Kevin,
Just curious. Have you got 1.4.7-1 successfully installed?
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Druet
> Sent: 03 April 2001 17:26
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: 1.4.7 is yet another flop
>
>
> 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
