To fwbuilder or not?
Howdy, Thinking of ipchains to iptables etc. transition, has Red Hat yet considered adding Firewall Builder to distribution instead of continuing developing firewall-config ? The firewall-config AFAIK does not support iptables yet, so those of us needing stateful inspection are out of luck with it. Thus I would advise you to check Firewall Builder first before putting more effort on firewall-config. http://www.fwbuilder.org/ It's very nice and well implemented suite, with well thought separate XML represented backend, object oriented (GTK)GUI and rules compiler. Because of this well though idea behind and basis it's possible to get multiple platform support done easily too, not just ipchains to iptables transition but for completely different platforms. http://www.fwbuilder.org/pages/Documents/FAQ/FAQ.html All this will help a lot in upgrades, centralized management of rules, upcoming migrations etc. I'm very supprised that even though I was looking just this kind of tool some time ago I did not come across with fwbuilder, it would have saved me lot of effort just if I had known about it. HTH, :-) riku -- [ This .signature intentionally left blank ] ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
Re: To fwbuilder or not?
Umm, some (redhat) people may not like it - but there is a KDE application which just simply fits - it's VERY easy to use (even for people who barely know what is TCP/IP), supports IP chains and IP Tables, creates very good scripts, and a very nice GUI. It's called GuardDog, and you can check it here: http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/ Ofcourse - since Red Hat specifically like GNOME stuff, I doubt if it will be ever used by Redhat or installed as default. The firewall-config AFAIK does not support iptables yet, so those of us needing stateful inspection are out of luck with it. Thus I would advise you to check Firewall Builder first before putting more effort on firewall-config. http://www.fwbuilder.org/ It's very nice and well implemented suite, with well thought separate XML represented backend, object oriented (GTK)GUI and rules compiler. -- Hetz Ben Hamo ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
undefined symbol: mknod
Hi, Note: this error I got is happens actually on a Mandrake 8.1 system, but the same error I got on a RH 7.2 system. And since I'm looking desperatelly for a soution, I hope that posting message here could help. Thank you. When I'm running a program that compiled perfectly, I got the following error: undefined symbol: mknod My machine is: radu@D5E03753 cpic_src]$ uname -a Linux D5E03753 2.4.8-26mdk #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001 i686 unknown [radu@D5E03753 cpic_src]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 radu@D5E03753 radu]$ rpm -qa | egrep (glibc|compat|binutils|gcc) gcc-2.96-0.62mdk compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2 gcc3.0-cpp-3.0.1-1mdk glibc-devel-2.2.4-6mdk binutils-2.11.92.0.7-2mdk gcc-c++-2.96-0.62mdk compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.16 glibc-2.2.4-6mdk gcc-cpp-2.96-0.62mdk libgcc3.0-3.0.1-1mdk gcc3.0-3.0.1-1mdk libbinutils2-2.11.92.0.7-2mdk In GNU site I found this --- 2.7. Looking through the shared libc file I haven't found the functions `stat', `lstat', `fstat', and `mknod' and while linking on my Linux system I get error messages. How is this supposed to work? Believe it or not, stat and lstat (and fstat, and mknod) are supposed to be undefined references in libc.so.6! Your problem is probably a missing or incorrect /usr/lib/libc.so file; note that this is a small text file now, not a symlink to libc.so.6. It should look something like this: GROUP ( libc.so.6 libc_nonshared.a ) -- [radu@D5E03894 radu]$ find /usr/lib -type f -print | egrep (libc\.so|libc\.a|libc_nonshared\.a) /usr/lib/libc.a /usr/lib/libc.so /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a [radu@D5E03894 radu]$ cat /usr/lib/libc.so /* GNU ld script Use the shared library, but some functions are only in the static library, so try that secondarily. */ GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a ) Searching with google I did not find any usefull result. Program was compiled as: gcc -o cpi01 cpi01s.c -lc (but I got the same error also without compiling with -lc option) Can somebody point me what is/I'm doing wrong? Thank you, Radu -- Radu Filip Network Administrator @ Technical University of Iasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology and Communication Center http://socrate.tuiasi.ro/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ccti.tuiasi.ro/ ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
Re: To fwbuilder or not?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 04:07:28PM +0200, Riku Meskanen wrote: Howdy, Thinking of ipchains to iptables etc. transition, has Red Hat yet considered adding Firewall Builder to distribution instead of continuing developing firewall-config ? The firewall-config AFAIK does not support iptables yet, so those of us needing stateful inspection are out of luck with it. Thus I would advise you to check Firewall Builder first before putting more effort on firewall-config. http://www.fwbuilder.org/ IMHO would be an overkill in replacing lokkit. As a direct replacement for lokkit, I would look at http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/. Supports both ipchains and iptables, and has a wizard/druid view of things. And it is a part of the gnome project. But fwbuilder would be nice to have in the distribution. -- carpe noctem ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
Re: To fwbuilder or not?
Howdy, Thanks for you comment, I prefer KDE too, IMHO it's more complete than what GNOME currently provides, but Gnome softare project are getting better all the time. Granted the guarddog has bit smaller footprint, but it appears to me that the little more fwbuilder demands will pay you back, if you look carefully for example http://www.fwbuilder.org/screenshots/6.html check what's in the picture under the Firewals branch, notice the fw1, guardian-* etc. I think with a little work fwbuilder could possibly support (import/export) guarddog too. The footprint is big issue on small single-media firewalls¹ ofcourse, but I don't think it's primary concern when you run fw on workstation or like. ¹) http://www.bbiagent.net/, http://www.coyotelinux.com/, http://www.shorewall.net/ or any of the like Nothing prevents actually creating a single rpm package from abovementioned (refer to one of these¹ or similar tftp loadable) which then could be configured on workstation and using the loopback driver creating the complete fw-image for the standalone fw which does not need hard disks at all. Keeping the xml-configurations in fwbuilder and when new release is available upgrade the rpm package and regenerating new ready to boot image in few seconds, with your own previously defined fw-rules :) The *BIG* thing in fwbuilder is that with that you can maintain configurations platform independently and that makes life *LOT* easier with upgrades etc. But, hey both could be included or good choices to be added to powertools first or whatever, I'm so happy that I found fwbuilder that I don't care at the moment weheee : :-) riku On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: Umm, some (redhat) people may not like it - but there is a KDE application which just simply fits - it's VERY easy to use (even for people who barely know what is TCP/IP), supports IP chains and IP Tables, creates very good scripts, and a very nice GUI. It's called GuardDog, and you can check it here: http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/ Ofcourse - since Red Hat specifically like GNOME stuff, I doubt if it will be ever used by Redhat or installed as default. The firewall-config AFAIK does not support iptables yet, so those of us needing stateful inspection are out of luck with it. Thus I would advise you to check Firewall Builder first before putting more effort on firewall-config. http://www.fwbuilder.org/ It's very nice and well implemented suite, with well thought separate XML represented backend, object oriented (GTK)GUI and rules compiler. -- Hetz Ben Hamo ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list :-) riku -- [ This .signature intentionally left blank ] ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
Re: Mozilla Cookie Problem
You enable cookies in Mozilla the same was as in Netscape...Edit/Preferences. On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, John P. Verel wrote: Evening. Running mozilla-0.9.2.1-2 here, via RedHat 7.2 distro. I'm having all sorts of problems with sites that say I don't have cookies enabled, when in fact I do. I do not have this problem with netscape. Anyone know of this thing? Thanks. John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Wireless networking
Patrick Nelson wrote: - Art Ross Drew Hunt wrote: Mandrake 8.1 with a LinkSys WPC11 (~$100) and wlan (www.linux-wlan.org) drivers. No complaints. You'll need an access point for the lab, either a linux box with wireless set to masq or one from a vendor. I use LinkSys 4-port wireless Cable/DSL/Wireless aP with integrated firewall (~$200). Works fine and has an easy web-based interface. Drew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Art Ross Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 7:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wireless networking Our department teaches a Fundamentals of Linux class. This class has grown in popularity to the point where our networked lab stations needs to be increased. In order to get the additional network connections we would have to go through an enormous amount of paperwork and delays. This won't work for the Winter quarter offering. We can bring in additional network connections from a switch by dropping the lines from the ceiling but this gets messy and difficult to manage. We thought that wireless networking for the lab would be neater and we also could isolate the lab on a subnet with a gateway behind the access point for the wireless. Does anyone know how well Linux works with wireless and what products will work best with RedHat or maybe Mandrake? If this is a terrible idea, let me know. I want to hear the truth. Our department can afford the equipment as long as individual items are less than $500. Thanks for the link to the linux-wlan project. We'll research our position more and hopefully find an economical solution. - OMG, I had tried this with a Melco Buffalo PCMCIA card (WLI-PCM-L11) in the past and for some reason didn't get connected. Not sure if I was in a hurry then but just didn't get it working. Saw the link above and decided to just look into it. So I went to techworks.com (where I purchased our AirStation and PCMCIA cards) which pointed to buffalotech.com (or something like that) and found that they don't support Linux (--brilliant, just brilliant), but they had a URL to the Jean Tourrilhes's HP supported site (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wavelan.html). Started reading and he made it sound easy so again I plugged in my wireless card and fired it up. No connection to the AirStation on bootup (expected). The tool iwconfig (part of the wireless tool kit, standard on RH72) showed the device connected to eth0. So I used iwconfig to set the essid, the mode, the rate, and the key. Then pinged the ip of the access point (AirStation) and nearly died when the pings came through. It didn't survived a reboot, but I followed information to /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and found the section for my card (it was actually listed can you believe it? How often does that happen?) edited the variables vales for essid, mode, rate, and key. Then did a /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop and a /etc/init.d/pcmcia start and checked my connectivity -- connected. Rebooted and this time it survived the reboot. Yeah! Stoked! That was it my last reason to keep MS on my laptop... Just repartitioned the fat32 to e3fs and incorporated it as my /var! And I thought this day wasn't going good! Ha! ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
StarOffice Fonts
Dear all, My StarOffice 6.0 Beta looks lousy with the current fonts and I recently got my fonts for Netscape to work well. How can I get the same fonts for Netscape to work under StarOffice ?? thanks /ethan ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
How to for Iptables
Hi guys. Is there a howto doc for iptables. I can't find it. Does it have another name or doesn't it exist? brgd., Ragnar W. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
UI in text mode.
Hello Everyone, Can anyone tell me what library is used to get all those glary UI in text mode in programs like setup, or during the installation of RH. I need to work with multi-line texts, combos etc. (They are not just ncurses, right...?) Regards Ptbabu. ** This email (including any attachments) is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient/s and may contain material that is CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVATE COMPANY INFORMATION. Any review or reliance by others or copying or distribution or forwarding of any or all of the contents in this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by email and delete all copies; your cooperation in this regard is appreciated. ** ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: How to for Iptables
The FAQ is located: http://netfilter.samba.org/netfilter-faq.html Try and Google search for netfilter plus iptables for full results. There was also an extremely useful discussion on iptables in the past few months on a mailing list run by the Security Focus team (www.securityfocus.com) when a collated list was distributed of sample config files alongside explanations. Suggest www.securityfocus.com then search through the mailing lists for iptables/netfilter. http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/ also has some sample scripts for various network situations. Dan On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Ragnar Wiencke wrote: Hi guys. Is there a howto doc for iptables. I can't find it. Does it have another name or doesn't it exist? brgd., Ragnar W. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Special accounts
Marcel, On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, [iso-8859-1] Marcel Fréchette wrote: I am looking for help with system accounts or special accounts. On the Red Hat 7.1 Linux systems I installed on my machines, over 20 of them exist in files passwd and shadow (eg shutdown, nobody, named). I want to understand them more, why they are there, and of course how to use them. You will notice that different files and directories are owned by different users (and groups). This is part of the Unix model: different tasks should be ran (and related files owned) by different users. In addition, separate users can be assigned different resources (and capabilities) like amount of memory and number of file descriptors. (Plus there are various setuid or setgid executables which will run as a different user or group.) For example, nobody is the user to use when you want to run a program that has no privileges (except maybe to write to a tmp directory); nobody should own no files[1]. named is the user that the BIND name server daemon runs as; so if named was to crash or be exploited, only the files owned by named could possibly be compromised. I know on some Unix systems, a shutdown (or halt) user is simply available so a shutdown can be done when that user logs in. (A password would need to be set and the UID modified or shutdown tool changed so it does the right thing.) As you can see, the goal with having multiple users is to limit the amount of privilege needed. Also, in the /etc/shadow file of the last system I installed, 15 of the 22 system accounts have a single asterisk * in the encrypted password field, and the remaining 7 have a double exclamation mark !! in there. What do those values mean? When the asterisk is there, nothing can match it. An exclamation mark means a password (or account) is locked via usermod(8). Also, a single exclamation marks means that a account is not allowed for logins. So a double exclamation makes sure that if it was unlocked, it would still have an invalid passwd. They simply mean that no password is available (you can't login remotely with a password for these accounts). Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ -- BSD news and resources http://www.isp-faq.com/-- find answers to your questions [1] Of course, many still run maintenance scripts that create temporary nobody-owned files or Apache (or CGI) that could create files owned by nobody. This is a security issue. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: UI in text mode.
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me what library is used to get all those glary UI in text mode in programs like setup, or during the installation of RH. $ ldd /usr/sbin/setup libnewt.so.0.50 = /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.50 (0x40019000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40028000) libslang.so.1 = /usr/lib/libslang.so.1 (0x4011d000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40161000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) I need to work with multi-line texts, combos etc. (They are not just ncurses, right...?) Have a look at libslang and libnewt, for example, the following RPMs are on one of my systems: newt-0.50.8-2 newt-devel-0.50.8-2 slang-1.2.2-5 slang-devel-1.2.2-5 Good luck, Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ -- BSD news and resources http://www.isp-faq.com/-- find answers to your questions ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: latest rpm?
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:56, Lewi wrote: is redhat provide rpm for every new release, for example like apache or php, if not why, considering a bug in old version? and where i can find it? or i must install it from tarball All software has bugs. Therefore, to provide patches for all their old versions, they'd be nothing else than patching and testing. Red Hat provides security bugfixes for old releases - I believe they still go back to 5.2 or earlier. To get traditional bug fixes and new features (and these typically go together) you need to upgrade to their latest distribution. This is a policy I can't disagree with. Regression testing is a major undertaking, and Red Hat does this with every full release, and again when security fixes are released. No company has the resources to do that for every bug fix. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: UI in text mode.
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 04:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me what library is used to get all those glary UI in text mode in programs like setup, or during the installation of RH. I need to work with multi-line texts, combos etc. (They are not just ncurses, right...?) ldd /usr/sbin/setup This shows you that it's using newt as one of its libraries. rpm -qi newt [root@linux1 usb]# rpm -qi newt Name: newt Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.50.33 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 1 Build Date: Wed 29 Aug 2001 06:36:55 PM CDT Install date: Wed 31 Oct 2001 07:31:12 PM CST Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: newt-0.50.33-1.src.rpm Size: 168843 License: LGPL Packager: Red Hat, Inc. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Summary : A development library for text mode user interfaces. Description : Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget-based user interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, etc., to text mode user interfaces. This package also contains the shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a /usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail. Newt is based on the slang library. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RedHat and Sendmail
I have a laptop running RH 7.2 and Sendmail 8.11.6-3. Everything is configuring and working for sending mail except one thing that I can't seem to fix. When mail is sent from this machine (it does not receive mail, only used for sending mail) several mail servers are denying my mail because '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' doesn't exit. Because this laptop is used at various client sites and gets a DHCP address, it doesn't have a DNS entry. Anyways, I would like to modify Sendmail so that whenever a mail is sent from this machine it modifies the mail so that it is from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I thought this was masquerading but that didn't seem to fix the problem. I've looked at the FAQs and search the internet but can't find an answer that works for me. If anyone can give me an idea on what I need to do I would appreciate it. -- Brian Blater [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
where are the openssl tools: req, gendsa, genrsa, etc
The man pages are in the openssl-0.9.6-9 rpm, but the tools are missing. Thanks, -Jim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Replace Z's with E's to reply) Linux: The Choice of the GNU Generation -Anonymous ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: How to for Iptables
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-94.html http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1769/sam0112a/0112a.htm In the first link is another link to what seems to be a complete IPTables tutorial (prints out to 95 pages). On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Ragnar Wiencke wrote: Hi guys. Is there a howto doc for iptables. I can't find it. Does it have another name or doesn't it exist? brgd., Ragnar W. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
window manager not working properly; HELP
I turned my computer on this morning and when Xwindow started, it is messed up. The only thing I am able to do is run one xterm. From there I can run any application which will start from a command line. I looked through my home directory and cannot find the configuration file for starting my window manager. I am running RH7.2 and was running gnome and sawfish when I last was using the computer. I would appreciate any suggestions. david ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Maximum Number of TCP connections
This is something that I should know but don't, and can't find info on either. One of the other admins here is working on a Lotus Domino server on RH7.2. It's only allowing 300 connections, the software vendor of the application that runs on notes, (not IBM itself) is saying it's Linux that's limiting the TCP connections. I don't think this is the case, because I've never come across any setting to limit connections in linux it's always in the application configurations. So I'm asking, is there a default limit to the number of TCP connections the kernel can make, if there is I'm sure it's much much higher than 300. If there is a limit, I'd assume it's something that needs to be set at compile time or with a boot parameter? -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster PittsburghLIVE.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Maximum Number of TCP connections
2 possbilities: 1) xinetd can control the amount of TCP connection for any service that runs under it (/etc/xinetd.d/) Again, this ONLY affects programs that allow xinetd to control the service. 2) ptys. By default I believe that Redhat's kernel is configured for 512, but it you build a kernel from source, the default is 256. This could also be causing your restriction. You can check the number ptys by doing a `dmesg`, or more /var/log/dmesg. -Rob This is something that I should know but don't, and can't find info on either. One of the other admins here is working on a Lotus Domino server on RH7.2. It's only allowing 300 connections, the software vendor of the application that runs on notes, (not IBM itself) is saying it's Linux that's limiting the TCP connections. I don't think this is the case, because I've never come across any setting to limit connections in linux it's always in the application configurations. So I'm asking, is there a default limit to the number of TCP connections the kernel can make, if there is I'm sure it's much much higher than 300. If there is a limit, I'd assume it's something that needs to be set at compile time or with a boot parameter? -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster PittsburghLIVE.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- -Rob ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Maximum Number of TCP connections
There's also a limit on the number of open file descriptors, you could check how many are opened by the app and then how many are allowed with getdtablesize() to see if this is the problem. Mike On 11 Dec 2001, Jeff Bearer wrote: This is something that I should know but don't, and can't find info on either. One of the other admins here is working on a Lotus Domino server on RH7.2. It's only allowing 300 connections, the software vendor of the application that runs on notes, (not IBM itself) is saying it's Linux that's limiting the TCP connections. I don't think this is the case, because I've never come across any setting to limit connections in linux it's always in the application configurations. So I'm asking, is there a default limit to the number of TCP connections the kernel can make, if there is I'm sure it's much much higher than 300. If there is a limit, I'd assume it's something that needs to be set at compile time or with a boot parameter? -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster PittsburghLIVE.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Zone file
Hello! Is the zone file for certain domain simply editable by vi or it has some special characters? ( tab , esc ... etc. ) Are there some graphical tools to maintain zone files or there is the editor only? I would like to change some addresses in it. Thanks begin:vcard n:Szemerédy;Gábor x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.srce.net org:Zavod za informatiku i AOP Subotica;HW-SW adr:;;Adolfa Singera 12;Subotica;Vojvodina;24000;Yugoslavia version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Dev. eng. fn:Szemerédy Gábor end:vcard
[RedHat 7.2] Bash startup scripts fail to run for loops
I have a script that starts a subscript on startup. The parent script is a
/bin/sh script while the child script is a /bin/bash. The child script
contains for loops which are not being executed. The child script works
properly when logged in as root not during startup. The child script
contains my firewall rules. To reduce complexity and increase readability
I put repeated similar rules into a singular for loop using a array to
contain the values. For example:
declare -a POP_SERVER
POP_SERVER[1]=pop.mail.host1
POP_SERVER[2]=pop.mail.host2
for SERVER in ${POP_SERVER[@]; do
ipchains -A output -i $EXTRN_INTERFACE -p tcp \
-s $IPADDR $UNPRIVPORTS \
-d $SERVER 110 -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A input -i $EXTRN_INTERFACE -p tcp ! \
-y -s $SERVER 110 \
-d $IPADDR $UNPRIVPORTS -j ACCEPT
done
Is there a way to use arrays with for loops during startup? Is there a
short example someone could send me that proves it works? That way I could
fix my start up script.
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Re: Maximum Number of TCP connections
On 11 Dec 2001 10:14:00 -0500 Robert Dege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) ptys. By default I believe that Redhat's kernel is configured for 512, but it you build a kernel from source, the default is 256. This could also be causing your restriction. You can check the number ptys by doing a `dmesg`, or more /var/log/dmesg. Does this mean that even if I've configured my Apache to allow say like 1000 connections, it won't do it because the kernel restricts it? What is the reason for this restriction? Fear of DoS attacks? Regards, Peter ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
squid not getting wet
Hi, I'm consulting a firm with a proxy firewall. All services are working fine with exception of squid. When i try to stop it: #/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid stop[FAILED] it fails. When I start it up it doesn't complain but doesn't work either. Im using squid (among other purposes) to filter traffic so only authorized IP's can surf the Internet. When i turned the service ON no one could surf, but if I turn it OFF everyone can surf. Any help appreciated, -oscar -- PGP Key fingerprint = 87 83 5F D3 8D D4 B9 DC 4F 15 B1 68 4E FE 2D AE ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Maximum Number of TCP connections
From the kernel help: The maximum number of Unix98 PTYs that can be used at any one time. The default is 256, and should be enough for desktop systems. Server machines which support incoming telnet/rlogin/ssh connections and/or serve several X terminals may want to increase this: every incoming connection and every xterm uses up one PTY. When not in use, each additional set of 256 PTYs occupy approximately 8 KB of kernel memory on 32-bit architectures. COnfiguring Apache for 1000 connection will not apply, since apache starts with a certain number of daemons in memory can grow up to a certain point. It all depends upon the load. -Rob On 11 Dec 2001 10:14:00 -0500 Robert Dege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) ptys. By default I believe that Redhat's kernel is configured for 512, but it you build a kernel from source, the default is 256. This could also be causing your restriction. You can check the number ptys by doing a `dmesg`, or more /var/log/dmesg. Does this mean that even if I've configured my Apache to allow say like 1000 connections, it won't do it because the kernel restricts it? What is the reason for this restriction? Fear of DoS attacks? Regards, Peter ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- -Rob ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Maximum Number of TCP connections
Thanks for the info, the default ptys for the enterprise kernel is 2048 so that's not the problem. Now on to the open file descriptors suggestion from Mike. On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:14, Robert Dege wrote: 2 possbilities: 1) xinetd can control the amount of TCP connection for any service that runs under it (/etc/xinetd.d/) Again, this ONLY affects programs that allow xinetd to control the service. 2) ptys. By default I believe that Redhat's kernel is configured for 512, but it you build a kernel from source, the default is 256. This could also be causing your restriction. You can check the number ptys by doing a `dmesg`, or more /var/log/dmesg. -Rob This is something that I should know but don't, and can't find info on either. One of the other admins here is working on a Lotus Domino server on RH7.2. It's only allowing 300 connections, the software vendor of the application that runs on notes, (not IBM itself) is saying it's Linux that's limiting the TCP connections. I don't think this is the case, because I've never come across any setting to limit connections in linux it's always in the application configurations. So I'm asking, is there a default limit to the number of TCP connections the kernel can make, if there is I'm sure it's much much higher than 300. If there is a limit, I'd assume it's something that needs to be set at compile time or with a boot parameter? -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster PittsburghLIVE.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- -Rob ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster PittsburghLIVE.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Maximum Number of TCP connections
Hi Peter, Does this mean that even if I've configured my Apache to allow say like 1000 connections, it won't do it because the kernel restricts it? If you want to allow apache 256 connections synchronously you will have to recompile apache. I think 256 connections is the default for the RedHat apache rpm's. Bye, Leonard. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: latest rpm?
Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:56, Lewi wrote: is redhat provide rpm for every new release, for example like apache or php, if not why, considering a bug in old version? and where i can find it? or i must install it from tarball All software has bugs. Therefore, to provide patches for all their old versions, they'd be nothing else than patching and testing. Red Hat provides security bugfixes for old releases - I believe they still go back to 5.2 or earlier. RHL 6.2 is the oldest supported version of RHL - RHL 5.2 was supported for 3 years after the release. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: where are the openssl tools: req, gendsa, genrsa, etc
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jim Lambert wrote: The man pages are in the openssl-0.9.6-9 rpm, but the tools are missing. They're in 'openssl': openssl req openssl gendsa openssl genrsa -- If I had a dollar for every brain that you don't have, I'd have one dollar. - Squidward to SpongeBob ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Bash startup scripts fail to run for loops
Hi Stephen,
for SERVER in ${POP_SERVER[@]; do
Maybe you just forgot the closing bracket ( } )?
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Re: latest rpm?
Is there a date planed for when 6.2 will go into the unsupported realm? I can't find the release date for 6.2 but I think that 7.0 was released in August 2000. Open Ad Stream by RealMedia still only supports their software on 6.2 and it's a pain in the but. If 6.2 is going unsupported soon, I'd have something really got to gripe about. They have been telling me they will support 7.x in 3 or 4 months, starting 14 or 15 months ago. On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 11:06, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:56, Lewi wrote: is redhat provide rpm for every new release, for example like apache or php, if not why, considering a bug in old version? and where i can find it? or i must install it from tarball All software has bugs. Therefore, to provide patches for all their old versions, they'd be nothing else than patching and testing. Red Hat provides security bugfixes for old releases - I believe they still go back to 5.2 or earlier. RHL 6.2 is the oldest supported version of RHL - RHL 5.2 was supported for 3 years after the release. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Jeff Bearer, RHCE Webmaster PittsburghLIVE.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: redhat 7.2 and printers
Angel L. Mateo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recently I updated my computer from redhat 7.0 to 7.2 and now I can't use printers as before. I use a HP LJ2100 printer I had two printers configured, one with the normal behaviour and the other configured to print 2 pages per page, but with redhat 7.2 it doesn't work. I can still use the printer with the normal behaviour, but I don't know how to configure it to print 2 pages per page. Does anybody know how to make it? All updates applied? PS: You're much better off using enigma-list for questions on RHL 7.2. More developers read it. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: sendmail antivirus
Hi everyone, Speaking of anti-virus, could anybody point me to a site which holds a (complete) virus signature database? I do not mean vendor specific, but a generic repository (where the vendors get their data (?)). I seem to be unable to provide the search engines with a useful query :). Bye, Leonard. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: latest rpm?
Jeff Bearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a date planed for when 6.2 will go into the unsupported realm? Current plan is april (I don't remember the exact date) 2003. I can't find the release date for 6.2 but I think that 7.0 was released in August 2000. October 2000, AFAIR. Disclaimer: I'm not the one making the decisions on that, but April 2003 would be three years from its release. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
streaming audio...
Hi all, I have a RH72 system that I'd like to play streaming audio on. Are my options only to wade thru the mounds of advertisements (including pop-under ads!), chicanery, and so-called Free Downloads at real.com or are there alternatives? It apparently isn't free at all any more, only a Free 14-day trial. What a joke. Thanks, Dave ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
squidguard , how to go about make it run with ACL
Title: squidguard , how to go about make it run with ACL Dear all Anyone to take this query? I need to make squidguard working with ACL features. I have my Squid 2.3.STABLE1 up and runing as a proxy server with various acls, like dstdomains and various list of hosts machines assigned with various acl names with permitted access based on time period. Now, how is this squidguard will help me more with my existing squid proxy. All i know about squidguard is that its a plugin to squid. Please tell me how to configure this and how best i can work with this. Thanks in advance Warm Regards Ganeshh
Re: fvwm2 instead of kde
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:52:44PM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: I want to switch to fvwm2 from kde. My machine just doesn't have the [...] Did you run switchdesk? I remember having to run switchdesk AnotherLevel to switch from KDE to something else. I'm quoting from memory, so I'm afraid, I can't remember the details. There was something about a file called .wm_style in $HOME as well, AFAIR. Sorry that I can't be more detailed, but maybe it gets you on the right track somehow. Cheerio, Thomas -- http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html ...'cause only lusers quote signatures! Thomas Ribbrock | http://www.ribbrock.org | ICQ#: 15839919 You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
upgrading to latest openssh-server needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.4)
The file was from ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/openssh-server-2.9p2-11.7.i386.rpm $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) # rpm -Fvh openssh-server-2.9p2-11.7.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: openssh = 2.9p2-11.7 is needed by openssh-server-2.9p2-11.7 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.4) is needed by openssh-server-2.9p2-11.7 The Red Hat RHSA-2001-161 errata says: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. I don't see any errata via the errata webpages for 7.x for libc. What is up with this libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.4)? # rpm -q -a | grep -i libc compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2 glibc-devel-2.2.2-10 glibc-common-2.2.2-10 glibc-profile-2.2.2-10 glibc-2.2.2-10 Are these the right libc for 7.1? If so, can someone tell me where I missed the errata for libc? Or can someone explain why this RPM for 7.1 was built against this newer libc? This is under Red Hat Linux 7.1 (also according to /etc/issue). Or maybe this system really isn't 7.1? Thanks, Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ -- BSD news and resources http://www.isp-faq.com/-- find answers to your questions ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RedHat 8.0 beta
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:51:37AM -0500, Michael Jang wrote: I'm not asking for the release date of the next version of Red Hat. I am asking if anyone has any informed speculation on when the beta for Red Hat Linux 8.0 might be available. You can always grab Red Hat Linux XPerimental (i.e. Rawhide.) Sorry, I just wanted to say XPerimental ... :-} :-} Looking at past history, I'd expect a new official beta sometime in spring, probably April/May. But what do I know? Nothing. :-} -- \Peter. /\ \ / ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML mail / \ and postings ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Modules in 7.2
Probably got something to do with your networking setup. Look in /etc/sysconfig/network and the /etc/sysconfig-network-scripts directory. See if in any files it mentions appletalk or IPX. Thats all I can think of at the moment. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Gordon Charrick wrote: Didn't get a reply the first time so sorry but I'm trying again! I've got a laptop with 7.2 on it with a 2.4.9-13 kernel. The modules appletalk and ipx get automatically loaded at boot time and I can't figure out why. My modules.conf is below. alias eth0 e100 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias usb-controller usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 ymfpci post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L /dev/null 21 || : pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S /dev/null 21 || : options sb support=1 alias char-major-195 NVdriver alias char-major-10-181 toshiba ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Itanium or Xeon?
Hi all, I'm shopping for a quad server for a heavy number-crunching application. What I need is: - good floating point performance - good memory bandwidth (we need/want to move ~6GB around at ~200MB/s) Although some sort of AlphaServer would probably be a good bet for us, it looks like our budget can accommodate either a quad Xeon or quad Itanium server (e.g. Dell 6450 or Dell 7150). With that choice in mind, I would like to solicit input on some questions: - According to spec.org, the Itanium is just about tops in floating point performance. Is that also supported by real-world applications? - How good is the memory throughput? For example, I know that the 8-way Xeons are memory I/O dogs due to the system architecture. Getting data to/from the CPU's is a real issue for our application. - 1st generation Intel chips always seems to come up short compared to their hype. Does the Itanium suffer from any inherent problems? - Is Red Hat IA64 as stable as the i386 version? Is there any reason to fear it being abandoned like the Sparc version? Any input from the list would really help me make this decision. Thanks, -Matt -- Matthew Nelson Dynamics Technology, Inc. 21311 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 300, Torrance, CA 90503-5610 Voice: (310) 543-5433 FAX: (310) 543-2117 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: OT: Where to get the Linux 0.01 source code poster sent out by Red Hat
[resend once more, just in case someone can point me in the right direction] [sorry for the off-topic post, please flame me with a more appropriate forum if this is not it] As a RHAT stockholder, I received a Linux 0.01 source code poster last year with my shareholder voting information and SEC filings. Does anyone know where I can get another one of these? Thanks, Dan Browning Kavod Technologies ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RootMail forwarding to an external mailaddress
Check your hostname, by default if you use DHCP on a RedHat install it dumps localhost.localdomain as the hostname and thats why its failing. The other thing is the sending of email outside of your own localhost. By default on local mail is allowed on a redhat install so look for the line in sendmail.mc that reads:- DAEMON_OPTIONS(`port=smtp,Addr=::1, Name=MTA-v6, Family=inet6') and either edit it or comment it out and regenerate sendmail.cf by the commands as listed on the top of the sendmail.mc file. Sendmail cannot recognize the hostname sometimes as well and so you could add this in your sendmail.cf; look for:- # my official domain name # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain #Dj$w.Foo.COM Djhostname And finally restart sendmail after all the changes necessary.. On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Mike Burger wrote: Not that I know of. I'm not sure what might be the problem...and I'm no longer using Sendmail, so I don't even have a testbed to work from. On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Burger wrote: Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] the address you put into your aliases file? nope but this is the returned mail error message! i put in [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an example.. is there something special for dailyreport mail? thanks On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Burger wrote: Yes. Hi! but i have done the external mailaddress already in the aliases db and executed the command newalias but now i get my daily report as returned mail could not find [EMAIL PROTECTED]! any ideas? thanks On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello folks! how i can forward the rootmails in 7.2 to an external mailaddress? with aliases db? or .forward in root dir? thanks in advance ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --- The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein Ashwin kutty.. Systems Administrator Dalhousie University Libraries (902) 494-2694 ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Iptables And DNAT (port forwarding)
Greetings, I am using Redhat 7.2 (2.4.7-10) with Iptables (1.2.3) and I am attempting to forward my http traffic to an internal web server. I have successfully setup NAT and MASQUERAD'ing for the internal network, but I am unable to forward any traffic. Here is the firewall script I am using (it is not complete and cheesy, but I am taking baby steps): -- #!/bin/sh # ## Script to setup the NAT on a IPTables based firewall#modprobe iptable_natiptables -Fiptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADEecho 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward# Optional modules for NATmodprobe ip_nat_ftpmodprobe ip_nat_irc -- The command I have been trying to use with forwarding the http trafficto the internal web server is this: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -i eth1 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.100.1.250:80 With (as you most likely have guessed) 10.100.1.250 being the IP of my local internal web server, eth0 is internal and eth1 is the external, I am able to ping the web server from the firewall box and view the apache served pages from the firewall, but unable to forward any external traffic. Thanks for any help or pointers in advance. My apologies if this was double posted. Regards, Steven
Re: ext2 and ext3
In a word, YES. More detailed explination: the physical file system is irrelavant to NFS. NFS IS a file system (NFS = Network File System) so as long as the machine you are mounting to supports NFS in the kernel, then all it does is read/write using the NFS driver. Then NFS daemon on the source machine then passes the recieved write/read request to the kernel. The kenel then reads/writes the data and passes it back along the pathway (kernel-daemon---daemon-kernel-User). Make sense? - Original Message - From: Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Red Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:20 PM Subject: ext2 and ext3 Hi, If you have a machine with ext2 disks and another machine with ext3 disks, can they NFS mount each other's disks? Thanks, Hidong ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: testing for a user in a script?
Well, since RPMs have to be installed by a privleged user, I'd say just grep for the username in /etc/passwd. I.e. if [ -z `grep joefafanoush /etc/passed 2 /dev/null` ] ; then useradd -r joefafanoush; fi - Original Message - From: Chad and Doria Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Redhat-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 3:56 PM Subject: testing for a user in a script? I am trying to create a SPEC file for a server and need to add a user for the server to run under. I know I can do useradd -r username and create the user, how would I test to make sure this user does not exist before I create it. Or, does it even matter since useradd won't add to users with the same username? (Seems like it would be better to test for the name first.) Thanks, Chad ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Filesystem Conversion
does anyone know of a method of converting a partition formatted in ReiserFS to Ext3 NON-DESTRUCTIVELY? And without moving the data in and out. Ie. tar cvz /datadir; umount /datadir; mke3fs /dev/hdXX; mount /dev/hdXX -t ext3 /datadir; tar xvz /datadir is the type of scenario. What I want is this: umount /datadir; conversion /dev/hdXX; mount /dev/hdXX -t ext3 /datadir That is the type of solution I'm after, if one is available. Reason I ask is this: I have a machine that has 7.1 that is my database server. I needed journaling capabilities, so I formatted a couple of the partitions as reiserfs. I wanted to do ext3 but I could not find any ext3 patches for the 2.4 series kernel (and the ones in RedHat's Kernel SRPM are still the only ones I've seen). The kernel did, however, support Reiserfs, so I downloaded and installed the reiserfs tools and formatted as reiserfs. But Reiserfs has a couple of quirks that I really have been upset with (like reiserfsck ABORTING when called from fsck (ie. calling reiserfsck -a [like fsck would] will immediately terminate the prog. with returncode of 0). I've asked and asked if there was a way to make reiserfsck more compatible with fsck so I didn't have to umount the dir and manually run reiserfsck if the machine shuts down uncleanly. If absolutely necessary I can copy the data off and then back on, but that is so much of a pain (since I have over 1.2 GB of data, much of which is already compressed) that I want to avoid it if I can. However, Ext3 being integrated with fsck is a *VERY* big plus for what I need. Thanks! Dan Egli ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Itanium or Xeon?
Matt, I'd recommend to performance evaluate the two systems with your application before making a decision. Your requirements are such that the choice is not entirely obvious. --david On 10 Dec 2001 07:22:03 -0800, Matt Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Matt Hi all, I'm shopping for a quad server for a heavy Matt number-crunching application. What I need is: Matt - good floating point performance - good memory bandwidth (we Matt need/want to move ~6GB around at ~200MB/s) Matt Although some sort of AlphaServer would probably be a good bet Matt for us, it looks like our budget can accommodate either a quad Matt Xeon or quad Itanium server (e.g. Dell 6450 or Dell 7150). Matt With that choice in mind, I would like to solicit input on Matt some questions: Matt - According to spec.org, the Itanium is just about tops in Matt floating point performance. Is that also supported by Matt real-world applications? Matt - How good is the memory throughput? For example, I know that Matt the 8-way Xeons are memory I/O dogs due to the system Matt architecture. Getting data to/from the CPU's is a real issue Matt for our application. Matt - 1st generation Intel chips always seems to come up short Matt compared to their hype. Does the Itanium suffer from any Matt inherent problems? Matt - Is Red Hat IA64 as stable as the i386 version? Is there any Matt reason to fear it being abandoned like the Sparc version? Matt Any input from the list would really help me make this Matt decision. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Xsession time-out configuration
hello everybody On redhat 7.2, I would like to configure a time-out for exiting from the current Xsession. But it's not possible to add this option in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, though there is the '-to' option that configure the Xserver. But otherwise I don't know how is automatically launched the Xserver (with 'startx'? where to add the right option?...) thanks in advance ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Second, it loads any mixer
If there are no mixer device drivers in the system, the mixer API's will simply return an error. MVMIXER.DRV This file belongs in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. This is Media Vision's Mixer driver for the CDPC In the [drivers] section of your system.ini file, you must have the line: mixer=mvmixer.drv MCIMIXER.DRVPut this file in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. This driver provides a set of extended MCI commands for accessing mixer capabiities. Under the [mci] section of your system. attachment: system.exe
command to modify words?
Hi, What is the command to modify words This is what I am trying to do delete everything after the @ from a file of one line email addresses. BEFORE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ian@squid.org jane@ssl.org.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] AFTER mark ian jane Trevor
Redhat 7.2 and Escalade 7850 IDE Raid Controller
Has anyone tried to install Redhat 7.2 on a server with two 3Ware Escalade 7850 IDE Raid Controller ? It seems that the driver from Escalade doesn`t work ? I've made the install with linux dd, the driver is loading, but i can`t access the partitions on the Raid ? Has anyone a solution for this ? thanx Christoph ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail takes ages to start
Tries to resolve it to an IP. Don't ask me why, but it does. On 5 Dec 2001, Kevin Jones wrote: Thanks, stupid question! What does sendmail do with the hostname that causes it to hang if it's not there? Kevin Jones On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 12:12, ABrady wrote: On 05 Dec 2001 11:55:00 + Kevin Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: On my RedHat 7/2 system the boot process 'hangs' at sendmail for a few minutes before sendmails starts OK. Anybody any idea why this might be or what I can do to track the problem down? Add a hostname to your computer or turn sendmail off at boot. It wants a hostname and you aren't providing one. You can use (shudder) linuxconf to add a hostname (sbin/linuxconf if it's installed). Get it off of the second CD if it isn't. -- Am I supposed to be impressed? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Broadband Allocation
At 12:17 PM 12/11/01 +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day, We have a low volume ADSL connection to our three-client home office network, run through a RH 6.2 server. We have ntop running to monitor network traffic, and the ISP is warning us (using some rather suspect tools) that in a week we have exceeded our month's allocation. Although I can move to the next plan up, which doubles the allocation, even this would be inadequate, and to get a plan for the claimed usage would be prohibitive. Although I don't have a problem with legitimate office use, some of the ankle-biters are downloading MP3s, movies, and staying logged on to hotmail, MSN messenger and ICQ for long periods of time - I suspect this is where most of the traffic is going. So: is there a way that I can allocate a certain amount of the monthly traffic limit to various logged-in users? In other words, person A logged in on machine 1 (an NT4 client) has a defined traffic limit for the month? Assuming your RH 6.2 server is your router, then yes it's possible, but I suspect you will need to upgrade your kernel and some packages. Kernel 2.4 has a much more powerful netfilter, with (among other things) support for rules that match only a certain number of packets in a certain period of time, this means you can build logical structures like forward traffic from 1.2.3.4 if we've seen less than X packets in that direction today into your router. You may find it easier just to upgrade to RH 7.1 or 7.2, but it is certainly possible to get iptables etc. working on 6.2 with a 2.4.x kernel. IMHO hard monthly limits are probably a bad idea, a person may become really annoyed if they tried to download a 1.7gb file on the 2'nd and then can't even get e-mail until the end of the month, I would suggest that you concentrate on limiting overall daily bandwidth usage instead. Usually the culprit in these cases is going to be large file transfers (downloads using a web browser or ftp client, or plus peer-to-peer stuff like napster and ICQ). You need to try to get on top of the situation, often on a per-program basis. It's probably a good idea to block the ports used by IRC, Napster, Gnutella and the like in the workplace, and to limit the speed of ICQ file transfers It's also very helpful to force all HTTP/FTP traffic to pass through a Squid proxy server, set not to refuse to download certain files, or to throttle the speed of downloads based on file size or filename. The cleanest way to do this that I'm aware of is to make the Squid HTTP proxy transparent (so all HTTP traffic passes through it without any browser settings) and then simply disallow outgoing FTP traffic unless they're using the proxy server (AFAIK it's not possible to make Squid into a transparent FTP proxy). That way you (or your tech support staff if you're lucky enough to have one) only have to deal with my FTP client is broken complaints rather than my browser is broken everytime somebody does a re-install. Squid is fairly easy to setup and well documented. Per-user and per-connection bandwidth limiting is a bit more complex, I'd suggest reading the Net-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/index.html and Advanced Routing HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO.html For a good understanding of the subject, but you can get a good cookbook for what you actually want from the Bandwidth Limiting HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO/index.html It talks a bit about Squid as well (although I don't entirely agree with the author). To keep RPM happy you should get the ip command from the iproute RPM (available for RH 7.x) and cbq from the somewhat annoyingly named shapecfg package, as opposed to grabbing tarballs as suggested in the HOWTO. I'm not sure whether Redhat's Squid package has delay pool support by default. They tend to have an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink attitude, and they include sample delay pool config in the default squid.conf file, so I would expect that it does (I don't pay for bandwidth so I've never wanted to use it). If it doesn't support delay pools then I'd suggest you download the latest squid source RPM that works with your OS (presumably from the RH6.2 updates SRPMS section, but it might be in Powertools 6.2), tweak the make file and/or scripts to enable delay pools, and then build and install a new Squid RPM. Hope some of this was helpful. -- Microsoft is not the answer! Microsoft? is the question. NO! is the answer. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
HPT-370
Hello, Is RAID 1 (mirroring) supported on the HPT-370 controllers in 7.2? If so how do I go about setting it up while installing? With no extra work the installer sees the drives separately even though they are RAIDed in the bios. Any info out there? -andy ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Second, it loads any mixer
Um, whups, my bad. Regrads, Matt On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:49:44AM -0500, clovis wrote: If there are no mixer device drivers in the system, the mixer API's will simply return an error. [ snip ] -- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: latest rpm?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:06:34AM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:56, Lewi wrote: is redhat provide rpm for every new release, for example like apache or php, if not why, considering a bug in old version? and where i can find it? or i must install it from tarball All software has bugs. Therefore, to provide patches for all their old versions, they'd be nothing else than patching and testing. Red Hat provides security bugfixes for old releases - I believe they still go back to 5.2 or earlier. RHL 6.2 is the oldest supported version of RHL - RHL 5.2 was supported for 3 years after the release. Although you work for Red Hat, I'm still going to disagree. Several packages have recently been updated for 5.2 and are on your ftp site. sendmail, for example, is as recent in 5.2 as it is for 7.2 (8.11.6). IMHO, Red Hat does a much better job of supplying security patches for old released compared to many other vendors. Perhaps you don't fix all the security holes in the ancient releases, but at least you get some for the stragglers. Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Zone file
It is both editable via vi, pico, etc, and it does have tabs in it. On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Gábor Szemerédy wrote: Hello! Is the zone file for certain domain simply editable by vi or it has some special characters? ( tab , esc ... etc. ) Are there some graphical tools to maintain zone files or there is the editor only? I would like to change some addresses in it. Thanks ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
df is lying: where's our free space gone?
Hello, We were doing a routine check of one of our redhat 7.0 servers and noticed that it was getting low on disk space when it should have had plenty. Example 1: [root@dhp0946 /]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 16G 13G 3.0G 80% / /dev/sda1 61M 6.3M 51M 11% /boot Example 2: [root@dhp0946 /]# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 16782640 12704088 3232732 80% / /dev/sda162193 6387 52595 11% /boot So according to df we have 13 GB of data on this disk, but du does _not_ agree. Out put of du (note du's own grand total at the bottom) [root@dhp0946 /]# du -shc * 22M backup 4.8Mbin 6.3Mboot .264Mdev .004Mduout 4.3Metc 282Mhome 0 htlog 40M lib 0 log .004Mlost+found .012M mnt 235Mmpbackup .016 mpsnapshot .036 nsr .004opt .001Mproc 15M root 5.7Msbin .008Mtmp 604Musr 3900Mvar 0 wh 338Mwork 5.5Gtotal I added it all up by hand and came out with 5458.449 MB. Can anyone explain this anomaly? Which one is correct, du or df ? Is there any other utility I can use to calculate free/taken space? And what is the cause of which ever one is wrong being wrong? TIA! Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Second, it loads any mixer - BE CAREFUL I JUST HAD A VIRUS VIRUS WARNING FROM THIS THREAD
Alex -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Galgoci Sent: 11 December 2001 18:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Second, it loads any mixer Um, whups, my bad. Regrads, Matt On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:49:44AM -0500, clovis wrote: If there are no mixer device drivers in the system, the mixer API's will simply return an error. [ snip ] -- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.306 / Virus Database: 166 - Release Date: 04/12/2001 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.306 / Virus Database: 166 - Release Date: 04/12/2001 ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Second, it loads any mixer - BE CAREFUL I JUST HAD A VIRUS VIRUSWARNING FROM THIS THREAD
Unless of course you are using Red Hat to read your mail, then you can ignore the virus :) On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Alexander Shaw wrote: Alex -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Galgoci Sent: 11 December 2001 18:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Second, it loads any mixer Um, whups, my bad. Regrads, Matt On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:49:44AM -0500, clovis wrote: If there are no mixer device drivers in the system, the mixer API's will simply return an error. [ snip ] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
windows manager
I gave up and did not hear from anybody. What I did was delete the account and put it back in. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: command to modify words?
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Stuart Clark wrote: I have no clue why I received this old Dec. 6 message. (And I didn't check the archive to see if it was already answered.) delete everything after the @ from a file of one line email addresses. (And delete the @ sign also.) cut -d '@' -f 1 Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ -- BSD news and resources http://www.isp-faq.com/-- find answers to your questions ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Special accounts
Hi, This is good, but I am still not confortable with the way those accounts are actually used. For instance (and those are only examples): - I see several (most) system accounts have no command (shell) assigned in /etc/passwd, or have /bin/false. I have read this means they are not supposed to log in. But then, how are they used? - Consider the /var/named directory. On my system it contains 3 files, all owned by system account 'named' with permissions rw-r--r-- (644). If I want to edit file named.local, say, I can su root and edit the file from there or from root, su named, because then the password is not asked for. Is there a better way? - From what you tell me below about the shutdown account, if I assign it the command /sbin/shutdown in /etc/passwd, and then a password, then I could su or login to it from a regular user account to shutdown the machine. Is this the general procedure? - How do I go about running a privilege-less program with nobody? - How do you go about assigning resources to system accounts? I have seen ulimit, but that's a shell built-in. - I tried usermod -U on a system account I don't use (postgres), and the second exclamation mark in /etc/shadow/ went away. But usermod -L did not bring it back. - I have seen (too) short hints on the net about deleting system accounts that I do not use. For one of them (can't recall which), there was a side-effect, that is, some cron script had to be edited after the account was removed. So I have many questions. I have searched the net only to find courses descriptions, hints about deleting unused accounts, and other generalities. Nothing comprehensive. Since a full install of Red Hat Deluxe 7.1 sets up 30 system accounts, assigned to specific UIDs below 100, does detailed documentation about them exist, describing the mission of each account, how it's used, which files/directories it typically owns, how to safely delete/recreate it, etc? Thanks, Marcel Frechette -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy C. Reed Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 06:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Special accounts Marcel, On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, [iso-8859-1] Marcel Fréchette wrote: I am looking for help with system accounts or special accounts. On the Red Hat 7.1 Linux systems I installed on my machines, over 20 of them exist in files passwd and shadow (eg shutdown, nobody, named). I want to understand them more, why they are there, and of course how to use them. You will notice that different files and directories are owned by different users (and groups). This is part of the Unix model: different tasks should be ran (and related files owned) by different users. In addition, separate users can be assigned different resources (and capabilities) like amount of memory and number of file descriptors. (Plus there are various setuid or setgid executables which will run as a different user or group.) For example, nobody is the user to use when you want to run a program that has no privileges (except maybe to write to a tmp directory); nobody should own no files[1]. named is the user that the BIND name server daemon runs as; so if named was to crash or be exploited, only the files owned by named could possibly be compromised. I know on some Unix systems, a shutdown (or halt) user is simply available so a shutdown can be done when that user logs in. (A password would need to be set and the UID modified or shutdown tool changed so it does the right thing.) As you can see, the goal with having multiple users is to limit the amount of privilege needed. Also, in the /etc/shadow file of the last system I installed, 15 of the 22 system accounts have a single asterisk * in the encrypted password field, and the remaining 7 have a double exclamation mark !! in there. What do those values mean? When the asterisk is there, nothing can match it. An exclamation mark means a password (or account) is locked via usermod(8). Also, a single exclamation marks means that a account is not allowed for logins. So a double exclamation makes sure that if it was unlocked, it would still have an invalid passwd. They simply mean that no password is available (you can't login remotely with a password for these accounts). Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ -- BSD news and resources http://www.isp-faq.com/-- find answers to your questions [1] Of course, many still run maintenance scripts that create temporary nobody-owned files or Apache (or CGI) that could create files owned by nobody. This is a security issue. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: streaming audio...
As long as you aren't doing anything robust and just want to stream a few files here and there, you can stream with http. It's very simple. Create your RM (media) file and upload it. Create a meta file. This is a text file with a .ram extension. Inside the text file, put the real http link to the rm file. Upload both files and call the .ram file from your web browser. It'll link to the .rm file and it'll stream. This method isn't as efficient as Real Server but if you are just doing a few, no worries. No apache mods should be necessary. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 09:58 am, you wrote: Hi all, I have a RH72 system that I'd like to play streaming audio on. Are my options only to wade thru the mounds of advertisements (including pop-under ads!), chicanery, and so-called Free Downloads at real.com or are there alternatives? It apparently isn't free at all any more, only a Free 14-day trial. What a joke. Thanks, Dave ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: upgrading to latest openssh-server needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.4)
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: The file was from ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/openssh-server-2.9p2-11.7.i386.rpm $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) # rpm -Fvh openssh-server-2.9p2-11.7.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: openssh = 2.9p2-11.7 is needed by openssh-server-2.9p2-11.7 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.4) is needed by openssh-server-2.9p2-11.7 The Red Hat RHSA-2001-161 errata says: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. I don't see any errata via the errata webpages for 7.x for libc. What is up with this libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.4)? # rpm -q -a | grep -i libc compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2 glibc-devel-2.2.2-10 glibc-common-2.2.2-10 glibc-profile-2.2.2-10 glibc-2.2.2-10 Are these the right libc for 7.1? If so, can someone tell me where I missed the errata for libc? Or can someone explain why this RPM for 7.1 was built against this newer libc? This is under Red Hat Linux 7.1 (also according to /etc/issue). Or maybe this system really isn't 7.1? take a look at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.1/en/os/i386/ You will see the rpms for glibc that have been placed in the update dir. glibc-2.2.4-19.i386.rpm 5071 KbMon Oct 22 01:17:00 2001 glibc-common-2.2.4-19.i386.rpm 8754 KbMon Oct 22 01:18:00 2001 glibc-devel-2.2.4-19.i386.rpm 9964 KbMon Oct 22 01:16:00 2001 glibc-profile-2.2.4-19.i386.rpm 8695 KbMon Oct 22 01:17:00 2001 ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: sendmail antivirus
Each vendor has their own database of signatures. No very efficient, but it's one of the ways they compete with each other. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 08:35, Leonard wrote: Hi everyone, Speaking of anti-virus, could anybody point me to a site which holds a (complete) virus signature database? I do not mean vendor specific, but a generic repository (where the vendors get their data (?)). I seem to be unable to provide the search engines with a useful query :). Bye, Leonard. -- Rob Saul.:|:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:|:.de recta non tolerandum sunt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
suspend on laptop kills the mouse
On upgrading my laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500) from RH 7.0 to RH 7.2 I've found after a suspend and restart (or after closing and opening the lid), the system awakens but no longer responds to the mouse (Logitech, USB, wheel). I haven't discovered how to re-awaken the mouse short of rebooting. Prior to the upgrade the suspend and restart worked fine. Does anyone know of a solution? Thanks, Pierre Kleiber -- - Pierre Kleiber Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fishery Biologist Tel: 808 983-5399/737-7544 NOAA FISHERIES - Honolulu Laboratory Fax: 808 983-2902 2570 Dole St., Honolulu, HI 96822-2396 - God could have told Moses about galaxies and mitochondria and all. But behold... It was good enough for government work. - ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Special accounts
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, [iso-8859-1] Marcel Fréchette wrote: - I see several (most) system accounts have no command (shell) assigned in /etc/passwd, or have /bin/false. I have read this means they are not supposed to log in. No, if it has no shell, it will default to /bin/sh. But, yes, if it is /bin/false or some/nonexistent-shell then it won't let you log in. But then, how are they used? Programs use the setuid(2) function. For example, a program may start as root, but quickly change to another user. Or cron runs the program as the user. Or su(1) or other tools can run a command as another user. su nobody -c 'touch /tmp/nobody-test.$$' ls -l /tmp/nobody-test.* (This is a bad example, because I really believe files shouldn't be owned by nobody -- that defeats the purpose.) - Consider the /var/named directory. On my system it contains 3 files, all owned by system account 'named' with permissions rw-r--r-- (644). If I want to edit file named.local, say, I can su root and edit the file from there or from root, su named, because then the password is not asked for. Is there a better way? named (the program) only need to be able to write to certain files and directories (using the named user). So some of yoru files can be owned by different users. A better way? Maybe create another user account like dns-data and have it own the files that don't need to be modified by named. - From what you tell me below about the shutdown account, if I assign it the command /sbin/shutdown in /etc/passwd, and then a password, then I could su or login to it from a regular user account to shutdown the machine. No, /sbin/shutdown needs to be run by root; you would have to change the UID to zero or make it setuid (not advised) or use some setuid wrapper script. Is this the general procedure? I don't think so. - How do I go about running a privilege-less program with nobody? See su(1) example above; you could also use nobody's crontab or xinetd (or inetd). For example, I use the nobody user to stream audio via inetd. - How do you go about assigning resources to system accounts? I have seen ulimit, but that's a shell built-in. Maybe with PAM via pam_limits and /etc/security/limits.conf. - I tried usermod -U on a system account I don't use (postgres), and the second exclamation mark in /etc/shadow/ went away. But usermod -L did not bring it back. Probably because it thinks it is already locked. - I have seen (too) short hints on the net about deleting system accounts that I do not use. For one of them (can't recall which), there was a side-effect, that is, some cron script had to be edited after the account was removed. Yes, be sure to double-check cron scripts, etc. Also, if you delete some user, then maybe it will break some future software installation or upgrade. Since a full install of Red Hat Deluxe 7.1 sets up 30 system accounts, assigned to specific UIDs below 100, does detailed documentation about them exist, describing the mission of each account, how it's used, which files/directories it typically owns, I am guessing no detailed documentation exists. Mayeb some vendors/distributions have a document or guidelines for their particular setups. how to safely delete/recreate it, etc? Safely delete by carefully searching filesystem and software for the use by the user. Then use userdel, vipw or other tools. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it too much. (Please remember to clip out old signatures, mailing list info, and other unnecessary noise when replying.) Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ -- BSD news and resources http://www.isp-faq.com/-- find answers to your questions ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: latest rpm?
Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:06:34AM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:56, Lewi wrote: is redhat provide rpm for every new release, for example like apache or php, if not why, considering a bug in old version? and where i can find it? or i must install it from tarball All software has bugs. Therefore, to provide patches for all their old versions, they'd be nothing else than patching and testing. Red Hat provides security bugfixes for old releases - I believe they still go back to 5.2 or earlier. RHL 6.2 is the oldest supported version of RHL - RHL 5.2 was supported for 3 years after the release. Although you work for Red Hat, I'm still going to disagree. Several packages have recently been updated for 5.2 and are on your ftp site. sendmail, for example, is as recent in 5.2 as it is for 7.2 (8.11.6). That was one of the last ones. You might notice that e.g. wu-ftpd and apache were not updated. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: HPT-370
Perhaps I should re-phrase that. Highpoint provides info etc for RH 7.1, has anyone had success getting this to work with RH 7.2? Or 7.1? I can't get it to work with either. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:30 am, you wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:12:30AM -0800, Andy Schuler wrote: Is RAID 1 (mirroring) supported on the HPT-370 controllers in 7.2? If so how do I go about setting it up while installing? With no extra work the installer sees the drives separately even though they are RAIDed in the bios. Any info out there? Go to Google and use linux raid hpt-370 as a search string. Not too hard! You'll see a link to http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt370.htm which is the official support page from Highpoint. The answer is that Linux is supported. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: OT: Where to get the Linux 0.01 source code poster sent out by Red Hat
Dan Browning wrote: [resend once more, just in case someone can point me in the right direction] [sorry for the off-topic post, please flame me with a more appropriate forum if this is not it] As a RHAT stockholder, I received a Linux 0.01 source code poster last year with my shareholder voting information and SEC filings. Does anyone know where I can get another one of these? Dan I would contact Red Hat corporate communications or whatever they use for stockholder communicatons. These groups are no usually very large and chnses are you would be close to someonte that knows where the posters came from with a phone call. Bret ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
IMAP Client suggestions?
Hi all, Today marks the day that I find a new email client. Mozilla 0.9.6 just ate one of my Inboxes without a trace. Evolution has done the same to me before. I think I want to go with a more basic client, pine, mutt, etc. I have about 4 mail accounts all setup with an ISP using IMAP access. What's everyone else using for reading IMAP mail? It seems as though mutt supports it, but it looks pretty new. Pine supports it, but how well? Is fetchmail a better option? TIA, Justin ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Openssl tools reg, gendsa, genrsa, etc
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:27:08PM -0500, Jim Lambert wrote: These tools aren't in any of these pkgs: openssl-devel-0.9.6-9 openssl-0.9.6-9 openssl095a-0.9.5a-9 openssl-perl-0.9.6-9 They're in the updates to your distribution. Emmanuel ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Installing RPM for Grub
Newbie alert. Howdy, I have RH7.1 installed from the box CDs. Installing grub wasn't an option with this distro so I want to install it now to dual-boot with Win2k. I wasn't able to find the grub rpm file using up2date, but I did locate it under the Rawhide ftp directory at Red Hat's ftp site. Anyway, I downloaded the grub rpm file to my home directory and have been trying to install it from there but can't. Typing rpm -i grub-0.90-11.src.rpm at the command line throws an error that it can't be installed. Do I need to do this from another directory than home? Also, I've noticed that there are two types of rpm files. one that contains .src and one that doesn't (e.g., grub-0.90-11.src.rpm and grub-0.90-11.rpm). Which one should I be installing? TIA, Chris ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: df is lying: where's our free space gone?
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, JW wrote: Can anyone explain this anomaly? Which one is correct, du or df ? Is there any other utility I can use to calculate free/taken space? And what is the cause of which ever one is wrong being wrong? Both are correct! df is showing all use. du only shows what use of files it sees. In other words, if you have files that are opened and then deleted (and still opened by another process) then du and df will disagree. Anyways, I can easily reproduce this. df: /dev/wd0g 3069820 28321028422697%/home du -s /home 2832102 /home Created a huge file. /dev/wd0g 3069820 3034898 -118570 104%/home 3034898 /home Opened it with tail -f and fstat shows it is open. Then delete it. df still shows that it exists, but du(1) doesn't see it. /dev/wd0g 3069820 3034898 -118570 104%/home 2832226 /home So I close the tail processes: /dev/wd0g 3069820 28322268410297%/home Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ -- BSD news and resources http://www.isp-faq.com/-- find answers to your questions ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Installing RPM for Grub
Hmm. I believe that you want the rpm without the .src in it. I'm a relative newbie too, but I think you should be fine with just rpm -i, although I tend to use rpm -ivh because you get a little graph of progress. I don't actually know which way is better. ;) But yea, download the rpm. The .src is for building it from source? Although I don't know how to do that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Montgomery Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installing RPM for Grub Newbie alert. Howdy, I have RH7.1 installed from the box CDs. Installing grub wasn't an option with this distro so I want to install it now to dual-boot with Win2k. I wasn't able to find the grub rpm file using up2date, but I did locate it under the Rawhide ftp directory at Red Hat's ftp site. Anyway, I downloaded the grub rpm file to my home directory and have been trying to install it from there but can't. Typing rpm -i grub-0.90-11.src.rpm at the command line throws an error that it can't be installed. Do I need to do this from another directory than home? Also, I've noticed that there are two types of rpm files. one that contains .src and one that doesn't (e.g., grub-0.90-11.src.rpm and grub-0.90-11.rpm). Which one should I be installing? TIA, Chris ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
2 quick questions
First question: I am thinking of picking up one of the new ATI Radeon all in wonder cards, the 8500 AGP card (merry christmas to me) and I was wondering how well RedHat deals with it. Has anyone tried one? Any known problems with it? Second question: I have changed the hostname on my web server, so I want to get a new SSL certificate that sends the new name. Having the old one seems to cause security warnings with a number of browsers, though no IE. Not a surprise there I suppose. Anyway, could someone point me to some docs on how to do this, as I so far, have had no luck in finding any? Thanks. Ian. Ian Truelsen Masters program in Philosophy University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current favourite quote: No great civilisation likes forests. K.F. O'Connor Lincoln College, Christchurch, New Zealand ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: sendmail antivirus
Hi Rob, Each vendor has their own database of signatures. No very efficient, but it's one of the ways they compete with each other. Speaking of anti-virus, could anybody point me to a site which holds a (complete) virus signature database? I do not mean vendor specific, but a generic repository (where the vendors get their data (?)). Wrong answer :(. You might be right, but there must be some kind of public repository for virus signatures somewhere (fe for scientific purposes). Who can tell me where to find such a repository? TIA. Bye, Leonard. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: streaming audio...
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Dave Wreski wrote: I have a RH72 system that I'd like to play streaming audio on. Are my options only to wade thru the mounds of advertisements (including pop-under ads!), chicanery, and so-called Free Downloads at real.com or are there alternatives? You may want to consider using Ogg Vorbis. It is a patent-free, BSD-licensed implementation for providing compressed audio. Players are widely available under various operating systems. Some admins have patched icecast to work with Ogg Vorbis. Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ -- BSD news and resources http://www.isp-faq.com/-- find answers to your questions ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Installing RPM for Grub
But yea, download the rpm. The .src is for building it from source? Although I don't know how to do that. rpm --rebuild therpm will build the rpm store it in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS I have RH7.1 installed from the box CDs. Installing grub wasn't an option with this distro so I want to install it now to dual-boot with Win2k. I wasn't able to find the grub rpm file using up2date, but I did locate it under the Rawhide ftp directory at Red Hat's ftp site. Chris, lilo is also capable of dual booting. I suggest you read the HOWTO's at www.linuxdoc.org Messing around with GRUB, might FUBAR your MBR, and you won't be able to boot your machine at all so proceed with caution, before installing the latest and greatest. -- -Rob ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: HPT-370
As a follow-up question, does anyone have an IDE RAID controller that they are using under RH 7.2 that they really like? and are you able to do RAID 1 with it? thanks. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:51 am, you wrote: Perhaps I should re-phrase that. Highpoint provides info etc for RH 7.1, has anyone had success getting this to work with RH 7.2? Or 7.1? I can't get it to work with either. On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:30 am, you wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:12:30AM -0800, Andy Schuler wrote: Is RAID 1 (mirroring) supported on the HPT-370 controllers in 7.2? If so how do I go about setting it up while installing? With no extra work the installer sees the drives separately even though they are RAIDed in the bios. Any info out there? Go to Google and use linux raid hpt-370 as a search string. Not too hard! You'll see a link to http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt370.htm which is the official support page from Highpoint. The answer is that Linux is supported. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Special accounts
Hi Marcel, If I want to edit file named.local, say, I can su root and edit the file from there or from root, su named, because then the password is not asked for. After the su named you will still be root, because there is no shell for named. Only the command /bin/false will have been executed. Do an exit after this and root will be logged out, not named. - From what you tell me below about the shutdown account, if I assign it the command /sbin/shutdown in /etc/passwd, and then a password, then I could su or login to it from a regular user account to shutdown the machine. Is this the general procedure? In the default setup every user that can login on the console can do a shutdown, the philosophy being you could pull the plug anyway. If you want remote users to be able to shut the machine su-ing to shutdown as you suggest probably works (never tried). - How do I go about running a privilege-less program with nobody? ? If you supply nobody with a shell nobody can run the same executables other users can run. Since a full install of Red Hat Deluxe 7.1 sets up 30 system accounts, assigned to specific UIDs below 100, does detailed documentation about them exist, describing the mission of each account, how it's used, which files/directories it typically owns, how to safely delete/recreate it, etc? I would suggest never to do a full install, except for special purposes. This way not all these accounts will be created. If you want to find out which account has what purpose you could try the following (example for named, uid 25): # find / -uid 25 will give you a listing of all files owned by named. You might want to use the switch -xdev as not to descend into other filesystems. Take a file from the output of the previous command, and query the rpm database which package owns the file, ie: # rpm -q --whatprovides /var/named bind-8.2.3-0.6.x Now you know user named is used by bind. Bye, Leonard. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: IMAP Client suggestions?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:51:00PM -0600, Justin Ellison wrote: Today marks the day that I find a new email client. Mozilla 0.9.6 just ate one of my Inboxes without a trace. Evolution has done the same to me before. I think I want to go with a more basic client, pine, mutt, etc. I have about 4 mail accounts all setup with an ISP using IMAP access. What's everyone else using for reading IMAP mail? It seems as though mutt supports it, but it looks pretty new. Pine supports it, but how well? Is fetchmail a better option? I use both Evolution and mutt to read IMAP mail on my local IMAP server. I use procmail to file the articles into separate folders, and access it all via IMAP. Works fairly well. I happen to be replying to this particular message via mutt but if I waited until I got home, I'd be reading it via Evolution. I have not yet made any effort to synchronize address books... Evolution gets its addresses via the pilot stuff from my Palm. One of these days I'll spend some time to extract it from Evolution and import it into a format that mutt can read. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Running a console on the serial port COM1 in 7.1?? Possible?
I'm running RedHat 7.1 on a fairly standard PC. What I'm looking for is to be able to log on through the COM port ttyS1. I've searched quite extensively and found some mention of using agetty or mgetty but neither has worked. I plan to connect to the COM port using a windows box running HyperTerm through a NULL terminated serial cable with connections something like 9600, N, 8, 1. So far nothing I've tried works... any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Chris Hill _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: HPT-370
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:20:32PM -0800, Andy Schuler wrote: As a follow-up question, does anyone have an IDE RAID controller that they are using under RH 7.2 that they really like? and are you able to do RAID 1 with it? thanks. I'm quite happy with my Promise TX2. I've got 2 IBM 40GB UDMA100 drives and have half of each drive mirrored using Linux mirroring. This way I've got my production partitions mirrored, but not my backup or Windows partitions. I picked up the TX2 at mwave.com for about $25. Why are you restricting yourself to hardware RAID? .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Redhat 7.2 and Escalade 7850 IDE Raid Controller
There is an updated image on RedHat's web site in the errata for corrections to the boot process with Escalade controllers. Don't know if it will fix your specific problem, but worth checking out. -Scott Sharkey Linux Unlimited, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried to install Redhat 7.2 on a server with two 3Ware Escalade 7850 IDE Raid Controller ? It seems that the driver from Escalade doesn`t work ? I've made the install with linux dd, the driver is loading, but i can`t access the partitions on the Raid ? Has anyone a solution for this ? thanx Christoph ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Openssl tools reg, gendsa, genrsa, etc
Huh? I've run up2date and I think, I've got the latest versions of these packages. Is there some other package I should be installing? -Jim On 12/11/01 2:56 PM, Emmanuel Seyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:27:08PM -0500, Jim Lambert wrote: These tools aren't in any of these pkgs: openssl-devel-0.9.6-9 openssl-0.9.6-9 openssl095a-0.9.5a-9 openssl-perl-0.9.6-9 They're in the updates to your distribution. Emmanuel ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Replace Z's with E's to reply) cat /dev/coffee | /dev/cup | /dev/mouth | /dev/nose /dev/keyboard -Anonymous ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Running a console on the serial port COM1 in 7.1?? Possible?
I've never actually done this, but look here: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-3.html -Original Message- From: Chris Hill [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Running a console on the serial port COM1 in 7.1?? Possible? I'm running RedHat 7.1 on a fairly standard PC. What I'm looking for is to be able to log on through the COM port ttyS1. I've searched quite extensively and found some mention of using agetty or mgetty but neither has worked. I plan to connect to the COM port using a windows box running HyperTerm through a NULL terminated serial cable with connections something like 9600, N, 8, 1. So far nothing I've tried works... any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Chris Hill _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Special accounts
Hi Jeremy, su nobody -c 'touch /tmp/nobody-test.$$' ls -l /tmp/nobody-test.* I tried running this example from an ordinary account, and su does ask for nobody's password. Since none exists (its /etc/shadow entry has a '*'), I would need to assign one with linuxconf, for instance. Right? I am guessing no detailed documentation exists. Mayeb some vendors/distributions have a document or guidelines for their particular setups. Actually, I just found a list in chapter 2 of The Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide (see http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.1-Manual/ref-guide/s1-users-g roups-standard-users.html). RedHat calls them Standard Users (and Standard Groups). The manual has 2 simple tables merely listing them though, I have seen no explanation of purpose, rationale, etc. In fact, they are subsets of the passwd/group files, and they are not even complete, lacking 'named' and 'apache', for example. So you're right, it looks like no detailed documentation exists. Regards, Marcel Frechette ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: Special accounts
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, [iso-8859-1] Marcel Fréchette wrote: su nobody -c 'touch /tmp/nobody-test.$$' ls -l /tmp/nobody-test.* I tried running this example from an ordinary account, and su does ask for nobody's password. Sorry, I did this example as the superuser. For example, system maintenance scripts already running as root may be able to run some tasks as nobody (and no password needed). Since none exists (its /etc/shadow entry has a '*'), I would need to assign one with linuxconf, for instance. Right? No. A password would not be a good idea for that user. If you want some dummy user that has a password then create another user for this. (A good idea for building and running unknown source, for example, so it can't compromise your own data.) Jeremy C. Reed http://www.isp-faq.com/-- find answers to your questions ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: SSH install problems
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Art Ross wrote: When I repeated this process on another RH6.2 box on the home network, (Originally was a canned Gnome install for RH6.0 with a RH6.2 upgrade) I encountered some problems with the 'make' step. There were some difficults with finding 'socket.h'. My hunch is this box doesn't have all of the appropriate libraries installed. Does anyone know what might be missing from this box's filesystem? kernel-headers, most likely. -- If I had a dollar for every brain that you don't have, I'd have one dollar. - Squidward to SpongeBob ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Openssl tools reg, gendsa, genrsa, etc
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jim Lambert wrote: These tools aren't in any of these pkgs: openssl-devel-0.9.6-9 openssl-0.9.6-9 openssl095a-0.9.5a-9 openssl-perl-0.9.6-9 Yes, they are. Like I said earlier: They're in 'openssl': openssl req openssl gendsa openssl genrsa Those tools are no longer standalone applications. They're commands given to 'openssl' as its first argument. -- If I had a dollar for every brain that you don't have, I'd have one dollar. - Squidward to SpongeBob ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: window manager not working properly; HELP
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, dave brett wrote: I turned my computer on this morning and when Xwindow started, it is messed up. The only thing I am able to do is run one xterm. From there I can run any application which will start from a command line. I looked through my home directory and cannot find the configuration file for starting my window manager. I am running RH7.2 and was running gnome and sawfish when I last was using the computer. I would appreciate any suggestions. david Sounds like you somehow nuked your config files for X, so when you log into X, it starts w/ twm, which, as you have noted, is rather feature-poor ;) I'm not that familiar w/ the config files that you need to be able to help you reconstruct them, other than to suggest a couple things. 1) If you use kdm/gdm to log in to X, you might try something other than 'Default'. Try specifying GNOME or KDE and see how that works, if it does at all. 2) Try creating another user, and copy the dot-files for X created by default from their /home directory. Alternately, you could copy from /etc/skel/ which is where the system stores them, I believe. HTH, Monte _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: IMAP Client suggestions?
Justin: I've always believed that Linux has been missing a fully functional email client that supports IMAP - and Windows to some degree as well as I'm sure someone could make a commercial killing by developing a kick-ass client. Evolution has impressed me with its progress so far but like yourself it destroyed some mailboxes but admittedly I was aware that it was only beta at the time. I still have high hopes for Evolution especially as it becomes more integrated with Exchange as that's our corporate mail server. My favorite email client remains Eudora but it's not available for Linux so rare I use these days. My experience has been: [1] Netscape - works well with IMAP but not intuitive enough and suffers from a large number of crashes that made me give up. [2] Evolution - a great start but not quite ready as the bugs need to be ironed out still. [3] Pine - first email client I ever used with great IMAP support once you track down decent documentation on the Web as configuration is definitely not intuitive. Is powerful once you figure out how to configure e.g. changing your reply address from [username]@[boxname] has to be done through editing .pinerc. My advice would be to give pine a look as it's never given me any problems then hope Evolution becomes the Linux email client it's trying to grow up into. Dan At 13:51 11/12/01 -0600, you wrote: Hi all, Today marks the day that I find a new email client. Mozilla 0.9.6 just ate one of my Inboxes without a trace. Evolution has done the same to me before. I think I want to go with a more basic client, pine, mutt, etc. I have about 4 mail accounts all setup with an ISP using IMAP access. What's everyone else using for reading IMAP mail? It seems as though mutt supports it, but it looks pretty new. Pine supports it, but how well? Is fetchmail a better option? TIA, Justin ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: command to modify words?
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:16:18AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Stuart Clark wrote: | | I have no clue why I received this old Dec. 6 message. (And I didn't | check the archive to see if it was already answered.) | | delete everything after the @ from a file of one line email addresses. | | (And delete the @ sign also.) | | cut -d '@' -f 1 Or sed 's/@.*//' or a host of other choices ... -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ From the EXUP mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Wayne Girdlestone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: WG Let's say there are no Yamaha's or Kawa's in the world. Stevey Racer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SR sriw - so then you are saying that Revelations (from the Bible) has come SR true and Hell is now on Earth. WG Your choice for you new bike is either a new '98 fuel injected SRAD, or a WG new '98 Fireblade. SR sriw -The devil's minions - full of temptation but never fulfilling their SR promise. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Linux player for 7.2?
Does anyone know where to find a DVD player for RedHat 7.2? I tried to get this Livid thing but their website appears to be down for several days now. I've tried vlc and ogle and couldn't get it to work. And my DVD drive shows up as /mnt/cdrom. Is this normal? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
USB Zip drive on RH 7.2
I have a Sony Vaio running RH 7.2. The laptop has a CD-W/DVD and I believe during installation this was detected and SCSI support was included in the kernel. I've added a USB external Zip drive that is recognized on a hot plugin. I edited /etc/fstab by adding the line /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipautonoauto,user,kudzu 0 0 The disk does mount but when I shutdown, there seems to be a problem with USB support, where it hangs for a few MINUTES before quickly posting an error message (something about a new address being rejected) and then shutting down normally. Problem with my /fstab entry? While I'm up and running the device seems to work OK. I'm able to copy files to the disk (though it does appear a bit slow to respond). It's only on e the shutdown that I notice a difficulty. BTW, the device will not work if connected at boot-up. It must be connected (or unplugged and re-connected) following boot up to work. Any advice or suggestions greatly appreciated. TIA, Mike -- We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities. -- Robin Williams, _Good Morning Vietnam_ ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
