[expert] Mandrake Security SNF

2001-07-20 Thread Philipp Hellmich
Hallo! I have Mandrake Security SNF installed on a test server, now my question: I want to firewall between two lans, but I see only the function to firewall between lan and modem /ISDN /DSL /cable. Are there any functions to firewall and route between two lans? cu Philipp

[expert] Can you believe it?

2001-07-20 Thread Craig Woods
I can Still hacking away at rebuilding the bind 9 src file, I have added openssl-devel, libxml, libxml-devel, numerous updates, and a parser named byacc, and now I am closer than ever. This is what I now get at the end of a very long compile session + cd

RE: [expert] simple vu-meter for linux

2001-07-20 Thread Gregor Maier
You could try xmms with a plugin. But I'm not sure if recording / getting signals from Line In is supported but it's worth a try. www.xmms.org  Gregor On 19-Jul-2001 joy winter wrote: hi all, im searching for a simple vu-meter for the line-input of my soundcard. does anyone heard about a

RE: [expert] Still no luck with bind 9 src rpm

2001-07-20 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
The problem is that many programs rely on libs already installed in the distro or on the developers machine. Since they are releasing this stuff in compiled binary, this doesn't present a big problem... However it bites you when you try to do your own compilations. In this chase you are

RE: [expert] Can you believe it?

2001-07-20 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Hah! An undocumented update to TAR that was available on the developers machine(s). Look at the spec file in /usr/src/RPM/SPECS for the bind program. You can change it there and then use rebuild by using the modified spec file as well. The RPM book explains it. I don't remember the command to

RE: [expert] Can you believe it?

2001-07-20 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
One thing I forgot to mention before. If you grab the tarball and use the ./configure script, it may learn how to deal with the items missing from your computer and go ahead and compile. You should grab the i586.rpm file and see where it would have placed the destination folders, then use the

[expert] no connection to ssh

2001-07-20 Thread Wilfried Weisl
hi, I run a sshd daemon on my mandrake box. when using netstat it shows my that it is listening on ssh port. despite that i can't establish a connection from other hosts to my box. what programs/daemons (firewall) could be responsible for blocking that port? any idea? regards, willi

Re: [expert] linux distribution

2001-07-20 Thread Nicky Peeters
On 2001.07.18 16:18 angela wrote: How is it stablility and security to other distriubution eg: RH, I'm really not qualified to measure up security for Mandrake against other distros so I'm not gonna try ;-) But it all comes down to this : A distribution is only as secure as YOU make it...

Re: [expert] UPS, PowerChute or NUT

2001-07-20 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:42:37 -0700 (PDT) mick tooher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I try to cu to this port I get cu -l /dev/modem cu: creat (/var/lock/TMP000c8b): Permission denied cu: /dev/modem: Line in use Does the UPC software 'stipulate' that /dev/ttyS0 is to be used?? Do you in

[expert] pmfirewall testing?

2001-07-20 Thread Andreas Müller
Hallo all, I've installed pmfirewall and would like to test it, I'm not sure whether all the ports I wanted to close are truely closed. Is there any way .e.g. a website where I could enter my IP and it would scan my host and give me some information? Any other way to accomplish this? I'm

[expert] Horrible Partition Problem

2001-07-20 Thread George Petri
Hello experts! I recently did a reinstall of Mandrake 7.2 (2.2.17 kernel) on my system (with "better" partition sizes etc.). Mysterious things have started happening to my second hard drive (hdb), which contains E: (FAT32), F: (FAT32), /usr (ext2), /home (reiserfs) and a / partition for a

Re[2]: [expert] linux distribution

2001-07-20 Thread Rusty Carruth
Nicky Peeters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're really paranoid you're gonna need to get dirty and fiddle with every port/service/package that poses a possible threat. If you're connected to the internet, its not a question of whether or not you are paranoid, its are you paranoid ENOUGH!

Re: [expert] Can you believe it?

2001-07-20 Thread Julia A. Case
Quoting Craig Woods ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): + cd /var/tmp/bind-root/usr/share/man + tar xjf /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/bind-manpages.tar.bz2 tar: invalid option -- j Try `tar --help' for more information. Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47472 (%install) The j option is so that it can unzip

[expert] CodeWeavers Winr Question

2001-07-20 Thread David Boles
Does anyone know if Quicken 2001, the Windows money app, run under CodeWeavers Wine? If so, how well does it run? -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] My GnuPG Key ID: 78A3ADB0

[expert] problem

2001-07-20 Thread Jawwad Shami
Hello I am kind of new to linux I have a machine which has ftp daemon running(wu-ftpd) with xinetd the default home dir for ftp is /home/username but useres are allowed to go back and changed dir's they are also allowed to go back to any dir like /etc , /usr ,/var etc. I want to remove

wu-ftp setup (was Re: [expert] problem)

2001-07-20 Thread Rusty Carruth
Jawwad Shami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am kind of new to linux I have a machine which has ftp daemon running(wu-ftpd) with xinetd the default home dir for ftp is /home/username but useres are allowed to go back and changed dir's they are also allowed to go back to any dir

[expert] Mandrake SNF - Firewall rules

2001-07-20 Thread st-marleaux
Hello, I´m using Mandrake SNF. I want (need) to use the secure remote client from CheckPoint on my local w2k PC´s. From the CheckPOint documentation I now the following details: TCP: outgoing to 99.99.99.99 port=264 (IP adr. is not the real) UDP: outgoing

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Leone
I prefer linux because windows crashes. You can make linux crash; I have. :-) I've had X crashes; I've had kernel panics; etc. Linux is not totally immune to that stuff; it just happens SO MUCH LESS than Windows. (well, Win9x, anyway - Win2K is pretty damn stable).

Re: [expert] CodeWeavers Winr Question

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Leone
Does anyone know if Quicken 2001, the Windows money app, run under CodeWeavers Wine? If so, how well does it run? Check the database of apps at the CodeWeavers site. If it does run at all, you'd need to have WINE access a real Win9x installation on one of your partitions; it almost certainly

[expert] logrotate doesn't compress logs

2001-07-20 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
Hi! I was configuring some routers to log onto my LM box. That was ok, thanks to Pierre Fortin. Then I realized that my logs weren´t being rotated... so was being overwhelmed by the file sizes... I read how to configure logrotate to do this and now it works too... but the rotated files aren't

[expert] postscript editor?

2001-07-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have been trying to find a graphics app that can actually handle postscript/eps images WELL. I used gtkgraph to produce a plot and regression curve. Problem is, it doesn't appear to allow one to set the output size so it produces a graph that fills the available print space on a page.

[expert] php-bcmath?

2001-07-20 Thread J.P.Pasnak
!, Can anyone point me in the right direction for creating a php-bcmath RPM? I've successfully recompiled php to support bcmath, and then manually added the bcmath.so from a different distro (couldn't find a .src.rpm) but I'm looking for a cleaner solution. Any suggestions? --

[expert] YEA! Success with rebuilding src bind 9 package.

2001-07-20 Thread Craig Woods
Greetings, And to all who helped (Jose S., A.V. Flinsch, kk1, Julia C., Joan T., and, last but not least, Civileme), you made it happen, it is a team success. Thank you so very much. This is open source and open sharing at its best. And, yes kk1, if giving up was an option, we would still be

[expert] CD-Rom problems, after hardware change

2001-07-20 Thread Erik Kaffehr
Hi! I just upgraded my computer, and moved over two harddisks and CD-writer from the old computer. Everything works fine, if the CD-Writer is not connected. If the CD-writer is connected it just hangs after I got printout: Finding module dependencies  [OK] If I remove the CD-Writer it will

Re:[expert] postscript editor?

2001-07-20 Thread kk1
-- Original Message From: Praedor Tempus[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] postscript editor? Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:22:49 -0600 I have been trying to find a graphics app that can actually handle postscript/eps images WELL. I used gtkgraph to

[expert] Scsi Iomega Zip Drive external

2001-07-20 Thread Steve
I decided to put my zip drive from my Mac onto my Linux box. So far I've had it reconized by the system, but I'm unable to mount it. I've downloaded the zip tools for Linux, but am wondering if Mandrake 8.0 w/2.4.3 kernel has drivers for this external device? How do I go about mounting it? --

Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Leone
From: Brandon Caudle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Besides, why use a tarball, if you can get an RPM? If you don't want to use the package manager *when possible*, use Rock Linux. It *only* uses tarballs. Well you would use a tarball because when you compile the source you can compile it the way you

RE: [expert] Scsi Iomega Zip Drive external

2001-07-20 Thread Steve
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Kevin Krieser wrote: You need to have a supported filesystem installed in your Linux computer. I've had good luck with the SCSI ZIP drive under Linux, though I recently moved it to another box because my SCSI chain was too long. But I only used VFAT on it. I just

RE: [expert] Scsi Iomega Zip Drive external

2001-07-20 Thread Kevin Krieser
I figured it was more complicated, since you mentioned a Mac, I figured it may be mac formatted. I just created a /mnt/zip directory, then added to the /etc/fstab the following line: /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat default,umask=0 1 1 Where the sda maps to the lowest IDed SCSI drive. My 2 SCSI hard

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-20 Thread Expert
O sorry, I meant, it crashes by itself, where Linux has far less problems (at least on my end) like win95 gave me. To each their own I say, I just choose to use Linux. On Friday 20 July 2001 12:48 pm, so spoke Michael Leone: I prefer linux because windows crashes. You can make linux crash;

RE: [expert] Scsi Iomega Zip Drive external

2001-07-20 Thread Steve
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Kevin Krieser wrote: I figured it was more complicated, since you mentioned a Mac, I figured it may be mac formatted. I just created a /mnt/zip directory, then added to the /etc/fstab the following line: /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat default,umask=0 1 1 Where the sda maps

[expert] segmentation fault

2001-07-20 Thread Abraham Mandac
I don't know if this is a stupid question: What exactly is a segmentation fault?

Re: [expert] segmentation fault

2001-07-20 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Try http://www.segfault.org ; a great site :) -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Abraham Mandac wrote: I don't know if this is a stupid question:

[expert] Kernel-2.4.3-20mdk build problem

2001-07-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I keep running into this but do not know where to go in xconfig to try to properly set this: /usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `get_pgd_fast': In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/highmem.h:5, from

RE: [expert] Scsi Iomega Zip Drive external

2001-07-20 Thread Kevin Krieser
You need to have a supported filesystem installed in your Linux computer. I've had good luck with the SCSI ZIP drive under Linux, though I recently moved it to another box because my SCSI chain was too long. But I only used VFAT on it. I just checked the 2.4.4 kernels, I don't know about the

Re: [expert] UPS, PowerChute or NUT

2001-07-20 Thread Mike Rambo
mick tooher wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anybody out there has got the APC Back-UPS up and running under mandrake. I tried the red-hat rpms of PowerChute (available from the www.apcc.com) and they loaded nicely in Mandrake 8.0. However the soltware could not communicate with he

Re: [expert] Who's Building Samba 2.2.1a for Mandrake?

2001-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You want the flexibility that RPM doesn't allow? 2 words: Rock Linux On Thursday 19 July 2001 19:14, Brandon Caudle wrote: - Original Message - From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 3:45

Re: [expert] Lack of standards

2001-07-20 Thread Expert
I prefer linux because windows crashes. And it saves keyboards too. On Friday 20 July 2001 06:31 am, so spoke Mark Weaver: And another windows user heard from. Linux does have it ya silly bugger. It's called Find File under the Applications-File Tools-Find Files. Don't you guys bother

[expert] Postfix Nightmare...

2001-07-20 Thread Franki
Hi all, Firstly, as an update, I removed my default domain redirection from virtual, and now I am not getting my mail. I finially bit the bullet and replaced sendmail with postfix.. firstly, good news, it talks to perl scripts exactly as sendmail does, meaning that I have not had to change any

[expert] Supermount and kernel-2.4.6

2001-07-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
Quick question...has supermount support made it into the latest cooker kernel-2.4.6-5mdk? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

[expert] Some gtk apps mess with KDE

2001-07-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am running Mandrake 8.0 + (LM 8.0 with glibc2.2.3, XFree864.1.0, kde2.2 beta and deps). I have been running into a major irritation when running some gtk-based apps. One such app is scigraphica, a scientific plotting app from sourceforge (sorry, I don't have a link as yet...search