Re: script

[Jasper Jans]

and its not /;
its \;

so that would make it

find / -name deal.letter -exec rm {} \;

notice that the name you are looking for is not dead.letterS but
dead.letter

J.

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From: "Charles Galpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: script


| actually, the '.' will match any character. So it will also match
| dead_letters, dead-letters, deadaleters etc.
| 
| hth charles
| 
| On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote:
| 
| > >find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
| > >
| > >Note, all of that has to be there.
| > >HTH, HAND
| > >Bill Ward
| > 
| > The double-quotes are not necessary as there are no embedded special
| > characters or spaces.
| 
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question about linux performance

[Mark Ivey]

Hi,
I have a question about general linux performance.  It seems like my linux
box at home doesn't run like it ought to (specifically, it seems like it
was faster under windows).  Here are the stats on it:

pentium 200mmx, 32 mb ram, 70 mb swap, matrox mystique w/ 4mb
I'm running a stock redhat 6.0 system

So, here is my question.  Under windows 95, I used to be able to have
something like 15 netscape windows open before it would start to run out
of memory and thrash the disk.  Under linux, I can't seem to get more than
about 7.  Isn't linux supposed to be smaller/lighter/quicker?  Is one of
the programs I'm running (X, kde, netscape) a real resource hog?  What can
I do to get this thing to run a little better?  Thanks...

-Mark-



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HELP! PPP login failure with Realm Authentication

[gnielson]

I posted a previous message and have since tried to get PPP working with
my ISP's new "Realm Authentication" login procedure, which requires a
new login, and DNS settings.

I think I almost have it working. But the /var/log/messages file shows
the error "Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Problem
all had bit 7 set to 0"? I am trying to be as thorough as possible with my
config information by including excerpts from my message file, my ppp-on
script, ppp-on-dialer script, excerpts from my ppp-log file and my
resolv.conf file. I guess I need to set to 8 bits and I am not sure how to
alter my files to do so.

Any help much appreciated!

## var/log/messages file:

Dec 11 00:13:01 localhost chat[12352]: timeout set to 3 seconds
Dec 11 00:13:01 localhost chat[12352]: abort on (\nBUSY\r) 
Dec 11 00:13:01 localhost chat[12352]: abort on (\nNO ANSWER\r) 
Dec 11 00:13:01 localhost chat[12352]: abort on (\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r) 
Dec 11 00:13:01 localhost chat[12352]: send (rAT^M) 
Dec 11 00:13:01 localhost chat[12352]: expect (OK) 
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: nAT^M^M 
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: OK -- got it 
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: send (ATH0^M) 
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: timeout set to 30 seconds
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: expect (OK) 
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: ^M 
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: ATH0^M^M 
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: OK -- got it 
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: send (ATDT969-9801^M) 
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: expect (CONNECT) 
Dec 11 00:13:02 localhost chat[12352]: ^M 
Dec 11 00:13:25 localhost chat[12352]: ATDT969-9801^M^M 
Dec 11 00:13:25 localhost chat[12352]: CONNECT -- got it 
Dec 11 00:13:25 localhost chat[12352]: send (^M) 
Dec 11 00:13:25 localhost chat[12352]: expect (Username:) 
Dec 11 00:13:25 localhost chat[12352]:  38400^M 
Dec 11 00:13:26 localhost chat[12352]: ^M 
Dec 11 00:13:26 localhost chat[12352]: ^M 
Dec 11 00:13:26 localhost chat[12352]: Annex Command Line Interpreter   *   Copyright 
(C) 1988, 1999 Bay Networks^M 
Dec 11 00:13:26 localhost chat[12352]: Checking authorization, Please wait...^M 
Dec 11 00:13:26 localhost chat[12352]: Username: -- got it 
Dec 11 00:13:26 localhost chat[12352]: send ([EMAIL PROTECTED]^M) 
Dec 11 00:13:27 localhost chat[12352]: expect (assword:) 
Dec 11 00:13:27 localhost chat[12352]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]^M 
Dec 11 00:13:27 localhost chat[12352]: Password: -- got it 
Dec 11 00:13:27 localhost chat[12352]: send (xxx^M) 
Dec 11 00:13:27 localhost pppd[12345]: Serial connection established.
Dec 11 00:13:28 localhost pppd[12345]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 11 00:13:28 localhost pppd[12345]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Dec 11 00:13:58 localhost pppd[12345]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Dec 11 00:13:58 localhost pppd[12345]: Connection terminated.
Dec 11 00:13:58 localhost pppd[12345]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Dec 11 00:13:58 localhost pppd[12345]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Dec 11 00:13:58 localhost pppd[12345]: Exit.


## The ppp-on script is:

#!/bin/sh
# These are the parameters. Change as needed.
TELEPHONE= 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PASSWORD=xxx
LOCAL_IP=0.0.0.0# Local IP address if known. Dynamic = 0.0.0.0
REMOTE_IP=0.0.0.0   # Remote IP address if desired. Normally 0.0.0.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0   # The proper netmask if needed
#
# Export them so that they will be available at 'ppp-on-dialer' time.
export TELEPHONE ACCOUNT PASSWORD
#
# This is the location of the script which dials the phone and logs
# in.  Please use the absolute file name as the $PATH variable is not
# used on the connect option.  (To do so on a 'root' account would be
# a security hole so don't ask.)
#
DIALER_SCRIPT=/etc/ppp/scripts/charlotte/ppp-on-dialer
#
#
exec /usr/sbin/pppd debug lock modem crtscts /dev/ttyS0 38400 \
asyncmap 20A escape FF kdebug 0 $LOCAL_IP:$REMOTE_IP \
noipdefault netmask $NETMASK defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT



#The ppp-on-dialer script is as follows:

exec /usr/sbin/chat -v\
TIMEOUT 3   \
ABORT   '\nBUSY\r'  \
ABORT   '\nNO ANSWER\r' \
ABORT   '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r'\
''  \rAT\
'OK-+++\c-OK'   ATH0\
TIMEOUT 30  \
OK  ATDT$TELEPHONE  \
CONNECT ''  \
Username:--Username:$ACCOUNT\
assword:$PASSWORD

### PPP log file:

A ppp-log file I write to the /tmp directory reports when establishing
the PPP connection:

sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1   
 ]
last message repeated 9 times
LCP: timeout sending Config-Reque

Downloads

[Lee Davidson]

Okay, I got the file mounted - thanks for helping with that.  Next 
question - I guess this is a true newbie question - is where to put 
the archive for an executable for a program?  In Windows I always 
downloaded to a "Downloads' directory...not sure if creating one in 
Linux would be the way to go or if Linux has a default place it puts 
these sorts of things when you rpm and/or install new software...

Thoughts?  It's gonna unpack it the same place I put this file right?  
So a directory of its own would probably be cleanest, I assume?

Thanks for your patience.
--Lee


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RE: front page

[David S Edwards]

Here's a link I've found helpful is getting Frontpage set up.

http://www.deerinet.nb.ca/~grantl/

 david

At 01:25 PM 12/11/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Yes there is, but you will have to dig around for them, there is also one
>that just contains FP extensions   look on   Rufus.w3.org and elsewhere
>
>consider Kevin Hemenway's suggestions, and for Scott, get FP and use it so
>you know what your clients are bugging you about, it wont be over once you
>install the extensions.:-)
>
>
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>
>On 10/12/99 at 13:22 Chapman, Matt wrote:
>
> >is there an rpm apache with fp already in it? and with PHP?
> >
> >-matt
> >
> >-Original Message-
> >From: Scott Skrogstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> >I must be missing something.  One of my customers is trying to update
> >their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this.  They are
> >telling me it does not work.  What is the first thing that I should check?
> >
>
>
>Regards
>
>Greg W
>IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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Nenscript Documentation

[William Salvino]

I have just about a full install of 6.1. I am looking for nenscript
documentation. I found /usr/bin/nenscript with find. Nothing with
apropos, man, info, or whatis. I poked around in /usr/doc without
success. Any pointers would be great.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: mount

[Dave Reed]

> From: "Lee Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> When I try to mount my floppy drive I get:
> 
> VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd(2,0)
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
>or too many mounted filesystems
> 
> What do I need to do?
> 
> --Lee

man mount for more info.

Most likely you want to use the -t flag for mount (-t msdos or -t
vfat).

Dave


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Re: setuid

[lloy0076]

Steve Lee wrote:
> 
> what does it mean to run something setuid

It means the program runs as root even though another non-root user has
run it.

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mount

[Lee Davidson]

When I try to mount my floppy drive I get:

VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd(2,0)
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
   or too many mounted filesystems

What do I need to do?

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RE: Saving XF86Setup Video Changes

[webbd]

I should have mentioned that my problem arises because I'm also running
OS/2 on the same box, so making adjustments to the monitor will mess up my
OS/2 system.  Since XF86Setup allows adjusting it with software, I thought
this would enable me to leave the monitor itself alone.  



Height, width and position shouldn't have to be changed from the
software... there should be buttons or something on the monitor that
control those things. Try the manual that came with the monitor for info
on fixing it. HTH
-David

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 6:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Saving XF86Setup Video Changes

I've recently installed Redhat 6.1 and am how trying to get it configured.
Although the installation program recognized my monitor (NEC P750) and
listed my video card (Matrox Millennium), the display isn't synched to my
monitor correctly.  All available resolutions result in a display that
needs to be adjusted in height, width, position.  (I'm using Gnome.)

I ran XF86Setup to adjust the video, but I can't figure out how to get
XF86Setup to save the new settings.  There is a button labeled something
like "Save Configuration and Exit" but clicking it has no effect.  (It
seems to be disabled.)  I finally exited using a button called "quit" (I
think) but then the new settings are gone when I reboot.

Could someone tell me how to get XF86Setup (or it may actually be wvidtune
that is running from XF86Setup) to save video setting changes?  Is there a
document somewhere that describes this procedure?


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Re: Red Hat vs Mandrake

[Jacob Schmude]

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Personally, my experience was not a good one. It uses i586 RPMS, but it
used kernel-2.2.9 (version 6.0 of mandrake) and had all sorts of beta
patches applied to the kernel that they should have just used a 2.3 series
- -- wouldn't have been any different. Version 6.1 uses kernel 2.2.13 but I
don't know if they've stopped applying every patch that appears to their
kernels.

Mandrake was always giving segmentation faults and core dumps, and the
Pentium optimizations didn't seem to make a difference on my p166 with
32mb of ram.

Personally, I'd recommend the real Red Hat!


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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Michael J. McGillick wrote:

> Evening Everyone:
> 
> Not looking to start a flame war here.  I've heard of Mandrake, and that
> it uses i586 or i686 rpms.  Anyone out there tried it or compared it to
> Red Hat?  I'm just looking for comments on how it is.  For example, is the
> install similar, or does it have it's own way of doing things?  Do you
> think performance is better or worse?  Did you run into problems, or was
> it difficult to work with?
> 
> I've used Red Hat for some time, and am familiar with the way the CD is
> set up, how an install goes, etc.  I'm just wanting to look at all of my
> options.  I looked at Suse, but it still needs some work I feel.  I did
> like the fact that the kernel is only one RPM, and you can upgrade by
> installing a new RPM, not 7 or 8 like it is with the Red Hat
> distribution.  Not knocking Red Hat, as it excels in other areas.
> 
> Any information would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> - Mike
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IGNORE

[Tom Savage]

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Red Hat vs Mandrake

[Michael J. McGillick]

Evening Everyone:

Not looking to start a flame war here.  I've heard of Mandrake, and that
it uses i586 or i686 rpms.  Anyone out there tried it or compared it to
Red Hat?  I'm just looking for comments on how it is.  For example, is the
install similar, or does it have it's own way of doing things?  Do you
think performance is better or worse?  Did you run into problems, or was
it difficult to work with?

I've used Red Hat for some time, and am familiar with the way the CD is
set up, how an install goes, etc.  I'm just wanting to look at all of my
options.  I looked at Suse, but it still needs some work I feel.  I did
like the fact that the kernel is only one RPM, and you can upgrade by
installing a new RPM, not 7 or 8 like it is with the Red Hat
distribution.  Not knocking Red Hat, as it excels in other areas.

Any information would be appreciated.  Thanks.

- Mike


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Re: SCSI Card Recommendation

[Manuel Camacho]

Just tell me the Advansys model so I never wate my money on one!

 =)



On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, Iain Wade wrote:
> >%_> I just threw to the "recycle bin" an adaptec clone. So, I would say it is
> not a
> > good idea to experiment with cheap SCSI adapter clone. I bought an
> Advansys
> > Ultra SCSI card for about $60+S&H at TigerDirect, and works fine. Advansys
> > makes Linux compatible cards and gives Linux support on their products,
> too.
> 
> Hmm.. I just threw tp the "recycle bin" an advansys card...
> 
> Purchased an adaptec one and haven't looked back :)
> 
> -Iain
> 


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Re: drive limitations?

[Manuel Camacho]

> > swap 127
> > ram 4 gig
> >
> 
> Sorry the new limitation (depending on the kernel and on the hardware)
> on the i386 platform is 2 gig for swap.
> 
> Just pointing out the 'man mkswap' data on kernel 2.2.12
> 

If you use big swap partitions, it is supposed to be more efficient to add
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Re: How to load 53c7,8xx.o in install (scsi cd-rom driver)?

[redhat]

If you use the CD to boot from, it should find it with no problems.  I
used that method for my ProLiant and it found it immediately.

Warren

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Doug Brunner wrote:

> When I try to run the installer on a Compaq ProSignia, I can't find the
> SCSI driver to use. The SCSI controller chip is marked as a NCR 53C710,
> which means that 53c7,8xx.o should cover it, but on the 6.1 boot disk,
> that driver isn't on the list, although it should be the first one,
> according to the scsi drivers list on the reference guide. How can I
> load
> this driver? Or, where can I get the driver disk?
> 
> 
> --Doug Brunner
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DHCP on ProLiant 5500 (TLAN)

[redhat]

I have a Compaq ProLiant 5500 (the older Pentium Pro one) with the
supplied TLAN card.  I loaded RedHat 6.1 and everything works fine EXCEPT
that if I try to use DHCP the ethernet card shuts down immediately after
getting an IP.  If I assign an IP it works fine.  If I use DHCP, I have to
rmmod the TLAN module then insmod it again and assign an address.  Any
ideas on why DHCP would cause the card to shut down?  Hint: When it shuts
down the lights on the HUB go off.

Any help would be appreciated!
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Re: POP3 = insecure?

[Tamas Arpad]

Thanks for the answer
Arpi

> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 11:46:43PM +0100, Tamas Arpad wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > > > Imap is also insecure, isn't it?
> > > > Is there any secure method of reading e-mails from a windows machine
> > with
> > > > readers like outlook express without using ssh?
> > > > I can set it to use SPA or SSL but does any pop or imap server
support
> > it?
> > >
> > > Imap is plain text unless you go through ssh. Netscape and a few
others
> > > support secure imap.
> > >
> > > Jeff
>
> > I know this, but my question was that is there any SERVER for Linux that
> > supports SSL or SPA?
>
> You can use any one of a number of SSL wrappers such as edssl,
> stunnel, sslproxy, or sslwrapper to create an SSL enabled front end to
> your standards IMAP or POP service on Linux.  I've got several servers
> running this way.  You can get the wrappers and the SSL libraries up
> at the OpenSSL site .
>
> > Thanx
> > Arpi
>
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Saving XF86Setup Video Changes

[webbd]

I've recently installed Redhat 6.1 and am how trying to get it configured. 
Although the installation program recognized my monitor (NEC P750) and
listed my video card (Matrox Millennium), the display isn't synched to my
monitor correctly.  All available resolutions result in a display that
needs to be adjusted in height, width, position.  (I'm using Gnome.)

I ran XF86Setup to adjust the video, but I can't figure out how to get
XF86Setup to save the new settings.  There is a button labeled something
like "Save Configuration and Exit" but clicking it has no effect.  (It
seems to be disabled.)  I finally exited using a button called "quit" (I
think) but then the new settings are gone when I reboot.

Could someone tell me how to get XF86Setup (or it may actually be wvidtune
that is running from XF86Setup) to save video setting changes?  Is there a
document somewhere that describes this procedure? 

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RE: front page

[Greg W]

Yes there is, but you will have to dig around for them, there is also one
that just contains FP extensions   look on   Rufus.w3.org and elsewhere

consider Kevin Hemenway's suggestions, and for Scott, get FP and use it so
you know what your clients are bugging you about, it wont be over once you
install the extensions.:-)


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>is there an rpm apache with fp already in it? and with PHP?
>
>-matt
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Scott Skrogstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>I must be missing something.  One of my customers is trying to update
>their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this.  They are
>telling me it does not work.  What is the first thing that I should check?
>


Regards

Greg W
IT Consultant Sydney Australia

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Re: ppp disconnect on first attempt

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 10:14:13AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ifup ppp0 causes the modem to dail in, but after the handshake, after
> serial connection established, and passing onto pppd (or however it
> works) the modem hangs up. BUT, then it dials in again and connects
> without a problem.

 http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1.html

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ppp disconnect on first attempt

[sugarboy]

Hi all.

I just installed to rh6.1, and ppp won't work properly.

ifup ppp0 causes the modem to dail in, but after the handshake, after
serial connection established, and passing onto pppd (or however it
works) the modem hangs up. BUT, then it dials in again and connects
without a problem.

Logs:
---
Dec 11 10:02:30 sugarbox ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem
at 115200
Dec 11 10:02:31 sugarbox modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108
Dec 11 10:02:32 sugarbox kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of
the Unive
rsity of California 
Dec 11 10:02:32 sugarbox kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) 
Dec 11 10:02:32 sugarbox kernel: PPP line discipline registered. 
Dec 11 10:02:32 sugarbox kernel: registered device ppp0 
Dec 11 10:02:32 sugarbox pppd[16185]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0
Dec 11 10:02:32 sugarbox pppd[16185]: Removed stale lock on modem (pid
9028)
Dec 11 10:03:01 sugarbox pppd[16185]: Serial connection established.
Dec 11 10:03:01 sugarbox pppd[16185]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 11 10:03:01 sugarbox pppd[16185]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Dec 11 10:03:02 sugarbox pppd[16185]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Dec 11 10:03:02 sugarbox pppd[16185]: Connection terminated.
Dec 11 10:03:02 sugarbox pppd[16185]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Dec 11 10:03:02 sugarbox pppd[16185]: Exit.
---

Is the char-major-108 thingy a problem?

Anyone else had a similar problem?

Thanks in advance,
Chris Dowling.


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Re: Linux savecore

[David Richardson]

Simon Epsteyn wrote:

> I think what you are looking for is this:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/
>
> /Simon
>
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, David Richardson wrote:
>
> > Is there something like savecore for Linux? I am having server crashes
> > and I am getting no leads from log files as to what the problem may be.
> > I running RH 6.1.
> >
> > Later
> > David R.
> >
> >
> >
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Thanks Simon. That is what I was looking for.

Later
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Re: USR 56K external

[Oleg Okunev]

Hello all!

Thank you for the responces about the problem. I will try your
suggestions this weekend and send a summary on results.

SoloCDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 9 Dec 1999:

> When you disable a com port and install an internal modem to that
> port, the
> internal modem usually/sometimes handles the speed of the port,
> because you're
> not going directly through the serial port controller. On the other
> hand, when
> you go through the serial port controller, then your speed is reduced
> to that controller. 

Of course the ports are 16550A (is it even possible to find a
motherboard with slower ports nowadays?). And I do not disable a
serial port when I insert an internal modem, the mb's second port
shows up as ttyS2 (quite usable too, I use it sometimes to talk to the 
external modem when the internal is plugged in). Actually,
BIOS setup menu has advanced ("non-standard") options for the second
port on the motherboard (have to reboot to see which exactly) - could
someone point me to a document about these? I found nothing on the
faqservers I know. 

"Rob Cartier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 9 Dec 1999:

> After figuring out if you have the right UART and have set the serial
> line speed to at least 115200 use ATZ4 in the init string and see what
> happens. I believe that this is the init for hardware handshake and
> V90.

According to the USRV90 manual (thanks to Dave Reed for pointing to
the location), Z4 is the same as &F1, the default factory settings
which I used anyway. It also enables modem's autorespond (and I hate
to hear the modem's voice in my phone conversations :)
 
"Dan Browning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 9 Dec 1999:

> I'm no expert, but what CONNECT speed are you getting on average?  You 
> can use a terminal program like $ minicom and do the ATDT555-1212 command
> manually to find out.  Maybe your 56k is connecting at 1200 baud, but
> your 288 connects 28800 just fine?

Thank you, but the number does not look valid for Mexico D.F. :)

When I connect with the 28.8 modem, I get a string 115200 after
CONNECT, and everything is fine. With  the 56K modem I get a string 

26400/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS

(the first number varies, may be 24000, for example). I guess this
contains useful information, but do not know how to decode it (except
V34 and V42BIS). 

So I need to find a big nice serial FAQ somewhere... 

Thanks again, and my best regards,

Oleg


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Quick PPP re-configuration question

[gnielson]

My ISP isswitching its login procedure to "Realm Authentication" which
means I have to change my login name, telephone number and DNS settings.
Here's my question. It's been a couple of years since I last configured
PPP and the PPP howto docs say you should include the primary and
secondary DNS servers as nameservers in your /etc/resolv.conf file. I am
running RedHat 5.0. But my resolv.conf file, not yet running the Realm
Authentication just has:

nameserver 

I may have configured using netcfg the last time. Do I need to include the
DNS primary and secondary IP addresses in resolv.conf? Does redhat's
netcfg place this infomration in another file I can not find or with the
new authentication should I just leave resolv.conf alone?

Any help appreciated.

Gary



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Re: script

[Charles Galpin]

actually, the '.' will match any character. So it will also match
dead_letters, dead-letters, deadaleters etc.

hth charles

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote:

> >find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
> >
> >Note, all of that has to be there.
> >HTH, HAND
> >Bill Ward
> 
> The double-quotes are not necessary as there are no embedded special
> characters or spaces.



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A Competent Backup Program????

[Gerry Doris]

I have been looking unsuccessfully for a competent backup program.  

I want a package that will run on a linux system and completely backup both
linux and win98 boxes.  Ideally, I want to be able to do a "cold iron" restore.
That is start from a boot disk and bring 'er up.

However, if I lose a box I really want to be able to, at worst, just install
the os (either linux or win98) + backup client and then restore the remainder to
get back to the original configuration.

I thought ARKEIA would do it for win98 but they tell me I have to restore 
win98, the ARKEIA client, the exact applications, and then do the restore. 
Also, I can't change any of the components in the box (ie. restore to a
different box). This I can see but having to completely restore all the
applications(levels, versions, etc)...I should save a LOT of time/tape and just
backup the data!!!

I used to use Cheyenne backup on a win95 system to do this.  A couple of times
I recovered a trashed system by just booting off a Cheyenne floppy and selecting
the tape to restore...going away for a few hours and coming back to a nice
working system.

Does such a package exist in linux that will handle linux or win98 network
attached systems???


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Re: POP3 = insecure?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 11:46:43PM +0100, Tamas Arpad wrote:
> Hi,

> > > Imap is also insecure, isn't it?
> > > Is there any secure method of reading e-mails from a windows machine
> with
> > > readers like outlook express without using ssh?
> > > I can set it to use SPA or SSL but does any pop or imap server support
> it?
> >
> > Imap is plain text unless you go through ssh. Netscape and a few others
> > support secure imap.
> >
> > Jeff

> I know this, but my question was that is there any SERVER for Linux that
> supports SSL or SPA?

You can use any one of a number of SSL wrappers such as edssl,
stunnel, sslproxy, or sslwrapper to create an SSL enabled front end to
your standards IMAP or POP service on Linux.  I've got several servers
running this way.  You can get the wrappers and the SSL libraries up
at the OpenSSL site .

> Thanx
> Arpi

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Re: RH 6.1

[Jim Kannengieser]

Try grabbing just the iso9660 image. You're better off using a mirror than
the red hat ftp site. I use ftp.tux.org. The file you are looking to grab
is /distributions/redhat/redhat-6.1/iso/6.1-i386.iso. This is the complete
red hat 6.1 distributions already in bootable cd-rom format. You just need
to burn it to disc. Of course, you need to check the red hat web site for
errata and install those on your system as well. The howto about burning a
red hat cd (sorry, don't remember it's specific name) provides a nice
script for updating your distribution with errata. That means you are
better off mounting the iso image, copying the contents to a directory on
a filesystem where you have plenty of room and replacing the packages
BEFORE you burn the disc. They will be installed right off the bat. That
howto is very good and I strongly recommend it to anyone burning a disc
for the first time.

Jim

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Scott Skrogstad wrote:

> I am trying to create a CD of 6.1 so I can do a fresh install.  I have
> looked on RH ftp site and I am unsure of what that I have to download.
> 
> Scott Skrogstad
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Re: POP3 = insecure?

[Tamas Arpad]

Hi,



> > Imap is also insecure, isn't it?
> > Is there any secure method of reading e-mails from a windows machine
with
> > readers like outlook express without using ssh?
> > I can set it to use SPA or SSL but does any pop or imap server support
it?
>
> Imap is plain text unless you go through ssh. Netscape and a few others
> support secure imap.
>
> Jeff

I know this, but my question was that is there any SERVER for Linux that
supports SSL or SPA?
Thanx
Arpi


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-Original Message-
From: Gilles Detillieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999 6:44 AM
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] ht://Dig 3.1.4 RPMs for Red Hat


>I've just uploaded source and binary rpms for the ht://Dig 3.1.4 web
>site search engine to incoming.redhat.com, for eventual inclusion
>on contrib.redhat.com.  I've also placed them on the htdig.org site,
>in http://www.htdig.org/files/binaries/.  They can also be downloaded
>from the SCRC web site, at
>
>http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/htdig/rpms/
>
>This is the latest stable release and is recommended for all production
>servers.
>
>The following RPMs were built on Red Hat Linux 4.2, 5.0* and 6.0
respectively:
>
>htdig-3.1.4-0.i386.rpm
>htdig-3.1.4-0.sparc.rpm
>htdig-3.1.4-0.src.rpm
>htdig-3.1.4-0glibc.i386.rpm * (see note below)
>htdig-3.1.4-0glibc.src.rpm * (see note below)
>htdig-3.1.4-0glibc21.i386.rpm   (for glibc-2.1, Red Hat 6.0)
>htdig-3.1.4-0glibc21.src.rpm   (for glibc-2.1, Red Hat 6.0)
>
>Run /usr/sbin/rundig after installing, to (re)build all your databases.
>(A complete reindexing isn't necessary if you had htdig-3.1.2 previously
>installed, unless you want to take advantage of the new compound word
>indexing feature.)
>
> 
>
>Name: htdig   Distribution: (none)
>Version : 3.1.4 Vendor: (none)
>Release : 0 Build Date: Fri Dec 10 10:13:38
1999
>Install date: Fri Dec 10 12:05:04 1999   Build Host:
cliff.scrc.umanitoba.ca
>Group   : Networking/Utilities  Source RPM:
htdig-3.1.4-0.src.rpm
>Size: 3053918
>Packager: Gilles Detillieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>URL : http://www.htdig.org/
>Summary : A web indexing and searching system for a small domain or
intranet
>Description :
>The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching
>system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace
>the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek,
>Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for
>a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site.
>
>As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig
>can span several web servers at a site. The type of these different web
>servers doesn't matter as long as they understand the HTTP 1.0 protocol.
>
> 
>
>* Note to Red Hat 5.0 & 5.1 users:
>
>There's an obscure bug in vixie-cron on Red Hat 5.0 and 5.1 systems,
>in its SIGCHLD signal handling.  It causes htmerge to fail consistently
>with a "Word sort failed" error, when run from a cron job.  It could
>potentially cause similar problems with other jobs.  I recommend upgrading
>to the latest vixie-cron from the 5.2 distribution updates:
>
>vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.alpha.rpm
>vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.i386.rpm
>vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.sparc.rpm
>vixie-cron-3.0.1-37.5.2.src.rpm
>
>They can be obtained from any Red Hat Linux update mirror site, or
>along with the htdig RPMs from my web site above.
>
> 
>
>Release notes for htdig-3.1.4 9 Dec 1999
>This version cleans up some remaining bugs in the 3.1.3 release. As
>the latest stable release of ht://Dig, it is recommended for all
>production servers.
>  * Fixed a nasty bug in URL parameter parsing, which was gobbling up
>bare ampersands (&) and CGI parameter names.
>  * Fixed a bug where htdig would go into an infinite loop if an entry
>in local_urls, local_user_urls or server_aliases was
>missing the "=".
>  * Fixed a bug in htsearch, where it failed when reading long queries
>via the POST method.
>  * Fixed a bug in htdig, where it failed to close the connection
>after certain errors.
>  * Fixed a bug that clobbered the hop count of initial documents.
>  * Fixed bugs in HTML parser's handling of META tags. It no longer
>continues indexing meta tags when indexing is turned off for the
>document, and it no longer gets confused by punctuation in META
>descriptions and keywords.
>  * Fixed a bug in the handling of the case_sensitive attribute, so
>that it's not limited to robots.txt parsing. Now, if false, it
>causes URLs to be mapped to lowercase, to avoid mixed case
>duplicates as expected.
>  * HTML parser now indexes text in alt parameter of img tags, and
>calculates word locations more accurately than before.
>  * Digging via the local filesystem can now be done even without an
>HTTP server running, and a few more file types can be indexed
>locally, without having to rely on the server.
>  * Sender name in htnotify's e-mail messages is now quoted.
>  * The external_parsers attribute is now extended to support
>external converters, to avoid a lot of the complications of
>  

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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: RedHat Maillist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: setuid


>On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:
>
>> is that the s when you do chmod +x
>
>you mean when you do +s? yes.
>
>chmod 4000 filename  will add the setuid bit
>chmod +s filename will do the same.
>
>Brian
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Brian wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > what does it mean to run something setuid
>> >
>> > It means that when you run the program, the program changes to the uid
of
>> > the owner of the program.  So if you have a program and its owned by
root,
>> > and you make it setuid root and executable  (chmod 4755), then anyone
who
>> > runs that program, will be doing the operations of that program as if
they
>> > were in fact root.
>> >
>> > Take "passwd" for example:
>> >
>> > -r-s--x--x   1 root root22312 Sep 25 10:52 /usr/bin/passwd
>> >
>> > You know, that as user joeblow, you do not have write permission to
>> > /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.  Yet you can run the "passwd" program, and
>> > change your passwd (which writes to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow).  How
is
>> > this possible?  Because the program is "setuid root", meaning when it
>> > runs, it runs as if it were root.  So that even though you cannot write
>> > /etc/passwd, the /usr/bin/passwd program CAN since it runs as if it
were
>> > root.
>> >
>> > setuid programs can open a whole slew of security problems.  Race
>> > conditions, incomplete path names, poor enviroment, etc, are just the
tip
>> > of the iceburg.  Lots of caution to anyone who decides to setuid a
>> > program.
>> >
>> > Brian
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > >
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Re: setuid

[Brian]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:

> is that the s when you do chmod +x 

you mean when you do +s? yes.  

chmod 4000 filename  will add the setuid bit
chmod +s filename will do the same.

Brian


> 
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Brian wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > what does it mean to run something setuid
> > 
> > It means that when you run the program, the program changes to the uid of
> > the owner of the program.  So if you have a program and its owned by root,
> > and you make it setuid root and executable  (chmod 4755), then anyone who
> > runs that program, will be doing the operations of that program as if they
> > were in fact root.
> > 
> > Take "passwd" for example:
> > 
> > -r-s--x--x   1 root root22312 Sep 25 10:52 /usr/bin/passwd
> > 
> > You know, that as user joeblow, you do not have write permission to
> > /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.  Yet you can run the "passwd" program, and
> > change your passwd (which writes to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow).  How is
> > this possible?  Because the program is "setuid root", meaning when it
> > runs, it runs as if it were root.  So that even though you cannot write
> > /etc/passwd, the /usr/bin/passwd program CAN since it runs as if it were
> > root.
> > 
> > setuid programs can open a whole slew of security problems.  Race
> > conditions, incomplete path names, poor enviroment, etc, are just the tip
> > of the iceburg.  Lots of caution to anyone who decides to setuid a
> > program.
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
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Re: Lilo Problem

[Bruce Bauer]

> On 10 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > Hi All
> > 
> > I've got a dual boot machine, nt4.0 and rh6.1 (Via Mandrake 6.5 package). I
> > have system commander also.
> > If I select Linux under sys commander I get the first two letters of Lilo, "li"
> > and that's all folks.
> > 
> > If I boot from floppy, linux works great although it boots slow.
> 

IIRC there is a line you have to add to lilo.conf to fix this.  I just don't remember 
what it is :^(

> I don't know System Commander but I do know that NT won't boot from
> Lilo.  You have to let the NT loader (or whichever Boot Loader you
> have) do the choosing.  This means that you should NOT install Lilo to
> the MBR but to the partition where Linux is installed.  Have a look at
> the README file that comes with Lilo - it goes into all this in some
> length
> 
This is wrong.

My system first boot LILO, from there I choose linux or DOS.  If I choose DOS, NT 
loader starts up 
and lets me choose between Windows 95 and Windows NT.

I have set up NT loader to choose between linux, DRDOS, Win95, and NT, but it's a real 
pain and 
easily upset.


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RE: script

[Ward William E PHDN]

True, but it's always good form to put them in quotes when trying to use
find.  That ensures that you will not make the mistake, as a system admin
I will not name (who was NOT me) did, when he accidentally ended up erasing
everything above / using a poorly constructed find as root.

YMMV, but I try to always be VERY explicit about what I want to do if I'm
running as root.

Bill Ward

-Original Message-
From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 4:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil
Subject: Re: script


>find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
>
>Note, all of that has to be there.
>HTH, HAND
>Bill Ward

The double-quotes are not necessary as there are no embedded special
characters or spaces.

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Re:mail bouncing

[Chuck Mead]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Daniel Goldin said:

DG>James> It appears that you have your sendmail.cf fle misconfigured. If
DG>you will follow
DG>James> the directions in the attached file it should get you going.
DG>
DG>Thanks for your help. I rewrote the .mc file as you siggested, but I
DG>got an error message when I ran m4 ...
DG>
DG> /etc/sendmail.mc:13: m4: Cannot open ../m4/cf.m4: No such file or
DG>directory

Do rpm -q sendmail-cf. If you get a null response you're missing an important
rpm. If it's there then we'll need to make some adjustments to some of the .mc
file.

DG>I'd installed the sendmail.cf... Any idea what's wrong? Also two quick
DG>questions about setting up the mc file.
DG>
DG>   define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isps.mta')dnl #added

If I had to guess I'd say it should be this:

define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.ix.netcom.com')dnl

DG>Is my isp's mta "ix.netcom.com"? or "popd.ix.netcom.com"? or
DG>"smpt.ix.netcom.com"?
DG>
DG>   MASQUERADE_AS(yourdomain.dom)dnl #added - use your domain name
DG>   here!

MASQUERADE_AS(ix.netcom.com)dnl


DG>What is mydomain.dom? Is it the hostname on my local machine ("Daniel"
DG>in my case)? Or is it my isp, ie. "ix.netcom.com?"
DG>
DG>Apologize for these amateurish questions. I'm not a techy person, just
DG>a writer who likes Linux. Thanks for any help.

BTW... to James and all... I am re-writing the FAQ for mailhelp as we speak and
will do a much better job in handling this in the process. It should be done in
a week or so.

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Re: setuid

[Steve Lee]

is that the s when you do chmod +x 

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Brian wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:
> 
> > 
> > what does it mean to run something setuid
> 
> It means that when you run the program, the program changes to the uid of
> the owner of the program.  So if you have a program and its owned by root,
> and you make it setuid root and executable  (chmod 4755), then anyone who
> runs that program, will be doing the operations of that program as if they
> were in fact root.
> 
> Take "passwd" for example:
> 
> -r-s--x--x   1 root root22312 Sep 25 10:52 /usr/bin/passwd
> 
> You know, that as user joeblow, you do not have write permission to
> /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.  Yet you can run the "passwd" program, and
> change your passwd (which writes to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow).  How is
> this possible?  Because the program is "setuid root", meaning when it
> runs, it runs as if it were root.  So that even though you cannot write
> /etc/passwd, the /usr/bin/passwd program CAN since it runs as if it were
> root.
> 
> setuid programs can open a whole slew of security problems.  Race
> conditions, incomplete path names, poor enviroment, etc, are just the tip
> of the iceburg.  Lots of caution to anyone who decides to setuid a
> program.
> 
> Brian
> 
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Re: Lilo Problem

[Roy]

At 07:59 PM 12/10/99 +, you wrote:
>On 10 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I've got a dual boot machine, nt4.0 and rh6.1 (Via Mandrake 6.5 package). I
> > have system commander also.
> > If I select Linux under sys commander I get the first two letters of 
> Lilo, "li"
> > and that's all folks.
> >
> > If I boot from floppy, linux works great although it boots slow.
>
>I don't know System Commander but I do know that NT won't boot from
>Lilo.  You have to let the NT loader (or whichever Boot Loader you
>have) do the choosing.  This means that you should NOT install Lilo to
>the MBR but to the partition where Linux is installed.  Have a look at
>the README file that comes with Lilo - it goes into all this in some
>length

Thanks for the reply Bruce, but I'm going to keep trying to get specific 
answer. By the way I have a dual boot machine booting linux and NT through 
lilo, so scratch that misconception. I have in the past had system 
commander booting linux and nt before.

Roy

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Re: script

[Vidiot]

>find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
>
>Note, all of that has to be there.
>HTH, HAND
>Bill Ward

The double-quotes are not necessary as there are no embedded special
characters or spaces.

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RE: Cron Help

[Jason Grovert]

xntp is a good program for that.

Get it at freshmeat.net

Jason

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> -Original Message-
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> 
> Why not use ntp (Network Time Protocol) instead?

Because I didn't know about it.


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RE: Cron Help

[Todd Dunbebin]

> -Original Message-
> From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
> Why not use ntp (Network Time Protocol) instead?

Because I didn't know about it.


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RE: Cron Help

[Brian Anderson]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Todd Dunbebin wrote:

> /etc/cron.hourly with:
> */15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu



nope.

if you look at /etc/crontab, there are entries for 

run-parts /etc/cron.daily
run-parts /etc/cron.hourly

etc...



run-parts is a program that goes through the folder (say, cron.daily) and
runs anything in it.

so if you put a file called script.sh in cron.daily, the contents being

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu



and then set that to executable, every day, run-parts would execute that
script.




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RH 6.1

[Scott Skrogstad]

I am trying to create a CD of 6.1 so I can do a fresh install.  I have
looked on RH ftp site and I am unsure of what that I have to download.

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RE: Cron Help

[Ward William E PHDN]

Type the following... note that if it's in <> it's the key, except for the
password
su 

crontab -l > cronfile
vi cronfile
g
a
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu

wq
crontab cronfile
rm cronfile
exit

That should do it.

Bill Ward
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To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
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Subject: RE: Cron Help


I'm not sure I'm getting it.
Are you saying that I can just put a text file in
/etc/cron.hourly with:
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu

as the text and like a 755 permission, and it'll run, with no crontab or
anything?

Forgive me if that isn't what you meant because I tried that and I got:

/etc/cron.hourly/clock: */15: No such file or directory
/etc/cron.hourly/time: */30: No such file or directory


This shouldn't be this tough, but like I say I'm new.  

Thanks again,
--Todd

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> From: Todd A. Jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Cron Help
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Todd Dunbebin wrote:
> 
> > crontab /root/settime
> 
> Run 'crontab -e' to edit your crontab. If you want to run it 
> as a file and
> not insert it into someone's crontab, you need to drop the 
> file into one
> of the /etc/cron* directories.
> 
> > * /15 * * * *   /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu
> 
> There are only 5 time fields, and if you want to specify a 
> step, you still
> need to specify the trigger time. For example:
> 
>   */15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu
> 
> will run every fifteen minutes (e.g. "any minute step 15").
> 
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Re: Cron Help

[Vidiot]

>I'm not sure I'm getting it.
>Are you saying that I can just put a text file in
>/etc/cron.hourly with:
>*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu
>
>as the text and like a 755 permission, and it'll run, with no crontab or
>anything?

No.  The above line goes into your root's crontab file and you get it
there by entering the following command as root:

crontab -e

That will bring up the current root crontab file.  Add the line to it and
save the file.  At the next 15 minute interval the rdate will be executed.

Why not use ntp (Network Time Protocol) instead?

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RE: script

[Ward William E PHDN]

find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;

Note, all of that has to be there.
HTH, HAND
Bill Ward

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Subject: script


I'm no programmer.
can somoone show me a quick
script that would run through
the whole system to remove
dead.letters off the system.

After that i could setup cron to do
this every other day.

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Re: Secure it up a bit please...

[Jason Costomiris]

On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 11:01:08PM -0600, Steve Borho wrote:
: Hashed passwords are not necessarily more secure than plaintext ones... It
: still boils down to protecting the file the passwords are stored in.  If a
: person gets root access on your e-mail server, no password encryption
: scheme is going to save you.

Right on..  However, if you lock your server down properly, you won't 
experience intrusion from the network side, minimizing your risk.

I keep telling people that security is never an absolute thing.  You just 
manage the level of risk.

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Technologist, cryptogeek, human.
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Re: setuid

[Brian]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Steve Lee wrote:

> 
> what does it mean to run something setuid

It means that when you run the program, the program changes to the uid of
the owner of the program.  So if you have a program and its owned by root,
and you make it setuid root and executable  (chmod 4755), then anyone who
runs that program, will be doing the operations of that program as if they
were in fact root.

Take "passwd" for example:

-r-s--x--x   1 root root22312 Sep 25 10:52 /usr/bin/passwd

You know, that as user joeblow, you do not have write permission to
/etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.  Yet you can run the "passwd" program, and
change your passwd (which writes to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow).  How is
this possible?  Because the program is "setuid root", meaning when it
runs, it runs as if it were root.  So that even though you cannot write
/etc/passwd, the /usr/bin/passwd program CAN since it runs as if it were
root.

setuid programs can open a whole slew of security problems.  Race
conditions, incomplete path names, poor enviroment, etc, are just the tip
of the iceburg.  Lots of caution to anyone who decides to setuid a
program.

Brian


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Re: script

[Vidiot]

>I'm no programmer.
>can somoone show me a quick
>script that would run through
>the whole system to remove
>dead.letters off the system.

No script needed, simple command:

find / -iname dead.letters -exec rm {} \;

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Net card dying after DHCP assignment

[redhat]

I have a Compaq 5500 woth a TLAN 10/100 card in it.  I loaded up RedHat
6.1 last night and everything seemed to go fine, but immediately after the
card gets its address from the DHCP server, the lights on the hub go dark
and it stops communicating.

Any ideas here?

Thanks,
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Re: script

[Jasper Jans]

Put this in a file:

 #!/bin/sh
 
 find / -type f -name dead.letter -print -exec rm {} \;
 
Make it executable (chmod 700) and run that (from cron)
 
 J.
 
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| From: "Steve Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: "RedHat Maillist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 8:43 PM
| Subject: script
| 
| 
| | I'm no programmer.
| | can somoone show me a quick
| | script that would run through
| | the whole system to remove
| | dead.letters off the system.
| | 
| | After that i could setup cron to do
| | this every other day.
| | 
| | Thanks
| | 
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Re: script

[Jasper Jans]

#!/bin/sh

find / -type f -name dead.letter -print -exec rm {} \;


Put the above in a file and make it executable (chmod 700)
and run that

J.

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Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 8:43 PM
Subject: script


| I'm no programmer.
| can somoone show me a quick
| script that would run through
| the whole system to remove
| dead.letters off the system.
| 
| After that i could setup cron to do
| this every other day.
| 
| Thanks
| 
| 
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Re: pgcc question

[Hugo Rabson]

Assuming that Mandrake Linux 6.1's i586 RPMs were compiled using pgcc/egcs
and Red Hat Linux 6.1's i386 RPMs were compiled using gcc, IMO pgcc/egcs
produces faster code than gcc. I tried both systems, each for a few hours,
and was convinced that Mandrake's system was faster when starting up,
shutting down or starting a GUI-based application.
Sorry to be so vague. :) I thought a real-world example would be more useful
than a benchmark.

AFAIK, pgcc is now part of ecgs, which is part of GNU's gcc project.

http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/

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Subject: pgcc question
> Do programs truely run faster when compiling with pgcc?  How about
compared
> to egcs? I have read many promising reports on pgcc, but not on the
> Internet.. Anyone have a link?



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Re: setuid

[Bruce Richardson]

On 10 Dec, Steve Lee wrote:
> 
> what does it mean to run something setuid
> 

It means that the program will be run with the User ID of it's owner. 
This is mostly done to allow standard users to do things that require
root privileges.

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Re: Lilo Problem

[Bruce Richardson]

On 10 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I've got a dual boot machine, nt4.0 and rh6.1 (Via Mandrake 6.5 package). I
> have system commander also.
> If I select Linux under sys commander I get the first two letters of Lilo, "li"
> and that's all folks.
> 
> If I boot from floppy, linux works great although it boots slow.

I don't know System Commander but I do know that NT won't boot from
Lilo.  You have to let the NT loader (or whichever Boot Loader you
have) do the choosing.  This means that you should NOT install Lilo to
the MBR but to the partition where Linux is installed.  Have a look at
the README file that comes with Lilo - it goes into all this in some
length

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RE: Cron Help

[Todd Dunbebin]

I'm not sure I'm getting it.
Are you saying that I can just put a text file in
/etc/cron.hourly with:
*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu

as the text and like a 755 permission, and it'll run, with no crontab or
anything?

Forgive me if that isn't what you meant because I tried that and I got:

/etc/cron.hourly/clock: */15: No such file or directory
/etc/cron.hourly/time: */30: No such file or directory


This shouldn't be this tough, but like I say I'm new.  

Thanks again,
--Todd

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> From: Todd A. Jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 4:34 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: Cron Help
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Todd Dunbebin wrote:
> 
> > crontab /root/settime
> 
> Run 'crontab -e' to edit your crontab. If you want to run it 
> as a file and
> not insert it into someone's crontab, you need to drop the 
> file into one
> of the /etc/cron* directories.
> 
> > * /15 * * * *   /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu
> 
> There are only 5 time fields, and if you want to specify a 
> step, you still
> need to specify the trigger time. For example:
> 
>   */15 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s bitsy.mit.edu
> 
> will run every fifteen minutes (e.g. "any minute step 15").
> 
> -- 
> Todd A. Jacobs
> Network Systems Engineer
> 
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script

[Steve Lee]

I'm no programmer.
can somoone show me a quick
script that would run through
the whole system to remove
dead.letters off the system.

After that i could setup cron to do
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Thanks


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can't run netscape and a couple other apps

[patrick]

I have had nothing but problems with my system since
installing RH 6.0 and upgrading to, essentially,
6.1.  Little and big things keep cracking my system up.

The latest problem to show up wont let me run netscape.
I installed netscape 4.61 and when I try to run it,
nothing happens at all.  If I start it from an xterm,
I would get:

X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for
operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
  Serial number of failed request:  51
  Current serial number of output stream:  52

If I tried to run CitrixICA it would do the same thing...and
trying to run xvidtune.

I had just upgraded my XFree to 3.3.5-6 when this started.
I then upgraded further to XFree86-3.3.5-16 and now, I can
run Citrix and xvidtune but still no netscape - but now
I don't get any error from netscape in a terminal...
I get nothing.  No core dump, no segfault, nothing.

I am assuming that some sort of problem may still remain
from that described above but what IS that problem...or
what was it?

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[Steve Lee]

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Re:mail bouncing

[Daniel Goldin]

James> It appears that you have your sendmail.cf fle misconfigured. If
you will follow
James> the directions in the attached file it should get you going.

Thanks for your help. I rewrote the .mc file as you siggested, but I
got an error message when I ran m4 ...

 /etc/sendmail.mc:13: m4: Cannot open ../m4/cf.m4: No such file or
directory

I'd installed the sendmail.cf... Any idea what's wrong? Also two quick
questions about setting up the mc file.

   define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isps.mta')dnl #added

Is my isp's mta "ix.netcom.com"? or "popd.ix.netcom.com"? or
"smpt.ix.netcom.com"?

   MASQUERADE_AS(yourdomain.dom)dnl #added - use your domain name
   here!

What is mydomain.dom? Is it the hostname on my local machine ("Daniel"
in my case)? Or is it my isp, ie. "ix.netcom.com?"

Apologize for these amateurish questions. I'm not a techy person, just
a writer who likes Linux. Thanks for any help.

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Re: dead.letters

[Jasper Jans]

dead letters apear every time u cancle a mail.

J.

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Subject: dead.letters


| why do i keep getting these dead.letters ?
| when using pine. what causes this
| and why does it seem to happen so 
| frequently for me?
| 
| anyone.
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dead.letters

[Steve Lee]

why do i keep getting these dead.letters ?
when using pine. what causes this
and why does it seem to happen so 
frequently for me?

anyone.


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setuid

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Lilo Problem

[royhar]

Hi All

I've got a dual boot machine, nt4.0 and rh6.1 (Via Mandrake 6.5 package). I
have system commander also.
If I select Linux under sys commander I get the first two letters of Lilo, "li"
and that's all folks.

If I boot from floppy, linux works great although it boots slow.

I've tried screwing with linuxconfig and reset the boot parameters for lilo and
had the machine boot beutifully into linux, but then there wasn't an option for
nt. I'd inturn boot ontop floppy and do a restore on Sys Commander to get NT
back.

Herer's my lilo.conf

boot = /dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=150
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-4mdk
  label = linux
  root = /dev/hdc1
  initrd=/initrd.img
other = /dev/hda1
  label = nt
  table=/dev/hda

any insight I'd appreciate...I've been scared of lilo in dual boot mode since
clobbering a Win3.1 install after installing over 30 5 1/4" floppies to get
slackware running.

Thanks

Roy





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Re: Linux savecore

[Simon Epsteyn]

I think what you are looking for is this:

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/

/Simon

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, David Richardson wrote:

> Is there something like savecore for Linux? I am having server crashes
> and I am getting no leads from log files as to what the problem may be.
> I running RH 6.1.
> 
> Later
> David R.
> 
> 
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Re: Opinions on Port Forwarding

[Gordon Messmer]

Jason Hirsch wrote:
> Security is a concern, but so is not allowing freeloaders to spam anyone
> from my system.
> 
> Soo- suggestions on which to implement?

First, if you're using kernel 2.2.x, then there's no reason for you to
patch your kernel.  That functionality has been added to the kernel
proper, and is probably active in your setup now.  The tool that
controls this is ipmasqadm, and an RPM was included in your Red Hat
distribution  :)

I'm not sure what you mean about freeloaders spamming from your system. 
AFAIK, using kernel based port forwarding, you can still use all of your
host based security mechanisms, as well as the user based ones, so
security shouldn't be compromised by this setup.  As long as no one
breaks into the machines behind your masquerade, and sets up a TCP
tunnel, they shouldn't be able to use your machine as a mail relay.


MSG


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Re: Fed up persons guide to glibc?

[Gordon Messmer]

Timothy Reaves wrote:
> issues.  Some RPM's un-install (or screw up) some compat glibc stuff,
> other apps need version x and others version y.
> If anyone could point me in the correct direction I would appreciate
> it.

Often, the easiest solution is simply to get the src.rpm instead of the
binary, and rpm --rebuild it.

MSG


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RE: front page

[Duncan Hill]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Chapman, Matt wrote:

> is there an rpm apache with fp already in it? and with PHP?

rpmfind.net has one for Mandrake that appears to run on Redhat.

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RE: front page

[Chapman, Matt]

is there an rpm apache with fp already in it? and with PHP?

-matt

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Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 12:34 PM
To: Red Hat Mailing list
Subject: front page


I must be missing something.  One of my customers is trying to update
their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this.  They are
telling me it does not work.  What is the first thing that I should check?

Scott Skrogstad
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Re: front page

[lloy0076]

Scott Skrogstad wrote:
> 
> I must be missing something.  One of my customers is trying to update
> their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this.  They are
> telling me it does not work.  What is the first thing that I should check?
> 


OOERRR

Front Page is a dog. I could be VERY VERY VERY rude

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Re: front page

[Kevin Hemenway]

> I must be missing something.  One of my customers is trying to update
> their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this.  They are
> telling me it does not work.  What is the first thing that I should check?

If you don't want to do the annoying hassle of getting Frontpage on your
server, then have them type in the full syntax in the "Publish" screen, ie.

instead of: ftp.domainname.com
   use: ftp://ftp.domainname.com

This has been confirmed to work on my customers with FP 2000. The same
should hold true on the 97 version. There is also a checkbox buried
somewhere in the preferences that says not to use FP extensions, but I don't
know if that will help any with the publishing.

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RE: front page

[Jason Grovert]

Have you compiled the front page extensions into Apache yet?  You also need
to setup their "Frontpage Web" using the frontpage tools that M$ provides.

Jason

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To: Red Hat Mailing list
Subject: front page


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their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this.  They are
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front page

[Scott Skrogstad]

I must be missing something.  One of my customers is trying to update
their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this.  They are
telling me it does not work.  What is the first thing that I should check?

Scott Skrogstad
Computer Integration Inc,
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ftp://developer.redhat.com

[Robert Canary]

Does anyone know what happen to the ftp site for "develope.redhat.com"?

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Re: How can one Ethernet interface support two IP network ?

[Steve Lee]

you can use linuconf or.

x here stands for your nic when it 
boots up either 0, 1, 2, ...
what ever nic you want to alias
make another file ifcfg-ethx:0
in this file add this

IPADDR="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx-yyy"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"

what ever range you would like to alias for that
nic or just xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx for one extra ip
not a range, for your case.

ifcfg-ethx is located
/etc/sysconfig/network-script/  i think.
or do a find -name ifcfg-eth* 


On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, root wrote:

> 
> 
> > How? which tools?
> > Please tell me the detail. I'm newbie for linux.
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Steve Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 1:17 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: Re: can one Ethernet interface support two IP network ?
> >
> > yes.
> > try to alias them.
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Guo Xiao Qiang (TAGZ) wrote:
> >
> > > These two IP network share same wire that no router between them.
> > Could my
> > > single Ethernet NIC have two IP address that simultaneously access two
> > > network in RH 6.0. I understand Windows NT or Win 98 can do this.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Frank
> > >
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Re: Domain Administration

[J. Scott Kasten]

For a *nix domain, you're looking at NIS.  Read the NIS HOWTO.  If the
clients are Windows based, then SAMBA can emulate and NT domain.

On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 12:01:27PM -, Harjinder Dhudwar wrote:
> I was wondering whether there are any tools which allow administration of a
> large user domain.
> I have to maintain 100 PCs on which anyone can log onto and connect to a
> server with their own user id.
> 
> The problem is that each user has different privileges, and these change
> frequently, so keeping these up-to-date on all the PCs can be a nightmare.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> Harjinder Dhudwar
> IT Manager
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Re: can one Ethernet interface support two IP network ?

[J. Scott Kasten]

Yes, you "alias" your interface.  As root under X, use control-panel
and select the network tool.  Go to interfaces and check out the alias
option there.

On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 06:04:31AM +0100, Guo Xiao Qiang TAGZ" wrote:
> These two IP network share same wire that no router between them. Could my
> single Ethernet NIC have two IP address that simultaneously access two
> network in RH 6.0. I understand Windows NT or Win 98 can do this.
> 
> Thanks in advance 
> Frank
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Re: POP3 = insecure?

[Jeff Smelser]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tamas Arpad wrote:

> Imap is also insecure, isn't it?
> Is there any secure method of reading e-mails from a windows machine with
> readers like outlook express without using ssh?
> I can set it to use SPA or SSL but does any pop or imap server support it?
> Thanx
> Arpi

Imap is plain text unless you go through ssh. Netscape and a few others
support secure imap.

Jeff


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Re: POP3 = insecure?

[Tamas Arpad]

Imap is also insecure, isn't it?
Is there any secure method of reading e-mails from a windows machine with
readers like outlook express without using ssh?
I can set it to use SPA or SSL but does any pop or imap server support it?
Thanx
Arpi


> pop3, like ftp and telnet  are insecure protocols 
> i'm using imap, scp, ssh, ssl http  no probs ;)
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Re: POP3 = insecure?

[Marek Antozi]

pop3, like ftp and telnet  are insecure protocols 
i'm using imap, scp, ssh, ssl http  no probs ;)

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POP3 = insecure?

[Edward Schernau]

The "insecure" nature of POP3 is that the passwords, and data, are
sent in cleartext.  That means that if some ISP employee somewhere
happens to have a packet sniffer on at the exact time you check
your mail, he can grab your password.  Chances are pretty unlikely.
But...

I suppose a really geeky person could write a transparent POP3
proxy, which would grab and log your whole data stream going to/from
port 110.

I'd be much more concerned about weaknesses in your POP3 daemon,
like buffer overruns, and silly passwords.

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Domain Administration

[Harjinder Dhudwar]

I was wondering whether there are any tools which allow administration of a
large user domain.
I have to maintain 100 PCs on which anyone can log onto and connect to a
server with their own user id.

The problem is that each user has different privileges, and these change
frequently, so keeping these up-to-date on all the PCs can be a nightmare.

Thanks.



Harjinder Dhudwar
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Install 5.2 with 6.0 boot.img?

[Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)]

Hi folks,

I have a little problem installing RHL 5.2. I have an old 386/33
(Dell 333P with 16MB, 500MB EIDE drive, 3c503 NIC, video onboard (SVGA), two
serial ports onboard (16450), parallel port onboard, IDE controller onboard,
an additional I/O card with two serial ports (16550A) and a game and a
parallel port, 387/33 co-proc is installed) which I use for
experimenting and which I might turn into my
dial-up/firewall/masquerading machine (hence the extra I/O card to get
the faster serial ports for a 56K external modem).
I had RHL 6.0 installed on that machine (yes, it was actually running
(well, crawling...)), but I decided to go back to RHL 5.2, as that
enables me to compile for this my machine without fuzz on one of my two
(faster...) main machines which are both still running RHL 5.2 (no, I have
no intention of upgrading either of them - at least not before at least RHL
6.2). Problem is: I can't get the RHL 5.2 installation disk to boot on
that 386. I tried both the original boot.img as supplied on the CD and
the newer one from the errata. In both cases, the machine starts with
"Uncompressing ..." and then "boot failed". Dead.

Question is now:

a) Does anybody have an idea how to fix this?

or, alternatively

b) Is it possible to install RHL 5.2 using the RHL 6.0 installation
   disk? The 6.0 disk boots fine... Reason I'm asking is that the menu
   you get when you boot from the installation disks states that it can
   be used to install Red Hat Linux from version 2.0 - hence my idea to
   use the 6.0 version for 5.2.

I'd be grateful for suggestions, ideas, etc.pp.

Cheerio,

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Re: Formatting utilities in which RPM?

[Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)]

On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 07:47:19AM +0100, Zoki wrote:
> I noticed that Mandrake 6.0 doesn't have the utility to format MSDOS
> disquette's
[...]

If yo're talking about MSDOS floppies, I'd recommend to use the "mtools"
package. The RPM should be named similar.

HTH,

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Re: Cron Help

[Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)]

On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 03:58:55PM -0500, Todd Dunbebin wrote:
> I'm trying to get my linux box to synch with a time server, and I'm trying
> to use crontab, this is what I hve in the file settime
[...]

You've already got an answer to the cron question - I'd just like to
comment on the "synching with time server" bit. IMO, if you intend to
synch your machine on an ongoing basis, the better way to do this is to
have a look at time keeping daemons like xntp(sp?) or chrony as these
programs were specifically made for such a task.
I myself am using chrony for this and I'm quite content. If you'd like
to have a look at it you can check its home page at:

http://www.rrbcurnow.freeserve.co.uk/chrony/

HTH,

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Windows NT+ Exchange with Linux proxy/firewall server

[Niels Wagenaar]

Hello all,
  
After a couple of questions from my boss, he finally decided to
implent a Linux server for proxy and firewall purposes and to
remove a Windows NT box as Proxy (We were fed up to reset the
Win NT server after a couple of days :-)

But, the company still wants to use a Windows NT server with
exchange for mail, central appointment schedule and for use
with the internal newsgroups. The fact is that it will be
behind the Linux server.
  
Does anybody have information or experience with my solution/problem?
Or does anybody have a solution to get Win NT with Exchange from the
picture (Linux server will take over the stuff which the Win NT
server normally handles.). Which I prefer, ofcourse :-)
  
Thx in advance!
 
Signed,
  
Niels Wagenaar 


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