[expert] Why doesn't msec set directory permissions?
I asked this question on the newbie side but received no replies. Maybe it is a question for the experts... Because the machine in question will end being a server connected 24x7 to the Internet, I set its security level to higher (4). However, I want to change the privileges for /usr/share/doc to be world browsable and readable. I used drakeperm to set the directory permissions and when I look at /etc/security/msec/perm.local I see the following line: /usr/share/doc/adm.adm755 I then ran msec but when I checked the permissions on the directory I still see: drwxr-x--- 297 admadm In /var/log/messages I do see that msec is reading the perm.local file. Any idea why is msec ignoring my permissions? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel
Mandrake should change their kernel installation instructions in the latest Security Advisory since they say there: "To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package(s) from one of our FTP server mirrors and upgrade with "rpm -Fvh *.rpm"." Avi On Monday, Jul 28, 2003, at 20:00 America/Chicago, David Guntner wrote: stefmit grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Three machines running MDK 9.1: one of them prompts me with the existence of a new kernel, the other two don't (via MCC --> Software Management --> Mandrake Update). Is there a setup I may have missed on two machines, to enable kernel updates to show up? I don't know why it showed up on the one, Mandrake screened kernels out of the Mandrake Update program. You don't WANT them to show up there, because then you might be temped to use MU to update a kernel. At which point, you end up with a *really* big mess on your hands. Download the kernel manually, then use rpm to install it (-ivh), not update. Remember to run lilo (assuming that's what you use for your boot loader) to put the new kernel into the boot sequence. When you're sure that the new kernel works, "rpm -e" the old kernel, edit /etc/lilo.conf to take references to the old kernel out and set the new kernel as the default, run lilo again, and you're done. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel
On Tuesday, Jul 29, 2003, at 11:22 America/Chicago, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Jul 28, 2003 at 08:22:15PM -0700, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Regarding the instructions for the kernel upgrade, they include: 'Once you have modified your lilo.conf or menu.lst file, execute "lilo -v" or "sh /boot/grub/install.sh", again depending upon your bootloader.' I have never re-installed grub (over 3 years) after only modifying menu.lst and there have been others who have expressed a reservation about this instruction. My understanding was that it was not necessary (1) but my understanding might be incomplete, so I would appreciate some clarification here. I don't use grub, so I can't honestly say. If someone knows definitively, please let me know. Grub need not be re-installed when a new kernel is being added to the system. All you may need to do is modify menu.lst and even that seems to be unnecessary with Mandrake since the vmlinuz and initrd point to the latest kernel and initrd via soft links. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash & mdkKDM?
Try another mirror. There is a kdebase-kdm-3.1-83.3mdk.i586.rpm around. I had to search few mirrors until I found it (sorry, I don't remember where it was). Avi On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 17:53 America/Chicago, Felix Miata wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: As for turning off mdkkdm. Go to /etc/sysconfig and edit the file desktop. Make it say KDM GDM or XDM and you will again have a fully functioning Linux box. Not a "Hi! you are stupid and we know better than you." box. (No need to remove anything. but... you may need to add kdebase-kdm it doesn't get installed by default gdm and xdm do.) Cute: #urpmi kdebase-kdm-3.1-83mdk.i586.rpm The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: kdebase-3.1-83.3mdk (due to unsatisfied kdebase == 3.1-83mdk) kdebase-devel-3.1-83.3mdk (due to unsatisfied kdebase == 3.1-83mdk) kdebase-nsplugins-3.1-83.3mdk (due to unsatisfied kdebase == 3.1-83mdk) do you agree ? (Y/n) So now what should I do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LILO v GrUB
Let me add one more thing about Grub that many people are not aware of. Grub has a shell-like interface which you can bring up when the Grub menu appears. From this shell you can search for kernels on your drives, set the root partition and kernel to boot from and then boot into you new setup on the fly. This means that even if you screw up that text file, you can still boot into your system without resorting to booting from a CD. Avi On Friday, Aug 1, 2003, at 13:55 America/Chicago, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 10:03, Felix Miata wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As for lilo and grub - I've never even tried grub, since lilo works fine for me. I use GrUB because of its simplicity. Configuring means simply editing a text file. Nothing to run afterwards. This makes chroot on rescue boots unnecessary, which makes explaining rescue over the phone or email much easier. Now that is the first real reason I've heard for the grub advantage (the chroot part.) hm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cyrus-imap directory ownership
From my past experience with Cyrus-imap on SuSE Linux and from reading the documents installed on my MDK 9.1 box, certain directories and files need to be owned by the 'cyrus' user. However, when I look at the directory hierarchy installed by the 2.1.12 rpm all these directories are owned by 'root' instead and the 'cyrus' user doesn't even exist. is this a problem with the RPM or do I have to create the user myself and then go and change the ownership of the files/directories? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cyrus-imap directory ownership
Excellent. I just finished installing cyrus-imapd-2.1.14-4mdk and indeed the user was created the directories have the correct ownership. BTW, I always use Mozilla. It is my favorite browser. Than you very much! Avi On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 11:32 AM, Luca Olivetti wrote: Avi Schwartz wrote: From my past experience with Cyrus-imap on SuSE Linux and from reading the documents installed on my MDK 9.1 box, certain directories and files need to be owned by the 'cyrus' user. However, when I look at the directory hierarchy installed by the 2.1.12 rpm all these directories are owned by 'root' instead and the 'cyrus' user doesn't even exist. is this a problem with the RPM or do I have to create the user myself and then go and change the ownership of the files/directories? This was a problem until 2.1.12-5mdk which I fixed in 6mdk. The problem is that I created cyrus user with a fixed uid, so if there was already a user with the same uid, cyrus user wouldn't be created, causing the problem you're seeing. I realized that a fixed uid isn't really necessary. You can find up to date cyrus-imapd rpms at http://perso.wanadoo.es/olivetti/cyrus/ (use mozilla, or they'll shove pop-ups at you, sorry it's beyond my control). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] msec configuration problem
Hi, This question started actually in the newbie mailing list but it may be more appropriate for the expert list. I setup my machine with security level 4 but I am interested in relaxing some of the permission settings. I made changes to /etc/security/msec/perm.local and then executed msec. I found that msec does not make the requested changes unless I pass it the security level parameter as in msec 4 If I don't pass this parameter, the local changes are not executed. Even if I do pass this parameter, on the hour, cron executes /etc/cron.hourly/msec which again resets my local changes and reverts to the default. The reason for this is that in the following line in msec: /usr/share/msec/Perms.py $CHANGE $OPT /usr/share/msec/perm.$PERM_LEVEL $LOCAL $CHANGE is not set and therefore the local changes do not get saved. For now I hard coded in the msec script CHANGE=-c so that the changes will be saved. Is this a bug in msec or am I missing some setting which will force msec to use my local changes? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec configuration problem
On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 22:55 America/Chicago, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:11, Avi Schwartz wrote: Hi, This question started actually in the newbie mailing list but it may be more appropriate for the expert list. I setup my machine with security level 4 but I am interested in relaxing some of the permission settings. I made changes to /etc/security/msec/perm.local and then executed msec. I found that msec does not make the requested changes unless I pass it the security level parameter as in msec 4 If I don't pass this parameter, the local changes are not executed. Even if I do pass this parameter, on the hour, cron executes /etc/cron.hourly/msec which again resets my local changes and reverts to the default. The reason for this is that in the following line in msec: /usr/share/msec/Perms.py $CHANGE $OPT /usr/share/msec/perm.$PERM_LEVEL $LOCAL $CHANGE is not set and therefore the local changes do not get saved. For now I hard coded in the msec script CHANGE=-c so that the changes will be saved. Is this a bug in msec or am I missing some setting which will force msec to use my local changes? Thanks, Avi puzzling. Seems like a bug -- I can only assume that I've made my changes manually and then altered perm.local so they'll stick, otherwise I should have seen this too. Then there is something else going on since I also did the changes manually but the next time that cron ran msec is restored it to the default without taking into account my changes. If you look at your /etc/cron.hourly/msec is it a link to the msec executable? Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] connect with ssh to my box
elPunishar wrote: hello everybody, i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on "standard". now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make the changes to allow this ? Assuming that sshd is running on your box, you may need to edit /etc/hosts.allow and add the line sshd:ALL This will allow all external hosts to connect via ssh. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition
I've been using it for about 3 years now via Amavis as the virus scanner of all my email. Works great and the current version can be set to go out and check for updates automatically. In the past you had to download the virus definition files manually and install them. BTW, Vexira Antivirus also uses the H+BEDV scan engine with their own user interface. Avi On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 07:05 PM, Miark wrote: Today I stumbled across anti-virus software from H+BEDV (a German company) for Linux. It's free for personal use, and was wondering if anyone here had used it, and if so what you think about it. Miark PS You can sign up for a free license at http://www.hbedv.com/private/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition
I am checking all emails going into my mail server and the reason is not because of Linux viruses but because my wife needs to use Windows to access her office via software that is not available for Linux. Also, at work they use Windows so it will be nice if my mail server will not infect her machine while she checks her email remotely :-) As for Linux viruses, there are rumored to be one or two of them, but I don't know of anyone that was infected by them. Avi On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 09:06 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Avi Schwartz Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:51:51 -0500 : I've been using it for about 3 years now via Amavis as the virus scanner of all my email. Works great and the current version can be set to go out and check for updates automatically. In the past you had to download the virus definition files manually and install them. A question to help me understanding: Do you use this AntiVir to check mails which are forwarded to a Windows machine in your network? Or do you check mails in general although you are using Linux? Does this AntiVir for Linux check for Linux virii? If so, which? OK, 4 questions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that everything is up to date. Tried the graphical updater, the same story. I ended up downloading the new RPMs and installing them manually. How am I supposed to trust DrakeUpdate and urpmi? This is something Mandrake can learn from SuSE. Their online update works perfectly every time. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 10:38 PM, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that everything is up to date. Tried the graphical updater, the same story. I ended up downloading the new RPMs and installing them manually. How am I supposed to trust DrakeUpdate and urpmi? This is something Mandrake can learn from SuSE. Their online update works perfectly every time. Avi Your success with Mandrake Update depends on the mirror you have setup as your update source. Mandrake just released the updated packages and it takes time for all of the update mirrors to sync with Mandrake's server. You may need to give your mirror some time to actually get the updates from the mothership. Once that is done you should be able to update without a hitch. I just did and it went as smooth as usual. Also, you need to run "urpmi.update -a" first to make sure your box knows that there are updates available. Then run "urpmi -v --updates --auto-select" or "urpmi -v --auto-select" to actually download and install the updates. I did urpmi.update -a first, but I guess I need to look for better mirrors. Is there a way to find out which mirrors are updated more frequently? Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 10:52 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Sep 16, 2003 at 10:45:07PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that everything is up to date. Tried the graphical updater, the same story. I ended up downloading the new RPMs and installing them manually. How am I supposed to trust DrakeUpdate and urpmi? This is something Mandrake can learn from SuSE. Their online update works perfectly every time. Avi Your success with Mandrake Update depends on the mirror you have setup as your update source. Mandrake just released the updated packages and it takes time for all of the update mirrors to sync with Mandrake's server. You may need to give your mirror some time to actually get the updates from the mothership. Once that is done you should be able to update without a hitch. I just did and it went as smooth as usual. Also, you need to run "urpmi.update -a" first to make sure your box knows that there are updates available. Then run "urpmi -v --updates --auto-select" or "urpmi -v --auto-select" to actually download and install the updates. I did urpmi.update -a first, but I guess I need to look for better mirrors. Is there a way to find out which mirrors are updated more frequently? http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php Perfect. Thanks you! Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
I had 3.6.1p1 installed, but as other have pointed out, I was probably using a mirror that was not updated yet. Avi On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 10:48 PM, bascule wrote: it may be that like me you have installed some package via cooker that might have required a later openssh? i found i had 3.6.1p2-4 and therefore 3.6.1p2-1.1 was seen as not an upgrade, i'm hopefull that there will a further cooker package with the needed patch becasue when i went to uninstall openssh and then insatll the upgrade i had problems, but you should try that too since my problems are hopefully local to me bascule On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 4:05 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that everything is up to date. Tried the graphical updater, the same story. I ended up downloading the new RPMs and installing them manually. How am I supposed to trust DrakeUpdate and urpmi? This is something Mandrake can learn from SuSE. Their online update works perfectly every time. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 11:27 PM, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 20:05, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that everything is up to date. Tried the graphical updater, the same story. I ended up downloading the new RPMs and installing them manually. How am I supposed to trust DrakeUpdate and urpmi? This is something Mandrake can learn from SuSE. Their online update works perfectly every time. Avi where are you physically? Mandrake's mirrors in the Pacific Standard Time Zone tend to be pretty far behind. Chicago, CST. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 01:58 AM, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:05:18PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). [...] Well, while updating is definitely recommended, at least there seems to be no reason to panic yet. Quote from the OpenSSH advisory: "All versions of OpenSSH's sshd prior to 3.7.1 contain buffer management errors. It is uncertain whether these errors are potentially exploitable, however, we prefer to see bugs fixed proactively." Nonetheless, I just *love* the approach of the OpenSSH team. Would be great if everybody did it that way. When it comes to SSH, I am always nervous. In the past, the admin at the time, failed to update SSH and it was used to break into 3 of our machines. So, yeah, I am nervous :-) Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 12:17 AM, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 20:05, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that everything is up to date. Tried the graphical updater, the same story. I ended up downloading the new RPMs and installing them manually. How am I supposed to trust DrakeUpdate and urpmi? This is something Mandrake can learn from SuSE. Their online update works perfectly every time. Avi No not every time. Try to do an online update for the NVidia drivers. 100% failure on 6 boxes. As for the problem. Did you do urpmi.update -a first? If your inbox records are behind the servers records then what it's telling you is correct. That may be a little unfair to SuSE. The NVidia drivers are closed source and so they can be a challenge for any distribution. As I understand it, people fixed the problem by using the older driver. But my point was not to talk about a specific patch. It would be also nice if Mandrake would send notification about security patches to their mailing lists. In generalshould look into tightening the update process when it comes to security patches. Unlike regular updates that may not be very important some security patches can be critical. Also downloading the list of files can be a major pain. Couple of 15MB lists can take awhile, even at IDSL speeds (144K) not to mention dial-up speeds. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
That is another problem. I found out about it from other distribution's security announcements then I checked MandrakeSecure and found that they posted the information there. They should send an announcement like this to the mailing lists. Avi On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 08:02 AM, Tango Echo wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh They did? How do you recieve notification? I though I was subscribed to the exploit list, but I haven't recieved a message in well over 6 months. Do I need to resubscribe or are you receiving noitification by other means? Obviously, staying up to date on exploits is a top priority and I'd like to be in the loop =) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Very sorry for the hijacked threads
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 05:17 AM, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:08:07 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: What did Chomsky say about it? Well, exactly what that Cambridge research showed, that people learn language not in bits and pieces like the "phonics" method still in use today, but by grokking whole chunks of meaning from analyzing contextual patterns in speech and writing. I can't do him justice, so I won't go further than that. Look him up on Google, there's lots out there, or should I say tehres ltos out trehe. If I understand it correctly they tried for few years in Israel to use the pattern method to teach kid to read and write. It failed miserably. So much so that in this school year they went back to the old system. It will be intersting to hear from anyone living in Israel and having school age kids their opinion on what went wrong. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Avi Schwartz wrote: Also downloading the list of files can be a major pain. Couple of 15MB lists can take awhile, even at IDSL speeds (144K) not to mention dial-up speeds. Avi and set up an update source that uses rsync instead of ftp or http. Then when you run "urpmi.update -a" it will download only the differences in the list instead of the whole list. That's great, I wasn't aware that there are sites allowing rsync. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 01:03 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 08:19:45AM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: That is another problem. I found out about it from other distribution's security announcements then I checked MandrakeSecure and found that they posted the information there. They should send an announcement like this to the mailing lists. The only problem is that you're not subscribed to the right mailing list. Subscribe to the announce list (via MandrakeSecure, the very site you were on). Advisories go out in many forms; I can't help it if you don't pay attention to one of the many: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - full-disclosure ml - RSS feed from MandrakeSecure - MandrakeSecure website (on nearly every single page) - MandrakeClub (latest advisory always on the front page) And no, announcements will not be going to this list or any other list other than the announce list. I appreciate the information and I just subscribed to the announce list. However, the same way I didn't know about the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list I am sure there are many others that are not aware of it. If there is a bug that has a potential of becoming a way to break into a computer I feel that all mailing list be notified of it to minimize the potential damage. Mandrake may have many newbies (I hope you do, you need the business) which are new to Linux and may need this extra help. One nice touch SuSE has is a small icon in the KDE task bar which changes color when there are updates available. Click on it and you get a menu allowing you to check for updates, show the last update log or start the update process. very nice, clean and can help users keep their system safe. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 01:03 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: Advisories go out in many forms; I can't help it if you don't pay attention to one of the many: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - full-disclosure ml - RSS feed from MandrakeSecure - MandrakeSecure website (on nearly every single page) - MandrakeClub (latest advisory always on the front page) As I said, I did pay attention since I knew about it before Mandrake announced it. Anyway, how do you subscribe to the RSS feed? What is the url? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: I think all things considered, we aren't that slow. If you're defining slow by a few hours, shame on you, if you're defining it by a few days, shame on me. I think we're fairly close to the other big players when it comes to the big updates. And, also, keep in mind that RH and SuSE both employ about a half dozen security folks and, IIRC, gentoo doesn't have to worry about compiling for a number of different versions. Contrary to popular opinion, it *does* take time to properly compile and test packages on each supported platform. We also don't run our own server for updates so we have to wait for mirroring... RH can put the packages up and announce it that minute, we have to wait at least 1-2hrs before announcing or I get flooded with "you announced it so where is it?" messages, just due to the mirroring process. With all that in mind, I think this one-man operation is pretty damn speedy. My hat's off to you. One person? This is impressive. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] What do I need to do to access my web server?
Hi, I installed the advanced sever on 9.1, ran the server wizard to set it to serv both Intranet and Internet and 'netstat -lp' shows that httpd2 is listening to ports 80 and 443. However, when I try to connect via 'telnet localhost 80' I get a 'Connection Refused' message. There is no error message in any of the log files as far as I could find. Is ADVX built with tcpwrappers support? If it is, what is the daemon name I have to put in /etc/hosts.allow? Is there another place when access permissions are set? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1
Lawson, Jim wrote: I hope Mandrake 9.1 is better than Mandrake 9.1. Mandrake 9.0 is great from my experience with it. But 9.1 lacks a lot in stability. I have to wonder what is this observation based on. Mdk 9.1 is my first mdk ever after using SuSE for many years. Admittedly I was forced to use MDK by SuSE when it dropped support for my processor (VIA Nehemiah) but I must tell you that mdk 9.1 impressed me quite a bit. I am using it on a gateway machine to a small network providing firewall, nat, imap, web based mail, a caching dns and a caching transparent web proxy. It scans emails for virus and filters spam. It is on 24x7 and had no problems at all. For few weeks, while setting up the box I was also running KDE on it. Now however it is no longer booting into GUI since it is a pure server. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1
Lawson, Jim wrote: I have the same luck with 9.0. 9.1 bombed for me. Have you tried to install sarg and run it with errors> Some thing about /var/www/sarg is a directory. I just installed (to test it for you) sarg-1.4.1-1mdk. It works fine. The only thing I had to do was to change in /etc/sarg/sarg.conf the location of the squid access log file. This is however a little unfair since the version I installed came from the cooker so it may be that the 9.1 shipped version is broken, but as you see, there is a solution. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Greg Sarsons wrote: Noted this before ... What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the select System and select MenuDrake. There is no MCC any more (no System menu) :-( Is there a way to run MCC from the CLI? (Well, there must be, but I don't know how :-) ) I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems to be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found there is a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which when I ran it, it rebuilt all menus and desktop links. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2
James Conner wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote: I agree, I was being sarcastic. I just installed MDK 9.2 on a friends system, I'll do it on mine after I back everything up. Everything went peachy, only lost the menu's once. That bug/feature was fixed with these patches. Seems quite nice. Now we just got to install all of plf's stuff and contribs, plus configure a few apps. I don't think the disappearing menu 'feature' was fixed since I lost my menu couple of times on two different machines since applying the patches. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
