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ran: /usr/local/openssh-3.8.1p1/ssh-keygen -b 768 -t rsa and did the same for dsa, needless to say, it failed!!! It detected existing keys, said Y to overwrite & it simply failed. How can it all worked like a magic when another system had everything installed as RPMs?? This is nuts...

Ok. find / -name ssh_host_key returns this location:/usr/local/etc/ssh_host_key When restarting openssh with /usr/local/openssh-3.8.1p1/sshd It reports: could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_host_key Could not load host key: /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key Disabling protocol...

Hello Runnin'MySQL 4.x in a RHL8 system. Had assigned a temporary password to the root account of MySQL using: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password passisalive /usr/bin/mysqladnin - root -h systemname password passisalive Now, great, that work, when trying to change the EXISTING password...

I have not run that command yet. Next time I'll stick with RPMS, they seem to do it all for you. I will check ssh-keygen, although no idea what's recommended there. Thanks agaiN! Glad to be here!

Hello 1. Installed latest openssl 2. installed latest openssh (tar.gz) 3. openssh: ./configure, make, make install 4. This says “install the OpenSSH binaries in /usr/local/bin, configuration files in /usr/local/etc, the server in /usr/local/sbin, etc.” 5. Followed this...

Ok, I ran the ./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl and a bit early to find out of any bad issues. The command rpm -q openssl still reports the old version Thanks again mates! Glad to be here!

Ok. Did you by any chance specified a prefix at instalation time? Maybe /usr/local/openssl/bin or /usr/local/bin ? Thanks Glad to be here!

Hello It's a nice-looking RHL 8 system with version openssl-0.9.6b-29. Needs to be upgraded to latest version. 1. Anybody knows the best way to do an "upgrade" of openssl w/o breaking other programs in the system? I did an rpm-e openssl, & it lists other programs that depend on it. Althought...

Hello Is portmap necessary in a system/network where NIS, NFS will not exist? or does any other program, daemon needs this? I have looked around the Net but would prefer other Linux/Unix users opinions. Thanks! Glad to be here!

Hello When downloading a program/software in Linux, where should the sources be placed into? /tmp? or where they're intended to go, say /usr/local or /usr? A lot of the programs install themselves where they are tarred, so this varies from software. Thanks! Glad to be here!

Ok. The lokkit utility takes you back to the same GUI-like-interface of the setup/firewall configuration, right? Does the lokkit utility remembers the previous settings as applied from before? This seems to be the problem when using the setup/firewall config tool; going into it & not even...

hello noticed at installation time of red hat linux 8, there are three options: high, medium and "no firewall" what does "no firewall means" exactly in practical & technical tems? we have some problems with the "firewall configuration" option in the setup tool ( typing setup at cmd prompt)...

Hello from top being closest to the outer edge of hard disk (faster access) & first to be created when partitioning linux: /boot /root /swap /tmp /usr /home system will have Apache, MySQL & Bugzilla. is the creation / placement order of these partitions reasonable ok ? thanks in advance...

Hello It will be a Bugzilla system with MySQL, Apache. Pretty much have sorted what will be assigned & what partitions will exist, but the /tmp is something I'm not quite sure. Read that it is the "system-wide temporary space" and if not created separately it will be included in the root...