Re: [Sheflug] Linux Servers 101

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the advice which I heeded - I now have ssh running on my linux
machines after some messing about. As usual it was all my stupid fault as,
after the last re-install on Mandrake (yes, I know I should'nt need to and
should just find problems in the files but sometimes it is just easier to
pretend its windoze and re-install!) I hadn't re-installed the 'make'
rpm  - you'd think that something as fundamental as 'make' would be
installed automatically wouldn't you, but it isn't. The next thing I need to
do is find out what to alter to tighten up the system's security as I
probably compromised it trying to get rlogin to work.
I didn't manage to find a .rpm for ssh, so it doesn't look as though anyone
has done one yet. Oh, the other thing that was stopping me getting ssh
working was that I was trying to install version 2.* which seems to have
difficulties with some versions of linux and certainly with Mandrake. When I
dropped back to version 1.2.27 it went much better.
There's one other thing I seem to be lacking at the moment and I can't find
it anywhere and that is the 'xmkmf' command. It is needed for compiling one
of the programs I want to install but doesn't seem to be either on my
machine or the Mandrake CD. It is on the RH5.2 machine but I can't remember
whether it was there from the start or if I installed it later. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ian

--
Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK


----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
To: Sheflug <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: 30 May 2000 09:01
>
>     Ian> I'm not sure I need 'commercial' level security.  [...]  My
>     Ian> web connect times are also very short and irregular so it is
>     Ian> quite unlikely that anyone would manage a 'hit' on my system
>     Ian> as it now is.
>
> Please rethink; I'm pretty sure you will regret that attitude as soon
> as you have a wide pipe to the 'net and have to start closing random
> holes you've forgotten you opened.
>
>     Ian> I looked at ssh but, after 5 attempts, I still haven't
>     Ian> managed to do a successful ./configure on it!
>
> Huh?  What's wrong with the RPMs?  Surely they must be available?  (I
> use Debian, dunno RPMS but sure I know .debs are easily available!)


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