Re: email attack
On 20 Sep 2003, burns wrote:
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 14:10, dep wrote:
New Category 3 Worm/Virus: Swen.A (Yes, that's 'news' backwards)
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yup. Also:
http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#swena
Looks like it could be a nasty precursor to other attacks... it attempts
to disable all security products on the infected host.
I've had several dozen of these show up in the last couple of days on my
home system. They just keep pouring in! This is in addition to the
blantant sendmail attacks from some damn public school in China.
I bitched awhile ago to the syadmin for the school and that really got
them going. I guess the sysadmin is the one running the attacks! They're
not getting far as I've blocked most of the Far East at my firewall.
By the way, for those running sendmail here's a couple of rules that are
working really well...these also stop the Verisign nonsense. Put the
following in your sendmail.mc file and then run the m4 macro and restart
sendmail.
The gaps after the Left Hand Side entries MUST be tabs. Make sure to put
the rest of the verbage all on one line (the \'s just indicate the line
wrapped).
LOCAL_RULESETS
SLocal_check_relay
R$* $: ${client_resolve}
RTEMP $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: 550 Access Denied ; Incomplete DNS. Cannot \
resolve PTR record for ${client_addr} Please have your system \
administrator correct the zone entries.
RFORGED $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: 550 Access Denied ; Incomplete DNS. IP \
name possibly forged ${client_name} Please have your system \
administrator correct the zone entries.
RFAIL $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: 550 Access Denied ; Incomplete DNS. \
Hostname lookup failed for ${client_name} please have your system \
administrator correct the zone entries.
--
Gerry
The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer
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Re: OT: Here we go again ...
Shouldn't this thread be in linux-general? -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
linux-users list passing on virii
For what it's worth I sent a virus passed to me through this mailing list to Antony Stone on the MailScanner list. He is running several virus scanners. He confirmed that ClamAV doesn't find this virus. In fact, here's the pertinent part of his reply message. It got picked up as Sobig.F by Bitdefender, F-Prot, Inoculan and McAfee, which on my system means that it got missed by ClamAV, Kaspersky and NOD32 (I run several antivirus engines on a single machine for exactly this sort of comparison!). On my system I use MailScanner to run F-Prot, TrendMicro, and ClamAV. Only ClamAV is missing the virus. If I remember correctly the list is just using ClamAV. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Is this really necessary - WARNING VIRUS FOUND!!!
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, mail daemon wrote: A message sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 7:07:31 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: Details Did not reach it's recipient(s) because the following virus was found: Virus found in attachment application.pif Is it really necessary to send these out to the entire list? It accomplishes absolutely nothing while taking up bandwidth. If people aren't bright enough to configure their virus scanners not to spam the list perhaps these could be screened out at the linux-users server? -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
What the hell is going on - SOBIG.F
I have received several emails infected with Sobig.F supposedly from the list as well a pile of notices from various list members that they received infected messages. 1. isn't the list screening for virii? 2. can't you screen out all these damn virus received notification? They're worse than the Nigerian scams I get each day! -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: What the hell is going on - SOBIG.F
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: I have received several emails infected with Sobig.F supposedly from the list as well a pile of notices from various list members that they received infected messages. Most of the e-mail worms that attack the Microsoft virus, Windows forge the headers so they appear to some somebody other than the real sender. I'm getting a fairly large number of virus notices from brain-dead virus scanners addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not the capitilzation) saying that I sent them a virus. The only place my e-mail address appears capitalized like that is in the signature block of my e-mails or perhaps in some rather ancient usenet news postings (at least 10 years old). I don't do e-mail on any Windows machines, and never have. The only times I've ever run OutLook has been to go through the menus to figure out how to specify server addresses, and once to see how Caldera's Volution Messaging System's one-click configuration worked. My guess is that the volume of mail messages from the so-called virus scanning software to the forged sender addresses probably is greater than the volume of actual worms. Bill I believe that Doug is using ClamAV to scan the list messages. I'm using ClamAV as well as F-Prot and TrendMicro. Only F-Prot and Trend are picking up this variant of Sobig.F for me. ClamAV seems to be missing them. I even tried scanning my quarantine directory and ClamAV still misses the virus. Yes. I'm using the latest ClamAV signatures. I suspect these virii are coming through the list. I could be wrong since Sobig forges the headers but I think they're slipping through. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: What the hell is going on - SOBIG.F
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: On Sunday 31 August 2003 1:32 pm, someone claiming to be Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: I have received several emails infected with Sobig.F supposedly from the list as well a pile of notices from various list members that they received infected messages. Most of the e-mail worms that attack the Microsoft virus, Windows forge the headers so they appear to some somebody other than the real sender. AFAICT, it's only forging the From: address. The Received From headers seem to be unaffected, unless it's changed since it first came out... snip... Well, I guess if no one else has been seeing all these virii then the infected system(s) picked up my email address and is using the list as the source. The messages claim to have originated at three separate sites unmc.edu (University of Nebraska) rackshack.net (?) zusket.net (?) I'm now dumping any messages from these three locations directly to /dev/null and things have quieted down! This is on my home system and I'm only using four boxes. Three of these are running linux and the other is turned off. The infection is not on my network. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: ADMIN: please don't copy the bounce address!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some people's MUAs apparently sometimes include the list list bounce address on a 'Reply-All' (the address would be listname[EMAIL PROTECTED]) . Please check that your MUA is not doing this. Anything sent to the bounce address is marked against YOU and eventually, you'll be unsubbed (mailman will think your email address is bouncing mail). Thanks. - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Which MUA's do this? Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Ideas for Mail and Calendaring for 50,000 Users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wunder wrote: [...] | | phpgroupware. | http://phpgroupware.com | | | Do you use it? I've looked at it for our small network here, but haven't | tried to implement it yet. | | Tim Yes. We have around 2000 users and it works quite well. phpgroupware/sendmail/MIMEDefang/clamav gives us shared calendars, global address books, check in/out functions, web, pop3 imap4 mail, spam filtering, anti virus scanning all in one system that doesn't even yawn at 15,000 messages a day. (before sobig blaster) Total cost? $0. Compared to 4 Exchange servers at $1,200 per, plus $50 per client license (x 2000) to connect = $104,800. To try to be a proponent of a solution like Microsoft offers would definitely be a valid argument of more money than brains We've made some worthwhile contributions to mail-abuse.org, phpgroupware, sendmail, spamcop.net and other open source providers though. - -- Andrew Mathews I'mn surprised you haven't plugged SpamAssassin into the mix. Is there a reason for that? Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT To all New Zealand SxS members
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Bob Hemus wrote: Ted Ozolins wrote: Collins Richey wrote: The one thing we Americans and Canadians have in common, besides the language, is the best politicians money can buy. They all suck. I just learned that the reason that we (here in B. C.) are short of manpower to address these fires is that a Workers Compaensation ruling requires that anyone fighting a forest fire must possess cirtification by the Forestry. snip Not so sure that is as bad as you think. Back in my youth I used to fall timber on fires. Big trees like you have. Back then they would hire a guy that went out and buy a saw for the big bucks. If he didn't kill himself he could do it to a couple others, also. I'm not defending all of their rules or procedures. I have a kid (43 year old kid) who's on one of the special overhead teams for the USFS/BLM/??, the trouble with those teams as I see it is they move in on the locals that know the lay of the land and take over. In '87 they really botched about a quarter million burn around Happy Camp. Some jerk from Arizona tried to light a big back-burn 10 muiles long at the bank of the Klamath River 3 or 4 ridges away from the fire! Fortunatley it was so smokey and cold it wouldn't take. Oh well I'd better quit. I get real radical. Bob I was listening to an interview with a supervisor from the Ontario team that's out in BC. Apparently most of our Ontario fire fighters are out there working under the guidance of the local folks (as are teams from Montana etc). The supervisor was saying how important it was for this reporting structure as his people weren't used to fighting fires in mountainous terrain. Northern Ontario is basically flat with lots of lakes. In BC they've been on mountain sides with temperatures often well over 30C. The gear they have to carry is heavy and different. Here they don't worry too much about drinking water but it's a major concern in BC. It was an interesting interview. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: [GWAVA:b1cvwn12] Subject filter message notification
I thought I had seen a lot of stupid filters but... Image mistaking an Adaptec SCSI driver for triple rated x porn! Hmmm, my list of /dev/null senders is growing and growing! -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: odd email. Maybe OT, but not sure.
On 9 Aug 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Has anyone been getting an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where your.domain is your domain)? It has text like this: Hello there, I would like to inform you about important information regarding your email address. This email address will be expiring. Please read attachment for details. --- Best regards, Administrator maomnron It message also contains a zip attachment (message.zip) that contains an html doc (message.html) that is really a multipart doc with an encoded binary executable called foo.exe and some html code to run foo.exe Some new virus? Or other nonsense? I cannot exercise it as we don't do windows. (OK. I did clean the front windows this morning, but even there the point is that I do not want to see windows...) The attachment contains a virus called mimail (if I rmemeber correctly). The company I worked for was hit very hard about a week ago. The entire mail system slowed while the IT folks tried to find all the infected systems. The virus scanners all flag this now. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Open Antivirus
On 3 Aug 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 15:34, Gerry Doris wrote: Actually, I use MailScanner and have installed both F-Prot and ClamAV. F-Prot is free for non-commercial users. MailScanner installs seamlessly requiring no changes to sendmail (also works with Postfix and Exim). MailScanner calls the installed virus scanners (it supports about a dozen) to check the mail. MailScanner also uses SpmaAssassin if that's installed to weed out spam. It seems that there are many solutions that install easily and will use many scanners. It is the scanners themselves that I don't have any idea about. They are always in some list and written as though, well, just everyone knows about them. Any opinions on the scanners themselves, as opposed to the glue? I already told you...F-Prot and ClamAV work very well. I suspect that the others do too or they wouldn't be in business but I haven't used them. If you have the $$$ buy them and then tell the rest of us how they work since ClamAV is the only open source application that I'm aware of. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Open Antivirus
While we are discussing email and spam, I was wondering if anyone had any experience with CLAM anti-virus, found at http://clamav.elektrapro.com/ ? I'm looking at anti-virus solutions for a Linux mailserver now that Microsoft has bought RAV and is in the process of shutting it down. Gary I've been using it for months without problems...well, they've had a few problems with their site when trying to get virus update files but those were quickly resolved. Actually, I use MailScanner and have installed both F-Prot and ClamAV. F-Prot is free for non-commercial users. MailScanner installs seamlessly requiring no changes to sendmail (also works with Postfix and Exim). MailScanner calls the installed virus scanners (it supports about a dozen) to check the mail. MailScanner also uses SpmaAssassin if that's installed to weed out spam. MailScanner also takes care of polling for virus updates for any installed packages. It's a great program! All programs are easily installed and work well. Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
samba error messages???
I'm seeing the following error message about every 30 min in /var/log/samba/log/smbd. This is on a RH 9 system that was recently upgraded from 7.3. I'm not sure if they were appearing before or not? Any idea what this is trying to tell me??? [2003/07/26 09:31:27, 0] smbd/oplock_linux.c:linux_init_kernel_oplocks(287) -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Slightly OTHappy Sys Admin Appreciation Day
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 June 25 (today) is the annual Sys Admin Appreciation Day. I'd just like to take a moment to tip my hat to my fellow admins on this list. I'll be throwing down a cold beverage in your honor later tonite! - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 http://doug.hunley.homeip.net http://www.linux-sxs.org Hmmm, today is actually July 25th. How old are you anyway g?? Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: gforce2 (MX400) with nvida drivers 1.0-4349
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Collins Richey wrote: I've just installed the nvidia drivers on my Slack 9.0 system, and the only way it will work is to disable AGP. It craps out totally with either the kernel agp module or the nvidia agp module, but it works ok with agp disabled. I'm on a Aazza KT3-AV with KT133A chipset and an Athlon-XP 1800. There are lots of writeups in the nvidia doc about via chipsets and/or Athlon processors, but none of them seem applicable to my situation. I've even tried changing the AGP Driving setting in the BIOS to a range recommended by nvidia. I've also done a fair amount of googling to no avail. Syptoms are the screen turns to total black and white garbage as soon as the X server starts; only ctl-alt-del will cure the problem. The standard X drivers worked ok with AGP enabled. Anyone have an opinion? I tried using the new driver on a MX440 card and it worked. This was on a Dell P2 400Mhz system. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT We won't back down...
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Keith Antoine wrote: At 11:54 AM 28/03/2003 +0930, you wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:27, Collins Richey wrote: Some of us support the troops. Knowing this is waay off-topic :) I think the troops deserve our 110% support. It is the leaders of the relevant Governments that may not deserve our support. James Well we have got our SAS troops over there with the coalition and also our 2 rowboat navy, plus some AC that we bought off you, grin. We are getting the peace at anyprice s**t thrown at us too, but the majority are behing the PM and the troops. Keith Antoine OZ Forever. Well, here in Canada the pot is boiling. The Canadian government has distinguished itself by abandoning her traditional allies of Britain and Australia and thumbing it's nose at the US. One of our cabinet ministers standing on the Parliament steps in Ottawa criticized Bush to reporters calling him, among other things, a failed statesman. That followed comments shouted in Parliament by a Liberal (ruling party) MP of screw the US. Another Liberal called the US a bunch of bastards. None of these members were censored publicly for these comments. Remember that Canada is the US' largest trading partner. Just imagine what the trade numbers look like from our side of the border! The US Ambassador to Canada, John Celluci was highly critical of Canada's government a couple of days ago. He also suggested that Canada would pay. As Celluci pointed out, it's ironic since Canada has a handful of soldiers with the US forces in Iraq along with a destroyer and two frigates inspecting ship traffic in the Persian Gulf. We also sent 1000 troops to Afghanistan to backfill US troops freeing them up for Iraq. All this and the idiots in Ottawa are stating we don't support the war as long as the UN doesn't support it. Once again, our government is trying to have it both ways. We stop far short of France and Germany but won't support our allies and partners. We've embarrassed and isolated ourselves. Prime Minister Chretien has cancelled a trip to the US and Bush's visit here on May 5 is now uncertain. I am absolutely certain that there is some kind of screening process for politicians to ensure they only have negative IQ's. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
News Flash! Rambus and SCO to merge!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/212241 News Flash! Rambus and SCO to merge! (Score:5, Funny) by Newer Guy (520108) on Monday March 10, @06:03PM (#5481084) In a surprise news announcement, the Chairman of rambus announces a historic merger with SCO unix. The merged company - to be called RAMBO - will be poised to respond to the challenges of the 21st century Chairman David Boies said today. We are in the enviable position of controlling both hardware and software Intellectual property Boies also announced Rambo's decision to sue Microsoft for the use of the name windows. and it's use for networking. I came up with the idea of windows networking 30 years ago Boies said. When I was a kid I opened the window and yelled to my friends that it was time to play baseball. This involved using a window to spread information to them. In other words, Windows networking Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Why doesn't rdev work?
I've been playing with rdev on a Redhat 8.0 system. If I create a bootdisk using mkbootdisk it works just fine. Running rdev correctly gives the result of /dev/hda3 (ie. root is on /dev/hda3) If I run rdev /dev/fd0 on the newly created bootdisk. I don't get /dev/hda3 like I was expecting. I get a hex value like /dev/0x3da5. If I do a rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda3 and then do a rdev /dev/fd0 I get the expected answer back of /dev/hda3. However, the bootdisk won't work anymore. What am I doing wrong. Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: How do I change from ext3 to ext2?
This is a test system and there isn't anything critical on it. This is more in the line of inquiring minds want to know. I'd still be hesitant to use it. You could still technically go with dd, but you'd have to use some fancy partition extending tricks. I guess it all comes down to whether you want to use an open source solution or a black box. Well, I guess you've stated it well...do you want to use an open source solution or a black box. I'm already using a black box. On this system Linux is sharing the disk with a WinXP NTFS partition. I'm not confident of any Linux tools that can handle the NTFS stuff. The Partition Magic DriveCopy package will though and I can move the Linux stuff over manually if DriveCopy doesn't work. Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
How do I change from ext3 to ext2?
I want to do some disk rearranging and it would be really convenient if my partition were ext2 instead of ext3. I thought all I had to do was use tune2fs to convert the partitions to ext2 and then modify fstab to indicate the partitions were ext2. Well, that ended in a kernel panic with an error that the journal couldn't be found. What's the right way? Do I have to recompile the kernel? I'm using redhat 8. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: How do I change from ext3 to ext2?
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Jerry McBride wrote: Gerry Doris wrote: I want to do some disk rearranging and it would be really convenient if my partition were ext2 instead of ext3. From the EXT3.FAQ Q: How do I convert my ext3 partition back to ext2? Actually there is only little need to do so, because in most cases it is sufficient to mount the partition explicitely as ext2. But if you really need to convert your partion back to ext2 just do the following on an umounted partition:tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdaX To be on the safe side you should force a fsck run on this partition afterwards:fsck.ext2 -f /dev/hdaX After this procedure you can safely delete the .journal file if there was any. Hmmm, it doesn't work that way on my Redhat 8.0 system. It looks like the Redhat stock kernel has the ext3 file system hardcoded. Even after I've changed the partitions back to ext2 the kernel still tries to load them as ext3 and then panics. I even changed the fstab entries to ext2 but it doesn't matter whether they're set to ext2 or ext3. If the partitions are ext3 the kernel will mount them. It panics otherwise. This is on a dual boot system and I was going to use Partition Magic's DriveCopy to copy the entire drive all at once to a new drive. Problem is that my copy of DriveCopy doesn't understand ext3. Perhaps I can just change the partitions to ext2, let DriveCopy copy the entire disk to the new one, and then change them back to ext3 so everything will work again? -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: How do I change from ext3 to ext2?
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Net Llama! wrote: On 02/10/03 19:04, Gerry Doris wrote: This is on a dual boot system and I was going to use Partition Magic's DriveCopy to copy the entire drive all at once to a new drive. Problem is that my copy of DriveCopy doesn't understand ext3. that's what dd is for. its free, and works as advertised. I'm going from a 40GB drive to an 80GB drive. I thought that dd would end up making my 80GB drive look like a 40GB. If I was moving to the same size drive dd would workright? Perhaps I can just change the partitions to ext2, let DriveCopy copy the entire disk to the new one, and then change them back to ext3 so everything will work again? if you trust this DriveCopy thing. quite frankly i'd be very concerned about using a commerical product that can't even understand your filesystem. This is a test system and there isn't anything critical on it. This is more in the line of inquiring minds want to know. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: RPM query error
Yep, RH8. I was planning on searching google, usually do on these things, but chose to post on list first. Thanks for the links, though. Looks like it's the same old rpm problem I've experienced before (different symptom, though). Regards, Tim On 2/5/2003 9:02 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: You didn't say, but i'll bet money that this is on RH8. See: https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-November/005070.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73198 https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-November/005100.html Google is your friend. On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: Hi, When I execute rpm -qa |grep whatever, I was getting an error : error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 274 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID db42a60e rpm --rebuilddb has fixed it, but I'm curious, anybody seen anything like that before? Any ideas on what might cause the error? Thanks, Tim I posted several times on the redhat psyche list that I was getting these exact same problems but never received a reply. I would also fix it temporarily by doing an rpm --rebuilddb. I even ended up doing a complete fresh install and after a week the problem starting showing up again. However, I use an Nvidia 440 card and had loaded the latest Nvidia binary drivers (I think they're 4191). I had experienced problems on this same system under Win98 after I started using that level of Nvidia driver. I changed back to Nvidia's 3123 level and haven't seen any trace of the bad file descriptor problems since on either RH 8.0 or Win98. It's been running for about two weeks now straight without problems. I have another RH 8.0 system dual booting with XP Pro. It has a GEForce3 card in it and is using the 4191 drivers without problems Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: RPM query error
snip... I posted several times on the redhat psyche list that I was getting these exact same problems but never received a reply. I would also fix it temporarily by doing an rpm --rebuilddb. I even ended up doing a complete fresh install and after a week the problem starting showing up again. However, I use an Nvidia 440 card and had loaded the latest Nvidia binary drivers (I think they're 4191). I had experienced problems on this same system under Win98 after I started using that level of Nvidia driver. I changed back to Nvidia's 3123 level and haven't seen any trace of the bad file descriptor problems since on either RH 8.0 or Win98. It's been running for about two weeks now straight without problems. I have another RH 8.0 system dual booting with XP Pro. It has a GEForce3 card in it and is using the 4191 drivers without problems I have a Matrox G450, I highly doubt that the problem is related to anything Nvidia... Regards, Tim I also don't see a connection either but haven't experienced the symptoms since I changed drivers almost two weeks ago. I've been trying to do everything that's caused the bad file descriptor error messages. In any case, I do believe I had a video problem as I was getting lockups and errors about gnome failing to release video pages. My lockups mainly occurred just after 4:00am when I believe rebuilddb runs. That's why I was linking the two. If you've got a Matrox then bad rpm database descriptors aren't related to Nvidia binary drivers. Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: shuttle disaster
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Keith Antoine wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 22:52, dep wrote: what is surprising is the continued arrogance of nasa in having never pondered having to rescue people from a crippled shuttle. If memory serves me no space agency of any description has, or appeared to have, any rescue agenda in place at anytime. What has happened in the past was all cobbled together in situ with a lot of prayers. Wasn't it Arthur C Clark who established, in about the late 40's early 50's, a rescue agenda that was laughed at, at that time. Neither Russians nor NASA have seemed to want to spend money on this, recalls to mind sub rescue operations in deep water. I read the other day that Nasa used to train the crews to repair missing tiles in space. They gave up on that a couple of years ago when they decided that the crews caused more damage than they were trying to fix. It was decided there simply wouldn't be enough damage to prevent reentry. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: No sound from audio cd's
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 09:20, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Do you have the cable hooked up from the CD Drive to your sound card? On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:47:08 -0500 (EST) Gerry Doris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been knocking my head against the screen for the last couple of days. I can't play audio cd's no matter what I do. I can burn audio cd's successfully. I can play both wav and mp3 files from disk. However, when I try and play directly from cd everything looks ok but there isn't any sound (also no error messages). I've tried the gnome default cdplayer, xmms, kscd. They all perform exactly the same. They read the tracks and start playing but not a single sound comes through. This is on a RH 8.0 system. -- Gerry This has been fixed. The problem turned out to be the default gnome mixer in RH 8.0. As soon as that was activated it stopped all sound from the cdrom. I tried kmix and aumix. Both of those indicated that audio from the cdrom had been turned off. Either would turn it back on. However, going to the gnome menu, selecting Sound Video, then Volume Control would immediately kill the audio. Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
No sound from audio cd's
I've been knocking my head against the screen for the last couple of days. I can't play audio cd's no matter what I do. I can burn audio cd's successfully. I can play both wav and mp3 files from disk. However, when I try and play directly from cd everything looks ok but there isn't any sound (also no error messages). I've tried the gnome default cdplayer, xmms, kscd. They all perform exactly the same. They read the tracks and start playing but not a single sound comes through. This is on a RH 8.0 system. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: No sound from audio cd's
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tom Wilson wrote: Not trying to be facetious here but are you sure that there is a audio cable running from you cd-rom to your sound card? That would be my first guess. --Tom Wilson Yes, there is an audio cable connected. I even booted back to win98 (it's been a while) and I can play the same cd's without problem. The hardware works! -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: No sound from audio cd's - Fixed
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: On 1/29/2003 12:16 PM, someone claiming to be Gerry Doris wrote: On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tom Wilson wrote: Not trying to be facetious here but are you sure that there is a audio cable running from you cd-rom to your sound card? That would be my first guess. --Tom Wilson Yes, there is an audio cable connected. I even booted back to win98 (it's been a while) and I can play the same cd's without problem. The hardware works! Well, assuming you've actually *looked* at the hardware and have seen the cable and know it's connected and are not assuming that the cable is connected because Windows plays the CD's, run a mixer, kmix for KDE, and make sure the volume on the CD is not muted, and is turned up high enough. HTH, Tim Hmmm, this is weird. I now have it working. If I use kmix I can get it to work. However, if I use the gnome mixer (the one on the sound menu called Volume Control) it kills the sound as soon as it opens. There is no way to turn the sound on again except to start kmix and turn on the cd audio. Thanks for pointing me to kmix! -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: No sound from audio cd's - Fixed
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: Hmmm, this is weird. I now have it working. If I use kmix I can get it to work. However, if I use the gnome mixer (the one on the sound menu called Volume Control) it kills the sound as soon as it opens. There is no way to turn the sound on again except to start kmix and turn on the cd audio. Try aumix. Mixing without KDE's bloat. aumix works too. I just have to stay away from the gnome sound menu. Using the mixer on there kills the sound! -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: No sound from audio cd's - Fixed
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Net Llama! wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: I really don't think RH put much effort into getting KDE working right under BlueCurve. If you're gonna run one of the RH stock desktops, use Redhat admitted it. In one interview from LinuxWorld last week, (i think it was on slashdot, or newsforge) they stated that they have no KDE experts on staff any longer, and had to ship Bluecurve as-is, just to get 8.0 out the door. Yes, I remember a fuss when one of the Redhat 8.0 developers working on KDE (forget his name right now) quit in frustration because of Redhat's lack of interest in KDE and their willingness to ship a crippled desktop. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
mp3 volume question
All this talk of writing CD's reminded of an old problem that I've never been able to resolve. When I download mp3 songs from the internet they show up with different volume settings. After I burn them to CD (and yes, I am using linux to burn them!!!) and play them I end up changing the volume level for each song. Is there some kind of program available that will automatically adjust the volume before burning the files so that each song will have the same volume setting??? Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: another small problem with networking
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Bill Day wrote: I know IPChains are old and IPTables latest. but PMFirewall is an awsome little firewall script that does everything you ask. You may have to modify the scritps after its installed do play certain games through the network but other than that it works perfectly. http://www.pointman.org/ Bill Day Instead of going back to ipchains I suggest using Monmotha's iptables script. It's easy to configure and works perfectly. google for monmotha and you'll find his site. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: ATI AIW RADEON users
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 10:33, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Hi all! I am preparing to purchase an ATI AIW RADEON card to solve both my gaming need (OpenGL) and Video Capture need. I would like someone's opinion about the following: ATI Supports the RADEON 8500, 9000, and 9700 with drivers available from them. The RADEON and RAGE128 apparently have built-in 3D drivers in XF86's DRI package For All-In-Wonder support, they point to the GATOS project at sourceforge., but mention that their TV Wonder and TV Wonder VE products should be supported out of the box. First off, they don't mention the AIW RADEON 7500. Does that mean I should avoid that card? Should I get the AIW RADEON like I want to or should I get some TV Wonder card and go for a standard RADEON graphis card (or some other at that point)? Has anyone used the GATOS drivers/programs and how well do they work? I noticed there was even a remote control app (which I assume is for a TV-Remote type use?) Thanks a lot! Matt Personally, I have never had good luck with ATI cards. I know some folks swear by them but I have tried them a couple of times and always returned them for Nvidia cards. I'd really like to use them as I live just a few miles from their facilities just outside of Toronto (I'd prefer to support the local company). I found the ATI cards to work great in Windows but had difficulties with their drivers in linux. I returned a 9500 card just over a month ago when I found out there were no linux drivers at all for it. I discovered there were only drivers available up to the 8500 series. The 9x00 series had none. However, I believe ATI recently released some linux drivers for the card but have no idea how good they are. On the other hand my Nvidia cards have worked great in both Windows and linux. The downside is that their drivers are proprietary and need to be compiled into the kernel. It's easy to do but you won't get any support from people like Redhat. They blame any and all problems on the Nvidia driver and require you to remove the driver before they will even think about helping. I guess I'm skeptical that ATI's new linux drivers are as good as Nvidia's. Afterall, Nvidia's code has been around for many iterations and new versions are released in sync with their Windows versions. They seem to know what they're doing in linux. -- Gerry Doris [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: authenticating to sendmail?
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerry Doris spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: 1. sendmail no longer runs as root. The result is that it can no longer access the /etc/sasldb file where the sasl username/passwords are stored (this is needed if you're going to enable either DIGEST-M5 or CRAM-M5). Lowering the permissions of /etc/sasldb will result in another error. why not just create /etc/mail/default-auth-info instead of /etc/sasldb like Sendmail recommends? If you want to use either CRAM-M5 or DIGEST-M5 you need to have Cyrus-SASL installed and have used saslpasswd to create username/passwords. Those are created in /etc/sasldb. You won't get CRAM-M5 or DIGEST-M5 working without /etc/sasldb. These mechanisms along with GASSAPI (kerberos) and LOGIN are used to authenticate mail clients to the sendmail server. The /etc/mail/default-auth-info file is used to authenticate one sendmail server to another. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: authenticating to sendmail?
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: anyone got any experience or docs or pointers to docs showing how to configure sendmail to require a valid id and password before you can SMTP through it? I'm *not* talking about POP before SMTP. I'm talking about 'my server requires authentication before I can send mail' .. thanks -- Doug Hunley ODJFS DNS/Linux/Unix Admin You might want to check www.linux-sxs.org. It's a great site that has a number of docs including setting up authentication on sendmail g. There's some minor changes needed for the latest version of sendmail which I'll send to you a little later. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: authenticating to sendmail?
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: anyone got any experience or docs or pointers to docs showing how to configure sendmail to require a valid id and password before you can SMTP through it? I'm *not* talking about POP before SMTP. I'm talking about 'my server requires authentication before I can send mail' .. thanks -- Doug Hunley ODJFS DNS/Linux/Unix Admin The latest version of sendmail requires some minor changes to the authentication SxS that's on the linux-sxs.org site. 1. sendmail no longer runs as root. The result is that it can no longer access the /etc/sasldb file where the sasl username/passwords are stored (this is needed if you're going to enable either DIGEST-M5 or CRAM-M5). Lowering the permissions of /etc/sasldb will result in another error. To get around this add the following to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc define(`DontBlameSendmail', `GroupReadableSASLDBFile')dnl Don't forget to run the M4 macro to generate /etc/mail/sendmail.cf AND restart the sendmail service. 2. If you want one sendmail to authenticate with another sendmail server then add the following line to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl and add to /etc/mail/access AuthInfo:server_name U:user_name I:user_name P:password R:server_name M:DIGEST-M5 CRAM-M5 LOGIN GSSAPI All of the above on one line and where server_name is the server you want your sendmail to authenticate to. You only need one valid user_name and password for anyone on your server who has an account with the other sendmail. The rest of the SxS should work as listed. Let me know if you're having problems. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: this is pretty cool
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, David A. Bandel wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:05:45 -0800 begin Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On 11/25/02 19:50, dep wrote: i was just reading some stuff rick moen wrote in connection with wordperfect for linux -- he and i were discussing describe on another list -- and i found that on http://linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/problems.html#WONTINSTALL he links to the sxs editors page. rick is not a lightweight by any means, so i think the link is a pretty good endorsement that the sxs authors have done good. I couldn't agree less. I had the severe misfortune of having to sit in the cubicle next to Rick's for over a year. His singular talent is to speak write prolificly about topics of which he knows nothing. He does a superb job of convinving others that he's an expert on many subjects, when in reality, all he does is ferret out other sources and present them as his own. And don't get me started on his shortcomings in the non-technical arena. Amen. Don't know him personally, but ... Consider yourself lucky. He's an order of magnitude worse in person. Having conversed with him via e-mail on several occasions, he doesn't have a clue (and spreads misinformation). Problem is, he does it so convincingly it's simple for neophites to believe him. I only started one of his books, one that was recommended by someone who should know better, and I only got part way through before I threw is out. Full of BS and misinformation. Better if he wasn't still hanging around. He's a leech. He loves to be the center of attention. Oh, and did i mention that he was fired from VA Linux/Software for gross incompetance? The word 'loser' comes to mind. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMohttp://netllama.ipfox.com Geesh, if you folks feel strongly about an issue you should really speak out and not keep to yourself! That said, how do you really feel about this guy? It's been a long time since I read comments so negative about one person from so many!!! He must really be a prize! Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT sendmail guru help needed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This one has me stumped, hopefully one of you gurus can figure it out. Here at work, we are trying to implement a sendmail test system to prove its capabilities to mgmt. We are going to be allowed to have a small group of specify email addresses be routed through the new sendmail box, while everyone else's mail goes through the normal mail route. The problem is that there is nothing in the email address itself to distinguish the allowed email adrresses from the non-allowed. In other words, lets say we have 100 different users at somecompany.com. These 100 people currently receive mail through a machine I'll call 'maill. We're getting permission to change 25 of those 100 people to use our new email server, called sendmail. We are not allowed to give these 25 people new email addresses for this test, nor are we alowed to create a subdomain under somecompany.com. How would you gurus configure sendmail to process the mail for these 25 people and simply forward the mail for the other 75 people to the existing mail server? - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org Perhaps I'm missing something but I think you should be looking at virtusertable. I'm assuming that all mail is going to come through the linux sendmail box. I believe you can forward all the mail not being processed by sendmail over to the other mail server using virtusertable. The other mail accounts would simply be processed by sendmail. Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT sendmail guru help needed
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Gerry Doris spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
Perhaps I'm missing something but I think you should be looking at
virtusertable.
I'm assuming that all mail is going to come through the linux sendmail
box. I believe you can forward all the mail not being processed by
sendmail over to the other mail server using virtusertable. The other
mail accounts would simply be processed by sendmail.
I had thought this too. But I couldn't find an example of how to
accomplish this. got one?
- --
Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org
and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org
I've used virtusertable to forward from one mail server to another. For
example the following entry:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
would send all mail coming into my mailserver addressed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to user gerry at an internal server called
tiger.dorfam.ca. If I understand what you're trying to do then you would
need to add 75 addresses to the left hand side directing them to a
separate internal server. Using virtusertable this will be done without
any processing. The 25 names not listed will be processed. You could
then use procmail to send those 25 users' mail onto the second server for
normal delivery after doing your filtering.
The following is from the sendmail docs
virtusertable A domain-specific form of aliasing, allowing multiple
virtual domains to be hosted on one machine. For example,
if the virtuser table contained:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]foo-info
[EMAIL PROTECTED]bar-info
[EMAIL PROTECTED] error:nouser 550 No such user here
[EMAIL PROTECTED] error:5.7.0:550 Address invalid
@baz.org[EMAIL PROTECTED]
then mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be sent to the
address foo-info, mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be
delivered to bar-info, and mail addressed to anyone at baz.org
will be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will
be rejected with the specified error message, and mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a RFC 1893 compliant error code
5.7.0.
The username from the original address is passed
as %1 allowing:
@foo.org[EMAIL PROTECTED]
meaning [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Additionally, if the local part consists of user+detail
then detail is passed as %2 and +detail is passed as %3
when a match against user+* is attempted, so entries like
old+*@foo.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gen+*@foo.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+*@foo.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
@bar.org%1%3
and other forms are possible. Note: to preserve +detail
for a default case (@domain) %1%3 must be used as RHS.
There are two wildcards after +: + matches only a non-empty
detail, * matches also empty details, e.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED]
matches +*@foo.org but not [EMAIL PROTECTED] This can be used
to ensure that the parameters %2 and %3 are not empty.
All the host names on the left hand side (foo.com, bar.com,
and baz.org) must be in class {w} or class {VirtHost}. The
latter can be defined by the macros VIRTUSER_DOMAIN or
VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE (analogously to MASQUERADE_DOMAIN and
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN_FILE, see below). If VIRTUSER_DOMAIN or
VIRTUSER_DOMAIN_FILE is used, then the entries of class
{VirtHost} are added to class {R}, i.e., relaying is allowed
to (and from) those domains. The default map definition is:
hash /etc/mail/virtusertable
A new definition can be specified as the second argument of
the FEATURE macro, such as
FEATURE(`virtusertable', `dbm /etc/mail/virtusers')
Gerry
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Re: auth smtp and pam.d
I will try recompile linux-pam myself and check if it got this pam_stack.so. maybe only the doc was outdated... Net Llama! wrote: Its part of Redhat's PAM. I have no idea about any other distro. BTW, if you're using a new version of sendmail then the authentication instructions in the sxs won't work. Sendmail now runs as non-root and has changed a few things. authinfo (I'm going from memory here) no longer works. It been replaced by a tag with similar data in the access database. The access directive has new parameters. Also, sendmail can't access the /etc/sasldb file since only root has permission to do that. Changing the permission causes complaints that the file has wrong permissions. You can work around this by including a DontBlameSendmail directive in sendmail.mc. Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: RH 8.0 download [was: Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0]
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Net Llama! wrote: Zoki News wrote: *** Freekin' hell! There are FIVE CD's for the new RH!! I am sure it is not going to install on a 150Mb partition like RH 5.0 did... RH-5 was a long long time ago. And some of us would prefer to forget that RH5 ever existed :) Anyhoo, i'm sure that at least of the CD's, if not two are SRPMs. RH-7.3 was 3 RPM CDs, not sure about how many for SRPMs. Discs 4 5 are SRPMs. There is a separate documentation disc. Only the first 3 discs are needed for an install. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Updated Step
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Nobody wrote: M.W. Chang via Gerry Gorris has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/smailauth.html to incorporate the following: Updated to clean up HTML formatting Who's Gerry Gorris -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: virus scanning for linux email downloader
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Anyone know if these work with exim? I have a feeling I would have to give up my favorite MTA to get this capability. Surely that would not be the case. I will have to investigate. mailscanner works with exim. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
RE: virus scanning for linux email downloader
Mr. Witowski, I'm not at all sure what is impaled in your ass, but kindly remove it, and then return to the playground. On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Brian Witowski wrote: Perhaps not. You're just a dick and you repulse people. Never said anything about InstallShield...you did. I also didn't say that I didn't know how to compile. And i never accused you of either. Touched a raw nerve, did i? Now that we've all had a good laugh perhaps we should go back on topic! Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Mail server issues
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Brian Witowski wrote: I am getting the following error in my fetchmail log file upon trying to get mail from a POP3/IMAP account: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to /usr/bin/procmail -d %Tfetc hmail: IMAP ) I only get it with one account. I don't have a problem with it 'falling back' but it takes about 7 or 8 minutes to time out. I don't know enough about email to figure out what it's trying to do. Any suggestions as to what is causing the error and how to fix it? Thanks, Brian I believe it is trying to say that it can't deliver to sendmail. If you're sure that sendmail is running and this only happens with one account then check that you've got the user name correct in fetchmail. Is the user name at the remote server the same as the local where you're trying to deliver the mail? If the names are different then you should be using something like the following line in fetchmailrc poll remote_server with proto POP3 user [EMAIL PROTECTED] there with passwd is harry here Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
re: virus scanning for linux email downloader
Michael: I use MIMEDefang to process email on the Linux StepByStep site as well as my other sites. You can get it from www.roaringpenguin.org/mimedefang . It then calls SpamAssassin, which calls Vipuls Razor (v1 !!) and then calls File::Scan to check for viruses. You could also throw Anomy::HTML in their to check inbound HTML email as well. All are open source projects and I have had NO issues with them. You will need the latest Sendmail and you need to have it compiled with libmilter turned on (see the SxS). After that, it's fairly easy to install the Perl modules. I would install Razor, then SpamAssassin, then File::Scan and finally MIMEDefang (everything will autodetect each other this way). Let me know if you have questions. - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org I originally tried to use MIMEdefang but never could get it to work. I was intrigued with the author's view that he doesn't supply binaries...if you don't know how to compile code then you shouldn't be trying to use his app. I can see his point but it still seems to be rather stupid to me. In any case, MIMEdefang just wouldn't compile on my system. I continued to get string errors no matter what I did. MIMEdefang's author and I exchanged printouts but he couldn't figger out what was happening either. I then checked out mailscanner. It doesn't require any config changes to the stock sendmail install and comes as a rpm package (as well as tar). I installed it in minutes and it has worked ever since. mailscanner uses spamassassin if you have it installed. It also supports several virus engines (ie. McAfee, Sophos, F-Prot, etc). Julian Field who wrote the code couldn't be more responsive to requests for features. I highly recommend mailscanner. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: virus scanning for linux email downloader
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: no changes to sendmail for mimedefang either. well, a tweak when you build your sendmail.cf, but that is true of all milter-based apps - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org Hmmm, something has changed since I tried MIMEdefang about a year ago. I had to compile sendmail from scratch. That was a pain. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Virus Scanning for Linux Email Downloader
Thanks for the pointers to mailscanner and amavis.org. I'll check them out. Are these free av products as prompt thorough about updating virus definitions as, say, Norton McAfee? Seems like it would be a nearly impossible job without significant full-time staff. Michael Mailscanner is free but the virus engines aren't. You will still need a licensed version of McAfee, Sophos, F-Prot, or whatever virus package you decide to use. Unfotunately, most of these packages are targetted at corporations and don't have an affordable price for small users. I'm not sure what your appication is? F-Prot will allow their package to be used for free on linux systems for personal/hobby use. Business use requires a license. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Virus Scanning for Linux Email Downloader
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Michael Hipp wrote: I will be configuring a Linux box to download email from the ISP for a bunch of Outhouse clients. Can anyone recommend a virus scanner that would catch anyting coming into the Linux box before it can be downloaded to the clients? Can I layer Spamassassin on top of that yet? Thanks, Michael I suggest you use mailscanner. It will work with serveral virus engines and also uses spamassassin if you have it installed. It comes as an rpm package for redhat and works with sendmail or exim. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: error in /var/log/mail
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, m.w.chang wrote: google.com didn't help me much... seems that it's a known problem of sendmail... Jun 4 10:32:32 server sendmail[2437]: g542UVL02435: timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input Jun 4 10:32:34 server sendmail[2443]: g542UWL02441: timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input The last time I checked these error messages I was told that sendmail was in the middle of receiving and the data flow stopped. sendmail then timed out waiting for the remainder of the transfer to occur. In other words, the transfer to your sendmail server was interrupted for some reason and sendmail finally gave up. It isn't a sendmail problem. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: news
On May 9 Net Llama! was heard saying: snip - *** On the other hand it is ridiculous the system works this way: - After all they ** made ** $15M! - -I think you missed the point. They didn't 'make' anything. The spent -more than they took in. THey 'lost' money. *** Having followed the thread I can see I did miss the point. I must admit I never really cared to understand how it worked... until today. If somebody feels like giving me a short HOWTO on capitalism ;-)... What I read and understood was that their forcast was $18M while they have done $15M and their share value went down. Maybe I missed it, but where do I see that they spent more than they earned? Just a warning: I am a straight ** 0 ** in this matter! :-) Cheers, Zoran. -- If you really want to get into the ugly details you should download their full results. However, the essential part I think you missed was that they had a LOSS of $0.23/share or $0.28/share..I forget which. What it means is that they spent more than they made ie. had a negative profit (a loss) and when the loss was divided by the number of shares that have been issued it gave the above result. In other words, Caldera and the analysts seemed to believe that they would sell around $18M in revenue but they missed and only got $15M. By the way, losing $$$ although never good is acceptable as long as there is a plan to get back to profitability and the company is tracking to the plan. The key is that the market place absolutely does NOT like surprises. Not meeting the targets that everyone expects will most certainly bring down your stock price...and that will cause the company's management to change, layoffs, and eventually the company will go broke if it isn't corrected. On the other hand Cisco announced on Tuesday night that they had a great quarter beating their projected results (I think everyone expected + $0.02/share and they came in at around + $0.08/share. Their stock price soared on Wed and the entire market took off. The Dow average went up 350 points...the largest gain in one day since 1994. This was based on speculation that we may have turned the corner on the recession and people are starting to place orders for telecommunications equipment again. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: news
Greetings, On Thu, 9 May 2002, dep wrote: http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0%2C10801%2C71003%2C00.html?nlid=AM Gee... $15 Million in revenue is a Bad Thing(tm)??? Not the $18 Million they expected. What sort of P/E does the $15 mil represent? I would have to say that is GOOD news in light of the number of Linux distributions that tanked in the last 12 months. And I'm not at all suprised to hear they are cutting costs and letting go their Chief Technology officer. They are long overdue to perform a bit of 'restructuring'... --- Jay The key is that they lost $0.28/share and they lost more than they predicted just 3 months ago. To shareholders that indicates they don't have control of their company. Many companies have been punished severely in the market by missing their projections by just $0.01!!! I didn't read the full context but if they predicted they would make $18M and they only made $15 then they were off their own projections by 16.7% in 3 months...there's no way to make that good news. The problem is that they need to demonstrate to shareholders that they are taking measures to reduce the bleeding but laying off staff and closing down development centres becomes a road straight to oblivion for a technology company. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: news
On May 9 Gerry Doris was heard saying: snip -I didn't read the full context but if they predicted they would make $18M -and they only made $15 then they were off their own projections by 16.7% *** On the other hand it is ridiculous the system works this way: After all they ** made ** $15M! Cheers, Zoran. -- Remember that although they made $15M in revenue they spent considerably more. They ended up losing $0.23 per share. That isn't a success. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: news
On Thursday 09 May 2002 19:13 pm, dep wrote: fyi, we did a little interview with ransom love an hour or so ago; it's up now: Sorry, but I don't buy the 'tough market' as being the sole reason for their demise. I still 'lurk' on the Caldera List and I cringe everytime I see someone struggling mightily to compile something or upgrade something else because Caldera 'forgot' or didn't include it in their stealth distro. I gave up on Caldera two years ago when the hand writing was on the wall that they were no longer interested in the retail market and I have never looked back. I think they've lost it. Caldera was the first distro that I bought many years ago and I was reasonably happy with it. However, I also felt that they were moving away from me and I gave up on them. I hate to see Caldera in the fix they're in but it really is a tough market. SuSE has also struggled at least in North America. Redhat, inspite of all the criticism they get seem to have the correct vision and seem to be just getting stronger while the rest are suffering. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Klez at it again
On Thu, 2 May 2002, David A. Bandel wrote: Folks, Please review the mail headers, someone on one of these lists has Klez. This is not really bounce message: 1. No Windoze here (much less Outhouse) 2. I don't think I know this e-mail address The Return-Path has most certainly been altered. But we can say that it originated on comcast.net: snip Subject: Undeliverable mail--Troubleshooting David, are you sure that it came from these lists? I'm subscribed to them too and I don't remember seeing any messages with the subject Troubleshooting. I'm really curious since I may have deleted it without reading it as I get so many messages that I usually scan the subjects and only read the interesting topics. If that's the case then mailscanner that is supposed to be checking for virii using F-Prot missed it. On the other hand mailscanner definitely didn't find a message with Klez in it either??? S, either the message didn't come in on these lists or mailscanner running on my system didn't catch the virus? Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: And now...., from our unlimited /hutzpah/ department
Scribbling feverishly on May 01, M.W.Chang managed to emit: asounds like an evil cult if not marriage... till death we part.. :) But at least with marriage, you have the possibility of divorce or annulment. Kurt -- Any father who thinks he's all important should remind himself that this country honors fathers only one day a year while pickles get a whole week. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. Hmmm, I'm not sure if death isn't preferable to the divorce process??? Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Red Hat 7.2 on HP Netserver E800
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Zoki wrote: html *** I will be installing RH 7.x on this machine without knowing what to think of the following: According to several colleagues HP seems to use the MBR for keeping hardware quot;specific dataquot; (?) in there which accordingly does not allow to write lilo to it.brbr What is true about this?br x-sigsepp/x-sigsep Cheers,br Zoran.br /html Do you really feel it is necessary to post html to list servers??? You see what it looks like in pine. Also, if the list is sent out in digest mode those subscribers are treated to the sample giberish. -- Gerry The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: procmail, day 2
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, [x-user-defined] toylet.linux[¤pª±·N] wrote:
when I use /etc/procmailrc to start procmail,
what user does it assume? root or ... whatever?
seems that it's not root...
I know the case when it was started in /home/user
Well, I don't pretend to be a procmail guru by any means and I highly
recommend you read the man files. There are lots of examples available on
the web too.
That said...When a user receives mail and procmail is enabled a procmail
process is kicked off for each message. First, procmail searches for a
.procmailrc file in the user's home directory. If that isn't found then
procmail looks for /etc/procmailrc.
There are situations when this can result in running procmail as root if
it isn't set correctly so be careful. Also, if several messages arrive at
the same time there may be contention in storing the messages. That's
were the lock files come in. They prevent various procmail processes from
stomping all over each other.
I only have a few users on my home network and have individual .procmailrc
files in each of their directories customized by user. I use procmail to
screen out obvious spam for the most part although I do have some messages
automatically forwarded to different users. I don't use the
/etc/procmailrc file at all.
One nice recipe is to eliminate duplicate messages (when those idiots go
on holidays and leave vacation messages pouring into list servers!!!). I
see that you're using that recipe too. If you want to use individual
.procmailrc files then change entries like /var/log/msgid.cache to the
user's home directory ie /home/gerry/msgid.cache to get around permission
problems.
Here's some sample lines from my .procmailrc file:
SHELL=/bin/sh
ABYSS=/dev/null
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail
VERBOSE=off
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/gerry
HOME=/home/gerry
:0 Wh: $HOME/msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 $HOME/msgid.cache
:0:
* ^From: .*(bellzinc\
|casino\
|musicmatch\
)
$ABYSS
:0 c
* ^(From: |To:|Cc:) .*aircanada
! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:0:
* ^Content-Type: .*(ks.*\
|ISO-2022-JP\
|ISO-8859-9\
)
$ABYSS
:0 D
* ^date:
$ABYSS
:0:
* ^X-Advertisement:.*
$ABYSS
:0:
* To: [ ]*$
$ABYSS
:0:
* To: .*(Undisclosed|undisclosed)
$ABYSS
:0:
* !To: .*
$ABYSS
:0fw:$HOME/spam.lock
| spamassassin -P
:0e
{
EXITCODE=$?
}
:0:
* ^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*
$ABYSS
:0:
* ^(From: |To:|Cc:) .*(redhat\
|suse\
|linux\
|caldera\
|lvm\
|monmotha\
|pan\
|JISCMAIL\
|samba\
|gamespy\
|licq\
)
$DEFAULT
I have some other stuff after this but I don't want to totally bore you!!!
I should clean the .procmailrc files up some day since stuff gets added in
a rather ad hoc way.
Gerry
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Re: procmail, day 2
I don't believe procmail cares where you put the log files as long as you can write to the directory. Change the path of the lock files to a directory where the user running procmail can write. does sendmail guarantee that only one procmail will be active at any time when there is a /etc/procmailrc? This locking issue is definitely complicating my job... I have taken out all : in my /etc/procmailrc except the msgid.cache you created in the sample. I believe the example assumes you are running as root. That's why they use /var/log. A normal user can't write to /var/log for obvious reasons. Each user may have his/her own .procmailrc file in their own directory. When that user starts prormail it uses that user's .procmailrc file. Just make sure that whatever user is calling procmail it can write to the specified directories. Gerry -- The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne Chaucer ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: POP before SMTP
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Bill Day spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: as in? I still havent quite got SMTP with sendmail working, if I use my as in anyone who sucessfully pops first (id and password) can send through my sendmail. right now, I can set you up an account on my machine, and you can pop from it, but you won't be able to send through it cause relaying is denied. If you logged into the machine, you could send. pop before smtp gets around this.. I can help you set up sendmail with authorization. It's quite simple. The idea is that your clients either check authentication required on their mail clients (ie. win Outlook) and point them at your mail server that's running sendmail as the MTA. Linux boxes just point their mail clients at their own localhost sendmail which is told to use your mail server as their smart host. sendmail on your mail server will then authenticate your clients using their user name and password. They will also be able to relay through your mail server without problems. I have to head out to work now but will send on the files this evening so you can see how it works. Gerry ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Yahoo and Kmail
Follow the instructions in this url. It assumes you're using sendmail as your mta. http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/sendmail_smtp_auth.html Gerry Yahoo have changed their smtp so that it must be 'authenticated'. I am able to send via Netscape, but Kmail falls over with a reject response (from yahoo). The blurb on the Yahoo site gives an example for Outlook (Express) sigh and says to click the 'server requires authentication box'. This is not selectable under netscape mail composer (works anyway) but Kmail just will not send correctly? Anyone have a fix for this? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: procmail and sendmail
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
Gerry Doris spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into:
An even nicer solution is to add mailscanner. It integrates with
spamassassin and will also scan all mail from viruses using a variety of
virus scanners.
got a homepage for that?
www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner
I've been using mailscanner to scan all mail coming/going on my server for
viruses since Oct. It supports several virus engines (one or all at the
same time).
When spam support is turned on mailscanner will make an internal call
directly to spamassassin. If the spam count is above the threshold you
set mailscanner will modify the header adding {SPAM} that can be filtered
by procmail.
I've set spamassassin up to use razor. That really cut the traffic down!
I've had many emails flagged for viruses. The samba list was really bad
until they started filtering themselves. I rarely see a spam message
anymore.
--
Gerry
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