Re: dhcp 2 nics

2003-11-18 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Henrik Christian Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I am trying to setup 1 box to run dhcp for 2 different networks. I > > have 2 network cards running each with a static IP on its network. I > > just cant figure out how to make the dhcp request from one nic gi

Re: file creation permissions

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:38:38 -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > > I don't know if its possible to modify the ownership of a newly created > file. > > He who creates, becomes owner. You can use the sgid bit to modify th

Re: file creation permissions

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > How would I force a newly created file by userA to have the permissions set > automatically to userB, groupB 775? > > What I am trying to do is when a user uploads a file to our ftp server > (proftpd) it does not create the file using their

Re: Hacked: .bash_history linked somewhere

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:45:32AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi, > > My server was trojaned recently, not sure how. > > It looks like /bin/ps was modified or replaced with > > a trojan. > >

Re: Hacked: .bash_history linked somewhere

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Maybe the file is immutable. Check with > > lsattr .bash_history > > You can use chattr to change it: > > chattr -i .bash_history Yes, that was it. It had a bunch of those permissions set. I chattr'd them all to off, and the file returned to norma

Hacked: .bash_history linked somewhere

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, My server was trojaned recently, not sure how. It looks like /bin/ps was modified or replaced with a trojan. The /root/.bash_history file is set to this: chsslx1:~# ls -la .bash_history -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Nov 7 05:31 .bash_history and I can't edit it or delete it. It

adduser broken

2003-10-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, My friends woody server is having problems adding users, groups and deleting users and groups. First, yes, the server is probably busted up good. A mix of mostly woody, with some sarge in there, and to top it off, some non-admins had root access, so who knows what happened. :) Anyway, when

Re: Samba 3 on stable

2003-10-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Has anyone installed Samba 3 (final) from untesting on a stable version > of Debian? Any concerns I should be aware of before giving it a try? My buddy said he tried it and it seemed to go smooth. but he said something about the smbpasswd file being

Re: Web-based e-mail system?

2003-10-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey, Debian users! > > I currently use a fetchmail / procmail / mbox / mutt e-mail setup, > with ssmtp (properly linked through `sendmail` of course) for sending. > I would really like to have a web mail system set up so that I can at > least read, if not send

simple text formatting

2003-10-05 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I have a file in this format of words: joe jill bill bob frank tom harry and want to convert the file to this format: joe jill bill bob frank tom harry Is there an easy way to this? The file I have has hundreds of entries. Thanks Mike - Th

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-05 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Aaron Cimolini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey Mike, > > Sounds like you are looking for some weight for your > argument that debian is the best. For some apps yes! > But in a situation with these macs you may be better > off getting a mix of OSX servers and some debian boxes > for the PCs. Ye

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Dan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, from the perspective of a boss I'd say it's not about you. > You're being paid to pull your hair out, so if the gains in productivity > from Apple hardware and OS are worth more then the cost and your salary, > your boss is probably not goin

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I haven't seen any uptime or speed benchmarks, so I can't comment on either > Debian vs. OS X with respect to uptime or speed. I would guess that you > would > require a bit less downtime with Debian, since you would be able to just > apt-get update &&

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Dan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just out of curiosity, if you were running Debian what architecture > would you be running it on? If you were going to be using the new G5 > regardless, I'd point out that many applications benefit from 64 bit > architectures (mySQL is a good e

Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi All, I'm a system's admin looking after several different sites at which most of them have woody servers. But some of the staff are pushing for OSX servers. The workstations range from PC's to Imacs. running all different OS's. I'm finding it difficult to convince them that OSX is not the way t

Re: Iptables is driving me nuts (beginner)

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting n/a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello there, > > For the past couple of days i've been looking into setting up an old pc as a > firewall/router for a couple of students. > > To do so i enabled iptables and started looking into configuration issues. > Eventually i came up with a config that wo

Re: Samba Shares, Unix Permissions, and Win2k clients

2003-02-18 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Team: > > I need a pointer to a reference for how SAMBA handles permissions. > > I have a straight-forward install where the SAMBA server is the PDC, all > users have Unix accounts, and the SAMBA shares are setup to use the Unix > permissions. > >

Re: Samba shared directory

2003-02-13 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I currently serve three WinXP machines with their home directories and a > read only archive directory. this all works fine. I want to supply a > communal directory that everyone can read and write to. I thought it > would be straight forward

Re: RES: vpn masquerade pptp

2003-02-03 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Samuel Lucas Vaz de Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Here, I dont have two linux machines (the masq in windows machines side is > done by the DSL router) then i'm using the Internet Connection Sharing on a > windows machine to share the VPN connection with the other machine. But, as

Re: Mailman problems

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can anyone else comment about Mailman working with an Exim MTA? > > I am about to install a Debian system for a customer to act as a file/print > server but also to run Mailman to blast out newsletters to a mailing list of > > over 5,000 people. Does it matte

Re: Adding Multiple Users

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Mark Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > I just ran across your message on a debian.org thread. Did > you find a way to import user accounts from a text file? > Were you able to add the samba passwords at the same time? > I'm looking to do the same. > Hi Mark, Yeah, I was able to d

Re: network print server

2003-01-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Michael West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I am looking for recommendation as to where to research what would > work best. I couldn't find anything at linuxprinting.org on this. Hi, I like to grab an old P100 or 486 from somewhere, clean off the dust and make it a dedicated prin

Re: Samba and XP Pro

2003-01-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Michael West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Searching google I get much confusing and contradictory information > about sharing files with Samba and XP pro. Usually version > information is not given. There are references to Samba patches, > and registry changes. What is the current sta

tar file extract specific

2003-01-09 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I have a normal backup tar file of my /home directory. Is it possible to extract certain or specific files out of this tar file without having to untar the entire file first? Thanks, Mike - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

Re: network settings

2003-01-08 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting "Rodrigo F. Baroni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello all, > >How to share a internet connection in a small > network ? I'm using few Pcs without dhcp > server/client. > # apt-get install ipmasq www.tldp.org will have a some good howto's on networking and firewalling/ipmasq stuff etc. C

Re: Samba setup question: security setting

2002-12-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I suppose this has nothing to do with Debain, but what does it mean to be > a Primary Domain Controler? And does that apply to Win98 and WinME > machines or only W2K/XP/NT machines? > > This will help setup control for your network. This applies to a

Re: Samba setup question: security setting

2002-12-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is it possible (and is it recommended) to move to security = user on my > home LAN when the Windows machines don't really have a password? I guess > what I'm asking is how best to setup Samba and the Windows machines I'm > running. And, more importan

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-16 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Rich Puhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hopefully, you're using ssh on all your machines. If so (and if you're > set up to use public keys for authentication, instead of passwords) you > could do something like: > > #/bin/sh > > servers="server1 server2 server3 server4"; > > for server in $

putty logout hang

2002-12-16 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Whenever I login to my woody server and run a command and place it in the background, I can't logout from the putty window properly. For example: I'll use putty (ssh), login and run an rsync command over the network. (This command may take 10 minutes) So I ^Z it, and then bg it to the backgroun

Re: Need help designing backup/server system

2002-12-13 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, You may want to look at using samba or smbfs. I sometimes use an smbmount command to mount a win98 share to my debian box. Then I can create tar files or rysnc the data to somewhere else. You can write a quick cron job that will do this auotmagically. hth, Mike > Thanks for that, but I ne

Re: dhcp setup

2002-12-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, What was wrong with your command? # apt-cache search dhcpd will show that a dhcp server is available with the debian package: dhcp Therefore, # apt-get install dhcp should get you the daemon you need. edit /etc/dhcpd.conf to setup your ranges and such. hth, cheers, Mike Quoting John Griffi

Re: secure network file access

2002-12-10 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi Matt, You may want to look at putting some kind of vpn service on your samba box. Windows has a vpn client to connect up. pptp is the basic but I hear the ipsec is better security. You'll have to compile new kernels and software. if you hunt at google, there a some pages out there that will hel

Re: Imp3/Horde2 just dumps me back to the login screen

2002-12-10 Thread Mike Egglestone
Does the http://yourserver.com/horde2/test.php check out ok? do the imp tests check out ok? Mike Quoting Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Has anyone had this problem before? > > Incidentally, the only reason I switched to horde2/imp3 from horde/imp2 is > because the older horde/imp2 started

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You might want to reconsider the project, frankly - why not make different > root passwords for different machines? That would seem to be a more secure > alternative. You can make them systematically different to save yourself > memorizing them all, by

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Rich Puhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hopefully, you're using ssh on all your machines. If so (and if you're > set up to use public keys for authentication, instead of passwords) you > could do something like: > I do have one server that already uses public keys and ssh's into the servers a

sync root passwords?

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Is there a debian package for syncing root passwords on multiple servers? If I had a 100 debian servers, and want the root passwords all be the same, is there a util that will sync just the root password? or perhaps someone has a script they use? At first glance, its appears that I start with

web based survey/database

2002-11-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I'm looking for a deb package (or any linux package) that would provide a web based solution for users to take surveys, answer questions and have the data stored in some kind of database to be displayed on a web page. Any such software packages out there? Thanks! Mike -

Re: Imp / horde

2002-11-21 Thread Mike Egglestone
> > So should I uninstall the php4 I install with apt-get, and download and > build my own ? Hi, I would just use the debian packages, they work fine. > Does anyone have any advice regarding getting Horde 2.1 / IMP 3.1 working > with Debian ? I found it kinda tricky to get it going, but once you

Re: linux file systems

2002-11-15 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting james leclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, relatively new debian user here. Could someone please point me in > the direction of a good tutorial on linux file systems. I guess I just cant > get myself out of thinking the ms-dos way:) > Thanks, > James > Hi, Check out: http://www.tldp.org

Re: Squid, Apache and Apple Browsers

2002-11-11 Thread Mike Egglestone
> When a local web page is edited, the mac computers > can see the new changes. > > -- Sorry I have a typo on my last post, It should say ..."mac computers can't see the new changes" Mike - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

Squid, Apache and Apple Browsers

2002-11-11 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I have a woody box running squid, apache. There are OS 9.x imacs on the network which have their browsers set to squid for surfing. (IE 5.1 and netscape 4.x are used) Here's the problem: When a local web page is edited, the mac computers can see the new changes. The refresh button is hit, but t

Re: Send a remote command?

2002-11-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Osamu Aoki said: > > > man ssh > > man ssh-agent > > > > I never used but debian web server mirrorsuses this to push content. > > Hi, I looked at the man page for ssh-agent but I'm not sure how to use it to restart a squid daemon. Any quick examples? Mike

Send a remote command?

2002-11-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Does anyone know of a way to send a remote command to a woody box? I would like to have box A restart a daemon process on box B all automagically? This even possible? Here's an example. I have one debian server with a .txt file on it as reference for a squid acl. This file needs to be updated

Re: Web site users, and ftp

2002-11-05 Thread Mike Egglestone
> I wan't users to be able to upload their content easily without hassle. > > Problem 1. When a user connects thorough ftp, presently they have to > change to the /var/www/users folder to upload data. This is a problem > because not only will they have trouble changing directorys, a smart >

Re: deleting directory

2002-10-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > can an entire directory be deleted without deleting its contents first? if > so how? > ian > Hi, Don't forget about looking at the manual for the rm command. # man rm Cheers, Mike - This mail sent through IMP:

Re: Kernel compilation

2002-10-30 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have not been able to find a document specific to Debian on upgrading the > kernel. I am running 2.2.20, but would like to use a 2.4 or better kernel. > > Can anyone explain it, or point me to a document SPECIFIC to Debian? I keep > finding Redhat-specific

Re: Wierd Install problem...long explanation.NEED advice

2002-10-30 Thread Mike Egglestone
Linux runs...but > the network connection is not working. Hi, Can you provide us with more info on your network setup? What is the output of ifconfig? Are you receiving a dynamically assigned IP? Checked your logs? Mike - This mail sent through I

ipmasq max connections?

2002-10-27 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I'm wondering if ipmasq has a max connections or if it has a limit of the number of IP's it can masq at the same time? I would like to guess that there is no limit, or maybe the limit is really high, like around 65,000 or something. but I have a subnet on my firewall running with a subnet mask

Re: kernel patch howto

2002-10-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
Crap, I forgot to put the --config=config (no ncurses or X) It took around 8 hours to compile everything. (P 166 with only 48 Meg of RAM) I'm going to have to start it over. Mike > After copying your config file over, you can: > % cd /usr/src/linux (or wherever you extract the kernel source

Re: Debian, too easy?

2002-10-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just thought of something while setting up port forwarding on my > server > First I searched google on how to do something like that and came > across a howto. I figured thats great and tried to work through it > but it was pretty technical a

kernel patch howto

2002-10-23 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I interested in setting up ipsec/l2tp on my woody box. I'm unsure how to patch my kernel. Here's what I've done so far: Installed woody with kernel 2.2 apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18 Rebooted back into my new stock 2.4 kernel apt-get install kernel-patch-freeswan apt-get install kernel-so

Re: echo message to users screen

2002-10-21 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I wanted the write. We have lots of servers with lots of techs. Some of them are very new to Debian. So, when were working on systems its nice to chat. We use the "talk" program as you mentioned. but as root is defaulted to mesg n then its nice to echo a message to their screen to say something

Re: echo message to users screen

2002-10-21 Thread Mike Egglestone
Thanks! This is exactly what I needed. Mike > I forgot to mention that the first method usually requires root > access, the second, may too. > > write is usually the 'standard' way to do it, but users can > easily disable it on their side by doing 'mesg n'. some systems > this is the default. >

echo message to users screen

2002-10-21 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I'm looking for a way I can send a small message to a user that is logged into the same box as me. If I run # w to see who is logged in, then I would like to echo something to their screen so I can tell them something. Any ideas? Thanks Mike

Re: Mailing list software for debian.org

2002-10-21 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > Which software package does this mailing list use > to run the list? > I understand that Mailman is popular but wonder what > others are out there. Mostly curious as to what > this list uses. Ahh, after checking arou

Mailing list software for debian.org

2002-10-21 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Which software package does this mailing list use to run the list? I understand that Mailman is popular but wonder what others are out there. Mostly curious as to what this list uses. Thanks Mike - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.or

Re: Terminal like server for linux

2002-10-18 Thread Mike Egglestone
I'm not sure if this is what your looking for but check out www.ltsp.org Cheers, Mike Quoting Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I know of a company, where users can access their desktops (apps) > through any web interface. The office is totally debian. So, what I > want to know, is what

Re: squid and HD size

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, That should be plenty. Squid's default cache size is around 100 megs. or you can set it to the amount you want. Unless you plan on using your server for other things, I can't see why 1 Gig of HD space isn't alot of space. Cheers, Mike Quoting Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The Sparc ha

Re: Mailman woes (new & improved) with exim

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Do you have aliases setup in /etc/aliases? Mike Quoting Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The odd thing is that a local user can send mail just fine. Could it be > that exim is refusing because mailinglistname doesn't have an account? > > Hmmm . . . > Cluebat? > Steve > -- > The only thi

Re: Mailman woes (new & improved) with exim

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello all, > > Well, I solved one problem with mailman (lockfile permission errors), > but now I have another. Exim is refusing to relay for mailman, and so > every time I send a message, only the local addresses are being > delivered. If anyone has

Re: OT: DNS servers

2002-10-13 Thread Mike Egglestone
Would it be unwise to install bind on your own box? and then set your resolv.conf to nameserver 127.0.0.1 ??? Mike Quoting "Gerald V. Livingston II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The name servers that I normall use with my ISP are having a few > "flakiness" issues today. I recall seeing a link to a

Re: New Debian User - Totally Impressed

2002-10-10 Thread Mike Egglestone
Welcome to Debian!! Mike Quoting Chip Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings, > > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. I am beyond ecstatic with > it. The install was easy (used 7cds from Linux Central), user-friendly, > the defaults were acceptable even for a total beginner. I don't

Re: IMP / Horde / php / Pear / MySQL

2002-10-10 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I had similar problems at first too. I used postgresql instead of mysql and it works for me. To make a long story short... I installed all related packages from sid. (I did one at a time) apache, php4, postgresql, horde2, imp3 etc etc. I think the only .deb that stayed "woody" was imapd and ex

Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue

2002-10-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, What does your /etc/apt/sources.list say? Mike Quoting Chris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > Firstly, my apologies if this is the wrong forum to post to, but from what > I've seen it seems like it's the correct place. > > I am having a strange apt-get upgrade issue on one of our pr

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-02 Thread Mike Egglestone
taken me two weeks to > configure on ANY distro. The point is that Debian is flaky, it is too stark, > > some call configuration tools "bloat", and call guis "evil", but > configuration tools are the way of the future, and guis have been around for > > 20 years. The problem is that these are

dhcp server subnetting

2002-09-27 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I have debian woody acting as a simple firewall/ipmasq box. eth0 public IP eth1 private IP. I'm serving out IP's on eth1 but would like to go beyond 256 nodes. Currently, this is the setup for eth1: Network 10.0.0.0 IP address 10.0.0.1 Netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 My dhcpd.con

Re: woody netatalk, can't change passwords

2002-09-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
11:42:28 hlndlx afpd[16163]: server_child[1] 16180 don Still don't understand. Cheers, Mike Quoting Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > I upgraded my potato to woody and now I can't > change passwords via the chooser. > An error occurs: > &

woody netatalk, can't change passwords

2002-09-24 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi All, I upgraded my potato to woody and now I can't change passwords via the chooser. An error occurs: "Your password cannot be changed, contact your admin". The syslog on the netatalk server reports this: ASIP session:548(2) from 10.0.0.144:49191(0) Sep 24 11:35:07 hlndlx afpd[16087]: dhx log

Re: IP Traffic accounting on a LAN

2002-09-23 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, You may want to check out ntop. Cheers, Mike Quoting Lucas Barbuto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi List, > > I'm hoping somebody here can help me. I've been asked to set up some > IP based accounting so that internet usage can be tracked on a per-user > basis at the office. I have three problem

Re: ssh `known_hosts' worry

2002-09-21 Thread Mike Egglestone
You may want to check your logs and look for information about where the connection was to. Perhaps that will tell you more. Mike Quoting Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I run woody, up to date with security fixes. The OpenSSH client and > server programs are installed. > > In $HOME/.ss

Re: not mailing output of cronjobs

2002-09-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, In your cronjob, add this just above your command, MAILTO="" This will mail to no one. Cheers, Mike Quoting Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all. > I tried to read man but with no success. > How do i avoid to get a report by mail of a specific cronjob? > I run it hourly a

Re: Linux in Universities

2002-09-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Good work!, One small suggestion, (if possible) add one big bold link to debian.org Cheers, Mike Quoting Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > not quite who to contact to get input from the Debian project > on this -- apologies if "debian-user" isn't the right place. > > I've put together

quick one about which realease I got

2002-09-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Just wondering if there's a quick way to know which release I have running? I know I can use "uname" but doesn't tell my Debian release. or I could just telnet localhost and see what comes up. but is there a quick fast way or command to see what I'm running? Thanks Mike ---

Re: Virtual Servers on Apache

2002-09-11 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > YES! > > That worked. > > Any ideas about how to tell Apache that the default file for a Host is a > particular file (i.e., for www.npc-usa.com the default (home) file is > NPC_Home.htm). Hi, I think you want to use this in httpd.conf: DirectoryIn

Re: ETH0 not recognized

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Egglestone
Sounds like your kernel isn't loading the module for your nic or something. I'm not a kernel expert so I can't help much. Perhaps run modconf to select the module for your nic. You may want to upgrade to a 2.4.x kernel too. Cheers, Mike Quoting "DSC@Siltec" <

Re: ETH0 not recognized

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Egglestone
> When I ifconfig, I get my loopback listed, but no eth0. > > Funny thing is, I can switch back to my pre-rebuild kernel, > and it's recognized again. > > So where's the error? What do I need to do to get this set up? > What does /etc/network/interfaces look like? Mike ---

Re: More samba questions

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > While I'm at it, any hints on optimizing samba a bit better for speed? > > A win95/98/NT machine averages about 1500 kps here. > > The w2k machine averages around 2500-3000 kps. > > I've done 8000 kps ftp's to the machine before. So just which si

netatalk 1.5 can't change passwd on OS9.2

2002-09-04 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi All, I have woody running netatalk with -setpassword in afpd.conf I'm trying to use the chooser from OS9.2 to change the users password but it won't allow it. The syslog reports that the uams_dhx_pam.c was successful, then reports that the password change failed. Any help troubleshooting this

Re: turn script to daemon?

2002-08-30 Thread Mike Egglestone
Thanks, The start-stop-daemon was what I needed. Mike Quoting Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > I have downloaded this unique program. > > (its a binary file of some sort that is used as a data

apt-get? non stable debs?

2002-06-30 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, What would one do if they were running a "stable" box, and wanted a package that was only offered in "testing" or "unstable"? Would you edit your sources.list to point to "testing"... apt-get update apt-get install packagename edit sources.list back to "stable"... apt-get update Is there a be

Re: horde

2002-06-30 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, yes, have it working with "sid" only. It was kinda of a pain to get going, but once up, it works good. You can either download the debs from www.debian.org or just apt-get install them. Cheers, Mike Quoting Expert User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Has anybody tried 2.1 horde with 3.1 imp on debian

Re: FreeSwan & ipchains

2002-06-27 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, You many want to look at using iptables with kernel 2.4.x Cheers, Mike Quoting curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Having compiled a 2.4.18 kernel with Freeswan I discover the following > problem: > > When I try to give the command, for example: ipchains -P forward DENY > I get an error: "ipchai

dns setup with domain name

2002-06-23 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I wondering if I can setup a dns server on my home network even though I don't have a registered domain name? Is this possible? I guess all I would need to do is install bind or something? Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Printing quota

2002-06-21 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, Is there a package to limit the amount of pages a user can printout? Would this quota work for users who auth against samba and netatalk as well? (assuming they were using a samba printer or netatalk printer) thanks Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Installing debian

2002-06-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi Steve, Sounds like all is OK except X isn't being setup properly for you. >From installing woody, you will need to run xf86config to setup your X windows. Its kinda picky and you must choose the right hardware. Once you have that setup correctly, install xdm if it isn't already or just run star

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-06-06 Thread Mike Egglestone
. Thanks Mike Quoting "Roach, Mark R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 12:34, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm still having problems. > > I started completed from scratch on my test-box. > > Here's my progress. > > I inst

Re: Squid, Windows clients, RFC931, oh my.

2002-06-05 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I'm not really sure if this is what you want. http://www.hacom.nl/~richard/software/smb_auth.html Cheers, Mike Quoting Peter Whysall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's the scenario. > > I have a Woody box running the Squid web proxy server, with the > oh-so-nifty Squidalyser log analyser doohi

Re: Athlon XP Motherboard Advice Sought

2002-06-02 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I can't say enought about how good ASUS boards are. They always seem to have solid components built on them, and I haven't had one let me down yet. A little more pricy perhaps, but worth it. cheers, Mike Quoting Simon Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Folks, > > I'm considering building an Athlo

installing debian

2002-05-31 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, All you need is the port for x86. Basically, you would need this iso image to create an install CD: binary-i386-1.iso check out: www.debian.org/CD/ Cheers, Mike Hi, I need to install Debian and I've looked at some of the information = about installation and I understand the first step is

simple traffic monitor/firewalls

2002-05-29 Thread Mike Egglestone
Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I have

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Sweet, I will try again! Mike On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 07:50, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi Mark, > Did you install postgres and horde2 from sid? > > mike Yes, it was sid. I think I understand your problem now, though. I am betting that your hosts file does not say 127.0.0.1 localh

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi Mark, Did you install postgres and horde2 from sid? mike On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 05:03, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > > By default postgres only listens on a unix socket. At the bottom of the > > pg_hba.conf file it tells you that you can set postmaster to allow > >

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
localhost 5432 but I shouldn't I try this as well: ? telnet hostname 5432 .. where hostname points to the real IP address of my server via /etc/hosts ? Thanks Mike Quoting Oliver Elphick : > On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 11:03, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > > > > By def

Re: upgrading from stable to woody

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, APT has to be the greatest thing ever. All you really need to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to either stable, or testing, or unstable and then run #apt-get update #apt-get dist-upgrade Obviously, you want woody, so you would point apt sources to "testing". To point th

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
> > By default postgres only listens on a unix socket. At the bottom of the > pg_hba.conf file it tells you that you can set postmaster to allow > tcp/ip access by putting > > tcpip_socket = 1 > > in your /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf > Hi, Yes, this was already set by the default. Could th

IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi all, Has anyone tried to install IMP3, horde2 and postgresql? I'm having trouble getting horde2 to setup the postgresql database. I keep getting this error message when I run: dpkg-reconfigure horde2 "you have to allow network requests to the postgres server" (or something close to that) So, I

batch add users to group

2002-05-04 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hello, I would like to add some users to a group in batch format. Something along these lines: adduser `awk F: '&3 >= 1000 {print $1}' /etc/passwd` groupname but this obviously doesn't work. I used to know of a command but I forgot it. Any help would be great thanks!! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

warnquota not doing anything

2002-04-19 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I installed quota on my potato box and did some testing. When I have user that is over their soft limit and then I run the warnquota commmand. Nothing happens.(just back to command prompt) I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this. Any hints? thanks Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: exim not sending email

2002-01-17 Thread Mike Egglestone
> I recommend trying to send a message manually (use telnet) and see > exactly what the interaction with the remote host is. Aternatively, > you can run exim with the -v option to see the SMTP interaction on > stderr. > eg : > $ /usr/sbin/exim -v < file_with_rfc822_message > Hi, I'm not sur

Re: exim not sending email

2002-01-17 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 16 January 2002 10:09 pm, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm having trouble sending email from my potato box. > > This is part of the log from /var/log/exim/mainlog > > Can anyone tell me whats happening

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