Re: disk partition
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Mike Vanecek wrote: > I guess one could always go with a 500MB /boot, a 1 GB sway, and whatever is > left over goes to /. The suggestion that separate partitions are need to > protect from run-away programs, security, and so on may be valid. However, > guessing the incorrect size of a partition could cause more of a problem? > > Please set me straight if doing such a simple partition is really a potential > exposure to security. The thing is, security is never an absolute. Protecting such directories as /var is good. Making /home a seperate partition ensures a rogue, or careless, user from bringing down the system. With the right partition setup you can make all your system directories such as /bin /sbin, /usr as read-only. It depends on how paranoid you are. It is not just about security either. Having /home, /usr/local, /root, /mnt, and /opt as their own partitions means I can unmount all of them and do an operating system install/upgrade or what have you and not endanger any local data. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: RH8.0 on Dell Dimension 4300S - Linux compatible??
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, John Nall wrote: > OK. Did that, and one problem has to do with the modem, which I have now > ascertained to be a WinModem (Conexant HCF) and I know those don't work on > Linux, or at least not without some extra effort. So the modem is put > aside for now (may come back to it and investigate what is available to > make it a LinModem later). For conexant modem drivers try this link: http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv/index.html There is a wealth of material there for both HCF and HSF Conexant modems. It includes source and binary RPMs and documentation. The .src.rpm can be rebuilt for RedHat 8.0; I use it on my laptop for a Conexant HSF modem. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Installing rpm's and dependants from web
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Nick Urbanik wrote: > Neil Marjoram wrote: > > > I am having trouble tracking down information on installing RPM's from > > the web. > > > > Somewhere in the not to distant past I came across a method of > > installing a package from a web source, and if the package had > > dependants it would also install these automatically for you. > > > > Alas my brain has discarded this information, can anyone shed light on > > how to do this? Actually, if you read the rpm manual page you will find that rpm has internal ftp and http support. You can install a package from the web by simply doing an rpm -Uvh http://www.somewhere.com/path/to/package.rpm -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: printer setup
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Kevin Waterson wrote: > What tools are available for setting up printers from a terminal? redhat-config-printer-tui works well for me. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: after upgrading how do I??
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Rigoberto de la Cruz wrote: > after upgradig how do I erase the other kernels I do > not need anymor? including the source files?? or this > is not advisable (sp?) ?? You remove kernel rpms the same way you remove other rpms. rpm -e kernel-2.4.18-14.8.0 for example. Make sure you operate with the new one for awhile before getting rid of the old one though. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
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. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Lilo and mounted boot partition
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: > Dear list readers - > > I have a question, one which I have never really done or thought of doing > before, though I am sure there is some way to do it. Where I am at is as > follows, I have a server with a "cloned" disk that I have mounted > temporarily so that I can work on it and make some tweaks before throwing it > into another machine as its primary drive. What I am trying to do, and not > sure I can, is to fix the boot partition on the temp mounted drive. So I > have 2 disks currently mounted, primary disk with the normal boot and root > partitions, and a clone of that disk. I want to run lilo -v on the CLONE, > but not disturb the primary disk and its boot sector. Is there any way to > accomplish this and modify the CLONE boot sector with lilo?? I thought > something along the lines of the following: If the second disk is truly a cloned disk there is a simpler way. Assuming the cloned disk is mounted (for example) at /mnt/disk you could do a chroot /mnt/disk. You can do your tweaks either before or after this if making the tweaks doesn't depend on having the original disk around. Your lilo commands and such will operate on the new root. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Recovering a Damaged RH 8.0 System
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Robert Styma wrote: > After recharging the battery, the machine would not > boot. After digging around after booting with the CD, > we found the problem was the soft links in /lib were > corrupted. The link contents were corrupted differently > on each link, but letters were changed. For example, > on many links, the 'i' in lib was changed to a ')'. > The 's' in .so was often changed to a '3'. > > Telling the CD to upgrade the system does no good because > the check against the RPM files says nothing needs to be > changed and nothing gets done. So we are going through > the links and fixing them one at a time. > > Has anyone seen this before? > > Is there any automated way to recover this without wiping > out the partitions? After booting from the CD, run fsck manually on the partition in question, forcing a check. After you come up with a clean partition, try using the command line from the CD to mount the partition as root. If you can do this, you can do an rpm -Va to check packages. Given the problems rpm has had on 8.0 I would probably delete the __* files from /var/lib/rpm and rebuilddb also. At this point you can reinstall any of the suspect packages and you are back in business. If you can't mount the affected partition as root, you are probably forced to reinstall and restore data from backup. You DO have a backup, right? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Installing RH8.0
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:04:49PM -0600, John Weber wrote: > > I was able to install Psyche on an Athlon 233 with 64 MB Ram without X > > and it seems to run fine. I tried graphic install, but it would always > > lock up part way through the install. Text mode seemed to work fine, but > > Perhaps you need to re-read the MINIMUM requirements: > http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ > 128MB for graphics mode - 64MB for text. How is it I am able to install and run on a machine with only 64MB?
Re: Installing RH8.0
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, M A Young wrote: > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Thomas Molina wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > > > Perhaps you need to re-read the MINIMUM requirements: > > > http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ > > > 128MB for graphics mode - 64MB for text. > > > > How is it I am able to install and run on a machine with only 64MB? > > They don't say it won't work with so little memory, but presumably they > consider performance deterioration due to extra swapping to be > unacceptable, particularly with a minimum spec processor as well. Then it shouldn't be called a "requirement" or be labeled as a "minimum". Saying minimum and requirement says to me that the thing won't work without it. That is what "reccommended" tells me; it should be the difference between won't work and works comfortably. This is all mental gum-flapping anyway. The processor is an Athlon 900, so it is not a minimum spec processor. I have a development system and a production system. The one I tested 8.0 on was from a bunch of parts sitting in the corner. It was intended to be little more than providing a serial console on which the development machine could log messages. It doesn't even have a keyboard or monitor attached in normal use. Mostly I'll be telnetting in. Since I've never had to do it, I need to find the HOWTOs in order to figure out how to do the serial console and export my X session to another machine on the same network.
Re: recompile kernel 2.2.18-3
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Ha Tu wrote: > Thank you very much > > By the way, I have another question. > where is the Ncurses library ? > While trying "make menuconfig", I received message: You need to install the ncurses-devel rpm. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: internet connection
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Eric Potvin wrote: > What settings should I check to solve this problem?? > When I was using 7.3, it connected easily, never had anything to do, does > 8.0 do something different?? If it worked automaticaly in 7.3, it shouldn't be a problem with 8.0. >From the description of your problem it sounds as if the gateway device isn't getting handled correctly. Check the output of route -n to see what your system thinks is the gateway. Can you show us: route -n ifconfig ps axww|grep dhc cat /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 dmesg|grep eth There ought to be something in there to work with -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: internet connection
On 20 Nov 2002, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:13, Eric Potvin wrote: > > Here are all the answers to the commands shown earlier. > > I notice that there is no Gateway in "route" and this might possibly be a > > DNS problem. > > Whatever you guys can make of this is greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Eric > > > > > > route -n > > > > Kernel IP routing table > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > > Iface > > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 > > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo > > route add default gw 192.168.1.1 > > (i've not followed the thread, but assume that's the IP of your router) That should establish the gateway. The thing which is puzzling to me is why dhcp isn't establishing that as part of the lease establishment. It almost looks as if the dhcp process is failing and we just aren't noticing. I say that because the default DLink dhcp range is 100-150, whereas he is gettting a 192.168.1.3 address. Eric, you should be able to add the line: GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 to your ifcfg-eth0 file and have it work right. I'm not sure why the NETWORK=192.168.1.0 line is there. I would take that out also. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: D-Link AirPro support (was Re: PC Card problems.)
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Brett Russ wrote: > Anyway, I called D-Link and asked about Linux support. They told me > that in order to get internal specs for driver development I would need > to submit a request on behalf of a company sponsored development > project. I guess the key was it had to be on company letterhead. I > have lots of that where I work and I assume most anyone can get their > hands on some so it seems like a silly requirement. I don't understand > why they would stand in the way of someone who wanted to extend the > market for their product. It isn't like they are ever going to support > it for Linux so yield to the developers. > > So I am considering selling the card on ebay and getting an orinoco gold. I've been watching this wireless thread without comment thus far. Please allow me to reccommend SMC equipment. I'm using an SMC2632W wireless adapter, and have been for some time now. It just works. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: A thought about psyche
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > Red Hat expicitly claims 8.0 to be a desktop for the enterprise. Almost > > nothing you mention above has to do with a work environment unless > > you're a programmer. In which case you can easily configure it to work. > > In fact, it might be a plus for average workers to not be able to "fool > > around" on their PC at work. > > while i'm not upset that red hat doesn't support proprietary features, > even desktops for the enterprise will typically need to browse web sites > that, sadly, incorporate flash, etc. > > i think that says more about how badly designed web sites are than > the current omissions in red hat 8.0. Enterprise desktops will be supported by an Enterprise IT shop who will do the configuring and distribution of the supported configuration. NO OS, not even that proprietary so-called Enterprise network OS, can be installed unchanged out of the box. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: newbie having problems editing files
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, David Mascot wrote: > As an example to my editing problems, > the following is a file I think I should > have access to but I can't seem to get in. > > [dmascot@localhost dmascot]$ su > Password: > [root@localhost dmascot]# /etc/fonts/fonts.conf > bash: /etc/fonts/fonts.conf: Permission denied > [root@localhost dmascot]# The above line will attempt to execute the file, not edit it. The file does not have execute permissions set; even root cannot execute a file which does not have execute bits set. Root can read and write to a file which has 000 permissions, but cannot execute it. Try: vi /etc/fonts/fonts.conf after you have su'd to root. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Unremovable File
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, LaJchon McRight wrote: > I am trying to reinstall kernel-pcmcia-cs. I was able to remove the rpm > package but when I reinstall it I am unable to replace /sbin/cardctl. I > check the permissions and the user and group permissions aren't root but > a bunch of numbers. > > My question is how do I remove a file that does not have root > permissions. I've tried su with not success. Sounds like your file permissions got scrambled and the file may have the immutable bit set. As root do the following to clear the file and make it deletable: chattr -i man chattr for a discussion of file attributes. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Unremovable File
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, LaJchon McRight wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. Gave chattr a try but still unable to delete > the file. Is there any other possible way to delete a file when the > permissions have ben scrambled? I've not heard that before. What does ls -l show? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Unremovable File
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, LaJchon McRight wrote: > I tried changing with chmod. I'm logged in as root and it still gives > me Operation not permitted when I try anything on this file. > The inode looks severely bollixed. If chattr doesn't allow you to remove it I don't know what to say. The only other suggestion I would have is try booting from disk one and running fsck on the unmounted partition. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
