Re: OT Linux in general

2003-04-01 Thread Ed Wilts
prise Linux and you'll get a 12-18 month release cycle that's specifically targetted towards stable (i.e. non-bleeding edge) environments. You can have stable or you can have bleeding-edge. You can't have both. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1,

Re: how to activate telnet

2003-04-01 Thread Ed Wilts
ou look at your /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow files? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: RHN Network

2003-03-31 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 07:51:41AM -0800, Marcie Laux wrote: > Has anyone been able to log in to start the 9.0 ISO downloads? My transfers started but have since timed out. The RHN is performing so badly I can't even get see if Red Hat has released a sendmail patch yet. -- Ed Wilts

Re: able to d/l redhat 9.0?

2003-03-31 Thread Ed Wilts
list. Please move them to redhat-list or shrike-list. For access to the shrike list, visit: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list

Re: RH Folks -- A Entitlement Wish

2003-03-30 Thread Ed Wilts
with the complaints they'd get. Given the complaining I've seen just from numbering a release 9 instead of 8.1, I can't begin to fathom the complaining they'd get the first time somebody tried to update a trivial package from rawhide and left their system totally unusable. --

Re: RH 9 - new glibc

2003-03-29 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 09:54:38AM +1000, Kevin Waterson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, > Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Myth. Did you upgrade from NT4 to Win2K for free? How about from 2K to > > XP? Lucky you - they gave you that for free t

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-29 Thread Ed Wilts
upported for at least 12 months from their date of release. 8.0 will have been supported for well over a year. Red Hat simply can not afford to keep doing the work to patch operating systems that were released 3 years ago and not receive any revenue from them. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA m

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-29 Thread Ed Wilts
x27;re running non-Red Hat packages on your systems, then you should test before you do a large rollout. I have not heard of any Red Hat supplied package breaking due to the glibc security update. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador

Re: RH 9.0 - changelog?

2003-03-29 Thread Ed Wilts
dn't you? As a respected Unix guru, I would have expected you would have found the issues after patching the first one, not 10 systems later. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-29 Thread Ed Wilts
s of their software that run natively > in X. They do that. They're got some big companies certifying on Red Hat Linux. Think BEA, Oracle, and many others. There are only so many resources they can throw at the problem. Would you rather they hire lobbyists or developers? -- Ed Wilt

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-29 Thread Ed Wilts
t that RH > simply cannot be made secure. They're full of it. Oracle runs their internal business on Linux. Amazon runs their internal and external business on Linux. Do you think that Amazon would be crazy enough to put up an OS that can't be made secure? -- Ed Wilts, Mound

Re: Red Hat 9 -- April 7th -- Price & Compatibility?

2003-03-29 Thread Ed Wilts
Sigh.) Feel free to download Red Hat Linux 9 for free if you don't think you are getting value for the retail version. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.r

Re: RH 9 - new glibc

2003-03-29 Thread Ed Wilts
terprise Linux ES for my servers. For my home system, I'll be running Red Hat Linux 9 (7.1 on one system currently, and 9 on the system I'm in the process of setting up). Enterprise Linux is not appropriate for my home system. I'd like to run it for sure, but I can't justif

Re: RH 9 - new glibc

2003-03-29 Thread Ed Wilts
er Linux distro > is using it or planning on it. That in itself breaks compatibility and > the products usefulness. For your application, AW is the right tool (or at least one of the right tools). NPTL is not in AW. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1

Re: RH 9.0 - changelog?

2003-03-27 Thread Ed Wilts
log from every individual package when they've been uploaded. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
you > can be offering updates to the Enterprise line, without making > the source available. Perhaps I am missing something bleeding > obvious here. The obvious part is that the source code is currently available. It does not have to be made available to everyone in the future - just to t

Re: RedHat 9

2003-03-26 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:00:05AM -0500, David Yates wrote: > Doesa anyone know if RedHat 9 breaks all of my old Loki games, unreal > tournament/2003, and quake3? How can we? Red Hat Linux 9 hasn't been released yet! Why don't you ask again in a couple of weeks? -- Ed Wilts,

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
We simply grab the 6.2 srpm and recompile it for the 6.1 system. Next month, I suspect that I can take a 7.x srpm for a security update, do an rpm --rebuild, and I'll be off to the races. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Pr

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
nd web-based support. If you need assistance setting up a desktop, this could save you a bunch. The standard edition includes both phone and web support with service level guarantees and extends this for the entire year. Microsoft support costs $245 for phone support *per incident*. -- Ed

Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
ple that claim it works flawlessly, and lots from people that say it breaks a lot of things. I'd suggest that no matter which approach you do, get a good, restorable backup first. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-25 Thread Ed Wilts
t postings about this. Hang on until after 9 is out for the formal announcement but rest assured that Red Hat is not out to screw the RHCEs (nor could they really afford to!). -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:09:03PM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > Can you please point me to where it says RH 8.0 supports goes at the > end of year? http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Amba

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
you guessing again, like you probably guessed that this would be called 8.1? BTW, I have no more info on this numbering scheme than you do - I'm just saying that it's Red Hat's decision and they know more about marketing than I do. They also have more to gain or lose. -- Ed Wilts,

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
xt version was going to be 8.1 was wrong. That's why we talk about things like Phoebe and not 8.1. http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rh9iso/ -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
ar. You should start planning a version 9 rollout soon (it will be publicly available in early April). Personally, I'm going to be migrating my production systems to Enterprise Edge Server to get the longer lifecycle for security errata. To review the RHN choices, see http://www.redhat.com/sof

Re: Outbound emails

2003-03-17 Thread Ed Wilts
our MTA is and somebody familiar with that one will hopefully let you know how it's done. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Maillog GONE!

2003-03-13 Thread Ed Wilts
bet that your mail records are still in your old renamed file too. Since the file was open at the time, new records probably got written there after you renamed the file. You may also want to consider changing the logrotate interval for your logs. On our big mail servers, we rotate and compress d

Re: support for hyperthreading?

2003-03-11 Thread Ed Wilts
se. For Windows XP, HT is "fully aware" and counts the logical cpus different than physical cpus. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: FTP Error/exit codes

2003-03-11 Thread Ed Wilts
sort of > index containing a list of these codes, and what they mean, > preferably for each type of program? Unfortunately, there's no standard on where, if at all, they're documented. You could, of course, install the source, and look there for some sort of hint. .../Ed -

Re: hosts.allow/deny

2003-03-10 Thread Ed Wilts
detected an unauthorised connection attempt\ from %h %a to %d at `date`|tee -a /var/log/secure|mail -s 'Unauthorized \ Connection attempt' root -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [E

Re: Michael Schwendt

2003-03-09 Thread Ed Wilts
ne on this list, he's got a few extra clues and you're a few clues short. Everybody give it up will you? .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: curl

2003-03-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:16:55PM +0200, Marek wrote: > Do any special ports have to be open to use curl over https ? > > I manage to download 4.1K and then it stops. If you're downloading at all, then the required ports are open. A closed port lets nothing through. -- Ed Wilt

Re: Advise on setting up HTTPS for only one virtual host

2003-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
sion until you know the name, and you don't know the name until you know decrypt the headers. The key you need to decrypt is virtual-host specific. > Any advise or comments are welcome. You're dead. You simply can't use https with named-based virtual hosts. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds

Re: What is best method on RH for getting *new* versions of installed software

2003-02-26 Thread Ed Wilts
some (many?) cases you can grab the source rpm and rebuild it for your 7.3 system. I've used this approach to get 7.3 packages onto 6.2. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Logcheck ignores logcheck.violations.ignore file

2003-02-22 Thread Ed Wilts
eed to add entries to violations.ignore is if you're trying to match an entry that's in violations. violations are for security violations, not unusual events. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-lis

Re: how to forbid someone to do an ftp outside of my network?

2003-02-19 Thread Ed Wilts
destination address, proxy both http and ftp (and other protocols), cache results, etc. The home page for squid is at http://www.squid-cache.org/ -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: how to forbid someone to do an ftp outside of my network?

2003-02-19 Thread Ed Wilts
used for this. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: loading modules

2003-02-17 Thread Ed Wilts
t; > insmod usb-uhci >[it works] Try adding this to modules.conf: alias usb-controller usb-uhci -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Transferring updates across local network

2003-02-16 Thread Ed Wilts
ld happen if I went to a local store to buy the latest version twice per year. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: RH8.0 on Dell Dimension 4300S - Linux compatible??

2003-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
#x27;d be surprised if it's no longer supported. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
awsuits being filed, and many, if not most, aren't even upheld. Relax, and keep using Linux for your personal enjoyment. .../Ed p.s. I'm not a lawyer either. If I was worrying about at the office, I'd get the lawyers involved, but I'm not. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View

Re: Pushing updates ?

2003-02-12 Thread Ed Wilts
her solutions, but these are all supported and will work. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: SIOCADDRT (network)

2003-02-12 Thread Ed Wilts
lowed any of the suggestions? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: opening a cpio file in windows .

2003-02-08 Thread Ed Wilts
ill be useful links. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: rawhide

2003-02-07 Thread Ed Wilts
ux if there wasn't some risk involved. ;-)) These releases will be available from ftp.redhat.com:/pub/rawhide. A list of Raw Hide mirrors will be available as such mirrors come online. Enjoy! -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Amba

Re: OpenSSL 0.9.7 on Redhat 8.0

2003-02-07 Thread Ed Wilts
tall it. I've done it with a few packages (mailman, zip, etc) and have had good success. If the package won't rebuild, then look at other options. Forcing the install usually will not work if the rebuild didn't. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1,

Re: disk partition

2003-02-06 Thread Ed Wilts
n a bind if you ever upgrade your memory later, so just go with a GB to start and forget about it. With disks so big these days, the rules are changing. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [E

Re: disk partition

2003-02-06 Thread Ed Wilts
take all the defaults for partitioning during install, you'll get Red Hat's "rules of thumb". -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: RH vs Other Distributions

2003-02-05 Thread Ed Wilts
Are you a developer that needs to develop and test code for common distributions? Or are you running a small DNS/web/mail server at home? -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Load balancing

2003-02-03 Thread Ed Wilts
ore complex solutions, check out the Linux High Availability project at http://www.linux-ha.org/ -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: sudo and globbing

2003-02-03 Thread Ed Wilts
ntax would be: sudo sh -c "ls /root/inst*" This is somewhat documented in the sudo man pages in the EXAMPLES section. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman

Re: Apache and perl

2003-01-29 Thread Ed Wilts
dit or JUST the httpd.conf edit. It's an rpm, and the simplest method is: # up2date mod_perl -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: sendmail again....

2003-01-29 Thread Ed Wilts
; case, it looks as though the MAILTO varaible for this cronjob is NOT set > properly. i.e. the trailing \@? > > In short... fix your cronjob script. Agreed. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list ma

Re: Support Changes

2003-01-28 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:06:11PM -0500, Buck wrote: > > I personally like the idea that 8.0 can be upgraded to 8.1 in an up2date > session. Where did you find this documented? a) That's never been supported in any previous release combination b) 8.1 has not yet been re

Re: Version questions

2003-01-21 Thread Ed Wilts
that specializes in questions > about installation. Is it better to submit my questions about > installation to that list or this list? This one will most likely suffice. Try to stump us and then make up your mind :=) .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EM

Re: Source code location

2003-01-21 Thread Ed Wilts
installed, but all the source RPMs are on your source CDs, ready to go. Once they're installed, they'll be in the /usr/src/linux directory (the default), or wherever you've installed them. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red

Re: Package Manager

2003-01-20 Thread Ed Wilts
ointed in the right direction. up2date can be used to add packages as well as update them. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: RAID LargeDisks and UATA Serious Problems

2003-01-17 Thread Ed Wilts
can confirm that this could represent a bandwith problem? Even if you have a bandwidth problem, you should not have corruption. At worst you should slow down, not corrupt data unless you have have a faulty motherboard or controller. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Me

Re: HowTo Install X afther a server type installation

2003-01-17 Thread Ed Wilts
e same, but a hard-drive failed and so a fresh install was > required. You can solve the dependencies more easily by using up2date. Pick a package that has lots of dependencies and install it first. up2date should bring in all the pieces it needs, including X and the gnome libraries. Something like

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-12 Thread Ed Wilts
performance (like the Network Appliance NearStore). -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: 2 questions

2003-01-09 Thread Ed Wilts
e file? > > less?? if so, then it's a pain to go thru each > > message. > Iirc mbox is a pretty standard mailer format so you should be able to > read them properly. I know you can read them with Eurora on Windows and > probably on several mail apps on Linux. I thin

Re: Stupid question??

2003-01-09 Thread Ed Wilts
led to the user's manual at: http://www.monitor.support.hp.com/monitorsupport/level4/142mmb134en.pdf The specs are on page 10 (Acrobat Reader thinks it's page 12). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyc

Re: Space

2003-01-09 Thread Ed Wilts
. Are you getting a device full error in Windows or are you really out of memory? If you're out of memory, your only realistic option is to buy more memory - adding more disk space won't help you. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Commu

Re: Rpmbuild question

2003-01-07 Thread Ed Wilts
27;re in /usr/src/redhat. When you install the source rpm, it will be in your own sub-directory. Ditto when you build it and the final rpm ready to be installed will be in ~/rpm/RPMS/ Cheers, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community A

Re: ntpd problems

2003-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
ronize my Linux server at home to 3 systems (all area universities) and then synchronize my other home systems to my Linux server. The fewer the systems you can synchronize to, the better, unless you have a very good reason for being paranoid (at work, we've also bought our own stratum 1 tim

Re: Limit user to use only home folder

2003-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
customers should be able to determine my user names. With wu-ftpd, they don't know. With sftp, they can simply grab the passwd file and will have a head start in cracking my system. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program --

Re: Limit user to use only home folder

2003-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:27:58PM -, Remus wrote: > Can I connect to wu-ftpd over ssh? Not really. There is a secure FTP mode (TLS) but it has a bunch of restrictions related to the FTP protocol and the way ports are managed. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Limit user to use only home folder

2003-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
gt; > Hi folks, > > > > > > Is it possible to limit user to use only /home/user folder? > > > > > > Remus > > > > what do you want to keep them from doing? > > > > Kent Nyberg. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: anoconda

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:07:13PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:03:34PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:49:39PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > fsck will test your disk for bad blocks and allow you to map them out. > > &

Re: anoconda

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:49:39PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > fsck will test your disk for bad blocks and allow you to map them out. Really? Which option in fsck? fsck is normally used to check and repair file systems, and this isn't a file system issue. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts

Re: anoconda

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:11:36PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:06:39 -0600 > Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Secondly, you don't really want to mark out bad blocks, you want to > > replace the drive. I have yet to see a drive that

Re: FTP Client - apparent bug

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Wilts
n report it to https://bugzilla.redhat.com. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: anoconda

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Wilts
ad blocks marked - all have been indicative of a pending hard failure, and I've been mananging systems for 20+ years. If you really, really want to use your failing drive, look at the badblocks command to do the surface scan. man badblocks for more info. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mo

Re: Adding an 80G Seagate IDE drive....

2002-12-29 Thread Ed Wilts
ler and in the other it's a Promise RAID controller. On the SCSI system, I've booted from floppy, CD, IDE disk, and SCSI disk and never had issues. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing

Re: Lost files...can they be recovered?

2002-12-27 Thread Ed Wilts
eil and then look in /mnt/neil again. Move the files somewhere else, and the remount /mnt/neil and move the files to where they should have gone. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Psyche is not rapid, why???

2002-12-17 Thread Ed Wilts
e services: ssh, X, cron, kuzku. Simply put, you're not meeting the recommended configuration. The *minimum* for X is 128MB and the recommended is 192MB. You've just found out why Red Hat made the recommendation. Turn X off until you can install more memory. .../Ed -- Ed Wi

Re: Virtual PC

2002-12-02 Thread Ed Wilts
nse since it only provides the environment (up to the BIOS) and not the client OS. The client OS can be Windows (most of them I think, including XP) as well as other x86 operating systems (like Linux, FreeBSD, etc.). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1

Re: error: no acceptable cc in $PATH (plus other errors) Help!

2002-11-29 Thread Ed Wilts
ating wrote: > > On Friday 29 November 2002 09:56, Shizznik McRuube uttered: > > > libgcc-3.2-7 > > > > > > Is that correct? > > > > No. you need "gcc" installed. up2date gcc -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Seeing who is logged in through ftp and ssh

2002-11-26 Thread Ed Wilts
. wu-ftpd, on the other hand, logs every transfer and transfer attempt. Why people insist on stating that sftp is more secure than ftpd is beyond me. There's a heck of a lot more to security than just passing along a password in clear text (which in the vast majority of installations is not

Re: Seeing who is logged in through ftp and ssh

2002-11-26 Thread Ed Wilts
cess file (in wu-ftpd). With sftp, it's a free-for-all. In very practical terms, the odds of anybody being able to sniff passwords these days is very slim. The odds of somebody grabbing your passwd file if they've got sftp access to your system are much larger. .../Ed -- Ed Wil

Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Ed Wilts
login time, then he can do so. Nobody is forcing anybody to accept the default paths - they're just defaults that work well for most people. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Pros Only! RH8.0 and PHP Bug. Might have found the problem.

2002-11-22 Thread Ed Wilts
> binary. (this is a bug, it is programmed to look in /usr/sbin and a few other places >too, but the > correct code isn't being genereated) In which case the easy fix seems to be to: # export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin and then re-run the build script. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

Re: Suggestions for increasing speed on an older (but not ancient) machine.

2002-11-21 Thread Ed Wilts
er job of memory management than 98 does. So definitely yes, more memory does help and is recommended as per the Red Hat documentation above. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: yp cyclic rpm dependency - portmap uninstall script errors

2002-11-19 Thread Ed Wilts
all at once and look at the dependencies between themselves. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: hard drive recovery (was can't start kde)

2002-11-15 Thread Ed Wilts
copy the individual files over. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: linux software-ultimate insult

2002-11-15 Thread Ed Wilts
e may be potential for trademark violations. I seem to recall previous lawsuits around issues like this. Complain to Google and see what happens. You're just preaching to the choir here. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community

Re: up2date question

2002-11-14 Thread Ed Wilts
p; rm -f $EXCL echo -n "pkgSkipList=$LIST" > $EXCL # Build a list of Ximian packages to exclude as well rpm -qa | grep -- -ximian | sed -e 's/-[0-9].*//' | while read pkg do echo -n "$pkg;" >> $EXCL done echo "" >> $EXCL mv -f $CONF $CON

Re: rebuild /var/lib/rpm/Packages ?

2002-11-14 Thread Ed Wilts
other hard drive (and they're relatively dirt cheap these days) you could have restored in seconds instead of having to re-install. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Lowering CPU Speed To Avoid Memory Errors

2002-11-12 Thread Ed Wilts
? Yup. That's *after* you find what forced you to slow the system down in the first place. If you've got bad memory, then you need to solve that problem first. You may have just temporarily masked the problem and it will bite you later. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, M

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread Ed Wilts
x27;ll have one less system to manage and it's a lot smaller with a lot less power, heat, and noise issues. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: nfs question

2002-11-10 Thread Ed Wilts
ally dynamic). If you don't have a firewall already, put one immediately. Do not allow nfs through your firewall unless you really know what you're doing and it's for readonly sharing. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: strange e-mail from root

2002-11-07 Thread Ed Wilts
ity of the hacker attempts come from US-based systems. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: True type fonts in mozilla./evolution

2002-11-07 Thread Ed Wilts
hem than I should have. Here's the link: https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/ The way to find the release notes is to click on the 8.0 link - they're not listed in the 8.0 section like they are for 7.3, 7.2, and 7.1. Fill in Xft in the search box and you don't get much infor

Re: IBM packed decimal format conversion utilities

2002-11-06 Thread Ed Wilts
software/man/libcci.html The general discusssions surrounding this suggest that you're better off converting the data before the tape gets written, or writing a custom tool after you get the data. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: sendmail

2002-11-05 Thread Ed Wilts
tion. > > Any ideas? Thanks a lot! Restore your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file from your backups and then make the sendmail.cf file as per the instructions in the top of it. If you don't have backups, comment out the line in the .mc file that restricts incoming connections to the lo

Re: smtp (sendmail) problem

2002-10-30 Thread Ed Wilts
oting would lead you to believe that the problem is in the last change you made, when actually it's because you took a short-cut earlier. Spend the extra 30 seconds now and do it the right way and save yourself from any potential grief down the road. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: RH8.0 on

2002-10-25 Thread Ed Wilts
have According to Red Hat's official documentation, 128MB is the minimum for graphics, with 192MB recommended. http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-25 Thread Ed Wilts
you need to re-read the MINIMUM requirements: http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ 128MB for graphics mode - 64MB for text. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: Installing RH8.0

2002-10-25 Thread Ed Wilts
member right (and I'm going from my memory here), 7.3 would not install without at least 64MB either. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: Recompiling the Kernel

2002-10-23 Thread Ed Wilts
forward to your responses. Thanks. Why would you go to rpmfind.net for a basic Red Hat package? Use up2date and install it from there. It will take care of all the dependencies for you and help ensure you've got something you can actually use. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilt

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