Re: cannot make boot floppy

2002-01-23 Thread Lorenzo Sandini
> The part of your message "end up with a unusable RH" is too vague for me to > diagnose, but I would be willing to bet that your install went okay, except > that it didn't properly detect some piece of hardware or something. > I know this may sound elementary, but have you considered replacing t

Re: cannot make boot floppy

2002-01-23 Thread Lorenzo Sandini
I can access the floppy and write to it without problems. When the RH7.2 install crashes at the point of creating the boot floppy, I am offered to save the log file to a floppy and indeed anacdump.txt is written to the floppy in the drive. I tried a second drive and another formatted new floppy,

Re: How to block 1 ip from internal network?

2002-01-23 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 20:30, Mike Burger wrote: > > Sorry...that was a dumb response...I should ahve realized that you must be > using a linux system as a firewall/router. > > Sorry. Rats I was about to replay with my "You must have moved from redmond" comment :) Bret ___

Re: vm/cache performance : application pov

2002-01-23 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 15:27, vijay singh wrote: > Hello. I am trying to analyze an application for possible performance > improvements. This application is very malloc heavy, with a lot of link list > traversals and moderate disk i/o. Right now it uses the general purpose > memory allocator - m

Re: wu-ftpd security?

2002-01-23 Thread JW
At 11:22 AM 1/24/2002 -0500, you wrote: >last night, while i'm surfing, i has found that thereis a lot of script to exploit >wu-ftpd, >my question is, how do i secure my ftpd, while default package from redhat is wu-ftpd, >i know there is a lot of alternatives than wu-ftpdm like proftpd, ncftpd,

Re: How to block 1 ip from internal network?

2002-01-23 Thread Pieter De Wit
Hello Mark, Try this if you are running ipchains (for iptables someone else will have to post :) ipchains -A input -s sourceip -j DENY -l (Not *too* sure off the top of my head) This will log it to /var/log/messages Cheers, Pieter - Original Message - From: "Mark Neidorff" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: issues replacing win2k as my desktop

2002-01-23 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
> > > >2) I do a lot of work with network diagrams, etc. in Visio. While there > >are graphing programs available on linux, to my knowledge none of them can > >use Visio templates or read/write visio files > > Take a look at VariCAD. I recall it could load Visio files, but I am not quite sur

Re: Apache Load Balancing

2002-01-23 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Rahul, > Is there any (Open-source) module which helps in deploying apache with load > balancing and fault tolerance. Can any body help me out. How about http://www.ultramonkey.org/ for setting up web server clusters. I currently have in test 2 director computers load balancing (and providin

Re: command completion / spelling errors

2002-01-23 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
David Talkington wrote: > consistently transposes the last two letters in /usr/locla. > In which case it would be safer to create an alias... ;) -Manuel. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: wu-ftpd security?

2002-01-23 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lewi wrote: >how do i secure my wu-ftpd on my server, Don't use it. >or i must change my ftpd? Yes. You'll get lots of recommendations, but the two that seem to most consistently have the list's respect are ncftpd (not open source) or proftp

RE: Apache Load Balancing

2002-01-23 Thread Robert Finneran
Hi Rahul, Well I only know of one method but it probably won't help you with fault tolerance: Use the iptables firewall routing feature as explained in http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/netfilter-print.html According to the article (I myself have not tried this) you can re-route traf

wu-ftpd security?

2002-01-23 Thread Lewi
last night, while i'm surfing, i has found that thereis a lot of script to exploit wu-ftpd, my question is, how do i secure my ftpd, while default package from redhat is wu-ftpd, i know there is a lot of alternatives than wu-ftpdm like proftpd, ncftpd, but i remembered that one of the redhat empl

Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 22:11 23 Jan 2002, John P Verel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Just tried it. Two items. | | Path ends up having /home/john/bin: in it, along with valid root path | entries. Well, that's an artifact of /etc/profile just adding, not scrubbing and then adding I guess. You could reset $PATH a

Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19:04 23 Jan 2002, David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | | >su root -c ". /etc/profile; . /root/.bash_profile; export HISTFILE=$HISTFILE; exec |bash -i' | | How does that differ from the effect of 'su -'? No chdir. Not quite a login shell. Grabs user's HISTF

Re: command completion / spelling errors

2002-01-23 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >JW wrote: > >> [localhost:~] root# em tmpfile >> >> OK? rm tmpfile? > >I'm not sure about it matching commands (I've only ever seen it >match what's in PWD). However, as far as having a command such as >'rm' ask for ve

Re: command completion / spelling errors

2002-01-23 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JW wrote: >Hey, in addition to this.. in Darwin (i.e. Mac OS X) which uses tcsh >as the default, it will ask you for confirmation rather then just >taking off without you. for example: > >[localhost:~] root# em tmpfile > >OK? rm tmpfile? I did not

Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread John P Verel
Thanks, Ed. Now, off to read the sudo man page :) On 01/23/02, 09:33:29PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > rpm -qi sudo > > To do what you want, add the user into /etc/sudoers with the appropriate > access, and type: > > $ sudo -s > > You'll find that your default directory has not changed, and you'

Apache Load Balancing

2002-01-23 Thread Rahul Torvi
Hi all, Is there any (Open-source) module which helps in deploying apache with load balancing and fault tolerance. Can any body help me out. - Rahul T ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat

Re: command completion / spelling errors

2002-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
JW wrote: > [localhost:~] root# em tmpfile > > OK? rm tmpfile? I'm not sure about it matching commands (I've only ever seen it match what's in PWD). However, as far as having a command such as 'rm' ask for verification, that's a matter of aliasing it to 'rm -i'... -- H | "Life is the ar

Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread Ed Wilts
rpm -qi sudo To do what you want, add the user into /etc/sudoers with the appropriate access, and type: $ sudo -s You'll find that your default directory has not changed, and you're using your own .bash_history. However, it re-reads your .bash_history for your new shell, and it seems like the

Re: command completion / spelling errors

2002-01-23 Thread JW
At 07:10 PM 1/23/2002 -0800, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >In bash: > >shopt -s cdspell > >But I can't step away from this without being just a bit pedantic ... >I strongly advise against using that option as root, where a typo can >mean disaster, and you don't want the system

Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John P Verel wrote: >su - starts a login shell for root. Info page says: > >su - Make the shell a login shell. This means the following. Unset all > environment variables except `TERM', `HOME', and `SHELL' (which > are set as described abo

Re: [RH List] Re: command completion / spelling errors

2002-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
David Talkington wrote: > Or for a geek like me, who > consistently transposes the last two letters in /usr/locla. Why'd you think I ask. :) AMK4 -- H | "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John Gardner +---

Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread John P Verel
su - starts a login shell for root. Info page says: su - Make the shell a login shell. This means the following. Unset all environment variables except `TERM', `HOME', and `SHELL' (which are set as described above), and `USER' and `LOGNAME' (which are set, even for the super-use

Re: command completion / spelling errors

2002-01-23 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > >When one starts typing in a filename/directory name on a bash >prompt, you can hit TAB and it auto-completes it. In bash: shopt -s cdspell But I can't step away from this without being just a bit pedantic ... I

Re: command completion / spelling errors

2002-01-23 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:54:28PM -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > I _think_ this is something set in bash since those machines are > also using bash. The question is, _what_? Does anyone know? shopt -s cdspell -- Hal Burgiss ___ Redhat-list

Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread John P Verel
Just tried it. Two items. Path ends up having /home/john/bin: in it, along with valid root path entries. History ends up as root's history, not john's history On 01/24/02, 01:33:56PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 21:14 23 Jan 2002, John P Verel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I frequen

Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Simpson wrote: >su root -c ". /etc/profile; . /root/.bash_profile; export HISTFILE=$HISTFILE; exec >bash -i' How does that differ from the effect of 'su -'? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD

command completion / spelling errors

2002-01-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
When one starts typing in a filename/directory name on a bash prompt, you can hit TAB and it auto-completes it. However, I have seen systems (in fact I have three of them that shows this behavior) where if you mistyped something, be it uppercase/lowercase mismatch, or spelling error, it'l

Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread ABrady
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:14:52 -0500 John P Verel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > I frequently su from my user account to root. According to the su > info, it starts a new interactive shell, leaving the environment > unchanged. > > What I'd like to do is: > > su to root > pick up root

Re: Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21:14 23 Jan 2002, John P Verel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I frequently su from my user account to root. According to the su info, | it starts a new interactive shell, leaving the environment unchanged. | | What I'd like to do is: | | su to root | pick up root's path | pi

Re: PHP?

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:00:36AM +0800, northstone wrote: : Okayonly provide the answer and dont guide me to other page. What's the matter? Afraid of learning something? It's considered rude to demand someone do your work (research) for you. : I have apache in my redhat. So install

Re: How to block 1 ip from internal network?

2002-01-23 Thread Mike Burger
Sorry...that was a dumb response...I should ahve realized that you must be using a linux system as a firewall/router. Sorry. On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Mike Burger wrote: > That depends on the type of router/firewall you're using. > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > >

Re: How to block 1 ip from internal network?

2002-01-23 Thread Mike Burger
That depends on the type of router/firewall you're using. On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have my local lan using IPs in the 192.168.1.x range. The box that > I'm sitting at is the gateway to the Internet. It works just > fine. There are times that I'd like to blo

Re: issues replacing win2k as my desktop

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 23/01/2002 at 8:55 AM Eric Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/redhat-list] wrote: >friends - > >I'd love to replace win2k as my desktop, but I have a couple of issues >that are keeping me from doing it 100% > >1) At my company we use acrobat to

Bash: How to control su: path, pwd, history, etc?

2002-01-23 Thread John P Verel
I frequently su from my user account to root. According to the su info, it starts a new interactive shell, leaving the environment unchanged. What I'd like to do is: su to root pick up root's path pick up user's history file not change directory to ~/root, but ke

PHP?

2002-01-23 Thread northstone
Okayonly provide the answer and dont guide me to other page.I have apache in my redhat.current now i need to let my php script to run in the apacheafter i put my file in the var/www/html/ folder, in the browseri call the php page to run, but it shows all the scripts sourcecode i writ

RE: cannot make boot floppy

2002-01-23 Thread Robert Finneran
Hey Lorenzo! I have experienced the same or at least simular problem on several of my machines. For me, there was nothing wrong with the hardware. It appears to be a bug with the RH install program. This has happended to me when the install process failed to properly detect and configure my netw

Re: How to block 1 ip from internal network?

2002-01-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I have my local lan using IPs in the 192.168.1.x range. The box that > I'm sitting at is the gateway to the Internet. It works just > fine. There are times that I'd like to block access to the Internet > for one or more addresses on the local net. W

RE: cannot make boot floppy

2002-01-23 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 24-Jan-02 Lorenzo Sandini wrote: > Well I thought my RH7.2 wouldn't install because I couldn't configure it, > but it seems I have an hardware issue here. > > I am doing a plain KDE workstation install on a pentium 3 computer, empty > hard drive, and all is fine until the step where I make a

How to block 1 ip from internal network?

2002-01-23 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi Folks, I have my local lan using IPs in the 192.168.1.x range. The box that I'm sitting at is the gateway to the Internet. It works just fine. There are times that I'd like to block access to the Internet for one or more addresses on the local net. What files do I modify to accomplish this

Re: snmpwalk strange output

2002-01-23 Thread vijay singh
I think that you have not provided SNMP with information about the location of your MIBS OR the MIBS are not correctly structured so the hierarchy is not complete. Check the MIBS environment variable. There is also some command line option to specify the location where your MIBS files are but

Re: cannot make boot floppy

2002-01-23 Thread \"Jonathan M. Slivko\"
Quoting Lorenzo Sandini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well I thought my RH7.2 wouldn't install because I couldn't configure > it, > but it seems I have an hardware issue here. > > I am doing a plain KDE workstation install on a pentium 3 computer, > empty > hard drive, and all is fine until the step wh

cannot make boot floppy

2002-01-23 Thread Lorenzo Sandini
Well I thought my RH7.2 wouldn't install because I couldn't configure it, but it seems I have an hardware issue here. I am doing a plain KDE workstation install on a pentium 3 computer, empty hard drive, and all is fine until the step where I make a boot floppy. I just get an error "couldn't crea

RE: Slightly out of topic !!!!!!

2002-01-23 Thread Robert Finneran
Dear Adarsh Lit, Please respect appropriate etiquette for using these email groups. If everyone that desired to post an email advertisement would do so, these lists would be completely polluted with self-serving advertisements. Personally, I enjoy participating in these email discussion groups,

snmpwalk strange output

2002-01-23 Thread dave brett
Below is part of the output snmpwalk gives me when running under 7.2. This is only a very small part. Does anybody know what the progam is trying to tell me. I do not get the same thing when running snmpwalk to the same device. Unlinked OID in HOST-RESOURCES-MIB: hrSystemInitialLoadParameter

Re: issues replacing win2k as my desktop

2002-01-23 Thread Gregg Morris
> "David" == David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And may I just mention that I'm in love with LaTeX? Grab Leslie > Lamport's book, which is well organized and easy reading. Spend > a bit of time creating a template and a script or two to > automate presentation f

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Re: howto securely mirror a rpm files ?

2002-01-23 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 1/23/2002 10:47 PM +0100, you wrote: >On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 04:05:09PM +0100, Dumas Patrice wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to mirror the redhat updates. > > However, I have doubts about how to do it securely. Also take a look at rsync, which will do the job quite well too. Many of the mirr

FW: RH7.2 and wireless orinoco card

2002-01-23 Thread Carter, Shaun G
The WAP must also have WEP disabled. Shaun -Original Message- From: Big Kahuna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:57 PM To: 'Carter, Shaun G' Subject: FW: RH7.2 and wireless orinoco card > Hi. > Thanks, I don't have a key specified in the wireless.opts > fi

RE: RH7.2 and wireless orinoco card

2002-01-23 Thread Big Kahuna
Hi. Thanks, I don't have a key specified in the wireless.opts file and I'm under the impression that unless you provide one that WEP is disabled. Is there something else you did to disable it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Carter, Sha

vm/cache performance : application pov

2002-01-23 Thread vijay singh
Hello. I am trying to analyze an application for possible performance improvements. This application is very malloc heavy, with a lot of link list traversals and moderate disk i/o. Right now it uses the general purpose memory allocator - malloc. Is there a way I can get stats from the kernel a

Re: howto securely mirror a rpm files ?

2002-01-23 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 04:05:09PM +0100, Dumas Patrice wrote: > Hi, > I would like to mirror the redhat updates. > However, I have doubts about how to do it securely. Check out the mirror rpm on the powertools CD. It does exactly what you want to do. Emmanuel

SMP Kernel

2002-01-23 Thread Bob Staaf
Hello all, Please forgive the newbie question but, I have not noticed this before. If you take a look at the directory listing below you will notice this is an SMP machine. I am concerned about the links. System Map is linked to the SMP version but, why are module-info and vmlinuz not link

Re: NET: 117 messages suppressed.

2002-01-23 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 11:12, Daniel Abad wrote: > Could someone tell me what is this??? This is happening all the times... and > my websites are getting out!! > > Jan 20 04:02:05 server kernel: NET: 117 messages suppressed. > Jan 20 04:02:05 server kernel: dst cache overflow I get the NET: messa

Re: Need help with a bash script - -n and -z always giving "true" ?

2002-01-23 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:51:50PM -0600, JW wrote: > > Obviously I do not understand how to properly get a yes/no value out > of the string returned from a nested command. If someone could > explain even that much I'd appreciate it. I think your syntax is squirrely. Probably don't want to be us

RE: RH7.2 and wireless orinoco card

2002-01-23 Thread Carter, Shaun G
Are you trying to run WEP on your access point? I had to disable mine and never got around to figuring out how to get it working. Make sure you check that. Shaun Carter -Original Message- From: John Helly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: RH7.2 and wireless orinoco card

2002-01-23 Thread John Helly
Hi. That was an interesting suggestion. When I run /sbin/ifup eth0 I get back a message Determining IP information for eth0... failed. That's interesting but seems to only confirm what I already knew. Since the IP is supposed to come from the router (DHCP), if the access point and the card ca

Need help with a bash script - -n and -z always giving "true" ?

2002-01-23 Thread JW
Hello, I'm trying to write a bash script for a back up job. Unfortunately I'm not getting anywhere. >I need to mount a file system only if the filesystem is >_not_ already mounted. > >I'm thinking of it like this: Ok, I've been reading documentation and wrote a test script. I've so far manag

Re: issues replacing win2k as my desktop

2002-01-23 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Burgiss wrote: >On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:55:52AM -0700, Eric Clark wrote: >> friends - >> >> I'd love to replace win2k as my desktop, but I have a couple of >> issues that are keeping me from doing it 100% >> >> 1) At my company we use

Re: issues replacing win2k as my desktop

2002-01-23 Thread Reuben D Budiardja
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 10:55 am, you wrote: > friends - > > I'd love to replace win2k as my desktop, but I have a couple of issues that > are keeping me from doing it 100% > > 1) At my company we use acrobat to distribute files instead of word or > excel, etc - I can't create PDF's on l

Re: Question about login bug

2002-01-23 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 21:53, Tony Preston wrote: > I am running a vanilla Redhat 6.2 distribution. It is for a project > and the customer wants minimum changes (everything works except for one > thing so why upgrade). > > One minor problem is that when the system is freshly booted, and the > log