Re: Memory Resources - Howto Refresh

2003-10-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Eduardo A. dela Rosa wrote: So I shutdown Eclipse, MySQL, and JBoss, hoping that it would release resources that it ate up. Waited for quite a while, I tried to check my resources. To my puzzle, it just looks the same as it was before those major apps were properly shutdown. Show us the resource

Re: patch management on production servers

2003-10-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Marvin Blackburn wrote: Has anyone developed a methodology for patch management in a production environment. Running up2date on the system regularly is not an option for us. What limitation keeps you from testing a set of patches in your dev enironment, and then using up2date or RHN to apply

Re: Install different libs for different C++ compilers?

2003-10-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
Toralf Lund wrote: I'd really like to be able to use this software *and* Red Hat 9/g++-3 apps utilising the same library functionality. Maybe what I want is to put the libs on /usr/lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96 or similar... I discussed the simple options... you may just be making one of those

Re: Raid and OS together - performace drop or not ?

2003-10-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
senthil wrote: I would like to know from you gurus out there if there will be a performace drop when the operating system is located along with a RAID array in time when any paging ( swap ) operations are done. That doesn't make much sense. I'm going to assume you're asking if performance will

Re: How do you tell what options are compiled in your kernel

2003-10-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
Douglas Phillipson wrote: The easiest way is to do a make oldconfig. That will load all of your old configuration and then do a make xconfig or which ever one you use. Forgive me for not yet being a kernel expert. Before I do this what exactly does make oldconfig do? Where does it get the

Re: How do you tell what options are compiled in your kernel

2003-10-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:41:57 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: In either case, if .config exists, then you'll only be asked about new configuration items (which there should not be any of, if it uses one of the prepared configs). Isn't make oldconfig non-interactive

Re: Grrrrr .. Samba upgrade

2003-10-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point I want to get rid of eveything samba and start over. Whats the best way to do that? rpm -e $(rpm -qa 'samba-*') Then install a new samba which was built for your platform. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba 3.0 on RH7.2 : shared libraries problem - unable to make stack executable ...

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Paul Libert wrote: I'm trying to get openLDAP 2.1 and Samba 3.0 on 7.2-enigma (reason : this machines has Veritas VXfs and VXvm on it and thus I cannot upgrade the kernel ...) To achieve this, I've upgraded several packages with RawHide and RedHat 9.0 versions. Dependencies were OK but now, my

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Otto Haliburton wrote: You are prone to dumb statements as I said. There's no reason to resort to personal insults in a technical forum. You need to study the meaning of democracy and the good points of debate. There is a raging debate about how to make things better. I didn't see it as a

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Otto Haliburton wrote: Look at it this way. You should be able to move a c++ (not g++) compiler to any version of RH and it works!!! LIB's and all period, no explanation needed. I agree. You should be able to... but you can't. Maybe someday you will be able to. If the current promise of a

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Otto Haliburton wrote: I don't know where you been bud. One of the complaints is that linux is for programmers and tech people and not for the masses cause you need someone of a technical frame to fix it cause it breaks everything. So grow up to reality. Acceptance into the wide community

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Toralf Lund wrote: I see now why symbol resolution is not an issue even though an older compiler or OS has been used to build (as long as the same one is used for all object.) The runtime linker obviously only needs to concern itself with the symbols that are actually in the binaries; it

Re: Install different libs for different C++ compilers?

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Toralf Lund wrote: Regarding the recent discussion on C++ binary compatibility, or lack thereof: I am now compiling some of my code with g++296 from compat-gcc, and it works rather well. One question, though: Is there a simple and direct way to have the different g++ versions pick up different

Re: Memory Resources - Howto Refresh

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Eduardo A. dela Rosa wrote: After days of work, without rebooting my box, it suddenly slowed down. My filesystem is just ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] xxx]$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:505220 428728 76492 0 16860

Re: OpenSSL Problem

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
rbragg wrote: I'm using RH7.3 and apache. My site was running fine for a while, and all of a sudden, now when I try to go to my https site, openssl fails, my site is left un-encrypted, and this is in the error log. Clarify what you mean by site is left un-encrypted. If you telnet to port 443,

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Otto Haliburton wrote: You get there and decide to use version 7.3 and build your apps using the default compiler that comes with 7.3. You get everything working with some effort. Some A.H. comes along and says you ought to upgrade to version 9 and you do and get the default compiler with that

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Otto Haliburton wrote: The problem is moving apps from linux 7.3 to 9 without breaking the world or merely upgrading from one c++ compiler to the latest and the world breaking. There is no reason for that to happen and it won't happen in a MS, DEC or SUN environ. Yes, it does:

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Otto Haliburton wrote: You are completely of base as to what the point is. Then be more specific when you describe the problem. It is not the developers that have the problem as you are talking about. They don't have the resources to thoroughly checkout the compilers. That's why developers who

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Otto Haliburton wrote: And further, I could understand the problem if it was different vendors. Imagine the problems if you bought a Borland compiler and then upgraded to a latter version of the same compiler and it didn't work. That's what you have here and that is totally unacceptable. It's

Re: How do you tell what options are compiled in your kernel

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Douglas Phillipson wrote: I'm wanting to use Samba for a Domain Controller and was having trouble changing permissions on files through samba from the Microsoft desktop. IIRC, you have to have a PDC to do that, ACLs or no. I was told you need to turn ACL's on in the Linux filesystem. How do

Re: Error with gnutls

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
rahul b jain cs student wrote: I have reached my level of patience with gnutls. everytime i try to run the configure script of gnutls, i get the following error Check the config.log file. The exact compiler error should be in there, and will be more useful than the error from configure. Also,

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Otto Haliburton wrote: You do understand that win95 and win98 are of a different structure than winxp and win 2000 so tasks for those operating system are different and quite often win95 and win98 task won't run of winxp and win2000. Win 95 is 16bit and win 98 is 16 32. They have a different

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Otto Haliburton wrote: You are finally catching up. Maybe if you stop and think you'll figure things out. The developers are having to work out the kinks after the fact cause they don't have the resources. Assuming you're talking about the compiler developers, because you yelled at me for

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
Toralf Lund wrote: Jonathan Bartlett wrote: RH9 uses an updated libstdc++ which can cause problems. Also, if you are exporting anything but c-style functions declared with extern c or whatever that is, you will NOT have compatibility at all. There is some work for a standard C++ ABI, but it's

Re: Postfix Spam Control

2003-10-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
Brett Franck wrote: Postfix 2.0 is the MTA. How can I allow a host of 63.111.163.37: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname to be allowed to transfer mail IN to my server but still use the reject_unknown_hostname recipient restriction? Looks like you should create an alternate

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
Toralf Lund wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: Yes. DSO's from 7.3 would be linked against libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3. DSO's from 9 would be linked against libstdc++.so.5. If you tried to link a C++ binary against both, it would end up linked against both libstdc++ versions, and no good could come

Re: rsync and ssh simple question

2003-10-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
MKlinke wrote: I haven't tried it with crontab so I don't know if it'll fit here but with batch jobs like this via ssh the ssh-agent mechanism works very well. The thought of null passphrases just leave me a little cold and shivering As well it should. There is a more secure option,

Re: question on symbolic link

2003-09-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
TK wrote: Let's say file A1 and A2 are symbolic links to file R. Is there a way to tell which files are linked to R by examing file R only (stat doesn't seem to reveal anything, but I noticed hard link will increase the Links number), instead of searching through all the files in the FS?

Re: Samba don't add users from NT PDC

2003-09-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Cleber P. de Souza wrote: I have been configuring smb.conf, but the system don't add automatic users to the system. The add user script has been configured like this: Security = share Password server = 192.168.1.1 Add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser -g users -M -c NT User -s /dev/null %u

Re: nfs reporting stuff that isnt there anymore

2003-09-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Ian L wrote: in my exports file i have a few entries. When i run exportfs -a it has some entries where are no longer in the exports file. Anyone have any idea where its getting this old stuff from and how to fix it? machine:/disk3: Function not implemented machine:/disk2: Function not

Re: rpm --root

2003-09-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Allen Wayne Best wrote: can anyone affirm that 'rpm --root /mnt/sysimage' will do what i think the man page is saying it will do: install the rpms in the system directories starting at /mnt/sysimage and not in the current /. Yeah, that's what it'll do. -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: procmail folders and filters

2003-09-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
christopher j bottaro wrote: yes it does. so i set up my kmail to check mail using IMAP and it downloaded my entire home directory. You need to tell kmail that the Prefix to folders is mail, or Mail, wherever mutt is keeping its messages. (UW-IMAP is retarded). right now, all my messages get

Re: nfs problem

2003-09-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
Ian L wrote: i'm trying to mount machine1 to machine2. machine1 mount machine2:/directory /machine2/directory times out Turn off the firewall on machine1, or make an exception to allow machine2 through the firewall rules. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Congrats on rh9 distr...but questions remain about choices made re: Apache/Samba

2003-09-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mike Klein wrote: Problem#1: Apache2 that you distribute doesn't seem to have apxs support enabled. Install httpd-devel. It's in there. Problem#2: Your Samba distribution was linked against ssl libraries (ldd shows this), yet for some reason all of the ssl params in smb.conf give errors to

Re: cron question

2003-09-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At diferent time of the day the cron started to echo this message after some scripts was started: Sep 16 03:00:01 host CROND[27392]: (user) MAIL (mailed 55 bytes of output but got status 0x0047 ) Does someone have an idea? Check your maillog for the same date/time to see

Re: still kernel panic

2003-09-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dana Holland wrote: I take it back - I just *thought* the problem was fixed. Turns out I had failed to remove the boot disk before rebooting (duh!). So, I'm still getting kernel panic on reboot - but it's a different message this time: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode

Re: still kernel panic

2003-09-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dana Holland wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: Dana Holland wrote: So, I'm still getting kernel panic on reboot - but it's a different message this time: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot,initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 kernel

Re: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
Kent Borg wrote: Let me give and example. Let's say I have: - initial backup - incremental backup 1 - incremental backup 2 - incremental backup 3 - incremental backup 4 These backups share common files via hard links. How much space does backup 2 take? Or, put another way, how much space

Re: server name

2003-09-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Steve Buehler wrote: I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this. If it is, please forgive me. I am running RedHat 7.3. Some things that are done by root on the system, like emailing shows it as coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] hostname shows the correct name of the host. How do I get the

Re: Personalised tcp port not listening connections from outside RH7.3

2003-09-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a Java application that listens on tcp/9696 (which of course is not already used), and i can connect locally to 127.0.0.1 and to eth0's ip address, but not from the exterior. Use netstat -tlnp to see what processes are listening, and identify yours. Let us know

Re: root password and su (maybe)

2003-09-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
Kelerion wrote: small world.. you must know my boss.. a) describes him perfectly!! :) whats even more ironic.. is when I approached him about this.. he said but changing the password on a regular basis sounds like a good idea for security.. My suggestion to appease your security minded boss:

Re: linux in windows environment for file serving

2003-09-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
Chris W. Parker wrote: To make a long story short (or is it too late for that?) I'd like to know what the people on the list have to say about that. In particular, are there any Windows houses out there that use Linux as just a file server? I'm sure there are lots of them. I wouldn't call my

Re: sshd authentication failure message

2003-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
lists wrote: One work around that I have found is to comment out the first line in the sshd pam configuration. #%PAM-1.0 #auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required pam_nologin.so accountrequired pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required

Re: strange email behavior

2003-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Marc Adler wrote: Ok, just as soon as I sent the above message, I realized I also had a startup script for fetchmail that might have something to do with it. I su'ed into root status and sure enough there in root's mutt were all the lost messages. So now the problem is, what's wrong with the

Re: IP Masq Causes High Latency

2003-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Ted Behling wrote: I'm having a problem with IP Masq on a multihomed RedHat 7.0 box, running kernels 2.4.22 or 2.2.19. I've searched Google high and low to no avail. The box is connected to an Ethernet LAN and an Ethernet-connected cable modem, and performs IP Masq for the LAN. Logged onto

Re: Name the damen that runs on the desktop that has the drop down menu

2003-09-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Clark wrote: Does any one know the name of the damen ( or program )that runs to give you the Drop down menu on the desktop ( gnome ) when you right click on the background ? ( you get terminal, new window and other things ) Version RH 9 would okay, Nautilus What config file turns it back on ?

Re: IPTables overhead

2003-09-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
Res wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, David Hart wrote: I've about had it with attacks to our web server emanating from certain geographical areas. This is not a display of Xenophobia. I have never really used IPT. It takes about 4,000 lines for Korea and China alone and that's with CIDR formatting. You

Re: segmentation fault in c progrmming

2003-08-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
reza saeidinia wrote: I think that it is memory less error. in borland c when this error are accouring in options windows we check huge memory and this error is removed. but this option is'nt exist in kdeveloper (or I do'nt know it). I don't believe there is such an option on any Unix system. A

Re: different clustering

2003-08-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
edy wrote: any body want to give same explanation about clustering? Availability clusters group sets of machines which may or may not be load-balanced, in which one or more members of the cluster will assume the workload of any member which fails. This kind of cluster is useful when you're

Re: Premature end of script

2003-08-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Thomas E. Dukes wrote: Hello, Since upgrading to RH 9.0, I have had a rash of previously running .cgi's getting Premature end script. Has anyone had these problems? Is there a problem with perl in RH 9.0? Openwebmail was one. It did this twice, but a re-install fixed it for now. Now its my

Re: Sweet Success

2003-08-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bret Hughes wrote: PS what is the deal with the SO.Big or whatever I have never received over 2 or 3 of these in a single day and today fprot has found over 25! Sobig.F is a variant of the sobig virus which uses a multi-threaded smtp engine. Instead of spreading itself one message at a time to

Re: questions on /etc/fstab syntax

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote: 1. Cant mount interpret shell variables on fstab? No. I tried to tell it that samba credentials file for a mount are in their home directory, and that the mount point should be there too to no effect. Make smbmnt and smbumount SUID root, and users will be able

Re: HELP -- Grub on a floppy!

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
John Aldrich wrote: I recently reinstalled RedHat 9 from scratch. Thinking it would be good to have a boot-floppy, I said yes when prompted to make a boot floppy. Now, I realize, that was really asking if I wanted to make a boot floppy INSTEAD of installing GRUB on the /dev/hda. I don't think

Re: Using PAM for authentication

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Jason Williams wrote: Through a little bit of testing, I was able to setup /etc/pam.d/ssh to use LDAP for authentication of users. Since then, my users can SSH to the box and log in correctly. In addition to the resources that have been pointed out, I suggest you look at the authconfig

Re: Upgrading OpenLDAP on 7.3

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: What is the best procedure to upgrade OpenLDAP on a RH7.3 server. The rpm package (openldap-2.0.27-2.7.3) is installed now and from my experience, I am trying to remove it before building a new version. However, many dependencies :( Should I go ahead and build with the

Re: Input/output error

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Leseney Thomas wrote: Running any command that requires write access on the disk (touch /tmp/foo for instance) results in Input/output error. What's dmesg say at that point? If you can't run dmesg, look at the messages log after you reboot to see if the kernel logged any errors prior to the

Re: kerberos update failed

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Marc Adler wrote: Test install failed because of package conflicts: file /usr/kerberos/bin/sclient from install of krb5-server-1.2.7-14 conflicts with file from package krb5-devel-1.2.7-10 What's wrong and what should I do to fix the error and perform the update successfully?

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Miguel M. wrote: thxs for the help. Is this process supppose to take a while? Cause think its working but its going on for some time and the __somefile i moved were put back in. That suppose to happen? Yes. --rebuilddb takes a while, and the __db.* files are a normal part of operations. --

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Miguel M. wrote: Doh! after like 3 mins I get this error message: error: db4 error(16) from dbenv-remove: Device or resource busy This is a harmless error message. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Logrotate: 2 questions

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Keith Soares wrote: What happens is that each night a 4:02am it runs, but it seems to take a very long time to run and use a lot of resources. It shows up as using over 94% of the CPU time in Running Processes (Webmin). Plus to make matters worse, it doesnt complete before the next instance

Re: udp port 624 listening?

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mike Vanecek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# service portmap start Starting portmapper: [ OK ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper [EMAIL

Re: what is sgi-fam used for on the default instal anyway?

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bret Hughes wrote: What is it used for on the default install. IIUC fam is used to monitor the status of files and if changed do something. Is there some desktop sort of deal that this is used for? Yeah, the file manager and anything else that uses gnome 2's VFS library may use FAM to watch

Re: time_t size and year 2038 wrap

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Andy Jackman wrote: Hi, I'm using redhat 7.4 and in bits/types.h time_t is defined as long int. This causes a wrap in 2038 (as I'm sure you all know). That's only true if your long int is 32 bits. On a 64 bit platform, which you're quite likely to be using in less than 35 years, a long int is

Re: What is the difference between Samba and NFS?

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
bEEnHeX wrote: Sorry for some kind of a pitty question, but I would like to know what is the difference between Samba and NFS and what are main purposes they are used for? NFS is a protocol native to UNIX systems, while Samba is a program that provides SMB, a protocol native to Windows systems.

Re: problem sync'ing 2 fs through network

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Thierry ITTY wrote: each machine has 3 NICs, one for service (eth0), two for mirroring (eth1 and eth2) actually enslaved in a bond0 interface. they are all accton en1207f/tx w/ tulip driver. my problem is that during network load traffic stops between the 2 machines and it looks like some nic just

Re: what is sgi-fam used for on the default instal anyway?

2003-08-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Matthew Galgoci wrote: You hit the nail on the head. rpm -q --whatrequires fam Don't forget: rpm -q --whatrequires libfam.so.0 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: udp port 624 listening?

2003-08-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mike Vanecek wrote: Portmap is stopped ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpcinfo -p rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused So start the portmapper, and try again. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udp port 624 listening?

2003-08-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mike Vanecek wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpcinfo -p rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection ... The suggestion to look at rpcinfo, rpc, and portmapper really has no relevance to the issue. Yes, it does. The variable port is a signature of portmap

Re: Compiling courier-imap on RH 9.0 fails

2003-08-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Jason Williams wrote: Hello everyone. Im working on installing courier-imap on a RH 9.0 box. You might try using the spec I've submitted to Sam, available here: http://phantom.dragonsdawn.net/~gordon/courier-patches/ This spec should have a full list of prerequisites for the build, and let you

Re: OpenLdap issues

2003-08-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
Michael Hamam wrote: Hello all, I configured OpenLdap, but when I rebooted the server I could not login even as root. The error is Authentication Failed. What seems to be the problem. You've probably got the LDAP server's hostname wrong, or some similar misconfiguration. First, you're going to

Re: Linux Mailserver

2003-08-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
Joseph Aphraim Kaliyadan wrote: Hi All, I would like to know the best and free linux mail server which is highly scalable. The traffic could be around 1000 user accounts and around 200 users accessing simutaneously. My vote will go to Courier every time. Its architecture and configuration

Re: LDAP to csv or txt address book

2003-07-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
Hiten Desai wrote: any info regarding configuring some web page which gives the current ldap users output which can be used as a csv or txt address book. there is this feature in horde but it is stopping at 500 entries I would like a simple webpage which can do this trick. Perhaps your LDAP

Re: Applied RHSA-2003:222 - now cat command corrupted

2003-07-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
Melissa Meyer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rpm -V $(rpm -qf $(which cat)) glibc ..5. /bin/cat ...T c /etc/rpc If rpm -V fileutils net-tools util-linux returns any executables that have been modified, you've probably been hacked. /bin/cat is one of those. You might also find ls,

Re: ftp clients

2003-07-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
Paulo Schopf wrote: I have RH9 server running Squid, without nat or iptables. My clients can access ftp pages using a browser, but dont using ftp clients for Windows (LeechFTP). What is the easier way to let them access ftp using ftp clients? The easiest way would be to add NAT for non HTTP

Re: OpenLdap errors

2003-07-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
Michael Hamam wrote: I downloaded BDB, and installed as per instructions. When I tried to connect to ldap through a browser, I get the following errors, Invalid credentials, and error 32 no such object Did you create a database, and put some structural units in it? What is causing

Re: sendmail+imap to postfix+courier-imap

2003-07-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
Fryclau wrote: I will move my mailserver from sendmail imap to postfix + courier-imap. The reason is the authentication features with mysql. The hard thing is move the mailbox to the new maildirs without losing emails. Easiest way is to set up the new mail server the way it should be (and test

Re: RH: Please fix kernel make target rpm

2003-07-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
Eric Wood wrote: # make mrproper `/bin/cp configs/kernel-2.4.20-i686.config .config` oldconfig dep clean rpm The above command will copy the configs/kernel-2.4.20-i686.config file to .config, then replace that part of the command line with cp's output (nothing, in most cases), and then run make

Re: Help! How to restore glibc on a broken system?

2003-07-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
Aeryn wrote: Now, I would like to upgrade to the glibc 2.3 version. I have been told to use the: glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i686.rpm glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm glibc-debug-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm glibc-devel-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm glibc-profile-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm glibc-utils-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm That set

Re: Glibc updating

2003-07-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
Aeryn wrote: Hello, I know this is an easy question, not much of a challenge, but...I am going to update on my linux server the Glibc from 2.2 to 2.3. Does anybody know of any issues I may face with this upgrade? I am using the Glibc 2.3 rpm to do the upgrade. Don't try to use the i386 rpm if you

Re: A question.

2003-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
reza saeidinia wrote: Is stdsyms.h a system file of linux? if it is true please send this file for me. I want to run a program and the error no rule to make /usr/includs/sys/stdsyms.h is accured . please help me. http://lists.parisc-linux.org/hypermail/parisc-linux/10707.html -- redhat-list

Re: best smtp pop3 server for RH9 ????

2003-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
Fryclau wrote: I need a security imap-pop3-smtp server for multiple domains Authenticate users by mysql if is possible User login as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' instead of user Courier's MTA supports this. You can get packages here:

Re: Need help--x window client on windows

2003-07-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
John Aldrich wrote: On Thursday 17 July 2003 06:00 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote: And if you're afraid of the actual installation of an X11 server (not a client) on the Windows terminals, you may be able to just run putty on the PC, and use the c3270 client on the Linux server. Why not VNC/TightVNC

Re: Need help--x window client on windows

2003-07-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
Frank Bax wrote: At 02:57 PM 7/17/03, Timothy Stone wrote: Situation: I have 600+ clients on Windows desktops. Each connects to a mainframe data application via IBM Personal Communications 3270 Terminal Emulation over telnet (ugh!). It sounds like you want something like PuTTY, but that

Re: How can I use Kdevelop with an already built executable

2003-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to use Kdevelop to browse source calls in an executable that I've already built, which is dependent on a long list of .c and .h files. Kdevelop seems to be designed for building executables from scratch. How can I load my executable into Kdevelop? I don't

Re: Proper way to keep users out of a directory

2003-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Anton Piatek wrote: set the dir to be owned by group httpd, make sure that the group can read the files. chgrp httpd files chmod 750 files So long as apache/httpd is run as userid httpd it can read the files, other users cant! One more thing that you must consider is that your users can

Re: recursive word count (wc)

2003-07-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
Tao Chen wrote: find . -type f | xargs cat | wc -l Why 'cat' ? find . -type f | xargs wc -l Just to be succinct. If you want the line count of each file, in addition to the line count of all of the files, then that will also work. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: POP3 with full email as user name

2003-07-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Fryclau wrote: Thank a lot to answer! Can I use mysql with ipop3? AFAIK, you can't. How you authenticate user with mysql from postfix and curier-imap? Both Courier IMAP and Postfix have special modules for MySQL support. In addition, Courier has a full MTA suite that you can use, rather than

Re: recursive word count (wc)

2003-07-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mike McMullen wrote: Brute force would be cat */* | wc ... which doesn't recurse, and so fails the requirements of the poster. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: recursive word count (wc)

2003-07-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
fred smith wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:51:22AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: Hello, Just a quick question, wondering if somone can help. How do I do recursive word / line count using 'wc'? What I mean, eg if I have 3 directories in the current directory, I want wc to go inside each

Re: recursive word count (wc)

2003-07-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: Just a quick question, wondering if somone can help. How do I do recursive word / line count using 'wc'? What I mean, eg if I have 3 directories in the current directory, I want wc to go inside each directory, cound the line / words for all the files in each

Re: Read Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
Ed Wilts wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:31:29AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: Ed Wilts wrote: You're right - there is a security hole there. For example, I don't think it's a good idea that the password file is world readable since it gives information out that you may not want to share

Re: PHP Scripting - Hope you get all this

2003-07-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
Brian Ashe wrote: Im getting an error when running a script : bad interpreter: No such file or directory If you ever see that in the shell, it means that the script you're running has DOS linefeeds in it. Use either dos2unix or tr -d '\n' oldfile newfile to remove them. snip Try it with a tr

Re: pop3 vs pop3s question

2003-07-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gerry Doris wrote: I believe that pop3s is the regular pop3 daemon with TLS support. However, if a client doesn't meet the TLS requirements will the pop3s default back to regular usage or will mail just not work? In other words, if I want to support TLS for only some users do I have to run both

Re: Read Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Fryclau wrote: I'am the the root user to applying the chmod... Obviously. The system works fine, but I don't like to leave the security access of each file in the disk with R-X to other users.. When some user login without privileges he could do something like this: Cat /etc/hosts And it works

Re: sendmail vacation program

2003-07-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Richard Humphrey wrote: Anyone know if this comes with RH 8.0 sendmail? I know it is a seperate program, but sendmail includes it in their source. Does RH include it in RPM. I could not locate it. Is it in a seperate RPM or do I just need to d/l and compile? Looks like you'll have to build your

Re: Read Exec by default - RH9 - why?

2003-07-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Ed Wilts wrote: You're right - there is a security hole there. For example, I don't think it's a good idea that the password file is world readable since it gives information out that you may not want to share. If you're using shadow password files (and you don't have any excuse not to): no, it

Re: rpath and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2003-07-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
Ajay Bansal wrote: What is the difference between rpath and LD_LIBRARY_PATH in terms of library search paths at link time? Which one is better to use. I was using LD_LIB... But my customer says.. Remove it.. Use somethinig else.. You're probably best off making your application a shell script that

Re: cgi-bin hardening

2003-07-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
prashant Kulkarni wrote: can any body help me in hardening cgi-bin application. Are you looking for general advice, or someone you can pay to do the work? Assuming the former, please be specific about the language in which the CGI is written, and any library extensions that you're using. That

Re: Redhat Squirrelmail install

2003-07-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
Ehrhart, Jay wrote: I installed Squirrelmail through the standard Redhat package manager in KDE. So it should be installed with all the standard RPM defaults. How do I access the web interface to check mail? If you installed Red Hat's version, /webmail becomes an alias for the squirrelmail

Re: UTF-8

2003-07-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
João Borsoi Soares wrote: I've asked before and had no answer. So, here I go again. I just want to change my default LANG environment environment from pt_BR.UTF-8 to pt_BR. I've tried changing /etc/sysconfig/i18n and it worked for the text mode consoles, but it didn't work for applications on X,

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