A couple of questions from a newbie

[dpellegrini]

1. where are the system logfiles located so I can review them, and are they named .log?
2. what do I need to do to give a user admin rights as close to root as possible, so that when the user telnets, he/she will be able to install and run programs without a permission denied message.
3. which is better RH7 or RH 7.1 and if 7.1 then how would I go about upgrading, or do I need to reinstall?

Domenick Pellegrini
dpellegrini@yahoo.com

 

[DumTech]

1-Log files typically live in /var/log and don't end with any particular extension.

2-First off, you might want to look at ssh rather than plain ol' telnet for security reasons. For the user to become as root, (s)he can just use 'su' or 'su -' ('su -' will process the login files so the user's environment is the usual root environment) to become root. Check the su man page for more on that. I don't have a linux box handy to get all the details fresh in mind. Users might have to be added to the wheel group to su...Not sure if I'm thinking of the right flavor.

3-I don't know... I run 7.1 though. Check Red Hat documentation for changes between 7.0 and 7.1 as well as how to upgrade.

Hope this helps. No doubt more help will be forthcoming...

 

[dpellegrini]

Thanks,
I'll have a look.


Domenick Pellegrini
dpellegrini@yahoo.com

 

[ifincham]

Hi,







On point 3, the general view with redhat x.0 releases is that they usually have a few problems that are corrected by later point releases. A bit similar to people saying they would not install windoze 2K until the first service pack came out. In case you are not aware, redhat released 7.2 this week (

http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/7-2_standard.html/)

so that would be the best choice.







On upgrading, I've done various upgrades from prior redhat versions and they usually go OK. The main irritation from my perspective is that if you have the ximian gnome desktop installed (

http://www.ximian.com)

it replaces that with the redhat packaged gnome which many view as not quite so wonderful. Also, you may have to do a bit of re-configuring if you have custom kernels, etc. Usually, the rpm install scripts will either leave exsiting conf files as is and install as conf.new or vice versa. Personally, I always choose 'custom' install/upgrade options just in case it decides to do something nasty. As I say, my experience of redhat upgrades is they don't generally cause too many problems.







Regards

 

[dpellegrini]

Thanks for the last bit of info. I'm did a standard install of 7.0 using all the packages that came with the distribution. I've added a few things, webmin, samba, (so far). I'll try the 7.2 and see how it goes. It's not a production server anyway, so if everything goes bonkers I'll just start from scratch.
Thanks

Domenick Pellegrini
dpellegrini@yahoo.com