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Checking sendmail.cf file at boot time
by Robert L Cochran 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

In an earlier posting I made on the Shrike list, I mentioned it is a good idea to turn off mail relaying in sendmail. Someone responded that the default sendmail implementation from Red Hat only listens for connections on the local host, anyhow, so in effect why bother? The best answer to that is that a substitute sendmail.cf file could be inserted to the system maliciously at some point. You should not just assume that sendmail is running with the actual Red Hat defaults, in other words. Substitution of sendmail.cf can be done without disturbing the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file. Then restart sendmail. Presto! Without quite realizing it, the user's sendmail is listening for connections and is suddenly an open relay. What I do is that if sendmail is active on my system, I always manually edit sendmail.mc, run it through 'make -C /etc/mail', and restart sendmail to use the new sendmail.cf file. That way I know I generated the sendmail.cf file using the options I want (rather than praying the Red Hat defaults are working.) I could go a step further and write a cron script to check the date and times of these files every now and then and email me if they change unexpectedly. So I'm thinking that what would be nice is functionality in both the initscripts and perhaps some other service which runs during normal uptime which checks whether sendmail is installed and if so, whether certain options considered to be high risk are turned on. Bob Cochran

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Graphical boot
by Terry Linhardt 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Sorry if this is redundant. But, I haven't seen any discussion... The graphical boot...is it supposed to work with the newest beta? It appears to be configured in /etc/sysconfig/init...but certainly nothing "graphical" occurs. Any feedback. Thanks...Terry -- Terry R Linhardt <linhardt(a)swbell.net>

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viewing samba in nautilus unreliable
by Pavel Rosenboim 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Hi, When I open 'network servers' menu, sometimes it works just fine, but sometimes it just displays empty nautilus window. In this case refresh doesn't help. I also got a crash once during this. Anyone else see similar behaviour? Pavel.

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more system failures with Severn.... (on an Athlon)
by Elton Woo 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

I don't have kmail installed (this time) ... third *successful* install. Instead I have to use Mozilla mail. Starting Evolution, and I get this error message: " Cannot activate component OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Mail_ShellComponent : The error from the activation system is: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0' " Evolution then loads, but without it's default contents and folders. Also, sendmail is VERY SLOW to load, so the load process (even the graphical one) 'hangs' for about 2 full minutes when almost at the 80% mark .... I'm gauging the "80 %" as a "guesstimate" of the visual completion bar. bugs? you betcha! ... and to think that some in this list are already running the 2.6 prerelease kernel. I guess this means serious problems for the AMD users here. Compared to most of 'em on the list, I'm running a fairly "old" system (about 4 years): AMD Athlon, nVidia (3 D Labs) card, and Viewsonic 17. Before my last crash and burn, I tried installing the nVidia drivers, and it could not create the needed module. Sounds logical though, since I imagine there would be some need of updating or patching to support the present kernel in Severn. Elton. -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other." LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board.

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on what disk is licq?
by Elton Woo 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

I have to *manually* instll licq, but I can't seem to find it. ... maybe I'm "looking too hard" but I know it must be on one of the three Severn disks, but ... whihc one, please? TIA, Elton ;-) -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other." LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board.

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test
by Féliciano Matias 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

test -- Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias(a)free.fr>

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CDROM confusion
by Gerry Tool 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

I am going nuts trying to figure out how to get kudzu to stop trying to mount "extra" cdrom drives. I have two drives, a cdrw on hdc and a dvd player on hdd. I have added hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi to my kernel line in grub.conf. I have created links /dev/cdrom linked to /dev/scd0 and /dev/cdrom1 linked to /dev/scd1. I have changed /etc/fstab to read /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 trying not to use kudzu for the cdrom drives. When I reboot, kudzu insists on creating new links /dev/cdrom2 to /dev/hdc and /dev/cdrom3 to /dev/hdd, and adding lines as follows to /etc/fstab. /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom3 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 This all worked fine when I set it up this way in RHL8.0 and RHL9. How can I resolve this? Thanks in advance. Gerry

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RE: ACPI/PCMCIA, cdrom/smartd, VESA settings issues with laptop (UPDATE)
by Andrew Lofthouse 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Wow. Must have been a late night when I posted the last message. After having some time to mess around with system settings, seems that most of my issues were fairly small. This is what I've come up with: 1. I've always had ACPI problems with this laptop (with Linux). I was hoping this would work, but... 2. The laptop is about 4 years old, so the harddrive isn't SMART capable, hence the problems with smartd. This, though presents a problem for users non-SMART drives. Since smartd is enabled by default, and it causes drive errors that then cause Gnome to hang during login, how is a fairly inexperienced user going to get past that hurdle? 3. VESA settings (such as vga=788) depend on the order of kernel options (?). I now have graphical boot turned off and kernel options as "acpi=off vga=788" in grub.conf. It seems to also work with graphical boot turned on (but on the first console). Andrew L. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Ted Tso on htree stability
by Yusuf Goolamabbas 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Response by Ted Tso to Bill Nottingham's post about htree instability and this its non inclusion in severn ----- Forwarded message from Theodore Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu> ----- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:38:33 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu> To: Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg(a)outblaze.com> Cc: ext3-users(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: htree and Severn Message-ID: <20030730183833.GD16161@think> > > My reading of the kernel.src.rpm doesn't indicate that Severn has ext3 > > htree patches. Stephen, were there any issues seen during Cerberus > > testing ? > > > > Regards, Yusuf > > Following up to my own post, Bill Nottingham of Redhat mentioned on the > rhl-beta-list that the last time they tried htree, they found quite a > few bugs and as such not including it. > > http://listman.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2003-July/msg00186.html > > I haven't checked Taroon whether it includes htree (I doubt it) though > it claims to have ext3 updates for performance and stability My understanding was that the last time Red Hat OS engineering tried it was a before a number of ext3 bugs were fixed. I don't know of any current problems with the htree code. - Ted ----- End forwarded message ----- -- If you're not using Firebird, you're not surfing the web you're suffering it http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/why/

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drvblock.img modules are a mismatched kernel version...
by Jesse Keating 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

So I tried to use the drvblock.img provided on the Severn disk 1, to be able to install to an aic79xx controller. Unfortunately, the aic79xx module complains that it was compiled w/ kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptlBOOT, and the installer is running kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl. This is a mismatch and the module won't load. Is there anything I can do to force this module to load? -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating

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