automatic recovery on power-down

Hi! I'd like to ask why my Debian server, on a power-down or black-out, always requests for root to do an fsck etc. Is there any way I can automatically get the server up and running again? Is this a good solution? Or is it better off having root to do a manual fasck etc first? Thanks!

automatically get the server up

Hi! I'd like to ask why my Debian server, on a power-down or black-out, always requests for root to do an fsck etc. Is there any way I can automatically get the server up and running again? Is this a good solution? Or is it better off having root to do a manual fsck etc first? Thanks!

question about Maildir and Webmail

users? Is there a Debian package for it? Is it the "imp" package? Thanks a lot. Umum Wijoyo

permission problems

gly? TIA Umum Wijoyo

Debian 2.2r2 CD images

Hi! Have the Debian 2.2r2 CD images been released anywhere yet? I'd like to make some; I've been looking and only found 2.2r0 images. OK! TIA. Umum Wijoyo

Re: burning CDs

d it out for a real install yet... Anyway... I see we still need some floppies to do an install? Is it possible that we install directly from the CD (e.g. bootable CD or something like that)? Wouldn't that be much better? Less fuss for Debian newbies? OK! Thanks... Umum Wijoyo -- Bandung, Indonesia

burning CDs

Hi! Can anyone help me to burn some Debian 22 CDs? I'm using the Golden Hawk Technology software. Any reference would be helpful. TIA Umum Wijoyo -- Bandung, Indonesia

web-based mail

Hi! I'd like to provide a web-based mail service for my users. Are there any Debian packages for that? What abt its security (I mean, when a user enters his/her password)? OK! TIA Umum Wijoyo -- Bandung, Indonesia

Debian 2.2 CDs

Hi! Would like to ask how I can make a copy of Debian 2.2 CDs? Can I just download the iso files from a Debian ftp server, and burn them to a CD? Would I need the boot floppies, or will the CDs be bootable? Are there any manuals on these stupid questions of mine...??? ;-p TIA Umum Wijoyo

quota error

Hi! I'd just like to ask: How come any of my users with a uid of 1024 (uid=1024), always experiences quota problems? Is there anything magical about the number 1024? (I know that 1 kb = 1024 bytes...) Or did I just set my system's quota incorrectly? OK! TIA... U

scrambled chars on tty

Hi... I'd just like to ask: Why do several of my tty-s display scrambled characters? I can't login using them; if I do, I also get a scrambled shell prompt. What's happening? OK! Thanks. Regards, Umum Wijoyo

StarOffice

Hello, Are there any StarOffice packages available for Debian? If not, can I manually install StarOffice on a Debian machine (Will there be any problems whatsoever?) Thanks!

kernel-2.2.16

Hi, I read in the Debian Security section, there's a serious bug in the Linux kernel, and we are advised to do an upgrade. So where can I find the kernel-2.2.16 source? This version is OK, I presume? OK! Thanks! Umum Wijoyo -- Bandung, Indonesia

question on "w"

Hello... If anybody could help me: I've noticed that the "w" program on Potato/Frozen is a bit different from the one when I was still using Slink/Stable. What I mean is, the "WHAT" colom: it sometimes just displays a "-", and not what the user is actually doing. How is this? I know there are a

Telnet security

The previous discussion on Telnet security interested me. I would thus like to ask: How do you tell that ssh is running during your Telnet/Rlogin connection? How do you set-up ssh to work? I'm afraid I've been thinking that ssh was already working on my Linux box, but actually it wasn't...??? :-p

"wall" permission

Can anybody help me here? I don't know why, but my "wall" program permission seems to get violated each time by normal users. It always changes to root: tty ownership. ??? Urip Hudiono --- Bandung, Indonesia

program permissions

Hello... Is there a ghost in my machine? Some of my programs somehow seem to get there permissions changed (programs in /usr/sbin, /usr/bin). How is this? Has someone cracked into my system without me knowing? If anybody could help me out? Thanks! Urip Hudiono -- Bandung, Indones

security hole in PAM?

Hello again... I've noticed that Debian frozen/potato has already used the PAM security scheme... I also heard somewhere that PAM has a security hole? Using a so-called slam.sh script, some Red Hat distros have become vulnerable... Is this also a problem with the Debian distro? Should I, or shoul

php3 supporting MySQL

Hello again... I've installed these following .deb packages: - apache --> works fine! - MySQL --> works fine! - PHP3 --> why can't it support MySQL? Can anybody help me with this? Thanks! Urip Hudiono -- Bandung, Indonesia

X color depth

Hello... How can I set my X color depth to be more than 8 bpp (say... like 16 or 24)? Does this have anything to do with my video card config? (I think I've set up my S3 Savage 3D card correctly...) When we were still using RedHat 6.2, we had no problem: our X display was fascinating! It even lo

how to close ports

Hello... I used nmap to check what ports were open on my box; I found some questionable open ports... such as 2 "unknown" ports, 1 "listen" port, ...and what actually is the "sunrpc" port for? Should I, and how can I, close these ports? (Or am I being a bit too paranoid?) Thanks! Urip Hudiono -

"write" source

Hello... Does anybody know where I can obtain the source code for the "write" program? I would like to modify and compile it according to my own system needs. :-) Thanks! Urip Hudiono -- Bandung, Indonesia

kernel upgrade

Is it safe for me to upgrade to Linux kernel 2.2.14 yet? I've just upgraded from slink/stable to potato/frozen, but kept my old 2.0.38 kernel. Thanks in advance. Urip Hudiono -- Bandung, Indonesia

Re: some questions

Hello... I got my "issue.net" working again... ...but still cannot figure out how toimpose quotas onmy users... If nayone can help me... Thanks. Urip Hudiono -- Bandung, Indonesia

some questions

Some questions from a newbie: 1. How do you impose quotas in Debian? I've RTFM, and tried to follow them, but still couldn't. Could anybody give me a bit of a crash-course here, please? 2. I've installed ssltelnet for users who telnet to our system... ...but then the issue.net doesn't show up (