[newbie] Colinux, run linux natively inside windows.
Hi guys, I just found something pretty interesting.. http://www.colinux.org Allows you to run linux from inside windows.. Very cool, I am currently running Debian 3 inside XP, have the internet working and I can ssh to it.. Working to get X sorted, (have to use VNC cos I don't have an X server on windows..) Very cool way to try before you buy, but its a bit too technical to have a newbie set it up. Still, its certainly an interesting toy. -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C
On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:48:18 -0400
Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings
If I do 'df' if get
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7
49G 755M 48G 2% /home
Says I have 48G free.
If I run a C program calling statfs(/home, fs), I get:
type of filesystem = 61267
optimal transfer block size = 4096
total data blocks in file system= 1510072
free blocks in fs = 905771
free blocks avail to non-superuser = 829062
total file nodes in file system = 768544
free file nodes in fs= 631185
file system id = 0
maximum length of filenames= 255
3710038016 bytes left
The numbers don't add up. What am I missing? I'm running 10.0 CE.
Aye, you are right, they don't add up. Just out of interest I tried the
function under 9.2 and the result looked OK. The filesystem type is the
same as yours (ext2/3)
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include sys/vfs.h
int main ( int argc, char * argv[ ] )
{
int status;
struct statfs partition;
status = statfs( /home, partition );
if ( !status )
{
printf( filesystem type: %0X\n, partition.f_type );
printf( block size : %ld\n, partition.f_bsize );
printf( free blocks: %ld\n, partition.f_blocks );
}
return status;
}
=
df -h /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9
35G 5.6G 30G 17% /home
Program output :
filesystem type: EF53
block size : 4096
free blocks: 9070563
Your numbers look as if they have been divided by 12.5 = 8%.
Could somebody else check this out under Mandrake 10?
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[newbie] USB Flash memory mounted but does not function
Dear Friends, I have an IOMEGA 128 mb USB (1.1) flash memory. When I plug it to USB port my system ( Mandrake 10.0 - kernel 2.6. ) recognizes and mounts it under /mnt/removable but when I want to go into it and save a data and to copy files from that ; System says that device is not reachable. ( There is no problem with permissions !! ) I think , there is something wrong with the installation of this flash memory.. This device was well running under Mandrake 9.2.. !! What do you recommmend ? Best regards H.ERTAS __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Find files stops responding
Dear Friends, I use Mdrk 10.0 . But when I run search ( find files ) . This program stops responding. I always have to stop it manually. What do you recommmend ? Best regards H.ERTAS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com (Embedded image moved to file: pic23281.pcx) pic23281.pcx Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] My notebook's modem and kernel 2.6
Dear friends, I have a new notebook ( Fujitsu Siemens 1840 ). Its modem is smartlink 56k (onboard). Under linux ,chipset name is Sis 7013. I downloaded latest linux driver (2.9.7) from Smartlink's Site . I installed it. Everything seems OK. Bu it does not run . When running Kppp and make query modem ,system finds the modem under ttySL0 , but all answers for ATI commands are empty. I use Mndrk 10.0 ande kernel 2.6 What can I do ?? Any help is appreciated.. Best Regards.. H.ERTAS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] arrrrggggggg
What is wrong with this os. Windows loads boots and works right away, Linux for some reason allways has problems either install or booting. I have used it or been trying it since 9.1 still not got any of them to work properly. Just managed after a struggle to get 10 to boot, now i get to the opening screen and thats it. My mouse will not work at all so I cant navigate or even open a console.Anyone know how I can get the little bugger working. Philip. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.680 / Virus Database: 442 - Release Date: 09/05/2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] rekall-2.2.0-0.beta4
Update Mdk 10.0 rpms for rekall-2.2.0-0.beta4 are now avaiable. I have also updated the index.html to correctly reflect the all current rpms. If there is a desire I can upload the rpms for mozilla-1.7-0.rc2 and make them assessable for manual dl only. Of note is the fact that if you install the update mozilla rpms on 10.0 then it Will break the epiphany browser. Charles -- Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge. - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.5-1.tmb.5mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgpjxsWAsDtMQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C
Errr
This newbie thought that windows dosen't see other partitions not FAT
formated or whatever. Whilst inside windows try MS-DOS and issue fdisk
and follow the prompts.
Not sure if this is what you are doing, just thought I'ld mention it.
Regards
Frank
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Registered Linux User # 324213
Len Lawrence wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:48:18 -0400
Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings
If I do 'df' if get
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7
49G 755M 48G 2% /home
Says I have 48G free.
If I run a C program calling statfs(/home, fs), I get:
type of filesystem = 61267
optimal transfer block size = 4096
total data blocks in file system= 1510072
free blocks in fs = 905771
free blocks avail to non-superuser = 829062
total file nodes in file system = 768544
free file nodes in fs= 631185
file system id = 0
maximum length of filenames= 255
3710038016 bytes left
The numbers don't add up. What am I missing? I'm running 10.0 CE.
Aye, you are right, they don't add up. Just out of interest I tried the
function under 9.2 and the result looked OK. The filesystem type is the
same as yours (ext2/3)
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include sys/vfs.h
int main ( int argc, char * argv[ ] )
{
int status;
struct statfs partition;
status = statfs( /home, partition );
if ( !status )
{
printf( filesystem type: %0X\n, partition.f_type );
printf( block size : %ld\n, partition.f_bsize );
printf( free blocks: %ld\n, partition.f_blocks );
}
return status;
}
=
df -h /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9
35G 5.6G 30G 17% /home
Program output :
filesystem type: EF53
block size : 4096
free blocks: 9070563
Your numbers look as if they have been divided by 12.5 = 8%.
Could somebody else check this out under Mandrake 10?
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[newbie] MDK10 install: swapon hdb2 failed
Hi all, I am trying to upgrade MDK 9.1 to MDK 10.0 on my test-machine. Yes yes I know that a fresh install is the way to go, but I want to do an upgrade. First problem comes when the installer goes by the partitions (after accepting license and loading of all kinds of drivers). A message pops up: An error occured. swapon (hdb2) failed. Invalid argument. hdb2 is a small swap partition (30 megs), which lives together with the main swap of 120megs on hda3. I umounted and formatted hdb2, but the error persists. What is the best thing to do? Should I completely remove hdb2? Thanks for pointers (no null pointers please! ;-) Paul -- You can compare character with the foundation of a house. It lies beneath the surface. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 07:57, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:48:18 -0400 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The numbers don't add up. What am I missing? I'm running 10.0 CE. Yeah- your numbers are way off. Could we see the program which generated those results? printf( free blocks: %ld\n, partition.f_blocks ); f_blocks is the total number of blocks, not the number free. Assuming this your results are fine- 34.6GB ~= 35GB Could somebody else check this out under Mandrake 10? filesystem type: EF53 block size : 4096 total blocks : 2786971 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 11G 11G 448M 96% /home (4096*2786971)/1024/1024/1024 == 10.6GB ~=11GB So my results are fine on 10.0 oe. A. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I never used Mdk 9, but I can tell you I was impressed with the speed of 10.0, both CE and Official. I revived an ancient (~6 years old) NT machine, Pentium II 400MHz, graphics card so old it's no longer supported by the vendor. I was surprised how responsive it is on such an old machine - practically instantaneous. It gets sluggish only if there are heavy background processes running, but that's to be expected. I'm not saying 10.0 is slow, I'm just saying it is slower than 9.2. I believe the 2.6 kernel has been optimized for server environment, not desktop. Have you tried running top to see if there's something else chewing up your cpu? I've had some runaway kde processes a couple of times (most notably konqueror on certain web sites). 3D programs also kill my performance, because I only have s/w rendering. I use IceWM, it's much lighter than KDE or Gnome. No, nothing is eating up CPU, it's just slower. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I never used Mdk 9, but I can tell you I was impressed with the speed of 10.0, both CE and Official. I revived an ancient (~6 years old) NT machine, Pentium II 400MHz, graphics card so old it's no longer supported by the vendor. I was surprised how responsive it is on such an old machine - practically instantaneous. It gets sluggish only if there are heavy background processes running, but that's to be expected. I'm not saying 10.0 is slow, I'm just saying it is slower than 9.2. I believe the 2.6 kernel has been optimized for server environment, not desktop. Have you tried running top to see if there's something else chewing up your cpu? I've had some runaway kde processes a couple of times (most notably konqueror on certain web sites). 3D programs also kill my performance, because I only have s/w rendering. I use IceWM, it's much lighter than KDE or Gnome. No, nothing is eating up CPU, it's just slower. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I never used Mdk 9, but I can tell you I was impressed with the speed of 10.0, both CE and Official. I revived an ancient (~6 years old) NT machine, Pentium II 400MHz, graphics card so old it's no longer supported by the vendor. I was surprised how responsive it is on such an old machine - practically instantaneous. It gets sluggish only if there are heavy background processes running, but that's to be expected. I'm not saying 10.0 is slow, I'm just saying it is slower than 9.2. I believe the 2.6 kernel has been optimized for server environment, not desktop. Have you tried running top to see if there's something else chewing up your cpu? I've had some runaway kde processes a couple of times (most notably konqueror on certain web sites). 3D programs also kill my performance, because I only have s/w rendering. I use IceWM, it's much lighter than KDE or Gnome. No, nothing is eating up CPU, it's just slower. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.0 errata
Hi all I just acquired the 4-CD set of Mandrake 10 final, and was offered and bought) an extra CD of Errata with them, for an extra $10. Installation as an upgrade over 9.1 went smoothly and I am pleased with the new system. However, from the Drakconf tool, I have been unable to make the Errata RPMs available for updates. Opening the media manager I can set Errata to point to removable://mnt/cdrom/base with relative path to synthesis/hdlist:/hdlist.cz This is accepted without error, but when I try to run updates from the graphic manager, or from urpmi in an suid root shell, I get a request for the disc, but it cannot apparently be read. Attempting to read the CD in Konqueror seems OK Can anyone enlighten me as to what I am doing wrong? Still on dial-up, but expecting ADSL next week. Had I known that was coming I would have saved the $10! Thanks for thoughts Russell PS tail -syslog gives: (horace is the host name) May 19 19:56:54 horace MandrakeUpdate[29632]: Installing package removable://mnt/cdrom/base/./libkdenetwork2-ksirc-3.2-17.1.100mdk.i586.rpm May 19 19:57:14 horace kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG lowlevel.c:57:udf_get_last_session: XA disk: no, vol_desc_start=0 May 19 19:57:14 horace kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:1426:udf_read_super: Multi-session=0 May 19 19:57:14 horace kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:415:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048 byte sectors) May 19 19:57:15 horace kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:442:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Primary Volume Descriptor found May 19 19:57:15 horace kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:445:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Supplementary Volume Descriptor found May 19 19:57:15 horace kernel: UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:451:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Volume Descriptor Set Terminator found May 19 19:57:15 horace kernel: UDF-fs: No VRS found May 19 19:57:15 horace kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 May 19 19:57:15 horace kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A May 19 19:57:24 horace kernel: cdrom: open failed. May 19 19:57:31 horace last message repeated 2 times May 19 20:01:00 horace CROND[29803]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) May 19 20:01:09 horace smbd[29818]: [2004/05/19 20:01:09, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(328) May 19 20:01:09 horace smbd[29818]: Denied connection from 211.27.150.64 (211.27.150.64) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 errata
Russell Butler napsal(a): Hi all I just acquired the 4-CD set of Mandrake 10 final, and was offered and bought) an extra CD of Errata with them, for an extra $10. Installation as an upgrade over 9.1 went smoothly and I am pleased with the new system. However, from the Drakconf tool, I have been unable to make the Errata RPMs available for updates. Opening the media manager I can set Errata to point to removable://mnt/cdrom/base with relative path to synthesis/hdlist:/hdlist.cz try ./hdlist.cz -- Daniel Hrbac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] archiving large files
I would like to burn CDs containing copies of virtual machine disk images. These image files are larger than 700Mb. Does anyone know of a way to archive a large file so that I can burn a portion of the file to a CD and the remaining portion onto a second CD. If I do this, how do I restore the original file. I don't have a network or second hard drive option for backup at the moment. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] archiving large files
Paul Kaplan wrote: I would like to burn CDs containing copies of virtual machine disk images. These image files are larger than 700Mb. Does anyone know of a way to archive a large file so that I can burn a portion of the file to a CD and the remaining portion onto a second CD. If I do this, how do I restore the original file. tar has options to directly split archive on several files (tapes he calls them...) that I used some time ago with success. Or you can create a single huge .tar file, then use split to ...split it and cat to reassemble. Probably the first option is better if you don't have extra space on the hd to build the whole tar image. raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
Dear Friends, As far as I know after Alt + F2 and writing konquerer and pressing enter , Konquerer must run. But with my Mndrk. 10.0 does not run . Why ??! What do you recommmend ? Best regards H.ERTAS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
Op Thu, 20 May 2004 14:47:59 +0300 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As far as I know after Alt + F2 and writing konquerer and pressing enter , Konquerer must run. But with my Mndrk. 10.0 does not run . Why ??! What do you recommmend ? Open an xterm and see if you can run 'konqueror' from the command line. If it starts, something weird goes on. Looks then that konq is not in the path. If you can run it from the menu and it fires up, that should be it from what I can tell. Otherwise it is not installed. Paul -- You can compare character with the foundation of a house. It lies beneath the surface. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
With an xterm I can not run konquerer. It says command not found H.ERTAS Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ?? andrake.com 20.05.2004 14:53 Please respond to newbie Op Thu, 20 May 2004 14:47:59 +0300 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As far as I know after Alt + F2 and writing konquerer and pressing enter , Konquerer must run. But with my Mndrk. 10.0 does not run . Why ??! What do you recommmend ? Open an xterm and see if you can run 'konqueror' from the command line. If it starts, something weird goes on. Looks then that konq is not in the path. If you can run it from the menu and it fires up, that should be it from what I can tell. Otherwise it is not installed. Paul -- You can compare character with the foundation of a house. It lies beneath the surface. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
Op Thu, 20 May 2004 14:58:15 +0300 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With an xterm I can not run konquerer. It says command not found - Does it work from the menu? - Can you locate the program running locate konqueror from the command line? Yes- It is not in the path No - It is not installed On MDK9.1 (running here) it is installed in /usr/bin. (Note the spelling, it is konqueror with an O, not konquerer with an E) Check echo $PATH if that is in the path with you. And see with ls /usr/bin/konqueror if that shows up something. If not, load mcc (Mandrake Control Center) and find the RPM to install it with. Good luck Paul -- You can compare character with the foundation of a house. It lies beneath the surface. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
Philip J Scott wrote: What is wrong with this os. Windows loads boots and works right away, Linux for some reason allways has problems either install or booting. I have used it or been trying it since 9.1 still not got any of them to work properly. Just managed after a struggle to get 10 to boot, now i get to the opening screen and thats it. My mouse will not work at all so I cant navigate or even open a console.Anyone know how I can get the little bugger working. You'll have to be a bit more specific. What hardware? What kind of installation? You can open a console from the keyboard. You'll probably find the Windows key will open a menu; from there you can navigate with the arrow keys. Sir Robin -- Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted
On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:58:42 -0700, David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:52:23 -0500 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I would bet the RAM is fine. Well, it pays to be prudent, so first install the memtest RPM, it will create a boot entry for it, so you can shutdown/reboot and let the test run for as long as you wish, typically overnight. It's not the most robust memory tester, but it is pretty good. Sorry I didn't catch the original post, but here's another idea to look into. Do you have *any* ROM Shadowing turned on in your BIOS? If so, turn it off. Mandrake expects to have access and control of all memory. I was getting inconsistent problems during the install of Mandrake, and then file corruption problems after the install when I had Video ROM shadowing enabled in the BIOS. HTH The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: 10.0 errata
Daniel Hrbac wrote: Russell Butler napsal(a): Hi all I just acquired the 4-CD set of Mandrake 10 final, and was offered and bought) an extra CD of Errata with them, for an extra $10. Installation as an upgrade over 9.1 went smoothly and I am pleased with the new system. However, from the Drakconf tool, I have been unable to make the Errata RPMs available for updates. Opening the media manager I can set Errata to point to removable://mnt/cdrom/base with relative path to synthesis/hdlist:/hdlist.cz try ./hdlist.cz Thanks for the thought, but still same effect. I have tried ../hdlist.cz also Any other possibilities? Russell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
On Thu, 20 May 2004 08:31:37 +0100, Philip J Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is wrong with this os. Windows loads boots and works right away, Linux for some reason allways has problems either install or booting. I have used it or been trying it since 9.1 still not got any of them to work properly. Just managed after a struggle to get 10 to boot, now i get to the opening screen and thats it. My mouse will not work at all so I cant navigate or even open a console.Anyone know how I can get the little bugger working. Philip. Sounds similar to the problems I had getting a stable Mandrake 9.1 installed and working. My solution was to turn off *all* ROM Shadowing in the BIOS. Windows doesn't mind the ROM Shadowing, but Linux wants to control all of the system's memory. When I turned off the Video ROM Shadowing in the BIOS, all problems went away. HTH, I know the frustration. It took me over 4 months to figure this solution out. Sympathies. The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
On Thursday 20 May 2004 07:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - -With an xterm I can not run konquerer. It says command not found - -H.ERTAS Umm...its spelled konqueror... :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] OpenLDAP slapd.conf file missing in MDK10CE ?
HEy Well basically I have been toying with OpenLDAP on a rh7.3 machine, everything was fine, now what I am hoping or actually what i HAVE todo, is setup a OpenLDAP machine which auths users for both mail and a whole range of services. Basically what I DONT understand, is that in MDK10CE there is no slapd.conf file? Should I configure it myself(I.E Create it from scratch?) Or should I re-install OpenLDAP... ? Its the default Install that comes with MDK at the first install ! Please if anyone could shed some light on my situation ? I really need to get this working, purely because its been annoying me the entire week ! Heres my Version of OpenLDAP if it helps. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -q openldap openldap-2.1.25-3mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# -- Marc Hultquist ComputerKit Systems (Pty) Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P) +27 11 695 5317 (F) +27 11 312 1408 (C) +27 82 563 2861 (W) http://www.cks.co.za Confidentiality Notice: The above message and all attachments may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, copy or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, facsimile or telephone and thereafter delete the material from your computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the view of the entity transmitting the message. Computerkit Retail Systems (Pty) Ltd hereby distances itself from and accepts no liability in respect of the unauthorised use of its e-mail facility or the sending of e-mail communications for other than strictly business purposes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg
On Thu, 20 May 2004 08:31:37 +0100 Philip J Scott disseminated the following: What is wrong with this os. Nothing. Windows loads boots and works right away, Linux for some reason allways has problems either install or booting. Great. Windows will install and boot on any ol' crap, even Dell or HP ;-) I have used it or been trying it since 9.1 still not got any of them to work properly. Details? Issues? More info?! Just managed after a struggle to get 10 to boot, now i get to the opening screen and thats it. My mouse will not work at all so I cant navigate or even open a console.Anyone know how I can get the little bugger working. See above. Hardware you are trying to load 'this os' onto would be a nice start :-) -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 11:39:59 up 1 day, 19 min, 8 users, load average: 0.04, 0.05, 0.01 +++ Gauging the number of Iraqi civilian casualties since the war began is difficult because the U.S.-led occupation force does not count them... -- Letta Tayler, Newsday, March 7th 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Colinux, run linux natively inside windows.
On May 20, 2004 00:45, frankieh wrote: Hi guys, I just found something pretty interesting.. http://www.colinux.org Allows you to run linux from inside windows.. Very cool, I am currently running Debian 3 inside XP, have the internet working and I can ssh to it.. Working to get X sorted, (have to use VNC cos I don't have an X server on windows..) Very cool way to try before you buy, but its a bit too technical to have a newbie set it up. Still, its certainly an interesting toy. Cool, the best of both worlds! All the virii, worms and crashes of Windoze without having to put up with all the reliability, security, efficiency and power of Linux :^}. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Colinux, run linux natively inside windows.
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 02:08, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On May 20, 2004 00:45, frankieh wrote: Hi guys, I just found something pretty interesting.. http://www.colinux.org Allows you to run linux from inside windows.. Very cool, I am currently running Debian 3 inside XP, have the internet working and I can ssh to it.. Working to get X sorted, (have to use VNC cos I don't have an X server on windows..) Very cool way to try before you buy, but its a bit too technical to have a newbie set it up. Still, its certainly an interesting toy. Cool, the best of both worlds! All the virii, worms and crashes of Windoze without having to put up with all the reliability, security, efficiency and power of Linux :^}. ...hehehehe... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Nudists are people who wear one-button suits. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Colinux, run linux natively inside windows.
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On May 20, 2004 00:45, frankieh wrote: Hi guys, I just found something pretty interesting.. http://www.colinux.org Allows you to run linux from inside windows.. Very cool, I am currently running Debian 3 inside XP, have the internet working and I can ssh to it.. Working to get X sorted, (have to use VNC cos I don't have an X server on windows..) Very cool way to try before you buy, but its a bit too technical to have a newbie set it up. Still, its certainly an interesting toy. Cool, the best of both worlds! All the virii, worms and crashes of Windoze without having to put up with all the reliability, security, efficiency and power of Linux :^}. LOL, yes I know.. However, I didn't say I was running it for productivity reasons. Mostly just to test some debian stuff that I will need to load onto a server soon. Also to impress a couple of windows guys with linux. I will install it for them, and they can try it and have a play without leaving their windows comfort zone But its interesting isn't it?? I mean the places linux can run?? possibly the most hostile enviroment on the planet. (inside windows).. -- rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?
On Thu, 20 May 2004 11:15:30 +0200 Raffaele BELARDI disseminated the following: I never used Mdk 9, but I can tell you I was impressed with the speed of 10.0, both CE and Official. I revived an ancient (~6 years old) NT machine, Pentium II 400MHz, graphics card so old it's no longer supported by the vendor. I was surprised how responsive it is on such an old machine - practically instantaneous. It gets sluggish only if there are heavy background processes running, but that's to be expected. I'm not saying 10.0 is slow, I'm just saying it is slower than 9.2. I believe the 2.6 kernel has been optimized for server environment, not desktop. Have you tried running top to see if there's something else chewing up your cpu? I've had some runaway kde processes a couple of times (most notably konqueror on certain web sites). 3D programs also kill my performance, because I only have s/w rendering. I use IceWM, it's much lighter than KDE or Gnome. No, nothing is eating up CPU, it's just slower. It seems to be sending three copies of your mail to the list, too! Maybe that's what's slowing your system down... ;-) -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org Kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 +++ 12:36:25 up 1 day, 1:16, 8 users, load average: 0.75, 0.37, 0.27 +++ A Senate hearing into the abuse of Iraqi prisoners was told on Tuesday that Lt. Gen. William Boykin, an evangelical Christian under review for saying his God was superior to that of the Muslims, briefed a top Pentagon civilian official last summer on recommendations on ways military interrogators could gain more intelligence from Iraqi prisoners. -- Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters, May 15 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] archiving large files
On Thursday 20 May 2004 11:48 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I would like to burn CDs containing copies of virtual machine disk images. These image files are larger than 700Mb. Does anyone know of a way to archive a large file so that I can burn a portion of the file to a CD and the remaining portion onto a second CD. If I do this, how do I restore the original file. I don't have a network or second hard drive option for backup at the moment. TIA Paul Does this help? http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222 -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Strange Activity
I have been getting a *Lot8 of disk activity around 7:00 am the output from dmesg looks something like this -Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=24.202.47.169 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=30226 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2296 DPT=5554 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=24.202.47.169 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=30480 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2544 DPT=9898 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=83.64.20.224 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=52 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=11550 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4200 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=83.64.20.224 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=52 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=12990 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4200 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=64.78.124.187 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=1830 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4887 DPT=5000 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] aronsmith]$ - have I been hacked? Thanks in advance smitty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 03:13, Aron Smith wrote: I have been getting a *Lot8 of disk activity around 7:00 am the output from dmesg looks something like this -Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=24.202.47.169 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=30226 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2296 DPT=5554 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=24.202.47.169 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=30480 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2544 DPT=9898 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=83.64.20.224 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=52 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=11550 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4200 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=83.64.20.224 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=52 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=12990 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4200 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=64.78.124.187 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=1830 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4887 DPT=5000 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] aronsmith]$ - have I been hacked? Thanks in advance smitty Have you run a chkrootkit on this box yet? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- FORTUNE'S FUN FACTS TO KNOW AND TELL: #44 Zebras are colored with dark stripes on a light background. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Colinux, run linux natively inside windows.
On May 20, 2004 10:35, frankieh wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On May 20, 2004 00:45, frankieh wrote: Hi guys, I just found something pretty interesting.. http://www.colinux.org Allows you to run linux from inside windows.. Very cool, I am currently running Debian 3 inside XP, have the internet working and I can ssh to it.. Working to get X sorted, (have to use VNC cos I don't have an X server on windows..) Very cool way to try before you buy, but its a bit too technical to have a newbie set it up. Still, its certainly an interesting toy. Cool, the best of both worlds! All the virii, worms and crashes of Windoze without having to put up with all the reliability, security, efficiency and power of Linux :^}. LOL, yes I know.. However, I didn't say I was running it for productivity reasons. Mostly just to test some debian stuff that I will need to load onto a server soon. Also to impress a couple of windows guys with linux. I will install it for them, and they can try it and have a play without leaving their windows comfort zone But its interesting isn't it?? I mean the places linux can run?? possibly the most hostile enviroment on the planet. (inside windows).. Yeah, it is interesting. I'm sure M$ will fix this with their next security patch, though. Just like they used to do to Netscrape, and are currently doing to Real. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Thursday 20 May 2004 10:26 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 03:13, Aron Smith wrote: I have been getting a *Lot8 of disk activity around 7:00 am the output from dmesg looks something like this -Shorewal l:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=24.202.47.169 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=30226 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2296 DPT=5554 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=24.202.47.169 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=30480 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2544 DPT=9898 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=83.64.20.224 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=52 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=11550 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4200 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=83.64.20.224 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=52 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=12990 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4200 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=64.78.124.187 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=1830 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4887 DPT=5000 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] aronsmith]$ - have I been hacked? Thanks in advance smitty Have you run a chkrootkit on this box yet? Yes seems to be ok nothing detected results [EMAIL PROTECTED] aronsmith]# chkrootkit ROOTDIR is `/' Checking `amd'... not found Checking `basename'... not infected Checking `biff'... not found Checking `chfn'... not infected Checking `chsh'... not infected Checking `cron'... not infected Checking `date'... not infected Checking `du'... not infected Checking `dirname'... not infected Checking `echo'... not infected Checking `egrep'... not infected Checking `env'... not infected Checking `find'... not infected Checking `fingerd'... not found Checking `gpm'... not found Checking `grep'... not infected Checking `hdparm'... not infected Checking `su'... not infected Checking `ifconfig'... not infected Checking `inetd'... not tested Checking `inetdconf'... not found Checking `identd'... not found Checking `init'... not infected Checking `killall'... not infected Checking `ldsopreload'... not infected Checking `login'... not infected Checking `ls'... not infected Checking `lsof'... not infected Checking `mail'... not infected Checking `mingetty'... not infected Checking `netstat'... not infected Checking `named'... not found Checking `passwd'... not infected Checking `pidof'... not infected Checking `pop2'... not found Checking `pop3'... not found Checking `ps'... not infected Checking `pstree'... not infected Checking `rpcinfo'... not infected Checking `rlogind'... not found Checking `rshd'... not found Checking `slogin'... not infected Checking `sendmail'... not found Checking `sshd'... not found Checking `syslogd'... not infected Checking `tar'... not infected Checking `tcpd'... not infected Checking `tcpdump'... not infected Checking `top'... not infected Checking `telnetd'... not found Checking `timed'... not found Checking `traceroute'... not infected Checking `vdir'... not infected Checking `w'... not infected Checking `write'... not infected Checking `aliens'... no suspect files Searching for sniffer's logs, it may take a while... nothing found Searching for HiDrootkit's default dir... nothing found Searching for t0rn's default files and dirs... nothing found Searching for t0rn's v8 defaults... nothing found Searching for Lion Worm default files and dirs... nothing found Searching for RSHA's default files and dir... nothing found Searching for RH-Sharpe's default files... nothing found Searching for Ambient's rootkit (ark) default files and dirs... nothing found Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... nothing found Searching for LPD Worm files and dirs... nothing found Searching for Ramen Worm files and dirs... nothing found Searching for Maniac files and dirs... nothing found Searching for RK17 files and dirs... nothing found Searching for Ducoci rootkit... nothing found Searching for Adore Worm... nothing found Searching for ShitC Worm... nothing found Searching for Omega Worm... nothing found Searching for Sadmind/IIS Worm... nothing found Searching for MonKit... nothing found Searching for Showtee... nothing found Searching for OpticKit... nothing found Searching for T.R.K... nothing found Searching for Mithra... nothing found Searching for OBSD rk v1... nothing found Searching for LOC rootkit ... nothing found Searching for Romanian rootkit ... nothing found Searching for HKRK rootkit ... nothing found
[newbie] Installing Java
I'm running Mandrake 9.2 and im trying to install the package j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin from the javasun website. Ive followed the instructions onsite, make the file executable (chmod a+x j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin) then execute it ( ./j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin) agreed to the disclaimer and executed the rpm created (rpm -iv j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.rpm) I get an error when im running the rpm. Preparing packages for installation... j2re-1.4.2_04-fcs error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/CHANGES;40ace6 bd: cpio: mkdir failed - No such file or directory I have no idea what to do, and i cant see why this has happend as its a brand new install, perhpas im missing something? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] problem with KDE and xpdf
Hallo, I've one problem to solve: To have access to pdf files I have installed some of the pdf borwsers (from the standard distrubuation of Mandrake 9.2), then when I was visiting websites and wanted to see the pdf file, the system asked me which browser I wanted to use, I picked the xpdf (the system suggested something else). Since that operation I haven't had any access via toolbar to programms that I had used befor (for example: Open Office or other web browsers than Mozzilla). Another strange thing is that I can use this programms using ALT+F2 and writing what I want to use, but it is very unconfortable for me. I am using all the time KDE, and now I feel like it isn't complete or it is another environment. Could You help me how to switch it back, please? Maciej Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
On Thursday 20 May 2004 20:05, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a complaint. How can I get my share of virus laden emails? It isn't right that everyone get's a bunch and I'm only averaging one a week. Who's getting mine? fess up. Lee OK... I'll confess : I've hijacked yours. I get about 10 per week, but until now I haven't been able to get one running on my box. And I double-click the attachments, I single-click them and I try to run them in various applications, but to no avail. What kind of operating system is this Linux ? ... Can't even run a virus ? Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
On May 20, 2004 11:05 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a complaint. How can I get my share of virus laden emails? It isn't right that everyone get's a bunch and I'm only averaging one a week. Who's getting mine? fess up. Lee We wish to apologize to you for our oversight. But after reviewing the data on you we discovered that the best we can do is throw tons of spam at you with all kinds of little cookies that track your every movement on and off the internet and also collect pornographic photos of you and anyone else near your PC. We note, with some sadness, that you are running Linux. It is almost impossible to write a successful virus that will function on that platform so we've largely given up. We are learning about rootkits, though, and expect to be up and running on them in a year or two. If you believe that this is unfair we can't help you. The best we can reccommend is that you install a real operating system, Windows XP will do nicely, and use approved software such as Outlook, Internet Explorer, VBA and Office so that you can revel in the full experiene of the Internet and the high quality commercial, closed source software that will one day take over completely. Yours with deep regret, Script Kiddies Incorporated, Dick Rotten, aged 12 Jane Throwback, aged 14 :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
On Thursday 20 May 2004 23:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2004 20:05, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a complaint. How can I get my share of virus laden emails? It isn't right that everyone get's a bunch and I'm only averaging one a week. Who's getting mine? fess up. Lee OK... I'll confess : I've hijacked yours. I get about 10 per week, but until now I haven't been able to get one running on my box. And I double-click the attachments, I single-click them and I try to run them in various applications, but to no avail. What kind of operating system is this Linux ? ... Can't even run a virus ? Kaj Haulrich. Hah. I have Codeweavers Office installed (Wine) and one of the apps I had is Internet Explorer 6 purely for those sites which refuse to work with Opera/Mozilla. My daughters used it occasionally and recently I discovered they had apparently visited a malicious site and a worm had worked its way into IE. Internet Explorer started to divert to a porn site all the time. Crossover's implementation of the Windows APIs is so good it makes my linux box vulnerable to Windows worms. I was even getting icons for porn sites appearing in my KDE Quickstart menu. The solution of course was to reinstall Crossover and this time I have not bothered to install IE6 at all. If a site does not work with Mozilla tough.. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 10:39, eric jackson wrote: Yeah, I've tried that. Gramofile tries to save you the editing by identifying seperate tunes from an lp that you've recorded as one big wav file. I was wondering if there are other programs that work like Gramofile. Eric Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wavtoc interactively generate toc files for cdrdao from .wav files. It is a Perl script which plays a .wav audio file, letting the user interactively fast-forward or rewind, and mark the breaks between songs. When the user has marked the start of all the songs in the wav file, wavtoc writes out a table-of-contents, or toc file, which is used by the disc-at-once cd-writing program cdrdao. It was written to help with transferring live cassette recordings to CD. http://freshmeat.net/projects/wavtoc/ You can record the whole thing and run this script. I've found it by chance. HTH -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * A sociedade moderna burguesa no aboliu os antagonismos de classe. Apenas estabeleceu novas classes, novas condies de opresso, novas formas de luta em lugar das velhas. Karl Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
On Friday 21 May 2004 01:16, Derek Jennings wrote: snip If a site does not work with Mozilla tough.. /snip ...then this site is run by fools, who shouldn't have acces to the internet in the first place. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have been getting a *Lot8 of disk activity around 7:00 am the output from dmesg looks something like this -Shorewall :net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=24.202.47.169 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=30226 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2296 DPT=5554 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=24.202.47.169 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=30480 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2544 DPT=9898 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=83.64.20.224 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=52 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=11550 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4200 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=83.64.20.224 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=52 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=12990 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4200 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=64.78.124.187 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=1830 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4887 DPT=5000 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] aronsmith]$ -- --- have I been hacked? Thanks in advance smitty The log activity you posted doesn't indicate it. Those are all network packets that Shorewall dropped -- that didn't get in.. it's normal to have this activity, generated either by hackers checking for security holes or worms and whatnot. Asa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Thursday 20 May 2004 05:11 pm, Asa Rossoff wrote: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have been getting a *Lot8 of disk activity around 7:00 am the output from dmesg looks something like this - Huge snip -- Thanks all it had me worried don't want to become somones Spam relay bitch. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mdk Community 10.0 4th cd?
--- Ramon PS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. I've just downloaded Mandrake Linux Community 10.0. However, at the end of the installation procedure the installer asks for a 4th CD, which is weird. I choose cancel and the installation resumed ok, as well as booting and running the new installed box. Nevertheless, when I tried to update, Mandrake update asked again for the 4th CD, and I couldn't get through the update process. Any tip would be very much apreciated. Regards, -rps __ Acabe com aquelas janelinhas que pulam na sua tela. AntiPop-up UOL - É grátis! http://antipopup.uol.com.br/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hey There, It should be an easy fix. Go to MDK control centre Software Managment Media Manager Remove Media: at this point simply remove cd4 from your list of options. You can also remove it from the command line with urpmi.removemedia path cdrom4 .. hope this helps tsw __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:02 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:13, Aron Smith wrote: I have been getting a *Lot8 of disk activity around 7:00 am the output from dmesg looks something like this Thanks in advance smitty Are you running xinetd, if so why, and what other services do you have running. Also are you updated to kernel 2.4.22-30mdk ? Using kernel 2.6 here is output from top --- 9449 root 25 0 2172 1048 1964 R 91.1 0.2 1:11.94 top 4962 root 15 0 23304 11m 13m S 6.3 1.8 108:31.45 X 9471 aronsmit 15 0 27956 15m 25m S 2.0 2.5 0:01.19 kdeinit 6195 aronsmit 15 0 39112 27m 31m S 0.3 4.4 0:06.43 kdeinit 9506 aronsmit 17 0 2172 1048 1964 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.11 top 1 root 16 0 1580 516 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.42 init 2 root 34 19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 events/0 4 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 kblockd/0 5 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kapmd 6 root 25 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 7 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 pdflush 8 root 25 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 9 root 10 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 11 root 20 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 15 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 kjournald 121 root 17 0 2036 1208 1588 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.85 devfsd 245 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 khubd 562 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 kjournald 565 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kjournald 827 root -2 0 1628 1628 1468 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.03 watchdog 2755 rpc 15 0 1712 580 1540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 portmap 2779 root 16 0 1640 608 1468 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.09 syslogd 2787 root 15 0 2592 1536 1416 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.16 klogd 2846 root 18 0 1712 712 1540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 rpc.statd 3243 xfs 16 0 5384 3756 2512 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.16 xfs 3268 root 18 0 1604 540 1448 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 hcid 3279 root 10 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 krfcommd 4869 root 16 0 1588 536 1428 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 apmd 4910 root 16 0 2688 692 2504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 mdkkdm -- Why is portmap running? Are you using NFS? LX What is portmap and should it be running Greg -- Linux Mandrake Rules __ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
On Thursday 20 May 2004 07:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, As far as I know after Alt + F2 and writing konquerer and pressing enter , Konquerer must run. But with my Mndrk. 10.0 does not run . Why ??! What do you recommmend ? do not capitalize it spell it konqueror or make an alias Best regards H.ERTAS -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 03:13, Aron Smith wrote: I have been getting a *Lot8 of disk activity around 7:00 am the output from dmesg looks something like this -Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=24.202.47.169 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=30226 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2296 DPT=5554 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=24.202.47.169 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=30480 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2544 DPT=9898 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=83.64.20.224 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=52 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=11550 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4200 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=83.64.20.224 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=52 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=106 ID=12990 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4200 DPT=21 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:07:95:fc:2d:40:00:90:1a:40:aa:4d:08:00 SRC=64.78.124.187 DST=64.81.53.247 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=1830 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4887 DPT=5000 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] aronsmith]$ - have I been hacked? Thanks in advance smitty Have you run a chkrootkit on this box yet? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- FORTUNE'S FUN FACTS TO KNOW AND TELL: #44 Zebras are colored with dark stripes on a light background. how do you run chkrootkit Thanks Greg -- Linux Mandrake Rules __ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] mp3 time display
Hi, I don't know if this is appropriate here, but responses will tell. I have some long (over an hour) mp3 files that will not display total time or time elapsed while playing in my portable. Is there an app that will allow me to fix this? Most, if not all of my mp3's have that information. I have tried'resaving' the file with audacity but itstill doesn't display the information. Can anyone tell me where this info is stored and how to encode / extract it? Thanks in advance, Bill W.
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
Asa Rossoff wrote: The log activity you posted doesn't indicate it. Those are all network packets that Shorewall dropped -- that didn't get in.. it's normal to have this activity, generated either by hackers checking for security holes or worms and whatnot. Asa On Mandrake 9.2, installed on a server which isn't running X, I'm getting this exact type of data appearing on my display, even before anyone logs onto the server - locally OR remotely! Is there any way to stop this, or is this a warning that my system's been hit? This is a fresh install which I finished this morning, so I'd appreciate any thoughts before I start depending on it. Also, is there a Bind Guru here somewhere? I can't get rndc to behave itself. It keeps giving me an error that states - rndc: connect failed: connection refused Even though Bind seems to start up without errors, and even though port 53 is open on my firewall for DNS authentication, port scans keep stating that the port is closed. This is the first time I've ever had these two problems, and I'm curious to find out what's different between this 9.2 install, and the hundreds I've done before! TIA Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ACPI on Mdk 10.0
Hi there. I couldn't enable ACPI on my just installed Mandrake Linux Community 10.0. In Grub I have tried some options, namely: acpi=on apm=off acpi=on acpi=force However, the kernel hangs and issues the follwoing message: ACPI: subsystem revision 20040211 spurious 8295A interrupt: IRQ7 looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found! ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger The only option accepted at boot time is acpi=ht, but neither acpi nor acpid are running, and the cpu's fan noise bothers a lot! My machine is an HP Pavillion ZE4430US, CPU is an AMD Mobile 4 2400+ (1,8GHz). Any tips would very much appreciated. Regards, -rps __ Acabe com aquelas janelinhas que pulam na sua tela. AntiPop-up UOL - É grátis! http://antipopup.uol.com.br/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mp3 time display
Hi All, I think I have itI split the file in half; each part less than an hour and exported from Audacity as mp3. The time and elapsed is now visible in my player. Must be a limitation in the bios/os of the player. Thanks, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Bill W. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:09 PM Subject: [newbie] mp3 time display Hi, I don't know if this is appropriate here, but responses will tell. I have some long (over an hour) mp3 files that will not display total time or time elapsed while playing in my portable. Is there an app that will allow me to fix this? Most, if not all of my mp3's have that information. I have tried'resaving' the file with audacity but itstill doesn't display the information. Can anyone tell me where this info is stored and how to encode / extract it? Thanks in advance, Bill W.
Re: [newbie] mp3 time display
On Thursday 20 May 2004 07:27 pm, Bill W. wrote: Hi All, I think I have itI split the file in half; each part less than an hour and exported from Audacity as mp3. The time and elapsed is now visible in my player. Must be a limitation in the bios/os of the player. what portable player are you using I've been thru 3 trying to get one to work under linux (did get a neat 5Gb drive out of one of them :-D ) Thanks, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Bill W. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:09 PM Subject: [newbie] mp3 time display Hi, I don't know if this is appropriate here, but responses will tell. I have some long (over an hour) mp3 files that will not display total time or time elapsed while playing in my portable. Is there an app that will allow me to fix this? Most, if not all of my mp3's have that information. I have tried 'resaving' the file with audacity but it still doesn't display the information. Can anyone tell me where this info is stored and how to encode / extract it? Thanks in advance, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] ACPI on Mdk 10.0
Hi there. I couldn't enable ACPI on my recently installed Mandrake Linux Community 10.0. In Grub I have tried some options, namely: acpi=on apm=off acpi=on acpi=force However, the kernel hangs and issues the follwoing message: ACPI: subsystem revision 20040211 spurious 8295A interrupt: IRQ7 looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found! ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger The only option accepted at boot time is acpi=ht, but neither acpi nor acpid are running, and the cpu's fan noise bothers a lot! My machine is an HP Pavillion ZE4430US, CPU is an AMD Mobile 4 2400+ (1,8GHz). Any tips would very much appreciated. Regards, -rps __ Acabe com aquelas janelinhas que pulam na sua tela. AntiPop-up UOL - É grátis! http://antipopup.uol.com.br/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] archiving large files
Cool; pre-made directions! Thanks. On Thursday 20 May 2004 01:12 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2004 11:48 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I would like to burn CDs containing copies of virtual machine disk images. These image files are larger than 700Mb. Does anyone know of a way to archive a large file so that I can burn a portion of the file to a CD and the remaining portion onto a second CD. If I do this, how do I restore the original file. I don't have a network or second hard drive option for backup at the moment. TIA Paul Does this help? http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexr eq=viewarticleartid=222 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 18:28, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Kaj, Excellent to hear from you again. On Thursday 20 May 2004 22:31, Aron Smith wrote: snip Not using NFS purwe linux systen rieserFS on some partitions how can I shut portmap off ? /snip You can stop portmap (or any service) by typing (as root) : service portmap stop or don't start it at all. Go to System -- Configuration -- Configure Your Computer -- System -- Services. Alternatively you can use the excellent command line utility chkconfig from the command line. Like this to list all services: chkconfig --list | sort (which sorts the list alphabetically for your convenience) Or like this to unilaterally shut portmap down across all runlevels: chkconfig --level 2345 portmap off All from a root console, btw. And, to return to your original question about the output from dmesg : I have lots of those too. When doing a whois on most of those IP addresses, I see totally unknown hosts from all around the globe with no clue whatsoever about who they are and why they pop up on my humble PC. So, I figure that what we see are all those script-kiddies, worms, viruses and trojans looking for Windows. Fortunately, it seems that Shorewall stops them all although it doesn't really matter anyway, what with us running linux. And to Lyvim : Until now, I had xinetd running. What is the downside of stopping it ? Kaj Haulrich. OK. The sole purpose of xinetd is to dynamically start and stop services that you would not want running on a continual basis. Such as ftp, or sshd, or any of the other server type services listed by chkconfig. It is supposed to bring the service up on demand and shut it down when not being used. On a linux workstation, like mine or yours or most people here, xinetd is useless because we arent using the box as a server and we are trying to keep people out rather than letting them in. Most peeps have cheap 486 or pentium 1 hardware set aside for ftp purposes, and even then alot of peeps just run ftp or sshd or whatever continuously, instead of using xinetd to start the service up on demand. Xinetd had a good idea, which was to save resources by keeping processes down when not being used, and calling them up when their port (ftp 21 or sshd 22 for example) is tapped or knocked on from the outside. Where xinetd comes in weak is that it is basically a single access point from which you can start up any internal service inside YOUR machine from the outside, that has not been specifically denied by the config files in etc. In other words, hackers can tap or knock on ports to see if a service will start up, and then they start checking that service for version vulnerabilities. In other words, xinetd is serving no other purpose than to allow outside people to start up services on YOUR box. From the outside. But it doesn't stop there. At one time, xinetd was *itself* vulnerable to DOS attacks. They have worked on that problem and have corrected it to some degree, but usually security problems are not endemic of the code, but of the architecture that the code is written toward. Witness: Sendmail. Postfix. Exim. Check it out in the Bugtraq archives. All victims of a self flagellating trend towards single root run executables when a simple change in architecture (such as the architecture exhibited by qmail) would be a step in the right direction. A root run single executable service such as those above are nearly always vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks, at some time or another. but I digress. The thing to remember is that if you are on a workstation, you shouldn't need to run xinetd for the reasons listed. And if you *do* need to dynamically activate services, don't use xinetd to do that, use Dan Bernstein's Tcpserver program, available on Vincent Danen's site, rpmhelp.net. No vulns that I'm aware of have ever been detected either in vanilla qmail or tcpserver. HTH?? LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
On Thursday 20 May 2004 07:10 pm, John Wilson wrote: On May 20, 2004 11:05 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a complaint. How can I get my share of virus laden emails? It isn't right that everyone get's a bunch and I'm only averaging one a week. Who's getting mine? fess up. Lee We wish to apologize to you for our oversight. But after reviewing the data on you we discovered that the best we can do is throw tons of spam at you with all kinds of little cookies that track your every movement on and off the internet and also collect pornographic photos of you and anyone else near your PC. We note, with some sadness, that you are running Linux. It is almost impossible to write a successful virus that will function on that platform so we've largely given up. We are learning about rootkits, though, and expect to be up and running on them in a year or two. If you believe that this is unfair we can't help you. The best we can reccommend is that you install a real operating system, Windows XP will do nicely, and use approved software such as Outlook, Internet Explorer, VBA and Office so that you can revel in the full experiene of the Internet and the high quality commercial, closed source software that will one day take over completely. Yours with deep regret, Script Kiddies Incorporated, Dick Rotten, aged 12 Jane Throwback, aged 14 :-) John: Excellent! -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 21:45, Greg wrote: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:02 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:13, Aron Smith wrote: I have been getting a *Lot8 of disk activity around 7:00 am the output from dmesg looks something like this Thanks in advance smitty Are you running xinetd, if so why, and what other services do you have running. Also are you updated to kernel 2.4.22-30mdk ? Using kernel 2.6 here is output from top --- 9449 root 25 0 2172 1048 1964 R 91.1 0.2 1:11.94 top 4962 root 15 0 23304 11m 13m S 6.3 1.8 108:31.45 X 9471 aronsmit 15 0 27956 15m 25m S 2.0 2.5 0:01.19 kdeinit 6195 aronsmit 15 0 39112 27m 31m S 0.3 4.4 0:06.43 kdeinit 9506 aronsmit 17 0 2172 1048 1964 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.11 top 1 root 16 0 1580 516 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.42 init 2 root 34 19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 events/0 4 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 kblockd/0 5 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kapmd 6 root 25 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 7 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 pdflush 8 root 25 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 9 root 10 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 11 root 20 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 15 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 kjournald 121 root 17 0 2036 1208 1588 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.85 devfsd 245 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 khubd 562 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 kjournald 565 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kjournald 827 root -2 0 1628 1628 1468 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.03 watchdog 2755 rpc 15 0 1712 580 1540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 portmap 2779 root 16 0 1640 608 1468 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.09 syslogd 2787 root 15 0 2592 1536 1416 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.16 klogd 2846 root 18 0 1712 712 1540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 rpc.statd 3243 xfs 16 0 5384 3756 2512 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.16 xfs 3268 root 18 0 1604 540 1448 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 hcid 3279 root 10 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 krfcommd 4869 root 16 0 1588 536 1428 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 apmd 4910 root 16 0 2688 692 2504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 mdkkdm -- Why is portmap running? Are you using NFS? LX What is portmap and should it be running Greg It's a service generally used for NFS and for some reason is enabled by default on Mandrake installs; I don't use NFS, I tend to use samba more; I think the aussies have made it more secure than NFS. Portmap uses the rpc protocol, which is notoriously insecure and notoriously famous with crackers for being entryways into unsecured boxes. Especially since portmap is enabled BY DEFAULT on Mandrake boxes. If you don't run NFS, shut it down on all runlevels. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 21:45, Greg wrote: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:02 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 13:13, Aron Smith wrote: I have been getting a *Lot8 of disk activity around 7:00 am the output from dmesg looks something like this Thanks in advance smitty Are you running xinetd, if so why, and what other services do you have running. Also are you updated to kernel 2.4.22-30mdk ? Using kernel 2.6 here is output from top --- 9449 root 25 0 2172 1048 1964 R 91.1 0.2 1:11.94 top 4962 root 15 0 23304 11m 13m S 6.3 1.8 108:31.45 X 9471 aronsmit 15 0 27956 15m 25m S 2.0 2.5 0:01.19 kdeinit 6195 aronsmit 15 0 39112 27m 31m S 0.3 4.4 0:06.43 kdeinit 9506 aronsmit 17 0 2172 1048 1964 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.11 top 1 root 16 0 1580 516 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.42 init 2 root 34 19 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 events/0 4 root 5 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 kblockd/0 5 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kapmd 6 root 25 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 7 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 pdflush 8 root 25 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 9 root 10 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 11 root 20 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 15 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.07 kjournald 121 root 17 0 2036 1208 1588 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.85 devfsd 245 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 khubd 562 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 kjournald 565 root 15 0 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kjournald 827 root -2 0 1628 1628 1468 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.03 watchdog 2755 rpc 15 0 1712 580 1540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 portmap 2779 root 16 0 1640 608 1468 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.09 syslogd 2787 root 15 0 2592 1536 1416 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.16 klogd 2846 root 18 0 1712 712 1540 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 rpc.statd 3243 xfs 16 0 5384 3756 2512 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.16 xfs 3268 root 18 0 1604 540 1448 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 hcid 3279 root 10 -10 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 krfcommd 4869 root 16 0 1588 536 1428 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 apmd 4910 root 16 0 2688 692 2504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 mdkkdm -- Why is portmap running? Are you using NFS? LX What is portmap and should it be running Greg It's a service generally used for NFS and for some reason is enabled by default on Mandrake installs; I don't use NFS, I tend to use samba more; I think the aussies have made it more secure than NFS. Portmap uses the rpc protocol, which is notoriously insecure and notoriously famous with crackers for being entryways into unsecured boxes. Especially since portmap is enabled BY DEFAULT on Mandrake boxes. If you don't run NFS, shut it down on all runlevels. LX So how do I shut down all run levels and even know if they are running I did not see it in top Just what should be running for a basic linux box I may have some weak spots in my system and I want to find them before some one else does Thanks Greg -- Linux Mandrake Rules __ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 22:23, Lanman wrote: Asa Rossoff wrote: The log activity you posted doesn't indicate it. Those are all network packets that Shorewall dropped -- that didn't get in.. it's normal to have this activity, generated either by hackers checking for security holes or worms and whatnot. Asa On Mandrake 9.2, installed on a server which isn't running X, I'm getting this exact type of data appearing on my display, even before anyone logs onto the server - locally OR remotely! As a matter of fact, when I saw Aron's output on the screen, that's exactly what I thought was happening, because I have had the exact same experience as yourself. On a firewall (pre-update) running the secure kernel (the first release) I started seeing shorewall output on either the first or second consoles. Usually you are supposed to be able to do alt-F12 and get this information (F12 console is set aside for that purpose by default), but the information for some reason started being shunted to the first or second consoles on my firewall. This occurred after some heavy scanning of my box from the net, which led me to believe that someone was exploiting a buffer overflow vuln in the early 9.2 kernels. This was unlikely, given that I was using the secure kernel, but I had no other explanation. Is there any way to stop this, or is this a warning that my system's been hit? This is a fresh install which I finished this morning, so I'd appreciate any thoughts before I start depending on it. My problem was corrected when I updated to the latest slew of updates and also replaced the secure kernel with the latest version. have not seen that problem since then. Aron should know though,that if he does see this kind of output on a console screen (usually one that's logged in) he should start to worry. Also, is there a Bind Guru here somewhere? I can't get rndc to behave itself. It keeps giving me an error that states - rndc: connect failed: connection refused Even though Bind seems to start up without errors, and even though port 53 is open on my firewall for DNS authentication, port scans keep stating that the port is closed. You're running shorewall on the firewall, correct? ;) I've been encountering the same problems with both qmail and bind. This is the first time I've ever had these two problems, and I'm curious to find out what's different between this 9.2 install, and the hundreds I've done before! TIA Lanman LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 23:23, Greg wrote: If you don't run NFS, shut it down on all runlevels. LX So how do I shut down all run levels and even know if they are running I did not see it in top Just what should be running for a basic linux box I may have some weak spots in my system and I want to find them before some one else does Thanks Greg Find services that are enabled and put them in alphabet order: chkconfig --list | sort Disable services on all runlevels that are resource hogs, security risks, and not needed for workstation purposes: chkconfig --level 2345 portmap off Enable service that you disabled by mistake or that you just want on: chkconfig --level 2345 yourservice on Learn about the chkconfig command: man chkconfig HTH LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] 10.0 How to get sound out of CD Player
I've installed 10.0 RC1 AMD64 on my eMachines laptop. Most things are working well. However, I can't figure out how to get sound out of the CD player (gnome.) Linux is using the ALSA sound system. If I run the Totem media player, I do hear sound, and external speakers hooked up to the headphone jack work fine also. I also hear system sounds fine. But neither CD Player nor xmms (with alsa plug-in selected or output) produce any sound (and yes, the CD is playing - I can see the light flickering and the progress bars are moving in both players.) Any ideas how to get this to work? Thanks. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] 10.0 How to get sound out of CD Player
--- Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed 10.0 RC1 AMD64 on my eMachines laptop. Most things are working well. However, I can't figure out how to get sound out of the CD player (gnome.) Linux is using the ALSA sound system. If I run the Totem media player, I do hear sound, and external speakers hooked up to the headphone jack work fine also. I also hear system sounds fine. But neither CD Player nor xmms (with alsa plug-in selected or output) produce any sound (and yes, the CD is playing - I can see the light flickering and the progress bars are moving in both players.) Any ideas how to get this to work? Thanks. -- Guy Rouillier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Hey Guy, Check your mixers, all of them if you have more than one installed. The default output is always zero. I had the same problem. Make sure all of the levels are set how you want them and that everything you need is enabled. Also pay attention to the pcm level. I hope this helps. tsw __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: My problem was corrected when I updated to the latest slew of updates and also replaced the secure kernel with the latest version. have not seen that problem since then. Lyvim; How ya doin' Buddy? I found another way to fix the problem. Can you say Bastille? Killed Shorewall, copied over my Bastille files, ran the command and voila! No more shorewall data on my console, and the firewall is running fine (actually runs a bit faster)! Also, is there a Bind Guru here somewhere? I can't get rndc to behave itself. It keeps giving me an error that states - rndc: connect failed: connection refused Even though Bind seems to start up without errors, and even though port 53 is open on my firewall for DNS authentication, port scans keep stating that the port is closed. You're running shorewall on the firewall, correct? ;) I've been encountering the same problems with both qmail and bind. LX RNDC problem is still happening though. Because of that, my DNS server still appears closed in a firewall scan. I checked at Bind's website, and they say that it's usually due to silly things like the server's hostname ( mine's good ), or the fact that there's no rndc-key located in named.conf or rndc.conf ( which is there in both files on this machine), so I'm not sure what to do. The DNS port is open on the firewall, but the service is not fully starting. The funny thing is that my email server (postfix) runs like a charm, and so does everything else. So right now, it's more of an annoyance than anything, but I'd like to solve it. Still open to suggestions. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 23:23, Greg wrote: If you don't run NFS, shut it down on all runlevels. LX So how do I shut down all run levels and even know if they are running I did not see it in top Just what should be running for a basic linux box I may have some weak spots in my system and I want to find them before some one else does Thanks Greg Find services that are enabled and put them in alphabet order: chkconfig --list | sort Disable services on all runlevels that are resource hogs, security risks, and not needed for workstation purposes: chkconfig --level 2345 portmap off Enable service that you disabled by mistake or that you just want on: chkconfig --level 2345 yourservice on Learn about the chkconfig command: man chkconfig HTH LX Is there any way to monitor network traffic Greg -- Linux Mandrake Rules __ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] O(T)Virus
Lee Wiggers wrote: I have a complaint. How can I get my share of virus laden emails? It isn't right that everyone get's a bunch and I'm only averaging one a week. Who's getting mine? fess up. Lee I started collecting the virus admin warnings from my postfix/amavis-new/trophie/clamd mail server about 2.5 months ago. So far my collection of admin warnings numbers at 2381 so it would appear that I am getting your virus emails.. sorry.. I can set my server up to forward them to you if you like. :-) rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Strange Activity
On Fri, 21 May 2004 00:27:33 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg) wrote: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 23:23, Greg wrote: - snip - Is there any way to monitor network traffic Greg You could try /usr/sbin/net_monitor. -- Len Lawrence -- The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
