The newer versions of LILO let you boot from a disk over 8GB with no
problems. The latest versions of about all distributions ship it. It's
been out for a while now.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:51 AM
To: Juli
For ISO images check www.linuxiso.org. There aren't seperate images...they
just install the correct kernel during setup.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Julie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] SMP kernels and ISO i
Check out http://www.bastille-linux.org/ for securing Red Hat and Mandrake.
Very good script that explains everything it does and lets you learn.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 11:32 AM
To: Techtalk
Subject: Re: [techtalk] My
If the second box running SP2 was hacked, check your permissions. Sounds
like you have a configuration problem somewhere.
We run OpenBSD as our firewall, and have for a while. It's easy to setup
and use and works very well. The syntax for configuring it is very easy.
Our OpenBSD system also ha
Good luck hunting that person down on 10.91.218.147. That's a private
address block.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Linda MacPhee-Cobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] message to all
To the owners of ip #211.72
I
wonder if she considers Cisco's password recovery procedure a "backdoor".
With physical access to any Cisco router I can reset the enable password and
then do anything I want. But, just like single user mode, it's very well
documented. If it's an important piece of equipment you should
This
is *NOT* a backdoor. Backdoors are hidden, secret ways in to a
system. This isn't hidden. It isn't secret. It's very well
known and is a recovery method. It's *NOT* a "series mistake in the
default shipping configuration". This is a recovery mechanism almost every
UNIX system has
Linda
>From: Angela Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 'Linda MacPhee-Cobb' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #445 - 11 msgs
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:53:51 -0400
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eel a bit violated?
That is how this is... a hidden way in, and it leads one to wonder what else
is hidden and why.
Linda
>From: Angela Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 'Linda MacPhee-Cobb' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [techtalk] Re: te
This isn't a LILO thing. This is an "init" thing. When you type "linux 1"
or "linux s" at the LILO prompt it is passing the 1 or s parameter to the
kernel, which hands it to the init process. The init process then finds
this runlevel in the /etc/inittab and executes the processes. This is how
They are correct. This is a feature. Booting into single user mode is
there to fix problems and restore lost passwords. Physical security is
important! There is a reason that important computers are in a locked data
center.
If I have physical access to your workstation I can boot from a Linu
Also, if you want to disable this just edit your /etc/inittab and remove the
single user runlevel. Or, put a password on the LILO prompt. But remember,
I can get around that with a boot disk. Like Red Hat said, use an
encryptable file system. Just be careful and don't forget your root
password
Can you send me more information on this "exploit"? Mandrake has a security
address on their page too. But if it's on a beginners list, I'd like to see
myself to make sure it's really a problem.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Linda MacPhee-Cobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday,
Very
insecure. Just go look at any security site and do a search for FrontPage
Extensions. I won't let them on any server that I expose to the outside
world.
Jason
-Original Message-From: Kath
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 4:05
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTEC
You aren't missing anything. The Promise (as well as most other IDE RAID
cards) are software based. The driver does all the real work, not the card.
They don't have chips on them to offload the RAID processing like a "real"
SCSI RAID card...so you end up using a lot of CPU time anyway. The only
First, a task package is just an empty package with a lot of dependencies.
This is an easy way to install a large application, and is NOT uncommon to
see it later removed. The packages it installed will not be automatically
removed.
The /etc/X11/X file is just a link to your X window server. Mi
the kernel
compile or by echoing a 1 to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Samuel Tesla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:12 PM
To: Angela Nash
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [techtalk] NAT, Routing, or something else?
Actually, I ran
The problem here is you were assigned one subnet, but you need two. You
need one between the router and the firewall, and then another behind the
firewall. To get around this, assign a private address space to the link
between the router and the firewall. Use something like 10.x.x.x. Then use
If your connection is on cable or DSL, expect to get port scanned every few
minutes. You'll fill up your firewall logs very fast.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: psyche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 7:26 PM
To: Kath
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [techtalk
on 3, I'd still say 128MB is enough.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Subba Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:26 PM
To: Angela Nash
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Snort - Sensor and Analyst console HW config
On 0, Angela Nash <[EMAIL
Go find the list of supported SCSI adapters for each UNIX and match them up.
:) Adaptec cards are good, and have good support so start there. Some like
the 2940U2 should be supported under about every OS.
The KT7A boards work just fine under Linux. I have the KT7 (100MHz bus
instead of 133, sa
Snort by itself doesn't seem to use a lot of CPU. What eats up CPU on my
Snort system is the snortsnarf tool that takes the log information and
outputs it to HTML reports. A "reasonably fast" system like a Pentium II or
higher should work just fine. It's not a memory hog either. If you are
bui
Also, read the Changes file in the documentation folder. You will need to
update some other packages before using a 2.4 kernel.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Marisa Mack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:55 PM
To: Puff Devil
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [t
Which build of Mozilla? I know the newer builds can.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Anthony Russello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 12:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] mozilla problems
Does anyone here know if mozilla is capable of viewing se
I don't have xinetd on my RedHat 7 system anymore...but I did at one time.
I believe to use the server_args directive you have to also use the FLAGS
directive. Check the xinetd man page for more informationbut I remember
having to do that when I installed TCP wrappers.
Jason
-Original M
Did you enable syncookies in your kernel config? If not you may have to
recompile the kernel.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Subba Rao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 4:35 PM
To: Linux Ladies
Subject: [techtalk] Cannot create tcp_syncookies
Hi,
I am trying to
You should just be able to do an "apt-get install task-kde" after the
update. That will install KDE and the needed support files.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Raven Nock-my-bow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 7:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Rachel Andrew
Put the CD in the server and share it out with either FTP, HTTP, or NFS.
Then just do a remote install using the SuSE boot disks.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Rebecca J. Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk]
Did you rerun lilo to implement the changes before rebooting?
Jason
-Original Message-
From: A Kozic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] LILO problems
I've got my laptop set to dual boot RedHat & Win98, with linu
I dualboot with an AMD Thunderbird every day.
What does your lilo.conf look like? Do you get the option to boot to
Windows and it gives an error, or what?
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Roberta Voulon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: None
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] Windo
VMWare doesn't support DirectX yet, so that is out. WINE is iffy at best on
games...so I wouldn't count on it. The best bet is to dual boot.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 5:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subjec
We're driving up Wed-Sat and will be at the IDG booth on Thursday promoting
the new LPIC book that we're writing. I dread the drive but think it will
be worth it.
Angie
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 5:53 PM
To: [EMAI
Are
you doing this with a dynamic IP account? If so, good luck. Your IP
will change every so often. Ours stays the same for a month, but when a
small outage occurs it changes. Whenever this happens you're looking at
several days for internic to update their records and then you have to w
CNAMEs
do not take IPs as their value. They point to a name instead. For
example:
ns1
A
24.190.202.53ns2
A
207.127.75.180www
CNAME ns1
irc
CNAME ns1
mail CNAME ns1
kathweb.net. CNAM
KDE2 is in the woody build of Debianso... You'll have to update to
that, but I'm not sure what it takes to move from Corel to a "standard"
build of Debian. I'd say check www.kde.org and see if they offer packages
for Corel.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Kath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT
You
need to fill out a host form to add your server as a DNS server. Then you
can change your domain by doing a change form. Now, keep in mind that
unless you have an entire net block assigned to you, you won't be able to host
the reverse DNS for your site.
Also...are you going to set
Do you plan to run games? That's the only time you really need the kernel
drive for the Nvidia cards. I have Nvidia TNT2's and GeForce cards in all
my Linux systems (Debian and others). They work just fine with XF4. I've
used the binary kernel module on several kernels with no problems.
I lik
The LinkSys, and other cable/DSL routers, let you map ports so you can run
servers and do inbound connections. It takes extra configuration, but when
you're ready to do this, you'll understand how to map the ports.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: David Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
You can set up a system and use what is known as NAT (Network Address
Translation), or Masq in Linux. Basically, this lets more than one PC use a
single IP address.
My recommendation is to go buy the LinkSys Etherfast Cable/DSL router. They
are $99 from buy.com and do NAT in hardware. They are
Some of the older JetDirects do not support LPR. If you can't upgrade it,
oh well. :)
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Conor Daly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:28 AM
To: Techtalk
Subject: [techtalk] HP JetDirect print server (and how they don't work!)
Got
What media are you using? This looks to be something like bad media.
Does this drive work under Windows, or have you tried? Sure it's terminated
correctly?
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Tania M. Morell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 9:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROT
Why do you want to mount an audio CD? I don't think that is supported since
there is no filesystem on an audio CD, only tracks.
Try the "cdrecord -scanbus" command and see if it shows your CD-RW drive. I
use the Plextor IDE CD-RW fine with XCDRoast.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Tani
Your mail server seems to be fine, it just doesn't like the <> test address.
When I manually connected and put in a normal From address it took it fine.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: David Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 9:09 AM
To: TechTalk
Subject:
Most likely there isn't a BIOS EEPROM to replace. Most modern boards don't
use them anymore.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Eric Richard Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:17 AM
To: Anthony Russello
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Re: t
You should be able to find a used one for cheap. I know ebay lists one or
two but they come with CPUs.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Eric Richard Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 6:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] Motherboard repair?
I
Make sure scp is in the default path of both systems. If not you'll get the
"command not found error". Some SSH config's do not allow root to log in
remotely. Check your sshd_config file in either /etc or /etc/ssh.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: gabrielle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
S
You don't need to format a drive before putting an image back down with dd.
In fact, dd will totally overwrite any formatting already done as it is a
byte by byte copy.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: -sjh- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 11:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PR
I use Gnumeric. Part of Helix Gnome or available by itself.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: J-Mag Guthrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] .xls in Debian
What do y'all use to read Excel files? I might want to
Security, and most people consider BSD faster at serving if your site is
VERY loaded. But mainly security.
Jason
-Original Message-From: Kath
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000
4:35 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [techtalk]
OpenBSD vs. Debian 2.
It maps your floppy to a file on the linux filesystem. Enable the Tools
Install, then go to A: and run setup.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: antonxie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 1:33 AM
To: techtalk
Subject: [techtalk] VMware Tools install
dear all,
I ha
I run Debian on my Compaq Armada and Mandrake on a Gateway Solo. They both
work great. I think Linux handles the dynamic nature of a notebook much
better than Windows.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Jill Cote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 2:19 PM
To: [EMA
VMware works fine under NT4 with no partitioning needed. That's the great
thing about it. It's an entire virtual machine. It uses a large file as
it's partition, and works great with sound and network support.
I've run Debian and Mandrake under it, as well as Win98.
Jason
-Original Messa
Without something like VMWare, there is no other way to do it. VMWare works
great. I use it to run Win98 when I'm in Linux to do somethings. I've also
used it to test other Linux distros.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Lilly S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2
Go take a look at VMWare http://www.vmware.com
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Nicoya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] windoze-based distros
Has anyone played with any of the distros like Phatlinux that ins
Also, if you haven't tried Debian 2.2, give it a shot. I had trouble with
the 2.1 install, but 2.2 is working just great on my systems. It looks like
they streamlined the install process and got rid of a lot of the
configuration questions. I didn't like how it would want you to configure
every
The Ext2 filesystem TRIES to avoid fragmentation by putting files in one
place, if it can. NTFS also does this. This works fine until the file
system starts to get full, and then fragmentation occurs.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Mary Gardiner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday,
Opera just released a new build of their Linux browser. I'm playing with it
now and it's FAST. Check it out.
Jason
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Yes, very much in the last couple of weeks. Give it a try.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Chris J/#6 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 4:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Not using Netscape (was Re: [techtalk] Re: SMP on Linux
(lock ups))
> The new b
The new builds of Mozilla are getting very good. I've switched to it as my
standard browser now. Check out a new nightly build. It also has a full
featured IMAP mail client.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Conor Daly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:30 PM
We use OpenBSD to do our firewalling and NAT. We do 1:1 mappings with it
and it works very well. The IPF HowTo is VERY good and explains it all
well.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Caitlyn M. Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 11:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
e Road, Ste. 750
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Desk: (301) 563-8437
Fax: (301) 563-8432
-Original Message-
From: Angela Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Jonathan Katz' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [techtal
Been there. Done that. :)
Just go get v3 and do a forced downgrade. Your database should come back
fine...mine did.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Samantha Atkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] rpm hell
Just
because /dev/modem points to /dev/ttyS1, doesn't mean it's really on
ttyS1. It just means someone/something made a link. Find out the
chipset on the modem. Lucent winmodems are supported under Linux.
I'm using one in my notebook with the "linmodem" driver. PCtel, another
bit winmo
If the RedHat install is the only thing on scd1, you don't need a boot
partition. The real need of a boot partition is where the kernel is saved
on a spot that's above 1024 cylinders on the drive. With modern bioses this
usually means above 8GB. If it's below 8GB you don't need a /boot
partiti
You either need to make a /boot partition in the first 8 GB of the drive, or
upgrade to the latest version of LILO.
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Norma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 11:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] Harddrive problems with
First off...up until this week there was a group working on a linux distro
similar to OpenBSD. It was http://www.kha0s.org. It looks like they
stopped this week, which is too bad.
The OpenBSD team puts a LOT of effort in to the security. Not only is the
default install locked down pretty well,
Supermount is an add on to the kernel. If you don't want the device to use
supermount remove the option in your /etc/fstab file.
Angie
-Original Message-
From: Phil Savoie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 6:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] Redhat
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