Re: Size of swap Partition

2002-05-07 Thread ABrady
On Tue, 7 May 2002 11:28:15 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] quietly intimated: Placed At : Size of swap partition is usually recommended to be 2 * (size of ram). But recently i went thru one article wherein it was mentioned that redhat linux wont

Re: system security

2002-05-07 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 06 May 2002 21:06:45 -0700 snip I never had to consider security issues before, therefore I would also appreciate if you could point me to some good tutorials. Oskar Andreasson has gone to a lot of work just for you, Julius. Check

Re: Size of swap Partition

2002-05-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01:47 07 May 2002, ABrady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The rule of thumb is, 2-2.5 times RAM. I currently have 384MB installed | and 1GB swap. Most of my swap never gets used under most conditions. | I've had it up to about 700MB used once in the last 6 months. This on a | 2.4.X kernel which

Re: Do NOT mirror updates daily! (was Re: Hacked again...)

2002-05-07 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:38:26PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: This makes it sound like I am downloading each file every time I run mirror. I am not. I only get new files once and then only check it each time I run mirror. A daily mirroring means that you connect to the ftp site, get a

Re: Red Hat 7.3 Package List Question...

2002-05-07 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:47:40PM -0500, Jim Hale wrote: I was looking at the package listing for the new Red Hat and was just wondering, is this the list of stuff that gets INSTALLED (if you use an 'Install Everything') or the stuff that's AVAILABLE if you want to add stuff after the

Re: Hacked again...

2002-05-07 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Rodolfo J. Paiz writes: It is true that Glen should never have been hacked three times, and that this fact alone shows carelessness or ignorance bordering on irresponsibility. It is also true that most of us are, at one time or Some things we need to get clear here: The first time I was

partition problems

2002-05-07 Thread Gary Stainburn
Alternative subject lines: Ooops Oh Shit! AGGG!!! I want my mummy Initial situation Drive 1 20GB, with Linux installation and 8GB for Win98. Drive 2 8GB, with Windows partition containing Flight Sim and Linux backup. Various problems with Windows were traced to 'D' drive which

Re: AntiVirus For Email?

2002-05-07 Thread Mike Burger
I'm using a combination of RBL sites and SpamAssassin. On Mon, 6 May 2002, Jim Hale wrote: OK - spent all weekend and with everyone's help, got Postfix+QPopper+Mailman working the way (I think) they should be. Now, the next question is, what is the best way to setup AntiVirus Protection

Re: monitor disc/net i/o per process?

2002-05-07 Thread Alan Peery
gregory mott wrote: does anyone know of an app useful for monitoring disc and/or network i/o per process? As a very poor approximation: strace program 2 /tmp/strace tail -f /tmp/strace | grep write basically i'd like something just like top, Sorry, I haven't seen anything with this

Re: can't find perl-curses rpm for rh 7.2

2002-05-07 Thread Mike Burger
Have you tried CPAN? On Mon, 6 May 2002, LuisMi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone tell me where I can find perl-curses package for redhat 7.2? I need it to install bastille linux properly. I searched into rpmfind but it doesn't exist. :-/ at least for rh7.2

Problem with RedHat's `network' initscript

2002-05-07 Thread Lars Riger
There seems to be a problem with /etc/rc.d/init.d/network on various RedHat distributions. I'm not sure if there is already a workaround or if I'm simply just missing something. In any case, please let me know :) Problem description: RedHat's initscript script does the following in this order:

RE: Still Can't Map To Win2K Server Drives...

2002-05-07 Thread Jim Hale
No - I installed everything WAY before I decided I needed to start learning Linux. :/ Jim Hale - Jim Kathy's Website Collection http://hale.dyndns.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Pieter De Wit Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:22

Re: Do NOT mirror updates daily! (was Re: Hacked again...)

2002-05-07 Thread Ray Curtis
bh == Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bh On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 18:34, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: At 5/7/2002 01:24 AM +0200, you wrote: Hit the nearest ftp site for the Powertools and get the rpm for mirror. Install it and edit /etc/mirror.defaults to suit you. Then

Re: Hacked again...

2002-05-07 Thread Gerry Doris
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: At 5/6/2002 06:45 PM -0400, you wrote: With all due respect you sir are an idiot and a hazard to the rest of the community. After being hacked three separate times I would've thought that you would agree that you need more security. However, you

Re: (no subject)

2002-05-07 Thread Edward Marczak
On 5/6/02 11:51 AM, Jeff Besecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RH 7.1 While connected using a telnet session, I will be typing and the telnet connection gets dropped. I cannot find anything in /var/log. If I just keep the telnet connection up but do not type it stays connected. In order to

Re: 240 megabyte update in 40 hours

2002-05-07 Thread Edward Marczak
On 5/6/02 8:05 AM, Gary Stainburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 4:47 am, R Talbot wrote: [snip] Glen I can understand your concern regarding security and I agree. But... my contention was with the other 210 megabytes which were not a security update.. Sorry Rob,

Re: RHL 7.3 is out!

2002-05-07 Thread Martín Marqués
On Lun 06 May 2002 11:56, Jim Hale wrote: Is there a way to do an Upgrade or would it be 'cleaner' just to do a fresh install? I almost always do upgrades. Why not? -- Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, si podés usar PostgreSQL?

Re: buying redhat 7.3

2002-05-07 Thread Edward Marczak
On 5/6/02 12:56 PM, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so i went to the redhat site and went through the whole process of buying a copy of redhat (my first time) and on the last step i was informed that as a Canadian, i'm looking $40something usd FOR SHIPPING total cost came to over

Re: Do NOT mirror updates daily! (was Re: Hacked again...)

2002-05-07 Thread Edward Marczak
On 5/7/02 8:17 AM, Ray Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, IMHO you are doing what you should instead of running something like up2date on each machine. Not sure how this thread really got started, but I also have a local mirror of updates which I use to update my complete network, along

[OT] About 7.3

2002-05-07 Thread Ismael Touama
Hi rhml, Rh7.3 is out, and i ask myself some questions. My knowledge of how linux get work is seemlessly NULL. We've just buy rh7.2(january), and I upgrade my kernell after having upgrade soft, rpms... concerned by erratas. But now, what is actually the method to implement OS that they're in

Re: [OT] About 7.3

2002-05-07 Thread Eric Wood
- Original Message - From: Ismael Touama [EMAIL PROTECTED] But now, what is actually the method to implement OS that they're in constant evolution. Upgrade. Most people only tweak a few applications. The rest of package will upgrade with no problem. What's the major difference or

TR: What's the deal after compilling....

2002-05-07 Thread Ismael Touama
Oï, Yesterday I erase my binary rpm based apache distribution. I compile and then install (make install) mod_perl and apache_1.3.24. Still yesterday httpd -l gave me the right good modules. But today I can't use httpd anymore ! I've got severals: # find / -name httpd /home/httpd

RE: [OT] About 7.3

2002-05-07 Thread Ismael Touama
From: Ismael Touama [EMAIL PROTECTED] But now, what is actually the method to implement OS that they're in constant evolution. Upgrade. Most people only tweak a few applications. The rest of package will upgrade with no problem. $ So what ?! sorry, don't understand... $ I don't speak about

RE: Still Can't Map To Win2K Server Drives...

2002-05-07 Thread EricRyd
Try this, -Original Message- From: Jim Hale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Still Can't Map To Win2K Server Drives... CLOSE - but I need to go the OTHER way... I can already access Linux Shares from the Win2K Machines,

RE: Still Can't Map To Win2K Server Drives...

2002-05-07 Thread EricRyd
Sorry, the link didn't attach. http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/ LinNeighborhood is a great utility that uses samba, gives it an easy configurable gui and allows you to browse over all types of windows based computers. Eric -Original Message- From: Eric Rydberg Sent: Tuesday, May 07,

Re: Size of swap Partition

2002-05-07 Thread Javier Gostling
Hi all, If you are not sure about how much disk space to devote to swap space, you can be empirical about it. Install MRTG, either from the Redhat RPM or from source (compiles cleanly) and write some scripts to monitor memory and swap space usage. After some time, check the graphs to see how much

RH 7.3 Install Hanging On aic7xxx driver...

2002-05-07 Thread Jim Hale
Finally finished downloading 7.3 and went to install it (via bootable CD) - It runs thru it's paces and then gets hung on the 'Loading aic7xxx driver' screen. 7.2 didn't do this and installed without a hitch. :/ I hear a couple of clicks coming from the system when it gets to this point and

Re: system security

2002-05-07 Thread Billy R Nordyke
Hi, I've been using Pegasus Direct satellite internet for a few months now. As far as I know it doesn't support linux either. I have 3 computers networked together and receive the satellite transmissions on one with an AMD Athlon 1.4G processor. The others, one similar to the first dual boots

Re: can't find perl-curses rpm for rh 7.2

2002-05-07 Thread Juan Martinez
You can also roll your own rpm with the tarball from CPAN. All you have to do is run /usr/lib/rpm/cpanflute from the rpm-build package. Juan On Tue, 7 May 2002, Mike Burger wrote: Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 05:39:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system security

2002-05-07 Thread yarddog
I was concerned about the secondary connections at 20k. How do you have them connected? I will have mine connected with ethernet cards and a hub, will that help any? The primary computer will be a dell laptop with xp loaded. Is it stable? Jim. On Tue, 7 May 2002 09:25:19 -0500 Billy R Nordyke

Re: system security

2002-05-07 Thread Billy R Nordyke
Hi, I have them connected with ethernet cards and a hub also. On the fast computers they are netgear cards. Don't have the model right handy. On the 486 it's a generic 16 bit card. That really doesn't seem to make much difference. It does seem that keeping the activity on the computer

Re: system security

2002-05-07 Thread yarddog
Ok, thx for the info. I'm looking forward to it tomorrow. I've had dialup here in the desert that gives me an average download of 1.5 k/s. Sick. So, even 20k will be one hell of a mark up. Sounds like it will be fine. Thx. Jim. On Tue, 7 May 2002 09:50:03 -0500 Billy R Nordyke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partition problems

2002-05-07 Thread Thierry ITTY
Gary, you should find somewhere the description of partition tables, there's a difference between the primary partition entries and the logical volume entries. for what I understand, you tried to create a primary partition that would have had to map a logical volume, maybe this could explain why

COM ADSL Modem Telnet

2002-05-07 Thread Brossin Pierrick
Hi, I'd like to access my ZyXEL ADSL Modem through the COM Port. Is there any software you would advise me to use ? Thanx

Re: COM ADSL Modem Telnet

2002-05-07 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:00:23PM +0200, Brossin Pierrick wrote: Hi, I'd like to access my ZyXEL ADSL Modem through the COM Port. Is there any software you would advise me to use ? minicom -- Anand Buddhdev Personal site: http://anand.org

Re: partition problems

2002-05-07 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 2:10 pm, Thierry ITTY wrote: Gary, you should find somewhere the description of partition tables, there's a difference between the primary partition entries and the logical volume entries. for what I understand, you tried to create a primary partition that would have

Re: AntiVirus For Email?

2002-05-07 Thread Francisco Neira
I am testing AMaViS with F-Prot over Postfix. No good results yet. amavis is invoked by postfix (piped) but seems that the scanned message is never requeued to the final recipient... I'll keep trying. Mailscanner is another option, with the spam control as a plus, unfortunately doesn't works

Re: system security

2002-05-07 Thread daniel
i'm just wondering why have a router THEN a firewall and THEN a hub with multipule machiens on it? isn't the router serving as a firewall itself? why have two? why not connect the linux box to the modem and not use the router at all? _ daniel a. g. quinn

Re: COM ADSL Modem Telnet

2002-05-07 Thread Brossin Pierrick
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:00:23PM +0200, Brossin Pierrick wrote: Hi, I'd like to access my ZyXEL ADSL Modem through the COM Port. Is there any software you would advise me to use ? minicom Thanx very much Anand ! ___ Redhat-list

How do I change eth0 to eth1 at boot

2002-05-07 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
How do I changer linux to look for eth1 as default card when dhcpcd is run during boot? = Investigating the Norwegain 4.th Secret Service The multiheaded animal. http://hjem.sol.no/altiett/knut_ove_hauge_kuren.htm __ Yahoo! Dokumentmappe

Re: How do I change eth0 to eth1 at boot

2002-05-07 Thread Amir Tal
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 19:50, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: How do I changer linux to look for eth1 as default card when dhcpcd is run during boot? use linuxconf, and define eth1 as dhcp enabled instead of eth0. dont forget to switch the cables in the NIC's though ;) tal. = Investigating

Re: Making RAID 1 Array

2002-05-07 Thread Joe kocias
Thanks for the information. My Server is co-located, so It will be hard to test before I try to implement the change. I do have a DAT Tape drive in the box, but It is a highly customized webserver, and I would hate to rely on the tape for restoring the system partition/files. I could always

Re: ximian red carpet vs. up2date

2002-05-07 Thread Jeff Bearer
I use both, How can this be you say? I use a script, that I got of this very list. It takes all the Ximian packages that red-carpet manages and puts those in the up2date skip list. so you can use up2date for non desktop packages, and red-carpet for the Ximian packages. Enjoy!

Re: AntiVirus For Email?

2002-05-07 Thread Joe kocias
Take a look at RAV. www.ravantivirus.com Also look at spamassassin www.spamassassin.org Joe Any and all suggestions welcome. :) Jim Hale ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making RAID 1 Array

2002-05-07 Thread Javier Gostling
Joe kocias wrote: to use. I use Ghost exclusively, and I have seen some people say that Ghost does not do a good job on non-win32 formatted/partitioned drives. What program should I use? Try using dump/restore. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Ingeniero de Sistemas Virtualia S.A. [EMAIL

Re: Making RAID 1 Array

2002-05-07 Thread Joe kocias
I'll check the man pages for dump/restore. Thanks very much!! Joe Try using dump/restore. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Ingeniero de Sistemas Virtualia S.A. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Constant system Halting

2002-05-07 Thread Lim Hock Leong
I experienced this with my system too last time. In the end, i realise it is the hardware locking up the system. Its either the CPU running too hot(using AMD XP 1800+ with a temp of 60+degree celsius) or the graphics card. Problem went away when i bought a new CoolerMaster casing. Think you

Re: COM ADSL Modem Telnet

2002-05-07 Thread Brossin Pierrick
Hi, I'd like to access my ZyXEL ADSL Modem through the COM Port. Is there any software you would advise me to use ? minicom I installed and configured minicom and tried to access my modem through the COM1 port. [root@server /dev]# minicom Device /dev/ttyS0 lock failed: Operation not

Re: How do I change eth0 to eth1 at boot

2002-05-07 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
I cant find linuxconf on the panel. I have redhat 7.2 kernel 2.4.18 --- Amir Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: On Tuesday 07 May 2002 19:50, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: How do I changer linux to look for eth1 as default card when dhcpcd is run during boot? use linuxconf, and define eth1 as

console tool to add users

2002-05-07 Thread Hernan Brun
Hi Friends. I´ve configured a redhat 7.2 server. I want to my secretary can add mail users by simple way. Anybody know a easy tool for console like userconf to add users? thanks in advance Hernan --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. E-mail sin virus - AVG Antivirus www.grisoft.com

Re: Remotely Start NetScape

2002-05-07 Thread Statux
First export the display that X is running on. It's something like :0 or 0.0, but I forget exactly. Type set and look for DISPLAY under X to see what yours runs on. So if it's :0, you'd do: # export DISPLAY=:0 # netscape I did it once on another system I was working on. I was logged in on