Anyone able to help with PAM please ??

Read the HOWTO twice ... still feeling totally dumb 8-< Situation: have a POP3 server (qpopper-4) which uses the following lines in it's PAM config file /etc/pam.d/qpopper authrequiredpam_unix_auth.soshadow accountrequired pam_unix_acct.so now the behaviour I would li

Re: Adding Drives

Sorry but I am confused. If you add a physycal hard disk, the kernel upon recognizing it will assign a DRIVE id such as /dev/hda for the first IDE drive, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc for the third IDE and so on. Now, on you /dev/hdc drive you will need some partitions. Each primary partition is called /dev

Re: Xfree is not working

What XFree level package did you install ? How did you generate the XF86Config-4 ? Cheers. Bob - Original Message - From: "Raffaele Sandrini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2001 1:13 Subject: Xfree is not working Hi, I have updated woody yesterday. As i could se

PCMCIA, Token Ring and newer kernels

I now have an unstable dist working fine on my PC ... only thing I am keeping back is the pcmcia-cs and source and the 2.2.19 kernel from potato since my Token Ring PCMCIA works with these ... For a number of other reasons I'd like to go to 2.4.10 ... any experience on the TR PCMCIA out there ??

backup to CD

My Debian box has an internal scsi CD burner. I would like to periodically (weekly ?) backup my /etc (around 8 megs) and some (not all) of my /home directories. Can I setup some task to perform such backups on the CD (multiple sessions ? multiple files ?) until it's filled up ? Thank you. Bob A

Administration interface ...

I have a Debian box used only by a few friendly users for very practical services such as squid, dns, ftp, samba etc... The Debian system is sooo incredibly intelligent 8-> that it magically mostly takes care of itself. I just lazily have a look from now and then at the df output, sometimes check

Re: dns and exim troubles ...

cat /etc/resolv.conf what dows it say ? it should point to a working DNS to check if that DNS is up and running: nslookup - x.y.w.z where x.y.w.z is the IP address of the named daemon you are pointing to at the > prompt ask to resolve your hostname (fully qualified ending with a dot e.g. www.d

Re: Pop server...

Could you advice on names of Debian packages supporting secure POP3 and/or IMAP that can use be used via MS Outlook Express clients ? Than you very much. - Original Message - From: "Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexander Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Kurt Lieber" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Any HOWTO on PAM ? (qpopper pop3 auth)

I would like to have qpopper authenticating not on the system's userid/password but on it's own userid's/passords (to avoid passing system passwords in the clear). Someone told me that qpopper supporto PAM authentication ... >From here to getting what I want I am afraid I'll have to study quite a

Tool to estimate ftp and/or http performance

Say I have a list of mirrors from which to choose (for example Deian). Some may use ftp, some HTTP. My employers network is soo large and opaque (routing, proxy hyerarchy, etc.) to us poor end users that it's not always (or I should say almost never) true that FTPing or HTTPing to a mirror in my

Re: Lost cursor in X

You would not believe this !!! I was banging my head with my Matrox G400 board and XFree86 4.1 and with a great help from other guys I had a visible screen but the cursor started jumping everywhere on the screen as soon as I touched it for the first time Your Option "sw_cursor" fixed this !!

[newbie]Please help with Matrox G400 and XFree 4.1.0

Dear friends, I have desperately searched some appends but really cannot understand if they apply to my case. With XFree 3.x I had a perfect XF86Config for my Matrox G400 driving my 16" TFT display. Upgraded to 4.1.10 (on a 2.4.10 kernel) and am not able to get the XF86Config-4 to work and I cann

Help with a large disk parition

I have a 18GB SCSI HDD. I have created a first partition (around 6GB) which is labeled /dev/sdb1. It's in use and works great (a Squid cache). Now I would like to create a Debian rsync mirror on the last 12GB ... created the partition with fdisk. here is the pic: lori-renato:/home# fdisk -l /d

I must have mistreated a potato ;-> can anyone help me please ?

I had a nice and clean potato installation. At a certain point I needed to install a qpopper 4.x debian package which forced me to upgrade libc6 to 2.2.4 After a certain number of problems with apt-get which I cannot clearly reconstruct I am in the following position. An apt-get -f install remov