Re: yum.log and logwatch

2006-09-15 Thread Peter J. Holzer
installed a year ago instead of now. It's definitely an annoying problem. Newer yum can log to syslog, which will solve this. Syslog doesn't contain a year either. But on most machines the syslog files are rotated more than once per year ;-) hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| If I wanted

Re: sendmail update left me in a fix

2006-04-10 Thread Peter J. Holzer
. I still haven't figured out when that happens. -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| If I wanted to be academically correct, |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | I'd be programming in Java. | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I don't, and I'm not. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Jesse Erlbaum on dbi-users

Re: sendmail update left me in a fix

2006-04-10 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2006-04-10 11:53:04 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: On 10/04/2006 Peter J. Holzer wrote: That's when the config file has essential changes for the updated package to work at all, and hence must be installed. The rpmsave file is there as a hint that you need to merge your previous

Re: sendmail update left me in a fix

2006-04-10 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2006-04-10 15:00:23 +0200, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: Peter J. Holzer wrote: BTW, is there somewhere a complete up-to-date description of the spec file? The file above is just a what's new since some unspecified release file, and RPM to the max is now over 5 years old

Long RTT on fedora-legacy-list (was: Question about yum.conf for fc2)

2006-03-24 Thread Peter J. Holzer
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Re: slapper worm

2006-01-24 Thread Peter J. Holzer
, but for this particular server, /tmp is not a mounted filesystem but part of /, so I can't really do that without re-partitioning the disk and creating a dedicated /tmp. You could put /tmp on a tmpfs: /etc/fstab: none /tmp tmpfs noexec 0 0 hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| If I wanted

Re: slapper worm

2006-01-24 Thread Peter J. Holzer
automatically adds the sticky bit on /tmp, or would I need to change the mode to 1777 ? The default mode is 1777. If you explicitely set the mode to 777, the sticky bit isn't set. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| If I wanted to be academically correct, |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | I'd

Re: Maintenance? Re: Proposed changes to Fedora Legacy Project

2006-01-20 Thread Peter J. Holzer
housekeeper project, or security roto-rooter project. In a recent survey are these professions important for Austria? cleaning staff was ranked before IT professionals, so maybe the fedora janitor project wouldn't be that bad :-) hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| If I wanted

Re: recent ntpd problems

2005-09-19 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2005-09-19 11:51:59 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 19 September 2005 11:42, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2005-09-19 10:48:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [new version of ntpd] This latter version does not seem to be writing to /var/log/ntpd.log at all, so I have no idea what its doing