Is there a reason that the libcrack rpm is so different from the libcrack
sources? I've been trying to compile php with libcrack support, and had to
build a new rpm of libcrack to do it. Attached is my spec file and patch
for cracklib which lets me compile it. Feel free to use it as needed. I
Are there any websites dealing with writing safe C code, particularly
in the Linux/Unix environments?
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Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my
disposition.
Are there any websites dealing with writing safe C code, particularly
in the Linux/Unix environments?
Silly me. Should have done a googlesearch. I did this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=safe+code+linux+writingsourceid=mozilla-
search
There were about 71,700 hits|-|
This looks a
well it looks like a shout out of the desert :-)
i don't remember your initial post.
if you're interested, we set up a nice configuration where several remote
adsl servers connect to a main site, each remote establishing a vpn with a
server gateway on the main site, and we wrote some stuff to
If you want a fun challenge after this, figure out
:-) how to display
:-) random fortune quotes in a box on the login screen. :-)
it will br great to do so ...plz tell me how
fortune /etc/redhat-release
or use sed to replace the line every now and then, run from a cron tab or
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:59:31PM +, Alan Peery wrote:
If you want a fun challenge after this, figure out how to display
random fortune quotes in a box on the login screen. :-)
I have this in my ~/.bash_profile:
echo /usr/games/fortune startrek echo
My co-workers wonder why I
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:20:02PM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
I personally found simple ssh tunnel between two subnets the easiest to
set up but I also have freeswan running between my house and the office.
This seems to be the best thing to do, based on everything I've ever
read on the
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:10:14PM +0200, Ceyhun Kirmizitas wrote:
I have two ethernet card
I install first one while installation the RH ---cnet
Then I tried to install second ethernet card but I could not do this.
My second Ethernet Card is RealTek 8019 ISA.
How Can I install my second
There is a utility called Alien that will convert packages to different
formats. It can be had at Freshmeat.net.
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 00:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi all ,
i am running RH7 now i have a corel distribution CD which contain
games...:-)..but they are alll debians how
Here is my ~/.bash_profile:
/usr/games/fortune hitchhiker
Had at: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fortune-hitchhiker/
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 05:37, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:59:31PM +, Alan Peery wrote:
If you want a fun challenge after this, figure out how to
Looks like there are some patches to the kernel for VPN
http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html not for the 2.4.9
kernel though.
-Original Message-
From: Paul Hamm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:37 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE:
The problem has to do with how the firewall deals with the incoming packets.
The ip_masq_ipsec module tells the machine how to handle these packets. You
will have the same problem with things like NetMeeting.
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From: Mike Pelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
You labor under a common misconception about primary and secondary DNS.
Primary and secondary nameservers do not take over or fail over when
one of the pair is down. To the best of my understanding (list
clarification?), queries to your authoritative servers are doled out by
the root
Don't let them get to you had a problem upgrading a 7.1 machine to 7.2. I
ended up installing 7.2 on a different array. Currently I am trying to
figure out what went wrong. I am thinking it may be a simple as lack of
space on the original /boot partition as I could not get the kernel to
We will need a bit more information please. RH version, what is the output
of # ifconfig what are the contents of /etc/modules.conf, oh below I see
DEVICE=eth0 I expect that ifcfg-eth1 is DEVICE=eth1, and what type of NIC
are you using?
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:30:43 -0800 (PST)
David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And if you _really_ want to enjoy Fortune as nature intended, add the
'offensive' library. OpenBSD ships it, but alas, Red Hat seems to
have been swayed by the P.C. police (and I don't mean 'personal
No Soap, Honkie Lips!
If you find that entertaining, get d/l'ing !!
Monte Milanuk wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:30:43 -0800 (PST)
David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And if you _really_ want to enjoy Fortune as nature intended, add the
'offensive' library. OpenBSD ships it, but
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Hi everyone,
Today I got my second kernel panic in the last couple of months.
My system usually runs smoothly.
I looked in /var/log but couldn't work out which file might contain what
happened.
So, can anyone tell me what /might/ cause this?
and
On 27 Feb 2002, Jeff Bearer wrote:
I can't help but notice that this announcement carefully omits the fact
that the final release won't be available for free download (according
to the article I've linked). Of course you will be able to put pieces
together to get a similar product, but you
Is this 7.1?
I was getting kernel panics and lock ups, I found out it was Xwin that
was causeing it. I haven't been running Xwin since and it has been
doing fine. I have NOT applied the kernel updates or the Xwin updates
either, they may fix the problem...
my $.02
Nick Wilson wrote:
How could I set it up so I can exclude certain
users/groups access to directories or files
I don't want certain users to be able to read
directories.
--Michael S.
Dunsavage
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* and then Robert Canary declared
Is this 7.1?
No, 7.2 and the panic as I said has only happened twice and says
something about 'interupt' but I don't know where to get the error msg's
from?
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* and then Ryan Speed declared
:Hi
:I've been finding that when I download a large website using
:gftp I sometimes get empty directories. Clearly not good enough.
:
:What's a good alternative?
console based, you cant beat ncftp imho
x
First, I think this question is a little off topic. You would be
better suited posting to a kernel development site.
To answer your question. I don't believe you want to use other
system calls inside your own system call.
This is generally considered a bad idea. On
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Hi all,
someone told me it was a *very* bad idea to have passwords sitting in
text files on my machine.
Okay, I can see that, I'm the root user though and I'd like to have a
little script to connect via ncftp to my remote server. (complete with
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:35:57PM +0100, Nick Wilson wrote:
someone told me it was a *very* bad idea to have passwords sitting in
text files on my machine.
They were right!
Okay, I can see that, I'm the root user though and I'd like to have a
little script to connect via ncftp to my remote
Better ways to do this. One is to create identical users on both machines
with the same password and then run your scripts with that ID, I did this
myself for downloads from a partner. Better still use ssh with RSA
authentication between the machines, all traffic is encrypted.
Oh and please
Read
the man pages for
chown
chmod
-Original Message-From: Michael S. Dunsavage
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:23
AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: file
permissions
How could I set it up so I can exclude certain
users/groups access to
this morning I updates all XFree86 and kde packages from redhat,
after I installed, i watched that when I using Anti-Aliasing for fonts and icons
quality of fonts have decreased, not like from old XFree86 packages that
comes with redhat's CD
Does anyone know why or maybe someones have same
the oddest thing has been happening to the machines here in my office
for the past few months. most of the time, telnetd/sshd/ftpd all seem to
be working fine, but on three separate days in the last two months, an
odd lag has manifested itself during the login. ie. it takes nearly a
full minute
Hey everyone.
I have a machine at home that is currently running RH 7.0 and win 98 in a dual
boot setup. It has 2 hard drives. hda is partitioned at 10GB fat for windows,
and 5GB ext2 for RH. hdb is 3gb all ext2. They are both on IDE1 on my onboard
ide controller. IDE2 is dedicated
Sounds like you have a resolver issue. Check your DNS specificaly the
reverse lookup. Or you may have been hacked ;-)
-Original Message-
From: gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: spontaneous lag (x3)
the oddest
maybe i should mention that i'm still new at all this, and while i maybe
have configured named and have it running, i don't know if i did it
right. i only know that it seems to be doing it's job. so when asked
the check my dns i'm not sure where to start. are you talking about
looking at how
DNS uses name to IP and IP to name resolution files. I have seen slow login
problems when the IP to name (reverse lookup) file is messed up. Also when
a machine is using a bad/broken dns server in the /etc/resolv.conf file or
bad /etc/hosts file.
Check here http://www.visi.com/~barr/dnswalk/
I run seti@home myself. Seti has a -nice flag for running it in the back
ground. What I did is set up a cron job with the following statement in it.
0 * * * * cd /home/seti1/setiathome; ./setiathome -graphics -nice 19
/dev/null 2 /dev/null
This is almost straight out of the README file. I
Dear friends:
I just installed RH 7.2 on my Laptop.
When I issue mount /dev/cdrom, I am getting a /dev/cdrom is not a valid
block device error.
Any idea how can I fix this?
TIA,
-Manuel.
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On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 18:59, Charles Galpin wrote:
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 18:42, doug piper wrote:
At this time, I have created several boot disks. The first disk was created during
the
install, or rather, ugrade, from the RH CD. After that, I used linux rescue from
the RH CD
and did
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Manuel Camacho wrote:
When I issue mount /dev/cdrom, I am getting a /dev/cdrom is not a valid
block device error.
* I've also encountered that problem on my cpaq1200xl125; cdrom won't
mount AFTER rh7.2 (enigma) is installed. I've issued:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc
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Manuel Camacho wrote:
When I issue mount /dev/cdrom, I am getting a /dev/cdrom is not a valid
block device error.
I don't know about the rest of y'all, but personally, I just change
/etc/fstab such that /mnt/cdrom is a mount point for /dev/scd0.
Hi guys,
I am trying to install a web server service on a RH box and using RPM, it is
giving me an error message stating cannot get exclusive lock on database.
Any ideas?
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On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:46, Manuel Camacho wrote:
Dear friends:
I just installed RH 7.2 on my Laptop.
When I issue mount /dev/cdrom, I am getting a /dev/cdrom is not a valid
block device error.
Any idea how can I fix this?
TIA,
-Manuel.
Hi Manuel,
Check the output of
Title: Message
I would like for
people dialing into my Linux computer from Windows to be able to browse the
Network Neighborhood and see the other Windows computers on my network.
When someone is dialed in, they can put in the use Find and the IP address of
the Windows computer on the
! html mail is evil. Remember there are people that don't use a graphical mail
client :)
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http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~mbb1810/
Student Systems Administrator
Kansas State University-High Energy Physics Group
http://www.phys.ksu.edu/hep/
It was suggested that I try changing netmask to 255.255.255.0. Nothing
changed.
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR= 66.134.88.36
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY= 66.134.88.33
I then tried /sbin/ifconfig and got the following:
eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:01:04:F7:AB
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On Thursday 28 February 2002 03:59 pm, jmraz wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Manuel Camacho wrote:
When I issue mount /dev/cdrom, I am getting a /dev/cdrom is not a
valid block device error.
* I've also encountered that problem on my
Go, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi guys,
I am trying to install a web server service on a RH box and using RPM, it is
giving me an error message stating cannot get exclusive lock on database.
You're not installing as root?
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Red Hat, Inc.
k
i tried out dnswalk
and it gave me various warnings that i don't understand:
WARN: subdomain2.domain.com A 192.168.0.5: no PTR record
WARN: subdomain3.domain.com A 192.168.0.7: no PTR record
the nameserver is running on 192.168.0.4, and all all subdomains pointed
to that ip aren't giving me
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Hi,
How can I stop the boot proccess checking for new hardware on every
startup? It really slows me down :-(
Cheers
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nw == Nick Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
nw Hi,
nw How can I stop the boot proccess checking for new hardware on every
nw startup? It really slows me down :-(
Either remove the kudzu rpm or as root:
chkconfig --level 345 kudzu off
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:06:14 +0100
Nick Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] blurted:
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Hi,
How can I stop the boot proccess checking for new hardware on every
startup? It really slows me down :-(
Cheers
All as root:
1. chkconfig --level 35 off
Funny, the exact same thing just happened to one of my servers today.
Nearly same symptoms, nearly same setup. I'm running wu-ftpd (small ftp
site, internal only use), RH7.2, and updated the kernel today, but
before I even rebooted into the new kernel (2.4.9-31), all windows-based
ftp logins
Mohammed Maeraj Hasbi wrote:
Hi all,
I have been asked to do training on configuring and administrating Linux for
my company. Is there any link that's useful for me to check. I'm in the
process of aquiring some info for it... Any pointers and tips on what to
include?
Anybody had any luck installing evolution on rh7.2?
I just spent almost two hours trying to find all the packages. I finally
got it down to 9, which I am having trouble finding.
Anybody have ideas to help.
david
rpm -ivh evolution-1.0.2-ximian.1.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:03:19 -0600 (CST)
dbrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] blurted:
Anybody had any luck installing evolution on rh7.2?
I just spent almost two hours trying to find all the packages. I
finally got it down to 9, which I am having trouble finding.
Anybody have ideas to help.
i used the script listed on thier site:
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh
it launched a little gui that walked me through all the steps
_
daniel a. g. quinn
starving programmer
your old road is rapidly aging
please get out of the way if you can't lend a
It was suggested that I try changing netmask to 255.255.255.0. Nothing
changed.
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR= 66.134.88.36
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY= 66.134.88.33
It's unlikely that this address will require a netmask of 255.255.255.0 -
that netmask is typically
Hi Daniel
Did change your desktop to Ximian? I don't want Ximian.
david
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, daniel wrote:
i used the script listed on thier site:
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh
it launched a little gui that walked me through all the steps
_
My /etc/resolv.conf uses internal M$ DNS servers, (not maintained by
me), that I know specifically do not have reverse dns setup. In fact,
they never have, and the current admin thinks it's stupid to use reverse
I believe that there's a typo there. You meant to drop the t' and put a
period
I do still have one question. Where do I put GRUB? I followed instructions
and put it
into MBR of hdb as per RedHat instructions should I have put it into MBR
of hda
instead? I believe this is the essence of my problem.
GRUB should be on the boot block of the disk you boot from. If your
Even if your netmask is wrong you should still be able to ping the gateway
since it is on the same segment. Did you try that? If that does not work, is
this for DSL or cable? Some ISP's require authentication (Point to Point
over Ethernet) and then encapsulate the traffic.
Hope this helps
i kept them for my use ...may be these can help you
http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/system-admin-guide/
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/
http://www.redhat.com/training/
sachin
|BrAiN aToMS||| - mAkEs YoU ThInK ThAt
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 08:35, Nick Wilson wrote:
Hi all,
someone told me it was a *very* bad idea to have passwords sitting in
text files on my machine
It can be, but it's usually better than having the resource which would
otherwise require a password left unprotected
For example, I use
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:06, ashley thomas wrote:
Oh and please tell me you are not running the local machine as root
Very bad thing to do Use sudo instead much better idea
i have heard this a lot of times how is it different ? could you
pls explain it to me ?
Logging in and actually
On 02/27/02, 07:47:29PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
IIRC, the ISO has to be created with the boot files specially marked to
create a bootable .iso. If you downloaded that file from the ftp
servers, it *should* burn with any software... but I can't guarantee
that.
That's not my experience.
I'm planning to set up a home Ethernet of three computers. I'd like to set
it up so all three users can surf the net and receive individual emails. I
plan to have two machines using red hat 7.2, (one will have an internet
connection and be the web, print and mail server for the network) and
It seems the that /etc/mail/access file only likes IPs and not fully
qualified domain.
Does anyone have a solution so that a host with a dynamic IP such as
host.dyndns.org could possibly do a nslookup host.dyndns.org and then
append the /etc/mail/access file and then do a make -C /etc/mail/
I looked up you IP address on http://www.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl
and it returned:
[snip]
Netname: COVAD-IP-2-NET
Netblock: 66.134.0.0 - 66.134.255.255
[...]
NS1.LASERLINK.NET208.230.117.66
NS2.LASERLINK.NET208.230.117.67
[...]
Reassignment information for
Matthew Simpson wrote:
It seems the that /etc/mail/access file only likes IPs and not fully
qualified domain.
Since when? I've been blocking FQDN's for years now.
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Gordon Messmer wrote:
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:06, ashley thomas wrote:
Oh and please tell me you are not running the local machine as root
Very bad thing to do. Use sudo instead much better idea.
i have heard this a lot of times ...how is
Ashley,
For rejecting spam this is so. But if i have.
host.dyndns.org RELAY
How can Sendmail do a reverse name lookup on the fly, when sending
mail via this relay?
M
Matthew Simpson wrote:
It seems the that /etc/mail/access file only likes IPs and not fully
qualified domain.
Thanks!
I solved the issue with depmod -ae. But, for the records, the first
possible solution I got was:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom AND
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
solved the error initially, BUT, after I reinstalled everything, it did
not work (???, I installed the same
dbrett wrote:
Did change your desktop to Ximian? I don't want Ximian.
Yes, running go-gnome does change you desktop to the Ximian format. It's
probably easily undone *if* they've done it right, but I haven't had a chance to
look into it.
Alan
Hi folks,
I have a friend trying to set up an ipop server on a RH7.1 install, and
we're not having much success.
Myself, I have 7.2 running, and the imap service provides both imap and
ipop services. Was that also true for 7.1?
How do I start the imap service in 7.1 once the RPM is
loaded?
What you really want is a POP-Before-SMTP or SMTP-AUTH setup.
Do a google search on DRAC, as a POP-Before-SMTP solution. I haven't done
anything with SMTP-AUTH, yet.
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Matthew Simpson wrote:
Ashley,
For rejecting spam this is so. But if i have.
host.dyndns.org RELAY
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