What happened to the old fashioned rbash and rksh? I need to set some
user login shells to a restricted shell, (which restricted shell I do
not care) The current version of bash supports restricted mode but it is
does not work properly, for one, the '-r' option will not work as a
login shell i
Well, the components would be what you need to worry about:
1) Check video compatibility (most well known vender are supported)
2) If using a modem or non-standard netowrk adaptor, check for support
3) Check the support for your sound card
4) If using firewire, check support for your card
Otherw
A couple of things, I always try and place swap on a dedicated disk or a
disk containing rarely used filesystems. Placing swap on the same disk
as /var or any other logging locations is not a good idea. If you must
cram everything on one disk, put swap on first, which will place the
data close
You want to use sed and awk for a truly robust solution.
If you need further help, I can dig up examples of doing this.
Generally, when I need to do text processing, I turn to perl. However,
this can be done in bash, but larger tasks will get ugly in bash.
-Chuck
John H Darrah wrote:
On Mon,
Did you make the appropriate changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf?
At a minimum you will need this:
passwd: files nis
shadow: files nis
group: files nis
Red Hat comes default with nisplus configured (why I have no earthly
idea) The easiest thing to do is make a backup copy and search and
There are several options but this one will work (Assuming bash or sh):
if [ "$2" == "" ]; then
Also, here is a very handy guide I use for those quick lookups when you
get rusty. It is avail. in PDF and HTML.
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-1.6.tar.bz2
-Chuck
MET wrote
That should do it, with a reboot of course. Otherwise, look for links in
/etc/rc[0-6].d for anything starting up gdm or kdm.
-Chuck
Kevin Chan wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I was change the /etc/inittab setting from id :5 to id:3 as below:
>
> id:3:initdefault:
> and
> x:3:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -n
This is configured in /etc/login.defs
I am not usre what needs to be done, if anything, after this file is
modified.
-Chuck
Rune Berge wrote:
How do i change the minimum password length? I would like users to be able
to have passwords with as few as 4 characters, but currently the minimum
see
It is not an ssh problem as ssh seems to be doing it's job, once it
get's to the point where it provides a login shell, it has already done
everything it does. Do you see the motd of a new mail message before you
are disconnected?
At a minimum, the user's home directory must be owner executabl
Do you have a static IP with your dial-up connection? You need a static
so that you can point the MX record for your domain to your Linux box.
(unless you are queing the mail somewhere else and sucking it downstream)
Once past this hurdle, it is pretty straight forward: Configure your MTA
to a
In my experience these process accounting and quota systems are
extremely cludgy and create a very large overhead for the administrators
and are generally not worth the effort. I would suggest a wrapper script
or even a simple company policy detailing what hours certain programs
can be run, or
linux power wrote:
Why are more ports open when I scan the ports as root rather than as user?
This is interesting, I am not sure. I tested this on my RH 8 machine and
could not duplicate your results. My first guess was that a non-root
user would not see the listening sockets on ports less th
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