add users from a text file

2003-09-22 Thread Nathalie Boulos
Hello, does anyone know about a software that can take as input a csv or text file, and add it to the unix users (/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow) on RH8? Thanks Nathalie __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebu

Re: RHCE (was Fedora)

2003-09-22 Thread Gerry Doris
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 17:37 9/22/2003, you wrote: > >On the other hand (from a University on a tight budget) I don't fancy forking > >out for large numbers of RHEL licenses and I'm not sure about running vital > >services on Fedora. > > > >Could mean a move to debian or

Fighting those MS spam mails

2003-09-22 Thread Didier Casse
I noticed that these MS spam mailers do not know how to generate good message id's... which is cool because the simple procmail recipe below got rid of 99% of all these annoying mails! And most of them get caught by the message id's. :-) I know that the Subject line is a bit aggressive and will al

How to access a Linux box behind a router?

2003-09-22 Thread Didier Casse
How do you let's say ssh/ftp a Linux box which is behind a router? Let's say the WAN Is xxx.xxx.x.x and the Linux box's ip is given by the router to be 192.168.2.34 How do I ssh to it from outside the LAN? Thanks for any help provided. With kind regards, Didier --- PhD student Singapore Syn

Re: RHCE (was Fedora)

2003-09-22 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
Does this mean Red Hat is no longer putting ot their own OS? On Tuesday 23 September 2003 02:22 am, you wrote: > At 17:37 9/22/2003, you wrote: > >On the other hand (from a University on a tight budget) I don't fancy > > forking out for large numbers of RHEL licenses and I'm not sure about > > ru

Fighting those MS spam mails

2003-09-22 Thread Didier Casse
I noticed that these MS spam mailers do not know how to generate good message id's... which is cool because the simple procmail recipe below got rid of 99% of all these annoying mails! And most of them get caught by the message id's. :-) I know that the Subject line is a bit aggressive and will a

RE: Mii-tool - set the link speed and duplex setting for

2003-09-22 Thread Karasik, Vitaly
you can put your mii-tool command into /etc/rc.local script. The other option - /etc/modules.conf file, you should add something like "options eepro100 full_duplex=1" regards, Vitaly Karasik, RHCE *** Information co

Re: RHCE (was Fedora)

2003-09-22 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 17:37 9/22/2003, you wrote: On the other hand (from a University on a tight budget) I don't fancy forking out for large numbers of RHEL licenses and I'm not sure about running vital services on Fedora. Could mean a move to debian or freebsd for servers. Why? Personally, I see Fedora as being fun

Sv: Re: Sv: Re: The network stops responding

2003-09-22 Thread royotto
> > Fra: Sasa Stupar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dato: 2003/09/22 Mon PM 12:31:41 CEST > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emne: Re: Sv: Re: The network stops responding > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pravi: > > >>Fra: Sasa Stupar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Dato: 2003/09/22 Mon PM 12:17:50 CEST > >>Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Two year-highest stock value

2003-09-22 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
Yup.. check this out: http://investor.news.com/Engine?Account=cnet&PageName=CHART&Ticker=RHAT -- Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto _ Voce quer um iGMail protegido contra vĂ­rus e spams? Clique aqui: http://www.igmailseguro.ig.com.br O

Re: expanding logout options in KDE?

2003-09-22 Thread Canon
> > On Monday 22 September 2003 09:37 pm, Canon wrote: > > I've been using KDE exclusively in RH9 and I'd really like to know how > > to configure the session manager logout options (options to reboot, > > shutdown, log out) so that those three options show up by pressing the > > "logout" applet

Re: package manager?..

2003-09-22 Thread Louie Miranda
Ok, yep same w/ the apt-get of Deb. Btw, where will i point my config to connect to? Can you share your sources.list ? Btw, i didnt remember if i install the apt- tool of redhat, is it installed by default. I use it at home only, what if i havent installed it. How can i install it manually, oh go

Re: DHCP appears not to be working

2003-09-22 Thread Jack Bowling
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:40:22PM -0500, Vidiot wrote: > >Did the firestarter open the dhcp ports? I think it broadcasts on port 68 > >TCP/UDP > > When I ran the firestarter wizard, I added DHCP to the list of stuff I run. > After that it worked. > > Here are the $64,000 questions: > > 1) Why i

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:19:41PM -0400, Buck wrote: > I guess that because there is no .0 there will be no > official upgrade. How you came to that conclusion is beyond me... You *can* upgrade from 9 to severn (the beta that most people guessed was going to be called 10). -- Ed Wilts, Mound

username with CAPS

2003-09-22 Thread Bob Hartung
Hi all, Is there any way to get around adduser's dislike of a capital letter in a user's name? I don't see the solution in the man page. TIA Bob -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

rh9 auto-logout

2003-09-22 Thread Ian L
have a rh9 machine and its auto-logging me out after a while. Only thing i could find was a shell variable TMOUT, but thats not set on my account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $TMOUT TMOUT: Undefined variable. Can anyone tell me how to disable the auto-logout? Do i need to set TMOUT to 0? how would i set i

RE: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Buck
LOL Ok you got me. I guess that because there is no .0 there will be no official upgrade. Maybe this was in the works longer than RH is letting on. Buck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:08 PM T

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:48:49PM -0400, Buck wrote: > If there is no 9.0 what am I running? Shrike is 9.0! Shrike is Red Hat Linux 9. It's not 9.0. > I have both 8.0 and 9.0 cds. Nope - you've probably got 8.0 and 9. > Do you need the url? Nope - I'd just prefer it that people refer to

Re: expanding logout options in KDE?

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 September 2003 09:37 pm, Canon wrote: > I've been using KDE exclusively in RH9 and I'd really like to know how > to configure the session manager logout options (options to reboot, > shutdown, log out) so that those three options show up b

Re: package manager?..

2003-09-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:43, Louie Miranda wrote: > > Check into the apt rpm for RedHat. It makes use of apt-get, like on > > Debian, but installs the packages with rpm. > > > ic, where is the configuration file of apt-get on rh 7.2 ? > > after installing the apt rpm the config files are in

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 September 2003 09:48 pm, Buck wrote: > If there is no 9.0 what am I running? Shrike is 9.0! No, Shrike is Red Hat Linux 9, not 9.0. > I have both 8.0 and 9.0 cds. If you look closely, I suspect you have 8.0 and 9 cds. > Do you need th

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22 Sep 2003 20:24:00 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > Everyone knows the Internet is a dangerous place. Folks who've been on > this list for a whileave probably heard me harp about security by now. > If you have, then you know I'm a nut when it comes

RE: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Buck
If there is no 9.0 what am I running? Shrike is 9.0! I have both 8.0 and 9.0 cds. Do you need the url? http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 7:34 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 21:36, Steve Phillips wrote: > At 09:17 p.m. 22/09/2003 -0400, you wrote: > > > >Yup. Not to mention that rebooting is a red flag to hackers. The idea > >here is to run diagnostics while trying to stay off their radar, else > >you risk losing the evidence (and possibly your

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Phillips
At 08:41 p.m. 22/09/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >-- > >Jason Dixon, RHCE > > *sigh* I guess RHCE doesn't delve into the security aspects then eh ? Look, I never intended to start a flame war or anything. Actually, apologies - you are right there as well and I should probably have worded my response i

Re: package manager?..

2003-09-22 Thread Louie Miranda
> Check into the apt rpm for RedHat. It makes use of apt-get, like on > Debian, but installs the packages with rpm. ic, where is the configuration file of apt-get on rh 7.2 ? - Louie - Original Message - From: "Mike Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, S

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 21:30, Steve Phillips wrote: > At 08:57 p.m. 22/09/2003 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:42, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > >[snippy snip] > > > Um...Jason...the CERT training that I went to stated (though I have not > > > verified it externally) that it is st

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
> >-- > >Jason Dixon, RHCE > > *sigh* I guess RHCE doesn't delve into the security aspects then eh ? Look, I never intended to start a flame war or anything. There are times and places where each approach has it's merits. In my case, where I am a member of a military CERT, we have to be absolu

Re: Vipul's Razor and SpamAssassin?

2003-09-22 Thread Marcelo Rosa
I've been installing SA from the distro and then installing MailScanner from their RPMS and everything is going fine for me. - Original Message - From: "Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:06 PM Subject: Re: Vipul's Razor and Spa

expanding logout options in KDE?

2003-09-22 Thread Canon
I've been using KDE exclusively in RH9 and I'd really like to know how to configure the session manager logout options (options to reboot, shutdown, log out) so that those three options show up by pressing the "logout" applet button ... right now all I get is "logout" or "cancel" so I can logou

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Phillips
At 09:17 p.m. 22/09/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 21:10, Ian Mortimer wrote: > > However, many of us work and exist in environments where > > carrying around a CD doesn't scale. > > Not to mention the need to reboot every box to run off the CD and > then reboot again when done. Sev

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Phillips
At 08:57 p.m. 22/09/2003 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:42, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: [snippy snip] > Um...Jason...the CERT training that I went to stated (though I have not > verified it externally) that it is still possible to fool chkrootkit if > you are running it in a "compr

apache not utilizing all CPUs

2003-09-22 Thread SAQIB
Hello All, I recently compiled the latest release of Apache on Quad processor x86 system running RedHat 2.1 ES: I am runing Linux 2.4.9 SMP kernel --- servername:/home/alis>uname -a Linux servername 2.4.9-e.3smp #1 SMP Fri May 3 16:48:54 EDT 2002 i686 unknown --- Seems like when

RE: W2KP to RH9: Samba User Group Folder Access

2003-09-22 Thread Buck
I changed the name before sending the config file. I just re-installed Linux and am starting over. I have to reconfigur from scratch at this time. Buck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Dekkers Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 8:41

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 21:10, Ian Mortimer wrote: > > However, many of us work and exist in environments where > > carrying around a CD doesn't scale. > > Not to mention the need to reboot every box to run off the CD and > then reboot again when done. Several days work there. Yup. Not to ment

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Ian Mortimer
> However, many of us work and exist in environments where > carrying around a CD doesn't scale. Not to mention the need to reboot every box to run off the CD and then reboot again when done. Several days work there. > My suggestion can be quickly and > easily performed on remote systems. Th

Re: Vipul's Razor and SpamAssassin?

2003-09-22 Thread Edward Dekkers
Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: There is no need to mess with MailScanner. Also, if you check on the SpamAssassin site you can find rpm's for RH 9. The MailScanner folks frown on using these rpm's but they've worked for me. The other option is to install SpamA

Re: no wm but KDE and GNOME

2003-09-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:04, Lukas Fried wrote: > After using KDE for a while, I'm getting a bit tired of its bloatedness > and am ready to move on to a more minimalistic WM. I never really liked > GNOME and my top two choices for a new WM are Fluxbox and sawfish. Both > of them are installed on

Re: Mouse problems with switchbox

2003-09-22 Thread Wiley Wimberly
On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 02:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a Belkin Omniview switchbox to switch between my linux and windows PCs at work, but everytime I switch to my linux box the mouse control goes crazy. Moving send the point all over the screen and it's even receiving mou

Re: Vipul's Razor and SpamAssassin?

2003-09-22 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > > > > Hmmm, I wonder where the rpm put the spamassassin executable. Mine is in > > > /usr/bin/spamassassin. See if it's there and it's in your pa

Re: Mouse problems with switchbox

2003-09-22 Thread MKlinke
On Monday 22 September 2003 19:36, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > At 12:20 9/22/2003, you wrote: > >> I'm using a Belkin Omniview switchbox to switch between my linux > >> and windows PCs at work, but everytime I switch to my linux box > >> the mouse control goes crazy. [...]

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:42, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > On 22 Sep 2003, Jason Dixon wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:28, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > > > I'd say don't download and compile chrootkit. Instead, download the > > > knoppix security tools distribution (http://www.knoppix-std.

Re: Vipul's Razor and SpamAssassin?

2003-09-22 Thread Gerry Doris
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > What version of MS are you running? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailScanner]# rpm -q mailscanner spamassassin > > mailscanner-4.23-11 > > spamassassin-2.55-1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailScanner]# rpm -q mailscanner spamassassin > mailscanner-4.23-11

Re: Vipul's Razor and SpamAssassin?

2003-09-22 Thread Gerry Doris
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > > Hmmm, I wonder where the rpm put the spamassassin executable. Mine is in > > /usr/bin/spamassassin. See if it's there and it's in your path. > > Well, I see a /usr/bin/spamassassin binary.

Re: Vipul's Razor and SpamAssassin?

2003-09-22 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
On 22 Sep 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:12, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: > > > > > There is no need to mess with MailScanner. Also, if you check on the > > > SpamAssassin site you can find rpm's for RH 9. The MailScanner folks > > >

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:40:00PM -0500, Mike Vanecek wrote: > > So, once RHN is gone for RH 9, how does one move from RH 9 to Fedora? > If RH 10 had been released, one could simply do an upgrade and change > the RHN subscription. You'll have to wait and see, but it would not surprise me to see

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
On 22 Sep 2003, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:28, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > I'd say don't download and compile chrootkit. Instead, download the > > knoppix security tools distribution (http://www.knoppix-std.org/), burn it > > to a CD, then boot from it and *then* run chro

Re: W2KP to RH9: Samba User Group Folder Access

2003-09-22 Thread Edward Dekkers
Buck wrote: Thank you, Here is the Samba File (smb.conf) Buck # Samba config file created using SWAT # from penguin.Wildlife.lan (192.168.1.1) # Date: 2003/09/22 09:31:14 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = WILDLIFE netbios name = PENGUIN Netbios name is Penguin??? Is th

Re: Vipul's Razor and SpamAssassin?

2003-09-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:12, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: > > > There is no need to mess with MailScanner. Also, if you check on the > > SpamAssassin site you can find rpm's for RH 9. The MailScanner folks > > frown on using these rpm's but they've worked fo

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:34:33 -0700, Samuel Flory wrote > > > > > > You'll have to purchase an Enterprise offering to get support from RedHat. > > But there will surely(?) be auto updating feature provided for Fedora. > >Fedora currently supports yum, and apt-get. I've been using > fedora,

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:27:33PM -0500, Mike Vanecek wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:03:56 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote > Does that mean that the current contents of rawhide which one would expect to > end up as RH 10 will not? No, it doesn't mean that. rawhide is still expected to be (from w

Re: Vipul's Razor and SpamAssassin?

2003-09-22 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > I just installed the SpamAssassin 2.55 rpms. That part of the install > > went smoothly. At least spamd came up just fine. > > If you end up using MailScanner to call SpamAssassin then you don't need > spamd. I understand, but the install

Re: Mouse problems with switchbox

2003-09-22 Thread Edward Dekkers
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: At 12:20 9/22/2003, you wrote: I'm using a Belkin Omniview switchbox to switch between my linux and windows PCs at work, but everytime I switch to my linux box the mouse control goes crazy. [...] Any suggestions as to how fix it? Is there any way to reset the mouse witho

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 10:24, Jason Dixon wrote: > Everyone knows the Internet is a dangerous place. Folks who've been on > this list for a whileave probably heard me harp about security by now. > If you have, then you know I'm a nut when it comes to protecting your > system - AND - protecting oth

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:28, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > I'd say don't download and compile chrootkit. Instead, download the > knoppix security tools distribution (http://www.knoppix-std.org/), burn it > to a CD, then boot from it and *then* run chrootkit, which is on the CD. > This way you wi

Re: OT: MailScanner question

2003-09-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:21, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > As an aside: > > I just updated my mailscanner and SA and spent about an hour training > > the bayes engine with about 2000 each spam and ham. I was still getting > > about 10% spam making it through before( actually increased to about 15%

Re: Vipul's Razor and SpamAssassin?

2003-09-22 Thread Gerry Doris
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > I just installed the SpamAssassin 2.55 rpms. That part of the install > went smoothly. At least spamd came up just fine. If you end up using MailScanner to call SpamAssassin then you don't need spamd. > I then told Mailscanner to use the SpamAs

Re: Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
On 22 Sep 2003, Jason Dixon wrote: > Everyone knows the Internet is a dangerous place. Folks who've been on > this list for a whileave probably heard me harp about security by now. > If you have, then you know I'm a nut when it comes to protecting your > system - AND - protecting others FROM you

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:03:56 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote > At 12:23 9/22/2003, you wrote: > > >Does this mean that I won't be downloading RH 10, but instead will be > >downloading Fedora 10 or something? > > Fedora Core 1 (Cambridge), apparently, which will contain everything > you expected to

Plea to Linux Users

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Dixon
Everyone knows the Internet is a dangerous place. Folks who've been on this list for a whileave probably heard me harp about security by now. If you have, then you know I'm a nut when it comes to protecting your system - AND - protecting others FROM your system if it's been cracked. It is for th

RE: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Con Tassios
> I just talked to sales on the telephone. From what he said, all the > features of the Red Hat Enterprise product is available on the internet, > just not assembled the same. Version 2 is based on RH 7.1 (or 2) and > version 3 will be based on RH 9.0. In purchasing the enterprise > products, a

Re: Vipul's Razor and SpamAssassin?

2003-09-22 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: > There is no need to mess with MailScanner. Also, if you check on the > SpamAssassin site you can find rpm's for RH 9. The MailScanner folks > frown on using these rpm's but they've worked for me. The other option is > to install SpamAssassin from CPAN.

Re: OT: MailScanner question

2003-09-22 Thread Gerry Doris
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > As an aside: > > I just updated my mailscanner and SA and spent about an hour training > > the bayes engine with about 2000 each spam and ham. I was still getting > > about 10% spam making it through before( actually increased to about 15% > > lat

Re: OT: MailScanner question

2003-09-22 Thread Gerry Doris
On 22 Sep 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > As an aside: > I just updated my mailscanner and SA and spent about an hour training > the bayes engine with about 2000 each spam and ham. I was still getting > about 10% spam making it through before( actually increased to about 15% > lately with the orisoft

no wm but KDE and GNOME

2003-09-22 Thread Lukas Fried
After using KDE for a while, I'm getting a bit tired of its bloatedness and am ready to move on to a more minimalistic WM. I never really liked GNOME and my top two choices for a new WM are Fluxbox and sawfish. Both of them are installed on my system but I can't seem to get them to run. Typing

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Gerry Doris
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 13:45 9/22/2003, you wrote: > >and less since Redhat will insist on several apps being removed due to > >potential licensing issues. > > IANAL and TIMHO, but... > > In the few cases I've seen so far (MP3 playback being the most visible), > Red Ha

Re: RHCE (was Fedora)

2003-09-22 Thread Ian Mortimer
> Thanks for digging that up. I'm not sure whether to consider it good > news or bad- with all their changes, I've lost track. :-P I consider it both good and bad. Currently it's a lot of work building rpms for all the stuff we need that's not bundled with RedHat (or is out of date). Fedo

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:20:42PM -0400, Buck wrote: > I just talked to sales on the telephone. From what he said, all the > features of the Red Hat Enterprise product is available on the internet, > just not assembled the same. Version 2 is based on RH 7.1 (or 2) and > version 3 will be based o

Re: EMail virus?

2003-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:55:52PM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:07:12PM -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > > >I'm still trying to find the time to figured out why neither f-prot nor > > > >MailScanner is catching these. They've caught other stuff but not this > > > >one. T

Re: OT: MailScanner question

2003-09-22 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
> As an aside: > I just updated my mailscanner and SA and spent about an hour training > the bayes engine with about 2000 each spam and ham. I was still getting > about 10% spam making it through before( actually increased to about 15% > lately with the orisoft going down and I assume that the ver

Re: RHCE (was Fedora)

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:09, Ian Mortimer wrote: > > I wish I knew. RH was very prompt about explaining to current RHCE's > > how the original numbering changes would affect our certification > > period. I haven't heard anything from RH since they've issued the press > > release that signalled th

Re: rpm --root

2003-09-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Allen Wayne Best wrote: can anyone affirm that 'rpm --root /mnt/sysimage' will do what i think the man page is saying it will do: install the rpms in the system directories starting at /mnt/sysimage and not in the current /. Yeah, that's what it'll do. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: RHCE (was Fedora)

2003-09-22 Thread Ian Mortimer
> I wish I knew. RH was very prompt about explaining to current RHCE's > how the original numbering changes would affect our certification > period. I haven't heard anything from RH since they've issued the press > release that signalled the end of the "retail" version. > > Previously, my certi

Re: OT: MailScanner question

2003-09-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 19:59, Michael Mansour wrote: > --- "Benjamin J. Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, I know that this is Off Topic, but if the > > answer is easy, I'd rather > > not have to join another list. If it's involved and > > there's not an > > easy-recipe web site (I have

Re: OT: MailScanner question

2003-09-22 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 19:59, Michael Mansour wrote: > --- "Benjamin J. Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, I know that this is Off Topic, but if the > > answer is easy, I'd rather > > not have to join another list. If it's involved and > > there's not an > > easy-recipe web site (I have

Re: nfs reporting stuff that isnt there anymore

2003-09-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Ian L wrote: in my exports file i have a few entries. When i run exportfs -a it has some entries where are no longer in the exports file. Anyone have any idea where its getting this old stuff from and how to fix it? machine:/disk3: Function not implemented machine:/disk2: Function not implemente

Re: Samba don't add users from NT PDC

2003-09-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Cleber P. de Souza wrote: I have been configuring smb.conf, but the system don't add automatic users to the system. The add user script has been configured like this: Security = share Password server = 192.168.1.1 Add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser -g users -M -c "NT User" -s /dev/null %u && /usr/

Re: EMail virus?

2003-09-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 01:18, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > Is the list getting spam that seem to be from MS or is just me? > > http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2003_09_18_index.html#106391450131362240 > -- > Michael S. Dunsavage Spam does seem to be getting through to the tightest of system

Re: Argggg I hate installing new devices in RH

2003-09-22 Thread Peter J. Viglucci
Chris Wilson wrote: Does anyone have a tip/tricks that might help me in the future. I don't want to submit things to the this group for normal everyday types of installs (Like WiFi). Every now and then I just wish it would "Just Work" so I can get some real work done and not spend all my time sear

RE: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Buck
I know, I was just making a joke out of it. Lol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Dixon Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 5:35 PM To: Red Hat Mailing List Subject: RE: Fedora On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 17:23, Buck wrote: > Hmmm, your cert

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:25:15 -0600 "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 13:30 9/22/2003, you wrote: > >As far as i can see the only real difference from what we have today > >is: > > > >a) You can't buy a boxed set of Fedora > >b) You can't buy support for it either. > >c) The average

Re: Argggg I hate installing new devices in RH

2003-09-22 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 15:32 9/22/2003, you wrote: It seems that the device vendors won't support Linux until it becomes more popular and Linux will have a hard time to become more popular until it is supported by more device vendors. Is there any chance for success? (I define "success" as my mom or non tech user can

Re: Linksys WPC54G - Broadcom chipset?

2003-09-22 Thread Keith Morse
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Mark G. Spencer wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there is any solution to get a Linksys WPC54G (I believe > using the Broadcom chipset) working in Red Hat 9? After browsing Google, it > looks like Broadcom themselves are holding up Linux driver development? > Hopefully

Linksys WPC54G - Broadcom chipset?

2003-09-22 Thread Mark G. Spencer
Hello, I was wondering if there is any solution to get a Linksys WPC54G (I believe using the Broadcom chipset) working in Red Hat 9? After browsing Google, it looks like Broadcom themselves are holding up Linux driver development? Hopefully this has been resolved. I sent an email to Broadcom let

RE: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 17:23, Buck wrote: > Hmmm, your cert expires at RH 12 and they just backed up to 3.0? Sounds > like your cert could be around a while longer than you expected. LOL No, it was based on the "original" Red Hat product. I passed the RHCE when 7.2 was current and RHAS was just

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 13:45 9/22/2003, you wrote: and less since Redhat will insist on several apps being removed due to potential licensing issues. IANAL and TIMHO, but... In the few cases I've seen so far (MP3 playback being the most visible), Red Hat and everyone else who distributes a commercial product is REQU

Re: Argggg I hate installing new devices in RH

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Wilson
> The more support, the more likely for a standard for drivers to be produced > that all linux distributions will keep to and the more user friendly > hardware installations will become. It seems that the device vendors won't support Linux until it becomes more popular and Linux will have a hard

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 13:30 9/22/2003, you wrote: As far as i can see the only real difference from what we have today is: a) You can't buy a boxed set of Fedora b) You can't buy support for it either. c) The average developer can be more involved. Other than that, everything else will be the same. No, Benjamin has

RE: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Buck
Hmmm, your cert expires at RH 12 and they just backed up to 3.0? Sounds like your cert could be around a while longer than you expected. LOL ;) Buck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Dixon Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 5:01 PM

Re: DHCP appears not to be working

2003-09-22 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 13:44 9/22/2003, you wrote: I wish I had the time to dig deep into firewall rules. Keeping my web site up-to-date eats up all my time. But, it looks like I'll have to do that anyway. Really, take a good look at Shorewall. You can likely get your firewall in shape the first time in under 15 mi

RE: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Buck
Thank you for your reply. I just talked to sales on the telephone. From what he said, all the features of the Red Hat Enterprise product is available on the internet, just not assembled the same. Version 2 is based on RH 7.1 (or 2) and version 3 will be based on RH 9.0. In purchasing the ente

Re: Argggg I hate installing new devices in RH

2003-09-22 Thread Steve Phillips
At 03:08 p.m. 22/09/2003 -0500, Chris Wilson wrote: Does anyone have a tip/tricks that might help me in the future. I don't want to submit things to the this group for normal everyday types of installs (Like WiFi). Every now and then I just wish it would "Just Work" so I can get some real work done

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 15:13, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > >Does this mean that I won't be downloading RH 10, but instead will be > > >downloading Fedora 10 or something? > > > > Fedora Core 1 (Cambridge), apparently, which will contain everything you > > expected to see in Red Hat Linux 10 and more

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:14:35PM -0400, Buck wrote: > Being a newbie to all this, I am a little confused. > > Here's what I am reading, someone tell me if I am right or wrong. > > 1.a) I just downloaded the free ISOs of Red Hat, booted my > computer and installed RH 9.0 directly from them.

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:53:45PM -0400, Johnathan Bailes wrote: > I am not sure I like this. Does this mean there will be no RH10? That's my understanding. > So if I am reading the replies correctly there will be no more RH > products on the shelves at the local Compuseless? There probably w

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:13:12PM -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > >Does this mean that I won't be downloading RH 10, but instead will be > > >downloading Fedora 10 or something? > > > > Fedora Core 1 (Cambridge), apparently, which will contain everything you > > expected to see in Red Hat Linu

Argggg I hate installing new devices in RH

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Wilson
Mind if I vent a little? I really like linux a lot, but, I am starting to think I will go back to Windows OS. I am currently only using RedHat 9.0 on all my machines (2 laptops and 1 desktop). I am really trying hard not to use Microsoft OS but I am starting to get frustrated whenever I want to in

Argggg I hate installing new devices in RH

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Wilson
Mind if I vent a little? I really like linux a lot, but, I am starting to think I will go back to Windows OS. I am currently only using RedHat 9.0 on all my machines (2 laptops and 1 desktop). I am really trying hard not to use Microsoft OS but I am starting to get frustrated whenever I want to in

Re: Fedora

2003-09-22 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:59:48 -0500 "Benjamin J. Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 3. Will the Fedora Project Releases be compatible to existing Red > > > Hat? In other words, can I upgrade what I have to Fedora or will I > > > have > > > to start with Fedora from scratch? > > > >You can

Re: EMail virus?

2003-09-22 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:07:12PM -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > >I'm still trying to find the time to figured out why neither f-prot nor > > >MailScanner is catching these. They've caught other stuff but not this > > >one. The attachement has a .exe extension which I block by default, and

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