Yesterday at 23:31, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I think you did a great job of summing it up. But one thing I have
never seen talked about as a way to get a virus into a Linux system is
to include it in an RPM. Lets face it, how many people actualy check
the scripts that are run when an
I had tried to install a groupware program tthat only succeded in
screwing up my mail system completly. I removed it, did an rpm -e
postscript, then re-installed postscript and got it working again, but
for some unknown reason I just can't get procmail working again. Can
someone
On Friday 22 Oct 2004 01:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
On Thursday 21 October 2004 12:42 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 16:50, David Johnson wrote:
snip
As for my replyto: address, what should it be set for?
For mailing lists it should be set to blank. It is often a
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 23:32, Margot wrote:
Dan Gordon wrote:
On October 21, 2004 05:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
Yes, Dan. Go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and get some cooker sources.
There you will find 2.6.8.1-12mdk and its source rpm. This will be
in 10.1 Official, I believe.
Anne
Ahh ok
On Friday 22 Oct 2004 05:31, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
John Wilson wrote:
- snip
John,
I think you did a great job of summing it up. But one thing I have
never seen talked about as a way to get a virus into a Linux system is
to include it in an RPM. Lets
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 23:32, Margot wrote:
Dan Gordon wrote:
On October 21, 2004 05:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
Yes, Dan. Go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and get some cooker sources.
There you will find 2.6.8.1-12mdk and its source rpm. This will be
in 10.1 Official, I believe.
Anne
On Friday 22 October 2004 07:32, Russell W. Behne wrote:
I had tried to install a groupware program tthat only succeded in
screwing up my mail system completly. I removed it, did an rpm -e
postscript, then re-installed postscript and got it working again, but
for some unknown reason I just
John,
I think you did a great job of summing it up. But one thing I have
never seen talked about as a way to get a virus into a Linux system is
to include it in an RPM. Lets face it, how many people actualy check
the scripts that are run when an rpm is installed? Do you check that
Adolfo Bello wrote:
BottomFeeder looked pretty rough for me here on Linux.
Any advantage over RSSowl ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/rssowl/ ) ?
I've been using RSSowl and find it works well. Sage an add-on for
Firefox, Mozilla, or Thunderbird also does the job.
Rick Kunath
John Wilson wrote:
On October 21, 2004 04:11 pm, Elliot Somers wrote:
This is a pretty general question, I've heard it said by one party that
linux/unix is virus proof, other's say it's that virus authors go after the
big guys, so MS, wintel servers, etc. What I want to know is what's true
and
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 07:33 -0400, Rick Kunath wrote:
BottomFeeder looked pretty rough for me here on Linux.
Any advantage over RSSowl ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/rssowl/ ) ?
I've been using RSSowl and find it works well. Sage an add-on for
Firefox, Mozilla, or Thunderbird also does
On Friday 22 Oct 2004 05:31, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
John Wilson wrote:
- snip
John,
I think you did a great job of summing it up. But one thing I have
never seen talked about as a way to get a virus into a Linux system is
to include it in an RPM. Lets
On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:32 pm, Margot wrote:
Dan Gordon wrote:
On October 21, 2004 05:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
Yes, Dan. Go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and get some cooker
sources. There you will find 2.6.8.1-12mdk and its source
rpm. This will be in 10.1 Official, I believe.
Anne
On Friday 22 Oct 2004 14:42, cervixcouch wrote:
So how exactly does one safeguard against a trojan when installing an RPM?
You don't install rpms from sources that are not well-known to be reputable -
Mandrake mirrors, Sourceforge sites, PLF mirrors are OK, and there are
others. If you don't
Here I run a simple network with three machines - two running Mandrake
10.0 and one running Windows. The second Linux machine operates as a
server on which I back up files from the other two.
Currently the server has a monitor, keyboard and mouse but I would like
to run it as a straight
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 22 Oct 2004 14:42, cervixcouch wrote:
So how exactly does one safeguard against a trojan when installing an RPM?
You don't install rpms from sources that are not well-known to be reputable -
Mandrake mirrors, Sourceforge sites, PLF mirrors are OK, and there are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -q tightvnc-server
tightvnc-server-1.2.9-4mdk
Edit /etc/init.d/vncserver and make the top look like this:
#!/bin/bash
#
# chkconfig: 2345 91 35
# description: Starts and stops vncserver. \
# used to provide remote X administration services.
USER=root
This may be on the boarder line of off topic. For about the last week about
half of the web sites that I go to work normally and the other half have
about a half minute delay before a page starts to load. The slow ones are
always slow and the fast ones are always fast. Up until a week ago
On Friday 22 October 2004 16:38, Alan Dunford wrote:
Here I run a simple network with three machines - two running Mandrake
10.0 and one running Windows. The second Linux machine operates as a
server on which I back up files from the other two.
Currently the server has a monitor, keyboard
On October 22, 2004 09:57 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
BUT, do it _now_! Cooker will unfreeze and begin 10.2
development shortly. As to Dan's misgivings, using 2.6.8.1-12
kernel and kernel-source from a cooker mirror will not pose a
problem on a 10.1 system. This kernel has been in use for
For my next question: I'm wondering how uptime keeps track of how
long the server has been running. The reason I ask is that I have a
couple of ML10 boxes running in a production environment on VMWare ESX
servers. These servers never REALLY know how long they have been up.
They always report
No clue, but I am having the same problem. :(
http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=19727
Drew
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:09:26 -0500, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may be on the boarder line of off topic. For about the last week about
half of the web sites that I go to work normally
Hello,
I'm not very experienced with Linux. Few weeks ago I downloaded Mandrake
10.1 and installed as a dual booting on my windows PC. Problem is that I do
not have any internet access from home. Therefore I have to download any
additional packages that are not included in 3 installation CDs at
On Friday 22 October 2004 10:28 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
Why not simply use ssh?
It's very much more secure and allows you total remote control.
With X forwarding enabled (default in MDK) and a fast connection you can
run any app (including VNC-server) on a remote client whereas with a slow
On Friday 22 October 2004 16:09, Marc wrote:
This may be on the boarder line of off topic. For about the last week about
half of the web sites that I go to work normally and the other half have
about a half minute delay before a page starts to load. The slow ones are
always slow and the fast
Here is where it all gets strange. Everything is still fast when using
windoze.
I use a dial-up connection. I experience the same slow performance with
Mandrake vs Windows. Downloads speeds with Windows ranges from 50 to 200%
faster vs Mandrake.
Michael
On Friday 22 October 2004 17:14, mjt42 wrote:
Here is where it all gets strange. Everything is still fast when using
windoze.
I use a dial-up connection. I experience the same slow performance with
Mandrake vs Windows. Downloads speeds with Windows ranges from 50 to 200%
faster vs
On Friday 22 October 2004 12:56, Brandon Rife wrote:
John Wilson wrote:
On October 21, 2004 04:11 pm, Elliot Somers wrote:
This is a pretty general question, I've heard it said by one party that
linux/unix is virus proof, other's say it's that virus authors go after
the big guys, so MS,
Are you by any chance using a Winmodem? And is that modem using the HSF or
HCF
driver from www.linuxant.com (included in Mandrake Powerpack or from
MandrakeClub)?
No. I use an external serial port modem.
Michael
Want to buy your Pack
cervixcouch wrote:
So how exactly does one safeguard against a trojan when installing an RPM?
Check the signiture of the RPM, to be sure it is realy from the source
you think it is. You can also look at the file list, and the scripts
that are run when installing, removing, ect. I use Midnight
On Friday 22 October 2004 08:46 am, Sandaruwan Wijenayake wrote:
Hello,
I'm not very experienced with Linux. Few weeks ago I downloaded Mandrake
10.1 and installed as a dual booting on my windows PC. Problem is that I do
not have any internet access from home. Therefore I have to download any
Today at 11:51, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Friday 22 October 2004 07:32, Russell W. Behne wrote:
I had tried to install a groupware program that only succeeded in
screwing up my mail system completely. I removed it, did an rpm -e
postscript, then re-installed postscript and got it working
On Friday 22 October 2004 19:11, Russell W. Behne wrote:
Ok, sorry. I thought I had explained precisely what the problem is. Let
me try again this way:
1. everything was working fine for the past 7 years.
2. I installed the groupware program from the control panel using
`configure
Today at 19:41, Derek Jennings wrote:
Your main.cf differs from mine in these respects
I have
mail_spool_directory=/var/spool/mail
mailbox_command=/usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN
Ach, that's it! Ok. I put those two lines in my main.cf, and waited to
see what would happen, and BINGO! It's
Dear All
Could someone here please give me some directions about how to patch a kernel?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Join the Club :
Today at 08:39, David Johnson wrote:
For my next question: I'm wondering how uptime keeps track of how
long the server has been running. The reason I ask is that I have a
couple of ML10 boxes running in a production environment on VMWare ESX
servers. These servers never REALLY know how long
Russell W. Behne wrote:
Today at 08:39, David Johnson wrote:
For my next question: I'm wondering how uptime keeps track of how
long the server has been running. The reason I ask is that I have a
couple of ML10 boxes running in a production environment on VMWare ESX
servers. These servers never
I have been googling for a good Wysiwyg for linux (MDK) that would allow
for easy content update. I haven't found anything GPL that looks decent. The
content is already written, just the prices, and various info needs updating
from time to time and I don't know HTML. Frontpage once worked
On October 22, 2004 10:54, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
cervixcouch wrote:
So how exactly does one safeguard against a trojan when installing an
RPM?
Check the signiture of the RPM, to be sure it is realy from the source
you think it is. You can also look at the file list, and the scripts
On Friday 22 October 2004 23:53, Elliot Somers wrote:
I have been googling for a good Wysiwyg for linux (MDK) that would allow
for easy content update. I haven't found anything GPL that looks decent.
The content is already written, just the prices, and various info needs
updating from
On Friday 22 October 2004 23:27, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
Of course, you have to trust that the key hasn't been tampered with as
well. The really paranoid among us rely on key signatures exchanged by some
other channel, such as telephone, to verify a key before installing it.
The really
Elliot Somers wrote:
I have been googling for a good Wysiwyg for linux (MDK) that would allow
for easy content update. I haven't found anything GPL that looks decent. The
content is already written, just the prices, and various info needs updating
from time to time and I don't know HTML.
Actually, these boxes can't keep time to save their lives. I'm seeing
errors in the logs about NTP being unable to update the clock, etc (I
can dig them up if it would help). Everything I've been able to find
so far points to a bug in the Kernel that still has not been fixed,
but I can't imagine
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:46:24 +0200
Sandaruwan Wijenayake disseminated the following:
Just for an explanation... I come up with this problem when I needed to
install a package that I got as a source rpm. I tried to build it in my home
PC and find out that I need to install rpm-build package
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:07:06 -0700
Aron Smith disseminated the following:
Try using urpmi as root and use your cds as sources
Okay, seriously, if you don't start snipping your replies, I'm gonna come down
there and do something highly unpleasant, like...stay for a visit!
--
JoeHill / RLU
I just followed Tom's advice and upgraded to the present cooker,
including the (separate) install of the new kernel. Everything
seem to work perfectly. So, now I supposedly run the upcoming 10.1
Official - right ?
Just after that I received the usual alert from Mandrake about
security
On Friday 22 October 2004 04:07 pm, JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:07:06 -0700
Aron Smith disseminated the following:
Try using urpmi as root and use your cds as sources
Okay, seriously, if you don't start snipping your replies, I'm gonna come
down there and do something highly
To anyone this may concern,
I received this notice from my ISP today.
A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been identified by
our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your protection, the original message has
been placed into the greymail quarantine area.
On Friday 22 October 2004 07:39 pm, Tom Karen Pino wrote:
A message which was sent to you by Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been
identified by our virus filter as being contaminated with a virus. For your
protection, the original message has been placed into the greymail
quarantine area. To
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