well the beer has worked,,, Im in an all round generally better mood today,
albeit im in 4 hours late, im sure you can imagine it was a tough morning....
I read through the emails and first let me apologize to the list for
sounding like a ridiculous fool, I do that often, and according to the
people who work for me I do it well.
Now regarding the installation, I have read through the readme files that I
used to install (I think they were from 1.4.6 release) and I see nothing
regarding the installation path, my concern at the time was just simply
moving them , did any part of the system look for them in the previous path ?
the rpms, no, they were not installed on the host server, except for the 2
openssl rpms,
as far as the trouble logging in,
This is rather hilarious, it seems that as luck would have it, my default
installation of red hat not being patched with any errata fixes, was broken
into in the first 20 minutes of being "born" and the person who had done
this had changed the group passwd and shadow files, as well as dropped 2
rather cool binaries into /etc/rc.d/rc3.d one was creating an ssh
connection to his own server via ssh and the other was sniffing passwords
off the network, and sending them to him via the ssh connection. I believe
that he had installed a few other patched prorgrams as well, BIND was
working on ports 53 and 2486 and I had a couple of entries in etc services,
one on port 1724 and few others, I believe that the patched binaries and
scripts were were conflicting heavily with freeVSD.
I again I apologize for venting on the list, to work I go.
I will reinstall everything tonight after the users are done trying to
break my will for the day.
Regards,
Kevin Druet
At 10:06 AM 4/3/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Kevin,
>
>Thank you for your comments. If I may correct you on all of them...
>
>When installing from RPM, binaries will be placed in /usr/sbin and
>configuration into /etc. This is consistent with standard practice.
>When installing from SOURCE, binaries will by default be placed in
>/usr/local/sbin and configuration into /usr/local/etc. Again, this is
>consistent with standard practice. It also made abundantly clear in the
>installation documentation which, from your comments, you do not appear to
>have read.
>
>The error you are reporting - 'vsd_priv access' and an inability to log into
>your server - sounds like an error which was reported on the support list
>recently:
>http://www.freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support/2001/Mar/0324.h
>tml. You will find an explanation of the problem there.
>
>You may find the final reply informative as well:
>http://www.freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support/2001/Mar/0332.h
>tml
>
>
>If this does not resolve the problems you are experiencing, please get back
>to us, and we may assist further.
>
>Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Druet
> > Sent: 03 April 2001 04:31
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: 1.4.7 is yet another flop
> >
> >
> > So I can live with the vince thing, thats kinda funny,,,
> >
> > I used the tar.gz this time so that I could install the addons
> > for openssl,
> >
> > I followed the instructions to the letter as I always do,
> >
> > and now I cant even login to the server, a "blip" comes up so
> > quickly that
> > I cant read the whole thing, but what I think I get a glimpse of is
> >
> > vsd_priv access
> >
> > I dont mean to come off sounding rude or ignorant but dont you
> > people test
> > this stuff before you call it a release ?
> >
> > The GPL is good for development, and as such we expect bugs, but not
> > trivial frig ups and incomplete software, the GPL is supposed to
> > aid in the
> > development, not relinquish responsibility because no one pays for it.
> >
> > further to my list of gripes I noticed that the default path that the
> > tar.gz installs the binary and config files is not even native to RH
> >
> > /usr/local/sbin I believe is where all the binary files wound up and the
> > vsd.conf file ended up in /usr/local/etc. had this software been
> > meant for
> > any other distro, I would call this a defective user issue, but as this
> > software has been built around RH 6.2 and since thats the distro
> > im using I
> > feel that my gripes are valid.
> >
> >
> > Im off to the pub to dowse the flames, g'night all
