Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...
Anthony wrote: First triple-check that you put in the right password and username. Secondly, try unchecking the new account box. See if that helps. Yes, but what is the password supposed to be? ;-( -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] How big of a truck is Linux?
Kathleen Dickason wrote: I'm a Stephenson fan too...and the Command Line essay is great! Funny, intelligent, and well worth reading. :) Kathleen Dickason Registered Linux user #182139 Hi Kathleen. Guess that'll have to be my next reading assignment! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] glide scrensavers and such!
Dacia and AzureRose wrote: Thats a bummer!! I wonder if you need to make a symbolic link somewhere? Unfortunately this is one of the gi-normous gaping holes in my linux knowledge. I'm a linux idiot savant. Sorry I can't help ;-( Dacia Don't know. Like you, I'm just not good enough to be able to tell such things. Thanks for your help though! -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? snip Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when it comes to Windog! big grin -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] KDE 7.1 Upgrade
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: I have just upgraded my system to 7.1 and have found, upon starting KDE that I am missing items that used to be there. The KDE Control Panel, for backgrounds, power mangement, etc. is missing. I have lost the ability to open a term window from the panel. Is this a different version of KDE than came with 7.0? Just curious. I had backgrounds set in KDE and now they are gone. Same thing happened to me. I have dragged them back onto the panel from Kfmclient, that was easily done, though. Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Install help
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Kandace Little wrote: I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD. model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to install on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I rebooted was zero's and one's filling up the screen. I tried to boot off of the disk and then to the CD but I can not get pass the disk they gave me. I tried to make my own disk as the instruction told me but the program that makes the disk did not work, give me an error not sure what just now. Stephen, On http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/lilo_dual.html there is an extensive article on dual booting. The problem should not be the HD, if your BIOS sees it, then Linux does too. For more tips on Linux: http://nlpagan.net/linux.htm Good luck Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] How big of a truck is Linux?
Makoto Miyamoto wrote: Yeah! I love the Cryptonomicon; I read somewhere that the Cryptonomicon is the first novel which was written entirely using Linux! Makoto You mean, aside from "Linux for Dummies", which was written entirely with vi? lol -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Wordperfect PE
No. The download version is the same you get on mandrake (Light version) If you want the whole thing you have to buy the office suite. (Which is very cheap for commercial office suite) - Original Message - From: Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 1:34 PM Subject: [newbie] Wordperfect PE The WP 8 that comes with Mandrake is the DL version whereas Corel apparently provides the "full" edition. If you have Mandrake's WP8 dl version, is there a way to complete it to the PE version by downloading files from somewhere? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] Install help
Kandace Little wrote: I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD. model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to install on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I rebooted was zero's and one's filling up the screen. I tried to boot off of the disk and then to the CD but I can not get pass the disk they gave me. I tried to make my own disk as the instruction told me but the program that makes the disk did not work, give me an error not sure what just now. I have gave up trying sometime ago but now I find I still would love to have it on my machine. It has to be duel boot because I need to run WIn/98 as well. They say not to boot right to the disk (which I can do), I am not sure why but maybe I should try that. I friend told me that my hard drive was to big but I could not understand that being the problem. Any help would be GREAT! Thanks for you time and effort in the matter for me Regards Stephen L I used System System Commander 2000 to allow for my dual boot on my Compaq 7970; I have a 40 gig HD, all works great, I suggest you read the book complete before running the installation of SC2000. begin:vcard n:Morse;Jeffrey x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:Good things come to those who wait :) x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Jeffrey Morse end:vcard
Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade MBR of HDA
Torrey Peacock wrote: I have had the exact same situation. I have two hard disks, with Windows on hda, and Linux on hdc. Normally, I install LILO to the MBR of hda. After installing Mandrake 7.1, I could boot into Linux through GRUB, but Windows was inaccessible. I could boot DOS with a floppy disk, but the C: drive was no longer readable from DOS. Using System Commander, I was able to restore the Windows boot record, but System Commander can't do anything with GRUB (it recognizes LILO just fine). Quite a mess. I can boot Windows normally again, but have to use a boot floppy for Linux. I tried resetting GRUB, and also using LILO, but it just trashes the boot record, and I have to restore with System Commander once again. Whatever GRUB does is apparently not so easy to undo, and there is no way I can find to uninstall it. I have *never* had these problems with any other distribution, including Mandrake 7.0 Seems rather irresponsible of Mandrake to use alpha software for its default boot loader, but that's what they did. Sure doesn't seem ready for prime time to me. Torrey At 06:48 PM 7/22/00 -0400, Harry Flaxman wrote: >Well, here's another problem I ran into upgrading to 7.1. I tried >specifying LILO when DrakConf asked me which bootloader to use. The >lilo configuration returned a syntax error. I went ahead and chose >GRUB. when I booted to my first hard driveLILO stopped after the I, >so I used my handy dandy dos boot disk to do a fdisk /mbr. C: drive >returned an error, and I couldn't get a directory listing on it. Upon >rebooting...I got GRUB, and tried to choose windows to boot from, and I >get a loop...no winslows boot. GRUB booted me into linux, and upon >examining HDA1 there, all of the winslows data files are accessible. I >just can't get fdisk to do anything to the drive now, and can't boot >into winslows. There are a couple of utilities there that I use from >time to time. > >Has anyone run into a similar situation? I had the exact same problem, I was running Linux7.0/Win on a second box and decided to format and run only 7.1. After doing so my daughter missed windoze(her computer by the way)so I tried to reinstall win95 off of a restore disk, I had to use System Commander to help resize my partition but it still would not work. Everytime after the initial install of Win95 and it rebooted to update the new configuration I got a prompt from Grub> not allowing me to access drive c: Currently I run only 7.1 on this machine but installed a network card to access my Win98 partition on my box. If you find the fix to undo what Grub did to my MBR, I would be very interested. --ooO---OO---Ooo-- (_) Linux / Java Rule :>) Series60 begin:vcard n:Morse;Jeffrey x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:Good things come to those who wait :) x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Jeffrey Morse end:vcard
Re: [newbie] How big of a truck is Linux?
The beauty of Linux is that it can be almost any size truck you want (here I take "truck" to be a metaphor for things like "power" and "stability"). Since it is open source, you can mould it into anything you want. Linux can now be used in everything from PDAs (e.g. Plam, Psion), smart appliances and set-top boxes to enterprise-level servers. Micros~1 claim that their next version of Windows NT (codenamed 'Whistler') will be able to do the same. I'd like to see them try! On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Seth wrote: If Win NT is like a 5 ton truck and it's Win 9x counterparts are more like 3/4 ton and 1/2 ton trucks, how big would you say Linux is? -- _ Sridhar Dhanapalan Linux is like a wigwam...No windows, no gates. Apache inside. _
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? snip Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when it comes to Windog! big grin A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] isa modem again
well i finally managed to get the modem to get past the initilized stage and it dials etc but the kppp deamon dies when it comes to authentication on the providers network i clicked the details button and is say this By default the remote user is required to authenticate itself because the system has a default route to the internet but i couldnt find any suitable(secrect) password for it to use to do so none of the available passwords would let it do so lovely message dont you think now i have put in my user name and password for provider in the right place and have tryed pap and the other option just in case that was the problem but it still comes up with the same lovely message in details when the deamon dies do any of you know how i would go about getting this resolved Martin
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Paul wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? snip Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when it comes to Windog! big grin A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul Paul, the company was Xerox (believe it or not!!!). At their Palo Alto research lab they invented the mouse (the first one was made of wood!) and the GUI. Apple tried numerous times to sue MS about copying their interface, failing every time (since they themselves had ripped it from Xerox). In fact, part of the deal Apple made with MS a few years ago (in which MS injected something like $US150 million into the troubled company and promised to continue developing MS Office for MacOS) involved Apple dropping all claims that MS had copied their GUI. -- _ Sridhar Dhanapalan Linux is like a wigwam...No windows, no gates. Apache inside. _
Re: [newbie] Windoze
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 02:01:20PM +0200, Roman Korcek wrote: Try downloading the latest drivers for your graphics card and monitor (in this case just the .inf file). ;-) Did that, and that didn't help. But that was to be expected, wasn't it? Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
[newbie] Cannot set WordPerfect Initial default Font
I am using Mandrake 7.1 and KDE. I installed the DL version of WordPerfect 8 for Linux from the 7.0 Powerpack and have 2 questions: 1. I cannot set the default font. When I press F9 (fonts), go to initial font and select what I want (Times), I am supposed to (according to the book I have) make sure that the "set as Printer initial Font" is selected. Well, it is greyed out and I therefore cannot select it and cannot get the selection to stick as an initial font. How do I solve this? 2. WP 8 installed itself in /usr/share/X11R6/lib/WordPerfect-8-0 That does not seem correct. Should I uninstall it and re-install? Where should I direct it to install and _how_ do I do that? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
[newbie] How to install grub instead of lilo in 7.1
When I installed Mandrake 7.1 (custom install) it installed with lilo in the boot partition. How do I change things so that Grub shows up instead of lilo on bootup? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
[newbie] Strange network experience with 7.1...
Hi! I've just upgraded to 7.1 and now I can't launch any applications via the cantrol bar (This bar at the bottom, I forgot the English word for it) when a connection with kppp is running. Has anyone a solution for this? Be well, -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | | www.fegefeuer-webzine.de | | | +-0OOO-+ | _ | _ | | | | | | | | | ooO Ooo
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? snip Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when it comes to Windog! A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul Actually, the company was Xerox, whom Apple stole their original GUI from. Jerry
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Paul wrote: A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul It was something like that. Don't remember if it was Kodak or not though. Xerox?/Palo Alto labs was the original designers behind a mouse driven GUI though. Just never did anything with it. The history is sort of covered in "The Pirates of Silicon Valley". ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Paul, I believe the company was Xerox. but the rest is accurate. --T. Paul wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? snip Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when it comes to Windog! big grin A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] isa modem again
Martin Try changing your auth. from PAP to CHAP. My ISP uses CHAP and so might yours. Charles - Original Message - From: "Martin B" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 5:40 AM Subject: [newbie] isa modem again well i finally managed to get the modem to get past the initilized stage and it dials etc but the kppp deamon dies when it comes to authentication on the providers network i clicked the details button and is say this By default the remote user is required to authenticate itself because the system has a default route to the internet but i couldnt find any suitable(secrect) password for it to use to do so none of the available passwords would let it do so lovely message dont you think now i have put in my user name and password for provider in the right place and have tryed pap and the other option just in case that was the problem but it still comes up with the same lovely message in details when the deamon dies do any of you know how i would go about getting this resolved Martin
Re: [newbie] isa modem again
Martin B wrote: well i finally managed to get the modem to get past the initilized stage and it dials etc but the kppp deamon dies when it comes to authentication on the providers network i clicked the details button and is say this By default the remote user is required to authenticate itself because the system has a default route to the internet but i couldnt find any suitable(secrect) password for it to use to do so none of the available passwords would let it do so lovely message dont you think now i have put in my user name and password for provider in the right place and have tryed pap and the other option just in case that was the problem but it still comes up with the same lovely message in details when the deamon dies do any of you know how i would go about getting this resolved Martin Martin, I had the same problem. It has to do with the network configuration, where you show which computer is the gateway and or if you show two IP addresses for the same computer, like 127.0.0.1 /name and 192.168.0.1/name. I played with so many of the netconfig settings before I solved the problem that I am not sure exactly which one did it. I need to keep a detailed log of these things as I go. Anyway the message indicates that you probably maybe definitly have your modem configured correctly, just need to get the routing right. I know, not much help, but maybe pointing you in the right direction. -- Dennis Registered Linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Nyuk..Nyuk.. "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? snip Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when it comes to Windog! big grin -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Didn't Intel originally own the patent rights for some of the early chips that Apple and other companies were using? Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? snip Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when it comes to Windog! A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul Actually, the company was Xerox, whom Apple stole their original GUI from. Jerry
Re: [newbie] isa modem again
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Martin B wrote: By default the remote user is required to authenticate itself because the system has a default route to the internet but i couldnt find any suitable(secrect) password for it to use to do so none of the available passwords would let it do so lovely message dont you think Yes, it certainly is!! I think you need to set up (as root) your /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. Pattern is: login name * Password Save it and try it again. Good luck! Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] Network Firewall Question
Hello all, In the last few days I have seen many postings on the list pertaining to different firewall software that is based on Linux. I am looking to set up my own firewall for my computers at college, and I am wondering which of these programs I have heard about would work better... So far I have heard of Freesco, and Fireplug. I would like to create a firewall (separate computer if that is better) that will protect my windows and Linux boxes ( I have a dual boot desktop and laptop). I would still like to be able to use the Internet fully and play games, as well as Telnet or FTP into the other box from somewhere on campus (with my laptop) if I ever need to. As far as I can tell, my university (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) has no firewall for the students connected to the network... I know very little about networks and how they work, so even after I have read the manuals on Freesco and Fireplug, I am still very lost as to how to proceed. I would ideally like my computers to not be seen by the outside world :) If anyone knows which program (freesco or fireplug, or another one) would do what I am looking for, I would greatly appreciate the input. Also, some quick info on what my firewall box should have in it would be a plus :) Thanks in advance and sorry for the long posting! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...
The password that you chose when you registered on Napster/Gnapster. First triple-check that you put in the right password and username. Secondly, try unchecking the new account box. See if that helps. Yes, but what is the password supposed to be? ;-( -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Network Firewall Question
One of the easier-to-use and reliable firewall scripts that I've found is pmfirewall. You can download the latest version free at www.pointman.org It is a very flexible script that loads ipchains rules each time a connection is made to the internet, or the interface is brought up. I supports masquerading for internal hosts and has a lot of internal otptions that allow you to open and close a variety of ports for various servers and services. I use it on my home firewall (RH6.1) without any problems. Since Mandrake is a Red Hat port, you should not have any problems. You may also want to look at portsentry (look to freshmeat.net for the location) which is a port scanner detection utility. Also very versatile, and reliable. This will protect you from stealth scans and other hacks. Third, you may wish to drop the telnet idea, and go with ssh (also, look to freshmeat). It uses a 768bit encryption key and renews that key at every login (or at intervals whichever is longer). There is a utility called PuTTY (also SecureShel) that works on a windows machine to access ssh on a Linux/Unix machine. Far more secure than telnet. As long as you have an IP addres, you machine will be locate-able on the internet. But with a firewall utility, and something such as portsentry you can make the openings (ports) seem to disappear. Portsentry will also update the ipchains rules and lock out any hosts that appear to be dangerous. Entries are made to the hosts.deny file that include host name and IP address. Once that is done your machine almost does disappear--atleast as far as that particular host is concerned. --Greg - Original Message - From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: [newbie] Network Firewall Question Hello all, In the last few days I have seen many postings on the list pertaining to different firewall software that is based on Linux. I am looking to set up my own firewall for my computers at college, and I am wondering which of these programs I have heard about would work better... So far I have heard of Freesco, and Fireplug. I would like to create a firewall (separate computer if that is better) that will protect my windows and Linux boxes ( I have a dual boot desktop and laptop). I would still like to be able to use the Internet fully and play games, as well as Telnet or FTP into the other box from somewhere on campus (with my laptop) if I ever need to. As far as I can tell, my university (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) has no firewall for the students connected to the network... I know very little about networks and how they work, so even after I have read the manuals on Freesco and Fireplug, I am still very lost as to how to proceed. I would ideally like my computers to not be seen by the outside world :) If anyone knows which program (freesco or fireplug, or another one) would do what I am looking for, I would greatly appreciate the input. Also, some quick info on what my firewall box should have in it would be a plus :) Thanks in advance and sorry for the long posting! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
Re: [newbie] Network Firewall Question
One of the easier-to-use and reliable firewall scripts that I've found is pmfirewall. You can download the latest version free at www.pointman.org It is a very flexible script that loads ipchains rules each time a connection is made to the internet, or the interface is brought up. I supports masquerading for internal hosts and has a lot of internal otptions that allow you to open and close a variety of ports for various servers and services. I use it on my home firewall (RH6.1) without any problems. Since Mandrake is a Red Hat port, you should not have any problems. You may also want to look at portsentry (look to freshmeat.net for the location) which is a port scanner detection utility. Also very versatile, and reliable. This will protect you from stealth scans and other hacks. Third, you may wish to drop the telnet idea, and go with ssh (also, look to freshmeat). It uses a 768bit encryption key and renews that key at every login (or at intervals whichever is longer). There is a utility called PuTTY (also SecureShel) that works on a windows machine to access ssh on a Linux/Unix machine. Far more secure than telnet. As long as you have an IP addres, you machine will be locate-able on the internet. But with a firewall utility, and something such as portsentry you can make the openings (ports) seem to disappear. Portsentry will also update the ipchains rules and lock out any hosts that appear to be dangerous. Entries are made to the hosts.deny file that include host name and IP address. Once that is done your machine almost does disappear--atleast as far as that particular host is concerned. --Greg - Original Message - From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: [newbie] Network Firewall Question Hello all, In the last few days I have seen many postings on the list pertaining to different firewall software that is based on Linux. I am looking to set up my own firewall for my computers at college, and I am wondering which of these programs I have heard about would work better... So far I have heard of Freesco, and Fireplug. I would like to create a firewall (separate computer if that is better) that will protect my windows and Linux boxes ( I have a dual boot desktop and laptop). I would still like to be able to use the Internet fully and play games, as well as Telnet or FTP into the other box from somewhere on campus (with my laptop) if I ever need to. As far as I can tell, my university (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) has no firewall for the students connected to the network... I know very little about networks and how they work, so even after I have read the manuals on Freesco and Fireplug, I am still very lost as to how to proceed. I would ideally like my computers to not be seen by the outside world :) If anyone knows which program (freesco or fireplug, or another one) would do what I am looking for, I would greatly appreciate the input. Also, some quick info on what my firewall box should have in it would be a plus :) Thanks in advance and sorry for the long posting! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com ! * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
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Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
it was xerox (sp?). THey had the first GUI and "mouse" built and working at their palo alto research laboratory. Steve jobs or whoever took the idea. Dacia --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? snip Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when it comes to Windog! big grin A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Network Firewall Question
for straight up firewall I'm pretty damn happy with PMfirewall. http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/ check it out! Dacia --- Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, In the last few days I have seen many postings on the list pertaining to different firewall software that is based on Linux. I am looking to set up my own firewall for my computers at college, and I am wondering which of these programs I have heard about would work better... So far I have heard of Freesco, and Fireplug. I would like to create a firewall (separate computer if that is better) that will protect my windows and Linux boxes ( I have a dual boot desktop and laptop). I would still like to be able to use the Internet fully and play games, as well as Telnet or FTP into the other box from somewhere on campus (with my laptop) if I ever need to. As far as I can tell, my university (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) has no firewall for the students connected to the network... I know very little about networks and how they work, so even after I have read the manuals on Freesco and Fireplug, I am still very lost as to how to proceed. I would ideally like my computers to not be seen by the outside world :) If anyone knows which program (freesco or fireplug, or another one) would do what I am looking for, I would greatly appreciate the input. Also, some quick info on what my firewall box should have in it would be a plus :) Thanks in advance and sorry for the long posting! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] rules (filters) on staroffice to handle mail?
Also, if you click the start button in the lower left corner the popup will have a help selection for mail, that will tell you better how to set it up. Dennis Registered Linux user # 180842 Dennis Myers wrote: Take a look at the popup when you right click on your inbox. Look at properties and then rules, it provides some ability to filter. Good luck, Dennis --- Original Message dated 7/22/00, 9:59:47 PM Author: "German Sanchez Urrutia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: [newbie] rules (filters) on staroffice to handle mail?: --- Is there a way to use rules (filters), to handle mail using star office? --
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Dacia and AzureRose wrote: it was xerox (sp?). THey had the first GUI and "mouse" built and working at their palo alto research laboratory. Steve jobs or whoever took the idea. Dacia --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? snip Awe, c'mon Roman...its okay to say "blood-sucking leech" when it comes to Windog! big grin A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ It's amazing that one Windows email can bring out the best from Linux users. It's quite interesting to find the truth in the development of software and hardware over last few years. Also, you can't always trust every article you read in a PC magazine about an OS unless you check it out for yourself. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re[2]: [newbie] Linux resources online
Hello Dacia, Sunday, July 23, 2000, 18:08:43 zulu, you wrote: DaA it was xerox (sp?). THey had the first GUI and DaA "mouse" built and working at their palo alto research DaA laboratory. Steve jobs or whoever took the idea. the same place that gave birth to Ethernet, btw -- Best regards, Yuri http://linukh.freeservers.com
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: it was xerox (sp?). THey had the first GUI and "mouse" built and working at their palo alto research laboratory. Steve jobs or whoever took the idea. Ah, indeed. It was Xerox. At least I had the number of letters in the name right (grin) Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Network Firewall Question
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: for straight up firewall I'm pretty damn happy with PMfirewall. http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/ check it out! My vote goes to PMfirewall too. Even if I had to correct the word ten times, seems that I can't write anymore ;) Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop
It is time again for our weekly lesson... For a start: to leave the list: send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with in the body text just the word unsubscribe To stop getting mail for a while, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the body write set newbie nomail To get mail again do the same, just write then set newbie mail
Re: [newbie] Creating a dual boot Linux/Win2k
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: complexity, I want to intstall Windows 2000 (just to try it out :-) on the same drive and be able to choose what OS I want at bootup. So I need 3 partitions (Does Win2K need a swap partition? I don't think so.): one for Win2K (FAT32 so I can use it in Linux too) of about 8Gb (will clusters still be 4Kb at this size), one for /, and one for Linux swap. Windoeze does not need a separate swap partition. It creates a large file on a partition and uses that as swap space. How should the drives be installed (which should be hda and which should be hdb?)? How big should the swap be? I have 192Mb of RAM but I only rarely use over 20Mb of swap. What would be the best ordering of partitions for maximum Linux performance (Win2K performance is secondary)? How do I edit my fstab file afterwards if I can't boot Linux since the partitions have changed? I don't think that with the present harddrives you need to be concerned about performance depending on the place of the partition. But incase you need to change the partitions so your root partition is changed from e/g/ hda1 to hda2, you can do this trick from the lilo prompt (have your bootdisk handy!!): linux root=/dev/hda2 This will get you into linux, and you will be able to go into fstab without a problem. What is the best way of going about all this? At my disposal I have PartitionMagic 4 (which unfortunately cannot make Linux swap partitions of over 133Mb) and Ghost (My dealer has it -- I'm not sure which version). I also of course have the Mandrake partitioning tools. I would say: use partition magic. It indeed performs magic. Hope this helps you on the way! Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] 3com 3c905c-TX
I am having one heck of a time getting my 3com 3c905c-TX Fast ethernet XL card to work with Mandrake linux 7.1. It detects it when the kernal initially loads but it is not shown in HardDrake. I've downloaded linux drivers from 3com but when I try to compile them I get alot of errors, especially include errors. I do not have the kernal source on my hd and this is the command i'm using to compile: gcc -c 3c90x.c -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer \ -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 \ -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=486 \ -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ Maybe I need to put the kernal source on my hd or I need to add -dmodversions to the command line? Any help would be most appreciated! -Darkeyes
Re: [newbie] How to install grub instead of lilo in 7.1
- Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux Newbie Mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 9:28 AM Subject: [newbie] How to install grub instead of lilo in 7.1 When I installed Mandrake 7.1 (custom install) it installed with lilo in the boot partition. How do I change things so that Grub shows up instead of lilo on bootup? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 I installed Grub at the offset, so I can not swear to this, but it is my understanding that you can use DrakBoot to change your boot loader option. Charles
Re: [newbie] S3 video cards
You may found a solution there, X 3.3.6 identified my S3 Trio3D as a "S3 86C365" and never worked. I never tried anything different. Victor Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, just wanted to post this for anyone with an S3 Trio 3D/2X card. With 7.1 I see a message when I look a xconfig, that says my card is seen as " S3 86C368". If problems setting up the Xwindow server with the S3 Trio you might look for the driver shown above. My card seems to function perfectly at 800x640 resolution and 16 bit color. I know I might be able to do better but for now don't want to push my luck. -- Dennis Registered Linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop
- Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 3:27 PM Subject: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop It is time again for our weekly lesson... For a start: to leave the list: send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with in the body text just the word unsubscribe If that still seems to hard. :-) go to the Mandrake List page, enter your e-mail address, select Newbie and check unsubscribe and in 30 sec we will be history. Charles
Re: [newbie] X 4.0.1 S3 Trio3D works!
Now that I've had a decent night's sleep (up at 5am, installed X at 1 am next morning), there are few things that I should have added. 1) Read and answer all the questions yes or no depending if you already have customizations to your X environment (I didn't), it will save so much post install work. 2)An opportuninty to choose the default desktop (KDE, Gnome, TWm, etc)is probably provided during the run of Xinstall.sh. I must have missed it in my fatigue and the XFree86.urg people are way too thorough to miss that. If it is, you can skip the whole second half of my instructions dealing with /xinitrc. 3) A chance to choose resolutions beyond 800x600 may have also been provided during the installer and I missed it. Victor Victor Richardson wrote: I just installed X 4.0.1 on Mandrake 7.1 and had it up and running off the default installation by only moving and renaming one file and editing one other. I highly suggest it to any S3 Trio3D users who are running X in frame buffer mode or haven't gotten it working. I tried for 6 months to 3.3.6 to run and only got it to work in frame buffer 1024x768 once, then could never get it to work again. If anyone is interested, I just followed the simple instructions at www.xfree86.org, and downloaded these files to a temporary directory: Xbin.tgz Xdoc.tgz Xetc.tgz Xfenc.tgz Xfnts.tgz Xfscl.tgz Xfsrv.tgz Xinstall.sh Xlib.tgz Xman.tgz Xmod.tgz Xvar.tgz Xxserv.tgz extract.exe 1) Run 'sh Xinstall.sh' from within it's directory and answer yes to all the questions, #sh Xinstall.sh 2) afterwards run the new 'XFree86 -configure' which automatically sets XF86Config for the S3 Trio3D with the S3Virge driver. #XFree86 -configure 3) Go into directory /etc/X11 and rename any XF86Config and XF86Config-4 to ".old" 4) Copy and rename the new XF86Config to /etc/X11 (4.0.1 reads XF86Config-4 now) with #cp /root/XF86Config.new /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 5) reboot It seems that 4.0.1 launches the TWM desktop by default (at least it did on mine) which looks like crap and will make you think the install didn't work properly (at least I did). On mine it had this light grey background (rough, primitive, detail) with three screens open; login, xterm, and xclock. If you use and already have KDE installed, then you need to drop TWM and tell X to launch KDE by default: 1)Go into the login screen and exit out of X; #exit 2) Edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc, which is read only so change it to read-write; #cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/ 3) Save xinitrc and change it's name so you can restore if you need to with; #cp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.sav 3) Check to see if it is read-write, which will tell if it has "-rw-rw-rw-", #ls -la xinitrc 4) If it doesn't, make it read-write with; #chmod 666 xinitrc 5)Then edit xinitrc so that it launches KDE default. At the bottom of the file it will have a section that says something similar to: #start some nice programs twm xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login 6) This tells X that it will launch TWM and have xclock, xterm, and an xterm titled "login" already open. Xterm "login" will be the main screen so closing it will exit X. Change the "twm " line to "kde " . If you don't want xclock automatically opened, then delete the xclock line, but keep the "exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login" line. I deleted it and X wouldn't run. 7)Exit and save the file. ***I suggest changing the /xinintrc file back to read only with the chmod command Unfortunately, it is late and I can't remember which chmod number is for read-only. Can somone please reply with the proper chmod number? Start X and it should work nicley! I know for beginners like myself, this sounds like a lot to do, but it only takes a few minutes to install and configure (10-15 max) and then you'll be running X in all it's glory. I have to admit I needed help from my brother to do all the xinitrc changes, that was out of my league. ps. Mine was running in 800x600 by default, I'm not sure if you can get better resolutions. Victor
[newbie] PMfirewall Tripwire question
Hey, I have a question for the group. I have PMfirewall installed and working. I downloaded psionics tripwire program and before I install it I want to know if there are any little details I should be especially conscious of in regards to its interactions with PMfirewall. Also, which (if any) programs can I use to check tripwires effectiveness? Thanks folks! Dacia __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
[newbie] Linux Digital Cameras
Are Linux drivers available for using Fuji Digital Camera picture development or must one stay with Windoze? Michael Coady
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
he he he he...details right? Incidentally, this particular thread really demonstrates what I like about this list. Fun, informative, friendly and useful. Dacia --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: it was xerox (sp?). THey had the first GUI and "mouse" built and working at their palo alto research laboratory. Steve jobs or whoever took the idea. Ah, indeed. It was Xerox. At least I had the number of letters in the name right (grin) Paul -- Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade MBR of HDA
Harry Can you access Windows with a boot disk? If so you will need to re-install to repair your MBR unless one of your utilitiy programs can do it otherwise I am afraid that you will need to do a New Install of Windows. I don't know why you got the syntac error with Lilo but when you installed Grub it did not properly repalce your old Lilo or it's boot contents. When Lilo tried to operate at your re-boot it could not and though fdisk/MBR removed it , it also removed your Win MBR. So that you were left only with Grub, and 7.1 as the only bootable OS. I know you said that fdisk would not do anything now but have you tried fdisk/MBR again. Just as a matter of info you can remove Lilo from within Linux, you Can Not do so with Grub. The only way to remove Grub is fdisk/MBR. - Original Message - From: "Harry Flaxman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2000 6:48 PM Subject: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade MBR of HDA Well, here's another problem I ran into upgrading to 7.1. I tried specifying LILO when DrakConf asked me which bootloader to use. The lilo configuration returned a syntax error. I went ahead and chose GRUB. when I booted to my first hard driveLILO stopped after the I, so I used my handy dandy dos boot disk to do a fdisk /mbr. C: drive returned an error, and I couldn't get a directory listing on it. Upon rebooting...I got GRUB, and tried to choose windows to boot from, and I get a loop...no winslows boot. GRUB booted me into linux, and upon examining HDA1 there, all of the winslows data files are accessible. I just can't get fdisk to do anything to the drive now, and can't boot into winslows. There are a couple of utilities there that I use from time to time. Has anyone run into a similar situation? Thanks. Harry -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Reg Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Reg Linux System 80769
Re: [newbie] 3com 3c905c-TX
I've had a 3c905c NIC running with the 3c59x driver under RH6.1. You might try that as a work-around. - Original Message - From: Nickolas Koehne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 3:13 PM Subject: [newbie] 3com 3c905c-TX I am having one heck of a time getting my 3com 3c905c-TX Fast ethernet XL card to work with Mandrake linux 7.1. It detects it when the kernal initially loads but it is not shown in HardDrake. I've downloaded linux drivers from 3com but when I try to compile them I get alot of errors, especially include errors. I do not have the kernal source on my hd and this is the command i'm using to compile: gcc -c 3c90x.c -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer \ -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 \ -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=486 \ -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ Maybe I need to put the kernal source on my hd or I need to add -dmodversions to the command line? Any help would be most appreciated! -Darkeyes * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
[newbie] Another Firewall Question...
Hello again, Thanks everyone for the previous advice, PMFirewall sounds like the way to go! I do have one more question... Since I will be using both Winbloze and Linux, should I put the PMFirewall on a separate Linux Box and run my Ethernet connection thru that, then into my other computers(is this possible)? My ultimate goal is to protect the two computers when they are in Windows and Linux... If PMFirewall only works for Linux, is there a separate Firewall that my work for Windows? Thanks again - - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] /** How to install and compile apache and php in LinuxMandrake */
majid L écrivit : Hi I am new in Linux Mandrake, I've just install it, now I need to install apache and php, [...] So, install mod_php3 package. -- MandrakeSofthttp://www.mandrakesoft.com PARIS, FRANCE --David
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
actually, i think (could be wrong) that it was xerox that was going to sue apple, they came up with the GUI first. i also think that Apple did actually get it in a court, the it was ruled that the GUI was not something they could claim as their own. Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Network setup
I continue to make some progress with the 3 computer network. The two win98 boxes can ping each other and the linux box. The linux box can ping 0.2 but not 0.1. Confusing? Anyway, I am doing the pings from a control panel and dos window. I do not understand why the linux box does not want to talk to 0.1. Any ideas? -- Dennis Registered Linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Wow! truer words were never spoken! -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: Linux newsgroups provide friendly support for new and old users. The politics involved in writing articles by 'ghost writers' for some of these PC magazines is laughable? Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? Read your history, rather than quoting articles written by ghost writers. Linux doesn't bite nor do the users. In fact, you'll find them quite friendly and very helpful. All true, but I believe the bottom line here is that reviews and commentaries in 'pc' magazines, including sites like ZD and Cnet, are the worst places to go for info on hardware and software. They don't bite the hands that feed 'em, their advertisers
Re: [newbie] PMfirewall Tripwire question
As for as I know Psionic does not make tripwire, they do however make some awesome security products: Portsentry Hostsentry and Logcheck. Logcheck and Portsentry can be run effectively under the IPchains firewall that PMfirewall has configured for you. Hey, I have aquestion for the group. I have PMfirewall installed and working. psionics tripwire program and before I install it I want to know if there are any little details I should be especially conscious of in regards to its interactions with PMfirewall. Also, which (if any) programs can I use to check tripwires effectiveness? Thanks folks! Dacia __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- __ [K][D][M]-=-=-=-=-[K][D][M] UIN:82189397 [K][D][M]-ETERNAL-[K][D][M] IM: xKxDxMx [K][D][M]-=-=-=-=-[K][D][M] E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __
Re: [newbie] PMfirewall Tripwire question
None that I have seen. Tripwire is best installed just after you install your system (not that this is necessary, though)--so that you can see any differences between the clean install and any alterations made thereafter. - Original Message - From: Dacia and AzureRose [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 4:16 PM Subject: [newbie] PMfirewall Tripwire question Hey, I have a question for the group. I have PMfirewall installed and working. I downloaded psionics tripwire program and before I install it I want to know if there are any little details I should be especially conscious of in regards to its interactions with PMfirewall. Also, which (if any) programs can I use to check tripwires effectiveness? Thanks folks! Dacia __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
Re: [newbie] Network Firewall Question
Run Portsentry under your IPchains firewall you have a firewall that can detect and block port scans! for straight up firewall I'm pretty damn happy with PMfirewall. http://www.pointman.org/PMFirewall/ check it out! Dacia --- Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, In the last few days I have seen many postings on the list pertaining to different firewall software that is based on Linux. I am looking to set up my own firewall for my computers at college, and I am wondering which of these programs I have heard about would work better... So far I have heard of Freesco, and Fireplug. I would like to create a firewall (separate computer if that is better) that will protect my windows and Linux boxes ( I have a dual boot desktop and laptop). I would still like to be able to use the Internet fully and play games, as well as Telnet or FTP into the other box from somewhere on campus (with my laptop) if I ever need to. As far as I can tell, my university (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) has no firewall for the students connected to the network... I know very little about networks and how they work, so even after I have read the manuals on Freesco and Fireplug, I am still very lost as to how to proceed. I would ideally like my computers to not be seen by the outside world :) If anyone knows which program (freesco or fireplug, or another one) would do what I am looking for, I would greatly appreciate the input. Also, some quick info on what my firewall box should have in it would be a plus :) Thanks in advance and sorry for the long posting! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- __ [K][D][M]-=-=-=-=-[K][D][M] UIN:82189397 [K][D][M]-ETERNAL-[K][D][M] IM: xKxDxMx [K][D][M]-=-=-=-=-[K][D][M] E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __
Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...
For windows I use Zonealarm. Its great. Go to http://www.zonelabs.com free for personal use. It successfully blocked an attack on my machine that happened a few months ago. I am very happy with it. Dacia --- Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, Thanks everyone for the previous advice, PMFirewall sounds like the way to go! I do have one more question... Since I will be using both Winbloze and Linux, should I put the PMFirewall on a separate Linux Box and run my Ethernet connection thru that, then into my other computers(is this possible)? My ultimate goal is to protect the two computers when they are in Windows and Linux... If PMFirewall only works for Linux, is there a separate Firewall that my work for Windows? Thanks again - - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...
Very easy to do just what you want. When you run the pmfirewall install script, it will ask you a lot of questions...You'll need to specify your external IF, static/DHCP IP, what types of servers you are running (telnet, ftp, http, smtp, nntp, etc.), You configure the firewall by simply answering yes/no to the questions. Hint: if you use IRC, say yes to ident. Then you'll be asked is the machine will be masquerading and internal network. Say yes, and choose whether your internal net IPs are statically or dynamically (DHCP) configured. the install script can detect the IP automatically. Another hint: if you have a dial-up ISP use ppp0 as your external IF; if it's cable/DSL use eth0 for external. During boot, the machine can sometimes hang if you choose eth1 as the external IF. Also: there is a mesage board for pmfirewall: send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following in the body: subscribe pmfirewall --greg - Original Message - From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 5:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Another Firewall Question... Hello again, Thanks everyone for the previous advice, PMFirewall sounds like the way to go! I do have one more question... Since I will be using both Winbloze and Linux, should I put the PMFirewall on a separate Linux Box and run my Ethernet connection thru that, then into my other computers(is this possible)? My ultimate goal is to protect the two computers when they are in Windows and Linux... If PMFirewall only works for Linux, is there a separate Firewall that my work for Windows? Thanks again - - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Yes, apple sued microsoft in the early 80's for stealing the GUI from them but microsoft argued successfully that GUI is the future of computing and as such copyrighting it is akin to trying to copyright "book" or "magazine". This ruling is atleast partially responsible for Linux being able to be distributed with macOS and winOS style GUI's without fear of legal reprisals. Cool huh? Dacia --- Adrian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, i think (could be wrong) that it was xerox that was going to sue apple, they came up with the GUI first. i also think that Apple did actually get it in a court, the it was ruled that the GUI was not something they could claim as their own. Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
the xerox parc (palo alto research center) developed the gui and mouse.. but xerox thought it was a waste of time, and sold the work parc had done to apple... who then used it.. At 03:28 PM 7/23/2000 -0600, you wrote: actually, i think (could be wrong) that it was xerox that was going to sue apple, they came up with the GUI first. i also think that Apple did actually get it in a court, the it was ruled that the GUI was not something they could claim as their own. Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Network setup
How is the network set up? --- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I continue to make some progress with the 3 computer network. The two win98 boxes can ping each other and the linux box. The linux box can ping 0.2 but not 0.1. Confusing? Anyway, I am doing the pings from a control panel and dos window. I do not understand why the linux box does not want to talk to 0.1. Any ideas? -- Dennis Registered Linux user # 180842 __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] PMfirewall Portsentry question
Well, I'll be damned if my pesky crack habit didn't jump up and bite me in the ass again! Your right, it was Portsentry not trip wire. Dacia --- kdm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for as I know Psionic does not make tripwire, they do however make some awesome security products: Portsentry Hostsentry and Logcheck. Logcheck and Portsentry can be run effectively under the IPchains firewall that PMfirewall has configured for you. Hey, I have aquestion for the group. I have PMfirewall installed and working. psionics tripwire program and before I install it I want to know if there are any little details I should be especially conscious of in regards to its interactions with PMfirewall. Also, which (if any) programs can I use to check tripwires effectiveness? Thanks folks! Dacia __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- __ [K][D][M]-=-=-=-=-[K][D][M] UIN:82189397 [K][D][M]-ETERNAL-[K][D][M] IM: xKxDxMx [K][D][M]-=-=-=-=-[K][D][M] E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] 7.1 Upgrade MBR of HDA (Torrey)
At 08:40 AM 7/23/00 -0400, you wrote: A couple of question on your problem. Did you run SCIN and remove Sys Command before you installed 7.1? If not did you use the Sys Command Add OS Wizard when you installed 7.1? Sys Command and Grub are basicly the same type of boot program and will Not happily co-exist, and LILO if used with Sys Command needs to be installed on hdc Not hda. I have in the past used SC Deluxe but removed it from my system prior to installing either 7.0 or 7.1 and I will be glad to help if I can. Its helpful to know that System Commander is probably not compatible with GRUB. I don't have good results with the OS Wizard, so I don't tend to use it. SC was *disabled* - not removed - before installing Mandrake 7.1. According to the SC docs, it is possible to use with LILO on hda, and this worked OK with Mandrake 7.0. Neither LILO nor SC could boot Linux with LILO on hdc - still needs to have some start-up files on the first hard disk, it seems. I also have Windows 2000 Pro, in its own partition, so this is really a triple-boot system, and that adds some complexities of its own. I am using SC 2000, with the latest patches. Torrey
[newbie] isa modem again
well folks after adding the line loginname ppp0 password into the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file and checking if there was a line auth in the /etc/ppp/options (all there was in this file was lock) im still unable to authenticate on dial up i talked to the provider and they siad authentication is any encryption and clear text now would any one know where the option is so i can turn off the bit where its treating the remote server like a remote user or can i get away with using a script and if so what order do i have to have it in Martin
[newbie] USB 7.1
What sort of USB devices are supported by the kernel in 7.1? I was wondering. Now, since upgrading to 7.1, my USB hub has lit up, apparently being detected properly. I have a USB scanner and webcam...don't have any idea if there's a way to get those working in 7.1. I've read in Maximum Linux that the new development kernels are the only ones with true USB support. Is this true? Thanks. Harry -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Reg Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Reg Linux System 80769
Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...
What does one do if PMfirewall won't start on it's own when a connection to the internet is made? I've been asking this question on the PMfirewall list, but it's falling on deaf ears. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On 23 Jul 2000, Greg Stewart wrote: Very easy to do just what you want. When you run the pmfirewall install script, it will ask you a lot of questions...You'll need to specify your external IF, static/DHCP IP, what types of servers you are running (telnet, ftp, http, smtp, nntp, etc.), You configure the firewall by simply answering yes/no to the questions. Hint: if you use IRC, say yes to ident. Then you'll be asked is the machine will be masquerading and internal network. Say yes, and choose whether your internal net IPs are statically or dynamically (DHCP) configured. the install script can detect the IP automatically. Another hint: if you have a dial-up ISP use ppp0 as your external IF; if it's cable/DSL use eth0 for external. During boot, the machine can sometimes hang if you choose eth1 as the external IF. Also: there is a mesage board for pmfirewall: send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following in the body: subscribe pmfirewall --greg - Original Message - From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 5:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Another Firewall Question... Hello again, Thanks everyone for the previous advice, PMFirewall sounds like the way to go! I do have one more question... Since I will be using both Winbloze and Linux, should I put the PMFirewall on a separate Linux Box and run my Ethernet connection thru that, then into my other computers(is this possible)? My ultimate goal is to protect the two computers when they are in Windows and Linux... If PMFirewall only works for Linux, is there a separate Firewall that my work for Windows? Thanks again - - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
Dacia and AzureRose wrote: Yes, apple sued microsoft in the early 80's for stealing the GUI from them but microsoft argued successfully that GUI is the future of computing and as such copyrighting it is akin to trying to copyright "book" or "magazine". This ruling is atleast partially responsible for Linux being able to be distributed with macOS and winOS style GUI's without fear of legal reprisals. Cool huh? Dacia --- Adrian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, i think (could be wrong) that it was xerox that was going to sue apple, they came up with the GUI first. i also think that Apple did actually get it in a court, the it was ruled that the GUI was not something they could claim as their own. Romanator wrote: Let's take it a little further. Windows isn't original. Isn't it a derivative? A nice little thing I once read in a book (don't recall the title, I read too much :) is that at one time Apple wanted to sue Microsoft for copying the idea of the mouse-driven graphical interface. Then, from Palo Alto, Kodak (!!) came up and threatened to sue Apple for the same thing if they were going on with that. Old film and paper documents showed that Kodak had been experimenting with mouses etc. already long before Apple got the idea. (Could be that I am completely wrong with Kodak as the company, but that is how I remember it.) Paul Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ Money and greed. Makes for a great movie.(I think it's been done) But it's in an ongoing process. Very cool. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
[newbie] Network Success
Not just exactly sure how I did it, but, All Three Computers talk to each other and the two Window boxes are using the Linux Box modem to connect to the internet so I'm ready for the DSL. I hope I don't have to change much to get that going. An earlier post asked about the Pmfirewall working for the network and all of my system is showing Stealth. I love it when a plan comes together. -- Dennis Registered Linux user # 180842
Re: [newbie] Linux Digital Cameras
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote: Are Linux drivers available for using Fuji Digital Camera picture development or must one stay with Windoze? Michael Coady Michael, since you didn't say, I'll havt'a assume you're using KDE, and that by "picture development" you mean downloading and proccessing pictures from your digital camera, no? If that's the case, check an see if 'Gphoto' (it's in your KDE menu under Multimedia | Graphics) will work with your Fuji. There's several Fuji models in the list. I have an Olympus D360L, and tho it's not in the list, if I set it as D340L, it downloads jus' fine. I can also use the other features such as setting the file prefixes, setting the time, clearing the camera, etc ... works great. The software that came with the camera won't even work on my Windoze side ;-) There's too may proccesing/editing apps that come with Mandrake to recommend one, they all have a 'best' feature. As to viewing stored images, GQview is great, and Compupic is even better. Do a Freshmeat search on 'compupic', Winblows version is $40, Linux one is FREE. Be sure to read the link on their page about why that is ;-) -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Another Firewall Question...
This might help...let me know if it doesn't. In answer to: What does one do if PMfirewall won't start on it's own when a connection to the internet is made? I've been asking this question on the PMfirewall list, but it's falling on deaf ears. This is a message from Rick at pointman.org. Check to see if you are configured correctly: Forwarded Message: If pmfirewall is installed in /usr/local/opt/pmfirewall/ Just add: /usr/local/opt/pmfirewall/pmfirewall start to the /etc/ppp/ip-up or ip-up.local file. Note, this only works if you are using pppd or some variant of a frontend for it. You don't need to add anything to the ip-down file. Rick On Sat, 6 May 2000, Ken Wahl wrote: Hello all, I've only been running Linux for about 2 weeks so I hope you'll excuse my newbie naivete. I've installed pmfirewall on Linux Mandrake 7.0 and it works very well but I'd like it to restart with new ppp connections. I've read the man pages and checked in the pmfirewall archive for tips and read about inserting something into ip-up.local and ip-down.local that would make this work. The problem is I don't know *exactly* what to put in these scripts to make it work. I've tried a few different things but to no avail. Specifically, I'm confused as do I: 1) Include the original contents of ip-up in ip-up.local and just add the command line "/usr/local/opt/pmfirewall/pmfirewall restart" or 2) Just the command line or 3) Something entirely different since my knowledge of C is null? Thanks for your time and patience. -- Ken Wahl * Want free email? Sign up at http://www.freeze.com !
[newbie] Re: x-screensaver
I agree. It is awesome. Does it have to be "random" or can you select one to run. For example I like the shark one (Atlantis) but I can find no way to make that selection stick. Is there a way? Thanks for pointing me to it. On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, patrick darcy wrote: its in the display settings. its the last one . its awesome, in kde click on the little monitors to the bottom right, go to screensavers and go for it
