RE: [expert] Spamassassin + CommuniGate Pro config
Thanks. Are you using this setup? I also need to know how scaliable spamassassin is. Will it handle 20,000 users at around 30 emails a second. Keep in mind that their will be a virus scanner, communigate using their webmail for around 15,000 of the users, 2,000 using pop or imap and the other 3,000 are forwarded to MS exchange(including myself and I hate it too, but once someone sets it up you get locked into It big time. It's the heart of communicatios so there isn't much that can be done except upgrade when a new version comes out.) The OS is RedHat Advance server (RHAS) (I know this mandrake but the redhat mailing list sucks). The box will be a dell poweredge 6450 with Quad Xeon Processors @ 2GHz and 16 GB DDR SDRAM(not purchased). One question is if anyone knows about the clustering for RHAS would it be possible to use smaller system (poweredge 2650)and a NAS for storage. With say 3 of them with dual processors, would you get more avaliablity and power for less cost? I don't know if you can do that with communigate but just a though I had instead of putting on a big box and then having a redundant server (not quite as beefy) Thanks Brian -Original Message- From: John Haywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 7:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Spamassassin + CommuniGate Pro config On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:12 am, Brian York wrote: If anyone is using these two together would someone please send me some configuration files. I have a teriable time getting it to work. If they go in more than one place zip them in the file structure in the place were they should go. Brian, go to this site: http://www.communigatefaq.com/cgatefaq/SpamAssassin print the page out take some quality time with your linux setup :) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to convert curly quotes etc. to plain text?
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:24, Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 03:42, Mark Weaver wrote: Damon Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 16:18, Mark Weaver wrote: I don't mean to be facicious here, but the utility is called PERL. I can already do that with Python (and in fact I am doing that). But it seems a common enough problem that there must already be a good solution out there, which will have the advantage of covering all the codes used by M$, not just the ones I've picked up thus far.. Damon Damon, If you can already do it with Python, then why not go through the rest of the process and finish the application. Then there will be an app out there that will do what you are needing. course, then the rest of us will be able to make use of such a utility. :) And the demoroniser page i sent tells you where all those illegal characters are. Illegal because the area they are in is reserved and not to be used for normal characters. quote Microsoft use their own extension to Latin-1, in which a variety of characters which do not appear in Latin-1 are inserted in the range 0x82 through 0x95--this having the merit of being incompatible with both Latin-1 and Unicode, which reserve this region for additional control characters. /quote So all you need to do is trap any codes in this range. You could get any you don't know to flag the user for contextual changes. And yes, please post the code at some python repository. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] weekly cron
Hello guys I suspect that the contents of cron.weekly is not executed. My system is mainly default Mandrake 9.0. I see a script slocate.cron in /etc/cron.weekly, run manually it updates the locate database, but it does not seem to run weekly (my system is up for 6 hours a day, mostly every day.) I've also put in a script update_urpmi.cron, which works from the command line, but it also does not trigger automatically. Any ideas? Thanks Guy -- Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] weekly cron
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:15, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello guys I suspect that the contents of cron.weekly is not executed. My system is mainly default Mandrake 9.0. I see a script slocate.cron in /etc/cron.weekly, run manually it updates the locate database, but it does not seem to run weekly (my system is up for 6 hours a day, mostly every day.) I've also put in a script update_urpmi.cron, which works from the command line, but it also does not trigger automatically. Any ideas? Thanks Guy This usually runs at 4am. I know i have been still on the PC at that time. To make sure it runs A - Leave your box on 24/7 or B - Install anacron -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: I grabbed an old P90 with 32MB - 540MB Drive and installed Smoothwall. http://www.smoothwall.org Now I run my entire network through it and just simply fergit it's there except for frequent log checks. I've heard about this one before but have never seen it. I'm downloading the ISO now. Is this an actual installable OS/Firewall, or just firewall software? It's a full installable OS/Firewall with DHCP, VPN, etc. We're running 0.99SE with the patches in on an old 486 with 8Mb of RAM (I had to move the HD to another machine with more memory to install it, but after that it runs fine on old hardware). We have 17 clients and it is great. There's a corporate and GPL version. The guys at smoothwall.org/smoothwall.co.uk are very... passionate about it and have a very clear idea about what should and should not be in the GPL version. The mailing list can be very exciting :). I read it, but don't know enough about networking and firewalls to even frame a sensible question. And, whatever you, don't ask if there is an online archive of the mailing list. The installation docs are very well written. So, from someone who is mostly a desktop user and knows little sysadmin it is great. Dave -- Dave Whiting Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] First 9.1beta frustrating experience
Dear friends, After 13 hours I downloaded the beta1 and try to test it using my /dev/hdb13 partition that was previously using LiNeX (Linux distribution from the Extremadura Spanish community). But I have a real nightmare: a) My wheel mouse wasn't runing fine, in the selection packages I had to use the intro key. b) No possibility to cancel lilo installation (I liked to mantain the 9.0 lilo configuration and later add from 9.0 a new entry for 9.1beta). c) No X configured (nvidia geforce 4 and monitor Philips 107S); I try to do it but having supermount enabled the disk didn't mount in anyway. I try to dissable supermount (supermount -i disable) and activate the new fstab configuration (mount -a) but two partition that I have mounted for echange of files with 9.0 had XFS file system and there were an error: XFS not in enabled in the kernel :-(. After that I thought I could mount the cdroms by hand, but an error gives me to more frustation about too much system mounted, or file system error. d) I try to restart using my Mandrake 9.0 start disk, but then an error with file system appear for /dev/hdb13 (the partition with 9.1), telling that I do need a newer version of ext3 :-(. e) I started my computer from the Mandrake 9.0 first cdrom, start a new expert installation, just select the /dev/hdb13 partition and format it; then I restart and Mandrake 9 run fine from the floppy; I went to the Mandrake control center and lilo configuration; I didn't made any change, but clicking accept the 9.0 lilo configuration was again saved on the harddrive. I restart the computer and then the lilo 9.0 runs from the hd. Conclusion: I will reserv the cdrw with 9.1 beta 1 to save beta 2; I think I will not try again an installation until the next beta. :-( -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia Campus de Espinardo E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Unbootable kernels after upgrade
Hello, I have been following the cooker development for some time now regularly upgrading. However, due to different reasons the upgrading was halted for the last half year. When starting the upgrade again in December from a situation around some time before 9.0 and halfway through I got stuck. No kernels boot any longer, the following message is displayed: EXT2-fs: ide0(3,65): couldn't mount beacuse of unsupported optional features (4). Kernel panic: VFS: unbootable mount root fs on 03:41. I have been able to mount the partitions (including /) using rescue mode kernels with ext3 fs, both for 8.1 and 9.0 CD's. All partitions have been checked and I can use chroot to simulate my system. Also the zip drive can be mounted so upgrading using packages from 8.1, 9.0 using CD and the cooker directory using the zip drive have been attempted. No success so far :-( The problem is that the kernel tries to mount the partitions in EXT2 mode and some features does not seem to be backwards compatible... Also mounting in EXT2 mode for the 8.1 CD using the 2.4.8 kernel gives the same error message as above. The /etc/modules file consist of the following entries: ext3 (no difference without) ide-floppy (for the zip) but the boot process does not come far enough for this file to be read... A couple of questions: 1. Which is the minimal list of packages needed for a succesful boot? 2. depmod -a for the wanted kernels result in a lot of unresolved symbols. Does this have any effect on the problems to boot the root partition. Following the boot process on other boxes it seems that depmod is run _after_ root is mounted, meaning that having correct dependencies are not so important _before_ the root partiion is mounted. 3. Which boot scripts are executed up to mounting of the partitions given in fstab, which packages contain these scripts and which configuration files are needed? 4. Is support for ext2 compiled in and ext3 is a module for kernels 2.4.18-16,-18, 2.4.20-2? How to get the ext3 module loaded correctly?? 5. How do you most easily switch between lilo and grub (not using any *Drake tools)? Packages installed (partial list): SysVinit-2.84-1mdk.i586.rpm lilo-22.3.4-1mdk.i586.rpm basesystem-9.0-3mdk.i586.rpm bash-2.05b-11mdk.i586.rpm e2fsprogs-1.32-2mdk.i586.rpm modutils-2.4.22-3mdk.i586.rpm glibc-2.3.1-6mdk.i586.rpmmount-2.11x-2mdk.i586.rpm glibc-profile-2.3.1-6mdk.i586.rpmnscd-2.3.1-6mdk.i586.rpm initscripts-6.91-18mdk.i586.rpm setup-2.2.0-33mdk.i586.rpm ldconfig-2.3.1-6mdk.i586.rpm timezone-2.3.1-6mdk.i586.rpm libext2fs2-1.32-2mdk.i586.rpmutil-linux-2.11x-2mdk.i586.rpm libext2fs2-devel-1.32-2mdk.i586.rpm zlib1-1.1.4-3mdk.i586.rpm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages
as i understood it, the 2 gig limit wasa fat problem, not a Samba problem, On Friday 10 January 2003 09:31 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Fri Jan 10, 2003 at 06:34:31PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: Hey Mandrake, I see there is still no regular update to Samba to fix the very nasty 2gb file limit. So, I checked cooker. There -is- one in there, but the cooker packages won't install on a 9.0 machine! I'm getting endless dependencies. What's up with this? Is it possible to ask for an update to at least the 9.0 samba packages to fix this problem? Thanks. Bob Bob, just how long is that list of dependencies? it might be worth it to you to satisfy them if you can get past the 2GB file limit. Could also rebuild the srpm. I'm sure that's probably easiest. Anyways, does 2.2.7a fix this 2GB file limit problem? How long has this problem been around (this is the first I've heard of it, but I'm not a samba user). It's also unfair to be sitting around and yelling Hey Mandrake when are you going to fix this bug that no one reported?. Is there a bugzilla entry for this? I am assuming that if this was a legitimate problem that needed to be addressed in updates, and the bug had been reported to someone here, that it would have been forwarded to myself. This hasn't happened so I can only assume one of two things: It was reported, but not acted on, or it wasn't reported. Which one is it, Bob? Where's the bugzilla report you posted? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spamassassin + CommuniGate Pro config
There's a very good SpamAssassin mailing list on spamassassin.org and an even better Postfix mailing list at postfix.org where these issues are discussed frequently. I recommend you ask there. From lurking on both lists, I can give you some general guidelines: use spamc/spamd (sorta like mod_perl for SA), use a procmail filter to prevent large messages going into SA, use MTA-level RBL filtering to keep obvious spam from going into SA, and then realize that SA is a Perl program doing some very complicated pattern matching -- it is a hog. Brian York wrote: Thanks. Are you using this setup? I also need to know how scaliable spamassassin is. Will it handle 20,000 users at around 30 emails a second. Keep in mind that their will be a virus scanner, communigate using their webmail for around 15,000 of the users, 2,000 using pop or imap and the other 3,000 are forwarded to MS exchange(including myself and I hate it too, but once someone sets it up you get locked into It big time. It's the heart of communicatios so there isn't much that can be done except upgrade when a new version comes out.) The OS is RedHat Advance server (RHAS) (I know this mandrake but the redhat mailing list sucks). The box will be a dell poweredge 6450 with Quad Xeon Processors @ 2GHz and 16 GB DDR SDRAM(not purchased). One question is if anyone knows about the clustering for RHAS would it be possible to use smaller system (poweredge 2650)and a NAS for storage. With say 3 of them with dual processors, would you get more avaliablity and power for less cost? I don't know if you can do that with communigate but just a though I had instead of putting on a big box and then having a redundant server (not quite as beefy) Thanks Brian -Original Message- From: John Haywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 7:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Spamassassin + CommuniGate Pro config On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:12 am, Brian York wrote: If anyone is using these two together would someone please send me some configuration files. I have a teriable time getting it to work. If they go in more than one place zip them in the file structure in the place were they should go. Brian, go to this site: http://www.communigatefaq.com/cgatefaq/SpamAssassin print the page out take some quality time with your linux setup :) 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
[expert] devfs and /lib/dev-state/
Hi ! I have found today /lib/dev-state/. In there are files which behaves as devices. I had a long time a problem that a device did not behave as it should. The device is called /dev/isdn/isdninfo. Behavior: on cat /dev/isdn/isdninfo you should get out 6 lines of text. On status-change you get 6 new lines This is needed/used for getting status of internet-connection. On the normal device the cat is terminated at the time I go online. This resulted in crashs or undefined status of apps that are using this Now I tried cat /lib/dev-state/isdn/isdninfo and was really astonished. This one acts exactly as it should. with a link from there to /dev/isdninfo all apps are running fine. _So my question_ : What is going on there, any hints on how to solve that ? Is something configured wrong ? Where can I find ressources to read what is made wrong there ? Output of /dev/isdninfo: -- offline : idmap: capidrv-1 capidrv-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - chmap: 0 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 drmap: 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 usage: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 flags: 0 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? phone: ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? online: idmap: capidrv-1 capidrv-1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - chmap: 0 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 drmap: 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 usage: 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 flags: 0 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? phone: 0191011 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? -- counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages
Vincent Danen wrote: It's also unfair to be sitting around and yelling Hey Mandrake when are you going to fix this bug that no one reported?. Is there a bugzilla entry for this? If I'm not wrong there's no bugzilla for released distributions. https://qa.mandrakesoft.com is only for cooker. Bye -- Luca Olivetti Note.- This message reached you today, it may not tomorrow if you are using MAPS or other RBL. They arbitrarily IP addresses not related in any way to spam, disrupting Internet connectivity. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/21/1944247 and http://theory.whirlycott.com/~phil/antispam/rbl-bad/rbl-bad.html msg63988/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta frustrating experience
Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: [small snip] d) I try to restart using my Mandrake 9.0 start disk, but then an error with file system appear for /dev/hdb13 (the partition with 9.1), telling that I do need a newer version of ext3 :-(. I've noticed this happening with the RH 8.1 beta as well. to get around this comment out the partition you're gonna use for this. that way when you start your 9.0 install it won't hangup like that. It would appear that some changes have been made to ext3 that confuses the current kernel in 9.0. [another small snip] -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH
On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:49 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Lorne wrote: On Friday 10 January 2003 11:13 am, Todd Lyons wrote: Lorne wrote on Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:15:02AM -0700 : I've run coyote-linux for 5 years now and have NEVER been hacked. That is until September of 2002. I spoke with the author and he felt his system was secure and it couldn't have been his LRP based firewall that broke down. I DID have port 21 forwarded, so assumed it was the inside box that got compromised via port 21. I took the inside box off line, totally built it from scratch, hardened all boxes and made sure I had a secure intranet. I then brought the firewall back up. Within a month someone was poking around inside my intranet again. Now it seems that it takes about 48 hours for them to get back in. So I've been rebooting it every night until I can get my MNF box up. I believe there is some buffer overflow or other vulnerability that hasn't been identified yet with the LRP firewall system. So just a warning, Geez, you should be sitting there with tcpdump running nearly non-stop and logging to a seperate host so that you can see exactly is occurring. Get active and into it and you'll learn a LOT about security. You may _think_ you know a lot now, but when you watch a box getting 'sploited, and then pull the plug and figure it all out, you'll come out of it with some invaluable knowledge that you can put to use immediately! I prefer ethereal and sniffer pro and I have had really really limited time here at home. I've been getting more and more into packet analysis at work and it is pretty cool stuff. I've been to a couple of classes on it. I've had snort running on Mandrake snf and I'm putting the finishing touches on MNF. It has snort. I'm putting tripwire on it now. What I REALLY would like to do is set up a honey pot and then I'm truly in control and can watch with interest what is going on. I'm trying to talk my boss into letting me set up a honey pot at work, but corportate is against it. I need to talk to the fellow that is against it. I think he is wrong. :) why in the world would someone be against setting up a honeypot in defense of a network and all the mission critical data stored thereon? Yes, I understand that honeypot in and of itself does nothing to actually protect a network, but in the overall scheme it is a part of the process. That is what I asked the director yesterday. He said the head dude is from the CIA and he has always been against it. WFT!?!? My response was, I need to talk to this guy, because he either doesn't understand them or knows something profound I've never thought or heard of. Like I tried to explain to the director yesterday is that there should never ever be any legitimate traffic to a honeypot so if there is activity, it is going to be improper. Makes it pretty damned easy to catch activity on a busy network. Like you said, it isn't protection, but what a cool tool to trigger alarms, watch what they are doing, keep them busy until you figure out what is going on etc. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] SSH setup logs to watch?
I've setup a ssh server on mandrake 9.0 at work. Its behind a D-Link DI-604 router/firewall on a DSL line. I have the DI-604 forward port 22 to my ssh server. From my house I use Putty to ssh in to the network at work and run VNC through ssh to my Windows 2000 computer at my desk at work. It works great. I'm using keys to login to the ssh server and I have disabled password logins and restricted the ssh logins to a single user. What else should I be doing to keep others out of my network at work? And what logs should I be looking at to check for intruders? Also, what do I need to do to print from my Windows 2000 machine at work so the print job prints at my printer at home (using VNC through SSH)? Thanks for any help. Robert Barry __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Continued login problems
All; This may be self inflicted, but the box is nearly locked down, and I need a little help sorting it out. Background: I recently had a problem with the sshd user having been deleted... The seeming result of a power outage... With that restored, I set to cleaning up the rest of the mess. As a closing act, I ran msec to clean up the permissions, etc., that were probably gone bad. Then I rebooted the box. Now... It won't allow users to log in. I *CAN* log in as root, but not a normal user. Also, e-Mail stopped working, as did the web server. So, I tried to run msec 0 to just open the box up. No joy. Same for msec 1-3. (with reboots included to be sure all the changes are set. The errors I'm getting in /var/log/messages are: Jan 11 10:30:30 server sshd[3503]: Accepted password for user from xx.xx.xx.xxx port 33509 ssh2 Jan 11 10:30:30 ibu sshd[3505]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 500 The x'd out address is the source address that I'm logging in from. This happens for any account except root. The accounts DO exist. I even tried creating a new account... Same thing. I could really use some help. Thanks in advance. Ric -- ISOMEDIA.COM - Premium Internet Services. http://www.isomedia.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Unbootable kernels after upgrade
Svante Signell wrote: BTW: How do you find to which package a file belongs using rpm? Like dpkg -S file in Debian. rpm -qa|grep file works but does not easily give the packege information. For example: [rolf@localhost rolf]$ rpm -qf gunzip error: file gunzip: No such file or directory [rolf@localhost rolf]$ urpmf gunzip gzip:/bin/gunzip gzip:/usr/bin/gunzip gzip:/usr/share/man/man1/gunzip.1.bz2 bonobo:/usr/bin/bonobo-moniker-gunzip man-pages-es:/usr/share/man/es/man1/gunzip.1.bz2 man-pages-fr:/usr/share/man/fr/man1/gunzip.1.bz2 man-pages-it:/usr/share/man/it/man1/gunzip.1.bz2 man-pages-pl:/usr/share/man/pl/man1/gunzip.1.bz2 [rolf@localhost rolf]$ rpm -qf /bin/gunzip gzip-1.2.4a-11mdk The more you specify the argument to urpmf, the less it will find; it can sometimes return a lot. OTOH, if it returns nothing on a complicated lib, try pruning the versioning little-by-little to get some idea. See man rpm, man urpm* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages
Heck, I would just like to be able to add a user or a computer to an LDAP db in a reasonable manner. That would be nice. Jim C. Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Hey Mandrake, I see there is still no regular update to Samba to fix the very nasty 2gb file limit. So, I checked cooker. There -is- one in there, but the cooker packages won't install on a 9.0 machine! I'm getting endless dependencies. What's up with this? Is it possible to ask for an update to at least the 9.0 samba packages to fix this problem? Thanks. Bob 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] Continued login problems
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:36, 1577910929 wrote: *snip* Now... It won't allow users to log in. I *CAN* log in as root, but not a normal user. Also, e-Mail stopped working, as did the web server. *snip* Jan 11 10:30:30 server sshd[3503]: Accepted password for user from xx.xx.xx.xxx port 33509 ssh2 Jan 11 10:30:30 ibu sshd[3505]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 500 Here's a thought. force a fsck and a badblock check on the partition with /etc on it. it could be a failing drive. Also, your password-shadowing could be fudged up, and not passing the accounts back from the shadow and passwd files. -- Chuck Burns - Grand Bay, AL Man = Mars = 4th planet from Sun = 4 Woman = Venus = 2nd planet from Sun = 2 Man - Woman = -2 = Man divorce wife = less than he started with Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! Guys! you are doing THE best job in the world. The font support in 9.1 is lightyears ahead of all previous versions of Mandrake. It's every bit, if not more, then RH 8.0 and rivals that of the MAC. GOD this is gorgeous. Kmail appears to have taken some leaps forward, it's just one HELL of a long time since I've used and seen it. but this is wonderful. And I'm a die-hard Mozilla man. Lordy Lordy!!! Not all of the things in MCC work yet, but hey! this the first beta. This beta though speaks volumes of whats to come. And to think this nearly fully functional system installed from 1 CD. Now _THATS_ impressive. I noticed that Linuxconf is missing from the lineup. I'm hoping that isn't the norm, but rather because this is the first beta release of this version. Well...I'm off to play and discover. Geez! I feel like a kid at Christmas time. :) Whoo H!!! Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! Guys! you are doing THE best job in the world. The font support in 9.1 is lightyears ahead of all previous versions of Mandrake. It's every bit, if not more, then RH 8.0 and rivals that of the MAC. GOD this is gorgeous. Kmail appears to have taken some leaps forward, it's just one HELL of a long time since I've used and seen it. but this is wonderful. And I'm a die-hard Mozilla man. Lordy Lordy!!! Not all of the things in MCC work yet, but hey! this the first beta. This beta though speaks volumes of whats to come. And to think this nearly fully functional system installed from 1 CD. Now _THATS_ impressive. I noticed that Linuxconf is missing from the lineup. I'm hoping that isn't the norm, but rather because this is the first beta release of this version. Well...I'm off to play and discover. Geez! I feel like a kid at Christmas time. :) Whoo H!!! Mark Can someone confirm the ACPI version in the kernel (dmesg | grep ACPI) and the kernel version? I'm very excited to try it out, but I want to make sure my laptop is supported. Thanks, Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
On Saturday 11 January 2003 05:04 pm, Jack Coates wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! Guys! you are doing THE best job in the world. The font support in 9.1 is lightyears ahead of all previous versions of Mandrake. It's every bit, if not more, then RH 8.0 and rivals that of the MAC. GOD this is gorgeous. Kmail appears to have taken some leaps forward, it's just one HELL of a long time since I've used and seen it. but this is wonderful. And I'm a die-hard Mozilla man. Lordy Lordy!!! Not all of the things in MCC work yet, but hey! this the first beta. This beta though speaks volumes of whats to come. And to think this nearly fully functional system installed from 1 CD. Now _THATS_ impressive. I noticed that Linuxconf is missing from the lineup. I'm hoping that isn't the norm, but rather because this is the first beta release of this version. Well...I'm off to play and discover. Geez! I feel like a kid at Christmas time. :) Whoo H!!! Mark Can someone confirm the ACPI version in the kernel (dmesg | grep ACPI) and the kernel version? I'm very excited to try it out, but I want to make sure my laptop is supported. Thanks, Jack Jack, I don't know if this helps, but here's the output from that grep: grep ACPI /var/log/dmesg BIOS-e820: 0fec - 0fef8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0fef8000 - 0ff0 (ACPI NVS) ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI) @ 0x000ff980 ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL MUMMY08193.02309) @ 0x0fef ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL MUMMY08193.02309) @ 0x0fef1000 ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL MUMMY08193.02309) @ 0x0fef4000 ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL DIM_L0.00019) @ 0x ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist ACPI: MADT not present ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021212 ACPI-0263: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE15 ACPI-0263: *** Info: GPE Block1 defined as GPE16 to GPE31 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 0 PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing apm: overridden by ACPI. As a side note, I goofed cause Linuxconf is indeed included with the packages that install from the beta1 CD. Sorry guys... but I was really excited and hadn't looked around very much yet. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] making a boot disk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I've got to make a boot disk, but I've gotta do it the old fashioned way and I don't remember how that is done. Could some kind soul direct me on how this is accomplished? thanks, Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IKEuJuZ1geTzHgERAqvCAJ9ICAdSPBuL6zm0kOOoox3norWe7wCgo1gr CuZF8vKpxM9ztqGZhbHrb2I= =WcIU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] making a boot disk
Hi, mkbootdisk should be the command you're looking for.. Cheers, Hans On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 23:56, Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I've got to make a boot disk, but I've gotta do it the old fashioned way and I don't remember how that is done. Could some kind soul direct me on how this is accomplished? thanks, Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IKEuJuZ1geTzHgERAqvCAJ9ICAdSPBuL6zm0kOOoox3norWe7wCgo1gr CuZF8vKpxM9ztqGZhbHrb2I= =WcIU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
On Saturday 11 January 2003 21:50, Mark Weaver wrote: Whoo H!!! Mark Now you've done it I'me gonna download right now!!!:o) Have fun, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [becoming OT] SSH ... and smoothwall
On Saturday 11 January 2003 14:46, stefmit wrote: Does anybody know what is - then - the difference between smoothwall and ipcop (i.e. who is doing more development and update work)? I got ipcop (www.ipcop.org), and I like it ... never tried smoothwall, though. Depends where you put the accents. AFAIK ipcop is a fork of smoothwall. This all due the fact that the spokesperson for Smoothwall (IMHO)uses a diplomacy one would expect of a baseball-bat wielding football-hooligan. Personally my preference lies with the S'wall team, their product is fine, GPL and well supported. Their political stance is harsh but alas very true and should be taken to heart by the community. Good walling, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
On Sunday 12 January 2003 00:03, Mark Weaver wrote: I'll try to get a few together for you, although I don't know if the screen shot will do these gorgeous fonts justice. GOD THEY'RE PRETTY! Mark Huh! Didn't you allready have antialiased fonts? Or is this something really different? Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
On Sunday 12 January 2003 00:22, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi Harm, Yes, I had antialiased fonts, but in 9.0 they sure as shootin don't look like this! Mark GOODYY=;o) Off to download now! Good testing, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! Guys! you are doing THE best job in the world. The font support in 9.1 is lightyears ahead of all previous versions of Mandrake. It's every bit, if not more, then RH 8.0 and rivals that of the MAC. GOD this is gorgeous. Kmail appears to have taken some leaps forward, it's just one HELL of a long time since I've used and seen it. but this is wonderful. And I'm a die-hard Mozilla man. Lordy Lordy!!! Not all of the things in MCC work yet, but hey! this the first beta. This beta though speaks volumes of whats to come. And to think this nearly fully functional system installed from 1 CD. Now _THATS_ impressive. I noticed that Linuxconf is missing from the lineup. I'm hoping that isn't the norm, but rather because this is the first beta release of this version. Well...I'm off to play and discover. Geez! I feel like a kid at Christmas time. :) Whoo H!!! Mark I agree Mark but... Yep. Gorgeous but slightly flaky on this old piece of crap. :-) For a beta operating system it's amazing. A bit hard to get it to start the first time and a total pain in the ass because all of the Mandrake partitions (except /boot and /) on all 4 of my hard drives are XFS which isn't supported apparently, but all in all definitely worth testing. I'll have to boot back to 9.0 soon and do something about that so I can access my music storage. Regards; Charlie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 05:42 pm, Azrael wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:50, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! Hmm screenshots? Guys! you are doing THE best job in the world. The font support in 9.1 is lightyears ahead of all previous versions of Mandrake. It's every bit, if not more, then RH 8.0 and rivals that of the MAC. GOD this is gorgeous. Kmail appears to have taken some leaps forward, it's just one HELL of a long time since I've used and seen it. but this is wonderful. And I'm a die-hard Mozilla man. Lordy Lordy!!! Not all of the things in MCC work yet, but hey! this the first beta. This beta though speaks volumes of whats to come. And to think this nearly fully functional system installed from 1 CD. Now _THATS_ impressive. I noticed that Linuxconf is missing from the lineup. I'm hoping that isn't the norm, but rather because this is the first beta release of this version. Well...I'm off to play and discover. Geez! I feel like a kid at Christmas time. :) Whoo H!!! Damn it!! SCREENSHOTS!!! I'll try to get a few together for you, although I don't know if the screen shot will do these gorgeous fonts justice. GOD THEY'RE PRETTY! Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ILDhJuZ1geTzHgERAo/RAKD27cKu7PISmWq8avTyq0tZxQqKiwCfUmhQ 607XkcgPKp1UT+AT3VqwToY= =5vk/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] making a boot disk
On Saturday 11 January 2003 04:09 pm, SainTiss wrote: Hi, mkbootdisk should be the command you're looking for.. Cheers, Hans On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 23:56, Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I've got to make a boot disk, but I've gotta do it the old fashioned way and I don't remember how that is done. Could some kind soul direct me on how this is accomplished? thanks, Mark I don't know about anybody else but mkbootdisk does nothing for me; nor does trying to use the bootdisk icon in Mandrake Control Center. The chance to make a bootdisk during install wasn't offered either. Maybe I missed something? Charlie I'll have to think about this very carefully before I reboot this thing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH
On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: snip That is what I asked the director yesterday. He said the head dude is from the CIA and he has always been against it. WFT!?!? My response was, I need to talk to this guy, because he either doesn't understand them or knows something profound I've never thought or heard of. Like I tried to explain to the director yesterday is that there should never ever be any legitimate traffic to a honeypot so if there is activity, it is going to be improper. Makes it pretty damned easy to catch activity on a busy network. Like you said, it isn't protection, but what a cool tool to trigger alarms, watch what they are doing, keep them busy until you figure out what is going on etc. :) that guy sounds more like someone who's technically in WAY over his head and hasn't got a single clue what he's doing. That is what I think. The reason I want to speak to him. I am not in the security section. I'm trying. I am positive they are in way over their heads and I told him it wasn't a matter if but when we got hacked. The sad part is, they probably won't know it when they do, if the hacker is smart. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:10 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 00:03, Mark Weaver wrote: I'll try to get a few together for you, although I don't know if the screen shot will do these gorgeous fonts justice. GOD THEY'RE PRETTY! Mark Huh! Didn't you allready have antialiased fonts? Or is this something really different? Good luck, HarM Hi Harm, Yes, I had antialiased fonts, but in 9.0 they sure as shootin don't look like this! Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ILVhJuZ1geTzHgERAub9AJ9Op7GI/U/gxsSPAKP5YfGEdo9aGQCgpnKM dvjHtoFlaH7VJ82L5zB5Wb4= =rAzX -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
Mark Weaver wrote: grep ACPI /var/log/dmesg BIOS-e820: 0fec - 0fef8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0fef8000 - 0ff0 (ACPI NVS) ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI) @ 0x000ff980 ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL MUMMY08193.02309) @ 0x0fef ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL MUMMY08193.02309) @ 0x0fef1000 ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL MUMMY08193.02309) @ 0x0fef4000 ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL DIM_L0.00019) @ 0x ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist ACPI: MADT not present ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021212 ACPI-0263: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE15 ACPI-0263: *** Info: GPE Block1 defined as GPE16 to GPE31 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 0 PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing apm: overridden by ACPI. coolness -- 20021212 is a recent release, and IRQ routing is turned on. This was a problem with 9.0 and ACPI systems. thanks, Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:30 pm, Charlie wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! [...] A bit hard to get it to start the first time and a total pain in the ass because all of the Mandrake partitions (except /boot and /) on all 4 of my hard drives are XFS which isn't supported apparently, but all in all definitely worth testing. Hmpf. I upgraded, finally, to 9.0 to get past the growing problems I was having upgrading other aspects of 8.2 - dependency hell. It just became easier to upgrade. Thing is, though I am now running 9.0, I am still using the 8.2 kernel because the 2.4.19 kernel (9.0) just doesn't work on my system. It took some tweaking just to get the install CD to bootup on my system (never had THAT problem before). With 2.4.19 I cannot use my WUSB11 v2.6 wlan device. Rebuilding and installing the atmel driver just doesn't work but it works perfectly with 2.4.18. Then, you mentioned XFS. I am 100% XFS and it has worked fine until 2.4.19. In hopes of getting my WUSB11 to work, I tried building my own 2.4.19 kernel (I ALWAYS end up building my own kernel) but even using the default Mandrake 9.0 config file for the kernel, the newly built kernel will NOT bootup - lots of errors wrt XFS. Then a kernel panic. The stock 2.4.19 kernel works OK (except for the WUSB11 device). Anyway, what is up with XFS? Why wouldn't it be supported? It is a rather mature filesystem, afterall. What kernel is used in the 9.1 beta? Is it 2.4.20? I am considering trying that kernel to get around my WUSB11 problems and the XFS problems. Surely it supports XFS? praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IMd21i/6R1B/Yh0RAuyaAJ4zyA+3UQ3ZtGZHrU+poJid0gBmYACdE/qR ezy42LTKLbhXC80RSXD0B6w= =T/xh -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH
On Saturday 11 January 2003 06:04 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:47 pm, Lorne wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: snip That is what I asked the director yesterday. He said the head dude is from the CIA and he has always been against it. WFT!?!? My response was, I need to talk to this guy, because he either doesn't understand them or knows something profound I've never thought or heard of. Like I tried to explain to the director yesterday is that there should never ever be any legitimate traffic to a honeypot so if there is activity, it is going to be improper. Makes it pretty damned easy to catch activity on a busy network. Like you said, it isn't protection, but what a cool tool to trigger alarms, watch what they are doing, keep them busy until you figure out what is going on etc. :) that guy sounds more like someone who's technically in WAY over his head and hasn't got a single clue what he's doing. That is what I think. The reason I want to speak to him. I am not in the security section. I'm trying. I am positive they are in way over their heads and I told him it wasn't a matter if but when we got hacked. The sad part is, they probably won't know it when they do, if the hacker is smart. God help the cracker if he isn't! lets hope he isn't very smart at all. Mark hahaha amen! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions
1) Mi dhcp (cable modem) not well installed, the resolv.conf file was empty; I had to put the ips using a text editor. Now is runing 2) Tv well configured. I downloaded xawtv and the dependence files from cooker; now is runing fine. 3) my second cd-driver (dvd) is not well configured; I will try to know where the problem arises. 4) urpmi has some problem, the media installed is cd1, but it can't recognize that is into the drive :-(. I have tried erasing the media (urpmi.removemedia) and adding it again (urpmi.addmedia) but still not runing. 5) xine need xine-plugin to run; I had to download it from cooker. 6) some problem with the nvidia Xfree86 module. Not DRI activated, and when I restart kde some of the windows became transparent. Of course the nvidia drivers will be welcome at the end of the test. 7) Epson Perfection 1200U: scanner don't recognized (disappeared from the data base of scannerdrake? 8) I can't test playing audio, no kde-multimedia file to have kscd avalaible More comments later, now is to late I need to sleep Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:30 pm, Charlie wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! Guys! you are doing THE best job in the world. The font support in 9.1 is lightyears ahead of all previous versions of Mandrake. It's every bit, if not more, then RH 8.0 and rivals that of the MAC. GOD this is gorgeous. Kmail appears to have taken some leaps forward, it's just one HELL of a long time since I've used and seen it. but this is wonderful. And I'm a die-hard Mozilla man. Lordy Lordy!!! Not all of the things in MCC work yet, but hey! this the first beta. This beta though speaks volumes of whats to come. And to think this nearly fully functional system installed from 1 CD. Now _THATS_ impressive. I noticed that Linuxconf is missing from the lineup. I'm hoping that isn't the norm, but rather because this is the first beta release of this version. Well...I'm off to play and discover. Geez! I feel like a kid at Christmas time. :) Whoo H!!! Mark I agree Mark but... Yep. Gorgeous but slightly flaky on this old piece of crap. :-) For a beta operating system it's amazing. A bit hard to get it to start the first time and a total pain in the ass because all of the Mandrake partitions (except /boot and /) on all 4 of my hard drives are XFS which isn't supported apparently, but all in all definitely worth testing. I'll have to boot back to 9.0 soon and do something about that so I can access my music storage. Regards; Charlie I noticed also that there must be some changes that have been made to ext3 because the version that Mdk9.1 and RH8.1 are using Mandrake 9.0 doesn't recognize. A bit odd, cause I don't recall hearing anything about changes to this FS changing at all. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IL6wJuZ1geTzHgERAkGAAKD1JAyY5+1LtoHL2qaheZYr/LMdRwCfQgHb SIWlsNwBoiK1i/r+5nNksHk= =qQKY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] bash scripting question - simple regular expression?
I have a list of positive integers of which I only want the first one. They are of arbitrary size. How can I cut the rest of them off? I've been trying to write a regular expression for this using sed or awk. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:47 pm, Lorne wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: snip That is what I asked the director yesterday. He said the head dude is from the CIA and he has always been against it. WFT!?!? My response was, I need to talk to this guy, because he either doesn't understand them or knows something profound I've never thought or heard of. Like I tried to explain to the director yesterday is that there should never ever be any legitimate traffic to a honeypot so if there is activity, it is going to be improper. Makes it pretty damned easy to catch activity on a busy network. Like you said, it isn't protection, but what a cool tool to trigger alarms, watch what they are doing, keep them busy until you figure out what is going on etc. :) that guy sounds more like someone who's technically in WAY over his head and hasn't got a single clue what he's doing. That is what I think. The reason I want to speak to him. I am not in the security section. I'm trying. I am positive they are in way over their heads and I told him it wasn't a matter if but when we got hacked. The sad part is, they probably won't know it when they do, if the hacker is smart. God help the cracker if he isn't! lets hope he isn't very smart at all. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IL8QJuZ1geTzHgERAn4YAKCzhMxcXSmrPnJZyXM6hP/F5Q+VrwCeOVav 4SCSZdZ6bqyU7tTFbZbCvOM= =arBd -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH
On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:25 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 09:17 pm, Lorne scribbled incoherently: Could very well be. Unfortunately the two guys that are in charge of it are such buffoons that I would not work with them anyhow. I fully expect them to get fired soon. They are not only ignorant, but arrogant to boot! I can handle ignorance, and I can handle arrogance, but not both together! they are in charge of setting it all up and it is such a joke. I'm just hoping to make enoug comments to the director that he will know I have some skills and am interested so that when they do get fired I'll be considered. Don't ever try to fight ignorants face to face, play along and be their advisor in hard times. It's the only way, or be prepared to stick a lot of energy and time in battling their back to the wall tactics. You'll probably lose any which way! This is a really unique situation. The only thing I'm afraid of is that if they F#$K it up too badly, that our parent company will take it away from us and move it out of our building without me having a chance to prove we can do it right. :( Oh well we'll see how it all shakes out. Good luck, HarM well good luck and God speed to ya Lorne! heh.. heh...thanks Mark! ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:40 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:30 pm, Charlie wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! [...] A bit hard to get it to start the first time and a total pain in the ass because all of the Mandrake partitions (except /boot and /) on all 4 of my hard drives are XFS which isn't supported apparently, but all in all definitely worth testing. Hmpf. I upgraded, finally, to 9.0 to get past the growing problems I was having upgrading other aspects of 8.2 - dependency hell. It just became easier to upgrade. Thing is, though I am now running 9.0, I am still using the 8.2 kernel because the 2.4.19 kernel (9.0) just doesn't work on my system. It took some tweaking just to get the install CD to bootup on my system (never had THAT problem before). With 2.4.19 I cannot use my WUSB11 v2.6 wlan device. Rebuilding and installing the atmel driver just doesn't work but it works perfectly with 2.4.18. Then, you mentioned XFS. I am 100% XFS and it has worked fine until 2.4.19. In hopes of getting my WUSB11 to work, I tried building my own 2.4.19 kernel (I ALWAYS end up building my own kernel) but even using the default Mandrake 9.0 config file for the kernel, the newly built kernel will NOT bootup - lots of errors wrt XFS. Then a kernel panic. The stock 2.4.19 kernel works OK (except for the WUSB11 device). Anyway, what is up with XFS? Why wouldn't it be supported? It is a rather mature filesystem, afterall. What kernel is used in the 9.1 beta? Is it 2.4.20? I am considering trying that kernel to get around my WUSB11 problems and the XFS problems. Surely it supports XFS? praedor praedor, remember, this is just the beta1 version of 9.1. There's a lot of work to do with this version yet, which is why I suspect that they only released 1 CD for folks to test. So far the only things I've found not to work are a few things in MCC, and a few things where configuring X is concerned. I can't get a larger screen resolution then 1024x768. I've been using a larger screen for so long that this screen res feels like 640x480 of old! I'm sure though that this will get straightened out in due course. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IMzlJuZ1geTzHgERAn3CAJ4gGQ7IBN1QOQCunf3OgsN/OtKwJQCgqB8O 9Asc/EDleQEitLRt8n6bkUA= =86rA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Continued problems
Well, I'm getting closer to recovering the system after the crash... I can log in now, and the web works again. But now I can't seem to get imap working again. (and thus my mail!). It's installed, and has the proper entries in both /etc/services, and /etc/xinetd.d, and the port is open in the firewall. BUT, it still refuses connections (a clue, it was slammed shut by msec, and doesn't want t re-enable...).. Any clues about where else I should look? Thanks in advance! Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages
On Sat Jan 11, 2003 at 05:21:42PM +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:
It's also unfair to be sitting around and yelling Hey Mandrake when
are you going to fix this bug that no one reported?. Is there a
bugzilla entry for this?
If I'm not wrong there's no bugzilla for released distributions.
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com is only for cooker.
Sorry, you're right. I meant MandrakeExpert, which is where all
released problems should be sent to.
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Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
Mark, Are you running this on a laptop or a DeskTop... Reason I'm asking is I tried out the cooker kernel a few weeks ago on my laptop and found that pcmcia slowed to an absolute crawl then a boot back into MDK stock and it became normal again. James On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 17:29, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 00:22, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi Harm, Yes, I had antialiased fonts, but in 9.0 they sure as shootin don't look like this! Mark GOODYY=;o) Off to download now! Good testing, HarM __ 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] bash scripting question - simple regular expression?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:56 pm, Jim C wrote: I have a list of positive integers of which I only want the first one. They are of arbitrary size. How can I cut the rest of them off? I've been trying to write a regular expression for this using sed or awk. without sorting them or anything why not just use a while loop with a counter? Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IM23JuZ1geTzHgERAmKPAKDSouh+GrtkZTPj9o5CDvTG7tIEtgCgjOZk buhxrkvmzeqXdrW7n0a8ACk= =Mw7P -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Continued login problems
You could force a sync so to speak as root run vipw then take a user ... duplicate that users line and add a 2 (or some other symbol after the uname) then save... do the same for the same user when it asks if you want to edit shadow passwd. Then without logging out. try logging in as a user. This will force a rewrite of both files. If this works vipw again.. and remove the line you just added. IF when you run vipw and you find that the ONLY user is root cp passwd passwd.mybkp cp passwd- passwd vipw... This should (hopefully) reset the old passwd file. However since you can ssh in and since you said before that you'd installed the anti-hack version of ssh the second case shouldn't be true. James On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 13:59, 1577910929 wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:36, 1577910929 wrote: *snip* Now... It won't allow users to log in. I *CAN* log in as root, but not a normal user. Also, e-Mail stopped working, as did the web server. *snip* Jan 11 10:30:30 server sshd[3503]: Accepted password for user from xx.xx.xx.xxx port 33509 ssh2 Jan 11 10:30:30 ibu sshd[3505]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 500 Here's a thought. force a fsck and a badblock check on the partition with /etc on it. it could be a failing drive. Also, your password-shadowing could be fudged up, and not passing the accounts back from the shadow and passwd files. I would agree with the shadowing being fudged up. That's pretty much the behaviour. The question then becomes: How to fix it? This not only impacts logins, but it also stopped my web server, and e-Mail. Ric __ 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] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions
Mark did it give you the rpm-rebuild package? James On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 18:22, Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:47 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza scribbled incoherently: 1) Mi dhcp (cable modem) not well installed, the resolv.conf file was empty; I had to put the ips using a text editor. Now is runing 2) Tv well configured. I downloaded xawtv and the dependence files from cooker; now is runing fine. 3) my second cd-driver (dvd) is not well configured; I will try to know where the problem arises. 4) urpmi has some problem, the media installed is cd1, but it can't recognize that is into the drive :-(. I have tried erasing the media (urpmi.removemedia) and adding it again (urpmi.addmedia) but still not runing. 5) xine need xine-plugin to run; I had to download it from cooker. 6) some problem with the nvidia Xfree86 module. Not DRI activated, and when I restart kde some of the windows became transparent. Of course the nvidia drivers will be welcome at the end of the test. 7) Epson Perfection 1200U: scanner don't recognized (disappeared from the data base of scannerdrake? 8) I can't test playing audio, no kde-multimedia file to have kscd avalaible More comments later, now is to late I need to sleep Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) One thing I forgot to mention when I first loaded it up was the fact that I couldn't rebuild an src.rpm package. me thinks they've done the same thing to Mandrake RPM package that RH did, although now I can't recall the command that RH uses un 8.0 to rebuild rpm src packages. - -- Mark - --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+INFIJuZ1geTzHgERAnEvAJ4tO+juyt4r7Ye2A+upEJrvVpmTOgCdEW4M PxddCbNyL3sajNV7+LqQRTA= =woGW -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ 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] Firewall stuff SSH
As for why against... this network is my home and I can't afford to go buy another comp and IP just to protect the 4 or 5 boxes behind it. *grin* James On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 10:24, Lorne wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:49 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Lorne wrote: On Friday 10 January 2003 11:13 am, Todd Lyons wrote: Lorne wrote on Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:15:02AM -0700 : I've run coyote-linux for 5 years now and have NEVER been hacked. That is until September of 2002. I spoke with the author and he felt his system was secure and it couldn't have been his LRP based firewall that broke down. I DID have port 21 forwarded, so assumed it was the inside box that got compromised via port 21. I took the inside box off line, totally built it from scratch, hardened all boxes and made sure I had a secure intranet. I then brought the firewall back up. Within a month someone was poking around inside my intranet again. Now it seems that it takes about 48 hours for them to get back in. So I've been rebooting it every night until I can get my MNF box up. I believe there is some buffer overflow or other vulnerability that hasn't been identified yet with the LRP firewall system. So just a warning, Geez, you should be sitting there with tcpdump running nearly non-stop and logging to a seperate host so that you can see exactly is occurring. Get active and into it and you'll learn a LOT about security. You may _think_ you know a lot now, but when you watch a box getting 'sploited, and then pull the plug and figure it all out, you'll come out of it with some invaluable knowledge that you can put to use immediately! I prefer ethereal and sniffer pro and I have had really really limited time here at home. I've been getting more and more into packet analysis at work and it is pretty cool stuff. I've been to a couple of classes on it. I've had snort running on Mandrake snf and I'm putting the finishing touches on MNF. It has snort. I'm putting tripwire on it now. What I REALLY would like to do is set up a honey pot and then I'm truly in control and can watch with interest what is going on. I'm trying to talk my boss into letting me set up a honey pot at work, but corportate is against it. I need to talk to the fellow that is against it. I think he is wrong. :) why in the world would someone be against setting up a honeypot in defense of a network and all the mission critical data stored thereon? Yes, I understand that honeypot in and of itself does nothing to actually protect a network, but in the overall scheme it is a part of the process. That is what I asked the director yesterday. He said the head dude is from the CIA and he has always been against it. WFT!?!? My response was, I need to talk to this guy, because he either doesn't understand them or knows something profound I've never thought or heard of. Like I tried to explain to the director yesterday is that there should never ever be any legitimate traffic to a honeypot so if there is activity, it is going to be improper. Makes it pretty damned easy to catch activity on a busy network. Like you said, it isn't protection, but what a cool tool to trigger alarms, watch what they are doing, keep them busy until you figure out what is going on etc. :) __ 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] Firewall stuff SSH
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 18:24, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 00:47, Lorne wrote: That is what I think. The reason I want to speak to him. I am not in the security section. I'm trying. I am positive they are in way over their heads and I told him it wasn't a matter if but when we got hacked. The sad part is, they probably won't know it when they do, if the hacker is smart. Trouble is that as long as you're trying to get heard, they'll see you as a threat. Meaning they (the security dep.)'ll be using all their energy to fight you instead of the cracker they've never ever felt before. Don't ever try to fight ignorants face to face, play along and be their advisor in hard times. It's the only way, or be prepared to stick a lot of energy and time in battling their back to the wall tactics. You'll probably lose any which way! Good luck, HarM HarM... Good bad or indifferent, you are unfortunately right. The best move in my opinion is to make your proposal in writing (so that you have a copy.) to the head of security... Then when he botches it... You are ahead.. If he likes what you suggest, then HE gets to go to the boss and win either way. You win. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions
It should be in cooker ... grab this one and you should be able to rebuild/build rpms... rpm-rebuilder-0.7-1mdk is the file from 9.0 and yes... if forgot the er before.. James On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 19:42, Mark Weaver wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Mark did it give you the rpm-rebuild package? James No, I don't believe it did. I looked around for it, but it didn't appear to be there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] making a boot disk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:41 pm, Charlie wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 04:09 pm, SainTiss wrote: Hi, mkbootdisk should be the command you're looking for.. Cheers, Hans On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 23:56, Mark Weaver wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I've got to make a boot disk, but I've gotta do it the old fashioned way and I don't remember how that is done. Could some kind soul direct me on how this is accomplished? thanks, Mark I don't know about anybody else but mkbootdisk does nothing for me; nor does trying to use the bootdisk icon in Mandrake Control Center. The chance to make a bootdisk during install wasn't offered either. Maybe I missed something? Charlie I'll have to think about this very carefully before I reboot this thing. Hi Charlie, mkbootdisk worked just fine. here's the command as I used it: mkbootdisk 2.4.21-pre2.1mdk This was the disk I made so's I could boot the new mdk 9.1 system. Try as I might I can't get this install to boot from Lilo at all. but thats another matter. Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IM5iJuZ1geTzHgERAkJbAJ4+TzkdtH+lK7/8s2/QMi5ykYIfNgCgl4X3 7UoHaA4gq+HUd95YI/Jn45A= =+rjC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH
I've been lucky so far -- at the company I work for, I'm in charge of all technology oriented activities (security, database, systems, helpdesk, and so forth) so if I make a suggestion there is typically very little resistance to it (since, after all, I've been right several times before already -- proven track record always helps). Michael At 07:48 PM 1/11/2003 -0800, you wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 18:24, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 00:47, Lorne wrote: That is what I think. The reason I want to speak to him. I am not in the security section. I'm trying. I am positive they are in way over their heads and I told him it wasn't a matter if but when we got hacked. The sad part is, they probably won't know it when they do, if the hacker is smart. Trouble is that as long as you're trying to get heard, they'll see you as a threat. Meaning they (the security dep.)'ll be using all their energy to fight you instead of the cracker they've never ever felt before. Don't ever try to fight ignorants face to face, play along and be their advisor in hard times. It's the only way, or be prepared to stick a lot of energy and time in battling their back to the wall tactics. You'll probably lose any which way! Good luck, HarM HarM... Good bad or indifferent, you are unfortunately right. The best move in my opinion is to make your proposal in writing (so that you have a copy.) to the head of security... Then when he botches it... You are ahead.. If he likes what you suggest, then HE gets to go to the boss and win either way. You win. James 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] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:47 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza scribbled incoherently: 1) Mi dhcp (cable modem) not well installed, the resolv.conf file was empty; I had to put the ips using a text editor. Now is runing 2) Tv well configured. I downloaded xawtv and the dependence files from cooker; now is runing fine. 3) my second cd-driver (dvd) is not well configured; I will try to know where the problem arises. 4) urpmi has some problem, the media installed is cd1, but it can't recognize that is into the drive :-(. I have tried erasing the media (urpmi.removemedia) and adding it again (urpmi.addmedia) but still not runing. 5) xine need xine-plugin to run; I had to download it from cooker. 6) some problem with the nvidia Xfree86 module. Not DRI activated, and when I restart kde some of the windows became transparent. Of course the nvidia drivers will be welcome at the end of the test. 7) Epson Perfection 1200U: scanner don't recognized (disappeared from the data base of scannerdrake? 8) I can't test playing audio, no kde-multimedia file to have kscd avalaible More comments later, now is to late I need to sleep Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) One thing I forgot to mention when I first loaded it up was the fact that I couldn't rebuild an src.rpm package. me thinks they've done the same thing to Mandrake RPM package that RH did, although now I can't recall the command that RH uses un 8.0 to rebuild rpm src packages. - -- Mark - --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+INFIJuZ1geTzHgERAnEvAJ4tO+juyt4r7Ye2A+upEJrvVpmTOgCdEW4M PxddCbNyL3sajNV7+LqQRTA= =woGW -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 09:17 pm, Lorne scribbled incoherently: Could very well be. Unfortunately the two guys that are in charge of it are such buffoons that I would not work with them anyhow. I fully expect them to get fired soon. They are not only ignorant, but arrogant to boot! I can handle ignorance, and I can handle arrogance, but not both together! they are in charge of setting it all up and it is such a joke. I'm just hoping to make enoug comments to the director that he will know I have some skills and am interested so that when they do get fired I'll be considered. Don't ever try to fight ignorants face to face, play along and be their advisor in hard times. It's the only way, or be prepared to stick a lot of energy and time in battling their back to the wall tactics. You'll probably lose any which way! This is a really unique situation. The only thing I'm afraid of is that if they F#$K it up too badly, that our parent company will take it away from us and move it out of our building without me having a chance to prove we can do it right. :( Oh well we'll see how it all shakes out. Good luck, HarM well good luck and God speed to ya Lorne! - -- Mark - --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+INI2JuZ1geTzHgERAmEDAKDMoqckJnEpLlig9f/CujhGmwFRKwCfalN2 aKgNOXGv5HhecOgrI+CGZ4I= =bk9F -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions
James Sparenberg wrote: Mark did it give you the rpm-rebuild package? James No, I don't believe it did. I looked around for it, but it didn't appear to be there. -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience
James Sparenberg wrote: Mark, Are you running this on a laptop or a DeskTop... Reason I'm asking is I tried out the cooker kernel a few weeks ago on my laptop and found that pcmcia slowed to an absolute crawl then a boot back into MDK stock and it became normal again. James Hi James, I'm running this on a desktop PC. -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Samba 2.2.7a packages
Anyways, does 2.2.7a fix this 2GB file limit problem? How long has this problem been around (this is the first I've heard of it, but I'm not a samba user). It most certainly does. I posted something here, didn't get any replies, so I went to the Samba list, where the issue was discussed hot and heavy! The 2.2.7A definitely fixed the 2gb limit problem, although apparently smbmount still has the bug, last I heard (this may now be fixed - it's been a while now since I've been off the samba list). It's also unfair to be sitting around and yelling Hey Mandrake when are you going to fix this bug that no one reported?. Is there a bugzilla entry for this? I am assuming that if this was a legitimate problem that needed to be addressed in updates, and the bug had been reported to someone here, that it would have been forwarded to myself. This hasn't happened so I can only assume one of two things: It was reported, but not acted on, or it wasn't reported. I reported it here on this list. If there is another place to do so, please let me know. I had hoped that since there was a 2.2.7a rpm in cooker that someone knew about it, and a fix was in the works. as i understood it, the 2 gig limit wasa fat problem, not a Samba problem, If this is the case, then an upgrade wouldn't fix the problem, right? If you're running on an old file system that has a 2gb limit, of course there will be a problem. But ext3 works nicely past 2gb. I ended up finding an (older now) cooker rpm that works with 9.0. First though, I tried building from source. This failed, while it worked fine on a 7.1 mandrake machine. I didn't dig too far to see why it failed. If someone has some reference on the samba site or mailing list or something that 2.2.7a fixes this problem explicitly, please let us know. If this is something that upgrading to 2.2.7a will fix, then I would be happy to do it. How about: http://us1.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.7a.html Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bash scripting question - simple regular expression?
On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:56 pm, Jim C wrote: I have a list of positive integers of which I only want the first one. They are of arbitrary size. How can I cut the rest of them off? I've been trying to write a regular expression for this using sed or awk. you don't specify the format of the integers. are they space separated and all on one line? or are they line separated (each integer on its own line)? are there blank spaces (if the first) or blank lines (if the second) before the first integer? or are they in some other format? you say they're arbitrary size, so does that mean they aren't in some fixed column format? if they're one integer to a line, then head (for the first), tail (for the last), or some combination of head and tail (for anything in between) will get you the integer you want. if they're delimited by something (spaces, commas, colons, whatever), then cut -f fldnumber -d delimiter might help. otherwise, well, sed, awk, or some custom program in your favorite language. if there are blank lines or blank fields before the first number, then some sort of bash while loop would be needed to ignore the blank lines or blank fields, print the first non-blank field, and then exit the loop. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo tiger*quimpo*org gquimpo*sni-inc.com tiger*sni*ph Public Key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78 Veritas liberabit vos. Doveryai no proveryai. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Losing smooth scrolling after apm wakeup and hwclock --hctosys
hello, on a Dell Latitude CPi (300 Mhz PII) using Mandrake 9.0 I have problems with smooth scrolling after a hwclock --hctosys. when I do that, i can't click and drag windows anymore (have to right click, move), and i can't smoothly scroll scrollbars (have to click on the arrows or somewhere in the area between the thumb and appropriate arrow). Has anyone seen this? I don't have access to any other Mandrake 9.0 desktop box right now, so I can't test to see if it manifests on desktops. If it doesn't, then it may be a BIOS or other laptop specific issue. I originally noticed the problem after waking up from an apm -s. strangely enough, right after waking up from apm -s, doing an apm -S and then waking up from that would fix the scrolling issue, but then the system time (returned by date) would not be synced with the hwclock time. all of this is in KDE, although i tested in Gnome once and saw the same problem with apm -s (didn't test with hwclock --hctosys though). it seems that it's not just hwclock that does this. anything that sets the system time will do the same. e.g., when i do a date -s --set=... or an ntpdate [insert_timeserver_here], smooth scrolling goes away again. my installation is pretty much stock although of course there are some RPMs that i've downloaded and installed (some from cooker, some from other sources). the only RPMs that don't have -mdk in them are: opera-6.03-2002-813.1 Win4Lin-5.3.3c-d Kernel-Win4Lin3-Mandrake9.0_2.4.19.16-01 gaim-0.59.8-1 i've installed some things from source, but they should not affect this (PHP, apache). thanks for any insight, tips or URLs. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo tiger*quimpo*org gquimpo*sni-inc.com tiger*sni*ph Public Key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78 Veritas liberabit vos. Doveryai no proveryai. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dosemu?
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:58 am, Toshiro wrote: Anybody knows why dosemu is not included with Mandrake? Mandrake was incompetent with their dosemu packages (iirc in MDK 8.0 and 8.1, it DID NOT EVEN WORK in X mode - did MDK actually test their packages before release? imagine if MS shipped a version of Windows where command.com didn't work!) and did not even bother updating them since 1.0.1 (2000). they probably dropped them when they redid everything with gcc 3.2 (MDK9) because they realised how hopeless the packages (and the packager) were. anyway, the current stable version of dosemu (1.0.2.1) is far from stable and a new stable version is expected within the next half year. in the mean time, try compiling dosemu 1.1.4.3 which has substantially improved DPMI, SB and MIDI support. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Continued Problems Solved
After much head scratching, and digging, I think (hope) that I've found all the gremlins that infected that server. Thank you for all the suggestions. They all helped! Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Losing smooth scrolling after apm wakeup and hwclock--hctosys
I was able to this on my laptop the other day... turned out I had a runaway program when I did top I saw and found the problem... (I use the suspend button and lphdisk on my laptop.) Next time it does this try top and or ps -ax and see if something is going nuts. It definitely sounds like something is eating up your cpu though. James On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 04:02, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote: hello, on a Dell Latitude CPi (300 Mhz PII) using Mandrake 9.0 I have problems with smooth scrolling after a hwclock --hctosys. when I do that, i can't click and drag windows anymore (have to right click, move), and i can't smoothly scroll scrollbars (have to click on the arrows or somewhere in the area between the thumb and appropriate arrow). Has anyone seen this? I don't have access to any other Mandrake 9.0 desktop box right now, so I can't test to see if it manifests on desktops. If it doesn't, then it may be a BIOS or other laptop specific issue. I originally noticed the problem after waking up from an apm -s. strangely enough, right after waking up from apm -s, doing an apm -S and then waking up from that would fix the scrolling issue, but then the system time (returned by date) would not be synced with the hwclock time. all of this is in KDE, although i tested in Gnome once and saw the same problem with apm -s (didn't test with hwclock --hctosys though). it seems that it's not just hwclock that does this. anything that sets the system time will do the same. e.g., when i do a date -s --set=... or an ntpdate [insert_timeserver_here], smooth scrolling goes away again. my installation is pretty much stock although of course there are some RPMs that i've downloaded and installed (some from cooker, some from other sources). the only RPMs that don't have -mdk in them are: opera-6.03-2002-813.1 Win4Lin-5.3.3c-d Kernel-Win4Lin3-Mandrake9.0_2.4.19.16-01 gaim-0.59.8-1 i've installed some things from source, but they should not affect this (PHP, apache). thanks for any insight, tips or URLs. tiger Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
