Re: LAST QUESTION :) Re: [expert] Intruder security questions
Hi, - Activate proper firewall rules (iptables or ipchains) - Check your Boxes security with portscanner tools from outside. Tools: Nmap or Nessus - Check your system files integrity. Tools: Tripwire or AIDE - Check you logs: manually or with tools: logchecker or logsurfer - Want to now who is accessing what file: run lsof - and much more... security is always about paranoia ;) ... HTH greetings from the city without the wall Oliver Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mounting of smb-ressources , jints on reading
Hi Steffen ! >On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 04:36, Steffen Barszus wrote: >> A friend of mine has several win2k workstations and one Mdk 9.0 >> workstation. Discovering and mounting some directories of the win >> stations was a task of seconds. Later that evening we discovered , he was >> not able of writing to that dir's. >> >> So I thought this is an easy thing, take a look at the fstab , there will >> be somthing like : >> >> //pc1/d/ /mnt/pc1-d/ smbfs -user="xxx",passwd="xxx" 0 0 >> >> but after I saw it it was solved another way (something like >> .auth.Administrator.dhakhd ) Don't know (yet) details about fstab. But did you make shure that your user "xxx" has write access on the win2k-share ? You must set the ACLs (on the win2k side) carefully - win2k is there more restrictive than other win's used to be... Had the same problem in a different, non-lx context... Maybe this helps Greetings from the city without the wall Oliver Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Enemies Purchased by Gates
Hi List ! > I thought this was a mandrake-linux related mailing-list It still is... > where such political _nonsense_ has nothing to search. TCPA, DRM and Palladium is NO nonsense. It will not appear next Year. But maybe it's the roadmap for the next decade. The wintel empire and the entertainment industry is behind it. Intel and M$ push it heavily for different reasons: Intel to push future CPU-sales (all all CPU's to be replaced by TCPA-enabled CPU's). And M$ to help the entertainment industry, end the illegal copying of commercial software and gain perfect control about who can install what software on his/her PC... > From an European point of view there is not much difference ... I'm Europaen too. I'm not familiar with the political details and acting person's either. But the subject itself is of great interest for the future of Linux and OSS. HP is already on the road developping an TCPA-compliant Linux. Since the US dominates the IT world this will afect Europe for sure. The interesting question will be: what will Apple, AMD or other CPU-Manufacturers do about it ? Will we still have access to cheap, non-TCPA Hardware where our Linux can run on ? I don't care about ending the ripping and copying of music and movies. But I care about who's limiting my choice of software and forcing me to buy and use only "their" programs. "My fear is that Palladium will lead us down a road where our computers are no longer our computers, but are instead owned by a variety of factions and companies all looking for a piece of our wallet. To the extent that Palladium facilitates that reality, it's bad for society. I don't mind companies selling, renting, or licensing things to me, but the loss of the power, reach, and flexibility of the computer is too great a price to pay." Bruce Schneier, Cryptogram, August 15, 2002 Complete text in: http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0208.html#1 Cheers from Berlin Oliver Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town (October 22)
Hi List, hi Steve B. ;-) ! > "Linux is very, very, very expensive for customers to take care of," Talking about a home environ he might be right. But in a corporate environ ? win2k and XP-Pro are there as complicated and difficult to administrate as LX/UX... The decisive difference is not the cost/complexity of administration but the number of applications (still, unfortunately). > "Linux is a cloned operating system - it cloned Unix and now > it wants to clone Windows. " So what ? To clone a proven, well-designed system for cheap hardware is maybe a good idea, hmmm. M$ is still in the process of cloning... And Mac OS-X is a clone (or fusion of UX, Obj-C-Lib's and MAC-GUI) too... > "It would be nice to get some innovation." And what about M$ ? Which innovations do they provide ? Declaring the web browser as a vital OS' component ? They just get it half-way right on the third attempt... And what about their innovations ? + C#:heavily influenced by SUN's Java + GUI: invented by PARC Xerox & spread by Apple Mac + Win NT:based on co-development with IBM (OS/2) + Office Apps: invented by VisiCalc + TCP/IP:invented by DARPA & spread by UX + Web: invented at CERN and NCSA (UIUC), first denied an neglected by M$... + User Admin (ADS): clone of Novell's NDS and LDAP + Authetification: based on Kerberos (ADS) + SMB/CIFS: original SMB protocol introduced by IBM + MS SQL:Sybase clone And their own "innovations" - WINS and NT domain. Gone... And security ? One of my favorite quotes: "Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have some fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor products are one of the reasons we're in business. We pick on them because they've done more to harm Internet security than anyone else, because they repeatedly lie to the public about their products' security, and because they do everything they can to convince people that the problems lie anywhere but inside Microsoft. Microsoft treats security vulnerabilities as public relations problems. Until that changes, expect more of this kind of nonsense from Microsoft and its products." Bruce Schneier, cryptogram Jan, 2002 To broaden the discussion: the only thing I fear for the future and from M$ is the whole subject of TCPA, DRM and "Palladium"... It will be based on Hardware, will give M$ a deeper control of the PC and the software installed on it and might be a serious threat for the OpenSource Software and movement... Cheers from the city without the wall ;-). Oliver Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OpenOffice 1.0.1.RH.rpm on MDK 8.2 - a problem ?
Hi out there @ the screens !
This time just a simple question for informational
purposes ;) . I checked rpmfind.net to find RPM's
for OpenOffice ('cause I don't have 'em on CD).
All I found were some old Beta's for MDK itself and
openoffice-1.0.1-8.i386.rpm for RedHat-8.0
MDK is supposed to be close to RH and hence all RH-rpm's
should be installable on MDK. At least in theory...
So I am going to try to install this package on my
MDK-8.2 workstation.
The ML-archive doesn't have anything specific on that
case (just something on MDK-CD included rpm and original
OpenOffice.org-rpm).
Has anyone of you done this yet ?
Any pitfalls or booby traps to pay attention to ?
Any reason NOT to do/try it ?
Install OpenOffice.org rpm's instead ?
Thanx in advance from the polish border
Oliver
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[expert] xterm from mandrake to solaris box
Hi out there at the screens, I've got a borderline case here... I'm in the process of switching from a Windows environment to an Mandrake based one. Right now I'm struggling with the following problem: I want to connect with a xterm-Window from my Mandrake Box to a SUN Solaris box. I must use X since I want to start an X app located on the Solaris machine. I'm using a dual-boot workstation. On the Windows half with Hummingbird eXceed installed and used everything works fine and easy since years. Changing to Mandrake 8.2 I'm unable to figure out how to accomplish the same task. According to one of my LX books it should be as easy as using the following command: xterm -display 66.66.66.66:0 (assuming that 66.66.66.66 is the Solaris box' IP adress) But all I get is the following error message: /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm.real Xt error: can't open display: 66.66.66.66:0 (same holds true for variations of the -display option: -display 66.66.66.66:0.0, -display 66.66.66.66 etc.) I was assuming that remotely accessing an X-Server would be as easy as connecting with telnet or VNC to another machine. Obviously it is not :-( ... It can't be an Solaris or network issue since I'm using in both cases the same machine with the same IP. With Windows (eXceed) it works, with Mandrake (XFree86) it refuses to do so... Hence it must be something with the local command execution or the local linux X configuration... I checked various Linux and Unix books, but they didn't come up with anything helpful. I searched this mailing lists' archive: nothing. I googled for it. I found the "XDM and X Terminal mini-HOWTO". They're saying in paragraph 6.2: "You can run X on a Linux box, instructing it to query a Solaris machine as previously described: /usr/X11R6/bin/X -query 66.66.66.66" Obviously I'm not an X guru ;-). If I start another X server, how can a xterm then decide which one to connect to (the local one or the remote one on Solaris) ? I don't want to set up a complete X-terminal. The Linux worksation should stay on its own. It just should open one xterm (or x-app) on another machine. I examined the eXceed config files for this case (windblows). They say: [Xstart] Start Method=0 Command=xterm -display 9.9.9.9 Host=66.66.66.66 Host Type=SUN (...) OK - obviously I got the xterm's command syntax wrong. The -display option has to point to the machine the xterm is running on (and not as I read and assumed first to the remote machine). But how to I tell my xterm then which host it should connect to ? I browsed a little bit thru /etc/X/ and found /etc/x/xdm/Xservers. But that's too deep inside X for me. I didn't want to play arround with X' config... Now I'm kinda lost... Any pointers ? Many thanx for your help in advance ! Greetings from the polish border :-) Oliver Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Microsoft - The settlement (OT)
Hi ! > > Apologies to all for this LONG off topic meander.. Why ? It is funny to follow ;-). And maybe some enjoy it after crawling thru the huge piles of problems and solutions the daily biz provides. I learned something about canada and would be eager to find the Dilbert cartoon with the pointy haired boss deciding pro linux... Greetings from the polish border Oliver Thieke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Choosing the right filesystem
Hello out there... I hope this question won't raise a fs-jihad ;-). And I hope this mail isn't too long, but I'm trying to be as specific as possible. On installing Mandrake 8.1 the Installer offers various options for the partition's fs. I'm again in the business of setting up a usual PC as a dual-boot machine with NT 4 and Man 8.1. And now I wonder which FS to choose for my particular layout... ext2, ext3, ReiserFS or XFS,... NT is for work and m8.1 is for experimenting, learning and exposing some of our "you can't be wrong with windoze"-guys to "unknown" alternatives. The hardware is quite simple: P-III, DVD-Drive, HP CD-burner, Creative soundblaster and 3Com-LAN-NIC. I already browsed through the mandrake user and reference manuals, the SUSE sysad-manual, the LSAG (LDP), googled in some linux newsgroups and o'reilly's "running linux, 2nd ed". But none of them came up with some sort of recommendation or rule of thumb for this case. Just a short statement in LSAG: "There is usually little point in using many different filesystems. Currently, ext2 is the most popular one, and it is probably the wisest choice. (...) This needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis." Looks a little bit outdated... The purpose of the m8.1 will primarily be: Gaining experience. It will serve as a workstation and server. "Areas" to be included: Apache, samba, NFS, mysql, postgresql, networking tools, developing and the usual KDE, internet & office stuff (no fancy multi-media stuff, mp3 or the like). And later maybe oracle 9i personal edition... Hence I designed the following layout for my m8.1 part of the disk: /boot 50 MB /swap 800 MB (approx. 3 * RAM size) / 250 MB /var 650 MB /usr 9800 MB /home7000 MB On the IBM-DeveloperWorks-Site (in general a very nice source for tutorials on lx, java, xml,...) I found a series of articles by Daniel Robbins dealing with the new array of filesystems for the 2.4 kernel. According to the IBM author those FS's show the different advantages and diadvantages: ReiserFS + better in handling small files (< 4 k) - eventually performance loss with reading large mail directories - poor sparse file performance - NFs compatibility not so good ext3 + easys transition from ext2 + backward compatible to ext2 + supposed to be very reliable - slightly "slower" than XFS/reiserFS XFS + speedy on large files + efficient disk accesses - slower deletes Robbins' recommendation: "Those who were looking for raw performance generally leaned towards ReiserFS, while those more interested in meticulous data integrity features preferred ext3. However, with the release of XFS for Linux, things have suddenly become much more confusing." I'm still not sure which fs design to choose. Should all partitions have the same fs including /boot and / ? Which one ? Do you, out there, have any hands-on recommendations for this purpose ? Experience with the reliability, recoverability and compatibility of the various fs' ? Any known problem areas for the three fs ? Thanx in advance from Berlin Oliver BTW - this is a very nice mailing list. Not too much traffic. Hence you still can follow all threads and learn a lot :-). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] databases for linux
Hi out there ! Adding some comments to the backend-part of the debate (the frontend-part circling around PERL and PHP ;-) ): > Postgres and MySQL, features, platforms... Just two things which haven't been mentioned yet: * There IS also a win32-version for Postgresql. It is included in the Cygwin-package (sources.redhat.com/cygwin/). But most statements I've read don't recommend to use the windblows-platform for PG. But I don't have any personal experience with that path... * There is also a nice feature in MySQL I read about which isn't included in PostgreSQL: replication. Again - I just read about it (did some research in possibility of clustering/replication with those two DBs) - no hands-on experience... Finally, both DBs look very promising and I hope to be able to examine them ASAP... Oliver Thieke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Package List/Description for Mandrake =>8.1<= (DAMNED TYPO CORRECTED)
Hi out there at the screens ! After struggling one week getting a dual-boot PC installed with NT 4.0 and man8.1 (and finally succeeding ;-) ) I'm starting to exploring the mandrake-system. I did the install in expert mode and chose the packages one by one. But I didn't write it all down. Now I am wondering whether there is some list out there listing all the packages in the 3-CD-edition. (I know I might be able to get it by hand from the cd looking for all the rpm-files, then searching for each package in the web...). Ideally I would look for a list sorting the packages by area (as done in the install GUI), providing a short description of the package and maybe a link to the project's home site... I just want to find out what packages I really need and what some packages are really for (vim, postgresql, apache, samba - thats all obvious, but there were also a lot packages I encountered the fist time). I googled for such a list - nothing (just some compile list for PPC-packages). I searched the mandrake-website (search-function, product area m8.1) - nothing. I had the same question some time ago for the cygwin packages and I got from the mailing list some nice links (on private sites and lists). Thanx in advance from Berlin Oliver Thieke .==. |**| |* O. THIEKE *| |**| |* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *| |**| |* Fon: ++49-(0)30-26009-220 *| |**| |* Verlag Der Tagesspiegel *| |* - Admin / Development - *| |*- I T / PrePress - *| |*B.E.R.L.I.N *| |**| |* http://www.tagesspiegel.de *| |* http://www.zitty.de*| |* http://www.meinberlin.de *| |**| '==' .. .. > rerum /||\ causas < ---/_||_\ | cognoscere | ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Package List/Description for Mandrake 9.1
Hi out there at the screens ! After struggling one week getting a dual-boot PC installed with NT 4.0 and man8.1 (and finally succeeding ;-) ) I'm starting to exploring the mandrake-system. I did the install in expert mode and chose the packages one by one. But I didn't write it all down. Now I am wondering whether there is some list out there listing all the packages in the 3-CD-edition. (I know I might be able to get it by hand from the cd looking for all the rpm-files, then searching for each package in the web...). Ideally I would look for a list sorting the packages by area (as done in the install GUI), providing a short description of the package and maybe a link to the project's home site... I just want to find out what packages I really need and what some packages are really for (vim, postgresql, apache, samba - thats all obvious, but there were also a lot packages I encountered the fist time). I googled for such a list - nothing (just some compile list for PPC-packages). I searched the mandrake-website (search-function, product area m8.1) - nothing. I had the same question some time ago for the cygwin packages and I got from the mailing list some nice links (on private sites and lists). Thanx in advance from Berlin Oliver Thieke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boot Loader
Hi Jorge ! > new PC: configuration. > (fat32) > cdrom > 20,4 gb disk (fat32) > > cd-rw > 60 gb disk (w98 + w2k + linux) > something about a boot diskette but I can't do it on install . > Any ideas? I know about how to install lilo if I have w2k. What exaclty is the problem ? There might be 2 possibilities: 1.) If you install the OS in a certain order it should be easy going: 1. w98, then 2. w2k and finally mandrake. I've done that on one machine - works without problems. (Only in that order - w98 -> mandrake -> w2k screws up) 2.) If w2k rules the MBR it's a different situation: Look e.g. for: http://www.johnlenin1.com/dual_boot.html If you boot from mandrake CD and follow the GUI installation one of last steps ask you for creating the boot disk. Good Luck Oliver Thieke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
