Re: ipmasq - recompile kernel?

2001-09-04 Thread Martin Feeney
On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 16:38:05 David Z Maze wrote: > Andy Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AL> I've done an apt-get install ipmasq and it seems to have installed > AL> correctly. However, when I type the command 'ipmasq' I get the error > AL> message 'IP Masquerade has not been enabled in the

Re: ipchains & home user

2001-08-30 Thread Martin Feeney
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:07:06 Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > What is the minimum firewall that can be build & required for a home user ? > On a dial-up line. > Using ipchains. apt-get install ipmasq It'll do pretty much what you want with plenty of sanity-level security. It also provides an rc-style set

Incompatability between pptpd, pptp-linux, kernel-patch-mppe and kernel-source-2.4.9

2001-08-30 Thread Martin Feeney
Long-ish report with a few questions, please bear with me... I was upgrading a sid machine I use as a vpn gateway from kernel 2.2.17 to 2.4.9. Poptop stopped working with pptp-linux from the machine that's the other end of the pptp tunnel (sid, kernel 2.2.17). Now it's a very convoluted story whi

Re: oki4daemon

2001-06-15 Thread Martin Feeney
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:45:19 Blue Rat wrote some stuff about oki4daemon... Regarding printing from windoze - here's what you can do: Share the raw device via samba, then get them to install the windows oki driver on their own machines. Tada! They can all print to it. Then set up the oki daemon f

Re: nic?

2001-06-14 Thread Martin Feeney
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:15:36 "Trig Asderik, Account Executive" wrote: > looking to get NIC drivers to make my compaq 1850R proliant work with > debian > currently debian is installed but NIC cards arent working Try the T1 thunderlan (tlan) driver - compaq seemed to use this chipset in a lot of th

Re: rescue cd

2001-06-11 Thread Martin Feeney
On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 21:45:28 John Patton wrote: > Does anyone know how one would go about creating a debian > rescue cd? Something bootable, with enough utilities on it > to really be able to fix a system. A custom made ramdisk > would be perfect. I've been trying to figure out how to do > this, w

Re: Low Memory Install?

2001-06-08 Thread Martin Feeney
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:04:55 Geordie Birch wrote: > i have a 486 laptop with 4MB RAM and 125MB HDD. average free disk space > is around 10MB! > > it swaps a lot but otherwise works fine. What do you use it for? I have a similar machine (486sx25/4MB/250MB) that I'm thinking of using as a NAT/DH

Re: Determining IP address of my pc (dial up and/or cable modem)

2001-05-24 Thread Martin Feeney
ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr:' | sed 's/.*inet addr:\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/g' If your connection is via ethernet, just swap ppp0 above with eth0 or eth1 or whatever. The above will return just the ip address. For more general information on your interfaces, just use ifconfig.

Re: Unrelated to Debian. Telnet

2001-05-17 Thread Martin Feeney
On Thu, 17 May 2001 12:38:06 Wayne wrote: > I search the web for an answer, but came up short. Search for RFC 1939. It'll tell you all about POP. The command you're looking for is DELE (e.g. "dele 12"). mbf.

Re: apt proxy

2001-05-11 Thread Martin Feeney
On Fri, 11 May 2001 09:04:16 John R Lenton wrote: > apt-get install apt-proxy Yeah, but it's a pain to configure. You have to find rsync-enabled apt sources for it and it has a tendency to time out a lot. We tried using it for a while in work (about 10 debian machines all using apt-proxy) and it

Re: [users] Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-09 Thread Martin Feeney
On Tue, 08 May 2001 20:05:20 MaD dUCK wrote: > figure out which mail it is (i.e. which index), then telnet to port > 110 of your isp and delete it yourself with the following command > sequence (this is POP3): > > %> telnet mail 110 > USER username > PASS password > DELE 35 > QUIT > > you can us

Re: How to set vim as default editor

2001-04-30 Thread Martin Feeney
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:26:46 Mark wrote: > For some reason after installing and reinstalling vim, ae still remains > the default editor. update-alternatives --config editor Debian provides a whole bunch of very nifty update-* scripts. Some of them are (man -k update-): update-alternatives (8)

Re: How boot scripts?

2001-04-30 Thread Martin Feeney
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:36:51 V.Suresh wrote: > I want to do the following things during boot up: > 1. insmod -f > 2. setfont > I Understand that I have to write a script. Okay, written. The > script >executes fine. Now where do I put the script, and how do I make >it run

Re: Few more questions

2001-04-26 Thread Martin Feeney
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:12:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's answers to a few... > 1.) X11 and Gpm bite over the mouse. > To use the mouse under X11 I have to turn Gpm off. Have gpm repeat as ms3 and tell X to use an intellimouse protocol mouse on /dev/gpmdata. > 5.) I have a Cd-RW and want to

Re: Multiple Network Interfaces per host -- possible?

2001-04-25 Thread Martin Feeney
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:14:59 Wayne Topa wrote: > > In reply to:Lukas Ruf > > > > > > Just added a 2nd card a few days ago. Here is what I recall doing. > > Read through the Net3 and Ethernet howto's first and then > > > > /etc/network/aliases Had this for the first card > ^^