Re: SendMail GUI...why not exim as alternative?

2003-10-17 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 13:02 10/16/2003, you wrote: It seems only qmail has been mentioned as an alternative to sendmail...why not exim? Postfix has been mentioned as well. I have not discussed Exim simply because I have no knowledge of it. In the same vein, Courier (www.courier-mta.org) is another option, that

Re: SendMail GUI...why not exim as alternative?

2003-10-16 Thread Mike Klein
It seems only qmail has been mentioned as an alternative to sendmail...why not exim? Although (ahem) I have no personal experience with Exim, several engineer-friends who worked at extremely large installations (hundreds of dns servers, internal routers, etc.) all mentioned Exim as what I

Re: Why My Mouse do not work on RH9

2003-10-06 Thread Ed Greshko
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 10:55, Sambit Nanda wrote: > My RH9 System is connected to 2 port Data Transport > Swtich, When i change my switch knob from Linux to > Window and then come back to Linux , my mouse does not > work in linux, I had reported this problem before > also, but unfortunately no one

Re: [SPAM] Why My Mouse do not work on RH9

2003-10-06 Thread Harry Schroeder
I'll bet you have a scroll mouse? I had the same problem. I set the mouse to generic 3 button mouse and it now works, without the scroll, of course. I went thru the same thing a while ago, found no answers, and settled for the above work around. Harry Edward Dekkers wrote: My RH9 System is c

Re: [SPAM] Why My Mouse do not work on RH9

2003-10-06 Thread Edward Dekkers
My RH9 System is connected to 2 port Data Transport Swtich, When i change my switch knob from Linux to Window and then come back to Linux , my mouse does not work in linux, I had reported this problem before also, but unfortunately no one respond to my question. I never had this type of problem on

Why My Mouse do not work on RH9

2003-10-06 Thread Sambit Nanda
My RH9 System is connected to 2 port Data Transport Swtich, When i change my switch knob from Linux to Window and then come back to Linux , my mouse does not work in linux, I had reported this problem before also, but unfortunately no one respond to my question. I never had this type of problem on

RE: Why I can`t do telnet or ftp in local? But i can loggin with ssh

2003-10-04 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 10:33 10/2/2003, you wrote: You'll have to edit the xinetd script file for it. /etc/xinetd.d/telnet Easier to type (as root): "chkconfig telnet on" -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redha

Re: Solved: Why I can't do telnet or ftp in local ?

2003-10-03 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 18:56 10/2/2003, you wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:02:51PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > Because telnet and ftp are security nightmares, and no rational person > would want to run them. To a very large extent, this is crap. Telnet can certainly be replaced by SSH, but there is no good firewal

Re: Solved: Why I can't do telnet or ftp in local ?

2003-10-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:02:51PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > Because telnet and ftp are security nightmares, and no rational person > would want to run them. To a very large extent, this is crap. Telnet can certainly be replaced by SSH, but there is no good firewall-friendly alternative to wu-

Re: Solved: Why I can't do telnet or ftp in local ?

2003-10-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:52:46PM +0200, Salvador Santander wrote: > Because the installation of RedHat although I selected no firewall, the > xinetd was configured to disable telnet and ftp ( I don´t undertand the > reason ). Finally, I enabled telnet and ftp and all is right. Whether or not you

Re: Why does rhnupdate create sendmail.cf.rpmnew instead of sendmail.mc.rpmnew? How to handle.

2003-10-02 Thread Mike Klein
rent file with ".rpmsave". Either way it will ensure you don't lose work, but you may have to do some tweaking after the upgrade. Sean I think you missed his point. perhaps a better subject would be why did I not get a sendmail.mc.rpmnew or why did sendmail u

Re: Solved: Why I can't do telnet or ftp in local ?

2003-10-02 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:52:46PM +0200, Salvador Santander wrote: > Because the installation of RedHat although I selected no firewall, the > xinetd was configured to disable telnet and ftp ( I don?t undertand the > reason ). Because telnet and ftp are security nightmares, and no rational perso

RE: Solved: Why I can't do telnet or ftp in local ?

2003-10-02 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
The reason is due to the security risks of running those services, both are very insecure. -Original Message- From: Salvador Santander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:53 PM To: Lista Redhat (E-mail) Subject: Solved: Why I can't do telnet or ftp in

Solved: Why I can't do telnet or ftp in local ?

2003-10-02 Thread Salvador Santander
Because the installation of RedHat although I selected no firewall, the xinetd was configured to disable telnet and ftp ( I don´t undertand the reason ). Finally, I enabled telnet and ftp and all is right. Thanks for your answers. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Why I can`t do telnet or ftp in local? But i can loggin with ssh

2003-10-02 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
er 02, 2003 12:34 PM To: Lista Redhat (E-mail) Subject: Why I can`t do telnet or ftp in local? But i can loggin with ssh I have just installed my redhat without firewall, with telnet server, with anonftp, with wu-ftpd, and I can't do telnet, ftp in my own machine, but i can loggin with ssh fr

RE: Why I can`t do telnet or ftp in local? But i can loggin with ssh

2003-10-02 Thread James Williams
Do you have the services tuned on? James Williams -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salvador Santander Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:34 AM To: Lista Redhat (E-mail) Subject: Why I can`t do telnet or ftp in local? But i can loggin

Why I can`t do telnet or ftp in local? But i can loggin with ssh

2003-10-02 Thread Salvador Santander
I have just installed my redhat without firewall, with telnet server, with anonftp, with wu-ftpd, and I can't do telnet, ftp in my own machine, but i can loggin with ssh from another computer. Any idea for solve this? It can be possible that openssh server is the problem? -- redhat-list mailing

Why I can`t do telnet or ftp in local?

2003-10-02 Thread Salvador Santander
I have just installed my redhat without firewall, with telnet server, with anonftp, with wu-ftpd, and I can't do telnet, ftp in my own machine. Any idea for solve this? I think the problem is in my network configuration: - ip: 10.237.194.80 - submask: 255.255.248.0 - net: 10.237.193.0 - broadcast:

Re: Why does rhnupdate create sendmail.cf.rpmnew instead of sendmail.mc.rpmnew? How to handle.

2003-10-02 Thread Bret Hughes
It knows what files are configuration > > > files > > > that have been modified by you. In order to preserve your changes it > > > does not overwrite configuration files that you've changed. It will > > > add > > > the ".rpmnew" extension

Re: Why does rhnupdate create sendmail.cf.rpmnew instead of sendmail.mc.rpmnew? How to handle.

2003-10-02 Thread Sean Estabrooks
ration files that you've changed. It will > > add > > the ".rpmnew" extension to the new file or save your current file with > > ".rpmsave". Either way it will ensure you don't lose work, but you > > may > > have to do some tweaking af

Re: Why does rhnupdate create sendmail.cf.rpmnew instead of sendmail.mc.rpmnew? How to handle.

2003-10-02 Thread Bret Hughes
reserve your changes it > does not overwrite configuration files that you've changed. It will add > the ".rpmnew" extension to the new file or save your current file with > ".rpmsave". Either way it will ensure you don't lose work, but you may

Re: Why does rhnupdate create sendmail.cf.rpmnew instead of sendmail.mc.rpmnew? How to handle.

2003-10-02 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:20:48 -0700 Mike Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given that sendmail.cf is by most sane individuals generated via the > file sendmail.mc, what is the impact of updating sendmail via rhnupdate > when I only get a sendmail.cf.rpmnew instead of a sendmail.mc.rpmnew? > > S

Re: Why I can't do ftp in local?

2003-10-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:04:36PM +0200, Salvador Santander wrote: > Hello, list. I have just finished a redhat installation and i can't do ftp > in my own linux machine. Any idea for solve this problem or any document of > wu-ftpd configuration? Thanks. 1. Did you install wu-ftpd? 2. Did you e

Re: Why I can't do ftp in local?

2003-10-02 Thread Sasa Stupar
Salvador Santander wrote: Hello, list. I have just finished a redhat installation and i can't do ftp in my own linux machine. Any idea for solve this problem or any document of wu-ftpd configuration? Thanks. Is your ftp service running? To configure wu-ftp I suggest to use Webmin ( http://www.web

Why I can't do ftp in local?

2003-10-02 Thread Salvador Santander
Hello, list. I have just finished a redhat installation and i can't do ftp in my own linux machine. Any idea for solve this problem or any document of wu-ftpd configuration? Thanks. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-li

Why does rhnupdate create sendmail.cf.rpmnew instead of sendmail.mc.rpmnew? How to handle.

2003-10-01 Thread Mike Klein
Given that sendmail.cf is by most sane individuals generated via the file sendmail.mc, what is the impact of updating sendmail via rhnupdate when I only get a sendmail.cf.rpmnew instead of a sendmail.mc.rpmnew? Seems like I might be missing some crucial sendmail parms for security/etc. I certai

Re: Writing a HOWTO from XML... why so BLEEPING difficult!?

2003-09-30 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 13:41 9/28/2003, you wrote: Are you aware that the SGML and XML processes are exactly the same, except when writing XML you just have to obey more specific rules? Oh, really? So now we've got an XML document (which I did before posting this). Now, pretend you're writing a HOWTO in which you wa

RE: Writing a HOWTO from XML... why so BLEEPING difficult!?

2003-09-28 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
n Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 3:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Writing a HOWTO from XML... why so BLEEPING difficult!? Are you aware that the SGML and XML processes are exactly the same, except when writing XML you just have to obey more specific r

Re: Writing a HOWTO from XML... why so BLEEPING difficult!?

2003-09-28 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Are you aware that the SGML and XML processes are exactly the same, except when writing XML you just have to obey more specific rules? Jon On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Starting from here: > http://www.tldp.org/ldp/ > > http://mirror.digitalvoodoo.org/ldp/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/ >

Writing a HOWTO from XML... why so BLEEPING difficult!?

2003-09-27 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
Starting from here: http://www.tldp.org/ldp/ http://mirror.digitalvoodoo.org/ldp/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/ I am trying to write an XML text that will become a Mini-HOWTO. I have read the whole guide above as well as another solid FOUR HOURS of documentation, and I have written a bare outline of what

Re: Why can't I see this share machine in Network Neighborhood - RESOLVED

2003-09-21 Thread Marius Andreiana
On Du, 2003-09-21 at 18:14, Bob Hartung wrote: >The problem is fixed. The reason: My wife who never > touches "my" main w2k machine decided that with all the fuss > over worms that she would install McAfee Firewall while I > was out of town... >Another lesson learned. Never ever give t

Re: Why can't I see this share machine in Network Neighborhood - RESOLVED

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Hartung
with my pc] and thus there was a firewall running that I was not aware of! I never shut the pc off so did not see the start up activity and it is set to automatically log in so she could restart without any problem. Another lesson learned. Tnx Bob John Nichel wrote: Bob Hartung wrote: W

Re: Why can't I see this share machine in Network Neighborhood

2003-09-20 Thread John Nichel
Bob Hartung wrote: WHY can't I see the share in network neighborhood? Just for the sake of asking, is the Win2k machine in the RWHHOME1 workgroup? -- By-Tor.com It's all about the Rush http://www.by-tor.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Why can't I see this share machine in Network Neighborhood

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Hartung
window on the Win2K machine I can mount the share and then open it as normal. WHY can't I see the share in network neighborhood? #==smb.conf= [global] # The computer name to see on the Windows clients netbios name = rwheserv1 # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Work

Re: User noboby and permissions...how and why

2003-08-30 Thread Robert Canary
er report recently showing the nobody user in Mac OS X as something like: name: nobody group: nobody home: /dev/null password: ? shell: /sbin/nologin I have poked around on the Internet, no good sources turned up explaining users/groups like nobody:nobody in detail, like how and more importantly &

User noboby and permissions...how and why

2003-08-29 Thread Timothy Stone
OS X as something like: name: nobody group: nobody home: /dev/null password: ? shell: /sbin/nologin I have poked around on the Internet, no good sources turned up explaining users/groups like nobody:nobody in detail, like how and more importantly "why". Hoping the list might have

Re: vsftp - why does this not work

2003-08-28 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:44:42 -0500 (CDT) "Distribution Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to configure VSFTP to only ftp for one user + anonymous... but > I can still ftp and logon from any userid in /etc/passwd. > > Heres my config...can anyone see where I'm going wrong ? > > > ---

vsftp - why does this not work

2003-08-28 Thread Distribution Lists
I'm trying to configure VSFTP to only ftp for one user + anonymous... but I can still ftp and logon from any userid in /etc/passwd. Heres my config...can anyone see where I'm going wrong ? --- more vsftpd.user_list # vsftpd userlist # If userlist_deny=NO, only allow users in th

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:28:18 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > Well, you could try unsparsing a file.. it's a blind shot, it makes no > >sense, but it's worth a try (on the smallest huge file). > > > >cp --sparse=always big.wav test.wav > > That's a

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
spaces or zeroes at the end does not seem > logical: what on God's green Earth would tack on 1GB of zeroes at the end, rsync > and if so, why does "ls -sh" report the file size correctly? "ls -sh" is like "du -h" and reports disk usage in blocks. > If this

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Brian Ashe
Rodolfo, On Sunday August 24, 2003 11:28, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Is there someone out there with some coding expertise, who can maybe > explain why "ls -l" and "ls -sh" give different results? Like this: Not that I read the code but it isn't too hard to derive th

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 8/24/2003 22:04 -0400, you wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 07:07 pm, Jason Dixon wrote: > Sorry, I'm joining this thread way after the fact. The only thing I'll > mention is that I *have* seen certain applications zero out a very large > filesize in preparation for filling up that space with a

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
I still get 1.2GB worth of file, yet the darn thing plays properly in a media player and displays correctly in certain incantations of ls. Is there someone out there with some coding expertise, who can maybe explain why "ls -l" and "ls -sh" give different results? Like this:

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread David Kramer
On Sunday 24 August 2003 07:07 pm, Jason Dixon wrote: > Sorry, I'm joining this thread way after the fact. The only thing I'll > mention is that I *have* seen certain applications zero out a very large > filesize in preparation for filling up that space with a series of > chunks. Bit-torrent is t

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
Rodolfo J. Paiz > Trying to figure out what caused this wrong listing and fix it, since > copying the file does take the whole 1.2GB Just got it, this is what I meant: if the files are sparse, cp --sparse=always wouldn't take the whole 1.2 GB. -- Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
I wrote: > Well, you could try unsparsing a file.. it's a blind shot, it makes no > sense, but it's worth a try (on the smallest huge file). > > cp --sparse=always big.wav test.wav Please disconsider this - it's confuse. I didn't read all your posts well. Your files would be sparsed already

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > I have no idea how to even start looking for this one Well, you could try unsparsing a file.. it's a blind shot, it makes no sense, but it's worth a try (on the smallest huge file). cp --sparse=always big.wav test.wav -- Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Otto Haliburton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodolfo J. Paiz > Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 8:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes? > > At 8/24/2003 20:08

RE: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 8/24/2003 20:08 -0500, you wrote: let me further explain with a example. Suppose you have a file that is 1024 bytes on linux and you do a ls it will list as 2 block (2 512 byte blocks). OK... but here the error would be at most a few KB, not an additional 1,130MB. You copy this file to a vf

RE: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Otto Haliburton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jurvis lasalle > Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 7:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes? > > > On Sunday, Aug

RE: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Otto Haliburton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodolfo J. Paiz > Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 8:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes? > > At 8/24/200

RE: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 8/24/2003 19:55 -0500, you wrote: This maybe absolutely correct reporting. You said that windows and linux are sharing the disk that these files are stored. Ah, but the files are on an ext3 partition, on the Linux server, and only shared via Samba to the Windows boxen. So, while reasonable, we

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 8/24/2003 20:56 -0400, you wrote: Here's a stab in the dark- do you have the SIZE or BLOCKSIZE environment variable set (esp. when the wav files were originally "magnified")? Stab away, any effort welcome. I have never set those variables manually, and doing a "set | grep -i size" right now f

RE: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Otto Haliburton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodolfo J. Paiz > Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 7:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes? > > At 8/24/200

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread jurvis lasalle
On Sunday, Aug 24, 2003, at 20:31 America/New_York, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: At 8/24/2003 19:07 -0400, you wrote: Sorry, I'm joining this thread way after the fact. The only thing I'll mention is that I *have* seen certain applications zero out a very large filesize in preparation for filling up

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
God's green Earth would tack on 1GB of zeroes at the end, and if so, why does "ls -sh" report the file size correctly? If this space was indeed being used, then 63GB would have _actually_ expanded to 1.6TB, instead of just _apparently_ having done so. And then it wouldn't fit o

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-25 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 8/24/2003 19:07 -0400, you wrote: Sorry, I'm joining this thread way after the fact. The only thing I'll mention is that I *have* seen certain applications zero out a very large filesize in preparation for filling up that space with a series of chunks. Bit-torrent is the *perfect* example of t

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:56:52 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > The problem with your WAV files is not that they contain sparse > > blocks. If they did, they would not sound good, because you would hear > > every blank block. And since they are listed

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-24 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 18:56, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 8/23/2003 10:13 +0200, you wrote: > >The problem with your WAV files is not that they contain sparse > >blocks. If they did, they would not sound good, because you would hear > >every blank block. And since they are listed as 20 times the ori

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-24 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 8/23/2003 10:13 +0200, you wrote: The problem with your WAV files is not that they contain sparse blocks. If they did, they would not sound good, because you would hear every blank block. And since they are listed as 20 times the original size, you would hear a lot of "silence", and each of them

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-23 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:03:43 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Will "sparsing" or "unsparsing" the file (whichever is the one that fixes > the problem) eliminate those blank spaces? I have 40M files that (after > being copied to a second hard drive) s

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-23 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 8/22/2003 21:39 -0300, you wrote: Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: > Perhaps you saved the file from within vi. That might "unsparse" the > file. Will "sparsing" or "unsparsing" the file (whichever is the one that fixes the problem) eliminate those blank spaces? I have 40M files that (after being

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-22 Thread Robert C. Paulsen Jr.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:39:40PM -0300, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: > Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: > > Perhaps you saved the file from within vi. That might "unsparse" the > > file. > >Yes.. but perhaps I didn't. :) > > > Read up on the --sparse option of cp ("man cp"). It looks l

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-22 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: > Perhaps you saved the file from within vi. That might "unsparse" the > file. Yes.. but perhaps I didn't. :) > Read up on the --sparse option of cp ("man cp"). It looks like the > following will work: (warning! I have not tried this!) > > cd /var/log >

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-22 Thread Robert C. Paulsen Jr.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 08:37:57PM -0300, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: > Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > > If, when you copy a sparse file, you do not take precautions to have > > the copy also be sparse, the copy gets "filled in" and has a bunch of > > bytes of 0x00 actually allocated on disk. L

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-22 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > If, when you copy a sparse file, you do not take precautions to have > the copy also be sparse, the copy gets "filled in" and has a bunch of > bytes of 0x00 actually allocated on disk. Looks like that happened > here. > > Ron. Well, I'm quite sure I never copied it a

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-21 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 21, 2003, 9:39:30 PM, Herculano wrote: >OK.. I've seen this subject on lots of threads so I'll ask.. can you > explain this? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]$ du -h /var/log/lastlog > 19M /var/log/lastlog If, when you copy a spar

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-21 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
OK.. I've seen this subject on lots of threads so I'll ask.. can you explain this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]$ du -h /var/log/lastlog 19M /var/log/lastlog Thanks in advance -- Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
mpty data structures and only the sparse areas, which are filled with values, would occupy space on disk. > why does `ls -l` show 19Mb and du show 56k? du examines the true number of file-system blocks used on disk, whereas ls prints the size of a file it would have when read into memory complet

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-21 Thread Mark Neidorff
Since I don't know, I'll askwhat are sparse blocks and why does `ls -l` show 19Mb and du show 56k? Mark On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:57:18 -0500, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wr

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:57:18 -0500, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: > Can anyone explain why my /var/log/lastlog is 19 megabytes? It isn't. It just contains sparse blocks. See: du -h /var/log/lastlog - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

/var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

2003-08-21 Thread Robert C. Paulsen Jr.
Can anyone explain why my /var/log/lastlog is 19 megabytes? Here is the output from the "lastlog" command: Username Port From Latest root tty2 Wed Aug 20 16:27:44 -0500 2003 bin**Never

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

2003-08-14 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The thing that has me puzzled is my business partner's Toshiba notebook computer, a Satellite Pro 6100. He has Win XP on it, and then added RH 9 in a dual-boot setup. Under XP, he had installed the Cygwin environment. He has a fairly large text file t

Re: Java - Why the _very_ ugly stuff?

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn
Please see http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ http://www.graemepyle.com/linuxfonts.html This is really embarassing.. Does Java have to look that bad on Linux? I just got NetBeans and it's quite unusable.. Can anyone give a reason for that? -- Shawn Happily using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail c

Re: Support for c cedilha in RH9 and Why is RH9 slower thanWindows98SE. Any advice?

2003-08-11 Thread Brett Vern Carlson
Hi, For the few of you who might be interested, the Unicode .UTF-8 LANG setting is also what's bunging up the dead_acute c combination for the c cedilha (ç) of the us_intl keyboard. After editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n and changing to LANG="C" SUPPORTED="C" I now have the us_intl keyboard workin

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

2003-08-10 Thread Johnathan Bailes
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 16:09, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > This has been covered several times on the list: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2003-June/msg02860.html > > Basically, your slowdown has been caused by issues related to RedHat's > adoption of Unicode. The fixes are in the

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

2003-08-10 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Ronald W. Heiby wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The thing that has me puzzled is my business partner's Toshiba > notebook computer, a Satellite Pro 6100. He has Win XP on it, and then > added RH 9 in a dual-boot setup. Under XP, he had installed th

RH: What is DCOPserver and why is it not running?

2003-08-09 Thread The Other
08/06/03 Hello All, What is DCOPserver in the KDE world? I was trying to run some KDE desktop games and apps, and I got a message that the DCOPserver is not running. Clicking OK brought up the game and app successfully, but it might have caused a problem when I halted the machine for the nig

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

2003-08-08 Thread Sean Estabrooks
> Any ideas on what I can tell him to do to get Linux running almost as > fast as Win XP? Faster would be even better, of course. :-) > > Ron. > man hdparm the most important options are likely to read about are -a, -d, and -u. cheers, Sean -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[E

RE: What is DCOPserver and why is it not running?

2003-08-07 Thread Rigler, Steve
why is it not running? 08/06/03 Hello All, What is DCOPserver in the KDE world? I was trying to run some KDE desktop games and apps, and I got a message that the DCOPserver is not running. Clicking OK brought up the game and app successfully, but it might have caused a problem when I

Re: Java - Why the _very_ ugly stuff?

2003-08-06 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
way Java doesn't seem to use them right..? One other doubt is: if editing a file is the way to fix it, why ship a bad default setting? Most Applets around the net, like I said, display embarrassing looks.. Is it too much to think we shouldn't have to turn to Microsoft fonts, if no

Java - Why the _very_ ugly stuff?

2003-08-05 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
This is really embarassing.. Does Java have to look that bad on Linux? The bellow is from a Sun forum and I make its words mine. Why doesn't Sun ship descent fonts with their Linux packages? I just got NetBeans and it's quite unusable.. Can anyone give a reason for that? " *V

Re: Read & Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-31 Thread Bill Anderson
I know this is a bit dated, but I'm just getting back to my email and had to respond to this, On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 15:07, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:31:29AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Ed Wilts wrote: > > > > > > You're right - there is a security hole there. For example,

/proc/kcore - why is BIOS not at 0xF0000?

2003-07-30 Thread Anthony Hay
. Why the 0x3000 byte offset? Can anyone suggest a reliable way to locate the BIOS in /proc/kcore? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Why i18n (locales) is so slow? LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

2003-07-16 Thread Eric Wood
I'm sure this is an FAQ. I've read up on http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/aixbman/prftungd/natlangsup.htm which explains the structure types and why it's so expensive to do internationalization. So I went back to using "C" for my RH 8 and 9 systems: $ cat /etc/sysconfi

newgroup message not updated, why?

2003-07-14 Thread Nicholas
I am in the gated.redhat-list after i subscribed to the group i only can download the messages until 5/10/03 ( 10 of may 2003 ). i did in every PC also the same, anybody can tell me where i missed when doing subscribing? you all must be curious y i can still use the newgroup i am using the webbase

Re: Read & Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
tion. The only difference between 'grep ewilts /etc/passwd' and 'ldapsearch -x uid=ewilts' is one of process. The information is available to everyone, regardless of where it's stored. ... Users *should* be able to read /etc/passwd. I disagree with the last comment.

Re: Read & Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-09 Thread Ed Wilts
ll > probably fail outright. > > Other stuff breaks too, I'm sure. Those are just a few examples. User > data, with the exception of authentication tokens, is not privileged > information. Users *should* be able to read /etc/passwd. I disagree with the last comment. I know

Re: why my browser is not working ??

2003-07-09 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 15:37, Sambit Nanda wrote this in an attempt to be witty and informative: > Hi > I am not able to access any other web site from my > mozilla browser on RH9 , I am only able to view my > local > web browser. > 1# I do not have any firewall or ipchain setting > 2# my

why my browser is not working ??

2003-07-09 Thread Sambit Nanda
Hi I am not able to access any other web site from my mozilla browser on RH9 , I am only able to view my local web browser. 1# I do not have any firewall or ipchain setting 2# my nswitch.conf has info hosts : files dns 3# I am able to access my RH9 server webpage from other system 4# I a

Re: Read & Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Ed Wilts wrote: You're right - there is a security hole there. For example, I don't think it's a good idea that the password file is world readable since it gives information out that you may not want to share. If you're using shadow password files (and you don't have any excuse not to): no, it d

Re: Read & Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Fryclau wrote: I'am the the root user to applying the chmod... Obviously. The system works fine, but I don't like to leave the security access of each file in the disk with R-X to other users.. When some user login without privileges he could do something like this: Cat /etc/hosts And it works

Re: Read & Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-09 Thread Ed Wilts
hem. If you change the permissions, you WILL break something. You may not notice it now, but eventually you'll be grumbling about why some new application won't work. You may notice it now - in fact, the first non-root user that tries to sign on may be in for a nasty surprise. I certain

RE: Read & Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-09 Thread Fryclau
riginal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Messmer Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 1:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Read & Exec by default - RH9 - why? Fryclau wrote: > > Anybody know why redhat 9 set by default reading and executio

Re: Read & Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
Fryclau wrote: Anybody know why redhat 9 set by default reading and execution access to other users??? What, the system directories? ...because the shell has to be able to read the directories in order to search the PATH, and the user has to be able to "x" a directory in order

Read & Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-08 Thread Fryclau
  Anybody know why redhat 9 set by default reading and execution access to other users???   Is it right applying this?   cd / chmod o-r –R *   Does anyone know why should I leave my filesystem like this?   thanks Fryclau J    

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

2003-06-26 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:01:57AM -0700, Bailo, John wrote: > > C'mon? 'Pentium class' as in any Pentium??? I would think so. I don't really see speed as being a showstopper in this case. RAM is more important. Emmanuel -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https:

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

2003-06-26 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:45:48PM -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: > > RHL9 on a P2/300 with 384 MB at home. Running as mail server, desktop, > multiuser (there is a laptop that runs remote X sessions to the "big" > machine), web proxy, firewall. Not blazing fast, but it gets the job done. RHL 7.3

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

2003-06-26 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:15:23PM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On 25-Jun-2003/11:49 -0700, "Bailo, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >Any OSS projects to 're-invent' the wheel? > > Berlin (renamed to something else?). It's now Fresco. http://www.fresco.org HTH. HAND. Thomas ;-) --

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

2003-06-26 Thread Rick Warner
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 12:18, Javier Gostling wrote: > Another issue (derived from the dual X sessions above) is scalability. > How scalable is a compressing protocol? What would be the consequences > of compressing data streams in a 50 user multiuser application server? > My instincts tell me it

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