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Here is my review since i've been using Solaris 10/11ish :) bash-3.00$ uname -srv SunOS 5.11 snv_23 This just means I run Sun Solaris Express Nevada Build 23 (the road to Solaris 11) First off, for normal user, your path pretty much sucks. So in your home dir I create a .profile and drop this in it. bash-3.00$ cat .profile set -o vi PATH=/opt/csw/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/X/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:$HOME/bin:$PATH Second, way to many ports open: bash-3.00# nmap -v -P0 -sT localhost Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-10-24 09:58 CDT Host localhost (127.0.0.1) appears to be up ... good. Initiating Connect() Scan against localhost (127.0.0.1) at 09:58 Adding open port 6000/tcp Adding open port 6112/tcp Adding open port 23/tcp Adding open port 21/tcp Adding open port 513/tcp Adding open port 7100/tcp Adding open port 587/tcp Adding open port 22/tcp Adding open port 898/tcp Adding open port 4045/tcp Adding open port 514/tcp Adding open port 111/tcp Adding open port 79/tcp Adding open port 25/tcp Bumping up senddelay by 10000 (to 10000), due to excessive drops The Connect() Scan took 52 seconds to scan 1657 ports. Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): (The 1643 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 21/tcp open ftp 22/tcp open ssh 23/tcp open telnet 25/tcp open smtp 79/tcp open finger 111/tcp open rpcbind 513/tcp open login 514/tcp open shell 587/tcp open submission 898/tcp open sun-manageconsole 4045/tcp open lockd 6000/tcp open X11 6112/tcp open dtspc 7100/tcp open font-service Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 52.550 seconds Alright, I really hate ftp/telnet and could go without someone finger'n my box. vi /etc/inet/services #ftp-data 20/tcp #ftp 21/tcp #telnet 23/tcp #finger 79/tcp Locate the inetd process and send it a SIGHUP signal (aka restart) bash-3.00# ps -ef | grep inetd root 278 1 0 09:12:14 ? 0:02 /usr/lib/inet/inetd start root 1615 1351 0 10:55:57 pts/4 0:00 grep inetd bash-3.00# kill -1 278 bash-3.00# nmap -P0 -sT localhost Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-10-24 10:56 CDT Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): (The 1646 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 111/tcp open rpcbind 513/tcp open login 514/tcp open shell 587/tcp open submission 898/tcp open sun-manageconsole 4045/tcp open lockd 6000/tcp open X11 6112/tcp open dtspc 7100/tcp open font-service Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 52.903 seconds Ok, anyway, lets mv on now that we have a decent PATH and shut off telnet/ftp/finger. Most people here are familiar with yum/apt-get/urpmi, with solaris there is a “pkg-get” from a 3rd party site, from what I know there are some Sun employee's that build a lot of the packages and I have used them off/on for a few years now, so I trust them. I'm not going to walk you through setting it up, you can follow the instructions. http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html Once you have it setup, it's pretty easy to use, Update the package catalog and update all pkg-get installed pkgs pkg-get -U -u Install a package pkg-get -i firefox You get the idea, I'll spare you the blah blah blah..... Also there is more software at: http://sunfreeware.com/ One of these days I will get around to installing pkgsrc from netbsd on to Solaris too. http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html Anyway, I'm starting to get bored with writing this, so I'm just going to start skimming over some stuff and speed this up ;) Some cool stuff not implemented before Sol 10: Dtrace http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/dtrace.html http://daemons.net/~matty/articles/solaris.dtracetopten.html SMF http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5n0?a=view Zones Much like Jails/chroot and a bit like xen/vmware, downside to me with zones it one kernel fits all so if you wanted to play with a patch on the kernel in your zone so you don't hose up the main install, to bad. FireEngine Much improved network stack http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/xperts/sessions/11_fireengine/ x86 Support for x86/x86_64 is greatly improved. When people used to ask me what i thought about x86 Solaris (7-9) I said, “slowaris”, because thats pretty much what it was, HORRIBLE. Howerver, sol10 is very nice, I'm running it on an x86 and sparc box at home, and typing this from my sparc ultra 60 at work. I like it :) JDS3 is a nice looking desktop (to me) but it is buit from Gnome -2.6 so a little outdated, I got 2.8 installed from blastwave and I will mess with pkgsrc and maybe garnmoe to see if i can get the latest and greatest on there. I'm a gnomer so you can grab kde-3.3.3 I think from blastwave or you could try Konstruct for the latest and see what happens. Cool stuff down the road: Janus - a tool for running Linux software on Solaris http://www.sun.com/2004-0803/feature/ ZFS - the sophisticated file system (zettabyte file system) http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/ http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/zfs.jsp I'm about done so I will just leave you with this, I'm digging Solaris again, I feel away for it for a couple years, still played around with the latest releases and all, but Sol10 is a much improved OS. NO, I will not get ride of my Fedora/Rawhide box, I dig that to much :) But I will leave Solaris on a couple box and might even dual boot my amd64 box with it to see how it plays. When I get a little more free time, I will also build opensolaris on top of it and see what all the crazy is about 8) I give you some links since I'm the link king :) http://www.sun.com/ http://docs.sun.com/app/docs http://sunsolve.sun.com http://www.sun.com/bigadmin http://www.blastwave.org http://sunfreeware.com/ http://planetsun.org/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/ http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/...ng_opensolaris/ http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris_display_1.0-7676.html http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_bout...cratch_table_of http://www.sunhelp.org/ http://www.solarisinternals.com/si/index.php http://solaris-x86.org/

I think all of them are easy, some just offer speicfic things to users that aren't available in other distros. That's why I use Fedora/RH they offer a lot of things the "others" don't. 1.) I would say its easier for beginners than Fedora 2.) command line 3.) The newer the distro, the more hardware it will support (kernel) 4.) Um, I'd probably use it 3rd or 4th, next to Fedora and RH. Like artic said, d/l the live cd and play around.

I like the theme and icons, very smooth and clean. Of course I like the music! There coming Nov 5 and i'm going to try and see them and Day of Fire! It's like a can jam festival were you bring a bunch of canned food to donate and you get in for $5!!! http://www.itickets.com/events/122616.html http://seespotrock.com/

Ok, this can mean a lot of things with out more info. 1.) You forgot how to. 2.) Your burner is dead. 3.) You don't have a burner anymore. 4.) There is a bug in ubuntu 5.) Your iso's suck. Give some info fool!!! ;)

JDS 3.0 too,

My once a few months screenshot ;)

Or do this: chown -h -R user:group /home/user

I used to be known as "Distro HO" ;) nvidia isn't important, thats just for 3D acceleration. emerge kde/gnome will pull in the dep's for xorg/* You will just need to configure your xorg config file.

But you don't really need a seperate user name, as long as you rm the .kde .gnome type dir/files your fine. You can also as root, depending on your username/group chown -h -R user:group /home/user Doesn't matter who owned it before ;)

Or just removing dir's that are like .kde .gnome, most of the hidden dir's are fine to remove because they will just affect/screw up when you login to what ever DE/WM you use.

Yeah, a lot of times though there is "stuff" in the failed build that will give enough info to figure it out, I ran gentoo for a long time :)

You will probably have to show some error messages for people to be able to help ;)

Or you could buid your own and put what you want on it :) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi

kanotix, is a good hd install to for debian sid.

Some that I use http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/ http://dc.qut.edu.au/adios/ http://yui.mine.nu/linux/eberry.html http://www.remote-exploit.org/ http://www.phlak.org

Is it logwatch that is sending these e-mails out? You might check more /etc/log.d/logwatch.conf # The default detail level for the report. # This can either be Low, Med, High or a number. # Low = 0 # Med = 5 # High = 10 Detail = 10 I set mine to high, but you can certianly kick it down to low/med Or is it a different app that is doing this?

Your welcome, It's in Fedora Extras, thats how I found out about it.

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There shouldn't be any difference, apply patches the same on any distro for your kernel. One thing I would recommend you look at is making the kernel via dpkg and on your mdk box making it via rpm That way you have them in nice little packages ;)

in your httpd.conf, look for a line similar to this: Include /etc/apache/mod_php.conf If you have something like that, uncomment it and restart apache I think slackware still calls it /etc/apache/mod_php.conf If not, it might be like my fedora box /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/index.html I use denyhosts on my box that is connected to the net. DENY_THRESHOLD = 3 DENY_THRESHOLD_VALID = 5 DENY_THRESHOLD_ROOT = 1 Of course the ROOT doesn't really matter since I don't allow root to login externally anyway ;) You can also send a report to your email account like logwatch. Thats for us paranoid folks who like to look through logs in our gmail.... :unsure:

If you want to get ugly, you can edit the sudo'ers file and have a line like this, you will also need to add your user to wheel (if wheel is used in mdk) $ su - <root passwd> # visudo un-comment one of these line or create the line # Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL # Same thing without a password # %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Or you can get more specific and do what i do # User alias specification User_Alias YUM_FULL=justin User_Alias YUMDL_FULL=justin User_Alias YUMBD_FULL=justin User_Alias MOUNT_DRIVES=justin User_Alias UMOUNT_DRIVES=justin User_Alias SHUT_DOWN=justin User_Alias RE_BOOT=justin User_Alias SELINUX_FIXFILES=justin User_Alias SELINUX_RELABEL=justin User_Alias SBIN_INIT=justin # Cmnd alias specification Cmnd_Alias YUM=/usr/bin/yum * Cmnd_Alias YUMDL=/usr/bin/yumdownloader * Cmnd_Alias YUMBD=/usr/bin/yum-builddep * Cmnd_Alias MOUNT=/bin/mount /media/* Cmnd_Alias UMOUNT=/bin/umount /media/* Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN=/sbin/shutdown * Cmnd_Alias REBOOT=/sbin/reboot Cmnd_Alias FIXFILES=/sbin/fixfiles * Cmnd_Alias RELABEL=/bin/touch /.autorelabel Cmnd_Alias INIT=/sbin/init * # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL YUM_FULL ALL=(ALL) YUM YUMDL_FULL ALL=(ALL) YUMDL YUMBD_FULL ALL=(ALL) YUMBD MOUNT_DRIVES ALL=(ALL) MOUNT UMOUNT_DRIVES ALL=(ALL) UMOUNT SHUT_DOWN ALL=(ALL) SHUTDOWN RE_BOOT ALL=(ALL) REBOOT SELINUX_FIXFILES ALL=(ALL) FIXFILES SELINUX_RELABEL ALL=(ALL) RELABEL SBIN_INIT ALL=(ALL) INIT

Yes

http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/QuickAndDirty Did you try this?

np, work, life and fedora-test list take about 110% of my time, thats why I don't drop in forums very often anymore :) I am man of many helpful links for most distros, thats why you will rarely see me asking for help, cause I can normally find the answer some were ;) Other than the rawhide mailing list cause its all un-charted territroy B) Thats probably why I run it the most, if something isn't bleeding and broke, its just not cool........