remote syslog segregation

2003-08-29 Thread Jeff Lane
Hello... I have a question for the masses... I am setting up (finally) a real honest to goodness syslog server (YEAH!!!)... and anyway, I have my server accepting remote logs, and have my PIX, Ascend racks, and currently ONE server logging to the new syslog server... trouble is, I can not fin

Re: internet connection sharing.

2003-08-20 Thread Jeff Lane
Ummm IPTABLES??? If I were at home, I would send you my firewall script that sets up NAT and does just this. Mine is set up so that internal addresses are routed to the external address I get from the ISP... works very well. But if hte other suggestions dont work, or you want yet a third opt

Slightly OT, Netscape Ports

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Lane
Just a tad off topic, but can anyone provide me with the port range that Netscape Communicator uses when publishing web pages that are created using its HTML editor?? I cant find them anywhere, and have a use who cant get a connection through to publish her site changes... I am fairly sure its

Re: remote logging with syslog

2003-06-24 Thread Jeff Lane
Ray Curtis wrote: "jl" == Jeff Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jl> This should be a lot simpler than it is seeming right now, BUT, does jl> anyone have a link to info on syslog? I have read the Man pages for jl> syslog, syslogd, syslog.conf, etc etc and

remote logging with syslog

2003-06-24 Thread Jeff Lane
This should be a lot simpler than it is seeming right now, BUT, does anyone have a link to info on syslog? I have read the Man pages for syslog, syslogd, syslog.conf, etc etc and still havent found quite what I am looking for... Currently, I have a log server that accepts remote logs from our

Re: my server has been hacked again

2003-05-30 Thread Jeff Lane
We get at least 40-50 attempts per day like that. Most are port scans and such... So far, knock on wood, we havent had any trouble, and seem to be doing well using a mix of iptables/portsentry/ Honestly tho, these repeated scans and attemps from Korea and China and other places that foster th

Re: my server has been hacked again

2003-05-30 Thread Jeff Lane
More importantly is what he said originally... "My server RH 7.0 (soon upgrading to 8) has been hacked AGAIN vi ftp." This makes me wonder... first off, hes running 7.0. Has he or the admin bothered with keeping the machine up to date with errata and secuirty patches? Next, that makes me ask

Re: commane

2003-05-27 Thread Jeff Lane
edit /etc/modules.conf or if that doesnt work, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add your insmod line to the end of that file. :) Jeff Bill Lewis wrote: What command do I use to load a module. I use "insmod -f and it loads ok. But when I reboot the module needs reloading. What command do I use so

Re: Router/Firewall Not Responding When Asleep

2003-03-30 Thread Jeff Lane
Just for kicks, does that machines bios support wake-on-lan? That could help, however, it also sometimes makes bad things [tm] happen... so YMMV... Morgan Doocy wrote: I'd love for it to be able to sleep and still wake up when it receives a request -- but I can't find any software that will

Re: get me off this mailing list please

2003-03-30 Thread Jeff Lane
LOL... Perhaps someone should start an unsubscribe mailing list that people can join in order to find out how to unsubscribe??? Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:04, Ryan McDougall wrote: Dear Mike, {SNIP} If I recieved 100 emails a day from people like you, I would want to unsu

Re: using home directory from linux server for all other linux machineson network

2003-03-30 Thread Jeff Lane
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Yes, it does happen thatway,, but even then i never had to hard boot my client machine(in your case Host B) because i had soft mounted the /home on my client machine :-) Ahhh I can see that beign a plus... in our case, they had it set up so that there was nothing

Re: using home directory from linux server for all other linux machineson network

2003-03-29 Thread Jeff Lane
directory suddenly disappears. Been there, done that... more times than I care to remember... ;) Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: It isn't necessary that the server need to be hard booted to get it back. pass appropriacte parameters to nfs and you are in the run. rrs On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jeff

Re: using home directory from linux server for all other linux machineson network

2003-03-27 Thread Jeff Lane
Dont ask me how to do this, because its very ugly, from what I have heard, but you could use something like NIS to do network authentication, and have one machine serving home directories via nfs... that way, each time a user logs on, NIS uses that users defaults, and auto mounts the home dir o

Re: (no subject)

2003-03-26 Thread Jeff Lane
Edward Dekkers wrote: But Edward, I only say this because I care, but... there are many decaffinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing. ;) cheers Jeff I actually only ever drink decaf. Late night, up early, and one of the first messages is yet another unsubscribe o

Re: X-Server Fatal Error: failed to initialize core devices

2003-03-26 Thread Jeff Lane
Oddly enough, I have run into the same issues when having problems wiht gpm. And sometimes on reboots... For gpm, sometimes gpm does not start properly, and for some reason I cant fathom, if gpm isnt running, X wont load... (granted this is probably related to the next issue more than it is to

Re: (no subject)

2003-03-26 Thread Jeff Lane
True, true, the address given was incorrect. And someone could have pointed him to the quite obvious trailer that is put on to every email this list gets that is as follows: redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list B

Re: [ADMIN] RHCE and Red Hat Linux 9

2003-03-26 Thread Jeff Lane
Mark Hutchinson wrote: They changed to policy on this yesterday. The 2 major number versions now comes from Advanced server numbering. As this is much slower, your RHCE will last alot longer. Which is even better news for those of us who were certed in the 6.2-7.2 days: From the email I rec

Re: RH 9: ok, so i overreacted ... but i'm still miffed

2003-03-26 Thread Jeff Lane
Cliff Wells wrote: Well, I for one would like to know exactly why it's called "Red Hat". Is this some sort of communist plot? Their logo *does* look rather cloak-and-dagger. Maybe they should change their versioning scheme to colors: redhat, bluehat, greenhat, aquahat. That wouldn't seem as si

Re: Disappointed - Lack of support for RHCE's in Australia

2003-03-26 Thread Jeff Lane
Skeeve Stevens wrote: Yippee... a response. ...Skeeve Ummm you gonna share the response? ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: FW: Disappointed - Lack of support for RHCE's in Australia

2003-03-26 Thread Jeff Lane
Skeeve Stevens wrote: Maybe someone @ RedHat will listen if I post here... There was no response from any of the other addresses. ...Skeeve -Original Message- From: Skeeve Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 7:25 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Red Hat Linux 9 | Get the latest Linux early (fwd)

2003-03-24 Thread Jeff Lane
Robert P. J. Day wrote: Red Hat list admin: A number of folks received the following on the Red Hat mailing list recently. The overwhelming evidence is that it is spam, given the return address of redhat.chtah.com Ummm nope. Unless this spammer happened to also take over the redhat.com domain

Re: dmesg output - please interpret

2003-03-23 Thread Jeff Lane
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 05:29 23 Mar 2003, Michael Mansour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | The cd drive is empty actually... I thought it had | something to do with the KDE automounter always | checking the cd drive to see if something is in it? Hmm, yes. Sounds likely to me, though you'd expect

Re: dmesg output - please interpret

2003-03-23 Thread Jeff Lane
automount in fstab... just my 2 cents... Jeff Cameron Simpson wrote: On 12:25 22 Mar 2003, Jeff Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Michael Mansour wrote: | > | >hdc: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache | >Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 | >cdrom: This disc doesn't have

Re: dmesg output - please interpret

2003-03-22 Thread Jeff Lane
Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, I'm running RH8.0 with kernel 2.4.18-27.8.0 on a Dual Pentium II 300MHz CPU. The system boots up and runs fine, although I get a couple of errors. Following is my dmesg output: (feel free to go scan though it and tell me if anything looks weird to you, especially the "i

Re: OT : light years, arrrrggggh

2003-03-19 Thread Jeff Lane
Jack Byers wrote: Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree with William Ward: Can we please get back to Redhat Linux now? I started this whole thing off, caused mainly by my not understanding the common use of "miles ahead" and thus i leaped to criticize use of "light-years" bc I was taking

Re: System Drops off Network

2003-03-18 Thread Jeff Lane
Dan Donathan wrote: Has anyone ever asked RH about it? Like I said, it seems odd that such a popular card would have a problem. -Original Message- From: Joe Lewinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 5:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: System Drops off Network

Re: OT : light years, arrrrggggh

2003-03-18 Thread Jeff Lane
fred smith wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:57:51PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Han Solo: "Fast? Yeah, she's fast. She made the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs." Which makes sense only if the "kessel run" is some kind of benchmark other than a DISTANCE benchmark, i.e., if they're benc

Re: Practice Exams

2003-03-14 Thread Jeff Lane
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Rick Johnson wrote: Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: So, do you recommend a book? You're missing the point. RHCE's *cannot* be passed by book alone. If you have the experience required, you'll pass the exam without a book. no, you can't pass by book al

Re: Recommended GUI (KDE/GNOME)

2003-03-14 Thread Jeff Lane
Anthony E. Greene wrote: You might not realize it, but you may be starting a flamewar :-) Try both and use the one you like best. As long as you have both installed on you machine, you can run apps from either environment, regardless of the desktop you happen to be using. Heh... YEAH Perso

Re: Practice Exams

2003-03-14 Thread Jeff Lane
Being an RHCE, as well as one of the people who is/was certified to actually give the exams, I can tell you this: First, Caleb, your friends are correct... I bought that book and found it to be basically useless. Then again, I much prefer the Oreilly books on linux anyway, As for practice ex

Re: constant reboots

2003-03-05 Thread Jeff Lane
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's not a power problem, another computer on the same circuit never has this problem. Not necessarily true. The power supply itself may be causing problems. Or a bad fan... I used to have a PIII that would constantly reboot itself... w

Re: Issue with mySql at boot

2003-03-03 Thread Jeff Lane
Jon Haugsand wrote: I do not intend to be unfriendly, but shouldn't you ask the SunLinux community questions concering SunLinux? Anyway, why not change the /etc/init.d/mysql script such that any messages it outputs is routed into, say, /var/log/mysql. E.g. if the following is a fragmend of the sc

Issue with mySql at boot

2003-03-03 Thread Jeff Lane
Heres one I have seen before, but for the life of me I cant remember how to fix this... I have a server that is running mySQL. Now, the problem is that mySQL does not load at boot time. I can not figure out why. Before y'all start chiming in with the obvious, I have the startup scripts in th

Re: Mapping of device names

2003-03-03 Thread Jeff Lane
Jerome Dsilva wrote: Hi, Please reply if you know about the same ..I haven't got any replies to this post... Is there any command in RH to get the list of device mapping names .This is required to know the drivers and the modules used by that kernel in run time. This should be something equiva

Re: Redhat installation boot cd questions

2001-11-21 Thread Jeff Lane
An even simpler, and more common problem is this: first, did you do an md5sum on the iso's you downloaded and then compare them to what is listed in the MD5SUM file on the ftp site? that way you can ensure that you got complete, full downloads with no errors. Second, are they bad disks? the

Re: 10/100 driver

2001-03-29 Thread Jeff Lane
what kind of NIC? what is the make and model? can you do an lspci -vb and get the info??? whats the name of hte .c file? and that is a c source file... you have to compile the driver. On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jerry Human wrote: > I have installed a nic that came with a driver for Linux with a ".c

Re: rh7 kernel compilation doesn't work

2001-03-29 Thread Jeff Lane
edit the makefile and change HOSTCC= from gcc to kgcc, and make sure you have the kgcc package installed. On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Peter Peltonen wrote: > > I get a error in checksum.SS (or something) with 2.2.17 kernel. I've installed > the updates and have succesfully compiled many kernels on rh6.

Re: System is spamming me; rmmod -as failure

2001-03-29 Thread Jeff Lane
so why dont you just delete the rmmod cron job that is causing this?? On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Al Sparks wrote: > > --- "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you have the correct version of modtools? > > > > > > > > ___ > > Redhat-

Re: Is it possible to get a video camera (INTEL) to work with LINUX?

2001-03-29 Thread Jeff Lane
Not without an upgrade to probably 2.4.3 kernel. Not to mention that you may or may not get that to work as the USB support in Linux is still not quite there... but for the best info, go to www.linux-usb.org and look for your camera to see if it is supported and possibly for HOWTOS on installin

RE: Extract a spec file from a SRC.RPM

2001-03-29 Thread Jeff Lane
Get rpm2cpio and install that. then do this: rpm2cpio foo.rpm | pax -r /full/path/to/filename -w /tmp -i this will write the file interactively, so you can change the name. for instance, if the specfile you want, when doing an rpm -qpl foo.rpm shows up like: /usr/src/foo.spec.file but you wan

Re: HSP56 micromodem

2001-03-29 Thread Jeff Lane
No. ITs a win modem IIRC. On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, ARIEL PEREZ wrote: > Dear Friends > > I need to know if this modem are supported by > linux red hat 7.0 2.2.16 ... > > thanks for all... > > > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing l

Re: what files control pap logon

2001-03-06 Thread Jeff Lane
Hmmm I stand corrected then I would have thought that their servers would prevent that from happening (similar to keeping users out of each others home accounts on a LAN)... I will have to go home tonite and play with that some and see what i can figure out... On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Mikkel L. E

Re: what files control pap logon

2001-03-06 Thread Jeff Lane
Why didnt you just use rp3-config and add a new ISP entry with your moms password and username??? then log in to the ISP as hers?? I would imagine, that if you are using a decent ISP, that the problem is on their end... i.e. you cant log in as user john and get mail from user mary's account. a

Re: Abacus, SAINT or Nessus?

2001-03-06 Thread Jeff Lane
SAINT is good, but it depends on what you are trying to do. If you are trying to do a security audit, then yeah, SAINT, SATAN, Nessus, and there are quite a few others that are all very good, and range in price from free to ungodly expensive. If you are just looking for open ports, and some of t

Re: Resend (No Reply) !!

2001-02-22 Thread Jeff Lane
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Mark Lo wrote: > Hi all, > > From my log files, I got the following messages. I know the below IP > address is coming from the same network as I do. and I have checked the IP > address (203.194.161.2 and 203.194.161.3) with my ISP, they told me the IP > of 203.194.161.

Re: Kernel headers rpm?

2001-02-22 Thread Jeff Lane
I dont see any headers files listed on the errata page with the links to the kernel packages... what version and architecture are you using? also, you shouldnt need new headers... the headers should be the same as the ones that are currently on your system. (kernel-headers-2.4.0-0.26) HTH J O

Re: Uninstalling.

2001-02-22 Thread Jeff Lane
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Dave Wreski wrote: > > > I'm looking to uninstall RH 7.0 , but I don't have a clue where to > > start! Any help would be appreciated. > > 1. Take disk out of machine > 2. Walk outside with it > 3. Drop on cement / nearby a large magnet Heh heh... rm -rf / reboot, boot to d

Re: RH 7 install and CDRom

2001-02-22 Thread Jeff Lane
No. Not I. Is this the SAME CD in each machine? If so, then I would imagine you ahve a bad CD, dirty CD, scratched CD, etc. especially if all these machines are different (i.e. not the same model of hardware in them) cheers On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Charles wrote: > I've been having problems wit

RE: strange crashes

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Lane
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > That sounds like my problem, what's the best way to do a memory check? > This is often a sign of RAM going bad, might try swapping out sticks of > memory and watching for the crashes. Possibly running a memory test would > be worth it. Hope this helps.

Re: openssh and commercial ssh

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Lane
That may be because you are trying to use a commercial SSH2 key, on an SSH1 system. Well, thats what it sounds like here... but I could be mistaken.. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-li

Re: ethernet startup problems

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Lane
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, David Brett wrote: > Hi Jeff > > Here is the output requested. It looks ok to me. If it makes any > difference this is rh6.2 > > chkconfig --list network > network 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off For the record all, we solved this one...

Re: dns lookup problem

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Lane
That IP info is here, courtesy of www.apnic.net and www.arin.net: inetnum 211.104.0.0 - 211.119.255.255 netname KRNIC-KR-25 descrKRNIC descrKorea Network Information Center country KR admin-c WK1-AP, inverse tech-

Re: openssh and commercial ssh

2001-02-14 Thread Jeff Lane
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Bret Hughes wrote: > Bret Hughes wrote: > > > > Having trouble getting a key generated fo ssh2 on the commercial version > > of secure shell to work on OpenSSH on a redhat 6.2 box. > > > > Got it working see below. Ignore my other message.. Interesting thought you make tho

RE: help me!

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Lane
Obviously, you didnt read the page... did you? Did you happen to read the Redhat-list Subscribers section? Since you are a subscriber, then dont ya think that this area would be important to you?? heres what it says: Redhat-list Subscribers The subscribers list is only available to the list

Re: Fisher beta notes

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Lane
Dude... put this on the fisher-list not to rag you, but while this info is of great use to the users on this list, the people on [EMAIL PROTECTED] would probably find this info even more useful. so please send this to fisher-list, and maybe even subscribe to that list, so that your experiences

Re: ethernet startup problems

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Lane
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, David Brett wrote: > When ever the computer restarts, the ehternet is not active. I cannot > find out why. I am always able to make it active. Here is ifcfg-eth0 > file > > DEVICE="eth0" > USERCTL=yes > ONBOOT="yes" > BOOTPROTO="none" > BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 > NETWORK=19

Re: Getting From RedHat

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Lane
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mike Burger wrote: > Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mike Burger wrote: > > > > > I would think that you'd need to finish that command line with "< get *" > > > > Argh, now I see what he might have been doing... > > I thought the ">

Re: No /dev/nul for users

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Lane
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > Hi, > > When one of my users try to: > > any_command | /dev/nul > > the response is either that the file /dev/nul doesn't exist or that he > doesn't have permissions to do that. > > If the same user tries to: > > any_command | /dev/null >

Re: rpm major number <= 3

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Lane
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mike Burger wrote: > You need to get a copy of rpm-3.0.5. Get it at www.redhat.com/errata in teh 6.2 errata. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: windows doc to linux ???

2001-02-08 Thread Jeff Lane
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, eric clover wrote: > is there anything that will convert a windows doc made with word into some > kind of linux format? here at work(windows machine) i'd like to be able to > make a doc and xfer it to home convert it to some linux format and print it > out on my home(linux) m

Re: Printers

2001-02-08 Thread Jeff Lane
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: > > chkconfig --level 35 lpd on > > I am sorry. You lost me. What does that mean? (chkconfig --level 35 lpd on) that is the chkconfig command... like running ntsysv on ONE service from the console... it translates to: chkconfig (run the chkconfig command)

Re: Lets get the mail footer changed (Out of office)

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Lane
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, John Marlovits wrote: > Agreed. However, just about every other mailman mailing list I'm on sends out a > monthly reminder with this info. It would be NICE if RedHat would send out this > info, however I know there will ALWAYS be some people who can't be bothered to > RTFM!:-(

Re: Redhat Exam

2001-02-06 Thread Jeff Lane
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Vineeta wrote: > Is there an online exam for Redhat certification? > And,if yes,which are the sites? > Secondly,in case we need to physically go and give the exam at a > particular location,then,how do we find out which all places it is > hosted in? No... there isnt. Teh onl

Re: Redhat Exam

2001-02-06 Thread Jeff Lane
www.redhat.com On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Selim Jahangir wrote: > Dear All > Where can I find information about Red Hat Certfication Exam ? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Jeff Lane
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote: > I may have read wrong, but I think he's trying to intercept mail -- > like, for reading, not for sending to the bit bucket. > > If that's the case, then that is most definitely not playing fair. > Network managers, legal departments, and HR managers a

Re: How to Setup Tcpdump to nail x-girlfriend?

2001-02-02 Thread Jeff Lane
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Calamity wrote: > PHD wrote: > > Also, x-girlfriend is a cetified witch and I would > > like to figure out how to intercept her email. Just a side note, unless you own the server that is sending and recieving the mail for this girl, that is at least somewhat illegal. And ev

Re: Latency

2001-02-01 Thread Jeff Lane
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote: > Thanks for the reminder. It's actually /etc/host.conf. Yes, it is... But it wont do you a bit of good if your /etc/hosts file doenst show the IP and hostname(s) for each machine on the network you wish to have connections to. Unless, of course, you ar

Re: "INIT :ld "x" respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes "

2001-02-01 Thread Jeff Lane
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Without knowing the program that initd is complaining about, it is hard > to complaining about, it is hard to give a more definite answer. Umm thats the messages you get when X bombs out, X as in Xwindows... usually this is caused by an XFS prob

Re: Latency

2001-01-31 Thread Jeff Lane
Since this is happening only on the first connect or two, I would imagine you dont have the hosts files set up, or DNS is not running, or set up properly. I would imagine that its a DNS problem, causing the clinet machine to send a broadcast looking for the target machine... then after it gets a

Re: USB Port

2001-01-31 Thread Jeff Lane
Look in /dev/usb for a list of all the ports that usb replicates.. like: lp0, mdcX, scannerX, ttyUSBX etc etc... so, while I dont have any USB devices, I would guess that the actual device would be either /dev/usb/devicename, or it would be a symlink in /dev that points to the /dev/usb device

Re: Is this a virus? How do I find the sender?

2001-01-31 Thread Jeff Lane
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Do any of you know if this file is a virus file? > > MAPPJJMA.exe > > A client of mine received it from an unknown source. so delete it and go one with life... easy enough... never open strange attachments, never take candy from strangers, blah bl

Re: Gnapster

2001-01-31 Thread Jeff Lane
Assuming you are downloading mp3s, you need an mp3 player like xmms to play them. On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: > I just downloaded the newest (latest) gnapster and it finally works. I can > actually download files now. > > Now, I can't find how to play these files?? Can they be playe

Re: Stupid RPM question

2001-01-22 Thread Jeff Lane
Go here: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2000-051-01.html that will give you the correct packages to upgrade RPM to the new version On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, David Trollope wrote: > Hi, > > I'm probably going to ask a very stupid question, so before I get flamed, I > have looked at some

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-19 Thread Jeff Lane
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > Granted that RedHat's record with regard to security and > upgrades like this has been an abysmal embarrasment. But it's still > the only shot you've got. As low as it is, you can only do In comparison to what? first, the only reason

Re: bash oddity

2001-01-19 Thread Jeff Lane
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > Is the below expected behavior? or bug? Values assigned to variables > within the loop, are not visible outside the loop. Using something > like 'while true' works as I would expect. > > > #!/bin/bash > ## script: testing > ## test variable visibilit

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-19 Thread Jeff Lane
go to www.redhat.com/errata and look at the 6.2 errata. the wu-ftp errata there is the fix for this. you could also get the newer 2.6.1 wu-ftp that ships with RH7. Or you could also do what Grendel said elsewhere and try ProFTP. all solutions should work. cheers On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, tc lew

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-18 Thread Jeff Lane
Maybe. AFAIK, the only wu-ftp that is affected is the version that is right off the install CDs for 6.2. which is wu-ftpd-2.6.0-3.i386.rpm I would imagine that the one listed on the errata page is probably safe. You could also try upgrading to 2.6.1, but I dont knwo if that will break any dep

Re: Port 6688 (napster?)

2001-01-18 Thread Jeff Lane
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, John Aldrich wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, you wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am seeing a lot of denied connections to port 6688 on a friends firewall. > > Some kids installed napster on one of his machines yesterday, and all these > > denies are in the period that they downloa

Re: ssh Server

2001-01-18 Thread Jeff Lane
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Matthew Melvin wrote: > Hi Mark, > Hmm... you definitly need the 1st one. You need the second one if > you want to use ssh to log into other servers /from/ your redhat box. You He also needs the openssl packages as well, as they have some of the files that the ssh se

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-18 Thread Jeff Lane
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Tomás García Ferrari wrote: > Any advices for the future? How often shall I check for updates / fixes / > patches and so on? Keep current on all the errata. And heres a way to make that easier. There is the Red Hat network... and also up2date the new up2date and up2date-g

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-18 Thread Jeff Lane
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote: > The reason that the article states that it can affect 7.0 is that 7.0 > ships with wu-ftpd 2.6.0, and the earlier version of rpc.statd. No... its LPRng for 7. the wu-ftp that ships with 7 is 2.6.1-6 cheers ___

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-18 Thread Jeff Lane
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Then why does the article state that RedHat 7.0 is affected by the worm as > well? I thought these wu-ftp and rpc.statd issues were solved before the > release of 7.0. because the script kiddies also threw in the original RH7 LPRng bug as we

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-18 Thread Jeff Lane
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Mike Burger wrote: > The article doesn't appear to note the affected versions of rpc.statd and > wu-ftpd that are affected...do you have any info on that? wuftp is 2.6.0 and rpc.statd is the out of box version that comes with 6.2. What that article fails to mention, and Sla

Re: Linux Certs?

2001-01-18 Thread Jeff Lane
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, you wrote: > > > > > > You take all three parts in order to pass the test. You need to score at > > least 240 of 300 points, nothing lower than a 50 on anyone of them though. > > To throw in my two cents, it was indeed a stern tes

Re: glibc update?

2001-01-18 Thread Jeff Lane
On 17 Jan 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > linux:~#rpm -U glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm > > error: failed dependencies: > > glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12 > > /usr/bin/getent is needed by stunnel-3.10-2 > > > > linux:~#rpm -