Re: [newbie] Getting a secure firewall environment ?
Eventhought this is a mandrake list, have you tried some of the router/firewall distributions such as: smoothwall : http://www.smoothwall.org/gpl/ freesco: http://www.freesco.com/ linux router project: http://lrp.c0wz.com/ you can also check for general info at the linux firewall and security site : http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/ Anders Jarnberg wrote: Hi all, I'm thinking of making a Linux firewall instead of the dedicated HW-one I got currently. I plan to use the normal MDK8.0 for installation, but can imagine that there's a lot of stuff not needed ? Are there any good info/links about how a Linux environment should look like that runs a firewall ? (like, do I want/need gcc, X etc...) TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Shaw @home Cable Modem Setup
I have Comcast@home and I always used the static configuration, but a techie that was here last month changed my line and my modem and reconfigured my windoze partition to use DHCPD. I never had that working before under linux, but after searching Deja for usenet information, I came across the following, which worked: "Yes, you have to manually edit a file, but it is not too complicated. If I remember correctly, as root, edit the following file: /sbin/ifup Look for a section that looks like this: f [ "XXX$DHCP_CLIENT" != "XXX" ];then case $(basename $DHCP_CLIENT) in dhcpcd) [ -n "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" ] DHCP_ARGS="-h $DHCP_HOSTNAME" [ -n "$NEEDHOSTNAME" ] DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS -H" DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS -h chomehostname $DEVICE" ;; You can see that I have added the parameters "-h chomehostname". Replace "chomehostname" with your @Home hostname. I *think* that's how I got things to work, I don't remember clearly. This is done on LM 7.2, and assumes that you are using the dhcpcd client. It also assumes that you have tried to manually call dhcpcd -h your_host_name, and it worked..!" Digital Wokan wrote: I have yet to get DHCP to work as a client to @home. I've had to stick with plugging in my static IP address for over a year now. Shane Roppel wrote: First things first, hello all! Ok here's my problem I cannot seem to connect to the dhcp server through my linux box. I am fairly proficient with windows And think it sucks, and I've tried almost every combination of network settings I can think of! plus I've tried some suggestions mentioned in this forum. Nothing has worked. I'm new to linux so please, could someone spell it out for me? THANKS SO MUCH! _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
Re: [newbie] What's wrong with my DVD?
I just finished getting this to work. Here's what I had to do: 1) First get the links corrected for your two drives (CDRW and DVD). You can check the answer that helped me from the expert mail list archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/msg31476.html. 2) Next decide what software you are going to use for DVD. I chose XINE. You can get the official release from http://xine.sourceforge.net/. If you want a version that will play commercial DVD's you can go to http://gape.ist.utl.pt/ment00/linuxdvd.html 3) Before installing XINE I needed to be running XFree86 version 4.x. Even though I had selected this during my mandrake install, it was not what I was running. The details and corrective actions can be found at: http://www.thehaus.net/AltOS/Linux/ht-xfree4nvidia-mdk72.shtml. a more detailled version can be found at: http://members.home.net/linuxfrog/nvidia.html (This information also has a lot of data about the NVIDIA graphics drivers, which you can ignore if you don't need). (Also, I did not have to follow all of the steps. I followed the instructions for removing the version 3 rpm files, then removed the version 4 server rpm, reinstalled it and changed the links. I am not sure why I had to remove and re-install the version 4 server, but my attempt to create the symbolic link failed before I tried this). 4) You need to have the link to the DVD drive set as /dev/dvd and not /dev/cdrom or /dev/cdrom2. You can either take care of this as part of step 1 or now. 5) Make sure the dvd drive is set to use DMA. hdparm -d /dev/hdd will let you know if this is on. If not hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd should correct this. read the man page for hdparm before trying it. 6) Now you should be all set to install XINE and give it a whirl. You can also set the dvd as a raw device if your system is too slow. I didn't see an improvement, but hey - I'm still trying to figure this whole thing out. For XINE you can check some of the FAQS, the XINE mailing list, or the IRC channel mentioned on their home page for more support. Matt Schroeder wrote: I have been running Mandrake 7.2 Kernel 2.2.17 and at bootup I see that my DVD is assigned to dev/hdd (Pioneer 6X) Yet when I try to use the DVD drive for a cdrom it does nothing and says the device doesn't exist. What didn't I do to get it to work? I try to mount it and it never works... In /mnt I have cdrom and cdrom2 but for all I know these may be both links to my master cd which is an HP 8100 CDRW I want to get dvd's playing on this thing. Actually I'd like the drive to work period. As of now it's as if it isn't there. I've looked all over for how to do this and even the latest 4 inch thick books have like 4 sentences on getting a DVD drive to run. --Matt
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
you should have a name that @home gave your pc. mine is similar to cc1234567-a "Daniel B. Haun" wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2001 20:42, you wrote: If I remember correctly, as root, edit the following file: /sbin/ifup Look for a section that looks like this: f [ "XXX$DHCP_CLIENT" != "XXX" ];then case $(basename $DHCP_CLIENT) in dhcpcd) [ -n "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" ] DHCP_ARGS="-h $DHCP_HOSTNAME" [ -n "$NEEDHOSTNAME" ] DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS -H" DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS -h chomehostname $DEVICE" ;; You can see that I have added the parameters "-h chomehostname". Replace "chomehostname" with your @Home hostname. I *think* that's how I got things to work, I don't remember clearly. This is done on LM 7.2, and assumes that you are using the dhcpcd client. It also assumes that you have tried to manually call dhcpcd -h your_host_name, and it worked..!" Nice info... I have similar problems here in NJ with @Home. A Couple questions tho: 1. when you say "hostname" are you saying that this the is the indentification for your computer that @home designates? or is this the @Home hostname : *.home.com ? Thanks in Advance! Daniel in NJ... :)
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
I always used the static configuration, but a techie that was here this week changed my line and my modem and reconfigured my windoze partition to use DHCPD. I never had that working before under linux, but after searching Deja for usenet information, I came across the following, which worked: "Yes, you have to manually edit a file, but it is not too complicated. If I remember correctly, as root, edit the following file: /sbin/ifup Look for a section that looks like this: f [ "XXX$DHCP_CLIENT" != "XXX" ];then case $(basename $DHCP_CLIENT) in dhcpcd) [ -n "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" ] DHCP_ARGS="-h $DHCP_HOSTNAME" [ -n "$NEEDHOSTNAME" ] DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS -H" DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS -h chomehostname $DEVICE" ;; You can see that I have added the parameters "-h chomehostname". Replace "chomehostname" with your @Home hostname. I *think* that's how I got things to work, I don't remember clearly. This is done on LM 7.2, and assumes that you are using the dhcpcd client. It also assumes that you have tried to manually call dhcpcd -h your_host_name, and it worked..!" johnc wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2001 20:21, you wrote: Just had cable access installed. Unfortunately, my provider does not offer static IP addresses. Can I still configure it under LM 7.2? 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 Yes you can configure it. I use the @home service and have always configured statically as i have never had any luck using DHCP. To configure statically you will need the following: your hostname i.e. cx12345-a your dns domain, i.e. phnx1.az.home.com IP addy (obviously) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Default Gateway, usually your IP with the last octet changed to 1. I stress "USUALLY." Your DNS server/servers usually a primary and a secondary. For email purposes the server names and or IP addresses of said servers. proxy if you use one. I may be leaving something out I'm sure someone will clue us in if I am. If you run windows you can get the majority of this info by running "winipcfg" from the start\run menu. You can get your email servers by looking at the email headers or running "netstat -a" when you send and recieve email in windows. I would say to call your cable provider but unless you get a nice tech they seem to gaurd this info rather gestapo like. Good luck to ya! -- John W
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready
Since my last question was not as dumb as I thought, let me see if I can get lucky twice. If I understand what you are suggesting, since I have 128 meg of memory, I would make the swap 256meg. It seems to me that in the past I have read that once the swap gets above 128, Linux doesn't do much with the extra size. Am I totally daffy, or was this a limitation that recent releases has remedied. If I have a 10 gig drive, can I assume that boot stays at 64 meg? Would / stay at 3.5 or do I want to double that and leave the remainder for /home? Thanks! Christopher Molnar wrote: I teach some classes for new Linux users. Here is what I tell them for a 5 Gig drive. (OK, I know I am about to be corrected, flamed, etc for this but I can handle it [sniff] - just remember this is a general suggestion and is not written in stone). Do NOT let the installer auto-partition. I have a different opinion about putting /var onto it's own partition. Don't. These are in order on how I recommend creating on a 5 gig drive: /boot = 64 meg Swap = 2 times the amount of physical memory in your machine. More if a server (probably 4 times). / = 3.5 Gig /home = remainder of all drive space. This seems to let them do a full development install and it works. (OK, let me have it!). Anyways, forgive me mailing list Gods, but if you are near New Haven, CT USA check out the Mandrake Campus courses at: http://www.innovationsw.com/training. -Chris Christopher Molnar wrote: 7.3 NO, No, no. 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch the progress. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready
Whenever a new release comes out I have always been in the habit of doing a full install, rather than an upgrade. Of course this entails some backing up and restoring of information. I have seen some discussions regarding how many partitions is best for an install, and I notice there are (as usual) varying opinions. Is there a general guideline I can follow. Do I basically want to set up /; /boot and /usr? What should be a good rule of thumb for allocating space for the various partitions? Christopher Molnar wrote: 7.3 NO, No, no. 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch the progress. -Chris
Re: [newbie] Root Password
The tech support questions/answers in the May issue of Linux Journal has two ways to reset/change the root password if you forget it or loose it. On Fri, 05 May 2000, you wrote: If you lose the root password.yepso don't lose it. - Original Message - From: hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 1:09 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Root Password On Thu, 04 May 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2000, David Smith wrote: Anyone know anything about how to set super permissions to a user without giving them the root password, or the authority to change the root password once they are granted super user permissions. Thanks in advance. Dave You could add the user to the ROOT group, using userconf (as root). This question is sort of along the lost password lines. If I loose the root password, am I totally screwed? Thanks, Nathan
Re: [newbie] Mainframe Emulation Program
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: Does anyone know of a mainframe (3270) emulator for Linux? Nothing special, just tcp/ip connectivity... Try X3270 - the home page is: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/
Re: [newbie] Java in 7.0?
On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote: I use a Java app, Moneydance, for my personal and small business finances, but I haven't been able to get it going in Mandrake, although I had it going in Corel. The author made some suggestions, but when I looked for the files he mentioned, they weren't there. The java program was there, but not all the supporting files, which seems strange. Any idea on that? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go... I just installed blackdown java and moneydance and everything seems to be working, what is your problem?
[newbie] CD burners linux
I have a scsi CD rom and had some problems when I added my IDE burner. Here's what I found: You may want to consider X-CD Roast for your CD burning. You can get information on it at: http://www.fh-muenchen.de/rz/xcdroast It came with my Mandrake 6.1 distribution. X-CD-Roast uses a command line program "cdrecord". The home page for cdrecord has all the information you may need to set up your cdrw. It can be found at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html The information for ide/atapi drives are at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/README/README.ATAPI There was also a discussion regarding this on the KDE mail list. Check the following: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-userm=93763821123825w=2 Also, a few weeks ago someone posted the following link for a good place to get info: http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm and there was this just last week: Re: [newbie] MDK 7.0-Do you like it? Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:49:53 -0800 From: Richard Yevchak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems that during the install of LM 7.0 or the the first time I booted, the system recognized I had a CD-RW. So it must have set up the CD-RW on "/dev/scd0". Try "cdrecord -scanbus". That should show that the systems sees your CD burner. If that works, edit "/etc/fstab" and look for the line for your CD drive. Change it so that the part where it says "dev=/dev/cdrom" reads "dev=/dev/scd0". Try and read a disk, you may have to umount the device by hand first. I don't know why this works. I got errors when I tried to mount "/dev/hdc" which I think should have worked since that is where the kernel identifies it as being at start up. You may also have to setup SCSI emulation by hand, neither the install nor the start up procedure told me it did. If it means anything I was installing over not upgrading a working LM 6.1 installation. Richard
Re: [newbie] broken programs
Try executing the programs from within Xterm, rather than cliking on them. Since my upgrade from 6.1 to 7.0 I have seen the following message for a few programs: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, you wrote: Has anyone had any problems with "broken Programs" in Mandrake 7.0?? Specifically when I click on the menu item for the kde file manager, the hardrive goes chunka chunka, and nothing happens. There are some other programs that do the same thing but nothing of as much consequence as File Manager. Thanks Ray
Re: [newbie] boot disk and cd help
I downloaded the ISO image and had the same problem with rawwritten. If you notice, the dosutils directory also has the older rawrite.exe available. Use this to make a boot disk. It worked for me. On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, you wrote: To fix the cd boot problem, download the iso image (from an "iso" directory on an ftp server) and boot that one. If you did use an iso image then I don't know what the problem is. Don't know about the Lib 16 either. DvB On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Cory Wagner wrote: When I try and make a boot disk with rawwritten I keep getting a (Load Library 16 failed) error. I have 7.0 on cd and browse to the location of the cdrom.img and I keep getting that error. So I then went into changed bios to install directly from the cd. Everything starts fine, until it asks where I will be installing it from (hard drive or cd). So I choose cd and it says it is initializing cd rom and it then stops, it either never finds it or whatever . The cd rom is G but I don't think that the location would matter. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Re: [newbie] Open Ports
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, you wrote: Stop by freshmeat and do a search on "portsentry". It was real easy to install and blocks just about everything Hi everyone, I've just been looking at http://grc.com/default and after having my ports scanned, I see that I am open to ftp, telnet, and pop3 connections. I don't run any kind of server, so how can I block these ports? -- Regards, Paul
Re: [newbie] DrakConf in 7.0
I had the same problem when I upgraded and when I tried the xterm window, DrakConf was not found. I tired the kde find utility and DrakConf was also not found. I used Kpackage to reinstall the Drakconf rpm and then the icon worked fine! On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 10:57:40PM +0100, Paul Marriott wrote: Hi: TOTAL newbie less than a month ago...managed to install Mandrake 6.1...ok.ish Just upgraded Mandrake 7.0 Air and see that LinuxConf has been changed for DrakConf on the desktop. Clicking it does nothing ( and yes, I AM logged on as root)... Any ideas? Thanks in advance folks Could you try to open an xterm (or a kterm, or whatever you like to use...) and enter DrakConf at the prompt. If it still doesn't run, I'm pretty sure it will give you some errors messages. I'm very interested in these messages as I'm the guy who made DrakConf, so please send them to me. Thanks, DindinX
Re: [newbie] CD Writer
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know how to setup a CD Writer so it can be mounted on my linux machine? I'm using Linux Mandrake. David You may want to consider X-CD Roast for your CD burning. You can get information on it at: http://www.fh-muenchen.de/rz/xcdroast It came with my Mandrake 6.1 distribution. X-CD-Roast uses a command line program "cdrecord". The home page for cdrecord has all the information you may need to set up your cdrw. It can be found at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html The information for ide/atapi drives are at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/README/README.ATAPI There was also a discussion regarding this on the KDE mail list. Check the following: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-userm=93763821123825w=2 Also, a few weeks ago someone posted the following link for a good place to get info: http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm
[newbie] Pardon my repeat, but I would appreciate any help
I am using a Mitsumie IDE/ATAPI CD-rw. The last time I checked for updates, I downloaded the Kernal Update (2.2.13-22mdk). I installed it, added a stanza to lilo.conf so that I could use either the new kernal or my older one, and made a new initial ramdisk. The new kernal seems to work fine, except that the CD-rw is no longer accessible. Checking my boot messages I found the following: modprobe: can't locate module block-major-8 I am assuming that I need to rebuild some of the modules I needed to get the CD working. Does the message indicate which module is missing? Any assistance, or a point in the right direction would be appreciated.
Re: [newbie] How to use Iomega Zip drive?
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, John DeRosa wrote: I have Linux-Mandrake 6.1, and I want to use my parallel-port Zip drive. The L-M hardware list says that the Zip drive is supported. My question is, how do I access it? I see that several other people have already covered the basics on getting the zip drive working. You might also want to check out the jaZip uitility at: http://www.scripps.edu/~jsmith/jazip/
[newbie] Kernal update disabled CR-RW
I am using a Mitsumie IDE/ATAPI CD-rw. The last time I checked for updates, I downloaded the Kernal Update (2.2.13-22mdk). I installed it, added a stanza to lilo.conf so that I could use either the new kernal or my older one, and made a new initial ramdisk. The new kernal seems to work fine, except that the CD-rw is no longer accessible. Checking my boot messages I found the following: modprobe: can't locate module block-major-8 I am assuming that I need to rebuild some of the modules I needed to get the CD working. Does the message indicate which module is missing? Any assistance, or a point in the right direction would be appreciated.
Re: [newbie] kernel-update loaded, but installed?
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, you wrote: Could somebody please explain what I need to do here - I noted Richard T Waters posting where he leaves an option to load either - this may be useful for future hardware compatibility issues. My apologies are proffered to those bored by my astounding ignorance in matters linux; It is stable and so far the problems like sndconfig etc have been more stimulating than w95-frustrating. Below is is what my lilo.conf file looks like now. I did a copy and paste to have two linux boot commands, one for the new kernal, one for the old. once this is done (and saved), be sure to update your MBR by typing the following: /sbin/lilo Before I made the switch to Mandrake I was running Redhat. There's some pretty straight forward information on kernal updates on this page: http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/docs/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html **lilo.conf*** boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 other=/dev/hda1 label=win table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk label=oldlinux root=/dev/hda3 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.13-7mdk.img read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-22mdk label=linux root=/dev/hda3 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.13-22mdk.img read-only
