[newbie] Network configuration help...
Recently I installed mandrake 8.0, and everything was ok... But now I seem to have no network connection to the rest of the network (can't connect to my smoothwall machine...so no internet) Ive ran 'netcfg' and checked the settings and IP addresses etc and all seem fine... even changed the network card (a pcnet32) and still ... no network!!! It hurts to have to boot into windows just to check my mail :( Anybody got any Ideas why this is happening... Thanx Graham
Re: [newbie] Internet Security
Here's what I did...
I edited the file '/etc/rc.d/rcfirewall', and added rules for the
services that i required, or wanted to block...
It was in the form:
ipchains {rule.}
ipchains {rule...} etc., etc.
Try man ipchains and/or search the web for sample
rcfirewall scripts, and how to create them. Might be of use...
note: I now use an old machine (486) with smoothwall installed on it, and it
sits between my local machines and the outside world.. Way easier ;)
Might still have the file somewhere, I'll have a look
G
- Original Message -
From: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 2:57 AM
Subject: [newbie] Internet Security
First of all, thanks to everyone who shared their opinions on working as
root. I've printed out a bunch of messages and will be digesting them as
time allows. For those who wondered why I need to be root so often, it's
because I'm still very much involved in getting the system set up,
installing programs, etc., and it seems I have to be root in order to do
a lot of what needs to be done. Once the system is complete and has a
chance to settle, I can handle working as user. But for now, it is very
inconvenient.
My priorities now are first, to firm up my Internet security; second, to
get my Type 1 fonts working and available to applications; third, to
figure out what's going on with the printers.
Today I worked on Internet security. I tried some of the things
suggested and frankly, I don't have a clue. I don't understand the
directions, I can't find some of the things suggested, I can't deal with
scripts, I don't have six months to take a course.g I read the How
To's on network security and firewalls and they descended into geekspeak
much too fast and far too deeply and I was lost.
Remember, I'm your test case--the Windows user who wants to say good-bye
to Microsoft but does not want to and will not become a command
line/console sort of gal. Mandrake 8 claims to have me in mind.g
Since I was stumped by the console approach, here's what I did in
desperation to get my ports closed on the Internet. I ran draksec as
root from a command line and when it came up, I set my security to
Medium. I also ran BastilleChooser and picked the Medium level, no
server option. Then I went on the Web and back to grc.com and
sdesign.com to test my ports. At grc.com all my ports were closed, which
was an improvement from when I tested before and my SMTP port was
reported open. I turned off some startup process or whatever it's called
that had something to do with mail transport. So okay, some progress. At
sdesign.com I had fewer ports open than I did before, but I'm still
seeing open ports at 631 (tcp) and 6000 (tcp X11).
I got the same results whether I went online as root or as user.
How can I get those ports closed? Clear directions much appreciated! If
you tell me exactly where to look and what to edit, I can do it, but I
can't figure it out on my own.
I tried to run the interactive Bastille but I didn't understand the
options and the explanations were much too sketchy. I don't like to make
decisions like that when I don't understand what I'm doing. So I ran
BastilleChooser instead and figure it's better than nothing. Why isn't
Bastille on medium security closing all my ports?
Thanks very much for any help you can give.
--Judy Miner
[newbie] DB2 problem .... huh???
Hi Guys Just checked my mail for root today . and I had this in my mailbox... (1 for every day this month) Anybody got any ideas what the hell it means.. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 04:04:11 + (GMT) From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron root@localhost run-parts /etc/cron.daily DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified --- -- ..Who says it cant be broken???
Re: [newbie] Merry.....
GOT SOME NEWCASTLE ALE TOO :-}} hiccup... On Saturday 23 December 2000 11:51 am, you wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2000 04:03, you wrote: Erylon Hines wrote: Graham Kerr wrote: MERRY CRIMBO EVERYBODY :-D (Ive got 142 cans of beer and a bottle of Glenfiddich...) So you wont get any sense from me for a while ;-) There is no REAL beer in Scotland, we've got it all down here in England :-) Merry New Year You're in Scotland and you have CANS of beer--when you have all those wonderful real beers everywhere around you You are a sicko. Now the Glenfiddich I can certainly agree with--in fact, I think I'll go find a dram of my very own. and a Merry CRIMBO to you. e. Monster Lost somewhere in Scotland lol I tell ya its just not fair! Here I am, stuck with American beer (which pales in comparison)... ;-( Oh well, guess I can grab a Heineken...and drown my sorrows! ;-) -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556
Re: [newbie] Merry.....
MERRY CRIMBO EVERYBODY :-D (Ive got 142 cans of beer and a bottle of Glenfiddich...) So you wont get any sense from me for a while ;-) Have a good one Monster Lost somewhere in Scotland lol On Friday 22 December 2000 10:58 pm, you wrote: Merry Christmas to all, and to all a great New Year... -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556
Re: Re: [newbie] Corel Photopaint 9 problems
yeah...thanks pal, had problems with the fonttastic rpms but got there in the end :-) thanks pal Graham On Tuesday 19 December 2000 9:33 pm, you wrote: Graham, Did you solve the font thing?? angus -Original Message- From: a r [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 December 2000 21:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FWD: Re: [newbie] Corel Photopaint 9 problems --Original Message-- From: Graham Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 16, 2000 10:12:15 PM GMT Subject: Re: [newbie] Corel Photopaint 9 problems Thats the same problem Im getting... How the hell do you add it, my font server is already running! By the way, It worked just fine in MDK 7.1, its only happened since i upgraded to mdk 7.2 Graham On Saturday 16 December 2000 7:45 pm, you wrote: This is a weired one! I have just installed Corel Photopaint 9 and now my menu system has got screwed up. There are 4 copies of everything in the menu tree!! Help?? How do I fix this Also when I try and run Photopaint I get the following error message: "unable to add Fontastic font server to the font path. The font server is probably not installed or not running. Please correct it and try again. Does anyone have any ideas what I should do?? Thanks angus -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556 __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556 --- -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556
Re: [newbie] cdrecord
You'll need to convert them to .wav files first. mpg123 does it, and so does xmms ;-) try mpg123 --help or mpg123 --longhelp or man mpg123 On Sunday 17 December 2000 12:27 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 17 December 2000 02:53, regarding Re: [newbie] cdrecord, you said: try this for audio cd's what about mp3's onto cd's will this work? (make a temporary folder in your home directory and "cd" into it first) mkdir tempcd cd mkdir cdda2wav -D /dev/cdrom -B cdrecord -v dev=0,0 -dao -useinfo *.wav (dev=0,0 is the location of my cdwriter... to find out yours use cdrecord -scanbus) Happy burning ;-) Graham On Sunday 17 December 2000 1:10 am, you wrote: Having tons of problems burning CDs...the gui's just don't want to even mess with me, except gtoaster, and it gives me a bunch of output messages leading up to the countdown to burn, but it never actually burns anything...I'd like to give cdrecord a whirl from the command line, but I have to admit, the man page on it is beyond me. Could someone throw a sample command as you would actually do it if you were burning a wav file from your HD to a disc, so I could see the actual syntax as its supposed to be? I'm hoping that makes it click for me...thanks! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556
Re: [newbie] cdrecord doesn't work.
try cdrecord with dev=0,0 Graham On Monday 18 December 2000 7:11 am, you wrote: when I run cdrecord -scanbus it returns this: Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0,0,0 0) 'LG ' 'CD-RW CED-8042B ' '1.02' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * Any body have any idea how to fix this? Thanks! Abe -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556
Re: [newbie] Corel Photopaint 9 problems
Thats the same problem Im getting... How the hell do you add it, my font server is already running! By the way, It worked just fine in MDK 7.1, its only happened since i upgraded to mdk 7.2 Graham On Saturday 16 December 2000 7:45 pm, you wrote: This is a weired one! I have just installed Corel Photopaint 9 and now my menu system has got screwed up. There are 4 copies of everything in the menu tree!! Help?? How do I fix this Also when I try and run Photopaint I get the following error message: "unable to add Fontastic font server to the font path. The font server is probably not installed or not running. Please correct it and try again. Does anyone have any ideas what I should do?? Thanks angus -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556
Re: [newbie] setiathome 3
Thanks guys, Some of the files were owned by root, which was the problem Its working again.. ;-)) Thanx Graham On Friday 15 December 2000 2:43 am, you wrote: You could try chmod or chown it. Anytime (read: most) something only works in root, you need to change permisssions. -s On Thursday 14 December 2000 23:16, you wrote: Hi all Ok Ive been using mk 7.2 now for sometime without too much hassles... But when my setiathome client is finished its work unit, and tries to connect to the site for more data... it won't! Unless I su root, then run the program againthen it will collect its data and go on its merry way Anybody got any ideas..??? Thanks Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***Today I copied my first cd using Linux, I couldnt get any of the GUI burners to work, so I used a terminal, and the command line :-) The outcome ... it worked, and I ended up writing my very first shell script for my machineim a happy kipper :-) *** -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556
[newbie] setiathome 3
Hi all Ok Ive been using mk 7.2 now for sometime without too much hassles... But when my setiathome client is finished its work unit, and tries to connect to the site for more data... it won't! ... Unless I su root, then run the program againthen it will collect its data and go on its merry way Anybody got any ideas..??? Thanks Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***Today I copied my first cd using Linux, I couldnt get any of the GUI burners to work, so I used a terminal, and the command line :-) ...The outcome ... it worked, and I ended up writing my very first shell script for my machineim a happy kipper :-) *** -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556
Re: [newbie] USB support
Huh??? Ive got both a USB scanner (Primax) and webcam (only god knows who made it..), Can I use these setting for my gadgets??? Cheers Monster On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, you wrote: In my case I have a scanner Epson Perfection 1200U and I have to do the next: a) create the devices typing: mknod /dev/usbscanner0 chmdo 666 /dev/usbscanner0 b) charge the usb modules and the scanner module; I have included these lines in a script file, I run it every time I like the scanner work: insmod usbcore insmod usb-uhci insmod scanner vendor=0x04b8 product=0x0104 c) edit the /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf file, in the last line t must be specified the scanner device created (usbscanner0) d)Now I can use xscanimage to scan, and it works fine! So you must create the device first, then load the usb modules and the specific module of your hardware (scanner, mouse, keyboard, webcam) and then the program to run it. There are a howto file, of course, about usb and lots of web pates about every device. All this has been done under mandrake 7.2 I hope this will help Francisco Alcaraz (Murcia, Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: -michael- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Domingo, Diciembre 10, 2000 10:52 pm Asunto: [newbie] USB support I have been searching and can't find how to turn on USB support in Mandrake 7.2 with the standard kernel. Can someone point me to a howto? Thanks -michael- -- Oh My God...Its Full of Penguins Reg Linux User 153258 Icq No 28205556
[newbie] Now Im cooking :-) [7.2 iso image]
Hi Guys, Thanks for the help, Ive finally managed to write the image to disk. It took 4 nights to complete the download, after which, I booted into win***s 98, from there 12 attempts to write the image using nero, and easy cd creator!!! Still no joy. (Just as well it was a cd/rw ) So back into 7.1, and used the cdrecord command. worked 1st time :-) Time to wipe Mr Gate's guff software from my h/d!!! Cheers guys kerrmonster [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Space the final frontier"
