Re: FTP sessions with telnet Restrictions

2001-01-29 Thread Bret Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > I have this problem with my ftp sessions, I want > my ftp users to have their telnet logging sessions disable. > Because My ftp users can telnet my server and they can even > access files which they are not suppose to do. > How can I disable their telnet s

Re: [OT] Checking for the existance of a file in Bash scripts

2001-01-29 Thread Thierry ITTY
you could try some "autoincrement" script #!/bin/bash # handles sub-directories in /backup, name format something like "sub_###" with ### being a serial number # get the last one last=$(ls -1 /backup/sub* | sed -e s/^.*_// | sort -nr | head -n 1) new=$(($last + 1)) mkdir /backup/sub_$new cp -a /

Re: REPOST: help with redirecting web requests

2001-01-29 Thread Thierry ITTY
>I'm working with my RH 6.2 router/firewall. I run the firewall with ipchains >and ipfwadm. What I want to do is make any requests for websites from the >internal machines be redirected through my ISP's content filtering proxy >server. I've tried some of the web proxy servers out there but they se

Re: How many proccesses?

2001-01-29 Thread Vineeta
hey,that's a really nice command. Thanks for the info. I'll try to keep it in my ROM!! Cheers, Vineeta "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Tom[ISO-8859-1] ás García Ferrari wrote: > > > How can I know how many proccesses is using a given app? I'm having > > some problems (specially w

Re: FTP sessions with telnet Restrictions

2001-01-29 Thread Vineeta
yes,I have done that.Make the shell to /bin/false and they won't be able to telnet inside. Cheers, Vineeta Mike Burger wrote: > If memory serves me, you can set their shell to /bin/true or > /bin/false. I'm not sure if there's a difference, or what that difference > would be, but I've seen it

RE: True Type Fonts

2001-01-29 Thread Shum, Raul
Hi.. I've read through the FAQ, and the comments below.. and I'm still having problems getting Truetype fonts working, and the fonts on my desktop are still not clean... Does anyone have detailed instruction to fix the problem on Redhat 7 for X86? I'm starting to loose my mind o

Binding keys in Xemacs; Cperl-mode

2001-01-29 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
How do I bind keys in Xemacs in Cperl-mode? I'd like to bind DEL to delete-char, but nothing I've tried so far works. Using 21.1-12 Thanks. Glen ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: [OT] Checking for the existance of a file in Bash scripts

2001-01-29 Thread Jack Bowling
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Or you can do this: > > day=`date '+%Y-%m-%d'` > now=`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S'` > mkdir "$day" || mkdir "$now" || exit 1 > > Those are short circuiting OR operators, this make the first choice or > if not then make the second or

mail programs & firewall

2001-01-29 Thread linda hanigan
Hi all, I now have ppp set to demand dial and ip forwarding working. This leaves setting up the firewall and finding a mail program I like. I tried netscape today, but opening every message one by one is not much fun. Is there something to set so you can read mail like with outlook without actuall

RE: News server

2001-01-29 Thread Eddie Strohmier
First subscribe to the news group news.software.nntp. The software you will need or the one I used was INN 2.2. I believe they are at 2.3 or higher now but you want the latest stable snapshot. I would recommend using a tarball available from: ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/ Here is an excellent websi

Re: Scripting help needed

2001-01-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
I wrote: | Note that a stay packet can bring up the link, [...] s/stay/stray/ Doh! -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ "Yeh, Buddy.. I've got your COMPUTER! Right HERE!!" (computer THIS!) - Larry Cunningham, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [OT] Checking for the existance of a file in Bash scripts

2001-01-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
[ Please press every 70 or so chars. Thanks. ] On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:38:48PM -0600, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I just wrote a bash script for making manual backups easier (I do them manuall | y when I'm about to edit something major) it basically makes a new directory in

Re: rm Is Mysteriously Removed

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Better check for intruders. Here's a good link to get you started: http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/intruder_detection_checklist.html At 08:53 PM 1/29/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Every so often /bin/rm is removed and I haven't discovered the >reason(s). Nothing else is disturbed. Is there a reason fo

News server

2001-01-29 Thread Ali
Hello every one, Using Redhat 7.0 How can I setup a news serever? Which RPM do I need? Is there any How To some where? Thank you in advance ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Mirroring a HD for offline backup

2001-01-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Clement wrote: > Well this must be the answer. I will try it today. Thank you very > much. > > "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Clement wrote: > > > > > Can you suggest an easy way to do it? Now after copying all files to a > > > new harddisk, I ca

Re: FTP sessions with telnet Restrictions

2001-01-29 Thread Eric Clover
umm. turn off telnet. man inetd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi, > I have this problem with my ftp sessions, I want > my ftp users to have their telnet logging sessions disable. > Because My ftp users can telnet my server and they can even > access files which they are not suppose to do. >

Re: rm Is Mysteriously Removed

2001-01-29 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
SoloCDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Every so often /bin/rm is removed and I haven't discovered the > reason(s). Nothing else is disturbed. Is there a reason for > this mystery? No legitimate ones. > -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___

rm Is Mysteriously Removed

2001-01-29 Thread SoloCDM
Every so often /bin/rm is removed and I haven't discovered the reason(s). Nothing else is disturbed. Is there a reason for this mystery? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address in Cc: and my email address in To:. ***

Re: Reiserfs questions & Discussion

2001-01-29 Thread Clement
This thread is quite interesting. I think it comes to the following questions: - Is the reiserfs stable enough? - Is the overhead of reiserfs acceptable? - Is the time to 'fsck' valuable enough to justify the cost? - Is the reiserfs stable enough? For all I heard, the answer is more likely to

Re: request for info on removing Large File Support from kernel

2001-01-29 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Guillermo Navarrete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to versions of RH6.2, one running with kernel version 2.2.14-5.0 > and the other 2.2.14-6.1.1. > I found out that the latter has Large File > Support enabled in the kernel while the former doesn't have this > loaded. Enterprise Edition k

request for info on removing Large File Support from kernel

2001-01-29 Thread Guillermo Navarrete
I have to versions of RH6.2, one running with kernel version 2.2.14-5.0 and the other 2.2.14-6.1.1. I found out that the latter has Large File Support enabled in the kernel while the former doesn't have this loaded. I need to remove Large File Support from the 6.1.1 kernel in order to install Cl

Re: [OT] Checking for the existance of a file in Bash scripts

2001-01-29 Thread Matthew Melvin
if [ -d "/some/dir ]; then echo "woo!" else echo "wah." fi See.. "man test" for all the details. M. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 at 9:38pm (-0600), Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Howdy, > > I just wrote a bash script for making manual backups easier (I do them > manually when I'm about to e

Re: XFree86-modules-4.0.2-6 conflict with Xconfigurator-4.5-1

2001-01-29 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Bob Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > While trying to upgrade to XFree86-4.0.2-6 I managed to goof things > up. I think that I have most of the XFree86-4.0.2-6.i586.rpm s > installed. I need to reinstall Xconfigurator the latest version of > which I can find is Xconfigurator-4.5-1 a

[OT] Checking for the existance of a file in Bash scripts

2001-01-29 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Howdy, I just wrote a bash script for making manual backups easier (I do them manually when I'm about to edit something major) it basically makes a new directory in /backup/ who's name is equal to today's date, then recursively copies certain dirs I want backed up. The problem is, on some pro

Re: XFree86-modules-4.0.2-6 conflict with Xconfigurator-4.5-1

2001-01-29 Thread Uncle Meat
On Monday 29 January 2001 21:45, Bob Hartung opined: > Hi, > While trying to upgrade to XFree86-4.0.2-6 I managed to goof things > up. I think that I have most of the XFree86-4.0.2-6.i586.rpm s > installed. I need to reinstall Xconfigurator the latest version of > which I can find is Xconfigur

Re: Mirroring a HD for offline backup

2001-01-29 Thread Clement
Well this must be the answer. I will try it today. Thank you very much. "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Clement wrote: > > > Can you suggest an easy way to do it? Now after copying all files to a > > new harddisk, I cannot make the new drive bootable! Lilo insists on >

Re: FTP sessions with telnet Restrictions

2001-01-29 Thread Mike Burger
Oops...forgot to mention. Make sure that /bin/true and/or /bin/false is in your /etc/shells file...if they do not exist, they won't be able to log in via ftp, either, if my memory serves me, again. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote: > If memory serves me, you can set their shell to /bin/tr

Re: FTP sessions with telnet Restrictions

2001-01-29 Thread Mike Burger
If memory serves me, you can set their shell to /bin/true or /bin/false. I'm not sure if there's a difference, or what that difference would be, but I've seen it mentioned a number of times. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > I have this problem with my ftp sessions, I wan

XFree86-modules-4.0.2-6 conflict with Xconfigurator-4.5-1

2001-01-29 Thread Bob Hartung
Hi, While trying to upgrade to XFree86-4.0.2-6 I managed to goof things up. I think that I have most of the XFree86-4.0.2-6.i586.rpm s installed. I need to reinstall Xconfigurator the latest version of which I can find is Xconfigurator-4.5-1 and it gives an conflict error with XFree86-modules-

FTP sessions with telnet Restrictions

2001-01-29 Thread RaulSBucad
hi, I have this problem with my ftp sessions, I want my ftp users to have their telnet logging sessions disable. Because My ftp users can telnet my server and they can even access files which they are not suppose to do. How can I disable their telnet sessions so that they can't login anymo

Re: Reiserfs questions & Discussion

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:53:17PM -0500, Chris Colomb wrote: > If you're in that percentage that's small comfort. Quite true. The choice is, however, to determine what recovery costs are acceptable. It may be acceptable to simply tolerate a long fsck, since it's a once-in-a-blue-moon event. O

Re: How many proccesses?

2001-01-29 Thread Statux
> ps ax --forest NOTE: 'ps axf' will also work fine. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Reiserfs questions & Discussion

2001-01-29 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Chris Colomb wrote: > Exactly. Which is why we use SGI, AIX, and Solaris for that. Because > they do journaling right and there isn't a performance impact. Of course there's a performance impact. It may not be significant compared to processor/disk throughput, but there *is*

Re: Mirroring a HD for offline backup

2001-01-29 Thread Duane Clark
Mike Burger wrote: > That won't work if there isn't a valid boot record on the mirror drive. I am a little puzzled about which part you think won't work. Since I wrote: "Depending on how you made your mirror, you might not even need the floppy". That clearly implies that a boot floppy (or bootabl

Re: How many proccesses?

2001-01-29 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Tom[ISO-8859-1] ás García Ferrari wrote: > How can I know how many proccesses is using a given app? I'm having > some problems (specially with Apache) with apps that seems to be out > of the limit of available proccesses... ps ax --forest This will give you an ascii tree sh

How many proccesses?

2001-01-29 Thread Tomás García Ferrari
Hello, How can I know how many proccesses is using a given app? I'm having some problems (specially with Apache) with apps that seems to be out of the limit of available proccesses... Thanks, Tomas Garcia Ferrari Bigital http://bigital.com ___ Red

RE: Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread chuck
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, shoe spewed into the bitstream: s>Thanks Chuck! BTW I really love your website. Anybody who hasn't checked it s>out should! You're welcome for the RPMS... so far as the web site goes I'm in the process of redoing it... again! :-) Gonna hang out the old consulting shingle aga

strange behavior with chkconfig/ntsysv on RH 6.2

2001-01-29 Thread Seth
Hello: I have a RedHat 6.2 / i386 / Linux 2.2.14 system, that is exhibiting some strange behavior with the chkconfig and ntsysv programs. Currently I have chkconfig-1.2.16-1, ntsysv-1.1.3-1, and initscripts-5.49-1 installed. A couple of months ago both chkconfig and ntsysv would segfault when

Re: Reiserfs questions & Discussion

2001-01-29 Thread Chris Colomb
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:26:21PM -0500, Chris Colomb wrote: > > UPS systems can and do fail. > > Absolutely--anything fails, eventually. The issue is one of > _probability_. You can give anecdotal descriptions of UPS failures > all day; unless you c

RE: Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread shoe
Thanks Chuck! BTW I really love your website. Anybody who hasn't checked it out should! -shoe On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, shoe spewed into the bitstream: s>Excellent let us know how it goes! Alright... I will... Also... anybody wanting bind 9 for 6.x can get a src.rpm and binaries at: http://www.

Re: Two FTP Issues

2001-01-29 Thread Edward Dekkers
> issues. I have one WindowsME desktop that can browser > the internet without and issues but if I try to FTP to > site on the internet. I will connect ok but if I do a > ls I will get the following error > can't build data connection: No Route to host HHmm. Haven't seen that. Works for Linux but

Re: REPOST: help with redirecting web requests

2001-01-29 Thread Edward Dekkers
> on. I can do that with my firewall, I want to redirect ALL port 80 traffic > bound for the outside world through the contentfiltering proxy. Any > suggestions? Thanks in advance. > > -shoe I think the reason no-one has answered is because it's a RTFM type situation. I stumbled across a 'transp

Re: SHELL & CGI

2001-01-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:19:51PM +0100, Stefano Passarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have a shell ( grep and many echo command) , which prints in the | stdout the HTML tabs. It works well, if it runs as comman ('shell_name | $1'). | | I would use it via WWW. I have readen that I can use C

RE: Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread chuck
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, shoe spewed into the bitstream: s>Excellent let us know how it goes! Alright... I will... Also... anybody wanting bind 9 for 6.x can get a src.rpm and binaries at: http://www.moongroup.com/old/pub/bind-update/ The others which fix the CERT security release are there as we

Re: Scripting help needed

2001-01-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
| > Also worth remembering is that ppp has an "on demand" mode. You have | > ppp in this mode at boot and it doesn't start the modem, just sets | > routes. When you try to send data over the link it starts the modem. | > Which means you can pretend it's up and let ppp do the dial-out bit | > itsel

RE: Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread shoe
Excellent let us know how it goes! -shoe >I'm going to update a few machines with it this evening... it takes a >while to build it... :-) -- Chuck Mead, Owner, MoonGroup.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Note: all html email sent to me is deleted unread) GnuPG Public Key Available: http://wwwkeys.us.pgp

Re: Reiserfs questions & Discussion

2001-01-29 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I am not an expert; but from my pratical experience. I used ext2 fs before and I saw some problems 1. My hard disk one time crashed, not for sure the reason ; kernel says something about lost interrupt (later I found that is bios bug in APM) but when I recover it, my my file system there is

RE: Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread chuck
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, shoe spewed into the bitstream: s>Has anybody upgraded to Bind 9.1.0? Why or why not? It seems to support some s>pretty cool features but I haven't seen a lot of info floating around about s>it. I'm going to update a few machines with it this evening... it takes a while to b

RE: Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread shoe
Has anybody upgraded to Bind 9.1.0? Why or why not? It seems to support some pretty cool features but I haven't seen a lot of info floating around about it. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: >On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, scott.list spewed into the bitstream: > >s>The a

Re: RH70 install (was /dev only has 5 devices)

2001-01-29 Thread Jack Bowling
Mark Knipfer wrote: > > We are installing Redhat Linux 7.0 from CD and the installation > does not experience any errors. However, when we the system > tries to boot, it does not boot at all. The /dev only has five > devices where and this is our third time reinstalling Redhat > Linux 7.0 to th

Re: verizon dsl and linux

2001-01-29 Thread J.D.
Mark Clark wrote: > I am helping a friend connect his rh5.1 box to a verizon > dsl connection (we are near Philadelphia since things seem > to differ between regions) and wondering if they are using > PPPoE or PPPoA? The starter kit verizon mailed to him contained > the dsl modem, a 10baseT ether

Re: ps2pdf image quality .... ps to gif conversion also useful

2001-01-29 Thread Shaheen Tonse
I just subscribed a few minutes ago and missed the beginning of the thread, but included here is a perl script that uses ghostscript to convert .eps and .ps to .gif (via portable pixel map .ppm format). Shaheen Tonse. Hidong Kim wrote: > > Hi, Mike, > > Thanks

Re: Scripting help needed

2001-01-29 Thread Merell L. Matlock, Jr.
* Cameron Simpson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010127 19:08]: > Also worth remembering is that ppp has an "on demand" mode. You have > ppp in this mode at boot and it doesn't start the modem, just sets > routes. When you try to send data over the link it starts the modem. > Which means you can pretend it

Re: Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread chuck
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: >On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, scott.list spewed into the bitstream: > >s>The announcement says for RH 6.2. I have 6.0. Which RPM (if any) should I >s>apply? > >You shouldn't have any troubles. Go ahead and get 'em and install 'em. >You c

Re: Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread chuck
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, scott.list spewed into the bitstream: s>The announcement says for RH 6.2. I have 6.0. Which RPM (if any) should I s>apply? You shouldn't have any troubles. Go ahead and get 'em and install 'em. You couldn't use 7.0 RPMS though. -- Chuck Mead, Owner, MoonGroup.com [EMAIL P

Re: Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, scott.list wrote: > The announcement says for RH 6.2. I have 6.0. Which RPM (if any) > should I apply? The 6.2 one should work on any 6.x release. LLaP bero ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redha

Re: Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
"scott.list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The announcement says for RH 6.2. I have 6.0. Which RPM (if any) should I > apply? Red Hat Linux 6.0 is binary compatible with 6.2 -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EM

Bind upgrade for 6.0?

2001-01-29 Thread scott.list
The announcement says for RH 6.2. I have 6.0. Which RPM (if any) should I apply? THANKS. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: ps2pdf image quality

2001-01-29 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, Mike, Thanks for the info! It looks great now. Hidong "Michael R. Anderson" wrote: > > January 29, 2001 > > Try using pdflatex instead. The quality is much higher than ps2pdf, though > you have to be careful with included images. I'm not sure if it's part of > the TeTex package

RH70, /dev only has 5 devices

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Knipfer
We are installing Redhat Linux 7.0 from CD and the installation does not experience any errors. However, when we the system tries to boot, it does not boot at all. The /dev only has five devices where and this is our third time reinstalling Redhat Linux 7.0 to this one system. We used these Red

Re: Mirroring a HD for offline backup

2001-01-29 Thread Mike Burger
That won't work if there isn't a valid boot record on the mirror drive. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Duane Clark wrote: > Perhaps unplug your primary drive, plug your mirror in its place, and > try booting. Depending on how you made your mirror, you might not even > need the floppy. But in either case,

Re: Help installing Aureal soundcard driver on Red Hat 7.0

2001-01-29 Thread lee johnson
> > Thanks for clearing that up, Lee. However, I have a hunch that > you didn't get the au8830 module package from sourceforge.net. > Or did you? I got mine from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/ version 1.1.2 which I believe is optimized for 2.4.0 kernel... at the moment far as I k

Re: Mirroring a HD for offline backup

2001-01-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Clement wrote: > Can you suggest an easy way to do it? Now after copying all files to a > new harddisk, I cannot make the new drive bootable! Lilo insists on > writing to the real boot device. The chroot '-r' switch cannot change > this behaviour. > > > Regards, > > Clemen

Re: Question about port 6000

2001-01-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Frank Carreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just noticed after port scanning my system there is a service running on > port 6000 (X11). I'm concerned about security being an issue with this port > open / available. Is there anyone with any comments/thoughts about securing > this port? > > B

Re: Execute URL via Perl

2001-01-29 Thread Charles Galpin
Hi -Original Message- From: K Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I understand this might be a little off topic, but I no where else to turn. >I am writing a perl script that I would like to have connect to a secure >server and send some information (from a web form). > >I thought I could just do th

Question about port 6000

2001-01-29 Thread Frank Carreiro
I just noticed after port scanning my system there is a service running on port 6000 (X11). I'm concerned about security being an issue with this port open / available. Is there anyone with any comments/thoughts about securing this port? Basically we have a system we're about to deploy on th

Re: Execute URL via Perl

2001-01-29 Thread Pete Peterson
> From: "K Old" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Execute URL via Perl > Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:46:45 -0600 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello all, > > I understand this might be a little off topic, but I no where else to turn. > I am writing a perl script that I

Re: DSL via USB modem

2001-01-29 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:53:57AM -0600, K Old wrote: > I was wondering if there was anyway that I can an USB ADSL modem with Linux? No. Well, not unless the mfg has released something very recently. USB support is not so much the problem, as having a device specific driver. > The modem does

RE: ps2pdf image quality

2001-01-29 Thread Michael R. Anderson
January 29, 2001 Try using pdflatex instead. The quality is much higher than ps2pdf, though you have to be careful with included images. I'm not sure if it's part of the TeTex package included with Redhat, but you should be able to find it at your local CTAN mirror. Regards, Mike Anderson

Re: Scripting help needed

2001-01-29 Thread Justin Zygmont
another trick is the files in /var/ru. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Thierry ITTY wrote: > ifconfig tells you whether your ppp connection is active or not. then it's > up to you to connect conditionnally > > # my app > ifconfig | grep "ppp0" || start_ppp_script > start app X > > > or something like t

Re: [General] Rawhide?

2001-01-29 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Nitebirdz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote: > > > > > In all fairness to RedHat, given the rapid development cycle, to expect > > them to package up a full distribution, perhaps even creating an ISO > > image, each time a something changes in the rawhide repos

Re: RPM install of MySQL giving me problems

2001-01-29 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:23:46PM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > > Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The server tries to start, but it fails because it cannot find the file > > > "./mysql/host.frm". > > > > Start it like th

Re: [General] Rawhide?

2001-01-29 Thread Nitebirdz
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote: > > In all fairness to RedHat, given the rapid development cycle, to expect > them to package up a full distribution, perhaps even creating an ISO > image, each time a something changes in the rawhide repository, is unfair > and, IMNSHO, ridiculous. > Sure

Re: Re: RH 7 and linuxconf-web

2001-01-29 Thread tcurl
I tried it again, with all of the settings as advised by Red Hat. It does not work. I got the file recommended by Jacques Gelinas. It now works fine. Thank you Jacques Tom Curl Enertex Systems Jacques Gelinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/01 11:12 AM Please respo

Re: Mirroring a HD for offline backup

2001-01-29 Thread Duane Clark
Perhaps unplug your primary drive, plug your mirror in its place, and try booting. Depending on how you made your mirror, you might not even need the floppy. But in either case, you can now make your mirror bootable, and not worry about the floppy. Once it is bootable, put it back as the secondary

Re: LDAP setup

2001-01-29 Thread Fernando Lozano
Chris, > I'm trying to setup openLDAP as a central address book, and I have it > running on a server. At this stage I don't know how to start off the > database, can anyone give me some hints on the configuration that will get > me going? Visit openldap.org and enter the FAQ for release 1.2. I

Re: Reiserfs questions & Discussion

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:59:56PM -0500, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > <> Sounds to me that this violated the tenet of "properly installed and maintained"; somebody should have reviewed and vetted that installation a long time ago. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reiserfs questions & Discussion

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:26:21PM -0500, Chris Colomb wrote: > UPS systems can and do fail. Absolutely--anything fails, eventually. The issue is one of _probability_. You can give anecdotal descriptions of UPS failures all day; unless you can point to a statistical proof that they fail consist

Re: RedHat releasing RPMs for BIND 8.2.3?

2001-01-29 Thread chuck
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Pete Peterson spewed into the bitstream: PP> PP>CERT Advisory CA-2001-02 lists security problems with 8.2.2_P7. PP> PP>CERT and ISC recommend upgrading immediately to 8.2.3 or 9.1. Any idea how PP>soon RedHat will have 8.2.3 RPMs available? I'm not ready to jump to 9.1 PP>

RE: Reiserfs questions & Discussion

2001-01-29 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Heh, when I used to work over at NASA Langley, we installed a nearly $1x10^6 UPS every test showed that UPS worked perfectly, and was able to get the generator up and running relatively quick (these were some high power machines). Then along came a Darwin award person who wanted to know the s

Re: Bind vulnerability in CERT Advisory CA-2001-02

2001-01-29 Thread chuck
On 29 Jan 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød spewed into the bitstream: TEG>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TEG> TEG>> On 29 Jan 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød spewed into the bitstream: TEG>> TEG>> TEG>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TEG>> TEG> TEG>> TEG>> Regarding CERT Advisory CA-2001-02 there is no vulnerability

Re: RPM install of MySQL giving me problems

2001-01-29 Thread Michael George
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 12:23:46PM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The server tries to start, but it fails because it cannot find the file > > "./mysql/host.frm". > > Start it like this: "service mysqld start". I tried that, but I got the s

DSL via USB modem

2001-01-29 Thread K Old
Hello all, I was wondering if there was anyway that I can an USB ADSL modem with Linux? The modem does support the PPPoE and PPPoA protocols so I'm sure there is someway to get it to work. Any chance it might work with the 2.4 kernel? I currently have RH 7.0 running with the default kernel t

Re: Bind vulnerability in CERT Advisory CA-2001-02

2001-01-29 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 29 Jan 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød spewed into the bitstream: > > TEG>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > TEG> > TEG>> Regarding CERT Advisory CA-2001-02 there is no vulnerability statement > TEG>> for Red Hat's bind packages for 6.2 or 7.0. Does anybody know if there's >

Execute URL via Perl

2001-01-29 Thread K Old
Hello all, I understand this might be a little off topic, but I no where else to turn. I am writing a perl script that I would like to have connect to a secure server and send some information (from a web form). I thought I could just do this by executing a command like this: exec lynx https

Re: Bind vulnerability in CERT Advisory CA-2001-02

2001-01-29 Thread chuck
On 29 Jan 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød spewed into the bitstream: TEG>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TEG> TEG>> Regarding CERT Advisory CA-2001-02 there is no vulnerability statement TEG>> for Red Hat's bind packages for 6.2 or 7.0. Does anybody know if there's TEG>> a problem or not? TEG> TEG>An errat

Re: Reiserfs questions & Discussion

2001-01-29 Thread Chris Colomb
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:03:06AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > > That's bunk. > > Gently, gently. > > You can expect power to fail, because power supply facilities and delivery > > facilities are not 100% foolproof. Lines go down, etc. > > I believe w

Re: RPM install of MySQL giving me problems

2001-01-29 Thread Lee Howard
At 12:18 PM 1/29/01 -0500, Michael George wrote: >Hello! > >I'm trying to get mysql up and running on my system. I have the 3.23.32 >version and have installed the RPMs for mysql and mysql-server. Actually, I've had the same troubles here on two different systems. See: http://bugzilla.redhat.c

Re: RPM install of MySQL giving me problems

2001-01-29 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The server tries to start, but it fails because it cannot find the file > "./mysql/host.frm". Start it like this: "service mysqld start". -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. ___ Redhat-list mailing

RPM install of MySQL giving me problems

2001-01-29 Thread Michael George
Hello! I'm trying to get mysql up and running on my system. I have the 3.23.32 version and have installed the RPMs for mysql and mysql-server. The RPMs put the files in different places from what the manual says and there are some files which are missing. Also, the manual specifically says to

REPOST: help with redirecting web requests

2001-01-29 Thread shoe
I didn't see any responses to this so I thought I'd repost it: I'm working with my RH 6.2 router/firewall. I run the firewall with ipchains and ipfwadm. What I want to do is make any requests for websites from the internal machines be redirected through my ISP's content filtering proxy server.

ps2pdf image quality

2001-01-29 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I use LaTeX to write most of my documents. When I use ps2pdf to convert to pdf format, the output has really bad image quality when viewed in acrobat reader, leagues worse than when viewing the document in xdvi. The print quality of the document, however, is good. Is there a way to get pdf

Re: Bind vulnerability in CERT Advisory CA-2001-02

2001-01-29 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Regarding CERT Advisory CA-2001-02 there is no vulnerability statement > for Red Hat's bind packages for 6.2 or 7.0. Does anybody know if there's > a problem or not? An errata is upcoming - it's in QA. -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc. __

Bind vulnerability in CERT Advisory CA-2001-02

2001-01-29 Thread chuck
Regarding CERT Advisory CA-2001-02 there is no vulnerability statement for Red Hat's bind packages for 6.2 or 7.0. Does anybody know if there's a problem or not? The advisory says that versions of bind older than 8.2.3 are vulnerable. -- Chuck Mead, Owner, MoonGroup.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Note:

Re: Removing News Server

2001-01-29 Thread Mike Burger
Was it ever configured to pull a newsfeed? If not, or if it's never been configured to serve any sort of usenet type news, you can probably safely uninstall it. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Tony Campisi wrote: > Hi, > I'm interested in completely removing the news server from my RedHat 7.0 > server ins

RE: RPM Catch-22

2001-01-29 Thread Christopher Northrop
Your silly, what could go wrong? Last Time I checked MicroSlop and ReDHead were not in co hoots with each other... Maybe made from the same mold, but as any mold maker will tell you "every cast has a slight deviation". Relax its only Linux.. Do a backup.. Chris N. -Original Message- Fr

SHELL & CGI

2001-01-29 Thread Stefano Passarella
Hi   I have a shell ( grep and many echo command) , which prints in the stdout the HTML tabs. It works well, if it runs as comman ('shell_name $1').   I would use it via WWW. I have readen that I can use CGI and I get some informations from cgi.resourceindex.org. Unfortunately, I have found

Removing News Server

2001-01-29 Thread Tony Campisi
Hi, I'm interested in completely removing the news server from my RedHat 7.0 server install. Our company does not use the news server. Should I simply remove or rename the innd link in the startup directories? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Tony Campisi

RE: Very slow to connect

2001-01-29 Thread Chuck Carson
You need to identify what the bottleneck in the system is? Is it disk I/O? Do you need more MySQL child processes running. Do you need to spread your MySQL data accross different drive spindles? Is memory the bottleneck? Is it an open files bottleneck? You really need to set up scripts to gather

Re: Re: RH 7 and linuxconf-web

2001-01-29 Thread Jacques Gelinas
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> As far as I can tell, from experience, and searching around the web, >> linuxconf-web is still broken on RH 7.0, even using >xinetd-2.1.8.9pre11-1. > It worked with the errata release... we specifically tested that, you > probably haven't turned it on in xinetd or i

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