Re: ext2 or ext3 ?
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:46:24AM +0100, Mohamed Kerbachi wrote: > How to know if a server has ext2 or ext3 ??? df -T -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: turn off terminal's beep
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:43:34AM -0700, Jeffrey Fox wrote: > If you're using a KDE Konsole SETTINGS drop down menu | BELL | NONE or > VISIBLE, SETTINGS | SAVE SETTINGS > --OR-- > (if your using bash) You can add bell-style none (or visible) to your > ~/.bashrc > --OR-- > You can use xset -b (or -vb for a visual bell) > --OR-- > (if your using tcsh) You can add set nobeep (or set visiblebell) to > your ~/.cshrc There's always unplugging the speaker wire from the motherboard... -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: no swen since Oct 8
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:06:33AM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: > On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > > > However it still bothers me that I have to spend so many cycles to > > process the mail. Stupid spammers, stupid Microsoft. > > I've had them start using the domain I own to as the source of their > spam. I suddenly started seeing all their bounce messages. I ended > up shutting the domain down. That sucks. I'm sure it's no consolation, but domain forgery a very common crime. The first time I heard of it was in an article by Simson Garfinkle about all the problems some spammer was causing for the small ISP he ran. I remember thinking, geez this is going to get ugly. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
no swen since Oct 8
It looks like the storm of swen viruses is finally dying. At least on this end - I haven't received one since October 8, and for a while there I was getting hundreds a day. Fairly early on I added clamav to my mailscanner+spamassassin+razor2 setup and shunted all the viruses to their own mailbox, so hopefully I will have some protection when the next great plague hits. However it still bothers me that I have to spend so many cycles to process the mail. Stupid spammers, stupid Microsoft. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Graphic firewall
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:12:15PM +0100, Nick Lindsell wrote: > IPcop has quite a following too. http://www.ipcop.org Actually I use the ipcop firewall distribution to protect my home lan. It's just too much work to try to shoehorn a full-size linux distro onto an old 486 w/400 mb hard drive. However, the OP wanted a GUI iptables configurator - he didn't say anything about a dedicated distribution. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Graphic firewall
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:54:31AM -0500, Donald Tyler wrote: > I just downloaded this and it looks very nice. But I am wondering if I > can look at the firewall config file because I want to make sure > firestarter is blocking spoofs etc. > > Anybody know where to find the file firestarter uses? All of the files firestarter uses are stored in /etc/firestarter. The main firewall scipt is /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh. Firestarter comes with a good configuration wizard, and you can also tweak anything you might need - like opening and closing ports - on the fly. I have the applet set to start when I log into gnome. I can see all the port scans bounce off in real time. I'm sure other firewall configurators are as powerful etc., but this one is so easy to use I can't imagine switching to anything else. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: OS Desktop Business Model?
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:54:46PM -0700, bruce wrote: > my $0.02 worth..and i don't normally follow this group/thread for > linux to compete/succeed against windows/msoft on the desktop... there > needs to be a rock solid office set of apps... for 20% of the price... > > then you would see msoft fall like a rock... if oracle put in a $1 > billion, and sun gave their star office app, and then a huge open > source app was create with the star office/funds as a start... within > 12-18 months you'd put a dent in msoft I honestly think the desktop is pretty much there right now. For ordinary office stuff a good distribution like Redhat and OO.o, mozilla, evolution, etc. are more than enough for most office workers. And they don't cost 20% of Windows + Office, they're free. It's old hat to us, but your average clueless user (and IT manager) either doesn't know you can get better software for nothing, or else believes it must be bad because it's free. I've run into this over and over. What I think will happen is more people will realize that paying $600 or more for an OS and office suite of dubious quality is ludicrous, especially when the net allows for much lower production and distribution costs. Microsoft et al are responding by trying to grab control of the PC hardware platform to prevent interoperability, etc., but I believe they will fail. Eventually even average users will understand that it's better for them to control what happens on their computers rather than some remote, Palladium-enabled corporate interest. If the open PC hardware platform manages to survive this serious threat, it's game over. Commodity software will rule the world and the huge commercial software houses will have to adapt or die. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
LANG=?
The other day I was trying to install the latest Mail::SpamAssassin module through CPAN and it kept failing early in the compile. I've run into this before, so I looked at /etc/sysconfig/i18n and sure enough my LANG variable was set back to the default LANG="en_US.UTF-8". I changed it to en_US (again) and SpamAssassin compiled cleanly. Some questions: Why would Redhat choose an encoding for rh9 that breaks all manner of things? And what reset the LANG variable back to UTF-8, and how do I prevent this from happening again? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: CD writer for RH 9 - how to know if is suitable ?
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:24:50PM +0200, sting sting wrote: > Hello, > > I want to use a simple internal CD writer on Linux RH 9 . > Now , I tried to see if the types of CD writer > which I was suggested by my dealer (and work on windows) > are fit to Linux RH 9. > The 4 types are: > > BENQ 5224 > TEAC 52 > PHILIPS 5224K > SAMSUNG 52X24X52 I'm using the Samsung. I liked it because it has an 8mb cache, but just about any ATA burner ought to work out of the box. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Booting From UltraATA
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:07:36PM -0700, Marc Heikens wrote: > I hope someone can help me with this, I've been working on this for > awhile and looking for help in a few other venues: > > I've been trying to move my Linux installation from one drive to > another, to no avail. Finally, last night, I decided what the heck, > I'm gonna just do a complete reinstall. Here's how everything is > situated at the moment: When I did this I hooked the new drive up to /dev/hda1, installed Redhat 9, shut down, connected the disk to /dev/hde on the Promise controller, changed the boot order in the bios to SCSI (i.e. PCI controller), and it booted just fine. Redhat uses disk labels, and I believe the only entry I had to change in /etc/fstab was to change swap from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hde3. After getting it to boot cleanly from the new controller I mounted my old partitions manually and copied over the stuff I wanted. Are you using a PCI controller, or is the ata100 controller built into the motherboard? The reason I'm asking, you may need a bios upgrade if your motherboard doesn't understand 120GB disks. > Thanks for any help, and if any more information is needed please let > me know. I'm dying to sort this all out. Oh and as for motivation > for doing this at all--I am hoping to eke out a bit more speed in swap > space usage, as well as boot time, from the new drive. Hdparm tells me my new drive / controller (WD 80GB w/8mb cache, Promise Ultra100 tx2) is more than twice as fast as my old 7200 rpm Maxtor on the ata/33 controller. Actually the entire computer feels snappier, so I guess swap is faster too ;-). -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: mutt folders and filters
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:03:24AM -1000, Marc Adler wrote:
> 2) use procmail to filter your messages to different mailboxes.
Nancy McGough has a very good procmail tutorial at the Infinite Ink
website (http://www.ii.com). She walks you through making a good
~/.procmailrc and making procmail recipies to sort your mail. Use her
templates and you'll be up and running in a few minutes.
You can even get statistics on which mail gets sorted into which folder
if you get cron (crontab -e) to call a script every night. Very
informative, especially if you're on as many mail lists as me.
1 0 * * * $HOME/bin/procmail_log.sh
#!/bin/bash
# procmail_log.sh: mail the daily procmail stats to $USER
mailstat $HOME/.procmail/log|mail $USER -s "`date '+%a %d %b %Y'` mail log"
> 3) configure mutt to read those different mailboxes. (All you have to
> do, actually, is point mutt to, say, 'mbox' in your /Mail directory
> and then you can move around to any other mailbox or directory using
> the 'c' command.)
You can tell mutt about your different mailboxes by saving something
like the following to your ~/.muttrc
# Make sure mutt knows where your mail folder is
set folder=~/Mail
# Tell me about mail in these mailboxes
mailboxes ! +root +maillog +crypto-gram +kernel-traffic +debian-announce +debian-user
+ipcop-user +sv24 +shell.scripting +redhat-list +annoyances
You can also tell bash about these mailboxes by adding a few lines to
your ~/.bash_profile
MAILPATH=/var/spool/mail/$USER
for i in `echo
~/Mail/{root,maillog,crypto-gram,kernel-traffic,debian-announce,debian-user,ipcop-user,sv24,shell.scripting,redhat-list,annoyances}`
do
export MAILPATH=$MAILPATH:$i
done
unset i
Anyway, I get about 300 email messages a day and they're very easy to
deal with since the mail basically sorts itself. And also because of
spamassassin, but that's a different story.
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Re: LPIC passing percentage?
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: > I've touched liquid mercury memory...I've seen attacked chips halt and > catch fire on a 6800 embedded...I've seen C code glitter in the > display of a BLIT...all of these moments will be lost in Internet > time, like packets in a storm. Time to reboot... I like that. Yours? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: LPIC passing percentage?
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:37:36AM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:11:51AM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > > I read somewhere that it was around 42%, so I feel fortunate that I > > passed. It's a surprisingly hard (but fair) exam for an entry level > > certification. > > Hmm...interesting. I'm curious what someone with a background like > mine would do without any special preparation--except for 25 years of > Unix and almost 10 years of Linux experience as both a developer and > an admin. Somehow I'd doubt it. When I wrote the 101 & 102 exams the things I did poorly on were things I'd read about but didn't have much direct experience with. On 101 (hardware & architecture), that would have been SCSI, USB, apt, remote X sessions, and on 102 (administration) it was printer administration, dhcp and NFS. The rest of it, like http, dns, mail, compiling software and using the common tools, were fine because that was what I spent most of my time doing with linux. At the time I had 8 or 9 years unix experience but only a couple of years with linux and system administration. I'm sure that you'd have no problem if you're at all familiar with the linux-specific stuff. At any rate, I prefer LPI over the other linux certifications. It's hard enough to be meaningful and it doesn't expire or tie you to a particular vendor. Gosh, 25 years. You must be old ;-). -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: LPIC passing percentage?
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:08:33AM -0700, Anthony Liu wrote: > Hi, > > My company wants me to take the LPIC1 test soon. Can > you guys tell me what is the passing percentage? > > Thanks a lot. I read somewhere that it was around 42%, so I feel fortunate that I passed. It's a surprisingly hard (but fair) exam for an entry level certification. I used the LPI Certification in a Nutshell by Jeff Dean, O'Reilly & Associates, as a study guide, but you can probably get by from looking up the exam criteria at the lpi.org website and studying on your own. I just found it convenient to have everything in one place. You'll pass if you're prepared, but it's not something to take lightly. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:05:03PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:27, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > > > > Well, I guess I'll just download the new version and compile the > > binaries myself. I can't see any reasonable way to get things > > working with rpm. > > > > I am a little disappointed in rpm at the moment. People have always > > complained about this sort of thing but it's the first time I've > > been bitten by it. > > It can be a drag but it is really doing exactly what it is designed to > do. Since I am soon to be installing this on a RH9 box myself and > whould like to work through this why don;t you post relevant portions > of the rpmbuild and lets see if we can figure out the issue and get > the rpms built properly. I did finally get MailScanner to install. I downloaded the new 4.23-11 rpm and ran the ./install.sh script, which was able to compile and install perl-IO-stringy and perl-MIME-tools. This did overwrite the up to date and working modules I'd already installed through CPAN. I don't care though - at least now the dependencies are resolved and I can use apt without it complaining about mailscanner. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:03:18PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: > Does MailScanner work or are you just worried about the dependency > errors? Did you use Julian's install.sh script to install it? I just installed the MailScanner rpm file. It works fine, but the dependency errors are keeping apt-get dist-upgrade from working as it should. It wants to uninstall MailScanner to make the problem go away. > apt dies not know if the perl stuff is there or not, It only knows if > you have installed it via rpm. > > what does > > rpm -qa|grep perl > > show? I can't get the perl *src.rpms to compile because they're tripping over the modules I've already installed from CPAN. This happens even after renaming the affected directories under /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0. > Also FWIW 4.23-11 is out and has a few bugfixes from the 23-10 that > was released a day or so ago. I do not think they were related to > perl rpms though. Well, I guess I'll just download the new version and compile the binaries myself. I can't see any reasonable way to get things working with rpm. I am a little disappointed in rpm at the moment. People have always complained about this sort of thing but it's the first time I've been bitten by it. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:05:32PM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: > I don't think that MailScanner looks for Perl rpm's per se. It just > expects to find the modules available on your system. For some reason > it isn't finding them. > > I ran into something similar when I loaded some modules using CPAN. I > ended up with two Perl installations and had to remove one. > > Have you only installed perl using redhat's rpm's??? No. Just whatever version of perl is current for redhat 9, plus the various modules I've added over time via perl -MCPAN -e shell. Wrt MailScanner, it does seem to think it needs a pile of perl rpm modules. I'm looking for a way to convince it that it doesn't. I.e. where are the dependencies stored, and can they be changed? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:10:17PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:08, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > > I'm using sendmail, procmail, spamassassin, mailscanner and clamav > > to process incoming mail. Now apt is complaining about unmet perl > > dependencies, even though I've already installed all of the required > > modules through CPAN. I even tried to install the offending module > > anyway, but according to rpm -q it doesn't seem to be getting > > installed. > > > > Is there some way to tell mailscanner to forget about the perl rpms > > that ship with it, since it doesn't need them anyway? > > You installed the src rpm rather than the regular rpm. you could > build a rpm from the src one : > > rpmbuild --rebuild perl-MIME-tools-5.411-pl4.2.src.rpm > > ind install it or install the actual perl-MIME-tools rpm if you have > it. Right, a silly typo on my part reconstructing things the next day. I already tried to build the src.rpms but ran into more dependency problems. MIME-tools wouldn't do anything without IO-stringy-*src.rpm, which was also supplied with the mailscanner rpm, but that wouldn't compile because the files were already found in my perl installation: RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/IO-stringy/.packlist /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod Strangely, I got this same error even after renaming the IO-stringy directory and deleting the references from the perllocal.pod file. I gave up at this point, since I'm nervous about screwing around with a perfectly functional perl + many extra modules installation. The problem is, mailscanner has unresolved dependencies for perl rpms even though all of the required perl modules are installed and working on my system. Rpms are easy and convenient, except when they're not. Is there some way to tell mailscanner that it doesn't need to bother looking for perl rpms, or should I just re-install the thing from source? I'd prefer to use rpms if I can, so I was just wondering if anyone has run into this before. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
dependency problems w/mailscanner
I'm using sendmail, procmail, spamassassin, mailscanner and clamav to process incoming mail. Now apt is complaining about unmet perl dependencies, even though I've already installed all of the required modules through CPAN. I even tried to install the offending module anyway, but according to rpm -q it doesn't seem to be getting installed. Is there some way to tell mailscanner to forget about the perl rpms that ship with it, since it doesn't need them anyway? [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailScanner-4.23-10]# rpm -Uvh perl-MIME-tools-5.411-pl4.2.src.rpm 1:perl-MIME-tools### [100%] [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailScanner-4.23-10]# rpm -q perl-MIME-tools package perl-MIME-tools is not installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailScanner-4.23-10]# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: mailscanner: Depends: perl-MIME-tools (>= 5.411) but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: sendmail config to relay thru my ISP
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:56:04PM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: > You should edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc to include a SMARTHOST line. > It's probably already in the file but commneted out (has a dnl at the > front). Just insert your ISP's email server to the line, take out the > dnl at the front, rerun the m4 macro (instructions at the top of the > file), and do a > > service sendmail restart > > to restart sendmail. This will tell sendmail to forward all your mail > through your ISP's mail server. That server will not be blocked by > AOL. It's also possible your ISP requires mail going through the smarthost to authenticate via smtp-auth. If you get authentication errors post back to the list and someone'll show you how to get it working with 8.11.x. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: boot off a promise ultra100 tx2?
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:23:05PM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:35:50PM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
> >
> > But is it possible to boot off the Promise controller?
>
> You should be able to - I've booted older releases of Promise
> controllers. The catch that I found was that I had to tell my BIOS to
> boot of a SCSI controller, even though the Promise is IDE. To some
> BIOSes, SCSI simply means to go scan the PCI bus and look for more
> bootable controllers.
It worked! I suddenly see the convenience of disk labels - all I had to
do was tell fstab that swap was on /dev/hde3 and not /dev/hda3.
I wasn't able to boot rh7.2 on my other ata100 drive when I hooked it up
to the promise controller, even though I had the most recent kernel
installed and dmesg showed that it saw the controller. Not that it
matters, that drive is going into another computer.
Seems a little faster too (these are both 7200rpm ata100 drives):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# hdparm -t /dev/hd{a,e}
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.65 seconds = 24.15 MB/sec
/dev/hde:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.30 seconds = 49.23 MB/sec
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Re: Would RedHat 7 Be a Good Choice?
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:55:32PM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Mate, if I were you, I'd just buy the RH9 ISOs off the internet > somewhere, if price and bandwidth is an issue. I can't remember a > store name off the top off my hat, but I know quite a few people here > were buying them for like $9 the lot or so. You can get "Pink Tie" (Redhat with a different name) ISOs from cheapbytes.com for $6.99 plus shipping. I wouldn't even consider paying a similar amount for 7.0 because Redhat has discontinued security updates for it. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
boot off a promise ultra100 tx2?
I'm still using an aopen ax6bc bx motherboard, somewhat modernized with a slocket and a Tualatin 1.2ghz cpu. Recently I picked up an 80GB WD hard drive and a Promise Ultra100 tx2 ide controller. Redhat 9 picks up the controller on boot and I can read all the rh7.2 partitions on my old 20GB drive. But is it possible to boot off the Promise controller? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: hotmail mail cleint for linux
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:40:17AM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > interested in this too, would make me so happy as I'd only have to use > the web to check my Yahoo mail). I use fetchyahoo (fetchyahoo.twizzler.org) to download mail from yahoo. You add your login information to the default .fetchyahoorc file and it grabs the mail pretty much like fetchmail does. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Pop-Before-SMTP
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:58:08AM -0400, dch wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 11:28, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > > > > Have you considered SMTP Auth? > > > > http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/ > > Yes and it seems more daunting than pop authentication. Even my ISP > (Verizon) uses pop-first to authenticate SMTP. > I relay mail through outgoing.verizon.net using smtp-auth, and I wasn't aware they were still using pop before smtp on any of their mailservers. Smtp-auth ought to just work for all recent versions of sendmail and postfix, and is definitely the better way to relay mail. Postfix has a very straightforward client smtp-auth setup according to the link above, so I think I'm going to just get rid of sendmail and be done with it. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: 2nd Choice
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:59:05PM -0600, Jason M. Kuhlman wrote: > Following the discussion over the last couple of days over the release > of RH 9 has been interesting. Question: Obviously most of us are > very fond of Redhat, at least up to 7.3 gathered by some of the heated > discussion today. Since I would assume RH would be/is your first > choice of a Linux distribution, what are your second and third > choices? Slackware. The knock against slack is it's difficult to configure, too confusing, etc., but I've found the opposite to be true. Everything is cleanly and economically laid out with well-commented config files, and there's no cruft or unknown extra stuff. I started with slackware, and it's still my distribution of choice on slower machines. However, there's no dependency checking and the slackware community, at least going by alt.os.linux.slackware, seems to be mostly composed of snot-nosed kids. Not what you want to be dealing with when it's 1 am and you're trying to get that new wireless ethernet card working. Debian. I don't have a lot of experience with debian, but I know that many consider apt to be a better package management tool than rpm. But what I find most appealing about Debian is that the community (e.g. the Debian social contract) is by design highly resistant to the kind of corporate control Redhat is seeking to exercise over us. What's driving the linux movement, the thing that makes it great, is the community of users who contribute to it, not some corporation bent on monetizing its relationship with its users. I do understand that Redhat wants to be a successful corporation, but to me they're not more important than the free software movement. This situation is saddens me because from a purely technical perspective, I have no issues with Redhat. I've used it since 5.x and I'm very happy with my (heavily modified) 7.2 machine. But Redhat is going to stop supporting it at the end of the year, and I will not be jumping on a financially induced upgrade treadmill just to get security fixes. I suspect this rant will not be very popular on a mailing list composed of knowledgeable Redhat advocates, but it is how I feel. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: RHCE looking for a job
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:03:54PM -0800, nate wrote: > I replied to the poster off-list ..but wanted to point out that > certs in the UNIX/linux world are about worthless at the moment. > I've been lookin for a job for 7 months, applied to about 70 positions, > had about 20 interviews, came *really* close(I think) to getting a job > at a local company yesterday but alas no. I have no certs, but have > a great deal of skills & experience. I've been managing networks and > systems since 1996, experience in every commercial version of UNIX > except SCO, about a dozen flavors of linux, and so much more, but > it hasn't gotten me a job yet...real close sometimes though. And with > all my interviews I have only heard the word cert mentioned in a small > fraction of them. I know if I was interviewing people, I wouldn't > care what cert they had either if it was for a system admin/similar > position on linux/unix systems. Imagine you're hiring a nerd and are largely ignorant about computers. Many of the prospective employees seem to fit, but some have shiny new linux certifications. Assuming you're primary concern is CYA, which group would you pick from? You obviously have lots of experience and could probably sail through LPI's Level 1. It's cheap ($100 x 2 exams) and even if it's not listed on the job requirements, it can't hurt to have it on the resume. Having said that, I have 10 years experience with unix, 5 with linux, and I'm currently an office manager. And all our boxes are windows. It's rough out there. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Running OutlookXP On Linux...
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:27:14AM -0600, Jim Hale wrote: > This would probably be the same as running pretty much any Win App on > a Linux system though. > > I'm using RH 8.0, Wine is set to load by default. How hard is it, or > is it even possible to install things like OutlookXP (2003) or other > Windows apps? I mean, I know it's supposed to be possible with Wine, > but how practical is it? It's more practical to run evolution (ximian.com/products/evolution), which is an outlook clone but without the viruses. If you need to connect to an exchange server with all that entails, then check out Ximian Connector at the same site. As for other windows apps, it's more practical to find a native linux replacement. In my opinion, anyway. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Red Hat on an old CPU - Which version?
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:58:40PM -0500, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: Until redhat announced they were going to end-of-life version 6.2 in march, I would have suggested that. Now I'd suggest redhat 8, provided you do a minimal installation (no X, no development tools, etc.). Install webmin you'll be able to administer the machine from another computer in your network using a nice web-based gui. The other reason for going with rh8 is you can choose the postfix mailserver out of the box, which will save you the pain of learning sendmail. p.s. My text-based mail client has a hard time with email sent as attachments. It's best to post in clear text to mailing lists. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: root, superusers, and mounting...
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:40:57PM -0700, Tass wrote: > Thanks. > Since I don't yet know what fstab is, and since the "sudo" suggestion > offered by Todd sounds like it is exactly what I was looking for, > I'm now wrestling my way through that process. I do have a pretty > good book. But I'm not one to read those things from cover-to-cover. > I tend to "discover" my way through them. :-) > And with the occasional hint here-and-there, I tend to learn pretty > quickly. Welcome to linux! Hang in there, it really does get easier. /etc/fstab is a configuration file that provides information about the filesystems on your computer. You can change the default settings so any user can mount removable disks like cd-roms or floppies. So with an entry like /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide any user can mount the iso9660 file system found on his CDROM using the commands "mount /dev/cdrom" or "mount /mnt/cdrom" (without quotes). Personally I think this is an easier solution than sudo, but ymmv. > At this point, the terminal window I'm trying visudo in is just about > worn out. So I must be getting close. :-) I've gotten it to open the > sodoers, now I just need to get it to LET ME EDIT the darn thing. I'm guessing you haven't used the vim text editor before. It's mode based, so to enter text you have to press "i" (without quotation marks) to enter insert mode, then make the changes you want, then press the escape key to return to command mode, then press :wq to write the changes to the file you're editing and then quit. Vim will seem unfamiliar to you, but it's about the most powerful text editor going. Sudo is a very useful program. I use it so I can run my firewall's gui applet as a regular user, which lets me start/stop/modify it and see all the netbios hits in real time. The basic format is as follows: localhost = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/firestarter -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: red-carpet and up2date on same machine
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:57:23PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:37:50AM -0500, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > > > I use red-carpet exclusively, although I manually install kernel, glibc > > and openssl updates because redhat releases i686 binaries for them. If > > up2date was smart enough to download the proper machine-specific > > binaries, that would definitely be a point in its favor. Other than > > that I prefer red-carpet because the downloads are so much faster. > > Huh? Check again. Up2date *does* know about architectures, and will > install the correct i686 packages as needed. I suppose I could have been more clear. What I meant was I didn't know if up2date installed machine specific binaries, but that it would be a point in its favor if it did. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: red-carpet and up2date on same machine
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:29:55PM +, Alan Harding wrote: > I must admit that for the last year or so I have been running > red-carpet and up2date. > > Red carpet is used for all my package updates, and it has never given > any problems. > > Up2date is run only to do kernel upgrades. I use red-carpet exclusively, although I manually install kernel, glibc and openssl updates because redhat releases i686 binaries for them. If up2date was smart enough to download the proper machine-specific binaries, that would definitely be a point in its favor. Other than that I prefer red-carpet because the downloads are so much faster. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Webmin
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:22:05PM -0500, John Salamone wrote: > > When I do the above "rpm -ivh webmin-1.050-1.noarch.rpm" should some > of the output look like: > > Usage: RPM [-a | --all] [-f | --file] all the way to the end being > [--without= Which took about 5 seconds to run? If so, when I load my browser to > http://yourserverip:1 it comes back saying unknown host > yourserverip. What went wrong? Try 127.0.0.1:1. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Webmin
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0500, John Salamone wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install webmin on my system. When I clicked on usermin > config. it came > back saying "usermin config directory /etc/usermin was not found on your > system. Maybe usermin is not installed , or module config is incorrect". > Should I just type mkdir usermin in the etc directory or do something > else Thanks for any help. Usermin is a separate package from webmin. You can download it from the webmin website. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: man pages = garbage
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:10:08AM -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote: > Thanks Nicolas, but no change. try export LANG=en_US -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:27:15AM -0800, John B. Moore wrote: > Greetings, > >I need to run this by you folks and see if there are any > alternatives/issues that might get this to work. (using the very latest > kernal) > > I have a VA-502 revA1 motherboard that has both DIMM slots and SIMM slots. What chipset does this mainboard have? My wife has a VA-503+ (also with dimm and simm slots) with 1mb onboard cache and an mvp3 chipset, and it can't cache more than 256mb ram. Having more ram than the system can cache can cause performance and stability problems. You may want to post your question on alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.fic. Some folks hang out there who are knowledgeable about older boards. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sophos AV on Redhat 7.2
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:35:15PM -0500, Jeff Graves wrote: > Just purchased a corporate license of Sophos AV with MailMonitor for > my linux mail server. I got to reading the info about installing the > MailMonitor program and it seems that it actually acts as a SMTP > server. I would rather let sendmail answer on port 25 and have it pass > messages to the sophos AV client (or maybe even have procmail pass it > to the sophos client). Does anyone know of a client/sever pair (like > the spamd daemon of spamassassin) I can use with the sophos AV? I > heard of MailScanner but haven't looked into it...is this a > possibility? Yes. I use mailscanner and sophos and they work great. The faq at http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/linux.shtml will get you up and running with surprisingly little pain. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: GUI Firewall Admin
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:30:02AM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, B r u ma wrote: > > > > mcucb> Is there any friendly GUI firewall administration program ?? > > or any easy mcucb> way to admin iptables/ipchains ?? > > > > I try few GUIs and I stuck with Firewall Builder > > http://www.fwbuilder.org/, I think it's the best GUI for firewall. > > IMHO also good: Guarddog > http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/ Firestarter (firestarter.sf.net) is also good. There are versions for gnome 1 and 2, there's a wizard to configure the firewall, and there's a little applet where you can see the hits in realtime, open specific ports to specific IPs on the fly, etc. Works for me anyway. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Optimize as firewall/router
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:52:50AM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: > ** Reply to message from Jeff Stillwall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on > Thu, 19 Dec 2002 02:52:37 -0500 > > > Is there anything I can or must do to optimize this box for routing > > and firewall activities? Some kernel level connection table limits > > I'm hitting? And can I adjust these values without having to > > recompile the kernel...doing so on a production box scares me! > > One recommendation I would make if you have the Gnome libraries loaded > is to go to: > > http://firestarter.sourceforge.net > I use firestarter on my desktop machine, but many administrators don't want to install gnome / x / etc. on a dedicated firewall or router box. The shorewall firewall (shorewall.sf.net) doesn't have gui wizards, but it comes with full documentation and unless you're doing something really unusual, you could be up and running with it fairly quickly. I've never attempted NAT for that many users, but it's possible (likely?) that a custom kernel tuned specifically for NAT might improve performance. Compiling the kernel doesn't have to be dangerous. You can install the latest redhat kernel src rpm, copy the .config file for your architecture from /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs, make sure the EXTRAVERSION parameter in the Makefile has something unique in it, like maybe -18.7.router, and compile away. When you "make modules_install" the modules will get installed in their own directory in /lib/modules (e.g. 2.4.18-18.7.router) and won't step on your current setup. If you add a new stanza to lilo.conf or grub.conf you can pick whatever kernel you want during bootup. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Unsubscribe
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:26:30AM +0530, Pranav Badheka wrote: In html, no less. Words fail me. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Linux and Older Computers
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 04:33:55PM -0500, fred smith wrote: > Another possibility, and a whole lot easier to configure and manage, > is "Smoothwall GPL", from www.smoothwall.org. You download their ISO > image, burn it to a CD, and boot it. It formats your hard drive (so > don't do a test boot on a machine you care about!!!), installs > itself, takes you through some configuration and voila, a firewall! > > A word of warning: some of the people at that organization have a bit > of an attitude problem, but it is possible to work with them. Read the > various stuff on their site and you'll see what I mean. Otoh, there's ipcop (ipcop.org). It's a fork of smoothwall, and some of their mission statements include: "Provide reliable Support to the IPCop Linux user base," and "Provide an enjoyable environment for the Public to discuss and request assistance." FYI. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
how about phoenix?
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:53:36AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Mozilla has some times a bug or so, and it's probably still not > perfect, but in case of problems with a Mozilla.rpm I'd simply try to > get the original stuff from mozilla.org ... and in case your machine is > faster than the one I was running this browser on ( I have only about > 366 MHz there) then Mozilla probably will be a good browser ... Speaking of running on slow machines... I'm using the latest phoenix, 0.5. It's very fast, even on my 433, and I have not had a single problem with it. 0.5 is based on a very recent mozilla build, and while there's no rpm, it's easy to unpack the binary into a directory under /usr/local and run it from there. It doesn't stick files anywhere else on the system, except for the user files at ~/.phoenix. I had been happily using mozilla since .7 or so, but I never did use the mail, email, or composer programs. Phoenix has everything I want and nothing I don't. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: LPI Certification...Any Idea?
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:01:32PM +0800, Alex Chooi wrote: > Hi! How's life out there? I'm new in Linux. Any commendation with this > certification? I heard it is good Cos it cover most of the unix or linux > favor. Please get advice? any recommend book for this ? I used the O'Reilly book, "LPI Certification in a Nutshell" by Jeff Dean (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpicertnut/) as a study guide for the 101 and 102 exams. I did comfortably pass both on the first try, but they were surprisingly difficult. I read somewhere that the failure rate was close to 60%, and I believe it. If you're just getting started with linux, you may want to give yourself some time before attempting this certification. There are quite a few people on this mailing list who have the RHCE certification, but I prefer LPI because of its lower cost and vendor neutrality. However, from what I understand the RHCE has nearly as high a failure rate as the LPI exams, so I'm sure it is difficult enough to be meaningful. Has anyone here written both the LPI and RHCE exams? If you just want a linux certification and don't care which one it is, then you may want to investigate CompTIA's Linux+. People rarely fail CompTIA exams, but for that reason they're not taken as seriously as some others. The RUTE users tutorial and exposition (rute.sf.net) also has everything you need to pass any of the above linux certifications. It's also freely downloadable, but I went with the O'Reilly book because it exactly follows the LPI exam and I could read it without having my computer on. I'm studying for the LPI Level 2 exams now, but as far as I know there are no published study guides for them. However, you can download the 201 and 202 exam objectives from lpi.org. The level 1 exams were difficult enough that I'm making sure I'm well prepared before tackling the level 2 exams. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Remove old kernel?
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:00:41AM +0800, Patrick Law wrote: > Sometime time I update from RHN, I will get new kernel update, after reboot, > I will be given options of new kernel together with old kernels in Grub > Menu. Currently there are about 3 kernel versions in my Grub Menu. How do I > remove the old kernel and keep only the latest kernel? It's a good idea to keep the original kernel that shipped with the distribution, just so you can use the install cd as a rescue disk if need be. On my rh7.2 system I have the 2.4.7.x kernel, the last 2.4.9, the latest 2.4.18 shipped by redhat. It doesn't hurt anything to keep them around, and only uses a little bit of space. I would also boot and use newer kernels for a couple of days first before getting rid of old ones. You can never be too careful. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: JUST STOP
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:57:15PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Okay, but could you refrain from attaching winmail.dat to your > outgoing e-mail? I don't see how that is applicable to the list. Especially from someone ranting about etiquette. But anyway, a question: what is this "winmail.dat"? Does it do anything useful, or is it just another broken MS extension to a standard service, or what? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Procmail processing problem
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:04:07AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > You've got the wrong X-Spam flag, there. > > It should be "X-Spam Status: YES" Shouldn't it be "X-Spam Status: Yes"? At least that's what I use and it works fine. To be honest, I'm not sure how case-sensitive procmail is wrt recipies, but I have to assume it matters by default. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:31:05PM -0500, Richard Tricoche wrote: > Is it really the end users fault for not remembering to visit the website > and click the link to unsubscribe for the day... Yes. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: SMTP/AV/Spm Follow-Up II
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:17:43AM -0500, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > Have a look at the email headers. Do you see anything like the > following? If so, spamassassin is doing its job and you're most of the > way there. Hmmm, how interesting. I sent a bunch of email headers within the previous email and they showed up as a separate email from foo@bar. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: bill gates bribes ... uh, invests $400 million in india
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:09:05PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I think you are being a bit hard and skeptical- one has to admire > anyone who can donate this much money to poor people who desperately > need it. Who really cares what OS the businesses use when you have > aids and can't get treated? It's the classic robber-baron tactic: use every possible means to extract money from your victims, er customers, and then give a miniscule amount back in the form of very high profile charity. Cameras flash and pr flacks by the hundreds write puff pieces that gets passed off as news. I do not think it's admirable at all. What I would think is admirable is if Gates and co finally decided to stop breaking the law. Fat chance of that! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: SMTP/AV/Spm Follow-Up II
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:45:35AM -0500, James Pifer wrote: > I have it all installed, mostly with defaults, but spam still seems to > be getting through. I've received 6 spam messages since last night. How > can I tell if its working at all? /var/log/maillog doesn't seem to show > me much except sendmail delivering (forwarding in my case) the messages. > Are there some logs somewhere for MailScanner, SpamAssassin (and f-prot > for that matter)? Have a look at the email headers. Do you see anything like the following? If so, spamassassin is doing its job and you're most of the way there. Subject: *SPAM* Re: Start an eBay Business X-Is-Spam: Yes, SpamAssassin (score=23.4, required 5, SUBJ_HAS_SPACES, INVALID_DATE_TZ_ABSURD, NO_REAL_NAME, HOME_EMPLOYMENT, WORK_AT_HOME, EXCUSE_3, EXCUSE_14, EXCUSE_10, EXCUSE_15, REMOVE_PAGE, BIG_FONT, CTYPE_JUST_HTML, SUBJ_HAS_UNIQ_ID) X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=23.4 required=7.0 tests=SUBJ_HAS_SPACES,INVALID_DATE_TZ_ABSURD,NO_REAL_NAME,HOME_EMPLOYMENT,WORK_AT_HOME,EXCUSE_3,EXCUSE_14,EXCUSE_10,EXCUSE_15,REMOVE_PAGE,BIG_FONT,CTYPE_JUST_HTML,SUBJ_HAS_UNIQ_ID version=2.20 X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.20 (devel $Id: SpamAssassin.pm,v 1.77 2002/04/06 19:28:30 hughescr Exp $) X-Spam-Prev-Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Spam-Prev-Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > In another post Steve Cowles made mention of Procmail. It looks like > Procmail was installed by default when I installed RH8. Do I need to > disable or configure anything in there? SpamAssassin only identifies the mail as spam; it's up to you to filter the mail and shunt the spam to another file. There's a pretty good procmail tutorial at http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ which is well worth reading, as are the procmail, procmailrc, and procmailex manpages. A basic procmail recipe for spamassassin looks like this: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail :0fw | spamassassin -P :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes spam Basically if there's a X-Spam-Status: Yes header the mail gets sent to the ~/Mail/spam file. Spamassassin has never once tagged legitimate mail as spam, but I go through my spamfile once a month or so just to make sure. I have to say, between spamassassin and friends, mozilla's privacy features, and the filterproxy (filterproxy.sf.net) web filter, the net seems like the good old days before Canter & Siegal and all of their successors. No spam, no ads, pop-up or otherwise, no theft of my time or privacy. Very nice. I am always amazed when I use someone else's computer and see how they're continually assaulted by all the crap out there. I honestly don't know how anyone can stand it. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:27:03PM -0400, Shaw, Marco wrote: > Where might I find 2.4.9-31? I don't really feel comfortable using > packages from rpmfind.net. You can get the 2.4.9-31 kernel for redhat 7.1 and 7.2 at rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-028.html. This kernel has been superceded by 2.4.9-34 and 2.4.18-17.7.x, which are available at rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh72-errata.html. The newer kernels have a lot of bug and security fixes, so it's probably best to use those unless there is some compelling reason to stick with an older one. I've been using the stock 2.4.18 kernel for 7.2 since it came out last month and it works fine. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #5659 - 16 msgs
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:51:03AM +0200, Ivano wrote: > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -A > POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j > > MASQUERADE > > service iptables restart > > ipchains -A forward -i eth1 -j MASQ > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > Bye. Just a quick note. Assuming you're using linux, you can use procmail to burst digests into separate messages. That way, you can respond to individual messages instead of entire digests. A ~/.procmailrc file with something like the following ought to work. MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] | formail +1 -ds >>redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: GUI Tool for Sendmail?
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:18:59PM -0400, Gordon Ewasiuk wrote: > Hi List, > > Redhat 8.0 includes a wonderful GUI tool for configuring Apache. Does > anyone know of a similar tool for managing sendmail, postfix, or other > MTAs? Webmin (www.webmin.com) has modules for sendmail and postfix, and also qmail if I'm not mistaken. It's not a purpose-built program like the apache configurator, but it'll do the job. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: mail configuration problem
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:52:41PM -0300, juaid wrote: > > I don;t remember very much about sendmail, but in postfix is very easy :) > just adding a line like this in the main.cf file: > > myorigin = $mydomain > But wouldn't the problem be that reverse dns lookups are failing? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Modem recommendation.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:42:48PM -0400, Jim Moberg wrote: > Hi. I am looking for a recommendation on a modem to use with Red Hat > Linux 7.3. From what I have seen external modems are the way to go. > That's fine. I just don't know what brands tend to work better. Has > anyone worked with the ZOOM brand? If so what has your experience > been? Thanks! What's good about external modems is afaik they're all hardware-based, so there's no chance of getting a winmodem that won't work with linux. But there are internal hardware modems that work fine, and they're often cheaper than external modems. I personally prefer internal modems because you don't have extra stuff hanging off your box. Otoh, external modems are easy to reset. Ones I've used with good results are: ISA: Aopen ITU/2 (about $30, if you can still find them). PCI: 3com 2977, 2978, 5610. (oem voice and no voice, and retail. starts at about $40). According to the winmodems are not modems website at http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html, Zoom does make a hardware based internal modem, the Zoom 2920 (Digitan DS550-558). I haven't used it, but I have seen it on sale at Best Buy for $40. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: IP Address
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:53:42PM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Well, I need to know my real IP so I can tell DynDNS the correct IP to > direct http://omega-fleet.homelinux.org too. > > And yes, this is behind the router from the workstation/server. If the router is a linux box you can download software from dyndns.org that'll automatically keep your ip synched with your hostname. Then you can forward connections to port 80 (http) on the router to the machine hosting the page. You can probably do pretty much the same thing if you have one of those commercial home gateways. But we have to know your hardware to help you. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Hardware configuration question.
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:11:56PM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On 04-Oct-2002/10:10 -0400, Michael Tiernan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If I've got a box with more than one ethernet card, what is the "correct" > >way to force the system to assign numbers to them in a desired pattern? > > I think the device names are assigned in the order the devices are > detected by the hardware. I don't think you can influence the process. I believe ethernet cards are autodetected in the order onboard > isa > pci. However, you could probably change the order of pci ethernet cards by switching slots. They're detected on boot from top to bottom, top being the closest pci slot to the agp slot. I don't know if this true for isa cards, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was. Also, if you're using a modular kernel it might be possible to assign numbers in the order you want by playing with the values in your /etc/modules.conf. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Bash and my mid-life crises
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:38:32PM -0400, Barry L. Kline wrote:
> "Barry L. Kline" wrote:
>
> function rpmgqa () {
> rpm -qa | grep "$1"
> }
I'm not sure what the accepted form is, but I use the syntax above for
multi-line functions and the one below for one-liners. I just find it
more compact and efficient.
rpmqag () { rpm -qa | grep "$1"; }
# Functions I use every day, from O'Reilly's "Running Linux"
tarc () { tar czvf $1.tar.gz $1; }
tart () { tar tzvf $1; }
tarx () { tar xzvf $1; }
# Keep forgetting that I'm offline...
getmail () {
/sbin/ifconfig | grep ppp0 >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
fetchmail
fetchyahoo
else
echo "Network is down."
fi
}
A trivial example, but I must have endured fetchmail timing out on me
for a year before doing something about it.
Anyone else have any useful functions or aliases they'd like to show off?
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Re: [OT] spam from this list
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:58:40PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Chuck Mead wrote: > > > > As did I! > > > > As did I! Apparently he does not read his e-mail frequently. > I actually went to the website and registered, only so I could (gently) suggest that there were more appropriate methods for dealing with spam and large mailing lists. He didn't seem malicious so I gave him the benefit of the doubt. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: python, screen saver, grub
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:27:00PM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Just uninstall python? There be monsters down that road... > >2. Every time I leave my computer for a while, the screen goes black. > >The screen saver does not raise. I have reset the screen saver but it > >does not respont. (Actualy the screen saver works sometimes but most > >of the time does not. > You sure it's not power saving mode kicking in? - that's been known to > cause problems sometimes. Screen blanking works fine on my machine, but the screen saver appears to freeze it about half the time, to the point of requiring a reset. Try setting your screen saver to Blank Screen Only mode and your problems should go away. I suspect this is a common problem. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Factoid needed; actual number of virus specific to Linux
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:23:46AM -0400, Paul Greene wrote: > I need a quick little factoid for something related to work. Does anyone > know the exact number of virus that exist for Linux? > > (If not the *exact* number, then plus or minus, say, 2 or 3) Plus or minus 2 or 3, that would be zero. I've only ever heard of one, I forget the name, and I don't think it was ever seen in the wild. The problem is that you need to be logged in as root to do much damage, and that's not how linux users use their computers. Windows, on the other hand... I've only heard a story like this once, and it was from some clueless mcse who never used a non-microsoft operating system. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: DNS Configurations....
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:34:49PM -0400, Michael Tiernan wrote: > I've done the DNS configuration according to all the docs that I could find > but none of these docs seem to discuss what's required to generate the > "hmac-md5" key that's included in the /etc/named.conf for authentication. > Where'd I miss it? (Or did I?) It should be at /usr/share/doc/bind-9.2.1/arm/Bv9ARM.ch03.html, assuming you have the most recent version of bind for your distribution. Anyway, it mentions the /usr/sbin/rndc-confgen command, which ought to generate you a useable rndc.conf file. But if you already have everything set up and just want to know how to generate a key, you can just use mmencode: echo "this text string is about to be encoded" | mmencode -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: ADSL problem & rp-pppoe
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 06:51:40PM -0500, Euriel Gómez Raga wrote: > I'm running redhat 7.3 , on a celeron computer, this has 192 Mb ram, > and has 3 nics, that seems to be working ok with no problems. I have > installed rp-pppoe-3.5, but it is not working well on my machine. I ran into the same kind of trouble when I last had a pppoe connection. I didn't really try to investigate what was going on, since the problem went away when I uninstalled the binary and then downloaded and recompiled the latest rp-ppoe.*.src.rpm on my machine. Don't know if it'll work for you, but it's worth a try anyway... -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Netiquette
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:17:58AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > What is the point of getting digests? Filters put the messages in a > folder, so there's no mail organization issue. Since I'm going to read > them when I get ready, I don't care if they're downloaded a few at a time > or all at once. Well, I agree there's no good reason to get digests if you're going to burst them anyway. But I have a dialup connection and I'm on several mailing lists, and I don't like fetchmail or fetchyahoo or whatever telling me "114 messages..." and then proceed to download and purge them from the server, one by one. I'd rather download a couple of digests and burst them here. It just seems faster and (I'm guessing) less resource intensive for the maillist servers and mailservers involved. Plus it's part of my ultra-keen mailsorting setup. Procmail, sendmail, mutt, mailstat, spamassasin, vipul's razor, etc., are just plain fun to fool around with, as a matter of principle. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Netiquette
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:48:47PM -0500, Mark wrote: > 1) delete the messages other than the one you are replying to. You can burst digests into separate messages. That way you can have proper threading and can reply to single messages without fiddling, and still only download a few messages a day from the list. :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] | formail +1 -ds >>redhat-list (From the procmailex manpage.) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: NEWBIE: Is there an easy way to rename files
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:17:36PM -0400, Brian Ashe wrote: > Wednesday, September 4, 2002, 3:59:19 PM, you textually orated: > > BL> I am trying to rename a bunch of files with extension .inc to .php > BL> in one fell-swoop. Is there a set of commands I can pipe to each > BL> other to do this like: > > BL> ls *.inc | xargs > > BL> or do I need to do a for loop. A for loop is certainly one way: for i in $(ls *inc); do mv $i `basename $i inc`php; done unset i > man rename But obviously not the best or easiest way. How is it I've used *nix for all these years and never heard of this command? -- They hang the man and flog the woman / That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose / That steals the common from the goose. - English folk poem, circa 1764 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: wvdial. - mgetty or what
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:54:01AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > > Have you tried kppp or rp3? > rp3 requires that I choose an interface, but only allows me to select from eth0 and loopback. kppp requires that I install the 8mb kdelibs package as well. I actually thought the dependencies would be worse, so I'm downloading both packages right now. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: wvdial. - mgetty or what
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 12:20:56AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > > It may be a stale lockfile. Look in /var/lock and its subdirectories for a > modem lock file. The file should not exist until you dial out. > Nope. But I just checked and noticed that /dev/ttyS0 decided to change its permissions again: [kevin@localhost kevin]$ ls -l /dev/ttyS0 crwxr-xr-x1 root uucp 4, 64 Sep 4 07:08 /dev/ttyS0 I su'd to root and changed them back to 777, and I still get the "cannot open /dev/modem: device or resource busy" error when I try to connect as a non-root user. Oh well. wvdial + sudo works well enough, but I'd be able to automate things a little more if I could connect as a regular user. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: wvdial. - mgetty or what
Well this is strange. I changed the permissions and they even survived a reboot. But I still get a device or resource busy error: [kevin@localhost kevin]$ wvdial --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41 --> Cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy [kevin@localhost kevin]$ ls -l /dev/modem /dev/ttyS0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 10 Jul 31 18:34 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0 crwxrwxrwx1 root uucp 4, 64 Sep 3 19:11 /dev/ttyS0 On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:29:05AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > You can change the permission on the device that /dev/modem points to. You > can find the device using "ls -l /dev/modem". Assuming it points to > /dev/ttyS0, you can allow all users to access the modem like this: > > chmod 777 /dev/ttyS0 > > I would recommend avoiding Linuxconf because it changes permissions > without telling you. It may reset the permissions on ttyS0 without telling > you. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: wvdial. - mgetty or what
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 09:20:10PM -0500, Bob Buckley wrote: > We use wvdial quite a bit. Easy to configure and use. But you must be root > to dial out. At least that is as far as I have gotten. Sudo! It is possible to use your modem without being root, but it requires fooling around with device permissions and sometimes the redhat gods reset your changes anyway. The easiest solution is, as root type "visudo" and add a line something like the following: kevin localhost = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/wvdial Then a simple "sudo wvdial" will connect you to the net. Sudo is a genuinely useful tool. I use it all the time. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Message To Redhat.com
On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 01:50:42PM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 07:38:50AM -0500, jim tate wrote: > > To make the desktop easier for new users , you must do something > > about RPM and it's dependencies problems when trying to install new > > packages. > > Red Hat already has the RPM dependency problem solved -- they just > want you to pay $5 per month per computer for it. (It is available for > free for the first computer, but the free users are often blocked due > to "high load", or so the error message claims.) Or you can use Ximian redcarpet if you have ximian gnome installed. It also fetches all the redhat updates that haven't been replaced by ximian's desktop (i.e. gnome*). I didn't register when I installed it, and I have never once seen a "high load" error. It just works. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: How to disable screensaver in Redhat 7.3?
FWIW I also had what seemed to be total lockups with the screensaver enabled on rh7.2. I eventually realized that the OS was fine but the screensaver had wedged X so badly I couldn't restart it. I still have screenblanking enabled with no problems. On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 06:32:10PM -0500, ABrady wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 23:20:31 -0700 > "Joe Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I disable the screensaver in Redhat 7.3? I wasn't able > > to determine where it was started from. I installed it with > > all (mostly) default choices. > > > > I want to do this because I have a hunch that it causes my > > machine to lock up completely. > > Assuming you use either KDE or Gnome, it will be in the Settings menu > and/or control panel for that WM. > > That would be a good place to start looking for lockups. I've seen > those things cause lockups on a number of machines, including one of my > own. I am able to safely run most by manually running xscreensaver at > startup. But I couldn't find any way to turn some of them off in either > desktop without turning them all off. With xscreensaver they can be > controlled individually, and it can even be made to run whatever KDE > screensavers are installed in any WM: Gnome/Sawfish, KDE, IceWM, FVWM, > XFCE, etc. > > -- > Plagiarism saves time. > > > > > --__--__-- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: [Off Topic] OnLine Univ. using open source
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 01:28:26PM -0500, Robert Hartung* wrote: > I am looking for a provider of "Distance Education" in computer > science that uses at least some Open Source in its' classes. If > anyone knows of such an educational institution in the US please > reply. I don't know of any distance courses, but RUTE (rute.sourceforge.net) is a freely downloadable textbook designed for teaching Linux in a school setting. It's of very high quality and I'd recommend it to anyone. It's always good to have some courses and/or certifications for the purposes of resume padding. I'm reading on my own with rute (in addition to all the other great free stuff available on the net), and then writing the LPI (www.lpi.org) exams as I progress. I did the Level 1 exams this past spring and will probably do Level 2 in the fall. I like LPI because it's community based, non vendor-specific, and the certifications don't get "retired" for the purposes of squeezing more money out of current certification holders (*cough*mcse*cough*). The exams themselves are hard enough to be meaningful, yet fair. Finally, LPI certification is much less expensive than any college course I know of (2 exams per level at US $100 each). I realize this isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it is one way to demonstrate (on paper at least) that you have a reasonable understanding of the linux operating system. However, if you do come across a decent distance ed course, could you post the url to the list? I'm sure there are lots of subscribers who'd be interested. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: [RedHat 7.2] sendmail + smtp-auth
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:54:34AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > > I found this in the archives, searching for 'auth': > > http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/redhat-list/msg64722.html > One of the messages in that thread mentioned a short tutorial at http://www.owlriver.com/tips/smtp-auth.html. Using that I was able to get smtp-auth working in about two minutes flat. I was surprised at how painless it was. Thanks for the link. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: newbie question: how to speed up linux
You didn't say which desktop you're using, but both the gnome and kde GUIs are pretty resource intensive. One possibility is to try a leaner desktop like xfce (www.xfce.org). You should be able to switch back and forth between it and what you're using now. If you're using gnome and want to stick with it, you can really speed things up by using gmc to draw the desktop instead of nautilus. It's not as pretty but it is faster and more stable. Another thing I do (I'm not sure how much difference this makes) is to install processor-specific kernel and glibc packages. You can find the latest i686 binaries for both in en/os/i686 at your favorite redhat update mirror. For the record, I have a celeron 433 with 384mb ram and run the ximian gnome desktop (with gmc instead of nautilus) on redhat 7.2, with i686-specific versions of the kernel and glibc packages. I have no complaints whatsoever with the stability and performance of this setup, although that wasn't the case before I got rid of nautilus. Who knows, maybe it's better now. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Hardware Modem needed
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 06:24:00AM -0600, Dantin wrote: > > Thanks. Any particular brand works better? Just wondering I purchased > a 7 CD set from E-Bay and I'm going to Duel Boot with Windows 98 SE. > I'm trying to learn coding in C but cannot afford the visual C stuff. > Rather go with gcc gpl. Thanks. > From: "Mike Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Let me rephrase...any external, serial (not necessarily USB) modem > > should work. Internal hardware modems I have used with linux: isa:aopen itu/2. Works great and it's cheap, $40 or so. I'm using it now. pci:USR (3com) 5610 (retail) or 2976 & 2977 (oem) modems all work fine. The 5610 comes with some extra software, and one of the oem models doesn't come with voice but I can't remember which one. The 5610 probably goes for about twice the price of the aopen, and the oem models about $20 less. A good alternative if you don't have isa slots on your motherboard. As Mike notes above, any external serial modem ought to work fine. Of the three kinds I'd buy the cheapest solution that will work with your computer. -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Linux vs Mac vs Windows
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 10:02:10PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: > I like using Entourage (I admit it!) in OS X, so I hope I can find a > really nice, complete, multi-account, multi-user email solution in > Linux. And guess what - I don't even mind paying for software I like! > :-) But you probably won't have to, which is even better. Ximian Evolution is an amazingly polished and powerful email client that will do anything a commercial version will do -- except get infected by viruses. > And I will be looking for an Office solution, and a Web authoring > solution too. Openoffice probably does nearly everything you would need (including reading MS Office file formats), though it is not quite as polished as MS Office. But it is free and getting better as we speak. Write. I'm not so knowledgeable about web-authoring solutions, but Mozilla Composer does everything I'd need in a web authoring tool. Actually, Mozilla in general is an impressive piece of work. It's dead stable and I'm so used to tabbed browsing that I feel hindered using anything else. In short, linux has made enormous strides in the last couple of years, both in terms of GUIs and applications. Back in the redhat 5.x days it took a certain amount of dedication to use linux as your everyday desktop OS. No more. I have a secure and stable machine with every application I would ever need, I can read proprietary file formats if I have to, my rh7.2/ximian desktop is right purty and never crashes, and live is good :-). ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Where to find god firewall setup doc for RH7.3
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:02:48PM -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: > If you're a newbie, I recomend you start with lokkit (the RH firewall > administration GUI tool). Then learn a bit about firewalls and see if > you really need more capabilities. > > If you already know about firewalling and iptables, I would recomend > to drop lokkit (which uses ipchains) and set up your firewall from > scratch using iptables. Have to put in a plug for firestarter (firestarter.sourceforge.net) for all the gnome users out there. It'll do either ipchains or iptables, it has a nice configuration wizard, it comes with a neato gnome status doc applet thingie that shows the hits in real time. Naturally you can study and/or edit the rules it creates to your heart's content. I was going to build one from scratch, but firestarter worked so well I never got around to it. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: minimum requirements for a firewall
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:28:32AM -0100, Josep M. wrote: > I´m thinking in put a firewall for protect my home computers,and buy a > cheaper computer and do firewall using rh73 and iptables,no X > environement,just basic os for a firewall. > > The speed of my ADSL is 256 Kb/s ,will be enough with a Pentium-120 > with 48 RAM? This is more than enough for a firewall machine. In fact, with ipcop or some similar firewall distribution you could get by with much less. I'm building a firewall right now out of a discarded a 486/100 with 16mb ram and a 200mb hard drive. Another possibility is clarkconnect, which is a specially stripped down version of redhat. It's a firewall but also comes with intrusion detection, vpn, apache, samba, mail, etc. More bells and whistles than ipcop, but arguably less secure than a dedicated firewall. The hardware requirements are a little steeper as well: 486 or higher, 500mb hard drive, 32-64mb ram, depending on the number of services. Standard redhat will also work, but it would take some effort to get to the same place. It just depends on how hands-on you want to get. Or you could also just get one of those dedicated firewall/router combos. They're quite inexpensive now, but I prefer recycling perfectly usable older computers that people would otherwise just throw out. And I'm not sure how secure these commercial routers are. I prefer stuff I can see into and fiddle with. But ymmv. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Fetchmail
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:31:51PM -0300, Marcelo wrote: > > Hi, I'm getting a problem using fetchmail with linuxconf in Red Hat > 7.2. The system hangs while configuring fetchmail in linuxconf and, > when I try to reboot, the system hangs in "Configuring Linuxconf > hooks". So, if I disable the module fetchmail in linuxconf, the system > returns to its normal operation. Did anyone had a problem like this ? > Is this a problem of fetchmail ? > You might want to try fetchmailconf. It's probably already installed on your system and it worked fine for me. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Dumb mail list question
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:27:43PM -0700, Dale Scott wrote: > > I did subscribe and have been receiving numerous email each day, each of > which contains a number of interesting posts. My question is, how the heck > does one respond to a post if you can't access the on-line system and the > postings are in a digest form? > You want to burst the digests so they appear to your email client as separate addresses. Then you can just reply to the individual messages as you normally would. Assuming you have a working procmail setup, just add :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] | formail +1 -ds >>redhat-list to your ~/.procmailrc. I believe this is mentioned in the procmailex manpage. However if you don't have a working procmail setup yet, there are quite a few links at directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Mail/Unix/Procmail. I used the Procmail Quickstart by Nancy McGough as a guide on my machine. It was clearly written and the setup she suggests works just fine. This may seem like a lot of work just to burst email digests. But procmail can be very useful in other ways as well--for instance, killing spam. I installed spamassassin (spamassassin.taint.org) a month or so ago, and have not received even one piece of spam in my inbox. Very highly recommended! ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Poor Performance on a Compaq Presario
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:47:10AM -0700, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > Output of the command "ps afx" would be helpful. Also df -hT ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:15:50AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > The reason I want to by-pass my ISP's mail server is > /var/log/maillog. > I want to see in that file (via 'tail -f') that my mail has reached > the addressee's mail server, and I did not see this IIRC when I used > my ISP's mailserver, because /var/log/maillog stops logging the hand > over of my mail at the moment when my mail reaches the mail server > that sendmail knows of (not being 100 % sure on this last part .. :) Ah, I see: Jun 23 11:02:08 localhost sendmail[12915]: g5NF26T12912: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=kevin (500/500), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=relay, pri=30385, relay=mail.mindspring.com. [207.69.200.148], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK id=17M8sR-0007iB-00) > Kevin, please forgive me I'm not very verbose on the rest of your > mail: just this: I want to rely on things that I can configure here, > i.e in sendmail: to start handling dyndns.org without even knowing > much on how sendmail works seems making it too complicated for me: > after all I'm still a beginner with mail settings etc. ... :) But it's really a dns problem, and there isn't a lot sendmail can do to fix it. So many spammers forge their email headers that many MTAs check to make sure the IP matches the hostname. The only way I know of to get around it is to make sure the IP and hostname match. Provided your ISP isn't blocking smtp port 25 from your machine, a dyndns account will allow you to email directly from your computer to any other MTA on the net, just like you want. I'm using it on my dialup connection now. Using dyndns is easier than it sounds. You register for a free account and pick a hostname under dyndns.org, and download a client that watches for a connection on ppp0 or eth0. Whenever the ip changes, the client sends it to dyndns.org, and dyndns updates its zonefiles so that your hostname matches your current ip. The ddclient rpm is easy to install. It starts at bootup like any other service, and I never have to worry about it. Except that I can now send mail from localhost.localdomain to any MTA on the net. Of course, you could also /sbin/ifconfig eth0 or ppp0, edit sendmail.mc define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`some_random_hostname.your_isp.com')dnl generate a new sendmail.cf, restart sendmail, send the mail, comment out the above line when you disconnect, and restart sendmail again. There is probably some way to automate this, but I'm sure dyndns is easier! ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused
It looks like the the receiving mta is doing a dns lookup on localhost.localdomain, which isn't a legal hostname. There are a couple of potential solutions to this common problem. First, try routing your mail through your isp's mailserver by defining it as a smarthost in your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and regenerating your sendmail.cf, i.e.: define(`SMART_HOST',`mail.mindspring.com')dnl This way the receiving mta looks up your isp's mailserver, which has a legal hostname. Also, some isps (mindspring) block smtp port 25, so using a smarthost is sometimes the only way to get the mail out. There's a good chance this is all you'll need to do. If you really don't want to use your isp's mailserver, it may be possible to send mail directly from your computer by getting a dyndns.org account and loading a linux client that watches ppp0 or eth0 and sends in the new ip whenever it changes. You can get a rpm for ddclient on the dyndns.org website that does this. Then just tell your local sendmail to masquerade as your dyndns hostname define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`my_dyndns_hostname.dyndns.org')dnl Now when a mta looks up the dyndns hostname reported by sendmail, it will resovle to your current ip and the mail will be accepted. However, there are isps (mindspring) that block smtp port 25 and do dns lookups as well, so it's possible you'll have to use their mailserver as a smarthost and a dyndns hostname for your computer before their mailserver will relay mail for you. Security is great and everything, but there's always a way... As a final touch, I also get mutt to rewrite my from and reply-to headers so things look ok on the other end: set hdrs my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's probably a way to do this in pine as well. I'm sure it's possible to get sendmail to do it too, but I haven't checked into it. At the very least you'll want to set a working reply-to header. Quick plug: Now that yahoo is charging to download mail I also use the fetchyahoo.pl script from freshmeat.net to download it anyway. Even better, it optionally uses a ssl connection to do it. On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:40:13PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 17:40:13 +0200 (CEST) > From: Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused > > Hi all > I have sendmail-8.11.6-1.6.y on a Redhat 6.2 on a single user > machine, no LAN here. > > I want to send my mail from my machine, without the interference > from my ISP's mail servers. > > Problem the last time is, that the addressees' mail servers often > seemingly do not recognize and/or accept my local IP as a valid > mail server IP, thus rejecting my mail. At least this is my guess ... > > So how can I still use my local IP's (I get them dynamically assigned > by my ISP) for relaying my emails from my machine here *without* using > my ISP's mail server? > > Some sendmail.mc option? > > Here's some excerpts from Returned Mail messages (please don't get > fooled by the contents of these excerpts: only the first of the IP's > there turned out to be a spammer* IP when I checked it). > For privacy reasons I changed some content in these excerpts. > < snip! > ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: should redhat dump wu-ftpd, sendmail?
My apologies for this message showing up twice. I originally posted this last night and a weird bounce message showed up in my inbox complaining about a mailbox being full, so I posted it again this morning before seeing that the original had made it after all. So please ignore this thread. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: should redhat dump wu-ftpd, sendmail?
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:48:32AM -0500, Brian Ashe wrote: > KM> postfix instead of sendmail > > Postfix also is not GPL. It is under the IBM Public License. If you > read it, you could see that there are certain provisions for > commercial distribution. While they wouldn't stop you from > distributing it, there are some interesting clauses that lawyers may > be able to use against someone. Though I would not know how chancy > that is, RH (and others) may have lawyers that recommend against it. Interesting. I didn't know postfix wasn't GPL. I suggested it because everyone would be better off if the configuration system of such an important service as mail was comprehensible by ordinary mortals, and if it were more secure by default. But yes, it should be GPL as well. Exim is GPL, and O'Reilly just released a comprehensive manual for it. What about that then? My basic point was that much trouble could be avoided by using the best available software, rather than the status quo. Redhat has done this in the past even even when some pain has been involved, such as when it dumped inetd for xinetd. So why not get rid of sendmail and wu-ftpd? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
should redhat dump wu-ftpd, sendmail?
I just came across the latest remote root exploit for wu-ftp, which I dutifully installed on the small server I maintain. It's too bad redhat released the patch early, but accidents happen and there's nothing to be done about it now. That aside, I am wondering why the major distributions stick with software like wu-ftpd, which have such poor security records, when better alternatives exist, e.g.: postfix instead of sendmail proftpd instead of wu-ftpd I know these can be installed after the fact, but why aren't they part of the default install? Isn't it asking for trouble to stick with insecure software? p.s. is there a decent replacement for bind that djb doesn't own? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
should redhat dump wu-ftpd, sendmail?
I just came across the latest remote root exploit for wu-ftp, which I dutifully installed on the small server I maintain. It's too bad redhat released the patch early, as it is going to be a pita for the other distributions. But accidents happen, and there's nothing to be done about it now. That aside, I am wondering why the major distributions stick with software like wu-ftpd, which have such poor security records, when better alternatives exist, e.g.: postfix instead of sendmail proftpd instead of wu-ftpd I know these can be installed after the fact, but why aren't they part of the default install? Isn't it asking for trouble to stick with insecure software? p.s. is there a decent replacement for bind that djb doesn't own? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:05:13PM -0500, James Francis wrote: > > From: Ben Ocean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > > > DEVICE=eth0 > > BOOTPROTO=static > > BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 > > IPADDR=192.168.1.1 > > NETMASK=255.255.225.0 > > NETWORK=192.168.1.0 > > ONBOOT=yes > Looks fine... Shouldn't the netmask be 255.255.255.0? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: power outage & ext3
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:25:25PM -0500, Devon wrote: > On Sunday 18 November 2001 04:54 pm, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > > Hm, I didn't think of that. This is the most recent redhat 2.4.9-12 > > kernel, which ships with modular ext3 support. I only installed the > > main rpm (-ivh) and made the lilo entries myself. Force of habit, I > > guess. Plus I'm paranoid. Maybe I'll grab the 2.4.9-12 kernel-BOOT > > rpm and see if that has the initrd file. > > Or, generate your own. > 'man mkinitrd' should get you started. ;) I tried it and it doesn't seem to be working. Where did I go wrong? I made an initrd file: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.9-12.img 2.4.9-12 I added a line to the 2.4.9-12 stanza in /etc/lilo.conf and re-ran lilo: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-12 label=Linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-12.img read-only root=/dev/hda6 append="hdc=ide-scsi" I rebooted and dmesg shows that it's working (I think...): RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 317k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).<-- should this be here? Journalled Block Device driver loaded I powercycled the machine and it still fscked the root filesystem: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.11, 3 Oct 2001 on ide0(3,6), internal journal blk: queue c0371660, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0x) But it didn't fsck any of the others. This is /dev/hda1, /boot kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.11, 3 Oct 2001 on ide0(3,1), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: power outage & ext3
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 01:16:47AM -0500, Devon wrote: > As for the fsck on the root partition, are you sure it is set up for > ext3? FilesystemType 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 ext3 5068256 2336348 2577444 48% / /dev/hda1 ext3 23302 4130 17969 19% /boot /dev/hda10ext3 5548780 1428796 3894436 27% /home /dev/hda8 ext3 497829 43210428917 10% /tmp /dev/hda9 ext3 497829 40193431934 9% /usr/local /dev/hda7 ext3 497829176699295428 38% /var > If your ext3 support is modular, I believe you need an initrd.img > so you can mount /root as ext3. Hm, I didn't think of that. This is the most recent redhat 2.4.9-12 kernel, which ships with modular ext3 support. I only installed the main rpm (-ivh) and made the lilo entries myself. Force of habit, I guess. Plus I'm paranoid. Maybe I'll grab the 2.4.9-12 kernel-BOOT rpm and see if that has the initrd file. Thanks for the tip. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
power outage & ext3
So I finally had a chance to see a journalled ext3 filesystem deal with an unplanned power outage which shut down my rh7.1 box sometime last night. When I rebooted it still fscked the root filesystem for some reason, I'm not sure why. The other ext3 filesystems came right up. I have another computer in the house, an AT box running slackware 8. It rebooted right away (instead of shutting down like my ATX redhat machine). The redhat box was off for something like six hours. I know the journalled file system saved a few minutes, but not that much. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: 3com/USR 5610 modem
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:41:04PM -, Alexander Shaw wrote: > > 1.Before I commit the cash or myself to an institution has anyone any > experience of installing the device with Redhat 7.2? Is it likely to be > easy in other words? It should be completely pain-free. The hardware detection will pick it up on reboot and you should be able to just use it. If you have the wvdial program installed, just type "wvdialconf" as root and see what it comes up with. Just make sure you get a real hardware-based modem and you'll be fine. There's a good database online at www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html. Failing that, just make sure you can return whatever you end up buying. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
