Re: Firewall - Limit Geographic Area

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:51:16AM +0200, Zoki wrote: > *** What I don't get is where comes this pathological panic of yours that > pirates only exist in China and Europe? > > Don't tell me Mr . K. Mitnick was Chinese... I think the idea wasn't that bad people are only in Far Away Places, more th

Re: Firewall - Limit Geographic Area

whether Redhat's default install is reasonably secure, whether their updates are conservative, whether Postfix and Maradns have good security reputations, etc. www.google.com/linux is your friend). Warning: some will disagree with what I write here. Listen to them, see if what they

Re: Firewall - Limit Geographic Area

ot since been audited for security. -kb, the Kent who only now would start to trust Squirrelmail, and only then if keeping it promptly updated with every fix. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Firewall - Limit Geographic Area

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:00:15PM -0500, lrnobs wrote: > This web site will be used for local food delivery and all customers > will have to set up accounts in advance to be sure they are in the > fuzzy delivery area. So validate the delivery address as being in your delivery area. (By zip code,

Re: up2date not up to date?

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:56:30PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:13:04 -0700, David Demner wrote: > > > I have a question about up2date. I recently noticed that the most recent version > > of OpenSSL available on their

VNC Questions

I have been playing with VNC, but can't find a couple things. - When I put vncviewer in "fullscreen" mode, how do I get out? - To do desktop sharing for support, with the newbie sitting at a local computer and the support person sharing that same computer from afar, what is the cleanest w

Re: Redhat 9.0 X problem

do X windows, but an old Redhat 7.3 could. Do I need to dig up a BIOS update for it? -kb, the Kent who would probably have to dig up a DOS boot disk from a co-worker too. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Remote Keyboard and mouse

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Buck wrote: > I have seen SSH referred to in several postings on the listservs. > Is that what I want to study? Yes. Turn on the sshd service, ssh is great. It stands for "secure shell", in its most common use, where one might have typed "telnet someserv

Re: How can I copy files from one RH9 box to another RH9 box?

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:33:07PM +0400, Alexey Fadyushin wrote: > I think that the easiest way to copy files through the neiwork is to use > command 'scp' from the ssh package. You can use address instead of host > name, because in your situation both hosts have the same name. > > scp : Or, lo

Re: Fedora

to others. I am willing to pay something. I have bought quite a few different boxed versions of Redhat Linux when I didn't really have to, but I have not payed for up2date as I follow a more manual technique. -kb, the Kent who is not making any money on his personal use of Linux, it is all

Re: Plea to Linux Users

ing applied *promptly* after they become available? I seriously doubt it. Worse, are those secondary Linux computers influenced by those reading this list all being kept up to date? No. -kb, the Kent who things running chkrootkit (via one techique or another) is good, but it is far more important

Re: Prefered backup method?

, a la rsnapshot? -kb, the Kent who wants to know how the big and medium guys do it. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Prefered backup method?

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:49:58PM -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: > If you backup to another building, you are still not protected > against some city-wide disasters such as a nuclear bomb (ok. that's > stretching it a little too far, but it states the point). You don't need to be so exotic to find

Re: Prefered backup method?

to criticize, but had I checked back more carefully in the thread I would still have posted a response clarifying that you do know the difference between backup and a raid array. -kb, the Kent who thinks the idea of incremental backups over the internet is about to be the new version of "o

Re: Prefered backup method?

things like rsnapshot and maybe a more disks at a second location, and it is possible to get good backups from disks, but describing a single array does not answer someone asking about backups. -kb, the Kent who thinks tape *is* outdated for most (all?) backup scenarios, but the Kent who also tr

Re: Prefered backup method?

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:55:47PM -0700, Jack Bowling wrote: > > I am doing backups with a similar hard links-based technique and I > > have a question: How can I tell how much space one of my backups > > takes? I can't do a "du one_of_several_backups -s" because the hard > > links make all the f

Re: Prefered backup method?

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:23:39AM -0700, Jack Bowling wrote: > I think backup methods are determined by your level of paranoia. For > myself, I use a dedicated backup hard drive and rsnapshot > http://rsnapshot.sourceforge.net for doing the grunt work. I am doing backups with a similar hard links

Re: rhn notification icon is red but...

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:41:16AM -0500, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: > My rhn notification icon is showing a red exclamation point. When I > click on it it tells me thaty there is a new kernel, but it shows > the same version number for both the currently installed and the new > kernel. My apple

Re: smartd attribute numbers?

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 04:38:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which version of smart do you use? The versions that came with RH 8 (smartctl and smartd both version 2.1) and two somewhat recent Maxtor 60 GB disks. -kb, the Kent who didn't know about smartctl until now, andhis sm

Re: smartd attribute numbers?

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:10:38AM -0400, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > Kent Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know of a list of Smart attribute numbers for Maxtor disks? > > Specifically I am interested in attributes 5, 195 and 201, but a > > complete list w

smartd attribute numbers?

Anyone know of a list of Smart attribute numbers for Maxtor disks? Specifically I am interested in attributes 5, 195 and 201, but a complete list would be more "teach-me-to-fish". Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listi

Re: I'll be damned...!!

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:40:37PM +0200, Zoran's mailinglist account wrote: > *** I'm recovering from a hart attack: > > [ibook:~] zoran% ftp updates.redhat.com > Trying 63.240.14.69... > Connected to updates.redhat.com. > 220 www1 Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0). > 331 Password required for

Re: What backup solution for direct-attach?

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:39:38PM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote: > Thanks, all who responded, but I'm still looking for info on tape > drives. I don't remember the previous thread (and looking in my outbox I don't think I posted to it either), so... You want to do backups, you want them to be r

Re: SERVER DISTRO

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:12:59PM +0700, Achmad Mardiansyah wrote: > the server distro that i mean is a distro that enough secure to > run. i have try RH 7.2 and RH8.0 but the package is very easy to > hack. (apache, wu ftpd, samba, etc). Redhat is very good about issuing free patches for known e

Re: Securit Checking

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:52, Chris Wilson wrote: > Anyone know of any good tools to use for checking your server for > security holes? I want to check RedHat (7.2, 8.0, 9.0). > > I am especially interested in hacks for smtpd type hacks. Are you completely current with Red Hat updates? If not, ge

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

NG. up2date does, indeed, keep old kernels around. Sorry. -kb, the Kent who thinks Redhat's Linux distribution would be closer to civilian-ready if up2date only kept one previous kernel around. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:03:56PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > Kent, please don't yell at me, because I completely support what > you've stated. I just wanted to suggest that the "-F" flag *not* be > used for upgrading a kernel, regardless of what Red Hat sugges

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:40:25AM -0500, Otto Haliburton wrote: > There were previous posting. His question was /boot is full. The > original response was to go to /boot and delete old kernels. That > is where RH places them and never deletes them. How so? Up2date doesn't let kernels collect

Re: Upgrade advice 7.2 -> 9

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:04:16AM +0100, Kevin Passey wrote: > Is it a big deal upgrading from 7.2 to 9? Upgrades are tricky things. Conservative practice is to *not* upgrade to new revisions, but to do a completely new install. There are two basic cases here: 1) You have made lots of change

RH 9 Window Titles in Panel

If I say: "emacs -title Editor\ 1", I will et an emacs with the title "Editor 1", but when I want to use the panel to pull up that window it says "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I like to keep more than one emacs around, but they all have the same button titles in the panel. Any idea how I can change that?

Re: RH 9 installation via ftp problem

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:12:05AM -0700, Anton NG wrote: > but i still have the same error messages... i am using vsftp package > as my ftp server... is it a bug of rh 9 packages ?? I did a net install of Red Hat 9 and it worked--but I used NFS. As always, I had to futz to get the path right, bu

Re: how to generate a random number using a POSIX shell??

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 05:07:08PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: > I was able to dd the /dev/urandom but was lost how to turn all those > funky chars into a number. You are on a binary computer, and /dev/urandom is spitting out binary data--what could be more fundamentally a number than that? If you

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

wo (or more monitors). I haven't played with it, but it looks like a farily simple config file edit is all it takes to light up a dual-monitor card. (No, not as easy as the Mac to configure.) I think I have read that getting differing video cards to work is not so easy. -kb, the Kent who would

Re: Redhat crashes. Now what? Where do I start?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:39:34PM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote: > If this were hpux or solaris the OS would be monitoring drives for > predictive failures I have a Red Hat 8.0 box that seems to be having ECC problems with one of the raid 1 disk drives, and smartd logging that for me so I will h

Re: Redhat crashes. Now what? Where do I start?

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:52:50AM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote: > No smartd on the system - did you have to install it separately or > was it already there from the OS install? I did an "everything" install to get my copy of smartd. As big as Red Hat's kitchen sink installation is, it can't co

Re: RH 9 Window Titles in Panel

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:08:51AM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > If I say: "emacs -title Editor\ 1", I will et an emacs with the title > "Editor 1", but when I want to use the panel to pull up that window it > says "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I like to keep more tha

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:45:27AM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: > On 8/7/03 1:58 AM, "Kent Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My old Sony notebook has an external monitor output connector, and it > > works fine under Red Hat Linux with no configuration required--ex

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

heading in the right direction. -kb, the Kent who once stood up at an Apple Developer's Conference and asked (presciently, IHHO) whether the newly announced Extensions folder wasn't going to merely shift System folder clutter instead of cleaning it up. -- redhat-list mailing

Re: Help installing a Maxtor External Firewire HD

While we are on the topic of Firewire disks, has anyone tried software raid 1 with Firewire disks? If so, how fast is it? What gotchas were involved? Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Laptops?

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:37:44PM -0400, David Hart wrote: > I'm a n00b nitwit but I understand that the Sony laptops have unique > issues. There are some specific compilation setting that are > required. I would read the help associated with every selection or - > possibly - someone here could of

Re: Need your help [arguments for open source databases]

out what else you might want to spend money on. Oracle probably offers better support than a free product can offer, but Oracle probably charges for that support, whereas I am sure there are Postgresql jocks who can be hired too. Do some Google searching to learn more. -kb, the Kent who asked Goo

Re: Adding files to log (cat?)

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:02:45AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Garbled, maybe. Lost, no. >> guarentees all writes append, and thus > don't overlap. Ah, didn't know that. Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Data Migration

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:12:08PM +0100, Kelerion wrote: > I'm not exactly an expert on this subject (or many others for that > matter) but is NFS really a suitable solutions to transfering 1.5TB+ of > data over a network?? I didn't think it was *very* stable... Previous messages have suggested

Re: Laptops?

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:19:31AM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:15:31AM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > > The only laptop I've heard has minor problems are the Sonys, but > > that was a while ago. It might be ok now. > > I am running RH 9 on

Re: Laptops?

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:15:31AM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > The only laptop I've heard has minor problems are the Sonys, but > that was a while ago. It might be ok now. I am running RH 9 on an old Vaio Z505LE, and it works well. Including > > > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 10:11, Dan Bar Do

Re: Adding files to log (cat?)

Jul 23 09:53:24 EDT 2003 There are various switches to logger to modify its behavior, including what file to log to, etc. -kb, the Kent who didn't know about logger until now, but he knew simple redirection was a bad idea and started looking through a couple man pages. -- redhat-list mailing

Re: How many ip address question

wanted to experiment with Squirrelmail; I don't want to mess with my basement server lightly, it would be nice to do that someplace else, and having an IP address makes that all much more worthwhile. If I may ask, what is your new ISP? -kb, the Kent who is always on the lookout for ISPs

Re: No Wine on RH9.0 ?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:24:44PM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 15:15, Kent Borg wrote this in an attempt to be > witty and informative: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:30:10AM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > > It was installed by default for

Re: No Wine on RH9.0 ?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:30:10AM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > It was installed by default for me and I didn't do an everything > install. Were you doing an upgrade from, say, RH 7.3? Maybe your installation of wine is left over from then. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mai

Re: No Wine on RH9.0 ?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:25:33AM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Wine is in 9.0. Are you sure? I don't see it in my "everything" install. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: System Backups

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:08:52PM -0500, Haley Crowe wrote: > Hello all. I have what I hope will be a fairly simple question. We > have a Redhat system that we want to make sure we get a full system > backup (image) of anytime a major change is made. Does anyone have any > suggestions or tips o

Re: memory useage question

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:54:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my new RedHat 9 web server I see the physical memory is pretty much > always shown as 99% used, disk swap 0%. I have 768 megs ram, AMD 600mhz > Athlon cpu. > Is this normal? Should I reboot it when it gets like this? No, do

Re: Reiserfs Disk Usage

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:36:02PM -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: > What is the filesystem type on the other partitions? Ext2 has no > journal, while ext3 does (though I don't recall how it sizes it). Check > out journal size in reiserfs to see how much that is using up. All (except swap) are reise

Reiserfs Disk Usage

My old 12GB notebook disk was dying, so I got a new 60GB, and after a somewhat worrisome installation in my Vaio Z505LE, it works! Now that I have all this nice space I decided to use some of it to backup the rest (a la ). I am using Reiserfs, a

Red Hat 9 KDE Screensaver Question

I kind of like KDE better than Gnome, but in playing with the two I couldn't find a way to get the KDE screensaver to, well, save the screen! Is there a way to get KDE in RH9 to just put nothing up on my notebook screen and turn off the backlighting? Thanks, -kb, the Kent with a littl

Re: RH 9: Panel with Small Icons?

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:00:32PM +0100, Kelerion wrote: > you didn't specify you window manager.. Gnome. > but either way right click on it and there's something like > "configure panel".. you can find you options in there Jeeze. How did I miss that? I must have been digging through the

Another RH 9 Peeve/Question

The panel's list of windows isn't heeding the window's title. In 7.3 I used to be able to say "-title foo\ window" to most X applications and both the window title and the panel button for that window would match. But not with 9. Is there a way to change the button name to match the drag bar nam

RH 9: Panel with Small Icons?

In previous versions of Red Hat I could find ways to make the icons in the panel small, making the whole panel much thiner and letting me put more there. Is there a way to make the gigantic icons in 9 small? Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://

Re: RH9 home networking

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:00:55PM +0100, Daniel Dui wrote: > And I want the machine connected to the modem to be always on and > visible from the outside. Many of these small routers have a feature where any incoming packets can be sent to a specific internal machine on the NAT they set up. My D

Re: RH9 home networking

s valuable. Set up with your computer following the rigid procedure of the cable company, then have your router box step in and assume that MAC address. -kb, the Kent who glosses over details such as which router boxes do what kinds of PPPoE and other protocols. -- redhat-list mailing list unsu

Re: what makes linux so secure?

e supposed to and Bill will take care of you."-solution. There isn't, but the fact that MS fights your taking responsibility leaves you little choice. -kb, the Kent who thinks firewalls are inappropriately popular because MS gives users so little alternative. -- redhat-list mailin

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:01:37AM -0400, Michael Kalus wrote: > Panther will be coming with a built in X window system. Interesting. I didn't know that. But I guess it makes sense. Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

osh (note the "Mac" part is not an acronym and so is not correctly in written in all caps) might be reasonably summarized to *not* needing to know how things like the graphics system are built. > I'm quite aware that the "X" in the OS name doesn't reafer to the > w

Re: how do i install a c-compiler for redhat 9

ecise needs, but for a user machine, and particularly as a newbie who is learning, that is not you. If you can still turn back and reinstall everything, consider doing so. -kb, the Kent who wants to install a newer distribution so it will once again be well ahead of him in offering lots of

Re: Wireless pcmcia card - which is best?

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:47:51AM -0500, kmiller01 wrote: > Do any of you guys have opinions on which wireless cards are > supported best and are easiest to set up? I bought an Orinoco Silver. Three points: 1. Old chipset, Linux drivers exist. 2. Silver is cheaper than Gold, and as both models

Re: When is swap used?

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:07:42AM -0600, Ryan McDougall wrote: > With 256mb of physical memory I could get up to 30% usage of swap with > enough apps open, but now that I have 512mb I have yet to touch the swap > partition. On my 384mb machine, I would also get 0% swap usage. My development machi

Re: RH9 Advice for new HP server

es made for 8.0 or 9. It costs more, but you aren't buying beige hardware, maybe it isn't out of line. An old 7.3-based distribution might not be as much fun as 9, but this is a server you are talking about. It isn't supposed to be fun, it is supposed to work. -kb, the Kent who s

Re: How much swap space is needed

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 07:51:06PM -0600, Ryan McDougall wrote: > In your case... Id probably set it to 512, or 1024 depending on how > much disk space you can spare. I was thinking about this more this afternoon. I was imagining buying a frugal but killer box. Say I picked up a parts catelogue

Re: How much swap space is needed

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:42:03PM +0800, Lao Yu wrote: > I have a PC of 768M memory. How much swap space should I allocate in > my Red Hat 8.0? According to the manual, it should be 2 X 768 = 1536 > M. Is this too much? Here are some considerations: 1) Disk space is cheap, having too much swap i

Re: Small Linux Install

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:51:47AM -0500, Oscar Medina wrote: > I have an old 386 PC with 8 MB RAM and 250 MB HD. I would like to reuse > this PC, installing Linux on it. > > However, common Linux distributions needs more RAM I have. Does anyone > realized this process before. Could you help me?

Re: RedHat 8.0 on Via (Cyrix) C3 1GHz - very slow

I've heard it said that the Via C3 is comparable to a Celeron of 50-60% of the clock speed (in your case a 600Mhz Celeron). My 800MHz C3 doesn't run X, it spends its time acting as mail and web server and occasional CD-burner. The rest of its idle time is spent looking for alien life (setiathome)

Re: Linux equivalent of Solaris BSM?

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:13:30PM -0500, Paul Greene wrote: > Is there a function within Linux, without having to resort to a > third party app, that can get the level of security auditing down to > a very granular level, equivalent to the BSM auditing in Solaris? Forgive both my ignorance and pe

Re: redhat 8.0->8.1 upgrade

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:41:11AM -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2003 11:16 am, Ed Wilts wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:07:38AM -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > > > Is 8.1 out yet? I have been away so I probably missed the anouncement.. > > > > No, it's not out yet. Ya know,

Re: What hardware is supported by RedHat 8.0? (Cyrix)

I've been running Red Hat 8.0 as a server on a system I built using a MSI 6368L motherboard with a VIA C3 800 Mhz for over three months with no problem. On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 15:53, Runar Bell wrote: > Dear listmembers, > > I am currently running RedHat 8.0 on my Celeron 300a system, but in an >

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/ES/AS

So what are these new distributions? Other than costing more, is ES 8.1? Is WS a workstation install of ES? (AS seems to be former Advanced Server.) -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: redhat support contact information?

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:31:48AM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:47:42AM -0500, Tom McCarthy wrote: > > Does anyone know what the email or phone number is support for > > redhat 8.0? > > Ths only phone support I know of is that which comes with

Re: redhat support contact information?

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:47:42AM -0500, Tom McCarthy wrote: > Does anyone know what the email or phone number is support for > redhat 8.0? Ths only phone support I know of is that which comes with the more expensive "professional" edition of their product. Go buy that. Look in the box for the

Re: adding many users

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:20:14AM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > There are password generators that can generate passwords that > consist of a combination of dictionary words and special characters, > eg. quick23walk. I use a utility called mnencode this way: $ head -c 4 /dev/random | mnenc

Re: which version of red hat is needed?

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:33:58AM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > Given how big new disks are (a fast, bootable, and inexpensive 2 disk > raid 0 system can give you over 200 GB of space) the point where raid 5 > becomes sensible is really large these days. Oops. I meant raid 1. Raid

Re: which version of red hat is needed?

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:38:37AM +0800, Daniel Tan wrote: > hmm..i don't think i can wait that long...btw, if i am to use another spare > hardisk about the same size as the one i have for raid purposes...is it > possible? Red Hat 8.0 does software raid quite well, out of the box. The raid setup

Re: 2 IP addresses on one NIC ?

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:07:06AM -0800, David Busby wrote: > Kent, > Can you rewrite your hacky script to be sortof like this thingy > Make 'myifup' a script that takes two arguments, interface and S or D > myifup eth0 [S|D] > Then when you say myifup it will lo

Re: Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:18:49PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > What is think happened is that your initrd images became corrupted for > some reasion. So the boot was hanging when trying to access them. Thanks, that makes sense, but it seems strange that two newly installed initrd's wou

Re: 2 IP addresses on one NIC ?

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:43:19PM +0530, Prashant Kulkarni wrote: > creat the file call ifcfg-eth0:1 under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and > the following parameters and then restart the interface using ifdown and > ifup commands. > > DEVICE="eth0" > BOOTPROTO="none" > IPADDR=" " > NETMASK="

Re: RAID-1 automatic failover failed

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:33:52AM -0800, James D. Parra wrote: > Any ideas on how to make Linux RAID 1 failover work with IDE drives. It does. A tricky part is how to simulate a drive death. Pulling a live plug on IDE is problematic. (I remember recently seeing mention in the kernel 2.5 discus

Re: Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:28:49PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Well, it apears the system boots just fine without the initial > ramdisk, so what I would try is commenting out the initrd lines, and > see if that helps. Yes, that fixes it. So what happened? Why did rpm-ing in the new kerne

Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

e that I compiled myself awhile back, and it won't boot either from this grub file. None of these three kernels will boot from this grub.conf. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, -kb, the Kent who even tried installing lilo, and it didn't work either. -- redhat-list m

Re: telnet with root

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:39:43PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > While this is definitely true, I would still recommend the use of SSH. > After all: > > [...] > > o scp is a wonderful tool for computer-to-computer copying Don't forget sftp, unlike scp, sftp lets you browse and otherwise poke

Re: disk-based backups?

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:55:53PM -0500, Brad Penner wrote: > So I've decided to switch to a disk-based backup solution. What is > a good method to do a daily backup of say 10 solaris/bsd/linux > servers to a single linux box? I could just rsync I suppose, but > there has to be a way to archive

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:58:58AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:02:54AM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > > We all urgently push you to implement a firewall...any firewall... > > > >

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

llets when security has to be bit by bit. A big part of being secure in Red Hat is the enormous work Red Hat has done on all the bits. -kb, the Kent who considers firewalls medieval. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: RealPlayer in chroot jail?

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:41:00PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I've found Real's client to be very intrusive on Windows, and > *really* don't want to allow the Linux client to run with any > privelege. Has anyone had experience running RealPlayer in a chroot > jail, or know of any relevent URLs?

Re: Has Any body done Software RAID 1 ??

I have only done software raid 1 as set up by Red Hat (and once, as a test, Mandrake). As of Red Hat 8.0 the installer is smarter about raid, uses grup correctly, etc. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/

Re: NTP Problem

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:30:05PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kent Borg wrote: > > > I have an 8.0 client on which ntpd can't get the time. I have an ntpd > > running on my basement server (RH 7.0) and it used to supply time just > > dhcli

NTP Problem

ot; line but that didn't help. I also tried the same thing using time.nist.gov. I can do "ntpdate time.nist.gov" and it works, but putting "time.nist.gov" in /etc/ntp.conf and running ntpd doesn't work. Suggestions? (Does nptd work for others on 8.0?) Thanks, -

Re: Redhat-Specific Backup Availability?

A backup tool I am intrigued by is rdiff-backup, to use it to back up one computer with another. It is like rsync but it will also do incremental backups and let you look at historical versions. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://l

Re: RH 7.0 to RH 8.0 user migration

you can to make sure the new server is working right before throwing the switch. Make the actual throwing of the switch as quick as possible. Don't worry about mistaken bounces as much as worrying about silent dropped mail. -kb, the Kent who has tried to do such a system switch, on a

Re: RH 7.0 to RH 8.0 user migration

s you currently do for maintenance, rsync any new changes to spool, shadow, etc., on the old machine over the the new, then quick switch identities (IP address, host name) to the new machine and bring it up. Or something like that, -kb, the Kent who is interested in hearing correction to and commen

Re: Updating 7.3 to 8.0

ff on the backup, and swap roles. (Backup becomes primary, primary becomes backup.) Then, once it appears to be working, backup to the new backup box once again. If the backup isn't suited to being the server (underpowered?) then swap the roles back again at this point. Requires some time, but

Re: Updating 7.3 to 8.0

2, I think it was. Things were always a bit strange. I also did 7.1 to 7.3, I think it was on a development machine at work and it is a bit strange. (Screensaver won't lock, for example.) These things can be tracked down, but on a production server that is a bad thing. -kb, the Kent who th

Re: Is there a way to disable logins after N tries?

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:05:56PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > I've seen it on other operating systems, but always recommend that you > NOT do this. A hacker could render your system unusable by simply > trying all your usernames until they're all locked out. A better thing would be to delay after

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