debian autoinstall boot cd

2003-11-13 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Hello, we are trying to set up an autoinstall which will support all the newest network cards (including eepro1000). Although this is possible with the 2.2 kernel, things would be a lot easier if we could generate our own autoinstall CD images. The autoinstall-i386 package creates a file: /usr/

forcing a popup to KDE and GNOME users

2003-11-20 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Hi, I would like to force a Java popup window to all users who start an Xsession on our Debian boxes. We currently have kde and gnome installed, and neither of them seem to run commands from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (even when the user does not have a .xinitrc). I am having some small success mod

Re: forcing a popup to KDE and GNOME users

2003-11-20 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Hah! I have found the answer in modifying the scripts in /etc/gdm/Sessions Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: Hi, I would like to force a Java popup window to all users who start an Xsession on our Debian boxes. We currently have kde and gnome installed, and neither of them seem to run commands from /etc

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Looks like our beloved apt server was 'sploited :-( http://www.debian.org/News/2003/20031121 I am not sure what is in my rsync'ed mirror and when it is safe to install new packages :-( red wrote: All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen any ideas? Err http://non-us.debian.org unstab

how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

2003-11-25 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
I had previously used the web interface at lists.debian.org to get on this debian mailing list, but now that redirects me here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist Should I just wait until it can be restored or is there another way to subscribe? Many thanks to the entire Debian team and commun

cupsys - cupsd won't stay running!!!

2003-12-04 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Hi I guys, I am trying to install CUPS on a Debian image for workstations. On my PC, this works fine, apt-get install cupsys and a few others, and now I have a funny little webserver configuration on some port in the 600's. On our client image, this doesn't seem to work, and I admit it has me

Re: cupsys - cupsd won't stay running!!!

2003-12-05 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Do you have the parport kernel module installed, and the above directories and files in /proc with appropriate permissions? Most important, do you use the parallel port for your printer? No, I have not even configured a printer. I was hoping

Re: Connecting ADSL

2003-12-11 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Hi Tim, I am far from expert in this arena, but I have PPPoE working with my SNET DSL connection. I think I used dialup to grab the following tarball rr-pppoe-3.5.tar.gz. I also made sure I had ppp module and the modules for my ethernet cards and then it was a matter of filling in blanks. I wi

Re: I want spam!

2003-12-18 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Pray-tell, what anti-spam solution are you using? I setup mailscanner with SpamAssassin::Bayes and this is very effective. However, I still have 5-7 emails (out of hundreds) that slip through the filter every day. Using mozilla I drag these to the spam folder and a nighly cronjob sa-learn.pl's th

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

2004-01-05 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Mark Roach wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 08:50, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:30:48 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: What would be the best route to establish an encrypted or secure nfs session? There are several approaches: - Establish a VPN connection (e.g. F

apache with ldap_ssl authentication

2004-01-05 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
I have an Apache-ssl server with ldap authentication off of the Active Directory. From the client to the Apache server everything is ok. However the passwords are sent plaintext over an ordinary unencrypted ldap session. Apparently libapache-auth-ldap-1.6.0.deb does not support ldaps and need

Re: apache with ldap_ssl authentication

2004-01-05 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Nevermind, I believe I have resolved this myself. Debian mozilla-dev (1.0.0) does not have ldap_ssl.h Using the mozilla-dev from backports.org should provide the file. Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: I have an Apache-ssl server with ldap authentication off of the Active Directory. From the client to

Re: Evolution and Firebird

2004-01-05 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Josh Robinson wrote: Hi all, i'm not sure if this is the best place to ask about such things, but could anyone tell me, or direct me to a place where i can find out - how to tell firebird to use evolution to handle mailto: links and - how to tell evolution to use firebird to open webpages? at

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

2004-01-06 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Mark Roach wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:25, Brett Carrington wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:14:27PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: This might be encrypted, but hardly secure, for instance if user A has physical access to NFS client and user B has physical access to nfs client, what preven

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

2004-01-06 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Mark Roach wrote: Note: if you tell me that he is going to boot off a knoppix CD and crack root on the box to su to userB, you must give me at least one example of an alternative that is not susceptible to an attack by a malicious local root Andrew Filesystem (this very hard to set up and deman

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-07 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2004-01-06T14:15:29Z, Greg Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I recently tried a Belkin OmniView SOHO KVM (model no. F1DS104U), which claims to be Linux compatible, but it turned out to be rather flaky[1]. That's exactly the model I'm using. The only problems I ha

access to /dev/sound,/dev/dsp for current physical user

2004-01-08 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Hi I was wondering if anyone knew a clean way to make it so the user running any kind of Xwindows session is the only one who can access the sound device. It would be nice to make /dev/sound writable by any of our students, but I know it will not be long before they will start ssh'ing to machin

Re: set up simple mailing list?

2004-01-08 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Matt Price wrote: hey there, I'd like to set up simple mail account on my box to act as a mailing list for one ofm y classes. So if someone writes to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail is automatically frwared to a bunch of people. This should be simple, right? I tried writing an od-fashioned .for

sg, newgrp, group password?

2004-01-09 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Does anyone know how to set a group password? I have tried replacing both the x in the group file and the group- with both a DES crypt hash and an md5 crypt hash, but when I do sg audio and type the password, it doesn't work. I never even knew that such a thing as group passwords existed before

/etc/ioctl.save

2004-01-12 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
I noticed after an unclean shutdown (i.e. a system crash), Tripwire is reporting that /etc/ioctl.save has been modified. Does anyone know what this is? Is there reason for me to suspect that my system has been hacked? Rohit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: ProFTPD + LDAP

2004-01-12 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Hmmm, I've gotten LDAP auth working before. I'm far from expert. First I pulled our information from our NIS server into an LDAP server, then I just went into nsswitch.conf and stuck ldap before files for everything pretty much. Or if the Linux machine was already configured as an nis client,

Re: /etc/ioctl.save

2004-01-13 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
oops! sorry for cluttering the list. Shoulda googled first! Thanks for the direction! Nitebirdz wrote: In cases like these where you know _exactly_ what you are looking for Google comes in very handy. Check the following for more information: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/debian-us

esd, artsd

2004-01-16 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
I notice that when esd (runs under gnome) or artsd (kde) are running I cannot play mp3s. I guess they take an exclusive lock on /dev/dsp? Does anyone know a decent workaround? It is annoying. Rohit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac