Re: Broken reverse DNS - after recent bind upgrade?

2001-01-30 Thread Terry Boon
addr.arpa.) and all is working well. Many thanks to those who helped me sort this out. Now I'm astounded that versions of bind preceding 8.2.3 were able to make any sense of my configuration at all... Terry - -- Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: BIND not working (was RE: NFS hangups.)

2001-01-30 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:20:49PM +, Terry Boon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:21:46PM -0800, Alex Swavely wrote: > > I think I figured it out... BIND was just upgraded on this machine, the > > security release, and the on

Re: BIND not working (was RE: NFS hangups.)

2001-01-30 Thread Terry Boon
y. The consensus appears to be that I need to reformat my configuration files. (I've still to test that it works.) Terry Boon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 iD8DBQE6dzAvB+GG7A6DEUARAj3zAKDyovO27FIg2An8jq6wWr+QXG564w

Broken reverse DNS - after recent bind upgrade?

2001-01-29 Thread Terry Boon
rpa" in { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.172.16.0"; }; === Extract from db.172.16.0 === ; BIND master database file ; 172.16.0 ; Created by Terry Boon on 7 January 2001 172.16.0.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA poulenc.herts.counterfactual.org. terry.counterfactual.org (

Re: Machine/Domain Name

2001-01-12 Thread Terry Boon
host. This is used in the HELO # command for outgoing SMTP messages, and as the default for qualify_domain. # If it is not set, Exim calls uname() to find it. primary_hostname = [snip] - -- Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU

Re: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

2001-01-04 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:11:11PM -0500, Mike wrote: > Mithras wrote: > > I'm also looking for a book, a late Xmas gift for my dad who's been > > getting into Linux. I'm confident he has enough newbie literature to > > help him when I'm not around (I

Re: How to make a new rescue boot disk for new Kernel?

2000-12-29 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 04:12:01AM -0800, Jack O Max wrote: > Can someone tech me step by step to create a new escue > boot disk in Debian after I built a new Kernel 2.2.18 ? "man mkboot" may be helpful. - -- Terry Boon, Hertford

Re: 'sendmail' option in Muttrc but working??

2000-12-26 Thread Terry Boon
ult value. The manual gives it as follows: 6.3.176. sendmail Type: path Default: "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi" Specifies the program and arguments used to deliver mail sent by Mutt. Mutt expects that the specified program interprets additional arguments as recipient addresses. -- Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network config easy question

2000-12-25 Thread Terry Boon
seful. DNS hosts are specified in /etc/resolv.conf. "man resolv.conf" is useful here. -- Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody Packages-file references potato debs

2000-12-24 Thread Terry Boon
ing is a new branch of Debian to complement stable and unstable. New uploads enter unstable, and if no bad bugs are found in two weeks time, flow into testing. Thus, testing is always in an "essentially releasable state". - -- Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEG

Re: Mutt/exim - multiple email addresses

2000-12-17 Thread Terry Boon
ks", so that under specified conditions (eg being in a particular folder), a predefined From address is used -- or (I think this is possible) by binding a command like set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to a single key. - -- Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Terry Boon
re, though -- a similar mindset kept me persevering with sendmail for rather longer than necessary before switching to the rather friendlier Exim last month.) Best wishes, Terry - -- Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux

Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Terry Boon
current installation of grub (whose configuration is sitting in the Mandrake partition)? Many thanks for any help. Best wishes, Terry - -- Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processe

Re: Howto make exim not listen on port inet 25

2000-09-16 Thread Terry Boon
http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html (You actually specify the IP address at which you want to listen rather than the interface name, but in the scenario you describe I think that this should suffice.) Best wishes, Terry Boon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Proces

Re: Strange syslog messages on console

2000-09-10 Thread Terry Boon
lame me, not him!) The subject was "Strange broadcast message from syslogd"; the mailing list archives should have more details. See http://www.debian.org/security/2000/2719a for more information of the exploit. Best wishes, Terry Boon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG