Samba books

[Jason Dale]

Hi all :
 
Does anyone have an excellent Samba book to recommend 
?
( A tutorial / reference book all in one )
 
I am considering getting that Linux Samba server admin 
book 
from the Craig Hunt Library.
 
Any suggestions ?
 
Regards , Jason

permissions for 'dump' procedures

[Jason Dale]

Hi , 
 
I have two Red Hat Linux 8 servers connected and talking 
to one another on
a network.
 
I am trying to use the 'dump' command to perform a test 
backup procedure 
of a from one machine to the next. 

 
I run the command like this :
 
#  dump -0  -f  
hostIPaddress:/target   /source
 
I then get a line saying "DUMP: " immediately 
afterwards , and then after waiting a 
few seconds I get an error message saying that the login 
process for root failed.
 
How do I go about setting up trusted access between the 
two root accounts on the
different machines ? I even tried the same process with a 
lower-level user that existed
on both machines , and still the process 
failed
 
Regards , Jason 

Disk space usage analysis

[Jason Dale]

Hi all ; 
 
Does anyone know of a tool that I can use to analyse how 
much disk space
a specific directory ( not filesystem ) is using ? in 
otherwords , something that can
allow me to conduct an in-depth analysis of a directory 
tree , how much space in Mb
that tree is using , how many files it has and how large 
those specific files are ?
 
I am trying to develop a solution to this problem in the 
form of a shell script , but this
is proving painful , because the 'h' option to the ls 
command does not consistently
use the same unit of measurement for sizing ratio reasons. 
Some of the files are only
a few bytes in size , but there are millions of them , and 
so by adding up the numbers 
using 'expr' , I end up with a number in exponential form 
rather than the command being
smart enough to convert the figure into a higher-level 
unit of measurement.
 
Regards , Jason

Configuring SCSI drive/controller card on Red Hat 8

[Jason Dale]

Hi all:
 
I have a fairly quick 'before-the-action' question to 
ask.
 
I have an Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI controlled card and a 
compatible Seagate SCSI disk.
 
The question : Will I need to download any special 
utilities
or drivers to get this equipment to work on Red Hat Linux 
8, 
on an Intel PIV 2.0 Ghz platform ? how easy will it be to 

configure a SCSI disk and controller, and what tools do 
you
recommend I use ? ( P.S. I am using a Gnome desktop 
as
well with all of the system tools installed )
 
Regards, Jason

External email on RH 8

[Jason Dale]

Hi all:
 
OK,  here is the situation. I have an Old Red hat 
Linux 7 machine which 
is running exim as a mail server. This machine also acts 
as out firewall.
I am moving the mail services from that firewall machine 
onto a new
Red Hat 8 machine running sendmail.
 
I had the MX record changed to point to the correct IP 
address of the
new sendmail server. This works OK. A traceroute command 
points you to
the correct place.
 
I can send and receive internal mail from and to the new 
account I set up on
the RH8 sendmail server. No problem. I can send mail to 
the outside world.
No problem. The moment I try to receive email from an 
outside address, 
the message seems to disappear into cyberspace. I 
simply don't get those 
messages. I simply can't figure out whay this is 
happening. The firewall / old mail 
server responds to the outside world first before the new 
server does, so I made 
sure that I configured Exim to only allow relaying for the 
domain to which the new
mail account belongs. I made sure to remove the domain 
from the local domains file
on the old server. I also made sure that the local domains 
file on the new mail server
was updated correctly. No luck.
 
Does anyone have a vague idea as to what I can check for? 
is there a way I can
check the old mail server for what could be happening 
?
 
Regards, Jason
to the outside world before the new
 

Re: External email on RH 8

[Jason Dale]

Yes, I did all of those changes to the sendmail.cf file. In fact, I got
everything to work
with another domain I am hosting on the new server

- Original Message -
From: "Thomas Molina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: External email on RH 8


> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Jason Dale wrote:
>
> > Hi all:
> >
> > OK,  here is the situation. I have an Old Red hat Linux 7 machine which
> > is running exim as a mail server. This machine also acts as out
firewall.
> > I am moving the mail services from that firewall machine onto a new
> > Red Hat 8 machine running sendmail.
> >
> > Does anyone have a vague idea as to what I can check for? is there a way
I can
> > check the old mail server for what could be happening ?
>
> Did you redo the sendmail.cf on the new box?  I don't remember when the
> change happened, but there is a change in functionality.  Now, by default,
> sendmail only listens on the local loopback interface.  There are
> instructions for changing sendmail to accept mail from external
> interfaces.
>
>
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External mail on RH8 again

[Jason Dale]

Hi again,
 
Here is a screendump of the errors I am getting when I try 
to send mail
from the outside world to my testmail 
account.
 
The other scary thing is that even when I send a mail to a 
completely 
non-existent account,  whether internally or 
externally, I get the same
message as below. What should have happened is that I 
would have 
got an error returned immediately saying that the local 
part
'nosuchuser' in 'domainname' does not exist.
 
Some really strange stuff happening here.
 
 
 



 
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.A 
message that you sent has not yet been delivered to all of its 
recipientsafter more than 12 hours on the queue on 
mx01.citec.net.The message identifier is: 
18kmYb-0001mC-00The subject of the message is: From hotmail to primaryblue 
!!!The date of the message is:    Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:28:26 
+0200The address to which the message has not yet been delivered 
is:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]No 
action is required on your part. Delivery attempts will continue forsome 
time, and this warning may be repeated at intervals if the messageremains 
undelivered. Eventually the mail delivery software will give up,and when 
that happens, the message will be returned to you.
 



 
 

Re: External mail on RH8 again

[Jason Dale]

Hi Ralph,

Thanks for the input.

Yes, 209.212.104.70 is the correct IP address.

When I type

# telnet mail.primaryblue.com 25

I get a connection, which tells me that the outside world cannot
access this mail domain.

Here is output from the lsof -i command, searching for '25' and for
snedmail.

# [root@blackhawk log]# lsof -i | grep -i send
sendmail   770root4u  IPv4   1586   TCP *:smtp (LISTEN)
[root@blackhawk log]# lsof -i | grep 25
xinetd 747root6u  IPv4   1525   TCP blackhawk:32769 (LISTEN)

Is that all OK ?

I am hosting a couplpe of domains on this server. How do I check which one
is
the primary?

There are not any TCP wrappers enabled, this mail server is sitting behind
at least 2 firewalls.

Where does sendmail keeps it's logs, and what do I check for ?

Thanks for your help !

Jason

- Original Message -
From: "Ralf Spenneberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: External mail on RH8 again


> Am Die, 2003-02-18 um 09.06 schrieb Jason Dale:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Here is a screendump of the errors I am getting when I try to send mail
> > from the outside world to my testmail account.
> >
> This is what I get:
> $ host -t mx primaryblue.com
> primaryblue.com mail is handled by 5 mail.primaryblue.com.
> primaryblue.com mail is handled by 10 mx01.citec.net.
> $ host mail.primaryblue.com
> mail.primaryblue.com has address 209.212.104.70
> $ telnet mail.primaryblue.com 25
> Trying 209.212.104.70...
> Hangs forever I guess.
>
> $ ping mail.primaryblue.com
> PING mail.primaryblue.com (209.212.104.70) from 192.168.0.202 : 56(84)
> bytes of
> data.
> 64 bytes from 209.212.104.70: icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=702 ms
> 64 bytes from 209.212.104.70: icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=715 ms
> 64 bytes from 209.212.104.70: icmp_seq=3 ttl=44 time=681 ms
>
> Hangs forever I guess.
> Is mail.primaryblue.com your primary mailserver?
> Is 209.212.104.70 the correct IP address?
> Type "lsof" -i and see if the port 25 is opened by sendmail
> Do you have tcpwrappers enabled (/etc/hosts.deny: "ALL:ALL")
>
> Restart sendmail and send the logs
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ralf
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Re: External mail on RH8 again

[Jason Dale]

Thanks to both Ralph and Jay

Seems it was a firewall issue after all. The nitwits did not open the
port like we asked them to ! and here I am pulling my hair out ..

Jason

- Original Message -
From: "Ralf Spenneberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: External mail on RH8 again


> Am Die, 2003-02-18 um 09.44 schrieb Jason Dale:
> > Hi Ralph,
> >
> > Thanks for the input.
> >
> > Yes, 209.212.104.70 is the correct IP address.
> >
> > When I type
> >
> > # telnet mail.primaryblue.com 25
> Ok. me too after some time, but it looks weird:
> Connected to mail.primaryblue.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220
>
2**2200*2***
***0200
> helo localhost
> 250 localhost.localdomain Hello 212-204-016-082.dsl1.versanet.de
> [212.204.16.82], pleased to meet you
> mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 2.1.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender ok
> rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 250 2.1.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient ok
> data
> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> This is testdata.
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network backups with tar

[Jason Dale]

Hello, 
 
1) When I do a man page on 'tar', the screen comes up all 
garbled. I believe 
 this was discussed on the list a 
while back, but I can't seem to find those mails
 that will shed some insight on 
why this is happening. Does this have something to
 do with the $TERM 
variable?
 
2) I am using 'tar' to create a backup of a directory 
structure to another Linux server
    on the same LAN. Here is a screen 
dump:
 
#  tar   -cvzf   
-f  209.212.123.157:/usr/backups /tmp/testdir
 
Gives this output
tar: 209.212.123.157\:/usr/backups: Cannot stat: No such file or 
directorytar: Removing leading `/' from member 
namestmp/testdir/tmp/testdir/testfile1tmp/testdir/testfile2tar: 
Error exit delayed from previous errors 

I am trying to backup the directory /tmp/testdir and copy 
the archive onto the 
server substituted by the IP address 'IP'. Where am I 
going wrong here? 
 
Regards, Jason

Re: network backups with tar

[Jason Dale]

Hi all,

Thanks for the input thus far.

I forgot to mention that I had a working solution by piping the output of a
find command
to cpio, which creates an archive file on the other server. The problem is
that the recipient
server keeps asking me for a friggin' password, which means I have to
babysit my backups
rather than be able to run them from the cron system. Is there a way I can
set up the
machines so that the root password between these two machines in a LAN does
not get
asked for, or alternatively find a way to specify a username and password on
the
command line ?

(Yes, I know that is not safe ...)

BTW, when I run the command

# tar cvzf - /tmp/testdir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat > ~/backup.tgz'

It asks me for a password, and when I type the correct root password in, ( I
logged into the 'sending'
server as root ) , it tells me "Permission denied, please try again".

I have spent literally weeks looking for a simple easy-to-use tool that can
run on RH 8 and RH 7
which has the following characteristics:

1) Does not need a GUI
2) Relatively simple to setup and use
3) Can backup to a network drive, WITHOUT user intervention.
4) Can be run in the task scheduler
5) Can compress archives
6) Allows you to backup directories as well as filesystems. ( Unlike dump !)



Ideally, I want to use tools that are already apart of the system, but I am
willing
to compromise. ( I will look into using 'flexbackup' , which someone
suggested )

Regards, Jason



- Original Message -
From: "Toni Erdmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: network backups with tar


> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Jason Dale wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>1) When I do a man page on 'tar', the screen comes up all garbled. I
believe
> >> this was discussed on the list a while back, but I can't seem to
find those mails
> >> that will shed some insight on why this is happening. Does this
have something to
> >> do with the $TERM variable?
> >>
> >>2) I am using 'tar' to create a backup of a directory structure to
another Linux server
> >>on the same LAN. Here is a screen dump:
> >>
> >>#  tar   -cvzf   -f  209.212.123.157:/usr/backups /tmp/testdir
> >>
> >>Gives this output
> >>
> >>tar: 209.212.123.157\:/usr/backups: Cannot stat: No such file or
directory
> >
> > I am unaware that tar will send a file to another machine as your
> > are trying to do. This can be done using rsh or probably ssh but not
> > directly. Also tar files for sanity sake should end in a .tar
> > extension.
>
> what about:
>
> tar cvzf - /tmp/testdir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat > ~/backup.tgz'
>
> tar puts everything to STDOUT  ('-') which then is passed to ssh,
> where cat puts everything from STDIN to backup.tgz in user's home
> directory
>
> Toni
>
>
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Re: network backups with tar

[Jason Dale]

I am thinking about this purely from my UnixWare 7 experience.

Trying to set up trusted hosts on UnixWare 7 was achievable,
except that you could not set up trusted access with the root
account across the two servers. I suspect that similar applies
for Linux. I am not sure about the SSH only being available
in one direction though.

I assure you that out of everyone on this list, my knowledge
is pretty pathetic. Pretty soon I will be getting an award
for being the dumbest user on the list. ;)

Pity there isn't a backup solution for dummies.

Jason

- Original Message -
From: "Ryan McDougall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: network backups with tar


> 
> > BTW, when I run the command
> >
> > # tar cvzf - /tmp/testdir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat >
~/backup.tgz'
> >
> > It asks me for a password, and when I type the correct root password in,
( I
> > logged into the 'sending'
> > server as root ) , it tells me "Permission denied, please try again".
> 
>
> I hate to say this, because I feel that your linux knowledge is more than
mine,
> but is root login restricted via ssh to the recieving server? I know that
I
> have done that on my box. Just a thought and please forgive me if I am way
off
> base here.
>
> Ryan
>
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Re: network backups with tar

[Jason Dale]

Yup, I did use root, but I still had a typo after root, so it could not find
the user
name. Thanks, *looking very sheepish*

I don't suppose there is a way to supply the root passwpord on the
command line? this would be great,  because I could then run this command
in the task scheduler

Jason

- Original Message -
From: "Toni Erdmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: network backups with tar


> Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>BTW, when I run the command
> >>
> >># tar cvzf - /tmp/testdir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat >
~/backup.tgz'
>
>
> replace 'user' by 'root' and use root's password of 209.212.123.157
> (just to be sure that we mean the same thing)
>
> >>
> >>It asks me for a password, and when I type the correct root password in,
( I
> >>logged into the 'sending'
> >>server as root ) , it tells me "Permission denied, please try again".
>
>
>
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Re: network backups with tar - cannot generate passwordless SSH key

[Jason Dale]

Hi A.J

Thanks for taking the time and the effort to write up your solution ! I
really
appreciate it :)

Unfortunately, still no joy. I assume that I am putzing up somewhere, so I
will give you a summarized log of exactly what I did on my servers.

The two test servers I am using:

'blackhawk' - Red Hat Linux 8 [ server that needs to be backed up]
'firewall' - Red Hat Linux 6.2 [ server that I am using for the 'backups'
(not really, just to test connection)]

When I do the real backup on Saturday, the server to be bached up is on Red
Hat Linux 7.2,
and the serverI will be storing the backup archives on is Red Hat 8.

Action log
--

1)  On firewall machine I created a user called 'backup' using the webmin
interface. The normal
  account password was also 'backup'

2) Logged into firewall machine as user backup.

3) ran the 'ssh-keygen' program. Here is the output : ( I accepted the
defaults with spaces )

# ssh-keygen

[backup@firewall backup]$ ssh-keygen
Initializing random number generator...
Generating p:  ..++ (distance 18)
Generating q:  ...++ (distance 74)
Computing the keys...
Testing the keys...
Key generation complete.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/backup/.ssh/identity):
Enter passphrase:
Enter the same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/backup/.ssh/identity.

 *very long number*

backup@firewall
Your public key has been saved in /home/backup/.ssh/identity.pub

4) Checked that 'backup' home directory was not group and world writeable:

 $  ls -ld ~backup
 drwxr-xr-x3 backup   backup   4096 Feb 21 15:42 /home/backup

5)  Chmod the .ssh directory to 700 :

  $ ls -ld ~backup/.ssh
  drwx--2 backup   backup   4096 Feb 21 15:43
/home/backup/.ssh

6)  Did a listing for ~backup/.ssh to see what was there:

 $ ls -l ~backup/.ssh

 -rw---1 backup   backup530 Feb 21 15:43 identity
 -rw-rw-r--1 backup   backup334 Feb 21 15:43 identity.pub
 -rw---1 backup   backup512 Feb 21 15:42 random_seed

  ( Strange. the file iscalled 'identity' and not id_dsa. I will just
use the file in the
 same way, though. )

7)  Copied the file 'identity' to 'authorized_keys'

  $ cp ~backup/.ssh/identity ~backup/.ssh/authorized_keys
  $ ls -ld ~backup/.ssh/
  -rw---1 backup   backup530 Feb 21 16:03
authorized_keys
  -rw---1 backup   backup530 Feb 21 15:43 identity
  -rw-rw-r--1 backup   backup334 Feb 21 15:43 identity.pub
  -rw---1 backup   backup512 Feb 21 15:42 random_seed

8)  Copied the file 'identity' file to the blackhawk server ( Server to be
backed up )

   $ scp ~backup/.ssh/identity root@blackhawk:/root/.ssh/backup  ( the
file gets copied and
  saved as 'backup' in root's .ssh directory

9) Logged onto blackhawk server as root to verify that file was transferred
:

   #  ls -l /root/.ssh/backup
-rw---1 502  502   530 Feb 21 15:45
/root/.ssh/backup

 ( The ID's for user and group are probably because 'backup' does not
exist on the archive
/ blackhawk server )

10)  Ran the following command ( From blackhawk ) as root

# ssh -i  /root/.ssh/backup  backup@firewall

I still get prompted for a password, and I even made sure that /root/.ssh is
also 700 in permissions.

Can you see any obvious way in which I am going wrong?

Regards, Jason

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- Original Message -
From: "A.J. Werkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: network backups with tar


> I use the following structure:
>
> On the server where I store the backup files I created a user "backup".
>
> Then as the user backup on that machine I did "ssh-keygen". The program
> askes for the key name. I use the default name ( key gets stored in
> ~/.ssh/id_dsa; public key in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub). On the question for a
> password, just type . Then you don't have to use a password on the
> system to be backed-up. Be sure the home directory of the user backup is
> not group- and world writable, otherwise key-authentication doesn't work.
> Also be sure the "~/.ssh"-directory has mode 700.
>
> Further I copied the file ~/.ssh/id_dsa to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. This
way
> the backup user accepts login authentication with the private key made in
> the previous step.
>
> Then I copied the file ~/.ssh/id_dsa to the system to be backed-up and
> renamed it there to /root/.ssh/backup.
>
> To check if everything works login on the system to be backed-up as root.
> Then type: ssh -i /root/.ssh/backup backup@.
> Now you should get a $-prompt on the backup server without being asked for
> a password.
>
> If this works your up and running. To backup your system or directory,
> login on the machine to be backed-up as root or make an entry to the root
> 

Internet content on RH8

[Jason Dale]

Hi all, 
 
1) Does anyone know where Red Hat 8 keeps all of it's 
temporary files, 
    cookies, cache 
files that show where you have been surfing on the net?
    much like the content cleanup programs 
that you get for Windows?
 
2) Where can I find a filtering service to prevent 
'objectionable' 
 websites from being accessed in 
situations where a network of people
 access the internet via your Red 
hat Linux server? by 'objectionable' 
 I mean any content including 
violence, pornography, etc.
 
Regards, Jason

Re: Ext3 vs Ext2

[Jason Dale]

Hi There!

Ext3 came into the picture from around RH 7.2, and it comes with some 
Journaling features designed to make your file system recover from crashes
better than ext2 did.

Because of this journaling, there will be a performance decrease, which
is probably what you are experiencing.

Jason Dale

- Original Message - 
From: "JD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 5:01 AM
Subject: Ext3 vs Ext2


> Hallo list,
> I have a "feeling" that ext3 is much slower than ext2. My hadrdrive 
> blinks more often after I let RH8 formatted it with its favorite ext3; 
> not to mention the noise from the harddrive rotation.
> As I said, it's just a "feeling" so please don't flame me for feeling it.
> Am I justified anyway? Is it true that ext3 fs is somehow inferior in 
> practice that ext2?
> JD
> 
> 
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FTP Error/exit codes

[Jason Dale]

Hi all,
 
I have checked my resources and books and cannot seem 
to
figure out what error code 87 is in FTP.  I can't 
seem to
find my answer
 
Where on my Red Hat system can I check for some sort of 

index containing a list of these codes, and what they 
mean,
preferably for each type of program?
 
Any help or advice much appreciated
 
Regards, Jason

Re: Very weird : X not loading just for one user !!!

[Jason Dale]

I'll see if I can find a solution to this, as it does sound pretty wierd.

This probably won't work either, but it's worth a try ...

Backup all of the important data and programs and then remove
the user account and related directories:

# userdel -r [account]

If I am talking nonsense, someone will correct me soon. My reasoning
here is that if this does not resolve the problem, then the hassle does not
have anything to do with the profile script/s sitting in the home directory

Jason

- Original Message -
From: "Cédric Chausson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:00 AM
Subject: Very weird : X not loading just for one user !!!


> Hello all,
>
> I have a weird problem. I cannot start X anymore with my user on my RH
> 8.0 box.
>
> I can get X started under root or under my wife's user but not mine.
>
> I always start in console mode and type startx. When I do this under my
> user, X starts loading but stops with a black screen and the mouse
> pointer with an X form.
>
> Tried rebooting several times but to no avail. I looked into the logs
> but have seen no real errr messages.
>
> Any ideas where to look or what to do ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
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> subject." - -- Winston Churchill
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Fw: Very weird : X not loading just for one user !!!

[Jason Dale]

 . Once you remove the account, recreate it with something like

 # useradd -m [account].

 Then reset the passwords as necessary

 If reomving and recreating the account does not work, then this may
 require a Linux Jedi to solve :)


> - Original Message -
> From: "Jason Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Very weird : X not loading just for one user !!!
>
>
> > I'll see if I can find a solution to this, as it does sound pretty
wierd.
> >
> > This probably won't work either, but it's worth a try ...
> >
> > Backup all of the important data and programs and then remove
> > the user account and related directories:
> >
> > # userdel -r [account]
> >
> > If I am talking nonsense, someone will correct me soon. My reasoning
> > here is that if this does not resolve the problem, then the hassle does
> not
> > have anything to do with the profile script/s sitting in the home
> directory
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Cédric Chausson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:00 AM
> > Subject: Very weird : X not loading just for one user !!!
> >
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I have a weird problem. I cannot start X anymore with my user on my RH
> > > 8.0 box.
> > >
> > > I can get X started under root or under my wife's user but not mine.
> > >
> > > I always start in console mode and type startx. When I do this under
my
> > > user, X starts loading but stops with a black screen and the mouse
> > > pointer with an X form.
> > >
> > > Tried rebooting several times but to no avail. I looked into the logs
> > > but have seen no real errr messages.
> > >
> > > Any ideas where to look or what to do ?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > > subject." - -- Winston Churchill
> > >
> > >
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Re: Mozilla Personal Address Book Corrupted

[Jason Dale]

What type of mail user agent program are you using?

Jason

- Original Message - 
From: "Alessandro Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:30 PM
Subject: Mozilla Personal Address Book Corrupted


> Hi guys,
> 
> I know that this is not psyche specific, but I have a user that has an 
> address book corrupted, is there any way to recover at least part of it ?
> 
> Thanks for any thoughts,
> 
> Alessandro Oliveira
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Mozilla Personal Address Book Corrupted

[Jason Dale]

You can get many types of MUA's of which Mozilla can be one,
and you also get other programs like evolution, etc.

I have done some reading up, and I am wondering if the
${HOME}/.mozilla/default/*/Mail/hostname/inbox file is built
and mainted the same way sendmail builds the mail queue in
/var/spool/mail/[username]. My understanding of mozilla
is hazy, because I personally don;t use it at all.

What I am thinking is that if you can go into the mozilla file
above, it might be structired the same way that sendmail would
build it - several messages all in the same file. You could try backing up
the file, and then removing message blocks one at a time to try and single
out the offending message.

Don;t take my word for it - I am just making a shot in the dark based on my
sendmail experiences

Jason


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From: "Neil Bird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: Mozilla Personal Address Book Corrupted


> Around about 13/03/2003 12:30, Alessandro Oliveira typed ...
> > I know that this is not psyche specific, but I have a user that has an
> > address book corrupted, is there any way to recover at least part of it
?
>
>The .mab files /are/ text, but not exactly friendly!  Your best bet
> is probably the moz newsgroup(s).
>
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature
> ls: .signature: No such file or directory
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit
>
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Linux Slapper worm - New variants ?

[Jason Dale]

Hi all,
 
My ISP has advised me of possible Linux slapper worm 
activity on one of
our Linux servers, running Red Hat Linux 6.2
 
This machine does NOT have apache or any ssl / ssh package 
installed.
To my knowledge, Linux slappers exploit 
vulnerabilities in openssl libraries.
 
I have searched my system for the files of the variants 
.A, .B and .C.
Nothing unusual has been found. I checked the /tmp 
directory.
 
Here are the slapper variants that I personally am aware 
of: 
 
 



# Linux.slapper '.A' variant# 
--## UDP listening port: 2002# uuencoded 
file: .uubugtraq# Source code file: .bugtraq.c# Compiled binary file: 
.bugtraq
# Linux.slapper '.B' variant# 
-## UDP listening port: 1978# uuencoded 
file: .cinik.uu# Source code file: .cinik.c# Compiled binary file: 
.cinik
 
# Linux.slapper '.C' variant# 
-## UDP listening port: 4156# uuencoded 
file: .unlock.uu# Archive file (.tgz format): .unlock# Source code 
files: .unlock.c, .update.c# Compiled binary files: httpd, update



 
The hassle is that we seem to have a very unstable personal mail server 
that 
seems to keeping giving denial of service 'attacks'. Out of the blue, 
people 
who connect to this server are not able to establish a connection, or the 

connection just get's interrupted. 
 
Does anyone know of a tool I can use to scan my system to be sure?
Are there any new variants out there that are not discussed on Redhat 
or
Symantec?
 
Any suggestions welcome
 
Are there any commands that I can run on the command line to check for any 
erratic
network card activity ? which logs can I check?
 
Jason
 
 
 
-Jason 
DaleSenior programmer / Unix administrator
 
Maxxess Solutions (Pty) LtdAMR office 
parkbuilding 2Concorde road EastBedford View2008Johannesburg 
, South Africa
 
Contact information :
 
Switchboard : 27 (0) 11 455 
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8256-

Re: Linux Slapper worm - New variants ?

[Jason Dale]

Sorry  didn't realize that inserting lines was done in HTML.

I realize that Psyche is for RH8. I have 3 Linux machines in my
Network all interconnected and running RH8 as well as RH6.2.
My RH8 box DOES have both Apache and SSL/SSH, so I figured
the RH8 box is more likely the culprit. That is why I posted the message
here rather on zoot. Let's face it - Linux worms and viruses affect
EVERYONE, and they don't care about your distro - only about your
vulnerabilities. RH8 list users just seem to be far more up-to-date in their
knowledge. However, I don't want to step on anybody's toes, so I will
not post zoot stuff here again.

As per the Slapper issue, thanks for the tips - I will definitely look into
them.

Apologies again for the inconvenience. As soon as I find any more info on
what
this shindig is all about, I will let everyone know just for safety's sake.
Better
safe than sorry.

Jason

- Original Message -
From: "Tony Nugent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Redhat 8. 0 Psyche Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: Linux Slapper worm - New variants ?


> On Fri Mar 14 2003 at 11:08, "Jason Dale" wrote:
>
> > Content-Type: text/html;
> > charset="iso-8859-1"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> Please, no html to mailing lists.  please?
>
> > My ISP has advised me of possible Linux slapper worm activity on one of
> > our Linux servers, running Red Hat Linux 6.2
>
> rh6.2 is highly stable, but it does require many updates to keep it
> secure.  (I thought that this list was for rh8.0, zoot-list is for
> 6.2, but no matter).
>
> > This machine does NOT have apache or any ssl / ssh package installed.
> > To my knowledge, Linux slappers exploit vulnerabilities in openssl
> > libraries.
>
> Hmmm... I haven't notice any recent mention of this on bugtraq.
>
> > I have searched my system for the files of the variants .A, .B and .C.
> > Nothing unusual has been found. I checked the /tmp directory.
>
> > Does anyone know of a tool I can use to scan my system to be sure?
> > Are there any new variants out there that are not discussed on Redhat or
> > Symantec?
>
>
> chkrootkit -- "locally checks for signs of a rootkit"
>
>http://www.spenneberg.org/chkrootkit-mirror/index.html
>
> > Any suggestions welcome
> >
> > Are there any commands that I can run on the command line to check for
> > any erratic network card activity ? which logs can I check?
>
> tcpdump, or iptables on a nearby router.
>
> There are other tools too, such as portsentry:
>
>http://www.psionic.com/products/portsentry.html
>
> > Jason
>
> Do let us know what becomes of all this.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
>
>
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Re: SCO and RedHat?

[Jason Dale]

Hi There,

I am a SCO ACE for the UnixWare 7 distro. If you need some help, you are
welcome to email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (post to the
list
if the questions are relevant to Redhat)

Of course, being a SCO ACE does not mean much at all - It just means that I
know shell programming and command line UNIX very well ;)

Jason


- Original Message -
From: "Joe Klemmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: SCO and RedHat?


> On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 12:30, Loeung Vidol wrote:
>
> > Anyone's got experienced with the SCO UNIX? I'm going to try it next
week.
> > But I'm a bit curious how it is different from RedHat or other Linux
> > distros.
> >
> > I hope most of the commands and services are the same. Could anyone
point
> > out some major differences? This will be my first time to use SCO. I'm
not
> > turning away from RedHat (do not misunderstand); I'd just like to try it
as
> > a friend of mine asked me to.
>
> I have OpenUNIX 7 and have played with it a bit.  If your only UNIX
> experience is with Linux or the BSD's then you will find it very
> difficult to do anything on there.  The legacy of this flavor of UNIX is
> like the olden days where everything is considered an add-on.  You get
> no dev tools, no apps, no utilities, no nothing.  However, it is a
> tank.  If you need something nearly bulletproof (like for database and
> NFS) it's not bad.  You will pay a LOT for it.
>
> If you're looking for a "commercial" UNIX I'd recommend Solaris 9 over
> SCO UNIX.  With all the GLU tools available for it through
> sunfreeware.com it'll be more like what you're used to.
>
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Re: Red Hat 9

[Jason Dale]

In my part of the world in the southern hemisphere,  Linux became
an extremely popular server OS at more or less the same time that
the Red Hat 7.x series was out. For us, this was partly why 7.3
was the most popular, but RH 7.3 also *seemed* to be the most
'hassle free' Linux OS or there compared to other versions.
(At least from what I have seen in my years of service; I could be
wrong). The other aspect to consider is that Linux is not a
closed-bonnet scenario like Windows, so with enough fiddling
you can get just about any distro to the level that you want it to be at.

Give it a few months, and many of the sites out there who got
Red Hat 8 and have decided to stick with it will eventually ween
out all of the bugs and holes and make all of their servers just peachy.

The companies around the world that have been using Red Hat since
it came out have had to shed crocodile tears in trying to both build and
grasp Linux enough to use it properly, and now that they are at the point
where
they know what they are doing, they seem reluctant to upgrade their
distro, and I am inclined to agree with them.  Linux can give
inexperienced administrators and users alike the shock effect equivalent
to that of stepping on the wrong side of a rake. Red Hat 8 was meant to
tone down the image of Linux being an OS only for MENSA candidates.
Look at the way Red Hat linux 8 was marketed - you will see where I am
going with all of this.

Administrators are normally placed up on a pedestal as super intelligent
and super capable people, and no administrator wants to be the
person to prove that perception wrong in their respective companies.
The release of Red Hat 8 was appealing not merely because it just looked
so nice, but more because the bluecurve desktop seemed to promise
all of those point-and-click people out there an avenue of escape, in case
they just can't figure out what do in front of that dreaded command line,
and may be forced to embarrass themselves on a mailing list just like this
one.

All said and done, I am still somewhat concerned myself as to why Red Hat 9
is popping up so quickly.

Jason


- Original Message -
From: "Joe Klemmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Red Hat Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Red Hat 9


> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, naugaranch wrote:
>
> > With all the problems I've had with Red Hat 8 - particularly on my
> > server (still not running correctly and updated fully).  I've actually
> > considered regressing to 7.2 on my server.
>
> I would recommend that, if you are going to fall back to the 7.x
> series, you go back to 7.3 as it's got enough benefits to make it much
> better choice.
>
> > Sounds like Red Hat is doing a MS-type end around.  Abandon the RH 8.x
> > series and introduce RH 9 because it doesn't have a bad reputation.
>
> I doubt that.  RH 8 works just fine in most situations.  It's not
> quite as solid in some server situations as 7.3 was but that's likely to
> improve with 9.
>
> --
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> years.
> Fred Rodgers - 1928-2003
>
>
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Re: Sendmail running but not accepting

[Jason Dale]

I am not sure if you have done all of this before, so I will mention it just
in case ;)

Check your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file for the following;

dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

Make sure the line above is commented out. If it's not, add the 'dnl' and
then
use the m4 program to regenerate the sendmail.cf file. Restrart sendmail for
good measure.

Also check the file /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3 or a similarly named file, and make
sure
that the variable disable = no.

If you need to change the ipop3 file, run the command afterwards;

#  service xinetd restart

Jason



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From: "Thomas Chamtieh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:04 AM
Subject: Sendmail running but not accepting


>
> I just ran up2date on a newly installed system. All the updates installed
> without any erros except one thing. Sendmail was running perfect and
> accepting emails without any problems. After the update, sendmail is
> running fine, but it refuses any connection from anywhere!!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Thomas
>
>
>
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IP aliasing

[Jason Dale]

Hi, 
 
Does anyone know how to add an alias to a
network interface? for example, get 'eth0' to 

respond to more than 1 IP address? do
I need to compile this option into the 
kernel?
 
I assume the system would reflect this as
eth0:1, eth0:2 etc for as many aliases that
you have on the same physical card.
 
If I reboot the machine, will the system keep these 
aliases?
 
Lastly, in a machine with multiple network cards, how does 
the system handle the 'ordering' of the network card names, such as
'eth0' 'eth1' etc? does it select this name according to 
which PCI slot you use, or 
according to whichever card was added first, 
irrespective of the PCI slot?
 
Jason

Re: IP aliasing

[Jason Dale]

Thanks,  Jesse

I will get an opportunity to try this out at a later
stage. I'm sure it will work, on provision that the
command works on a 'default' installation with
network support. I'm just amazed that even
the "100% comprehensive" Red Hat Linux 8
Bible does not appear to make any mention of the netconfig command. Neither
do any of my other RH books. There is not even a man page for it on my RH8
system. Hmmm 

Jason

- Original Message -
From: "Jesse Keating" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: IP aliasing


> On Tuesday 01 July 2003 07:31, Jason Dale wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to add an alias to a
> > network interface? for example, get 'eth0' to
> > respond to more than 1 IP address? do
> > I need to compile this option into the
> > kernel?
>
> netconfig -d eth0:1
>
> > I assume the system would reflect this as
> > eth0:1, eth0:2 etc for as many aliases that
> > you have on the same physical card.
>
> correct.
>
> > If I reboot the machine, will the system keep these aliases?
>
> If configured and a file is made in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1  Using netconfig -d eth0:1
will
> create this file.  (you'll have to ifup eth0:1 once you've configured it).
> Note, you shouldn't add another gateway and/or DNS server when configuring
> the other addresses.  Leave those two feilds blank.
>
> > Lastly, in a machine with multiple network cards, how does the system
> > handle the 'ordering' of the network card names, such as 'eth0' 'eth1'
etc?
> > does it select this name according to which PCI slot you use, or
according
> > to whichever card was added first,
> > irrespective of the PCI slot?
>
> Adjust the aliasing in /etc/modules.conf.
>
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Re: HomeDirectory and OpenLdap.

[Jason Dale]

Hi,

I am not sure about how OpenLdap works, but perhaps you
should try creating the user account and home directory manually
by using the command "useradd -m [loginname]" prior to setting
up or dealing with the OpenLdap.

Unless this issue only happens with a few acccounts, you should
check the permissions ( particularly the execute permission ) on the
directory '/home' itself. Just a feeble suggestion.

Jason


- Original Message -
From: "Le Ngoc Thach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:16 PM
Subject: HomeDirectory and OpenLdap.


> Hi all,
> I have been using OpenLdap for Center Authentication. User's home
> directory is presented by attribute "homeDirectory" in OpenLdap.
> I have 2 problems:
> 1) When a user login Linux (ex: using ssh from remote host), the home
> directory is not still created. So there is a error message:
> "Could not chdir to home directory /home/$user: No such file or directory.
> ($user is real name of user).
>
> 2) I have 2 Linux Servers named A and B: A is running OpenLdap, B is not
> but using OpenLdap in A server for Authentication. When I login to B
> server, the home directory is in B. So, for a user, there are 2 home
> directory: one in A and one in B. Could I use a network directory for
> home directory?
>
> Best Regards,
> Thach Le.
>
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Time on server jumps ahead

[Jason Dale]

Hi all,

I have noticed that no matter how many times I reset the 
date and time on my RH8 server, it keeps falling out of
synch, and jumps ahead by about 1 hour. It looks like it
has something to do with the time zone, but during the 
installation I made sure to choose the correct country and 
location. 

1) How do I configure my RH8 machine to synch itself
according to an atomic clock on the WWW? 

2) How do you change the time zone on a Linux server
(AFTER the installation)

Thanks, Jason


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root's mail

[Jason Dale]

Hi, 

Does anyone know how to send mail to an IP address rather
than a domain name, for example, sending mail to 

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

I have put the IP address 1.2.3.4 in the 'local-host-names' file
and restarted sendmail. Even that did not work. I get 
"Unrouteable mail domain 1.2.3.4" error messages.

Any ideas?

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Port monitoring activity

[Jason Dale]

Hi all, 

I am looking for a standard run-of-the-mill Linux command
that functions similarily to '/usr/sbin/mtr' ( A network diagnostic
tool ) except can monitor how many network packets get sent 
to or from a specific port. For example, I would want to know 
how much traffic get's sent to and from port 25 on eth0, and how 
many bytes get transferred with each packet. (A nifty way of finding
out who is sending chompy emails). 

The command can display a screen, much like mtc, which get's 
updated realtime and/or at set intervals, showing interface/port
activity levels.

I don't know if any of you guys have been hit by the 
W32.Blaster.Worm yet, but the kind of tool I am talking about will 
be very useful in finding out what ports have 'unusual' amounts 
of activity.

Jason.


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RH8 and mail domain hosting

[Jason Dale]

Hi all,

I know that this is more a sendmail question, but there must be a
more intelligent way around this problem can can work with more
that one mail MTA.

Here is the situation:  we have a server that hosts mail for '@domain1'
and '@domain2'. We have two people by the name of 'Bob' :

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Now if 'Bob' at domain1 sets up his username and password the same as
the other Bob, even if the domains are different, you will have mail for
both Bob's being delivered to the same computer, on a
first-come-first-served
basis. Naturally, the other Bob will not be happy about this.

Is there anyway to set up the system so that both Bobs can have different
passwords, and that their email gets stored seperately in different
mailboxes,
on the same machine with the same IP address?

P.S. This IS an RH8 system :)

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Re: RH8 and mail domain hosting

[Jason Dale]

OK ... No problem. I answered my own question :)

I used the /etc/mail/virtusertable (duh!)

1) Added entry in /etc/mail/virtusertable

[EMAIL PROTECTED]bob.domain1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]bob.domain2

In otherwords, the first bob will have the mail sent to account
'bob.domain1'
and the second address will deliver mail to 'bob.domain2'. This way,
you can maintain seperate folders and account info for both bob's at
different
domains.

Still, if there is a way to achieve this without using MTA specific
databases,
I'd like to know. ANy suggestions welcome . ;)

Jason



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From: "Jason Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:03 AM
Subject: RH8 and mail domain hosting


> Hi all,
>
> I know that this is more a sendmail question, but there must be a
> more intelligent way around this problem can can work with more
> that one mail MTA.
>
> Here is the situation:  we have a server that hosts mail for '@domain1'
> and '@domain2'. We have two people by the name of 'Bob' :
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Now if 'Bob' at domain1 sets up his username and password the same as
> the other Bob, even if the domains are different, you will have mail for
> both Bob's being delivered to the same computer, on a
> first-come-first-served
> basis. Naturally, the other Bob will not be happy about this.
>
> Is there anyway to set up the system so that both Bobs can have different
> passwords, and that their email gets stored seperately in different
> mailboxes,
> on the same machine with the same IP address?
>
> P.S. This IS an RH8 system :)
>
> Jason
>
>
>
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Re: RH8 and mail domain hosting

[Jason Dale]

You are right - account names must be unique. It IS extremely
obvious.

One point I seemed to fail to make clear is that the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
with it's corresponding account name and password get set up on
the workstations that connect to the Linux server. The same applies
for Bob at domain2.

I set up a similar scenario on my Windows PC, where I had an
account called 'testmail' on the Linux server, and sent email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and then [EMAIL PROTECTED], knowing
full well that the mails were going to be delivered to the same
mail folder on the Linux server.

What I wanted to see was if I downloaded mail just for
[EMAIL PROTECTED], whether or not I would receive both emails.
I did, because the username and password were the same
for both email addresses.  In Windows, there is nothing to stop you
from setting up different email accounts that have different email addresses
but use the same authentication username and password.

As noted below, I did manage to solve my own problem with the
virtusertable.



- Original Message -
From: "Chris Sechiatano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: RH8 and mail domain hosting


> I'm pretty sure this is obvious, but you can't have two identical
usernames
> on the same system.
>
> You would have to have bobX and bobY as usernames and adjust your
> /etc/mail/virtusertable file accordingly.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:09:03PM +0200, Jason Dale
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OK ... No problem. I answered my own question :)
> >
> > I used the /etc/mail/virtusertable (duh!)
> >
> > 1) Added entry in /etc/mail/virtusertable
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]bob.domain1
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]bob.domain2
> >
> > In otherwords, the first bob will have the mail sent to account
> > 'bob.domain1'
> > and the second address will deliver mail to 'bob.domain2'. This way,
> > you can maintain seperate folders and account info for both bob's at
> > different
> > domains.
> >
> > Still, if there is a way to achieve this without using MTA specific
> > databases,
> > I'd like to know. ANy suggestions welcome . ;)
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Jason Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:03 AM
> > Subject: RH8 and mail domain hosting
> >
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I know that this is more a sendmail question, but there must be a
> > > more intelligent way around this problem can can work with more
> > > that one mail MTA.
> > >
> > > Here is the situation:  we have a server that hosts mail for
'@domain1'
> > > and '@domain2'. We have two people by the name of 'Bob' :
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > Now if 'Bob' at domain1 sets up his username and password the same as
> > > the other Bob, even if the domains are different, you will have mail
for
> > > both Bob's being delivered to the same computer, on a
> > > first-come-first-served
> > > basis. Naturally, the other Bob will not be happy about this.
> > >
> > > Is there anyway to set up the system so that both Bobs can have
different
> > > passwords, and that their email gets stored seperately in different
> > > mailboxes,
> > > on the same machine with the same IP address?
> > >
> > > P.S. This IS an RH8 system :)
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Re: shut down problem

[Jason Dale]

Title: RE: shut down problem



I haven't been following this thread, but 'init 0' is what 
I use to 
shutdown my linux servers completely. (If they power back 
on 
by themselves, it might be a setting in your 
BIOS).
 
'init 0' is not as 'graceful' as shutdown, which does 
proper 
housecleaning and allows processes to terminate 
themselves
and their child processes. 'init 6' will reboot your 
machine. 
 
Jason

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  From: 
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  Channon 
  To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:36 
  PM
  Subject: RE: shut down problem
  
  What happens if you 'init 0'? 
  -Channon 
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  Subject: RE: shut down problem 
  dave c wrote: >  
  > try "shutdown -h now" > > See if that does it. > > 
  No luck Dave.  It simply reboots. Any other suggestions. I'm stumped. 
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RPM hangs

[Jason Dale]

Hi all, 

I just used up2date on the Gnome desktop to upgrade my
sendmail packages, but just as the packages were installing, 
up2date froze dead in it's tracks.

Now, when I use the rpm command to query packages, 
it hangs. Even  rpm --rebuilddb does not work, as I suspected
that the RPM package database might be corrupted. 

Any command using the 'rpm' command is liable to produce
the same result. Is there anything I can do?

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Re: RPM hangs

[Jason Dale]

OK ... I found a way to solve the problem.

The  %&@!&#*   up2date program crashed in 
mid-install while I was doing the latest errata 
updates, and in so doing actually *did*
stuff up the Packages database stored in
/var/lib/rpm. (Next time I will backup the 
database before TOUCHING up2date - 
serves me right)

Here is how I solved it :

1) Copy the 'Packages', 'Basenames', and 'Name' files from /var/lib/rpm
 to a different location (These all get modified during the up2date 
 procedure)
2)  Remove the lock files " __db*" in /var/lib/rpm. This step is
  IMPORTANT, otherwise attempting to rebuild the bd will fail

3) Rebuild the indices and perform a database sanity check by running
the following command

#  rpm --rebuilddb -vv

That produced some horrendous amounts of output, but afterwards my
database was fine and I could run package queries and updates again.

Had this failed, I would have spent months rebuilding the database, 
or simply would have had to reinstall the OS.

Jason






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From: "Jason Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:40 AM
Subject: RPM hangs


> Hi all, 
> 
> I just used up2date on the Gnome desktop to upgrade my
> sendmail packages, but just as the packages were installing, 
> up2date froze dead in it's tracks.
> 
> Now, when I use the rpm command to query packages, 
> it hangs. Even  rpm --rebuilddb does not work, as I suspected
> that the RPM package database might be corrupted. 
> 
> Any command using the 'rpm' command is liable to produce
> the same result. Is there anything I can do?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
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Re: RPM hangs

[Jason Dale]

Thanks for the info y'all :)

Micheal, I know the term 'lock files' should be fairly 
obvious, but what exactly do these files 'lock' ? 
where can I find more info on these?

Thanks a stack, 

Jason

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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:11 AM
Subject: Re: RPM hangs


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> > I know this may not be much to add, but I have had this happen to me
> > and a simple reboot solved the problem.  Of course that might make me
> > appear that I'm in the same group as those windoze losers, but
> > hey...just thought I would let you know that worked for me.
> >
> > rpm -rebuilddb wouldn't respond, as well as any other rpm command. 
> > Something magical must be happening to the rpm database at
> > bootup...would be nice to know what it is.
> 
> The magic that happens at boot time is nothing more than removing the 
> stale lock files. "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*" 
> 
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Source RPM's

[Jason Dale]

Hi all, 

If I have been using Binary RPM's, and then switch to source 
RPM's to update my packages on the system, how do I go
about updating the RPM database so that when I run a package
query (rpm -q) I can see the updated version number?

Plain and simple - how do you get source RPM software to show
up when you type the command  'rpm -qa' ?

Thanks, 

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downloading BIG mail folders over 56K

[Jason Dale]

Hi all, 

We have several clients who have dial-up accounts across a WAN 
that point to our Linux servers to send and receive their mail.

What tends to happen is that they don't download their mail regularly, 
and their mail folders start growing to huge sizes. Then they try 
to download all 20+ Megs of their mail over a 56 K connection,
all at once. As you might have guessed, this is like trying to suck a 
golf ball through a garden hose. 

Does anyone know of a utility that can 'break up' a huge mail folder into
seperate messages and store them temporarily somewhere else, and then
send one message at a time to the same account, at set intervals ?

The way I solve it right now is to download the messages onto my PC
across a faster LAN connection, and then manually send them to the 
recipient one by one. I am looking for a tool that can automate much of 
the work involved. Must support Sendmail, and if possible, Exim as well.

Thanks!

Jason



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Re: disk space

[Jason Dale]

1) 'df -m'
 
 This command will show space 
usage per filesystem
 
2)  'du -sh  /directory'
 
  This command will show 
space usage for 'directory', 
   in summary form. To 
get a breakdown of space usage
   for the files 
and directories within that directory, remove the
   's' from the 
command.
 
3)  I am not sure about what you are looking for 
exactly in the way
  of processes running on the 
system, but there are two commands
  you can use:
 
  a)  'top'
 
    
This will show you which processes are running on the system 
    
and what is using up the most resources.
 
  b)   'ps 
-elf'
 
 
This will show all processes running on the system, in long 
  
format, and lists among other things, PID, PPID, terminal, user, 
  
status, etc.
 
 
Jason

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  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  
  Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 3:50 
  AM
  Subject: disk space
  
  Dear,
  How I can check that what amount of disk space is 
  used by Linux OS and application running on it and to what extent hard 
  disk space still vacant.
  thanks!
    

CD Burners

[Jason Dale]

Hi, 

The CD burners that shipped with my RH Linux distro
don't seem to work properly.

Can anyone recommend good CD writing software for 
Red Hat Linux?  something like NERO burning ROM
that you get for Windows?

Thanks!

Jason


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DVD / CD's on RH

[Jason Dale]

Hi, 

I know that this is probably impossible, but is there a way
for me to 'read' or mount a DVD on a normal CD-RW drive?
or at least try to take a snapshot of the data and write
it on a normal CD?

Thanks, 

Jason


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Re: Kill user login session

[Jason Dale]

ps -u "[username]"  will show you all of the processes
owned by the user.

or, if you know what terminal device the user was logged
in at, you can use "ps -t [terminal]"

You will see output that looks similar to this (ps -u): 

  PID TTY  TIME CMD
 1542 ?00:00:00 gnome-session
 1591 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent
 1596 ?00:00:00 gconfd-2
 1598 ?00:00:00 esd
 1607 ?00:00:00 bonobo-activati
 1609 ?00:00:00 gnome-settings-

Find the process ID in the PID column, next to the terminal
number that he was using, and type the command "kill [PID]"

If you are not sure of the terminal that the user was logged
in at, I use a command called 'finger' on my intranet UNIX
machines that shows me idle time as well. If you have finger 
installed, just type in "finger" and look for your user
with the largest idle time. Get the terminal device, and then
do a ps -t on that terminal to get the process ID to kill.

Jason


On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:47, Leonard Miller wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a user session that has been logged in for a couple of days.
> I know the user has logged out, but I can't figure out how to kill
> the session.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Leonard
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Re: Kill user login session

[Jason Dale]

Hi Leonard, 

I am not sure exactly how your user logged out, if he/she
typed 'exit' on the terminal emulator window or whether he/she
just clicked the 'X' button ;)

Logging out properly with 'exit' should take care of all of the user's
processes, unless he or she ran a program in the background that
is looping or in a defunct state. A 'ps -elf | grep Z' should
show you such processes.

If your 'ps -u [username]' simply showed the header line 
"PID  TTYTIMECMD, etc", then that means that as far
as the system is concerned, no processes exist that are
directly owned by the user. Note that the 'ps' command reads
the kernel process table, whereas 'who' reads the 'wtmp' and
'utmp' databases which contain login information. (Look in
/var/run and /var/log). This is why you picked up a 
discrepancy.

That user could have spawned other processes that did not terminate 
when the user's parent processes did. These are sometimes called
'orphaned processes'. This *could* result in the 'finger' showing
you what it did, i.e. a process attached to a terminal that has
been idle for 287 days (287d).

A little digression - there is a daemon process called 'init', which
runs on UNIX-type systems, which is meant to inherit these orphaned
processes, and terminate them. However, this only happens if the process
is running. If a process is defunct, the only way to clear them is to
reboot the system, which you did.

A defunct process is a process that is still occupying a slot in the 
process table, but is not actually running. As such, the 'kill'
command won't work because there is nothing to 'kill'.

One of the list members suggested that you use 'kill -9 [PID]'.
I say that you should not be too liberal with using the -9 option.
Kill -9 cannot be trapped or ignored by any process, and does NOT 
allow the process being killed to do proper "house cleaning" and allow
that process to wait/terminate all of it's children first.
 
A normal "kill [PID]" (Defaults to kill -15) sends a 'SIGTERM' 
to the process, which is a software termination signal that is 
a lot safer to use than kill -9, which you should only use as a last
resort. 

Many administrators use kill -9 all the time, and this is NOT a good 
practice, and can result in many orphaned processes still running or
sleeping on the system, particularly if these processes are waiting for
a specific response from their parents. 

I hope this has helped you!

Jason

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 01:36, Leonard Miller wrote:
> Thanks for the help.  Nothing I tried worked so I just rebooted the
> server.  ps -ef didn't show any processes for the user.  "who" showed
> the login date as Oct 13 but there were no processes with that date.  So
> I just kicked it in the head.
> 
> Thanks again
> Leonard
> 
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> if you type "ps -ef" you will see all the processes running from all
> users.
> If your user is still logged on, look for the shell process id, then you
> can use "kill -9 PID" to kill that process.
> 
> ps -ef
> 
> root 20546  1330  0 10:40 ?00:00:00 [sshd]
> user 20547 20546  0 10:40 pts/000:00:00 -bash
> 
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> 
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viewing/editing files at SMB locations

[Jason Dale]

Hi, 

This is not an RH8 specific question - it's about the 
Nautilus 2.2.1 'explorer' if I may call it that.

I use Linux as my working OS, in place of a Windows 
machine. I use Nautilus to connect to the Windows gateway
on the LAN, where I keep all of my back-ups and documents.
I was able to find the server on the network and access
my folder with my Windows username and password, but I 
notice that I can't actually view or edit the files in-place.
I have to copy them to my local drive, make my changes, 
and then copy them back across. 

It seems as though the various programs I use to view/edit
files, such as Gedit or Vi, are not able to view or access files
at SMB locations. Can anyone recommend a good editor that can
both view and edit text files and RTF files at SMB locations?

Jason


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Re: viewing/editing files at SMB locations

[Jason Dale]

Hi Peter, 

Thanks for the info. I guess it's just me then ;)

I am not familiar with SMB or Samba at all. Could you possibly
give me the guidelines for setting up an smbmount? I am not sure
how the whole process works ...

Thanks

Jason

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:32, Peter Larsen wrote:
> > It seems as though the various programs I use to view/edit
> > files, such as Gedit or Vi, are not able to view or access files
> > at SMB locations. Can anyone recommend a good editor that can
> > both view and edit text files and RTF files at SMB locations?
> 
> Hmmm - I access several windows networks from several of my linux boxes, and
> never saw that problem?  What I do is smbmount the shares I need, and from
> then on, I never think of the data/files being on a windows network, linux
> or anything else. It's just a cd away, and all my programs sees the files as
> "usual".
> 
> Only windows (to my knowledge) has the idea of you needing to specify the
> physical aspect of a resource location. I like the way Unix has done this
> from the get-go - you don't care if your data is on one huge disk, several
> small ones, networked, memory based etc. - they are all part of the same
> logical structure. It's up to the drivers to find out what to do - not the
> application developer/user.
> 
> Best Regards
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Re: viewing/editing files at SMB locations

[Jason Dale]

Thanks again! I got the share to mount with the following 
command (The other one gave errors)

# /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/smbmount  //maxxsrv/maxxess /mnt/smbmnt -o
username=jason,password=jason -u 500 -g 501

I have enabled myself to use root passwords so that I don't have to
su first. 500 and 501 are my UID/GID numbers respectively.
What I find interesting is that even although I specifically state
that the mounted files/directories are to be owned by me, the files
still get owned by root, which means I can read the share but 
can't write to it as a normal user. Is there anyway I can force
the smb filesystem contents to be owned by me once mounted?

B.T.W. This share is a Windows server shared by all of the employees
here. I wanted to be more specific by mounting the share 
..maxxsrv/Staff Directories/Jason, but the smbmount command could
not find that share, and it does exist! I tried quoting "Staff
Directories" and that didn;t work either. I have been at this for over 2
hours now and still no joy. Any suggestions?

Thanks a stack !!
Jason



On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 02:47, Peter Larsen wrote:
> > Thanks for the info. I guess it's just me then ;)
> 
> Well - we all start out knowing little to nothing ;)  Anyway, I guess if you
> expected everything to look like it does in windows, I can see why you might
> get a little confused.
> 
> > I am not familiar with SMB or Samba at all. Could you possibly
> > give me the guidelines for setting up an smbmount? I am not sure
> > how the whole process works ...
> 
> Easiest way is: man smbmount
> If you already know how to use a windows share without using smbmount (ie.
> using smbclient) then it's not much of a difference. Actually, you could
> mount using "mount" instead of smbmount, but smbmount makes it easy to do
> non-root mounts of shares. But it doesn't prevent you from using /etc/fstab
> to specify permanent smb mount points.
> 
> If you don't use PDC functionality, and just have public accessible shares,
> smbmount is straight forward: smbmount //server/share /mnt/point.
> However, if you need to specify usernames etc. you solve that either using
> smbusers or using the -o parameters (which you'll find in the man page).
> 
> Best Regards
>   Peter Larsen
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:32, Peter Larsen wrote:
> > > > It seems as though the various programs I use to view/edit
> > > > files, such as Gedit or Vi, are not able to view or access files
> > > > at SMB locations. Can anyone recommend a good editor that can
> > > > both view and edit text files and RTF files at SMB locations?
> > >
> > > Hmmm - I access several windows networks from several of my linux boxes,
> and
> > > never saw that problem?  What I do is smbmount the shares I need, and
> from
> > > then on, I never think of the data/files being on a windows network,
> linux
> > > or anything else. It's just a cd away, and all my programs sees the
> files as
> > > "usual".
> > >
> > > Only windows (to my knowledge) has the idea of you needing to specify
> the
> > > physical aspect of a resource location. I like the way Unix has done
> this
> > > from the get-go - you don't care if your data is on one huge disk,
> several
> > > small ones, networked, memory based etc. - they are all part of the same
> > > logical structure. It's up to the drivers to find out what to do - not
> the
> > > application developer/user.
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> > >   Peter Larsen


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Re: viewing/editing files at SMB locations

[Jason Dale]

Thanks a stack for all the  help! much appreciated.

The command 

# /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/smbmount //maxxsrv/maxxess /mnt/smbmnt -o
username=jason,password=jason,gid=501,uid=500,fmask=664,dmask=755

worked nicely. The man page for smbmount is wrong, because there
it talks about using -u and -g, which don't work. 

Here is the line I put in my /etc/sudoers file (Type in 'visudo' as
root ) :

%users  ALL=/usr/bin/smbmount,/usr/bin/smbumount,/sbin/fuser,  
NOPASSWD: ALL

I edited /etc/group and added myself to the group 'users'.
The 'fuser'command is useful for killing any processes attached
to the SMB mount when I am tring to un-mount it.

Jason


/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/smbmount  //maxxsrv/maxxess /mnt/smbmnt -o 
> username=jason,password=jason,gid=501,uid=500,fmask=664,dmask=755

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 18:14, H M Kunzmann wrote: 
> > I have enabled myself to use root passwords so that I don't have to
> > su first. 500 and 501 are my UID/GID numbers respectively.
> > What I find interesting is that even although I specifically state
> > that the mounted files/directories are to be owned by me, the files
> > still get owned by root, which means I can read the share but 
> > can't write to it as a normal user. Is there anyway I can force
> > the smb filesystem contents to be owned by me once mounted?
> 
> Try gid and uid.
> You can also use fmask and dmask to set permissions...
> 
> # /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/smbmount  //maxxsrv/maxxess /mnt/smbmnt -o
> username=jason,password=jason,gid=501,uid=500,fmask=664,dmask=755
> 
> > B.T.W. This share is a Windows server shared by all of the employees
> > here. I wanted to be more specific by mounting the share 
> > ..maxxsrv/Staff Directories/Jason, but the smbmount command could
> > not find that share, and it does exist! I tried quoting "Staff
> > Directories" and that didn;t work either. I have been at this for over 2
> > hours now and still no joy. Any suggestions?
> 
> You can't mount ..maxxsrv/Staff Directories/Jason since it's not a
> share, it's a subdirectory of a share. Perhaps you can create the mount
> to the share, and then create a soft link to the subdirectory you want
> to use ?



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Re: viewing/editing files at SMB locations

[Jason Dale]

Hi again, 

I find that myself too, which is why I use 'ps -elf' to
try and pick out which processes where still hanging on to
the SMB mount, because um-mounting tends to be unsuccessful because
the system still thinks the device/mount is in use even when it's not!

Even mounting the SMB share in the file S99local in run-level 5
seems to produce the following process and leaves it in the process
table. Sometimes there is more than one instance of the same thing:

# ps -elf | grep -i smbmnt

1 S root  1466 1  0  84   0-  1171 pause  13:54 ?   
00:00:00 /usr/bin/smbmount //maxxsrv/maxxess /mnt/smbmnt -o username
jason password X gid 501 uid 500 fmask 664 dmask 755


# lsof | grep -i smbmnt 

fam   1616   jason   28r   DIR0,8 4096 3
/mnt/smbmnt/.Trash-jason

The list open files command reports a file called '.Trash-jason', 
and I assume this is why there is a sleeping process attached
to my smbmount command. It might be waiting around for something to
happen to cause it to terminate or do something else. Still looks
pretty suspect though, like the SMB share was mounted successfully
(it did) but the smbmount command did not catch on.

Jason



On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:10, H M Kunzmann wrote:
> > I edited /etc/group and added myself to the group 'users'.
> > The 'fuser'command is useful for killing any processes attached
> > to the SMB mount when I am tring to un-mount it.
> 
> I've found that sometimes, even fuser doesn't point out everything.
> In these circumstances, I've found it useful to use 
> # lsof | grep 
> to get the process id of the process using it.


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Re: viewing/editing files at SMB locations

[Jason Dale]

OK ... I think what I am seeing is normal. The
file '.Trash-jason' is exactly what is says it is - 
a trash or recycle 'bin' if I may call it that. Files
you delete on the share get recorded here and placed in 
your local recycle bin. (That's nifty - my windows 2000 
machine didn't do that!)

A process needs to run in memory in order to make this
happen, but I don't know why such a process would still
be attached to my mount command. Still haven't figured that
one out!

Jay

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 14:07, Jason Dale wrote:
> Hi again, 
> 
> I find that myself too, which is why I use 'ps -elf' to
> try and pick out which processes where still hanging on to
> the SMB mount, because um-mounting tends to be unsuccessful because
> the system still thinks the device/mount is in use even when it's not!
> 
> Even mounting the SMB share in the file S99local in run-level 5
> seems to produce the following process and leaves it in the process
> table. Sometimes there is more than one instance of the same thing:
> 
> # ps -elf | grep -i smbmnt
> 
> 1 S root  1466 1  0  84   0-  1171 pause  13:54 ?   
> 00:00:00 /usr/bin/smbmount //maxxsrv/maxxess /mnt/smbmnt -o username
> jason password X gid 501 uid 500 fmask 664 dmask 755
> 
> 
> # lsof | grep -i smbmnt 
> 
> fam   1616   jason   28r   DIR0,8 4096 3
> /mnt/smbmnt/.Trash-jason
> 
> The list open files command reports a file called '.Trash-jason', 
> and I assume this is why there is a sleeping process attached
> to my smbmount command. It might be waiting around for something to
> happen to cause it to terminate or do something else. Still looks
> pretty suspect though, like the SMB share was mounted successfully
> (it did) but the smbmount command did not catch on.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:10, H M Kunzmann wrote:
> > > I edited /etc/group and added myself to the group 'users'.
> > > The 'fuser'command is useful for killing any processes attached
> > > to the SMB mount when I am tring to un-mount it.
> > 
> > I've found that sometimes, even fuser doesn't point out everything.
> > In these circumstances, I've found it useful to use 
> > # lsof | grep 
> > to get the process id of the process using it.


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[Fwd: Sawfish Windows manager + tarballs]

[Jason Dale]

This message was originally sent to the shrike mailing list, 
(RH9) but I did not get any response.

I would appreciate any input!

Jay


--- Begin Message ---
Hi all, 

I am running Red Hat Linux 9 on an AMD athlon 1.2 Ghz.

I have two questions: 

1) I am battling to find a way to configure the size/appearance of 
   windows in the GNOME desktop, because it often happens that
   I will start a program (For example, the K3B cd burner config 
   window) and the window is too darned huge for me to actually
   get to the bottom where the 'forward', 'back', 'OK', 'cancel'
   etc. buttons are. What's more, in many cases I can't even
   resize the menu windows manually.

   I tried to use the sawfish Windows manager, in 
   'Preferences --> more preferences --> sawfish windows manager'
   [ GNOME desktop ]. However, when I try to open any of the programs
   like Window placement or Window appearance, nothing happens.
   I access the same set of programs from the 'start here' icon on the
   desktop, and the same thing - I try to run the application and 
   nothing happens.

   Any ideas on what could be causing this?

2) Based on 1), I tried upgrading my sawfish package (version 1.2-5)
   and got a tarball package for sawfish-1.3. I ran 
 
   ./configure --enable-capplet , make all , make install in the
   unpacked sawfish directory, according to the README instructions.

   When running an rpm -qa | grep -i sawfish I notice that the system
   still shows version 1.2-5 in the rpmdatabase. How do I install in   
   such a way that the system will also update its RPM database?
   (With source RPM's, one could use rpmbuild to achieve this, but I
am not sure how to get it to work with tarballs)

Thanks a stack, 

Jason
   


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Linux commercial backup solution

[Jason Dale]

Hi, 

I know this is actually an Enterprise Linux 
question, but I am not receiving a response
anywhere else.  

I am looking for an excellent hardware and software
tape backup solution for Red Hat linux that can
be ideal for server specs similar to those below: 

* Compaq 360 G3 (2Gig Memory, 2 * 3GB Processors, 
 2 * 18 GB Disk Drives) 

* Compaq 7000 (1 Gig Memory, 2-4 Processors, RAID-5 
   Hotswappable Disk Bay with up to 9 disk 
   slots.) 

In otherwords, the "best" tape drive (storage size
can vary) combined with the "best" software package that
has the following:

   - An EASY TO USE GUI interface
   - support for most tape drives
   - Highly customizeable: full to incremental backups, 
 promtps users for tapes, etc.
   - Can support backup and restore to and from archives.
   - Can support backups to hard drives local and/or 
 network hard drives and SMB share locations. Must
 be able to restore from these locations

This must be a commercial hardware and software 
recommendation, because we need the support, ease
of use, stability, etc. This stuff will be used on
a platinum mine, and we need a top-notch solution. 
Freeware products don't have support, and they require 
you to be a rocket scientist)

Thanks :)

Jason

 


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Procmail auto-responder

[Jason Dale]

Hi all, 

I would normally use 'vacation' for a job like this, 
but some of our clients don't want anything installed
on their linux servers.

Does anyone have a simple '.procmailrc' file that I can
use to send an auto-response back to all senders, for 
vacation notifications, etc? This saves me from having
to figure out how to write on myself,  as procmail is
not easy to master.

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RE: rpm database corrupt

[Jason Dale]

Try adding the '-vv' flag to the rpm --rebuilddb command. 
The output is more verbose, and that could give you some
useful info if all else fails

Jason

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Sent: 06 December 2003 07:27 PM
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Subject: Re: rpm database corrupt


On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Ross Macintyre wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have a machine that has a corrup RPM database.
> I tried the usual
>   rm var/lib/rpm/__db.00*, then
>   rpm --rebuilddb
> which has worked in the past.
> This time nothing.

If rpm is getting stuck, rather than crashing, that often means some other
process has the database locked. Look for such processes, or even reboot
before removing the __db files. See also
http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/
for further rebuilding hints if necessary.

Michael Young


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RE: Execution of httpd Problem in Root

[Jason Dale]

Have a look inside the log files located in 
/var/log/httpd for starters. That may help 
you trace the exact problem.

Jason





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Subject: Execution of httpd Problem in Root



Dear Team,

The deamon for Apache httpd is not executing for the root user, whereas i
am able to do the same of other users. Any help in this regard is much
appreciated.

Thanks in advance !!!

Thanks

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RE: Red Hat Linux 8 in Dell Machine

[Jason Dale]

If I 
recall correctly, you can 'defer' the installation of the network card 
drivers
and 
deal with that after you have installed the system, even 
although
this 
is not advisable.
 
As far 
as the graphics are concerned, have you tried installing the 
system
in 
text-display mode instead of graphical? you are prompted for 
this
option 
right at the beginning of the installation.
 
Jason

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  curlybracesSent: 08 January 2004 07:02 AMTo: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Red HatSubject: Red Hat Linux 8 in 
  Dell Machine
  hi , 
   
  i have a DELL Optiplex 760L intell pc. 
  
  when i install the Red Hat Linux 8 for that i 
  have some problems.
  it doesn't run the x window ( don't have 
  compatible Video drivers)..!
  it doen't take the ethernet card drivers 
  .!!
   
  so how can i install Linux to this machine ? pls 
  help me 
   
  thank u 

Apache SSL on Red Hat 8

[Jason Dale]

Hi List ,

 
I am running an Apache web server ( httpd-2.0.40-11 
) on Red Hat Linux 8.
I have recently finished configuring name-based 
virtual hosts , and I have recently
noticed that when I restart my machine , apache 
does not seem to start properly.
Here is what is in my boot log : ( The node name of 
the server is blackhawk )
 
 
Dec 17 19:30:30 blackhawk httpd: (98)Address 
already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443Dec 17 
19:30:30 blackhawk httpd: no listening sockets available, shutting downDec 
17 19:30:30 blackhawk httpd_1: httpd startup failed
 
 
When the machine finishes booting , 
the httpd daemon is running and my websites
do work. I am suspecting that the problem has got 
something to do with 'ssl' , perhaps
an erroneous entry in ssl.conf. The 
reason I say this is that when I was migrating
from Apache 1.3 to 2 , I picked up hassles with 
name based hosting and somewhere 
along the line the system started complaining about 
syntax errors with
the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf.  I 
managed to get the name based virtual hosting to
work , and am no longer getting any syntax errors 
with /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf.
However , I am still getting the above errors 
in the log files. I get a *lot* of these errors 
in /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log
 
 
[Tue Dec 17 19:30:33 2002] [warn] RSA server 
certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost.localdomain' does NOT match server 
name!?
 
Does anyone know what could be causing 
this ?
 
Regards , Jason
 
 

Re: Apache SSL on Red Hat 8

[Jason Dale]

Hi Again ,

I could not find any bogus virtual host entries in the httpd.conf file ,
but then again I don't really know what to look for. This mess started
when I tried to figure out how to configure name based virtual hosting.
What would really be nice is if there was an easy front-end to use to
figure all off this stuff out , so that I don't have to go straight into the
httpd.conf code. As an idiot proof solution , would a re-install of
apache help ?

How would I go about regenerating a new certificate ? is there a
command I can use ?

Thanks for your help ,

Regards , Jason

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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: Apache SSL on Red Hat 8


>
> --- Jason Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi List ,
>
> Hi Jason
>
> > Dec 17 19:30:30 blackhawk httpd: (98)Address already
> > in use: make_sock: could not bind to address
> > 0.0.0.0:443
> > Dec 17 19:30:30 blackhawk httpd: no listening
> > sockets available, shutting down
> > Dec 17 19:30:30 blackhawk httpd_1: httpd startup
> > failed
>
> There could be multiple reasons this is occurring. One
> is a wrong directive, as Frank already mentioned.
> Another is that your server is trying to bind to the
> address/port combination twice.
>
> > [Tue Dec 17 19:30:33 2002] [warn] RSA server
> > certificate CommonName (CN) `localhost.localdomain'
> > does NOT match server name!?
>
> You need to generate a new certificate that matches
> the hostname.
>
>
>
> =
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Re: RH8.0

[Jason Dale]

Hi :

You can use the 'up2date' facility within your system to get updates from
Red Hat.
These can be downloaded and installed onto your system. ( You will need to
register
for an account with the Red Hat Network ). This of course does depend on
what types
of bugs you are talking about and which packages they affect.

Regards , Jason


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Subject: RH8.0


>
> Hi guys, just talked to someone who mentioned that he had minor
> problems running RH8.0 and that there have been patches/fixes to correct
> the bugs..
> Can anyone please tell me where I can download the latest version with the
> patches
> already incorporated?  Thanks for your time.
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Re: antivirus software

[Jason Dale]

Hi Kevin

We were looking into using a package called Sophos anti-virus
software , which allegedly runs on Linux as well as Unix. Red
Hat x.x included , from what I am told.

Regards , Jason

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Subject: antivirus software


> I know this has been asked on previous lists with
> previous versions of Red Hat because I looked through
> all the archives. I wanted to know what people are
> using now on psyche (not other versions) of Red Hat.
> This is more or less a survey. so feel free to
> email me off list if you feel this is off topic. I'm
> curious to know the type of AV software people are
> using, the version, and MTA they've integrated with
> and how well it's working. I've never had to worry
> about viruses before since I've always worked for
> companies that have "normal" geeks like myself, who
> run only linux. So now that I'm heading out to another
> company that most likely uses windoze clients, I feel
> I should investigate a little more. Thanks for all
> input provided.
> 
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Re: Red Hat 8 - Instability - AGAIN

[Jason Dale]

I also had a Win98 and Red Hat dual boot environment here at the office.
Never had a hitch really , except for the fact that DOS seemed to treat my
Linux partitions as extended DOS , and when I ran scandisk , that is when
all hell broke loose .

Jason

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> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:11:39 -0300
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > I have to tell you that I love Linux, but sometimes I lose my temper
> > with it. I have dual boot ( RH and Win98 ) and my Win98 is much
> > more stable than RH. They use the same hardware for 3 years (or more),
> > and RH is the only one that hangs !Strange because it suppose be
> > Win98...   :-)))
> 
> Not really.  Win98 seems to be able to run on failing hardware.  I've
> come across plenty of times where win98 will happily run, and crash
> every now and again, or corrupt files every now and again, whereas
> Linux, if I tried to compile something, would throw errors.  Find it
> it's due to a bad stick of ram that has been in the box for a while.  I
> never knew why certain files would get trashed on Windows, but as soon
> as I replaced the ram, everything was happy again.  I think it's because
> Win98 doesn't put enough checksums or whatnot, and doesn't catch
> hardware errors like it should.
> 
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Season's greetings to all

[Jason Dale]

Hello
 
On Behalf of myself and my family , may you all have a 
merry Christmas
and a happy new year !
 
Regards , Jason Dale

DOS vs Linux format

[Jason Dale]

Hi :

Does anyone know of a command set that can be used to convert
Linux format files into DOS/Windows format , and visa versa ?
On UnixWare 7 there were commands called 'dtox' and 'xtod' , 
but I cannot find the equivalent commands on Linux

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Sendmail on RH8

[Jason Dale]

Hi All:
 
Question #1
 
I am in the process of transferring mail server 
functionality to
my new RH 8 machine , and everything seems to be 
working
just fine. However , I need to find a way to 'test' the 
new mail 
server , without changing the MX record's IP address on 
our
ISP's DNS servers. Is there a command I can use in 
Linux 
to send a mail message from one 
Linux server to a specific
account on another Linux server , referenced by IP 
address
rather than by DNS lookup ? bear in mind that both of 
these
Linux servers are on the same LAN
 
Question #2
 
Sendmail queues all of it's incoming mail for an account 
into
one large account file in /var/spool/mail. Is there a way 
I can break these large files down into 
smaller message sized chunks so that
they can be delivered to their recipients' computers 

individually ? ( naturally , the user must be logged on 
and must
be requesting mail from the server )
 
Regards , Jason  

wvdial and mail access

[Jason Dale]

Hi all :
 
I have been searching for documentation for how to 
configure
a Red Hat Linux server to dial-out to a MAIL server. I 
found
a program called 'wvdial' , but it seems as though this 
deals with
modem connections to your ISP.
 
Could I use a program like weavedial ( Wvdial ) to 

configure a dial-out to another mail server , which is 

incidently also Red Hat ?
 
I *know* this is a RH 8 mailing list , but the distro I 
want to do 
the configuration on is actually Red Hat 7.2
 
Thanks a ton , 
 
Jason 

Re: wvdial and mail access

[Jason Dale]

What I have is a simple no-nonsense PPP connection
using an already configured external modem , with an already
configured 'chat' program. Basically I have a Windows LAN with
workstations that connect over a LAN to the Linux Server , and then
the Linux server uses an external modem attached to one of it's COMM
ports to dial-out to a Telephone number , with a username and password.
Once a successful connection has been made , all of the Windows users
have internet access.

All I need to do is change the telephone number and account information
that the Chat program uses to establish the dial-up connection , because
the ISP's have changed.  I just don't know where the 'Chat' program
keeps this information , and what I need to do once I have found this
file and changed all of the necessary details. The other thing I want to try
and do is to set up this machine to only dial the ISP on demand , and then
to drop the connection automatically when it sits idle for a certain amount
of time.

The reason I asked about the 'wvdial' is that it seemed easier to configure
,
in which case I would have rebuilt the configuration on the RH 7.2 server
from scratch , but the LATEST development is that I must use the Chat
program.
There is no wvdial installed , and I am not allowed to install new software.
The new ISP will redirect mail requests to the RH 7.2 server , so the only
thing
I need to worry about is how to change the Chat program's account info

Apologies for the confusion.

- Original Message -
From: "Neil Bird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: wvdial and mail access


> Around about 13/01/2003 09:24, Jason Dale typed ...
> > I have been searching for documentation for how to configure
> > a Red Hat Linux server to dial-out to a MAIL server. I found
> > a program called 'wvdial' , but it seems as though this deals with
> > modem connections to your ISP.
>
>Not sure what you're trying to do - do you want a Net connection, use
> a LAN to get mail, or what?
>
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RHCE and RHCT

[Jason Dale]

Hi all :
 
I don't want to remain a Linux nitwit for the rest of my 
life , so I am
looking at getting RHCE certified , perhaps using RHCT as 
a 
springboard. I don't have the money right now to afford 
the 
expensive tuition fees , so I am looking for a Red Hat 8 
book
to buy that I can use to develop a high degree of 'real 
world' 
competency in Linux , an can also 
be used to effectively prepare
for the RH exams.
 
My problem is that most of these 'highly recommended' 
books seem to focus on graphical desktops rather than on 
the good 
old-fashioned command line. They also seem to 

assume that Linux machines are all installed the same way 
with the same packages.  A classic example 
is an old 
RHCE Sybex book I have that yarns on about the 'Linuxconf' 

tool for configuring network cards 
, when most of my clients' 
machines out there don't even have Linuxconf installed 
because it is not a default 
package. 
 
What I need is a complete Red Hat 8 book that shows you 
how to 
solve real world problems and how to perform the same 
relevant 
tasks on the command line by 
editing files as well as how to use 
the GUI. I need a book that does 
not assume that I am already 
a Linux genius and that I should know what to do with 
a tarball 
installation once I have unzipped 
all of the files.
 
Out of all the people on this list that have forked out 
their hard earned
cash to kill another tree for furthering their education , 
can any of you
recommend a Red Hat Linux book or range of books that I can purchase 
that teaches both command line and 'GUI' Linux from 
scratch , and takes 
you right up to guru level in an 
orderly and sequential fashion ?
( An ebook or an ecourse would also be useful 
)
 
Regards , Jason