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So, this means to sudo every executable in the /usr/bin folder? pls elaborate.. thanks, 007 Thing is I always login as root, bcause of the fact that the normal user accounts are quite restricted....For example, if I login as a normal user, the "init 6" command dosent work......There are many other r...

This sounds interesting!! How do I go about doing this guys? I'm on RH 8....Are them some Access Control Lists that I have to edit manually? thanks & rgds, 007 why not just unrestrict those things you want normal users to be able to do? i can't believe your answer to that is simply to compromise you...

Thing is I always login as root, bcause of the fact that the normal user accounts are quite restricted....For example, if I login as a normal user, the "init 6" command dosent work......There are many other restrictions but I cannot think of them right now..

rgds,
007

A quick question.....But what about the people who login as ROOT? A virus could attack and if the payload is deadly, then the system is toast correct? I think such people will require to use the Anti-Virus software....

rgds,
007

Hi!

Am only trying to send mails....I have a pop account at GMX, so I will be using GMX to receive mails and want to use my system to send mails....Is it possible to do this?

thanks for ur help,
007

hi all,

I am thinking of setting up a Mail Transport Agent on my system...so as to use the SMTP service for outgoing mails. Is it possible to do this? Will I be able to send mails using my system? This is just a home system..not on a LAN
Am on a dial-up modem with a dynamic IP.


thanks,
007

Yeah, someone gave me the tar file and when I extracted it (in root) guess it found the User number and the files *belonged* to someone else....I wonder if this is a good feature..I mean by default why should it restore the permissions? ( even though in case of backups it maybe a plus point, but tha...

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VoidMain, thanks for the detailed info... Btw, what about dd? Isin't it better than tar for backup purposes?

thanks,
007

Hi all, Sometimes when I extract the tar files, the extracted files seem to be belonging to someone else in terms of permissions..Would it be better if I change the permissions to 'root'? Also, how do the files retain the permissions of someone else? I mean, after I extract the tar on my system, the...

I think backing up the /etc file cud land me into trouble......I mean /etc contains the rc0.d stuff so I would'nt want to overwrite the newer folder with the current one.. Here's what I'll do, backup the /root /home/user1 /home/user2 and just copy back the folders to /root /home/user1 /home/user2 et...

Guess the server was down in the morning......I was trying and squid gave some resolve errors...Good thing the server is up and running!

007

Hi guys, I've been thinking about this for a long time now.....so here goes. Currently I'm running RH8.0. Lets say that RedHat releases RH10 in a couple of years. Also consider that most of the packages have got minor and major upgrades. Is it advisable to install RH10 over RH8 (as in upgrade)? OR s...

Ur right VoidMain....seems like there were some conflicts with the browser + ad-zapper. Got it fixed now. Btw, with ref to this pic http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/si/?i=squid.png&t=redirect_program%20/etc/squid/squid_redirect Are those sensors real time? I mean it looks awesome...How did u do that? I...

Hi VoidMain, Greetings! This is a nice little place u have here...... Regarding the Ad Zapper script, how do I go about enabling pop-ups? Thing is sometimes pop-ups are needed for some password boxes, help windows etc. If needed I usually disable pop-ups via the browser. thanks, 007 PS:- Can't makeo...