Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-13 Thread Bret Hughes
J Hayward wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > This message was posted on the comp.os.linux.setup newsgroup. I thought it > was interesting. Anyone know how small an install of RH 6.x is possible? > > Regards, > Jim H > > ,--- Forwarded message (begin) > > Subject: RH installed

sysstat problem on RH7.0

2001-04-13 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I have a few RH7 boxes setup now and I'm noticing the same exact problem across all of them. I made sure I had all the updates and patches in place, including this particular program (sysstat). Whenever I do a 'ps' command (be it 'aux', or anything else), I see the following: 3862 ?

Re: Listening on Port 1025??

2001-04-13 Thread Al Sparks
Well, I can give troubleshooting hints. I checked the /etc/services file of a couple of my RH 6.2 boxes and didn’t find anything, but you may want to check yours. The next thing I would try is to connect to the port with, telnet machname 1025 and see what you get as a response (if you’re

Re: Listening on Port 1025??

2001-04-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:31:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | My system seems to be listening on port 1025 and port 1024 is open. I | have no idea why. | Can anyone give me a reason for this? Not offhand. If a program binds to a socket (to listen for connections) and s

Listening on Port 1025??

2001-04-13 Thread gerry
My system seems to be listening on port 1025 and port 1024 is open. I have no idea why. Can anyone give me a reason for this? Gerry ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

iptables development libraries in RPM?

2001-04-13 Thread Marco Shaw
I'm trying to build iptables from the SRPM to get the development libraries, but am not having much luck. Has anyone already built an RPM using 'make install-devel' in the spec file, and could share the package? Marco ___ Redhat-list mailing list [E

Re: File and Directory Permissions

2001-04-13 Thread Marco Shaw
> It's been a while, but I just threw together a Redhat 7.0 FTP server and > have a very basic question which has stumped me. Forgive me for what I am > about to ask, but someone knows how to do this: Another route is if you plan to use WU-FTPD. It also has powerful configuration features. Mar

Re: RAID Question

2001-04-13 Thread MPS WebCrew
Yes, /dev/sda1 is my primary drive, and /dev/sda2 is the secondary drive in the ex-RAID. It is where the data I was wanting to get from the backup is. You are right in the fact that this is an extended partition. There should be two partitions on it: 1) the mirror of "/" 2) the mirror of "swa

Re: File and Directory Permissions

2001-04-13 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Jeff, > I have a group of customers, each has unique username and password, all > belong to the same group. > They can also see the root which will contain all the other > directories but access will be denied because of the 700 permissions. Now, I > wish to create a user, cal

Re: CGI perl script

2001-04-13 Thread Liguo Song
For POST, as specified in HTTP standard, The pairs of variables and values are passed in the content. In order to do it well, you need to write a header and the content, such as the following: POST /cgi-bin/script.cgi HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: blah blah Accept: blah blah Host: blah blah Content-type:

File and Directory Permissions

2001-04-13 Thread Jeff Graves
Hi Guys, It's been a while, but I just threw together a Redhat 7.0 FTP server and have a very basic question which has stumped me. Forgive me for what I am about to ask, but someone knows how to do this: I have a group of customers, each has unique username and password, all belo

Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-13 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, J Hayward forwarded: > I need to install RH 6.x on a system using a small (128Mb) > IDE FLASH drive. I cannot use a regular hard drive since > this system will be placed in a high altitude balloon with > no presureized or heated cabin for the hard drive. Cool. > Fo

Re: 'rpm -b' with 7.0.91?

2001-04-13 Thread Marco Shaw
> > Trying to update iptables with some development libraries using the original > > SRPM. When I try to build the package with RPM after changing the spec > > file, it doesn't seem to recognize the '-b' flag. > > > > [root@wolverine SPECS]# rpm -q rpm > > rpm-4.0.2-0.38 > > [root@wolverine SPECS

Re: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-13 Thread J Hayward
LOL. For kind of opportunity I'm going to have to dig out an old hard drive and see how small an install I can manage. Hopefully someone here will have an answer for you. Regards, Jim H Vince Banes wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. If something comes from this, I'll > embed your name in

RE: 'rpm -b' with 7.0.91?

2001-04-13 Thread ABrady
On 13-Apr-01 Marco Shaw opined: > Trying to update iptables with some development libraries using the > original > SRPM. When I try to build the package with RPM after changing the spec > file, it doesn't seem to recognize the '-b' flag. > > [root@wolverine SPECS]# rpm -q rpm > rpm-4.0.2-0.38 >

Re: PPP, PERSIST, MASQ and me...

2001-04-13 Thread Barry L. Kline
David Talkington wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > An aside here; I've heard that dial-on-demand is alleged to have had > problems in Linux, but I've never had any trouble with it. diald has been very flakey for me. It just won't redial when the ISP kills the connection even th

Re: 'rpm -b' with 7.0.91?

2001-04-13 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
"Marco Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trying to update iptables with some development libraries using the original > SRPM. When I try to build the package with RPM after changing the spec > file, it doesn't seem to recognize the '-b' flag. > > [root@wolverine SPECS]# rpm -q rpm > rpm-4.0.2

'rpm -b' with 7.0.91?

2001-04-13 Thread Marco Shaw
Trying to update iptables with some development libraries using the original SRPM. When I try to build the package with RPM after changing the spec file, it doesn't seem to recognize the '-b' flag. [root@wolverine SPECS]# rpm -q rpm rpm-4.0.2-0.38 [root@wolverine SPECS]# rpm -b -b: unknown optio

Re: Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-13 Thread Paul Anderson
Quite frankly I would try this with BEOS or something with a smaller kernel. I know there is a Linux that has been made for Palm's, etc. This should be small enough, but I have no idea where to get it. Paul Anderson J Hayward wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This message was posted on the comp.os.

Fwd: RH installed on a very small flash IDE

2001-04-13 Thread J Hayward
Hello everyone, This message was posted on the comp.os.linux.setup newsgroup. I thought it was interesting. Anyone know how small an install of RH 6.x is possible? Regards, Jim H ,--- Forwarded message (begin) Subject: RH installed on a very small flash IDE From

Problem with Openssh-2.5.2p2-1.7.2 SRPM package

2001-04-13 Thread Liguo Song
Redhat 7.0, upgrade from 6.2, RPM 4.0.2-7x. When trying to recompile the openssh-2.5.2p2-1.7.2.src.rpm package from updates.redhat.com, the system wide configuration is put to /usr/etc/ssh, other than /etc/ssh. In the openssh.spec, it is stated only for redhat 6.x, the configuration files should

CGI perl script

2001-04-13 Thread Barnaby Puttick
This maybe the wrong list, but do any of you guys no how to emulate what a browser does when it POSTs a form to a cgi script from another script. if I print the: print "location: http://www.site.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi\r\n\r\n"; header, I can redirect my script to another, but cant pass it any v

Re: Reinstalling RH6.2

2001-04-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Kumar wrote: > 2.) Dose the reinstallation recgonise my > previousely make partitions ? > It should. > > 3.) Or do i need to go thru the process of > repartationing it. > Optional. > > 4.) Dose the reinstallation process do the > format of the disk partitions

Reinstalling RH6.2

2001-04-13 Thread Kumar
Hello Everyone, Lately i have found that my Linux PC was under attack ( Adore/Lion/Ramen ). Now i am trying to reinstall the OS on it now. 1.) Want to do workstation installation only ( GNOME). 2.) Dose the reinstallation recgonise my previousely make partitions ? 3.) Or do i n

Re: advantage of partitions and RAID

2001-04-13 Thread Michael R. Jinks
Okay, I understand. Two parts: why partition a disk? and, how to manage a RAID filesystem as it grows. There are lots of reasons to segment your filesystem, but how should depend on the uses you expect for the machine. For a single-user box, you might be able to get away with just / and swap i

Re: advantage of partitions and RAID

2001-04-13 Thread Thornton Prime
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, IS wrote: > I mean besides the Linux native and swap partition for what reason should I > make partitions for /boot /home /usr /var etc. > > Once you setup the filesystem with all those partions what happens with the > size of the filesystems when I add a new disk to my RAID

Re: advantage of partitions and RAID

2001-04-13 Thread IS
I mean besides the Linux native and swap partition for what reason should I make partitions for /boot /home /usr /var etc. Once you setup the filesystem with all those partions what happens with the size of the filesystems when I add a new disk to my RAID array and expand the diskspace? Regards,

Re: X Problems with newly added user

2001-04-13 Thread Nitebirdz
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Nitebirdz wrote: > > Not sure this is going to help much, but since this appears to be an > emergency... I don't think it would do any damage either. > > Check /tmp and see if there is any orbit-[username] file there. If there > is, remove it. Also, make sure you run 'xhost

Re: X Problems with newly added user

2001-04-13 Thread Nitebirdz
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:09:58 -0500 (CDT) > From: Stephen E. Hargrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: X Problems with newly added user > > > I've just added a new user to my system (RH6.1), an

RE: X Problems with newly added user

2001-04-13 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Warren Melnick wrote: > is she running on the console or is she a remote user? Console. She's running as a second user on my laptop. > -Original Message- > From: Stephen E. Hargrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:10 PM > To: [EMAIL

RE: X Problems with newly added user

2001-04-13 Thread Warren Melnick
is she running on the console or is she a remote user? Warren Melnick Director of Research and Development Astata Corporation -Original Message- From: Stephen E. Hargrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: X

Re: openssh portable/rpm/RH62 question

2001-04-13 Thread Justin Zygmont
oh. I guess that can't be why it's hanging then:) thanks. On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Bret Hughes wrote: > Justin Zygmont wrote: > > > > do you have the setting for config line in /etc/inetd.conf? > > > > > > I run it as a standalone daemon rather than through inetd. It can be > tcpwrappers

X Problems with newly added user

2001-04-13 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
I've just added a new user to my system (RH6.1), and she can't fire up X. When she enters startx, it creates .Xauthority, and then craps out with _IceTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener _IceTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _IceTransMakeAllCOTServerLi

Re: DNS names with "_"

2001-04-13 Thread redhat
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:34:21PM -0400, David Brett wrote: > I realize the question was worded poorly. Is it possible to have named > look at the host file first and use your idea of an alias for the bad > hostname? I think you can set it in /etc/nsswitch.conf Mettavihari --

openssh passive analysis

2001-04-13 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, I couldn't find data on the openssh passive analysis vulnerability on openssh.org, but after some digging I came up with the following link, which might be of interest to some of you: http://openwall.com/advisories/OW-003-ssh- traffic-analysis.txt .

Re: advantage of partitions and RAID

2001-04-13 Thread Michael R. Jinks
Huh? Partitions of what, the raw disks or the RAIDed meta-volume? Can you provide an example? IS wrote: > > What is the advantage of using partitions when RAID-5 is used? > > Regards, > IS > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ht

Re: RAID Question

2001-04-13 Thread Eric Sisler
MPS WebCrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, my question is now "how do I mount it?". I want to mount the mirror >of the "/" partition from inside dev/sda2. Does me a lot of good having a >backup when I can't get inside it! Huh? I'm not following you. Your partition table looks like this a

Re: openssh portable/rpm/RH62 question

2001-04-13 Thread Bret Hughes
Justin Zygmont wrote: > > do you have the setting for config line in /etc/inetd.conf? > > I run it as a standalone daemon rather than through inetd. It can be tcpwrappers aware on its own I believe, so you can still use the hosts.deny and hosts.allow. Depends on how it was compiled. Bret

Help - -Samba Memory

2001-04-13 Thread Tym Rehm
I'm running RH6.2 and mounting smb share in the fstab file on bootup. My users ftp into this machine to connect to smb shares on NT. One user is ftping in every 30 minutes and the pid for that user keeps taking more memory each time. Does anyone know how to fix this problem. Sorry if I forgot to

Forward local port

2001-04-13 Thread AABAN34
 Can someone please send me a good website on this subject? 'Forward local port ' Its very interesting. Thanks Brian

Re: Gabriel needs help configuring a router through Linux Seri

2001-04-13 Thread Wycliffe Bahati
user minixom On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, gf b wrote: > > > > ta. > >From: Paul Anderson > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Gabriel needs help configuring a router through Linux > Serial Terminal > >Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:53:50 -0400 > > > >Use minicom. > > > >Paul

advantage of partitions and RAID

2001-04-13 Thread IS
What is the advantage of using partitions when RAID-5 is used? Regards, IS ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Promise UDMA-66 controller

2001-04-13 Thread Grigoriev Maxim
David wrote: > I am running RH7.0 (kernel 2.2.17), and it does appear to have beta support for your >card (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help. I am not going to update RH6.2 down to 7.2 release (as though long it was not necessary to wait - principle such.). >I currently do not own a

Re: Promise UDMA-66 controller

2001-04-13 Thread Grigoriev Maxim
Michael wrote: I have a Promise Ultra66, but am not using it anymore. I just couldn't see and significant change in how my computer performed. It worked with RH6 using the Promise supplied .img file and also by entering the parameters into Lilo, but it just took up another slot and I am not