netmasks

2002-09-22 Thread Martin Clarke
a question i was asked recently on a topic that I thought i understood untill i was asked Given the hypothetical subnet 136.206.16.128 and netmask 255.255.255.128, state the valid range of IP addresses that could be assigned to hosts on the subnet?(also another was 64.122.34.83 & netmask 255.

setuid.changes

2002-09-18 Thread Martin Clarke
apologies for posting what will most likely be considered trivial but I have been curious about for some time is the format of the setuid.changes file that is generated by cron scripts on my machine I have read the checksecurity man page but am still kinda curious as to what exactly that file is s

PAM

2002-06-29 Thread Martin Clarke
recently whille messin around with stuff in my pam.d dir i screwed stuff up...very stupidly i know...i dont have a backup copy of those config file which i thought i did. So anyway to try and recover I used the technique i saw int he pam docs packages...mv pam.d pam.d.orig and create and new pam.d

Openssh/ssl configure problems

2002-05-05 Thread Martin Clarke
Recently while trying to install ssh on my debian (potato) system i downloaded both openssh and openssl as there is some problem with my cd set (cannot apt-get install ssh) so i configureed/installed openssl as per instructions in package that went without problem when i tried to install the open

CDROM / apt-get problems

2002-04-02 Thread Martin Clarke
I have two cdrom drives: a compaq dvd rom, philips cdr while trying to install debain potato, i can install the base system sucessfully using either of the cd drives but when it comes to the apt-get program thet program informs me that it cannot automatically locate the cdrom drive(s) and to specif