Re: [newbie] turning off mailman
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 04:06 pm, robert lester wrote: > looking at syslog, it seems that cron is runing the mailman program which > brings in news. I never read new. How do I turn it off? It runs every > five minutes and fills up syslog. > > I looked in the cron (hourly,daily,etc) but couldn't find it. > > bob > Bob, if I remember correctly I just went and removed it from the system. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft Free Computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:37pm up 28 days, 2:15, 1 user, load average: 0.29, 0.44, 0.44 The current tune is Bruce Springsteen - Born In The Usa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Signature script
Well, I'm lost on this one. I'm definately no script guy and I can't figure
out why the 'fortune' line doesn't work when the script is ran in Kmail but
works when ran from the CLI. Any ideas on where I'm screwing up?
#!/bin/bash
echo "Regards"
echo "Chris"
echo "A 100% Microsoft Free Computer"
echo "Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org";
STR=$(uptime)
TIME=${STR% user}
RESULT=${TIME%}
echo $RESULT
fortune MS-FORTUNES
if [ -p /tmp/xmms-info ] ; then echo "The current tune is $( grep Title:
/tmp/xmms-info | awk -F': ' '{print $2}' )"
fi
Chris
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The current tune is Virgin Radio Classic Tracks - Non-stop classic tracks
from the makers of Virgin Radio
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Re: [newbie] Backing up files.
On Friday 16 April 2004 05:46 pm, Marc wrote: > Well my upgrade to ML 10.0 official was not a total success. It looks > like I will have to do a clean installation from scratch. > > I would like to do this clean installation without lozeing to much > stuff, espicially bookmarks in opera, emails in kmail and contact list in > kmail. It seems like every time I try this I have problems with those > things. > > I would be thankful for any advice on what to back up or any tips on > how to make this as painless as possible. > > TIA > > Marc Marc, I use "backerupper" it will backup whatever you want into a .zip file and put it where ever you want. I regularly backup my entire $HOME partition as well as me /etc to another drive then write to a cd. If you want I'll send it over. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:43pm up 10 days, 4:18, 3 users, load average: 1.99, 1.67, 1.15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Logcheck questions
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 07:05 pm, bascule wrote: > On Wednesday 07 Apr 2004 11:29 pm, Chris wrote: > > Could someone assist me with answers to my questions below: > > > > I'm running 'logcheck' and there are several things showing up that I, > > as a 'newbie' don't quite understand and thought someone may be able to > > shed some light on them for me. For instance: > > the following looks like cups traffic to me, for printers possibly > searching for other printers on the network, Except I don't have a network setup. > > Apr 6 17:03:06 chris kernel: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.2 > > DST=192.168.1.3 LEN=133 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP > > SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=113 > > Apr 6 17:04:08 chris last message repeated 2 times > > Apr 6 17:05:10 chris last message repeated 2 times > > Apr 6 17:06:12 chris last message repeated 2 times > > Apr 6 17:07:14 chris last message repeated 2 times > > Apr 6 17:08:16 chris last message repeated 2 times > > Apr 6 17:09:18 chris last message repeated 2 times > > Apr 6 17:10:20 chris last message repeated 2 times > > Apr 6 17:11:22 chris last message repeated 2 times > > the following is the ntpd daemon trying to start up again and finding it > is already in use, if i read aright anyway, the time server you use is > 224.0.1.1? Heres what I have 224.0.1.1 setup for: driftfile /etc/ntp/drift multicastclient # listen on default 224.0.1.1 broadcastdelay 0.008 > > Apr 6 12:27:27 chris ntpd[1690]: bind() fd 8, family 2, port 123, addr > > 224.0.1.1, in_classd=1 flags=0 fails: Address already in use > Thanks for the reply Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:37pm up 2 days, 10 min, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.31, 0.38 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] archive for this list
On Monday 05 April 2004 08:40 pm, Pete Doak wrote: > Hello again > > I was wondering if there were such a thing as an archive for this list. > If there is could someone tell me how to look up a subject in past > messages. > > I have a digital camera (Fuji Finepix S3000) and it's not currently > supported by linux. I've purchased a xD card reader, and hooked it up. > It shows up on the desktop but I can't seem to access any files. I think > it's not mounted, but I can't find the device anywhere to mount it. > > I know this topic has been bashed around a bit in the recent past, so if > there's an archive for the list I can go there and look up the old > posts. > Here ya go Pete, hope you find what you're looking for. Just enter the search parameters, ie.."fuji finepix s3000" http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbie&r=1&b=200312&w=2 -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:59pm up 7 days, 3:11, 6 users, load average: 0.65, 1.06, 0.90 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Can't get procmail to forward spam
Yes, I'm a procmail newbie trying to setup procmail to forward my spam to Earthlinks junkmail address. I've setup a $HOME .procmailrc file (below) SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:. MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # You'd better make sure it exists # DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from # LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail :0c *^X-Spam-Status: Yes |/usr/bin/reporter.pl :0a Spam/ The "Spam" folder is in maildir format in $HOME/Mail/Spam. I've setup a $HOME .forward file "|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #chris" I've read the FAQ, printed and gone through the man pages, my question is how is procmail started. I'm running Kmail as my mailer with all mail filtered through SA. If procmail is started from the CLI, the process is shown as running, but I'm sure that this isn't the correct way to start it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. My spam folder is in maildir format, do I need to tell the procmailrc file that my mail dir is $HOME/Mail/Spam/cur before it will forward? Appreciate any help. Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 3:41pm up 4 days, 21:52, 5 users, load average: 0.98, 1.68, 1.99 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] xinetd error
Would someone be kind enough to explain this error to me? Apr 1 20:20:45 chris xinetd[27560]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:11pm up 3 days, 3:21, 4 users, load average: 0.46, 1.18, 0.89 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)
On Saturday 27 March 2004 10:51 pm, skidley wrote:
> > If I read the thread correctly you want to have a sig similiar to mine?
> > If so, why not use a little perl script called "makesig.pl" If you
> > want it I'll send it over or just google/linux for it.
>
> I am interested in makesig.pl so I grabbed the rpm and installed it. I
> just type makesig.pl at the command line and it just hangs there doing
> nothing it seems. There's not much documentation on how to use it.How
> does it work?
Did you make a sig file? I'm using Kmail and heres what I have setup for my
signature:
In my setup I have "Obtain signature from output of command"
Then the command is:
/home/chris/makesig.pl-0.0.9/makesig.pl sig.txt
Below is my sig.txt file:
beginconfig(
maxlines=20
footerfile=uptime|
sigdashes=yes
)endconfig
Regards
Chris
A 100% Microsoft free computer
Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org
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Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)
On Friday 26 March 2004 10:24 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:08, bascule wrote: > > try using echo -e and using \\n to represent a newline, thus: > > #bin bash > > echo -e "Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN" > > \\n echo -e "Registered Linux User #346519" \\n > > echo -e `cat /etc/mandrake-release` kernel "`uname -r`" \\n > > echo `uptime` > > Now /that/ looks familiar; similar to the way my random sig quotes file > needed to be formatted for Pegasus, back in my Windows days. Will have > to try that, as well. Thx. If I read the thread correctly you want to have a sig similiar to mine? If so, why not use a little perl script called "makesig.pl" If you want it I'll send it over or just google/linux for it. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 4:46pm up 1 day, 23:10, 4 users, load average: 0.77, 0.66, 0.58 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 03:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:26, Chris wrote: > > Don't know Stephen, any way I can find out? > > Tune the system - especially the HD settings; reboot. > Stephen, I hate to sound like a smart ass but how will that take care of the problem, if it is even a problem? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:24pm up 1 day, 20:20, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.09, 0.31 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users
On Monday 22 March 2004 02:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > Chris and I talked a little about this. On my 9.1 system, every time I > > start a new konsole it creates a new user, however, when I "exit" the > > konsole, it removes the additional user. It is not doing that on his > > system, it is leaving the user session active even after he exits from > > the konsole. I don't think that is normal behavior, at least, it is > > not normal on my 9.1 system. > > So it's "ghosting" sessions; ah - ok - now I get the picture; I just > tried to duplicate the issue here and well, it doesn't duplicate; I'm on > a 9.1+ system (upgraded/updated with urpmi from cooker and with > Red-Carpet); but my system is also optimised and tuned highly; I'm > wondering if it's something to do with memory cache... > Looking at my user log in /var/log/user.log I see the following entires. The last entry was when I just ran sa-learn. Does this help at all? Mar 22 17:14:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 27016 user 'chris' Mar 22 17:14:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Mar 22 17:14:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/chris/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Mar 22 17:14:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Mar 22 17:16:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): GConf server is not in use, shutting down. Mar 22 17:16:04 chris gconfd (chris-27016): Exiting Mar 22 20:06:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 29938 user 'chris' Mar 22 20:06:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0 Mar 22 20:06:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/chris/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1 Mar 22 20:06:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2 Mar 22 20:08:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): GConf server is not in use, shutting down. Mar 22 20:08:06 chris gconfd (chris-29938): Exiting Mar 22 20:11:33 chris gpm[30132]: info: [gpn.c(363)]: Mar 22 20:11:33 chris gpm[30132]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode. Mar 22 20:14:30 chris gpm[30245]: info: [gpn.c(363)]: Mar 22 20:14:30 chris gpm[30245]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode. Mar 22 20:26:59 chris userhelper: pam_timestamp: timestamp file `/var/run/sudo/chris/unknown:root' is too old, disallowing access to simple_root_authen for UID 501 Mar 22 20:27:04 chris userhelper: pam_timestamp: updated timestamp file `/var/run/sudo/chris/unknown:root' -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:49pm up 23:45, 5 users, load average: 0.82, 0.90, 0.60 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users
On Monday 22 March 2004 02:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > Chris and I talked a little about this. On my 9.1 system, every time I > > start a new konsole it creates a new user, however, when I "exit" the > > konsole, it removes the additional user. It is not doing that on his > > system, it is leaving the user session active even after he exits from > > the konsole. I don't think that is normal behavior, at least, it is > > not normal on my 9.1 system. > > So it's "ghosting" sessions; ah - ok - now I get the picture; I just > tried to duplicate the issue here and well, it doesn't duplicate; I'm on > a 9.1+ system (upgraded/updated with urpmi from cooker and with > Red-Carpet); but my system is also optimised and tuned highly; I'm > wondering if it's something to do with memory cache... > Don't know Stephen, any way I can find out? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:25pm up 23:21, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.17, 0.22 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users
On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:57 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:16 pm, Chris wrote: > > I know I've asked this several times in the past and I don't remember > > receiving an answer so I'll ask again. Whenever I open a konsole > > session either from the task bar or from the konqueror file manager > > tools menu another 'user' is added. Below is the output of 'users' and > > 'who' > > Did you look and see what command the icon is using to open the konsole. > Richt-click => properties Here is what is shown under properties for execute: konsole %i%m -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:14pm up 9 min, 2 users, load average: 1.41, 0.62, 0.29 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] My 'opening terminal adds users' message
And as usual I forgot to say, I'm running Mandrake 9.0 -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:20pm up 23:19, 10 users, load average: 0.03, 0.22, 0.27 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Opening terminal adds users
I know I've asked this several times in the past and I don't remember receiving an answer so I'll ask again. Whenever I open a konsole session either from the task bar or from the konqueror file manager tools menu another 'user' is added. Below is the output of 'users' and 'who' [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ users chris chris chris chris chris chris chris chris chris chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ who chrispts/0Mar 21 15:34 chrispts/1Mar 21 20:15 chrispts/2Mar 20 21:05 chrispts/3Mar 21 17:36 chrispts/7Mar 21 17:18 chrispts/8Mar 21 13:23 chrispts/6Mar 21 13:25 chrispts/5Mar 21 14:03 chris:0 Mar 21 15:34 chris pts/4Mar 21 15:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is getting annoying Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:10pm up 23:09, 10 users, load average: 0.18, 0.14, 0.27 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firestarter
Sorry, I should have said MCC shows it running. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:20pm up 19 min, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.19, 0.19 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firestarter
I rebooted awhile ago and when trying to bring up firestarter I get a "segmentation fault" I removed and reinstalled via urpmi, same error. Drakconf > System > process shows it to be running. Can I assume it is running and that the problem is with bringing up the GUI? This is on MDK 9.0 Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:17pm up 15 min, 4 users, load average: 0.28, 0.35, 0.24 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 -.cd
On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:46 pm, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:21:20 +0200
>
> robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a program to make normal audio CDs from a bunch
> > of mp3s? Googling found me a program which retails at $799. For that,
> > I
>
Here's what I do:
How about this, got it from this list quite awhile back, I can't remember
who posted it. I run mp3_check first, then mp32wav, then normalize -m then
I run Tom Brinkmans bacd (thanks Tom) alias file. Works great and all on
the CL.
#!/bin/bash
# mp32wav
mp3file="$*"
mkdir wav
for file in "$@" ; do
#echo "$file"
wavfile=`echo "$file" | sed s/\\.mp3/.wav/`
printf "%-50s %-50s\n" "$file" "--> $wavfile"
# to encode wav-->mp3
#lame -h "$file" "$mp3file"
# to encode mp3-->wav
mpg123 -b 1 -s "$file" | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 -
"wav/$wavfile"
done
HTH
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Re: [newbie] somewhat OT Yahoo games
On Friday 19 March 2004 08:43 am, Job Evers wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:59:36 -0600 > > Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone been able to get yahoo online games to work with any linux > > browser > > and if so witch browser and java path. > > Just tried to play a game of checkers with firefox and it worked fine. I > installed the jsdk1.4 from Sun two days ago, so my java plugin was here: > > j2sdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > and I put a link to it in here: > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-0.8/plugins > > HTH Works fine with 9.0, java plugin is 1.3.1_04-b02, but I think this is kind of funny: Note: Alchemy is not compatible with Unix or Macintosh computers. Unless there is a downloadable version, I didn't check. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:56pm up 12 days, 4:43, 7 users, load average: 1.73, 1.18, 0.78 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MP3 -> audio CD
Hmm, this didn't show up yet though one I sent after did, sorry for the dupe
msg if the original shows up.
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [newbie] MP3 -> audio CD
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:37:49 -0600
From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sunday 14 March 2004 05:21 pm, robin wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a program to make normal audio CDs from a bunch of
> mp3s? Googling found me a program which retails at $799. For that, I
> wouldn't want a program to make CDs, I'd want a program that could model
> Gollum.
>
> Sir Robin
How about this, got it from this list quite awhile back, I can't remember
who posted it. I run mp3_check first, then mp32wav, then normalize -m then
I run Tom Brinkmans bacd (thanks Tom) alias file. Works great and all on
the CLI.
#!/bin/bash
# mp32wav
mp3file="$*"
mkdir wav
for file in "$@" ; do
#echo "$file"
wavfile=`echo "$file" | sed s/\\.mp3/.wav/`
printf "%-50s %-50s\n" "$file" "--> $wavfile"
# to encode wav-->mp3
#lame -h "$file" "$mp3file"
# to encode mp3-->wav
mpg123 -b 1 -s "$file" | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 -
"wav/$wavfile"
done
HTH
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Re: [newbie] no CD audio
On Saturday 13 March 2004 08:44 pm, eric jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I have sound problems on both my PCs that are running Linux. I'll just > mention one of them for now. > > I have 9.2 installed. I don't hear any audio when a CD plays. I can hear > mp3s when they play but there is no sound from my CD. I checked Alsamixer > and Kmix and everything appears to be fine, nothing appears to be muted. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks for any help you can give! Does this link solve your problem? If it does, thank Derek. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/audio_cd.html BTW, it mentions 8.2 but it fixed the problem in my 9.0 so should be applicable to all versions I'd think. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:46pm up 7 days, 4:33, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 -> audio CD
On Sunday 14 March 2004 05:21 pm, robin wrote: > Can anyone recommend a program to make normal audio CDs from a bunch of > mp3s? Googling found me a program which retails at $799. For that, I > wouldn't want a program to make CDs, I'd want a program that could model > Gollum. > > Sir Robin How about this, got it from this list quite awhile back, I can't remember who posted it. I run mp3_check first, then mp32wav, then normalize -m then I run Tom Brinkmans bacd (thanks Tom) alias file. Works great and all on the CLI. #!/bin/bash # mp32wav mp3file="$*" mkdir wav for file in "$@" ; do #echo "$file" wavfile=`echo "$file" | sed s/\\.mp3/.wav/` printf "%-50s %-50s\n" "$file" "--> $wavfile" # to encode wav-->mp3 #lame -h "$file" "$mp3file" # to encode mp3-->wav mpg123 -b 1 -s "$file" | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - "wav/$wavfile" done HTH -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:32pm up 7 days, 4:18, 6 users, load average: 0.25, 0.28, 0.38 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install Mandrake from HD partition
I downloaded Mandrake Community (3 iso files and an asc file) to a blank partition on a new harddrive. I have windows 2000 on my boot harddrive. How can I use that to 'build' my linux OS on the other partition instead of copying the files to CD's using Nero? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but as it is obvious, I am new to this world of Linux and Open Source. Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SA-Stats
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 06:24 am, Chris wrote: > On Tuesday 09 March 2004 05:48 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > On Monday 08 March 2004 10:31 pm, Chris wrote: > > > I'd like to use sa-stats however I get the below error when trying to > > > run it. I find no mention of sa-stats in the archive, anyone have > > > any ideas? SA-Stats actually seems to want a maillog file, does one > > > exist in MDK or is the syslog it? > > > > > > Can't locate Parse/Syslog.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > > > > Looks like it is looking for the module, Parse::Syslog. You should try > > to install this via CPAN and see if it will work then. > > Thanks Bryan, I'll give that a try after work tonight. Got it Bryan and its now working perfectly, thanks. I figured there was a module I needed just didn't know the name. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:33pm up 2 days, 5:18, 5 users, load average: 0.21, 0.34, 0.68 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SA-Stats
I'd like to use sa-stats however I get the below error when trying to run it. I find no mention of sa-stats in the archive, anyone have any ideas? SA-Stats actually seems to want a maillog file, does one exist in MDK or is the syslog it? Can't locate Parse/Syslog.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at ./sa-stats.pl line 45. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./sa-stats.pl line 45. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:26pm up 1 day, 5:12, 4 users, load average: 2.48, 1.57, 1.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile
On Sunday 07 March 2004 04:52 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 22:42, Chris wrote: > > > > Ok Derek, does this look any better? If not I guess maybe I'd just > > better go bury my head somewhere. > > > > bayes_path /home/chris/.spamassassin > > bayes_file_mode 0666 > > bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.1 > > bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 10.0 > > Yes that looks fine. Hopefully your logs will agree. > > derek Thanks Derek, guess I'll find out in the morning when I look at my syslog. Thanks much for the help. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 4:58pm up 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.72, 0.52, 0.39 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile
On Sunday 07 March 2004 04:27 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 21:13, Chris wrote: > > On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:53 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > That would not help because msec would come along and change the perms > back to 660. You could always use drakperm to override msec, but my > experience with msec is that its best not to try to fight it. Just set > the path > to /home/chris/something and there is no problem. > > If you want to learn more about msec check this out > http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php > > derek Ok Derek, does this look any better? If not I guess maybe I'd just better go bury my head somewhere. bayes_path /home/chris/.spamassassin bayes_file_mode 0666 bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.1 bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 10.0 -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 4:39pm up 24 min, 2 users, load average: 0.37, 0.41, 0.54 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile
On Sunday 07 March 2004 02:53 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > The solution is to either put the line > > > bayes_path /path/to/file > > > > > > in the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file where the path points to > > > a directory with 666 permissions, or else create a > > > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file in each users home. The advantage of > > > doing this is that each user will have customised spamassassin > > > settings and their own Bayes database. > > > > > > Refer to the Postfix guide on my home page for suggestions of how to > > > set it up. > > > > > > derek > > > > Derek, I'm the only user on the system. Below is a cut from my > > local.cf in /etc/mail/spamassassin > > > > # Enable Bayes auto-learning > > auto_learn 1 > > bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin > > bayes_file_mode 0777 > > bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.1 > > bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 10.0 > > > > Shouldn't that work? > > > > Chris > > No because /etc/mail/spamassassin is owned by root and spamassassin runs > as the user the mail is being delivered to. > > derek Guess I'm either too dense to get it or something. So, if I were to create a dir called "bayes" in my etc/mail/spamassassin for the bayes path and set the "bayes_file_mode to 666 vice 0777 would this solve the problem? I do have a lockfile created when I run sa-learn. So, if ya need to kick me in the head to get me to understand, by all means do. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 3:03pm up 1 day, 3:29, 4 users, load average: 0.37, 0.50, 0.31 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Spamassassin - Cannot create lockfile
While looking through my syslog I found the following entry: Mar 7 04:20:47 dhcppc0 spamd[24012]: bayes: lock: 24012 cannot create tmp lockfile /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes.lock.dhcppc0.24012 for /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes.lock: Permission denied I'm assuming from the line below, I have thousands of these, that SA writes an entry for each rule it runs against a message? Mar 7 06:10:43 dhcppc0 spamd[1785]: Subroutine RM_usd_onllovetodate_uri_test redefined at /etc/mail/spamassassin/1_myrule.cf, rule RM_usd_onllovetodate, line 8, line 35. Mar 7 06:10:43 dhcppc0 spamd[1785]: Subroutine WLS_URI_7258_uri_test redefined at /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-blacklist.2004022204.withdead.uri.cf, rule WLS_URI_7258, line 8, line 35. And lastly, probably a dumb newbie question, there is no problems caused if I deleted all the .gzip log files in /var/log is there? Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 11:50am up 1 day, 16 min, 3 users, load average: 1.93, 2.28, 1.32 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question
On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:32 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:04 pm, Chris wrote: > > I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old > > 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher > > where the newer version has been installed. Any help would be > > appreciated. > > I am pretty sure that installing SpamAssassin via CPAN will remove the > old version. I don't think that you can have more than one version of SA > running unless you are installing and running it as a user out of your > home directory and the default installations of SA don't run like that. I know that spamc/spamd have been replaced, as I remember from a previous mail you replied to me: > CPAN has the actual binary files but not stuff like the init scripts. I > am pretty sure that you need the RPM for that. I have never uninstalled > the RPM's when I have upgraded and it has never caused me any problems. > Since the files are all stored in the same directory structure, I am > pretty sure that the spamd/spamc binary applications have been replaced. I was just wondering where the files were placed when upgrading via CPAN. I've also noticed that my syslog file is huge now with spamassassin running, its 1.3gb in size. I can see I'm going to have to go into webmin and change it from weekly to daily for that log. Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 3:25pm up 3:51, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.16, 0.25 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question
I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher where the newer version has been installed. Any help would be appreciated. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 11:01am up 15:30, 4 users, load average: 1.00, 1.03, 0.69 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mozilla totally screwed it seems
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 07:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Chris - I advised you to reinstall Mozilla. I forgot to say that you > should first rename your .mozilla hidden directory (under your > /home). When you reinstall you can then move across the bookmarks > and anything else you need - but only the things you need, as the > problem could be in that folder. > > Did anyone tell you to try moving/renaming that directory and > launching moz again? That creates a replacement directory. If the > problem is in your personal config files that are stored there you > will have a running program again. > > Sorry if this seems disjointed, but I'm just catching up on a backlog > of mail > > Anne Forgot to mention thats the first thing I tried. I made a mozhold dir and moved the .mozilla dir over to it, restarted mozilla and same thing. Just uninstalled mozilla and galeon, reinstalled mozilla and copied all my saved profile stuff over, works like a champ. I'm always hesitant about uninstalling something and reinstalling it, guess I'm afraid it's going to screw something else up. Thanks Anne for the help Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:29pm up 1 day, 7:08, 4 users, load average: 0.35, 0.33, 0.30 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't print/send link/page with Mozilla
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2004 04:18, Chris wrote: > > This just happened out of the blue. Mozilla 1.1 just decided that > > it won't let me send any links, or pages, nor will it let me print. > > Most likely Mozilla left something running when it was closed - > possibly after something crashed? Anyway, try closing Mozilla, then > looking for open Mozilla files. If you find any, kill them, then > restart Moz. Good luck > > Anne Thanks Anne, no joy here. Now whenever I click on send link/page the thing just closes down. I found no open files, no zombie processes, nothing. I even tried moving the .mozilla dir to another place and let mozilla recreate it. All that did was not even let mozilla start. Since he was having problems opening one page, I opened galeon to try it, maybe something in there messed things up. Any other suggestions? Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:01pm up 8:40, 3 users, load average: 0.36, 0.90, 0.93 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't print/send link/page with Mozilla
This just happened out of the blue. Mozilla 1.1 just decided that it won't let me send any links, or pages, nor will it let me print. This just happened this evening after my son was looking for some parts for his car so possibly a page screwed something up. When going into composer I can enter a to address and subject, but can not enter anything into the text portion. When trying a page preview or print nothing happens. I'm sure its an easy fix, but I can't figure it out. I did reboot the system and that didn't do any good. Any and all assistance as always will be much appreciated. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 10:07pm up 18 min, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.16, 0.16 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 'nother spamassassin question
On Monday 16 February 2004 06:08 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Tuesday 17 Feb 2004 12:02 am, Chris wrote: > > I'm getting pretty familiar now with SA, have quite a few rules being > > used and its stopping about 99%, but my question is about bayes. > > Aren't the bayes scores supposed to be somewhere in the content > > analysis? I have the following in my local.cf for bayes, thanks > > I seem to remember that Bayes doesn't kick in until it has a database > with 200 messages in it. Hmm, I've added about 350+ already of spam, maybe I just need to be patient. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:17pm up 1 day, 2:14, 6 users, load average: 0.10, 0.24, 0.29 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 'nother spamassassin question
I'm getting pretty familiar now with SA, have quite a few rules being used and its stopping about 99%, but my question is about bayes. Aren't the bayes scores supposed to be somewhere in the content analysis? I have the following in my local.cf for bayes, thanks Derek. # Enable the Bayes system use_bayes 1 score BAYES_00 0 0 -6.400 -6.400 score BAYES_01 0 0 -6.600 -6.600 score BAYES_10 0 0 -6.400 -5.801 score BAYES_20 0 0 -5.801 -3.101 score BAYES_30 0 0 -1.246 -1.604 score BAYES_60 0 0 2.002 2.002 score BAYES_70 0 0 2.637 2.637 score BAYES_80 0 0 4.1 4.1 score BAYES_90 0 0 4.2 4.2 score BAYES_99 0 0 4.300 4.3 Is that correct? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:56pm up 1 day, 53 min, 6 users, load average: 0.49, 0.51, 0.27 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Spamassasin questions
On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:07 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:05 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > > I'm running with Kmail only. I don't have spamc or spamd, > its spamassassin. Is that wrong? > > Yes, no large messages checked. (don't get that many anyways). > > PS I know there's a special place in Hades reserved just for spammers! > :-) Being a newbie to spamassassin also, just set it up over the past week using CPAN to upgrade to the newest version. I've got actually two filters setup for spamassassin, one being "size is less than 25000, filter action is to "pipe through spamc", the other is "X-Spam-Flag equals Yes, move to folder Spam" Not sure if screenshots are allowed on the list so if what I've said above isn't clear let me know and I'll send you the screenshots. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:16pm up 3:13, 3 users, load average: 0.30, 0.21, 0.19 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PowerPC 5500/225 Mandrake Install?
I've successfully setup Yellow Dog, Mandrake, Gentoo and Debian on my Powerbook Pismo, so it's certainly worth trying to put Mandrake on your old tower. The PPC versions of the distros are a little behind the x86 versions, but they are certainly useable. The only thing that is a pain in the butt for your computer is it's an Old World machine and will need BootX to get into Linux. Still, it's worth trying, even for the learning experience. If you want to see a list of all the PPC distros that I've heard of, go to http://www.chrisruzin.net/comments/1043_0_1_0_C/ On Feb 11, 2004, at 7:35 PM, Ronald Valente wrote: Does Anyone Know How Well It Will Work On This Computer, Anyone Have A Successful Linux Setup On A Mac? Thanks ... Saving The Life Of My Old Beige Cause My G5 Is Getting Lonely :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT: Port Scan?
Wow! Thanks for the quick response and great advice. I've changed my router to drop the packets instead of deny them. Hopefully that will deter future things like this from occurring. As an aside, one thing I've also noticed in the last few days with my network is that my DSL has gone from an average speed of 75k/sec to 150k/sec. That's T1 speed just about, isn't it? I haven't upgraded my subscription or anything, so I have no clue why it's happening. I really like it though! Thanks again for your help. Chris On Feb 10, 2004, at 3:01 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: You read it like this: for example the first line is telling you that a machine with ip address 66... is trying to connect to your machine (ip address 162) on TCP port 8980. The firewall is applying a default behavior of denying the connection. The log file shows several ICMP packets, typically used for ping. They also show TCP connection to port 6346 and 8980. From google, the first one is used by peer to peer file sharing programs (bearshare, gnutella), the other one I couldn't find. Yes, it could be a port scan, but I wouldn't worry about it as long as you have your firewall, although a better policy would be to DROP the packets instead of DENY the connection. Deny means that the firewall does not allow the other peer to connect to your machine, typically sending back a NACK packet or similar. Drop means that the firewall just ignores the packet, and does not send back any acknowledge (positive or negative). The latter is better since it does not let the other peer know that you even exist. There should also be a way to avoid logging these attempts (there _is_ in linux's firewall, iptables) if they are clogging your log file, but I cannot help with your specific router. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT: Port Scan?
I've got a D-Link DI-604 router for my small home network. I have it automatically send me the log file when it reaches a certain size. In the last few days, I've been getting a copy of a the log file several times a day. And it's always the same thing: Feb/09/2004 22:06:32 Drop TCP packet from WAN src:66.65.215.6:62986 dst:162.40.161.66:8980 Rule: Default deny Feb/09/2004 22:06:32 Drop ICMP packet from WAN src:216.176.95.198:3 dst:162.40.161.66:1 Rule: Default deny Feb/09/2004 22:06:32 Drop ICMP packet from WAN src:216.176.95.198:3 dst:162.40.161.66:1 Rule: Default deny Feb/09/2004 22:06:31 Drop ICMP packet from WAN src:216.176.95.198:3 dst:162.40.161.66:1 Rule: Default deny Feb/09/2004 22:06:30 Drop TCP packet from WAN src:24.192.222.186:4697 dst:162.40.161.66:6346 Rule: Default deny Feb/09/2004 22:06:28 Of course, the log file is MUCH bigger, but the vast majority of entries are like this. Is this a port scan of somekind? I don't know how to read firewall log files like this. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thanks, Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Upgrading Spamassassin
Ok, here comes probably a really dumb question. I'm running MDK 9.0 with SA 2.41. I'd like to upgrade to at least SA 2.55 however I also don't want to fsck up my system. SA 2.55 says it requires the following: * rpm-helper * perl-Mail-SpamAssassin * /bin/sh * /bin/sh * bash * perl-base * libc.so.6 * libcrypto.so.0.9.7 * libdl.so.2 * libssl.so.0.9.7 If I were to seperately install/upgrade these would they mess up my present 9.0 system? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:54pm up 22 days, 7:33, 8 users, load average: 0.05, 0.19, 0.18 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] What is kio_thumbnail
And why does it start whenever it wants too? When running it takes up almost 100% of my cpu resources. I've searched the archives and found only two articles pertaining to it. Neither explain why it starts on its own. Google.com/linux seems to be no help either. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 11:20pm up 16 days, 8:58, 7 users, load average: 0.27, 0.07, 0.06 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Opening terminal adds users
Everytime I open a terminal whether its as user or root a user is added, ie..my sig shows 7 users. How do I make these go away other than rebooting? Logging out/back in doesn't help. The only time I notice one sometimes isn't added is if I open a terminal from konqueror > tools > Open terminal. Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:29pm up 15 days, 6:07, 7 users, load average: 0.41, 0.52, 0.36 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin and DNS Black Lists
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 07:43 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > In case anyone is using SpamAssassin and wants to increase their use of > the available DNS Blacklists, I have a configuration file that I can make > available that includes connections to some of the blacklists that I find > to be more valuable. These include SPEWS, SORBS, Easynet, Blackholes.us, > Spamcop and some others. Some of these blacklists were removed from > current version of SpamAssassin because the original locations, like > OSIRUSOFT went offline due to DDOS attacks by spammers. I have found > some new locations for those so that I can continue to benefit from the > blacklists that were so effective that spammers actually hired virus > writers to shut them down. > Brian, question on running spamassassin. There are two files to run spamc and spamd. Should they both be running together? I have spamc set to start at boot and its running, spamd I find has to be started from a root terminal. I figured I'd better do something about this overwhelimg inflow of spam since earthlink doesn't seem to be. Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:24pm up 15 days, 6:02, 7 users, load average: 0.33, 0.26, 0.23 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] urpmi/rpm error, long error listing
Hi Joseph, Tried the urpmi --fuzzy kernel, got: The following packages contain kernel: kernel-smp-2.4.19.37mdk kernel-p3-smp-64GB-2.4.22.10mdk kernel-source kernel-doc-pdf kernel-2.4.19.37mdk kernel-enterprise-2.4.22.10mdk glibc-devel kernel-enterprise-2.4.19.37mdk kernel-smp-2.4.22.10mdk kernel-doc kernel-doc-ps kernel-2.4.22.10mdk kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.22.10mdk kernel-doc-html libwine1 kernel-secure-2.4.22.10mdk wine kernel2.4-marcelo pcmcia-cs kernel-secure-2.4.19.37mdk When I tried urpmi with a specific kernel, I got a ton of errors. Is it necessary to have the install CD's or similar RPMS available to upgrade/install the kernel? Chris P # urpmi kernel-2.4.19.37mdk rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unsupported hash version: 8 error: cannot open Name index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 error: cannot open Providename index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Basenames: unsupported hash version: 8 error: cannot open Basenames index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname: unsupported hash version: 8 error: cannot open Conflictname index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Name: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Basenames: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Basenames: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Basenames: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Basenames: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Basenames: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Basenames: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Providename: unsupported hash version: 8 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Provid
[newbie] urpmi/rpm error
Hi All, I tried searching the archives for something relevant but didn't come up with anything useful. Trying to update the kernel with a recently obtained RPM, I get the following messages: # urpmi kernel rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8 Can't call method "traverse_tag" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/URPM/Resolve.pm line 204. I presume this has something to do with the version of RPM that I'm running: 4.0.4 under Mandrake 9.0 I'd update RPM, but get similar messages about unsupported hash version there too. If there's a tarball I could grab, I'd be willing try that. Suggestions? Chris P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] New_Face failed error with Mplayer
When starting any type of video file I get: New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). Although this doesn't seem to affect the playing of the file, its annoying. Thanks for any help Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 10:55pm up 2 days, 14:12, 4 users, load average: 0.43, 0.17, 0.14 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] windows network connected
Thanks for the replies. I have my linux PC successfully connected to my network with internet access now. I think I was selecting "linux-secure" from the bootloader instead of "linux." That locks everything down doesn't it? If so, that was my problem. Now on to Samba! Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] windows networking
I have Mandrake Linux 9.2 up and running on a PC I hope to use as a file server. I have two additional PCs running Windows 98SE in a peer-to-peer network configuration. One of them also supplies an ADSL connection to all PCs in my network (I used to have 3 running 98). The ADSL PC runs WinRoute Lite, acting as a DHCP server, to accomplish the internet sharing. (Ultimately, I'd like the Linux PC to do that and act as a firewall as well, but one thing at a time here!) I am having a hard time getting my Linux PC on my windows network, to say nothing of getting it internet access. In the LAN configuration screen, I set my NIC to DHCP and click "Activate," but I get nothing. I must be missing something... any ideas? Is there a good tutorial available somewhere that tells me how to accomplish this? Any common problems I need to be aware of? Linux is completely foreign to me!!! Thanks, Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] OT? Critical Flan in GnuPG
On Friday 28 November 2003 07:53 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > However, your subject line mentioned "Critical Flan". For more > information about "critical flan", please see: > > http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/flan.htm > > ;-) > > - -- > Melissa Damm, and the 'n' key isn't even near the 'w' key. The recipe does sound kind of good though. Thanks. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:55pm up 10:51, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT? Critical Flan in GnuPG
Thought I'd pass this along. Not sure if it applies to anyone. - Critical flaw in GnuPG - Oxygen3 24h-365d, by Panda Software (http://www.pandasoftware.com) Madrid, November 28, 2003 - A critical security flaw has been found in the GnuPG encryption software which could compromise a user's private key in seconds. This flaw affects versions 1.0.2 and later of GnuPG which use ElGamal keys for encryption and signing (type 20). ElGamal keys used for encryption only (type 16) are not affected by this flaw. Although use of sign+encrypt keys is not considered good cryptographic practice, the OpenPGP standard allows them to be used and GnuPG supports creation and handling of them. Fortunately, these keys are not used very often nor are they created by default in GnuPG, since -compared to RSA or DSA keys - they have significant disadvantages with regard to security and performance. Actually, users must create ElGamal sign+encrypt keys through specific options in GnuPG. To avoid being affected by this vulnerability, it is advisable not to generate ElGamal keys for encryption and signing (type 20), revoke the keys that are already in use and take into account that all the material signed and encrypted with them could have been compromised. GnuPG has already announced that future versions of the program will not allow these keys to be created. More information at: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2003q4/000276.html -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:22pm up 10:18, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.09, 0.04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Xscreensaver
Hello,I know that this is probably a dumb question, but here goes. I've found that i rather like Xscreensaver, and it would be nice if it were to start with kde, so that i did not need to start it myself everytime the computer started. I know that i could add it to /etc/services, but if the program requires X to have already started, will that actually do anything useful? My question: is there a way to start programs with kde automatically? Thanks,Chris Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now
[newbie] OT-Kind of - Attempt to insert backdoor into Linux kernal
Although this is not Mandrake related, I feel its worth posting the link to the story. This was posted in the Risks Digest: On 5 Nov 2003, an attempt to insert a very cleverly crafted backdoor into Linux was averted. This is a really good example of the subtle kinds of hacks a source code examiner must be waiting to catch if we want genuinely secure voting systems under the current model of proprietary DRE systems with a closed-door source code examination. Someone broke into a server at kernel.kbits.net and inserted the following code into the Linux kernel: if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && (current->uid = 0)) retval = -EINVAL; For the complete story of this attack on Linux, including the actual E-mail exchange documenting the discovery of the attack, see: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1584 Linux: Kernel "Back Door" Attempt This attack has only made the mainstream media in one place, so far: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/07/1068013371170.html Bid to backdoor Linux kernel detected - smh.com.au -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:16pm up 4 days, 11:22, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to install a Epson C80 Inkjet Printer
I have a C80 connected with USB. When I installed Mandrake 9.1 it found the printer automatically. You might try going to Mandrake Control Center / Hardware / PrinterDrake. If it is not showing up trying selecting Add New Printer. There is an autodetect or you can select it from the list. On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 18:16, Scott Naylor wrote: > Does anyone have any idea how I can get my Epson Inkjet C80 working on Linux? > If so then please send me some instructions. > > > __ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can I view WMV in Linux ?
On Thursday 16 October 2003 07:36 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > Whoops > That "urpmi.removemedia -a" command you executed will have removed *all* > your software sources including your CDs > > You had better put them back again. > Insert CD1 in your drive and enter > urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom > That should enable all 3 CDs for you. Derek, I notice you used three ///, does it make a difference? Last time I screwed my sources I used two //. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:45pm up 37 min, 2 users, load average: 0.18, 0.55, 0.70 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A new virus for ALL platforms...
Greetings MDK users, Is Pandasoft a reliable virus package to install...there appears to be a new virus out that affects ALL systems.. http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?lst=vis&idvirus=41263 Or is this an attempt to get ignorant Linux users (who I doubt exist) to buy their software... -- Chris Blake Support Consultant Office : (011) 782-0840 Fax: (011) 782-0841 Mobile : 083 985 0379 Website: http://www.pbpc.co.za Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? 16:23:35 up 3 days, 7:47, 3 users, load average: 1.09, 0.86, 0.63 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upper Case
On Saturday 04 October 2003 04:48 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: > I have 1500 fonts from my computer lifetime that I would like to add > to my oo options, but many of the filenames are upper case. > > Anyone know how to rename them in lower case all at once? > > Lee Try this, I've found it to work very well. http://www.blemished.net/chcase.html -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:18pm up 13 days, 23:28, 6 users, load average: 0.31, 0.41, 0.27 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Why so many reboots ?
Greetings, Just an OT question since I been using MDK for the last 9 months and am frustrated that I still have to install Windows for my clients. Why does Linux install everything in one go, with minimal input required by user, and windows reboots every .5 seconds whenever something is detected. As an example, I am currently installing Win2K and Win98 on 7 machines, first you install the OS that requires around 10 reboots, then once you done that you then have to install motherboard drivers and things which requires another million reboots before you can actually say "Well, now its over, I can actually use the fscking thing now " Why ? -- Chris Blake Support Consultant Office : (011) 782-0840 Fax: (011) 782-0841 Mobile : 083 985 0379 Website: http://www.pbpc.co.za Everyone's in a high place when you're on your knees. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi: removed my install disks as sources
On Monday 22 September 2003 11:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought about this for a while, judged the risks of misunderstanding > the function of the "core" group, and then decided to go ahead and add > that group. So I did. In doing so, have I replaced a source for all the > programs which had been available to me on the installation discs? If I > need to readd the discs, what's the actual cli? > > Thanks, > Max To readd your cd sources do: Put CD1 in the drive and in root terminal type: urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 6:03pm up 2 days, 11 min, 6 users, load average: 0.04, 0.18, 0.17 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newsgroup binary extractor?
On Monday 22 September 2003 03:57 am, Bela Markus wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a script to extract binaries from USNET newsgroups > automatically. > > Regards... Bela Use BNR2, downloads and extracts. Linux as well as win version. www.bnr2.org -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:59pm up 2 days, 8 min, 6 users, load average: 0.25, 0.26, 0.20 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:37 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Mate, I was just wee'ing in everyone's weetbix...personally, I think > Honda's are great for family usage, Ford's are great for utes, Toyota is > great for rover-type utes, Mercedes is great for buses and small trucks, > and Holdens are, uh, great for decorating your driveway...or holding up > a garage... So Stephen, you're telling me that the new GTO which is based on a Holden will not really be worth the $$? Personally I think its ugly, looks too much like the Grand Am in front, and I know I can't afford one. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:55pm up 2 days, 3 min, 6 users, load average: 0.27, 0.35, 0.22 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] iptraf
On Sunday 21 September 2003 07:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:05, Chris wrote: > > Probably a dumb newbie question here on iptraf. Nice app, question > > though since it has to be run as root from the CL, is it safe to have > > it running all the time? > > Yes and No. > > Yes when your system is powered on. > No when your system ain't running. > Why thanks Stephen, I needed that -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:01pm up 1 day, 3:09, 6 users, load average: 0.01, 0.15, 0.16 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Number 1!
See the below link http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=265 -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:57pm up 1 day, 3:05, 6 users, load average: 0.22, 0.29, 0.21 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] iptraf
On Sunday 21 September 2003 12:35 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 6:05 pm, Chris wrote: > > Probably a dumb newbie question here on iptraf. Nice app, question > > though since it has to be run as root from the CL, is it safe to have > > it running all the time? > > Fairly safe if you do it right. If you make it owned by root and setuid > root in a directory only root can write to, most of the problems go > away. If it's owned by a normal user but run by root then it can be > hacked by anything with the user's rights. If it's in a directory owned > by a user it's trivial to copy it, hack it and overwrite the original. > > Kernel 2.6 will allow it to have just LAN access rights, but for that > you'll have to wait until MDK 10. So, if its owned by root, in group root and only root has permisson to read/write/exe and others can only read/exe then I assume its safe. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 12:48pm up 18:56, 6 users, load average: 0.11, 0.07, 0.09 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] iptraf
Probably a dumb newbie question here on iptraf. Nice app, question though since it has to be run as root from the CL, is it safe to have it running all the time? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 12:03pm up 18:11, 5 users, load average: 2.03, 1.14, 0.46 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kmail filter
On Saturday 20 September 2003 12:42 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2003 12:18 pm, Chris wrote: > > This is probably a very simplistic question but how do you setup a > > filter in kmail on size? I tried filtering on greater than or > > equal to 140k (the size of the worm msg) and clicking apply, but the > > thing is never saved. > > You can filter on size by going into the kmail settings and > "Network>Recieving tab>modify button and then you will see "filter > messages if they are greater than." mark the box with an X and it > should filter, and ask you if you want to d/l a mail of xxx size when one > pops up in your ISP account. Thanks Dennis, figured out what I was doing wrong in setting up the size filter, I was using >= 140k instead of 14. Works now. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 12:53pm up 11 days, 16:00, 4 users, load average: 0.15, 0.16, 0.11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kmail filter
This is probably a very simplistic question but how do you setup a filter in kmail on size? I tried filtering on greater than or equal to 140k (the size of the worm msg) and clicking apply, but the thing is never saved. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 12:16pm up 11 days, 15:23, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Article: New web worm warning
On Friday 19 September 2003 02:07 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > Po wittle MicroSCOft... > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3119316.stm > > stephen kuhn - owner Yea, and I go 43 of the damm things in the last two days. Ya can actually look at the worm with a hex editor and see where it tries to disable Zonealarm and some of the win antivirus software. Can't believe Earthlink can't stop them from coming in, haven't gotten a one come in through my toadnet.com domain though, course its being hosted on a linux server, maybe thats why :) -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:06pm up 10 days, 22:12, 4 users, load average: 1.58, 1.91, 1.36 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT - 3rd Annual Nigerian E-Mail Conference
For those who are saving these emails now is your chance to meet the actual authors! http://j-walk.com/other/conf/index.htm -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:21pm up 6 days, 23:27, 4 users, load average: 0.16, 0.28, 0.30 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shered VS Delete
On Saturday 13 September 2003 11:22 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > > Why 20 times? How is it possible to recover a file that has been > > overwritten once? > > Forensics :). > > I don't understand that well how this works at the lower (physical) > level, but even so, I'd imagine it could be a moot point for binary > files, i.e., traces of pr0n ::). I didn't expect this many replies when I started this thread. BTW, Konqueror overwrites each file 35 times. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:38am up 5 days, 11:44, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.05 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shered VS Delete
On Friday 12 September 2003 09:28 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 12 September 2003 07:54 pm, Chris wrote: > > Thanks for all the replies everybody. I 'assume' then that when > > shredding file(s) that there is no fragmentation such as there is in > > the windows os and that the freed space can/is immediately available to > > be written to? > > Chris: > Unless you are using either JFS or XFS (sorry, I can't remember which), > forget about defragging; it is not an issue in Linux. Should you run the > appropriate fsck for your filesystem, it will probably report something > on the order of 3% fragmentation. Ignore it. Run it a month from now and > you'll get a similar result. We never said Linux is perfect, just that > it's pretty damn good. -- cmg Oh, I'm not worried about defragging, I got rid of that problem a long time ago :) I just really wanted to make sure that 'shredding' a file(s) would not somehow or another mess the system up and not somehow take away available space. Thanks to all who answered this simple sounding question. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:31pm up 4 days, 36 min, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.37, 0.39 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shered VS Delete
On Friday 12 September 2003 06:37 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > > What is the difference between shredding a file/dir in konqueror and > > deleting it? > > > shred overwrites those sectors on the hard disk where the file was > multiple times thus preventing someone from being able to reconstruct > the info you just shredded with forensic tools. IT writes a number of > times over where your file was stored with 1's & 0's... usually 8 passes > IIRC. Military shredding does like 25 or something... > Femme Thanks for all the replies everybody. I 'assume' then that when shredding file(s) that there is no fragmentation such as there is in the windows os and that the freed space can/is immediately available to be written to? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 6:49pm up 3 days, 21:55, 3 users, load average: 0.41, 0.41, 0.27 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't connect to printer
On Monday 08 September 2003 08:41 pm, Chris wrote: > Ok, what the hell did I do, when trying to print an email or anything for > that matter the printer says screw you. When trying to open the cups > admin tool to see if I can find the problem I get this: > > An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: > Connection to host localhost is broken > > Printer is on and cable is connected, it worked yesterday when I printed > out the quick start for Americas Army pdf file. Its gotta be simple. I'll reply to my own msg, I rebooted and all is well again. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:02pm up 6 min, 2 users, load average: 0.52, 0.40, 0.19 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't connect to printer
Ok, what the hell did I do, when trying to print an email or anything for that matter the printer says screw you. When trying to open the cups admin tool to see if I can find the problem I get this: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Connection to host localhost is broken Printer is on and cable is connected, it worked yesterday when I printed out the quick start for Americas Army pdf file. Its gotta be simple. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:38pm up 1 day, 4:27, 3 users, load average: 0.97, 1.06, 0.96 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Restoring Mandrake CDs as urpmi sources
On Saturday 06 September 2003 11:58 am, Margot wrote: > I used Easy Urpmi to add my sources and, following their instructions, > did urpmi.removemedia -a first. > > This wiped out my mandrake CDs as sources. > > In case I ever need them, how do I put them back? > > Margot Margot, don't know if anyone has answered your question yet so I'll add this from the archives: > To readd your cd sources do: > > Put CD1 in the drive and in root terminal type: > urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 11:40pm up 1:02, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.07 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] OT - NNTP connection
I'm trying to connect to a test usenet server. It had gone down due to hardware problems or was taken down and I'm just checking if its up at various times. Anyway, since this afternoon when trying to connect instead of trying to connect to the server my news programs, knode and bnr try to connect to my loopback address, 127.0.0.1 Anyone know of a reason why this may be happening? Appologizes for the OT post. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:08pm up 12 days, 3:45, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.13, 0.16 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fw: Short Message delivery report
On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:16 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > I just received this, as a result, I guess, of sending > a reply to Funnyresponses to linux commands. > Got two of 'em actually. > After the first, I resent the post. > Anyone know what's happening? Its definately Russian, heres the site link: http://kaluga.mts.ru/mts/ru-full/welcome Now, how are posts to the newbie list going through Russia? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:43pm up 5 days, 19 min, 4 users, load average: 0.25, 0.23, 0.18 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fwd: Short Message delivery report
Damm, I just got the same thing, are our posts now going through Russia? I believe thats what the .ru is. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Short Message delivery report Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:21:51 +0400 From: Sms Message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There is no such user (newbie). --- -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:35pm up 5 days, 11 min, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.11, 0.15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] archive
On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:30 am, HaywireMac wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:11:44 -0500 > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Anyone know why the latest message at the newbie archive is 16 Aug? > > Isn't it usually a bit behind anyway? And with all the internet > shenanigans, slow traffic, power outages, dropped posts, etc., > I wouldn't worry much. > > In fact, now that I just looked, it's right up to date! Thats odd, I just went there and the latest message is dated 19 Aug. We are going to the same site aren't we? http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/ -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:16pm up 4 days, 23:52, 4 users, load average: 0.48, 0.34, 0.18 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] archive
Anyone know why the latest message at the newbie archive is 16 Aug? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 4:11pm up 3 days, 22:46, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SCO Site Down
Was going to send a friend the link to the sco linux faq, however when trying to contact www.sco.com I keep getting "operation timed out", gee could the site be down :) -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 3:24pm up 3 days, 21:59, 4 users, load average: 0.21, 0.15, 0.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chkrootkit
On Friday 15 August 2003 08:55 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday August 14 2003 05:22 pm, Chris wrote: > > On Thursday 14 August 2003 01:11 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > > > > > Running chkrootkit I get the following when searching for > > > > > suspicious files and directories. Does this mean these are > > > > > suspicious or just the ones checked? > > Anyone else have thoughts on this? What exactly does chkrootkit > > check for in these files? > > I noticed most all the suspect files belonged to closed source > proprietary applications. Namely StarOffice and Java. Use of > closed source drivers and apps is always a security risk. So there is probably nothing to worry about however its much better to run open source apps ie..OO than SO. Is there a way to check the files/dirs listed and what would I be looking for? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:44pm up 2 days, 2:25, 4 users, load average: 0.72, 0.39, 0.23 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] firestarter and open ports
I'm sure I've asked this before and don't believe I got an answer. Heres my situation. I'm running firestarter, V0.9.0. When going to grc.com to scan my ports it shows 21,23, and 80 open. Now I've gone to mcc > sytem > services and shutdown all the servers I can see that are running. Another scan still shows the same ports open. The rest of the ports are closed, not stealthed as one would assume them to be. Out of 1056 ports scanned two, 0 and 520 were stealth, the rest were closed. Any assistance would be appreciated. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:59pm up 1 day, 23:30, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] chkrootkit
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 10:43 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Wednesday 13 August 2003 09:30 pm, Chris wrote: > > Running chkrootkit I get the following when searching for suspicious > > files and directories. Does this mean these are suspicious or just the > > ones checked? > > Hmmm, this is completely different that what mine shows. Did you have and > out put similar to below: > Checking `slogin'... not infected > Checking `sendmail'... not infected > and then the output you show? It almost looks like there are bad things in > your garden, but I am not sure what is going on. Which version of > chkrootkit are you using? Yes, I have the same output also as you do. The version is 0.37 -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 6:18am up 12:59, 4 users, load average: 0.11, 0.10, 0.04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] chkrootkit
Running chkrootkit I get the following when searching for suspicious files and directories. Does this mean these are suspicious or just the ones checked? Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Term/ReadKey/.packli st /usr/lib/jre-1.3.1_04/bin/.java_wrapper /usr/lib/office60/share/fonts/truetyp e/.mozilla_font_summary.ndb /usr/lib/staroffice/share/gnome/net/auto pilots/.dir ectory /usr/lib/staroffice/share/gnome/net/.directory /usr/lib/staroffice/share/ gnome/net/.order /usr/lib/staroffice/share/gnome/net/information and setup/.dire ctory /usr/lib/staroffice/share/gnome/net/other/.directory /usr/lib/staroffice/s hare/kde/net/applnk/StarOffice 6.0/auto pilots/.directory /usr/lib/staroffice/sh are/kde/net/applnk/StarOffice 6.0/.directory /usr/lib/staroffice/share/kde/net/a pplnk/StarOffice 6.0/.order /usr/lib/staroffice/share/kde/net/applnk/StarOffice 6.0/information and setup/.directory /usr/lib/staroffice/share/kde/net/applnk/St arOffice 6.0/other/.directory /usr/lib/staroffice/share/samples/english/.nametra nslation.table -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:29pm up 4:09, 4 users, load average: 0.50, 0.30, 0.16 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firestarter and open ports
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 06:48 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 11:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 11:13 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > Personally I find that http://scan.sygatetech.com/ is a better > > > firewall test site. Ok, went to sygatetech.com and ran the first scan, here are the results, my ip address is correct, but then there is this: Web Server Found = Server: ZyXEL-RomPager/3.02 Telnet Open = Password: FTP Server Open = 220 Sprint FTP version 1.0 ready at Sat Mar 4 14:54:52 2000 Ports 21, 23, and 80 show open, rest show closed. What now? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:11pm up 2 days, 22:42, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Big Blue countersues
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Anders Lind wrote: > OK, here it is, Big Blue has decided to crush SCO it seems. > It hurts to cheer on a company like IBM, that has most patents > in the world...anyway go go go...LOL > > http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5060965.html?tag=lh > > /Anders > > Yeah, but let's be fair to IBM, they are pushing Linux forward and for that, they should be encouraged. CSW -- ****** Chris Slater-Walker BA(Hons.) CCNA CCDA CCNP CSS-1 Cisco networking & network security ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Glaxium
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 05:42 am, Toran Korshnah wrote: > > for a joystick. If you need further info on what happened, I'll re d/l, > > install and run again. > > A joystick??? > Hey, if that is the problem... > But I have no possibility of testing this... > Someone??? Below is what happens when trying to run it from console, maybe its not just the lack of a joystick, I didn't follow up after it didn't run the first time, maybe someone has a suggestion? [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ glaxium /usr/share/games/glaxium ~ Depth buffer depth : 24 Stencil buffer will be used for shadows. Number of texture units : 2 Number of general combiners available : 2 Nvidia NV1x video card found (geforce 256/2) Glaxium will use anisotropy texture : 2.00 Opened audio at 22050 Hz 16 bit stereo, 1024 bytes audio buffer No SDL joystick found... OpenGL Info : NVIDIA Corporation GeForce2 MX/AGP/3DNOW! 1.3.1 NVIDIA 31.23 GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_S3_s3tc GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_paletted_texture GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_EXT_vertex_weighting GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_KTX_buffer_region GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_evaluators GL_NV_fence GL_NV_fog_distance GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil GL_NV_register_combiners GL_NV_texgen_emboss GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_texture_env_combine4 GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_NV_vertex_array_range GL_NV_vertex_array_range2 GL_NV_vertex_program GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_multitexture GL_SGIS_texture_lod Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:10pm up 1 day, 22:41, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firestarter and open ports
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 06:41 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > Ports 21, 23, and 80 show open, rest show closed. What now? > > Just like Anne you are connecting via a device, and that device has a web > server and an FTP server running. Getting out my Crystal ball I suspect you > have a Zyxel P645ME+ ADSL bridge which runs a RomPager web server. > (How do I know? I tried connecting and it identified itself to me) > > You only have to enter those words into Google and you will find stuff on > the insecurity of this product.. > http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/307793/2003-01-21/2003-01-27/0 > > > The good news is that even if someone were to take the trouble to break > into your DSL bridge. They still could not get into your computer. > The bad news is that unless you can disable the ftp and http servers in the > DSL bridge, then you cannot run one in your computer without using port > redirection. > > derek Therefore, unless sprint does something about the modem they're supplying this will always be a problem, is that a correct assumption from what I read? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:54pm up 3 days, 1:25, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] ftp client
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 01:56 pm, Robin Turner wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i need a ftp client. gftp and lftp arent very user friendly... > > gftp needs the password of the server every file you'll download :( > > lftp is just terminal > > Konqueror is fine if you want a GUI (remember to check the "save > password" box. But if you're into heavy FTP use, it's easier in the > long run to use a command line client. Personally, I like ncftp. > > Sir Robin I prefer ncftp too. So damm easy, just remember "open" to log-on, and "get" to get the file(s) you want. Even lets you bookmark the site(s). -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:07pm up 38 days, 1:24, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.15, 0.15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] firewall hits by newsserver
This may be OT but, I have to ask. The below is from my firestarter log, are these incoming or outgoing hits to earthlinks news servers? time:Jul 26 09:53:09 in:eth0 out: port:40478 source:news03.west.earthlink.net dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown time:Jul 26 09:54:24 in:eth0 out: port:40480 source:news04.west.earthlink.net dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown time:Jul 26 10:02:21 in:eth0 out: port:40479 source:news01.west.earthlink.net dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown time:Jul 26 10:03:57 in:eth0 out: port:40478 source:news03.west.earthlink.net dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown time:Jul 26 10:06:37 in:eth0 out: port:40479 source:news01.west.earthlink.net dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown time:Jul 26 21:18:42 in:eth0 out: port:42611 source:news02.west.earthlink.net dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown time:Jul 26 21:28:47 in:eth0 out: port:42611 source:news02.west.earthlink.net dest:192.168.1.2 len:699 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown time:Jul 26 21:34:44 in:eth0 out: port:42611 source:news02.west.earthlink.net dest:192.168.1.2 len:1440 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown time:Jul 26 21:35:29 in:eth0 out: port:42612 source:news01.west.earthlink.net dest:192.168.1.2 len:699 tos:0x00 protocol:tcp service:unknown I'm still confused about things like this, of course a lot of simple things confuse me. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:41pm up 35 days, 3:57, 6 users, load average: 0.24, 0.17, 0.12 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] SBr Temp
On Friday 25 July 2003 01:06 am, magnet wrote: > On Friday 25 Jul 2003 4:37 am, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:51:51 -0500 > > > > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I asked Dennis what this was off-list and hes not sure, so I'll throw > > > this out to the rest. Below is my "sensors" output, what is SBr temp? > > > > Southbridge? > > > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=Pine.HPX.4.43.020 > >40 40043300.25096-10%40wave > > > > > > Todd > > Todd is correct. It's for the South Bridge chip. > http://www.linux.cz/stats/mrtg-rrd/temp.html That seems correct. From what I can gleem from my boards TM (its a 1stMainboard AZ11E) its comprised of a VIA VT8363 system controller for the North Bridge and a VIA 686B (Super South). So, from what I can figure this is the temp for this chipset. Thanks for all who responded. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:53pm up 34 days, 4:09, 6 users, load average: 0.19, 0.20, 0.14 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] SBr Temp
I asked Dennis what this was off-list and hes not sure, so I'll throw this out to the rest. Below is my "sensors" output, what is SBr temp? via686a-isa-6000 Adapter: ISA adapter Algorithm: ISA algorithm CPU core: +1.71 V (min = +1.79 V, max = +2.18 V) ALARM +2.5V: +2.42 V (min = +2.24 V, max = +2.74 V) I/O: +3.33 V (min = +2.95 V, max = +3.62 V) +5V: +4.89 V (min = +4.47 V, max = +5.49 V) +12V: +11.80 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.18 V) CPU Fan: 4787 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) P/S Fan: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) SYS Temp: +44.1°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) CPU Temp: +38.6°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) SBr Temp: +25.9°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:48pm up 33 days, 4:04, 6 users, load average: 0.79, 0.33, 0.23 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Getting System Temperatures
On Thursday 24 July 2003 06:18 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Hmmm, I missed something here. But then the email is a bit flakey for me > lately. Some threads are not threading. For one upsmanship Stephen, I am > having a mid-year crises as well as a thermal breakdown. : p Geeez, I'm getting replies before original questions and replies to replies and not the original replies, what a mess. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:18pm up 33 days, 1:34, 6 users, load average: 0.20, 0.23, 0.15 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Other Users Running?
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 08:24 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > Whats the difference? I notice you uptime shows 5 users and 5 > > are reported with 'w'. > > > > Chris > > I wasn't sure from your original question just what you were > lookin for. 'w' shows the users processes in progress, which I > thought you wanted. Look at mine above, I had kwrite open so I > could compare md5sums to 92beta1.md5sums.asc from burned CDr's usin > 'md5sum /dev/scd0'. I was d/l'd other 9.2 iso's, cdrecord was > runnin to burn the 9.2 iso I had already d/l'd. In the meantime I > was readin email (kmail), all while gqview was parading ladies full > screen all desktops, and of course my DSL connection was up. I > probly forgot somethin or other ;) As to pts/, you're understandin > is probly as good as mine, try understandin this Ok, I see now, only thing is mine doesn't show any processes in progress, not really worred about it, just whenever you or someone else puts out something to try on the cl I like to give it a try myself just to see if I get the same results or close. > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/doc/slinux/node60.html Sure, the above is as clear as mud to me :) Thanks Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 8:40pm up 32 days, 2:56, 6 users, load average: 0.02, 0.14, 0.13 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Other Users Running?
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 07:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > > OK where can I get chkrootkit et aL > > Tripwire is on the d/l'd CDs, CD 3 to be exact but you can just do an urpmi > tripwire and get it. Watchdog I think you will need to google for. luck Thanks Dennis, appreciate it. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:35pm up 32 days, 1:51, 6 users, load average: 0.05, 0.08, 0.08 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Other Users Running?
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 06:51 pm, Aron Smith wrote: I just ran # urpmi chkrootkit and it was installed. I believe it comes from the contrib mirrior I have setup. The others I don't know about, I'm sure someone else has the answer though. > > Tripwire and watchdog are intrusion detection programs, they watch your > > system and take not of changes to the filesystem and programs, kind of > > like they take a snapshot of the system and compare it anytime something > > new happens within the OS. Crude explanation but maybe someone on list > > has a more detailed or accurate version. HTH > > OK where can I get chkrootkit et aL -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 7:02pm up 32 days, 1:18, 6 users, load average: 0.29, 0.15, 0.10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Other Users Running?
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 11:42 pm, SoloCDM wrote: > If used correctly, you'll find an abundant list of information. Some > of them will need to be activated. The accounting files require hard > drive space and will need to be controlled by logrotate. Also, Some > programs hide information, because the processes are run internally. > Tripwire, Watchdog, Chkrootkit, and other security programs will > provide tracking that will point to files that have changed as a > result of other programs activities. > > HTH. I've got chkrootkit installed and run it frequently, what is Tripwire and Watchdog? Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:34pm up 31 days, 23:50, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.06, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Other Users Running?
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 11:14 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: >Using bash, simply type 'w' (w/o the quotes) EG, > > [tom /tom] $ w > 11:13:22 up 17:07, 5 users, load average: 0.16, 0.22, 0.22 > USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT > tom pts/0 Tue18 17:01m 0.00s 0.22s kdeinit: kwrited > tom pts/1 09:241:42m 0.08s 0.05s /bin/bash > tom :0Tue18 ?xdm? 1:00m 0.13s /bin/sh > /usr/bin/startkde > tom pts/3 09:43 11:05 2.17s 2.01s cdrecord -v -eject > speed=4 dev=0,0 > tom pts/4 11:130.00s 0.04s 0.01s w Very interesting Tom. Question though, if I run $ w I get: 5:32pm up 31 days, 23:47, 6 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT chrispts/0- 5Jul03 17days 0.00s ? - chrispts/2- 5:32pm 0.00s 0.05s 0.01s w Only two entries for me are shown, however, 6 users are reported as with $ who: [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ who chrispts/0Jul 5 18:45 chrispts/1Jul 16 19:42 chrispts/3Jul 19 16:16 chrispts/2Jul 23 17:32 chris:0 Jul 5 18:44 chrispts/4Jul 12 15:44 Whats the difference? I notice you uptime shows 5 users and 5 are reported with 'w'. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:30pm up 31 days, 23:46, 6 users, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Process that just *will not die*!
On Monday 21 July 2003 08:04 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 20:45, JoeHill wrote: > > Ok, gmplayer is running in the background. > > > > I have tried to kill it with signal 9 as root, I don't know what else to > > do except reboot. > > > > Help me Obi Wan! (or Stephen...) > > (If it's running and you didn't run it, do all of this from the term) > > killall -KILL gmplayer > killall -KILL gconfd-2 > oaf-slay > bonobo-slay wouldn't a kill -15 "process #" do the same thing? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 5:09pm up 29 days, 23:24, 6 users, load average: 0.26, 0.10, 0.03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
