Re: [expert] VNC Server Mandrake Control Center

2002-07-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
msh wrote: I'm running MDK 8.2 and I don't have a /etc//etc/sysconfig/vncservers file Is there anyplace else I should look. that sure sounds like the vnc-server packages are not installed, type: urpmi vnc-server enter -- Alan :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] firewall config?

2002-07-22 Thread Darren King
Didn't there used to be a firewall config utility in Mandrake? I need to open 1 port. Anyone know how to do this form the command line if it can't be done from the control center? Darren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] dhcpd.conf of woe

2002-07-22 Thread Mike Rambo
Jason Guidry wrote:  dhcpd keeps complaing that I have not made a subnet declaration for my the NIC connected to the modem (eth1). I'm obviously not serving connections from this interface, and it isn't listed in dhcpd.interfaces. how do I make a declaration for this interface? is DHCP

Re: [expert] OT: Billing System?

2002-07-22 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Tim, We have been using SQL-Ledger, and found it very good.. http://www.sql-ledger.com , we had looked at about all the other options, can consider this is be one of the better option. Cheers Mark On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 10:25, Timothy R. Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [expert] dhcpd.conf of woe

2002-07-22 Thread Mike Rambo
Jason Guidry wrote:  dhcpd keeps complaing that I have not made a subnet declaration for my the NIC connected to the modem (eth1). I'm obviously not serving connections from this interface, and it isn't listed in dhcpd.interfaces. how do I make a declaration for this interface? is

Re: [expert] dhcpd.conf of woe

2002-07-22 Thread Mike Rambo
Jason Guidry wrote:  dhcpd keeps complaing that I have not made a subnet declaration for my the NIC connected to the modem (eth1). I'm obviously not serving connections from this interface, and it isn't listed in dhcpd.interfaces. how do I make a declaration for this interface? is

[expert] memory problems with pptp-connection

2002-07-22 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi list, have a mdk8.0-box and a pptp-connection. my box is running over 24 hours a day. everytime I'm running Mandrake-Control-Center and there the connection for internet over pptp, the memory becomes slower and slower, equally, if the connection is on or off. After a few hours every action

Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-22 Thread Randy Kramer
James, I have taken the liberty of quoting this post on WikiLearn, at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/preview/Wikilearn/ChrootJail Please see: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/QuotedEmailsLetter regards, Randy Kramer James wrote: In the past script kiddies have used some of the original

Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-22 Thread James Sparenberg
I'm Flattered... to say the least. James On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:55:46 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, I have taken the liberty of quoting this post on WikiLearn, at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/preview/Wikilearn/ChrootJail Please see:

Re: [expert] memory problems with pptp-connection

2002-07-22 Thread James Sparenberg
Hans could you have top running on this box. Then as it starts to slow down, grab a copy of top and post it to the group. Top will tell you what the process is that is consuming more and more memory and CPU kill that process if you can to restore things to normal without a reboot. Again

[expert] Using ipchains to block an address?

2002-07-22 Thread David Guntner
I was checking my logcheck report this morning and found that yesterday, someone actually tried to brute-force attach my FTP server. The attacks all came the same address within .prodigy.net.mx. My first reaction was to put a 551 GO AWAY line into my hosts.deny file for .prodigy.net.mx. But

[expert] mounting win2000 ntfs partitions

2002-07-22 Thread faisal gillani
Well how can i mount my win2000 ntfs partitions ? there arent any ntfs supported partitions in the mount command ? thanks = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better

[expert] Sendmail relaying

2002-07-22 Thread Ryan
If sendmail is denying the relaying on my end, which log file should that deny be in? I've (seemingly) configured pop-before-smtp to authorize relaying after someone logs in with their pop account but I still get denied type messages on the client end. I am trying to figure out if my work is

Re: [expert] X over SSH

2002-07-22 Thread kwan
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Chuck Lalli wrote: Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I get the same result: xterm Xt error: Can't open display: simplesolutions.com:10.0 Take a look at your sshd_config on the remote server and make sure that it is allowing X11 forwarding. Want to buy your Pack

[expert] Screen capture - XawTV WebCam problem

2002-07-22 Thread Sevatio
I'm able to use XawTV and see through my webcam. However, when I try to do a screen capture, the images I get has a bunch of squiggly horizontal lines in it. I'm able to get screen captures from my tv card but not webcam. Is there a solution to this weirdness? Thanks, S Want to buy

Re: [expert] Using X over SSH

2002-07-22 Thread Rob Gillen
You might want to try removing those lines in your hosts.allow on your RedHat machine and replace it with only this line: sshd : ALL That will allow TCP connections to sshd on all of your network interfaces. Of course, if you want to limit SSH connections to only those from caltig, then you

Re: [expert] mounting win2000 ntfs partitions

2002-07-22 Thread Todd Lyons
faisal gillani wrote on Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:49:33AM -0700 : Well how can i mount my win2000 ntfs partitions ? there arent any ntfs supported partitions in the mount command ? mkdir /mnt/whatever mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/{devicename} /mnt/whatever You cannot mount ntfs as read-write, only

Re: [expert] mounting win2000 ntfs partitions

2002-07-22 Thread civileme
faisal gillani wrote: Well how can i mount my win2000 ntfs partitions ? there arent any ntfs supported partitions in the mount command ? thanks = *^(o)?., ??,.?^(o)*???*? Allah-hu-Akber*^(o)?., ??,.?^(o)*??*? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo!

[expert] Kernel 2.5?

2002-07-22 Thread PlugHead
Just out of idle curiosity, has anyone got the 2.5 kernel working with MDK? If so, what's involved? Are we talking about just building the kernel, or does everything else have to be rebuilt from source? (And how much just doesn't work?) Finally, anyone know if/when 2.5 might find it's way

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.5?

2002-07-22 Thread civileme
PlugHead wrote: Just out of idle curiosity, has anyone got the 2.5 kernel working with MDK? If so, what's involved? Are we talking about just building the kernel, or does everything else have to be rebuilt from source? (And how much just doesn't work?) Finally, anyone know if/when 2.5 might

[expert] users can't check their quota (from newbie list)

2002-07-22 Thread gikoreno
Hey everyone, I am posting this question, cause I haven't had any replies to it on the newbie list, I hope it's ok. I am running LM 8.2, and all my partitions are XFS. I am also running the system with msec level 5. The machine's Kernel is : kernel-secure-2.4.18.8 Today I setup quotas for my

Re: [expert] Using ipchains to block an address?

2002-07-22 Thread Michael Viron
Actually, if you want it to survive a reboot, put the line, minus the ipchains into /etc/sysconfig/ipchains. You can specify netblocks by doing something like 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 or /24. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer General Education Online

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-22 Thread g
Alexander Skewer wrote: et wrote: Western Digital does NOT support linux, the newer drives (ata100) do NOT do proper CRC error checking, does and will not warrenty any drive used in Linux for problems with any filesystem other than fat16, NTFS, fat32, ok, et, who does warranty hdd in

Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?

2002-07-22 Thread g
Randy Kramer wrote: Thanks, looks like it didn't make any difference in this case (looks like the search doesn't recognize and or or as combining words. In other words, the and is implied. So, dropping the saves some typing. some search sites respect boolean in uppercase. peace out,

[expert] OS's in space

2002-07-22 Thread James Sparenberg
Kirk's mind raced as he quickly assessed his situation: the shields were down, the warp drive and impulse engines were dead, life support was failing fast, and the Enterprise was plummeting out of control toward the surface of Epsilon VI and, as Scotty and Spock searched frantically through the

Re: [expert] mounting win2000 ntfs partitions

2002-07-22 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:04:59 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: faisal gillani wrote: Well how can i mount my win2000 ntfs partitions ? there arent any ntfs supported partitions in the mount command ? thanks = *^(o)?., ??,.?^(o)*???*? Allah-hu-Akber*^(o)?.,