Re: [newbie] su for desktop icon
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, you wrote: Got gtoaster up and running. Works fine from the command line after I log in as su. Is there any way to modify my desktop icon to open gtoaster as su? Mike Riffle Morgantown, WV USA http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm Montani Semper Liberi NRA NMLRA Friends of Fort Frederick Prickett's Fort Memorial Foundation You need to modify the execute command of the desktop icon to 'kdesu -c gtoaster' If this doesn't work, checkout the Mandrake homepage and lookup their tutorial section. There is a specific tutorial for gtoaster. The first part has to do with a bug in 7.0 which is corrected in 7.1, but the rest has to do with properly configuring gtoaster as a desktop icon.
[newbie] cable modem, tulip driver and LM7.2
I had my @Home service working fine under Mandrake 7.1 with an Ethernet card which uses the Macronix MX987x5 driver. Under 7.1 my Ethernet card is autodetected and my Internet connection works perfectly after going through the network installation wizard. With 7.2 it correctly identifies the same Macronix driver as in 7.1, but I cannot establish an outside connection. I can ping my IP, but when I try to ping my gateway or dns server I get nothing. However, I know something is going on because I can see the lights on the cable modem blink as I try to ping the outside world. Thus, it seems the Ethernet card is doing something, but I'm not getting a connection. Since I know I configured everything just as I did under 7.1 I cannot figure out what the problem is. Has something changed with the way 7.2 configures a network? Any suggestions on what to try next? Another matter related to this has to do with the network configuration tool part of DrakConf. When I double-checked all of my network entries using this tool and saved any changes I noticed that field for host+domain cuts off the end of long names. I verified this by looking at several of the configuration files like /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Since @Home provides these really long domain names you end up losing some of the characters if you use the DrakConf utility. Thus, I had to edit all the affected files to correct for this (not to mention reinstalling both 7.1 and 7.2 several times each - 7.1 always works, while 7.2 always fails).
Re: [newbie] cable modem, tulip driver and LM7.2
I am set up statically already, but I don't understand why repushing my modem and computer will help. I have completely reinstalled 7.1 several times and my @Home connection works everytime. However, whenever I install 7.2 and follow the exact same network configuration I cannot connect. As I said, I've gone back and forth between 7.1 and 7.2 several times and everytime I can get a connection with 7.1 but not with 7.2. I will call tech as you suggest, but I still think it has something to do with 7.2 because I've read several similar postings with the same problem involving other ethernet cards (where it worked under 7.1 but wouldn't work under 7.2) on another Mandrake newsgroup. Hi peter,- Actually I work for the @home network. All you need to do is call tech support and have them repush your modem and computer and set yourself up statically if you havent already. Also have the tech look at the whiteboard and see if there are any outages in your area. That should take care of your issue. If not reinstall your nic card. Chronos. At 07:12 PM 11/04/2000 -0800, you wrote: I had my @Home service working fine under Mandrake 7.1 with an Ethernet card which uses the Macronix MX987x5 driver. Under 7.1 my Ethernet card is autodetected and my Internet connection works perfectly after going through the network installation wizard. With 7.2 it correctly identifies the same Macronix driver as in 7.1, but I cannot establish an outside connection. I can ping my IP, but when I try to ping my gateway or dns server I get nothing. However, I know something is going on because I can see the lights on the cable modem blink as I try to ping the outside world. Thus, it seems the Ethernet card is doing something, but I'm not getting a connection. Since I know I configured everything just as I did under 7.1 I cannot figure out what the problem is. Has something changed with the way 7.2 configures a network? Any suggestions on what to try next? Another matter related to this has to do with the network configuration tool part of DrakConf. When I double-checked all of my network entries using this tool and saved any changes I noticed that field for host+domain cuts off the end of long names. I verified this by looking at several of the configuration files like /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Since @Home provides these really long domain names you end up losing some of the characters if you use the DrakConf utility. Thus, I had to edit all the affected files to correct for this (not to mention reinstalling both 7.1 and 7.2 several times each - 7.1 always works, while 7.2 always fails).
[newbie] open ports security problem
How do you close ports and/or shut down servers running on these ports (is this synonymous?). I run Mandrake 7.1 and I need to find an answer to this because my @Home service provider has informed me that I cannot have servers running on my machine (obviously set up by default since I don't know how to set them up). This is not allowed according to the contract because it allows mail relaying (spam). In other words they will cut me off if it is not fixed. Their tests indicated that the following ports/servers were open/running: PortStateService 25/tcpopensmtp 80/tcpopenhttp 111/tcpopensunrpc 113/tcpopenauth 515/tcpopenprinter 6000/tcpopenX11 Running 'netsys -a' confirmed the above. I commented out fields in /etc/inetd.conf for any (all) services I don't need, but of course the above services are not in this file. I then tried commenting out the above services (that I could find) in /etc/services, but this didn't seem to do anything (and yes, I rebooted because I don't know how to properly reset the system any other way). [As an aside, what IS the effect of commenting out services from /etc/services? It doesn't look serious...yet.] I read that I may have to do something with the files in /etc/rc.d, but the instructions seemed to based on a different directory layout than is used by Mandrake/Red Hat. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
