IP Chains question

I have set up a firewall using ipchains and the bridge patch (bridgein) under potato (2.2.19). The one snag I had was although the firewall works well only letting the world see certain ports (80 & 443), it doesn't let the servers behind the firewall get out. I set up a rule that allows all traff

Exim Errors

open file limit? -Matt- +-----+ Matt Kopishke [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Blue Note Technology http://bluenotetech.com | Waldo Theatrehttp://www.waldotheatre.org | +++

Two nics, two networks question

Hi, is it possible to have one machine with two nics respond to two different TCP/IP networks with out any routing in between the nics? If it is possible could you please give an overview how, or point me towards some documentation? thanks, -Matt-

Multiple Nics/ Net Connections

Hi, I seem to be having some very odd Nic/Net connection problems. What I have is a server with 2 Nics. One (eth0) is plugged into a cable modem that we are planing on using as a back up connection. The other (eth1) is plugged into our T1 and is our main connection. The problem is that when I en

Exim and multiple domains

domain. (I hope this is not to confusing...) Thanks, -Matt- +-+ Matt Kopishke [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Foster Laing & Noonanhttp://www.flni.com | Waldo Theatrehttp://www.waldotheatre

OL400

Hi, I have a Okidata 0l400 LED printer, what filter should I use in magicfilter? Thanks, -Matt- ---+--+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.ucook.com | A long time ago,

Firewall Box

Hi, I need to implement a firewall at work. It will be for the most part a pretty simple set up. I am going to set one of our Linux Boxes between the Router and the Switch. The Box has 3 NICs, one for the router side, one for the switch, and one for a backup cable connection. We have a block of

Raid 1 Problems

chkraid, which on two 10 gig md devices, takes a while. thanks, -Matt- +-+ Matt Kopishke [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Foster Laing & Noonanhttp://www.flni.com | Waldo Theatre

Back up ideas???

Hi, I am trying to set up a flexable backup system. This requires that the software is multi-platform (Win 98/NT/2000 Linux and maybe MacOS), and it (the server) must be easy to access remotely. What I have now is a decent Machine Running Linux with a lot of disk space. What I would like to do

Re: X Terminals

Never mind, I found it, I had to edit Xaccess. Thanks anyways, -Matt- On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Matt Kopishke wrote: > Hi, I am trying to set up an "x terminal". The way I used to do this is > install xdm on the host, then run "X -query host" on the c

X Terminals

Hi, I am trying to set up an "x terminal". The way I used to do this is install xdm on the host, then run "X -query host" on the client. Now on my potato machines I get "XDMCP fatal error: Manager unwilling Host unwilling". Any ideas? -Matt-

HD Troubles

Hi, I have been having a odd hd problem. I have a machine that has 2 Promise Ultra 66 cards installed plus the on board interfaces. The first card (hde - hdg) works fine. The second card (hdi - hdl) on the other hand does not. When booting the kernel finds the card, and the hard drive attached

Demand Dialing with pppd and ipmasq

Hi, we are trying to set up a box that acts as a router for our office. I have ppp and ipmasq working. When I configure ppp to demand dial (the demand and idle options in /etc/ppp/peers/provider) we seem to run into problems. I start pppd with pon, but when I want to activate the dial up (ping

Is there a smart mirror?

I currently maintain a small debian mirror for a local computer user group. I run mirror daily to keep up with the latest version of potato and woody. We have one problem, mirror is quite good at getting the newest packages, but it keeps the old ones. This is quite a problem if you are working w

IMAP not allowing access

Hi, I just did a update on my machine to get the latest potato and imap seem's to have broken in the process. I get the following error in the log: "Login failed: has no CRAM-MD5 password, host=[192.168.0.20]". This is on a rather important machine, can you help? -Matt- -

Modifing a debian package

Hi, I need to recompile PHP3 with an extra value in the INCLUDE (-I/path/to/include) line. I would like to keed PHP3 in a .deb, how would I go about doing this using the /debian/rules method. Thanks, -Matt- ---+-+ [EMAIL PR

Berolist

I am trying to configure Berolist under Slink. Here's what I have done: installed it via dselect add Tbin to my /etc/mail/sendmail.ct ran the new-list program, added the list added the line from /var/list/aliases to my /etc/aliases ran newaliases restarted sendmail sent a message to the lis

Video For Linux

Does any one have any experence with video4linux, or really what I am looking for is bttv. I have a ADS Tech Channel surfer (w/o the radio), it has a BT848 chip set. I tried the drivers in the 2.2.12 kernel with out any luck (I am using xawtv out of potato), I then grabed the latest source from t

Phantom Port problems

We have a server set up that does IP-Masq and Firewalling for a internal office network. The odd thing is that it has been broadcasting on port 1033 to 255.255.255.255:1478 (the world ?). There is no entry for ether in /etc/services and lsof can't find any thing runing on those ports, but syslog

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

It's really pretty simple, just coment out the 'start-xdm' line in your /etc/X11/config You don't need to remove xdm, and I actuly would not recomend it, who knows you might want it someday... -Matt- ---+-

Re: Linux freezing up

I had this problem, it is when I upgraded to a new machine, but I used the old video card (S3 Trio 64v+). I had random, unexplaned, hard freeze ups. What ended up being the culprit, was my video card, wich ran w/o a hich untill the day I pulled it and poped it in my new machine. I replaceds it wi

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

I had that problem, the fix (for me at least) was deleteing my ~/.netscape Dunno why, but somthing get corupted. -Matt- ---++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.state.me.us | The mind is not

smartlist

Hi, I am trying to set up a list using smartlist on Slink with sendmail. I have read the QuickStart, and have followed what it said but I have not have any succes. I send a letter to the address with subscribe in the Subject, but get no reply, and don't get an error saying that the message could no

Re: Color Bit Depth

oject +--+ | *To see tomorrow's PC, Look at todays Macintosh* | | * Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org * | +--+ On Fri, 21 May 1999, dyer wrote: > > >

Color Bit Depth

I have a small question about XF86 and color bit depths. I have my machine running a 32 bit color at the moment, but some times I I would like to change it to 16 bit for the ocational game of Quake, is there a easy way to do this with out editing the config file. I know you can set X up with mult

Rather Odd freeze ups (and more :)

I have a not so related Linux question (with the exception that I run Linux) about some really weird, hard, lockups. Here's the deal: I had a ageing Cyrix 586/120 that started to seem *really* slow. Any how, I bought a Abit-BH6 Board, a Intel Celeron 300A, some PC-100 RAM, and used the following

ProFTPD Question

I am running Proftpd (slink) set up with the default config, it set up a /home/ftp were anonymous users are sent, but when I add directorys to the ~ftp dir, there are invisable to the anonymous user. Here the kicker, I can change dirs to the invisable directorys, go figure, can you help?

fvwm95 & menus

What's the simplest way to completly over ride the menus the are used by default under fvwm95, for certen users (probly using ~/.fvwm95 and hook files?). I need a simple menu (to apps, Netscape & Wordperfect) for our xterinals, the default debian-menu is confusing, and give them access to too many

HP 4000 N

I am trying to set up printing on a Linux box (Slink) running lpr. The printer is on a network, and has an IP address, how do I set this up? I tried using the default network setup in the printcap that magicfilter make and pluging in the IP, but it does not work, Thanks, -Matt-

Sound Card Support

I have a Aztech 2320 (az2320) PnP Sound card, I was wondering if any one might now what I need to compile it into the kernel as (as a module, so I can use isapnptools). Any help would be GREATLY aprecheated, -Matt- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midcoast.com/~kopishke http://169.

Mirror

I have a question, not a problem. At the bottom of my message is my config file (/etc/mirror/mirror.default) for mirror. First off, I no it works, it d/l about 273 megs of packages, then died. I am trying to set up a unofficial debian mirror, I pretty much I wasn¹t every i386 package (hamm, s

Re: DInstall

I am going to answer my own question, DInstall had problems wiht my RAM, removed two simms, and all is well now. Thanks, -Matt- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midcoast.com/~kopishke http://169.244.147.29 MSAD#40 Home Page http://169.244.147.29/ss/MVHS See

DInstall will not partion

Hello, I have been working on a machine for a week, trying to install Hamm from a Cheap Bytes Beta CD (I Don't have the full release). First of all I could not get it to boot from the rescue floppy that was on the CD. So I downloaded the new (2.0.10) base files you would need to install the b

Dumb X terminals

Hi all, Here's the story: We (A high school) just received a bunch of 486/66 Compaqs. The idea is to turn them in to dumb X terminals (running StarOffice, and Netscape). They have small hard drives (200mb), 16 md of RAM, 3 Comm Ethernet cards, and vga (svga?) + Monitors. I was thinking that

Weird Rescue Disk problems

Hello, I am trying to do a fresh install of Hamm (2.0 Beta cd from Cheap Bytes). My harware does not support cd booting, and I don't have dos drivers for my CD rom, so I need to use a Rescue Disk to get thing going. But I make the Disk from 1440.bin with Rawrite2, reboot, watch it load root.bin, t

Re: GIMP seems to hang SCSI Bus

Whoa, never, ever, ever, un plug a SCSI device while the system has power, I saw a machine get fried doing this! Reboot, and see if things work, and rember to shutdown your system next time! -Matt- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midcoast.com/~kopishke http://169.244.147.29

FVWM2 (New X user)

I have X (finally) working on my machine (bo), I am running FVWM2 and was wondering what I do to add a pattern or color (prefer pattern) to the desktop. I now you edit the fvwm.rc file, but what do I edit, what format file do I use for the pattern, and were would I put it? Thanks,

Window Maker

Would any one happen to now were I might find Window Maker (windowmaker.org) in a debian pakage (.deb). Thanks, -Matt- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midcoast.com/~kopishke http://169.244.147.29 MSAD#40 Home Page http://169.244.147.29/ss/MVHS Seed Sav

Re: a few more questions

>Could you help me with the following: > >1. how can I, using Linux and X11 read e-mail from other people who send it >to me via my ISP (uses POP) Try Pine, works for me. >2. What is a good soundcard which is < $40-$50 that works well in Linux and >Win95? No Idea. >3. Does Netscape 4 install co

Re: emacs *very slow* to launch

> This is the behavior I've come to expect from emacs. Eighteen >Megs And Constantly Swapping. > It's a huge app! What sort of hardware do you have? What version >of Emacs? I wouldn't run it on anything sub-pentium, myself. I run Emacs on 586/120 an it seems very snappy... Mabe tr

XFree86 problems

I have been having problems with X, the last time I installed Linux, I installed the XFree86 packages that as far as I can see are required to run X (the Standard Fonts, FVWM, the svga server, and what ever eles dselect told me I needed), but after runinng XFree86Config, when it goes to graphic