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yum localinstall nvu*.rpm

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Redhat 9's partitions can be anywhere on the physical disk. Doesn't really matter whether they're primaries or logicals in an extended partition. The only problem you *might* have would be based on the computer itself. On old machines, you used to have to make sure your initial ramdisk and/or the se...

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In that case, you can get the Mandriva SRPM of the older version and try to update it into a new SRPM with the current IceWM source. Note that this is not something I would recommend for a newbie, but if you've got the patience, it is do-able. You've just got to get under the hood of that SRPM and s...

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Your problem is that you installed from source rather than finding RPMs specific to Mandriva. The source based install almost certainly doesn't know anything about what distro you're using, what display manager you're using, or how to integrate with either. Part of the nicety of running a distro is ...

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there's no boot.img for a floppy in FC5. You can still install FC5 if you can boot from either USB or PXE. However, as this old computer doesn't even allow booting from CD, I doubt you'll have any luck with either of those. Just the same, have a look here and see if you can work something out: http:...

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this article is so handy I keep it bookmarked: http://linuxgazette.net/104/odonovan.html

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did you try toggling between active/passive ftp?

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oh, and to answer your question about hackers sending packets: they can indeed send packets with the tcp bits faked to look like packets that are part of an existing connection. that's why these days we have stateful firewalls. the firewall doesn't just trust the tcp headers in the incoming packets,...

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again, extrememly and overly complicated. and now, it's broken! you use $IFC in computing $EXTIP, but IFC isn't defined anywhere now. not that this is a big problem, because I can't find where you're using $EXTIP anyway... and why on earth do you need to define $LOPIF and $LOPIP? those are lo and 12...

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wow! that to me looks overly complicated, to say the least. why do you go through all the trouble to compute and define those variables, but then not use some of them? also, while those 2 rules about "Allow web browsing" and "Allow secure web browsing" will let you get responses from web servers, th...

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I guess I also misunderstand the purpose of separating topics into specific forums. I thought it was pretty clear what gleek was trying to do, but I guess that's not allowed?

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the relevant portions of an `lspci` and an `lsmod` (in the case of the lsmod, I guess the whole output would be relevant, as it will show what's NOT being loaded) would also be helpful.

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look at the configure script and see how it's determining the kernel you're running.

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to answer your first question: yes, unless you've also got tcp_wrappers or iptables rules for sshd based on port number.

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guess what telinit is actually calling...

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I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, but here's my plan for sshd: run it on a different port & turn off root logins. this should probably be the FIRST thing you do on any new installation. yes, I understand all the arguments about security through obscurity, but making these 2 sim...

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only that you should check the sshd logs on the host machine. maybe you'll get lucky and it will tell you what that particualr client is doing wrong.

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Joshco wrote:
Should I use the Linux box between my Internet and Windows instead?

I highly recommend it. Linux is much easier to secure properly, and if you're going to be running it 24/7 as a folding box anyway, you might as well use it as your firewall/router.

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do yourself a favor and buy an external, honest to goodness hardware modem. something that connects to the computer with an old-fashioned 9 pin serial cable. if you stay away from USB and internal modems, you'll almost certainly get a "real" modem, not something that requires software to do its job.

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can I use a RPM for a later version of RedHat (like Fedora) Instinct tells me no well, maybe. but you probably don't want to start down that road either. I seem to remember that there was some 3rd party that was going to continue to provide support for RH9, but my intarweb search skills seem to be ...

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well I've disabled root login and switched to forced SSH2 only. I'm just starting to upgrade sshd and the following occured to me. My current sshd was installed with an RPM, but the latest version of openssh is a tar ball. Do I need to do anything special before installing this (like remove the old...

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you've just about got it. but you don't specify the directory on the array that you want to mount as /home, you specify the partition (or in this case, RAID device). which, by the way, is exactly what the fstab line you quoted already says. at any rate, making a guess about what you've done so far (...

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Jon, did you mean Sparc CPUs? surely Sun's not making versions of Solaris that'll run on IBM processors, are they? if so, they really have embraced an "open" philosophy.

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I gave up on getting ATi drivers to work with linux long ago. but if anyone is able to get these to work, I'd be interested to hear it.

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ahhh, that does explain it then. I'm glad you figured it out!

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linux isn't for everyone; that's certainly true. I'm tempted to say that they ought to put a warning in with every distro, something along the lines of "you must be $somevalue smart to use this software", where $somevalue was a best guess for that specific distro. but then if I said that, I'd just b...

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provided the right module got inserted, you can do an `ifconfig eth1` and see the MAC address whether or not it shows that interface as "UP".

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quick fix to get rid of that error message: in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, take out the line that starts with "HWADDR=". that'll make the message go away, at least. it won't guarantee that the same physical ethernet interfaces are always deteced in the same order, and therefore always...

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so XFCE is slow to start, but twm starts up as normal? have you tried specifying a 3rd or 4th window manager/desktop environment? that might tell you for sure whether the problem was with XFCE only or not

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fdisk/cfdisk will clear the partition and mark it as a 'Linux' type, although I'm not sure exactly what difference that makes, because... You'll still need to create a filesystem on the partition after it's been cleared. Assuming you want this partition to be used just by Slack (i.e. you don't care...

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