[newbie] What is 6.1 (= Mandrake 6.1 ?)
Hello I read messages where people are talking about the 6.1 release. Since I have Mandrake 6.1 with 2.2.11-2mdk kernel are we talking about the same thing please ? thanks
[newbie] Re:
Joaquin wrote: Wha happen? Joaquin off the page? :-) Bob J.
RE: [newbie] What is 6.1 (= Mandrake 6.1 ?)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of cyril.thibout Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 3:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] What is 6.1 (= Mandrake 6.1 ?) Hello I read messages where people are talking about the 6.1 release. Since I have Mandrake 6.1 with 2.2.11-2mdk kernel are we talking about the same thing please ? thanks YES B. W.
Re: [newbie] Start modem without netcfg?
I assume that you want to get on the net, and that you can use a modem. If this is true, then you can use kppp in the KDE desktop environment under the Internet menu option, to provide the needed information about your service provider, or you can use the linuxconfig utility either from the command line, or from inside the Gnome desktop environment. These two utilities do about the same thing, but they do not share information. If you use linuxconfig from the command line, you can use the "ifup ppp0" command to start the dialup connection, and the "ifdown ppp0" command to log off. I hope this helps a little, although a more specific request would be of help. Ernie - Original Message - From: Mulvaney, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 7:31 AM Subject: [newbie] Start modem without netcfg? Everything works great under Mandrake 6.0, but I can't find out how to start a dial up connection without starting X and running netcfg. Can I do this from the command line? Thanks! ***There's a fine line between an attitude problem and thinking clearly***
[newbie] [OT][humour] Evil?
I hate to post OT stuff to the list but I just could not help it. Goto Google.com and type in "more evil than satan" and see which site comes up tops! I will apologize to anybody who thinks i am wasting bandwidth but i just think the guys at google.com are doing a very good job...my number 1 search engine anytime. == E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ No.: 38756924 Murray's Rule: Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. ==
Re: [newbie] Re: Win98 Linux Mandrake
If you only want to get one or two files from one OS to the other, why not just email it as an attachment to yourself? Could save you a lot of messing around, but if this needs to be a regular thing, look in the HOWTO's for information. There is one for just what you're trying to do, but I can't remember the name just now, and I'm not in my Linux OS to go look. Sorry I couldn't be more help, Ernie - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Win98 Linux Mandrake Jaguar wrote: From a Windows pro, but Linux stupid...:) I have a few systems here..and as yet I don't have a working network. I wouold like to know if there is an easy way to transfer a Linux program (D/L'ed from the Net on Win98) from my PC to my Linux system...I can connect the hard-drive ( I have that Util that is supposed to look at Linux drives (Explore2FS.exe)) to the Win98 system, but what method should/could I use to "copy" from 98 to Mandrake? Thanks in advance...:) Maybe a LapLink cable? or null modem cable? Either one will be faster than a floppy disk. I don't think Explore2FS will write to ext2 partitions, last I knew it was read-only. Other than that, I'd suggest at least getting the Win98 and Linux machines talking across the network. FTP files from Win98 to Linux for the easiest transfer. If you get ambitious, you could setup Linux with Samba and write to it that way... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] X problems
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, you wrote: I have a Logitec 2 button FirstMouse set up to emulate 3 buttons. I have also tried the mouse without 3 button emulation with no luck. I am going to try upgrading to XFree86-3.3.5 since mandrake 6.0 uses 3.3.3.1; hopefully, this may help resolve my problem. scott I've got a Logitech 2 button psu, no problems. I believe a lot of the mouse problems I keep reading about on this list and the NG's, might just well be motherboard issues as the mouse itself. I buy keyboards and mice for $5-$10 each, when they start to not work properly or just get too dirty, I toss 'em and get a new one. The result is I've had a lot of keybds/mice, and generally when they don't want to work properly from the start, it's just as often the motherboard/OS configuration. -- .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [newbie] (not so) Incompatible Hardware
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Manny Styles wrote: - Original Message - From: David P. Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Brian J. Babiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Brian J. Babiuk wrote: snip Packard Bell computers of any vintage. snip I have never experienced anything more likely to drop its MBR or a few clusters off the disk than these babies. --I agree! Packard Bell, the Star Office of Computers g ROTFLMAO!!! David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics Maybe I have one of those 1 in 3 Packard Bells, so I needed to interject. I believe that it is the newer Packard Bell pc's that are really crap. I have a Packard Bell Legend 100CD that has built-in Cirrus Logic 1 MB video, and a 480 MB Seagate harddrive (bought in mid '95). By your standards, I should have been dead in the water. It is true that I have made some hardware changes in that time (ie: upgraded the 14.4 kbps faxmodem to a x2 56kbps faxmodem [now v.90], and a 50x CD-ROM drive since the original Panasonic-Matsushita died, plus more RAM). I also added a Maxtor 4.3 GB harddrive as a slave device (but it is now the master), with my swap and /home partitions on the original Seagate. I also dual boot. It is true indeed that I have had some problems with linux, but nothing hardware related. I understand that the original e-mail was just a start, but all of these things can't just be automatically scratched out. Now if you say there may be hardware that conflict with each other, that may be a bit more acurate. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html --How did you get your old PB bios to accept the big drive? David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.**
Re: [newbie] re Scar Orifice
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Civileme wrote: And thank you, David, for not giving up right away. snip Without it, I would not have been able to convince management to allow the OS switch at the workers' desktops. Civileme --Well, that alone makes it valuable. It also leads me to wonder, how a switch like that would go in terms of ease of migration. I know that my wife, for instance, had a hell of a time transitioning from Win3.1 at her job to Win95. She's not a transistor chewin" gear head, like some of us. She views the computer as a sort of nessesary evil. I KNOW that changing over to Linux would be quite difficult for her. David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.**
Re: [newbie] Email system
From: Ronald A. Yacketta I have sendmail running on my box, but it does not appear to work 100% of the time. various other inet sites are unable to send email to me. they get a connection timed out error *shrug* send emails to numerous groups and no reply/solution. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/06/99 11:17:12 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] Email system Sorry sending to both newbie and expert mailing lists, but it is a bit urgent for me. Does anyone have experience in using qmail, sendmail, fetchmail, twig, postmail etc? Would you please share your experience, good or bad, whether it is reliable and easy to manage? I have to implement an email system, preferably with web-based frontend, in the company. Thanks a lot. Ken ___ Get your hongkong.com freemail at http://www.hongkong.com Free newsletters center at http://post4u.hongkong.com
Re: [newbie] Clarifying EIDE
I use a FIC VA503+ and a 4.3 Gig WesternDigital HD and have had no problems. I think I set the drive to LBA in the BIOS also. --- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Civileme wrote: Adds FIC VA503+ and big drives to his list of things to avoid DO NOT add this motherboard, nor big drives to your "avoid" list. As I've already posted, I previously used a FIC-503+ board along with a 7G and a 6.4G drive. Neither drive had ANY problems. Setting the BIOS to LBA (or possibly LARGE, though it's been awhile since I played with that BIOS) will allow all operating systems to see all parts of the drive. Windows included. I'm not sure why the original poster seems to think that the MaxBlast software is required. From what I recall of the dirty little utility, it was intended for extremely old BIOSes which didn't recognize drives larger than 528M. It's been a LONG time since those BIOSes have shipped on retail boards. We're talking early 486 days, folks. My advice stands. Toss the MaxBlast disk into the trash. Forget you ever owned it. Modify your BIOS settings to reflect that you're using a large drive and need Logical Block Addressing (LBA). All will be fine. Try www.compgeeks.com. They may have a few Promise EIDE controllers left. DON'T, not even in an air raid, consider an ISA EIDE controller. I think that sort of bottleneck could break a lot of assumptions made by the programmers. If you cannot get the board there for a substantial discount, then try www.dcdrives.com for full factory price. Civileme Thomas Peter wrote: I have a FIC VA503+ with a Maxtor Hard drive. I am running Win 98 and Mandrake. My MB recognizes my Maxtor HD but not its size. I have upgraded my bios to the newest version. So I have to install EZ Bios to get it to see its full size. Everything is running fine except that EZ Bios makes Linux see My HD as a temporary drive. instead of the main. So it will not run executible programs. I wrote FIC 4 times inquirering about this problem before upgrading my Bios and have not gotten an answer. Maxtor E d me the next day and told me to get an EIDE controller card. Does any one know of a card that Linux will see. I have a space for PCI and ISA. Thank you Thomas -- visit http://homepages.msn.com/invalid_url Is Microsoft afraid to pay itself license fees for IIS? Sure looks like an Apache (open-source) Signature to me -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Clarifying EIDE
More info on Maxblast and Linux(Redhat,should apply to Mandrake) http://www.maxtor.com/technology/qa/qa901002.html#Q4 Linux and UltraDMA Mini-Howto http://siva.usc.edu/~brion/linux/Ultra-DMA.html B.W.
RE: [newbie] What is 6.1 (= Mandrake 6.1 ?)
your kernel seems olderi just downloaded 6.1 from one of their sites and it has 2.2.13-5 i believe.. Aaron -Original Message- From: cyril.thibout [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 3:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] What is 6.1 (= Mandrake 6.1 ?) Hello I read messages where people are talking about the 6.1 release. Since I have Mandrake 6.1 with 2.2.11-2mdk kernel are we talking about the same thing please ? thanks
[newbie] installation
I thought I knew what I was doing, but... It seems I can't get the partioning to work when trying to install Linux-Mandrake 6.0. I have a 6Gb partion set aside for this program on my second HDD (SCSI). When I set the root partition to 1Mb, it says that the partion is too large. When I set it larger, it says not enough disk space. I'm confused. Can anyone give me a hint? I thought the enclosed partion program would do everything for me, and that I wouldn't have to repartion the whole 18Mb drive. TIA John G. (Jack) Karnos (760) 939-8507 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karnos, John G.vcf
[newbie] Mandrake or Red Hat
Hello. I am going to build my own computer and I want Linux to be the OS. I have a CD with Linux Mandrake 6.0, but a friend offered me his Red Hat 6.0. Could you please tell me why should I stay with Mandrake? I'll use my box mainly for gaming and rendering raytracing, and I want a really good video card. What is the best option for Linux? I was thinkin on some Voodoo card. Thanks. Hugo
[newbie] licq 0.70.1
I want to install the latest licq which requires a newer qt that what mdk 6.1 installs. I am not too familiar with these rpms yet ... do I need to uninstall the old qt libs before insatlling the new? Any other know issues with installing licq? I tried the archives but cannot connect to the server that stores them ... sorry if this is faq -- Gang Warily
RE: [newbie] Download Mandrake
What is that RedHat directory for? -Original Message- From: B. W. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Download Mandrake -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Teemu Marjalaakso Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Download Mandrake I'm in the process of downloading Mandrake 6.1 from Linuxberg but I noticed that there is a BIG directory called RedHat under it? Do I need this for the install CD? No, just the Mandrake. B.W.
Re: [newbie] Can't run MODEMTOOL
Just saw Red Hat 6.1 last night and I think they have been taking a look at Mandrake. There are icons on KDE for floppy and CD mount and they now have a choice to fully install KDE and Gnome. The KDM util works like Mandrake 6.0 and a few other things. Their new install utility looks neat though. Loads a basic VGA X server to make it graphical and you still have the option to drop to a command line in another tty. Brian Y2K Flunky -Original Message- From: Jones On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, you wrote: I don't recall seeing Pentium optimized packages in my RH6.0 discs. haha yah. . .lets also point out Mandrake's FUNCTIONAL hardware probe and other morking scripts that have been absent from RH. . . -- Seth Gibson http://www.mp3.com/PsMX http://members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder/welcome.html "The only way left is to hack your own brain. . .then loop it through Jones."
RE: [newbie] Download Mandrake
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Teemu Marjalaakso Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 4:00 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Download Mandrake What is that RedHat directory for? It is for the Redhat version a different flavor or distribution of Linux. Stick with the Mandrake if you want to install Mandrake. B.W. -Original Message- From: B. W. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Download Mandrake -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Teemu Marjalaakso Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Download Mandrake I'm in the process of downloading Mandrake 6.1 from Linuxberg but I noticed that there is a BIG directory called RedHat under it? Do I need this for the install CD? No, just the Mandrake. B.W.
[newbie] M6.1
Hi I have Mandrake 6.0 and I plan to install 6.1. Are there any unresolved issue - problems that should make stay with 6.0? TIA, JUlian
Re: [newbie] Restricting user access by IP
You can set up ipchains too. see : man ipchains how-to Le Thu, 07 Oct 1999, vous avez écrit : Is it possible to configure a linux server to only allow 10 users access to server web pages and telnet(on a intranet web server). Is there an easy way to do this? Or must I learn how to set up a VPN? My assumption is that host.allow only restricts access to telnet not httpd? Is this right? Also, what is involved in verifing a DNS configuration. The status now is that anybody on our network can access this server without any problems. I would like to restrict this to only 10 users! -- -- Frederic PLE email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
[newbie] Partitions and re-installation
Hello list. I have just receive my Helios CD, an plan to install it tomorrow. I have two questions about this installation : 1. I have a partition monted as /home. What will happen to my home directory when I will create my account during the re-installation (I will keep this partition alive) : should I backup my directory (to avoid conflicts), should I rename it (and copy its contents to the freshly created), what will happen to the httpd (contains my web site), ftp and lost+found directories ??? 2. Though the CD claims "Helios", the mandrake-release package (mandrake-release-6.1-2mdk.noarch.rpm) includes file saying "Cassini". Is it normal ? Thanks...
Re: [newbie] Setting Up X with a UTNT2
The "tar xvzf RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386-dyn.tar.gz" file extracts: GLX.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules libGL.so* to /usr/X11R6/lib XF86_SVGA to /usr/X11R6/bin I tried: ln -fs /usr/X11R6/bin/X /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA ls -fs /etc/X11/X /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA then i try "startx" which gives the: Fatal Server Error: No GLINT/PERMEDIA based card found. Where did I go wrong...or what should I try now? 1. You have XFree86 3.3.5 in 6.1 2. You may need to set up the link Where did the X server from the tarball go? And the -dyn. in the package seems to imply it will be looking for some libraries on your machine, which may be a later source of error. See if you can get the staticly linked binary To set up the link, you need to discover where it got inflated and placed when you ran tar xvzf RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386-dyn.tar.gz to do that you need to FIND it Probably searching on RIVA will do it. For demo purposes, let's say it is /usr/X11R6/bin/RIVA (this probably won't be the filename or directory. You'll have to find that) You need to try ln -fs /usr/X11R6/bin/X /usr/X11R6/bin/RIVA ln -fs /etc/X11/X /usr/X11R6/bin/RIVA After that, the program to use is XF86Setup and maybe xvidtune once you have it going. The last parts of those instruction lines need to be changed to point to the file where the Xserver actually installed. If you have more questions after trying this, then ask. Civileme Steven Thomas Madara wrote: I'm having trouble getting X to boot up, as in - it won't. My video card is a Creative Labs Ultra TNT2. I've visited the nvidia website, and installed the "RIVA-X-GLX-1.0-glibc-i386-dyn.tar.gz" file. The page also mentions that I have to have "XFree86 3.3.3.1 dated after January 7, 1999" for it to work. I'm running Mandrake 6.1...how can i check to see if my x server is 3.3.3.1 and dated after jan7, 1999? I've tried setting my card up with xf86config several times, selecting the regular SVGA server options...but each time i attempt to run X I get the error message: "No GLINT/PERMEDIA based card found." Are there any urls someone could point me to that explain the installation and setup of X with a TNT2 card? Do I need to setup XFree86 3.3.3.1? Looking for any input on this... Thx, Steve
Re: [newbie] X problems
On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, Tom wrote: I've got a Logitech 2 button psu, no problems. I believe a lot of the mouse problems I keep reading about on this list and the NG's, might just well be motherboard issues as the mouse itself. I buy keyboards and mice for $5-$10 each, when they start to not work properly or just get too dirty, I toss 'em and get a new one. The result is I've had a lot of keybds/mice, and generally when they don't want to work properly from the start, it's just as often the motherboard/OS configuration. -- ..Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] . - Well, I came up with an interesting solution to my X problem, by way of a friend with more linux experience than i (and that don't take much!). He suggested that i try another distro since i had no huge time or data invested with Linux-Mandrake. I used his Red Hat 6.0 disk from cheapbytes.com and got things installed with no problem; so now i just need to play with xvidtune a little and ditch the GNOME desktop as i like what little i've seen of KDE. I selected the generic ps/2 mouse and RH probed things correctly and setting up X was no problemam i correct in assuming that i can use the X11Config file from this installation with a Linux- Mandrake install also??? Scott
RE: [newbie] Download Mandrake
:) I know what RedHat is just wondering what it was doing under Mandrake-6.1 directory Thanks for help -Original Message- From: B. W. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 3:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Download Mandrake -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Teemu Marjalaakso Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 4:00 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Download Mandrake What is that RedHat directory for? It is for the Redhat version a different flavor or distribution of Linux. Stick with the Mandrake if you want to install Mandrake. B.W. -Original Message- From: B. W. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Download Mandrake -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Teemu Marjalaakso Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Download Mandrake I'm in the process of downloading Mandrake 6.1 from Linuxberg but I noticed that there is a BIG directory called RedHat under it? Do I need this for the install CD? No, just the Mandrake. B.W.
[newbie] File Manager for Linux
Has anyone had a problem using the KDE File Manager in Mandrake or Red Hat Linux v6.0. You login as root and when you startup the file manager, it asks you for the root password. Every character that you key into the password prompt is replaced by 3 asterisks. I key in the root password and it does not take me into the file manager. Is there a configuration setting that I need to change or what??? ** Ricardo Tijerina LAN Administrator Texas AM International University * Computer Telecommunications Services * Voice..: (956)326-2302 Fax: (956)326-2299 E-Mail.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
Re: [newbie] Restricting user access by IP
"Lambert, Stephen : CO IR" wrote: Is it possible to configure a linux server to only allow 10 users access to server web pages and telnet(on a intranet web server). Is there an easy way to do this? Or must I learn how to set up a VPN? My assumption is that host.allow only restricts access to telnet not httpd? Is this right? Also, what is involved in verifing a DNS configuration. The status now is that anybody on our network can access this server without any problems. I would like to restrict this to only 10 users! You'll actually want to investigate the configuration files in /etc/httpd/conf. Apache isn't run through inetd and isn't controlled by TCP Wrappers. http://www.apache.org should have definitive information on how to configure those files to limit server access to the 10 users. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Accessing a POP3 account.
Howdy, I got Mandrake 6.1 setup and configured sendmail. I am able to send and receive mail, but only from my server box. I cannot access the mail via POP3 from either my other linux box or my windows box. The message I get from Kmail is: Pop Mail Error Account: username In OPEN: Unknown error In Eudora I get: Error reading from network Cause: Connection closed by foreign host. (0) I tried adding the IPs of my machines to my hosts.allow file, but that didn't help. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
Re: [newbie] installation
partition magic is a good idea
Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake
you need it it contains important system files
Re: [newbie] Aol Instant Messenger
is it a tar file? if so click on archiver and open the file it will ask you where to put it /root is fine. after opening it there is a file in it called install read it and it will tell you how to do the rest. hope this helps, Ralph - Original Message - From: "Payne Stanifer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 6:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Aol Instant Messenger I just downloaded AIM for linux and I was wondering how do you install it? I need a pretty through explination. I didn't see any instructions at the site where I downloaded it. Thanks Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
RE: [newbie] Restricting user access by IP
I have spent allot of time with /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf httpd.conf(many hours). The results I'm getting are not what I'm looking for! I can restrict users based on subnet but not at the ip level no matter what $%* I do My assumption is that, the above mentioned files will not restrict users from telnet access. Surely there has to be a better way? Right now I am surfing http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO . Setting up a firewall sounds so intimidating! This whole HOWTO web page is just greek to me. I didn't find an example of my situation there. I don't have man pages for ipfwadm or ipchains(not sure why). Also, If the firewall service is considered a "generic service", then how do you envoke it? Configure it? Meanwhile my web server is available to our whole company, not just the intended 10 users.(stress) -Original Message- From: Steve Philp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Restricting user access by IP "Lambert, Stephen : CO IR" wrote: Is it possible to configure a linux server to only allow 10 users access to server web pages and telnet(on a intranet web server). Is there an easy way to do this? Or must I learn how to set up a VPN? My assumption is that host.allow only restricts access to telnet not httpd? Is this right? Also, what is involved in verifing a DNS configuration. The status now is that anybody on our network can access this server without any problems. I would like to restrict this to only 10 users! You'll actually want to investigate the configuration files in /etc/httpd/conf. Apache isn't run through inetd and isn't controlled by TCP Wrappers. http://www.apache.org should have definitive information on how to configure those files to limit server access to the 10 users. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Aol Instant Messenger
No, it is a shell script. So what do I do now? From: "Ralph | byte-runner |" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Aol Instant Messenger Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 19:34:53 -0400 is it a tar file? if so click on archiver and open the file it will ask you where to put it /root is fine. after opening it there is a file in it called install read it and it will tell you how to do the rest. hope this helps, Ralph - Original Message - From: "Payne Stanifer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 6:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Aol Instant Messenger I just downloaded AIM for linux and I was wondering how do you install it? I need a pretty through explination. I didn't see any instructions at the site where I downloaded it. Thanks Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Is NFS really that bad
Greetings all. As I prepare (read find the time) to set up a Linux network at home i have been reading up on NFS. This is apparently the standard Unix file sharing/networking system. However whenever I read something about it I read things like "its slow, horrible, etc" (nfs-howto) or "has security problems so I wouldn't recommend it" (the new Linux Administration Made Easy guide - found it on freshmeat yesterday). Is NFS really that bad? - I am yet to read anything positive about it. If it is that bad is there some kind of Linux networking system that is better/quicker/more secure than NFS? I want to use a Linux server and workstation setup What's the opinion of all you Linux/Unix gurus/sysadmins out there of NFS? Aaron
RE: [newbie] Removing my windows hard drive
I think I'll try messing around with this - from what's been said the performance improvements are quite good. I presume the Ultra-DMA howto and man for hdparm is all I need (and copies of the thread emails). -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 10:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Removing my windows hard drive A second query out of interest: In my current setup Windows is installed on a standard hard drive, while Linux uses a DMA33 capable drive. The bios has DMA/33 enabled however my understanding is that if the master device on an ide port is not DMA/33 capable then the slave cannot operate DMA/33. What I would like to know is - after I change my system around and remove Windows, will Linux take advantage of the DMA/33. During boot up I see that the kernel makes certain optimisations for the various hard drives so does the kernel do some sort of probe during boot to determine if DMA/33 is present, or is there some other initialisation script that contains that information? Actually it would seem this info has been answered in another thread (i think). I would still like to know if you can optimise a slave drive for DMA/33 while having the master at standard. I can't answer this one. Sorry. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I believe the 'another thread' is prob'ly Steve and my exchange about optimizing HDD's using 'hdparm'. I have Windows on ide0 master, and Linux on ide0 slave. I was able to optimize ide0 slave and enable DMA without doing the same for ide0 master. Both my WD's are UDMA capable, but I'd bet you'll have no problem with enabling DMA on one drive whether it's master or slave, or even putting them both as master on ide0 and ide1. To avoid any confusion, I believe DMA, UDMA, DMA33, and UDMA2 are all one in the same, just different terms for the same direct memory access. ..Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[newbie] Install Help
Can Linux-Mandrake 6.0 be installed onto SCSI drives? I continually get an Fdisk error message "An error occured reading the partition table for the block dvice /tmp/sdc. The error was: device not configured". I have 6GB of an 18GB drive free and ready to use for Linux, IF I can ever get past this hurtle. can anyone out there help me?? TIA John G. (Jack) Karnos (760) 939-8507 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karnos, John G.vcf
Re: [newbie] licq 0.70.1
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: I want to install the latest licq which requires a newer qt that what mdk 6.1 installs. I am not too familiar with these rpms yet ... do I need to uninstall the old qt libs before insatlling the new? i think you can just type rpm --force. . .should overwrite Seth Gibson http://www.mp3.com/PsMX http://members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder/welcome.html "The only way left is to hack your own brain. . .then loop it through Jones."
[newbie] problems with ./configure while trying to install new application
After uncompressing a tar file, I then proceeded to read the intall file. The install file said to run ./configure, then make, and then make install. While trying to run ./configure, I got the following messages: ~ checking for working aclocal...missing checking...missing checking...missing checking ...missing ~ checking for gcc...no checking for cc...no configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $path What does this mean? How do I fix it so that I can install this program (btw - I already looked for an RPM packaged version of the application and had no success) Thanks very much, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Can't open modem
I installed Mandrake 6.0 last night (Custom) - no problems with the installation. When I tried to dial in to my ISP, however, (Kppp), I got a message that a file was missing from my /dev/modem directory. I had Kppp query my modem and it told me that it could not open the modem. I tried to check the file, and I don't appear to have a /dev/modem directory at all. What do I need to do to get my modem recognized? TIA
[newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?
My secure log showed the following entries: Oct 6 16:45:12 C287853-A ipop3d[11229]: connect from 193.137.8.223 Oct 6 16:45:12 C287853-A ipop3d[11229]: error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/ipop3d: No such file or directory nslookup 193.137.8.223 Name:oboe.dsi.uminho.pt Address: 193.137.8.223 He's running an apache webserver and his name is Jorge Figueiredo . Even with all of this information I'm not sure how to contact his ISP. Any suggestions? Thanks
Re: [newbie] X problems
, I came up with an interesting solution to my X problem, by way of a friend with more linux experience than i (and that don't take much!). He suggested that i try another distro since i had no huge time or data invested with Linux-Mandrake. I used his Red Hat 6.0 disk from cheapbytes.com and got things installed with no problem; so now i just need to play with xvidtune a little and ditch the GNOME desktop as i like what little i've seen of KDE. I selected the generic ps/2 mouse and RH probed things correctly and setting up X was no problemam i correct in assuming that i can use the X11Config file from this installation with a Linux- Mandrake install also??? Scott -- Mea Culpa, but this sounds like a Window's 'expert' kind'a fix. Their usual advice is to just 'wipe and reload'. I'm glad you fixed your problem, but with Windows I learned to maintain it, and that's the course I'm lookin for with Mandrake. With Windows, all that really needs to be done is to clean, preen, and baby the Registry by an experienced user. I'm gonna follow the path that Mandrake just deserves the same repect, as does any distro. So my advice can only be, if you start havin' different, but similar problems with RH it'll be high time to start lookin real hard at the No.1 cause of computer problems, the interface between the keyboard, mouse, and chair ;- BTW, I leave in the mornin for Alabama, anybody goin to the races at Dega? I meet with a lot'a I-net friends, usually in OV Hill S Sec M-N Row 25, before noon. Look for people wearin stuff that says RASN (rec.autos.sport.nascar). Go #3 (either one :) .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [[newbie] Cant open modem]
"RJ Friedman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Mandrake 6.0 last night (Custom) - no problems with the installation. When I tried to dial in to my ISP, however, (Kppp), I got a message that a file was missing from my /dev/modem directory. I had Kppp query my modem and it told me that it could not open the modem. I tried to check the file, and I don't appear to have a /dev/modem directory at all. What do I need to do to get my modem recognized? How about a bit more info? What make and type modem? What port is it on? How do you have it configured. Assuming you have windows also, what IRQ does it use? etc Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Mandrake 6.1
Just wondering how everybody likes the new Mandrake 6.1 version compared to 6.0? Are their any problems installing using the upgrade method as opposed to doing a fresh install? B.W.
[newbie] losing memory
hi, i have been checking my memory usage lately. i am curious about my memory consumption right after boot. the first thing i do is log in a root and do # free one of two things tends to come up: **mem condition 1: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63056 28552 34504 8448 2480 19860 -/+ buffers/cache: 6212 56844 Swap: 104384 0 104384 **mem condition 2: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63056 61508 1548 7728 44940 6436 -/+ buffers/cache: 10132 52924 Swap: 104384144 104240 condition one seems really bad as nearly half my memory is gone before i have even done anything. condition two is even worse. why the huge consumption? and why do two different boots use two radically different amounts of memory. if i do 'ps aux' on either of these conditions, then i always get similar results. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 2.6 0.7 1148 492 ?S21:04 0:04 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 21:04 0:00 [kflushd] root 3 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 21:04 0:00 [kupdate] root 4 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 21:04 0:00 [kpiod] root 5 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 21:04 0:00 [kswapd] root 213 0.0 1.0 1344 648 ?S21:05 0:00 syslogd root 223 0.0 1.2 1424 768 ?S21:05 0:00 klogd daemon 238 0.0 0.8 1172 512 ?S21:05 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 253 0.0 1.0 1368 644 ?S21:05 0:00 crond root 268 0.0 0.9 1360 600 ?S21:05 0:00 lpd root 306 0.0 0.7 1180 460 ?S21:05 0:00 gpm -t ps/2 xfs330 0.1 2.3 2588 1476 ?S21:05 0:00 xfs -port -1 root 353 0.0 1.6 2228 1064 tty1 S21:05 0:00 login -- root root 354 0.0 0.6 1124 424 tty2 S21:05 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 355 0.0 0.6 1124 424 tty3 S21:05 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 356 0.0 0.6 1124 424 tty4 S21:05 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 357 0.0 0.6 1124 424 tty5 S21:05 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 358 0.0 0.6 1124 424 tty6 S21:05 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tt root 361 0.0 1.9 2088 1216 tty1 S21:05 0:00 -bash root 384 0.0 1.2 1544 776 ttyS1S21:06 0:00 pppd root 434 0.0 1.3 2512 860 tty1 R21:07 0:00 ps aux where is the big memory hog? is ps right or is free right, they both are reporting different things? and why would a freshly booted system use 61 megs ram? please help me understand this! better yet, please help me fix this! :P
Re: [newbie] problems with ./configure while trying to install new application
M Thompson wrote: After uncompressing a tar file, I then proceeded to read the intall file. The install file said to run ./configure, then make, and then make install. While trying to run ./configure, I got the following messages: ~ checking for working aclocal...missing checking...missing checking...missing checking ...missing ~ checking for gcc...no checking for cc...no configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $path What does this mean? How do I fix it so that I can install this program (btw - I already looked for an RPM packaged version of the application and had no success) Thanks very much, Matt __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com You didn't install ANY compilers or languages. heh. I made the mistake a long time ago myself. I thought, hmm, I'm not a programmer, why should I install g++ or any of that stuff. Boy, was I wrong. Since then, I install EVERY programming language and library that comes with RH or Mandrake. Simply put, you don't have the compilers installed to "make" the executable. RPM's are COMPLILED files. You can install these without the programming stuff. When you dload something like beavis.tar.gz its a SOURCE file, that needs to be made into an executable program. Live and learn. I did the same thing. Alan -- === [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Re: [newbie] Connecting a joystick
Wow.. that works. Thanx. But shouldn't this be done automatically when I install Mandrake? After all, the joystick kernel module is included. --- Belzebub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: copy this and execute it as root Cut Here --- #!/bin/sh rm -f /dev/js0 /dev/js1 /dev/js2 /dev/js3 mknod /dev/js0 c 15 0 mknod /dev/js1 c 15 1 mknod /dev/js2 c 15 2 mknod /dev/js3 c 15 3 --- Cut Here This will make your joystick devices. = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?
"Eric L. Damron" wrote: My secure log showed the following entries: Oct 6 16:45:12 C287853-A ipop3d[11229]: connect from 193.137.8.223 Oct 6 16:45:12 C287853-A ipop3d[11229]: error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/ipop3d: No such file or directory nslookup 193.137.8.223 Name:oboe.dsi.uminho.pt Address: 193.137.8.223 He's running an apache webserver and his name is Jorge Figueiredo . Even with all of this information I'm not sure how to contact his ISP. Any suggestions? Thanks Unless this is happening frequently, I'd cool my jets on the "hacker" (BTW, the term is cracker, not hacker). One probe does not a hack make. As for contacting his ISP, use whois to lookup InterNIC information on the domain, find out who his providers are, then contact them. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] losing memory
pete moss wrote: hi, i have been checking my memory usage lately. i am curious about my memory consumption right after boot. the first thing i do is log in a root and do # free I posted a good reply to this question a couple weeks ago that provided an explanation of the numbers you're seeing. Check the archives at the Mandrake site to get the scoop! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] How Microsoft-esque
--Here's an interesting question. Nutscrape has a folder in the bookmarks called "Personal Toolbar Folder". I have tried every way I can think of to delete it, but it just won't go away. What does it contain? a bunch of links to nutscrape.com Hmm. Sound familliar? Sound a little like BILL GATES!!! You bet it does. Anybody else out there who doesn't want their computer telling them what files they have to save, know how to get rid of this damn thing? David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.**
Re: [newbie] Aol Instant Messenger
On 7 Oct, Payne Stanifer wrote: No, it is a shell script. So what do I do now? You're not telling us what we need to know. I'd suggest running the shell script to start with. Which AIM client are you using? What's the web site? I'd help, but I simply don't know what the problem is. Okay, you can't install it... well, there are many, many methods of program installation under Linux- RPM, DEB are two packging systems that jump to mind. Something might come in a tarball of source code. Or they might just tar up binaries. ICQ for java is distributed as compiled binaries, but require you to run a shell script to determine environment variables. Might this be a situation similar to yours? -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [[newbie] Cant open modem]
How about a bit more info? What make and type modem? What port is it on? How do you have it configured. Assuming you have windows also, what IRQ does it use? etc The modem is a NEC Thunder - nothing esoteric. I've always used ATZ or ATF1 for the initialization string. A while back when I was trying out Red Hat 5.0 there was no problem with my being able to dial out with it. It's on COM2, IRQ 3 (OS/2, btw - not windows g). __ On 7 Oct 99 22:06:02 EDT, Michael Scottaline wrote: "RJ Friedman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Mandrake 6.0 last night (Custom) - no problems with the installation. When I tried to dial in to my ISP, however, (Kppp), I got a message that a file was missing from my /dev/modem directory. I had Kppp query my modem and it told me that it could not open the modem. I tried to check the file, and I don't appear to have a /dev/modem directory at all. What do I need to do to get my modem recognized?
Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake
On 7 Oct, Mike Easter wrote: you need it it contains important system files No, you don't need it. /RedHat is just a symlink to the /Mandrake directory. This is, I would guess, to maintain compatibility with RedHat install disks. I can't think of any other reason, anyway. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux
On 7 Oct, Jesse Royall wrote: I have been trying to install Linux on my system. Tried several different things and I either get Win98 or Linux. I downloaded the Mandrake .iso and burned my CD and made my boot disk/setup disk. I can get it to install and run Linux. But I can't get it to dual boot. What am I missing here? Check the archives, or read the lilo.conf man page. [user@localhost user]$ man lilo.conf to read the man page. The mailing list archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ There you can search for 'dual boot and lilo' or something similar. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Squid
Hi all, I have a really simple question (I Think), I have Mandrake 6.0 and Squid 2.2 (rpm). I need to know how to install this and how to get access to a configuration utility for it ?? if there is one ?? Does anyone know of a HOWTO specificially for SQUID, I am very very new to Linux, however I understand the TCP/IP requirements and setup of it. So far Linux-mandrake has installed perfectly as a server, I have set the network card up and can ping the server from workstations, I even managed to work out how to mount the CDROM ! I am a bit lost from here. Thanks in advance. Chris
Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?
Thanks Steve, I have a zero tolerance for probing. One person pointed out to me that because this guy has a fixed IP address and would therefore have to be a moron to try cracking into other computers from his IP address, it is likely that the computer with this address has been cracked and is being used by the "Dark Side." Anyway, I didn't have any luck with whois, so I have no way of turning him in or warning him. -Original Message- From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker? "Eric L. Damron" wrote: My secure log showed the following entries: Oct 6 16:45:12 C287853-A ipop3d[11229]: connect from 193.137.8.223 Oct 6 16:45:12 C287853-A ipop3d[11229]: error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/ipop3d: No such file or directory nslookup 193.137.8.223 Name:oboe.dsi.uminho.pt Address: 193.137.8.223 He's running an apache webserver and his name is Jorge Figueiredo . Even with all of this information I'm not sure how to contact his ISP. Any suggestions? Thanks Unless this is happening frequently, I'd cool my jets on the "hacker" (BTW, the term is cracker, not hacker). One probe does not a hack make. As for contacting his ISP, use whois to lookup InterNIC information on the domain, find out who his providers are, then contact them. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Download Mandrake
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Stegman Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 12:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake On 7 Oct, Mike Easter wrote: you need it it contains important system files No, you don't need it. /RedHat is just a symlink to the /Mandrake directory. This is, I would guess, to maintain compatibility with RedHat install disks. I can't think of any other reason, anyway. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree as I said earlier. Use the Mandrake dirs. Only. I have done installs via ftp all came from the Mandrake dirs. Not the Redhat. B.W.
Re:[newbie]EIDE Repost
Round#2 I repost: More info on Maxblast and Linux(Redhat,should apply to Mandrake) http://www.maxtor.com/technology/qa/qa901002.html#Q4 Linux and UltraDMA Mini-Howto http://siva.usc.edu/~brion/linux/Ultra-DMA.html B.W.
Re: [newbie] How Microsoft-esque
The "Personal Toolbar Folder" contains the links displayed on the Netscape Toolbar. Bring up the "Edit Bookmarks" and right click on any of the bookmarks you want to modify or delete including the ones in the "Personal Toolbar Folder". I don't know if you can delete the folder itself, but there's really no reason to, since you can hide the Toolbar if you don't want to see it. I like to drag frequently used URLs to the Personal Toolbar for easy access. Scott A. Miller - Original Message - From: David P. Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How Microsoft-esque --Here's an interesting question. Nutscrape has a folder in the bookmarks called "Personal Toolbar Folder". I have tried every way I can think of to delete it, but it just won't go away. What does it contain? a bunch of links to nutscrape.com Hmm. Sound familliar? Sound a little like BILL GATES!!! You bet it does. Anybody else out there who doesn't want their computer telling them what files they have to save, know how to get rid of this damn thing? David P. Greenberg
Re: [newbie] How Microsoft-esque
David, It's just another folder. Put whatever you want in it that you use all the time, delete the stuff in it now. Frank Hilliard --Here's an interesting question. Nutscrape has a folder in the bookmarks called "Personal Toolbar Folder". I have tried every way I can think of to delete it, but it just won't go away. What does it contain? a bunch of links to nutscrape.com Hmm. Sound familliar? Sound a little like BILL GATES!!! You bet it does. Anybody else out there who doesn't want their computer telling them what files they have to save, know how to get rid of this damn thing? David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.**
[newbie] Aol Instant Messenger
I just downloaded AIM for linux and I was wondering how do you install it? I need a pretty through explination. I didn't see any instructions at the site where I downloaded it. Thanks Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Wordperfect 8
I recently deleted WP 8 with rm -rf command and I was going to reinstall it, but when I type the ./install.wp it tells me permission denied. I am logged in as root, so thats not it. Any suggestions? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Password on entering a webpage using Apage Server
Hello All, Got another question: I use my linuxbox at the office for monitoring and accounting of the bandwith/uptime of our servers, with automatic generation of HTML pages (mrtg and netsaint are 2 of the apps I use). Of course, this info is kind of confidential and therefor I would like to have to enter a password upon entering the confidential parts of the server. How do I configure Apache so that it asks a password upon browsing to certain files/dirs? I had a look at the apache docs, but they're not entirely clear on this. Thx, Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net7 - Member of the Advalvas Group
[newbie] Apache + Linuxconf on Mandrake 6.1 Helios
Hello All, Got a little problem using Apache and Linuxconf on Mandrake 6.1 Helios. Whenever I make manual changes in the apache.conf file, they get overwritten at reboot by linuxconf. They even get overwritten by linuxconf whenever I use it and ask it to apply changes. I have already tried to disable the apache linuxconf module, to no avail. Any Ideas anyone? Patrick Putteman Internet Support Manager Net7 - Member of the Advalvas Group
