RH 9: Panel with Small Icons?

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

Another RH 9 Peeve/Question

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

Re: RH 9: Panel with Small Icons?

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

Red Hat 9 KDE Screensaver Question

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

Reiserfs Disk Usage

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

Re: Reiserfs Disk Usage

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

Re: memory useage question

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

Re: System Backups

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

Re: No Wine on RH9.0 ?

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

Re: No Wine on RH9.0 ?

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

Re: No Wine on RH9.0 ?

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

Re: How many ip address question

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

Re: Adding files to log (cat?)

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

Re: Laptops?

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

Re: Laptops?

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

Re: Data Migration

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

Re: Adding files to log (cat?)

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

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

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

Re: Laptops?

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

Re: Help installing a Maxtor External Firewire HD

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

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

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

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

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

Re: RH 9 Window Titles in Panel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: RH 9 installation via ftp problem

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

RH 9 Window Titles in Panel

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

Re: Upgrade advice 7.2 -> 9

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

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

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

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

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

Re: /Boot is full - advice please

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

Re: Securit Checking

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

Re: SERVER DISTRO

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

Re: What backup solution for direct-attach?

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

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

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

smartd attribute numbers?

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

Re: smartd attribute numbers?

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

Re: smartd attribute numbers?

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

Re: rhn notification icon is red but...

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

Re: RedHat, RPMS, and updates

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:54:43AM -0600, David van Hoose wrote: > I find it kind of iritating that RH just released an update for KDE > 3.0.3 instead of releasing 3.0.5 which had the same fixes. Some > programs should be tested, but others are already being tested and > fixed on a daily basis. No

Re: RedHat, RPMS, and updates

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:17:03PM -0600, David van Hoose wrote: > I got the point loud and clear, and my response to it is that RedHat > is being unnecessarily paranoid. But the very point is that being paranoid is key here. What you want is something different from these updates. These updates

Re: Boy, did I screw up bad... I need some help guys.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:17:28AM -0800, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > I don't intend to upgrade to a newer version than 6.2 anytime in the > near future, since the server does everything I need and more, and > is apparently secure That version is getting pretty old, at some point Red Hat will quit d

Re: Boy, did I screw up bad... I need some help guys.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:15:45AM -0800, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > I've thought about that, but really, My firewall only allows > connection to ssh, sendmail, and http, so there's not a lot to worry > about security-wise. Two reactions. First, firewalls aren't as tight as people think. There

Re: Boy, did I screw up bad... I need some help guys.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:53:13AM -0800, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > Regardless, with the thought in mind that I might upgrade to 7.x or > 8.0 (whose support ends only 9 months after 6.2's - what's up with > that?) I guess it means that Red Hat supporting old releases for free for years really was

Re: Boy, did I screw up bad... I need some help guys.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:48:36AM -0800, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > It occured to me that I _do_ have a cd burner at work, so I'm trying > to download the iso's for RH 8. What do I need to do for a boot > disk, tho? The first CD is bootable if your CD drive is, otherwise there are floppy images o

Re: sshd server problem - HELP!

If you have, say, a Knoppix CD sitting there as an emergency disk, you could have your Remote Fingers boot from it, talk him/er though configuring networking (if Knoppix can't do it automatically) and then turn on sshd, then login remotely and look about. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsub

Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:24:51PM -0500, Ian P. Thomas wrote: > I recently installed RH 8.0 text install, on an eMachine with > 32 MB of RAM. I was just talking to a co-worker who recently installed RH 8.0 on a 32 MB notebook. He had to do a text install, but it worked. When he fired up X

Re: Redhat 8 and Shutting it down or Not!

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:58:18AM -0800, Christopher Lyon wrote: > I have a bunch of RH8.0 machines that are sitting in Telco closets and > was wondering if I am digging myself a hole with these things powering > on and off without using the shutdown command. Am I going to kill or > break somethin

Re: Redhat 8 and Shutting it down or Not!

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:18:16PM -0500, I wrote: > At an extreme contrast, if you are running a big database you will > lose committed data. Er, I obviously meant "uncommitted" data. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.re

Re: Redhat 8 and Shutting it down or Not!

Something I glossed over: What does it take to force your hard disks to write their buffers? Does a sync do that? (If your disks are difficult to persuade to write all their data, then how does a complete shutdown do it safely?) -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: Redhat 8 and Shutting it down or Not!

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:00:20PM -0800, Christopher Lyon wrote: > The issue is since these are in telco closets the telco A$% holes are > pulling the power to move them around. Granted they are only running > VPN, routing and some IDS services so data loss isn't a really big deal > but I just don

Re: Telnet and FTP

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:46:20AM -0500, Campbell, Michael (Contractor) wrote: > How do I set-up Telnet and FTP between my windows XP and Linux 7.3? If you can, don't use telnet or ftp, use ssh (instead of telnet) and sftp (instead of ftp). They are secure substitutes. On a Linux server a singl

Re: DirecTV to Earthlink = DHCP to PPoE (maybe) - help, plz

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:30:33PM -0800, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > Well, as you probably know, DirecTV is stopping all operations... > In our area, we have 2 choices - Verizon (@$80/month), and Earthlink > (through Covad @ $65/month)... Easy choice, huh? Neither! If you have the option o

Re: DirecTV to Earthlink = DHCP to PPoE (maybe) - help, plz

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:21:55AM -0800, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > The sales assoc/tech made it sound as though I wouldn't be using > DHCP at all If you get one of the lesser Covad plans, yes. But with the soho service the DSL modem/router does the PPoE and presents a DHCP environment to you. I

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:10:48PM -0500, Ryan Babchishin wrote: > nate wrote: > > there sure is! provided you don't mind even more curroption to your > > filesystem tell fsck to force check. it will cause massive damage I bet :) > > Ok, I'll get right on that! Um, so you really *are* going to fo

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:34:18PM -0800, nate wrote: > he did mention that doing a fsck will take 16 hours I guess he did. > that and if his data is so critical to remain available I think his > organization needs to come up with a better system configuration > with more high availability config

Re: Help! Repair ext2 error while mounted?

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:51:38PM -0500, Ryan Babchishin wrote: > I was being sarcastic. It was a silly suggestion in the first place. > There are no real low usage hours in my environment. There are lower > usage hours. Is this perhaps what I see at www.epalscorp.com? If so, maybe an outage

Online Backup Software?

Does anyone here know of good online backup software? That is, with disks getting so big that they can be hard to fill up and tapes are getting impractical, why not back up a Linux machine to a different computer, or in the case of a raid 1 machine, maybe even to itself (to a normally unmounted pa

Dual Homing?

I am wondering what it takes to have a Red Hat (7.0) machine on two different internet connections at once. I am in the midst of (possibly) changing over to a different DSL provider, and as it happens they are on different copper pairs, so I can have both at once. Because I host my own e-mail I w

Re: Dual Homing?

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:10:50PM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > I am wondering what it takes to have a Red Hat (7.0) machine on two > different internet connections at once. And here I am responding to my own post with a partial answer. It appears that though the kernel naturally wants t

Re: Dual Homing?

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

Re: Dual Homing?

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

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

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

Re: Updating 7.3 to 8.0

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

Re: Updating 7.3 to 8.0

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

Re: RH 7.0 to RH 8.0 user migration

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

Re: RH 7.0 to RH 8.0 user migration

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

Re: Redhat-Specific Backup Availability?

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

NTP Problem

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

Re: NTP Problem

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

Re: Has Any body done Software RAID 1 ??

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

Re: RealPlayer in chroot jail?

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

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

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

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

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

Re: disk-based backups?

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

Re: telnet with root

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

Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

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

Re: Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

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

Re: RAID-1 automatic failover failed

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

Re: 2 IP addresses on one NIC ?

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

Re: Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

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

Re: 2 IP addresses on one NIC ?

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

Re: which version of red hat is needed?

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

Re: which version of red hat is needed?

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

Re: adding many users

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

Re: redhat support contact information?

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

Re: redhat support contact information?

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/ES/AS

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

Re: redhat 8.0->8.1 upgrade

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

Re: Linux equivalent of Solaris BSM?

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

Re: Prefered backup method?

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

Re: Prefered backup method?

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

Re: Prefered backup method?

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

Re: Prefered backup method?

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

Re: Prefered backup method?

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

Re: Prefered backup method?

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

Re: Plea to Linux Users

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

Re: Fedora

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

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