Re: [expert] How to find the locking process?
Hi! The command is /sbin/fuser /sbin/fuser -km /mnt/xxx Should take care of the problem. Regards Eriks On mån, 24 apr 2000 you wrote: From time to time when I go to umount somthing it will tell me that it's busy and I can't. Now sometimes it's clear to me why, and it's easily corrected, but other times it is not. Is there any way to: - Find what process has it locked, or - Force it to unlock anyway, killing process as necessary? -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- New email address please update your address book !! Erik Kaffehr[EMAIL PROTECTED] alt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mariebergsvägen 53 +46 155 219338 (home) S-611 66 Nyköping +46 155 263515 (office) Sweden -- Message sent using 100% recycled electrons --
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
Well one way to check would be to do:
rpm -qa | awk '{ print "rpm --verify " $1}' | sh
This would essentially tell you which files differ from the origianl
installation. There will be lots of complaints.
You could also try to:
rpm -qa | awk '{ print "rpm -- --force --nodeps " $1}' | sh
Which would reinstall all packages.
A reinstall would of course be safest bet.
Regards
Erik
On mån, 24 apr 2000 you wrote:
I woke up this morning to find this email in my system:
Subject: *** Diff Check, Thu Apr 20 00:02:50 EDT 2000 ***
Security Warning: Change in Suid Root files found :
- Added suid root files : /bin/mount
- Added suid root files : /bin/ping
- Added suid root files : /bin/su
- Added suid root files : /bin/umount
- Added suid root files : /sbin/dump
- Added suid root files : /sbin/pwdb_chkpwd
- Added suid root files : /sbin/restore
- Added suid root files : /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/at
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chage
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chfn
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chsh
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/crontab
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/dos
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/gpasswd
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lpq
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lpr
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lprm
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/newgrp
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/passwd
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/procmail
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rcp
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rlogin
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rsh
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/sperl5.6.0
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/suidperl
- Added suid root files : /usr/bin/urpmi
- Added suid root files : /usr/lib/telnetd/login
- Added suid root files : /usr/libexec/pt_chown
- Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/sendmail
- Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/traceroute
- Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/userhelper
- Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/usernetctl
Security Warning: Changes in Suid Group files found :
- Added suid group files : /usr/sbin/sendmail
Security Warning: Change in World Writeable Files found :
- Removed writables files : /tmp/fileUcAjVM
Security Warning: the md5 checksum for one of your SUID files has changed,
maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a
backdoor...
- Checksum changed files : /usr/bin/suidperl
Security Warning: There is modifications for port listening on your machine :
- Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:6000 *:*
LISTEN 658/X
- Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1024 *:*
LISTEN 651/kdm
- Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:*
LISTEN 586/perl
- Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:*
LISTEN 520/httpd
- Opened ports : udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:*
651/kdm
- Opened ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:*
586/perl
- Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:*
LISTEN 3244/httpd
- Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:*
LISTEN 1996/perl
- Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:6000 *:*
LISTEN 660/X
- Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:1024 *:*
LISTEN 653/kdm
- Closed ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:*
1996/perl
- Closed ports : udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:*
653/kdm
...I've been hacked! The questions, now, are: 1. How do I fix this? and 2. How
to I prevent it from happening again?
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Re: [expert] video card
Civileme wrote: Everything I have tried with ATI seems to work. Trident does with "noaccel" and other tweaks. Even the infamous SiS6326 seems to work well under Air. Civileme I got my Trident to work with Option "noaccel" and my present SiS6326 with Option "sw_cursor". I tried an Octek 8mb AGP card with an S3 Trio 3D/2X chipset and couldn't get it to work; I took it back. Good luck. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone for setup.
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
You can use rpm to check the packages affected, and then reinstall these package. For example, the following steps find the package, verify the package, and if affected, reinstall the package from CDROM # rpm -qf /bin/mount mount-2.9o-1 # rpm -V mount # rpm -U --force mount-*rpm Anyway, you should protect your machine with firewall and update exploitable packages, and you should do many things before it is security enough :-) Monday, April 24, 2000, 8:22:01 AM, you wrote: AV I woke up this morning to find this email in my system: AV Subject: *** Diff Check, Thu Apr 20 00:02:50 EDT 2000 *** AV Security Warning: Change in Suid Root files found : AV - Added suid root files : /bin/mount AV - Added suid root files : /bin/ping -- lark
[expert] Re: I've been hacked!
I don't know if it is true what Ron Stodden says, that you haven't been hacked, since it *is* possible that you haven't been hacked.. it looks like you are using Mandrake's latest security features? Nevertheless, if you are interested in securing your system, here are a few links I have in my personal bookmarks: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-02/lw-02-expo-security.html Are you sure that you're secure? http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/newbies/newb006.html Basic Security http://www.chicagotribune.com/tech/developer/article/0,2669,2-40578,FF.html Protecting your Linux machine from the big, bad Internet http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/pcw.nsf/hereshow/47BAA80767F95D79CA25686A000DBE7D!OpenDocument Linux network security, Part 1 http://www.sansstore.org/ SANS Institute.. Books on securing systems http://dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO.html Secure Programming for Linux HOWTO http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/weekly/linux2313.html SecurityPortal.com james
RE: [expert] File Descriptor Max problems under Apache/Linux System
Hello Jean. Hmmmthis idea of doing the CustomLogs Directive and have it broken off into individual vhosts sound good to me. Now...the question is, how do I apply this directive for the domains? Just for the short and dirty rundown of this would help so I can get to this problem quickly instead of spending another 3 days looking it up and then trying to figure it out how to make this work right. Reason is that I have over 100 IP addresses with over 1320 domains split among them in the Virtual Host Section. So correct me on this if this rundown is what I am supposed to do. Basically, what I am supposed to do is in each vhost section, put the CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon for all of them and then use the split log utility to break them all up and sent to their log directory for the Webalizer utility to run this? And in the httpd.conf, I put this one in as you mentioned: LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon Let me know if I am correct or wrong so I can get to work. I have a hard drive problems on that host right now and I putting together another host to move this over before the drive fail completely on me before I have a chance to get everything moved over. Don't do it(tm). Instead, check the CustomLogs directive. Put all your vhosts so that they log in the same file, but with their domain name in it. Then, write a small perl script that splits the main log each hour and puts them in its own file. Example: # this log format can be split per-virtual-host based on the first field LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon If you still want to raise the file descriptors, have a look at: http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/descriptors.html http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/fd-limits.html Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Russell "Elik" Rademacher wrote: Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 09:33:31 -0400 From: Russell "Elik" Rademacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] File Descriptor Max problems under Apache/Linux System Okay... I been trying to locate the documentations on modifying the kernel to up the limit of the open file max from 1024 to 4048 or at least...2048, so that I can get the apache to work properly with over 1000 domains with logging capability running for most of them for stats usage. Anyone can help on this issue? BTW Jean, sorry for taking so long. As for the JServ problem, you can do this as follows: Point your browser to www.digi-host.com/jserv/ and it is supposed to show the info status on the JServ and you can see the problem that it shows when it happens. "HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden" I even set the allow,deny to allow all but it still have this problem. Dunno what to do about this. If you have any luck on this, let me know since it seems it is related the Java files or JServ or both. I just gave up on it. :)
Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
Ron Stodden said: Should have been sda4, surely? sda is the device (you cannot mount devices), sda4 is the partition (you can mount partitions). When I was originally setting up the Zip drive, I read a lot of conversation about the above. However, for my system this is what worked for IDE: /dev/hdd /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 ..and this is what works for IDE-SCSI: /dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 But remember, I'm the guy with the ghost in his machine that always switches him to runlevel 5. g -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
Ron Johnson said: Please post any relevant portions of conf.modules, lilo.conf and fstab to share your hard-earned knowledge. This is for a Memorex CDRW-2216 at hdc and an Iomega Zip drive at hdd, both ATAPI drives. No changes to conf.modules. Additions to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: /sbin/modprobe sg /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi Addition to /etc/lilo.conf: append = "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi mem=124M" (I already had the "mem=124M" there) Additions to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1 (former entries for zip and cdrom removed) -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
RE: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux
Here at the Air Force Base, our systems are so locked down that we cant even set the clock on the PC. Therefore, sorry if my mails don't come through eye appealing. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -Original Message- From: Hans Schneidhofer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 5:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux Am Don, 20 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: I have had problems with Win defrag on my dual boot system. 98 does something to my secondary drive. That drive is partitioned 2Gig for Win and 4Gig for linux. This drive was partitioned with linux fdisk. I had to turn off defragging my second drive altogether. I use loadlin and since have had no probs with defragging since this is not my boot drive for win. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) Hi Brian, please let your maileditor know, that you would format your mails with about 70 or 80 characters per line. It isn't very understandable at a glance to read mails with 363 charcters per line. You can believe me. Really. bye Hans Schneidhofer
Re: [expert] How to find the locking process?
Yeah, I did that once I got your mail to clue me in to what to try. Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: "Brian T. Schellenberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried "lock" and "busy" and other things on a man -k, but "using" didn't occur to me. -$ man 1 fuser -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com San-Diego, CA USA.--Chmouel -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] DIsk Caching
Hello, In Mandrake, is there a way where I can control the amount of memory being used as a disk cache? I've noticed that sometimes Mandrake is using almost 100MB of physcial RAM as a disk cache, especially after doing something intensive such as compiling an application. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to shrink I have 256MB of physcial RAM in my box. I would *think* that having a maximum of a 64MB disk cache would suffice. Any thoughts? Thanks... -Chris
Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
Now it IS able to read the ZIP disk partition table. This says that your ZIP disk IS pre-partitioned. And the above gave me the clue I needed for the zip drive: sda is what it wants to see in fstab: /dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 I got tired of all the deleting and relinking to /dev/zip, so I just put /dev/sda in fstab. Should have been sda4, surely? sda is the device (you cannot mount devices), sda4 is the partition (you can mount partitions). No, that's not true. You can mount devices. I used to use zip sparq drives like that all the time. It simply uses them like a floppy--the entire drive is used for the filesystem. This usage won't be compatible with the pre-formatting on the drives, though; I used to use them with the ext2 filesystem so I didn't care. On the other hand, if you are doing to use them with the vfat file system, and especially if you are going to want to be compatible with what computers using the "other" O/S read write, /dev/sda4 is probably better. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
If that's the case, then why does the report say that there's a *difference* in the suid root files? Why does it claim that all of those are *changed*? It doesn't merely claim that they *are* suid root; it claims that they *changed*. Subject: *** Diff Check, Thu Apr 20 00:02:50 EDT 2000 *** Security Warning: Change in Suid Root files found : - Added suid root files : /bin/mount - Added suid root files : /bin/ping - Added suid root files : /bin/su - Added suid root files : /bin/umount - Added suid root files : /sbin/dump - Added suid root files : /sbin/pwdb_chkpwd : : Ron Stodden wrote: Andrew Vogel wrote: I woke up this morning to find this email in my system: ... I've been hacked! The questions, now, are: 1. How do I fix this? and 2. How to I prevent it from happening again? No you haven't! This is just the periodic report done on your system security by your own msec (man msec).I have not seen it as an email before, only as /var/log/messages messages, so msec must consider the situation serious. It is telling you what needs to be done to bring your security up to snuff so that you can't be hacked. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] auto_inst.cfg.pl?
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 21:22:28 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/drakx/auto_inst.html Thanks! That link is EXACTLY what I needed! --- === Andrew Vogel: Program Manager at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. http://pharmacy.uc.edu/default.html (513)-558-3784 ===
Re: [expert] meaning of [a-z]
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 08:53:34AM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: - - Not an emergency but it's been bugging me for a while and traffic seems - to be relatively light right now . . . - - - - Throughout most of my Unix life a command like - - ls -d [a-z] - - would list only lower-case files. Sometime fairly recently in Linux - this has changed; thus, in one of my directories, - - ls -d [a-z] - I/ K b/ c/ d/ f/ g/ h/ n/ r/ t/ w/ x/ - - As you can see, [a-z] includes both upper- and lower-case items. For - quite I while I was under the misapprehension that this was because the - [-] operator had gotten case-insensitive, but this is not the case: - - ls -d [abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz] - b/ c/ d/ f/ g/ h/ n/ r/ t/ w/ x/ - - So what's happened instead is that the order in which things are search - has changed: instead of having a meaning interpretted in ASCII order - it's in dictionary order. - - This is not brand-new; it's true in Mandrake 7.0 but it was also true in - RedHat 6.1. But it was not true in Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 or RedHat 5.2 - or any earlier Unix or Unix-like system I ever used before (HP-UX, - Solaris, FreeBSD, real BSD). - - I suppose that I can see why this would be done on the grounds of being - "intuitive", but it's a lot less useful; with the old interpretation it - was easy to express ideas like "lower-case" or "upper-caes" and it only - took a few extra keystrokes to get any character range in both cases, - but it takes lots to now express "uppercase" or "lowercase". - - Anyway, does anybody know - - - Why this was done? - - Who decided to do this? - - If there's something that can be done to switch it back? Interesting. I don't see it on Mandrake 6.1. As for itme 3, I believe ls is part of bash, so man bash may be the way to go. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
Re: [expert] Norton Antivirus and Bloodhound
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 02:49:08PM -0800, Civileme wrote: - The "local" Alaska Linux Users Group reports that Norton Antivirus and - Bloodhound, Norton's newer "heuristic" virus hunter, is claiming LILO is - a boot sector virus in newly installed dual-boot systems. Clearly a complaint to Norton is in order. - - So, for their next installfest, they will be recommending the McAfee - virus scanner for linux that is there to protect windows. I have had problems with McAfee rendering W95 unstable (OK, more so than usual). You might look at fsecure instead. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
Andrew, The solution I use is to assume the worst. Your system has been totally compromised as has every system that trusts it. (Do you use rlogin, rsh or do you have ssh keys laying around on that system?) The first thing you need to do is to grab a complete image of the disk(s) to tape for use in legal procedings. Copy every log file from every system you've got and call your ISP for help on that end. You may want to investigate your legal options as well. My SOP is to completely format every partition, and check for partitions that were added, by the way! Next, I would change every password on every system connected to it. Finally, I would call in a security expert to look at what happened and make suggestions on what to do next. I wouldn't do partial fixes for a major security breech. Leaving user stuff may leave a hacker's back-door in place! -Paul "Brian T. Schellenberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/23/00 10:26PM The easiest fastest way to fix it is to re-install the O/S (not an upgrade, an install). This might not be a big deal if you have /home and /usr/local on separate partitions and you've not customized elsewhere much and/or if you keep frequent backups, orit might be a big deal. Nothing short of re-installing and restoring from backup is really safe, though. For preventing this in the future, what sort of internet hookup do you have? What sort of firewall setup? What sort of security level are you running? What version of Mandrake? Andrew Vogel wrote: I woke up this morning to find this email in my system: Subject: *** Diff Check, Thu Apr 20 00:02:50 EDT 2000 *** Security Warning: Change in Suid Root files found : - Added suid root files : /bin/mount - Added suid root files : /bin/ping - Added suid root files : /bin/su - Added suid root files : /bin/umount - Added suid root files : /sbin/dump - Added suid root files : /sbin/pwdb_chkpwd - Added suid root files : /sbin/restore - Added suid root files : /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/at - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chage - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chfn - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chsh - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/crontab - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/dos - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/gpasswd - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lpq - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lpr - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lprm - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/newgrp - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/passwd - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/procmail - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rcp - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rlogin - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rsh - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/sperl5.6.0 - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/suidperl - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/urpmi - Added suid root files : /usr/lib/telnetd/login - Added suid root files : /usr/libexec/pt_chown - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/sendmail - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/traceroute - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/userhelper - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/usernetctl Security Warning: Changes in Suid Group files found : - Added suid group files : /usr/sbin/sendmail Security Warning: Change in World Writeable Files found : - Removed writables files : /tmp/fileUcAjVM Security Warning: the md5 checksum for one of your SUID files has changed, maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a backdoor... - Checksum changed files : /usr/bin/suidperl Security Warning: There is modifications for port listening on your machine : - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN 658/X - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN 651/kdm - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 586/perl - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 520/httpd - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* 651/kdm - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* 586/perl - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 3244/httpd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN
Re: [expert] restore my old sytem
when i tried linux single, linux made initially unroll the message of starting then it send me a message: "/dev/hda5 contains a file system with error check forced" then after some instant i receive the message"give the root password for maintenance". after have given the root password i receive the message " bad login..Thank you for your help - Original Message - From: Brian T. Schellenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 4:34 AM Subject: Re: [expert] restore my old sytem Well, what exactly happened when you tried "linux single"? What happened when you used the resuce disk? We'll need more information in order to help you. Patrick wrote: hi, yesterday, i start my linux and i mark an error in file sytem.i wanted to give my password for maintenance .But my password didn't recognize.Please help me to restore my system.i used the methods of rescue end boot disk.I also used the command "linux single" in lilo prompt.But nothing march.i don't know which methods used for restore my sytem .Thank you for your help.Please respond me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement) -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement)
[expert] Two Directories on Same Partition?
If you're an expert you'll probably think this is a newbie question. g. I've looked at a bunch of man pages, howtos, and Web sites without finding the answer... which may be the answer! Can you put two "low-level" directories in the same partition? For example, can I have / in one partition and both /etc and /usr in one separate partition? If so, what goes in fstab? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] How to find the locking process?
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote: From time to time when I go to umount somthing it will tell me that it's busy and I can't. Now sometimes it's clear to me why, and it's easily corrected, but other times it is not. Is there any way to: - Find what process has it locked, or - Force it to unlock anyway, killing process as necessary? Dunno. However, one thing to keep in mind (as far as removeable media is concerned at least): If you're in the directory where the removeable media is mounted, you can't unmount the drive. i.e. if you're in a console window, and you've got a cdrom mounted in /mnt/cdrom, you can NOT umount that drive if you're in /mnt/cdrom viewing the contents of the drive. Same goes for /mnt/floppy, etc. John
Re: [expert] txt_boot.img, txt_bootnet.img
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: I needed to do a text network install of Mandrake 7 on a system without a mouse, but after downloading and RAWRITEing it to a floppy, it just told me to insert the Mandrake CDROM. The same happened with txt_boot.img. Is this supposed to happen? I did enjoy the whole FTP install that I did on Mandrake 6.1. Other than this, I love mandrake, so I dunno And I really want that 586 optimization for my P133 server Yep. The standard boot image and the text_boot image are NOT (afaik) capable of installs other than from a CDROM. On the Mandrake 7.0-2 cd I burned from their ISO image, there is a txt_bootnet.img file which should allow you to do FTP/NFS installs. Also, the MD5SUMs aren't the same as they should be. I know that isn't a good sign. That is DEFINITELY a bad sign! John
Re: [expert] lost bootup disk, recover ?
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ted Wager wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Civileme wrote: Ted.tomsrtbt is in need of a kernal update to support the ext2 filesystems created by the newest distros. He has said that he is working on it but with the recent birth of a new baby daughter in March his time has been severely limited. A chroot to any of my 3 linux partitions tells me.. chroot usage chroot directory program [arg] Also if I try to mount any of the linux parttitions I get couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features mount: wrong fs type bad option etc. Wonder if anyone can tell me what is wrong...I have used tomsrtbt in the past but this is the latest version.Is it my machine or the tomsrtbt disk ?? Regards Ted Ted Wager..RedHat Linux 6.2 g3tpi.ampr.org 44.131.147.8 OS From :- www.eridani.co.uk -- Hi Alan Thanks for the info..I have used the tomsrtbt on an old p75 running Storm linux and it will mount /dev/hdc1 on that machine so think the problem lies with this machine..It would not chroot on the p75 though... Regards Ted Ted Wager..RedHat Linux 6.2 g3tpi.ampr.org 44.131.147.8 OS From :- www.eridani.co.uk
Re: [expert] DIsk Caching
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hello, In Mandrake, is there a way where I can control the amount of memory being used as a disk cache? I've noticed that sometimes Mandrake is using almost 100MB of physcial RAM as a disk cache, especially after doing something intensive such as compiling an application. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to shrink I have 256MB of physcial RAM in my box. I would *think* that having a maximum of a 64MB disk cache would suffice. Any thoughts? Thanks... I think it's part of the O/S that Linux uses "available" memory to cache the disks. AFAIK, that can't be changed w/o rewriting the kernel. This came up awhile back and it was pointed out at that time that linux DOES release memory as needed by the various applications, but that it continues to buffer the disks up to available RAM. John
Re: [expert] Re: The right way to do a private network
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:08:48AM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: - - Charles Curley wrote: - On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 10:37:04AM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: - - - - Assuming your ISP is providing you with only a single IP address, you want - - something along these lines: - - - - ++ - - | Comp B |---\+---+ - - ++\---| H | ++ +---+ - -| u |--| Comp A |-| Modem | - - ++/---| b | ++ +---+ - - | Comp C |---/+---+ - - ++ - - Why purchase another machine at all? Install a second network interface - card into Comp B and connect it in the diagram as Comp A. It'll cost ya - about $10-20 for a nic. - - I do have a second NIC, but this still leaves Comp A vulnerable to attack - if it's connected to the cable modem. Comp B is my development machine - and placing it as Comp A might be risky. Is this a valid assumption ? Yep. Development or any other proprietary data should NEVER be on the firewall. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: If that's the case, then why does the report say that there's a *difference* in the suid root files? Why does it claim that all of those are *changed*? It doesn't merely claim that they *are* suid root; it claims that they *changed*. My apologies. You are correct. One of the lovely advantages of having two logical partitions set up with the same Linux is that now the victim could actually compare all those files with the virgin copies using diff or md5sum to ascertain whether the files have actually been changed or whether msec's record of things got corrupted (msec is on its first release, remember, and hiccups can be expected). I'm sceptical that he in fact was hacked - why would the hacker make that odd set of partial changes? - and would look for alternative possibilities, including a hardware hiccup. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
[expert] Howto integrate new settings in homebrew ISO?
Dear Mail list! After a lot of download and adjusting work I finished a homebrew Mandrake-iso, which I burned on CD. But it only contains the default configuration files... Is there a possibility to include my adjusted configuration files (i.e. isdn-files, crontab...) in the installation files on the CD? Ok, I could backup /etc on a disk and then overwrite the install settings, but hopefully there is another, more elegant way... Any sort of help appreciated! David. (Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
[expert] Howto integrate new settings in homebrew ISO?
Dear Mail list! After a lot of download and adjusting work I finished a homebrew Mandrake-iso, which I burned on CD. But it only contains the default configuration files... Is there a possibility to include my adjusted configuration files (i.e. isdn-files, crontab...) in the installation files on the CD? Ok, I could backup /etc on a disk and then overwrite the install settings, but hopefully there is another, more elegant way... Any sort of help appreciated! David. (Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [expert] Diamond Stealth ll S220
John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, you wrote: Has anyone else had any trouble setting up X with a Stealth ll ? every time X tries to start itself it locks the system up tigher than a drum. Anyone got any ideas?? Which X server did you install? John John, I was doing a "recommended" install from a 7.0-2 disk so I assume it was the default Xserver. I replaced the card with a Voodoo3 2000 and all is well although I would like to figure out what happened. Someone suggested that they had problems with a bbp selection of 24 and changing that solved their problem. Mine was that I was never given the chance to select that using the "recommended" install. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227
Re: [expert] DIsk Caching
Linux will manage the memory space so that if there's some more useful use for the memory it'll take back the disk cache space. Run enough applications that need the space and it'll shrink up real nice. If you have applications actuallly dying from lack of memory while the disk cache is still locked in, you've got a problem; otherwise, just enjoy the intelligent use of memory. PS: If you hve 256M you might want to get rid of swap space entirely; that's what I've done. Necrotica wrote: Hello, In Mandrake, is there a way where I can control the amount of memory being used as a disk cache? I've noticed that sometimes Mandrake is using almost 100MB of physcial RAM as a disk cache, especially after doing something intensive such as compiling an application. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to shrink I have 256MB of physcial RAM in my box. I would *think* that having a maximum of a 64MB disk cache would suffice. Any thoughts? Thanks... -Chris -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] Ghostview help needed!!!!!!!!!!
When I want open a PostSript file (*.ps) with Ghostview the messagges displayed are unknown device x11alpha Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main windows or unknown device x11 Error: PostScrip interpreter failed in main windows Thanks Simon Anun
Re: [expert] Network card causes modem to disappear
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 23 Apr 00, at 18:03, Charles Curley wrote: And in which case the card is out of spec. The PCI spec requires that software be able to assign a base address to the card in all address spaces. The card does appear to be in spec; I can indeed assign base addresses at will. Also, the important thing to remember in all this is that the card works perfectly under Windows with the network card also in place. Either I'm missing something in my trying to configure it under Linux or, and I almost hate to say this) there's something slightly hosed in the PCI PnP support on Linux. At this point I've tried every configuration trick I can think of -- hence my call for help. Doc Evans -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: Key obtainable from servers: ID 0x6184B81D iQCVAwUBOQRaTP2CFbFhhLgdAQEfjgP7BJQg6vTe4UDyowaWm8GUQQ9ZmPkYvdoO +ocBHsexx9GEptM69v9n/lq/t2OqmcTFEq6cAq3vwx4dXpPPTeiD9C3LgBHWESp1 BRWCnUrLHZbsVZegCxObQwf7ZYhKlex+mbzhI0s5XEUr+4cmDup1Q2iNsdnNmub1 6lGVurebKPA= =Xacv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- D.R. Evans N7DR / G4AMJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Palindor Chronicles" information and extracts: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR/drevans.htp --
[expert] Analog Audio input - MP3 Application Found
Ok... I've found it. It's a command-line app that can record audio directly to mp3 using Lame as the encoder. I haven't tried it yet and I'm not sure if it can utilize the much faster Gogo encoder. http://www.netwaysglobal.com/mpegrec Seve -Original Message- From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:04 PM Subject: [expert] Analog Audio input - MP3 in Realtime? Hi All, I'm in search of software that will convert my Audio-input to MP3 in real-time. I already have the faster-than-real-time encoders; Gogo Lame. The only program that I know of right now is Musicmatch for Windurs. An equivalent linux program would be great! Seve
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
Ron, re-read the message. It specifically says that file the shouldn't be suid have been changed to suid since the last scan. For instance, mount, su, and umount should never be suid. They aren't installed that way, so "something" had to change them. Even if it wasn't a hack job, there are many security holes here. I wouldn't want to have that system anywhere near a public network until it's fixed. Russ Ron Stodden wrote: Andrew Vogel wrote: I woke up this morning to find this email in my system: ... I've been hacked! The questions, now, are: 1. How do I fix this? and 2. How to I prevent it from happening again? No you haven't! This is just the periodic report done on your system security by your own msec (man msec).I have not seen it as an email before, only as /var/log/messages messages, so msec must consider the situation serious. It is telling you what needs to be done to bring your security up to snuff so that you can't be hacked. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] Diamond Stealth ll S220
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: John, I was doing a "recommended" install from a 7.0-2 disk so I assume it was the default Xserver. I replaced the card with a Voodoo3 2000 and all is well although I would like to figure out what happened. Someone suggested that they had problems with a bbp selection of 24 and changing that solved their problem. Mine was that I was never given the chance to select that using the "recommended" install. :-) That's why I *never* let Linux tell me how to install. I *always* do a custom install. :-) John
Re: [expert] Internet problems
Well it is always www.nec.com or www.wellsfargo.com any of the banking sites. Some parts of Microsoft's sites. - Original Message - From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Internet problems Ah dunno. Perhaps you could cite a specific site? I have IP Masquerading set up under Linux (Mandrake 7.0) to my cable modem, *with* a firewall. I can see if they work for me. If some of the sites are "embarressing" feel free to send the URLs to me directly; I'm virtually impossible to offend. (Well, I dunno. If it's a pro-movie-industry/anti-decss site or something I might get offended . . . ) Tom H wrote: I have hooked up my Linux (Red Hat 6.1) to the DSL I am running Ip Masqurading on the system and it is routing to the internet for the other 4 systems. The strange thing is I am unable to astablish a connection to some web sites that use security. I have also noticed it has problems with frames. Or various other sites. If I connect it directly to the 98 or NT machine I can hit them fine with no problems. I think it might be a SSL problem but not sure. I have not installed a firewall yet. But I have checked all the files for IP Forwarding and they all seem to be OK. What am I missing. Tom H Triumph 595 64 Corvair 65 Corvair -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] some missing files in Air
hi list, have discovered some missing files and a lot of false links in Air. Files in /usr/doc/kde/HTML/default/ are a lot of missing or false links. Some of the needed files are located in /opt/kde/share/doc/HTML/en/default, but a lot of them are not here. Another thing I discovered, kdf isn't there (that is kdiskfree) whether on CD1 nor in CD3 nor on the ftp-server. Another thing is a missing link on that : Checking for new hardware /usr/sbin/kudzu : error in loading shared libraries : lib newt.so.0.50 : cannot open shared object file : no such file or directory Who, by the hell, has made a control on mandrake V7 BEFORE forwarding the CD's to print. Now, where can I get such missing files, and why are some docfiles in kde-help missing ? Where can I find all the lacking help-files ? Hope someone can tell me obout, wherte to find and how to correct that missing things on "Air" bye Hans Schneidhofer
Re: [expert] DIsk Caching
Am Mon, 24 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: Linux will manage the memory space so that if there's some more useful use for the memory it'll take back the disk cache space. Run enough applications that need the space and it'll shrink up real nice. If you have applications actuallly dying from lack of memory while the disk cache is still locked in, you've got a problem; otherwise, just enjoy the intelligent use of memory. PS: If you hve 256M you might want to get rid of swap space entirely; that's what I've done. Necrotica wrote: Hello, In Mandrake, is there a way where I can control the amount of memory being used as a disk cache? I've noticed that sometimes Mandrake is using almost 100MB of physcial RAM as a disk cache, especially after doing something intensive such as compiling an application. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to shrink I have 256MB of physcial RAM in my box. I would *think* that having a maximum of a 64MB disk cache would suffice. Any thoughts? Thanks... -Chris -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. Brian, it is better to leave the swap space. I also got 256MB of ram (its nice to work with enough? ram. On making mp3s I had a little swapping and I guess some programs will have a look on swap on installation. regards Burkhard Zombronner
Re[2]: [expert] I've been hacked!
Sorry, but mout, su, and umount should be suid. A rpm -Va can find all files changed since installation. Monday, April 24, 2000, 11:08:42 PM, you wrote: RJ Ron, re-read the message. It specifically says that file the shouldn't be suid RJ have been changed to suid since the last scan. RJ For instance, mount, su, and umount should never be suid. They aren't installed RJ that way, so "something" had to change them. RJ Even if it wasn't a hack job, there are many security holes here. I wouldn't want RJ to have that system anywhere near a public network until it's fixed. RJ Russ -- lark
Re: [expert] L 7.0(2) and PHP 3.0.16
Stig wrote: I'm having trouble compiling PHP on a freshly installed LM 7.0 machine. I used the norwegian locale when I installed, but I don't know if this is the problem... The errors I get are with "functions/microtime.c" in the PHP tree. Something about "usg".. I tried to install every package imaginable to make it work... even tried to change the locale to US English to no use... Anyone else experienced this and found a sollution to this ? Thanks for your time. Stig-Ørjan Smelror Excuse me for replying to my own mail, but here is the exact error I'm getting. - functions/microtime.c: In function `php3_getrusage': functions/microtime.c:152: storage size of `usg' isn't known functions/microtime.c:155: `RUSAGE_SELF' undeclared (first use in this function) functions/microtime.c:155: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once functions/microtime.c:155: for each function it appears in.) functions/microtime.c:161: `RUSAGE_CHILDREN' undeclared (first use in this function) make: *** [functions/microtime.o] Error 1 -- Everything works fine on my private machine and I believe the problem lies with the norwegian locale I used when installing Mandrake. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for your time. Best regards, Stig-Ørjan
Re: [expert] Ghostview help needed!!!!!!!!!!
Simon Anun wrote: When I want open a PostSript file (*.ps) with Ghostview the messagges displayed are Hi! You are trying to display output to X11 in text mode...Either run X11 or output display to svga or printer... Bye, Alen -- *---* *E-Mail: Alen Salamun [EMAIL PROTECTED]* * LiNUX - The choice of GNU Generation! * *---*
[expert] Bastille w/ LM 7.0
Has anyone used the Bastille scripts on top of a LM 7.0 system? Is it even necessary, if you use msec to set the security level to '5'? This is for a system that will be used as a firewall/router/DHCP/DNS/mail/news server. Thanks for your time, Monte = "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBPPP!!!...much snicker" What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:08:42 -0700, you wrote: Ron, re-read the message. It specifically says that file the shouldn't be suid have been changed to suid since the last scan. For instance, mount, su, and umount should never be suid. They aren't installed that way, so "something" had to change them. Even if it wasn't a hack job, there are many security holes here. I wouldn't want to have that system anywhere near a public network until it's fixed. Imagine how I'm feeling! I'm going to do a complete reinstall of the system when I get a bit of free time... The folks in this group have been TREMENDOUSLY valuable through this process; thanks! --- === Andrew Vogel: Program Manager at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. http://pharmacy.uc.edu/default.html (513)-558-3784 ===
[expert] gui login
I recall there being a discussion a while back regarding users added after the 7.0 install not showing up on the cute little gui login screen. I tried searching the archives and came up empty, does anyone recall the fix to this?? TIA -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227
Re: Re[2]: [expert] I've been hacked!
Yes this was not a hack... my files are in the same condition even after reinstalling the RPMS to be sure... the reason it said it changed was likely because you upgraded an RPM and it changed it for you, or this was the first time the security scan was run. But now I do have to ask... why does ping need to be suid root? and why do some of the other files he listed have to be suid as well?? -Gary Simmons On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Wang Jian wrote: Sorry, but mout, su, and umount should be suid. A rpm -Va can find all files changed since installation. Monday, April 24, 2000, 11:08:42 PM, you wrote: RJ Ron, re-read the message. It specifically says that file the shouldn't be suid RJ have been changed to suid since the last scan. RJ For instance, mount, su, and umount should never be suid. They aren't installed RJ that way, so "something" had to change them. RJ Even if it wasn't a hack job, there are many security holes here. I wouldn't want RJ to have that system anywhere near a public network until it's fixed. RJ Russ
Re: [expert] gui login
Josephyou can set them to be seen in the kde control center-applications-login manager. Alan "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: I recall there being a discussion a while back regarding users added after the 7.0 install not showing up on the cute little gui login screen. I tried searching the archives and came up empty, does anyone recall the fix to this?? TIA -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227
Re: [expert] some missing files in Air
Hans Schneidhofer wrote: hi list, have discovered some missing files and a lot of false links in Air. Files in /usr/doc/kde/HTML/default/ are a lot of missing or false links. Some of the needed files are located in /opt/kde/share/doc/HTML/en/default, but a lot of them are not here. Another thing I discovered, kdf isn't there (that is kdiskfree) whether on CD1 nor in CD3 nor on the ftp-server. Another thing is a missing link on that : Checking for new hardware /usr/sbin/kudzu : error in loading shared libraries : lib newt.so.0.50 : cannot open shared object file : no such file or directory Who, by the hell, has made a control on mandrake V7 BEFORE forwarding the CD's to print. Now, where can I get such missing files, and why are some docfiles in kde-help missing ? Where can I find all the lacking help-files ? Hope someone can tell me obout, wherte to find and how to correct that missing things on "Air" bye Hans Schneidhofer Well Kdiskfree should be on the Mandrake 6.1 distro for downloading As for the kde docs, it may be an error to assume that there are missing docs. Documentation is often not carried out by busy programmers and is instead shifted to volunteer writers. And, as the deadline approaches, some of the volunteers vanish, so docs often go to electronic and paper publication with pieces missing, or with answers not completely researched. My own experience with kde docs in previous distros is that there *are* pieces missing. -- BETA-testing Netscape 6 and its mailer
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
But now I do have to ask... why
does ping need to be suid root? and why do some of the other files he
listed have to be suid as well??
From a Solaris box (I don't have linux installed):
{2} q2ir@jupiter [~] ls -l `which ping`
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin20404 Oct 6 1998 /usr/sbin/ping*
^
ping and tracert send out ICMP (raw IP) packets. It's my hypothesis that
root permissions are need to send or receive those.
As for su and mount, root permissions are needed under some or all
circumstances. The only way to do that is to run the application as root
(and switch the effective UID to the user if the extra permissions are not
needed).
ELB
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Re: [expert] gui login
On my system they DO show up, but that little display is dependent on security level. However, look at this AS ROOT Kmenu-Settings-Applications-Login Manager Civileme "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: I recall there being a discussion a while back regarding users added after the 7.0 install not showing up on the cute little gui login screen. I tried searching the archives and came up empty, does anyone recall the fix to this?? TIA -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227 -- BETA-testing Netscape 6 and its mailer
Re: [expert] gui login
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 24 Apr 00, at 13:27, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: I recall there being a discussion a while back regarding users added after the 7.0 install not showing up on the cute little gui login screen. I tried searching the archives and came up empty, does anyone recall the fix to this?? That must have been before I subscribed, but I certainly haven't had any problem with added users not showing up on the "cute little gui login screen". Doc Evans -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: Key obtainable from servers: ID 0x6184B81D iQCVAwUBOQSkFf2CFbFhhLgdAQHG6wQA4W8or0nvYzGUe9s+XVCSfR1vJ1tvtKsM TkHlfozAX/kr3WWByFs0d7H3uf5Vztt6GLiSIn5fRTPYT4WY7nvwxSSUqEL3A0j3 LS+f0cJapMCTDRAJE6bEzNH+728wJJfh3keCMh2loBGbAKpFU4DS9/VRPkIxZNPY 2nkK+LZc93E= =5eHI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- D.R. Evans N7DR / G4AMJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Palindor Chronicles" information and extracts: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR/drevans.htp --
[expert] cdrecord CD-RW problems
Hello, I am using Mandrake-7.02. I am trying to use cdrecord to write on an ide CD-RW drive. I can write to CD-R just fine, but it doesn't work with any CD-RW media. I have no problems with real scsi drives. I downloaded the new cdrecord src for RedHat, recompiled and it does not help. Here is what I get. Any ideas would be appreciated. P.S. I hope no one worries that I was attempting to write RH-6.2! -cheers, -sen My system: Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000 cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'IDE-CD ' 'R/RW 4x4x24 ' 'Z023' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * It writes in dummy mode just fine (I think). cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 zoot-i386.iso -dummy cdrecord: Badly placed option. Global options must be before any track. [root@chaos RedHat-6.2]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 -dummy zoot-i386.iso Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'IDE-CD ' Identifikation : 'R/RW 4x4x24 ' Revision : 'Z023' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1572864 = 1536 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 640 MB Total size: 735 MB (72:54.25) = 328069 sectors Lout start: 736 MB (72:56/19) = 328069 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00) ATIP start of lead out: 336781 (74:52/31) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 5A C8 06 Disk type: phase change Manuf. index: 81 Manufacturer: ILLEGAL: Old Ritek Co.??? Blocks total: 336781 Blocks current: 336781 Blocks remaining: 8712 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 1 seconds. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: data 640 MB Total size: 735 MB (72:54.25) = 328069 sectors Lout start: 736 MB (72:56/19) = 328069 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00) ATIP start of lead out: 336781 (74:52/31) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 5A C8 06 Disk type: phase change Manuf. index: 81 Manufacturer: ILLEGAL: Old Ritek Co.??? Blocks total: 336781 Blocks current: 336781 Blocks remaining: 8712 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 1 seconds. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 640 of 640 MB written (fifo 100%). Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 671881216/671881216 (328067 sectors). Writing time: 1101.589s Fixating... WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. Fixating time: 64.404s cdrecord: fifo had 20505 puts and 20505 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 18649 times full, min fill was 90%. Now, without the dummy mode: cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 zoot-i386.iso Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'IDE-CD ' Identifikation : 'R/RW 4x4x24 ' Revision : 'Z023' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1572864 = 1536 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 640 MB Total size: 735 MB (72:54.25) = 328069 sectors Lout start: 736 MB (72:56/19) = 328069 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00) ATIP start of lead out: 336781 (74:52/31) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 5A C8 06 Disk type: phase change Manuf. index: 81 Manufacturer: ILLEGAL: Old Ritek Co.??? Blocks total: 336781 Blocks current: 336781 Blocks remaining: 8712 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write
Re: [expert] Fwd: [UKLUG] Wow, an actual constructive use for IRC!
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, vern wrote: Check it outfire up an IRC client and head to irc.debian.org channel #debian. Then you can do an "apt: ipmasq" to have the channel bot give you info on what ipmasq is and where to find docs. That's really cool! It works for most packages. ok, it's VERY useful... if and only if you have DEBIAN... ur... is this the mandrake list? -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high"
Re: [expert] some missing files in Air
Am Mon, 24 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: hi list, have discovered some missing files and a lot of false links in Air. Files in /usr/doc/kde/HTML/default/ are a lot of missing or false links. Some of the needed files are located in /opt/kde/share/doc/HTML/en/default, but a lot of them are not here. Another thing I discovered, kdf isn't there (that is kdiskfree) whether on CD1 nor in CD3 nor on the ftp-server. Another thing is a missing link on that : Checking for new hardware /usr/sbin/kudzu : error in loading shared libraries : lib newt.so.0.50 : cannot open shared object file : no such file or directory Who, by the hell, has made a control on mandrake V7 BEFORE forwarding the CD's to print. Now, where can I get such missing files, and why are some docfiles in kde-help missing ? Where can I find all the lacking help-files ? Hope someone can tell me obout, wherte to find and how to correct that missing things on "Air" bye Hans Schneidhofer Hello Hans, kdf you will find at kde-download website as targz file; missing documentation seems to be a problem within mandrake, perhabs you should understand that up to mandrake 6.1(and 6.5) it has been an improved version derived from RedHat; Mandrake 7.0-2 is most their own work, so I believe alot has to be improved but for me it is still the best distribution I have tested (I have seen alot). I guess they will improve their product very fast. If you are in need of any fast help have a look to the cooker site, which you can find on the mandrake website!!! regards Burkhard Zombronner
[expert] Is sendmail able to do source adress routing?
Hi! Does anybody know whether sendmail can do mailer routing depending of the source address. I'd need this because I want to forward mails from my local dial-up network to the correct mail servers. Each mail server does only accept mail for his domain. I use fetchmail to get mail and sendmail to send mail. Example : foo.com (free mail service) only accepts emails with source address @foo.com , bar.com only accepts emails from bar.com. Sendmail should send all mails from @foo.com to foo.com's server, all mails from @bar.com to bar.com's server. Is this possible Alexander
[expert] Hydrogen new release?
I was surfing my local linux-mandrake mirror and I found a directory called "hydrogen", up there in the root with "7.0" and "iso". Anyone know what it means? Does it mean Mandrake's releasing something new and special once again? Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Asheesh Laroia. -- BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Creationism'. -- And Visual Basic is the equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.
Re: [expert] Is sendmail able to do source adress routing?
Hmm. Wouldn't it just be easier to use that very sendmail daemon to send directly to people? For example, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I love using sendmail (nt) would just be sent by sendmail itself to server.com directly, with no need for a different SMTP server. Wouldn't that solve your problems? Hi! Does anybody know whether sendmail can do mailer routing depending of the source address. I'd need this because I want to forward mails from my local dial-up network to the correct mail servers. Each mail server does only accept mail for his domain. I use fetchmail to get mail and sendmail to send mail. Example : foo.com (free mail service) only accepts emails with source address @foo.com , bar.com only accepts emails from bar.com. Sendmail should send all mails from @foo.com to foo.com's server, all mails from @bar.com to bar.com's server. Is this possible[?] Probably, but it's also silly (see above). Sincerely, Asheesh Laroia. -- Q: How many Microsoft support staff does it take to change a light bulb? A: Four. One to ask "What is the registration number of the light bulb?", one to ask "Have you tried rebooting it?", another to ask "Have you tried reinstalling it?" and the last one to say "It must be your hardware because the light bulb in our office works fine..."
Re: [expert] txt_boot.img, txt_bootnet.img
I love your sig. !! And, the request for the text install with no mouse was really "hard-core" for this "greenhorn" Vern Sincerely, Asheesh Laroia. -- Real programmers disdain structured programming. Structured programming is for compulsive neurotics who were prematurely toilet- trained. They wear neckties and carefully line up pencils on otherwise clear desks.
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
I don't have /sbin/dump; /sbin/restore and /usr/bin/sperl5.6.0 installed. Other than that, all files in the following list are suid. Subject: *** Diff Check, Thu Apr 20 00:02:50 EDT 2000 *** Security Warning: Change in Suid Root files found : - Added suid root files : /bin/mount - Added suid root files : /bin/ping - Added suid root files : /bin/su - Added suid root files : /bin/umount - Added suid root files : /sbin/dump - Added suid root files : /sbin/pwdb_chkpwd - Added suid root files : /sbin/restore - Added suid root files : /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/at - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chage - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chfn - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chsh - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/crontab - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/dos - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/gpasswd - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lpq - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lpr - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lprm - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/newgrp - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/passwd - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/procmail - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rcp - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rlogin - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rsh - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/sperl5.6.0 - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/suidperl - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/urpmi - Added suid root files : /usr/lib/telnetd/login - Added suid root files : /usr/libexec/pt_chown - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/sendmail - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/traceroute - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/userhelper - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/usernetctl Yup, group suid also. Security Warning: Changes in Suid Group files found : - Added suid group files : /usr/sbin/sendmail Nothing to worry about; world writable files in /tmp/ are pretty common. They're temp files anyway, so probably by the time you read the security check mail, the file doesn't exist anymore. Security Warning: Change in World Writeable Files found : - Removed writables files : /tmp/fileUcAjVM Ok, I don't know why the hell this file would change checksum. Perhaps you reinstalled or perhaps the old checksum got corrupted. Security Warning: the md5 checksum for one of your SUID files has changed, maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a backdoor... - Checksum changed files : /usr/bin/suidperl I don't know which ports do what, but I always get this kind of crap also, so I don't really believe it's much to worry about. I just deleted my own security check mails, so I can't compare. And I don't really feel like running it right now since it takes ages on this nearly full harddrive of mine... If it really bothers you, I'll run the security check and send you the results. Security Warning: There is modifications for port listening on your machine : - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN 658/X - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN 651/kdm - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 586/perl - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 520/httpd - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* 651/kdm - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* 586/perl - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 3244/httpd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 1996/perl - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN 660/X - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN 653/kdm - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* Ok, this is strange... Perl listening on a port, or how do I interpret this? Add this to the fact that suidperl has changed md5 checksum, and here's a possibillity of something that isn't quite the way it should be... 1996/perl - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* 653/kdm ...I've been hacked! The questions, now, are: 1. How do I fix this? and 2. How to I prevent it from happening again? Well, I don't think you've been hacked, but I can't completely rule
[expert] disk maintenance
Hi, Does anyone know how to maintain a fat-partition under Linux? Preferably diskcheck and defragging. Thanks Greetings from, Arild Sunde
Re: [expert] Bastille w/ LM 7.0
Has anyone used the Bastille scripts on top of a LM 7.0 system? Is it even necessary, if you use msec to set the security level to '5'? This is for a system that will be used as a firewall/router/DHCP/DNS/mail/news server. I was on their site today :) They state that they support RedHat 6.0/6.1 at the moment with Mandrake support on the way. In the README they state that you must run their script IMMEDIATELY after an install and ONLY for these supported systems... so I have not tried it yet. If you want Bastille to lock up (secure) your LM7.0, then you should probably wait for Bastille support. Thanks... Dan.
Re: [expert] lost bootup disk, recover ?
Ted Wager wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Civileme wrote: Well, try downloading tomsrtbt and making a boot floppy to boot his linux, then # chroot /dev/hdb1 # mkbootdisk --2.2.13-7mdk Civileme I downloaded the latest tomsrtbt.. A chroot to any of my 3 linux partitions tells me.. chroot usage chroot directory program [arg] Also if I try to mount any of the linux parttitions I get couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features mount: wrong fs type bad option etc. Wonder if anyone can tell me what is wrong...I have used tomsrtbt in the past but this is the latest version.Is it my machine or the tomsrtbt disk ?? Regards Ted Ted.tomsrtbt is in need of a kernal update to support the ext2 filesystems created by the newest distros. He has said that he is working on it but with the recent birth of a new baby daughter in March his time has been severely limited. In the interim, you should be able to use your boot floppy that you created during installation and a rescue.img (copied onto a floppy from your installation cd with rawrite.exe in dos) floppy as a pair to do the same thing Civileme suggested. Boot with the boot floppy and at the boot: prompt type rescue and insert the rescue.img floppy. Then follow Civileme's instructions. Alan [I was the originator of this thread] I also tried what Civileme suggested without success, as pointed out by Ted. I tried all sorts of variations and always got complaints. Any other way around this ? Since I could not get 'chroot' working, 'mkbootdisk' was not possible. I managed to mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt" and then proceeded to copy all files in /boot onto a floppy and use that for bootup. With tomsrtbt, is there a way to find out which are Linux partitions on the drive(s) ? I mean without guessing by trying to mount each of the /dev/hd[ab][1-9] disk devices. Thanks... Dan.
Re: [expert] cdrecord CD-RW problems
"S. Newhouse" wrote: Hello, I am using Mandrake-7.02. I am trying to use cdrecord to write on an ide CD-RW drive. I can write to CD-R just fine, but it doesn't work with any CD-RW media. I have no problems with real scsi drives. I downloaded the new cdrecord src for RedHat, recompiled and it does not help. Here is what I get. Any ideas would be appreciated. P.S. I hope no one worries that I was attempting to write RH-6.2! -cheers, -sen My system: Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000 cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'IDE-CD ' 'R/RW 4x4x24 ' 'Z023' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * It writes in dummy mode just fine (I think). cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 zoot-i386.iso -dummy cdrecord: Badly placed option. Global options must be before any track. [root@chaos RedHat-6.2]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 -dummy zoot-i386.iso Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'IDE-CD ' Identifikation : 'R/RW 4x4x24 ' Revision : 'Z023' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1572864 = 1536 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 640 MB Total size: 735 MB (72:54.25) = 328069 sectors Lout start: 736 MB (72:56/19) = 328069 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00) ATIP start of lead out: 336781 (74:52/31) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 5A C8 06 Disk type: phase change Manuf. index: 81 Manufacturer: ILLEGAL: Old Ritek Co.??? Blocks total: 336781 Blocks current: 336781 Blocks remaining: 8712 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 1 seconds. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: data 640 MB Total size: 735 MB (72:54.25) = 328069 sectors Lout start: 736 MB (72:56/19) = 328069 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00) ATIP start of lead out: 336781 (74:52/31) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 5A C8 06 Disk type: phase change Manuf. index: 81 Manufacturer: ILLEGAL: Old Ritek Co.??? Blocks total: 336781 Blocks current: 336781 Blocks remaining: 8712 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 1 seconds. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 640 of 640 MB written (fifo 100%). Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 671881216/671881216 (328067 sectors). Writing time: 1101.589s Fixating... WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. Fixating time: 64.404s cdrecord: fifo had 20505 puts and 20505 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 18649 times full, min fill was 90%. Now, without the dummy mode: cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 zoot-i386.iso Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'IDE-CD ' Identifikation : 'R/RW 4x4x24 ' Revision : 'Z023' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1572864 = 1536 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 640 MB Total size: 735 MB (72:54.25) = 328069 sectors Lout start: 736 MB (72:56/19) = 328069 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00) ATIP start of lead out: 336781 (74:52/31) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 5A C8 06 Disk type: phase change Manuf. index: 81 Manufacturer: ILLEGAL:
[expert] ntp info - Thanks
Thanks for your assistance. I have several options now. I installed rdate and found that I already had hwclock on the computer. For Ron Stodden: When I run ntpdate FQDN , it returns the time but says "the NTP socket in use, exiting" and does not update the computer clock. For Gary Bunker: I discovered I have the xntp package on the Mandrake CD and am going to uninstall the ntp package, install xntp and give it a test drive. Most of the files appear to be the same. I believe I have the permissions correct. ntp is running as root. For Civileme: I will add the lines you suggested to rc.local for boot up and am going to swap ntp for xntp just to see if it functions. I may just run the rc.local file now and then the way you do to keep the time right. I don't restart the computer very often. I am only interested in the clock being pretty good - doesn't have to be perfect. For Matt Stedman: Your suggestion (and Civileme's) work great. In one way or another I will be using this approach. I'm going to set up the cron job for the fun of it. For Russ Johnson: My clock was off about 8 minutes when I started trying to adjust it with LinuxConfig. I got to within 10 or so seconds after messing around with it for a while and decided that there must be some better way to get it set properly. Again, thanks to all for your helpful responses. Ken
RE: [expert] DIsk Caching
What is the benifit of UNUSED RAM?? RAM used for cache can be cashed in (pun intended). It will be flushed and used for programs, data, buffers, etc. when needed by the kernel. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Necrotica Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] DIsk Caching Hello, In Mandrake, is there a way where I can control the amount of memory being used as a disk cache? I've noticed that sometimes Mandrake is using almost 100MB of physcial RAM as a disk cache, especially after doing something intensive such as compiling an application. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to shrink I have 256MB of physcial RAM in my box. I would *think* that having a maximum of a 64MB disk cache would suffice. Any thoughts? Thanks... -Chris
Re: [expert] cdrecord CD-RW problems
Ummm--don't you have to blank CDRWs before writing to them? Civileme On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hello, I am using Mandrake-7.02. I am trying to use cdrecord to write on an ide CD-RW drive. I can write to CD-R just fine, but it doesn't work with any CD-RW media. I have no problems with real scsi drives. I downloaded the new cdrecord src for RedHat, recompiled and it does not help. Here is what I get. Any ideas would be appreciated. P.S. I hope no one worries that I was attempting to write RH-6.2! -cheers, -sen My system: Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000 cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'IDE-CD ' 'R/RW 4x4x24 ' 'Z023' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * It writes in dummy mode just fine (I think). cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 zoot-i386.iso -dummy cdrecord: Badly placed option. Global options must be before any track. [root@chaos RedHat-6.2]# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 -dummy zoot-i386.iso Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'IDE-CD ' Identifikation : 'R/RW 4x4x24 ' Revision : 'Z023' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1572864 = 1536 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 640 MB Total size: 735 MB (72:54.25) = 328069 sectors Lout start: 736 MB (72:56/19) = 328069 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00) ATIP start of lead out: 336781 (74:52/31) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 5A C8 06 Disk type: phase change Manuf. index: 81 Manufacturer: ILLEGAL: Old Ritek Co.??? Blocks total: 336781 Blocks current: 336781 Blocks remaining: 8712 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 1 seconds. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: data 640 MB Total size: 735 MB (72:54.25) = 328069 sectors Lout start: 736 MB (72:56/19) = 328069 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00) ATIP start of lead out: 336781 (74:52/31) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor: 4 6 recommended erase/write power: 3 A2 values: 5A C8 06 Disk type: phase change Manuf. index: 81 Manufacturer: ILLEGAL: Old Ritek Co.??? Blocks total: 336781 Blocks current: 336781 Blocks remaining: 8712 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 1 seconds. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 640 of 640 MB written (fifo 100%). Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 671881216/671881216 (328067 sectors). Writing time: 1101.589s Fixating... WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode. Fixating time: 64.404s cdrecord: fifo had 20505 puts and 20505 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 18649 times full, min fill was 90%. Now, without the dummy mode: cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0 zoot-i386.iso Cdrecord 1.8.1a09 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info: 'IDE-CD ' Identifikation : 'R/RW 4x4x24 ' Revision : 'Z023' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1572864 = 1536 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 640 MB Total size: 735 MB (72:54.25) = 328069 sectors Lout start: 736 MB (72:56/19) = 328069 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Reference speed: 2 Is unrestricted Is erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11625 (97:27/00) ATIP start of lead out: 336781 (74:52/31) speed low: 0 speed high: 4 power mult factor:
RE: [expert] Two Directories on Same Partition?
AFAIK, fstab is in the /etc directory and can't be accessed to find the mount point for /etc . Can you pass the kernel the partition name for /etc at boot time like you can for / ?? If so, then: mkdir /etc/usr ln -s /etc/usr /usr Hope this helps, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:45 AM To: Experts Subject: [expert] Two Directories on Same Partition? If you're an expert you'll probably think this is a newbie question. g. I've looked at a bunch of man pages, howtos, and Web sites without finding the answer... which may be the answer! Can you put two "low-level" directories in the same partition? For example, can I have / in one partition and both /etc and /usr in one separate partition? If so, what goes in fstab? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] lost bootup disk, recover ?
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Since I could not get 'chroot' working, 'mkbootdisk' was not possible. Sure it is...it's just a bit more difficult. :-) You just have to recall when doing it to preface all paths with "/mnt/hdb1" as in "mkbootdisk /mnt/hdb1/boot/vmlinux-some-version" *should* have worked :-) John
Re: [expert] Is sendmail able to do source adress routing?
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hmm. Wouldn't it just be easier to use that very sendmail daemon to send directly to people? For example, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I love using sendmail (nt) would just be sent by sendmail itself to server.com directly, with no need for a different SMTP server. Wouldn't that solve your problems? Hmm...well, the problem here is that, unless a particular server can do a reverse lookup on the system trying to drop off mail, it MIGHT not accept the mail What with the problems of SPAM these days, most folks are running "closed" mail servers -- i.e. if your IP address ain't "known" to me, I don't accept mail from you! John
Re: [expert] Fwd: [UKLUG] Wow, an actual constructive use for IRC!
Yep, it's a mandrake list, and I have been using RH or an rpm based system since RH 4.2. I had previously used Slackware, and wow!, what an improvement! I tried out Debian and it's derivatives Corel and Storm a month or so ago and ended up coming back to Mandrake for the speed optimizations and package availability. I don't have the bandwidth currently to make an 'apt get dist upgrade' a feasible option (something like a 25 hour download at 1.6-2.2K/s). But I really wish someone would invent some way to get the features of the *.deb packages and apt package manager using rpm's. Namely the ability to intelligently determine what dependencies are needed and retrieve and install them also (I've heard rumors that urpmi or grpmi can do this ?), and the ability to upgrade from the current CD to the latest bleeding edge (Cooker) w/ one command (o.k., I'd settle for two ;) ) , and most importantly of all, i.e. I don't give a rat's behind about the others as long as I get this one: The package system is intelligent to not screw w/ your config files. Upgrading/updating the system to the latest features, or just for security fixes, doesn't require hunting down your config files, backing them up, hoping you got them all, and then effectively doing a Hail Mary as you upgrade and hope you come out of it w/ a functional system. If there is a funtional way of doing using rpm, short of many hours parsing man pages and tinkering w/ scripts, let me know. Why do I object to putzing around w/ the scripts? 'Cause I like to _use_ my system now and again, not endlessly play w/ the settings just cause I can. Thanks for your time, Monte Marcos Dione wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, vern wrote: Check it outfire up an IRC client and head to irc.debian.org channel #debian. Then you can do an "apt: ipmasq" to have the channel bot give you info on what ipmasq is and where to find docs. That's really cool! It works for most packages. ok, it's VERY useful... if and only if you have DEBIAN... ur... is this the mandrake list? -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light." --Tom Sharpe, "Wilt on high" __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
Thank you. Lane Lester wrote: [snip] Additions to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1 (former entries for zip and cdrom removed) Question, though: why is /dev/sr0 mounted ro, even though it is a CD-RW? Sincerely, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
[expert] Epson printer cutting off
Hey all!! I have an Epson Sylus Color 600. I set Linux up using DiskDrake and printer configuration using the Epson 600 printer setting. The problem is that Epson printers have a feature to Maximize the printable area. The printer's default (at least in Windows) is to have it on Maximized. This causes the bottom of pages to be cut off and print the extra cutoff space on a new sheet - 3 lines on the new sheet. Thanx for any help. Josh
[expert] HP DeskJet 972Cse
Do any of you have the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 972Cse printer? It is an excellent printer (I know; I have one). I have one connected to a windows machine called 'HAL'. I use SMB printing through Samba to let my computer print to it on the local area network (LAN!). Unfortunately, I can only seem to print text. And I have to set that annoying CR-CRLF feature. Has anyone had any luck using a 972Cse (either remotely or locally) to print? At all? If so, please tell me! Thanks again to everyone on this list. Groups like this one are the true power of Linux; with advances come complexity, but there are always helpful users waiting to spread their beloved system. Linux rocks, and don't allow anyone to make you think otherwise. Sincerely, Asheesh Laroia. -- The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the center we find the South End. This is not to be confused with South Boston which lies directly east from the South End. North of the South End is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End. -- Of course...
Re: [expert] Bastille w/ LM 7.0
I have contacted Bastille via email awhile ago and was told support for Mandrake 7 was on its way. Bruce On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Has anyone used the Bastille scripts on top of a LM 7.0 system? Is it even necessary, if you use msec to set the security level to '5'? This is for a system that will be used as a firewall/router/DHCP/DNS/mail/news server. I was on their site today :) They state that they support RedHat 6.0/6.1 at the moment with Mandrake support on the way. In the README they state that you must run their script IMMEDIATELY after an install and ONLY for these supported systems... so I have not tried it yet. If you want Bastille to lock up (secure) your LM7.0, then you should probably wait for Bastille support. Thanks... Dan. -- Best Regards, Bruce Father to Bruce, Maverick Aleister 1 Feb 2000 "I'm a man, I can change, if I have to, I guess" Men Anonymous (from "The New Red Green Show") My website http://harrisherd.ahv.cx or http://207.167.130.166
Re: [expert] Fwd: [UKLUG] Wow, an actual constructive use for IRC!
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: I don't have the bandwidth currently to make an 'apt get dist upgrade' a feasible option (something like a 25 hour download at 1.6-2.2K/s). But I really wish someone would invent some way to get the features of the *.deb packages and apt package manager using rpm's. Namely the ability to intelligently determine what dependencies are needed and retrieve and install them also (I've heard rumors that urpmi or grpmi can do this ?) Confession: I'm no longer using Mandrake. The bug reports just were too much for me. However, I'm still following the progress of Mandrake and hope my next installation will BE Mandrake 7.5 or 8. Now, as to your requests for automagic dependency checking and installation: I'm told that RPM Drake does a MARVELOUS job of taking care of that for you have you tried it? John
Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Additions to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1 (former entries for zip and cdrom removed) Question, though: why is /dev/sr0 mounted ro, even though it is a CD-RW? Simple: When you MOUNT the CDRW drive, you're treating it as a standard CDROM. You don't mount a CDRW drive when burning a CD. :-) John
Re[2]: [expert] I've been hacked!
Actually, I suspect it is just a fuss :-) Security check is scheduled to run in localtime 24:00 or say 00:00, so if you are lazy and usually sleep early and shutdown the machine when you sleep like a babe pig, you have no chance to have it run. And now, by chances, you sleep a little late and security check is run, you get this warning. As I said again and again, use rpm -Va , rpm -qf, rpm -V to check the packages, and then make decision, or you will be reinstalling your system every day :-) Tuesday, April 25, 2000, 1:23:41 AM, you wrote: AV On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:08:42 -0700, you wrote: AV Imagine how I'm feeling! AV I'm going to do a complete reinstall of the system when I get a bit of free AV time... AV The folks in this group have been TREMENDOUSLY valuable through this AV process; thanks! -- lark
Re: [expert] Fwd: [UKLUG] Wow, an actual constructive use for IRC!
You can point RPMdrake at an ftp site it will check/get the Package deps -WBD If there is a funtional way of doing using rpm, short of many hours parsing man pages and tinkering w/ scripts, let me know. Why do I object to putzing around w/ the scripts? 'Cause I like to _use_ my system now and again, not endlessly play w/ the settings just cause I can.
Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote: Additions to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1 (former entries for zip and cdrom removed) Question, though: why is /dev/sr0 mounted ro, even though it is a CD-RW? Simple: When you MOUNT the CDRW drive, you're treating it as a standard CDROM. You don't mount a CDRW drive when burning a CD. :-) John oh, ok... Next question: why *don't* you mount a CDRW when burning a disk? Is it because it is not yet formatted? Just like when u must mkext2 before you mount? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
Well, take a good look too, as I was wrong about the three files I specifically mentioned. I'd still recommend tripwire (free version available at www.tripwire.com) to check for changes on important files. Russ Andrew Vogel wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:08:42 -0700, you wrote: Ron, re-read the message. It specifically says that file the shouldn't be suid have been changed to suid since the last scan. For instance, mount, su, and umount should never be suid. They aren't installed that way, so "something" had to change them. Even if it wasn't a hack job, there are many security holes here. I wouldn't want to have that system anywhere near a public network until it's fixed. Imagine how I'm feeling! I'm going to do a complete reinstall of the system when I get a bit of free time... The folks in this group have been TREMENDOUSLY valuable through this process; thanks! --- === Andrew Vogel: Program Manager at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. http://pharmacy.uc.edu/default.html (513)-558-3784 ===
[expert] DirecPC drivers
I used to know that www.Helius.com used to make Linux drivers for download. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get some because I can't seem to find the drivers for it on Helius' web site. Hughes says they have no interest in making drivers for other OSs like Macs or Windows 2000? or Linux. I don't care because it is not a vital piece of hardware, but it would be nice to have working. Josh
Re: [expert] Internet problems
ok I am also able to hit all the sites from the Linux Box. It seems to me the sites I am trying to hit are either trying to place cookies or get some type of communication back They are just not getting out communication from the Microsoft box. Or it seems there is a drop in packets somewhere. I guess it would have to be about somewhere in either the session or transport layer. I am thinking there is no pass through with the protocol. More then likely it is trying to pass some type of communication and not getting a return reply. It will go as far as web site found then just hang for days. - Original Message - From: "Civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Internet problems I am running IP Masquerade from Mandrake 6.1 on the server and I have 7.0 boxes behind it. From Netscape 4.7 www.wellsfargo.com was a refused connection www.nec.com opened and its links worked From Netscape 6 www.wellsfargo.com opened www.nec.com.opened I retried www.wellsfargo.com and got intermittent refusals and opens on both browsers--it appears the server was handling all the connections it could. OK Tom H, let's see how you are masquerading... What ipchains did you issue? Civileme Tom H wrote: Well it is always www.nec.com or www.wellsfargo.com any of the banking sites. Some parts of Microsoft's sites. - Original Message - From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Internet problems Ah dunno. Perhaps you could cite a specific site? I have IP Masquerading set up under Linux (Mandrake 7.0) to my cable modem, *with* a firewall. I can see if they work for me. If some of the sites are "embarressing" feel free to send the URLs to me directly; I'm virtually impossible to offend. (Well, I dunno. If it's a pro-movie-industry/anti-decss site or something I might get offended . . . ) Tom H wrote: I have hooked up my Linux (Red Hat 6.1) to the DSL I am running Ip Masqurading on the system and it is routing to the internet for the other 4 systems. The strange thing is I am unable to astablish a connection to some web sites that use security. I have also noticed it has problems with frames. Or various other sites. If I connect it directly to the 98 or NT machine I can hit them fine with no problems. I think it might be a SSL problem but not sure. I have not installed a firewall yet. But I have checked all the files for IP Forwarding and they all seem to be OK. What am I missing. Tom H Triumph 595 64 Corvair 65 Corvair -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. -- BETA-testing Netscape 6 and its mailer
Re: [expert] DIsk Caching
The swap is used for storing data you are not using to free up some RAM when a program needs it. I don't think you can control how the swap is used, or how much swap is being used. It depends on what role your machine is playing; is it a file server? or just a worksation? My system has 96Mb of RAM and with 80Mb of swap is more tha enough (I've never used more than 50% of it) Necrotica, escribió: Hello, In Mandrake, is there a way where I can control the amount of memory being used as a disk cache? I've noticed that sometimes Mandrake is using almost 100MB of physcial RAM as a disk cache, especially after doing something intensive such as compiling an application. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to shrink I have 256MB of physcial RAM in my box. I would *think* that having a maximum of a 64MB disk cache would suffice. Any thoughts? Thanks... -Chris -- *Guillermo Belli-Linux User #121340* * ICQ #38321312* *http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (en construccion)*
Re: [expert] disk usage
kwikdisk, kfsstatus Wizaerd, escribió: Is there a graphical utility showing the mapping and file layouts on the harddrive as well as disk usage? thanx Joseph E. Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd Wizaerd's Realm Canvas, 3D, Graphics, ColdFusion http://www.wizaerd.com = Zanova, Inc. http://www.zanova.com Moving Business Forward. = -- *Guillermo Belli-Linux User #121340* * ICQ #38321312* *http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (en construccion)*
Re: [expert] I've been hacked!
I've found a similar emails in my system. It's impossible that someone hacked into my system, because I connect to the internet via dialup, I don't stay connected enough time connected for someone to hack in and my internet logins are at random times during the day. I guess these messages are just routinary, and are caused by MDK7's new security levels. I think there's no reason to panic. Andrew Vogel, escribió: I woke up this morning to find this email in my system: Subject: *** Diff Check, Thu Apr 20 00:02:50 EDT 2000 *** Security Warning: Change in Suid Root files found : - Added suid root files : /bin/mount - Added suid root files : /bin/ping - Added suid root files : /bin/su - Added suid root files : /bin/umount - Added suid root files : /sbin/dump - Added suid root files : /sbin/pwdb_chkpwd - Added suid root files : /sbin/restore - Added suid root files : /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/at - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chage - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chfn - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/chsh - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/crontab - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/dos - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/gpasswd - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lpq - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lpr - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/lprm - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/newgrp - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/passwd - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/procmail - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rcp - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rlogin - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/rsh - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/sperl5.6.0 - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/suidperl - Added suid root files : /usr/bin/urpmi - Added suid root files : /usr/lib/telnetd/login - Added suid root files : /usr/libexec/pt_chown - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/sendmail - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/traceroute - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/userhelper - Added suid root files : /usr/sbin/usernetctl Security Warning: Changes in Suid Group files found : - Added suid group files : /usr/sbin/sendmail Security Warning: Change in World Writeable Files found : - Removed writables files : /tmp/fileUcAjVM Security Warning: the md5 checksum for one of your SUID files has changed, maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a backdoor... - Checksum changed files : /usr/bin/suidperl Security Warning: There is modifications for port listening on your machine : - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN 658/X - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN 651/kdm - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 586/perl - Opened ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 520/httpd - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* 651/kdm - Opened ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* 586/perl - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 3244/httpd - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:1 *:* LISTEN 1996/perl - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN 660/X - Closed ports : tcp0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN 653/kdm - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:1 *:* 1996/perl - Closed ports : udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* 653/kdm ...I've been hacked! The questions, now, are: 1. How do I fix this? and 2. How tto I prevent it from happening again? === Andrew Vogel: Program Manager at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. Actor, director, dog (JRT) lover, Miata owner, much, much more! My homepage: "http://www.drewvogel.com". Play I-War, FF7PC, BC3K! Offical BC3K Tester. Linux! "The only way OUT is THROUGH." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- dug: you da man! you da man!"Drew Vogel is its own reward." ric: isn't "the man" the guy who's always bringing everyone down? dug: nope! 'cause YOU da man!! Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] lost bootup disk, recover ?
Daniel Woods wrote: With tomsrtbt, is there a way to find out which are Linux partitions on the drive(s) ? I mean without guessing by trying to mount each of the /dev/hd[ab][1-9] disk devices. try from the command line: fdisk -l /dev/hda -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] some missing files in Air
- Original Message - From: "Civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [expert] some missing files in "Air" As for the kde docs, it may be an error to assume that there are missing docs. Documentation is often not carried out by busy programmers and is instead shifted to volunteer writers. And, as the deadline approaches, some of the volunteers vanish, so docs often go to electronic and paper publication with pieces missing, or with answers not completely researched. My own experience with kde docs in previous distros is that there *are* pieces missing. I offered to help KDE with their docs and was told "get on [a particular] IRC channel and ask to help". I don't have any IRC programs installed and have no interest in IRC, so no KDE docs. OTOH, I volunteered to help with the Mandrake docs and have found Camille to be most accommodating and a delight to work with.n I'm not a programmer or total bithead, but I do feel that I have something to contribute besides the occasional post here. Hoyt _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
Ron Johnson wrote: Question, though: why is /dev/sr0 mounted ro, even though it is a CD-RW? Because there is NO kernel support (yet?) for writing to CDROM devices - only reading is supported, hence the r in sr0 (scsi read zero). For CD writing software the kernel is bypassed and the cdwriter software contains its own hardware drivers and interfaces directly to the CD-R or CD-RW device, which should NOT be mounted at the time. I would NOT attempt to concurrently read and write a CD-R or CD-RW. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
