Apache problem on 7.3

2003-06-17 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I have the stock apache 1.3.27-2 RPM installed, and I'm trying to get suEXEC to work without success. In the virtual host file I have the DocumentRoot set to /home/rash/www and I have User and Group set. The configtest passes without a problem. However whenever I try to execute anything u

thnks Chris...

2003-06-17 Thread sharif_LINUX
Thanks cris... for ur ..nice and easy reply... i just needed ..it.. thanks again. == > i need help on wget... > pls let me know the basic commands... > also inform me the default directory > where it stores the file.. here is the most basic way to use it. say you have a

Re: Apple Pro Keyboard

2003-06-17 Thread Edward Dekkers
Roberto Dohnert wrote: I use an Apple Pro Keyboard with my Athlon XP machine and I have a problem with Grub, it will not allow me to press Enter or any of the keyboard fuctions, once the system is booted it allows me to use the keyboard properly. Any suggestions ? I'm assuming it's USB? If

Re: Mailbox size

2003-06-17 Thread Ziaur Rahman
Quoting Ivo Tijhaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | I'm using sendmail, i already tried disk quota's but in that case procmail | fails with a temp_fail so this isn't the solution. i already read many faq's If you use system's quota features and sendmail, then you have to run a script in cron that will no

Apple Pro Keyboard

2003-06-17 Thread Roberto Dohnert
I use an Apple Pro Keyboard with my Athlon XP machine and I have a problem with Grub, it will not allow me to press Enter or any of the keyboard fuctions, once the system is booted it allows me to use the keyboard properly. Any suggestions ? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EM

RE: Having Problems Mounting CDROM

2003-06-17 Thread Vorpahl, Jason Stephen
Thanks for replying. I typed mount /mnt/cdrom The directory does exist. - Jason -Original Message- From: Bill Tangren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Having Problems Mounting CDROM Vorpahl, Jason Stephen wrote: > -

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 21:30, John P Verel wrote: > > On 06/17/03 16:23 -0400, Michael Kalus wrote: > > > > Try telnetting to your mailserver on port 25, you can send the message > > directly, no server on your end involved. It's all plain Text. > I get this in response to telnet localhost 25: >

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread rm
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 21:30, John P Verel wrote: > On 06/17/03 16:23 -0400, Michael Kalus wrote: > > > > Try telnetting to your mailserver on port 25, you can send the message > > directly, no server on your end involved. It's all plain Text. > I get this in response to telnet localhost 25: > > 2

RE: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
Pretty much. -Drew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John P Verel Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:31 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT] On 06/17/03 16:23 -0400, Michae

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread John P Verel
On 06/17/03 16:23 -0400, Michael Kalus wrote: > > Try telnetting to your mailserver on port 25, you can send the message > directly, no server on your end involved. It's all plain Text. I get this in response to telnet localhost 25: 220 John.optonline.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8/8.12.8; Tue, 17 Ju

TP770ED Kernel 2.4.20 Crashes on Boot

2003-06-17 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
Hello redhat-list, I sent this to the Linux on ThinkPads list and the Psyche list about a week ago, and haven't seen any response. Trying a wider audience now. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can proceed? Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello linux-thinkpad, I

Re: bonding 2 DSL lines.

2003-06-17 Thread Manish Kathuria
Please check out LARTC - http://www.lartc.org/. The HOW-TO has examples dealing with the situation. You will have to apply some patches ( http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/#routes) to your kernel and recompile if you want dead gateway detection in addition to plain load balancing. I have done it and it wor

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Daryl Hunt wrote: Sounds like you may need a better provider if one is available. It seems the areas that are abused the most are from areas that offer the least services. There are two other ISP's in town, both are more expensive for their basic broad band service -- Wielder of the mighty +1

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Daryl Hunt
- Original Message - From: "Joseph A Nagy Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 1:22 PM Subject: Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT] > Daryl Hunt wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Michael Kalus" <[E

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Bret Hughes wrote: Looking through my spam folder to which procmail sends all stuff tagged by spamassassin I see a lot of stuff from various names but niether the the originating machine or the first server if it did not go straight to verio (my webhosting co) have nothing to do with yahoo bigfo

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread John P Verel
On 06/18/03 06:05 +1000, Peter Kiem wrote: > > I am a home user, running stock Red Hat 9, using Sendmail. The only > > "server" software I run on this box is MySQL, for local use only. I do > > not run any DHCP sofware on this machine. My ISP, Cablevision, does. > > So, this AOL policy blocks A

Encrypting filesystem?

2003-06-17 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
Hello! I've searched the archives, but the last time that I can find that this issue was addressed was back in 2001, so I thought I'd check for updates. I'm looking for a (hopefully easy) way to set up an AES encrypted partition on my RedHat 9 system. I have a clean drive to use, and I do not

Re: bonding 2 DSL lines.

2003-06-17 Thread Ian Mortimer
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt > Among other things (on my RH8 system). I have no idea how well this > works or how much PITA. It works very well and is simple to setup. But it only works for ethernet and requires a corresponding configuration on the switch. It has to be a

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:47, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Bret Hughes wrote: > > > It is analogous to spending 30 minutes in a security line at an airport > > and having to check your pocket knife because of the terrorist activity > > in our current environment. > > > > Bret > > > > > > Sorry,

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Brett, > what about the mail command? Doesn't it send directly to smtp servers? > It is only running for the time it takes to send the mail. OK granted, but you are sending emails to your relatives on AOL using the mail command? What a masochist :) > Now that I look at it it appears to call

Re: bonding 2 DSL lines.

2003-06-17 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:32:59PM -0400, Jeff Bearer wrote: > > Does something like this exist and I simply didn't look in the right > place? $locate bonding /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt [...] /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/bonding.c /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/bonding.o [.

Re: SYSFONT Question

2003-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 22:08, Tom wrote: > So I changed SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" > to SYSFONT="fixed" just to see if it would make any difference. > > It worked! Text looks good now, but I do get a failure on boot when > it > try's to set DEFAULT FONT. Says cannot find font "fixed". > > Si

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
John Nichel wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Daryl Hunt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Michael Kalus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wouldn't mind having my own fixed IP but they are hard to come by these days. I bought mine. They aren't exactly cheap though. For me to get a static IP

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread John Nichel
Peter Kiem wrote: Hi John, (my account has one static and 5 dynamic ip's). I use the static for my business website, my mail server is on one of the dynamic ip's, and a Why don't you run your mailserver on the same IP as your website? They can co-exist happily you know :) Regards, +--

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread John Nichel
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Daryl Hunt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Michael Kalus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wouldn't mind having my own fixed IP but they are hard to come by these days. I bought mine. They aren't exactly cheap though. For me to get a static IP from my current ISP wo

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread John Nichel
Daryl Hunt wrote: No gray area at all. You are running a Dynamic IP which will not pass the Reverse DNS lookup many email servers (including mine) will do when you attempt to send it. My mail server does have reverse DNS. At least that is what DynDNS.org states...DNS isn't my strong point. -

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:18:06AM +1000, Peter Kiem wrote: > OK that is fine but a large majority of spam is sent from dynamic IP > addresses which are NOT open relays but just used to spew out millions of > emails to the rest of us poor suckers. > In other words, ALL the ISP's you peer with are

Re: Mail Conversion

2003-06-17 Thread Kostas Sfakiotakis
Greetings Rober , Robert Jones wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 01:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 28 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 02:44:44 +0300 From: Kostas Sfakiotakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail Conversion Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All i want to ask is , if the

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Bret Hughes wrote: It is analogous to spending 30 minutes in a security line at an airport and having to check your pocket knife because of the terrorist activity in our current environment. Bret Sorry, that's BS. Had those passengers eigher A) been more ballsy or B) been allowed to have wea

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:00, Peter Kiem wrote: > Joseph, > > > You awesome too much. For one thing, I don't run an MTA (nor a web > > server anymore due to the high CPU demand of RH9). But I do have > > relatives I might possibly be unable to email because of AOL's shit > > policy. I think it's ve

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:10, Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:05:33AM +1000, Peter Kiem wrote: > > > I am a home user, running stock Red Hat 9, using Sendmail. The only > > > "server" software I run on this box is MySQL, for local use only. I do > > > not run any DHCP sofware on this

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Peter Kiem wrote: Hi Joseph, It's very safe to assume that, but it's not always the case. On occasion I've been known to pop open pine and send an email from there. And pine does direct to remote SMTP email? Doubt it. Surely you had to configure a POP3 and SMTP server in Pine so it knew how t

RE: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Randy Perkins
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 15:18, Michael Kalus wrote: > AOL is NOT doing a reverse lookup all they are doing is seeing that the IP > address belongs to an upstream provider and is not part of their "declared" > mail servers and drops the message. > if you do a reverse lookup on your ip address, does

bonding 2 DSL lines.

2003-06-17 Thread Jeff Bearer
I can't find an application that will allow me to equalize traffic across two DSL lines such as this router does. http://www.nexland.com/turbo.cfm I understand why it's tricky and it wouldn't work with the normal networking stack. But I'm surprised that nobody has some kernel module or that can h

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Joseph, > Completely agreed, and your second option is very nice indeed. > > I just wish I could buy a static IP for less then $300/month! Yeah I hear ya :( Regards, +-+-+ | Peter Kiem.^. | E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Jeff, > > Sorry John, no it doesn't. If you are on a DHCP assigned address then you > > should be relaying email through your ISP not directly out. > > Can you explain why a DHCP address shoud not do a direct SMTP connect please? > > After all a direct smtp connect is faster and and the protoc

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Joseph, > It's very safe to assume that, but it's not always the case. On occasion > I've been known to pop open pine and send an email from there. And pine does direct to remote SMTP email? Doubt it. Surely you had to configure a POP3 and SMTP server in Pine so it knew how to send/receive?

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Bret Hughes wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:11, rm wrote: It's of course their right to block whatever they want, but I too believe it to be both poor business and ineffective spam control. Aol lost 1 million subscribers in the last 6 months, and are projected to lose another 1 million in the ne

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 15:38, Peter Kiem wrote: > Michael, Michael, Michael, > > > Try telnetting to your mailserver on port 25, you can send the message > > directly, no server on your end involved. It's all plain Text. > > > > All an SMTP Server does is follow the protocol but any human being can

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:10:52AM +1000, Peter Kiem wrote: > Hi John, > > > (my account has one static and 5 dynamic ip's). I use the static for my > > business website, my mail server is on one of the dynamic ip's, and a > > Why don't you run your mailserver on the same IP as your website? Th

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:08:10AM +1000, Peter Kiem wrote: > Jeff, > > > "server" being forbidden certainly appears in my TOS, but just being > > smtp capable, incoming or outgoing does not a server make. > > > > Don't confuse the use of certain protocols with running servers. They > > are not t

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread rm
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:57, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > While they may be running MAPS or SPEWS also, what they are doing here > > is different. They are blocking (as explained to me) ALL IP's that > > they've defined as "residential." My IP doesn't show up in MAPS or > > SPEWS, but my mail

Re: Unable to convert root file system to ext3

2003-06-17 Thread Paul F. Williams
That was the solution. I did not realize that you needed to recreate the initrd-xxx since there was one there already. Thanks for reiterating the proper procedure. paulw Message: 21 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:34:02 +0200 From: Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Peter Kiem wrote: Because eventually I want to run a web hosting/design business and I think it's cheaper to re-invent the wheel (you learn a helluva lot mroe too) then pay $300+ month for decent, reliable hosting (I say $300+/month because my company is also going to be hosting an extremely high b

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:05:33AM +1000, Peter Kiem wrote: > > I am a home user, running stock Red Hat 9, using Sendmail. The only > > "server" software I run on this box is MySQL, for local use only. I do > > not run any DHCP sofware on this machine. My ISP, Cablevision, does. > > So, this AOL

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Michael H. Warfield wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:25:06PM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Unfortunately I am without funds to do so. The cheapest DSL access (offered by local telco co-op) is approx. $30 more a month then our cable modem, otherwise I would (and be hap

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Peter Kiem wrote: Joseph, You awesome too much. For one thing, I don't run an MTA (nor a web server anymore due to the high CPU demand of RH9). But I do have relatives I might possibly be unable to email because of AOL's shit policy. I think it's very relevant. If you don't run an MTA then how

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Brett, > and if AOL can work with other ISPs to take an aggressive stance to > eliminate as much of it as possible I say more power to them. Perhaps The problem is they are controlling the spam coming IN to them, not OUT from them! We need all the large ISPs to tackle the problem BOTH ways!

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
> Because eventually I want to run a web hosting/design business and I > think it's cheaper to re-invent the wheel (you learn a helluva lot mroe > too) then pay $300+ month for decent, reliable hosting (I say > $300+/month because my company is also going to be hosting an extremely > high band widt

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Joseph, > You awesome too much. For one thing, I don't run an MTA (nor a web > server anymore due to the high CPU demand of RH9). But I do have > relatives I might possibly be unable to email because of AOL's shit > policy. I think it's very relevant. If you don't run an MTA then how do you email

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:11, rm wrote: > It's of course their right to block whatever they want, but I too believe it to > be both poor business and ineffective spam control. Aol lost 1 million subscribers > in the > last 6 months, and are projected to lose another 1 million in the next 6 months

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Drew Weaver wrote: Unfortunately I am without funds to do so. The cheapest DSL access (offered by local telco co-op) is approx. $30 more a month then our cable modem, otherwise I would (and be happily running websites off my box, or not, RH9 sucks up a shit load of resources) In these scenari

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Not always possible. Only have the cable company, Co-op telco (Baby Bell called Ben Lomand Rural Telephone Co-Op (although they now also operate in the city (to compete with Citizens/Frontier I imagine))), and Frontier (a Citizens Communications Company). From BLomand, a

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Michael, > > OK that is fine but a large majority of spam is sent from > > dynamic IP addresses which are NOT open relays but just used > > to spew out millions of emails to the rest of us poor suckers. > > So we have tons of people out there who have their windows machines wide > open and are

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Michael H. Warfield wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:25:06PM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Unfortunately I am without funds to do so. The cheapest DSL access (offered by local telco co-op) is approx. $30 more a month then our cable modem, otherwise I would (and be happily running websites off

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> So we have tons of people out there who have their windows machines wide > open and are getting infected by worms, maybe we should just completely shut > those people off the net? Sounds ok to me. > My ISP has names associated with all the IP addresses, those names are in > return my customer I

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Peter Kiem wrote: They aren't exactly cheap though. For me to get a static IP from my current ISP would cost me $300+ a MONTH. Then by god get a new ISP. Not always possible I guess. FWIW, 8 static IPs on my DSL service cost $100 a YEAR! Damn It is worth shopping around. Not always possible. O

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
Figured you may find our stats interesting: these are messages we have rejected since 00:00 (EST) here. 1 SMTP Exceeded Hard Error Limit after HELO 1 SMTP invalid [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 SMTP Exceeded Hard Error Limit after CONNECT 4 ACL mta_clients_relay 6 SMTP Exceeded Hard Error Limit after MAIL 6

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Michael, Michael, Michael, > Try telnetting to your mailserver on port 25, you can send the message > directly, no server on your end involved. It's all plain Text. > > All an SMTP Server does is follow the protocol but any human being can do > the same thing, it's all plain text. You miss my poi

Re: Limit users to home folders

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Drew Weaver wrote: I have created users who are in the users group on a Red Hat 8.0 server. They have bash shell login. How do I restrict users to their home folders? I don't want them to be able to leave their home folders. Thanks You may want to be careful how exactly you manage this because

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> Chucks servers at moongroup.com were the first ones to bite me on this > well over a year ago. I ended up routing everything through my isp > (SBC) because IIUC my mailserver at the office on a machine called > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and masqueraded behind the static ip address > of our firewall wou

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:25:06PM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: : > >>They aren't exactly cheap though. For me to get a static IP from my > >>current ISP would cost me $300+ a MONTH. > >Then by god get a new ISP. > >-Drew > Unfortunately I am without funds to do so. The cheapest DS

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> Unfortunately I am without funds to do so. The cheapest DSL access > (offered by local telco co-op) is approx. $30 more a month then our > cable modem, otherwise I would (and be happily running websites off my > box, or not, RH9 sucks up a shit load of resources) > In these scenarios I alway

Red Carpet 2.0.1 on RedHat 9.0

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Is anyone else having problems updating their systems via RedCarpet? I'm trying to update only three packages at a time (because I'm being limited to 5KB/sec on RC's end) and right now, I'm not able to even start the process of retrieving those files (whether I run it as root or a priviledged R

RE: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Kalus
> > I do run my own mailserver, it does NOT relay and if you try it you > > get dropped with an error code, I had people try to use it > as a relay > > but even my own ISP only probes it and then went away when they > > realized it was closed. > > OK that is fine but a large majority of spam i

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:21:35PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: > > I don't think they check for the reverse lookup matching the forward. > > If they do, it will break way too many legitimate servers. They may > > be bouncing mail with NO reverse lookup (I do that myself) > Technically it is not legi

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> Add to that the people on dynamic addresses who THINK they know how to set > up mailservers but don't have a clue about proper configuration and > security. This makes open relays and adds even more problems. You'd be surprised what a MCSE does for people. > Those of us that have to process TH

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:14:16PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: > Yeah, lets play the symantics game. If your computer is acting as a MTA, > then you're running a SMTP server, thus violating the ToS of your ISP(in > your case). Ok... Let's play the semantics game. Your workstation can

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> Jeff, > > > "server" being forbidden certainly appears in my TOS, but just being > > smtp capable, incoming or outgoing does not a server make. > > > > Don't confuse the use of certain protocols with running servers. They > > are not the same thing. > > What protocol is used to send email? SMTP

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:22, Daryl Hunt wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Drew Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 1:02 PM > Subject: Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be > OT] > > > > Thats not true rea

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Drew Weaver wrote: - Original Message - From: "Michael Kalus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wouldn't mind having my own fixed IP but they are hard to come by these days. I bought mine. They aren't exactly cheap though. For me to get a static IP from my current ISP would cost me $300+ a MONTH.

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> While they may be running MAPS or SPEWS also, what they are doing here > is different. They are blocking (as explained to me) ALL IP's that > they've defined as "residential." My IP doesn't show up in MAPS or > SPEWS, but my mail is still rejected from aol. > I feverently advise against using S

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
> > They aren't exactly cheap though. For me to get a static IP from my > > current ISP would cost me $300+ a MONTH. > > Then by god get a new ISP. Not always possible I guess. FWIW, 8 static IPs on my DSL service cost $100 a YEAR! It is worth shopping around. Regards, +---

Re: Limit users to home folders

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> I have created users who are in the users group on a Red Hat 8.0 server. > They have bash shell login. How do I restrict users to their home > folders? I don't want them to be able to leave their home folders. > > Thanks You may want to be careful how exactly you manage this because in the p

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> I don't think they check for the reverse lookup matching the forward. > If they do, it will break way too many legitimate servers. They may > be bouncing mail with NO reverse lookup (I do that myself) Technically it is not legitimate unless the A matches the PTR record. No 2 ways about it. > So

RE: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Kalus
> For you to be sending out SMTP traffic directly to AOL you > have to be running some sort of mailserver so yes you are > running a server and in violation of your TOS. Try telnetting to your mailserver on port 25, you can send the message directly, no server on your end involved. It's all plai

RE: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Michael Kalus
> > > > What AOL should do is (if they really want to prevent spam) > to go out > > to > the > > mailserver that makes the connection and see if they can relay to > > themselves, if they can then block it, if not let the mail > go through. > > They use Reverse DNS Lookup just like the rest of

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Michael, > I do run my own mailserver, it does NOT relay and if you try it you get > dropped with an error code, I had people try to use it as a relay but even > my own ISP only probes it and then went away when they realized it was > closed. OK that is fine but a large majority of spam is sen

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> > - Original Message - > > From: "Michael Kalus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>I wouldn't mind having my own fixed IP but they are hard to come by these > >>days. > > > > > > I bought mine. > > They aren't exactly cheap though. For me to get a static IP from my > current ISP would cost me $3

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> > Thats not true really, I am employed at an ISP and our Forwards and > reverses > > all match, and we have a /19. > > Let's not compare credentials here. It would be just a pissing match. You > may think I am wrong but if you send your message to any of my servers and > it bounced from AOL, it

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Drew Weaver
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:42:53PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: > > actually, alot of ISPs including one we resell dont allow you to even make > > outgoing smtp connections unless you're going to there servers, and I know > > that MOST if not all of the Broadband providers in the US for residential

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi John, > (my account has one static and 5 dynamic ip's). I use the static for my > business website, my mail server is on one of the dynamic ip's, and a Why don't you run your mailserver on the same IP as your website? They can co-exist happily you know :) Regards, +-

Slow Printing

2003-06-17 Thread Jake Colman
HP LaserJet Series II connected directly to a RedHat 7.2 server. There is a significant delay for each page to print. I must have misconfigured something but what? TIA! -- Jake Colman Principia Partners LLC Phone: (201) 209-2467 Harborside Financial Cent

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
Jeff, > "server" being forbidden certainly appears in my TOS, but just being > smtp capable, incoming or outgoing does not a server make. > > Don't confuse the use of certain protocols with running servers. They > are not the same thing. What protocol is used to send email? SMTP! Where does you

Re: Configuring sendmail as a backup relay

2003-06-17 Thread Jake Colman
Steve, Your instructions were superb and my backup mail exchanger is in place and working. Thanks again! ...Jake -- Jake Colman Principia Partners LLC Phone: (201) 209-2467 Harborside Financial Center Fax: (201) 946-0320 902 Plaza Two

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Kiem
> I am a home user, running stock Red Hat 9, using Sendmail. The only > "server" software I run on this box is MySQL, for local use only. I do > not run any DHCP sofware on this machine. My ISP, Cablevision, does. > So, this AOL policy blocks ALL Optonline subscribers from sending to any > AOL c

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:44:48PM -0500, rm wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:23, Ray Abbitt wrote: > > Sounds like they may be using the MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System) > > DUL (Dial Up Listing). Most of the addresses on this list were > > reported to the list by the ISP's responsible for t

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread rm
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:23, Ray Abbitt wrote: > Sounds like they may be using the MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System) > DUL (Dial Up Listing). Most of the addresses on this list were > reported to the list by the ISP's responsible for them. And lots of > systems other than AOL use this list. >

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:58:14PM -0600, Daryl Hunt wrote: Hi Daryl - please fix your email client: use one line for the attribution, not four. (I know, MS-Outlook is a pain isn't it?) > > From: "Jeff Kinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > John is quite correct here. AOl and many other large ISP's have

Re: Limit users to home folders

2003-06-17 Thread Alan Bort
check the following man pages: man chmod man chown man newgrp and search TLDP for user permissions, file permissions. Basically, what you have to di is the following: you change the permissions of everything you don't want them to access using CHMOD. NOTE: this is highly dangerous... since you mi

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Ray Abbitt
On 17 Jun 2003, rm wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:47, Daryl Hunt wrote: > > > > I run statics that match the DNS MX records. When a reverse DNS lookup > > happens, it all matches. AOL checks this as well as do I. Too many servers I don't think they check for the reverse lookup matching the

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May BeOT]

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Daryl Hunt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Michael Kalus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wouldn't mind having my own fixed IP but they are hard to come by these days. I bought mine. They aren't exactly cheap though. For me to get a static IP from my current ISP would cost me $300+ a MONTH. -

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Daryl Hunt
- Original Message - From: "Douglas, Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 1:07 PM Subject: RE: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT] > I'm sorry to say I tossed the early posts on this topic. They only started > to

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Daryl Hunt
- Original Message - From: "Drew Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT] > Thats not true really, I am employed at an ISP and our Forwards and reverses > all ma

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Daryl Hunt
- Original Message - From: "Michael Kalus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 12:52 PM Subject: RE: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT] > > When a reverse DNS lookup happens, it compares the dns with > > the IP number. I

Unable to convert root file system to ext3

2003-06-17 Thread Paul F. Williams
I recently upgraded a redhat system from 7.1 to 7.2 and unfortunately must have missed the opportunity to convert from ext2 to ext3 during the upgrade. Later I happened to notice that it still was using ext2 so went through the steps to convert to ext3 that I found on the internet. There seemded t

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread John P Verel
I am a home user, running stock Red Hat 9, using Sendmail. The only "server" software I run on this box is MySQL, for local use only. I do not run any DHCP sofware on this machine. My ISP, Cablevision, does. So, this AOL policy blocks ALL Optonline subscribers from sending to any AOL customer.

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:42:53PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: > actually, alot of ISPs including one we resell dont allow you to even make > outgoing smtp connections unless you're going to there servers, and I know > that MOST if not all of the Broadband providers in the US for residential > servic

Re: Limit users to home folders

2003-06-17 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Ehrhart, Jay wrote: I have created users who are in the users group on a Red Hat 8.0 server. They have bash shell login. How do I restrict users to their home folders? I don't want them to be able to leave their home folders. Thanks Sorry if this a dupe. Check out TLDP's[0] archives for a chro

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:02:43PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: > Thats not true really, I am employed at an ISP and our Forwards and reverses > all match, and we have a /19. Drew - If you're going to post in this thread (or any thread), please don't top post. Use the standard email convention so we

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