February 2001 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [Wylug-help] Apache logs suddenly truncated
by Frank Shute 02 Feb '01

02 Feb '01

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:39:58PM +0000, Nik Jewell wrote: > Jim > > Thanks for replying. The apache server not the box. > > I'm no expert on syslog.d working with http.d, but what I read from the logs is this: > > Every three months /var/log/messages [Ie. NOT the Apache logs] is rotated by a > cron job at 4.03 AM. > > Every time this happens the Apache error_log states that a SIGHUP was recieved > and Apache has restarted. > <snip> So logrotate is configured to give the Apache logs a HUP. Have a look at /etc/logrotate.conf or more likely under /etc/logrotate.d/ to see what else logrotate is doing with your Apache logs. On my machine this is where packages dump their logrotate configs including Apache. -- Frank *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* | Boroughbridge | Tel: 01423 323019 | PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 | *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Importing users into linux from NT
by Grainge, Derek 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

You cannot read passwords from an NT box. Something which a few hackers might like to contradict. i.e. If you have existing NT users and want Linux compatibility you will have to generate new passwords somehow - the question is how yo can control the process. However you can get user information, such as user names, full names: net use "Domain Users" /domain net use <username> /domain when run on an NT station will generate a list of users or all details on one user. (The /domain forces it to read details from the domain controller rather than the local station.) I'm sure there's a way to generate a list of details for all users in one go, in some sort of fixed width spaced or csv format - I just can't remember how right now! I have not tried the stuff which follows but I think it is possible: By a bit of scripting on the NT box and the Linux as well you can create a text list which can be used to generate Linux accounts. If you can write a script to generate a password as part of that, great. You have a text file which can be used to create Linux users and passwords. This looks like a perl sort of task. A bit of further script manipulation now needed to convert the Linux file into something containing lines of the form net use <username> <passwd> /domain /fullname:"<fullname>" This would change the NT password of an existing user. /add on the end would create a new user if need be. Your users now have linux and NT accounts with the same password. Tacky or what? I await comments telling me to bog off! There may be a simple way to do it which I have missed. Let's reverse the problem hovever. If a Linux box is the Primary Domain Controller of an NT network using Samba you can have NT logins which are user and password compatible with Linux, and which stay that way. To answer the second question, regarding using NT users, plainly samba can authenticate to an NT server - but I am unaware (until someone tells me) of a way of tying ftp under linux into that. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Brett [mailto:BrettA@epsomcollege.org.uk] > Sent: 01 February 2001 16:37 > To: suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com > Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Importing users into linux from NT > > > Is there a way to instantly import all the users from a Windows NT > domain into a linux machine. Either that or is there a way to let > linux use windows nt users - just i want to setup an ftp that all my > users of my nt can use. > > Thanks in advance, > Alex Brett > Network Technician > Downsend School > bretta(a)epsomcollege.org.uk > brett(a)downsend.co.uk > -- ******************************************************************************** All mail sent and received may be examined to prevent transmission of inappropriate attachments and certain obscenities. Wellington College does not accept responsibility for email contents. Problems to postmaster(a)wellington-college.berks.sch.uk. ********************************************************************************

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Importing users into linux from NT
by Alex Brett 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Is there a way to instantly import all the users from a Windows NT domain into a linux machine. Either that or is there a way to let linux use windows nt users - just i want to setup an ftp that all my users of my nt can use. Thanks in advance, Alex Brett Network Technician Downsend School bretta(a)epsomcollege.org.uk brett(a)downsend.co.uk

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RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] LDAP
by Simon Wood 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Hello Christopher, I believe you can achieve windows based log onto unix type eviroment via the Samba stuff. This means that a unix (linux) machine could be both a NIS/YP and SMB server to provide user authentication (from the standard unix password systems). That same machine could also provide shared drives via Samba or NFS. I sort of got it working at home, but other 'professionals' probably had more luck. Simon W.

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Squid Caches
by Gary Parr 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Hi How can I find out if squid is using a file in the cache rather than just fetching the page everytime? Also, I was told you can setup squid, so that when the traffic of the net connection is low, that i can update its cache with new versions of the files if required. Is this correct?? if so how do i enable it? Gary _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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LDAP
by Russell Webley 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Does anyone know a way in which I can centrally store usernames and passwords across several machines. This must be a very common situation in a school or college environment? I have a very mixed environment with an Exchange mail server, Mac Manager ontop of AppleshareIP and some Redhat boxes running Apache. I know that many of these machines support LDAP - I've also heard of a PAM module for Apache.... Anyone had a good experience of tackling this kind of issue? cheers, Russell RWe(a)southbank.org

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Proxy woes
by ptaylor 01 Feb '01

01 Feb '01

Dear all: I had a working squid proxy a few weeks ago but now it is ceased to be. I have had some help from various quarters (thanks to SuSE) but still no joy. I appreciate it is hard to diagnose when not in front of the device but... I had my linux box on a fixed address x.x.x.1 and our router goes through x.x.x.3 to dialnet. I set it up in September in about 2 nanoseconds but now I can't get it to work at all. Justin at SuSE gave me a few top tips and I determined that I could traceroute www.yahoo.com (e.g) but when I try to ping it it dies. I was told that there is some sort of internal firewall which I have yet to discover. The problem is that since Linux went down someone has taken over my ip address and installed a windows bow which fired straight up with win proxy. I can not get squid to work for the life of me and yet internally it is fine. Anyone know some useful diagnostic line commands to see what is happening and get some idea of how to proceed? Paul

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