Re: Yes..., I can destroy your system!

2003-01-21 Thread Guy Fraser
Mario Torre wrote: Il lun, 2003-01-20 alle 22:09, Derek Martin ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:58:41PM -0800, zhiren wrote: Really interesting! Let me prove it, so you can see it for yourself: 1. Let's create a file name asdf in your hom

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

2003-01-21 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi There was some discussion about this a while back. There were some tests done and IIRC the promise controler had better performance when used as a standard IDE controller using the linux software raid. Again IIRC the raid "firmware" on the card actually just enables a BIOS extension and the ra

Re: Yes..., I can destroy your system!

2003-01-21 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi You are correct to a point. Any user in on a windows platform that has is in group administrators is dangerous. QUICK TIP: To run programs as root, when required you can use "sudo". EXPANDED: When running as root, edit "/etc/sudoers" and grant yourself privledge to certain commands or all c

Re: Yes..., I can destroy your system!

2003-01-22 Thread Guy Fraser
UI text editor to copy/modify one of the examples is fairly straight forward, as I intended my suggestion to be. Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 19:06, Guy Fraser wrote: EXPANDED: When running as root, edit "/etc/sudoers" and grant yourself privledge to certain comman

Re: Excellent signature

2003-01-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Gregory L. Hering wrote: Dear Rob, If you already know this, this may sound patronizing, but that's not my intent... The article is not about preventing the spread of viruses (unless you consider Microsoft Corporation a virus). Yes, and why not. They are simply complaining abo

Re: Excellent signature

2003-01-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Rob Unsworth wrote: ---%<...snip... To use that sig, I would be advocating the use of HTML in mail, as the mail itself or as an attachment. I oppose both. True that, but at least you don't have to go out and buy a new version of office every year to keep up with each new perversion of Word,.

Re: Excellent signature

2003-01-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:24, Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Now that is a funny sig. If you saw American Pie ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the ignorant masses I work with insist on me using lotus notes because it is 'secure', the com

Re: Excellent signature

2003-01-24 Thread Guy Fraser
I only send mail in ascii as far as I know. I use mozilla with default text delivery, so the fonts should be set on your side not mine. {0-0} Guy jdow wrote: > From: "Guy Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ---%<...snip... > > > What has that got to do with not us

Re: Excellent signature

2003-01-24 Thread Guy Fraser
jdow wrote: ---%<...snip... > > I have a simple solution, Guy. If I cannot read the message in an editor as > dumb as Notepad without significant effort on my part I toss it unread. I > note that this has applied to an increasing number of messages on these Red > Hat lists. Sometimes I get moved

Re: Messenger Popups - Secure you Machine

2003-01-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Adam and Christina Koch wrote: Unless you really need this service, say your admin has it set up to notify users of certain events, you can just turn off the service in windows and the problem(s) should be alleviated. If you turn off these services you will no longer be able to add, remove or

xmms and Redhat 8.0

2003-02-06 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi Has anyone else noticed that .wav files play really fast. Guy -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Problem with installing RH 6.2 on a new Dell PC

2003-03-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi What exactly is the problem? The motherboard, audio and video chipsets have all changed significantly since 6.2 came out. I would suggest using some older hardware. Guy Freddy Jensen wrote: We are having problems installing RH 6.2 on a new Dell PC. It almost looks like the PC hardware is

Re: smbclient frontend

2003-03-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Here is an /etc/fstab entry that allows access to a share at boot: This is supposed to be on one line but will likly be wrapped. //server/share /home/user/share smbfs credentials=/home/user/.credentials 1 1 where : /home/user/.credentials contains : ---%<...snip... username = shareuser passwo

Re: smbclient frontend

2003-03-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi If the share is on a machine running samba make sure you are typing the password created with the smbpasswd utility. The smb password is not nessisarily the same as the unix password. Guy Stephen Mah wrote: when I type: smb://server/share, I'm prompted for a username & password. However,

Re: Triple Boot :)

2003-03-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi If you have ME and XP installed and not conflicting you are ready to go. You can use the partition with ME installed on it for files available to all configurations. Both XP and RH 8 can read FAT32. Don't partition the second drive before installing RH 8. Install RH 8 with at the very least

Re: smbclient frontend

2003-03-27 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi I tried konqueror with smb://server/share, I gave it the username and password, and it let me in. My software is completely "up2date" as of 2003 Mar 27 09:00 Mountain time. Guy Stephen Mah wrote: Guy Fraser wrote: Hi If the share is on a machine running samba make sure you

Re: Crack for MD5 Passwords?- correction

2003-03-27 Thread Guy Fraser
John the Ripper does not care what crypt is used AFIK. It tries to authenticate using dictionary and brute force attack methods when it is successfull it prints the match. Guy Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:21:48PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:11:15P

Re: [psyche] Re: [psyche] Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-27 Thread Guy Fraser
Ah Huh. That why my wine is broken. The last RH 8.0 glibc from up2date is 2.3.2-4. I had been using wine to access our FileMaker Pro 6 Server with FileMaker Pro 5.5 until it broke. I certainly hope RH reverses the "upgrade". The biggest complaint I made about 8.0.93 was the lack of wine. Thi

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-27 Thread Guy Fraser
You must be talking about home users without any important data. Many servers and workstations run until they can not be feasibly maintained, or there is a compelling reason to upgrade. Joe Klemmer wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 19:22, Gerald Henriksen wrote: Starting with Red Hat 8.0 errata

Re: [psyche] Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-28 Thread Guy Fraser
Joe Klemmer wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 18:27, Guy Fraser wrote: You must be talking about home users without any important data. Many servers and workstations run until they can not be feasibly maintained, or there is a compelling reason to upgrade. Well, since we are discussing

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Brent Fox wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:29, Gerald Henriksen wrote: You cannot expect a company or joe user to upgrade their operating system every year (which is now necessary given the 12 month limit on bug/security fixes). You also cannot expect Red Hat to provide errata forever on a

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Brent Fox wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:36, Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Brent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...snip... By the "products that customers pay more for", I mean the Enterprise line. We won't release errata or updates for 7.3 after the End Of Life

Re: Best way to update to RH9 from 8.0 ?

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
If all your documents are in your home directory and it is on a seperate partition like I have, the full install is the way I would go. I do a custom install, so that I can determine what gets installed and make sure my "home partition" does not get formatted. Cédric Chausson wrote: Hello all,

Re: WineX

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Gerald Henriksen wrote: On 27 Mar 2003 21:58:29 -0800, you wrote: Would I be able to get around this (wine not working) if I built from source? No. The problem is that the current versions of wine and some other apps will not work with the new thread system that is in glibc 2.3 Until t

Re: WineX

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Thank you very much. You may have saved my job. This version even works better that the one RH had. Frank Jahn wrote: Uninstall the RH wine packages and then install the wine-20030318-1rh8winehq packages from http://sourceforge.net and it will work. Frank -- Psyche-list mailing list [

Re: RH 9.0 - changelog?

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Eric Burke wrote: Hiya, On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:36:16AM +, Brian Johnson wrote: Could someone point me to a reference on what has changed for the new version? It's not yet available. Wait until the announcement on April 7 and the release notes will be publicly available, and you can get

Re: RH 9 - new glibc

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Because there market share seems to be more important to them than their long time supporters. Doug B wrote: If I understand correctly, it seems the reason to jump a major version is because the new glibc breaks binary compatability. OK... that makes sense. Why then would RedHat introduce a new

Re: RH 9 - new glibc

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Edward S. Marshall wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:01:09AM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: Do you know for sure that it breaks things? I'm about to install it today ... I can verify some PHP breakage (phpwiki's use of gdbm seems to do a number on the glibc upgrade, while other dba_XX(

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
I don't know if you can trust security updates any more. The last glibc security update almost made me loose my job because it wrecked software that was required by our support staff to do their jobs. Ed Wilts wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:45:35PM -0500, Allan M. Stewart wrote: I'm worki

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
They already have it in RH 8, wrecking applications in it's wake but still it's there already. Markku Kolkka wrote: Viestissä Maanantai 24. Maaliskuuta 2003 22:44, Daevid Vincent kirjoitti: Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from v8.0 to v9.0 without any inte

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Now that is just moronic. Just becuase one company is a bad corporate citizen, does not give all corporate citizens the right to act badly. Keith Winston wrote: ...snip... Microsoft plays the same games with certs and trys to force both their certified engineers and customers on the upgrade tr

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Randall J. Parr wrote: Thanks for this reference. We can only hope for changes that address this. I have long been a Red Hat support and have proven it by spending my time and money for their certification. I must say I am starting to feel a bit jerked around. Me too, this glibc thing of lat

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Now that is total M$ crap! Pay me huge bucks and maybe I will support the comunity that put me where I am. Gerald Henriksen wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:56:17 -0800, you wrote: Yes, I was aware of that BUT please understand, the change to rapid expiration of specific versions means we have

Re: Subject: Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Marcie Laux wrote: Message: 13 Subject: Re: Red Hat 9 From: Joe Klemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25 Mar 2003 22:17:54 -0500 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:29, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > While I agree some of the decisions Red Hat has made have been >

Re: SV: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Marie-Thérèse Lorentzen wrote: ...snip... Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be nothing more than some normal updat

Re: RH 9 - new glibc

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
OK then Ed and Jessey. What target is RH targetted for? If it isn't sutable for a corporate desktop and it doesn't support off the shelf software that home users want where does it belong? By the way, I can read and know the difference between depeciated and removed. Usualy when somthing is de

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Hmm, I am pretty sure wine was included with RH 8.0. Ed Wilts wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:39:47PM -0700, Guy Fraser wrote: I don't know if you can trust security updates any more. The last glibc security update almost made me loose my job because it wrecked software that was req

Re: Subject: Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Jesse Keating wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:08, Guy Fraser uttered: Well, well, well. There you go, another pseudo system administrator. I have been supporting multiple unix platforms since 1984, and RH since 1995. The issues coming up now should be very relevant to RH. If I had to go to

Re: WineX

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Jesse Keating wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 09:38, Guy Fraser uttered: I wonder how many companies are like mine, where the people with Linux Desktops are SOL and I was the person who convinced the powers that be, it would be a productivity improvement. Now non of the people with linux can

Re: WineX

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
I hear you. I'll probably find out Monday if we will have to switch to something else, but I am fairly confident we will not be moving away from RH on all machines in the near future, unless it may be running under VMWare on another platform for testing purposes only. Colburn wrote: The feebl

Re: RH 9.0 - changelog?

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
Oisin C. Feeley wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 11:32, Guy Fraser uttered: The following packages have been deprecated, and may be removed from a future release of Red Hat Linux: - pine - License-related issues ... - lilo - Grub is the

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
group wine then logou and log back in. Set up your wine config files in ~/.wine/ and your off to the races. Mike Watson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 March 2003 04:32 pm, Guy Fraser wrote: Hmm, I am pretty sure wine was included with RH 8.0. Yes it

Re: RH 9 - new glibc

2003-03-29 Thread Guy Fraser
I will have much homework to do on this issue. I still have a radius server running 4.2, has not missed a beat in years, Dual P133 SPC machine Kind regards Kevin Yikes! Have you run any security scans against it lately? I have just built a new Radius server on FreeBSD and it works great.

Re: Need to link two LANs via a RedHat8.0 dual NIC box

2003-04-03 Thread Guy Fraser
The 192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x networks are part of a set of "Martian Networks" they are not routable outside a local area network {which may include your ISP's network}. If you are being assigned these IP's from both of the ISP's and not a firewall in each office you are probably out of luck. If

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

2003-04-03 Thread Guy Fraser
Either you don't use MySQL, PHP4, wine, VMWare ... or you did not run up2date in the last couple of weeks. Marek wrote: Colburn wrote: OK, RedHat will try to resolve the many flaws in RH8 with their new release, RH9 on April 7th. Any idea what they will charge retail for this? (I also paid for m

Re: RedHat 9 Has Shipped!

2003-04-03 Thread Guy Fraser
Even with a paid subscription, I couldn't get better that 53KBps, from RedHat, but using bit torrent I was able to get downloads of the 3 binary iso's in about an hour. I am connected to a T3 on a 100bT switched network. Jim McConnell wrote: I just went and Downloaded mine yesterday , was a sna

Re: X Window System, Minimum Installation

2003-05-31 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi I have setup many "headless" servers with a few X-apps, as long as the application's dependancies are met they should work. I always put Nedit on my servers, it also requires "motif" libraries. If you want to know what a program requires to run do somting like this : $ rpm -q --requires nedi

Re: USER can't use Modem

2003-05-31 Thread Guy Fraser
Add the user to group uucp. That should take care of it. As you can see below only user root and group uucp can access the serial ports. crw-rw1 root uucp 4, 64 Aug 30 2002 /dev/ ttyS0 crw-rw1 root uucp 4, 65 Aug 30 2002 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw1 root

Re: Getting Latest Mozilla RPMs

2003-06-11 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi I am running an up2date version of psyche, I built mozzilla 1.4 from the RawHide Source a day ago It seems to work well. If some one can tell me where I can upload the binary {i386} packages I would be glad to provide them. I built the binaries from source because the rawhide binary package

Re: Linksys KVM switch

2003-06-11 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi I run RH Linux 9 and Windows XP on two machines at home, The box I have is a D-Link {CAD $130} and it works fine. It uses [press Scroll-Lock twice then 1 or 2 or ...] commands to control the switcher. The only problem I have seen is that when windows is shutting down it locks out the keybor

Re: mysterious routes appearing

2003-06-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi I will annotate the routes in question for you. djh wrote: On 24 Jun 2003, Iain Buchanan wrote: Now I do ifdown eth0 and then ifup eth0 and the routes come back again. Then I run redhat-config-network and the routes are listed under eth0. Any more ideas? route -n: Kernel IP routing tabl

Re: More on /etc/aliases forwarding wrong user

2003-06-24 Thread Guy Fraser
This may be simple. I will guess that you have put otherdomain.dom in your /etc/mail/local-host-names file. If you added {IIRC} a Cwotherdomain.dom to your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, this would explain it as well. If you are not using sendmail, I can't help you. I work for a large ISP and Qmail ju

Re: mysterious routes appearing

2003-06-25 Thread Guy Fraser
wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 00:22, Guy Fraser wrote: Hi I will annotate the routes in question for you. [snip] Thanks for the help, but you explained the ones I already know! As I mentioned, the three routes that are ok are: The ok routes are obviously 2, 4 & 5. 172.16.0.0 0.0

Re: Getting LXR to work...

2003-08-11 Thread Guy Fraser
LXR seems like an neet tool. Which version are you trying to build? I have written many cgi programs and am willing to help, but need to know what source needs to be fixed. Guy Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: After much work, I have gotten to the point where LXR (the Linux CrossReferencer: http:/

Re: How can I re-register with RHN.

2002-10-25 Thread Guy Fraser
Thank you all. I figured it out, after listing the files in the up2date package I found a command to register with and using the --force option made it work. Guy Joe Klemmer wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 20:49, Guy Fraser wrote: The problem is : There is NO freekin "rhn_register"

Pan Keeps locking my machine.

2002-10-28 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi I started to use pan this morning and it keeps locking my machine up. My machine has: P4 1.5GHz 1GB Ram 240GB on 4 IDE drives 24/12/40 CD-RW 8x DVD-ROM 1.5Mbps ADSL with a static ip address {no dhcp}. When the machine locks up the mouse nad keyboard are un-usable. I don't have a second mach

GUI Complaints

2002-10-28 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi I like the way the new GUI looks, but looks are not everything. The task list sucks! You get one icon per application, so no dialog boxes show up, nor do any secondary windows. The mouse scope sucks! You can't set the amount of time to raise a window so if you have the scope set to raise wi

Re: utility to scan through images like "ee" used to do?

2002-10-28 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi You can get gqview to display thumbnails in the file selector, but I am not sure if thats what you wanted. Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in previous releases, i recall using "ee" to quickly arrow through a directory of image files and have each one pop up, reduced size, on the right where i

Re: Cyrillic русский язык

2002-11-08 Thread Guy Fraser
It looks like Cyrillic text to me, I am using Mozilla. Since starting to use Mozilla I have seen many different character types, from fonts I didn't even think I had installed, like korean, japaneese, and chinese as well as cyrillic, and greek. I can't read any of it so it is just gobbledegook

Re: Pan Keeps locking my machine.

2002-11-08 Thread Guy Fraser
ith dialup able to use pan successfully? Is there a way to increase the server timeout? It could be possible that the server is resetting the connection if too many sockets are spawned, but pan should be able to work around reset connections should it not. Guy Guy Fraser wrote: Hi I started

Re: Virtual PC

2002-12-04 Thread Guy Fraser
I used to use VMware, it is great, but is now fairly expensive. I have had success installing programs using wine on RH 8.0. NOTE: There is a trick to make it work. First thing you have to do is add your logon to group "wine", then log out and log back in. You can now access "/usr/share/wine-c"

Re: Why you should not buy Promise products if you use Linux

2002-12-05 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi I checked some things out and from what I can tell, the 3Ware card is the best overall with linux support, and is priced well. The card has a cpu on board that handles the I/O so the cpu on your motherboard doesn't have to. I believe it has a scsi driver and works like a scsi raid controller

Re: Xinetd Redirect Problems

2002-12-05 Thread Guy Fraser
Why bother with a redirect, just run your sshd with a "-p 21" option. Guy Greg Gatlin wrote: I updated my xinetd to the newest version with up2date and my redirect is no longer functioning. I upgraded to xinetd-2.3.7-5. My redirect is so I can get to my box from work. They block port 22 and le