RE: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files
There are a few howto's on the net but usually it is impossible to do. You have to generally know the area (inodes) on the HD that the files were on and you read a hex dump of those inodes to verify and then you cat that information to a file that you want to save it in. I have read a few howtos but i have never tested it and i think this is the only way unless you have a trash program installed before you delete such files. http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/ http://lde.sourceforge.net/ http://www.r-tt.com/RLinux.shtml Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Piero Piutti Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Recovering erased folders and files Yesterday I accidentally erased my Documents folder from my home dir while doing some tweaking with my newly installed Kde 3.1 desktop enviroment. I know this is an odd question but... is there any means to recover the files that were contained there? Thanks! -- Piero Piutti --- Ticket to Ride - The Unofficial Ride Website: http://www.mareasub.it/ride Message mailed with: KMail 1.5 ~ KDE 3.1 ~ Mandrake Linux 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO
I would personally install qmail. http://www.qmail.org/top.html Its secure, 10k reward for first problem on it. Also its supposed to be super easy to setup. Sendmail is known as the largest damn program on the face of the earth. But other than that i would use sendmail. I know i am going to have to learn it with my AIX and Solaris studying... Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO Ok, y'all - no flames, no laughs, no jests. The day before yesterday I hosed my PRIMARY linux box - running RH 7.3+. Because the partition table was mucked up beyond recognition, I lost my email, bookmarks, contacts, yadda yadda yadda...you name it, I lost it. Mind included. Resolution to the issue was at first trying to get RH 8.0 on NICELY - didn't work. Actually, the performance was so lousy, and setting up a SIMPLE BLOODY HCF MODEM was so complex, I gave up. It was sickening. Hours gone for nothing. Ok - so now I've installed MDK 9.1rc2 - installation of EVERYTHING (and some) was less than an hour. Even setup my / and other FS's as ReiserFS without a hitch. Changed to the NVidia driver (via source compilation) in no time at all. Had to dig for KPPP, though - cuz it wasn't installed by default and the MCC still don't play nicely for doing simple setups - but that's another story...even got my IP masquerading done rather quickly - few minutes - nice. I have to say that KDE 3.1 is a beaut. MDK 9.1 has quite a bit of polish, quite a bit of performance - quite a lot of getting used to because, remember, I was enslaved to the RH world - but no mo. Nada. Done. Finito. The only issues I have now are that I have to get Postfix (yech) working nicely as it ain't playing nicely - and I'm far from being a Postfix freak - so I'm wondering about blowing Postfix and putting Sendmail on... SO, if y'all got something to tell me - some bits of wisdom or advice, please PLEASE tell me - cuz I've already lost three days of productivity with this and well, I'm really tired now...(grin) BUT, I'm happy it's working like a champ (performance is still mind boggling for me...really - not a joke) -- Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kuhn Media Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO
The SENDMAIL package for MDK is only, ONLY 618k - wow - monstrously huge, ay? Actually, it's relatively simple - just a matter of following the defaults, but then again, someone that lives on Postfix will say the same thing...ditto on Qmail and every other mail package down the line (except, of course, Courier and Cyrus - GADS - that is DEFINITELY rocket science). Either which, I've got to this this fragbot working...so I can TAKE SOME TIME TO TAKE CARE OF MY CUSTOMERS and take care of myself, too...(g) (...nervous twitch in both eyes, slumped over the keyboard, tired, un-showered and un-shaved) Cheers! -- kuhn media australia --- | IT consulting * pc/mac/linux | | stephen kuhn | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ: 5483808 | mobile: 0410.728.389 | phone: 61.2.4272.7194 | | berkeley, new south wales | australia -- OMG, an new SIG Just kidding, kewl. What i am talking about is the complexity of the program. Now the size of the program is a different thread. Then again i have had a lot to drink tonight.No job, umemployment was just declined (another thread), no degree (another thread), jobs suck in Austin (not another thread), etc. Ok, new subject here. Sendmail, the book in the Craig Hunt Series states its another OS by itself (then again i sold the book so i dont remember exactly). I do remember it could contain about 5000 pages in a book or so. That is the reason why i personally dont want to touch it but i know i will need to... Going to bed, TTYL Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Updating GTK
is there a simple way to update GTK to version 2 on a Mandrake 8.2-system, the thing is that I do not wish to do it package by package, although timewise I would have the time to fix that. This is a thing where I find the RPM-system inferior to for example FreeBSD's portsystem. OMG, someone has not read our posts about urpmi try using urmpi to update everything, it will check for dependencies and everything... Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] vmware 3.2 w/ all scsi system
I have installed vmware 3.2 onto my all scsi system: p3-450mhz 512mb ram 2940u2w scsi card ibm 18g scsi HD pioneer scsi dvdrom I ran the vmware-config.pl script and it seemed to get me going. I created a new vm w/ 176mb ram and 4g space. The HD was setup ok inside the VM, but the cdrom was set to IDE, so i disabled the IDE cdrom and enabled the scsi cdrom with the options below. The devices are setup as: scsi 0:0 virtual disk 4g space scsi 0:2 cdrom /dev/scd0 I turn on the VM and it finds my proc and ram then shows: Mouse enabled ERROR 02B1: Diskette Drive B Error then states F1 to continue or F2 for setup. If i do F1 it states no OS found and states A bootable cdrom/fdd/hd was not detected, please make sure the media is in and restart. When i do F2 there is no info on my scsi deviecsDUH b/c my 2940u2w has its own scsi bios where you have to enable the bootable devices at. They are setup correctly in the scsi bios. I have my Win2k Pro cd in the cdrom drive. I have tried it unmounted AND mounted. I have tried the cdrom option in the configuration info set to /dev/scd0 and /mtn/cdrom (/mnt/cdrom when it was mounted). Nothing has worked. I do not find any information on the net about any of this. Any thoughts? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] DVD movies
Have you got libdvdcss installed? That seems to be important for ogle, xine, and mplayer. The PLF site has RPMs, some specific to ogle. Go to http://rpm.pbone.net/ and get it there. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
I am wondering if the 9.1 ProSuite or PowerPak Editions will have Win4Lin v4. The reason why is b/c 8.2 came with v3 and i want to totally make all my boxes MDK, with my fastest and most powerful a win4lin win2k install to use non-linux apps in. For those of you who dont know what Win4Lin isit is basically VMWare just by a different company. Also I do know that if I were to upgrade my current v3 win4lin to v4 it is $20 off on their website (www.netraverse.com) since i bought the older version through a reseller of Win4Lin, but you gotta talk to sales to get the discount. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
Just bear in mind, Rob, that the version of win4lin shipping a few months ago was still not able to support ntfs - I'm not sure about w2k on fat32. I don't know if there's a newer version, though. Your stating that Win4Lin didnt support NTFS within its VM? Rob PS-The link for the ad on Win4Lin discount is at http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=441mode=nocomments Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] MDK 9.1 ProSuite/PowerPak release info
Whoah! KLet's be clear about what you are all talking about. Win4Lin does not care what the filesystem is, because it uses the Linux kernel to handle that. This allows you to install Windows on any filesystem supported by Linux. if Win4Lin could not support NTFS it is because Linux did not support NTFS. Win4Lin does not support the NT based version of Windows right now, only the 9x series. This is not because of the filesystem, but because of the structure of the OS itself. MMM, after looking at it more closely i am finding out that Win4Lin is not what i thought it was. Maybe i just never even went to their site and actually read what it really did and i just assumed it was just another vmware. OK, great. Back to square one. Thanks Again, once a newbie always a newbie. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of et Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] USB hard drives? On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:49 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: Curious question ... I took a Linux server configuration class this past week, and one of the students brought up an interesting question that the instructor could not answer. Can linux be put on a USB hard drive and made bootable from it? She says that she has Window$ machines that are capable of this, and I was curious if it could be done in linux. If so, how? Thanks! this is a function provided by the bios, and it would not matter what OS is on the drive, as long as the drive could be booted from. The simple answer to bootable HD's on USB isNO. Answer the question yourself...is USB bootable?NO. Only Firewire/1394 (legally only Apple can use the term Firewire, its 1394 for any other OS/architecture) and SCSI are possible external bootable media. Try it yourselfif you have a USB cd-rom boot off a MDK9 cd. Does it work? NO No HD's can be bootable until the bios of the MB's are made that way or the usb cards are made with a bootable bios option. Just like you have to have the option of scsi to be bootable. Also the SCSI cards have a bios on them that give you an option to be bootable. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't access my bank account!
The original posters problem might stem from not being 128-bit ecryption installed. I had the same problem the first time i tried linux and a secure site. Personally i have tried and tested Mozilla/Galeon with different websites. I have not had a problem with Galeon anywhere, even bank accounts. Mozilla on the other hand isnt liked by many companies, even though Netscape is based on it. I have emailed several companies and they just remark install Netscape or IE. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
Check this out.I just bought a desknote laptop with AMI Mobile PC Bios and it has USB support to boot from USB Mass Storage Devices such as USB Floppy, USB CD-ROM, USB Zip, USB LS-120, Iomega Zip. Find out more here: http://www.ami.com/amibiosmobile/ http://www.ami.com/support/docdl.cfm?DLFile=support/doc/amibiosmo bile.pdfFileID=366 MM, interesting. I thought AMI was bought out by LSI. Atleast thats what happened with their raid cards when i worked at Dell Server Support. Good to see they are by themselves. Or are they? I wonder if this AMIBIOS is in any of the new MB's out there. The only thing is AWARD has been THE bios manu out there for years. I dont mind anyone stepping in but has anyone used a MB that has AMI's bios installed? Also, which laptop (manu, model) Do you have that this is installed into? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via USB? That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting from diskette. But would be THEORETICALLY be booting through diskette. Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the technically/theoretically comparison. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] USB hard drives?
And what about booting from a diskette THEN to a HD or CD mounted via USB? That would TECHNICALLY (lol) be booting from diskette. But would be THEORETICALLY be booting through diskette. Every thing in computers i seem to be able to do the technically/theoretically comparison. Rob Hence, TECHNICALLY you're correct, THEORETICALLY, you're not. (g) Can we put booting to a linux install cd in the same catagory? If so, then we theorectically boot from cd...even if we boot to a floppy first. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards
If you google on vnc ssh tunnel you will get tons of hits tha t provide the details on how to do this. http://www.iodynamics.com/~fozz/presentations/VNC+SSH/ Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] question on tarballing up the ~/wine folder
I am playing around with wine. It is working just fine on my MDK9 install. I also have an RH8 install on another box. I was wondering if anyone has tried tarballing the ~/wine directory and moving it to another box OR distro'ed box and it still work. My thought on doing this is that it is linux and box MDK9 and RH8 are both LSB 1.2 certified. So in that case as long as the appropriate rpm's are installed on the new box then it should work fine. Correct? TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ntpd issues
I have a Cisco 2500 router setup to deny ALL activity on port 123 (ntpd). The Cisco router is my time server. I have finally found out why i am getting errors in my Cisco logs stating an NTP server is getting denied, its b/c i had one specified in ntp.conf and its not the server that i thought it was. I changed the line that stated server ntpd server name to the IP of the Cisco router and restarted NTPD and i am getting no server suitable for syncronization found in /var/log/messages. MCC does NOT allow me to type in a different NTP server than what is listed thereit only lets me choose from the drop down menu. I do NOT want to select one of those, I want to type in the IP of my NTP server on my Cisco router. How do i change this on MDK9? TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] DVD movies
Check out this site and follow it. It got me going. http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD movies On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500, you wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know most of them are encrypted and that's why, but thought maybe there was something out there I could use with xine or maybe another completely different program. Did you look at plf.zarb.org I've been using a DVD player called Ogle...can't remember where I got it, but I'm sure a quick googling will take care of that. I like it better than mplayer for DVDs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [OT] true alcohol stories...please read
I was taking a friend home Wednesday evening when on the radio was a commercial type thing that reported a Sophomore in Lake Travis High School was in a drunk driving accident. He had 2 friends with him who were killed instantly when they hit another car head on, the driver of the other vehicle was killed as well. The only surviving person was the student that was drunk, due to the burns from the accident, he has no nose and ears, nor does he have ANY use of his hands, has NO hair, and his face was completely destroyed. 40 surgeries to this student has not helped over the years. My friend whom I was taking home stated that she went to high school with him and knows him personally. After the ad was over we had kept talking about it and she stated that the student drunk driver was 5 times over the legal Texas limit for alcohol consumption. She also stated that for killing 3 people while being 5 times over the legal limit got him 7 years...ONLY 7 YEARS...in Huntsville (Texas' state prison just north of Houston). Another story. I recently had a temporary bar job. The first day there was a story going that the bar owner told us that needs to be taken to heart. One of the regulars to the bar left one night and was in a car wreck. I do not know the damage of what happened but he was in the hospital for 1.5 weeks. Legally it was the bars job to take his keys away. After that night I have seen several times where the bartenders do take the keys away until the customer is sober. The moral of these true stories is I do not care if you drink...but give up your keys if you drove. Be responsible, be an adult. If you drink you take on these responsibilities automatically. Robert Wideman PS-Please pass this on. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] how to list sources for urpmi
man urpmi. man 8 urpmi.update. I cant see where to output the list of sources to read. Reason, For a mate I wish to delete an update mirror urpmi.removemedia so i can set a new one. See the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file to see the media sites/locations. Or just check the Sources Manager and click edit on the one you want to delete and you will see what it is named there. If you get that far you might as well delete it from there as well instead of clicking edit just click delete. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] user mode linux question
Are you talking about a chroot environment? Have you used UML? It sure doesnt sound like it. Its a virtual machine (OS) inside file. Just like VMWare but better (depending on what your doing). Its built into the kernel and it has its own filesystem and everything. http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] iptables stopped
Firewalling/packet filtering/NAT is compiled into the Linux Kernel, it is not a service. You don't start it, you just configure it for operation. The iptables package that you installed is only a user-space configuration utility - again not a service. I would not worry if iptables does not show correctly in the mcc service section. There are web sites that can test your system for firewalling capabilities, for example www.pcflank.com. You might try one of those with iptables enabled and disabled. If you have IPTables installed as an rpm then it is a service. It should not be a server. It should be DLed (the source) along with the kernel source and recompiled. Unless you have DLed the sources like this and reconfigured everything yourself then it is installed as an rpm/server like he states. Uninstall iptables/ipchains and then DLed/install the sources. Its much better and you can see the list of rules/chains with iptables -L. If nothing is listed then nothing is loadedthis doesnt matter how you have it installed. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] IPTABLES manually
iptables-save and iptables-restore Also, put your rules into a script like /etc/rc.firewall and just add that to the end of rc.local adn it will start every time. Also there are lots of tutorials out there. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:40 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] IPTABLES manually I drop Nimda and Code Red infected computers with iptables, but if I have to reboot, or if I use a gui like Firestarter, it starts fresh and I lose those IPs from my rules. If you have built a firewall manually with iptables, how do you get it back when you reboot? I figure a script would do but I'm curious how other people handle it. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] user mode linux question
Please be a bit more patient with people on this list. I still haven't gotten over the id10t error statement that you made to someone on this list a while ago. Dood that was a IT Industry joke. Get over it. I do ID-10-T issues all the time. I even do PEPKAC issues myself. I just get over it b/c it is life. With all due respect, if you can't deal with newbies on their level, stick to the expert list. If you cant tell i help out a lot with everybody else on this list. I am a newbie in some areas. I was asking if he had ever done it. If he hadnt messed with it then i wouldnt expect him to try to help. I dont help out on issues that i dont know about. If you dont want me to help out then i wont. I get info out of this list just like you do. This email was done with all due respect as well. Also i do not do emails very well. I type what comes off my head just like i would speak in person and it doesnt do the others well b/c they dont know how to take my sarcasm. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?
Actually Stephen is correct. Of all the iptables GUI or configurator applications Shorewall was the worst. It took me 30 mins after the first time of installing MDK9 was i able to figure out what the hell was going on with my box...not able to get out of the local box. I remember that Shorewall was a firewall using IP Tables. I listed the current rules of iptables "iptables -L" and it listed a crap load of them by default from shorewall. I disabled shorewall and i was able to connect just normal. So on your understanding of what Stephen stated that it was "dont use linux" is totally misunderstood. Reread his message. It stated "dont use shorewall"did it say anything about dont use "linux"...NO IT DID NOT. You asked what the solution washe simply stated "dont use shorewall". I agree with Stephen. Dont use Shorewallnot linux just shorewall. Rob -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Bela MarkusSent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 2:57 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?Hi Stephen,you advice is not very constructive. Sounds like: dont use LINUX, do not use LINUX, etc.Doesn't matter is it SHOREWALL or else, the key is the IPTABLES, oll others just cosmetics. Now I see, original subject was misleading. The right would be " IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect".Best regards... BelaStephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 18:11, Bela Markus wrote: Hi, I spent nights without any success to configure SHOREWALL in 9.0 to run Direct Connect (DC++ exactly) to run in active mode. Is there a solution out there? Regards... Bela, HA5DI Yes. Don't use SHOREWALL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
I agree with Stephen on this one as well. How often does MS change their EULA? EVERYDAY. How often does MS change the story on what they are doing? EVERY MINUTE. I cant stand MS anymore. I never have liked the company, only the software which is basic and easy to use (in most cases). To the question of Is there cause to worry? YES, WHY DO YOU THINK HE POSTED THIS INFO??? Its all about users privacy and truth from companies. If i knew that MS was doing this then it would have been ok b/c i would have agreed to it if i kept using it. I have been wondering where the little banner that information isnt being passed onto MS went...into their EULA which you have to read before updating your OS which is made insucure by the company for the FUCKING DOLLAR that they so have to have. This is one thing that i have hated ever since moving to Austin, TXGOD DAMN CORPORATIONS LYING TO EVERYONE. Corporations are about the fucking buck, nothing about the user/employee. It is about saving their ass in the short term and what will get them ahead of everyone else. That is why i like MDK so much is that they are a true company that is still giving their OS for free and we can decide to purchase if we want to. MDK might have money in the bank, BUT they keep trying to save their ass by letting the public know they are on the verge of losing it. Who is it that keeps MDK up and running IT IS US, the USERS of purchase and LOVE what they are doing for the OSS community who actually respect what they do. Ok, i am on a tangent. Then again i am just getting over being drunk from the nite out on the town. Have fun Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:19 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:06, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: For those that still have to use M$ Windows for some reason - any reason; just what do YOU think M$ knows when you connect to the Windows Update site? http://www.tecchannel.de/betriebssysteme/1126/index.html All very interesting in a look what I can do way. But not very Open Source. Have you paid the E1.99? Is there cause to worry? What I find so shocking about the whole bit is that M$ PROMISED that they're not spying on your system when in fact they really are. M$ has consistently gone back on their promises of privacy for end-users - even so far as changing the entire structure of their licensing agreements and out-dating their original EULA's. Sad to think that you trust someone like M$ and the original EULA that you bought a package with and less than two years later the EULA is NIL and your privacy is OPENED to them. It's very sad and very Big Brother - and the public is completely unaware of the true lack of privacy they have - they've been lulled into a false trust of a monopolistic and meglomaniacal company. I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... Sorry to rant, but it's truly driving me further away from MS products. -- Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:10:01 +1100 8:10pm up 4 days, 10:13, 4 users, load average: 1.30, 1.01, 0.57 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. -- Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] basic concept question
I've just begun reading man:wine insert glazed-eyes smiley and as far as I can see the idea is to run windoze programs within Mandrake. Not just MDK, all any linux distro out there. Never mind the fact that I can't make it start Excel yet [I'll continue looking for a while yet before asking here], I thought I'd ask for the overview that perhaps I'm missing... Yes, your missing something. I have wine setup on my box, just installed an app perfectly. My config file is listed below all of this info here. I apologise if this is a really stupid question, but like several things when confronted with a totally new OS, if you're starting off with the wrong assumptions you'll just waste a lot of time. Can you run a windoze session *in* Linux? Yes, www.vmware.com Like: you can run a DOS session in a window in windoze, and I've heard you can emulate a PC on a Mac. No. If so, can you make the two virtual machines talk to each other? Yes, its called virtual networking, read up on it on www.vmware.com or whatever software your running, user-mode-linux.com is another but it wont run windows apps, only a linux virtual server. Also there is virtual server, dont know the info just saw it in the latest Euro Linux Magazine at the latest BN shelf in TX...it has SECURITY written all over it. There are tons others like win4lin and the main company that does wine has another version as well. Another called Cross-over Office. For example, Mandrake can't see files on the NTFS partition which Win2K is on, but if I had Windows running I could network across to it from Mandrake, just like it was on my laptop? Yes, www.vmware.com Rob Here is the ~/.wine/config file, I only listed what i have changed/edited in the file. [Drive X] Path=/home/rwideman (Unix path for drive root) Type=hd (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network') Label=my disk (drive label, at most 11 characters) Filesystem=win95 (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix') Here is the /etc/wine/config file, i only listed what i have changed/edited in the file. [Drive A] Path = /mnt/floppy Type = floppy Label = Floppy Filesystem = win95 Device = /dev/fd0 [Drive C] Path = /mnt/windows Type = hd Label = Windows Filesystem = win95 [Drive D] Path = /mnt/cdrom Type = cdrom Label = CD-Rom Filesystem = win95 ; make sure that device is correct and has proper permissions ! Device = /dev/cdrom [Drive E] Path = /tmp/winetmp-${USER} Type = hd Label = Tmp Drive Filesystem = win95 [Drive F] Path = ${HOME} Type = network Label = Home Filesystem = win95 [wine] Windows = c:\\windows System = c:\\windows\\system Temp = e:\\ Path = c:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system;e:\\;e:\\test;f:\\ Profile = c:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator GraphicsDriver = x11drv ; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default. ; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a whole ; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself. ;ShowDirSymlinks = 1 ShellLinker = wineshelllink # wineconf [Version] ; Windows version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win20,win30,win31) }, Windows = win98 ; DOS version to imitate ;DOS = 6.22 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
That's the main reason that this machine is now 100% Linux. I've paid for all my previous Windows installs, but XP was a step too far. I decided to get off the wagon and get onto one going in a direction I agreed with. For those of you who dual boot, for GOD sakes, buy a $60 computer off ebay and save your self the hassle of rebooting and get the $50 belkin switch for 2 computers to one keyboard/mouse/monitor. My god. The only MS Windows I have ever paid for was the Win95 that came on my first computer, Compaq 7180...p100 w/ 8mb ramwhich was preinstalled before all this preinstall shit came about. Ever since then i have gotten it free from the companies that i work for. Actually I have gotten everything since Win98 free from MS themselves. Other than the Compaq box, I paid $40 for Office XP Pro that came with an $80 mouse (retail is was $80) and Office XP and a shirt came for freethis was 1.5 years ago when i worked for Dell Linux Server Support..HA. Win98, Win98Se, Office 2000, Win2kall free from MS directly, or through CompUSA whom i actually got it from through MS via retail Not-For-Resale kits. Thank god I am in the computer industry. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
FW: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
Forgot to say thanks for this info Stephen. Rob I agree with Stephen on this one as well. How often does MS change their EULA? EVERYDAY. How often does MS change the story on what they are doing? EVERY MINUTE. I cant stand MS anymore. I never have liked the company, only the software which is basic and easy to use (in most cases). To the question of Is there cause to worry? YES, WHY DO YOU THINK HE POSTED THIS INFO??? Its all about users privacy and truth from companies. If i knew that MS was doing this then it would have been ok b/c i would have agreed to it if i kept using it. I have been wondering where the little banner that information isnt being passed onto MS went...into their EULA which you have to read before updating your OS which is made insucure by the company for the FUCKING DOLLAR that they so have to have. This is one thing that i have hated ever since moving to Austin, TXGOD DAMN CORPORATIONS LYING TO EVERYONE. Corporations are about the fucking buck, nothing about the user/employee. It is about saving their ass in the short term and what will get them ahead of everyone else. That is why i like MDK so much is that they are a true company that is still giving their OS for free and we can decide to purchase if we want to. MDK might have money in the bank, BUT they keep trying to save their ass by letting the public know they are on the verge of losing it. Who is it that keeps MDK up and running IT IS US, the USERS of purchase and LOVE what they are doing for the OSS community who actually respect what they do. Ok, i am on a tangent. Then again i am just getting over being drunk from the nite out on the town. Have fun Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:19 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:06, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: For those that still have to use M$ Windows for some reason - any reason; just what do YOU think M$ knows when you connect to the Windows Update site? http://www.tecchannel.de/betriebssysteme/1126/index.html All very interesting in a look what I can do way. But not very Open Source. Have you paid the E1.99? Is there cause to worry? What I find so shocking about the whole bit is that M$ PROMISED that they're not spying on your system when in fact they really are. M$ has consistently gone back on their promises of privacy for end-users - even so far as changing the entire structure of their licensing agreements and out-dating their original EULA's. Sad to think that you trust someone like M$ and the original EULA that you bought a package with and less than two years later the EULA is NIL and your privacy is OPENED to them. It's very sad and very Big Brother - and the public is completely unaware of the true lack of privacy they have - they've been lulled into a false trust of a monopolistic and meglomaniacal company. I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... Sorry to rant, but it's truly driving me further away from MS products. -- Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:10:01 +1100 8:10pm up 4 days, 10:13, 4 users, load average: 1.30, 1.01, 0.57 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. -- Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PortSentry2
as well as using PortSentry2 for further monitoring. I know this company that used to make Port Sentry is here in Austin TX. The company psionic.com. Is it bought out by cisco now? Thats all that the website has on it. Also the searches on google pull up mailing list items and directs it to parts of psionic.com which also are redirected to cisco. Where did you get PS2 from? I knew that it was in development but didnt know it was out yet (or was that the other software they made?). Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter
First, as root: setup -net Then hit setup again as user. Also DL the latest updates from Sun for SO6. http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xprod-StarOfficenav= pub-patches Is the site to DL the updates. Roc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop
I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a restart If you use your system everyday then DO NOT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER. Literally. I have 10 computers (4 are my roomates, and this is half of the computers we own) that are on all the time, 24/7. It might increase the electric bill about $20-30 BUT it beats dealing with computer problems all the time and spending $50+ a month on replacing hardware. Also, the turning on and turn off everydaywould you like to be turned off and then turned on everyday? Wait, i woudl but thats a different story Turned on, meaning...by the electro shocks like they use to survive people with in the ER??? Thats how the computer hardware feels. The more you turn it off/on the more you wear the parts out. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)
When you ping by name your machine first has to convert the name to numbers. In your case that step is failing. Check your DNS server setting. Or just edit /etc/hosts. Lots quicker and is the first place that is checked for name-IP conversion. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?
shorewall has taken a bashing on this list, with many suggesting alternatives, eg gshield, guarddog, firestarter, etc. i just wanna relate my own good experience. i was trying to configure my mdk 9.0 box to share my internet connection with a small home network consisting of 3 win9x pcs and 2 linux boxes. i first used the internet connection wizard in mcc, which didn't work. went to www.shorewall.net, and the quickstart guide suggested the two interface config. instead of using it wholesale, i compared the config files, found a few differences, opened up the ports i needed, restarted shorewall, and it worked. the entire process took me around 15 mins, included reading the stuff at www.shorewall.net. i think the essential diff was mdk 9.0 tried to 3 zones in their shorewall config, while the two interface version of the quickstart guide used 2 zones. (if you dun understand what i'm saying, just spend a couple of mins with www.shorewall.net) i'm no expert, and i'm sure the mdk developers had a good reason to do what they did, but this setup worked easily for me. others trying to configure shorewall can also search the archives for a couple of extremely well written I do not doubt that Shorewall can run nicely once configured properly. I was meaning that my experiences with it (like most) are terrible. Most of my experiences with any firewall configurator sucks. Thats why i say go down to learning the actual rules and ways of iptables since it is directly in charge of it...not any of the GUI configurators. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
This isn't meant as an insult ,so don't take it that way. You sound like others I have heard. Almost apologetic about the fact that some distros made a profit, or intend to. As though they have somehow soiled the O.S. movement with money. Profit is not a dirty word. It is a necessary thing in order to pay wages, build infrastructure, Do R D, build a better company, Do advertising, Secure a future, etc. It wouldn't bother me a bit if Mandrake had $40 billion in the bank, as it were. Provided they earned it honestly, And not through extortion, or other nefarious methods. Or engage in M$ tactics to further themselves among the other distros. If the above came, or comes to pass. I would drop Mandrake faster than I dropped Microsoft. Because Mandrake has an example of what not to do. It isn't right of M$ to do these things, Not because they are M$, But because this behaviour isn't morally justifiable. I totally agree with them making a profit or if they had billions in the bank. I like what they have put out and will continue to do so unless they do move to those tactics... Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] /net and /misc
I think there is some confusion. LinNeighborhood is nothing to do with autofs. If autofs were a dependency of LinNeighborhood, then you would be warned when you tried to 'urpme autofs'. But it isn't... So you won't.. If you want to know what dependencies a package has. Just look it up in kpackage. It will also show you the files inside the package. OR just go to command line and give it the ole command rpm -qpR package-name.rpm Easier for me to type than mess with the damn mouse. Plus i type like 100 gwpm. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
Asked like someone from a small state:-) HAHA. I live in the largest state there is (atleast in the continuous 48 states)...Texas. Alaska is too far away from anything for me. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC
I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm at the point of giving up. First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: ECS K7S6A Athlon xp 1800 256 MB ram NIC 3com 905 TX Personally i will not buy ESC b/c they have jumpers to screw with. I have not built a computer myself unless it is jumperless b/c of these types of issues, plus there is more control of certain devices. and everything was working except the NIC. I emailed the newbie mailing list to have some help (which was greatly appreciate by the way) and after trying different setting it still doesn't work. I am fairly sure that it's a motherboard problem because I tried different NICs without any success and my 3com works on another PC running mandrake 9.0. First off, what is the NIC sharing an IRQ with? That makes a huge difference. Even though NIC's can NOT share IRQ's period. I have seen this and be the cause of so many things when i worked at Dell Server Support, Linux and Windows. You can also tell the kernel to give the NIC a certain IRQ if neededin /etc/modules.conf on the ethx line just put irq=X...X being the IRQ you want it to have. I tried to install with USB,serial and parallel ports, soundcard disable to free a maximum of IRQ, tried different PC slots and none of that has worked. Did you atleast disable serial and parrallel ports and all things NOT needed first? Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another one? Personally i would buy an A-Bit or Asus, they are the best that i have worked with. Then again they are the only boards i have bought to build my systems with. What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq to check that this is no the problem? Disable everything on the MB that you dont need, then go from there. I saw from the hardware list that mandrakelabs has certified the k7S6A under Mandrake-Linux prosuite Edition 8.2, could it be that Mandrake 9.0 is not working properly with my board? I doubt 9.0 is the issue, then again i have heard of other issues not working due to some differences... Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Worried
I haven't booted in 4 months. And this is even AFTER system/software updates. I don't think boot or load time is a fair comparison. S true. Again look at the # of times we boot in 4 months. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+
Any comments on my original query? I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been hijacked by another subject... or two. Thanks, and sorry to eat bandwidth it it isn't necessary. On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 10:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: I was trying to install the latest sources of Glade, and found that it needed a newer version of GTK+ v2 than the mdk9.0 default install provides. This involves compiling glib, atk, pango and gtk+. I can compile and install glib, but one of the others detects that I have two copies of glib installed and refuses to continue. If I try to uninstall GTK+ v2 dpmdrake tells me (understandably) that it will have to uninstall a huge number of applications. I am sure there is a simple way to do this, but in this case learning by trial and error is likely to involve trashing a lot of functionality. So - How do I upgrade a shared library under the noses of dozens of apps that are dependent on it? And what is this likely to do to rpmdrake's database? Thoughts: why would you need to recompile anything enless its not in RPM form. If you redo your glib and glibc your kinda fucked. Everything on your system requires the version that you have installed b/c they are compiled against that version. 2 versions of glib installed is b/c one is in source form and one is in rpm form. You kinda screwed yourself. If you uninstall any window widget you will be uninstalling 90% of your GUI. You update a shared library by updating it via rpm's. It will test first if it can be updated and tell you any issues. Use the rpm -Uvh --test rpm-filename.rpm first. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Unofficial February stats
look at the bright side Anne. At least you're not still fighting with Java and Mozy. :P She has a ways to catch up with me this month if i keep on like i am. ROFL Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] no sound in 9.0
AMD Mainboard that uses SiS 740 chipset. It also has a built in AC97 Codec. I am not sure what other information you might need out of the book. I am very new to Mandrake Linux. There is so much I don't understand. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Brenda What motherboard do you have? including model #. Once i have that i will research fo you and give the list what i find. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled
Tom: You bring up a good point. The only valid conclusion is that either they are perjurers and monopolists, or traitors and monopolists. Don't hold your breath waiting for John Ashcroft to announce that anyone has been indicted, though. I would say they are Traitors and Monopolists. Since they take school districts and government agencies to court over licenses for billions of dollars WHY in gods name take school districts to court when they are already low on money and firing teachers left and right b/c of the type of situation with the economy? They are just making it worse. They could atleast give high schools and below (elementary and middle/junior high) licenses for the desency of our youth trying to learn. Does MS want the youngsters of today to learn Linux (which is starting to happen with RH and the RHCE program) or do they want them to learn MS, or does MS want districts to actually purchase Apple products? , geee, i wonder. Seems like more and more everyday districts and colleges are going with Linux b/c it is free/cheap. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
Hush, rob, or we'll cut Alaska in two and make Texas the third largest state. LOLso true. Its weird that Alaska is double the size of Texas. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] port monitor sought
Have you tried firestarter? It's quite simpler than ZoneAlarm --it only has two tabs, one which reports connection attempts and blocked packets, and the other inside of which you can create rules for your firewall http://firestarter.sf.net Ok, this is what initially got me into Linuxfirewalling and security. I am not saying i am the shit. God knows that i am not. I am just saying this is a HUGE field that you actually got to do the research yourself b/c there are so many capabilities of apps out there. Also, i am not stating that Damien is incorrect in his information. Firestarter is not a port monitor. It is a front end to IPTables. IPTables is a firewall. If your wanting a port monitor look into Snort or other IDS (intrusion detection system). Snort is the best IDS out there, with options of a firewall. If your wanting a firewall then go with IPtables. If you go with IPTables and you want a GUI configurator then go with Firestarter. The difference being: firewall: you setup to block/allow certain packets going in/out of certain ports. For instance, if you have a web server but not an ftp server, you allow port 80 and block port 21. IDS: you look at each packet and see if the insides look like an attack that is defined by your ruleset. For instance, if you have an ftp server you obviously allow port 21 BUT you look at each packet and see if it contains malformed packets that would possibly look like a DDoS or something else where the intruder is trying to actually attack the ftp server to grab your /etc/passwd file. Thats more or less security of the FTP server BUT it can be configured in your IDS rules. Just remember that a port monitor and a firewall are totally different. IPTables and Snort can actually do monitoring and firewalling BUT IPTables is made for firewalling and Snort is made for IDS. If your wanting port monitor then Snort would be it. http://www.snort.org for cabled networks http://airsnort.shmoo.com for wifi For IP Tables and firewall http://www.netfilter.org Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1
Do you have the kernel source installed Just install the rpm version that your using from the RC1 DL cd's. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Trainor Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1 I'm trying to instal the au8830 drivers in Mandrake 9.1rc1 under KDE 3.1 It's not going well. Here's some error message for ya: In file included from au_vortex.h:54, from au_audio.c:49: /usr/include/linux/module.h:299: parse error before UTS_RELEASE /usr/include/linux/module.h: In function `print_symbol': /usr/include/linux/module.h:433: `ESRCH' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/include/linux/module.h:433: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /usr/include/linux/module.h:433: for each function it appears in.) In file included from au_vortex.h:55, from au_audio.c:49: /usr/include/linux/version.h:2:2: #error === /usr/include/linux/version.h:3:2: #error You should not include /usr/include/{linux,asm}/ header /usr/include/linux/version.h:4:2: #error files directly for the compilation of kernel modules. /usr/include/linux/version.h:5:2: #error /usr/include/linux/version.h:6:2: #error glibc now uses kernel header files from a well-defined /usr/include/linux/version.h:7:2: #error working kernel version (as recommended by Linus Torvalds) /usr/include/linux/version.h:8:2: #error These files are glibc internal and may not match the /usr/include/linux/version.h:9:2: #error currently running kernel. They should only be /usr/include/linux/version.h:10:2: #error included via other system header files - user space /usr/include/linux/version.h:11:2: #error programs should not directly include linux/*.h or /usr/include/linux/version.h:12:2: #error asm/*.h as well. /usr/include/linux/version.h:13:2: #error /usr/include/linux/version.h:14:2: #error To build kernel modules please do the following: /usr/include/linux/version.h:15:2: #error /usr/include/linux/version.h:16:2: #error o Have the kernel sources installed /usr/include/linux/version.h:17:2: #error /usr/include/linux/version.h:18:2: #error o Make sure that the symbolic link /usr/include/linux/version.h:19:2: #error /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build exists and points to /usr/include/linux/version.h:20:2: #errorthe matching kernel source directory /usr/include/linux/version.h:21:2: #error /usr/include/linux/version.h:22:2: #error o Now copy /boot/vmlinuz.version.h to /usr/include/linux/version.h:23:2: #error/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/version.h /usr/include/linux/version.h:24:2: #error /usr/include/linux/version.h:25:2: #error o When compiling, make sure to use the following /usr/include/linux/version.h:26:2: #errorcompiler option to use the correct include files: /usr/include/linux/version.h:27:2: #error /usr/include/linux/version.h:28:2: #error-I/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include /usr/include/linux/version.h:29:2: #error /usr/include/linux/version.h:30:2: #errorinstead of /usr/include/linux/version.h:31:2: #error /usr/include/linux/version.h:32:2: #error-I/usr/include/linux /usr/include/linux/version.h:33:2: #error /usr/include/linux/version.h:34:2: #errorPlease adjust the Makefile accordingly. /usr/include/linux/version.h:35:2: #error === In file included from au_audio.c:49: au_vortex.h:70:41: missing binary operator before '(' In file included from au_vortex.h:73, from au_audio.c:49: /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h: At top level: /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:31: conflicting types for `spinlock_t' /usr/include/linux/spinlock.h:73: previous declaration of `spinlock_t' /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:80: parse error before do /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:116: parse error before '{' token /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:126: parse error before void /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:157: conflicting types for `rwlock_t' /usr/include/linux/spinlock.h:137: previous declaration of `rwlock_t' /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:182: parse error before void /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h:191: parse error before void au_vortex.h:76:41: missing binary operator before '(' au_vortex.h:120:41: missing binary operator before '(' au_vortex.h:126:41: missing binary operator before '(' au_vortex.h:154:41: missing binary operator before '(' au_vortex.h:205:41: missing binary operator before '(' In file included from au_audio.c:50: it goes on like this for quite some time. Can anyone figure out what the hell is going on there, because I'm lost. Thank you for your time, Brian Trainor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] port monitor sought
Well, i made my suggestion only because he was asking for a ZoneAlarm-like program. As you may already know, ZA is a software firewall for Win32, it notifies you of blocked connections as they happen, and can be set up with simple rules. To my eyes, iptables + firestarter are pretty much the same thing, with the only difference that ZA is application-based (i.e. whenever an app wants to access a network interface you are presented with the option to allow that process or not) and Iptables is purely rule-based. I agree with you stating that Firestarter is good for that. I have used it when i started to evolve in the beginning. It was broken half the time. Then again i should probably start playing some of the new versions to give it a fair shot. You are correct and i will agree with you stating that it would be the best for a beginner looking for something like ZA for Linux. Its just a huge field where it took me about 6 months to fully understand the concept of all the firewalling/IDS stuff and what is what and who does what. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1
CVS is what he was using. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] au8830 install in 9.1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:07 pm, Brian Trainor wrote: I'm trying to instal the au8830 drivers in Mandrake 9.1rc1 under KDE 3.1 What source tarball are you using? I had to update from aureal cvs to get it to build on my machine with 9.1. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] user mode linux question
I have played with UML with the basic FS's that are on their site. I have actually DLed the MDK 8.2 FS on their site and tested it on my MDK9 box. It came up with a bunch of errors, guessing b/c my box is all scsi. Ok, down to the real issue. The UML docs state you can install a distro into its own space and run it inside the main OS. Like i have MDK9 installed, i could (supposedly) install RH8 into its own FS and run it on the same box. This is very similar to VMWare, just not really. I have asked on the mIRC channels for UML and on their mailing list and that went no-where. Has anyone done this with UML or Vserver??? TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] /net and /misc
From /etc/mtab: automount(pid1561) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1561,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 automount(pid1574) /net autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1574,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 I use linneigborhood to work to access a LAN I dont use LN. I dont have those mount points. I guess it is LN that is doing this for you guys. # cat /etc/mtab /dev/sda1 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/sda7 /home ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/sda6 /usr ext3 rw 0 0 Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] DIRECT CONNECT active mode and SHOREWALL
Wouldn't it be easier, cheaper and wiser to ditch Shorewall and either manually edit the iptables scripts to allow for either ports to be opened or ports to be closed? Initially learning the basics to ipchains or iptables is a great thing for anyone to KNOW - as it is their city wall - and knowing where breaches in this wall are, or where to create strategic breaches is something I would suggest to everyone that has a *nix box. I agree. I have read over the IP Tables info ever since NetFilter started and its the first thing that i disable/uninstall on a box. If i want it then i install a new kernel with it built in and then do the config manually. There cant be anything said for doing the GUI vs scripting when it comes down to knowing what the hell is going on. Aside from learning the basics to ipchains/iptables, you also start to encompass the simplicity of ip masquerading - otherwise known in the M$ world as internet connection sharing and how that can be used to bridge networks - virtual and physical. IF you know what to do and are armed with the knowledge, it takes merely minutes to have your ports opened or closed for whatever reasons - and to have sharing turned on - it's truly amazing how simple it is - why do you think M$ has on Win98 thru WinXP? If it was complex, they'd charge for it. Because it's such a simple exercise, though, they've stolen the basics from *nix and added it as a feature. I agree. Even including Cisco routers. My roommate has a Cisco 2500 up and running and always has to consult me on wtf his rules are doing for his ACL's b/c he doesnt understand the basics of his rules. Why he has a Cisco router up instead of me using my p266 when I KNOW IPTables? He needs to learn Cisco for certs Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Unofficial February stats
Shit - stats are down - I'm going to have to tackle Mr. Wideman...(grin) Lol. Good luck. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)
I'll agree on that point. Too bad the bastard lives in Alaska. Else I'd ask him to come on down here to Aussie for a tour...(g) Alaska? WTF is up there other than dry cold weather? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
FW: [newbie] Unofficial February stats
Shit - stats are down - I'm going to have to tackle Mr. Wideman...(grin) Lol. Good luck. I forgot to say that i am unemployed and have all the time in the world to reply to this list. If any of you guys live in Austin (or Dallas or Houston or San Antonio) and have jobs that are avail at your company or know of any jobs then PLEASE let me know. It sucks knowing i make more on unemployment then i do working a 40 hour work week making $10 /hr. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
FW: [newbie] Unofficial February stats
-Original Message- From: Robert Wideman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 5:24 PM To: Newbie Subject: FW: [newbie] Unofficial February stats Shit - stats are down - I'm going to have to tackle Mr. Wideman...(grin) Lol. Good luck. I forgot to say that i am unemployed and have all the time in the world to reply to this list. If any of you guys live in Austin (or Dallas or Houston or San Antonio) Actually anywhere in Texas for that matter. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linux Virtual Memory Manager posted by kerneltrap
Dont know if you guys follow Linux THIS much. I know i do not, but if i were bored at 5am and not able to sleep I might be able to understand it with about 4 cups of java (that is coffee for some of you non-coffee drinkers) or your favorite expresso. http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/html/understand/ Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] /net and /misc
You compiled from source, correct? Look at the source code. Do a search for /net or /miscjust cat the files cat file.c|grep /net That should be the best way. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Kaplan Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 2:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] /net and /misc A good recommendation. Short of uninstalling and breaking LinNeighborhood (if it should happen) is there a quick way to determine whether LinNeighborhood requires or creates and then uses the files? Paul On Saturday 01 March 2003 23:04, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 28 Feb 2003 9:17 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 15:25, et wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 10:09 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 01:45 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Anyone know what /net and /misc are? They automount under m9, are always busy and can't be unmounted. As a result I can't do a clean shutdown. How can I remidy? TIA Paul Paul, can you cd to these directories and do a ls in console mode? Might show what is in them, cause my system does not have either directory. if I remember correctly (that might be a first) these are mount points created by some wild program (like linneighborhood or gnomba for the /net) and have a hard mount point in the script that creates them, maybe posting fstab and mtab might help. Dennis, ls /misc and ls /net return nothing et, From /etc/mtab: automount(pid1561) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1561,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 automount(pid1574) /net autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=1574,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 I use linneigborhood to work to access a LAN Derek, What configuration file am I looking for w/ autofs? As I said these are the mount points for autofs The configuration files are /etc/auto.master /etc/auto.net and /etc/auto.misc If you do not know why you have autofs installed, then you almost certainly do not need it urpme autofs will get rid of it. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] RE: [ctl-linux] GUI Perl Editor with color coding
Don't forget about gvim. vim.org WOW, i like this. HEHEHE. Something i just noticed is the VI and VIm both point to VIM Enhanced. I used which and file commands and traced it back. How hilarious. I thought VI was VI and VIm was VIm. Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] dmg file in ~/ directory
Was wondering what these files are for and do. They are in my home directory (/home/rwideman) -rw---1 rwideman rwideman 13M Feb 19 09:09 gtk2.dmg -rw---1 rwideman rwideman 6.8M Feb 19 09:09 qt3.dmg Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Opera7
now, if only i can wean myself off Outlook Express for my email. I am with you on this one except i am using Outlook. I cant find any way to move data over. However i havent setup an IMAP server, then moved my email to that and then pull open evolution/sylpheed/etc and then pull it down. Any other thoughts on how to move from Outlook/Express to Linux email? I have tried Netscape/Mozilla but they dont allow exporting, GR. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] urpmi updates
I have 2 systems with MDK9 installed. One is my workstation that has been running for a few months and urmpi/grpmi have contrib/updates/plf/unsupported sites listed and working just fine. Reading the man pages for urpmi it uses the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file as the configuration file of the sources. I copied that over to the new system that i am setting up and opened grpmi and all sources were there. The only problem is that contrib/updates/plf/unsupported sites were not enabled. So i enabled them and saved/quit. I then opened sources manager again to check to see if the enable took effect...NO it didnt. I then went to CLI and typed urpmi.update -a and it excluded the 4 sites again. Is there away that i can get them working and enabled? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Opera7
I'm not sure this will answer your question. i'm not sure this is your question, But with Kmail you can import Outlook Express mail. File / Import. I didnt see anything about PST files. I have attachements on a lot of my emails. Maybe i will give this a try since it is just a copy/paste onto my samba drive. Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] urpmi updates
You have to copy over the lists created for these sources on your system to the other server as well. I can't remember which directory it is, but search the archives as this has been asked before. (At work and Linux box at home) Ah, no wonder. Thats ok. I installed the sources manually via urpmi.addmedia. Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete?
Subject: [newbie] ARTICLE: Operating Systems to become obsolete? Very similar to www.linuxbios.com capabilities. There are a few companies starting to use Linux kernel as its bios now. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] DVD::Rip (Video-DVDRip-0.50.3-1plf.i586.rpm)
Has anyone gotten Video-DVDRip-0.50.3-1plf.i586.rpm installed without installing the gazillion transcode PLF libraries? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] plf src rpms
Ah, just didnt go up in the tree high enough. Thanks. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] plf src rpms On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 03:50:20 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to install DVD::Rip from the PLF's. The problem is i would like to get the src rpm. Does anyone know where i can find them? For DVD:Rip the src.rpm can be found on any of the PLF mirrors. Look in the src directory. Charles -- Nuclear war would really set back cable. - Ted Turner - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.21pre4-10mdk - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Another one...
http://sun-apple-microsoft.msconnectix.msjava.microsoft.com/j10-l imited-edition/beta5/eula.html HAHA. Funny. Next will be www.mslinux.org is for real. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] lots of perl scripts?
Is there a site, i know there is just dont know remember it, where there are lots of perl scripts? I have seen a developers site for scripting but cant find it anymore. TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake
Try TightVNC. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harv Nelson Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:27 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [newbie] VNC for Mandrake Is there a Mandrake specific vnc... .RPM? Can't seem to locate one anywhere. I've been trying to get RealVNC to work across my local network without much success. Any suggestions? Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] rpm installed but not showing up
I have mysql-3.23.52-1.3 installed as an rpm but its not showing up when i do rpm -qa|grep mysql'. I did a rpm --rebuilddb but nogo. I was thinking that doing a rpm -Uvh --force mysql-file.rpm would get it to show up in the DB. Any thoughts before i do that? I dont want to mess up my DB. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.
I don't like installing programs from source confuses me too. So how would you update a program if it was installed from source? I have always wondered this. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] GUI Perl Editor with color coding
You might like to try kate (KDE advanced text editor), you've probably used it in it's lightweight incarnation kwrite. The feature I think you want [syntax highlighting] is: Document-Highlight Mode-Script-Perl (hence proving it is not a programming language :-)). Wow. Dont use KDE that much but its what i am using at the moment. Didnt even know that program was there. Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Apache and running cgi scripts
Apache and Perl/Mod_perl are installed. The perl scripts work it i run perl zipcodes.cgi. Basically i am going through Graid Hunts Apache Server 1st Edition by Charles Aulds. The scripts work fine, they arent the issue. Basically you type in a zip code into the text box and then it runs a perl script (zipcode.html runs zipcodes.cgi after inputing a zipcode into a text box and clicking submit), which then access the MySQL server on the localhost. The user/group apache owns all files in /home/httpd (this is not internet accessible since i have another box running my outside sites) and the permissions are set to 777. The problem that i am having is that when i click submit it comes up to a screen stating You do not have permission to access /zipcodes.cgi on this server. # tree /home/httpd/ /home/httpd/ |-- cgi-bin | `-- zipcodes.cgi |-- html | `-- www | `-- zipcode.html `-- perl `-- cgi.pm My httpd.conf and commonhttpd.conf are attached for info on how i have apache setup. ]# rpm -qa|grep apache|sort apache-1.3.26-6.1mdk apache-common-1.3.26-6.1mdk apache-conf-1.3.26-3mdk apache-mod_perl-1.3.26_1.27-7mdk apache-modules-1.3.26-6.1mdk # rpm -qa|grep perl|sort apache-mod_perl-1.3.26_1.27-7mdk libpgperl-7.2.2-1.2mdk mod_perl-common-1.3.26_1.27-7mdk perl-5.8.0-13mdk perl-Authen-PAM-0.13-3mdk perl-base-5.8.0-13mdk perl-CGI-2.810-3mdk perl-Crypt-SSLeay-0.45-1mdk perl-Data-ShowTable-3.3-7mdk perl-DateManip-5.40-4mdk perl-DB_File-1.804-3mdk perl-DBI-1.30-2mdk perl-devel-5.8.0-13mdk perl-Expect-1.15-2mdk perlftlib-1.2-16mdk perl-GTK-0.7008-24mdk perl-GTK-GdkImlib-0.7008-24mdk perl-GTK-GdkPixbuf-0.7008-24mdk perl-GTK-Glade-0.7008-24mdk perl-GTK-GLArea-0.7008-24mdk perl-GTK-Gnome-0.7008-24mdk perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-3mdk perl-HTML-SimpleParse-0.10-7mdk perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-5mdk perl-IO-stringy-2.108-4mdk perl-IO-Stty-02-2mdk perl-IO-Tty-1.02-3mdk perl-libwww-perl-5.65-4mdk perl-Locale-gettext-1.01-6mdk perl-MailTools-1.47-1mdk perl-MDK-Common-1.0.3-16mdk perl-MIME-tools-5.411-4mdk perl-MP3-Info-1.01-2mdk perl-Msgcat-1.03-12mdk perl-Mysql-1.22_19-5mdk perl-Net_SSLeay-1.18-3mdk perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.80-6mdk perl-PDL-2.3.3-4mdk perl-Term-Readline-Gnu-1.12-6mdk perl-Tk-800.023-9mdk perl-URI-1.20-1mdk perl-URPM-0.70-10mdk perl-XML-Parser-2.31-5mdk perl-XML-Twig-3.05-4mdk TIA Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mysql
[root@rwideman2 root]# mysql -u root mysql ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) It should ask you for a password here (note that it said using password: no). The only reason I know why it wouldn't do so is when you have somewhere defined to use an empty password. Have a look into ~/.my.cnf resp. /etc/my.cnf (if either exists) and look for a line like password= Nope. No files... Regardless, you can force the command to ask you for a password by adding -p: mysql -u root -p mysql WAHO, asked for password. WAHO I am in. [root@rwideman2 root]# mysql -u mysql mysql ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'mysql' Of course, some arbitrary user is not allowed to access the database where the access rights are stored (named mysql). But at least, it let you login. Ye, i was thinkin the password just got totally corrupted then i couldnt do anything the link i had up had on it...nothing worked. [root@rwideman2 root]# mysql --user=mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Same as above, it let you login as user mysql, but you have no right to access the database mysql. This is my 2nd day (yesterday was my first) to mess with MySQLI am definitely on a learning curve with this. I tried the password editing options listed on http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Access_denied.html and still cant fix it. That you have missed the part about --skip-grant-tables apparently? Nope, i tried it, nogo. That is to be expected. Removing MySQL will not remove any database (in order to protect you from data loss) and the access rights are stored in a database. So you are working on the same databases with the same privilege settings. I figured this but wasnt for sure. What do you mean by that? The database *files* should be under /var/lib/mysql. That you have some DB is obvious by the fact that you once managed to login (without any database, you would get something like could not find file 'host.frm as error). Meaning i did NOT create a DB or do ANYTHING except change the root password within MySQL. Its the learning curve kicking in... I tried to verify the files that were installed by: The commands and results you quoted already show that apparently MySQL is installed correctly. You just have problems to login for whatever reason. But see the suggestions above. Is there away to completely remove mysql files and start over? If you de-install MySQL (via rpm) and then also do /var/lib/mysql, /etc/my.cnf and ~/.my.cnf, you should got everything MySQL-related. MMM, will keep this in mind, but dont need it now. Thanks a biggy. Roba Newbie after 3 years. Once a Newbie, Always a Newbie, :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] inetd.conf
/etc/xinetd.conf inetd has changed in recent months. It used to be all configured in inetd.conf/inetd, but it has changed to xinetd.conf/xinetd. Inetd was all a single file, xinetd has separated out each service into its own file in /etc/xinetd.d/ directory. There you will find the samething, just more of it in a more controllable fassion. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] GUI Perl Editor with color coding
I am writing a bunch of perl scripts for setting up on apache on linux. I am currently creating them in windows using editors b/c of the colors of words and such. Is there such a thing for Linux? Obviously it is GUI. I love the EditPlus v2 GUI which is what i am using to do it in windows. Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] services reports failed but working
when i do. #service network restart it will show Shutting down interface eth0[FAILED] Shutting down interface eth1[FAILED] . . . and it will bring up of course but all it says [FAILED] If it never shutdown then it would obviously not start up since it is already started. Have you tried rebooting? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mysql
I just installed 3.23.52 along with the requireds. I logged in and changed the password. Rebooted and now i cant login. [root@rwideman2 root]# mysql -u root mysql ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: NO) [root@rwideman2 root]# mysql -u mysql mysql ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'mysql' [root@rwideman2 root]# mysql --user=mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 9 to server version: 3.23.52 Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql I tried the password editing options listed on http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Access_denied.html and still cant fix it. I removed mysql and installed it again and i am having the same issue. I have NO data, NO DB, nothing. I tried to verify the files that were installed by: [root@rwideman2 root]# rpm -V MySQL-3.23.52-1mdk .M.. c /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql But i have no clue to what this means other than that is the service script. Is there away to completely remove mysql files and start over? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some install disk, choose rescue mode and you can access everything as root. With physical access to a standard PC, everything is possible (within about 15-30 mins), except if you encrypt your filesystems. The only new thing is, that you now have such a rescue disk for MS Windows XP by using a MS Windows 2000 CD, instead of having to make your own one. The greatest linux rescue cd i have found to be at ftp://ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd Yes it is a Redhat disk. Noone knows about this cd. I know about it b/c at Dell Server Support the RH guys told us about this for just in case purposes. It has everything you need on it. Have fun. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless
You can use Knoppix as well. Very easy to get hands on. True, havent tried it yet. Have seen it in Linuxformat the last couple of issues. Isnt there another bootable distro given out by LF lately? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Test
Dont know about others but i miss about 1/5 of the mailing list emails. If you go read through the archives you will notice that you do NOT get a lot of them. I gifured this out about amonth ago. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list
Civileme = expert everyone else(self included) = newbie As always, the = operator flows to the left. SOO true. Thanks civilme for all the help you give. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express
if you do a search on google.com for linux quickcam there is a crap load of info for the express model working fine in linux for about the last 1.5 years Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:25 PM To: MDK Newbie list Subject: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] problems with MySQL and i just installed it
I just installed a crap load of rpms (maybe like 20) to get Mysql installed and updated via rpmdrake. Its running and everything BUT rpm doesnt show it do be installed, nor in rpmdrake. MySQL 3.23.52 was installed at the same time as gmysql too. [root@rwideman2 myproj]# rpm -qa|grep mysql libqt3-mysql-3.1.1-8mdk libmysql10-devel-3.23.52-1.3mdk gmysql-0.3.4-2mdk libmysql10-3.23.52-1.3mdk [root@rwideman2 myproj]# mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 3.23.52 Any thoughts?? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0
I thought this would have been a required package to be installed by default but its not installed. I have been browsing through my RH security book Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed Kabir. I was actually going through the RH8 security section on NFS and it pointed to securing portmon which pointed to tcpwrappers. I then looked in the book to find more detailed info than what i was finding on websites about NFS/tcpwrappers and it showed that xinetd should be compiled running the configure script with --with-libwrap=/usr/libwrap.a. So i looked for the file libwrap.a to see if it was installed and no it was not. I then looked to check to see if tcpd (tcpwrappers) was installed and no it was not. I was wondering why this was so. Any thoughts? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0
I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs... True. But there are still some security measures that you would want to be able to take. Win2k/XP/etc has IIS installed on them to be servers. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sound in MDK9
I have finally installed a soundcard (Live Value) into my linux boxthere is a first for everything. I installed the XMMS rpm and it plays sound fine. The only problem is when i switch to my windows box the windows box plays sound LOUDER than my linux box. I know that when i had windows on box boxes and souncards running in box this box that linux is on played louder then the other box b/c the LIVE card is more amplified than my A7V333 soundcard. Other than on the XMMS display, is there anyother place in linux to adjust the sound like in windows you have the speaker in the system tray AND the volume coming from the program (winamp in this case). I do not see any in the menusconfiguration Any thoughts? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] letting users use root commands
My issue is resolved. i had tried this before but didnt work at the time rpmdrake has 755 permissions on it by default. I had to change this to 775 AND add the user to wheel group. Also i checked the groups out by group username and made sure i was listed as correct Working fine. Thanks for the help Stephen. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] sound in MDK9
In KDE: K - multimedia - sound -kmix. Great, thanks. Working. Now its blowing MS out of the water. Also can be used in Gnome. Just type kmix in the CLI and an icon window opens. Right click it and select configure kmix. Also left click it shows the master volume. Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Update database
I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went wrong? Could it be that I have set it as a user and it needs to be root? This is to update locate's database, not the RPM database. Do you know this? To update RPM's database run rpm --rebuilddb, rpm --initdb to create a new database. Just making sure you know which one your updating. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?
Will there ever be a KDE3.1 version released for 8.x? Get the src files and rebuild them. Rob Even guys that started of with 9.0 now have to be club members to get kde3.1. This is a sad development. I see Mandrake more and more slip away from being a free os distributor. I understand they have difficulties so I payed for a regular membership myself for 2 years in a row now. You get very little with this. But more and more the regular users are left out. This is very sad I find. I starts to stink for $s. Yes, i see this happening more myself. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1
we are not going to read anything from RW that is using so many caps. so there. PPPPpppthst. I am just trying to get others to understand that the link that i send should not be used. Which it seems noone, maybe a very few, are not actually using it. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Tkinter widget layout question
I have ordered books about this, but they take a while before they get here and I would like to get along a little in the mean time. (I know, patience is a virtue. ;) Instead of waiting on them i usually go to BN store or something and read them till i get them. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0
Win2k/XP/etc has IIS installed on them to be serversdo you consider this a good thing? or a secure thing? M$ knows nothing about security. I dont even think its in their dictionary. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] choosing a new hostname
I'm just a desktop user running MDK 9 but I would like to change the hostname that appears by default. [cyberhades@localhost cyberhades]$ Is it possible and easy ? hostname new-hostname will do it until you reboot. If youw ant to change it for good edit /etc/sysconfig/network. Then just service network restart. I have done this many times and it works fine. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Looking for good Mandrake SENDMAIL HOWTO
I just wish the route was shorter. Totally understand that one. I used to be happy with smail, until it started relaying other people's spam. Wow, that sux. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand
If Iraq refuses to comply, then Bush will give him a helping hand. As with many Americans, he has my support. Nuc IRAQ, NUC Iraq, Nuc IRAQ. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] compiling lame
Actually I was raised in Atlanta, GA. I've just lived in TX for 30 years. Came here in my mid 20's after a coupl'a years in Alaska, I doubt I'll ever leave. Ya got'a have soul to live in The Republic of Texas ;) GO GO GO the Lone Star State. Rob Austin, TX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand
Another thing, when is america going to compensate the families of those who died in the terrorist attacks in england at the hands of the IRA which america supported, funded and supplied military weapons to for decades??? When is Germany and the Axis powers from WWII going to compensate the entire world for what they did? Might want to think about that one first. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Update database
I'm running updatedb - is this not right? What are you trying to update? RPM or the locate command DB? From the man page of updatedb: updatedb - update the slocate database The slocate DB is not the same. They have entirely 2 different jobs and functions. locate uses the DB created by updatedb, which is just a small DB of all files on the entire system at the time updatedb was ran. rpm --rebuilddb rebuilds the DB for the RPM's that are installed and everything that is included in rpm files. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com