Re: Bad experience in installation

Hi, > Take note of Jamin's comments. Whatever anecdotes you read here > should not be considered data. Seconded. No data ahead here. > I've also had problems with IBM drives, but I believe it was a > particular model that was bad (it was a 60GB deskstar). A particular > model, I said, not a pa

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'makemenuconfig'

Hi Breno, > I've googled for it, and searched the debian-user lists' archive, and > found nothing useful there, except for one page which refers to SUSE, > and said: That's weird, the solution should have been in the archives. I'll go check.. > Even then, I cannot find the ncurses-devel package

Re:

Hi Royer, > please can someone tell me how tu unsuscribe ? Well, actually... yes! :-) > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try it, it usually works. I'm not CC-ing you, so I hope you don't get this message... Nico

Re: Kernel version 2.4

Hi Remon, > Can anyone think of a solution? (I'm not familiar with recompiling > kernels etc) Learn how to compile and deploy your own kernel. I've made a habit of making that the second thing I do on a newly installed box. Configuring sudo being #1. It's not hard and well documented. Plus,

Re: bind for beginners

Hi Keith, > 1: How do I convert a debian machine from dhcp to static ip > address man interfaces > 2: Can a network exist with some machines dictation their IP > address and other (windows) machines getting their addresses > from a dhcp server, and all of

Re: modem compatibilty

Hi John, > Some months ago I bought a modem as a spare for the wife. Wow, impressive. No modem can replace *my* wife! ;-) > The modem is an external one made by (?for) Microcomputer > Research UK Ltd, uses a serial port and has a model No 1456 > EVS. The main chip inside the case shows:- >

Re: allow ftp but not ssh?

Hi, > What I'm after is disabling ssh access for ftp users. > I did it by adding AllowUsers users in sshd_conf. > > Any other ways to do it? Yup, hand out "/bin/false" as shell and add that to /etc/shells (perhaps depending on the ftp server in use? anyone for an ftp server with virtual users?)

Re: ssh into a webserver on a shared host

Hi Kevin, > When I generate the publickey on the home box, it generates a key for > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can upload this to the SSH server (host), but > automatic signin obviously isn't going to happen. > > Anyone been down this path before? Yup, I routinely do that. Have you actually tried this

Re: Samba permissions

Hi Curtis, > Now, if I add a line "valid users = user1, user2, user 3" then of > course, just they can get in. But that doesn't seem to be the right > solution. The right solution would be to permit only accounting group > > users into the folder. What am I doing wrong? Try "valid users = @a

Re: Need help for Toshiba Libretto 70 CT

Hi Kumar, > I have Toshiba Libretto 70 CT. I have booting problem. How do i go into > Setup mode ? I have a Satellite Pro 470CDT, which goes into setup mode when powering up with the Esc key pressed. I don't know about any Libretto stuff, but who knows? Good luck... Nico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: apache-ssl + squirrelmail

Hi Tom, > Suggestions? In your apache httpd.conf, under the definition of your 'main site' (the one which serves from /var/www; might be a virtualhost): Redirect permanent /squirrelmail https://[yoursite]/squirrelmail Top of mind here, so please check the apache docs. HTH... Nico -- To UNS

Re: SMTP standards : needs outgoing SMTP server be MX for my domain?

Hi, > Actually, I see no good reason why outgoing mailer should be the same as MX. There is none, other than maybe spam protection. There are setups which for instance check whether any mail with a sender @yahoo.com actually is coming from a yahoo.com mail server. I see more good reasons for *

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

Hi all, > Unfortunately I can not remember the > specific names but one was a product issued by Samsung. It's Samsung Contact, I believe: http://www.samsungcontact.com/en/ More info can also be found here: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/08/07/2225239.shtml?tid=30 HTH... Nico -- To UNSUBS

Re: server monitoring program

Hi Kevin, > I'm looking for a program that does simple testing to see if these sites > are "just up and running" (i.e. as simple as a periodic ping). Almost > needless to say, I'm not on the same network as these machines, so > firewalls will be present on both my end and the server end. Haven't