up2date messed itself up

2001-03-19 Thread Kirk Whiting
Thought I should send this to you guys since I didnt get a response from the users list. Cant quite figure this one out. By the way, thanks for the rpm-4.0.2 update, rpm 4.0.2 just rocks, been using it on my RH-7.0 box. Oh and yes I rebuilt the rpm-db just in case your wondering. I just ran up2da

Re: building a 'safer' box

2001-03-19 Thread Thornton Prime
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, vergel wrote: > I'm going to use PPPoE to connect to the net. And even on my win box > using Zone Alarm I get people randomly scanning ports and stuff Is > there something I can build on the Linux box that will keep me alerted about > stuff like that? What would be

missing gethostbyname_r

2001-03-19 Thread MANISH SETHI
Hi, I'm in search for function gethostbyname_r on RedHat 6.2. I was able to find the declaration of this function in /usr/include/netdb.h but I could not find its signature in any of the libraries under /usr/lib. Do we have this function on RedHat 6.2? Or do I use some other Re-Entrant function to

broken rsh or tcp/ip stack on RH 6.2

2001-03-19 Thread David Mathog
There appears to be a bug in rsh, and possibly rcp, in the RH 6.2 distribution both on Intel and Alpha. Our VMS box has problems talking to the RH 6.2 machines (Alpha) with rsh, rcp, etc. I'm also seeing really poor rcp performance between two Linux/Alpha machines (DS10). rcp moves files very

building a 'safer' box

2001-03-19 Thread vergel
Hi all. Finally found a reason to post after half lurking on the list. =P Can anyone suggest to install and where I can learn about how to run it A friend of mine suggested TCPwrapers and Tripwire. But I was wondering if there were other things also I should look into.. I'm goin