Re: Firewall - Limit Geographic Area

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:51:16AM +0200, Zoki wrote: > *** What I don't get is where comes this pathological panic of yours that > pirates only exist in China and Europe? > > Don't tell me Mr . K. Mitnick was Chinese... I think the idea wasn't that bad people are only in Far Away Places, more th

Re: Firewall - Limit Geographic Area

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:37:23PM -0500, lrnobs wrote: > Remember that I am a beginner at this and am trying to learn about > all the weapons that are available to protect my little site. Security. A lot of people have a lot of good advice about security, but much of it is unrealistic. Attempti

Re: Firewall - Limit Geographic Area

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:28:01PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > I believe the OP's concern is that of remote exploit (DoS, script > kiddies, worms, etc), not of application fraud. He wants to deny at > layer 3, based on geography. Yes. And it is a bad idea. My questions were intended to illustra

Re: Firewall - Limit Geographic Area

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:00:15PM -0500, lrnobs wrote: > This web site will be used for local food delivery and all customers > will have to set up accounts in advance to be sure they are in the > fuzzy delivery area. So validate the delivery address as being in your delivery area. (By zip code,

Re: up2date not up to date?

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:56:30PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:13:04 -0700, David Demner wrote: > > > I have a question about up2date. I recently noticed that the most recent version > > of OpenSSL available on their

VNC Questions

I have been playing with VNC, but can't find a couple things. - When I put vncviewer in "fullscreen" mode, how do I get out? - To do desktop sharing for support, with the newbie sitting at a local computer and the support person sharing that same computer from afar, what is the cleanest w

Re: Redhat 9.0 X problem

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:17:16AM -0500, Nick Marsh wrote: > What Intel chipset do you have, what BIOS revision is your Dell? I > had problems with Dell and newer Intel chipsets in the > past. Upgrading the BIOS fixed it. > > Try to flash your BIOS to the latest revision from > http://support.del

Re: Remote Keyboard and mouse

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Buck wrote: > I have seen SSH referred to in several postings on the listservs. > Is that what I want to study? Yes. Turn on the sshd service, ssh is great. It stands for "secure shell", in its most common use, where one might have typed "telnet someserv

Re: How can I copy files from one RH9 box to another RH9 box?

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:33:07PM +0400, Alexey Fadyushin wrote: > I think that the easiest way to copy files through the neiwork is to use > command 'scp' from the ssh package. You can use address instead of host > name, because in your situation both hosts have the same name. > > scp : Or, lo

Re: Fedora

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:17:30PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > 2. I do not need any support at all... none whatsoever. Just the > updates, ma'am, delivered automatically by some software tool (and we > certainly have more than one that can do the job). Or, to put that another way, w

Re: Plea to Linux Users

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:24:00PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > It is for this reason that I'd like to suggest the following. Take > 10 minutes to download, compile and run chkrootkit on your Linux > systems. So there is a "download chkrootkit" vs. "download Knoppix STD" war going on. And both ha

Re: Prefered backup method?

How long does it take to do a backup of the 3.5TB storage? How long does it take to get a file out of the backup? How long to do a restore? This is different from home network territory. More questions: How much data changes from one backup to the next? Is there room for incremental backups, a

Re: Prefered backup method?

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:49:58PM -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: > If you backup to another building, you are still not protected > against some city-wide disasters such as a nuclear bomb (ok. that's > stretching it a little too far, but it states the point). You don't need to be so exotic to find

Re: Prefered backup method?

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:09:55AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > As you've correctly pointed out elsewhere, this is part of the > backup _strategy_ whereas the argument is about _media_. I did point > out initially that time travel is important in a backup strategy and > suggested a way to do it.

Re: Prefered backup method?

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:56:02AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > I recently set up a NAS box for a customer, using a Promise chassis > and 15 250GB drives, which resulted in 3.25TB real useful space and > cost a total of $6,000 (overall cost per GB: $1.85). You make a good argument that disks ar

Re: Prefered backup method?

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:55:47PM -0700, Jack Bowling wrote: > > I am doing backups with a similar hard links-based technique and I > > have a question: How can I tell how much space one of my backups > > takes? I can't do a "du one_of_several_backups -s" because the hard > > links make all the f

Re: Prefered backup method?

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:23:39AM -0700, Jack Bowling wrote: > I think backup methods are determined by your level of paranoia. For > myself, I use a dedicated backup hard drive and rsnapshot > http://rsnapshot.sourceforge.net for doing the grunt work. I am doing backups with a similar hard links

Re: rhn notification icon is red but...

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:41:16AM -0500, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: > My rhn notification icon is showing a red exclamation point. When I > click on it it tells me thaty there is a new kernel, but it shows > the same version number for both the currently installed and the new > kernel. My apple

Re: smartd attribute numbers?

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 04:38:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which version of smart do you use? The versions that came with RH 8 (smartctl and smartd both version 2.1) and two somewhat recent Maxtor 60 GB disks. -kb, the Kent who didn't know about smartctl until now, andhis smartd man pa

Re: smartd attribute numbers?

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:10:38AM -0400, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > Kent Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know of a list of Smart attribute numbers for Maxtor disks? > > Specifically I am interested in attributes 5, 195 and 201, but a > > complete list w

smartd attribute numbers?

Anyone know of a list of Smart attribute numbers for Maxtor disks? Specifically I am interested in attributes 5, 195 and 201, but a complete list would be more "teach-me-to-fish". Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listi

Re: I'll be damned...!!

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:40:37PM +0200, Zoran's mailinglist account wrote: > *** I'm recovering from a hart attack: > > [ibook:~] zoran% ftp updates.redhat.com > Trying 63.240.14.69... > Connected to updates.redhat.com. > 220 www1 Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0). > 331 Password required for

Re: What backup solution for direct-attach?

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:39:38PM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote: > Thanks, all who responded, but I'm still looking for info on tape > drives. I don't remember the previous thread (and looking in my outbox I don't think I posted to it either), so... You want to do backups, you want them to be r

Re: SERVER DISTRO

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:12:59PM +0700, Achmad Mardiansyah wrote: > the server distro that i mean is a distro that enough secure to > run. i have try RH 7.2 and RH8.0 but the package is very easy to > hack. (apache, wu ftpd, samba, etc). Redhat is very good about issuing free patches for known e

Re: Securit Checking

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:52, Chris Wilson wrote: > Anyone know of any good tools to use for checking your server for > security holes? I want to check RedHat (7.2, 8.0, 9.0). > > I am especially interested in hacks for smtpd type hacks. Are you completely current with Red Hat updates? If not, ge

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:45:45PM -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > How so? Up2date doesn't let kernels collect in /boot. > > Um...I beg to differ. I'm not an expert (yet! *grin*) but I can do > an 'ls' with the best of them. *smile* Oops. I was WRONG. up2date does, indeed, keep old kernel

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:03:56PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > Kent, please don't yell at me, because I completely support what > you've stated. I just wanted to suggest that the "-F" flag *not* be > used for upgrading a kernel, regardless of what Red Hat suggests. > IMO, it's much safer to instal

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:40:25AM -0500, Otto Haliburton wrote: > There were previous posting. His question was /boot is full. The > original response was to go to /boot and delete old kernels. That > is where RH places them and never deletes them. How so? Up2date doesn't let kernels collect

Re: Upgrade advice 7.2 -> 9

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:04:16AM +0100, Kevin Passey wrote: > Is it a big deal upgrading from 7.2 to 9? Upgrades are tricky things. Conservative practice is to *not* upgrade to new revisions, but to do a completely new install. There are two basic cases here: 1) You have made lots of change

RH 9 Window Titles in Panel

If I say: "emacs -title Editor\ 1", I will et an emacs with the title "Editor 1", but when I want to use the panel to pull up that window it says "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I like to keep more than one emacs around, but they all have the same button titles in the panel. Any idea how I can change that?

Re: RH 9 installation via ftp problem

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:12:05AM -0700, Anton NG wrote: > but i still have the same error messages... i am using vsftp package > as my ftp server... is it a bug of rh 9 packages ?? I did a net install of Red Hat 9 and it worked--but I used NFS. As always, I had to futz to get the path right, bu

Re: how to generate a random number using a POSIX shell??

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 05:07:08PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: > I was able to dd the /dev/urandom but was lost how to turn all those > funky chars into a number. You are on a binary computer, and /dev/urandom is spitting out binary data--what could be more fundamentally a number than that? If you

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:41:34PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: > (2) Do Linux and most Intel-based notebook computers support > multiple (external) monitors, either as a second monitor or as a > mirrored monitor? I often give presentations and need to connect my > notebook computer to a display proje

Re: Redhat crashes. Now what? Where do I start?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:39:34PM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote: > If this were hpux or solaris the OS would be monitoring drives for > predictive failures I have a Red Hat 8.0 box that seems to be having ECC problems with one of the raid 1 disk drives, and smartd logging that for me so I will h

Re: Redhat crashes. Now what? Where do I start?

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:52:50AM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote: > No smartd on the system - did you have to install it separately or > was it already there from the OS install? I did an "everything" install to get my copy of smartd. As big as Red Hat's kitchen sink installation is, it can't co

Re: RH 9 Window Titles in Panel

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:08:51AM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > If I say: "emacs -title Editor\ 1", I will et an emacs with the title > "Editor 1", but when I want to use the panel to pull up that window it > says "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I like to keep more tha

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:45:27AM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: > On 8/7/03 1:58 AM, "Kent Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My old Sony notebook has an external monitor output connector, and it > > works fine under Red Hat Linux with no configuration required--ex

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:03:48PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:41:34PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: > > > display projector. This is trivially easy with my Mac, and I was just > > wondering if it would be as easy with Linux? > > Of course not. Mac = easy, Linux = power. Di

Re: Help installing a Maxtor External Firewire HD

While we are on the topic of Firewire disks, has anyone tried software raid 1 with Firewire disks? If so, how fast is it? What gotchas were involved? Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Laptops?

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:37:44PM -0400, David Hart wrote: > I'm a n00b nitwit but I understand that the Sony laptops have unique > issues. There are some specific compilation setting that are > required. I would read the help associated with every selection or - > possibly - someone here could of

Re: Need your help [arguments for open source databases]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:45:40PM +, ETI - Barry Irchad Kader wrote: > They are stating that Oracle is above any comparison and that it is > the must in the universe of relational databases. > [...] > Do you know any benchmark results that made this kind of comparison? One difference is that

Re: Adding files to log (cat?)

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:02:45AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Garbled, maybe. Lost, no. >> guarentees all writes append, and thus > don't overlap. Ah, didn't know that. Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Data Migration

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:12:08PM +0100, Kelerion wrote: > I'm not exactly an expert on this subject (or many others for that > matter) but is NFS really a suitable solutions to transfering 1.5TB+ of > data over a network?? I didn't think it was *very* stable... Previous messages have suggested

Re: Laptops?

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:19:31AM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:15:31AM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > > The only laptop I've heard has minor problems are the Sonys, but > > that was a while ago. It might be ok now. > > I am running RH 9 on

Re: Laptops?

On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:15:31AM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > The only laptop I've heard has minor problems are the Sonys, but > that was a while ago. It might be ok now. I am running RH 9 on an old Vaio Z505LE, and it works well. Including > > > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 10:11, Dan Bar Do

Re: Adding files to log (cat?)

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:41:54PM -0400, System Administrator wrote: > I am assumong that you use something on the order of > > dumpcommandline > /var/log/backup > If so - change to dumpcommandline >> /var/log/backup > > the >> appends rather than writing to the file. > > On Tuesday 22 July 2

Re: How many ip address question

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:30:53PM +, Mark Neidorff wrote: > What an enviable position to be in I'm about to switch ISPs and one of > my choices is how many static IPs I want. As has already been written, you *need* only 1 static IP address, but some would say you don't *need* your exte

Re: No Wine on RH9.0 ?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:24:44PM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 15:15, Kent Borg wrote this in an attempt to be > witty and informative: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:30:10AM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > > It was installed by default for

Re: No Wine on RH9.0 ?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:30:10AM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > It was installed by default for me and I didn't do an everything > install. Were you doing an upgrade from, say, RH 7.3? Maybe your installation of wine is left over from then. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mai

Re: No Wine on RH9.0 ?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:25:33AM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Wine is in 9.0. Are you sure? I don't see it in my "everything" install. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: System Backups

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:08:52PM -0500, Haley Crowe wrote: > Hello all. I have what I hope will be a fairly simple question. We > have a Redhat system that we want to make sure we get a full system > backup (image) of anytime a major change is made. Does anyone have any > suggestions or tips o

Re: memory useage question

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:54:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my new RedHat 9 web server I see the physical memory is pretty much > always shown as 99% used, disk swap 0%. I have 768 megs ram, AMD 600mhz > Athlon cpu. > Is this normal? Should I reboot it when it gets like this? No, do

Re: Reiserfs Disk Usage

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:36:02PM -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: > What is the filesystem type on the other partitions? Ext2 has no > journal, while ext3 does (though I don't recall how it sizes it). Check > out journal size in reiserfs to see how much that is using up. All (except swap) are reise

Reiserfs Disk Usage

My old 12GB notebook disk was dying, so I got a new 60GB, and after a somewhat worrisome installation in my Vaio Z505LE, it works! Now that I have all this nice space I decided to use some of it to backup the rest (a la ). I am using Reiserfs, a

Red Hat 9 KDE Screensaver Question

I kind of like KDE better than Gnome, but in playing with the two I couldn't find a way to get the KDE screensaver to, well, save the screen! Is there a way to get KDE in RH9 to just put nothing up on my notebook screen and turn off the backlighting? Thanks, -kb, the Kent with a little 505 Vaio

Re: RH 9: Panel with Small Icons?

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:00:32PM +0100, Kelerion wrote: > you didn't specify you window manager.. Gnome. > but either way right click on it and there's something like > "configure panel".. you can find you options in there Jeeze. How did I miss that? I must have been digging through the

Another RH 9 Peeve/Question

The panel's list of windows isn't heeding the window's title. In 7.3 I used to be able to say "-title foo\ window" to most X applications and both the window title and the panel button for that window would match. But not with 9. Is there a way to change the button name to match the drag bar nam

RH 9: Panel with Small Icons?

In previous versions of Red Hat I could find ways to make the icons in the panel small, making the whole panel much thiner and letting me put more there. Is there a way to make the gigantic icons in 9 small? Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://

Re: RH9 home networking

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:00:55PM +0100, Daniel Dui wrote: > And I want the machine connected to the modem to be always on and > visible from the outside. Many of these small routers have a feature where any incoming packets can be sent to a specific internal machine on the NAT they set up. My D

Re: RH9 home networking

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:45:25AM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > Most cable systems won't allow that to work. I work for a cable > company, and we only allow 1 MAC address to be associated with the cable > modem. Our system won't let that work at all. I know comcast is the > same way, and I

Re: what makes linux so secure?

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:31:08AM -0700, Chris W. Parker wrote: > Please list for me reasons why you believe (or know for a fact) that > Linux is more secure than our current setup. Let's assume two > different situations: 1. Out of the box with a standard install, I don't know that it is. You

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:01:37AM -0400, Michael Kalus wrote: > Panther will be coming with a built in X window system. Interesting. I didn't know that. But I guess it makes sense. Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:14:21PM -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > Cliff Wells wrote: > > > > Despite its name, OSX doesn't use X. > > OSX *is* essentially FreeBSD. As such, it sure does use X as the > windowing system Yes, OS X (pronounced "OS ten", says Apple) has a BSD kernel and a lot of

Re: how do i install a c-compiler for redhat 9

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:43:10PM +0100, Andy Myers wrote: > i didnt install a c-copiler when i installed RH9, does anyone know how i do > this, as i tried adding it 9 (gcc) as a new package through the RH > add/remove applications but it required older versions of 2 rpms than the > ones i current

Re: Wireless pcmcia card - which is best?

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:47:51AM -0500, kmiller01 wrote: > Do any of you guys have opinions on which wireless cards are > supported best and are easiest to set up? I bought an Orinoco Silver. Three points: 1. Old chipset, Linux drivers exist. 2. Silver is cheaper than Gold, and as both models

Re: When is swap used?

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:07:42AM -0600, Ryan McDougall wrote: > With 256mb of physical memory I could get up to 30% usage of swap with > enough apps open, but now that I have 512mb I have yet to touch the swap > partition. On my 384mb machine, I would also get 0% swap usage. My development machi

Re: RH9 Advice for new HP server

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 01:18:53PM +1000, TUPPEN Michael wrote: [wondering about installing RH 8.0 or 9 on a new server] Sorry this is so late (I am way behind in my e-mail), but I don't see any other answers, so here is mine. Your old server is Redhat 7.1 you say. That suggests you might keep t

Re: How much swap space is needed

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 07:51:06PM -0600, Ryan McDougall wrote: > In your case... Id probably set it to 512, or 1024 depending on how > much disk space you can spare. I was thinking about this more this afternoon. I was imagining buying a frugal but killer box. Say I picked up a parts catelogue

Re: How much swap space is needed

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:42:03PM +0800, Lao Yu wrote: > I have a PC of 768M memory. How much swap space should I allocate in > my Red Hat 8.0? According to the manual, it should be 2 X 768 = 1536 > M. Is this too much? Here are some considerations: 1) Disk space is cheap, having too much swap i

Re: Small Linux Install

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:51:47AM -0500, Oscar Medina wrote: > I have an old 386 PC with 8 MB RAM and 250 MB HD. I would like to reuse > this PC, installing Linux on it. > > However, common Linux distributions needs more RAM I have. Does anyone > realized this process before. Could you help me?

Re: Linux equivalent of Solaris BSM?

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:13:30PM -0500, Paul Greene wrote: > Is there a function within Linux, without having to resort to a > third party app, that can get the level of security auditing down to > a very granular level, equivalent to the BSM auditing in Solaris? Forgive both my ignorance and pe

Re: redhat 8.0->8.1 upgrade

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:41:11AM -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2003 11:16 am, Ed Wilts wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:07:38AM -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > > > Is 8.1 out yet? I have been away so I probably missed the anouncement.. > > > > No, it's not out yet. Ya know,

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/ES/AS

So what are these new distributions? Other than costing more, is ES 8.1? Is WS a workstation install of ES? (AS seems to be former Advanced Server.) -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: redhat support contact information?

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:31:48AM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:47:42AM -0500, Tom McCarthy wrote: > > Does anyone know what the email or phone number is support for > > redhat 8.0? > > Ths only phone support I know of is that which comes with

Re: redhat support contact information?

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:47:42AM -0500, Tom McCarthy wrote: > Does anyone know what the email or phone number is support for > redhat 8.0? Ths only phone support I know of is that which comes with the more expensive "professional" edition of their product. Go buy that. Look in the box for the

Re: adding many users

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:20:14AM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > There are password generators that can generate passwords that > consist of a combination of dictionary words and special characters, > eg. quick23walk. I use a utility called mnencode this way: $ head -c 4 /dev/random | mnenc

Re: which version of red hat is needed?

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:33:58AM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > Given how big new disks are (a fast, bootable, and inexpensive 2 disk > raid 0 system can give you over 200 GB of space) the point where raid 5 > becomes sensible is really large these days. Oops. I meant raid 1. Raid

Re: which version of red hat is needed?

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:38:37AM +0800, Daniel Tan wrote: > hmm..i don't think i can wait that long...btw, if i am to use another spare > hardisk about the same size as the one i have for raid purposes...is it > possible? Red Hat 8.0 does software raid quite well, out of the box. The raid setup

Re: 2 IP addresses on one NIC ?

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:07:06AM -0800, David Busby wrote: > Kent, > Can you rewrite your hacky script to be sortof like this thingy > Make 'myifup' a script that takes two arguments, interface and S or D > myifup eth0 [S|D] > Then when you say myifup it will look for the S or D then cp >

Re: Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:18:49PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > What is think happened is that your initrd images became corrupted for > some reasion. So the boot was hanging when trying to access them. Thanks, that makes sense, but it seems strange that two newly installed initrd's wou

Re: 2 IP addresses on one NIC ?

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:43:19PM +0530, Prashant Kulkarni wrote: > creat the file call ifcfg-eth0:1 under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and > the following parameters and then restart the interface using ifdown and > ifup commands. > > DEVICE="eth0" > BOOTPROTO="none" > IPADDR=" " > NETMASK="

Re: RAID-1 automatic failover failed

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:33:52AM -0800, James D. Parra wrote: > Any ideas on how to make Linux RAID 1 failover work with IDE drives. It does. A tricky part is how to simulate a drive death. Pulling a live plug on IDE is problematic. (I remember recently seeing mention in the kernel 2.5 discus

Re: Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:28:49PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Well, it apears the system boots just fine without the initial > ramdisk, so what I would try is commenting out the initrd lines, and > see if that helps. Yes, that fixes it. So what happened? Why did rpm-ing in the new kerne

Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

I installed yesterday's kernel update for RH 7.3, and then my Sony notebook wouldn't reboot. After various futzing, I can get it up manually, but not with my grub.conf. Manually I can get it to boot this way: - At grub screen hit "c" for command line grub> root (hd0,0) grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2

Re: telnet with root

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:39:43PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > While this is definitely true, I would still recommend the use of SSH. > After all: > > [...] > > o scp is a wonderful tool for computer-to-computer copying Don't forget sftp, unlike scp, sftp lets you browse and otherwise poke

Re: disk-based backups?

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:55:53PM -0500, Brad Penner wrote: > So I've decided to switch to a disk-based backup solution. What is > a good method to do a daily backup of say 10 solaris/bsd/linux > servers to a single linux box? I could just rsync I suppose, but > there has to be a way to archive

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:58:58AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:02:54AM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > > We all urgently push you to implement a firewall...any firewall... > > > >

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > We all urgently push you to implement a firewall...any firewall... No we don't (with or without smilies), I do not advise a firewall unless you are trying to protect some MS Windows garbage and that is a losing battle you are better off

Re: RealPlayer in chroot jail?

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:41:00PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I've found Real's client to be very intrusive on Windows, and > *really* don't want to allow the Linux client to run with any > privelege. Has anyone had experience running RealPlayer in a chroot > jail, or know of any relevent URLs?

Re: Has Any body done Software RAID 1 ??

I have only done software raid 1 as set up by Red Hat (and once, as a test, Mandrake). As of Red Hat 8.0 the installer is smarter about raid, uses grup correctly, etc. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/

Re: NTP Problem

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:30:05PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Kent Borg wrote: > > > I have an 8.0 client on which ntpd can't get the time. I have an ntpd > > running on my basement server (RH 7.0) and it used to supply time just > > dhcli

NTP Problem

I am having problems with ntpd on Red Hat 8.0. I have an 8.0 client on which ntpd can't get the time. I have an ntpd running on my basement server (RH 7.0) and it used to supply time just fine before I upgraded my client, also I told my DSL router box to get its time from my basement server an

Re: Redhat-Specific Backup Availability?

A backup tool I am intrigued by is rdiff-backup, to use it to back up one computer with another. It is like rsync but it will also do incremental backups and let you look at historical versions. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://l

Re: RH 7.0 to RH 8.0 user migration

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:06:52PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > Losing mail? That's the point of tar'ing up /var/spool/mail. I am not worried about losing old e-mail, I am worried about something not being straight in the new mail server and losing new e-mail, hence the suggestion of running the

Re: RH 7.0 to RH 8.0 user migration

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 11:46:39AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > Copy the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files to tne new system. > > tar up /home and /var/spool/mail on the old system and untar them on the > new system...voila! > > On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Michael Ketani wrote: > > > The us

Re: Updating 7.3 to 8.0

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:49:00AM -0500, Robert Adkins wrote: > Thanks for the info. I do agree that switching the production server > like that could cause some significant issues I really don't want to see. > Unfortunately, I am not blessed with an "endless" IT budget, like some >

Re: Updating 7.3 to 8.0

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:52:00AM -0500, Robert Adkins wrote: > I have a production server running version 7.3 of Red Hat that > I would like to update to version 8.0. Don't. If "production server" means it does real work that you can't afford to be without, then don't risk doing a Red Hat

Re: Is there a way to disable logins after N tries?

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:05:56PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > I've seen it on other operating systems, but always recommend that you > NOT do this. A hacker could render your system unusable by simply > trying all your usernames until they're all locked out. A better thing would be to delay after

Re: Dual Homing?

I am still working on my (temporary) pseudo-multihoming. I want to use both my new and old DSL connections at the same time until I get all my DNS stuff pointing to the new one, am sure the new one works, etc. And, I want to use this opportunity to understand this bit of networking. (Always le

Re: Dual Homing?

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 02:01:20PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Kent Borg wrote: > > > I am wondering what it takes to have a Red Hat (7.0) machine on two > > different internet connections at once. > > The main problem is that, unless you're a

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