Re: dd to clone hard drive
Michael, On Tuesday September 02, 2003 07:14, Michael Mansour wrote: > Interesting.. I'm thinking of upgrading the primary > disk on my server from a 6Gb disk - linux installation > - to a 9Gb disk - linux installation. > > Could I plug in the second disk, dd all the stuff from > the 6gig disk to the 9 gig disk, pull out the 6gig > disk, replace it with the 9gig disk and away I go? No, dd is not the tool for that. Go take a look at Mondo Rescue... http://www.mondorescue.org/ -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: The best UPS for RH?
Richard, On Thursday August 28, 2003 05:48, Richard Crawford wrote: > The power at my house "blinked" last week, crashing my mail server, so I > have now discovered that there may be wisdom in purchasing a UPS for my > home. > > What is the best kind to get for my system? I'm running RH 8.0 on an old > 486. I love the Minuteman UPS'. They have excellent support for Linux (including ready to go sysv init scripts and their Sentry II software is Web based to run in anything). The kits are always complete with cables and the software is easy to install. They have performed excellently as well and I HIGHLY recommend them. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: SQLPlus command history with arrow keys
Julie, On Thursday August 28, 2003 01:58, Myhre, Julie wrote: > Hi, > > We've just installed an Oracle client on our Redhat v7.3 boxour > servers are NT boxes, but automation and scripting are so much easier to > do on the Linux side. One thing we're missing is the convenient > up-arrow and down-arrow command line history recall at the SQL*Plus > prompt. All we get is control characters (like ^[[A) if we hit an > arrow. > > The SQL*Plus is Release 8.1.7.0.0. - the server is at 8.7.1.1. > > Are the keyboard mappings messed up, or do we need to configure > something else to enable stepping through all the previous commands > we've run in a particular SQL*Plus session? I've had little luck > searching Metalink and using Google, and would appreciate any input. > I take that you saw but weren't interested in this... http://gqlplus.sourceforge.net/ -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: I'll be damned...!!
Zoran's mailinglist account, On Thursday August 28, 2003 02:40, Zoran's mailinglist account wrote: > *** I'm recovering from a hart attack: > > [ibook:~] zoran% ftp updates.redhat.com > Trying 63.240.14.69... > Connected to updates.redhat.com. > 220 www1 Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0). > 331 Password required for anonymous. > ftp> > > I thought I've seen everything, but this beats it all! :-\ Either you're wildly misconfigured or someone has the ability to mess with you... [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ ftp updates.redhat.com Connected to updates.redhat.com. 220 Red Hat FTP server ready. All transfers are logged. (UPDATES) 530 Please login with USER and PASS. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type Name (updates.redhat.com:brian): anonymous 331 Please specify the password. Password: 230-THE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE FROM THIS SITE IS PROVIDED AND LICENSED 230-"AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR 230-IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES 230-OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 230 Login successful. Have fun. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ host 63.240.14.69 69.14.240.63.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 69.14.240.63.cerf.net. [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ whois 63.240.14.69 [Querying whois.arin.net] [whois.arin.net] CERFnet CERFNET-BLK-5 (NET-63-240-0-0-1) 63.240.0.0 - 63.242.255.255 T.E.C. ATTENS-008531-001939 (NET-63-240-14-64-1) 63.240.14.64 - 63.240.14.95 # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2003-08-27 19:15 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ host updates.redhat.com updates.redhat.com has address 66.187.232.40 updates.redhat.com has address 66.187.224.52 You better see what's going on. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Partition Size on RH 9 Installation
Scot, On Monday August 25, 2003 10:22, Scot Huntsberry wrote: > I am going to reinstall RH 9 tomorrow because my system has gotten so > slow that it is ridiculous. I was wondering if I could get some > suggestions oh how to best partition a 50gb hard drive to maximize the > efficiency of the system. I would really appreciate any suggestions the > group could provide. Two things... One, I don't know if you believe that a different partition layout will affect the performance of the system or not, but other than a few rare circumstances, it rarely does. In addition, a reinstall is a bad way to try to fix performance problems. Depending on the method of reinstall (for example would you be leaving your /home intact?) you may wind up with a zero impact and, depending on the amount of customization, a great deal of work. You may want to try to address that separately. Two, if you want to get good advice no how to partition the system, you may want to outline the system hardware (especially RAM), the intended primary usage (server, desktop, development, etc.), additional usage requirements (storage of large files, etc.), and any other possibly useful information (like you download a lot of stuff to compile yourself, etc.). Other wise you will get mostly speculation on what you really are after and will have to piece stuff together. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: nsswitch.conf
Boom Stickity, On Monday August 25, 2003 01:19, Boom Stickity wrote: > Having a wierd problem. I have entries in my hosts file that I'm trying to > hit. It seems when my dns proxy is unavailable it will hang the connection > for 30 seconds even if the host is in the hosts file. Here is my > nsswitch.conf entry for hosts: > > hosts: files nisplus dns > > Shouldn't nisplus and dns be ignored if I get a hit on /etc/hosts? Once I > hit it once the latency disappears. One would think so, but that's not always the case. I believe what you are seeing is the bug described here... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84105 I spent time (a while ago) helping someone else with a similar issue and found that there is little to be done unless you want to add in IPv6 entries into the /etc/hosts file. This is (I believe) an upstream issue with certain versions of glibc and it may be "better" but not "fixed" in RH9 than it was prior. See the above bugzilla report for lots of detail and links to other bugs related to it. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?
Rodolfo, On Sunday August 24, 2003 11:28, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Is there someone out there with some coding expertise, who can maybe > explain why "ls -l" and "ls -sh" give different results? Like this: Not that I read the code but it isn't too hard to derive the answer from the info page of ls. `-s' `--size' Print the disk allocation of each file to the left of the file name. This is the amount of disk space used by the file, which is usually a bit more than the file's size, but it can be less if the file has holes. Normally the disk allocation is printed in units of 1024 bytes, but this can be overridden (*note Block size::). `-l' `--format=long' `--format=verbose' In addition to the name of each file, print the file type, permissions, number of hard links, owner name, group name, size in bytes, and timestamp (*note Formatting file timestamps::), normally the modification time. So in this case it appears you have some VERY "holey" files. Since the -s is telling you the space used and the -l is calculating the bytes used by (number of blocks allocated - 1) * 512 + remainder. Perhaps try running "stat" on a file and see if this is accurate. I'll give some examples to try and illustrate this. Here is an example file of ~40MB. You will see the blocks in the first version and the "human interpretation of those blocks. By default, ls uses 1K blocks for it's output of the -s flag. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ ls -ls testfile 39376 -rw-r--r--1 brianbrian40274705 Jan 20 2003 testfile [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ ls -lsh testfile 39M -rw-r--r--1 brianbrian 38M Jan 20 2003 testfile Note how what the man page told us holds true here as the two numbers don't match. This is because of using (blocks * blocksize) and each having different numbers to use. Now let's see what the system _really_ thinks about this file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ stat testfile File: `testfile' Size: 40274705Blocks: 78752 IO Block: 4096 Regular File Device: 305h/773d Inode: 109 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 500/ brian) Gid: ( 500/ brian) Access: 2003-08-25 02:24:01.0 -0400 Modify: 2003-01-20 10:34:12.0 -0500 Change: 2003-01-20 10:34:12.0 -0500 Now we see we actually have a 4K blocksize. But the number of blocks is still in the default 512b size. So let's tell ls what the blocksize actually is and see what it tells us. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ ls --block-size=4K -ls testfile 9844 -rw-r--r--1 brianbrian40274705 Jan 20 2003 testfile Notice the number of blocks changes but the file size doesn't. So now we can see that the blocksize is playing a large part in how even the same command can interpret what it is seeing. However this doesn't explain what's going on, just what you see. Everything from here on is either pure speculation or WAG. ;) > ls -l: > -rwxr--r--1 rpaizrpaiz1177207676 Aug 3 18:09 Kansas ~ Best of > Kansas ~ 04 ~ Dust in the Wind ~ 890B500A.wav > ls -sh: > 35M Kansas ~ Best of Kansas ~ 04 ~ Dust in the Wind ~ 890B500A.wav > The difference here looks like a 32 times in difference (35 * 1024 * 1024 * 32 = 1174405120 (which is pretty close to the 1177207676 you see above considering rounding)). Which the only thing I can guess at is perhaps one of the two drives has a 32K blocksize and the other has a 1K blocksize. Further it would seem that somehow the rsync command you used (or something else) transfered blocks instead of bytes and really screwed up the layout of the filesystem. I believe you mentioned that you had seen a 98% fragmented system and this would seem congruent with some very holey files. Hence the vast difference in reported sizes. You really need to take a look inside these files to see what's going on. That way you can see if there are real file issues or some sort of filesystem confusion. You had mentioned earlier that you can't read a file in a hex editor due to memory constraints. You should try something like head -c 64k | od -c to get a feel for what's in the file (look for zeroes). The only thing I can think to recommend that would make sense is to grab a defrag tool and see if it can fix it. Or if you can copy a file back to the old drive using the same method and then use a different one to get it back on the desired drive if that seems to restore sanity to the files. Anyway, it's late here and there could be some inaccuracies, but perhaps you can either get it fixed or provide some new info. I left out using debugfs for now, since it can get very confusing if you're not used to it. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Lexmark USB on RH 7.3
Does anyone know if a Lexmark E321 Laser printer will connect seemlessly or with some work via the USB port in RedHat 7.3? I would like to avoid adding a second Parallel Port if possible, but I'm having trouble remembering/finding USB support info for RH 7.3. I can't remember when it got good enough to do this well. Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: what is sgi-fam used for on the default instal anyway?
Bret Hughes, On Thursday August 07, 2003 06:36, Bret Hughes wrote: > The recent thread where fam was found to be the service that had a port > open got me wondering bout something that I have never researched. > > What is it used for on the default install. IIUC fam is used to monitor > the status of files and if changed do something. Is there some desktop > sort of deal that this is used for? AFAIK, the primary thing that uses sgi_fam is Nautilus. But I can't remember if scrollkeeper needs it too. Basically, fam is very good at what it does, and RH has decided to make it available and ready for those things that need it especially in the GUI set-ups. I think I remember someone saying that Konqueror needed it too, but that may be a "because it was compiled that way" kind of thing. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: GTK - Which version is RH9 Running?
Nick Wilson, On Saturday August 09, 2003 09:26, Nick Wilson wrote: > * and then Jim Hayward declared > > > OK let me try this again, now that my brain is awake. Never answer > > questions right after you crawl out of bed .:-P > > Heh! - I do that all the time ;-) > > > RH 9 comes with both GTK/GLIB 1.x and 2.2.1. > > > > The development versions of the Gimp require GTK/GLIB 2.2.2 > > Ok. So, am I safe to go grab the latest gtk rpm and install it or. > sorry, I'm not to good at the tech side of running Linux, I'm just a > desktop user with a *little* extra knowledge ;) Actually, the development versions of the gimp require 2.2.0 (according to the INSTALL file included in the tarball) or higher and if you have all the devel libs installed The Gimp will compile and run fine on RH9. At least they have for me. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Auto Responder Mail
Win Toe, On Friday July 25, 2003 02:53, Win Toe wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to setup autoresponder mail for customer services. > > For eg, if someone send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], mail server should > send information from file to sender IMMEDIATELY ( if we can include attach > file, it will be OK ). > > My question is, can we make such auto-responder with Sendmail or we have > to use other 3rd party mail products. Use procmail. Works very well. It is already installed and running on your system (it is the default MDA). man procmail or Google on procmail for more insight. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH9.0 / outgoing mail queing up
James Gibbon, On Friday July 25, 2003 11:45, James Gibbon wrote: > Brian Ashe wrote: > > That looks like a DNS issue to me. See if this helps... > > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/host_map__lookup_(domain)__deferred.html > > Thanks Brian, that was my initial thought too - but I've encountered > no DNS difficulties in accessing webpages, fetchmail works first > time, and the queue flushes manually without difficulty, as the fact > that you're reading this mail will attest :) > > However, after a look at the webpage you kindly referred me to, I > did the following to see some DNS debug info (transcribed below) > after composing and sending a mail. It seems that the lookup > fails for some reason, but the A lookup works every time - might > this be a reason that the outgoing mail is deferred, having to > be flushed 'by hand' ? It should not matter that the IPv6 fails. As long as the IPv4 one works. It only needs one of them to work. As a quick check I see that mail.virgin.net does not have a reverse lookup. So... You can try to add "FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) dnl" to your sendmail.mc and create a new sendmail.cf and see if that works. Especially if you don't have this problem with other domains. But only use this to test if the problem goes away. This is not a recommended way of running because it is designed to help alleviate spam. Of course, if you must, you _can_ leave it on, but it would be preferred that you contact the admin of the domain (unless it is you) to get DNS properly configured. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH9.0 / outgoing mail queing up
James Gibbon, On Friday July 25, 2003 08:41, James Gibbon wrote: > Hi there - I wonder if anyone can help me overcome a problem. > > I installed RH 9.0 yesterday, and have a problem with outgoing mail > - it queues up (like this!): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mailq > /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) > -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- > Sender/Recipient--- h6PC8u2F031153 852 Fri Jul 25 > 13:08 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (host map: lookup (virgin.net): deferred) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Total requests: 1 > > > .. and won't leave until it's flushed manually (/usr/sbin/sendmail -q > as root). Last time I used Redhat (7.3 I think), it 'just worked' - > mail would happily leave of its own accord without having to be > manually flushed, as it has with other distros I've used. > > I use nmh, though I don't think that's a consideration. sendmail is > ticked as 'currently running' in the service configuration gui. > > Any ideas? That looks like a DNS issue to me. See if this helps... http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/host_map__lookup_(domain)__deferred.html -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RPM command to show all package names installed?
Ben Hall,
On Friday July 25, 2003 10:37, Ben Hall wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Is there a way to get a list of all package names installed? rpm -qa is
> close, but it gives name-version, I just want the name!
>
> I need this so that I can do a single apt-get line from many machines to
> bring them all up to the same install. If it was debian, I could do
> dpkg -l > blah and then apt-get install the contents of blah, I was
> hoping to do the same with RH9...
rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n"
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Re: Best practices for setting up Bugzilla / CVS server?
Benjamin J. Weiss, On Thursday July 17, 2003 10:55, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > We need to get a handle on our versioning and bug tracking at work, so I > was thinking of putting together a RH 9 box and installing Bugzilla and > CVS. I'm curious if anybody out there ran into any "gotchas" that I > should watch out for before I start. > > My current plan is to install the CVS RPM that comes with RH 9, and then > to d/l and compile the Bugzilla source tarball. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! I hate going a little off of your request but, have you looked at GForge? It is based on the SourceForge code and has been made much easier to install with lots of improvements. I've been using it (in beta) and really like it compared to other things. It's now out as a final. http://gforge.org/ -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: PHP Scripting - Hope you get all this
Logan Linux, On Wednesday July 09, 2003 07:42, Logan Linux wrote: > Sorry, > > None of these worked. Still get the same error. Do the \n's show up in VI? > > >> Im getting an error when running a script > > >> > > >> : bad interpreter: No such file or directory > > > > > > If you ever see that in the shell, it means that the script you're > > > running has DOS linefeeds in it. Use either "dos2unix" or > > > "tr -d '\n' < oldfile > newfile" to remove them. Try it with a "tr -d '\r' oldfile > newfile". Unix uses Line feeds not carriage returns. To see the line endings I use "od -c filename" Here's an example... [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ cat bin/script.sh #!/bin/sh echo "I'm a script" exit 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ script.sh : bad interpreter: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ od -c bin/script.sh 000 # ! / b i n / s h \r \n \r \n e c h 020 o " I ' m a s c r i p t " 040 \r \n \r \n e x i t 0 \r \n 054 [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ tr -d '\r' < bin/script.sh > bin/script_nr.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ od -c bin/script_nr.sh 000 # ! / b i n / s h \n \n e c h o 020 " I ' m a s c r i p t " \n \n 040 e x i t 0 \n 047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$chmod 755 bin/script_nr.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ script_nr.sh I'm a script [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ HTH. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Had enough
Mark, On Wednesday July 09, 2003 03:17, Mark Haney wrote: > Okay, I've had it. Does ANYONE know how to turn off replying to HTML > emails as HTML in Outlook? I default to text, but when I reply to > someone who sent an email in HTML, my reply is in HTML too. And I'm > pretty sick of getting the auto-respond from this list about it. Have you tried anything that appears here... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=outlook+turn+off+html&btnG=Google+Search It seem to differ by the version, so the Google search is given. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: mkbootdisk failed - help!
Luciano Rabelo, On Tuesday July 01, 2003 10:19, Luciano Rabelo wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a stand-alone boot floppy with mkbootdisk. > Can any one help me? > > # mkbootdisk -v --device /tmp/mkbootdisk/test 2.4.18-14smp > Formatting /tmp/mkbootdisk/test... done. > Copying /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14smp... done. > Creating initrd image... > gzip: stdout: No space left on device > done. > Configuring bootloader... cat: write error: No space left on device > done. > # The SMP kernel (as shipped w/RH) will not fit on a standard floppy. The error is coming from the implied (by lack of specifying) "--size 1440". So the image is always running out of room. The kernels are getting bigger, and floppies are more and more obsolete. So here are your options... 1. Use a CD - Specify the --iso option to mkbootdisk and use that to burn a bootable CD. 2. Use an alternate floppy image size. Most drives support a variety of image sizes. Here's how... A. Determine what your floppy drive can handle. # floppy --createrc > /etc/floppy # floppy -c /dev/fd0 B. Create a boot disk with a larger but supported size... Note : The sizes will be shown in the above commands by something like "/dev/fd0u1840". Use the number after the "u" there. # mkbootdisk --size 1840 --verbose --device /dev/fd0 `uname -r` HTH. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Application for documenting procedures, etc
Eric Sisler, On Friday June 27, 2003 12:01, Eric Sisler wrote: > Greetings, > > We've recently moved to a new library automation system and I figure now > is a good time to begin creating comprehensive documentation for it and > other system administration tasks. > > The question is, which application to use? I'm planning on making the > documentation available a web browser and it doesn't need to be anything > fancy. Text and screen shots will likely be the bulk of it. It should > probably be searchable as well. > > I'm thinking docbook format might be a good application, with htdig for > searching. Does anyone have any other suggestions (or tips/pitfalls for > Docbook)? Well, with not knowing your _exact_ needs, I'll make this recommendation... Look into WikiWikiWeb software. This has to be one of the best collaborative (this may be a negative for you) documentation systems I've ever used. It is easy to update, create, extend and do whatever you want. It is easy to maintain and monitor it's use. To see what it can do, check out... http://www.wikipedia.org/ You will see that they are maintaining an entire encyclopedia there. They also make their version of software available, but there are a lot of them availble so you could pick a version that suits you. The concept will always be the same. Sourceforge is a good place to start for the various available packages. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: best way to allow uploading of files to webserver
Bret Hughes, On Thursday June 26, 2003 12:36, Bret Hughes wrote: > I have been doing a bit of consulting on the side and have a client for > which I have just built a RH 9 box to be used as a webserver with about > 10 small sites that will be served. > > I hate ftp. In fact I hate anything that uses clear test passwords and > don't really like any thing that relies on passwords alone to > authenticate internet users but since the users are all windows based I > am at a loss as to the best (read most secure) way to allow the site > admins to upload their files. > > I am assuming that I can set up a ftp-ssl server. Anyone have > experience with such a setup and free or real cheap gui windows clients > for ftps? > > Tips appreciated. I will continue to google as well of course. I'm sure you'll have OpenSSH on there, so you could always use WinSCP. Most windows users I've ever put it in front of have managed just fine with it (if not better then with FTP). http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: What is the difference between kernel-sources....rpm and kernel...src.rpm?
Daevid Vincent, On Wednesday June 25, 2003 09:23, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Can someone tell me what the difference is between > "kernel-sources-2.4.20-19.9.rpm" and "kernel-2.4.20-19.9.src.rpm". The > .src. File is like 35MB! The -sources- file is 39MB. How come the .src. > File doesn't show up in a "rpm -qa | grep kernel" command and how can I > uninstall it now that I've installed it? Go to the /usr/src/redhat/ directory and remove what you want from the SOURCES and SPECS directories. The other directories are for completed and "in progress" files. > It would make sense to me that the .src. File is the source code to the > kernel, but I don't see anything in /usr/src/linux until AFTER I install > the "kernel-sources" file. I don't get it. Simply... The .src.rpm is the SRPM to be able to build the various kernel packages. It goes in /usr/src/redhat/. The kernel-source rpm is the kernel source files for use in development and compilation of programs. It is also for if you need to build drivers or if you want to do a completely custom kernel. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Which window manager I should use? Blackbox, FWM, or something else?
Apollo (Carmel Entertainment), On Wednesday June 25, 2003 05:13, Apollo (Carmel Entertainment) wrote: > So after looking at the thread I started (the one about why RH90 is slower > than Win98) I came to conlusion that I will move people to Linux in stages. > First I want to change common use workstations to linux. > My question is, which WM will do best job (and will be fastest) to do this: > Desktop would just be with a graphic background (company name in the > background), there would be only several icons on the desktop to launch > OpenOffice applications and several Wine emulated MS apps. > > Which window manager I should go with? I put my vote in for XFCE 4. I know it's in beta right now, but it is stable (has been for a while now, I was running the CVS versions), fast and nice. Uses the GTK2 libraries (so is highly compatble with GNOME apps), has the anti-aliasing of fonts, simple yet still attractive, easy to use and configure. They also have RH 9 rpms ready to go. http://www.xfce.org/ Download... http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19869 -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: looking for a library that can recognize php code
Chris,
On Wednesday June 25, 2003 03:44, Chris W. Parker wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm looking to make a source code documenting program and instead of
> reinventing the wheel* I'd like to use a ready made wheel so to speak. Are
> there any libraries out there (I am guessing maybe in C or Perl) that
> recognize PHP and know what's what? That is, if I fed it a string or a
> complete page of source code I would like to be albe to know the names of
> all the functions and the names of all the variables.
>
> Any ideas?
If you mean something like Javadoc does for Java code, then you are already
done and it's called PHPDoc.
http://www.phpdoc.de/
If you mean something that simply extracts the obvious stuff (you shouldn't
need to "document" the existing PHP functions, only the ones you create),
then use the below (modify to your heart's content).
#!/bin/bash
# Filename : phpscan.sh
# Usage: phpscan.sh
# Check that filename was provided
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
echo "No file name provided"
echo "Usage : `basename $0` "
exit 65
fi
# Check that file exists
if [ ! -e "$1" ]; then
echo "File does not exist"
exit 1
fi
# First scan for functions. We're looking for where they are defined
FUNCTIONS=`grep function $1 | sort | uniq`
# Then scan for variables. We're looking for assignment.
VARIABLES=`grep -o -e "\$.*=" $1 | cut -d " " -f 1 | sort | uniq`
#Show Function list
echo "The functions are :"
for fun in $FUNCTIONS
do
if [ "$fun" = function ]; then
echo
continue
fi
echo -n $fun
done
#Show Variables list
echo
echo "The variables are :"
for var in $VARIABLES
do
echo $var
done
exit 0
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Re: Audio Recording for 300Mhz Pentium laptop
Hello Taylor, Thursday, June 19, 2003, 10:23:36 AM, you textually orated: TF> I am sailing to the Carribean for up to two years. I am publishing a TF> musictravelog at musicvillage.com. I want to dedicate a Micron 300Mhz TF> Pentium laptop to the task. I need feedback on the best way to go. I TF> will probably never record more than 2 96K audio channels at the same TF> time. I would like to be able to monitor, and add effects to recorded TF> tracks that playback. My only experience so far is w/Cakewalk Sonar TF> 1.1. Please let me know as soon as possible, as I am scheduled to sail TF> around the 4th of July. If your planning on being in Key West during TF> the summer, email me. Maybe you can go sailing on the Jenneau 46' sloop TF> I'll be living on. Also, I'm looking for contributing editors to TF> publish stories at musicvillage.com, a sort of serial publication, trade TF> magazine. The benefits are numerous. I have talked to several software TF> and hardware companies that would be willing to send any type of product TF> imaginable, if you can! write a good "field test review" of their TF> product. This site will give you everything you need to know about audio, midi and everything sound on Linux. http://linux-sound.org/ A particularly easy (and cross platform) sound editor that is very nice and I use it in both Linux and Win. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ If you want a distribution (RedHat or Debian based) that is already optimized for sound use and includes a ton of sound packages, go here. I tried this ~6 months ago and it was quite nice. http://www.agnula.org/ Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re[2]: updatedb problem: last try!!
Hello michael, Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 12:49:17 PM, you textually orated: mbwc> Thanks for the recommendation, Brian - but I'm not sure that is the case. mbwc> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on mbwc> /dev/hda1 9.8G 6.3G 3.0G 68% / mbwc> /dev/hda2 65G 46G 15G 75% /home mbwc> none 124M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm mbwc> I can also cp /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db mbwc> /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db2/3/4/5/6 etc... Until I'm blue in the face. mbwc> One thing I was wondering, I was speaking to a friend about this and he mbwc> suggested removing my slocate database my deleting slocate.db - but in his mbwc> case it was in a different location. I was wondering if perhaps the last mbwc> action being taken is slocate is trying to move a file from the wrong mbwc> location to the wrong location - although the fact that it creates the .tmp mbwc> file in the correct place doubts this assumption; it's the only thing I can mbwc> think of right now! Try stracing it and perhaps only do a small part of the drive by calling slocate directly... strace slocate -U /usr/share/icons -o ~/test_sl.db ...and see if A) it completes without error and B) what the output of strace is if it fails. If you don't mind spending the time, you could also just do "strace updatedb". You should only need the last ~20 lines or so of the output. Have fun, -- _ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: updatedb problem: last try!!
Michael, On Wednesday June 18, 2003 11:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all, > > after doing a number of rpm updates to my system, updatedb appears to have > broken. i have posted this problem now twice to this list without any > response whatsoever, but lets see if my latest discovery helps spur some > answers on! > > i have finally discovered what is breaking it, but don't know what to do > about it. > i went into /var/lib/slocate and deleted everything there - so basically a > clean slate. > i ran updatedb > it thought for a long time > then got the broken pipe > and ls /var/lib/slocate showed that it had successfully created > /var/lib/slocate.db.tmp > i did a mv slocate.db.tmp slocate.db > and i could locate things perfectly. > > so it appears that the broken pipe occurs when slocate is trying to move > slocate.db.tmp -> slocate.db. and this even happens when > /var/lib/slocate.db doesn't exist. > > so, for the final time - any suggestions? Most likely you are out of drive space (somewhere). Do a "df -h" and see if there is a plenty of space left in all of your partitions. The partition where /tmp is must have more space than the size of your DB because that's where it does it's sort operation. The partition where /var is should have twice the free space of the DB. These are not necessarily _exact_ figures, so make sure you have some float in there as well. If you used an "update tool" (such as up2date, apt-get or red carpet) it likely stored a bunch of extra stuff in /var somewhere and is the cause of the post update failure. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: postgresql-perl in RH9
Hello Andrei, Thursday, June 12, 2003, 5:54:32 PM, you textually orated: AG> What happened to the postgresql-perl RPM package AG> shipped with RH7.x-8.0? AG> Perl scripts containing 'use Pg' are broken under RH9, AG> since the Pg AG> module (*not* DBD::Pg) is gone. I assume one can AG> still grab the AG> module from CPAN, but WHY is the rpm package gone AG> without notice? It AG> was not deprecated, and the change is not even AG> mentioned in RH9 AG> release notes... Install the postgresql-pl package. It was moved into there. It is in the changelog of the postgresql package. (not obvious, but findable) http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/9/i386/postgresql-pl-7.3.2-3.i386.html Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Problem while installing RH9
Együd Csaba, On Saturday May 31, 2003 12:27, Együd Csaba wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to set up RH9 on my Compaq Presario 920EA notebook. I've > downloaded the binary iso images and burned the cd-s under WinXP. The disk > boots the system, which asks me about the language of the installation > process and my keyboard layout. Then it asks me about the installation > media to use. When I press Enter on Local CDROM, it says that there isn't > any RedHat Install CD-ROM in any of my local CDROM drives. Looks like a common problem with Compaq laptops... http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/37233 You might want to see if some of the advice posted there helps you. > What can be the problem. Can it be that the integrity of the image is bad? Probably not. This is common when the installer cannot detect the CD-ROM drive properly (the bios is what loaded the installer.) > Can a demaged CD ROM be bootable? Yes. > How can I check the integrirty of an iso image undre XP? There is an md5 sum check program for windows available here... http://www.etree.org/md5com.html -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Creating User environment variables.
dlangschied, On Saturday May 31, 2003 12:54, dlangschied wrote: > I think you are misunderstanding me. I have a number of environment > variables that I want to pass onto the user at login. I should be able to > do so by modifying a file (like .profile) that is launched when the user > logs in. I tried to vi /bin/bash and it was not possible. THerefore, I am > trying to find out where this is done. I am sure that others are doing > this. For variables applied to all users use /etc/profile for individual users use ~/.bash_profile -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: change GDM <-> KDM
Cornelius Kölbel, On Saturday May 31, 2003 07:55, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: > Hello, > > the docs say, I have to insert a line DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE", or XDM or > GDM in /etc/sysconfig/desktop. > But it has no effect. It always starts the GDM. Try... DESKTOP="KDE" preferred="kdm" -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: copy one server to another?
Jody Cleveland, On Thursday April 03, 2003 01:54, Jody Cleveland wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a redhat 8 server running exactly the way I want it. My question > is, how do I copy that server's contents exactly as they are to a different > server? Is that possible? Use Mondo Rescue. It will make an image of what you have not only for copying to a new server but also to restore your current one should there be a catastophic failure. Also, it does not require that you have identicle hardware as it will let you manage the partitions during a "restore". It is very nice. Can go to CD (bootable), Tape or NFS. http://www.mondorescue.org/ -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: What time was an RPM installed?
Robert Adkins II,
On Wednesday April 02, 2003 02:48, Robert Adkins II wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am curious to know if there is a way to determine at what time
> an RPM may have been installed onto a computer.
Sure.
rpm -q --queryformat "%{name},%{INSTALLTIME:date}\n"
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Re[2]: Using a microphone
Hello Edward, Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 7:44:13 PM, you textually orated: >> I have used this for a long time now. It is nice because it has a *nix and ED> a >> Win version. >> >> It's called Speak Freely. >> Unix Version >> http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/unix/ >> >> Win Version >> http://www.speakfreely.org/ ED> Brian, does the Win version run through a standard linux iptables firewall? ED> Just asking because Messenger does not (all that new uPnP crap). ED> If it does, it would be suited to my purposes. It is very easy to set up a single machine to work behind a Firewall (for both calling and being called upon). All you have to do is set the firewall to forward the three ports it uses (2074-2076). This technique has worked for me since the ipfwadm days and still worked with ipchains and now iptables. Does that suit your purposes? Or is there more? Cause there is a lot more to the complete system like the sfreflect conferencing server (very nice) and sfvod voice on demand (nice for status updates and other stuff, but I haven't used that for a while now). There are also many fine folks on the SF mailing list that may be able to give even more info if this and the two websites don't help answer you. Have fun, -- _ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re[2]: CPU monitoring service => even more Correct
Hello Chris, Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 4:36:41 PM, you textually orated: C> I'd love to just kill the "Author.exe" process sucking up all the CPU C> cycles when the load gets to 5+ level (for example), to automatically C> stop her unnecessary imact on the server. Since the PID changes all the C> time, it would need to kill the process by name (Author.exe) or look up C> the PID dynamically. That's the only process that ever gets the server C> above 2.00 CPU levels so it's pretty safe to assume that's what's sucking C> up the cycles. Don't know that much about the FP extensions, but... Have you tried adding... alias Author.exe='nice +19 /path/to/Author.exe' to the user who runs that process' ~/.bashrc ? (I don't know if it is your webserver or not) That should slow it down a bit. Alternatively, if they are run by the user you have a problem with, you could also use /etc/security/limits.conf to tone down just their processes allowing other users , who behave properly, to still get it to work full speed. Hope that helps. Have fun, -- _ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Using a microphone
Hello fred, Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 1:00:12 PM, you textually orated: fp> Hi all. Does anyone know of an application that can be fp> used to communicate with someone across the Internet fp> using a microphone? fp> Instead of making a long-distance call, I'd like to fp> talk to them over the Internet using a microphone fp> attached to my PC. I have used this for a long time now. It is nice because it has a *nix and a Win version. It's called Speak Freely. Unix Version http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/unix/ Win Version http://www.speakfreely.org/ Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: plock() replacement?
Andrew, On Thursday March 20, 2003 06:26, Andrew Robinson wrote: > I'm trying to port an application from HPUX to Linux without knowing alot > about C and program development. One of the programs calls plock(), which > according to the man page on HPUX locks the application's memory. Using > "man -k", I cannot find an analogous routine on my Redhat 7.3 installation. > Anyone know of a suitable replacement for plock()? Anyone know of a > suitable forum to pose this question? What you need to use is mlock() or mlockall(). But these are a little different and you'll probably need to see how plock() is being called. You may want to try to search Google for where the Linux C programming list is, or some equivalent newsgroups. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: using diff, cmp, comm, etc.
Stuart, On Monday March 17, 2003 10:37, Douglas, Stuart wrote: > Hello all, > > Take a look at the following script (alteration of the one Anthony Greene > was kind enough to offer up to me). My question: is there a way to use > something like diff, cmp, comm or such to return a list of the differences > (line by line) between 2 files? The current script simply sends the > current directory listing, my preference would be to send the only the > differences between the current and previous copies. > > # Compare the previous and current directory listings. > if cmp -s /etc/ftpradiolsnew /etc/ftpradiolsold > then ># The FTP radio directory listing has not changed, update listing only. >rm -rf /etc/ftpold >cp /etc/ftpnew /etc/ftpold > else ># The directory listing has changed, send an e-mail notification & > update listing. cat /etc/ftpnew | mail -s "updated FTP radio spot list" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf /etc/ftpold >cp /etc/ftpnew /etc/ftpold > fi > > Feel free to make any other suggestions (improvements) to what I've done > here...it's kinda crude, but it does what I want (almost). I'm not _exactly_ sure what you are trying to do, but here is a different approach you may wish to consider... Scenario : Serveral "authors/publishers/whatever" uploading new/different material to a centralized source. This material then needs to be deseminated to multiple other individuals and kept syncronized. Should also have the ability to be queried for differences. If this fits what you are trying to do, have you considered using CVS? It has serveral advantages over what it looks like you are doing now. 1. It can be fully automated on all sides. 2. It keeps track of everything that happens. 3. It can be tunnelled through SSH for added security. 4. It works. (don't be fooled by the programming thing, it really does work well for binary files as well) Just a thought. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: PostgreSQL won't restart
Bob Hartung, On Sunday March 16, 2003 11:26, Bob Hartung wrote: > Hi all, >I had a new install of 7.2.2 running and I was just beginning to learn a > little about postgresql. Now, on rebooting postmaster fails to start - it > has started just fine for a month. I have made no changes to the system. > Where should I begin looking? > > There is nothing in the logs and dmesg just says Postmaster [failed] Check in the /tmp directory for the lock files. Something like... .s.PGSQL.5432 .s.PGSQL.5432.lock If the server is not running and they exist, then delete them and try the startup command. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Disable PHP engine in or
Francesco Amelio, On Saturday March 08, 2003 06:00, Francesco Amelio wrote: > Php Version: PHP 4.2.2 > Apache Version: Apache 2.0.40 > > How can i disable php engine to certain virtualhost or directory? > > I've put "php_flag engine off" "php_value engine off" "php_value engine 0" > but it doesn't work for me. Restarting apache it doesn't give error but the > php engine continue to work for that local directory. > > here is the httpd.conf code: > > > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride AuthConfig > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > php_flag engine Off > > > Please help me! Try... php_admin_flag engine off -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH slowness.
Polar Humenn, On Tuesday March 04, 2003 02:22, Polar Humenn wrote: > H Somebody told me that all the packages besides the kernel are > compiled for the 386, not the 686, and this might have a significant > impact. However, when I ran with Slackware, I think all their binary > packages are compiled for the 386 as well, and I didn't notice the > slowness. That stuff is irrelevant. The kernel and glibc are set up for i686 (kernel also for athlon, etc.) and those provide the biggest benefit. > I've gone into my BIOS and knocked down the memory for the AGP aperture > from 128MG to 64MB. (I don't even know what an AGP is. Could somebody > please enlighten me?). > > I also found out that I only have 256MB of RAM, not 512M, like I had > originally thought. However, this seem to make a difference with my > previous system. OK, if you're sharing memory with the AGP card (graphics), then you should make sure the kernel knows this. So... If you have 256MB and share 64MB to AGP, then you should have an "append" line like this... append="mem=192M" Personally, unless you are running mostly movies, or 3D gaming, I would cut the shared memory down even further. 16MB for general pupose use is plenty. Just adjust the append line accordingly. > Is there some setting somewhere for bus bandwith or something? I noticed > this IDE is running with a "default" of 16. Should it be 32? I gather > there is no way to tuning the SCSI? What about processor speed? As far as > the BIOS is concerned, I'm running "Normal" not "Compatible". To set the proper I/O support simply put in... hdparm -c1 /dev/hdx (where x is the drive letter) What speed is the SCSI bus? If you get readings that are ~75% of what it is rated at then it is fine. > It could just be that RH 8.0 and all the new stuff is just a slower dog on > the same machines, err like Windoze is. It's not "bloat". Each new version has improved performance for me. GCC 3.2 did wonders. I think it mostly has to do with differences in the kernel and XFree86 drivers. For example the Phoebe beta broke video support on one of test machines (I hope it gets fixed). -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH slowness.
Polar Humenn, On Tuesday March 04, 2003 11:49, Polar Humenn wrote: > > Does "free" show that all the memory is recognized properly? > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:254556 222996 31560 0 39064 45084 > -/+ buffers/cache: 138848 115708 > Swap: 265032 166120 98912 > > Anything look amiss? Well, it does if this is accurate... (you stated) >> I've got a dual-pentium 800Mz with 512MB RAM. It's not recognizing all of your RAM. It is also using a lot of swap. Those swaps will make it seem slow. My system with 512MB lookslike this (KDE with ~20 apps running and a lot of services)... total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:513844 355600 158244 0 30224 169908 -/+ buffers/cache: 155468 358376 Swap: 394116 0 394116 Try putting append="mem=512M" in your [lilo | grub].conf > Should I recompile the kernel or something? Otherwise, does anybody have > another Linux I can use that works well, and updates well? Recompiling the kernel may help, but it would just be a guess. If you really have 512MB of RAM, get that working first. Stopping the swapping should help a LOT. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RH slowness.
Polar Humenn, On Tuesday March 04, 2003 09:51, Polar Humenn wrote: > I updated from Slackware, because updating it was a pain. But now that I > have this RedHat 8.0 thing installed, my system is slower than a > two-legged tortoise. I've got a dual-pentium 800Mz with 512MB RAM. The KDE > used to fly under Slack. Now, what's happened? > > I also installed RH 8.0 on my Laptop, and now I'm ready to throw the thing > away. It's a DELL Inspiron 7000 350Mx 128MB RAM, and used to be my best > machine before I bought the Dual-P desktop. Also, now, X, seems to lock-up > sometimes when I close it (ala Microsoft). Underslack, the save-to-disk > worked fine if I left it in the bag long enough for the battery to where > down. No chance of that happening anymore, It just dies. > > Is there some RH configuration thingy I'm missing? Or just chaulk it up to > overloaded linuxes? > > I am running the SMP version of the lastest kernel. > It's so slow. > Any clues? Is it possible that DMA is not enabled for the hard disk(s)? That has been the most common thing I've seen cause speed problems. What does "hdparm -acd /dev/hda" return? Does "hdparm -t /dev/hda" show reasonable throughput? Other things to check... Does "free" show that all the memory is recognized properly? Are there any background tasks eating up CPU time? (anacron is a pain on desktops/laptops) Have you updated to all the latest packages? (If you don't want to use up2date, there is apt-rpm available (elsewhere) also) Does it look like all your hardware was indentified correctly? Hope it helps. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: linux-apache
Lisa, On Monday March 03, 2003 12:25, Lisa wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to configure load-balancing with apache http server and tomcat. > When I try to startup apache I'm getting the following error: > > Syntax error on line 205 of /apps/apache_1.3.27/conf/httpd.conf: > > Cannot load /apps/apache_1.3.27/libexec/mod_jk.so into server: > /apps/apache_1.3.27/libexec/mod_jk.so: undefined symbol: ap_ctx_get > > ./apachectl start: httpd could not be started > > Has anyone any ideas as I've followed documentation to the T. Apache http > server was working until I added in changes for mod_jk.so > > Any suggestions appreciated Did you get the "eapi" or the "noeapi" version of mod_jk.so? Try the other one. I believe that you got the eapi and need the noeapi. One way or another that is definately an EAPI conflict. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: New Sendmail Fix Available
MKlinke, On Monday March 03, 2003 01:58, MKlinke wrote: > For those who haven't seen it yet, anyone running sendmail needs to > update. > > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-07.html Even better is the RedHat Errata page on it... http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-073.html That way you can grab the packages as you read (provided you don't use up2date). -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Software for recording an X-Session
Jonathan Bartlett, On Monday March 03, 2003 07:44, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > I'm looking for software that will record the screen as I use it. > Basically, I'm looking for software that will take enough screenshots in a > row that I can put them together into a movie of my desktop (or it would > make one for me). I've found X event replay utilities, but I haven't > found anything that will make a movie out of what I'm clicking on (this is > for creating training documentation). > > Any help would be appreciated. You might want to try this out... http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ If you need more help with it, I think I have a mini-howto sitting somewhere on one of my harddrives. Basically you need VNC, Ming (an OSS SWF module) and the vnc2swf. VNC records it, vnc2swf uses ming to compile it into a Flash SWF and it is fully portable to any OS (with a Flash plugin). -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: tar failure in RH8.0
Hello Jay, Thursday, February 27, 2003, 2:47:16 PM, you textually orated: JT> When I tar up a directory on a solaris box and then ftp JT> (push) from the solaris box to a RH8.0 box (solaris box is JT> the ftp client, RH8.0 box is the ftp server), the subsequent JT> untar operation on the RH8.0 box fails with: JT> # tar -xf myfile.tar JT> tar: Skipping to next header JT> tar: Skipping to next header JT> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors JT> However, if I get that same tar by ftp (pull) from solaris box JT> to RH8.0 box (RH8.0 is ftp client, solaris box is ftp server), JT> the untar works fine. JT> Any ideas? Are you making sure to set the mode to binary in the first instance? ie. ftp> binary 200 Type set to I ftp> put myfile.tar Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: apache user doesn't show up in users & groups
Daniel Rubin, On Wednesday February 26, 2003 12:55, Daniel Rubin wrote: > I'm running RH 8.0 and want to modify the primary & > secondary group memberships of the apache user. But > the apache user doesn't show up in the users & groups > applet. I know apache user exists because the applet > doesn't let me create anither user called apache. So > how do I get the apache user to show up in users & > groups applet? >From the top menu click on "Preferences" => "Filter system users and groups" Basically, by default, it does not list the system accounts to help prevent you from making a (costly) mistake. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Personal project management software recommendations?
Gordon, On Monday February 24, 2003 04:09, Gordon wrote: > I'm looking for software to do project management for myself. I've got > lots of projects like upgrading to RH8, switching mail servers, setting > up different things in apache, etc, etc. Some of these projects will > take a while and have many steps and dependencies and I'd like to keep > track of it so I know what I've done and haven't done yet and keep notes. > > Any good recommendations? I like using GForge. But it might be considered overkill. It is still in early development, but it is based on the old SourceForge code (so there is a lot that it does). It's really good for multiple people on multiple projects. http://gforge.org/ -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: I'm moving from FreeBSD -- 3 questions
Richard Kuhns, On Wednesday February 05, 2003 02:56, Richard Kuhns wrote: > On 05 Feb 2003 09:30:15 -0800 > > Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 07:43, Richard Kuhns wrote: > > > All machines can > > > communicate just fine, except for the FreeBSD box and the laptop. The > > > maxmimum transfer speed between the 2 of them seems to be about > > > 14K/sec, > > > > Just to be clear: You have one Red Hat Linux 8 machine on your desk, > > and another that is a laptop. One of these communicates with the > > FreeBSD box at a normal speed, and the other at only 14K/sec. Right? > > How is the laptop connected to the rest of the machines? If you run > > /sbin/mii-tool eth0 > > on the laptop, what does it return? Perhaps it thinks the connection is > > full duplex, when it is not... That doesn't quite explain it, but > > that's where I'd start looking. > > Yes, that's it. The laptop is the only one that has any trouble, and > that's only when talking to the FreeBSD box. All of the machines are > connected through a Linksys 5 port Workgroup Hub. > On the laptop: > > # /sbin/mii-tool eth0 > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok > # > > The builtin ethernet card in the laptop is an AMD 79c970, if that makes > any difference. It might. RH released an errata kernel yesterday. Have you tried it yet? I have heard of breakage on that card in some of the newer kernels. I don't know which versions though, I just remember it being in the pcnet32 driver. Some Google searches may be in order. If it persists after installing the latest kernel from RH (or if you've already installed it), I would put this in Bugzilla. > > > 2) When I use ssh from either RedHat machine, it always does a DNS > > > lookup on the machine name. > > > Good idea -- I should have thought of that myself:). I get the same > results using telnet, so apparently something in glibc is always trying to > do an IPv6 name lookup. I just did a little more playing around with > ethereal: with 'hosts: files dns' in nsswitch.conf, there is *always* an > attempt to do an query, which fails. If I change it to 'hosts: dns > files', there is first an query which files, and then an A query > which fails. Sounds like a bug to me. Can anyone else verify this? I think the problem is that IPv6 is enabled by default in the newer (since 7.2?) kernels. Since the kernel will run through IPv6 first and then fall back to IPv4, you would need to have IPv6 style hosts in the /etc/hosts file for it to respect that properly. But this is from memory, so there may be some innaccuracies. I would say to disable IPv6 if not needed or make sure you have IPv6 hosts in the /etc/hosts file. That should resolve the issues. Hope it helps. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: offsite backup
Tom Kovalcik, On Monday February 03, 2003 01:35, Tom Kovalcik wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to come up with a scheme to backup completed projects off-site. > What I am envisioning is this: > > Engineer provides project1Rev1.tar.gz file (50 to 200MB) and places it into > a directory (/home/offsitebu). At some point overnight a cron job runs scp > to copy the file to my home Linux server mycomputer.d2g.com which is using > DNS to go to handle the dynamic IP. The file transfer checks that the > source and destination file are identical and the source file is deleted. > > I have a basic enough understanding to think this is all possible, but do > not know how to get around all the issues such as user authentication, how > to handle stalled jobs, and how to get a checksum and how to get the > information back to compare the files. > > Can anyone help out with some or all of these issues? Why not use CVS to help manage your projects? That way you not only have completed projects, but a full revision history and logs of what was done, by whom and when. Then your CVS repository can be kept safely (and backed up locally) and the remote version is just the most recent stuff. Yes, CVS works best for ascii files, but becomes equally nice for binary files (I've frequently used it for graphics revisions like from Photoshop). Then you can sync it up with Gforge (http://www.gforge.org/) and you have a complete project management system. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: filling a huge postgres db
Nathalie Boulos, On Wednesday January 29, 2003 03:38, Nathalie Boulos wrote: > i don't know if it's appropiate to post this question on this list but i'm > wondering how to fill a huge csv file in a postgresql database. The easiest and fastest way is to use the COPY command in psql. You can read more in the PostgreSQL Docs but a good example is... COPY FROM '' USING DELIMITERS ','; -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: A Linux Browser that supports java
Steve Strong, On Sunday January 26, 2003 02:50, Steve Strong wrote: > So, I think Mozilla supports only java script and not java. True? If > so, does anyone know how I can get a browser that will support java > applets and run on my RedHat boxes? Mozilla supports Java. Read here... http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java and ask questions if you need more help. Of course the rest of the page will help you to set up other plug-ins as well. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Kernel File/Dir hooks?
David Busby, On Friday January 24, 2003 07:22, David Busby wrote: > List, > I was wondering how I could hook into the kernel to see when it does > anything to a file/dir or filesystem? Is there an API that would let me > hook that? I don't even know where to start. man fam (If it's not installed, then check out... http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html and if you like what you see you can install the packages off the CDs) -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Printing from openoffice
Irv Cobb, On Friday January 24, 2003 06:49, Irv Cobb wrote: > This works for me, too, and I appreciate it a lot because I can now use > both my printers easily form OOo, but ... > > ... I can't get at some of my printer settings from OOo. I have an Epson > 980, which is not listed by spadmin. It will print if I call it Generic, > but I can't change resolution, etc. If I use the Epson 800 driver from > spadmin, I get some more control, but not everything that's available > from CUPS (which is what I'm using). Where does spadmin get its driver > list? can drivers be added to it? If you are using CUPS, when you get to the "Choose a driver" screen in spadmin, you can click on the "Import" button and point it to your PPD file for the printer. Then just use the default print command (next screen) and name it(screen after that). This is from memory though, as my local machines still use LPRNG. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Printing from openoffice
Larry Brown, On Friday January 24, 2003 02:52, Larry Brown wrote: > The RH8 lpd system seems to work pretty good. I set up two smb printers > that are connected to a win2k pc on the network. The both print fine. One > is an HP Photosmart 1215 and the other is a PDF distiller. Using the test > mechanism it printed both just fine. Now I'm trying to print from > openoffice and it only offers a generic printer or pdf converter in its own > software. How do I get OpenOffice to recognize the printers already > configured in lpd? The OpenOffice spadmin program lists a group of > printers different than the ones from the lpd system configuration. It > does not show the printers already installed. Please, any help would be > appreciated. This is a litlle bit unintuitive, but here's how I do it... If you dont remember the "names" of the printers do a #cat /etc/printcap and look for the lines beginning like... Server_HP|lp:\ PDF_print:\ They should be the first line for each entry. Then in the spadmin choose "New Printer" then "add printer" When it asks you for the "Command line appropriate..." enter lpr -P so for the above mentioned examples it would be... lpr -P PDF_print and lpr -P Server_HP Click next, name the printer and click finish. Test. All should work fine. Hope that helps. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: P4 Hyper Threading
Rick Fincher, On Friday January 24, 2003 01:58, Rick Fincher wrote: > I have a Linux 8.0 system with the smp kernel with all the updates. It is > running with an Intel P4 3.06 GHz processor with a hyper thread compatible > bios and chipset (Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard). I have ht enabled in the > BIOS. > > From what I have read, I should see two cpu's in /proc/cpuinfo, but I am > only seeing one. > > What do I need to do to enable hyper threading? Try adding "acpismp=force" to your lilo.conf or grub.conf -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Does this mean my Apache is relaying mail?
Gordon Messmer, On Thursday January 23, 2003 10:50, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 18:47, Brian Ashe wrote: > > Actually, it is. It depends on what your index file type is. > > I can produce that behavior if I make my server's default virtual host's > index a php file, but not otherwise. That's sorta unexpected. Who > defines this behavior? Is it an effect of mod_php that php files > "support" CONNECT? AFAIK, that's correct. Apache passes everything over to the "handlers" when it isn't supposed to do it itself. So since it knows it is the handler for HTML, it sets the methods it accepts for it. If mod_proxy is installed/configured then it should grab all the CONNECT requests. But since Apache sees the PHP file, it just passes the request in whole over to PHP and lets PHP sort it out. PHP accepts all methods (even ones that don't exist) and ignores the ones it can't use. For example... [brian@hell brian]$ telnet www.dee-web.com 80 Trying 206.105.178.65... Connected to www.dee-web.com. Escape character is '^]'. FOO / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 04:45:06 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.2 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Is this bad or good? I'm not in a position to say. I guess I'll say it's bad when someone rips a gaping hole through it. I also believe that there are other apache modules that exhibit similar behaviour. Though I have to admit that arbitrary methods is a little disturbing. > > However, if you use (for example) PHP and have index.php as the default > > page, it will accept the unusual method (if not prevented by "Limit" > > directives) but wind up processing it as a "GET /" in the end. This is > > because, it will be just like when a user doesn't put a trailing slash in > > the location bar, Apache will automatically redirect it to /. > > I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's "just like" when a user forgets > the trailing slash. When that happens, apache explicitly tells the > browser to try again: > In fact, I don't see the parallel between the two behaviors at all... Well, the parallel is that the request of (as referred to by the previous logs regarding the proxy abuse check)... CONNECT www.host.name:25 HTTP/1.0 contains no path information so Apache does the redirect. (Yes, I probably shouldn't have used an analogy, they do always seem to go wrong somewhere.) -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Does this mean my Apache is relaying mail?
Gordon Messmer, On Thursday January 23, 2003 08:43, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:48, Brian Ashe wrote: > > On Thursday January 23, 2003 04:46, Peter Kiem wrote: > > > Hi Gordon, > > > > > > > The status 200 may indicate that you're vulnerable to the problem > > > > they're testing for. What version of apache are you running? On > > > > what platform? Have you enabled proxying? > > > > > > That's what I am worried about. > > > > Don't worry (yet). The 200 response doesn't mean they've gotten through. > > > > Do this simple test... > > ... > > > If you get your normal index page, then all is well. > > Did you try your test? I've tried the CONNECT command against several > servers, and always get a 405 message. Apache should not (and in my > tests, does not) respond with a 200 code when you feed it the CONNECT > command. Sending back the index page is not the expected or defined > behavior, so I'm not sure why you'd expect that outcome. Actually, it is. It depends on what your index file type is. If your index file type is .html then you will get the exact behaviour you speak of because HTML does not support any methods other then GET (unless you change HTML to be parsed by PHP or equivilent). However, if you use (for example) PHP and have index.php as the default page, it will accept the unusual method (if not prevented by "Limit" directives) but wind up processing it as a "GET /" in the end. This is because, it will be just like when a user doesn't put a trailing slash in the location bar, Apache will automatically redirect it to /. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Apache 2.0 and disallowed indexes
Todd A. Jacobs,
On Thursday January 23, 2003 05:09, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I want a particular URL to disallow indexing. I have the following
> .htaccess file:
>
>
> Options -Indexes
>
>
> that is chmod 644, and "AllowOverride Indexes" in main configuration.
> Unfortunately, all I get is error 500 when I attempt to access specific
> files from that directory.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Try adding ExecCGI to your options line.
Options -Indexes +ExecCGI
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Re: Does this mean my Apache is relaying mail?
Peter Kiem, On Thursday January 23, 2003 04:46, Peter Kiem wrote: > Hi Gordon, > > > The status 200 may indicate that you're vulnerable to the problem > > they're testing for. What version of apache are you running? On what > > platform? Have you enabled proxying? > > That's what I am worried about. Don't worry (yet). The 200 response doesn't mean they've gotten through. Do this simple test... $telnet your.webserver.here 80 Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... Connected to your.webserver.here. Escape character is '^]'. CONNECT some.mailserver.here:25 HTTP/1.0 Hit enter twice after that last line. If you get your normal index page, then all is well. If you get something like... HELO something Then you better start locking things down. This means you have connected through the web server to a mail server. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: cvs update
Christian Brink, On Thursday January 23, 2003 05:30, Christian Brink wrote: > Does anyone know if redhat is issuing new RPMs for cvs now that the root > exploit has been fixed by http://www.cvshome.org? I've had mine since monday. They issued a release then. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-012.html Are you subscribed to the RedHat Watch list? It is a good way to see when they release things. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Compiling programs with gcc
Faraj Musleh George Isa, On Thursday January 23, 2003 01:34, Faraj Musleh George Isa wrote: > Hello, I made a program in C for DOS, and I am passing it to Linux. I got > everything fixed with the headers (i think) but I get just 1 error. It is > this one: > > undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0' > ld returned 1 exit status. > > I don't know where I'm referencing this identifier. It is very wierd, but > maybe someone could know something about this? Is this a C or C++ program? Did you perhaps call the C++ headers? If it is C++ try using g++ instead of gcc. It should handle the reference at linking time. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: kmail in rh8
John McCain, On Monday January 20, 2003 02:44, John McCain wrote: > The version for redhat: > > http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/8.0/i386/kdepim-3.0.3-3.i386.html > > has kaddressbook removed. A search for kaddressbook on rpmfind shows > several versions of kpim for 7.x, but none for 8.0. And here they point out that it is in kdebase... http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/8.0/i386/kdebase-3.0.3-13.i386.html which makes it even stranger that you wouldn't have it installed. Have you tried looking for it from the command line? Is it just that you have no menu entry fot it? (RH did seem to botch up a bit on the menus thing.) -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: kmail in rh8
John McCain, On Monday January 20, 2003 12:37, John McCain wrote: > kmail seems to be present in rh8, but kaddressbook is missing, which > pretty much cripples it. > > What's the deal? > > Is there a way to get kaddressbook running on rh8? kaddressbook is part of the kdepim package. It should be on the CDs. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: IBM 3270 emulation
Nicholas Marsh, On Saturday January 18, 2003 02:22, Nicholas Marsh wrote: > Anyone know of 3270 emulators for Linux (or free ones for Windows)? The x3270 rpms should be on the CDs. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Remove --exclude
Chris Mason, On Thursday January 16, 2003 03:20, Chris Mason wrote: > How do you remove a file called --exclude from the bash shell? > > [root@non htdocs]# rm \-\-exclude > rm: unrecognized option `--exclude' > > > I can't find a way to exclude the "-" character Try... rm -- --exclude The "--" in a command tells the command there are no more flags. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: sizing server for sendmail & mailscanner
Gordon Messmer, On Thursday January 16, 2003 02:33, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Well, we are supporting only about 1000 users with sendmail and > spamassassin (run via spamc) alone (no virus scanning, that is) on a > dual 1Ghz P3 system with 2GB of RAM. Performance is awful, and the load > is around 30 most of the day. Spamassassin really isn't to blame > either, performance was basically this bad before it was introduced. > > The problem is largely in that sendmail uses mbox files, and a couple of > users leave mail on the server though they're told not to, and they eat > all of the disk bandwidth (every mail check reads and then re-writes > their entire mail spool). I believe that's a misconception. Unlike qmail/exim/postfix, sendmail does not do local delivery. It hands it off to procmail. On a default RH install promail is set up to use mbox because the IMAP/POP server included (UW-IMAP) doesn't by default support maildir. By replacing the IMAP/POP server (ie. qpopper, Courier, etc.) you can set up procmail to use maildir and the performance should get better. At least that has been my experience, YMMV. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail
Daniel Field, On Wednesday January 15, 2003 11:52, Daniel Field wrote: > Yes, not a bad idea. At least then we could control the amount of emails > being sent out each hour as well, so we could split the load up. > > The other option is to write some scripts that access the DB directly from > the Linux box and send the mails out. I havnt used Linux for about 5 years > now so maybe a bit behind when it come to the languages available... > ideally I would prefer something similar to VBScript, any suggestions? I would recommend PHP. That way you can make very short work of connecting to any DB, it has a built in mail function, works from command line as well (most people don't think of it that way) so it can be called from cron or run manually. It is also easy to learn. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: What is the maximum UID or GID on RH80?
David Busby, They seem to indirectly recommend that the UIDs/GIDs stay below 6. They do this by setting this in /etc/login.defs. Since most programs use useradd, this effectively limits it to that. Of course it can be manually overidden by either passing useradd a higher UID or by changing the setting. The kernel, IIRC, supports 32 bit UIDs/GIDs. At least on IA32. This doesn't mean that it will let you go above the old 16 bit UIDs though because some file systems (ext2/3 for example) don't support it. There may be other userland programs/daemons that won't either. I know NFS can start having issues when you start getting up there with the UIDs. HTH. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re[2]: Keyboard dead key problem
Hello Henry, Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 7:56:01 AM, you textually orated: HP> Hello, HP> Dead keys enable one to type characters with Umlauts, circonflexes, HP> the extra Scandinavian letters, etc. An o-Umlaut for example, is made HP> by first typing a double quote (which doesn't appear on the screen, HP> unless you type an extra space), and then the o, which results in the HP> o-Umlaut (which I can't demonstrate right now, because my dead keys HP> have disappeared...). The Danish for example (the a with a little HP> o on top of it) is done by typing RightAlt-zero and then a. Another HP> one is the Danish o, with the slash through it, it's done by simply HP> typing RightAlt-o. Those are some examples of dead keys. And I'd like HP> 'em back, cause I really can't type my language(s) very well without them. Have you tried this... http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/rhl7.3/rhl-ig-x86-en-7.3/s1-kbdconfig.php3 Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Is Squid my solution?
James Pifer, On Tuesday January 07, 2003 02:22, James Pifer wrote: > I have a Squid(Proxy) question that hopefully can be easily answered. We > currently run a commercial Proxy Server where we pay for each client > that uses it. That's not a big deal except that we have a bunch of users > (say 200-300) that only connect to a couple web sites to do their job. > Instead of continuing to pay client licenses I think I could use Squid > (or some other open source proxy server) as their proxy. > > I've looked at Squid's web site at the FAQ, and based on that, I think I > can do it, but before taking this to my boss and proposing it I want to > make sure. > > Can I put up a Redhat machine running Squid and allow all users to hit > only a couple web sites? (I say all users because if they only go to > these couple sites it would probably be easier to just let anyone > connect if they want to use it as their proxy, hopefully without even > authenticating) Squid is an excellent program that will do exactly what you wish. > Is there another product besides Squid I should consider? > You could also consider just using Apache for that as well. It offers only a subset of Squid's control abilities, but may be easier to set up if you don't need too much and you won't change settings that often. It is easy to test both at home and see what the differences are before you make your recommendation. Just grab an old box and throw RH on it and start playing around with things. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: ifcfg-(interface)0:XX files
Brad, On Tuesday January 07, 2003 02:15, Brad wrote: > Hey all.. I'm hoping someone has some light to shed on this. > > What happens if you have more than 128 ifcfg-(interface)0:XX files in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and what changes if any need to be made if > you want more than 128 of them ... > > Any info would be great. Actually, I don't understand _why_ you would have that many. Is there some benefit to that method over using the "ifcfg-(interface)-rangeX" method? I would think this would be easier to maintain. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re[2]: Burning a Music CD
Hello Ric, Monday, January 6, 2003, 2:06:48 PM, you textually orated: TR> Ahem; TR> You don't own the CD's, records, nor tapes. Yes you do. The above that you describe are YOUR PROPERTY. This includes only the physical media and it's container. When someone breaks into your home and steals them, YOU have to file a report. This does NOT imply that you now own the contents of that media. TR> You own a copy of them. Wrong. You don't own a copy. You have a license to use that material as stated by copyright law. This includes the ability to make copies and use for personal use. You can not use it for commercial purposes without additional licensing. TR> That copy gives you the right to "play" them, from their original media. It TR> expressly, does not, give you the right to copy them. Period. Copies for personal use are covered under the terms of "Fair use". This does not mean that you can sell or give them away, but you most certainly can use them for _your_own_ wedding. The DJ (if paid/professional), on the other hand, must make payments to ASCAP for public, commercial airing (regardless of the source). TR> Now with that out of the way. Well, the OP tried to avoid this, but probably only would have if he had not mentioned it. Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Burning a Music CD
Hello Michael, Monday, January 6, 2003, 1:49:42 PM, you textually orated: MT> Anyone familiar enough with cd-record to help me burn a music CD? MT> I'm trying to put together some songs for my upcoming wedding and doing them MT> on one CD will make our lives much easier. There are lots of tutorials and how-tos that will give great detail on how to do what you want. Use Google with words like... "linux burn music/audio cd" and you will find what you want. To give some tips on how to get good results (these are not always covered in the tutorials)... 1. Always extract from your CDs to a sound format like WAV. You do not want to use MP3 unless you are only going to use it as such. This way you don't add in undesired effects to the music. 2. Use sox (should be on the system, but it's on the RH CDs if not) to "normalize" ALL of the tracks. This will give you a consistent volume level and sound quality. 3. Listen to everything before you burn the CD. Sounds like a silly thing to remember, but you'll be happier if you do this and catch errors before you burn. 4. For burning an audio/music CD. Always burn at 1X speed. _Most_ newer consumer and professional systems won't have a problem reading the CD-R media, but _some_ will choke on ones written at higher speeds. The reflectivity of CD-R media is lower and it becomes even lower when CDs are written at high speeds. This could reduce sound quality and cause skips on playback. YMMV on this, but I recommend doing this anyway. Hope that helps. Hope you have a good wedding and a happy marriage. Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Perl vs Shell: there's gotta be a way to...!
Marco Shaw, On Saturday January 04, 2003 12:24, Marco Shaw wrote: > What I want: > Take file.txt and *strip* out "foo" and replace with "bar", *but* I > don't want to redirect to a tmp file or anything: I would like one > command. > > Perl: > 1. perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' file.txt > > SED, for example: > 1. sed 's/foo/bar/g' file.txt > file.txt.tmp > 2. mv file.txt.tmp file.txt > > So perl does what I want to, but I'd prefer to stay with awk, sed, or > whatever GNU utils, if possible. > > Can it be done? Not without help. What you want is "bsed". It was written by Cameron Simpson and is great for all of your sed needs. Look for "bsed" on this page. Some of the other stuff might be useful to you as well. http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/css/ -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: apache setup questions
Burke, Thomas G., On Friday January 03, 2003 04:05, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > Disabled the rules for a bit, and the same story happens. I am sure > that httpd.conf is the culprit, for 2 reasons > > 1) I've had this (or slight variations of it) firewall running since > May of 200 Wow! over 1800 years. ;) > 2) I was able to get in from remote just about 3 hours ago, with the > firewall up. Of course, this was when I was getting the error > message that started this whole thread.. First do a "netstat -a" (sans quotes) If you don't see Apache listening on the ip you need it to then... Try setting these... (they are commented out in your config file) Listen 80 (and/or) BindAddress * -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Bind 9.2.1 Problem
Brandon Caudle,
On Friday January 03, 2003 11:30, Brandon Caudle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to the list, my name is Brandon Caudle and I'm a 16 year old
> admin of my own server at my house, my grandparents business and my school.
> I recently upgraded to Redhat 8.0 (I have been using linux for quite a
> while now, but just recently have I gotten a domain name for my server at
> home) I had bind running on 7.2 (Redhat) but now that I have upgraded I
> have moved to 8.0 (Redhat) and it upgraded Bind to 9.2.1 so my
> configuration no longer works. I can only think of a couple reasons why.
>
> 1) Does named.conf under /etc/ need to be owned by named (user and group)
> or by root?
Doesn't matter (well, for better security, I would leave it as root) as long
as it is _readable_ by the user "named".
> 2) Does it need to be chmod 755?
NO! 644 is sufficient.
> 3) Is there anything wrong with my named.conf?
Possibly, if you did a cut-n-paste of the file...
> options {
> directory "/var/named";
> // query-source address * port 53;
> allow-query {
> 216.227.49.36;
> 216.227.80.36;
> };
> allow-transfer {
> 216.227.49.36;
> 216.227.80.36;
> };
> };
>
> };
^^^
Looks like a stray.
> 4) The rndc.key is root (owner) and named (group) is there anything wrong
> with that?
No.
> 5) If my host files worked with the last version and I haven't changed
> anything in them should they still work with this version?
The syntax parser is stricter. So some things that may have been let go before
are not now.
Also, it is always good to check /var/log/messages for any errors. If the
above typo doesn't fix the problem (or wasn't actually in the file) the check
for errors in there.
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Re: Open Source Licensed RHAS, licenses?
Ben Russo, On Thursday January 02, 2003 06:33, Ben Russo wrote: > I've been told by a few people that if I pay $799 for a set of > RHAS CD's that I am not allowed to install it on more than one > machine. Read this page... http://www.redhat.com/software/whichlinux.html Perhaps it will help answer your questions. > Last time I checked anaconda and RPM are GPL'd, > as are the overwhelming majority of the software packages > on the RHAS CD's I don't think there are _any_ proprietary apps on those CDs. But I could be wrong. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Hard Drive Stats
Ferguson, Michael, On Thursday January 02, 2003 03:56, Ferguson, Michael wrote: > Cool!! > Thanks You can also try the "System Monitor" app if you want something graphical (not really necessary). It should be... Hat->System Tools->System Monitor It is under the "System Monitor" tab. > -Original Message- > From: Frank Bax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Hard Drive Stats > > At 03:35 PM 1/2/03, Ferguson, Michael wrote: > >Running RH8.0. What is the command - Where is the icon, > >to show my hard drive capacity, space used, space free? > > df -h -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Machine goes dead after half an hour
James Wilde, On Thursday January 02, 2003 03:36, James Wilde wrote: > Yepp, Sorry, should have said it's running 8.0 with Gnome 2.0 and KDE. > Gnome is the primary gui. The machine is a HP Vectra although I don't > remember the actual model. If screen savers are enabled... disable them. I've seen quite a few problems with them under certain hardware configurations. They seem to be able to crash, segfault or lock-up different systems _sometimes_. > > -Original Message- > > From: Hal Burgiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2003 21:34 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Machine goes dead after half an hour > > > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:28:30PM +0100, James Wilde wrote: > > > Any clues about how to keep the machine 'alive' and turn off this > > > 'dead' behaviour or a pointer to a url very welcome. > > > > Is it running X? More than likely it is hardware incompatibility > > somewhere. If running X, I'd start looking at that. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Bash auto complete question
Nicholas Marsh, On Saturday December 21, 2002 05:40, Nicholas Marsh wrote: > So you see, I have to press TAB twice in RedHat to get it to show me the > options. How can I change this behaivor? Edit either /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc and add this line... set show-all-if-ambiguous on Next time you open your shell, it will work as desired. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: In need of a UPS
Hello Daevid, Monday, December 9, 2002, 12:29:30 AM, you textually orated: DV> The battery light on my UPS is on now all the time. It's fairly old and DV> I think it's time I got rid of it. DV> First, where do I go to throw out a UPS? I can't imagine it's good to DV> just chuck it out with the garbage... I would think it needs recycling DV> or containment or something. DV> Secondly, can anyone suggest a (cheap) UPS that will work with RedHat DV> 8.0 relatively painlessly? I really only just need this to shutdown DV> gracefully when appropriate (so I don't need it to power my monitor or DV> speakers or any extra crap either). Otherwise, I really don't care about DV> any bells and whistles, unless they're free. I don't want to have to DV> make a custom cable or anything funky either. I want to be able to DV> purchase the parts, plug them in, run some .rpm or install.sh or DV> something and be good to go. This has been an excellent brand of UPS for me. It has been reliable, installs EASY, uses a web based front end using SysV style init scripts to start/stop, includes cabling. http://www.minutemanups.com/ Have fun, -- _ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Mount CD-RW as a read-write filesystem?
Hello Shannon, Sunday, December 8, 2002, 11:28:45 AM, you textually orated: SN> Does anyone have any idea how to mount a CD-RW as a read-write filesystem SN> like I can on my Windows boxes? I would like to be able to drop a CD-RW in SN> the drive and write files to it (and delete files from it) for backup SN> purposes. Any help would be greatly appreciated. To the best of my knowledge, it is currently unsupported. But if you REALLY want to have at it... http://hints.us.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/cdrw-hint.txt Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Glibc updates killing MySql
Hello Robert, Saturday, December 7, 2002, 11:18:32 AM, you textually orated: RC> The last Glibc updates killed connections to MySql. Actually, the "last" glibc updates were specifically released to fix that problem. ;) RC> Anyone know yet if the new updates have the same issues? Or will we RC> have to do something to the MySql? You should go here... https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-197.html This errata has been updated to work with programs querying DNS from extremely small stack sizes, such as MySQL. Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re[2]: RH8, apache 2, php 4.2.2 problems
Hello Christensen,
Thursday, December 5, 2002, 10:58:47 PM, you textually orated:
CT> After 2 hours of messing with it, and about 10 minutes after I posted to
CT> this list I figured that out :)
CT> Thanks!
CT> How is having register_globals off better for security? Do you know the
CT> specifics of why they recommend that? I am doing it with register_globals
CT> off, but typing $_POST everywhere that used to just be $var is annoying.
CT> I don't really want to redue all my scripts for no reason if this doesn't
CT> really improve security.
Well, it all depends on how you write your code.
THIS IS UNSAFE!
Some one could simply enter a URL of
http://www.yoursite.tld/yourscript.php?sql=delete%20from%20users;
and the result would be that your entire table is wiped clean. Obviously
other possibilities exist here as well.
A very common example of this is that many programmers have used something
like...
include ("$includedir/includeme.php);
in their scripts forgetting that PHP can resolve URLs in include statments
and if someone changes the request to...
http://www.yoursite.tld/yourscript.php?includedir=http://www.evilsite.com
they can include ANY PHP code they wish into your script (VERY BAD).
Both of these examples would be prevented by turning off the
register_globals option.
The problem here is they are both examples of poorly written code. So
basically this is a case of trying to protect those who don't pay attention
to what they are doing.
Something like the above "$includedir" should never have been a variable to
begin with. It is obviously a constant and should have been defined.
Constants can not be changed.
define ("INCLUDE_DIR", "/path/to/files");
...
include (INCLUDE_DIR."/includeme.php);
Other important variables are easily protected using the unset function.
unset ($sql, $important, $other_important, $etc);
...
...
$sql = "select * from users;";
...
So you have your choice of how to protect your code.
I feel that the register_globals thing though will simply provide another
false sense of security. While it will clearly protect the above bad coding
practices, it does NOT mean that the user input is properly sanitized. It
does not mean that you are safe from SQL injection, or if you assume that
you will be limited to only those POST variables that you expect to see
(wget will let you send whatever you want as post instead of get so that
isn't much of a deterrent as no sophisticated tools are required). If you
depend on the user supplying proper information IN ANY WAY you are
vulnerable.
You can learn more about why the developers of PHP made this change here...
http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.registerglobals.php
But take note of this...
"Of course, simply turning off register_globals does not mean code is
secure. For every piece of data that is submitted, it should also be
checked in other ways."
The only way for security is to write good, safe code. Period.
Have fun,
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Re: RH8, apache 2, php 4.2.2 problems
Hello Christensen, Thursday, December 5, 2002, 8:32:00 PM, you textually orated: CT> OK, CT> I know the transition form apache 1.x to 2 isn't supposed to be easy... CT> but, here's the deal. CT> I am setting up a new website, apache 2, redhat 8, php 4.2.2 (default redhat CT> 8 install). CT> I can't get html forms to pass their variables successfully to my php CT> scripts. CT> I create a simple form ie CT> CT> CT> CT> and then my php script: CT>print $firstname; CT> print "firstname"; ?>> CT> the results of this are that it prints "firstname" (without the quotes) but CT> it never prints the string supplied in the form. CT> suggestions? PHP 4.2.x and up are all installed with register_globals = off in the php.ini file. Some people believe that this is a security improvement. I'll leave that to your own discretion. You have two choices... 1. Use $_POST[firstname] (or it's friends $_GET, $_COOKIE, etc.) 2. Turn on register_globals in your php.ini file. Have fun, -- _ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: where is documentation for STL stuff?
Hello christopher, Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 3:25:06 PM, you textually orated: cjb> i'm using Redhat 8.0 and there are no man pages for STL stuffs like map and cjb> vector and list and what not. where can i get documentation on these things? Best place to start is here, IMHO. http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/ Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Bulk add users
Mikevl, On Monday November 25, 2002 03:11, Mikevl wrote: > Hi can anybody tell me how to bulk add users from a text file or any other > method? > I currently have Redhat 7.2 man newusers -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: redirecting output
christopher j bottaro, On Friday November 22, 2002 02:36, christopher j bottaro wrote: > hey, i wanna start a k program from the konsole, but i don't wanna see all > the dang output. how do i redirect stdout and stderr to /dev/null? Oops, sorry. That should have been... program_name > /dev/null 2>&1 -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: redirecting output
christopher j bottaro, On Friday November 22, 2002 02:36, christopher j bottaro wrote: > hey, i wanna start a k program from the konsole, but i don't wanna see all > the dang output. how do i redirect stdout and stderr to /dev/null? program_name 2&>1 /dev/null But why not just hit Alt-F2 and enter it there? -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Incredible Disappearing Quotas
Hace Calor, On Thursday November 21, 2002 09:18, Hace Calor wrote: > All the quotas on our system (Red Hat 7.3, quota package quota-3.03-1, > kernel kernel-2.4.18-5, ext3fs filesystems) keep getting hosed. I keep > updating them, but user quotas either disappear, revert to the previous > quotas, etc. About once per week I've been setting the quotas properly, > but as each day goes on, even without modifying *any* quotas, one by one > they start disappearing. > > I've already tried deleting the aquota.group file (we're using group > quotas, specifically) and starting over, but the problem is persistent. > > I'm a step away from keeping user quota information in a database and then > running a script to set the quotas every day, but that seems a bit on the > kludgy side. Does anyone have a better solution or any info? Here's what I recommend... 1. Upgrade your kernel. Yours is out of date. If that fails to make a difference... 2. Get the latest quota src package from rawhide and recompile it for your 7.3 system. If that also fails... 3. Go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and file a complete and thorough bug report. Give them lots of details so they can help resolve your problem. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: incompatibility with WD HDD??
Juan Nin, On Thursday November 21, 2002 07:31, Juan Nin wrote: > Hi > > I'm having problems to install Red Hat Linux on a 20GB Western Digital HDD > (WD200EB-00DSF0) > > If I try with RH 8.0, when it should start installing the packages it says > that there is no space in the drive for installing the packages. If I try > with RH 7.3, it hangs while transfering the install image to disk... > > The HDD works fine, it has got no damage, and I can format it with no > problem, install a Windows OS, etc... > > is this an incompatibility issue? > should I pass an additional command during installation boot?? > Are the jumpers on the drive set to "Cable Select (CS)"? WD drives are set to that by default and RH seems to not like it (in my experience). -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Cannot delete file
[EMAIL PROTECTED], On Thursday November 21, 2002 01:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been hacked! > It is clear that I need to reinstall. > > I would like to make use of this to learn a bit of what has happened to my > server. > > My /bin/login has been made 0 bytes > > I fixed the hard-disk into another machine > login as root in that machine > mount the hacked hard disk and have access to the hard-disk. > > ls -tral gives me a series of files that has been changed. > > a few of them are > /bin/df > /bin/du > /bin/ftp > /bin/login > > I try to delete the files and get the warning > "do you want to delete write protected file (Y/n)" > I say Yes and the answer is > "Sorry I am unable to unlink the file" > and the file is not deleted. > > Any one who can help me to understand that message > > the permission on the file is > -rwxr-xr-x > and I am root on the machine. > > Is it because a hard-link has been made to the file in some directory > which I first have to find and delete ? > > Well, Just to learn a bit more. man lsattr man chattr The usual tactic is to make the files "immutable". It is at the file system level and that's why root can't do anything about it. Well, at least until the immutable flag is cleared. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: python not found / mozilla question
Sarah, On Wednesday November 20, 2002 09:26, SarahTF wrote: > I am trying to run a game called pysol that swears that Python2 isn't > installed. It is. So is the other thing (tkinter2) it wants.. They > apparently came in with RH 8.0, because I didn't install them! How do I > tell pysol that the apps it wants are on the system? What are the exact error messages? How are you trying to run it? Which file did you get? Did you download the pysol-4.81.tar.bz2 file or something else? > Also, a probably very stupid question but I'm just learning Linux so don't > laugh too hard. Do I have to create a directory for mozilla plugins or > should it already be there? The directory for Mozilla plug-ins is usually located at... /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/plugins ...provided you used the RedHat RPMs. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Email monitoring
Hello Paul, Thursday, November 7, 2002, 2:46:30 PM, you textually orated: PL> For security reasons, our network administrator currently receives a copy of PL> EVERY incoming and outgoing email to/from our office. We are in the process PL> of phasing in a RH8/Sendmail server and need to know what is the best way to PL> implement this policy on the new server. Sendmail doesn't have a nice little "do this" function for this. But it is still possible to do so. For an example of how to do it here... http://www.geocities.com/sbmilbur/sendmail/ and here... http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1999-10/features/archiving.html Same person wrote both, but the info differs a little in the second one and has some additional "testing before implementing" stuff in it. Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: glibc-devel
Hello Martín, Thursday, November 7, 2002, 3:04:06 PM, you textually orated: MM> I can't get glibc-devel to install because of missing dependencies. MM> The problem is that it complains about kernel-headers package required, but MM> there is no kernel-headers in the 7.3 distribution. MM> How do I glibc-devel to install? In RH7.3 they moved the "kernel-headers" package to "glibc-kernheaders". I don't know if that will solve your problem or not though. The error you have gotten looks like they might have botched the package dependancies (by perhaps using the same one as 7.2). I would... 1. Verify that I have the glibc-kernheaders package installed. if so.. 2. Verify that I got the glibc-devel for RH7.3 (and not an earlier version) if so... 3. File a bug report with bugzilla. Hope that helps. Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Killing an X window app
Alan, On Tuesday November 05, 2002 04:16, Alan Peery wrote: > Brian Ashe wrote: > >Try hitting Ctrl-Alt-Esc. You should get a little skull and crossbones > >cursor. Click it on the bad window and away it goes. > > Doesn't work for me. Which version of Redhat are you running, and which > session(KDE, Gnome, Ximan Gnome)? It is KDE specific. The original poster had said he used KDE, so I mentioned it. It is really just a key-binding to "xkill". It has worked in every version of KDE that I can remember (back to 1.2). If you are using a different desktop/window manager, you could do something similar. "xkill" should always be installed by default. So just bind some keys to it. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Method to Backup Using a CD-RW
Hello Brian, Tuesday, November 5, 2002, 7:45:34 AM, you textually orated: BH> Does anyone have a tried and tested method of backing up important files BH> to a CD-RW? Yes. Very tried and very true. It's called Mondo Rescue. http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: PHP query string
Hello Meganone, Monday, November 4, 2002, 9:31:16 AM, you textually orated: M> Hello. M> I'm using Red Hat 8 as my web server with PHP module. The PHP version is M> 3.23.52-3 (The original RPM that comes with the distro). It seems that M> the PHP module have a problem with getting the query strings M> (www.somesite.com/index.php?pid=123). I've already checked the M> configuration of both Apache and PHP module. M> What causes the problem and what should I do to fix it? Newer versions of PHP all come with "register globals" turned OFF in the php.ini file. Turn it to on and it should solve your problem. Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Killing an X window app
Hello David, Saturday, November 2, 2002, 11:52:28 PM, you textually orated: DK> Long ago, there used to be this X Windows application where you started it, DK> and the next window you clicked on would be killed. Is that still around? I DK> can't find it. Try hitting Ctrl-Alt-Esc. You should get a little skull and crossbones cursor. Click it on the bad window and away it goes. Have fun, -- _____ Brian Ashe CTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
