Re: good ip traffic monitor recommendations (other than iptraf)

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >whats on eth0 >- tcpdump see everything... learn to read fast theres also tcpflow, which is similar but logs each stream to a separate file. theres also EtherApe which shows a neat graphical map of connections in real time. as always, nick

Re: How do you broadcast a message?

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >Greetings, > >When you issue the reboot command the system does a system wide message >saying the machine is rebooting NOW. How would I send a message to all >the people that are on the system? I assume this would need to be done >as root? that is d

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: > Anyway... Does anybody know what steps I need to do in order make ssh >work so I can log in remotely? I wanted to try to use Tera Term Pro with >the SSH extenstion to log onto my Linux machine from a Windows machine on >the local network. > >Righ

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: >> you must purge all ximian and helix packages before upgrading to >> woody, then install woody's gnome. ximian does not support unstable >> or testing. and there is no reason whatsoever to use ximian there >

Re: Help geting hP jetdirect printer to work with Debian

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >I;m integrating a Debian "testing" machine inot a network with lot's of >FreeBSD machines, and some HP-UX, and Sun machines. > >I'm having a hard time geting the Debian box to print to our networked >(JetDirect) printer. Can anyone give me a pointer to

Re: ghost for linux?

Hmm, I would think the old 'tar' trick is safer than using dd (unless the disks are completly identical): Mount from disk and the to disk in under a booted linux, so like from/ and to/ then (cd from; tar -cpf - .) | (cd ../to; tar -xpf -) There are probably some arguments I'm forgetting to mak

ldap & debian

Well I'm having a heck of a time getting a freshly installed Potato box to authenticate with an openldap server. I'm new to this whole ldap thing, is there a guide somewhere to reconfiguring debian to use ldap for things? All the guides I've found just have a pam.conf example that I'm not sure h

Re: ICQ and other applications for Linux???

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: > Does anyone know what protocols ICQ uses to send data out on the >internet? I am attempting to use my my linux machine as a router for my >cable internet service and was wondering if i would get full internet >funtionality on my client machines

Re: Debian or Linux 7???

Greetings, Security is really a very complex subject, and judging the relative security of various distributions is difficult. What is really the important consideration is the policy of the system and organization behind it. Debian, I know, has a strong security policy; the developers actively t

Re: eth0 unknown option

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >i added the line > >iface eth0 inet dhcp > >into /etc/network/interfaces >and when i restart /etc/init.d/networking i says eth0 i an unknown option... i >think that my ethernet card has been detected cause when i do /proc/pci doesn't indicate that

Re: How to change the IP of a Debian box

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >Hi > >I need to change the "personality" of a Debian box. > >How do I change the IP/name of the machine? The IP is set in /etc/network/interfaces The hostname is set in /etc/hostname though you may have to adjust /etc/hosts too. as always, nick

Re: MS internet keyboard

>Lo, on Sunday, February 4, Romain Lerallut did write: > >> Good evening everyone, >> >> I'd like to use the wart-like "special keys" that came with my (ahem) MS >> "internet keyboard", with X and if possible, with the console. > > Maybe not quite as helpful but I recently discovered that XFree 4

ldap, ldap everywhere

Hi. I'm going to be running a moderately sized network, and I was wondering how difficult it would be to setup ldap as teh authentication for it? How integrated are various utilities into ldap? I read that adduser doesn't support ldap, so should a script that uses adduser to create the user, the

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >I'm curious to know what strategies are used by regular subscribers >to this list to deal with the high volume of messages (>250/day)? Although it doesn't pertain directly to your question, I felt like sharing :) I used to use mh to filter all the me

Re: ppp problem, who can help?

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>it was written: >Gentlemen, > >I am trying ppp connection in between two linux boxes (basically to >exchange files). >1) I am able to connect from the one computer to the other. When run >with the debug option, pppd informs that the connection is istablished >and both

Sendmail + Authenticated SMTP?

Hi. Does anyone out there know if its possible to configure the debian packaged version of sendmail to do SMTP authentication, and how to do it? Or is it even possible with any sendmail? Thanks! as always, nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.fargus.net/nick Developer - Systems

Setting up additional keys in X with XKb?

Greetings, I have a keyboard with many special keys on it. These keys produce scancodes, but not keycodes. I can easily assign them and bind them to keys at the console, but can find no documentation on how to do it under X with xkb. I was wondering if anyone could help me out with this. Thank