[newbie] microsoft bounty - was: If this will not turn businesses [...]
To clarify: I have noticed a great deal of FUD originating from the Linux community over Microsoft offering a 'bounty' for resellers turning over the names of corporate buyers purchasing boxen sans an operating system. The fact is, Microsoft, with full legal rights, is pursuing copyright violators. It seems many businesses are purchasing machines sans an OS and surplusing their old machines. On the new machines, the businesses are installing the old copies of the OS. The site license these businesses purchased is not transferable and for them to install the old OS on the new machines is in violation of the terms of their site license. Unethical that one cannot wipe and old system and transfer one's software to the new machine? Perhaps. But it's not legal to do that, and Microsoft is in the business of making money, not being everyone's pal. If businesses don't like the policy, they ought to have better examined the terms of their site license. I'm treading a fine line on being off topic here, so any replies might be best done to my email versus the list. The original e-mail came from Toronto LUG. Buying a naked computer might soon be against the law. Sort of scarry thing. Unfortunatelly too many people are addicted to Windows, that's enough to make this work. Just thought I share it with good people of Mandrake list. Regards, Nathan
Re: [newbie] samba RPM
With all due respect, if you're struggling with the documentation, Samba is not the place to be. Samba, IMHO, is one of the more difficult programs to configure. I've yet to find an easy way to configure Samba. SWAT caused more problems than it fixed, and the varying iterations of SMB are a pain in the ass. Win95 does it one way, Win98 another, Win2k a third way, etc... The writing in Securing and Optimizing Linux: RedHat edition is fairly well polished. It has an acceptable section on Samba. Check this over: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3 /chap29sec280.html Also, the SMB HOW-TO is decent: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html What book are you referring to? Regards, Nathan - Original Message - From: kaab kaoutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 1:44 PM Subject: [newbie] samba RPM Hi! can u put me on track on how to make samba run ? this whole book that came with the rpm is too boring for a beginner :( can u please tell me the steps in a easier way ? thanks a lot NB: i always have trouble using rpm cause in tutorials thaey assuming u've install it in /usr/local etc :(
[newbie] Opening ports on a firewall
I have a Mandrake box serving as a NAT/Firewall box. My IPCHAINS ruleset is as follows: default incoming policy of REJECT remote interface, any source, going to WAN interface address is valid outgoing policy of reject local interface, any source, going to LAN is valid forwarding policy is DENY If I wish to offer a service on the Linux box to the outside world, need I configure IPCHAINS to allow access to that service? For instance, if I wish to offer SSH on port 22 from the WAN, must I specifically allow access to that port? Regards, Nathan
Re: [newbie] Looking for fast FTP site
I am looking for a fast and reliable FTP site to download Mandrake 8.0 I have fast access to the net, I work for an ISP, I have just been lucky in finding sites that suck so bad they bend light. I'm at a Internet2 university, so that makes a huge difference in DL speeds, but generally I find that .edu sites located in the continental US (given that the ISP you work for is continental US...) have good connections. I generally don't bother DLing from a site with a ping worse than 100ms. Your mileage will vary -- 100ms may be unreasonably fast for you. ftp://jungle.metalab.unc.edu is a decent site. ftp://ftp.software.umn.edu may work good for you, however I have no way of knowing as I am only 4 hops away from that machine. Avoid Tucows. I've never gotten good speeds from them, seldom over 25k/sec. That's way too slow for an ISO. Regards, Nathan
Re: [newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jrt
There's an interesting article at Anandtech, http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1456p=1, about how they ran into trouble running their webservers on AMD-based systems. It's worth a read, just to see how they implemented a large-scale site with a Linux-based load balancer, in addition to the hardware troubles. Regards, Nathan - Original Message - From: abram olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jrt I've been using amd processors with linux since mandrake 6 without any problems. I've currently got an asus a7v with a western digital HD running reiserFS in mandrake 8.0 without any problems at all. AMD is a great choice for a linux box.
Re: [newbie] How much internet security do I need?
Along with Pmfirewall you should also configure portsentry to watch for port scans. Pmfirewall, using Ipchains, is a wonderful first step, but a single layered security scheme isn't much security at all. I wouldn't use anything less then two layers and thats cutting things down to bare bones. these days, when it comes to keep your machine secure from unwanted visitors redundency is the way. Along with Portsentry, installing LogCheck is wise. It too is made by Psionic. Logcheck parses the logs, saving only the pertinant information, and mails them each hour to root, or whomever. I will tell you that the hosts.deny file continues to grow daily since these guys just don't take no for an answer and they're still trying to gain access. their ip numbers are all over my firewall logs and portsentry continues to log their scans and enter their ip addresses in the hosts.deny file so that it remembers them. If you the following line to the hosts.deny file, you needn't worry about a vast majority of problems: ALL:ALL@ALL,PARANOID That tells the machine, for programs using TCPWrappers, to deny everyone access to everything, and block any machine whose name does not match its IP. If you need to use INET services on the Linux machine, add the following lines to hosts.allow: in.telnetd: 192.168.0.3 bar.foo.com That's just for example. Replace in.telnetd with whatever program you wish to use, and 192.168.0.3 with which ever machine you want to connect. Also, if you add the following lines to the sysctl.conf (IIRC, that's what Mandrake calls it): net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects = 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route = 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians = 1 net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1 And if you're going to all that trouble, you might as well do the following: In /etc/securetty comment out everything except tty1. Then root can only log onto tty1. If you need more root, you can log on and su. For a good degree of security, remove the rpm binary. Copy it to a floppy disk, or three, and store them away safely. Without rpm, it's impossible for both you and nefarious users to add anything to the computer. If you also remove the compiler, that increases security , but makes life difficult. Consider using Tripwire as it checks the integrity of your important programs. It won't stop an intrusion, but you'll be alerted promptly. Another program, called sXid, which also runs as a cron job, tracks changes in s[ug]id programs. It's available at http://the.wiretapped.net/security/host-security/sxid/ Regards, Nathan
Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.0
Why? It's free and you can DL it from a few dozen places. Check www.mandrake.com and look for the download link? Nathan - Original Message - From: "joey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:56 AM Subject: [newbie] mandrake 7.0 anyone here want to send me a copy of the linux-mandrake 7.0:-)
Re: [newbie] watch what you say on this list
This is news to me. Not good news either. Not that I'm trying to be sarcastic, but isn't all mail archived anyway? Nathan - Original Message - From: "WolfRyder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 11:29 AM Subject: [newbie] watch what you say on this list Following is a copy of an email I am sending to the "filtering" site that linux-mandrake uses. This is in reference to the email thread about "Parental Control". I received an email just now saying my email was " inappropriate subject matter ". It was logged by you. I don't understand why, though. I was answering an email on a listserv of which I am a member and we were discussing filtering software for Linux as opposed to parental monitoring. I don't understand why I was singled out for this type of monitoring when the other people the list used the same word as I, but were not censured (as far as I know). You can bet I won't be discussing the merits of software filtering on that list again. If they use this service to strike fear in the hearts of it's participants when discussing possible writing of filtering options, it's not a site I wish to respond to at all. I am therefore unsubscribing right now. Carol MIMEsweeper ChineseWall Server: CN=NS005/OU=DSRV/O=Texas Utilities - -- - Mail-Info From: WolfRyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ TU To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05/08/2000 07:42:46 AM Subject:Re: [newbie] Parental Control -- -- 'ChineseWall Job' reports: TXU automatically screens all e-mail for inappropriate subject matter (i.e. material that is discriminatory, hateful, vulgar, pornographic, sexually-explicit, or obscene). This e-mail contains information that is considered inappropriate for the business environment and has been logged and will be reviewed to determine final disposition. If you have any questions, please direct them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' porn ' found! Mail has been archived!
Re: [newbie] Quake
How did you get the download file to do anything? I DLed this 49 meg .gz.sh thing only to find an error say "cannot run" such and such script. Thinking there would he a handly reference in the file itself, I tried to open it in the KDE text editor. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ATTEMPT THIS. It was a 25 minute ordeal. It was rather unhelpful anyway. Regards, Nathan - Original Message - From: "Glenn Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 5:15 PM Subject: [newbie] Quake I've been playing Quake under Linux for a while now with no problems. Tried to play last night and got the error 'can't load library LIBM.SO.5'. Is this familiar to anyone? Thank you Glenn Johnson
Re: [newbie] GCC...where are you???
gcc, the C compiler, and g++, the c++ compiler needs to be told which file you'd like to compile. If I've written a program and called it "dirtydeeds.c" or "dirtydeeds.cpp", when I want to compile it, I'd type: gcc dirtydeeds.c OR g++ dirtydeeds.cpp This will generate a file called a.out in the directory where my source file was located. Then just type: a.out to run the program. If you're like me, you'll get a crap load of errors. Vi has a nice feature to show you the line number, which makes finding the offending line easy. Regards, Nathan - Original Message - From: Michael To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 5:38 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] GCC...where are you??? when i type gcc in a terminal window i get gcc.colorgcc: No input filesI would like to be able to use the Gnu C++ compiler for a course in c programmingand don't know how to get the darn thing to cooperate to where i can even do a hello world!-- GIF87a¾
[newbie] I think I've found a bug
Maybe not, but using 2.2.14-mdksecure with Mandrake 7.0-2. My dhcp crapped out and takes a whole lot of massaging to get it to work. I've changed nothing under linux, it just quit working. Under win2k, dhcp works just fine. I've spoken with another person on campus here who runs the identical Mandrake version as me, and he mentioned having the same problem. Does Mandrake have a bug tracking site? I'm curious whether anyone else has reported such a problem. Regards, Nathan Hopper
Re: [newbie] Mouseconfig - MS Intellimouse (PS/2)
On Thu, 04 May 2000, you wrote: Why is it that when I select MS Intellimouse (PS/2) from the list in Mouseconfig it will not work correctly in X? My mouse is a PS/2 Intellimouse. The symptoms are the pointer will automatically move to the upper-right corner of the screen and the button-press events (menus) will fire randomly. My workaround is to use the generic 3 button PS/2 mouse settings. I'm really curious as to why this happens. Do others have the problem? And are there really any differences between selecting Intellimouse or generic mouse? Yes, I had this problem too. Quite frustrating. I did the thing that all true blue former mac and windows users do: I reformatted and reinstalled Mandrake, this time being careful to choose the generic ps/2 driver. But that doesn't support the beloved mouse wheel. Are there any drivers which allow for the use of the wheel? Regards, Nathan
Re: [newbie] Root Password
On Thu, 04 May 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2000, David Smith wrote: Anyone know anything about how to set super permissions to a user without giving them the root password, or the authority to change the root password once they are granted super user permissions. Thanks in advance. Dave You could add the user to the ROOT group, using userconf (as root). This question is sort of along the lost password lines. If I loose the root password, am I totally screwed? Thanks, Nathan
Re: [newbie] Mandrake-7.02.i486.iso ???
There is a way to do a net install via FTP (and maybe HTTP too). I've been tempted to try it, just to say I did, but haven't needed to. It involves making a boot disk which contains an extremely small version of linux. You boot off the disk, and then into the installer, where you input the address of some ftp site which contains Mandrake. However, finding a non ISO of the i486 install might be hard. Blashpemous as it sounds, Red Hat might be a better choice for your particular installation. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake7/install/pages/install.html Has pointers on where to start. Pedantic as it sounds, you'll probably want a fast connection. Regards, Nathan - Original Message - From: "mendes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 9:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake-7.02.i486.iso ??? Hello Is Mandrake-7.02.i486.iso an image for 486 SX? I have an old 486 SX machine without CD rom but if a netcard. Could someone give a help on how to install Mandrake on such a machine? Thanks a lot. Eduardo
[newbie] Trouble running programs
Here's the most frustrating aspect of Linux: In KDE (or Gnome, etc...), I will sometimes double click on something to start it and nothing happens. No error, just nothing. One incident involved the distributed.net client. Untarred and unzipped it, intalled into the home directory (I was logged in as root) and then double clicked on it. Nothing happened. I was quite frustrated. I checked top, it wasn't running. A while later, I tried running it in the console. It worked fine. Why would something run in the console, but not under KDE or Gnome? Are many programs like this? Regards, Nathan
Re: [newbie] first graphical version
1992? [snip] The project that has become XFree86 was initiated in April, 1992 by four developers seeking to provide enhancements to Release 5 of Version 11 of The X Window System (X11R5). At the time, the existing support for Intel-based Unix platforms was unstable, and performed poorly on the current display technology. These four individuals had been working on enhancements, independently, and at (sometimes) cross-purposes. The decision of the four to unite their development efforts has led to one of the most successful free software projects in history. XFree86 grew rapidly, largely due to the concurrent development of freely available operatings systems (Linux, 386BSD, and its follow-ons, FreeBSD and NetBSD). Each project helped stimulate the growth of the other. The free operating systems provided the massive user base for XFree86, while the availability of a quality, high-performance windowing system helped make the operating systems accessible to the users, and helped ensure their success. While there is no reliable way to judge how many people use our software, due to the ad-hoc nature of its distribution, estimates of 100-500,000 users of the free operating systems have been made, with an estimate that 80% or more of these users are using XFree86. Since the initiation of the project, there have been 7 major and several smaller releases of XFree86. XFree86 provides workstation- class performance on a wide range of hardware, while still providing quality support for the low-end systems in use by a large number of free-software users (refer to the documentation located with the software distribution (see below) for details on supported hardware and operating systems). XFree86 has maintained good working relationships with many companies and organizations involved with the development of X products. Several of these organizations have members involved in the development of XFree86, providing a possibly unique symbiosis between a free software project and its commercial "competitors". [snip] taken from: http://www.xfree.org/corp_profile.html Regards, Nathan - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:18 AM Subject: [newbie] first graphical version Kind of a general question here... Does anybody know when Linux first went to a GUI and not entirely command line operated? Thanks, BG
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
Snippets: No matter what I try to add i always need something else. I have 3 pcs on a network and flavours of linux on they are all unstable worse than windows ever was. And yet is is advertised that you could run linux on a 486 with 16mb ram , I think somebody should pull that statement back. What more is that I did I cant do my graphic design because corel only provides me with and unstable gimp . this is where I would much prefer to just put windows back on all my pcs becuase I just cant win with this linux. so here is my final attempt I want a file manager that works just like the one in corel linux os v1.1 in my mandrake. I want a graphic ppp dialer that does not give the deamon died error all the time i want a download manager of some description and I want stability. More I want somethong that does not require me to try and be what I am not Iam not a c++ programer or software research and devepement, I am a user and thats what I do I run my bussiness and I play games and I download things PS: excuse the spelling the kmail spellchecker doesnt work properly so i gave up with it . Webster makes a good spellchecker. Your post is nice attempt at a troll, but a little obvious. First try? Regards, Nathan
[newbie] RPM of QT 2.1
Does anyone know of an RPM for QT 2.1? I tried installing Licq, but the RPM said 2.1 was needed. I can only find the RPM for 2.02. I've checked the Red Hat site, trolltech (the makers of QT), and rpmfind.net. Regards, Nathan
[newbie] Mandrake installation, comments on 7.1
I'd like to try a clean install of Mandrake 7.1, but would like to try the installation via FTP or HTTP. Has anyone had luck with a network installation? I know Red Hat 6.x can be easily installed, using a boot disk, via FTP and HTTP, but what about Mandrake? 7.0 only supported installation via FTP. Does 7.1 support installation via HTTP? Also, for those of you brave enough to try the new version, what do you think of it? Regards, Nathan Hopper
Re: [newbie] Re Active X on Evans Messages
It would be wise to set your internet security setting to such a level that activeX scripts cannot run, unless you give them explicit permission. I saw Evan's email and couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing trying to run Active X on email. Hope you get rid of it okay, everyone. Nathan - Original Message - From: "mrweb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:43 PM Subject: [newbie] Re Active X on Evans Messages I recently received the KAK.hta worm through an innocent email from my brother. It was on 4-23-00, I had not recently updated my virus files, needless to say I have now. It is easy to tell if you have it, it only works in OutLookExpress, click on tools, and then options, and then signatures, look to see if the box is checked that says 'use signatures', then look in the lower text window for the default signature file of KAK.htm or KAK.hta. If you have it, it will be there. It is not that hard to get rid of though, but it does take quite a few clicks as the worm goes into several different areas of your system. b/web
Re: [newbie] PPP security (firewalls and such)??
Can you elaborate on what you've heard? Regards, Nathan Hopper - Original Message - From: "Don Macy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] PPP security (firewalls and such)?? Better be careful using BlackIce...some mention about snooping and e-mail problems...I got a message this am about this... Don vern wrote:
Re: [newbie] LILO: The 1024-cylinder limit has been removed by a patch
Is it possible to upgrade LILO on a machine currently running the older version? If you're doing a fresh install of Mandrake, can the new LILO be substituted for the old one? Regards, Nathan I was going to comment on this news too, I'm excited about it. Finally you can put Linux at the back of the drive with no worries at all. The 1024 limit also confused a lot of Newbies (including me) when they first heard about it, so now that won't be an issue anymore. I wonder if Mandrake will put it in 7.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= the webcam to end all webcams http://jennings.yi.org/webcam
Re: [newbie] Award BIOS problem
Found this utility if you've been hit by the CIH virus: http://grc.com/cih.htm Page says it can sometimes recover your data. Can't personally vouch for it though, I've not tried it. Regards, Nathan Hopper -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= the webcam to end all webcams http://jennings.yi.org/webcam/ Not really on topic here, but about half the computers in my Computer Science class got hit by Chernobyl yesterday; including mine. Most people probally got it from sharing the pirated programs that students had put on there. Fortunatly I didn't have anything real important on my computer, so they only big loss is reinstalling Windows. And since I used Linux to view all the disks I had brought home from school, my computer at home wasn't infected. Thank goodness for Linux : ) I'm going to see if maybe I can't convince my CS teacher to let me install Linux on my computer, but I doubt it'll happen.
[newbie] Install security setting
Is there a list of what the install-time security settings provide? I'm referring to the 1-5 list that starts with "Hack me please" and ends with "Ultra Paranoid" (or something to those effects). I'm curious as to the technical details of each setting, such as what services are installed and running, what ports are open etc... Regards, Nathan Hopper
Re: [newbie] GATEWAY ONLY INSTALLS WINMODEMS ON THEIR SYSTEMS
CNET external modem modem #5614XE. 56k, verified working with Linux, around $50. Word is they have some really good hubs too. Beware any modem that says "host based" or sports a minimum CPU requirement -- it's probably a skanky WinModem thing. This I learned from my own experience. Regards, Nathan Hopper - Original Message - From: Bob Root To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:58 PM Subject: [newbie] GATEWAY ONLY INSTALLS WINMODEMS ON THEIR SYSTEMS Just talked to the tech at Gateway. I have a winmodem.:(. In fact it seems that Gateway only installs winmodems on their systems. As I have to replace current modem can anyone recommend a good one?Thanks
