RE: [newbie] linux facts for presentation

Dunno if this has been answered yet, but M$ has some freeBSD servers running behind hotmail. apparently they tried exchange, but it couldn't handle the load... freeBSD doesn't use the gpl code, so Microsoft can filtch code from it whenever they like.. which makes them happy and I believe that

RE: [newbie] OT M$ Win and RAM

Can you set your clock back to 1999 or something and try to install it, ?? i have used that method in the past.. Win95 and 98 were not designed to scale well with ram... apparently 256mb is to much for both of them,, at that point, windows wastes resources trying to manage that much ram, making

RE: [newbie] SSH via iexplorer

Thats strange, I have done both without problems,, as a rule I tar and compress the files I want prior to downloading them via iXplorer anyway,, works fine for me. AS a test, I just logged into one of our servers, (running Mdk7.2) and downloaded named.conf,, worked fine.. as for the

RE: [newbie] Laying Out Partitions?

I recently stopped using Reiserfs on the server boxes, I swaped to ext3, the reason being that recently I have had some data corruption on both mdk7.2 and mdk8.1 and in both cases, it appears that reiserfs was the problem, for one thing, it apparently doesn't like postfix much. ext3 is abit

RE: [newbie] cheap notebook?

I can tell you that mandrake seems fine on a Compaq Armada M700, it has a winmodem lucent Mini-PCI, but lucent winmodems can be made to work now I believe.. They have a great screen to, I am typing this on one now... :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Linux and chipset support..

Hi all, I have been bragging :-) about my athlonXP1800 and KT266A chipset combo recently, and I figured I'd try to find out what was necessary to get a kernel that recognises that chipset (I appear to lose some of the benefit of the chipset due to my current kernel having no idea what it is.)

RE: [newbie] Tripwire-1.3.1-1.tar.gz

Hi, Have you managed to get tripwire to install? the last time I tried, I had to modify the install script just to get it to pass the checks and installed.. I got it installed and then got sidetracked, so I haven't tried using it since then.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From:

RE: [newbie] Linux use as Mail Server

Is it just for you? install postfix, read the comments and edit /etc/postfix/main.cf to setup your mail server.. pay particular attention to the defer_smtp as you want to turn that on. setup your dialup account. in the ip-up.local file in /etc/ppp (if its not there, create it and make it

RE: [newbie] SSH via FTP

Do a search for iXplorer its an open source scp (secure copy) front end for putty, its a windows GUI app. rgds Franki -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of SKLIMSent: Monday, 12 November 2001 5:25 PMTo: Linux NewbieSubject: [newbie

[newbie] MSI KT266A and Athlon 1800+ Wooohooo!!! but a tiny problem. 3073.64 BOGOMIPS!

Hi all, Tonight I went over and upgraded my CPU and Motherboard to the above system.. It now gets 3073.64 Bogomips... (was 2779.72 with a standard Athlon 1.4) Anyway, the upgrade went flawlessly till I went to boot mandrake 7.2 It started, then started framebuffer, then detected the drives,

RE: [newbie] MSI KT266A and Athlon 1800+ Wooohooo!!! but a tiny problem. 3073.64 BOGOMIPS!

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 13 November 2001 5:04 AM To: Franki Cc: NEWBIE Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] MSI KT266A and Athlon 1800+ Wooohooo!!! but a tiny problem. 3073.64 BOGOMIPS! Did you do any sort of compile for this other kernel? OR was it a rpm install? If so, you may

RE: [newbie] GRUB

dunno if this has been answered, but the first option will be the default, so copy the windows entry to be above the linux entries. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Jacobs Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2001 12:00 AM To:

RE: [newbie] [ OT ] Recommended AMD Athlon 1.x Motherboard

Dunno about your UPS, it depends on your needs, but I just got hold of a MSI K Pro2 Via KT266A mainboard to go with my new AthlonXP1800+ and it seems a very cool board, testing seems to indicate its one of the fastest boards currently available. IT works with anything from socket A, be it duron,

RE: [newbie] mandrake/linux and upgrading cpu+motherboard

I upgraded my mb and cpu from a celery 450 to a athlon 1.4 gig and it worked flawlessly, just make sure that your hard disks are in the same positions they were before, ie if it was a primary master before, it must be a primary master after the upgrade. rgds frank -Original Message-

RE: [newbie] Easier reading

doesn't matter I don't like bottom posting either, but i respect peoples right to do it.. the reason I don't like it is because I am on 20 different mailing lists and get 500 emails a day or more from them.. don't like having to scroll to the bottom of each message to see what the response

RE: [newbie] OT Kinda: help with redirect script for apache?

I don't have time to write the script for you... but this is what I would do.. use Javascript to write a session only cookie, (meaning it expires when they close the browser) put that cookie on your index page.. then in the login page, put javascript to retrieve the cookie.. then if the

RE: [newbie] Installation with 24 megs of ram?

I suggest Trinux.. fits on a floppy, or you can use the hard disk, its easy to install, has web admin, can do port forwarding and firewalling.. fantastic little product, ,it also has an easy config menu system, and you can also write protect your floppy, thereby hackproofing your install, it

RE: [newbie] intruder?

well, are any of the users or computers called james or elite3?? if not , I would start worrying and check your firewall is one and whats open and look for trojans and backdoors on all windows box's and the linux box as well. do you run ftp or telnet? is it accessable to the world at large? If

RE: [newbie] Removing a second harddrive...how?

Edit /etc/fstab and remove the lines that relate to the removed hard disk. ie: primary master= hda primary slave= hdb secondary master = hdc secondary slave = hdd if you have necessary directories like /var or /usr etc on that drive, then you have to move them.. so copy the directories

[newbie] RE: [expert] Network problems caused by 'Tiny Firewall' GUI in MDK

Ok, I have read your post, I will see what I can find out.. you didn't run msec at any stage and increase the security level did you? if you did, that would explain alot.. try lowering it to 3 and see what happens.. that has fixed things for me before.. it may also explain why your sockets

[newbie] unable to log on after kernel upgrade.

Hi all, I just loaded kernel2.4.13-2 from cooker onto a dead standard 8.1 install (powerpack) I rebooted and now I can't log in.. (strangely enough the same problem I had yesterday.) anyone else come accross this? it authenticates my password, tells me when the last login was, but thats it,,

RE: [newbie] unable to log on after kernel upgrade. (UPDATE, but still not solved.)

- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 7:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] unable to log on after kernel upgrade. Hi all, I just loaded kernel2.4.13-2 from cooker onto a dead standard 8.1 install (powerpack) I rebooted

RE: [newbie] Easier reading

-Parker Sent: Friday, 9 November 2001 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Easier reading Ed Tharp wrote: like Franki, I read the top posted messages and may answer to them...the heading is only what I read in _every_ message - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [newbie] unable to log on after kernel upgrade.

to get the NVIDIA drivers to work even after recompiling for 2.4.13-2 Also on shutdown my USB drivers hung. So it was back to 2.4.8-26 for me :-) Are you using Nvidia? On Friday 09 November 2001 11:43 am, Franki wrote: Hi all, I just loaded kernel2.4.13-2 from cooker onto a dead standard 8.1 install

RE: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?

I have a 1.4gig athlon, and is working fine on that.. and by tuesday, I will be upgrading to a AthlonXP 1800+, I am not expecting problems with that either. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Saturday, 10

[newbie] login problem with 8.1

Hi all, I am having a small problem, recently I installed 8.1 on a box, and installed 2.4.12-5 kernel.. all went well. So anyway, I started by using msec to increase security to high.,.. and started opening all the stuff that I needed. then I added amavis and started setting it up as a

RE: [newbie] How do I host a website?

Yes, Mandrake has some excellent security features that make it quiet easy to do.. I have been using 7.2 on many servers as mail, web and dns servers with never a problem. your hardware is fine, and I have run websites from much slower systems. your method of doing things is rather strange.

RE: [newbie] How do I host a website?

Oh, sorry, didn't read that properly, didn't realise it wasn't a static IP address. If thats the case, either ask your IP for a static address. which will very likely cost you money (although the cheapest ADSL supplier around here offers only static IP address.. ) or use one of the solution

RE: [newbie] How do I host a website?

If all your linux box's are sharing the internet connection from the ME laptops connection, then its not the linux machines that are using NAT, its the ME laptop,, (M$ just call it internet sharing) your linux box's only need to point to that machine for their gateways and off they will go.. you

RE: [newbie] Think we're on the right track?

while you are reading stuff, look at this: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/legalnews.asp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman Sent: Saturday, 3 November 2001 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bentley Sorsdahl; LUG Mailing list; NEWBIE

RE: [newbie] AOL newbie sendmail problem

I would have stuck with postfix if I were you, its much more secure then sendmail, its faster, smaller and easier as well. if you start postfix or sendmail on boot (run: ntsysv from a prompt) and you recieve mail, it will go into the user account for whole the mail was addressed. if postfix or

RE: [newbie] Pentium IV

Thats strange, I have a Athlon 1.4 and a huge 7500rpm fan on a massive heatsink, the spring was incrediably tight... but a small pair of pointy nose pliars did the job nice and quickly. and the CPU runs nice and cool, middle of a summer day, (35 degress's celcious) the CPU temp was 65degress's

RE: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

perhaps it may be an idea to look into Lindows, the new distro that has a new version of Wine that has had commercial input, it will apparently run alot more windows software, including apparently MS office, possibly even ie.. Its just about to be released now.. just a thought, I don't know

RE: [newbie] Pentium IV

: Friday, 2 November 2001 11:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Pentium IV On Friday 02 November 2001 08:34 am, Franki wrote: Thats strange, I have a Athlon 1.4 and a huge 7500rpm fan on a massive heatsink, the spring was incrediably tight... but a small pair of pointy nose pliars did

RE: [newbie] OT:Linux Counter

I wasn't aware I had to keep re registering,,, thats a bit of a pain... I guess I am one of the inactive ones that got weeded.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane Sent: Saturday, 3 November 2001 2:22 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Pentium IV

I was a huge Duron fan as well, then I realised that a 1 gig duron was only 10 bucks AU less then a 1 gig athlon.. then I went nuts and got a 1.4,, now I want a athlonXP MP 1800+ very nice indeed.. still faster then a 2 gig P4. and multiprocessor capable.. imagine a dual setup with two of those

RE: [newbie] 8.1 PowerPack

I have had my free CD's for 3 or more weeks now, (2 or 3 weeks after I placed order) and yesterday, I got a mandrake email telling me that the powerpack had been shipped and was on its way.. if my own experiances are the indication, I have nothing to complain about.. (I'm in Western Australia)

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

Old reiserfs versions, like those that come with 7.2 and before can have problems with disk intensive operations, like runnin postfix on it on a high intake mail server.. I had this problem myself, and it was on a box that only did 6000 odd emails a day.. got heaps of error messages in the logs

RE: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

That can't be true, not according to my understanding of GPL copyleft.. redhat is absolutly chockers with GPL software, not the least of which is the kernel itself, they HAVE to be licensed as GPL,, without GPL, redhat would drop out of the race in a big hurry... not to mention ending up in

RE: [newbie] current state of anti-aliasing in 8.1

I can't say this for certain, but I think it worked out of the box for me.. opening a file in a text editor in kde is SOO much clearer txt then in 7.2, which is what I had before.. everything txt wise seems clearer, so I am guessing its enabled by default if everything can support

RE: [newbie] Reiser FS/ext3/Redhat...

I have done that before myself with no problems.. but if you want to change it, it should be the same as any other partition... make a new partition and format it ext2 or 3, (dunno if it has to be at the start of the disk or not, but it couldn't hurt) copy everything from boot into it.. then

RE: [newbie] 8.1 PowerPack

Wow, heard alot of bad stuff about mandrakeshop,, I can't say I have experianced that yet, I got my download disks promptly, and the others should arrive in AUstralia any day now... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A

[newbie] security, suse and mandrake.. and permissions

Hi all, both mandrake and Suse have hardening scripts, suse has a file called: /etc/permissions.secure and others to allow you to set permissions or exceptions for stuff loaded after the install.. Does mandrake have anything like that? for example, I get thousands of world writable files

RE: [newbie] HELP, HElP: emergency recovery needed urgently

WEll, I don't know the solution to your problem for sure, I have never upgraded a kernel, I always install it beside the old one, so that if something goes wrong, I can still boot the old one.. that is the recommended way of doing things.. if it was me, in your case, I would boot from the

RE: [newbie] Evolution

you were tryin a cooker version, you can't base your judgement on that,, cooker is beta packages, they take all the latest stuff, wrap an rpm around it and offer it for download.. imagine getting a daily updated cvs snapshot of KDE and trying to run it you most likely wouldn't get it to

RE: [newbie] port 6000

If you used Netstat for your own machine, then you will have port6000 open, as I understand it, localhost needs 6000 for X to function properly, close it on you firewall as no other IP's other then localhost need it unless you have an unusual setup. rgds Frank -Original Message-

[newbie] The Old Java /Mozilla Question...

Hi all, I have Mozilla 0.9.4 build 2001100112 Its working perfectly well, I went to one of my sites which has a JAVA applet in it,, Mozilla poped out and asked me to download the Java plugin, which I did, (for linux of course) anyway, after a long download, the applet still doesn't work,

RE: [newbie] The Old Java /Mozilla Question...

/plugins/ ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so That worked for me :-) Greetings Ralph On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have Mozilla 0.9.4 build 2001100112 Its working perfectly well, I went to one of my sites which has a JAVA applet

RE: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

Dems good points, but alot of people nowdays do upgrade their hardware, (or pay people like me to do it) and with 95/98, I used to change Motherboards without reinstalling windows all the time.. From what I understand, you have the ability to change 3 to 5 things before activation kicks in (the

RE: [newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.

I was the one who used Js to demonstrate testing for objects, it was just as an example of ways around the problem, I wasn't stating that it was the be all and end all, just an example of JS that works accross the board.. I didn't mention css at all... So if I am to understand this, you think

RE: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

: And I'm saying, he should make sure that it can be viewed properly. Not cop out with uncertainty. I agree with you, except Franki explicitly stated that he fears unless people are drawn away from MSIE, they might not ever consider switching to Linux

RE: [newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.

This is all true and good, but I'd like to make a couple of points.. 1. Nobody has ever talked about making sites not work in IE in this thread,, I wouldn't be that stupid, you'd lose a good portion of your audience.. I was talking about informing IE users that there are good alternatives. and

RE: [newbie] sendmail

how bout: service sendmail start or: /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start that assumes you installed the mandrake sendmail packages,, or a redhat set I guess... if you compiled it yourself, fraid you are on your own.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] fromdos and todos

Hi all, What does mandrake use in place of: fromdos and todos I keep putting perl scripts written on windows onto linux and it works fine with modern mandrake, but when I give the script to people running older servers, it causes no end of problems... so I need to get rid of ^M's from

[newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

Further to our conversation on this list about msn.com.. I have created what I think should be Linux and open sources retailation for Microsofts attempt to force the use of their non standards compliant browser. This is what I have so far. Here is the code that goes in your main site..

RE: [newbie] Pine/Postfix/Sendmail

postfix creates a sendmail binary in /usr/sbin/sendmail for backwards compatability with sendmail.. So that any scripts that look for sendmail can still use it.. as for your startup sequence, since they are started so closly together, it shouldn't be a problem, but I would start postfix

RE: [newbie] Best Distribution for..?

I like icewm for machines with low resources, it has great themes, its small and fast but still configurable. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 10:18 PM To: Emanuele Menegatti;

RE: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

I don't understand what you mean? I added the last sentence because we are not as bad as Microsoft and I have no wish to apprear as bad as Microsux. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: Russ Kepler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2001 12:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

yeah, eventually I plan to impliment it or a version of it on the 20 or so sites I maintain for various companies. Microsoft can block non IE browsers from viewing their couple of dozen sites... if open source pulls together, we can inform thousands of people from many thousands of sites,,

RE: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 8:26 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has backed off now, because of attention and articles. (I may make a note of that in the warning.) It will be back when

RE: [newbie] Pine/Postfix/Sendmail - Franki

- Franki Hello: I made the changes to mydomain and myhostname in the INTERNET HOST AND DOMAIN NAMES in the main.cf file, with no apparent improvement in my return email address when I compose a message. Any other suggestions? Thanks... myhostname = casa-coqui.com mydomain = casa-coqui.com

RE: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

Actually, I agree with you, popups are annoying and all my sites look perfect on IE, I am not using any of their optional tags.. I am trying to inform people so that no one else does either.. I was thinking of combining that code with a cookie so that the popup only happens once, or once

RE: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

And I'm saying, he should make sure that it can be viewed properly. Not cop out with uncertainty. I agree with you, except Franki explicitly stated that he fears unless people are drawn away from MSIE, they might not ever consider switching to Linux

RE: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

As I said, My sites all look fine in IE, that wasn't the point... they do all use css too, but still fine.. my point is simply to say that ie doesn't support standards consistantly, and add non standard functionaly to their browsers in the hope that developers will use these tags and therefore

RE: [newbie] Pine/Postfix/Sendmail - Franki

sorry, my cut and paste didn't work properly, that should have been: myorigin = casa-conqui.com (left off the .com) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2001 2:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

RE: [newbie] The MSN.com access

well, a standard way of testing is is to use Javascript... document.all generally means IE document.layer generally means Netscape document.getElementByID usually means Mozilla, NS6.0-6.1 and all the most current browsers... I have written some rather large scripts in JS that do some pretty

RE: [newbie] The MSN.com access

yeah,, I'll post the code I will be using on some of our sites tonight... I think this is a good idea, we should not follow M$'s lead and block IE, but rather just warn the user that they are using a browser that changes its support regularly and as such sometimes won't support the full

RE: [newbie] How do I protect my CDs?

One way some manufacturers use to protect cdroms, is to put errors on the CD.. They stamp all their CDroms so it doesn't matter to them, but if you use a burner on a PC (regardless of OS) it will report an error and won't burn it, or it will burn it, but will ignore the error. The software can

RE: [newbie] Named and internet connection sharing question

Thats strange, I have a crappy old Ppro system with buggar all ram, and its been running KDE non stop on my desktop for ages, not a single freeze, so it may have something to do with your hardware, ie a device that is causing a conflict for an IRQ or something, when in doubt remove all

RE: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

I'd go the two pentium pro 200's myself, with a good dose of ram... but there wouldn't be alot in it either way I'd say... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Hokanson Jr. Sent: Sunday, 28 October 2001 12:06 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

I'd also check for a newer bios then the one you have, it never hurts if you get the right one.. and it might help with how much ram the board will accept.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Hokanson Jr. Sent: Sunday, 28

RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2? on 10/26/01 12:13 AM, Franki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I wish to say is that the reason the US Judge wanted to split M$ into two or more companies was to split the OS off from the rest of their offerings. So

[newbie] Rebuilding a kernel src rpm...

Hi all I sucessfully got kernel-2.4.12-5mdk.i586.rpm installed and working on my system.. Then I thought no, I should compile the kernel for i686 or Athlon, which ever I can get working.. Then I started wondering if there was an easier way to do that, like rpm --rebuild kernel* (where * is

RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Greer Sent: Friday, 26 October 2001 11:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2? on 10/26/01 10:12 AM, Franki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for your comment on it being fine for M

RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

in reply to: I realized after I sent that I worded my post poorly. I do believe MS has an unfair monopoly and probably got there with the help of some illegal practices. But I don't think MS having more knowledge of the workings of Windows is necessarily unfair. If they use that knowledge to

RE: [newbie] Installing a new program

Well, since your new, I'll try to keep this relatively simple.. If you can, stick to rpm's like those that came with mandrake linux... (to install type in an xterm or console: rpm -ivh package-name.i586.rpm in install one.) they are easier to install and keep a central database so you can

[newbie] Interesting stuff about XP

Hi Guys and Gals,, Did you people know that XP home will only network with 5 PC's peer to peer, ?? it doesn't support domain networking at all and has a maximium of 5 PC's it can network with... I just saw this in an M$ email (directly from M$)...

[newbie] Can't install kernel.

Hi all, I wanted to install the cooker 2.4.12-3enterprise kernel, I can't be bothered compiling my own nowdays, if the standard does what I want, thats usually good enough for me. So I downloaded the i586 rpm, I downloaded the 2.4.12-3 kernel headers and attempted to install them.. I got no

RE: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations

I use win2000 for work every day, (in fact I am writing this email using it.) It has service pack 2 and all updates,, and I crash it twice a day without fail,, i use my OS's very hard, and for long periods, I have been working at this box for 15 hours straight now, with an average 10 different

RE: [newbie] SMS

Hi, Try these guys, they have a free sms backend that you can control via SOAP or Simple Object Access Protocol. Its an XML type setup where applications on different platforms in different languages can talk to each other using port 80 so as to eliminate firewall problems in corperate

RE: [newbie] Help me please.............Software Raid on linux for Newies Instructions. 10 easy steps.

Hi, These instructions are brief, and 7.2 tested, but should work much the same way with 8 and 8.1. your question was about mirroring which is slightly slower then a single drive, but you will have data redundency (same info on two drives.) RAID0 - splits data on to two drives for inproved

RE: [newbie] SMS,,, opps, forgot the URL for SMS.

http://www.salcentral.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Sunday, 21 October 2001 5:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] SMS Hi, Try these guys, they have a free sms backend that you can control via SOAP

RE: [newbie] localhost

Double check that /etc/hosts has an alias for localhost... something like this 127.0.0.1 locahost.localdomainlocalhost That way, localhost is resolved back to 127.0.0.1 the same as localhost.localdomain. give it a shot, (I am assuming that you have host.conf set to: order

[newbie] kernel-enterprise-2.4.12-3mdk.i586.rpm

Hi all, I was wondering if the kernel mentioned in the header avoides the local root exploit that was found in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels recently, also the symlink Dos hack. were fixed in this cooker kernel... The docs I read said that 2.4.12 was not affected by this, (although someone pointed out

RE: [newbie] Firewall Testing

have you tried grc.com shields up? he doesn't sell firewalls, so if he tells you you have open ports, then the chances are that you do.. (he is quiet well respected by peers too, except for Microsoft and the makers of BlackICE Defender. :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Firewall Testing

Thats easy, go to google.com and search for portscanners. Then, once you have a good one, (I found several when I went looking). turn off portsentry if you have it, and scan your PC, (from somewhere else on the net, not from your PC,,find a windows scanner and get a freind to do it and email you

[newbie] weird kernel stuff.

Hi all, I download 2.4.12-3mdkenterprise kernel i586 rpm and the 2.4.12-3 headers... went to install it, only to discover it didn't create any modules, there is no /lib/modules/2.4.12-3mdkenterprise directory. I had also installed the kernel headers and I am in the middle of downloading the

RE: [newbie] I'm going in!

your going to hose your install, and you may not know it for a while.. but good luck anyway,, :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 11:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [newbie] Stumped on KPPP

No probs, glad to have been of assistance.. rgds Frank === |To correct all M$ Windows(tm) problems, only one | |small command is necessary: | | | |format C:

RE: [newbie] Glibc2.2 and RPM

No idea I am afraid, but it might help to go to redhat and try to find the rpm site (RedHat Package Manager) stands to reason that is has something to do with them?? :-) Get used to it,, you are gonna have your work cut out, you should have uninstalled everying before you started... and started

RE: [newbie] Re: Conexant on Compaq Presario 12XL509 with mandrake 8.1

Well, do you have a smp machine? As far as I know, if you installed on a smp machine, then you have an smp kernel, otherwise you don't... unless you installed it. I have the same install, and I definatly don't have a smp kernel. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

Hi all, Is anyone else having heaps of trouble with mandrake update on 8.1? First of all, its slow, secondly, it insists on scanning the system and its db of all the CD's each time you start it... and since I have to kill it alot because it sits there doing nothing, it takes ages to try

RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

LOL, It Bloody well better say 8.1, I bought the Powerpack off the mandrake store, and got sent these disks as a stop gap until the boxed set get here... Ok, I'll get the cooker one and give that a go... It doesn't help that my test box is a slowish system,, Thanks for the tips... Oh, and too

[newbie] Weird SSH stuff with Putty and Ixplorer.

Hi again all, I use putty with IXplorer as a windows sshd ftp client for uploading and downloading files via ssh between windows and my linux box's... Since I upgraded to mdk8.1, it doesn't work now, it logs in, but doesn't get a directory listing for some reason. here is its log of activity...

RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

No, twas my fault, I replied any old post and forgot to delete the previous post from the email.. My apologies to all... I have no desire for a top/bottom debate, what ever works for whoever... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

RE: [newbie] HD spin down

rgds Frank Hauptle. Fire up webmin, then go to hardware, then I think its under partitions or something, there is an IDE parameters section.. you can modify your hdparm settings in there, and if they work, (you can test it from there as well) cut and paste the results onto the end of your

RE: [newbie] HD spin down

parameters.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 6:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] HD spin down On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Franki wrote: Fire up webmin, then go to hardware

RE: [newbie] OT: Life of a CD - Recorder

What? Most of them are rated for around 50,000 hours of operation,, so that is probably alot more then 500 burns.. Also, if you use it for a CDROM all the time, then it will wear out faster, but if you only use it for burning,, then expect it to last a while, I had a burner from when the

RE: [newbie] Zip drive

well, USB is heaps faster then parallel,, If you are sure that you can get usb working, then go for it, its much much faster then parallel... Firewire or USB2 would be much faster again, but normal USB is alot better for throughput then parallel. rgds Franki -Original Message- From

RE: [newbie] We hate GET /scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?

welcome to Nimda, the cleaning agent of windows IIS servers, (also known as a worm/virus) this is a feature of windows designed to facilitate the accumulation of zombie servers for hackers the world over. every nimda infected server spends its days broadcasting itself to the internet at large by

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