Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?
Don't worry about contacting his ISP. Contact the FBI. "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
Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Don't worry about contacting his ISP. Contact the FBI. Ummm.. The .pt is for Portugal.. I really doubt the FBI can do a whole lot there.. If thats where the person in question is actually located.. Who knows? The college student's system may have been hacked already and was just a point where they could anonymously try thier exploits from.. nslookup 193.137.8.223 Name:oboe.dsi.uminho.pt Address: 193.137.8.223 -- Cthulhu for President in 2000 - Why settle for the lesser evil
[newbie] can't install linux with hard drive controller Ultra ATA 66
I tried installing LINUX Mandrake 6.0, but the installation failed, because it couldn't see my hard drives (Error: Can't find devices to mount files system or so). I have a Maxtor configured as slave on a Ultra ATA66 Controller. (Linux only sees the DVD/CD on the IDE bus) (The Master hard drive is an IBM Ultra ATA hard drive.) Anybody experiences with this and can point me to a Linux version which will see my hard drives, or any other solution? Thanks Christina __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Is NFS really that bad (reality check)
Is this really a legitimate question or one posed by a front for Microsoft? It's not the first time in the past few weeks I've seen someone trolling for horror stories in a Linux discussion group. Any thoughts on this folks? Frank Hilliard Aaron deRozario wrote: 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] Install Help
I have skipped it and still have the problem. I suspect, but won't know until tonight, that I need to create the root partition (/) on my first drive ( a 9Gb SCSI drive where I normally boot Windows98 from (cough...gag...spit...) then put everything else into the 3rd partition of my 2nd drive which I've already set aside for Linux. I do use the DRUID app, but the Fdisk error comes up first. The master device on my IDE bus is a CD-ROM, which would account for the error message, just as you stated. If you've got any words of wisdom on where I need to put the root partition, please let me know. I'd love to forego the trial and error part of this install. Thanks for the help. I really do appreciate it. I'm very anxious to get this up and running. By the way, I'm getting the impression that LINUX doesn't support PS2 devices. Is that a correct statement? Thanks again, Alan. -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install Help "Karnos, John G" wrote: 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] Johnyou probably have a removable media scsi device (like a cdrom) and disk druid can't read it because theres no disk inserted. That's ok, you don't want to partition it anyway, just tell disk druid (oops, you said fdisk, why are you using that?) to skip it and you'll be able to get on with your partitioning. Linux installs fine on scsi disks. Alan
RE: [newbie] How Microsoft-esque
Hi David. Don't know that I've ever tried to get rid of it, as I found it quite useful for commonly used links. I saw that someone else responded to you as to how to get rid of links in your bookmark file, so I won't address that issue. The Personal Toolbar Foldewr allows you to place links that you want directly beneath the address bar for easy access. This way, you don't have to wade through all of your bookmarks to find the one that you use the most. Again, I find this extrememly useful and time-saving. Hope it helps! Jack -Original Message- From: David P. Greenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:26 PM To: [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 Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" *Confirmed Linux Newbie* **Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.**
[newbie] 6.0 to 6.1 and a new video card
Hi all. Just joined to list and this is my first post. A while back I D/Led the .iso image of Linux-Mandrake 6.0, burned it and installed it with no problem (nice having access to a fractional T3 net connection). Just recently D/Led the 6.1 .iso image. Question 1: Can I upgrade my 6.0 installation to 6.1 by rerunning the Linux-Mandrake install? Question 2: I installed a new video card since I did the 6.0 install, it works but I don't know if it's working optimally. Should I just rerun Xconfiguator or will that happen when I do the upgrade? TIA Cheers! --Bob Jakuc "Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila." --Mitch Radcliffe
Re: [newbie] Can't open modem
You have two options: 1 In KPPP set the modem to a different device according to the following (this is the easiest thing to do if you will only use the modem to connect to your ISP and you will always use KPPP): COM1 = dev/ttyS0 COM2 = dev/ttyS1 COM3 = dev/ttyS2 COM4 = dev/ttyS3 2 Create a symbolic lynk that links dev/modem to the actual modem device. (Example: #ln -s /dev/modem /dev/ttyS0 -I can't remember the order of the devices though). Type "ln --help" for additional help on creating a symbolic link. HTH, Matt From: "RJ Friedman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't open modem Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 09:35:05 -0400 (EDT) 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 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] is ISO 6.1.1 stable or developer edition ?
hi all. i wonder whether MANDRAKE ISO 6.1.1 (the one available at al mirror sites at the present time) is either a stable edition for newbies or an advanced developer edition. Are there any special aspects I should watch up before the install ? Cheers, APS
Re: [newbie] Start modem without netcfg?
Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Mulvaney, Jerry wrote: 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*** ifup ppp0 And since /sbin isn't in a normal user's path, it's: /sbin/ifup ppp0 for a normal user. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, stupid question time (forgive me I'm not anywhere my linux box and been having a brain fart all day). Isn't the /sbin directory where all "system binary's" go to live their happy little lives, if so wouldn't these be protected and why would an ordinary user have access to them, or does each user have an /sbin directory with copies (or links) back to the files in an administrator/system directory? (see why I was looking for a hierarchy of the file system earlier 8-)). Dazed and Confused Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Install Help
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: 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?? Content-Type: multipart/alternative; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Karnos, John G.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Please send your messages as "plain text." I'm not sure how you sent this one, but it didn't want to copy your message when I hit the "reply" button. :-) In any event, I think the problem is that it's trying to modify the device /tmp/sdc instead of /dev/sdc. Are you using some sort of "drive manager" software or something? Also, you'll either need an IDE drive or a boot disk unless you compile the scsi drivers into the kernel yourself. If you choose to use a small IDE, you can put /boot and / on the IDE and everything else should go on the SCSI. John
Re: [newbie] TNT video board with Mandrake 6.1
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Hi On the NVIDIA www I could download the TNT linux drivers. However I don't know which archive I should use (there are 4 gz files which contain almost the same thing) Does someone already have the answer please ? Have you tried going to http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ There are TNT drivers there... :-) OTOH, you may just want to use your favorite FTP client (I like NCFTP from console) and go to ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/riva-tnt-tnt2-vanta/linux/ and get the "static" version of either the libc or glibc driver. The reason I say to get the "static" version is that way you don't need to have the lib file for that version of whichever c-compiler they used to compile the driver. John
Re: [[newbie] Cant open modem]
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: 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). from a console prompt, "ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem" Should take care of that. John
Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Here You Go My Friend... I queried him for you all the info i have found is below, i suggest emailing the following person with your complaint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the admin from which he subscribes "ripe.net") Actually, the person you need to email is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" This is a university computer, so it sounds like someone has hacked their mainframe and is using it to find "open" redhat boxes. :-) John
Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you 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? Try "whois [EMAIL PROTECTED]" It will come back with a BUNCH of info, including the fact that the address is assigned to a university in Portugal. :-) John
Re: [newbie] problems with ./configure while trying to install new application
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: 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) You need to have the c-compiler packages installed. Obviously you didn't install that stuff when you installed Linux. :-) Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with the package names to tell you what all needs to be installed. John
Re: [newbie] Can't open modem
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you 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? which comm port is it on?? What you'll need to do is get to a console prompt (in a console/Konsole window will work fine) and then type ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/modem. Replace "x" with the number of the comm port (i.e. Com1 is ttyS0, com2 is ttyS1, etc.) and it should work. Also, make sure you don't have a WinModem or HSP modem. John
[newbie] 6.1
Newbie story: I've a CD burned by a guy that has cable. We thought we save some trouble and inserted Corel WP8 in the distro. When I try to install M6.1 from that CD, it didn't work - I was able to create boot.img from it but after the Welcome screen, select language, keyboard map ...got stuck. Is that wrong - to put WP8 in the Iinstall disk? or is it just one of those cases when the CD just doesn't want to work. Thanks in advance, Julian
RE: [newbie] Install Help
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Thanks for the help. I really do appreciate it. I'm very anxious to get this up and running. By the way, I'm getting the impression that LINUX doesn't support PS2 devices. Is that a correct statement? If you mean MCA stuff, you're partly correct. There is SOME support for MCA, but Mandrake (6.0) AFAIK, does not support MCA. If you mean PS/2 keyboards and mice, it DOES support them quite well! John
[newbie] Re: Linux Install problem
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Johnyou probably have a removable media scsi device (like a cdrom) and disk druid can't read it because theres no disk inserted. That's ok, you don't want to partition it anyway, just tell disk druid (oops, you said fdisk, why are you using that?) to skip it and you'll be able to get on with your partitioning. Linux installs fine on scsi disks. Alan "Karnos, John G" wrote: I have skipped it and still have the problem. I suspect, but won't know until tonight, that I need to create the root partition (/) on my first drive ( a 9Gb SCSI drive where I normally boot Windows98 from (cough...gag...spit...) then put everything else into the 3rd partition of my 2nd drive which I've already set aside for Linux. I do use the DRUID app, but the Fdisk error comes up first. The master device on my IDE bus is a CD-ROM, which would account for the error message, just as you stated. If you've got any words of wisdom on where I need to put the root partition, please let me know. I'd love to forego the trial and error part of this install. Thanks for the help. I really do appreciate it. I'm very anxious to get this up and running. By the way, I'm getting the impression that LINUX doesn't support PS2 devices. Is that a correct statement? Thanks again, Alan. John G. (Jack) Karnos (760) 939-8507 [EMAIL PROTECTED] JohnI don't know how much wisdom I have, but I have sucessfully installed several Linux distributions on my dual scsi drive system. Basically I have scsi 0 dedicated to win98 and scsi 1 dedicated to linux. I now use Boot Magic to control the multiple booting, but originally I used lilo and you can too. Scsi 0 is identified by linux as sda and scsi 1 as sdb. When referring to the partitions of the drives sda1 is your windows drive c: (if you are using a multiple partitions for windows there will be more). The only location issue for the linux partitions is that your /boot partition needs to be totally located within the first 1024 cylinders of whatever drive that it is on, sda or sdb. I make my /boot partition 16-24 megs in size. Minimally you'll also need a swap partition 32-128 megs in size (depending on how much memory your system has and what installation scenario you're following). Your / partition (the slash identifies the root partition) can take up the rest of your available drive space (or you can further divide up that space into / and other partitions, again depending upon the installation scenario you are following). When it comes time in the installation to write lilo to disk (right after you create your floppy boot disk, a very important item), you need to tell it to install in the mbr of sda (lilo then becomes the boot loader that controls your ability to boot the windows system or the linux system). If you ever need to reinstall windows, the process will overwrite lilo with the windows boot loader and you will need to use your floppy boot disk to boot Linux and restore lilo to the mbr of sda. Alan
Re: [newbie] MX300 drivers from OSS doesn't work...
1. hi -- try /usr/lib/oss/soundon first (where /usr/lib/oss is the directory you installed oss in) -at the shell prompt after booting- i have the same card - got it working in 6.0 but not in 6.1 so far??? It always says they fail at startup. I'm also a supernewbie. 2. Trash hotmail --- Rendus Maiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What am I doing wrong??? I downloaded the "beta" A3d drivers from http://www.opensound.com, followed the instructions on unpacking and installing the software, and rebooted my machine, but Sound and Midi fail at boot and I don't have any sound coming outa my speakers :( I'm REALLY a newbie so any help would be appreciated... Should I try removing all existing sound files, and if so, which are they and where are they located... Thanks in advance. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] File Manager for Linux
I had the same problem, so I just use the regular KFM window, when I am root. To do this, I simply open the KDE menu -file list-root -open folder. (I think I got the menu sequence right, I am not in Linux right now). This will open a KFM session, and then when you shutdown, minimize the KFM window so it is out of the way. Then the next time you restart as root, the KFM session will run at startup. It will not run automatically if you close the session before shutdown, but then when you want to use it again, you will need to do it all over again as above. I do not know if this is a security issue, or a buglet, but since you are already logged on as root, you probabbly shouldn't need to use the superuser KFM. I hope this helps, Ernie - Original Message - From: Ricardo Tijerina To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 6:42 PM Subject: [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] Install Help
John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: 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?? Content-Type: multipart/alternative; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Karnos, John G.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Please send your messages as "plain text." I'm not sure how you sent this one, but it didn't want to copy your message when I hit the "reply" button. :-) In any event, I think the problem is that it's trying to modify the device /tmp/sdc instead of /dev/sdc. Are you using some sort of "drive manager" software or something? Also, you'll either need an IDE drive or a boot disk unless you compile the scsi drivers into the kernel yourself. If you choose to use a small IDE, you can put /boot and / on the IDE and everything else should go on the SCSI. John Johnthat's not true, I've been running a dual scsi drive, dual os system with win98 and mdk (5.2, 5.3, 6.0 finally 6.1) since February and the only ide device I have is a ls-120 superdisk. I've never used anything but the kernal that comes with the distribution (I upgraded 6.0 to the 2.2.9-27mdk kernal distributed in the updates, but it was in an rpm, no compiling was done). BTW, what mail client do you use that has so much trouble handling so many different people's messages? I had no clue that John Karnos' message was any different than one of yours (I'm using the mail client in netscape (the version distributed with mdk 6.1), I just read it and replied to it. No problems. (-: Alan
Re: [newbie] Is NFS really that bad (reality check)
"Frank" == Frank Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Frank Is this really a legitimate question or one posed by a
Frank front for Microsoft? It's not the first time in the past
Frank few weeks I've seen someone trolling for horror stories in
Frank a Linux discussion group. Any thoughts on this folks?
Frank Frank Hilliard
Frank Aaron deRozario wrote:
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).
[snip]
Well, since grepping the NFS-HOWTO and the files in the LAME html for
those phrases ("horrible" and "problems") returns no relevant matches,
what ought you to conclude?
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Re: [newbie] Install Help
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Johnthat's not true, I've been running a dual scsi drive, dual os system with win98 and mdk (5.2, 5.3, 6.0 finally 6.1) since February and the only ide device I have is a ls-120 superdisk. I've never used anything but the kernal that comes with the distribution (I upgraded 6.0 to the 2.2.9-27mdk kernal distributed in the updates, but it was in an rpm, no compiling was done). Hmm...Ok. I was told that the pre-packaged kernels don't have SCSI support built-in and that you have to compile it in. Oh, well...guess that's what I get for listening to the "experts." ;-) BTW, what mail client do you use that has so much trouble handling so many different people's messages? I had no clue that John Karnos' message was any different than one of yours (I'm using the mail client in netscape (the version distributed with mdk 6.1), I just read it and replied to it. No problems. (-: I'm using KMail 1.0.24 which comes with the KDE 1.1.1 RPMs for RedHat 6.0. It doesn't handle "special" stuff. Netscape does handle HTML and other "non-standard" stuff OK, but it doesn't support (directly, at least) multiple email addresses, AFAIK. I've got 3 pop addresses and I need something that'll read 'em all. :-) John
[newbie] IPCHAINS
I am trying only allow 10 users httpd telnet access to my company web server(Linux-Mandrake 6.0 with Apache). Right now the whole company has access to my web server. I tried to lock the server down with httpd.conf, but gave up when I couldn't get it to work at the ip level(it works no problem at the subnet level, however I need to lock out some users at the same subnet level). I have decided that ipchains may be my best option. The web server ip =204.130.236.101 Example users = say 10.999.999.999 httpd 10.888.888.888 telnet 204.666.666.666 httpd 204.555.555.555 telnet I just installed the rpm for ipchains. The file /proc/net/ip_fwchains is empty. And ipchains is setup as: Chain input(policy ACCEPT) Chain forward(policy ACCEPT) Chain output(policy ACCEPT) Questions: 1.) Is the first step to add to the following lines to file /proc/net/ip_fwchains? : CONFIG FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y 2.) How do I first deny all telnet and httpd trafic? Assuming that a rule for denying is the first step! 2.) How does one go about only allowing 10 users to telnet httpd? With seperate rules for telnet vs httpd? There will be more httpd users in future. Thanks for getting me started!
RE: [newbie] 6.1
He got the ISO file tampered with. I'll get the guy the burn me another one. But I can still read the CD and get WP8 to install it after, right? JUlian -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 6.1 On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Newbie story: I've a CD burned by a guy that has cable. We thought we save some trouble and inserted Corel WP8 in the distro. When I try to install M6.1 from that CD, it didn't work - I was able to create boot.img from it but after the Welcome screen, select language, keyboard map ...got stuck. Is that wrong - to put WP8 in the Iinstall disk? or is it just one of those cases when the CD just doesn't want to work. Did you download an ISO image or did you download all the files? I would recommend AGAINST adding anything to that ISO image. John
[newbie] STB nVidia ZX 8MB accelator card
I am trying to create a dual OS with my Win 98. I had installed The Complete Linux OS 6.0. X windows does not supportmy video card(STB nVidia ZX). I was wondering if anybody could give some advice on affordable($50-90) video card that willsupport bothMandrake's X-windows and Windows 98. Thanks, Leith
RE: [newbie] 6.0 to 6.1 and a new video card
1) Yes you can upgrade by running 6.1's install. 2) 6.1 will try to reconfigure your X settings. (if it doesn't, just run X-configurator) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Jakuc Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 6.0 to 6.1 and a new video card Hi all. Just joined to list and this is my first post. A while back I D/Led the .iso image of Linux-Mandrake 6.0, burned it and installed it with no problem (nice having access to a fractional T3 net connection). Just recently D/Led the 6.1 .iso image. Question 1: Can I upgrade my 6.0 installation to 6.1 by rerunning the Linux-Mandrake install? Question 2: I installed a new video card since I did the 6.0 install, it works but I don't know if it's working optimally. Should I just rerun Xconfiguator or will that happen when I do the upgrade? TIA Cheers! --Bob Jakuc "Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila." --Mitch Radcliffe
RE: [newbie] Install Help
Linux does support ps/2 just fine. As far as your install goes, why is your CD-ROM the master on your IDE bus? I would make it the slave if I were you, but anyways... Your bios is going to want to see the ide drive first, so you could install your root partition on the first partition of your IDE or SCSI drive, but make sure lilo gets installed on the ide drive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Karnos, John G Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 10:55 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Install Help I have skipped it and still have the problem. I suspect, but won't know until tonight, that I need to create the root partition (/) on my first drive ( a 9Gb SCSI drive where I normally boot Windows98 from (cough...gag...spit...) then put everything else into the 3rd partition of my 2nd drive which I've already set aside for Linux. I do use the DRUID app, but the Fdisk error comes up first. The master device on my IDE bus is a CD-ROM, which would account for the error message, just as you stated. If you've got any words of wisdom on where I need to put the root partition, please let me know. I'd love to forego the trial and error part of this install. Thanks for the help. I really do appreciate it. I'm very anxious to get this up and running. By the way, I'm getting the impression that LINUX doesn't support PS2 devices. Is that a correct statement? Thanks again, Alan. -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install Help "Karnos, John G" wrote: 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] Johnyou probably have a removable media scsi device (like a cdrom) and disk druid can't read it because theres no disk inserted. That's ok, you don't want to partition it anyway, just tell disk druid (oops, you said fdisk, why are you using that?) to skip it and you'll be able to get on with your partitioning. Linux installs fine on scsi disks. Alan
Re: [newbie] File Structure
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Can anyone point me to a graphical representation of the linux file structure. I've been cruising through http://www.mandrakeuser.com and found a fairly good written one but I live in a 3D graphical world and some sort of branching tree diagram would be EXTREMELY helpful. Like a hierarchial tree of the file system? / - /usr /bin /lib /etc /var /opt etc??? Thats what i was thinking. I'll give a better description seeing as i have time ATM.. rpmfind's RDF was a killer browse the distribution tree, it allows you to browse the dist tree if you select i file it'll jump to the package description and give you a full listing of the files that package contains. For the bandwidth deprived, you can create a local RDF with rpm2html (located in either cooker or in contribs i've forgotten). It will use just under 35megs. I'm confused... Are we looking for a listing of packages and where they install to? Or are we just looking for a tree'd display of a typical (or current) hierachy? -- Steve Philp "The Internet is like crack Network Administratorfor smart people..." Advance Packaging Corporation --Arsenio Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello All, Thanks for responding, been out o town for a week and finally got a chance to check the ol' mailbox. Steve, I was just looking for a tree'd display of a typical hierarchy with a brief description of what goes where and why. I don't get a lot if time to play with my 'puters when I get home and it helps knowing what goes where and what each "were" is doing. Thanks for the help Steve and Axalon. Ah! Look for a document called the Linux File Hierarchy Standard v2.0. It lists the where and why of Linux. It should pop up in a web search. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Fwd: licq libstdc++-libc6
This is a repost of a previous message I attempted to send to the list, possibly it never got posted, any help would be appreciated -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: licq libstdc++-libc6 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:56:39 -0400 From: David M. Kufta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I was attempting to instal licq-0.70 and found failed deps for libstdc++-libc6. Has anyone managed to get licq running on 6.1 and if so I would certainly appreciate some advice as to what I need to do to find and install libstdc++-libc6 without wrecking other deps on my 6.1 system. TIA -- Dave ---
Re: [newbie] Start modem without netcfg?
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Mulvaney, Jerry wrote: 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*** ifup ppp0 And since /sbin isn't in a normal user's path, it's: /sbin/ifup ppp0 for a normal user. OK, stupid question time (forgive me I'm not anywhere my linux box and been having a brain fart all day). Isn't the /sbin directory where all "system binary's" go to live their happy little lives, if so wouldn't these be protected and why would an ordinary user have access to them, or does each user have an /sbin directory with copies (or links) back to the files in an administrator/system directory? (see why I was looking for a hierarchy of the file system earlier 8-)). You're correct, /sbin is where system binaries go (actually, I think the historic purpose of the directory was for statically linked binaries -- you could use them to recover the system incase of shared library failures). For a "normal" Unix system, you really wouldn't want normal users having access to bringing interfaces up and down. I certainly wouldn't want it. But, we're not really dealing with "normal Unix systems" when you're talking about home systems. PPP interfaces are brought up and down at will and normal users need to be able to control them. As for the later part, there is only one /sbin, not a directory per user. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] STB nVidia ZX 8MB accelator card
any ati cards should be fine... - Original Message - From: Leith Shabbot To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 2:23 PM Subject: [newbie] STB nVidia ZX 8MB accelator card I am trying to create a dual OS with my Win 98. I had installed The Complete Linux OS 6.0. X windows does not supportmy video card(STB nVidia ZX). I was wondering if anybody could give some advice on affordable($50-90) video card that willsupport bothMandrake's X-windows and Windows 98. Thanks, Leith
Re: [newbie] Install Help
John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Johnthat's not true, I've been running a dual scsi drive, dual os system with win98 and mdk (5.2, 5.3, 6.0 finally 6.1) since February and the only ide device I have is a ls-120 superdisk. I've never used anything but the kernal that comes with the distribution (I upgraded 6.0 to the 2.2.9-27mdk kernal distributed in the updates, but it was in an rpm, no compiling was done). Hmm...Ok. I was told that the pre-packaged kernels don't have SCSI support built-in and that you have to compile it in. Oh, well...guess that's what I get for listening to the "experts." ;-) BTW, what mail client do you use that has so much trouble handling so many different people's messages? I had no clue that John Karnos' message was any different than one of yours (I'm using the mail client in netscape (the version distributed with mdk 6.1), I just read it and replied to it. No problems. (-: I'm using KMail 1.0.24 which comes with the KDE 1.1.1 RPMs for RedHat 6.0. It doesn't handle "special" stuff. Netscape does handle HTML and other "non-standard" stuff OK, but it doesn't support (directly, at least) multiple email addresses, AFAIK. I've got 3 pop addresses and I need something that'll read 'em all. :-) John JohnI guess that's the one that comes with an icon on the right side of the panel in KDE? I tried it once a couple of mdk releases back and hated it. I remove the icon as soon as I install an upgrade. (-: Anyway that was when I was first starting to use Linux and was trying to find a mail client that I liked as much as Outlook Express. At the time I really didn't want to use Netscape, either as a browser or a mail client, but that's what I ended up using (for both). )-: And actually I'm quite happy with it now. You're correct though, all you get is one identity/address, which is part of what I don't like about it. (-: Alan
[newbie] Modem is busy, but it really isn't
I've been fighting with my modem till I'm blue in the face. kppp reports that "modem is busy", but it's just sitting there. I made sure when I bought it that it was not a WinModem. I have an internal ISA PlugPlay US Robotics 56K Voice Faxmodem, model 5685. I have tried isapnp. I've set IRQs etc to what works with dual-boot 95. I've used modemtool. I'm using /dev/ttyS0 since I use COM1 on 95. But I tried the other /dev/ttySx devices as well. No joy. PLEASE HELP ME. Thanks, Mike Dennison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Install Help
Can't... don't have one. I have 2 SCSI drives, one of which I boot from. I have a Master CD-ROM with a slave CD-RW on one IDE bus, and a ZIP drive on the 2nd IDE bus. My machine is capable of doing processing which requires me to be able to remove the hard drives from the machine and locking them up when I'm not in the room, so I went the SCSI route becaues I could get better hard drives. I'm going to try again tonight. It seems I have been trying to install Linux on my 3rd partion of my 2nd HDD, so I'm going to try installing things on the 1st partion instead and see if that makes any difference. -Original Message- From: Mike Litman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 2:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Install Help Linux does support ps/2 just fine. As far as your install goes, why is your CD-ROM the master on your IDE bus? I would make it the slave if I were you, but anyways... Your bios is going to want to see the ide drive first, so you could install your root partition on the first partition of your IDE or SCSI drive, but make sure lilo gets installed on the ide drive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Karnos, John G Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 10:55 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Install Help I have skipped it and still have the problem. I suspect, but won't know until tonight, that I need to create the root partition (/) on my first drive ( a 9Gb SCSI drive where I normally boot Windows98 from (cough...gag...spit...) then put everything else into the 3rd partition of my 2nd drive which I've already set aside for Linux. I do use the DRUID app, but the Fdisk error comes up first. The master device on my IDE bus is a CD-ROM, which would account for the error message, just as you stated. If you've got any words of wisdom on where I need to put the root partition, please let me know. I'd love to forego the trial and error part of this install. Thanks for the help. I really do appreciate it. I'm very anxious to get this up and running. By the way, I'm getting the impression that LINUX doesn't support PS2 devices. Is that a correct statement? Thanks again, Alan. -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 8:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install Help "Karnos, John G" wrote: 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] Johnyou probably have a removable media scsi device (like a cdrom) and disk druid can't read it because theres no disk inserted. That's ok, you don't want to partition it anyway, just tell disk druid (oops, you said fdisk, why are you using that?) to skip it and you'll be able to get on with your partitioning. Linux installs fine on scsi disks. Alan
[newbie] Heh, my XWindows screen is enormous... what did I do wrong?
Ok, so I'm a true newbie at this. I'm installing Mandrake 6.0 (haven't been able to finish downloading the ISo for 6.1 yet!), and when it fires up XWindows what should be about 1/4 of the window is my whole screen. What did I do wrong, and where do I go to fix it? Am I better off just scrapping it and reinstalling since I haven't really done anything at this point? Many thanks, Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake or Red Hat
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: 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? Mandrake is more "cutting-edge" than RedHat. It's got a newer X server and newer KDE, and generally newer versions of the apps (and MORE apps pre-installed) than RedHat. Unfortunately, you'll need to immediately upgrade your kernel and initscripts if you install Mandrake 6.0. There's a nasty bug that causes improper shutdown of the hard drive in the default Mandrake install. No big deal, just go get the new kernel and init scripts as soon as you install. :-) 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. Voodoo is good, but you'll want to upgrade to the latest X server from Mandrake 6.1. Just go download the RPM from 6.1 and install it. :-) It's got drivers built-in for Voodoo. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote: Another problem I am having is when I try to run KDE ( and I might be doing it wrong to begin with...) is that when I type kde from the prompt it trys to load and gives me "Xserver could not load" and dumps me back to the prompt. You're going about it all wrongtype "startx" (minus quotes) to load Xwindows and KDE should be the default Window Manager. :-) Also, you only need to put your LILO in /dev/hda. Also, you may have a problem due to the fact that the "off the shelf" kernel doesn't support booting from SCSI, which may explain why it's trying to write more than just LILO to the "C:" drive. John
Re: [newbie] STB nVidia ZX 8MB accelator card
He's right. I just bought an ATI XPERT 98 8MB AGP card for only $45 and it works great with both OSs. :-) HeLLBeNT` wrote: any ati cards should be fine... - Original Message - From: Leith Shabbot To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 2:23 PM Subject: [newbie] STB nVidia ZX 8MB accelator card I am trying to create a dual OS with my Win 98. I had installed The Complete Linux OS 6.0. X windows does not support my video card(STB nVidia ZX). I was wondering if anybody could give some advice on affordable($50-90) video card that will support both Mandrake's X-windows and Windows 98. Thanks,Leith
RE: [newbie] 6.1
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: He got the ISO file tampered with. I'll get the guy the burn me another one. But I can still read the CD and get WP8 to install it after, right? JUlian I wouldn't *guarantee* it, but it's worth a shot. :-) John
Re: [newbie] STB nVidia ZX 8MB accelator card
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: %_I am trying to create a dual OS with my Win 98. I had installed The Complete Linux OS 6.0. X windows does not support my video card(STB nVidia ZX). I was wondering if anybody could give some advice on affordable($50-90) video card that will support both Mandrake's X-windows and Windows 98. Thanks, Leith Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: First, HTML is not well supported by many Linux-based mail clients. You really should reconfigure your email client to post using "plain text" by default. You'll find more people who prefer plain-text than prefer "pretty" html-ized email. :-) Second, you can get a Riva TNT-based card for $29. It's made by "Jaton" however, it's a standard Riva TNT from "Essential Computer" in New York. I'd advise going and paying $60 for a Diamond Viper V550 at GoGoCity.comnever heard of 'em, but they're listed on Pricewatch. In any case, my point is that a Riva TNT card is directly supported by the current release of X, and it's cheap for a TNT (original, not the TNT2.) I've got a Creative Labs' Graphics Blaster TNT in my machine at work. I dual-boot Windows 98 and RedHat 6. Even before I installed the Linux drivers, it worked well enough (before it was directly supported by X.) Now, with the Creative Drivers (which are no longer needed with the current X) it SMOKES!!! 8 mb video ram!!! Windows loves it too! John
Re: [newbie] Heh, my XWindows screen is enormous... what did I do wrong?
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Ok, so I'm a true newbie at this. I'm installing Mandrake 6.0 (haven't been able to finish downloading the ISo for 6.1 yet!), and when it fires up XWindows what should be about 1/4 of the window is my whole screen. What did I do wrong, and where do I go to fix it? Am I better off just scrapping it and reinstalling since I haven't really done anything at this point? Nojust get back to your console (control-alt-backspace will kill X if nothing else!) and re-run your video setup. "/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup" or "/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config" are the two most popular config programs for X. Be sure NOT to select the setting to allow the display to be larger than your actual screen size. Also make sure you have properly identified your video card and monitor. If necessary, run xf86config and say you want to specify your monitor settings and select a slightly more conservative setting than your monitor will actually perform. i.e. instead of stating that your monitor will do 1280x1024 in 32-bit color at 70 hz with a horizontal synch of 60-90 hz, say it'll do 1024x768 in 24-bit at 60 hz, etc. Good luck! John
RE: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker?
Or it's possibly an university student testing all the things he's learning about tcp/ip, sockets and ports and it's really quite harmless. From what I saw in the log report did not really demonstrate anything I would be inclined to call a serious attempt at hacking. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I turn in a hacker? On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: Here You Go My Friend... I queried him for you all the info i have found is below, i suggest emailing the following person with your complaint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the admin from which he subscribes "ripe.net") Actually, the person you need to email is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" This is a university computer, so it sounds like someone has hacked their mainframe and is using it to find "open" redhat boxes. :-) John
Re: [newbie] Install Help
On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, you wrote: I'm using KMail 1.0.24 which comes with the KDE 1.1.1 RPMs for RedHat 6.0. It doesn't handle "special" stuff. Netscape does handle HTML and other "non-standard" stuff OK, but it doesn't support (directly, at least) multiple email addresses, AFAIK. I've got 3 pop addresses and I need something that'll read 'em all. :-) John JohnI guess that's the one that comes with an icon on the right side of the panel in KDE? I tried it once a couple of mdk releases back and hated it. I remove the icon as soon as I install an upgrade. (-: Anyway that was when I was first starting to use Linux and was trying to find a mail client that I liked as much as Outlook Express. At the time I really didn't want to use Netscape, either as a browser or a mail client, but that's what I ended up using (for both). )-: And actually I'm quite happy with it now. You're correct though, all you get is one identity/address, which is part of what I don't like about it. (-: You might want to take another look at KMail. :-) It's improved a bit since I first started using it in Mandrake 5.3 :-) I'm told that with KDE 2.0 it's going to SMOKE!!! Auto-compress folders and all that good stuff! :-) Enjoy your Netscape! :-) John
[newbie] dupes???
Anyone else noticing a dupe loop here? I keep seeing messages I saw a day or so ago reappearing. I don't *think* I'm precognizant, and I really don't think I'm going crazy! Can someone (Axalon, or someone else???) please investigate this dupe loop Thanks... John
