[expert] [Fwd: Converion of dbx files]
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[expert] DHCP-Setup
hi,
have got now the complete set of CD's again for mdk8.0, because something was
not readable during installation of the DHCP-setup.
anyway - have done now an entry in dhcpd.conf for fixed IP-addresses for my
connected hosts like this here :
group {
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name develop.business-conzept.at;
use-host-decl-names on;
host jojobaer {
option host-name jojobaer.develop.business-conzept.at;
hardware ethernet 00:50:04:F9:45:FC;
fixed-address 192.168.10.8; }
host mozart {
option host-name mozart.develop.business-conzept.at;
hardware ethernet 00:4B:DB:74:65;
fixed-address 192.168.10.5; }
host hanna {
option host-name hanna.develop.business-conzept.at;
hardware ethernet 00:10:5A:2E:0C:67;
fixed-address 192.168.10.15; }
}
so I SHOULD have now the IP-address for mozart (for example) 192.168.10.5 but
am getting always 192.168.10.128 - am getting this IP after a few minutes
restarting on mozart with service network restart - now my question :
why I'm getting this IP - is there some other file with possibly genereated
entries anywhere or is this a fallback-behavior after trying to set the IP
for the remote hosts and cannot do that ?
Have done also an extra-try with removing the line :
subnet 192.168.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.10.128 192.168.10.254;
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 86400; }
but was getting the same result - though
am hoping, that anyone have an idea about whats going wrong here - or am I
missing something ?
thanks and bye hans
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Re: [expert] DHCP-Setup
Hello Hans,
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:54, hans schneidhofer wrote:
host jojobaer {
option host-name jojobaer.develop.business-conzept.at;
hardware ethernet 00:50:04:F9:45:FC;
fixed-address 192.168.10.8; }
host mozart {
option host-name mozart.develop.business-conzept.at;
hardware ethernet 00:4B:DB:74:65;
fixed-address 192.168.10.5; }
You have a typo in mozart's hw ethernet address. All ethernet addresses
are of the same length.
If you want to limit the 'unknown hosts' to a specific address segment
(which might be empty), see ADDRESS POOLS section of dhcpd.conf(5).
Note, however, that not providing DHCP services to 'unknown hosts'
doesn't block them off the network. They can always manually set the IP.
Some hardware (most notably from Sun but others as well) allow the local
sysadmin to manually set the ethernet controller's hw address.
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[expert] MSEC is undoing my changes
I could use some help with msec. I found in the documentation how
you can use the /etc/security/msec/perm.local file to allow for
modifying permissions of a file. My problem is with modifying a file.
I've got a firewall running at security level 3. I want to modify some
files like /etc/syslogd.conf and /etc/issue{.net}; However, msec keeps
undoing my changes.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
Thanks,
Cory
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[expert] Sendmail in Mandrake 9.0
Has anyone figured out the new sendmail with it's security changes. I had to make some modifications to the /etc/init.d/sendmail script to get it to start and stop both process correctly. However, I used to use the sendmail binary from the command line from time to time as a non root user. I guess they dont' want you to do that ... not secure. I added myself to the mail group, which is what has sgid permissions on the sendmail binary, but I still can't run sendmail from the command line. It sees my regular group ID of 501, and wants GID 12 (mail). It must be something special (or broken) sendmail does to check group permissions, because I have full write permissions to the /var/spool/clientmqueue directory since I'm in the mail group. What's really frustrating is I can't even use the mail command to send mail from the command line. Yet, somehow mozilla mail is able to operate just fine to send mail. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, Cory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sendmail in Mandrake 9.0
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 09:11, . wrote:
I could use some help with msec. I found in the documentation how
you can use the /etc/security/msec/perm.local file to allow for
modifying permissions of a file. My problem is with modifying a file.
I've got a firewall running at security level 3. I want to modify
some
files like /etc/syslogd.conf and /etc/issue{.net}; However, msec
keeps
undoing my changes.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
I've got the same problem I think. It appears to me that msec and
shorewall for instance, work against each other. I think the idea
behind msec is good, but somehow I think it's default configuration is a
little overboard.
Rod.
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Re: [expert] DHCP-Setup
hi Mikko, oops - you was right - had forgot one Nr. in mozart thanks ! the reason why I'll have fixed IP's are, that otherwise I won't be able to copy or move files from anywhere to anywhere on my local-hosts. But think I would have to setup a local DNS-Server also for a better communication between the local hosts. Am I right in my assume, that dhcp is not able to provide nfs-shared volumes within a LAN ? have adjusted the getting IP from a DHCP-Server but now I cannot mount the nfs-shared volume /internet from the host mozart on any host within the LAN. Also I'm not able right now to execute the command https://localhost:1/; on all the dhcpd hosts. Have done a probe and shutted down the dhcp-service, all the connected hosts was getting their related datas from its local /etc/hosts and nfs was running well as well https://localhost:1/; It seems, that a lot of dependies are not preoccupied except I have to do some more adjustments on peripheral related files - isn't it ? Am really interested to hear something about all these dependencies thanks and bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MSEC is undoing my changes
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 06:11, . wrote:
I could use some help with msec. I found in the documentation how
you can use the /etc/security/msec/perm.local file to allow for
modifying permissions of a file. My problem is with modifying a file.
I've got a firewall running at security level 3. I want to modify some
files like /etc/syslogd.conf and /etc/issue{.net}; However, msec keeps
undoing my changes.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
Thanks,
Cory
edit /usr/share/msec/perm.3 and make the changes you want.
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Re: [expert] Sendmail in Mandrake 9.0
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 07:18, Rod Giffin wrote:
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 09:11, . wrote:
I could use some help with msec. I found in the documentation how
you can use the /etc/security/msec/perm.local file to allow for
modifying permissions of a file. My problem is with modifying a file.
I've got a firewall running at security level 3. I want to modify
some
files like /etc/syslogd.conf and /etc/issue{.net}; However, msec
keeps
undoing my changes.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
I've got the same problem I think. It appears to me that msec and
shorewall for instance, work against each other. I think the idea
behind msec is good, but somehow I think it's default configuration is a
little overboard.
Rod.
Haven't had any problems here -- what are you seeing?
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Re: [expert] Dual video, onboard and PCI ?!
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 15:57, Sebastien Routier wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if and how can I enable my onboard video card while also using my normal PCI/AGP video card?? The on board AGP AGP slot are the same slot for video. If you need to add another card use a PCI card. I have never seen a board with two AGP slots although that would be great. NOTE: PCI bus is PCI bus 0 while the AGP bus is PCI bus 1 (IIRC actually AGP is part of the PCI bus) there for they will be read that way by the bios and your computer and you will need to differentiate between them in X. IIRC you will need to put a bus line in the configs to let it know that you are using it as screen0 or screen1. I'm not sure if mandrake 9 (or RedHat 8) will auto detect dual monitors successfully, I will have to try it. Here is the link to the Xinerama HOW-TO: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html this may explain more than I could and do it right. I want to try the dual video thing, but I can't get my onboard video to work *while* my PCI/AGP board is in my PC!? They both work separately, but not together!??! Any ideas?!?! Is it even possible?? Thanks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dual video, onboard and PCI ?!
On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:20 pm, Kiran wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 15:57, Sebastien Routier wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if and how can I enable my onboard video card while also using my normal PCI/AGP video card?? The on board AGP AGP slot are the same slot for video. If you need to add another card use a PCI card. I have never seen a board with two AGP slots although that would be great. an added hint... do not put the pci video card in the slot next to the agp slot, the second or third PCI slot is a much better choice. NOTE: PCI bus is PCI bus 0 while the AGP bus is PCI bus 1 (IIRC actually AGP is part of the PCI bus) there for they will be read that way by the bios and your computer and you will need to differentiate between them in X. IIRC you will need to put a bus line in the configs to let it know that you are using it as screen0 or screen1. I'm not sure if mandrake 9 (or RedHat 8) will auto detect dual monitors successfully, I will have to try it. Here is the link to the Xinerama HOW-TO: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html this may explain more than I could and do it right. I want to try the dual video thing, but I can't get my onboard video to work *while* my PCI/AGP board is in my PC!? They both work separately, but not together!??! Any ideas?!?! Is it even possible?? Thanks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MSEC is undoing my changes
On Sunday 03 November 2002 11:54 am, Jack Coates wrote:
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 06:11, . wrote:
I could use some help with msec. I found in the documentation how
you can use the /etc/security/msec/perm.local file to allow for
modifying permissions of a file. My problem is with modifying a file.
I've got a firewall running at security level 3. I want to modify some
files like /etc/syslogd.conf and /etc/issue{.net}; However, msec keeps
undoing my changes.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
Thanks,
Cory
edit /usr/share/msec/perm.3 and make the changes you want.
Or make your own rules in the Mandrake Control Center, which are supposed to
overide the defaults for each level. I think it is Security -- Security
Permissions applet. Choose editable from the drop down, and enter your
rules.
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Re: [expert] Sendmail in Mandrake 9.0
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 11:55, Jack Coates wrote:
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 07:18, Rod Giffin wrote:
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 09:11, . wrote:
I could use some help with msec. I found in the documentation how
you can use the /etc/security/msec/perm.local file to allow for
modifying permissions of a file. My problem is with modifying a file.
I've got a firewall running at security level 3. I want to modify
some
files like /etc/syslogd.conf and /etc/issue{.net}; However, msec
keeps
undoing my changes.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
I've got the same problem I think. It appears to me that msec and
shorewall for instance, work against each other. I think the idea
behind msec is good, but somehow I think it's default configuration is a
little overboard.
Rod.
Haven't had any problems here -- what are you seeing?
I'm now sure that I should not have included Shorewall in the statement
above. It is working as advertised. It's msec I'm having the biggest
problem with.
Just for example, during the install process (and afterwords in the
configuration center) I told the system I wanted higher security - the
instructions say that this is sufficient security for a server connected
to the internet. Apparantly you can't believe everything you read,
because that setting causes the line: ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127.0.0.1:DENY
to be added to hosts.deny. That is inappropriate for a server that
might say, be used as a dns/e-mail server. I havn't found out where to
change this yet, and any change I do in that file are commented out by
crond's msec scripts every hour.
Short of removing the msec's scripts from crond, which is also self
defeating, I'm at a loss. There is a bit of documentation on msec on
www.mandrakesecure.net, but the fix for my problem isn't exactly jumping
off of the page at me. At the moment, the only solution I can see is
changing the security level from 4 back to 2 and hope Shorewall drops
any unwanted traffic on the floor. At least it will allow my remote
users to retrieve their e-mail, and my dns will work.
One other issue I had was with the Postfix install, but I've installed
drakwizard on a test system here and see that the wizard provides the
proper postfix configuration files. I don't actually have the time
anymore to figure out what it adds, so I'm going to have to drive to my
system (20 miles away) and install and run the wizard manually rather
than by webmin or ssh. Very disappointing. I use Mandrake specifically
because it has been easy to administer remotely.
Rod.
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Re: [expert] MSEC is undoing my changes
Gregory K. Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 03 November 2002 11:54 am, Jack Coates wrote:
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 06:11, . wrote:
I could use some help with msec. I found in the documentation how
you can use the /etc/security/msec/perm.local file to allow for
modifying permissions of a file. My problem is with modifying a file.
I've got a firewall running at security level 3. I want to modify some
files like /etc/syslogd.conf and /etc/issue{.net}; However, msec keeps
"undoing" my changes.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
Thanks,
Cory
edit /usr/share/msec/perm.3 and make the changes you want.
Or make your own rules in the Mandrake Control Center, which are supposed to
overide the defaults for each level. I think it is Security -- Security
Permissions applet. Choose editable from the drop down, and enter your
rules.
Right, and that makes a /etc/security/perm.local file, right? This is
a firewall, so it has no gui, but I created that file manually. I put the
/etc/syslog.conf file in the perm.local file with it's original owner, group,
and permissions. I didn't want to change any of that, I just wanted msec
to quit overlaying my changes within the file. If I modify the entry in
perm.local to change ownership or permissions, will that get msec to leave
it alone? Otherwise, I don't see how the perm.local file helps me in this
situation.
Thanks,
Cory
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Re: [expert] MSEC is undoing my changes
Never mind ... I have it working on one of my machines, so now I just
have to figure out what I did so it will work on the other one. I'll post
the answer when I have it, in case anyone else has the same problems.
BTW ... here's the changes I made to /etc/init.d/sendmail. Running "sendmail
-L sm-msp-que -Ac" for the client ueue puts .pid file in /var/spool/clientmqueue
instead of /var/run. The original script touched a /var/run/sm-client.pid
and chowned it to smmsp (why not mail?), but since it didn't contain the PID
#, the stop script failed. I commented out those two lines and added a mv
and chmod line of my own, after the daemon function call. Here:
if ! test -f /var/run/sm-client.pid ; then
gprintf "Starting sm-client: "
# touch /var/run/sm-client.pid # -- HERE
# chown smmsp:smmsp /var/run/sm-client.pid # -- HERE
daemon --check sm-client /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac \
$([ -n "$QUEUE" ] echo -q$QUEUE)
RETVAL=$?
sleep 5
mv /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid /var/run # -- HERE
chown mail:mail /var/run/sm-client.pid # -- HERE
echo
I think it still has a problem on systems running the client only daemon
(DAEMON=no in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail), so I still have to work on that. Oh,
and I made another change. The /etc/init.d/sendmail script wasn't checking
the DAEMON variable, so it was starting the listening process no matter what.
So I added a "[ $DAEMON = "yes" ] " in a couple of spots:
[ $DAEMON = "yes" ] gprintf "Starting %s: " "$prog"
/usr/bin/newaliases /dev/null 21
if test -x /usr/bin/make -a -f /etc/mail/Makefile ; then
make -C /etc/mail -s
else
for i in virtusertable access domaintable mailertable ; do
if [ -f /etc/mail/$i ] ; then
makemap hash /etc/mail/$i /etc/mail/$i
fi
done
fi
[ $DAEMON = "yes" ] daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd \
$([ -n "$QUEUE" ] echo -q$QUEUE)
That's it.
Cory wrote:
I could
use some help with msec. I found in the documentation how you can use the
/etc/security/msec/perm.local file to allow for modifying permissions of
a file. My problem is with modifying a file. I've got a firewall running
at security level 3. I want to modify some files like /etc/syslogd.conf
and /etc/issue{.net}; However, msec keeps "undoing" my changes.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
Thanks,
Cory
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[expert] Re: Sendmail in 9.0
Oops, I replied to the wrong post. Cory wrote: Never mind ... I have it working on one of my machines, so now I just have to figure out what I did so it will work on the other one. I'll post the answer when I have it, in case anyone else has the same problems. BTW ... here's the changes I made to /etc/init.d/sendmail. Running "sendmail -L sm-msp-que -Ac" for the client ueue puts .pid file in /var/spool/clientmqueue instead of /var/run. The original script touched a /var/run/sm-client.pid and chowned it to smmsp (why not mail?), but since it didn't contain the PID #, the stop script failed. I commented out those two lines and added a mv and chmod line of my own, after the daemon function call. Here: if ! test -f /var/run/sm-client.pid ; then gprintf "Starting sm-client: " # touch /var/run/sm-client.pid # -- HERE # chown smmsp:smmsp /var/run/sm-client.pid # -- HERE daemon --check sm-client /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac \ $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] echo -q$QUEUE) RETVAL=$? sleep 5 mv /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid /var/run # -- HERE chown mail:mail /var/run/sm-client.pid # -- HERE echo I think it still has a problem on systems running the client only daemon (DAEMON=no in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail), so I still have to work on that. Oh, and I made another change. The /etc/init.d/sendmail script wasn't checking the DAEMON variable, so it was starting the listening process no matter what. So I added a "[ $DAEMON = "yes" ] " in a couple of spots: [ $DAEMON = "yes" ] gprintf "Starting %s: " "$prog" /usr/bin/newaliases /dev/null 21 if test -x /usr/bin/make -a -f /etc/mail/Makefile ; then make -C /etc/mail -s else for i in virtusertable access domaintable mailertable ; do if [ -f /etc/mail/$i ] ; then makemap hash /etc/mail/$i /etc/mail/$i fi done fi [ $DAEMON = "yes" ] daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd \ $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] echo -q$QUEUE) That's it. Cory wrote: Has anyone figured out the new sendmail with it's "security" changes. I had to make some modifications to the /etc/init.d/sendmail script to get it to start and stop both process correctly. However, I used to use the sendmail binary from the command line from time to time as a non root user. I guess they dont' want you to do that ... not secure. I added myself to the mail group, which is what has sgid permissions on the sendmail binary, but I still can't run sendmail from the command line. It sees my regular group ID of 501, and wants GID 12 (mail). It must be something special (or broken) sendmail does to check group permissions, because I have full write permissions to the /var/spool/clientmqueue directory since I'm in the mail group. What's really frustrating is I can't even use the mail command to send mail from the command line. Yet, somehow mozilla mail is able to operate just fine to send mail. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, Cory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sendmail in Mandrake 9.0
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 09:57, Rod Giffin wrote:
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 11:55, Jack Coates wrote:
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 07:18, Rod Giffin wrote:
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 09:11, . wrote:
I could use some help with msec. I found in the documentation how
you can use the /etc/security/msec/perm.local file to allow for
modifying permissions of a file. My problem is with modifying a file.
I've got a firewall running at security level 3. I want to modify
some
files like /etc/syslogd.conf and /etc/issue{.net}; However, msec
keeps
undoing my changes.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
I've got the same problem I think. It appears to me that msec and
shorewall for instance, work against each other. I think the idea
behind msec is good, but somehow I think it's default configuration is a
little overboard.
Rod.
Haven't had any problems here -- what are you seeing?
I'm now sure that I should not have included Shorewall in the statement
above. It is working as advertised. It's msec I'm having the biggest
problem with.
Just for example, during the install process (and afterwords in the
configuration center) I told the system I wanted higher security - the
instructions say that this is sufficient security for a server connected
to the internet. Apparantly you can't believe everything you read,
because that setting causes the line: ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127.0.0.1:DENY
to be added to hosts.deny. That is inappropriate for a server that
might say, be used as a dns/e-mail server. I havn't found out where to
change this yet, and any change I do in that file are commented out by
crond's msec scripts every hour.
Heh :-) I definitely agree that the descriptions could use a little
toning down. Level 3 is perfectly acceptable for a system connected to
the Internet if you're also using shorewall and iptables. Levels 4 and 5
are an exercise in masochism and I only use them for building chroot
servers, honeypots, IDS nodes, things like that. They'd be worth
investigating for a server where you give shell to lots of untrusted
users.
Short of removing the msec's scripts from crond, which is also self
defeating, I'm at a loss. There is a bit of documentation on msec on
www.mandrakesecure.net, but the fix for my problem isn't exactly jumping
off of the page at me. At the moment, the only solution I can see is
changing the security level from 4 back to 2 and hope Shorewall drops
any unwanted traffic on the floor. At least it will allow my remote
users to retrieve their e-mail, and my dns will work.
You can make permanent detailed changes to its behavior by editing the
/usr/share/msec/perm.[level] files. Some high-level stuff can be changed
in /etc/sysconfig/msec, but the perm files are where you really
customize behaviour (for instance if you want a shared GID-writable
directory under /home you'll need to change the policy file).
One other issue I had was with the Postfix install, but I've installed
drakwizard on a test system here and see that the wizard provides the
proper postfix configuration files. I don't actually have the time
anymore to figure out what it adds, so I'm going to have to drive to my
system (20 miles away) and install and run the wizard manually rather
than by webmin or ssh. Very disappointing. I use Mandrake specifically
because it has been easy to administer remotely.
Rod.
huh? I've never used the wizard for postfix, so I can't say what it does
or doesn't do, but you shouldn't need to drive to a server to install
software or configure it -- have you tried urpmi? Anyway, postfix's
config file is very clear and easy to work with, and the defaults are
quite sane.
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Re: [expert] MSEC is undoing my changes
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 09:52, Gregory K. Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 03 November 2002 11:54 am, Jack Coates wrote:
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 06:11, . wrote:
I could use some help with msec. I found in the documentation how
you can use the /etc/security/msec/perm.local file to allow for
modifying permissions of a file. My problem is with modifying a file.
I've got a firewall running at security level 3. I want to modify some
files like /etc/syslogd.conf and /etc/issue{.net}; However, msec keeps
undoing my changes.
Any help would be greately appreciated.
Thanks,
Cory
edit /usr/share/msec/perm.3 and make the changes you want.
Or make your own rules in the Mandrake Control Center, which are supposed to
overide the defaults for each level. I think it is Security -- Security
Permissions applet. Choose editable from the drop down, and enter your
rules.
--
/g
___
Is that working now? perm.local files never worked for me in 8.2,
haven't tried on 9.0.
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Re: [expert] Sendmail in Mandrake 9.0
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 14:06, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 09:57, Rod Giffin wrote: You can make permanent detailed changes to its behavior by editing the /usr/share/msec/perm.[level] files. Some high-level stuff can be changed in /etc/sysconfig/msec, but the perm files are where you really customize behaviour (for instance if you want a shared GID-writable directory under /home you'll need to change the policy file). Thanks Jack. I've been poking around those directories a little. So far I havn't found what changes the to the defaults will give me the options I want in security level 4. I'm thinking of going to security level 2, and hardening the system by hand. I'm looking for someplace that I can make a change for a more acceptable hosts.deny file. One other issue I had was with the Postfix install, but I've installed drakwizard on a test system here and see that the wizard provides the proper postfix configuration files. I don't actually have the time anymore to figure out what it adds, so I'm going to have to drive to my system (20 miles away) and install and run the wizard manually rather than by webmin or ssh. Very disappointing. I use Mandrake specifically because it has been easy to administer remotely. Rod. huh? I've never used the wizard for postfix, so I can't say what it does I've never used it before either. This is the first time, and I only did it because Postfix wasn't working right out of the box. It's strange. Postfix now appears accessible, but there are still silly issues like I can't add aliases properly. Failed to save alias : Failed to regenerate table /etc/postfix/aliases: 13. This is from a brand spanking new pristine install I just did not 30 minutes ago. Rod. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MSEC is undoing my changes
On Sunday 03 November 2002 01:54 pm, . wrote: Right, and that makes a /etc/security/perm.local file, right? This /etc/security/msec/local is a firewall, so it has no gui, but I created that file manually. I put the /etc/syslog.conf file in the perm.local file with it's original owner, group, and permissions. I didn't want to change any of that, I just wanted msec to quit overlaying my changes within the file. If I modify the entry in perm.local to change ownership or permissions, will that get msec to leave it alone? Otherwise, I don't see how the perm.local file helps me in this situation. perm.local is supposed to override any setting in perm.whatever. -- /g ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sendmail in Mandrake 9.0
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:08, Rod Giffin wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 14:06, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 09:57, Rod Giffin wrote: You can make permanent detailed changes to its behavior by editing the /usr/share/msec/perm.[level] files. Some high-level stuff can be changed in /etc/sysconfig/msec, but the perm files are where you really customize behaviour (for instance if you want a shared GID-writable directory under /home you'll need to change the policy file). Thanks Jack. I've been poking around those directories a little. So far I havn't found what changes the to the defaults will give me the options I want in security level 4. I'm thinking of going to security level 2, and hardening the system by hand. I'm looking for someplace that I can make a change for a more acceptable hosts.deny file. level 3 has empty /etc/hosts.allow and .deny as well. One other issue I had was with the Postfix install, but I've installed drakwizard on a test system here and see that the wizard provides the proper postfix configuration files. I don't actually have the time anymore to figure out what it adds, so I'm going to have to drive to my system (20 miles away) and install and run the wizard manually rather than by webmin or ssh. Very disappointing. I use Mandrake specifically because it has been easy to administer remotely. Rod. huh? I've never used the wizard for postfix, so I can't say what it does I've never used it before either. This is the first time, and I only did it because Postfix wasn't working right out of the box. It's strange. Postfix now appears accessible, but there are still silly issues like I can't add aliases properly. Failed to save alias : Failed to regenerate table /etc/postfix/aliases: 13. This is from a brand spanking new pristine install I just did not 30 minutes ago. A lot of people have complained about postfix being chrooted -- I haven't seen it on four 9.0 machines, but then I always use level 3. I bet that if you did an install at level 4 or 5, your postfix is chrooted and you need to be making changes in /var/lib/postfix or some such. Rod. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] trouble with wireless card
Did you follow Simon's indications? After the hermes.conf file is copied in /etc/pcmcia, try to launch Mandrake Control Center, choose Network and Internet then connexion. Use the assistant to configure the eth0 and choose orinoco (Prism II). I think that will configure the NETGEAR wireless. Patrick Atlas Le Dimanche 3 Novembre 2002 02:01, engage a écrit : I'm glad it worked for you. It didn't work for me. On Friday 01 November 2002 07:20 am, Patrick Atlas wrote: Thanks Simon, I saved my souls... and my wireless connection. I have point-by-point followed your indications and now my Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card is working fine on my notepad. Some points to fix, yet: It seems that the WIRELESS_ESSID WIRELESS_ENC_KEY options are erased after reinitialization of the PCMCIA or the SERVICES, in the ifcfg-ethX file. Any idea? So I need to write the END_KEY. The KEY must be written in hexadecimal or ASCII? Patrick Atlas Le Mardi 29 Octobre 2002 15:37, Simon Ree a écrit : On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:28 -0600 engage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) which seems to indicate that the config files are properly set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to work. Any suggestions? I had many of the same problems and never managed to get the wlang drivers to work with my Linksys wpc11 card. Binding the card to orinoco_cs works great with minimal set up and works with your MA401. Uninstall wlang Install the wireless tools package from your distro cd. Copy the attached hermes.conf file to etc/pcmcia service pcmcia restart service network restart mcc Reconfigure your network connections, you should now have your card detected. You can set the WIRELESS_ options on one of the configurations panels but they get tossed whenever you make a subsequent change, so I manually set them in the ifcfg-ethX file. To manually set the options edit your network script: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X being your eth number) Add the following entries if you need them: WIRELESS_ESSID=yourAP WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=whatever your 128bit key may be service network restart and you should be on your way, hope this helps. Your cards manfid may be different to the one in my hermes.conf file. Just run cardctl ident from the command line to get your cards specific manfid and edit the hermes.conf file. This is the only method that I have been able to get to work with my cards and I have tried many a method. If someone knows exactly how to do this any easier I would love to know. Simon Ree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Unformatting a vfat partition
I think I know the answer to this, but is it possible to un-format a fat partition (formatted from diskdrake)? To set the scene: My windows partition trashed itself. I had a complete backup of it on another partition. So I decided to format the bad partition and copy on everything from the backup. Unfortunately (stupidly!), I somehow managed to format the wrong one... I haven't touched the newly formated partition since. Brian Schroeder _ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] thinkpad 600e
Hey all! I've got two questions: 1) What happened to sndconfig in Mandrake 9? I used to be able to get my thinkpad sound card configured post-install by using the sndconfig tool and following some instructions from the ibm website. Now since moving to Mandrake 9, I can't seem to find the sndconfig tool. 2) Though I've been using Linux for about 4 years, I've never been very successful at compiling my own kernels. I'm interested in simply making changes in my existing kernel. I've loaded the kernel sources and followed the directions but things always seem to have problems. Here's what I did today: log on as root, cd to /usr/src/linux-2.4xxx make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage cp bzImage to /boot and update lilo to reflect changes. Now, I didn't change anything in the configuration - I just wanted to see what would happen. After rebooting, I noticed quite a few errors that I don't get with my original kernel. I thought that the .config file would represent my existing kernel - is this correct? Please take it easy on me - I know it's something simple because a lot of people are able to do this relatively common task - I'm just not getting something. Thanks all! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How Do I Add a Scanner to scannerdrake?
How do I add a scanner to scannerdrake? In other words, where is the database file that the list shown in drakconf when you attempt to configure a scanner? ANd how do I get drakconf to recognize it? I added the appropriate line to /usr/share/ldetect-lst/usbtable: 0x04a9 0x2206 scanner Canon Inc.|CanoScan N650U and then ran # scannerdrake --update-usbtable but the scanner does not show up in the displayed list in drakconf. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Overall performance sucks
Since installing 9.0, everything works, but many things work like crap: * CD burning works, but would fail if it weren't for burnfree. When I burn, the CPU stays at full throttle, and the fifo buffer can't stay full. * Playing DVDs in xine, mplayer, or ogle works, but the performance is crap, jittery, and dropping frames like crazy. * Networking works, but at a snail's pace. I can't sustain, for instance, a file transfer between this and another machine on my network at higher than 4K/sec, and it stalls most of the time. All this worked fine in 8.2, and it still all works in WinXP, to which this machine dual boots. My feeling is there's a common cause of all these problems, but I havn't any clue as to what. I've tried adding noapic to the lilo configuration, but that didn't worked and I'm now utterly stumped. What can I do? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Overall performance sucks
On Sunday 03 November 2002 08:38 pm, Miark wrote: Since installing 9.0, everything works, but many things work like crap: * CD burning works, but would fail if it weren't for burnfree. When I burn, the CPU stays at full throttle, and the fifo buffer can't stay full. * Playing DVDs in xine, mplayer, or ogle works, but the performance is crap, jittery, and dropping frames like crazy. * Networking works, but at a snail's pace. I can't sustain, for instance, a file transfer between this and another machine on my network at higher than 4K/sec, and it stalls most of the time. All this worked fine in 8.2, and it still all works in WinXP, to which this machine dual boots. My feeling is there's a common cause of all these problems, but I havn't any clue as to what. I've tried adding noapic to the lilo configuration, but that didn't worked and I'm now utterly stumped. What can I do? Miark Miark: What kind of hardware? Not that I'm going to help, but my 9.0 PowerPack should be here RSN, and I'm wondering if I should keep 8.2 around... -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Overall performance sucks
was it a clean install (reformat _all_ linux partitions)? or did you keep /home or did you upgrade to 9.0? On Sunday 03 November 2002 08:38 pm, Miark wrote: Since installing 9.0, everything works, but many things work like crap: * CD burning works, but would fail if it weren't for burnfree. When I burn, the CPU stays at full throttle, and the fifo buffer can't stay full. * Playing DVDs in xine, mplayer, or ogle works, but the performance is crap, jittery, and dropping frames like crazy. * Networking works, but at a snail's pace. I can't sustain, for instance, a file transfer between this and another machine on my network at higher than 4K/sec, and it stalls most of the time. All this worked fine in 8.2, and it still all works in WinXP, to which this machine dual boots. My feeling is there's a common cause of all these problems, but I havn't any clue as to what. I've tried adding noapic to the lilo configuration, but that didn't worked and I'm now utterly stumped. What can I do? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] thinkpad 600e
Same thing happened to me. When I installed it, it said already installed, but afterwards it worked where before it hadn't. In a shell as root: urpmi sndconfig sndconfig -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Michael Holt Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 8:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] thinkpad 600e Hey all! I've got two questions: 1) What happened to sndconfig in Mandrake 9? I used to be able to get my thinkpad sound card configured post-install by using the sndconfig tool and following some instructions from the ibm website. Now since moving to Mandrake 9, I can't seem to find the sndconfig tool. - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Unformatting a vfat partition
well if you were using the commandline format tool you could have just pressed ctrl+c right up until 99% or so, as its just checking the drive. Other than that, put it in another MS PC and hope for the best, u might have to buy some software to recover it JG Brian Schroeder wrote: I think I know the answer to this, but is it possible to un-format a fat partition (formatted from diskdrake)? To set the scene: My windows partition trashed itself. I had a complete backup of it on another partition. So I decided to format the bad partition and copy on everything from the backup. Unfortunately (stupidly!), I somehow managed to format the wrong one... I haven't touched the newly formated partition since. Brian Schroeder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Overall performance sucks
On Sunday 03 November 2002 08:38 pm, Miark wrote: All this worked fine in 8.2, and it still all works in WinXP, to which this machine dual boots. My feeling is there's a common cause of all these problems, but I havn't any clue as to what. I've tried Mandrake is turning off DMA on cdrom's in the sysinit script. I turned it back on with hdparm by using the /etc/sysconfig/harddrives files and all works much better now. There was a thread on this initiated by me about a week ago. -- /g ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Keyboard problem
In 9.0, my extended keys don't work in the console. For instance, the page up and page down keys and the number pad. My /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file has this in it: KBCHARSET=C KEYBOARD=us KEYTABLE=us DISABLE_WINDOWS_KEY=yes Does anybody know anything about the keyboard config? -- /g ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How Do I Add a Scanner to scannerdrake?
On Sunday 03 November 2002 07:31 pm, HoytDuff wrote: How do I add a scanner to scannerdrake? In other words, where is the database file that the list shown in drakconf when you attempt to configure a scanner? ANd how do I get drakconf to recognize it? I added the appropriate line to /usr/share/ldetect-lst/usbtable: 0x04a90x2206 scanner Canon Inc.|CanoScan N650U and then ran # scannerdrake --update-usbtable but the scanner does not show up in the displayed list in drakconf. Are you trying to configure the scanner or modify scannerdrake to support a scanner it doesn't already? If you want the latter, I would suggest the Cooker list. You may want to download the source for scannerdrake if you seriously want to tweak it. If you just want your scanner to work, ditch scannerdrake and read the SANE docs. -- -- Igor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [Fwd: Converion of dbx files]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox Is the link... haven't used it. Found it for someone else (I he never got off his butt and used it *grin*) But it converts to kmail's mbox. Then maybe you can go to evo. ... Also have you tried to use evo's import filter? ( File -- import ) James On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 02:19, hgm wrote: From: hgm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake_expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Converion of dbx files Date: 02 Nov 2002 14:40:36 +0100 Is there any possibility to get older mail from Outlook express (.dbx) to Evolution. I tried several possibilities but was never successful with all my files. Programs normally crashed after some conversion. Can somebody give me a hint please. Regards HGM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Keyboard problem
Don't know anything on this one but mine has KBCHARSET=C KEYBOARD=us KEYTABLE=us Notice the last line on yours is missing Now on my notebook this file doesn't even exist. James On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 18:47, Gregory K. Meyer wrote: In 9.0, my extended keys don't work in the console. For instance, the page up and page down keys and the number pad. My /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file has this in it: KBCHARSET=C KEYBOARD=us KEYTABLE=us DISABLE_WINDOWS_KEY=yes Does anybody know anything about the keyboard config? -- /g ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Unformatting a vfat partition
YOUR MILAGE MAY VARY!!! What I have been able to do on other boxes. (We had a sales guy that transfered everything by sneaker net and kept formating his HDD instead of the floppy.) IF the format tool in Linux is fat16 (I think it is) then possibly either the DOS 6.22 unformat tool or Norton Utilities unformat will work. (I've used norton several times on the above guys box... hasn't failed me yet.*grin.) Another possiblity is this guys tool at http://dos.li5.org/downloads/rec.htm OSS Dos tools one is undelete and the other is an unformat tool. James On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 18:25, J. Grant wrote: well if you were using the commandline format tool you could have just pressed ctrl+c right up until 99% or so, as its just checking the drive. Other than that, put it in another MS PC and hope for the best, u might have to buy some software to recover it JG Brian Schroeder wrote: I think I know the answer to this, but is it possible to un-format a fat partition (formatted from diskdrake)? To set the scene: My windows partition trashed itself. I had a complete backup of it on another partition. So I decided to format the bad partition and copy on everything from the backup. Unfortunately (stupidly!), I somehow managed to format the wrong one... I haven't touched the newly formated partition since. Brian Schroeder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [Fwd: Converion of dbx files]
Once you've got it into OE format, ol2mbox can usually do it. You may get better mileage by using Mozilla on Win32 to import from Outlook then export to something else. Import works really well, but I couldn't ever get Mozilla to export and didn't want to muck up my Linux Mozilla directory. PSTs are a lot harder to crack, but try outport: http://www.cyberus.ca/~phoenix/outport/ -- however, it will not produce an importable mbox. To be honest, best solution for getting content out of a .pst is to take screenshots or email the messages back to yourself. On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 19:06, James Sparenberg wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox Is the link... haven't used it. Found it for someone else (I he never got off his butt and used it *grin*) But it converts to kmail's mbox. Then maybe you can go to evo. ... Also have you tried to use evo's import filter? ( File -- import ) James On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 02:19, hgm wrote: From: hgm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake_expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Converion of dbx files Date: 02 Nov 2002 14:40:36 +0100 Is there any possibility to get older mail from Outlook express (.dbx) to Evolution. I tried several possibilities but was never successful with all my files. Programs normally crashed after some conversion. Can somebody give me a hint please. Regards HGM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Overall performance sucks
Totally clean. The HD was re-partitioned and formatted before installation. Miark On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:01:52 -0500 ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: was it a clean install (reformat _all_ linux partitions)? or did you keep /home or did you upgrade to 9.0? On Sunday 03 November 2002 08:38 pm, Miark wrote: Since installing 9.0, everything works, but many things work like crap: * CD burning works, but would fail if it weren't for burnfree. When I burn, the CPU stays at full throttle, and the fifo buffer can't stay full. * Playing DVDs in xine, mplayer, or ogle works, but the performance is crap, jittery, and dropping frames like crazy. * Networking works, but at a snail's pace. I can't sustain, for instance, a file transfer between this and another machine on my network at higher than 4K/sec, and it stalls most of the time. All this worked fine in 8.2, and it still all works in WinXP, to which this machine dual boots. My feeling is there's a common cause of all these problems, but I havn't any clue as to what. I've tried adding noapic to the lilo configuration, but that didn't worked and I'm now utterly stumped. What can I do? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Unformatting a vfat partition
Thanks James. It's my home machine, and I am at work at the moment. I'll try your suggestions when I can this week, and hopefully have some success. Brian. From: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Unformatting a vfat partition Date: 03 Nov 2002 19:35:14 -0800 YOUR MILAGE MAY VARY!!! What I have been able to do on other boxes. (We had a sales guy that transfered everything by sneaker net and kept formating his HDD instead of the floppy.) IF the format tool in Linux is fat16 (I think it is) then possibly either the DOS 6.22 unformat tool or Norton Utilities unformat will work. (I've used norton several times on the above guys box... hasn't failed me yet.*grin.) Another possiblity is this guys tool at http://dos.li5.org/downloads/rec.htm OSS Dos tools one is undelete and the other is an unformat tool. James On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 18:25, J. Grant wrote: well if you were using the commandline format tool you could have just pressed ctrl+c right up until 99% or so, as its just checking the drive. Other than that, put it in another MS PC and hope for the best, u might have to buy some software to recover it JG Brian Schroeder wrote: I think I know the answer to this, but is it possible to un-format a fat partition (formatted from diskdrake)? To set the scene: My windows partition trashed itself. I had a complete backup of it on another partition. So I decided to format the bad partition and copy on everything from the backup. Unfortunately (stupidly!), I somehow managed to format the wrong one... I haven't touched the newly formated partition since. Brian Schroeder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Overall performance sucks
Awesome--you just eliminated my burning and DVD problems! Thanks a million, Miark On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:44:03 -0500 Gregory K. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake is turning off DMA on cdrom's in the sysinit script. I turned it back on with hdparm by using the /etc/sysconfig/harddrives files and all works much better now. There was a thread on this initiated by me about a week ago. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Overall performance sucks
Carroll, It's probably a moot point, now. My CD/DVD-related problems are gone. The only thing left to fix is my NIC. Anybody have a clue about that? Miark On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:47:02 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark: What kind of hardware? Not that I'm going to help, but my 9.0 PowerPack should be here RSN, and I'm wondering if I should keep 8.2 around... -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] apache... url redirect to file...
Hi guys, I have just been told I need to get apache to redirect a domain name it answers to to a specific file.. in other words, I need to get any requests to: http://sub.domain.com to be redirected to http://sub.domain.com/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi so we only have to give out the sub domain name and not the full path... Has anyone done this with apache? apparently I have to use the mod_rewrite module, and i am slogging through the docs now, but I don't know how they relate to the mandrake apache, and they are somewhat obscure directions.. I don't want to use .htaccess files for the redirection, apparently thats much slower then setting it up in httpd.conf. Any tips would be much appreciated. regards Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
