Re: [expert] firewall security

2002-03-02 Thread Fedneg
I am using bastille-firewall Scanned my computer in sygatetechcom as you suggest and all UDP ports are closed I configured it with InteractiveBastille -x I don't enter anything for UDP service names or port numbers to allow on public interfaces and let UDP services to block as default (ie 2049

[expert] Privileges troubles

2002-03-02 Thread Molotov
Hello I think my question is some kind of basic, anyway I'm needing some help I use a little script which inits my dxr3 card (NB: Hollywood+) and make it available for MPlayer Two things: 1/ the script calls insmod, so it has to be executed by root 2/ in order to work properly, it must be run

Re: [expert] Privileges troubles

2002-03-02 Thread kwan
On 2 Mar 2002, Molotov wrote: Hello I think my question is some kind of basic, anyway I'm needing some help I use a little script which inits my dxr3 card (NB: Hollywood+) and make it available for MPlayer Two things: 1/ the script calls insmod, so it has to be executed by root 2/ in

Re: [expert] Privileges troubles

2002-03-02 Thread Hoyt
On Saturday 02 March 2002 08:52 am, you wrote: I want my girl-friend to be able to log in and play dvds, but I'd prefer not to give her the root password and ask her to type command lines Tried to give the script SUID flag, owned by root: it is still executed with the end-user privilege

Re: [expert] firewall security

2002-03-02 Thread Lee Roberts
At 11:18 AM 3/1/2002 +0100, Fedneg wrote: I am using bastille-firewall. Scanned my computer in sygatetech.com as you suggest and all UDP ports are closed. That's my point. sygatetech.com shows them closed instead of blocked. sygatetech.com showed some UDP ports open when another port scanner

Re: [expert] Flashing my Video Card

2002-03-02 Thread Jakob Schurdak
Ok i think nobody can help me with my program so i have an other question does anybody know how to directly acces the eeprom? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom

Re: [expert] Flashing my Video Card

2002-03-02 Thread Jakob Schurdak
Ok i think nobody can help me with my program Oh a i ment problem^^^ so i have an other question does anybody know how to directly acces the eeprom? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:44:19 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:34:12 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the question is: Now that I've got things in place, how to I tell Postfix to enable

Re: [expert] Reporting bugfixes, etc, to Mandrake for RPM updates?

2002-03-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Feb 26, 2002 at 06:58:03PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: Does anyone (civilme, maybe? :) know if there's an address to report package bugfixes and so on to? Specifically, Mandrake has supplied Mailman 2.0.6 in a .rpm file. According to the Mailman download page on Sourceforge,

[expert] rpm database

2002-03-02 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
Hi I have just installed the rpm called locals - now my rpm database i f***ed - It will make core dumped if i use rpm --rebuilddb, is there anyway i can manualy edit the database or any other way i can fix this. (reinstalling is not an option) ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars

Re: [expert] Security problem with PHP

2002-03-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Feb 27, 2002 at 07:21:49PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: There doesn't seem to be a list or address to report things like this directly to Mandrake. I'm posting this here in the hopes that one of the Mandrake employees on the list will forward it to the appropriate people within the

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Mar 01, 2002 at 11:44:19AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: So the question is: Now that I've got things in place, how to I tell Postfix to enable authentication? Thanks for pointing this out... gotta look into this SASL; so far, here's a link I just found that might help...

Re: [expert] Kudos

2002-03-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Mar 01, 2002 at 06:02:47PM -0800, James wrote: To the developers at Mandrake Kudo's all around. I just did the Fvh update of php due to the security problem on my all my Mandrake boxes and one of my RH boxes. The update on 7.1 Mandrake went flawlessly as well as 8.1. I'll be a

Re: [expert] Kudos

2002-03-02 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): All, To the developers at Mandrake Kudo's all around. I hate to be pedantic, but kudos is a) singluler b) all lower case. It's from the Greek. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College,

[expert] trouble to start some programs

2002-03-02 Thread marco
Hello folks, I installed the latest filesets for mandrake 82 beta 3 with kernel2418-2 after uprade I cannot start some programs # mc /usr/bin/mc: relocation error: /usr/bin/mc: undefined symbol: g_snprintf # DrakConf /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgdk_imligso1: undefined

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-02 Thread David Guntner
Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri Mar 01, 2002 at 11:44:19AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: postfix/smtpd: fatal: SASL per-process initialization failed postfix/master: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 5476 exit status 1 postfix/master: warning:

Re: [expert] Privileges troubles

2002-03-02 Thread Molotov
Hello, and thanks for your answer. In fact, I solved the problem with sudo on Hoyt's advice. le sam 02-03-2002 à 15:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : First, you can't make a script SUID. As you found out, it won't work. Yes, I've learned it ;-) If you need to make it run after X

Re: [expert] Kudos, Way OT

2002-03-02 Thread ed tharp
I hate to be pedantic, grin ohh sure you just hate it so bad you cann't sleep at night/grin but kudos is a) singluler b) all lower case. It's from the Greek. damn I learn al sorts of stuff from this list Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Kudos

2002-03-02 Thread James
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:04:18 -0800 Deryk Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): All, To the developers at Mandrake Kudo's all around. I hate to be pedantic, but kudos is a) singluler b) all lower case. It's from the Greek. -- |Deryk Barker,

Re: [expert] Privileges troubles

2002-03-02 Thread James
Francois, If your running in KDE (I don't but I have on occasion) there used to be and I believe there still is a start file in kde. An application dropped into this file is supposed to start up with KDE. Could this solve your problem? James On 02 Mar 2002 14:52:21 +0100 Molotov [EMAIL

Re: [expert] rpm database

2002-03-02 Thread James
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 18:50:01 +0100 (MET) Lars Roland Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have just installed the rpm called locals - now my rpm database i f***ed - It will make core dumped if i use rpm --rebuilddb, is there anyway i can manualy edit the database or any other way i can

RE: [expert] Kudos

2002-03-02 Thread Aron Pilhofer
Not to be rude, but... yes, I'd hate for you to be pedantic too. This is an informal list. Let's keep it that way, eh? Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Deryk Barker Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] upper to lower case in directory?

2002-03-02 Thread Michael Holt
Hello all! I've got a directory of mp3's which I stream from my server on an internal lan. I've recorded a great deal of them from my own cd's but some have come from kazaa, etc... I would like to be able to convert the entire directory from upper to lower case, and I have found a

Re: [expert] Beta 3 - ISO buring problems

2002-03-02 Thread Brandon Dorman
I'm the guy that had the, cd burning session from he** as one list member put it. I never got the cd's burnt, but I am going to buy Mandrake 8.2 when it comes out. I have an old phillips 36610. Approaching 3 years old, its a 2x2x4. Unfortunately I went to my bank account and have a lot less

Re: [expert] upper to lower case in directory?

2002-03-02 Thread Dwaine Felch
Try making the changes below and if that helps #!/usr/bin/perl while (ARGV) { $x = $_; tr/A-Z/a-z/; system(mv,$x,$_); } Michael Holt wrote: Hello all! I've got a directory of mp3's which I stream from my server on an internal lan I've recorded a great

Re: [expert] upper to lower case in directory?

2002-03-02 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 Mar 2002 8:07 pm, you wrote: The ways I've found all seem to include the tr command however and it seems to choke on spaces (which I have in my filenames in my mp3 directory). Could someone tell me how to get around this? Search

Re: [expert] Flashing my Video Card

2002-03-02 Thread Ashley Moore
i'm sure you could post on another list that deals with h/w just a suggestion ;) On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 11:22, Jakob Schurdak wrote: Ok i think nobody can help me with my program so i have an other question does anybody know how to directly acces the eeprom?

Re: [expert] Kudos

2002-03-02 Thread J. Craig Woods
Aron Pilhofer wrote: Not to be rude, but... yes, I'd hate for you to be pedantic too. This is an informal list. Let's keep it that way, eh? Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): All, To the developers at Mandrake Kudo's all around. I hate to be pedantic, but kudos is a)

[expert] Softwaremanager

2002-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A few days ago i tried to update a few thing via this Softwaremanager and i noticted this this shitty tool wont start correctly and crashes after reloading tha sources security updates ftp server Why mdk replaces that fine old stable update client from 72 wif this shitty Softwaremanager in 80

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Mar 02, 2002 at 10:46:06AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: postfix/smtpd: fatal: SASL per-process initialization failed postfix/master: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 5476 exit status 1 postfix/master: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup --

Re: [expert] Kudos

2002-03-02 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake J. Craig Woods ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Aron Pilhofer wrote: Not to be rude, but... yes, I'd hate for you to be pedantic too. This is an informal list. Let's keep it that way, eh? Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): All, To the developers at Mandrake