s h:
(This mail is OLD - but I just returned from vacations and while waiting
for my kickstarting to finish I read some mail. Kickstart really sucks
until it works, then it's a dream. Or at least not a nightmare.)
> I've currently been playing with Kickstart. When I tried it out, it
> booted th
Yvonne:
> Hi, all. I'm unlurking here... Here is a question for anyone who deals
> with the web in some way in their system administration job...
> actually, for any sysadmin... If you are the system administrator over
> a (web) server, do you administer
> all the services on that box? Including
Conor Daly:
> > > of different ways (I have it set up to check outgoing mails for the word
> > > "attach" and if found, check to see if I *did* attach the file), Oh, and
> >
> > Would you mind sharing how you did that? I forget to attach stuff all
> > the time and it makes me feel stupid. :-)
>
David Merrill:
> Oh, wait. Brain fart. /etc/cron.* don't run by magic. They are
> executed via /etc/crontab which holds:
>
> # run-parts
> 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 42 4 1 * * root run-part
Kai MacTane:
> the point of all this? Sometimes, you don't need to consider what the worst
> possibility is; you just need to consider what will actually be going on
> under real-world conditions. Sure, there's a half-dozen sysadmin friends
> who come over on a regular basis who *could*, the ne
A Kozic:
> I just finished reading Egalia's Daughters by Gerd Brantenberg
> (ISBN:0-93118-8342). It is a "White Man's Burden" style role reversal,
> covering the "masculinist movement" in a matriarchal society. They use
> "wim"/"wom", "menwim"/"menwom", and "huwom" (Though "wom" is a perfectly
> a
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> > In Old High German, there were two major types of "men": "wo-men" and
> > "wer-men". "Wo-men" were female and "wer-men" male. The "wer" in
> > "wer-man" is cognate with the Latin "vir", which also means "man" (in
> > our current sense of "adult male human").
>
> I've hea
Brian Sweeney:
> "The life expectancy of an unpatched, default installation of Red Hat 6.2
> server is three days. The last time we attempted to confirm this, the system
> was compromised in eight hours."
> -The Honeynet Project
One of the sysadmins at my *old* job left his laptop with Windows 20
Mary Gardiner:
> It would have two problems that I can see:
>
> 1) If you connect to it remotely in http, not https, your password/phrase will
> pass to the webserver in clear text, negating the whole point of ssh.
Mindterm is a java applet, so it runs on your machine (i.e. in your
local browse
Telsa Gwynne:
> You are indeed evil. This is _exactly_ what happened when we took my
> Vaio apart. Sony use -- wait for it -- non-standard screw sizes. Well,
> "didn't fit our first two sets" sizes. However, the set of useless
> "what are these sizes anyway?" screwdrivers I got at a Linux Expo fr
Julie:
> What I'd like is for someone who has used both to give a sort
> of comparitive analysis. I've not been able to find a working
> SCCS package for Linux, or at least one that will work with the
> dozens of SCCS files I have from Really Old Projects. So I
> guess it's time to move to somet
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> The biggest question is whether the BIOS is set up to boot from
> zip disks. And if you can change the BIOS to boot from the zip
> disk without any hassles - and without 'messing up much' with
> the computers.
>
> I'm not terribly familiar with zip disks (make that 'not at a
I was debugging some password problem the other day (dash first in
password at ftp-server -> ftp-server turns off continuation messages
that may confuse some ftp programs), and I came to think of if there
excists a list of characters to avoid _for technical_ (no security rules)
reasons in passwor
Heya all :)
We are setting up a mailsystem for ~200k users now. We will use LDAP to
store the user information in, and we have originally decided to use
Courier IMAP 1.3.1 (newest version) as IMAP/POP daemons. The mail will
be stored in maildir format. The problem is that we are using OpenLDAP
2
Phil Savoie:
> This value can be overridden by an entry in the users profile files by
> either the user or the root user depending on your situation. The umask
> value can be determined by typing umask at the prompt and changed by
> typing umask at the prompt as well.
A nice flag to umask is -S
Telsa Gwynne:
> I cleaned my dec keyboard out simply by
> (a) my husband demonstrating the necessity by shaking it over me
> (there are times when I could cheerfully hit him...)
> (b) giving it a good rattle myself over the bin
> (c) pulling all the cruft I could find out o
David Merrill:
> > Sounds like a good idea. Should work in a washing machine as well,
> > shouldn't it? I use to take mine intop the shower, that's also a bit
> > cool. "I just had a shower with my keyboard today."
>
> I think a washing machine would be quite hard on a keyboard! In the
> dishwash
David Merrill:
> Some electronic devices store an electric charge even when unplugged,
> but your keyboard does not. When it is disconnected from its power
> supply, it is completely charge-free. Nothing can short when there is
> no power. As long as it is completely dry before you reconnect it,
>
Today our server died. Since autumn 1999 it has been in a machine room
in the corner of an open office (no ceiling above the machine room, just
walls). In this office all the 6 employees are heavy smokers (thank God
I'm not working there!), so there is constantly smoke in the machine
room. The ser
sara ruohotie:
>
> anyone know the Right and Proper way of saving all sent mail into one
> folder, f.ex. sent-mail in mutt?
Don't know if it's the Right and Proper way, but I have 'set
record="=sent-mail-`date +%Y-%m`"' and it works very well :)
(This saves to a sent-mail-folder based on month.
Magni Onsoien:
> Beverly Guillermo:
> > Has anyone managed a passwd and shadow list with more the 10,000 people
> > on it? Is there a way to possibly divide the passwd/shadow lists into
> > smaller multiple files? Something like passwd.master shadow.master,
&
Beverly Guillermo:
> Has anyone managed a passwd and shadow list with more the 10,000 people
> on it? Is there a way to possibly divide the passwd/shadow lists into
> smaller multiple files? Something like passwd.master shadow.master,
> passwd.domainname1, shadow.domainname1, passwd.domainname2,
Brian Sweeney:
>
> I don't know much about Arkeia, but a quick note: unless you're really
> hard-up for tapes, or just have disgusting amounts of data to backup, I
> would go with differentials instead of incrementals. Who wants to have to
> juggle 7 tapes if the server goes kaplowee on saturday
Bravard, Mark:
> 1) How do you configure an account so that each time you logout the system
> will execute the fortune command and sleep for 15 seconds?
>
> 2) Modify the startup file so that each time you log into the system will
> create a command named "ll". When you type in the command "ll
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> Mine is really limited yes. In the morning with my brain working again,
> I found ldconfig (in /sbin). Interestingly, I found out that which has
> somehow been configured so that it doesn't check every directory on my
> box... just the ones in my path. That is what mostly got
Jeff Dike:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Then we upgraded the kernel to 2.2.14, and the behaviour changed: now
> > it suddenly started to announce the name/IP on the last virtual
> > interface on eth0 as its name, fex. when being used for irc or when
> > NFS-mounting directories.
>
> There was a
We have a Linuxserver with a couple of NICs and several virtual interfaces
on them. When it was first installer (RH 6.1 or 6.0), it had kernel
2.2.6 and everything worked fine: we configured it with the hostname impala
on eth0 and added other names on the virtual interfaces eth:1-5 or so.
It then
sara ruohotie:
> meanwhile i'll be looking for an option on how to make mutt put
> something else than '+' on a continued line. but anyway, thank you
> very much! =)
Search for smart_wrap and markers in the documentation (mine is at
/usr/local/doc/mutt/manual.txt). Looks like you'll have to rec
Kath:
> How would you boot without a floppy or a bootable CD? You might be able to
Uhm, actually I didn't think about that, so I guess I'd get some
trouble, then :)
But I am about to get a new network card at work, with a nifty
bootprom-thingie on it, and it's capable of booting via tftpd. (Sor
Kath:
> BTW, I've done Debian net installs with one floppy diskette before, it was
> quite interesting :)
But is it possible to do a Debian net install _without_ any floppies
(and without CD etc) to a i386 box? I tend to never have any useable
floppies at home, but I have a 10Mbps connection to
Hi,
I am looking a bit at firewalls today. I am trying to find a firewall
product) that
- is easy to set up
- requires very little maintenance
- has filters/interpretors to detect attacks easily and reliable
- has some automatic update procedures [for software on the box, not
fw-rules]
By "easy t
Brian Sweeney:
> I have a raid-1 raid, called /dev/md0. It is a raid of /dev/hda5 and
> /dev/hdc5. /dev/hda5 dies, and so I reboot the machine and it continues in
> degraded mode, with /dev/hdc5 as the only drive in the array. Now, I want
> to add a new drive to the array; we'll call it /dev/hd
Some may remember me complaining about glibc before, more specifically a
couple of weeks ago when a glibc-upgrade broke tcsh. A prompt reply and
fix from RedHat fixed my problems, so I was quite satisfied with their
service.
Now I am less satisfied again.
Due to more security holes in glibc, I d
Sunnanvind Briling:
>Then you should be able to use ANY ftp-client
>that come with your distro, but I'd recommend ncftp or you could try
>'apt-cache search ftp' and just install whichever look interesting.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
> I just remembered that the last time I was fiddling
We are in urgent need of a project management tool for Linux that will
let us make those nice time lines that MS Project can do, i.e. show that
task a has to be done before task b, and a will require 2 weeks and b 3
weeks and then task c and d can start in parallell.
It doesn't have to do anythin
Magni Onsoien:
> We are using RedHat 5.2 on my company's server, and AutoRPM for keeping
> the packages updated. Last night glibc was updated to glibc-2.0.7-29.2,
> and then tcsh (tcsh-6.07.09-1) stopped working! Whenever started, it
> core-dumps.
RedHat did the mistake, a
We are using RedHat 5.2 on my company's server, and AutoRPM for keeping
the packages updated. Last night glibc was updated to glibc-2.0.7-29.2,
and then tcsh (tcsh-6.07.09-1) stopped working! Whenever started, it
core-dumps. Of course a little unconvenient for my colleagues (esp. since
I am respo
Subba Rao:
> I know the solution you are suggesting. I should have been a little more
> precise in what I am looking for. What about files like libvga.a or
> libxml.a, which do not have any links or version numbers in it? How are
> these library versions determined/guessed?
If it's an rpm-based s
Vinnie:
> I prefer the donation route because
>
> a. no media = nothing to throw away :) (hey, reduce comes before recycle
> and reuse :) )
Yup, agree with you :) On the other hand, a CD can be a nice gift to a
local school, parents, sisters, friends or other that may need an OS on
a CD (i.e. do
pheret werks:
> i would highly suggest NOT buying software and getting it online . . .
> well, that's how i do it . . . go to www.freshmeat.net,
> www.linuxberg.com, do a search for software, it's absolutely amazing
> what you can find out there. i can recommend something for just about
> anythin
Jane Dawson:
> I am tearing my hair out over this stuff (I should have mentioned that I am
> completely new to not only RAID but Linux in general). This is the first
> task I have been given in my new job - talk about being thrown in at the
> deep end! :)
:)
(It's also good to tell as much as po
Jane Dawson:
> I decided to set up a completely RAID-based system using two identical IDE
> hard disks, each with 3 partitions (boot, swap and data).
>
> The setup is
>
> hda1 and hdc1 = 800Mb boot
> hda2 and hdc2 = 128Mb swap
> hda3 and hdc3 = 3Gb data
>
> I'm using kernel 2.4.0-test5 with In
Lotta Loytonen:
> I have a classic Logitech 3-button PS/2 mouse, no wheels or anything,
Nice mouse! :)
> and I can't get the middle button to work under linux. Can anyone help
> me? It's my work machine so I don't want to experiment too much with
> it as someone would probably start saying that
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> Summary:
>
> /bin/false or /bin/true as a login shell prevents an individual from
> logging in via telnet, ssh or rlogin.
>
> Closing off rlogind and telnetd prevents ANYONE from logging in via
> rlogin or telnet. (But not ssh. Which is usually deliberately permitted)
sshd
Chris J/#6:
> One hint -- in general, changing the shell for root is a bad thing...some
> Unixes don't like it, as some tools assume the root shell will be /bin/sh
> (cron is one example). Now, you didn't say which shell you were changing, but
> it sounds like the root shell.
An alternative t
Carolyn Jarie Getter:
> Just for fun, I am test driving for a few days a friend's Palm IIIx. I'd really
> like to see if I can't get it up and running and cooperating with Linux.
> When I tried to install the software for it (hope you're not wanting the
> specifics, as I'm too lazy to track them
Carolyn Jarie Getter:
> Thanks for the help. Believe it or not, I have RTFM, and the relevant
> parts in Running Linux. (Maybe I need to read them again, eh? I have
> not been too keen on Running Linux. It seemed to me to far too often
> read something like "you can do great things with XY
steph:
> = find / -name core -exec rm {} \;
> = then executes a rm command for each one found.
[...]
> Also, in a discussion I had last week about putting SID names
> into the .dbf files of Oracle databases, one of my colleagues
> told me a horror story where part of the SID was called
> 'core
Carolyn Jarie Getter:
> Will someone please clue me in on the "core" files that show up in
> many of my directories. What are they? Where do they come from?
Somebody else explained what those files are, so I'll just tell a way to
get rid of them:
add 'ulimit -c 0' to your startup files if you
Marie Fischer:
> > Could someone please point me towards information on bar code scanners and
> > printers that work under Linux?
>
> The company I work for uses bar code scanners with linux and this is what
> I got from some short talk with one of the guys who program them:
> There are 2 ki
Tania Morell:
> :) Strange topic for techtalk but...
It really should be an important part of ANY organizer programme, so I
think we should discuss it further in order to make a spec and then get
it implemented ;)
> :( Not so happy to admit... sometimes I do sleep in
> my clothes. And I
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