[expert] Old SUN reference books
I realize that this is a MANDRAKE list, but it seems there are a lot of people here who just may be into something different. If you know where there might be people interested in these, please let me know. I have the following books available for free, you pay shipping. I am in Northwest British Columbia, Canada, so these are not likely worth the shipping cost to anyone outside of North America. --- Desktop SPARC - still in shrink wrap, direct from SUN PN# 825-1347-03 rev A DeskSet Reference Guide - companion to above, still in shrink wrap. --- SunSoft OpenWindows Version 3 for SunOS 4.1.x books: User's guide Installation startup Guide Release manual ToolTalk 1.0 Programmers guide OLIT Widget Set Reference manual NeWS 3.0 Programmer's guide Desktop Integration guide Programmer's Guide DeskSet reference guide XView 3.0 reference Manual Reference ManualThe NeWS Toolkit 3.0 reference manual ToolTalk 1.0 Setup and administration guide O'Reilly books on X: X Protocol reference manual Xlib programming manual Xlib reference manual X window system users guide X toolkit Intrinsics reference manual XView programming manual XView reference manual Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] There will be a good Mandrake Future?
In Canada it is the same as Germany, the equivalent of Chapter 11 is for the benefit of the creditors, not the company. Assets get disposed of to satisfy debt. We are in fact losing the head office of many Canadian Co's that move their address to Delaware USA because of the tendancy there to give preference to keeping the company viable. In my defence, my pension plan had some $ in Nortel, so I am automatically concerned over any sign of tech company problems. Sorry for the OT... Ken On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:49 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 00:04 -0500, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Miark: Excellent post! Kudos to you for that fine response. I can't add much to that, except to say that companies like Chrysler have weathered bankruptcy protection in the past, and look where they are today. Dennis Meyers was pointing this out in a post sometime yesterday. In this case, what doesn't kill you will make you stronger. SNIP I also regard Miark's response a fine wrap-up of the whole thing. To you US-Americans and French people such a bankrupt but still in business is common ground and well understood as a positive step towards a healthy business. SNIP (Not only the Germans, there are some other countries where bankruptcy is the end of a company.) wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] There will be a good Mandrake Future?
I also have a silver membership that I will have to seriously consider allowing to lapse..too bad. My question is where the problem originated. After the recent CEO/ scandals in the US, I begin to be suspicious of the management team at MandrakeSoft ( or any corporation for that matter). Were they a group of suits who SUPPOSEDLY knew about raising capital? What are they being paid? What colour is their parachute? Far too often in the last decade, businesses needing to raise funds to grow have fallen victim to scammers who wring them dry, drive them into the ground, then receive parting bonuses for this service. I have played with a lot of distro's, and I believe that Mandrake is the best all-around. The guru's such as Civileme and Todd, and the community support on this list are second-to-none. Senior managers MUST be held to account. If Mandrake keeps management, but releases tech staff, then I will no longer support them with my dollars. Sorry for my rant, but too many good people have been paying the price for bad decisions by jack-asses. Ken On Wednesday 15 January 2003 08:26 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: I am very sad by the notices about Mandrake bankrupt. I hoped that the Club development could be a good new commercial model for Mandrake; I am a silver member and I have also bought a PowerPack to Mandrake Store. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] There will be a good Mandrake Future?
I certainly don't want Mandrake to fail; what I want is an idea of whether my money is going to developers and product improvement, or to some suit's Caymen Island bank account.. Ken On Wednesday 15 January 2003 08:58 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 01:47, Ken Hawkins wrote: I also have a silver membership that I will have to seriously consider allowing to lapse..too bad. Yes, if enough people think like that, Mandrake will go down. If on the other hand they don't, it will survive and one day prosper. Like it or not many of us are part of the herd where the herd goes, we go. Thus, it's partly up to people like you. We've got to think with the bigger picture in mind. Damon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH
On Friday 10 January 2003 02:50 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: On Thursday 09 January 2003 08:14 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: and I did take a look at gShield. The little bugger liked to drove me nuts! Mark 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 have been using EigerStein from the LRP on a 486-66 w16mb, and NO HDD for about 2 years with no problem. Since it boots from floppy, once running, you pop out the disk, and even if by chance someone hacks the F/W, you can just reboot. I have run this against some online security test sites, and they have all never been able to get more from my computer behind the firewall than my browser version. It leaves a FEW things open by default, but those are easily corrected. Ken Hawkins Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH
On Friday 10 January 2003 04:15 pm, Lorne wrote: On Friday 10 January 2003 12:58 am, Ken Hawkins wrote: SNIP A WHOLE LOT OUT I have run this against some online security test sites, and they have all never been able to get more from my computer behind the firewall than my browser version. It leaves a FEW things open by default, but those are easily corrected. Ken Hawkins ***ALERT*** 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, don't trust it too much. :) OR: Sure I'm paranoid...but am I paranoid enough? Sorry, didn't mean to imply that I was invulnerable...just that it was a cheap easy solution to be MUCH more secure that most people out there. Remember that there are millions of users out there still with windblows machines plugged straight into their DSL/Cable modems with NO firewalls. When you say they were poking around, had they been able to install s/w, read documents, change configs? Or was it just port scanning, rattling the doorknobs so to speak? Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Drowning Servers..... Literally.
Or some places just have STUPID architects. Our College had a new satellite campus built in a small town. The architect claimed to be an expert on designing for communications equipment and computer labs. When we went to set up all the servers and computers, we found a server room no bigger than a broom closet, with a WATER/air cooling system mounted ABOVE the cabinet built for the servers and hubs. There was not even a drip tray in case of dribble leakage, let alone protection from a serious blowout. The servers ended up occupying an empty nook next to someone's desk, and the server room is an air-conditioned mop-closet. And this jack-ass still gets PAID to design buildings! Ken On Wednesday 18 December 2002 03:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: 50/50 mix of Simple Green and Water, a 2 wide paint brush, and a soft-bristled toothbrush. Wash it down, rinse it with bottled water (or any other finely filtered water). Force air over it and let it dry overnight. A simple fan is really all that's needed with the humidity is low, a conditioned air source (preferably heated as opposed to cooled) if the humidity is high. After reading this, I thought to myself that I keep all my PCs off the floor (hurricanes are an annual threat in South Florida). I'd never need to clean a PC that got flooded. Yesterday I was making a cup of coffee using my trusty single cup BlackDecker Brew'N Go. Trouble is I forgot to put the cup underneath to catch the coffee. So the table caught it for me. And so did my laptop. Bleah. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WAS: Browsers HTML NOW:OT/on HP
DAVID: That is in fact a fuser error. We had THAT EXACT error on one of ours about 4 months ago, and the fuser was replaced (we were lucky there, still under warrenty). We recently had to buy a fuser assembly, and the price is $650 Canadian, about $450 US (OUCH!). Still cheaper than flying a tech to you. __ /More rant: (last time - I promise ;^) The real pity is that the 4100N had such great potential for us, as we have to monitor and maintain network printers over an area not much smaller than all of Tanzania, and the web server, and controls built in were great, and being IP based, there is no O/S issues. I often use my linux laptop to check up on the printers to see error logs, toner level, and manage access. Maybe (dreaming here) if the jack-asses in management at HP see that they are well and truly on their way to losing the printer market, they will admit the screw-up, and issue a recall, or at least provide the PROPER fuser assembly for free. The change -out is easy, and I think most end-users would be happy to exchange the fuser themselves. I thank people for their tolerance of the rant here, and ask that everyone who has a negative experience with the 4100 post to all the groups they subscribe to. If people shout loud enough, sometimes the jack-asses do listen. Ken SNIP, SNIP, SNIP Can I join this rant? I am based in Tanzania and access to support is a little tricky for some things. We have been running a system that prints out A4 forms from a database. The forms are updated manually by We recently got a HP4100 and it is the biggest piece of trash ever. It has yet to reach 500 pages total. We have not been able to identify what the problem is (we get a helpful message that says something like Error 52 which the manual says means Call out the service guy. We can't afford his airfare. It will cost us a fortune to send it back and we are close to dumping it. Can you give me some more details on that spare part? If I can order one I might be able to save the thing. Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Browsers HTML
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 09:51 am, Marek wrote: Worse yet... To access some of the support forums and/or services at Hewlitt-Packard, you MUST have IE 5.x..no Opera, No Netscape. Their help desk solution when I complained? Install IE. Considering that HP is now building GARBAGE HARDWARE, this is hardly the proper attitude if you wish to retain customers. Ken Hawkins DONT BUY HP4100 Printers! They are garbage, and HP refuses to recall!! Hi Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. I experience on some sites that when i click a link or the actual page i just get the HTML code on the page and nothing else. I thought this might be one of the plugins so i removed plugger and the rest but get the same effect. Is it just my settings or do others have this as well / This is an example of one of them when i click one of the links. http://www.wits.ac.za/izangoma Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] WAS: Browsers HTML NOW:OT/on HP
If I may go OFF TOPIC and rant a little: Our tech support group here went out on a limb, and lobbied hard to standardize on the HP 4xxx series printers to reduce maintenance and inventory costs. We had EXCELLENT service from HPIII's (some still in service!), HP4's, 4000n's, 4050n's. On this basis, we convinced management to make a large (for us) purchase of HP4100's this last year, and we are regretting this sorely. Of the 12 or so units purchased in the last year, EVERY SINGLE ONE has required service; under warrenty if lucky, but most not. About 60% are suffering with fuzer problems, and to add insult to injury, HP recently jacked up the price on the upgraded fuzer assemblythe one that should have been installed in the first place. I have contacted HP one more than one occasion, and have been (politely I'll admit, considering the language I used) informed that it is an end user problem. If we want the printers to work, then we have to pay for the fuzer. I posted this for all those out there who get stuck fixing things that shouldn't be broken in the first place. Ken Hawkins /rant off My experience with HP has also been quite bad lately. In the past I have bought some items for personal use and been happy (specially about a HP48GX calculator ;-) but now I think I'm **NOT** going to buy a thing from them, not anymore: - I bougth a HP815C printer... no drivers for linux for half a year, no support, the model does not come in cartridges so you have to memorize the cartridge number, ... all just because they decided to launch this model only in Europe... - Later on I bought a HP525 pda. Again *NO* web support!!! I think a pda is no cheap enough to say you are going to provide marginal support. They have cut that model production (and support) but they don't release how to make linux work on it (I know they were planning to launch a linux version but they stopped the project)... Every little stupid thing or software is quite expensive and it hangs (has WidowsCE) very often (much more than normal Windows). In my opinion, best way to make companies people oriented is to force them to. Opposite to this is e.g. Mandrake, were even being their product free, many people end up involved and pay to just support it... El jue, 28-11-2002 a las 03:43, Ken Hawkins escribió: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 09:51 am, Marek wrote: Worse yet... To access some of the support forums and/or services at Hewlitt-Packard, you MUST have IE 5.x..no Opera, No Netscape. Their help desk solution when I complained? Install IE. Considering that HP is now building GARBAGE HARDWARE, this is hardly the proper attitude if you wish to retain customers. Ken Hawkins DONT BUY HP4100 Printers! They are garbage, and HP refuses to recall!! Hi Seems more and more web pages are not working with Linux these days. I experience on some sites that when i click a link or the actual page i just get the HTML code on the page and nothing else. I thought this might be one of the plugins so i removed plugger and the rest but get the same effect. Is it just my settings or do others have this as well / This is an example of one of them when i click one of the links. http://www.wits.ac.za/izangoma 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] Suggestion for a very light browser
BRX is fast, light, GUI, and has linux windows flavours; even includes mail. Ken On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 08:54, Eduardo Mendes wrote: Hello I just wonder someone on the list could suggest a very light browser (that could work via ssh in a snail connection) that could be installed in my home directory and work on both linux and solaris. I am running lynx right now but some of options on the web pages don't work. Many thanks Ed 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] hacked?
I thinks its bad.. this was in my messages log file, where i went snooping after the hard drive on my laptop started thrashing, along with musical beeps from my speakers. I'm too dense, and have too many other projects on the go to chase this down, but if others have ideas, or want more info, I'll be glad to follow directions. in a day or two, I'll be blowing this laptop clean to do a fresh install, since I dont know enough to clean it out or pursue hackers Ken mNov 3 04:02:05 kenlap syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : Security Warning: Change in Suid Root files found : Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Added suid root files : /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Removed suid root files : /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : Security Warning: Changes in Suid Group files found : Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Added suid group files : /usr/X11R6/bin/xhextris Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Removed suid group files : /usr/X11R6/bin/xhextris Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : Security Warning: Change in World Writeable Files found : Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Added writables files : /home/ken/Documents/Crissy Resume 2002.doc Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Added writables files : /home/ken/myweb/Icon_ Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Added writables files : /tmp/.esd Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Added writables files : /tmp/.esd/socket Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Added writables files : /tmp/.font-unix Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Added writables files : /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Added writables files : /tmp/medusa-idled-service Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Removed writables files : /home/ken/Documents/Crissy Resume 2002.doc Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Removed writables files : /home/ken/myweb/Icon_ Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Removed writables files : /tmp/.esd Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Removed writables files : /tmp/.esd/socket Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Removed writables files : /tmp/.font-unix Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Removed writables files : /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1 Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Removed writables files : /tmp/medusa-idled-service Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : Security Warning: the md5 checksum for one of your SUID files has changed, Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a backdoor... Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - Checksum changed files : /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : Security Warning: World Writeable files found : Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - /home/ken/.galeon/history.xml Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - /home/ken/Documents/Crissy Resume 2002.doc Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - /home/ken/myweb/Icon_ Nov 3 04:04:08 kenlap : - /home/ken/myweb/about.html -- Ken 1982 Type L, 5mge, 5spd better known as beater 320,000km, still solid,colour approx. silver. Great Wet North. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Ive been hacked!
Thanks for the heads-up! Ken On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 14:52, Bill Beauchemin wrote: Some idiot hacked my system using either the chunked-encoding bug in Apache or the OpenSSL vulnerability to gain access. He ised a rootkit called tc6. The file is called tc6b.tgz this kit will send out all your passwords used on the system hacked. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Spamassassin
Sorry if this is a repeat posting; suffering mail hiccups. Im Looking for some help/advice... New project put on my desk this morning Management want spam controlled better than current method, co-worker (sys admin) doesn't want to change over mail system wholesale. Current setup In: INTERNET---Webshield(Antivirus on W2K)---OpenVMS(VAX POP system)---User Out: INTERNET-OpenVMS(SMTP)---Webshield(Antivirus on W2K)---User The request is to place SpamAssassin somewhere in the middle, before or after the W2K server. I have CD's for MDK 7.2, 8.2, and 9.0. The available box is a 1st generation pentium. The box would be dedicated to the 1 program. Management is NOT prepared to move off the VAX/OpenVMS email server. I am looking for suggestion/ideas on setup. I am NOT a guru, and couldn't program my way out of a wet paper bag 8^], but I do know my way around the file system, and can even get by at CLI with no mouse Thanks in advance Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] duh-mmy me and slapper
for us dummies what dont have time/inclination to become gurus, is there a remove worms for dummies page? My system got bent over buggered by slapper, and I'd like to clean it, and prevent further problems. The comp in question doesn't YET contain much vital data, so would wipe re be better? Stock install of 8.2 Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] duh-mmy me and slapper
Duh-oh! OK, so I'll assume an install-from-scratch is best, and get on those updates, thanks. TTYL Ken On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 17:58, Todd Lyons wrote: Ken Hawkins wrote on Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:26:15PM -0400 : The comp in question doesn't YET contain much vital data, so would wipe re be better? Stock install of 8.2 That's the problem. You **MUST** install the updates before you put it on the internet serving services. The stock install of 8.2 is vulnerable with bind, apache, openssl, and openssh (a lot happens in 6 months!) I suggest that you find a Mandrake mirror, download the entire updates directory for 8.2 (RPMS only :) and burn them to CD's. Then carry them around with you. Any time you come across an 8.2 machine, apply those updates. Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic)
It sure is interesting to read some of these old war (or is that whore) stories. I didn't get into computers until about '91. the best i can claim is writing DOS batch files to give a color menu display (rather than just c:), and automating common tasks. I DO remember back to the mid-70's when my mom worked in the payroll dept. of a medium-sized company, they had a CYCLE 4 mini-comp. About the size of a large refrigerator, with two terminals hung off it. Used to play a game called star-trek; with an E for the Enterprise, a K for the Klingons, an * for photon torpedoes, etc etc. Ken On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 11:27, dh wrote: On Thursday 05 September 2002 07:24 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Alastair My GOD! where do I find one of these marvelous machines? I WANT ONE!! they sound perfectly awesome. I can't help but wonder why in the world they're not still produced. What caused their downfall? See my other post as well - it has more good points. The biggest drawback is limited screenmodes (by todays standards) w/out extremely overpriced video cards. There are numerous modes but you need a monitor that syscs down to 30khz to use alot of theme and 15khz (read you can plug it into your tv) for many others. I had mine plugged into an old sony trinitron multisync and was able to run 800x600x64 colors reasonably well at 31.5khz but it took some monkeying to do. Historic note - I think I paid around 800$ for my original 14 multisync (15khz to around 75khz i believe) monitor in 1992. check out http://www.amiga.com What they are up to now. http://www.softhut.com/Amiga computers for sale http://www.amithlon.net/amithlon.shtmlA great x86 emulation http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/emulator http://cloanto.com/amiga/forever/commercial uae package Ok, I'll stop, Back to your regularly scheduled Mandrake related list -- dh 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] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic) [nowback on]
After having been whupped by that game numerous times, and never having met anyone who played and won, I have 2 questions for your friend: 1) Did anyone ever actually WIN that game? 2) Does he program for Microsoft now? sorry, low blow, but I am STILL pissed at that game. Ken PS Amiga RULZ! (the rest of the world is still playing ketchup) PPS Mandatory ON TOPIC: I bunged my main home computer (MDK8.2) when I tried to install w2k [DONT GO THERE!]. Since I managed to make it even worse, I am now going to a clean-sheet install. I will be doing MDK 8.2, Win98, and W2K. I have 3 separate drives (6gb, 20gb, and 30gb). Any recommendations for install order, and partition schema? 8.2 ran just ducky, but is there justification to go to 9.0? THX in advance On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 15:47, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 08:34, Ken Hawkins wrote: play a game called star-trek; with an E for the Enterprise, a K for the Klingons, an * for photon torpedoes, etc etc. Ken I know the guy who wrote that one... it was written originally on paper tape ... and lots of scotch tape. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates:PostPositive)
I also wish to thank Civileme, who is, in my mind, synonymous with Mandrake. But for his expertise and willingness to help (along with so many others here), I would have ditched Mandrake entirely (I had a functional Corel setup on 3 of my machines). After having played with 7.0, 7.2, 8.0, and 8.2, I felt that a wrong turn was taken somewhere after 7.2 (totally PnP on my laptop, unlike 8.x which is a P.I.T.A) ^^^Totally personal, your mileage may vary Still I supported with a Club membership, when I could ill afford it. Sounds to me like the bean-counters and widget makers are about to throw away a lot of goodwill. GM was totally f*ked up by suits-the two Rogers- in the 80's, and is still suffering the effect of business majors running things, instead of car guys. I wonder what kind of fatcat gold parachute the money guys have written for themselves? Ken PS, I know that praise and thanks don't pay rent and buy groceries, Civileme, but still, THANK YOU!!! On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 13:11, David Rankin wrote: The true mark of great leadership within a company is management's ability to attract and maintain key individuals. Whatever the backdrop to the situation actually is, Mandrakesoft's inability to maitain its relationship with Civileme is an incredible loss both to Mandrakesoft and to us all. Best of luck to you Civileme in whatever your future holds, but one request: PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE THE LIST! Daniel Woods wrote: civileme wrote: I am one of the people bit by the cutbacks to keep Mandrake afloat and I STILL agree that their policy is on track. The idiots (and I can and Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] graphics-workstation ...
AMIGA VIDEOTOASTER! too bad they went belly up...played with back in the old days (94?) had A/B/C tape editor control, transition effects, 3D animation with a whole sh*load of models and sets, character generator, stereo sound etc etc etc; essentially a whole studio at your desk. INCREDIBLE machines. If people bought computers based on quality and capability rather than con-job, MS would be history, and we would be all animating complete movies on our desktops. WHILE checking email, printing War Peace, balancing our checkbook, and pumping tunes. I dream of a time machine and a wooden stake with the initials B.G. on it.. Ken PS FWIW, Babylon 5 and (i think) ReBoot were done on essentially off-the-shelf Toasters On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 17:00, Jonathan I. Nori wrote: Hi! Sounds like you want an SGI or Sun Solaris workstation. The kinds of tools you seem to be looking for really aren't in a mature (if they even exist yet) stage on the linux platform. If you want to do professional, high-end audio/video/animation editing (which you seem to be hinting at) you need to look at something other than Linux. Jon 8^) - I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. - Douglas Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/13/02 03:55AM hi, am looking for a really good and special graphicsworkstation, running linux with OpenGL, a very good graphiccard with OpenGL and sound-abilities. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 8.2 installation problem
Installing 8.2, and everything goes great until I'm configuring X. I installed from the same disks on the same machine a while ago, and everything kosher that time. I set all parameters, then go to test the X settings, and I get the following: could not open default font 'fixed' try to change some parameters Now I'm stuck for what to do K Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 installation problem
Thanks, but too late, I performed another fresh re-install, and it worked this time. How would I turn off font services during an install? Ken On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 16:44, Jason Guidry wrote: Installing 8.2, and everything goes great until I'm configuring X. I installed from the same disks on the same machine a while ago, and everything kosher that time. I set all parameters, then go to test the X settings, and I get the following: 1) Send hardware info on your system 2) Make sure you didn't turn off your font services. -- Jason Guidry gmaestro.org 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] very active NIC
What is the best program to monitor traffic on my NIC? As of this morning, I have seen that my traffic LED's on my NIC have been going berserk, and my network connection is slow. Usually my LED's are quiet. THX K Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] hyperactive NIC odd messages
I've noticed the following in my messages log: Being an uneducated linux user, I have no idea what this is, but I don't recall ever seeing this before. I accessed the log through webmin; would that generate the messages? Ken Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/wtmp from 664 to 640 Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed group of /var/log/wtmp from utmp to adm Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/open_port.today from 644 to 640 Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/unowned_group.today from 644 to 640 Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/suid_root.today from 644 to 640 Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/writeable.today from 644 to 640 Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/suid_md5.today from 644 to 640 Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/unowned_user.today from 644 to 640 Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/ksyms.0 from 644 to 640 Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed group of /var/log/ksyms.0 from root to adm Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/linuxconf/netconf.log from 644 to 640 Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/suid_group.today from 644 to 640 Jul 4 09:09:30 localhost su(pam_unix)[10524]: session opened for user root by (uid=501) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] very active NIC
Thanks, but I already have a basic monitor like thatI was looking more along the line of traffic analysis; others I've talked to are also seeing a lot of traffic, basically network noise but we would like to track it down to see which NIC/IP address the traffic is from/to. Perhaps a gnutella server; we had to shut a couple of these down before. K On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 12:34, Sevatio wrote: Ken Hawkins wrote: What is the best program to monitor traffic on my NIC? As of this morning, I have seen that my traffic LED's on my NIC have been going berserk, and my network connection is slow. Usually my LED's are quiet. THX K Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Knetload is a great program for monitoring NIC throughput. For some reason Mandrake doesn't install it by default. You'll find the rpm on your distro disks. You might even get kcpu while you're at it. They're similar in design and sit in next to the clock. Sevatio 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] I made it -- 1 year uptime
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 07:49, daRcmaTTeR wrote: J. Craig Woods wrote: Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Sheez. miss your trenchent wit! drjung Well, of course it's proprietary. however, it's the only proprietary platform I don't mind spending money for. it's far less expensive then M$; it doesn't require rebooting; it isn't virus prone; its extremely stable, much like my Mandrake boxes; it is VERY secure, scalable, AND supports literally thousands of userson and on, adinfinitum. for the life of me I can't understand why with Unix, Linux, and Netware out there WHY people insist on using crap like NT. I just don't get it! The WHY is easy - the Dreaded POINTY-HAIRED BOSS! Gee, that NT looks just like regular windows...I can get the secretary to take care of the server, and ditch my expensive IT staff! K Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime
Yep, gotta go withya 100% Our staff/student WAN is powered by Netware, and we have Zilch for reliability problems. Configuration however, can become an onerous task. The approach we are taking is to have Linux boxes handle firewall, web, some storage, AV, and soon email. We also have basic linux instruction as part of our Applied Computing program. The ONLY reason we are running NT and/or W2K servers is because of a proprietary Library cataloging system, and a webmaster that is totally addicted to Publisher/IIS (can't do HTML in text) Yes, I know that you can add Publisher extensions to a linux/web server, but we don't have a guru, and all of us have to be multi-disciplinary. On a given day, I will fix a VCR, rebuild a calculator, run a new telephone line into a renovated office, update someone's AV package, teach another about setting up shared folders on a Novell server, etc, etc. All of us have broad, but shallow skill sets. Never boring tho' Ken On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 14:04, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Barry Michels wrote: Our NT machine was crap. We had to reboot about every week. In fact, I eventually wrote a batch file that would reboot the server every morning at 4am. We upgraded (well, a fresh install) to Win2k and the longest that machine was running was 4 months (129 days). All it handles is file sharing and a small, seldom used SQL server. When it crashed, it crashed hard. We had to do quite a bit of work to get it back up and it still isn't the same. The hardware is any spare parts we had laying around. 2 weeks ago, I installed a Linux machine to act as our firewall using IPTABLES. So far, no reboots since the inital install. Man is it fast. That doubled our bandwidth compared to running through MS's ISA firewall software. Of course, it was logging everything that went through it... Barry heavens guys! thats why God invented Novell Netware boxes. load'em up, plug'em in and fa-get about'em. and as far as win2k is concerned I'm not surprised you're having as uch trouble wit dat poor box being as its put together from spare parts. win2k doesn't like spare parts. where I work we're running a Novelle shop, but there are two Dell 4400's running win2k that are rock solid. one the app server and the other the DB server. they're very heavily used. were it not for the windows updates they wouldn't require a reboot at all. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! 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] lost keyboard mouse
Just installed 8.2 on a p200MMX machine. Everything installed fine until after reboot. I lose the mouse AND keyboard at graphical login. If I start in maintenance mode, both function normally. I can log in, run linuxconf and other programs no problem. But the moment I go into X, I lose them. Any info greatly appreciated Ken PS KB and mouse work fine in winblows and on other linux comps Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] lost keyboard mouse
This is a follow-up on my previous message |Just installed 8.2 on a p200MMX machine. Everything installed fine until |after reboot. I lose the mouse AND keyboard at graphical login. | |If I start in maintenance mode, both function normally. I can log in, |run linuxconf and other programs no problem. But the moment I go into X, |I lose them. | |Any info greatly appreciated |Ken |PS KB and mouse work fine in winblows and on other linux comps I tried XFdrake, and everything is fine until I go to test the settings, then I lose KB and mouse again. I can't CTRLALTF1 to a console or anything. I haven't had to perform this many hard resets since Winblows 95, and it's hard to sell other on MDK, when it there is so much trouble with something as simple a generic standard PS/2 mouse KB. Hardware: Intel P200MMX 160mb RAM S3 Virge/DX** could this be the culprit? 3 hdd's 1Cdrom I will note that ALL of the hardware is detected and runs fine under winblows 98, and the KB and mouse in question have tested fine on other comps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] IBM Printer
this should have a simple resolution, but I am getting frustrated: IBM Laser printer (Lexmark 4029 010) All windlblows that connect print fine, no muss, no fuss, no bother. MANDRAKE 7.2 and 8.2 cannot print anything but garbage. I have tried via Samba and via direct parallel. I have been to linuxprinting.org and followed their recommendations (Generic PostScript), and I have been to Mandrake HCL, which CLAIMS full functionality (then refers you to linuxprinitng.org). Any suggestions? (other than throw it away) Thanks Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Here they come again...
Charlie wrote: Computer systems are the backbone to U.S. national security, said ADTI Chairman Gregory Fossedal. Before the Pentagon and other federal agencies make uninformed decisions to alter the very foundation of computer security, they should study the potential consequences carefully. Interesting, drjung ~~ Wassup doc? (I'm sorry but I couldn't resist.) I've been forwarding links to, and copies of, this drivel from various and article is in the last paragraph. they should study the potential consequences carefully because when they do they'll likely run screaming away from MS. I seem to recall that the US agency responsible for Air Traffic Control was looking at migrating their systems to NT or W2K; which then caused me to think that if I was afraid to fly before. BTW did you know that the ZDNet Forum Computer Help was; for a very long time, the online support link for Windows ME? Isn't _that_ just special? ZDNet. Another site that I choose not to open. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Edmonchuk huh? Howz the weather? Can you see anything through the smoke? (I spent my first 20 years there) Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A Linux Virus on the loose.
darklord wrote: On Monday 03 June 2002 11:39 am, you wrote: And this leads to the simple conclusion that if one has physical access to a computer, then security is largely out the window. Any clown could come in and bootup with a rescue disk (addressing the linux aspect) and do whatever to your drives. If they had the time, they could also bring in a set of linux distro disks and reinstall linux their way. The only way to prevent this is to turn off the booting from CD in bios and password protecting bios, but then, with physical access it is trivial to kill the bios password (just crack the case and remove the mobo battery for a minute - bios settings are back to default and accessible without a password). Unless your mobo flashroms the password; came across this and had to get tech support to explain that first you must remove the battery, THEN you must pull a jumper, then you must short out some pins on the BIOS chip where it is soldered to the boardlittle paranoid maybe? Thus, I see no harm at all in hearing the means one would use to create a UID 0 person, append them to passwd and create an appropriately formatted/encrypted shadow password for them in /etc/shadow. praedor Hehehehe, I've got mine disabled in BIOS, and my case is hardware locked. Of course, if someone has access to my system, then they've already gotten into Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A Linux Virus on the loose.
DONT USE A COMPUTER?!! SACRILIGE! We must track down and burn this heretic before other listen to him and come to their senses!!! Thousands of SysAdmins with no real-life skills left to wander the streets? Imagine the mayhem! K Udo Rader wrote: thats why we have our servers under 3meters of concrete and behind multiple access-control systems ... unless mcguyver comes along and uses his swiss pocketknife to disengage all entrance barriers ;-)) even on enterprise they still have those bad aliens compromizing their systems sometimes ... my point: there is no such thing as computer security that is really secure. only chance: don't use a computer ... udo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] test message
Since I'm tired of the FRIDGE art, and the neighbor's cat has been crapping in my garden, I couldn't resist. As for the HDD, I run Linux, so I'm not worried about some M$ crap script being run Ciao daRcmaTTeR wrote: please don't read. this message will erase your hard drive and erase all refrigerator art from the front of your frig and kill your neigbor's cat. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 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] Printing
Thanks for the info, will follow up when I get chance; still doesn't alter the fact that this is an area where microcrap winblows (in my experience) is way ahead, and through all those linux versions, I've seen little improvement. For the record, in every other area, I much prefer Linux, especially Mandrake (but I still feel that 7.2 is probably their best version; notwithstanding all the features of 8.x) I support a large heterogenous LAN/WAN, that consists of all version of windows from 3.x on up, linux servers, NT servers, VAX, and a smattering of Mac clients. I also support the PBX system, and provide training. I like linux, and I try to promote it as much as possible, but I simply DO NOT have the time to sit and tweak. The computer(s) I am trying to get running are not the latest and greatest, they don't use the super gee-whiz graphics card, or mondo sound dolby 5.1, or some other way custom feature. They are basic workstations. With Mandrake I can drop the CD in, install eveything without having to tweak EXCEPT printing. Personally, I don't print very often, I keep all my paperwork on my laptop. The 100's of users I support though, need printing, and I can't spend days tweaking services. On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 22:01, John Haywood wrote: On Tuesday 07 May 2002 05:05, you wrote: /WARNING, RANT MODE ON Could someone please, please, please tell my why it seems every distro of linux is such a pain in the a%^ when it comes to printing. Historical - printing used to be extremely expensive slow. It's really only now starting to be ironed out Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printing
I haven't tried that printer on W2K or XP yet, but a note on hardware; many newer computers allow you to set the parallel port as spp(old standard) or epp (newer faster). You might want to check this setting in the BIOS. I had this problem with older HPII's and HPIII's when users upgraded their computers, suddenly the printer quit, and no Windblows settings would work. Once I set the port in BIOS (to SPP), no muss, no fuss, no bother. Ken On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 17:59, FemmeFatale wrote: Ken Hawkins wrote: Current problem: Using 8.2 beta 3 My current source of grief is an IBM 4029 laserprinter. I have tried all flavours of drivers, and even some HP and Lexmark drivers, and all I get is garbage across the top of the page, and the printer has to be reset. The printer works fine under all version of windows. Ken Ken, email me if you got that POS printer to work on Winders I have been getting mightly pissed off at ours...and had to buy a new one b/c it never ever worked after Win98. TY -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert 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] Printing
/WARNING, RANT MODE ON Could someone please, please, please tell my why it seems every distro of linux is such a pain in the a%^ when it comes to printing. I have played with Redhat, Mandrake 7.1,7.2,8.1 8.2, Caldera, and ELX, and in EVERY CASE its an uphill battle to get a DIRECTLY attached printer to work.It doesn't seem to matter whether it is an old dotmatrix, an inkjet, or a laser; I've ALWAYS encountered problems. /RANT OFF Current problem: Using 8.2 beta 3 My current source of grief is an IBM 4029 laserprinter. I have tried all flavours of drivers, and even some HP and Lexmark drivers, and all I get is garbage across the top of the page, and the printer has to be reset. The printer works fine under all version of windows. Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Forwarding X apps with ssh
I am sorry I don't remember the details, but when I had this problem last year, I was going from one MDK7.2 to another, and I found I could ssh into the host, then su, and then the remote session worked fine, so I determined it wasn't the export settings, it was a permissions issue. I cannot remember which files/directories I had to change though. Ken On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 20:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been bugging me for a long time, but it's supposed to be simple. I'd like to get an X app on a remote system to display on my local workstation tunneling through SSH. Supposedly, it's supposed to be as simple as ssh'ing in and running the app. I _can_ get this to work as expected on my FreeBSD system, but never on any of my Mandrake boxes. I think the part that's getting me is the $DISPLAY environment setting. For example, here's what I get when I ssh into my FreeBSD box: --- # echo $DISPLAY pepe.home.gory.org:10.0 --- And here's what I get when I ssh into any of my Mandrake machines: --- # echo $DISPLAY --- For local machines behind my firewall, I've resorted to running 'xhost +host' locally, ssh'ing to the other machine, exporting to my display back to my workstation and then 'xhost -host'ing. AFAIK, it shouldn't have to be this difficult. And this doesn't lend itself to exporting displays through the firewall onto my internal LAN from machines hundreds of miles away. Going to the openssh page, there's been a problem with Mandrake 7.2 and it's Xauthority settings (http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#2.7), but does this problem still plague the 8.x versions of Mandrake? I've got the following in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes And in /etc/ssh/ssh_config: ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes What am I missing? Thanks, -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug someone with it. -- M. Devine, Computer Science 340 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] AAAaaaargh!!! M$madness!!!
I agree 100%!! I work tech support at a college, and all too often I deal with people who learned win - duh-oh-zzz in k-12 by rote. The primary/secondary school system in our community uses a very different configuration than our college (small community- 1 high school, 1 college). WHen they arrive here, the usual first complaint is This isn't windows! followed by this isn't the windows I learned in school!. If they had been properly taught basic COMPUTER literacy, they could sit down at a Mac, windblows, or linux box, and be productive in minutes. Instead they are taught the Gospel of Bill, by dogmatic and brain dead instructors. Ken Jean-Christophe Berthon wrote: Hello, I think that in this thread, the problem of teaching Windows at school has been misunderstood. I'm disagreeing that professors teach at school about a system of Windows or Linux or anyother. That is NOT the school matter. School has been made to learn students methods. Then, once the student arrive in the real world, he will apply all this generic method and will manage what ever the situation is, the systems or the tools to solve problem or to choose a good solution. Learning how to use a specific software is like learning how to solve a specific mathematical problem. You can throw away that lesson after as in a problem with different parameters (but the same method to slove) you'll NOT be able to solve it. So teaching Windows at school is a bad idea, and also teaching Linux! How to use Windows or Word or Linux or whatever you like should be the personal choice of the student for it's own (nothing to do with school!) After for people who don't have access to technology because of financial problems, the school should be delivering some optional extra Practical Classes, where you could go kind of freely. There, they would be able to get familiar with internet, with a word processing, etc. but they should be trying different ones, see what they would prefer... Which means also to have competent teachers in different systems and softwares. Jean-Christophe 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] CUPS printer drivers
Went to install a canon printer for my computer, and found that I only had drivers for HP and Epson. Where would I find the printer driver file (database?) and how do I add drivers? Thanks in advance Ken PS - Using MDK 7.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Setting up a home network
Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_tcob1.net-7239-1008635602-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I know I'll take some flack over this onesince it doesn't use MDK The best luck I have had was to dig up a 486 (or if you like, early pentium), get two older network cards (ones that have DOS software to configure I/O and IRQ's), and go get Eigerstein http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/DiskImages/Eiger/EigerStein.htm Read other pages at the site for an explanation of set-up. SUMMARY: This allows you to set up a router/firewall that boots from 1 floppy disk. You can make extra copies of the disk once you have the configuration you need, and you don't need an HDD. Once the system is running, you can remove the disk. In the remote chance that some hacker manages to compromise your router, you just reboot to reset everything back to normal. There is no disk to which they can save files changes. My installation at home gets a Dynamic IP from my DSL provider, and dishes out Private IP's (192.168.x.x) on the inside. Once I set that up early last year, the only maintenance has been a couple reboots due to power interruptions. A second reset is usually required because my router comes back up quicker than my DSL service. I have tested this configuration against several security sites, and come out looking pretty darn good! Ken Nathan A. Smith wrote: Hi, I have a couple of questions for you mandrake experts. I have a home network setup with a Linux box (using Mandrake 8.0) as the server/gateway. Due to the change with ATT I had to install dhcp (client) on the server to get things working. This broke a couple of things I had setup -- specifically, Iptable/firewall settings. So I would now like to fix server. The things I need to correct are: 1) I would like to move the all the computers from static ip address to dhcp. This would mean that the server would need to be both a client (on the internet side) and a server (for the home network). I want to do this so when the dns servers should change all the systems will update automatically. Is this possible? And if so where do I find info on how to do it? 2) Redo the iptable rules so that it does ipforwarding, allow access into/out off the gnutella network (I use gnut) and closes all unnessary ports (I am not running a webserver or anything like that) The network has 2 computers on it. One is a win98/linux box and the other is a Win98 box. Thanks in advance. Nasa --=_tcob1.net-7239-1008635602-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename=message.footer X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to 7bit by courier 0.36.1 - Gateway Information. This message originated from a Fidonet System (http://www.fidonet.org) and was gated at TCOB1 (http://www.tcob1.net) Please do not respond direct to this message but via the list Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Samba
BANG! Yer ded. The hardest problems to solve are often in plain sight. If we shot everyone who got caught by permissions, there wouldn't be anybody posting on this list. K tal amir wrote: know what ? i am an ass hole ;-) before : drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Dec 8 19:03 backup/ [root@backup tal]# chmod 777 backup/ after : drwxrwxrwx2 root root 4096 Dec 8 19:03 backup/ this is what happends if you dont get enough sleep when you should please dont shoot me for this ;-) sorry. please read my comments below... -=O0~O0=- He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought. [L.Carrol Jabberwacky] On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, tal amir wrote: guys, samba server : samba-2.2.1a-15mdk, this is mandrake 8.1 . (both clientserver) there's a great samba-2.2.2 out there. get the sources ... this is the smb.conf (server): - -- # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MDKGROUP server string = Samba Server %v security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = lpstat dns proxy = No printing = cups security = share [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. lpq command = lpstat -o %p lprm command = cancel %p-%j browseable = No [backup] comment = backup share path = /home/tal/backup/ guest ok = Yes writeable = Yes browseable = Yes read only = No - -- the mount command : mount -t smbfs -o username=root,password=root_passwd //192.168.0.2/backup /mnt/backup/ the volume mounts ok, but permition denied for (rw) , only (ro) : [root@whatsup backup]# mkdir test mkdir: cannot create directory `test': Permission denied [root@whatsup backup]# what am i missing here ? 0) first of all, your backup dir is in the scope of [homes] share ... this can sometimes be the problem, if i were to code the policy, i'd take the most strict policy in case certain directory is shared more than 1 time. besides, regular perms problem can also occur: please give us this: 1) df /home/tal after determining the device: cat /etc/mtab | grep device see the mounting permissions 2) ls -l /home/tal 3) ls -l /home/tal/backup 4) besides, when you mount the share as root, cheers Max. 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] DSL Connection
Sorry, I inverted the conversion factor from Canadian pesos to U$D's Plus I live far in the northwest of BC in Canada, jest spittin' distance to the Alaska, so everything costs more due to shipping and lack of competition. The irony of the situation is: 1) we have had speed cable internet available in selected neighborhoods since 1994. DSL city wide since'98 2) Our DSL supplier is a large stable telecom who chose NOT to use proprietary protocols or software, therefore ensuring that inexpensive, off-the-shelf stuff will work just hunky-dory. 3)I pay just $35CDN (~$22USD) /month for fast, reliable service. (brag mode off) Ken Michael Leone wrote: If you can't do the hardware solution above (usually about $400USD), you The LinkSys version of the DSL switch/router is about $170USD here in Philly. You must live in an expensive area. :-) Linksys EtherFast Wireless Access Point + Cable/DSL Router w/ 4-Port Switch CompUSA Price: $169.99* (after rebate) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DSL Connection
I use an old 486, 2 nic's and EigerStein (Linux router/firewall on 1 floppy). I have an APC surgearrest with RJ11 jack to prevent power spikes from doing damage. Total investment for excellent network protection: $50 for the APC, $69 for the 10/100 5 port hub. Everything else scrounged very easily for free. This works for me, but maybe not for an AOL customer. I was trying to offer a minumum effort/minimum headache solution to the original request. The gist of the other posts that I read is that AOL is making a special effort to live up to their old moniker-A**holes On Line. Or perhaps A.nother O.ffended L.inux user Ken Randy Kramer wrote: Michael Leone wrote: On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 16:31, Ken Hawkins wrote: Virtually every person I know who has tried to use WinBlows Internet connection sharing has had problems with the machine slowing down severly and freezing, usually less than a few hours. You (or you son-in-law) should seriously consider a modem/router/firewall in one box solution. 3Com and others make just such a unit. These will generally have 4 or more ethernet ports, and can be cascaded like a regular network hub, if you need to add ports. If you can't do the hardware solution above (usually about $400USD), you Another choice is to pick up a good $20 computer (IIRC, you need at least a 386, with 640kb of RAM and a 720 or better floppy -- no hard drive, actually, I think the most recent versions of the software need a 1.2 or 1.44 mB floppy -- bloatware ;-), add two NICs that have packet drivers available (NE1000s and 2000s work for sure), and download IPRoute from the Internet, a $50 shareware package that runs on Dos. That's what I do, although I'm using a dial up modem, so I have a modem and one NIC. Visit http://www.mischler.com/iproute/ to start learning about iproute. You can download a demo that will run for about an hour so you can try it and make sure it will work for you before you buy it. I know that there are quite a few resources on the Web to help with iproute, there are tested configurations on various sites including Mischler's. I know there are tested configuration files for at least some DSL and Cable services, including RCN's (which is where I'd get my service once they have two way cable modems available in my area). (I'm not positive that IPRoute will work in a situation with one way cable modems.) I've used this setup for a lot of years, and it's been very reliable. Did lose a NIC about two years ago, on two machines at the same time so I presume it was due to a lightning strike / surge. Randy Kramer 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] 8.1 - very unstable
Maybe I missed the response, but is this a downloaded ISO image? If so, did you perform a checksum test? All it takes is one bad source file to ruin a good ISO. Ken Davor Cengija wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your hardware. This sounds suspiciously like a failing CPU or case fan. I've been running 8.1 for about two months now and it has been solid. Thanks for your reply (and thanks to Richard, as well). At first I thought it was a hardware problem, but since I'm runningthis motherboard (Soyo Apollo etc etc) and P3/500 for over two years and had no problems of any kind, I though RAM could be defective, but memtests reported no errors. As far as I can see, CPU and fan are working fine. Is there any hardware stress/testing tool available for Linux (or even for Windows)? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake in the enterprise
Hey, I can dig out that old Altair that's been propping up the corner of the wood shed for the last decade Ken Carroll Grigsby wrote: Hoyt: I took a look at the Netraverse page. If I read it right, the idea is that this server will connect a bunch of desktops to application servers, where the desktops could be anything from a full blown PC to a glorified terminal. This notion keeps cropping up over the past few years, and I think that it has some merit in a lot of environments. It is one solution to the problem of making specialized applications available, but it does so at the price of requiring the IT staff to know each of the supported operating systems. And wouldn't there would also be a performance hit with all of the translation going on? Now all I need is a version of Java that will run under CP/M, and I can resurrect that antique hiding in the back of the closet. Then all I have to do is find an ADM-3 at the flea market, and I'll be in business. -- Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mandrake Update problems on LM 7.2
To get all that in one package, I WOULD pony up the dough. The one thing I found lacking personally, was easier integration with WinBlows networking. I tried the Corel version of Linux a little over a year ago, and their version of the the KDE file manager included what I believe was the BEST plug N play implementation of Samba I had ever seen. The only reason I even tried Mandrake the first time was that Corel suffered a blitzkrieg decimation under the hob-nail boots of the Na- I mean Microshaft... Now memorize the MS chant... SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL! Ken yeah, I'd love to see mandrake package an update CD, and make it a self installer... ie run a setup file and let it look over your machine and update stuff it finds... the update would have all the packages for security updates and patches for the 7.2 stuff.. maybe even a few new things like postfix and samba and bind, stuff that 7.2 diehards need.. people would pay 5-10USD for that I imagine.. it doesnt' mean that you never have to run update again, but it would lessen what you need to download. I must admit, 7.2 is still my favorite, but I must also admit I have yet to have any problems with 8.1 either. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Hawkins Sent: Saturday, 15 December 2001 6:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake Update problems on LM 7.2 Welcome to my heck. I have been EXTREMELY pleased with how well 7.2 has worked on every system where I have installed it. 8.0 and 8.1 seem to be evenly split on 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] Kernel compile and speed
Hopefully not all you experts out there have put me on your twit filter yet...(:^D) My question this time is: Is there a performance boost to be gained by compiling the kernel (whatever version) on the machine which it is to be installed? I have seen references to improved stability, and the odd reference to improved performance, but I haven't seen anything definitive. Thanks in advance Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update problems on LM 7.2
Shows you what I know...(very little). Please explain mandrake freq...I've obviously been ignoring other posters too much.. I'm sure many of the others here are on the verge of demoting me to the newbie list (;^*) Ken Now memorize the MS chant... SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL! Ken yeah, I'd love to see mandrake package an update CD, and make it a self installer... ie run a setup file and let it look over your machine and update stuff it finds... ge... I thought that was what mandrake freq was. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update problems on LM 7.2
Thanks for the info. The discussion had started with the fact that there are those of us who are very happy with 7.2, and were wishing for some mature, rather than bleeding edge, updates. I gather that like Micro$haft and WinNT 4, Mandrake is not abandoning 7.2, but is no longer going to commit any resources to it. That's fair, they have to follow a route that will provide income. Mandrake Freq. does not appear to be quite what we were looking for. Ken Ed Tharp wrote: as copied from: http://www.mandrakestore.com/en/storemdkinc-freq.php?LANG=enMDK_STORE_REFERER=http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ This shop covers the following geographical zones: *USA only CHANGE Available Products * Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack, 2 CDs Set, Subscription Offer... * MandrakeSecurity Single Network Firewall * MandrakeFreq 2 CDs Set, Subscription program * Mandrake Tee-Shirts Soon available: Linux products, Caps, Cups and others... Already sold products... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update problems on LM 7.2
Sorry Ed, after following the link, and reading thru the site, I see what you mean. You are quite right,it wasn't displayed as FREQ, but as an update. Please accept apologies. Ken Thanks for the info. The discussion had started with the fact that there are those of us who are very happy with 7.2, and were wishing for some mature, rather than bleeding edge, updates. I gather that like Micro$haft and WinNT 4, Mandrake is not abandoning 7.2, but is no longer going to commit any resources to it. That's fair, they have to follow a route that will provide income. Mandrake Freq. does not appear to be quite what we were looking for. Ken Ed Tharp wrote: as copied from: http://www.mandrakestore.com/en/storemdkinc-freq.php?LANG=enMDK_STORE_REFERER=http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ This shop covers the following geographical zones: *USA only CHANGE Available Products * Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack, 2 CDs Set, Subscription Offer... * MandrakeSecurity Single Network Firewall * MandrakeFreq 2 CDs Set, Subscription program * Mandrake Tee-Shirts Soon available: Linux products, Caps, Cups and others... Already sold products... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Setting up a home network
I know I'll take some flack over this onesince it doesn't use MDK The best luck I have had was to dig up a 486 (or if you like, early pentium), get two older network cards (ones that have DOS software to configure I/O and IRQ's), and go get Eigerstein http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/DiskImages/Eiger/EigerStein.htm Read other pages at the site for an explanation of set-up. SUMMARY: This allows you to set up a router/firewall that boots from 1 floppy disk. You can make extra copies of the disk once you have the configuration you need, and you don't need an HDD. Once the system is running, you can remove the disk. In the remote chance that some hacker manages to compromise your router, you just reboot to reset everything back to normal. There is no disk to which they can save files changes. My installation at home gets a Dynamic IP from my DSL provider, and dishes out Private IP's (192.168.x.x) on the inside. Once I set that up early last year, the only maintenance has been a couple reboots due to power interruptions. A second reset is usually required because my router comes back up quicker than my DSL service. I have tested this configuration against several security sites, and come out looking pretty darn good! Ken Nathan A. Smith wrote: Hi, I have a couple of questions for you mandrake experts. I have a home network setup with a Linux box (using Mandrake 8.0) as the server/gateway. Due to the change with ATT I had to install dhcp (client) on the server to get things working. This broke a couple of things I had setup -- specifically, Iptable/firewall settings. So I would now like to fix server. The things I need to correct are: 1) I would like to move the all the computers from static ip address to dhcp. This would mean that the server would need to be both a client (on the internet side) and a server (for the home network). I want to do this so when the dns servers should change all the systems will update automatically. Is this possible? And if so where do I find info on how to do it? 2) Redo the iptable rules so that it does ipforwarding, allow access into/out off the gnutella network (I use gnut) and closes all unnessary ports (I am not running a webserver or anything like that) The network has 2 computers on it. One is a win98/linux box and the other is a Win98 box. Thanks in advance. Nasa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 2.4 Upgrade
I am running a laptop with 7.2 on it. The questions I have is: Is it worth trying an upgrade of the kernel to 2.4.x? I have a USB port that 7.2 sees, but appears to not be able to use, and I would like to get a webcam working on that port. No need to explain here, please just point me to good article on installing new kernel. Would there be any improvement in system (media playback) speed? Unlike a Winblows installation on the same laptop, under MDK7.2, I can actually watch feature length movies (AVI's), but when there is alot of action, combined with a pan of the background, the drop-offs get over 60%. Perhaps there are some tweaks I am overlooking? I have already played with hdparm to crank up (e)ide 32 bit I/O support, and that made an improvement. I will allow that 7.2 has MUCH better memory management than any form of win-duh-ohzz, but is there possibly a way to pre-load shorter videos fully into memory; I assume that this would reduce drop-out as the system would then not have to wait for disk reads, but perhaps the video rendering is more of a processor issue? System info AMD 380 (~700 bogomips)(i think) 160MB ram 4GB hdd Neomagic video sound (i know, i know, junk!) Ken williamgates? attilathehun? Coincidence? I think not. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update problems on LM 7.2
HTH's One of the first To Do's after installing MDK7.2 is to Update the Mandrake Update. When you perform a search for updates, you should see that recommendation (underMandrake Update) I discovered this just a couple of weeks ago after re-installing 7.2 after a failed 8.1 install. Ken Ivan Offalich wrote: I posted this message on the Newbie list and haven't gotten any kind of reply to it yet, which made me wonder if I shouldn't bring it over to this list and see if anyone knew a solution for it over here (or if anyone else had this trouble before). Hopefully, I'm not stepping over any boundaries, my apologies if I am. I bought LM 7.2 (Deluxe) last spring and I've finally found time to install and get it up and running. Last night I decided to run Mandrake Update after I got my modem running properly. For the most part this was working fine. However, there were a few problems that came up and now MU doesn't seem to be working properly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update problems on LM 7.2
Welcome to my heck. I have been EXTREMELY pleased with how well 7.2 has worked on every system where I have installed it. 8.0 and 8.1 seem to be evenly split on the love it/ hate it and ease of installation scale; I refer you to archives for that discussion. I personally didn't have a lot of luck with either 8.x flavours, but I am very much looking forward to an 8.2 release; from what I have seen here and elsewhere the same sort of debate occured at MDK 6.x and 7.x, with the X.2 releases being the robust, mature versions. I never hesitate to recommend MDK 7.2 to those from the win-duh-ohz world for their first GOOD O/S Ken - windows ||| plagues Coincidence? I think not! Ivan Offalich wrote: I was considering re-installing the whole OS from scratch since I really haven't gotten very far with this installation of it yet. That's probably easier than trying to figure out what I messed up and how to correct it. ;) Besides, if my system was compromised, then I won't have to hunt all over my drive for corrupted files. Thanks for responding, Ivan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet?
We have had great service from Extended Systems' Pocket Pro (must get pro to get IP stack). These are very small boxes that hang off the parallel port, and convert to 10bT. It includes a web server for managing the unit, and is compatible with HP's JetDirect managers. HTH Ken Jerry Sommerdorf wrote: What your are looking for is an HP Jetdirect EX Plus. We use this devise at our office. It's a little box with a parallel port for a printer, and an ethernet port. I think they will only support HP printer, but I'm not sure. Jerry Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi, Samba is fine, but it means a computer to do the job. We want a computer free solution. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: Sounds like you want a print server adapter. Bestbuy and probably everywhere like them have them for around $89 or so. Samba wont work for you ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Parallel printer over Ethernet? Hi List! I'm looking for a product (if it really exists!) to allow me to print via Ethernet using parallel printer. I mean, a kind of box with one RJ input (so I could set a IP address) and some parallel ports, where I would connect printers. So I would be able to set printers in my linux (even Winblows and Applows) to print over network. Is such a thing possible? Is there a such device? Thanks for any suggestion. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!
I am the guilty party who started this thread, and I wish to apologise to all readers for my rant. It does seem to have elicited some similar feelings from other subscribers though. My attitude when sending that original message was the result of a 14 hr day spent: Upgrading to 8.1, blowing off 8.1 and installing from scratch (keeping only /HOME), blowing off 8.1 and totally repartitioning the drive, THEN re-installing for the third time. The result of all this was: No sound, wrong video card display installed, wrong PCMCIA NIC installed, a large number of programs missing from the Dekstop Menu's (even though I installed everything), desktops dropping out at random (working in KDE, then FLICKER,FLICKER,GONE. I am sitting at the command prompt login) I tend to assume that a newer version of an OS, will have all the capabilities of an older version, plus nice extras. MDK7.2 autodetected all the components. Even when it didn't quite recognize the component, it was able to set up parameters close enough to work. I restored my laptop to 7.2 in under 2 hours, with a working sound card, proper video card, and PCMCIA NIC, all detected and working automagically. FWIW, my laptop AMD2-K6 380 mhz 160MB RAM 4.2 GB HDD (IBM) Mostly ACER MB components Neomagic Video Neomagic Audio 7.2 EVEN detected and set up my Rockwell WinModem!! My experiences to date with this laptop: Win95 Plug Pray Win98 Plug Pray MDK 8.1 Plug What the... MDK 7.2 Plug play, and drop, and recover, and run battery down recover, and open WIndBlows LookOut virii-(JUST BECAUSE I CAN...and it pisses off co-workers ;^). )etc etc Ken -Original Message- From: Ken Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:49 AM To: expert Subject: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap! Just to vent: Had a perfectly functioning 7.2 on my laptop. That was easier than any other OS (windows or linux) I tried. Total plug play. Then I decided to try 8.1 for all the updates and extras...what a piece of SH!T! I know a lot of people worked long and hard on this, and I have been a Mandrake supporter since V.7.x I tell people how easy the install is, how they don't need to be a linux guru to get busy doing stuff. Robust, stable, versatile. Now I have to turn around and say to those people, whatever you doDON'T upgrade to MDK8. I am not a guru, but neither am I a novice; I pissed a whole day away trying to have desktops that didn't go flakey, and Multi-Media that worked..No such luck. Now I am going to rollback to 7.2 If Mandrake is still trying to target the average desktop PC user, they will have to totally rethink the installation process for 8. Version 8 is a step BACKWARD as far as ease of installation and use go. Ken 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] 8.1 Piece of Crap!
Just to vent: Had a perfectly functioning 7.2 on my laptop. That was easier than any other OS (windows or linux) I tried. Total plug play. Then I decided to try 8.1 for all the updates and extras...what a piece of SH!T! I know a lot of people worked long and hard on this, and I have been a Mandrake supporter since V.7.x I tell people how easy the install is, how they don't need to be a linux guru to get busy doing stuff. Robust, stable, versatile. Now I have to turn around and say to those people, whatever you doDON'T upgrade to MDK8. I am not a guru, but neither am I a novice; I pissed a whole day away trying to have desktops that didn't go flakey, and Multi-Media that worked..No such luck. Now I am going to rollback to 7.2 If Mandrake is still trying to target the average desktop PC user, they will have to totally rethink the installation process for 8. Version 8 is a step BACKWARD as far as ease of installation and use go. Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1
I have the MDK 8.1 CD I got as a burned ISO... I know that it is usually best to perform clean installs, but- I have Mandrake 7.2 on my laptop, and it is running great. I have also customized and added programs that are useful to me (such as ConsoleOne, Netscape 4.78, VNCviewer etc etc). I would like to install as an upgrade so I don't have to redo all the installations, but I am concerned with breaking something. I guess my question would be: is there a roll-back option available if the upgrade breaks? A second question is what is the minimum hardware requirement for 8.1? Will an AMD 380mhz, with 160MB ram be enough? Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] bizarre command name (resident Program)
I was viewing running processes, and I found the following line. I am concerned, as I don't recall ever seeing this before. Any ideas about what this is and what to do about it would be appreciated. PID UserPri SizeResidentStatCPU Mem TimeCMD 2282root0 69166916S 0.0 4.2 0.40s -:0 ^ THIS is what concerns me. If I kill the process, my entire window manager session restarts. The NAME of the process listed under details is KDM. The command however, has a rather bizarre name. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bizarre command name (resident Program)
I guess a little more detail is needed.. This is a laptop running MDK 7.2. I am the only user, and I generally don't leave it unattended. I have lately installed Netscape 4.78, and RealPlayer 8.0. I haven't been security paranoid, but I never login as root; I always su for a task, then exit. Having said that, I am concerned about someone hacking my system...but I don't want to blow off and rebuild my OS unless I have good reason. Ken Ralph Forsythe wrote: I'm just gonna throw this out there since I have never seen this either, but has your system's security been compromised? Usually stuff like that comes from someone running something you don't know about. Especially given that it's running as root (and I have never heard of a system-level program like that), might be something you want to check into. Just a thought, it could be something benign too... - Ralph Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Ken Hawkins wrote: I was viewing running processes, and I found the following line. I am concerned, as I don't recall ever seeing this before. Any ideas about what this is and what to do about it would be appreciated. PID UserPri SizeResidentStatCPU Mem TimeCMD 2282 root0 69166916S 0.0 4.2 0.40s -:0 ^ THIS is what concerns me. If I kill the process, my entire window manager session restarts. The NAME of the process listed under details is KDM. The command however, has a rather bizarre name. 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] bizarre command name (resident Program)
Thank you very much...I work at a College, and we constantly have hacker wannabe's and script kiddies galore taking shots at our equipment from the labs. As anyone in public education knows, there is never a priority on security in places like this.. Ken Jose M. Sanchez wrote: No this is not a security breach, or a problem. :0 is the abbreviation for the Console X-Windows display on the local machine. If it were a display on a remote computer you'd see something like remotehost:1 or remotehost:1 -bpp 16 etc. The - is displayed like this because ps is cutting out some spaces... All you are looking at is a process which is part of the X-Windows server. If you execute a ps -aux you'll see more related proggies being run... -JMS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bizarre command name (resident Program)
I know its goofy to reply to my own message, but I have an addition. I searched for files containing '-:0', and I came up with: /tmp/ksocket-ken/kdeinit-:0.0 Ken Hawkins wrote: I guess a little more detail is needed.. This is a laptop running MDK 7.2. I am the only user, and I generally don't leave it unattended. I have lately installed Netscape 4.78, and RealPlayer 8.0. I haven't been security paranoid, but I never login as root; I always su for a task, then exit. Having said that, I am concerned about someone hacking my system...but I don't want to blow off and rebuild my OS unless I have good reason. Ken Ralph Forsythe wrote: I'm just gonna throw this out there since I have never seen this either, but has your system's security been compromised? Usually stuff like that comes from someone running something you don't know about. Especially given that it's running as root (and I have never heard of a system-level program like that), might be something you want to check into. Just a thought, it could be something benign too... - Ralph Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Ken Hawkins wrote: I was viewing running processes, and I found the following line. I am concerned, as I don't recall ever seeing this before. Any ideas about what this is and what to do about it would be appreciated. PID UserPri SizeResidentStatCPU Mem TimeCMD 2282 root0 69166916S 0.0 4.2 0.40s -:0 ^ THIS is what concerns me. If I kill the process, my entire window manager session restarts. The NAME of the process listed under details is KDM. The command however, has a rather bizarre name. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm's for netscape 4.78 under mdk 7.2
I D/L'd the Netscape.com version, and the install routine went flakey twice. I found the 4.78 RPM at rpmfind.net-that installed no problem. The 4.78 version is significanlty more stable on my MDK7.2 laptop than the earlier 4.x version that came with 7.2 Font rendering seems much improved too.. HTH Ken Sevatio wrote: Do you feel comfortable enough to download it from Netscape.com? Although it's not in RPM format, it should be quick and easy to install. Sevatio On Wednesday 24 October 2001 05:26am, you wrote: Is there a set of rpm's for netscape 4.78 under mdk 7.2? A local bank has recently changed their Internet Banking software and now it appears that netscape 4.78 only will work, not 4.77 under Linux. Galeon and Mozilla do not work either. I have checked the mirrors and can only see 4.77 for mdk7.2 there. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] export DISPLAY via ssh
Thanks...I was trying to figure this one out too..
Ken
Woody Green wrote:
Here is the guilty party:
( in your $HOME/.bashrc )
# Need for a xterm co if we don't make a -ls
[ -n $DISPLAY ] {
[ -f /etc/profile.d/color_ls.sh ] source /etc/profile.d/color_ls.sh
export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
}
Comment out of your .bashrc the 4 lines above on the machine you are
ssh'ing into and ssh X forwarding should work fine.
Regards,
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Re: [expert] export DISPLAY via ssh
I too asked about this a while ago. I double checked the configuration on both machines, and ssh_conf DOES show X forwarding, but I get the same error message. I can manually export the display, but that only functions for one session, then I get the error messages again, and I can't even manually export the display again unless I restart network services. David Joham wrote: SSH should set up the X forwarding for you without you having to do anything. Assuming there is X on that Mandrake box, go into your local and remote ssh configuration files and enable X forwarding. That should do it for you. David -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] export DISPLAY via ssh Hi People, We use MDK and RedHat here. If I ssh to a RedHat machine I can export xterm for example, but if I ssh to a MDK machine I got this error: channel 0: istate 4 != open channel 0: ostate 64 != open X connection to my.MDk.linuxbox:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Any idea? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] not a good experience with LM8.1!
Our local school board uses linux workstations throughout the region, and they have no problems with running IceWM on 486-66, with 16mb, of RAM. As a matter of interest, the tech there showed us 2 identical computers, 1 with Win95, and 1 with linux+IceWM. He started them at the same time, and the linux machine was up and had apps open faster that the windoze machine. Praedor wrote: Your system is really lacking. You can install and run linux on a simple/old system but not with all the bells and whistles. You can install it on a 386 with 48MB Ram but you certainly couldn't use kde or gnome. The more minimal a system, the more simple a window manager you can use. KDE needs and uses a lot of system resource. Blackbox or windomaker would be viable alternatives that would work well on the system you describe. If you just MUST have kde installed, then first, expect slowness (48 MB ram), it is a huge bunch of interconnected parts and apps - an environment, not just a window manager. Same goes for Gnome. Both are for more capable modern systems. There are simpler and smaller alternatives that would make your system fully useable. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [expert] Best FS to use for / ?]
Original Message Subject: Re: [expert] Best FS to use for / ? Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:00:15 -0700 From: Ken Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope this is helpful... I have been using MDK7.2 on both my laptop, and my desktop for about a year now. Both machines have undergone unexpected power outages, and forced shutdowns. I use ReiserFS for ALL my partitions except SWAP. I have had ZERO problems with file damage. I did use ext2fs prior to last year, and after a couple of unexpected outages, I experience irreparable file damage (which led to the ReiserFS installations) Ken David Guntner wrote: Judging from the review I read from Tom in the Mandrake Forum, it looks like ReiserFS is the best one to use for my needs (looks like it offers the best speed and lowest CPU utilization over-all, unless I'm completely missing something). I always mount a seperate /boot partition as the first filesystem, and I've used ext2 even with everything else set to a different type of FS. It just works better for me since I couldn't seem to get 8.0 to boot with a /boot that was ReiserFS. Now, I'm getting ready to do a clean install of 8.1 and will be reformatting all partitions exept for /home. I'm planning on using ext3 for /boot (since if I read it right, it's completely backwards compatable with ext2 and shouldn't give me any booting grief). Now for the big question: Should the / filesystem be something like ext3 also, or is there any downside to using ReiserFS for / as well (it's my second partition on the disk)? I'm asking because I could have sworn at one point that I read something saying that for performance (or other) reasons, the / partition would be better off being set as something non-ReiserFS. Thoughts? Comments? Experiences? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key 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] font display problems
I am having a font problem that reared it's ugly head a couple of weeks ago. Below I have a copy of what displays on some web pages when I access them, but not at others. As you can see, character code, rather than the character desired is displayed. This applies to apostrophies, colons, and semi-colons. It doesn't appear to affect commas or periods. It doesn't affect any text I type in docs or email. Any ideas? THX K. The entry yoursquo;re looking for is ip_fwchains. If this entry is listed, you are ^^^ in luck, and ipchains will be your friend. If ip_fwchains doesnrsquo;t appear, ^^^ yoursquo;ll have to remake your kernel and add in support (or upgrade to a newer distribution). begin:vcard n:Jurkic;Ken tel;work:(250)635-6511x5365 x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Network Adminstrator org;quoted-printable:NWCC;Microsoft is not the answer, it is the question.=0D=0AThe answer is NO! x-mozilla-cpt:;24704 fn:Ken Jurkic end:vcard
[expert] disk read 7.2
I have 7.2 installed on a laptop -AMD 380, 64Mb RAM 4GB HDD. The problem is EXTENSIVE disk access. Disk activity will occur for up to 5 minutes, with very little interruption. This will occur regardless of what programs are open, how many are open, and what desktop I am using. I have installed Reiser FS on all partitions except swap...is this a contributing factor? Any pointers would be appreciated. (PS I already tried a google search, with little result, though I may have phrased my search wrong) K begin:vcard n:Hawkins;Ken tel;work:(250)635-6511x5365 x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Network Adminstrator org;quoted-printable:NWCC;Microsoft is not the answer, it is the question.=0D=0AThe answer is NO! x-mozilla-cpt:;-22080 fn:Ken Hawkins end:vcard
[expert] konqueror win duh-oh zzzz
Trying to get browse of windows network with konqueror; followed instruction from KDE re: network settings, I can only get my workgroup. Using LinNeighborhood, all w/g and machines browasable, so I know Samba is working properly. Any thoughts? K sure I'm paranoid. but am I paranoid enough? begin:vcard n:Hawkins;Ken tel;work:(250)635-6511x5365 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:NWCC;ICS adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Network Adminstrator x-mozilla-cpt:;26112 fn:Ken Hawkins end:vcard
