[newbie] Re: [expert] fetchmail -- almost, i can smell it
At 12:22 PM 2/10/2002 -0700, Skippi wrote: Ok, yet another question -- oh and thanks for the more help from everyone. Things are looking up. I think I'm getting my mail downloaded to my box here, but, where does it go I mean as in what file? Fetchmail is getting things from my pop accounts, sendmail seems to be working, but what file does sendmail put my incoming mail in? My email program wants to know I have no clue. I am guessing it's someplace in /var but I have looked all over no joy. /var/mail/username Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Bastille error
At 08:37 PM 1/14/2002 -0500, Todd Slater wrote: When I try to run Interactive Bastille I get the following error: Using Tk user interface module. Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration. Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ /usr/lib/Bastille) at /usr/sbin/InteractiveBastille line 276. Would one of you kind souls know how to resolve this? You need to install the Bastille_Tk.pm RPM from one of the installation CD's. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] e-mail via SSL
Is there a HOWTO for doing e-mail via SSL? I found a HOWTO for e-mail via SSH but that's not what I want to do (besides, this HOWTO uses telnet to access e-mail which I have disabled). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why does fetchmail see my messages, but skip retrieving them?
This may not solve your problem but have you considered no keep instead of flush. According to the man pages flush can cause problems with retrieving mail if something causes the mail retrieval to hang. BTW, the man pages shows nokeep but it's suppose to be no keep (in other words no and keep are suppose to be separated with a space). nokeep causes an error. At 07:55 AM 1/6/2002 -0800, Mel Roman wrote: Hi: I've recently started working with fetchmail to download my mail from two pop3 servers. Everything was working as advertised until yesterday. When I examine the log file, I see that fetchmail is getting into the accounts and seeing the messages, but then decides to skip those messages and not flush them. I have done nothing to change my fetchmail configuration recently. My fetchmail.rc is exactly the same as it was when everything was working fine. Does anybody have any idea what the problem is? I've included below 2 excerpts of the log file for comparison (one when it working, one when it stopped working): 1. WHEN IT WAS WORKING: === fetchmail: 5.7.4 querying pop.ktchnr.phub.net.cable.rogers.com (protocol POP3) at Thu Jan 3 01:35:53 2002 fetchmail: POP3 +OK InterMail POP3 server ready. fetchmail: POP3 USER mroman0837 fetchmail: POP3 +OK please send PASS command fetchmail: POP3 PASS * fetchmail: POP3 +OK mroman0837 is welcome here fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder fetchmail: POP3 STAT fetchmail: POP3 +OK 1 12882 fetchmail: POP3 LAST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 0 fetchmail: 1 message for mroman0837 at pop.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (12882 octets). fetchmail: POP3 LIST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 1 messages fetchmail: POP3 1 12882 fetchmail: POP3 . fetchmail: POP3 TOP 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 12882 octets fetchmail: reading message 1 of 1 (12882 octets) fetchmail: About to rewrite Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rewritten version is Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: About to rewrite From: Multex Investor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rewritten version is From: Multex Investor [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: About to rewrite To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rewritten version is To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: about to deliver with: procmail fetchmail: flushed fetchmail: POP3 DELE 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 +OK mroman0837 InterMail POP3 server signing off. 2. WHEN IT WAS NOT WORKING: === fetchmail: 5.7.4 querying pop.mail.yahoo.com (protocol POP3) at Sun 06 Jan 2002 10:38:35 AM EST fetchmail: POP3 +OK hello from popgate fetchmail: POP3 USER f24012 fetchmail: POP3 +OK password required. fetchmail: POP3 PASS * fetchmail: POP3 +OK maildrop ready, 1 message (10286 octets) (357708 6291456) fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder fetchmail: POP3 STAT fetchmail: POP3 +OK 1 10286 fetchmail: POP3 LAST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 1 1 message (1 seen) for f24012 at pop.vip.sc5.yahoo.com (10286 octets). fetchmail: POP3 LIST fetchmail: POP3 +OK 1 message (10286 octets) fetchmail: POP3 1 10286 fetchmail: POP3 . skipping message 1 (10286 octets) not flushed fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 +OK server signing off. fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query fetchmail: Query status=1 (NOMAIL) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] c compiler and its problem in 8.0
What warnings are you getting?
Anyway, you need to add a return value unless you change to function from
int main() to void main(). void main() is considered to be bad
programming though. Add return 0; as your last line in the main()
function. That will return the integer value of 0 (zero) to the system and
is required if you use int main(). The int in int main() means that you
are returning an integer value to the operating system. You should have a
statement of #include stdio.h at the beginning of the program, also.
Usually, a compiler will complain unless you include a header file with the
function prototype and the compiler normally complains if you declare a
function with a return value but don't provide a return value statement
within the body of the function (the data types have to match also).
At 05:52 PM 12/31/2001 -0500, eric wrote:
Dear Pen:
I tried your 4 lines program, it still not print out even I use gcc -v
or cc -v to compile, actually after the gcc -v I got a lot of junks
waring.
Same thing, at bash it is not be printed, but it can be shown at csh.
rpm -q gcc
2.96-0.48mdk (probably straight from 8.0 standard edition)
rpm -q bash
bash-2.04-18mdk(straight from 8.0 standard edition)
you may check your bash in your 8.1 , is that same edition as mine in
8.0? may be that is the problem.
eric, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pen Gwynne wrote:
Eric,
Please do gcc -v or cc -v and tell us what it says. I have the
following
4 line program:
int main()
{
printf(Hello World!);
}
It compiles and run properly, even without the normal #include files.
I am
using a straight Mandrake 8.1 installation and my version of gcc is 2.96
2731.
Now let me say this. My prompt is the normal, or default
[pen@myhost dir]$
When I run the program what I see is:
Hello World![pen@myhost dir]$
You should also be aware of one more funny thing that Linux does. After
running a.out, the hello world example, As soon as I type something,
anything, then the hello world program output and my prompt line:
Hello World![pen@myhost dir]$
is comes just:
[pen@myhost dir]$
It looks like the program never printed anything at all.
Hope this helps.
/Pen
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Re: [newbie] CDROM problem
At 09:51 PM 12/24/2001 -0600, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: I have 2 cdroms, a DVD and a CD burner. When I first installed 8.1, I could play music cds on the DVD drive. Harddrake currently reports the drives as: DVD /dev/hdc CD burner /dev/hdd but it also reports the burner again as /dev/scd0. I have nothing SCSI in my computer. If your CD burner is an IDE drive then the ide-scsi driver is loaded so that it'll work with CD burning programs under Linux. That's why it's installed as /dev/scd0. There should be a symbolic link to /dev/cdrom# also. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?
At 02:22 AM 12/25/2001 +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: What office suites do people recommend? I need to be compatible with Microsoft Office to at least *some* extent for: Spreadsheets Word Processing PowerPoint Presentations Star Office 5.2 seems OK so far. So far, it reads Word documents and Excel spreadsheets OK. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failures in 8.1 compared to 7.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 03:51 AM 12/22/2001 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think Mandrake is entering the Micro$oft phase of their development. you know, the point where you have to upgrade your hardware everytime you upgrade your software. It certainly seems that way. just stick with 7.2 -- i've decided not to try fixing what isn't broken. probably i will not mess with a new MDK until 9.1 comes out. I want to use 8.1 because I don't want to screw up things trying to get newer software to install on 7.2 (such as Evolution). But.. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPCTvQIwoPKBUx8xQEQIZagCfQtbLdQF0CLfdLpc9mARkROX/UWMAn3qj CDmHExdndj1OtO22A1GJ3JP1 =hcdJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] AOL Greetings!
Bah! Humbug! At 07:08 PM 12/21/2001 -0800, AOL Systems wrote: TO ALL LINUX MANDRAKE MAILING LIST FRIENDS: I JUST WANT TO GREET YOU ALL MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! HOPE OUR MAILING LIST WILL MUCH STRONGER AND HELPING SOLVE OUR EVERYDAY PROBLEMS.THANK YOU ALSO FOR ALL WHO ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS.THANKS AGAIN AND HOPING ALSO TO SEE YOU SOON HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES. THANKS! GODBLESS AND MORE POWER! RESPECTFULLY AOL www.aolsystems.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Failures in 8.1 compared to 7.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 11:48 PM 12/21/2001 -0500, marrandy wrote: Hi. I just installed 8.1 on a new harddrive in the same computer as a working 7.2. The graphics card wasn`t recognised (Nvidia MM200 64M) and even using xf86config and different drivers selected failed to get X to work. (Obviously, this was working fine in 7.2). Further, the creative labs 128 sound card that also worked flawlessly in 7.2 also failed to work. Anyone else seeing problems like this ? Yes. My 3DLabs video card worked OK on 7.2 but doesn't work on 8.1 - bought an ATI Radeon VE to replace it. My Creative CDRW1210E doesn't work as a burner in 8.1 but is recognized as a reader only (worked good on 7.2) - contemplating a replacement if I can't get it to mount as read-write. 8.1 is extremely slow on my old Asus P5A-B running an AMD K6/2-450 with 458MB PC-100 SDRAM. I just ordered a MSI K7T266 with the Athlon 1.3GHZ processor. Now I need to find a source for a 1GB DDR module for that board. What has gone wrong since 7.2. It's just a conspiracy to get us to buy new products. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPCTua4woPKBUx8xQEQLRuQCg5upBHszRpYxmpVTEfMChLLVXT04An2by NbawfQuQyJ983OPx1Y3pj8/T =pNfl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Features or 9.0 version
At 01:08 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: thingy and RPMS are forever. Nothing is forever. :-D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Diamond Supra 56e PRO
Are you sure that you're modem is connected to a phone line? If so, have you tried a different phone cord? Or tried plugging in a telephone to that wall jack to see if you can get a dial tone? At 05:40 PM 12/19/2001 +, Gonçalo Cordeiro wrote: Hi everyone... i've recently bought an external modem (Diamond Supra 56e PRO) to work on linux, but towards my efforts, i cannot put it to work! i can speak to it, by querying him, but i can't connect, i always get the NO DIALTONE message, and if i disable the option to wait for this dialtone, i can't connect anyway! I bellieve this is because of the voicemail, but i do not know what commands to give to the modem so he can understand that! my initialization string, is the default ( ATZ ). can anyone help me out? thanks Gonçalo Cordeiro Markdata Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] I can't take it anymore
At 12:38 PM 12/17/2001 -0600, Newbie wrote: I guess I'm too neurologically crippled to figure things out myself well damn it, I need more help with that than other people. sorry did not know other way to express it. Don't be too down on yourself. No one person knows everything. Have you asked your questions in [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Someone somewhere has an answer. Unfortuneatly, it make take a month or so to find that person. I'd suggest paying for tech support but you might end up waiting a long time for an answer from paid tech support also. I don't know what other linux OS has sound, suse don't got it, debian don't have it, I'm not going to bust my butt fucking around in some stupid-ass goddamn config file buried under 10,000 feet of shit just to get my damn sound working!!! Have you checked the hardware compatibility list? If it's not supported, throw it away get one that is. I had to do that with a video card. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake illegal?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the good laugh! :-D At 09:56 AM 12/11/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/12/2/42056/2147 BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. ;) -- Tom Brinkman _ South Texas, USA_ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPBaXh4woPKBUx8xQEQJBpgCfR42Pn+SROAhIRY/tO3WQ1Ps9cyoAn1hb Wm11YdX0NRbU5nSt9PwWVxab =9+7/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] SAMBA (was: internet sharing setup)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 06:12 PM 12/7/2001 -0500, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: First: Are all three machines members of the same workgroup? Yes, they are. Are you SURE that you've defined the Workgroup name in Samba the SAME as that used on your other Winblows boxes? Yes, I have. Second: When you log into windows you are asked for a user name and password. This user name and password, gets passed to Samba whenever you connect to a share and browse the network. Not on the Win95 machine. The Win95 machine prompts for a password. Thus a Linux/Unix account AND a corresponding Samba account must exist for each of these login name/password pairs. In other words, both the Windows computers and the Linux box has to have identical user/password combinations? I.E. you need to use smbadduser and smbpasswd to add the SAMBA users to Linux's SAMBA user/password lists. ALWAYS double check this using SMBCLIENT smbclient -L LINUXBOX -U WINUSER Asks the Samba Linuxbox, to log in as WINUSER and present the shares. LINUXBOX WINUSER == the machine name? When you configured SAMBA, you should have also enabled the NMB component and enabled SAMBA to be the BROWSE MASTER for your network or domain. Done. This is what presents the shares to the Winblows workstations. (the icons). If you havent increase the OS LEVEL in samba, the browse master will be decided by election amoung your computers (REALLY they vote!). When things change the browse list(s) dissappear for awhile until things get sorted out again. The OS level was not changed. If your Linux box is up all the time, make it the BROWSE MASTER so that things will not keep shifting and disappearing. Did you also remember to define the DEVICES (aka IP ADDRESSES) using the INTERFACES = Line? Yes. If not Samba will not broadcast it's information until something nudges it. -JMS I made some progress. I am able to access the Win95 machine from the Linux box but not vice-versa. I am unable to connect to the Win2K machine and vice-versa. Here's one error I get: added interface (addressing deleted) added interface (addressing deleted) session request to N0SQ failed (Not listening for calling name) session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for calling name) |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lee Roberts |Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:40 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] internet sharing setup | | |Speaking of Samba, I get the icon for the Linux box to show |up on my Win2K Win95 clients but I can't browse the Linux |box. And if I restart Windows, I have to restart the services |on the Linux box before I can display the network icons again |- that sucks. Win95 asks for a password to try to access the |Linux box - that fails, of course. I used the procedure for |Samba from the techtv.com website. Apparently, it's not that |easy to set up Samba. So, what am I doing wrong? BTW, I can |ping all 3 machines on my network - can't share files with any |of them even though the icons show up on the Windows boxes. |And internet connection sharing works OK. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8EmqgjCg8oFTHzFARArlLAJ9vGRPgIf1csO5j9NG0nonirXoz2gCgnd/m 6TuGqPJfO/waGmtpPTTO11o= =QaWl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization
At 07:23 AM 11/27/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: hwclock --hctosys Set the System Time from the Hardware Clock. hwclock --systohc Set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time. (see man hwclock) I use this alias in bashrc to set both hardware and software clocks to a time server (U of Houston) alias tdate=rdate -p -s tick.uh.edu hwclock --systohc You'll probly need to install rdate, it's on your CD's. You'll also need to find a public time server in your time zone (Google). Thanks for this info! I've added something similar to cron. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] internet sharing setup
At 02:52 PM 12/7/2001 -0500, Ed Tharp wrote: why ftp? could use samba and be up and running and sharing files and drives and printers w/ the winders boxes in no time? Speaking of Samba, I get the icon for the Linux box to show up on my Win2K Win95 clients but I can't browse the Linux box. And if I restart Windows, I have to restart the services on the Linux box before I can display the network icons again - that sucks. Win95 asks for a password to try to access the Linux box - that fails, of course. I used the procedure for Samba from the techtv.com website. Apparently, it's not that easy to set up Samba. So, what am I doing wrong? BTW, I can ping all 3 machines on my network - can't share files with any of them even though the icons show up on the Windows boxes. And internet connection sharing works OK. No wonder network administrators get the big bucks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Netscape and Mozilla link problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's at least one web site (http://www.inewsreports.com/newsreport.asp?newsfeed=easterneuropenews_title=Eastern%20Europe%20News) where the links don't work when using Mozilla or Netscape (4.7x and 6.x). Is it a bug or a configuration problem? I have experimented with the Netscape Preferences but can't seem to get the links to work. The links work fine with IE. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8DWWMjCg8oFTHzFARAsSMAKD4ODttSTYISzs6KFEkaU7UqrqKMgCfbM1b FwNrDPHZLxMAODQsj0ltCBc= =xW2F -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] eth1: initialization delayed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How or what do I need to do to fix this. I tried playing with the startup scripts to try to fix this but have been unsuccessful. eth1 can be brought up from a terminal window OK. Currently I have the following statements at the end of rc.local. insmod airo.o sh /opt/cisco/aironet_setup Ethernet 1 is a Cisco 340 wireless card. (connects to my ISP). There's another utility called bcard but it hasn't been any help either. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8BdaFjCg8oFTHzFARAufwAKCR3k+X8cQA3PthJ58R/hjZMtMNhQCePmff nMwrdsEAvwd1JBPJtHLtBx0= =jWQs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization
It should be on the CD-ROM (if you have a copy of the install CD's). At 03:20 PM 11/27/2001 +, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: im using LM8.1 and i dont have any rdate executable, either as an ordinary user or as root. ill try to find one tomorrow when my net connection resumes here in the office. ;-) ciao! On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:04:11 -0700, Lee Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and had problems with the clock even though I had the proper timezone selected. After running rdate, my clock is now showing the correct time. On Tuesday 27 November 2001 07:44 am, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: hi to all, this is one problem that I shelved that i remembered just now... how do I synchonize the linux clock with the BIOS clock? The timezone here is GMT+8. If I select 'Manila' in the timezone, the BIOS clock gets out of whack. Setting the clock to GMT or not does not help. I found a workaround by not selecting any timezone but Im hoping to find a proper way wherein all my pc clocks (especially when Im changing OSes) are synchronized and I still am in the right timezone. thanks! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.
I'm assuming that this virus only affects Windows? My Norton AV just stopped this virus but couldn't clean it even though my AV data files are up to date. So, I had to quarantine the virus and then used the quarantine console to destroy it. At 04:56 AM 11/27/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: yes, normally I agree with you, but I have tightened it up abit, many things in IE are turned off, outlook uses txt only, there is a firewall on this box, and it also sits behind my linux firewall.. and its win2000SP2, which in and of itself does not mean much, but its far more secure then win98, which again, isn't saying much.. but the fact is that I have never been infected on this box for anything, due to my paranoia... (Tiny firewall, PC-cillan and Innoculate all running at all times, and like I said, it sits behind a linux box and it gets its mail from a linux server that uses amavis and postfix to check all incoming and outgoing mail for Virus's... I only got franks email because the pattern file on the mail server was two days old, and apparently the virus is newer.. I just updated it and sent the virus though, and its all working fine. Thanks for the concern though... :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2001 2:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm. On Monday 26 November 2001 12:13 pm, Franki wrote: you might want to check your system Frank... Franki You need to check your system Franki since you sent with: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal WHICH is a guaranteed virus transmission propagater to other Windoze users, and pretty much fsck'ups the Net in general, even fellow Linux users who have to put up with the damage y'all propulgate to Net servers, and the stolen banwidth y'all suck up. I dunno how to convince y'all NEVER connect to the Net with, any M$ product. There is no way to secure or defend an M$ system. (period). You can only buy/beg/borrow a bunch of ineffective firewalls and virus scanners for M$ crap. Then, the only thing you've accomplished is to fool yourself. If you dual boot, delete anything Winblows has to do with connecting to the Net, unplug the phone line. Then you've got some security, at least till you buy a CD or floppy with a winblows virus on it. Buy a real modem and use a real OS to connect. It amazes me that some people who do run Linux (part time), believe that connecting with Windoze is a good, or even tolerable idea. Specially on this (Linux) list. Winsux virus warnings to this list are OFF TOPIC, immaterial, and border on ridiculous. Post these warnings to (ignorant, computer illiterate) Winblows users lists and newsgroups. You'll be very busy on a daily basis ... mostly you'll be weeks, even months and years behind Jeez, in a perfect world, Winblows users wouldn't be allowed to connect. ... there ought'a be a law -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA 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
[newbie] Netscape
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody get Netscape 6.2 running on Mandrake 7.2? Looks like all the dependcies are met but I can't get it to install. I get a bunch of GTK errors. It works great on my Win2K machine. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8AjoPjCg8oFTHzFARAjQ6AKCjDdj5OaZfHShCayp7lYTx4BGpugCdHCbL PQ8J0ruMmIPAbI7OWpjiMOo= =PJPA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cat5 cable again
What kind of cards are you using? Both cards have to be able to do 100 Mb/s. At 02:34 PM 11/14/2001 +0100, Andrea Fabris wrote: Hi everybody At home i have a little lan (2 pc ;-) ) and i use a crossed cable to connect them, the cable is a cat5 12m long but im able to run the cards only at 10baseT cause they see a disconnected cable if i run'em at 100BaseT Any Idea? Andrea Fabris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW problem
At 11:35 PM 11/12/2001 -0400, skidley wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:03 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:22 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: I added append hdc=ide-scsi to lilo.conf but I still can't find the drive with cdrecord -scanbus and gcombust can't find it. The ide-scsi driver does get loaded and the drive gets mounted at boot time as read-only. Try it like this (note the space right after the first ) append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet If it's still no go, try changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount There's also a nobiospnp option you can try adding, and make sure your bios is set to 'pnp OS = no (or disabled)' Don't forget you need to run 'lilo' as root to make any edits to lilo.conf take affect, ie, before you reboot. I've tried everyone's suggestions plus copied and pasted some info from the CD-Writing HOW-TO. Maybe I should try recompiling the kernel or do a fresh install? You must have SCSI emulation support, SCSI generic support, SCSI CD-ROM support compiled in your kernel or even as modules you can load. -- I added insmod ide-scsi.o to rc.local and that did load according to lsmod. The SCSI support is compiled into the kernel, apparently, since my SCSI CD-ROM works OK. For some reason, I can't get the CDRW to work and Gcombust can't find it and cdrecord -scanbus can't find it. The CDRW worked in 7.2 but I had sent the CDRW in for repair prior to installing 8.1. I suppose that the simpler solution is to do a fresh install of 8.1 with the CDRW installed this time. If that doesn't get it going then I'm going to reinstall 7.2. I might reinstall 7.2 anyway since I can't get my internet connection sharing working in 8.1 (worked great in 7.2). I'm beginning to believe that there are still some major bugs that need to be worked out of 8.1. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW problem
At 08:03 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:22 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: I added append hdc=ide-scsi to lilo.conf but I still can't find the drive with cdrecord -scanbus and gcombust can't find it. The ide-scsi driver does get loaded and the drive gets mounted at boot time as read-only. Try it like this (note the space right after the first ) append= hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet If it's still no go, try changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount There's also a nobiospnp option you can try adding, and make sure your bios is set to 'pnp OS = no (or disabled)' Don't forget you need to run 'lilo' as root to make any edits to lilo.conf take affect, ie, before you reboot. I've tried everyone's suggestions plus copied and pasted some info from the CD-Writing HOW-TO. Maybe I should try recompiling the kernel or do a fresh install? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrecord broken in 8.1?
At 10:48 AM 11/13/2001 +0900, Pascal Goguey wrote: Hello! I have a problem on 2 machines. One at home and one at work. I was used to burn iso files using an alias, and it doesn not work anymore. Here is the respons of cdrecord in a shell: % cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?g Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. In the past (in the downloadable version of 8.1), cdrecord was working well. Has anybody experienced the same problem? Yes, I have the same problem and have been working with the guys in this group in trying to resolve it. I might go back to 7.2 since it was working OK there. I haven't been able to get internet sharing to work on 8.1 also. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)
There's a limit of 100 meters (over 300 feet). So, 40 feet is no problem. At 05:37 PM 11/10/2001 -0500, you wrote: Hi, everybody. I have a DSL connection coming in to the upstairs computer. I'd like to connect (withought having to get a new modem) a computer downstairs to the same connection. Can I send a cat5 cable down throught the wall from the router to the downstairs computer? (approx. 30-40 feet) Is there a limit to cat5 length in order to remain effective? Do I need a wireless solution? is that even safe? -Paul Rodríguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Old Java /Mozilla Question...
What's wrong with leaving it where the rpm put mozilla (/usr/bin)? At 05:44 PM 11/1/2001 +, Derek Jennings wrote: This came from a mail on the Galeon list. It is true for Mozilla, Galeon and Netscape Install mozilla at /usr/local/mozilla. The JAVA plugin ( a symbolic link and java2 JVM) for mozilla should be in installed in directory /usr/local/mozilla/plugins. export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/mozilla then run your galeon. It should work. Beware Java plugin for mozilla you should blackdown (j2re1.3.0) or SUn's JAVA2 1.3.0_01. Good luck, I think the last sentence means you should use the SUN jre rather than the download Netscape/Mozilla give you. I assume you know where to get the SUN jre Derek On Wednesday 31 October 2001 15:09, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have Mozilla 0.9.4 build 2001100112 Its working perfectly well, I went to one of my sites which has a JAVA applet in it,, Mozilla poped out and asked me to download the Java plugin, which I did, (for linux of course) anyway, after a long download, the applet still doesn't work, there is a java2 directory in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins So its there, but Mozilla doesn't recognise it and prompts me to do it again.. This has probably been answered many times, but I searched the archives and found no answer.. i do not have NS6.1 installed.. why would I ? I have mozilla, this is running on mdk8.1 (or should I say not working.) any suggestions would be much appreciated. rgds Frank 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] LM 8.1 and internet connection on first boot
I tried this and I still can't get to the internet from the client. I do get a DHCP config from the linux DHCP server and the client can ping the linux box. I tried disabling the firewall and no-go. Inet connection sharing worked great with 7.2. I guess I should've waited for 8.2? At 10:39 PM 10/31/2001 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: To all concerned and Mandrakesoft, there have been just a few of us who were unable to connect to the internet on first boot after installation of 8.1. The solution seemed to be to do ifdown eth0 and then connect and get mail going and then go back and do ifup eth0 so the ethernet daemon appears to be interfering with the internet connection when you configure your LAN during the initial setup and install. The ifdown and then ifup are a workaround. HTH somebody else. -- Dennis M. registered linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tiny firewall
I should have reread your info below when I was ready to start the install. I did do the file limits and ended up with the su problem but I found the limits file and remarked out the appropriate line. I had another problem in that after the install of bastille, I started the firewall from the command line and the firewall worked better than the tiny firewall but I still have UDP ports closed (not blocked) and some UDP ports are wide open. Another problem occured after rebooting that caused me to not be able to surf the web. It seems that my DNS entries for my ISP's servers were preventing me from going anywhere. Strange problem since the internet connection was working with that config prior to rebooting. Don't know if I want to reboot and auto start bastille again and end up with more problems (too many other projects to do). At 06:44 PM 10/21/2001 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: Matt is correct tiny firewall is just a quick and dirty to set the iptables and if you run Bastille you can set masquerading and choose ports to leave open or not. It is verbose in telling you what it is doing and very easy to set up, just do not accept the file limits thingy, that will kill your su from a console ability. There is a bug in it that missinterprets the value of the file size and tends to tick people off. HTH -- Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?
Goes to show the anti-competitive nature of M$. At 10:23 AM 10/26/2001 -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Texstar wrote: On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:13 pm, you wrote: I had no problem viewing MSN.com I must say that off my Linux box using Netscape, it looks better than using IE 5.0/5.5 OR 6.0 Being a newbie to Linux, I can honestly say that Bill the $ Gates will never get any $ from me again. Long lives LINUX rb Microsoft did an about-face Thursday by opening the redesigned MSN.com Web site to some third-party browsers. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098823,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02 Texstar: Where some does not include Konq. But not to worry; I sent an e-mail to their tech support about it. I wonder what the response will be. Somehow, I don't expect it to be very encouraging... Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tiny firewall
Thanks Dennis. Since I have tiny firewall running, do I have to stop it or remove it or both so that I don't risk crashing my system or will InteractiveBastille automatically replace it? At 10:13 PM 10/20/2001 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2001 01:34 pm, you wrote: hmm, according to sygatetech.com, tiny firewall that comes with Mandrake 8.1 sucks. There's a port open that I specifically told it to block. What other options do I have? (I'm too lazy to learn iptables right now). Lee, you might try setting up the full Bastille firewall. Go to a su console and cd to the /sbin and then at the prompt typeInteractiveBastille just like I have it and without the quotes. This will start the graphical setup of the full blown firewall. Then if you want to check what you have set as blocked, take a look at /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.conf and edit that if you see something left open that you don't want open. HTH -- Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] about GnuPG in KMail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KMail uses GnuPG by default. GnuPG should already be installed but you need to create a public/private keypair before you can use it with KMail. Consult man gpg for creating the keypair. Once this is done, to sign and/or encrypt you click on the appropriate icons in the KMail toolbar. You will probably want KMail to always encrypt a copy to yourself so you will need to go into KMail options and check the box Always encrypt to self (this only happens when you send encrypted messages). I hope I didn't leave out any info here but this should get you started. And, welcome to the world of encryption. At 11:05 AM 10/21/2001 -0500, Marco Paúl Mancheno Herrera wrote: Hi, I'm new in Linux Mandrake 8.1; and I want to do a question: How do I configure my KMail with GnuPG for sign to any e-mail? Thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBO9MQPIwoPKBUx8xQEQJiUQCgyoBURltUEPYvhEDOmdvF4o7uP9wAniEY SvsME/enk1sTGnaCNfn7wETh =teEf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tiny firewall
I ran InteractiveBastille and got an error message that Bastille_Tk.pm could not be found. A search of the entire drive turned up nothing for this file. What does this file do and how do I create it? At 10:13 PM 10/20/2001 -0500, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2001 01:34 pm, you wrote: hmm, according to sygatetech.com, tiny firewall that comes with Mandrake 8.1 sucks. There's a port open that I specifically told it to block. What other options do I have? (I'm too lazy to learn iptables right now). Lee, you might try setting up the full Bastille firewall. Go to a su console and cd to the /sbin and then at the prompt typeInteractiveBastille just like I have it and without the quotes. This will start the graphical setup of the full blown firewall. Then if you want to check what you have set as blocked, take a look at /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.conf and edit that if you see something left open that you don't want open. HTH -- Dennis M. registered Linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing
At 04:22 AM 10/21/2001 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Steve Gibson has passed on OptOut to another company so that it can be worked on full-time. I can't remember the company's name though. I think you're referring to Ad-aware? Anyway, I don't think there's a Linux version. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Firewall Testing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use grc.com for a quick check of my firewall. It has been accurate so far. Before I installed my firewall on 8.1, grc.com reported that some ports were closed and some were stealth. After installing the firewall, all ports showed stealth. I trust grc.com implicitly and the guy who runs the site, Steve Gibson, appears to be trustworthy. He's been interviewed on Silicon Spin and a few other shows. But, keep in mind that his site only tests a handful of the ports but it's good for a quick check. It's best to test your firewall with nmap or to find someone that you trust that has nmap and can do a comprehensive test of your firewall. At 11:59 AM 10/20/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hi Guys Is there as site that you can use to test the effectiveness of a firewall. The ones I have looked at all seem to find open ports which I think might be a sales pitch ? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBO9GtsowoPKBUx8xQEQKy/wCeKRDGc22PQY9F7XEWEuEWjg9zSOMAn17U mL+Qdh3KdpYbPpsPxL3bFWmA =/lnj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
