Redhat based ISP tools

2002-07-16 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - jsut getting back into more full time linux type admin and consulting since leaving my job - was wondering if anyone had any handy hints for me as to solutions for running a Redhat based ISP - basically looking for tools to help with: 1) user / domain setups - virtual hosting 2) traffic

otto mp3 streaming server

2002-05-25 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I was wondering if anyone has successfully set up otto on a Redhat 7.2 server - I've tried and failed... the project sounds great but the instructions are a bit vague for my level of admin skills, and I haven't had a reply from the developers... http://www.cardhouse.com/otto/ I've

RE: Traffic Counter

2002-05-22 Thread Dan Horth
that to log all packets. AE -Original Message- From: Dan Horth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Traffic Counter Hi - Having just set up our firewall with iptables I've got a situation where we would like to be able to track

Traffic Counter

2002-05-21 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - Having just set up our firewall with iptables I've got a situation where we would like to be able to track traffic coming in through our ADSL link - detailing which machines are causing what traffic. I've been reading up a bit on netfilter counters and believe they're not too reliable -

problems with iptables on 7.2

2002-04-26 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I've been trying to set up iptables on a 7.2 based firewall, but am getting strange errors when I try to install any rules: [root@server root]# rpm -qa | grep iptables iptables-1.2.4-2 [root@server root]# iptables --list /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o:

SAMBA on 7.2

2002-04-25 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I've been trying a few different options with setting up smb on a RH 7.2. based i686 server, and still have not arrived at what I believe is the current, optimal setup. Seeing as this is a more RH specific question I thought I might get more pertinent information from here. Basically I

can't restart server - repost

2002-04-24 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I'm having problems with my test server at home (basically a machine that was found in the street, cleaned up and is now our home firewall / router / server / my test environment) anyway - since I found the machine I don't really know it's history - but am having a problem that I've not

Re: MySQL / PHP setup info... archives...?

2002-04-23 Thread Dan Horth
Sorry! my bad! worked out that the missing extension error was due to me not having php-mysql installed - I'm sure I had it... but... d'oh! the question about searchable archives still stands though... tia. dan. I wrote: Hi - just trying to get mySQL and php playing nice together - buut

problems with iptables on 7.2

2002-04-23 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I've been trying to set up iptables on a 7.2 based firewall, but am getting strange errors when I try to install any rules: [root@server root]# rpm -qa | grep iptables iptables-1.2.4-2 [root@server root]# iptables --list /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o:

Re: problems with iptables on 7.2

2002-04-23 Thread Dan Horth
At 2:04 PM -0500 23/4/02, Matthew Boeckman wrote: did you compile this kernel yourself? If so, did you add firewall as a module? didn't compile myself - stock 7.2 kernel (latest update) which is same as on test server... what is the contents of /etc/modules.conf and the output of lsmod

Re: problems with iptables on 7.2

2002-04-23 Thread Dan Horth
At 3:25 PM -0400 23/4/02, Mike Burger wrote: First: rmmod ipchains Then: insmod iptables hmm... at this stage I get insmod: iptables: no module by that name found should I reinstall iptables rpm? I don't have anything in modules.conf about iptables though - on the server that iptables

Re: problems with iptables on 7.2

2002-04-23 Thread Dan Horth
At 2:36 PM -0500 23/4/02, Matthew Boeckman wrote: actually did just notice that I have both 2.4.9-7 and 2.4.9-31 on my test server - but only2.4.9-31 on the one giving me problems. on the test server, if you have both, which are you booted to? uname -a will answer that. maybe there's a bug

Re: problems with iptables on 7.2

2002-04-23 Thread Dan Horth
WOO-HO!!! :D Using /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o and my firewall script built on the test server just ran and setup iptables fine... yay! now let's see how badly my iptables script broke the office network! :) thanks loads. - dan. ps. should I need to do

tcpdchk

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
hi - I've been seeing a few references to this interesting program called tcpdchk - but can't find this anywhere in my RH 7.2 installation / install disks - is this something that should be available on RH 7.2 or will I need to install this myself from somewhere else? or has this program

Re: recover queue messages?

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
hi - I've had success with stopping sendmail (make sure you kill all running sendmail processes) then editing the queuefile in /var/spool/mqueue manually - you can find the message ID by using mailq, then just vi the file in /var/spool/mqueue starting with qf, with that ID in it. in there

Re: Easy question

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
hi - I think you want smbmount, not mount - as it's a smb share you're mounting? either that or set up NFS properly... I've just gone through the HOWTO available at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/ which helped in fixing an NFS problem that's been bugging me for a while... - dan. At

Re: up2date is driving me mad!

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
to our regularly scheduled programming... - dan. At 9:05 PM +1000 17/4/02, Dan Horth wrote: Hi - I've got up2date running on five servers - four 7.2 ones and a 6.2 setup. All has beenworking grand for the past couple of months, but I've recently stared having a problem where I can't update one

Re: up2date is driving me mad!

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
sorry for that previous babble on up2date... there was indeed strange stuff afoot here... it seems that the up2date process that finally managed to update the server was actually started at: Tue Apr 16 20:03:27 2002 (I'm assuming - as that's what all the most recent log entries were tagged as

rsh / ssh operate remote DAT drive

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I've been going through the faq at http://www.tolisgroup.com/gen-faq3.html#remote to see how to setup use of a remote tape drive for backups, and noted on other pages related to setting up rsh / rlogin that it's a potential security risk, and that I should look into ssh instead. quick

Re: up2date is driving me mad!

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
may be you should have let it tun for three days like I did (apparently) and all will work as it should! :) At 6:00 PM -0700 18/4/02, M.Schild wrote: may be 'cos this machine is so slow the process was hanging on some inter-dependency checks- Happened to me today. 30 mn to check

RE: Files Required to Run Up2date?

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
have you tried refreshing package list at rhn.redhat.com? up2date -p should do the trick? At 2:56 PM -0700 18/4/02, Chris Daft wrote: I have exactly the same problem... maybe the solution is to force the installation of the rpm package? I never like forcing rpm, though.

up2date is driving me mad!

2002-04-17 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I've got up2date running on five servers - four 7.2 ones and a 6.2 setup. All has been working grand for the past couple of months, but I've recently stared having a problem where I can't update one server. basically running up2date -u gives the following output: Retrieving list of all

Compaq 12/24 Gb DAT RH 7.2

2002-03-03 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - back on the list after a lengthy video production sabbatical - currently working on setting up a Compaq proliant server using RH 7.2 I'm having problems getting the DAT drive working properly - it's a compaq 12/24 Gb model - which is responding as expected to things like: mt status mt

Re: what is wrong with root login for ssh2

2001-05-02 Thread Dan Horth
AFAIK the disadvantage is when you have multiple people with root access to a machine - if you log in as root then when checking who logged in and when using last you don't know who the person was, but a login with your username and then su - will log who was doing root stuff... kinda handy

PDF printer?

2001-04-18 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I was wondering if it was possible to set up a lpr printer that would take submitted print jobs and convert them to PDF format. I'd like to be able to set up a printer acessible by SAMBA clients that will convert a job to PDF then copy the resulting file to a shared directory for

OT: how to tar a netware server b4 wiping it?

2001-04-15 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - off topic (except that I'm trying to archive a netware file server before setting it up as a RH 6.2 server!) but I was hoping that someone could help me with how I can crate a tar archive on a Novell Netware server. Ideally I'd like to be able to write the tar straight to DAT. I know

Diff for folders / filesystems

2001-04-11 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I was wondering if there was a tool similar to diff that would allow me to compare two file systems and check that they are identical - as in same files, same permissions, same file sizes, etc. tia, dan. -- Telezygology Manager, Technical Systems Ph (+61 2) 992 992 88Fx (+61 2) 992

Re: Diff for folders / filesystems

2001-04-11 Thread Dan Horth
hmm... oops... man diff tells me that diff will compare folders too... problem solved! - dan. At 10:49 AM +1000 4/12/01, Dan Horth wrote: Hi - I was wondering if there was a tool similar to diff that would allow me to compare two file systems and check that they are identical - as in same

Re: Anti Virus for mail / file server

2001-04-05 Thread Dan Horth
thanks all for the info on anti virus products, I have done some research using the links provided and have come back to a product that I was going to evaluate last time I was close to setting up this system. I was wondering if anyone had any experiences to share with using Sophos. It seems

Anti Virus for mail / file server

2001-04-03 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - was just wondering if anyone could suggest the best anti-virus solution to use with our redhat 6.2 based file and mail servers, ideally a solution from a company that will offer anti-virus solutions for the windows 98 / 2000 / NT and Apple Mac clients on the network too. I'm interested

slow network...

2001-03-26 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I have 3 RH 6.2 servers networked in the following manner: +-- eth0 -- [file server] --- eth1 -- LAN | -- ppp0 -- [firewall] -- eth0 -- | +--- eth0 --

buildaddr: no mailer in parsed address: Error -7

2001-03-02 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I've been noticing a bunch of these errors in my log files of late... I'm pretty sure that the mail is from legit sources and messages I'd want our users to be getting (based on the mail relays that are clisted as initiating the connection) and was wondering what this error means, what

is a pentium 75 too slow for nfs tasks?

2001-01-30 Thread Dan Horth
hiya - I'm getting lots of kernel: nfs: server xxx.xxx.xx.xx not responding, still trying kernel: nfs: server xxx.xxx.xx.xx OK type errors in my log files on the client machine both when trying to use a pentium 75 RH 6.2 box as an NFS server or an NFS client and copying over an 8mb file over

Server solution for multi-user workstations

2001-01-30 Thread Dan Horth
Forgive my PC naiveness here...but I need to work out how to best address the following situation: Currently there's 6 NT4 workstations being serviced by a Netware 5 server. Users log into a workstation with their network login, and then they are presented with the computer as they had it

Linux News Web Site

2001-01-17 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - was just wondering what sites people would recommend as interesting / valid news sites now that I have a little spare time during my lunch breaks for reading... Thanks in advance, Dan. -- Telezygology / Nitro 3D Visualisation, Graphics Animation Ph (+61 2) 9810 5177Fx (+61 2)

IP_MASQ:reverse ICMP: failed checksum from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx!

2001-01-14 Thread Dan Horth
Hi all - back after a short sabbatical, and I've been noticing a few of these messages in the logs on a firewall I manage over the past few week. I had a look through the list archives and on some search engines and found a few references to people getting these error messages - but they were

LPR still - made some progress...

2000-12-10 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - a follow up on my LPR headaches... I have just installed a new RH 6.2 based system as we're setting up a new server - and I have managed to get this printing absolutely perfectly well as expected. So - I'm 100% certain that the problem is to do with the configuration of the old

Re: LPR still - made some progress... (solved)

2000-12-10 Thread Dan Horth
Hi there - I had checked the printcap files against eachother - and they were identical... I thought I had gone through and checked all the permissions and stuff in the spool directory before - but since I had a working lp on the new server I thought I'd just try copying the /var/spool/lpr/lp

Re: Symbolic link

2000-12-10 Thread Dan Horth
rm bar :) At 11:34 PM -0500 10/12/00, Rob Yale wrote: Can someone please tell me how to get rid of a symbolic link created with 'ln -s foo bar'? -- Nitro - 3D Visualisation, Graphics Animation Ph (+61 2) 9810 5177 - Fx (+61 2) 9810 0199

LPR giving me a headache.

2000-12-04 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - not sure if this one got out as I only just resubscribed after a brief spell away and I haven't seen it turn up on the list to date... anyway - I've added a bit of info the the lpq results: I have had LPR working happily on a server but haven't used it for a year or so. I just tried to

LPR giving me a headache.

2000-12-04 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - I have had LPR working happily on a server but haven't used it for a year or so. I just tried to setup a printer for sharing with samba and couldn't get it to work. During my debugging I decided to check if the printer was indeed still working. So i did: echo "hello" | lpr and... well

what's this activity - and anyone know a good listserve...

2000-11-15 Thread Dan Horth
... as that will probably take care of part one too! :) TIA - dan. At 9:52 PM +1100 9/11/00, Dan Horth wrote: Hiya - I've been getting the occasional set of entries in my log files relating to traffic blocked at our firewall - I was wondering two things: 1) What is this traffic - is it someone checking to see

Re: what's this activity - and anyone know a good listserve...

2000-11-15 Thread Dan Horth
-empting my question! ;) At 4:41 PM -0500 15/11/00, John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dan Horth wrote: Hi - I posted this a week ago and it seems to have gotten overlooked (ignored?) by just about everyone... I was hoping that a second post with an improved subject line may get

Re: Config files for network

2000-11-11 Thread Dan Horth
sorry for the late "butt in" on this one... but this is where grep would have been very helpful to you... try: rgrep -r "the.eth0.ip.address" /etc/ (obviously swap the.eth0.ip.address for your real ip address... or any other configuration variable you're trying to track down which file it

Re: mail aliases

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Horth
well - as per your subject line this file is to store mail aliases - ie. addresses on your mail server that aren't real account - just pointers that redirect mail to other accounts. you should read the aliases man page for more helpful information: man aliases HTH - dan. On Sat, 11 Nov 2000,

Re: (no subject)

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Horth
Very tricky Bernhard... but it's going to get a bit annoying if you keep bouncing messages containing HTML formatting coming from the list... specially with the number of newbies joining the list every day. Please disable this feature for your listserve mail - or ifyou want to keep using it

IPChains log entry queries

2000-11-09 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - I've been getting the occasional set of entries in my log files relating to traffic blocked at our firewall - I was wondering two things: 1) What is this traffic - is it someone checking to see if there is a trinoo type process running on my server? I seem to recognise those ports being

Re: Wierd Happenings....

2000-11-09 Thread Dan Horth
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Fred Edmister wrote: Thank you so much! This helped tremendously! The good news is, I've not only found thier IP address, traced them back to their ISP (BEZEQINT.NET) and found that they did NOT do anything to the system!! (aparently he's been using his

Re: named

2000-11-08 Thread Dan Horth
a bit of a hack may be but when trying to work out how processes get started, where processes are getting their info, etc from I try something like this: rgrep -r "\-u named" /etc/ (note in this case I needed to enclose the query string in quotes because of the space - and escape the -u with

Re: Ip traffic monitor

2000-11-07 Thread Dan Horth
check out iptraf... it rocks! :) - dan. At 2:34 PM -0800 7/11/00, Sean Clarke wrote: WOndering if you guys might know of some rpm out there that will log all iptraffic going out of our Internal network thru a IP MASQ machine. I need to provide a report to show activity and to what services?

Re: ipchains replacement

2000-11-07 Thread Dan Horth
iptables I think... should get you started anyway... :) At 10:59 PM -0600 7/11/00, Bob Hartung wrote: Hi all! What is the replacement for ipchains? I need to start reading up on the topic! -- Nitro - 3D Visualisation, Graphics Animation Ph (+61 2) 9810 5177 - Fx

Re: Fwd: Re: Need help with virtual pop3 users on my virtual domains, please!

2000-11-06 Thread Dan Horth
hiya Jonathan - no bother here! :) I didn't install anything special - and I didn't have to use virtual IPs or anything... out mail server has just one IP too... I just: 1. add virtual email domain in linuxconf - in the "sendmail:basic: Configure virtual email domain" section... I entered

Re: [OT] Gore v Bush Website Servers

2000-11-06 Thread Dan Horth
oh - I'm sure there'll be one over this way in the next year or two... but we could always start discussing the likelihood of that right now I guess! :P At 2:03 PM + 6/11/00, Thomas Ribbrock wrote: Blessed be the day when these elections are *finally* over... So, which country is next,

Re: virus scanner?

2000-11-05 Thread Dan Horth
not sure if this is what you're asking - but I'd be interested in a virus scanner for linux that we could use to scan incoming outgoing mail to our mail server - and files being downloaded through our proxy... as in I want to protect the clients getting email and surfing through the proxy.

Re: Need help with virtual pop3 users on my virtual domains, please!

2000-11-02 Thread Dan Horth
hiya - I know that you can set all this stuff up very simply in linuxconf... I think to do it manually you need: CV firstvirtual.com CV lastvirtual.com in /etc/sendmail.cf and you also need the follwing in /etc/vmail/ aliases.firstvirtual.com - contains aliases in the format of /etc/aliases

Re: changing passwd

2000-11-01 Thread Dan Horth
if you're changing your own password then just do: passwd if you're logged in as root to change someone else's password do: passwd username and... well... that's about it! :) man passwd may help you too! - dan. At 5:17 PM +0530 1/11/00, Kiran Kumar M wrote: Hi, How can I change the

Kind of OT: (Redhat) Linux vs NetWare?

2000-10-31 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - pretty long posting for which I hope I won't get too flamed - but I'm about to embark on a new employment venture and I need some advice from all sides of the fence... please have a read if you've got 5 minutes or so and are feeling charitable, curious or bored! :) I've been a Linux

OT: Help with a REGEXP please!

2000-10-31 Thread Dan Horth
hiya - I'm trying to make a regexp string to match the following IP range: 192.168.2.64/27 ie I want to match 192.168.2.64 through 192.168.2.95 inclusive, but do not want to match things like 192.168.2.60 or 192.168.2.99 I'm kinda close with: grep "192\.168\.2\.[6-9][0-9]" except it's

Re: chmod

2000-10-31 Thread Dan Horth
uhm - find and xargs are your friends... find /path/to/your/folder -type f | xargs chmod -v 755 find /path/to/your/folder -type d | xargs chmod -v 777 that should do you... man find and man xargs for more info! Cheers, dan. At 9:39 AM +0530 1/11/00, Deependra B. Tandukar wrote: Dear All,

Re: named is logging in the wrong time zone

2000-10-30 Thread Dan Horth
that does seem to make sense... and it works! :) thanks for that - this is my first chroot-ing experience! thanks again - dan. At 7:25 AM -0600 30/10/00, Bret Hughes wrote: My guess, and it is just a guess is that named cannot find any time zone information since it it chrooted. Can you give

where can I find info on the entries in:

2000-10-30 Thread Dan Horth
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 specifically I want to know what the difference between disconnecttimeout and retrytimeout are basically I want my server to redial instantly if it's offline, but I want it to pause 360 seconds or so between unsuccessful dial-in attempts incase

/etc/resolv.conf permissions problem?

2000-10-30 Thread Dan Horth
for some reason my /etc/resolv.conf was set like this: -r1 root root 44 Oct 31 16:18 /etc/resolv.conf which meant that anyone who was not root didn't know where the name servers were... I don't remember setting this up like this, and don't think that these are the

Bastille and chroot named

2000-10-29 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - I've been playing with Bastille trying to secure our servers that little bit more, and I was interested to see that it was trying to set up named in a chroot jail. Unfortunately Bastille didn't understand the way named works on my 6.2 server, and as such the chrooted named isn't

Re: Bastille and chroot named

2000-10-29 Thread Dan Horth
ok - may be bad for to answer one's own posts... but I did a little research and found this document... http://www.losurs.org/docs/howto/Chroot-BIND.html not been through it fully yet - but it has been updated pretty recently and am confident I should be able to get the info I need from

named is logging in the wrong time zone

2000-10-29 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I set up our named server on one of our test servers in a chroot jail over the weekend in our ongoing effort to tighten security as much as possible, and have noticed a strange thing - in that named is logging all it's info to the syslog at a different time to the rest of the stuff being

Re: apache is logging IPs only... why?

2000-10-25 Thread Dan Horth
d then restart your web server. On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:38:59 +1100, Dan Horth wrote: Hiya - I just noticed that over the past couple of weeks apache has been logging all hits as ip addresses rather than domain names. Apache was working fine logging domain names whenever possible - but now it only lis

Re: apache is logging IPs only... why?

2000-10-25 Thread Dan Horth
I am aware of an initial delay - but it shouldn't be too noticeable - so long as it's the same client IP that is accessing all the resources... rather than a round robin proxy setup scenario. I wouldn't say greatly reduces bandwidth though - name lookups don't involve great amounts of data -

Re: apache is logging IPs only... why?

2000-10-25 Thread Dan Horth
Charles: you're a legend! thanks for the tip... I've now added a pipe to logresolve in the part of my web log analyser script that grabs the day's log entries from the main log files for reporting, and I set all web servers to not resolve hostnames any more... logresolve slotted effortlessly

Re: Is This Possible

2000-10-24 Thread Dan Horth
isn't that what rsync is about? or is that rdist? At 1:01 PM -0600 24/10/00, Kevin Holmquist wrote: I know of only one filesystem that would allow this but it runs on IRIX. I'm guessing, but I think some sort of automated directory replication or mirroring between the two servers would be

Re: dd = destroy data?

2000-10-24 Thread Dan Horth
uhm - so it *is* possible to recover data that has been overwritten? in my understanding once you write 1s and 0s over every sector of the HD there should be no way of knowing whether the sector was a 1 or a 0 before being overwritten? I thought that the data was insecure (recoverable) only

apache is logging IPs only... why?

2000-10-24 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - I just noticed that over the past couple of weeks apache has been logging all hits as ip addresses rather than domain names. Apache was working fine logging domain names whenever possible - but now it only lists domain names for ips listed in out /etc/hosts file... if I take the ips

Re: What's this all about? (ipchains stuff)

2000-10-19 Thread Dan Horth
At 7:24 AM + 19/10/00, Peter Kiem wrote: Hi Dan, /var/log/messages:Oct 18 14:50:54 FireWall kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=17 the.remote.ip.address:55833 our.server.ip.address:61533 L=40 S=0x00 I=60941 F=0x4000 T=247 (#22) I think what you are seeing is this. When you set up

What's this all about? (ipchains stuff)

2000-10-18 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - after having set up ipchains on a bunch of servers I'm starting to see a load of DENY log entries - most of which appear normal to me - although we've had a load of them over the past few days from one particular IP address looking a bit like this: /var/log/messages:Oct 18 14:50:54

Re: Linux firewall/router on 420M drive? Plus other questions...

2000-10-12 Thread Dan Horth
Mikkel - could you give us some pointers as to how you've set up the SPAM filtering and forwarding to the "real" sendmail server within your network? I'd be very interested in setting up a similar system here...:) TIA - dan. At 1:20 PM -0500 12/10/00, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I am running

RE: NetBus attacks

2000-10-11 Thread Dan Horth
I find the tools on offer at http://combat.uxn.com/ very helpful in this matter, as they do a lot of the lookup recursion stuff for you automatically... HTH - dan. At 10:26 AM -0400 11/10/00, John Aldrich wrote: Hmm...if you know the IP of the source of your attacks you can still use "whois"

strange log message - eth0 has no resources?

2000-10-09 Thread Dan Horth
kernel: eth0: card reports no resources that line was just in my log files - any ideas as to what it means? TIA - dan. -- Nitro - 3D Visualisation, Graphics Animation Ph (+61 2) 9810 5177 - Fx (+61 2) 9810 0199 http://www.nitro.com.au/

minilogd and running out of memory...

2000-10-03 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - I'm running into a bit of an out of memory issue on a server here - and I noticed a process 'minilogd' is taking up loads of memory but I have no idea what it is other than it's part of the initscripts package, and it verifys ok when checked against the rpm database - so I'm

mount / make ISO image?

2000-10-02 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - I was wondering what would be the correct method of mounting an ISO image... I'm also curious as to how I should be using mkisofs to make an image of a directory structure... I tried to use it to make a copy of a CD - followed the info in the man pages as far as I can tell - but ended

Re: How to add an eth0 or PPP interface without X running

2000-09-29 Thread Dan Horth
probably going to get flamed for this but I find linuxconf pretty damn reliable for editing interfaces - definitely good for ethernet cards, ppp has been a bit flakey but should get there... as root just type: linuxconf and see what happens! :) At 2:22 PM +0530 29/9/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailbox vulnerable

2000-09-28 Thread Dan Horth
ls -l /var/spool/mail will show that that your /var/spool/mail folder probably has "rwxrwx---" permissions or something... not what pop3d wants you to have it set at. chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail will fix your problem but you'll probably have the same problem crop up next time you use

Web Discussion Board

2000-09-25 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - I'm looking for a good web discussion board type solution... this looks pretty exciting at first glance: http://joydesk.com/ but I'd rather a GPL product... is anyone using a product successfully with a redhat 6.X server setup that provides: Multi User - then again is there

Re: intresting log entry

2000-09-24 Thread Dan Horth
hmm.. I thought that the whole point of the update was to patch this security hole... isn't the text you quoted referring to the vulnerability that the update fixed? At 10:28 PM -0500 24/9/00, Jonathan Wilson wrote: I _just_ saw the red hat security update for sysklogd and guess what? part of

Re: Consulta varias ( Modems, Proxy,Web Server )

2000-09-23 Thread Dan Horth
Hola Juan... bienvenido en el forum de redhat-list! :) El informacion que he incluido en este email es todo en ingles... si su ingles no es muy bueno (peor que mi espaƱol! :) puedes utilizar el servicio de traduccion de altavista a: http://babelfish.altavista.com pero a veces los

Re: intrusion detection

2000-09-22 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - we use logcheck and logwatch here... logwatch is available in RPM format on your redhat distro cd - and will give you a daily summary email of interesting activity on your server... logins, network connections, etc. logcheck is run from cron as often as you like, and checks your log

Re: Restarting a Linux Box

2000-09-22 Thread Dan Horth
init 6 At 8:24 PM -0700 22/9/00, Jeff Grossman wrote: How do you properly restart a Linux box? I use the command 'shutdown -- Nitro - 3D Visualisation, Graphics Animation Ph (+61 2) 9810 5177 - Fx (+61 2) 9810 0199 http://www.nitro.com.au/

Re: Help ! This is a exploit ? What I do to do .

2000-09-18 Thread Dan Horth
seems like a brute force attack on your ftp server - indications are that the attack was successfully averted... but you really should do plenty of other checks before deciding that your server is secure... try this checklist: http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/intruder_detection_checklist.html

Re: What do you do when kill -9 doesn't work?

2000-09-18 Thread Dan Horth
which process were you sending the signal to? did you try killing the parent sshd process? ps aexf is your friend in this sort of situation... :) HTH - dan. At 2:38 PM -0500 18/9/00, Jonathan Wilson wrote: Howdy, I tried to mount a floppy the other day after forgetting that I traded the

RE: Help ! This is a exploit ? What I do to do .

2000-09-18 Thread Dan Horth
As dave said I think that this will break stuff - but I also remember there is a way to get the passwd file used (served) by the ftp daemon to be a dummy passwd file with just your ftp user(s) in there, rather than your real users... not a massive problem because the passwords are stored in

Re: Passing Browser Indetity through a Firewall

2000-09-17 Thread Dan Horth
sometimes I have tricked dumb sites like this by accessing them through the anonymiser service... it's usually just the first page that has the heavy checking on it - then you get forwarded to a section of the site customised for your setup... anyway - I may be talking from where teh sun

Sendmail rejecting large messages issue

2000-09-16 Thread Dan Horth
Hi all - another rambling brain dumb on issues I've been thinking about regarding our server systems... We have a cap on our max message size accepted by sendmail because we're on a slow link and we pay by transfer amount - so we try to discourage our friends from sending us 20MB MPEG movies

Re: Sendmail rejecting large messages issue

2000-09-16 Thread Dan Horth
- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Horth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:34 PM Subject: Sendmail rejecting large messages issue Anyway - since we've started doing mail relaying for a client we've noticed a few of these "message rejec

How to log traffic going to / from an email address?

2000-09-14 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - I'm considering setting up our server to accept email addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] basically - any address @ some.domain.com and redirect that (using the fallback address option with vmail) to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] what I was wondering if there is

Re: GET ME OFF THIS *@$!^ LIST

2000-09-13 Thread Dan Horth
At 6:41 PM -0700 13/9/00, Thornton Prime wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Ray Curtis wrote: Use this webpage URL at the bottom of every message on this list: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list I believe the host uses a self-signed SSL certificate. The original poster

Re: Open Relay?

2000-09-12 Thread Dan Horth
At 3:23 AM -0400 12/9/00, Statux wrote: What's open relay? it's in the headers of the email he attached... open relay = open mail relay - your mail server will accept mail from anyone and forward it to anyone... the sort of server spammers love... there's a switch in linuxconf shudder in the

rpc.statd vulnerability exploit attempts

2000-09-10 Thread Dan Horth
hiya - I've been having some script kiddies trying to break into our servers (again) but don't remember seeing messages like this before in my log files. What annoys me most about this attempt is that I don't have any record of where the connection came from, or any other relevant messages

Re: Failed mail

2000-09-10 Thread Dan Horth
I don't exist? why you little !!! I'll give you don't exist! just wait till I get my hands on you! :) At 8:28 AM +0700 11/9/00, NTMail wrote: - Your message to linux.tgs.ttg was rejected. I said: MAIL From:[EMAIL

More stuff that a 6.2 upgrade broke... nfs now...

2000-09-10 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - still having post upgrade problems - I had an NFS server running on a host - worked fine prior to the upgrade but now I get weird errors... ps. note names have been changed to protect the innocent! :) this is what the /etc/exports on my server looks like: [[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]#

RE: More stuff that a 6.2 upgrade broke... nfs now...

2000-09-10 Thread Dan Horth
At 9:29 PM -0500 10/9/00, Uncle Meat wrote: At this point and the last few bits shown, you either messed something up in the transpositions, or it's obvious what the mistake is. Under the line above: when I try to set up exports: [[EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]... you show that

Re: Vacation

2000-09-06 Thread Dan Horth
not answering your problems - but - whatever you do just make sure that the user you are setting up the vacation notice for (specially if it's yourself! ;) has disabled any subscriptions to mailing lists before they go on vacation - otherwise the mail lists will probably get flooded with a

Re: kernel Oops?

2000-09-03 Thread Dan Horth
At 2:40 AM -0400 3/9/00, Statux wrote: It's a kernel oops.. of course you should be concerned :) ok... all joking aside I just got my second Oops in the log files... I am getting concerned... just not too sure what I should be doing about this... is this a sign of things that are going to be

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