i'm trying to stig core 5 right now
and since i use gentoo exclusively, this is starting to irritate me
for example, logging all login attempts: successful or not?

MrStabby, /var/logs
you should know that
Jaymez, hmmmm
do services start Jaymez ?

and what hardware are we talking ?

I know where logs are kept. I'm referring to an exclusive log for 'successful' logins, not only the unsuccessful logins (sshd sends bad login to /var/log/messages); but not console logins

/var/log/secure
:> thanks
check syslogd conf

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how can I remote desktop to a fedora machine on my network?

–from an xp box
look up vnc and xvnc
also tightvnc
all VNC

any of them free?
yes
all of them
o
ok, it would appear i need xfree86

how can i install that remotely?
er..
you said "remote desktop" .. ?
if you dont have xfree86/xorg .. you dont have a desktop
well..
i have a desktop..

but when i try to install tightvnc with the rpm on my linux machine, it says it needs xfree86 to install
do you have Xorg installed?
if fedora core 5 installed it i do
you can choose to have a purely terminal based install .. or not
i didn't do a terminal based install
i had the gui up and running
it works

ah ok .. GUI = Xorg ..
xfree86 was split and Xorg is now whats there ..
try: yum install tightvnc
No Match for argument: tightvnc
:(
try: yum search xvnc

sleep required ..
:)
good luck
thanks

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hi all, can someone tell me how i can tell how much physical memory is in my machine without rebooting to watch the post? when i type top it includes the page file

free
thans!

np
i got 775708 total physical memory on this laptop, any idea how well vmware will run windows xp / vista on this laptop?
depends on cpu mainly

memory is fine
you don't happen to know a command to find the cpu speed?
cat /proc/cpuinfo
:)
1.8 Pentium 4 M
what do you think ???

just don't want to go to all the effort of setting it up if its going to be crap
hmmm
should be ok
might be a little jitter now and then

will give it a go, i just wanted to test out the vmware software, i know it is going to be like a two week project getting it working

not really
day
maybe 2
always seems to end up a lot more complicated when i try something on my linux box than it first looks
i havn't been using it for very long but i enjoy fiddling

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I cant set the password!

"su - && passwd easypwn" doesn't output anything, just a new line appears.

you only need to su - once

once you have done the su - you should be root with the correct path
su - enter

hm I'm not sure the user was added either, nothing new in etc/passwd
oh, sec
su - oh.. thanks, that worked

adduser username
passwd username
cool, it worked! Thanks guys!!

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hello, what's a default fedora editor. besides vi ?

nano maybe? that one seems popular.
vim owns you!
emacs

well tell it to take good care of me then
i prefer vi myself
vim
nano
pico
emacs
joe

vim is my favorite
can't stand pico/nano

too much like text-based wordpad or something!
i was used to pico and now jpico. so nano is great thankyou

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i have fedora 4 core 64bit x86 running on my server but it appears to have a memory leak, everyday the memory usage jumps 75-100MB until it runs out of memory

?
run top
linux will always use up all ram for disk caching

yeh
so this is completely normal?
exactly

free -m and look at the +/i buffers line for the true free ram
+/-
ok here we go
weeeeirrrd

yes its normal
thanks guys

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n00b question: trying to install imageMagick using rpm I dl'd from their site, it fails for dependencies and lists some packages as suggestions. Armed with the suggested package names, how do I dl and install them?

Gamblor_, use yum
yum install Imagemagick
man yum: No manual entry for yum. Shit .. maybe I'm in the wrong channel.
n00ber q: how do I tell what version of linux I am running?
cat /etc/issue.net

Gamblor_, what distro and are you root ?
cat /etc/*version*
OmegaEvil: Yes I'm root — and I think I'm not sure what distro. I thought it was fedora. I must be wrong. cat /etc/issue.net yields: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 3)"
well then
thats not fedora
rhe4

up2date
ok thank you guys .. where should I be going to ask for help? #redhat-help?
but Im unsure if rhe4 has imagemagik
Gamblor_, stay here
same people here as over in #redhat
up2date -i Imagemagick
it does

[mzupan@vtrhsan3 RPMS]$ ls ImageMagick-*
ImageMagick-6.0.7.1-14.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-c++-6.0.7.1-14.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.0.7.1-14.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-devel-6.0.7.1-14.i386.rpm
ImageMagick-perl-6.0.7.1-14.i386.rpm
[mzupan@vtrhsan3 RPMS]$ pwd
/SAN-mounts/strg1-2/yum/redhat/4es/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS

whoa .. that up2date thing is doing a bunch of stuff.
course it is
lol
something about satisfying dependencies. Thanks!

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