upgraded from woody to sarge), and also from mbox to maildir > format. Should I upgrade the mailbox format before, during, or > after upgrading exim? Or are the two upgrades complete