Hi,
I have been using Debian unstable on my machine for the more than a year now ... Are there other Debian users out there on the list??
I need to come up with arguments to atleast try out Debian instead of RedHat. I use it for the sheer ease of upgrades and stability. But I need arguments strong enough to convince sysads and end-users alike to try it out, and to justify setting up a Debian mirror.
In fact, Debian is not too popular here in the IIT ... I posted a problem on the local newsgroups, and imagine, not a single reply!!!
Sameer.
--- "Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" sameerds@it.iitb.ac.in wrote:
Hi,
I have been using Debian unstable on my machine for the more than a year now ... Are there other Debian users out there on the list??
[snip] i know of many deb users on our ML....letz wait nd c h how many put up their handz...;)
I need to come up with arguments to atleast try out Debian instead of RedHat.
[snip] dude...
i hope we aren't gonna start nd flame ware again....;) "The distro debate......". Don' get me wrong sameer.....experience tellz me that the most stable distro for servers and development.........Debians the word. Fortunately/Unfortunately.....when uninformed 1st time users go around askin for Linux.......,"they generally mean RedHat..., cause thatz the brand the Linux has been synonymised with.....Nd the credit goes to the media." Undoin the trend is wat we've been doin all along...;)
More than half a decade ago....when i was a novice hacker......this was all that that i knew..."RedHat". Pple may call it ignorance.......but that was all that i could lay my handz on @ that point of time....nd with a 56k dialup line.......thingz rnt ny better these dayz......my cable conntn sucks @ <3Kbps.
I think it'z the sheer variety in the Linux world of which many of us profit from the choice, while some get turned away by the complexity due to the magnimous choices available.
Lemme put a point accross.....i have used most of the distros available out there.......
Including Debain.....in this endeavour of ur's can u make it apoint to raw up the weak points/stron points of the various popular distros.
It will surely help pple(newbies....admins...vry1) guage wat they want .........nd it would b a better way of lettin the user decide on wat he/she wantz depending on the application deployment/development scenario.
Trevor Warren
I use it for the sheer ease of upgrades and stability. But I need arguments strong enough to convince sysads and end-users alike to try it out, and to justify setting up a Debian mirror.
In fact, Debian is not too popular here in the IIT ... I posted a problem on the local newsgroups, and imagine, not a single reply!!!
Sameer.
MTech Student, Reconfigurable Computing Lab, KReSIT, IIT-Bombay.
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Hi. I am using RH 7.1 with wu-ftp server. My ftp server is taking too much time for logging. For this problem I got solution from web for removing userid option from /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftp. So i removed it and tried , but still not successful.
I also made chages in /etc/pam/pam.conf. For every auth i replaced with "sufficient" instead of "required".
I tried to add with entry of IP address in /etc/hosts.
I am attching configuration file with this mail.
pl. help me
unmesh
FTP file /etc/pam.d/ftp #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_shells.so account sufficient /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth session sufficient /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
wu-ftpd file /etc/xinet.d/wu-ftpd # default: on # description: The wu-ftpd FTP server serves FTP connections. It uses \ # normal, unencrypted usernames and passwords for authentication. service ftp { disable = no socket_type = stream wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd server_args = -l -a -I log_on_success += HOST PID log_on_failure += HOST nice = 10 }
*************************** xinetd.con file # # Simple configuration file for xinetd # # Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/
defaults { instances = 60 log_type = SYSLOG authpriv log_on_success = HOST PID log_on_failure = HOST }
includedir /etc/xinetd.d
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Unmesh Dhake wrote:
I am using RH 7.1 with wu-ftp server. My ftp server is taking too much time for logging. For this problem I got solution from web for
Please clarify. Is it taking time for logging or for logging in? They are two completely different and unrelated problems with different solutions.
--- Philip S Tellis philip@konark.ncst.ernet.in wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Unmesh Dhake wrote:
I am using RH 7.1 with wu-ftp server. My ftp
server is taking too
much time for logging. For this problem I got
solution from web for
[snip] b it loggin in ...or loggin......get the wu-ftpd service off the machine....
my wu-ftpd on rh7.1 was cracked by some smart alec from israel sometime ago........check out proftpd. Much more secure.....Seriously dude....check this out now or some1 is gonna take ur baby down reallll hard....;)
Trevor Warren
Please clarify. Is it taking time for logging or for logging in? They are two completely different and unrelated problems with different solutions.
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I am using RH 7.1 with wu-ftp server. My ftp
server is taking too
much time for logging. For this problem I got
solution from web for
b it loggin in ...or loggin......get the wu-ftpd service off the machine....
Check your resolv.conf file for the nameserver entry. If the name server is not reachable then wu-ftpd mysteriously takes time for logging IN.
-- Ashok
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+++ Ashok Iyer [14/06/02 21:36 -0700]:
I am using RH 7.1 with wu-ftp server. My ftp
server is taking too
much time for logging. For this problem I got
solution from web for
b it loggin in ...or loggin......get the wu-ftpd service off the machine....
Check your resolv.conf file for the nameserver entry. If the name server is not reachable then wu-ftpd mysteriously takes time for logging IN.
This is not mysterious. The ftp daemon is trying to resolve the ip address of the connecting ip to a name, and timing out since there is no record for that in the DNS. Setting up proper reverse DNS will solve that problem. You will see this problem with any service that insists on reverse DNS being setup, like a pop/imap daemon, ftpd, etc.
As for a good ftp daemon, why not just use scp if possible? Or at least sftp. Proftpd is good, and easy to configure. Pureftpd is also supposed to be good.
Devdas Bhagat
Hi,
How can I configure and enable cgi-bin for all users on the machine?
Thanks.
Goldwyn :o)
--- Goldwyn Rodrigues goldwyn_r@myrealbox.com wrote:
Hi,
How can I configure and enable cgi-bin for all users on the machine?
[snip] dude... do u mean...u want pple to be able to execute cgi scripts from ur werb server..... if thatz the case....just enable this type in Apace's config file..... Unhash the following line......
#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
Trevor Warren
Thanks. Goldwyn :o)
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Oops! I'm sorry I should have phrased the question properly.
What I want is that all users have their own directory cgi-bin in their public_html directory and the scripts can be executed from there only.
I played a bit with the Directory Tags but it din't work out. Gives me an error, forboidden 403 error.
dude... do u mean...u want pple to be able to execute cgi scripts from ur werb server..... if thatz the case....just enable this type in Apace's config file..... Unhash the following line......
#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:19:16AM +0530, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
What I want is that all users have their own directory cgi-bin in their public_html directory and the scripts can be executed from there only.
<Directory /home/<user_name>/public_html/> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
You can put * also in place of <user_name> to allow users to put cgi scripts in there cgi-bin directories.
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:19:16AM +0530, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
What I want is that all users have their own directory cgi-bin in their public_html directory and the scripts can be executed from there only.
<Directory /home/<user_name>/public_html/> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all
</Directory>
You can put * also in place of <user_name> to allow users to put cgi scripts in there cgi-bin directories.
I think better would be:
<Directory /home/*/public_html> Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks ... </Directory>
<Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin> Options ExecCGI </Directory>
On 14 Jun 2002, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
I have been using Debian unstable on my machine for the more than a year now ... Are there other Debian users out there on the list??
There are many Debian users here at NCST(which infact out numbers Redhat users).
I need to come up with arguments to atleast try out Debian instead of RedHat. I use it for the sheer ease of upgrades and stability. But I need arguments strong enough to convince sysads and end-users alike to try it out, and to justify setting up a Debian mirror.
I haven't used RedHat much but still i will try to put some arguments as per my readings and experience with Debian.
-> Debian has largest number of developers in compare to other Linux distribution. So institute like IIT where learning and developing is the main aim, it should transfer from RedHat to Debian.
-> As u must be knowing Debian has three flavour Stable, Testing and Unstable. Its Unstable is pretty stable(I have been using it since 4 months now, not a single crash up to now). If u use Unstable, ur leaving at bleeding edge technology which is very much important for institute like IIT. It means, students are using s/w and seeing code which are currently under development.
-> It has Highest number of softwares available on Linux. Finding any new software and installing it is very very simple.
-> As u mentioned, It is very easy and comfortable to upgrade the system.
-> One report says, it has lowest bug fixing time cycle among all Linux flavor, once bug is reported or found out.
-> Well, Finally, Debian is the only flavour which follows GNU ethics by saying Linux at GNU/Linux not only Linux.
-Dharmesh
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