Hello... I have a question for the masses...
I am setting up (finally) a real honest to goodness syslog server
(YEAH!!!)...
and anyway, I have my server accepting remote logs, and have my PIX,
Ascend racks, and currently ONE server logging to the new syslog
server... trouble is, I can not
Ummm IPTABLES??? If I were at home, I would send you my firewall
script that sets up NAT and does just this.
Mine is set up so that internal addresses are routed to the external
address I get from the ISP... works very well.
But if hte other suggestions dont work, or you want yet a third
Just a tad off topic, but can anyone provide me with the port range that
Netscape Communicator uses when publishing web pages that are created
using its HTML editor??
I cant find them anywhere, and have a use who cant get a connection
through to publish her site changes...
I am fairly sure
This should be a lot simpler than it is seeming right now, BUT, does
anyone have a link to info on syslog? I have read the Man pages for
syslog, syslogd, syslog.conf, etc etc and still havent found quite what
I am looking for...
Currently, I have a log server that accepts remote logs from our
Ray Curtis wrote:
jl == Jeff Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jl This should be a lot simpler than it is seeming right now, BUT, does
jl anyone have a link to info on syslog? I have read the Man pages for
jl syslog, syslogd, syslog.conf, etc etc and still havent found quite what
More importantly is what he said originally... My server RH 7.0 (soon
upgrading to 8) has been hacked AGAIN vi ftp.
This makes me wonder... first off, hes running 7.0. Has he or the admin
bothered with keeping the machine up to date with errata and secuirty
patches? Next, that makes me ask,
We get at least 40-50 attempts per day like that. Most are port scans
and such... So far, knock on wood, we havent had any trouble, and seem
to be doing well using a mix of iptables/portsentry/
Honestly tho, these repeated scans and attemps from Korea and China and
other places that foster
edit /etc/modules.conf
or if that doesnt work, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add your insmod line
to the end of that file.
:)
Jeff
Bill Lewis wrote:
What command do I use to load a module. I use insmod -f filename and
it loads ok. But when I reboot the module needs reloading. What command
do
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
Yes, it does happen thatway,, but even then i never had to hard boot my
client machine(in your case Host B) because i had soft mounted the /home
on my client machine :-)
Ahhh I can see that beign a plus... in our case, they had it set up
so that there was nothing
LOL... Perhaps someone should start an unsubscribe mailing list that
people can join in order to find out how to unsubscribe???
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:04, Ryan McDougall wrote:
Dear Mike,
{SNIP}
If I recieved 100 emails a day from people like you, I would want to
Just for kicks, does that machines bios support wake-on-lan? That could
help, however, it also sometimes makes bad things [tm] happen... so YMMV...
Morgan Doocy wrote:
I'd love for it to be able to sleep and still wake up when it receives
a request -- but I can't find any software that will
directory suddenly
disappears.
Been there, done that... more times than I care to remember... ;)
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
It isn't necessary that the server need to be hard booted to get it back.
pass appropriacte parameters to nfs and you are in the run.
rrs
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jeff Lane
Dont ask me how to do this, because its very ugly, from what I have
heard, but you could use something like NIS to do network
authentication, and have one machine serving home directories via nfs...
that way, each time a user logs on, NIS uses that users defaults, and
auto mounts the home dir
Skeeve Stevens wrote:
Maybe someone @ RedHat will listen if I post here... There was no
response from any of the other addresses.
...Skeeve
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Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 7:25 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: '[EMAIL
Skeeve Stevens wrote:
Yippee... a response.
...Skeeve
Ummm you gonna share the response? ;)
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Cliff Wells wrote:
Well, I for one would like to know exactly why it's called Red Hat.
Is this some sort of communist plot? Their logo *does* look rather
cloak-and-dagger.
Maybe they should change their versioning scheme to colors: redhat,
bluehat, greenhat, aquahat. That wouldn't seem as
Mark Hutchinson wrote:
They changed to policy on this yesterday. The 2 major number versions now comes
from Advanced server numbering. As this is much slower, your RHCE will last
alot longer.
Which is even better news for those of us who were certed in the 6.2-7.2
days:
From the email I
True, true, the address given was incorrect. And someone could have
pointed him to the quite obvious trailer that is put on to every email
this list gets that is as follows:
redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Oddly enough, I have run into the same issues when having problems wiht
gpm. And sometimes on reboots...
For gpm, sometimes gpm does not start properly, and for some reason I
cant fathom, if gpm isnt running, X wont load... (granted this is
probably related to the next issue more than it is
Edward Dekkers wrote:
But Edward, I
only say this because I care, but... there are many decaffinated brands
on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing. ;)
cheers
Jeff
I actually only ever drink decaf. Late night, up early, and one of the first
messages is yet another unsubscribe
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
Red Hat list admin:
A number of folks received the following on the Red Hat mailing
list recently. The overwhelming evidence is that it is spam,
given the return address of redhat.chtah.com
Ummm nope. Unless this spammer happened to also take over the
redhat.com
to automount in fstab...
just my 2 cents...
Jeff
Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 12:25 22 Mar 2003, Jeff Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Michael Mansour wrote:
| SNIP
| hdc: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
| Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
| cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
| cdrom
Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 05:29 23 Mar 2003, Michael Mansour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| The cd drive is empty actually... I thought it had
| something to do with the KDE automounter always
| checking the cd drive to see if something is in it?
Hmm, yes. Sounds likely to me, though you'd expect a
Michael Mansour wrote:
Hi,
I'm running RH8.0 with kernel 2.4.18-27.8.0 on a Dual
Pentium II 300MHz CPU. The system boots up and runs
fine, although I get a couple of errors. Following is
my dmesg output:
(feel free to go scan though it and tell me if
anything looks weird to you, especially the
Jack Byers wrote:
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree with William Ward:
Can we please get back to Redhat Linux now?
I started this whole thing off,
caused mainly by my not understanding
the common use of miles ahead
and thus i leaped to criticize use of light-years
bc I was taking its
fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:57:51PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
Han Solo: Fast? Yeah, she's fast. She made the Kessel run in
under 12 parsecs.
Which makes sense only if the kessel run is some kind of benchmark
other than a DISTANCE benchmark, i.e., if they're
Dan Donathan wrote:
Has anyone ever asked RH about it? Like I said, it seems odd that such a
popular card would have a problem.
-Original Message-
From: Joe Lewinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: System Drops off
Being an RHCE, as well as one of the people who is/was certified to
actually give the exams, I can tell you this:
First, Caleb, your friends are correct... I bought that book and found
it to be basically useless. Then again, I much prefer the Oreilly books
on linux anyway,
As for practice
Anthony E. Greene wrote:
You might not realize it, but you may be starting a flamewar :-)
Try both and use the one you like best. As long as you have both
installed on you machine, you can run apps from either environment,
regardless of the desktop you happen to be using.
Heh... YEAH
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Rick Johnson wrote:
Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
So, do you recommend a book?
You're missing the point. RHCE's *cannot* be passed by book alone. If you
have the experience required, you'll pass the exam without a book.
no, you can't pass by book
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it's not a power problem, another computer on the same circuit never
has this problem.
Not necessarily true. The power supply itself may be causing problems.
Or a bad fan... I used to have a PIII that would constantly reboot
itself...
Jerome Dsilva wrote:
Hi,
Please reply if you know about the same ..I haven't got any replies
to this post...
Is there any command in RH to get the list of device mapping names
.This is required to know the drivers and the modules used by that
kernel in run time. This should be something
Heres one I have seen before, but for the life of me I cant remember how
to fix this...
I have a server that is running mySQL. Now, the problem is that mySQL
does not load at boot time. I can not figure out why.
Before y'all start chiming in with the obvious, I have the startup
scripts in
Jon Haugsand wrote:
I do not intend to be unfriendly, but shouldn't you ask the SunLinux
community questions concering SunLinux?
Anyway, why not change the /etc/init.d/mysql script such that any
messages it outputs is routed into, say, /var/log/mysql. E.g. if the
following is a fragmend of the
An even simpler, and more common problem is this:
first, did you do an md5sum on the iso's you downloaded and then compare
them to what is listed in the MD5SUM file on the ftp site? that way you
can ensure that you got complete, full downloads with no errors.
Second, are they bad disks? the
No. ITs a win modem IIRC.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, ARIEL PEREZ wrote:
Dear Friends
I need to know if this modem are supported by
linux red hat 7.0 2.2.16 ...
thanks for all...
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Get rpm2cpio and install that. then do this:
rpm2cpio foo.rpm | pax -r /full/path/to/filename -w /tmp -i
this will write the file interactively, so you can change the name.
for instance, if the specfile you want, when doing an rpm -qpl foo.rpm
shows up like: /usr/src/foo.spec.file but you
Not without an upgrade to probably 2.4.3 kernel. Not to mention that you
may or may not get that to work as the USB support in Linux is still not
quite there...
but for the best info, go to www.linux-usb.org and look for your camera to
see if it is supported and possibly for HOWTOS on
so
why dont you just delete the rmmod cron job that is causing this??
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Al Sparks wrote:
--- "Mikkel L. Ellertson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have the correct version of modtools?
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edit the makefile and change HOSTCC= from gcc to kgcc, and make sure you
have the kgcc package installed.
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Peter Peltonen wrote:
I get a error in checksum.SS (or something) with 2.2.17 kernel. I've installed
the updates and have succesfully compiled many kernels on rh6.2
what kind of NIC? what is the make and model? can you do an lspci -vb and
get the info???
whats the name of hte .c file?
and that is a c source file... you have to compile the driver.
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jerry Human wrote:
I have installed a nic that came with a driver for Linux with a
SAINT is good, but it depends on what you are trying to do. If you are
trying to do a security audit, then yeah,
SAINT, SATAN, Nessus, and there are quite a few others that are all very
good, and range in price from free to ungodly expensive.
If you are just looking for open ports, and some of
Why didnt you just use rp3-config and add a new ISP entry with your moms
password and username??? then log in to the ISP as hers?? I would
imagine, that if you are using a decent ISP, that the problem is on their
end... i.e. you cant log in as user john and get mail from user mary's
account.
Hmmm I stand corrected then
I would have thought that their servers would prevent that from happening
(similar to keeping users out of each others home accounts on a LAN)...
I will have to go home tonite and play with that some and see what i can
figure out...
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Mikkel L.
No. Not I. Is this the SAME CD in each machine? If so, then I would
imagine you ahve a bad CD, dirty CD, scratched CD, etc.
especially if all these machines are different (i.e. not the same model of
hardware in them)
cheers
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Charles wrote:
I've been having problems
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Dave Wreski wrote:
I'm looking to uninstall RH 7.0 , but I don't have a clue where to
start! Any help would be appreciated.
1. Take disk out of machine
2. Walk outside with it
3. Drop on cement / nearby a large magnet
Heh heh...
rm -rf /
reboot, boot to dos,
I dont see any headers files listed on the errata page with the links to
the kernel packages... what version and architecture are you using?
also, you shouldnt need new headers... the headers should be the same as
the ones that are currently on your system. (kernel-headers-2.4.0-0.26)
HTH
J
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Mark Lo wrote:
Hi all,
From my log files, I got the following messages. I know the below IP
address is coming from the same network as I do. and I have checked the IP
address (203.194.161.2 and 203.194.161.3) with my ISP, they told me the IP
of 203.194.161.2 and
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Bret Hughes wrote:
Bret Hughes wrote:
Having trouble getting a key generated fo ssh2 on the commercial version
of secure shell to work on OpenSSH on a redhat 6.2 box.
Got it working see below.
Ignore my other message..
Interesting thought you make tho, about
That IP info is here, courtesy of www.apnic.net and www.arin.net:
inetnum 211.104.0.0 - 211.119.255.255
netname KRNIC-KR-25
descrKRNIC
descrKorea Network Information Center
country KR
admin-c WK1-AP, inverse
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, David Brett wrote:
Hi Jeff
Here is the output requested. It looks ok to me. If it makes any
difference this is rh6.2
chkconfig --list network
network 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off
For the record all, we solved this one... was
That may be because you are trying to use a commercial SSH2 key, on an
SSH1 system.
Well, thats what it sounds like here... but I could be mistaken..
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
That sounds like my problem, what's the best way to do a memory check?
This is often a sign of RAM going bad, might try swapping out sticks of
memory and watching for the crashes. Possibly running a memory test would
be worth it. Hope this helps.
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, David Brett wrote:
When ever the computer restarts, the ehternet is not active. I cannot
find out why. I am always able to make it active. Here is ifcfg-eth0
file
DEVICE="eth0"
USERCTL=yes
ONBOOT="yes"
BOOTPROTO="none"
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
Dude... put this on the fisher-list
not to rag you, but while this info is of great use to the users on this
list, the people on [EMAIL PROTECTED] would probably find this info
even more useful.
so please send this to fisher-list, and maybe even subscribe to that list,
so that your experiences
Obviously, you didnt read the page... did you? Did you happen to read the
Redhat-list Subscribers section?
Since you are a subscriber, then dont ya think that this area would be
important to you??
heres what it says:
Redhat-list Subscribers
The subscribers list is only available to the list
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mike Burger wrote:
You need to get a copy of rpm-3.0.5.
Get it at www.redhat.com/errata in teh 6.2 errata.
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
chkconfig --level 35 lpd on
I am sorry. You lost me. What does that mean? (chkconfig --level 35 lpd on)
that is the chkconfig command... like running ntsysv on ONE service from
the console... it translates to:
chkconfig (run the chkconfig command)
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, eric clover wrote:
is there anything that will convert a windows doc made with word into some
kind of linux format? here at work(windows machine) i'd like to be able to
make a doc and xfer it to home convert it to some linux format and print it
out on my home(linux)
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, John Marlovits wrote:
Agreed. However, just about every other mailman mailing list I'm on sends out a
monthly reminder with this info. It would be NICE if RedHat would send out this
info, however I know there will ALWAYS be some people who can't be bothered to
RTFM!:-(
www.redhat.com
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Selim Jahangir wrote:
Dear All
Where can I find information about Red Hat Certfication Exam ?
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Vineeta wrote:
Is there an online exam for Redhat certification?
And,if yes,which are the sites?
Secondly,in case we need to physically go and give the exam at a
particular location,then,how do we find out which all places it is
hosted in?
No... there isnt. Teh only
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Calamity wrote:
PHD wrote:
Also, x-girlfriend is a cetified witch and I would
like to figure out how to intercept her email.
Just a side note, unless you own the server that is sending and recieving
the mail for this girl, that is at least somewhat illegal.
And even
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
I may have read wrong, but I think he's trying to intercept mail --
like, for reading, not for sending to the bit bucket.
If that's the case, then that is most definitely not playing fair.
Network managers, legal departments, and HR managers all
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Without knowing the program that initd is complaining about, it is hard
to complaining about, it is hard to give a more definite answer.
Umm thats the messages you get when X bombs out, X as in Xwindows...
usually this is caused by an XFS
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote:
Thanks for the reminder. It's actually /etc/host.conf.
Yes, it is...
But it wont do you a bit of good if your /etc/hosts file doenst show the
IP and hostname(s) for each machine on the network you wish to have
connections to. Unless, of course, you
Assuming you are downloading mp3s, you need an mp3 player like xmms to
play them.
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
I just downloaded the newest (latest) gnapster and it finally works. I can
actually download files now.
Now, I can't find how to play these files?? Can they be played
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
Do any of you know if this file is a virus file?
MAPPJJMA.exe
A client of mine received it from an unknown source.
so delete it and go one with life... easy enough... never open strange
attachments, never take candy from strangers, blah
Look in /dev/usb for a list of all the ports that usb replicates.. like:
lp0, mdcX, scannerX, ttyUSBX
etc etc...
so, while I dont have any USB devices, I would guess that the actual
device would be either /dev/usb/devicename, or it would be a symlink in
/dev that points to the /dev/usb
Since this is happening only on the first connect or two, I would imagine
you dont have the hosts files set up, or DNS is not running, or set up
properly.
I would imagine that its a DNS problem, causing the clinet machine to send
a broadcast looking for the target machine... then after it gets a
Go here:
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2000-051-01.html
that will give you the correct packages to upgrade RPM to the new version
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, David Trollope wrote:
Hi,
I'm probably going to ask a very stupid question, so before I get flamed, I
have looked at some
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
Yes. And even if it is installed, it is easy to uninstall it using 'rpm
linuxconf'.
i install a base installation from ftp/http and linuxconf is not
unselectable; i wish it was.
It is... try doing a custom install. when you
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Christopher McCrory wrote:
Hello...
Are you sure about that? IIRC anything in the 'base' portion of comps is
non optional. IIRC there is a gnome-linuxconf GUI for linuxconf that is
un-checkable, but the core package is still installed.
Ummm... you may be
go to www.redhat.com/errata and look at the 6.2 errata.
the wu-ftp errata there is the fix for this.
you could also get the newer 2.6.1 wu-ftp that ships with RH7.
Or you could also do what Grendel said elsewhere and try ProFTP.
all solutions should work.
cheers
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, tc
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Hal Burgiss wrote:
Is the below expected behavior? or bug? Values assigned to variables
within the loop, are not visible outside the loop. Using something
like 'while true' works as I would expect.
#!/bin/bash
## script: testing
## test variable visibility
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
Granted that RedHat's record with regard to security and
upgrades like this has been an abysmal embarrasment. But it's still
the only shot you've got. As low as it is, you can only do
In comparison to what?
first, the only reason
On 17 Jan 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrd wrote:
Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
linux:~#rpm -U glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12
/usr/bin/getent is needed by stunnel-3.10-2
linux:~#rpm -i
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, you wrote:
You take all three parts in order to pass the test. You need to score at
least 240 of 300 points, nothing lower than a 50 on anyone of them though.
To throw in my two cents, it was indeed a stern test, but
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote:
The article doesn't appear to note the affected versions of rpc.statd and
wu-ftpd that are affected...do you have any info on that?
wuftp is 2.6.0 and rpc.statd is the out of box version that comes with
6.2.
What that article fails to mention, and
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
Then why does the article state that RedHat 7.0 is affected by the worm as
well? I thought these wu-ftp and rpc.statd issues were solved before the
release of 7.0.
because the script kiddies also threw in the original RH7 LPRng bug as
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote:
The reason that the article states that it can affect 7.0 is that 7.0
ships with wu-ftpd 2.6.0, and the earlier version of rpc.statd.
No... its LPRng for 7. the wu-ftp that ships with 7 is 2.6.1-6
cheers
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Toms Garca Ferrari wrote:
Any advices for the future? How often shall I check for updates / fixes /
patches and so on?
Keep current on all the errata. And heres a way to make that
easier. There is the Red Hat network... and also up2date
the new up2date and
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Matthew Melvin wrote:
Hi Mark,
Hmm... you definitly need the 1st one. You need the second one if
you want to use ssh to log into other servers /from/ your redhat box. You
He also needs the openssl packages as well, as they have some of the files
that the ssh
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, John Aldrich wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Hi!
I am seeing a lot of denied connections to port 6688 on a friends firewall.
Some kids installed napster on one of his machines yesterday, and all these
denies are in the period that they downloaded mp3's,
Maybe. AFAIK, the only wu-ftp that is affected is the version that is
right off the install CDs for 6.2.
which is wu-ftpd-2.6.0-3.i386.rpm
I would imagine that the one listed on the errata page is probably
safe. You could also try upgrading to 2.6.1, but I dont knwo if that will
break any
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Matt Wilson wrote:
Huh? The X server *is* running as root, Xwrapper runs it that way.
Adding a setuid bit would do the same thing.
Actually, in order for me to get X 4.0.1 (using XFree86 and not
Xwrapper) to run when starting it as a non-root user, I had to chmod +s
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