-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sergio Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so nobody answered anything about my previous posting (bellow), > but I found the SPLAT installation disc contains an RPM for Telnet, so > we are going to try with that.
I think nobody answered you because we may feel that you are proceeding in the wrong direction. The solution you describe is probably going to be fragile, and not really work as effectively as you think it will. > This guy, obviously more Linux knowledgeable than me, says he tried > adding the extra paths he needs using $path:, and usually on any other > Red Hat, he adds that in .profile or etc/profile so the changes are > not lost, but he did that in SPLAT and did not work, so we need to > know how to go about that. SPLAT is not "just a red hat box with checkpoint on it." It is a hardened OS platform. That means many features you find on a generic Linux server will be missing, and that is BY DESIGN. Missing components and services cannot be exploited. If you add them, you are reducing the security of your box. This box is just a firewall, and you would do better to treat it as just that. Your customer installed SPLAT for a reason. If he wanted a regular Red Hat box running Checkpoint, then he should have installed that. I guess he would have been happier that way. One of the problems you are likely running into is that the admin account has a shell of /bin/cpshell, which cannot just run standard commands. If you want to proceed with this, you might need to create another account, or use the root account, which has a shell of /bin/bash. The bash shell should obey your expecations about reading .profile or /etc/profile in order to set paths correctly. The "expert" shell that you get is a subshell, and so it does not read the .profile or /etc/profile, but that will not necessarily be the case for a script that you launch via cron, or some other mechanism. - -- David DeSimone == Network Admin == [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. -- Robert Benchley -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGlrACFSrKRjX5eCoRAiBLAJ0eiMpjWlGyakMHtVuvKKvxeOT39ACfQ4md uj5aDH8GBH2GOBjSotQ7oxE= =DPD+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
