Re: Lost all permissions

2002-10-07 Thread Mark Gillingham
t of permissions fixing. -eric wood - Original Message - From: "Mark Gillingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Could not chdir to home directory /home/mark: Permission denied > /bin/bash: Permission denied -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mai

Lost all permissions

2002-10-06 Thread Mark Gillingham
I suddenly lost all user privileges on RH 7.3. I can only login as root. Services (e.g., Apache) have lost their privs too. The passwd file appears to be OK. How can I restore user permissions? For instance, if I attempt to log into my usual account I get this error message: Could not chdir to

Re: Special characters in X11/xterm

2002-10-03 Thread Mark Gillingham
Does this tip apply to allowing various keyboards to send key-combinations to rdesktop too? I would like a Mac keyboard to send CAPS LOCK (yes we need it), Alt, and Ctrl combinations. I may have read that redesktop has a separate mapping from X11. I'm confused as usual. Mark >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED

Privilege to mkdir

2002-10-01 Thread Mark Gillingham
I'm using a samba share to write from an application on Win2000 server to my stage Web on RH 7.3. The application can write to the share, but cannot create new directories, which it must do periodically. The Win2000 app is a member of the group that owns the share so I thought it would have mkdir

Re: Another Slapper variant

2002-09-26 Thread Mark Gillingham
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/02 08:31AM >>> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Mark Gillingham wrote: > For some reason, Mailman was generating log files > like kudzu. A recent thread here has the solution to this problem. The original mailman RPM has a broken logrotate script. Cl

Re: Another Slapper variant

2002-09-25 Thread Mark Gillingham
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 06:05 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:43:24PM -0500, Mark Gillingham wrote: >> >> I have upgraded most of the important packages that I'm using on RH >> 7.3 >> after an upgrade from 7.2. I cannot

Re: Another Slapper variant

2002-09-25 Thread Mark Gillingham
I have upgraded most of the important packages that I'm using on RH 7.3 after an upgrade from 7.2. I cannot upgrade openssl rpms. I get "No space left on device" for /var/lib/rpm/* Yet, I have 92M left on /var. Is something blocking openssl rpm installs? Mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsu

Re: Another Slapper variant

2002-09-25 Thread Mark Gillingham
Please ignore my "clue" it is incorrect. I do have a space problem in single-user mode. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/25/02 15:02 PM >>> It's interesting that I do not have a space problem when in single-user mode. Whatever is giving the false reading only occurs when all services/apps are running.

Re: Another Slapper variant

2002-09-25 Thread Mark Gillingham
ve a space problem when in single-user mode. Whatever is giving the false reading only occurs when all services/apps are running. I bet that's a clue 8-) Mark >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/25/02 14:26 PM >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Sep-2002/14:02 -0500,

Re: Another Slapper variant

2002-09-25 Thread Mark Gillingham
After upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3 I noticed that I had no drive space. I assumed that the upgrade used much of the drive to store temp files, but it appeared to me that I had plenty of space. Then I discovered that I had been infected by Slapper variant A (.uubugtaq). I downloaded the RH patches, bu

Re: slapper worm

2002-09-25 Thread Mark Gillingham
The CERT Advisory (www.cert.orgadvisories/CA-2002-27.html) will give you ideas for finding and patching. I discovered the files /tmp/.uubugraq and /tmp/.bugtraq on my system. This is a sign of Variant A. Mark >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/25/02 13:39 PM >>> how do i ascertain whether I have been infe

Re: Rejection of mail

2002-09-11 Thread Mark Gillingham
That is the theory that I'm working on now. tcpwrappers is not allowing this incoming mail. In fact, if I set hosts.allow to ALL: ALL: ALLOW the message get through so I'm being to strict. On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 07:59 AM, Banze, Andreas wrote: > Doesn't tcpwrappers indicate that

Re: Rejection of mail

2002-09-11 Thread Mark Gillingham
Time out, eh. I have many examples of this from many different servers. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/11/02 07:23AM >>> Probably at sendmail.org The more I look at it, though, the more it looks to me like the connection from Yahoo's server is just timing out. On Wed, 11 Se

Re: Rejection of mail

2002-09-11 Thread Mark Gillingham
cumvent, you risk opening your server to > abuse as a spam relay site. > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Mark Gillingham wrote: > >> I fear that some potential mailman list members are unable to get >> confirmation requests through my sendmail setup. I get the following >> infor

Rejection of mail

2002-09-10 Thread Mark Gillingham
I fear that some potential mailman list members are unable to get confirmation requests through my sendmail setup. I get the following information in my mallog: Sep 9 19:31:28 gbf1 sendmail[3672]: g8A0VRx03672: tcpwrappers (web20405.mail.yahoo.com, 66.163.169.93) rejection Sep 9 19:31:28 g

RE: rpm reports php.ini problem

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Gillingham
Freelance IT Consultant/Systems Admin. http://home.acedsl.com/~jslivko/ p: 212.663.1109 f: 212.663.1109 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Gillingham Sent: Sunday, August 25,

rpm reports php.ini problem

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Gillingham
I'm struggling with my RedHat 7.2 installation trying to get apache, php, mysql running. Currently, php is not talking to mysql. I have php 4.0.6 install. rpm Verify reports this Problem: "md5, file size, modification time." My goal is to get php-mysql installed. rpm reports that it is. phpinfo(

Abiword without Gnome

2002-07-18 Thread Mark Gillingham
Having a small drive, I installed a minimum X system with gimp and abiword. However, abiword appears to need more--perhaps a different window manager (e.g., Gnome?). I see the abiword suite directory and the GNUstep directory in place. Perhaps it just needs to be configured differently. Mark

php mysql rather than pgsql

2002-07-15 Thread Mark Gillingham
I'm a RH novice and have made mistakes in the 3 weeks that I've been playing with RH 7.2. One of them was not realizing that, for whatever reason, Postgre-SQL is the preferred SQL and was installed from the disc when I installed the system. Because I'm trying to mimic a production site at our ISP

Lost all account privileges

2002-07-10 Thread Mark Gillingham
Suddenly I lost all privileges while in a user account through ssh. After loggin out, I could not log back in. I was using sudo at the time to edit a config file. Is this a know bug, or something else? Mark Gillingham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Great Books Foundation 312 332 5870x214 Consulting