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Red Hat 7.2 official launch
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 12 Oct '01

12 Oct '01

Here's the official word from Red Hat... The launch date is set to be October 22nd, at 8:00am EST (-5/GMT). Hopefully, we'll be completely in synch with their site by that morning. (That shouldn't be too much of a problem, though, as they've been much more organised than usual, and have given mirror sites much more lead time.) -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Red Hat 7.2 review from ZDnet
by gedetil 11 Oct '01

11 Oct '01

Further to the October roundtable discussion about the imminent release of Red Hat 7.2, here's the ZDnet review I mentioned, which may be of interest to you... http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2816836,00.html It mentions some of the key new features in this release, such as GRUB, ext3, and a new version of Gnome. (BTW, still no word on the actual release date, but it's still sounding likely to be sometime between the 15th and the 22nd.) Also, I've updated the meeting write-up on the web site to include links to the PDF file for Terry Baydock's slide presentations and handouts... http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/01-02.html#oct Enjoy! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Linux Journal subscriptions
by Bill Reid 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

Just a warning. I received my renewal notice at the price of 1 yr $32, 2 yr $64. A month later another notice had the price at 1 yr $22, 2 yr $39. I do not know how low the price would go if I waited longer. ttyl, Bill ____________________________________________________________ Bill Reid Page 993 Dorchester Ave. Network Consultant, Retired 935-1432 Winnipeg, MB R3M 0P9 University of Manitoba (204) 452-6590

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Logging and rejecting with iptables
by Sean A. Walberg 11 Apr '01

11 Apr '01

Further to the question last night on how to both log and drop a packet, it is done with an extra chain. I created a LOGGING chain with a default policy of ACCEPT. The first rule in INPUT was then to jump to LOGGING. Here is what I have (my apologies for any wrapping) [root@poochie /root]# iptables -N LOGGING [root@poochie /root]# iptables -A LOGGING -p tcp --dport printer -j LOG [root@poochie /root]# iptables -I INPUT -j LOGGING [root@poochie /root]# iptables -L INPUT -v Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 1730617 packets, 454636701 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 42 2215 LOGGING all -- any any anywhere anywhere 5 300 REJECT tcp -- ppp0 any anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:printer reject-with icmp-port-unreachable ... Telnetted to the printer port from another site ... [root@poochie /root]# iptables -L INPUT -v Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 1730622 packets, 454636941 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 48 2515 LOGGING all -- any any anywhere anywhere 6 360 REJECT tcp -- ppp0 any anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:printer reject-with icmp-port-unreachable /var/log/messages: Apr 11 09:07:20 poochie kernel: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=204.112.146.80 DST=209.202.29.23 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=56 ID=11222 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1254 DPT=515 WINDOW=32120 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Sean -- Sean A. Walberg <sean(a)ertw.com> http://www.ertw.com *updated!* Join the weekly brainbuzz.com Linux newsletter for news and resources! Send a blank email to: join-linuxnews(a)list.brainbuzz.com

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