Re: Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Phillips
At 09:42 p.m. 13/10/2003, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 16:12, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: what filesystem does solaris use? Is it "System V" or maybe "JFS" ? I've got a SPARC station running Solaris 8. They indicated UFS as the file system type. Could I read

Re: Solaris Partitions

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Phillips
At 09:12 p.m. 13/10/2003, Cornelius Kölbel wrote: Hello, what filesystem does solaris use? Is it "System V" or maybe "JFS" ? Sun uses UFS which (if my memory serves) is a BSD type filesystem Could I read such a partition under Linux? Yes, but be _very_ careful, and you will probably need to recomp

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: 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

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: rh-l] Re: php on RH8

2003-09-14 Thread Steve Phillips
hmm, looks like you are getting confused as to which cli you are calling. try typing "locate php" or better yet "which php" my current bet is. You installed the "redhat default location" for php which will be /usr/bin/php as this comes first in the path - typing "php myscript.php" will call

Re: php on RH8

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Phillips
At 18:25 12/09/2003 -0400, you wrote: > > > > Redhat cannot always provide the latest RPM for every software included in its > > distro. php 4.3.0 is 6 months old And you will probably find it comes with the latest RedHat distribution. RedHat do keep software up to date, however, this is no

Re: Displaying message after SSH login

2003-09-11 Thread Steve Phillips
try /etc/issue* (afaik, there is a network version as well to separate out logins locally and logins across a network) -- Steve. At 17:18 11/09/2003 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: Hello, Sorry if this is trivial, I've tried Google but haven't found it. I need to display a (static) message af

Re: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Phillips
At 00:00 8/09/2003 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: [snippage] Maybe you can do it if reverse-round-robin-DNS exists, but so far as I know it doesn't and, in any case, you would get any name at random from that list for every request anyway, which is not what you want. Simply set the reverse DNS to

Re: Red Hat 9 Install

2003-09-07 Thread Steve Phillips
At 11:48 8/09/2003, you wrote: After a cumulative 15 man-hours wasted time, we've finally found out there are known problems with installation on systems with useful amounts of RAM. We had a successful install on a 64Mb router/firewall, but when we try to install on a 512Mb system, the install ke

Re: kernel screw up .. upgrade to 2.4.20-20.8

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Phillips
At 12:30 6/09/2003, you wrote: Thanks, i think i got it now. I just installed kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm. One question though, my lilo file is called lilo.conf.anaconda and when i run /sbin/lilo it complains it cant find lilo.conf You may want to copy /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda to /etc/lilo.con

Re: kernel screw up .. upgrade to 2.4.20-20.8

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Phillips
At 11:56 6/09/2003, Ian L wrote: Well, i cant seem to find the SMP version. I looked on the redhat ftp mirrors, and the closest i found were: kernel-2.4.18-14.src.rpm kernel-source-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm kernel-2.4.18-14.i586.rpm I'm guess

Re: kernel screw up .. upgrade to 2.4.20-20.8

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Phillips
At 11:25 6/09/2003, you wrote: I recently downloaded the updated kernel rpm and instead of doing rpm -i, i did rpm -U and replaced the existing kernel. I havent rebooted the machine yet so its still running the old kernel. i have 2 questions: 1. is there some way i can get the old kernel back?

Re: DNS problems from the twilight zone

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Phillips
At 02:10 6/09/2003, you wrote: Steve Phillips wrote: Anybody heard of Akadns before? Anyone know why a Redhat v9 box cannot resolve their queries specifically? This is Akamai - a world wide distributed web system that runs primarily via DNS and some fancy layer4 routing. I figured that it might

Re: DNS problems from the twilight zone

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Phillips
At 01:32 6/09/2003, you wrote: Jason Staudenmayer wrote: Sounds like a bad routing table. Like the resolve file is set right but the return route for the packets is bad. Had something similar with a win2k box and Pcanywhere. It would receive the first packet but couldn't return them. A bad routing

RE: file system full

2003-09-02 Thread Steve Phillips
At 23:07 2/09/2003, lisa ryan wrote: I had removed large log files, but that hadn't made a difference to the filesystem space. I stopped and restarted xinetd daemon. My used filespace went from 100% to 20%. Apparently, just removing large files may not be enough, processes need to be restarted too.