Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 22:29, David Guntner wrote: Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I don't think that will work as you'll need to be root to chroot IIRC. What you could do is write a script that does the chroot and call it via sudo, then do something like /usr/bin/sudo

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-20 Thread me
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 07:50 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: That also means that I have never been able to use the RAID controller as even standard ATA controllers either, just enabling them in the BIOS causes a kernel panic on boot. Looking back at the logs, it is trying to initialize the 366

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-20 Thread me
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 12:33 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:51 am, Felix Miata wrote: I looked at mandrakeuser.org and tldp.org and found nothing on this subject. Before I go looking anywhere else for non-Mandrake-specific coverage of this subject, anyone here know

Re: [expert] Multi-page tifs

2003-08-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 22:23, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 1:41 am, James Sparenberg wrote: just curious here. But couldn't kfax read them? (dunno don't have a dialup modem.) Aren't simple answers always the best? I'd never tried kfax. I had to hunt to find it. I

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:55, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:51 am, Felix Miata wrote: I looked at mandrakeuser.org and tldp.org and found nothing on this subject. Before I go looking anywhere else for non-Mandrake-specific coverage of this subject, anyone here know of

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 20:31, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:33 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: I have a Hpt372 on my motherboard and had to turn it off in the BIOS since with standard 9.1, it causes a kernel panic that kills Mandrake. I did recompile the kernel with the Highpoint

Re: [expert] brouser gets redirected

2003-08-20 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 05:39, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with mozilla,netscape and konqueror getting redirected to bad sites when visiting certain sites such a bandwidthplace.com. No problem with galeon. I,ve tried

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-20 Thread Dick Gevers
Hi Jim and others, On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:32:34 -0700, Jim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake: There is an interesting article in Linux Magazine's June edition that may pertain to this. The subject is a project called RULE (Run

[expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-20 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:45:28PM +, Dick Gevers wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:01:15 +0800, Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about RE: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake: Besides, what is the big deal? you can pick up a second hand 15 inch monitor for about 30

Re: [expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-20 Thread Dick Gevers
Hi Thomas, On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:21:58 +0200, T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake: The size of the monitor does not necessarily have anything to do with the resolution. My first 14 bought in 1992 went right up to 1024x768 and

[expert] Wacom tablets and linux

2003-08-20 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I just installed in my Palm IIIc the opensource utility palmwac that turns the Palm into a Wacom (UD series) tablet. Is there a way to have MDK 9.1 automatically recognize it and set the XF86Config-4 file? Thanks Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 09:36 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dirty fix chmod /etc/resolv.conf to 444 (read only) and see what it is that complains when it can't write to the file. Thanks all, I found the solution. It turns out that the tmdns stuff that Mandrake loads for zeroconf is the

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-20 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 09:52 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Could be a BIOS version. On you on the latest. First thing that I did when I had problems was update the BIOS. No, I can clearly see the error where Linux is trying to load the 366 hpt driver when it detects the controller. I did a lot

[expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-20 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:34:10AM +, Dick Gevers wrote: Aha, I wasn`t aware of that. I thought it was all proportional and I can`t accomodate a larger box between my keyboard and the wall. I just noticed that you're also in the Netherlands. Have a look at www.marktplaats.nl and

[expert] Re: brouser gets redirected

2003-08-20 Thread Alex Fisher
Daniel Anderson wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 05:39, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with mozilla,netscape and konqueror getting redirected to bad sites when visiting certain sites such a bandwidthplace.com. No problem

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-20 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 02:45 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I also have a Highpoint controller and my Raid array is on itworking flawlessly under 9.1. The Highpoint controllers provide better performance than a standard set of IDE channels. They also leave your standard IDE channels open

Re: [expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-20 Thread Dick Gevers
Hi Thomas, On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:25:08 +0200, T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake: I just noticed that you're also in the Netherlands. Have a look at www.marktplaats.nl and computer.2dehands.nl, both excellent sites to find

[expert] XMMS crashing

2003-08-20 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hi guys I have this weird problem with XMMS. It crashes on one of my PC's with specific mp3 files, which is identical in installation to the other one. No special message is given. The system runs Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3tex. Packages installed (on both systems) are: xmms-1.2.7-18mdk

[expert] Password Question

2003-08-20 Thread Lawson, Jim
Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? James S. Lawson Network Administrator (@ @)

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-20 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? James S. Lawson Network Administrator The only way that I

Re: [expert] 2.4.21-0.25 hates my thinkpad

2003-08-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I actually have now tried and failed to build kernel-2.4.22-0.6mdk (from cooker). I upgraded kernel-utils (built from source rpm so it would be cool with MDK 9.1) and then tried building the kernel. No go. First off, xconfig doesn't work so I had to go with menuconfig (no problem with

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread Mark Williamson
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:35, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Phinney wanted us to know: I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks. It appears that my /etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting built with 127.0.0.1 as the first name server.

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-20 Thread Mike Veltman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 16:55, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-20 Thread Jack Coates
trinity rescue kit I love it. On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 07:24, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? James S. Lawson Network

[expert] urpmi dependancies issues?

2003-08-20 Thread Albert E. Whale, CISSP
I wanted to install a few LDAP packages on my 9.1 server. Here's what I got. urpmi pam_ldap perl-ldap openldap-clients openldap-back_passwd apache2-mod_ldap php-ldap ldapdns mod_auth_ldap openldap-guide openldap-back_sql courier-imap-ldap nss_ldap freeradius-ldap openldap openldap-servers The

Re: [expert] Re: brouser gets redirected

2003-08-20 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 06:29, Alex Fisher wrote: Dan Dan, I get the site. Are you sure you don't have a bug in the works. I'd do some checking. (running mozilla 1.4 from texstar here.) James James, I have mozilla 1.3.1-4.1mdk and netscape 7.0-2tex on this

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-20 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:55 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: You have to re boot with disk1 of your Mandrake install disks and type rescue. Then when the system comes up you will need to remount the partition that has your /etc dir on it in read/write mode. Go in to the /etc dir and edit the

Re: [expert] 2.4.21-0.25 hates my thinkpad

2003-08-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually have now tried and failed to build kernel-2.4.22-0.6mdk (from cooker). I upgraded kernel-utils (built from source rpm so it would be cool with MDK 9.1) and then tried building the kernel. When you

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-20 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:50, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Aug 19, 2003 at 07:31:02PM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process (Neverwinter Nights, if it matters :). I don't know if it's possible for a remote user to crash

RE: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-20 Thread Lawson, Jim
thanks for everyones answer. Looks like linux is way more secure than windoz. -Original Message- From: Bryan Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Password Question On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am,

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-20 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:55, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it? James

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:31, Mark Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:35, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Phinney wanted us to know: I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks. It appears that my /etc/resolv.conf file keeps

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 11:31 am, Mark Williamson wrote: Just a quick note on this.. I find it better to run the command service tmdns stop then chkconfig --del tmdns as if tmdns was removed with rpm -e it gets installed and enabled again, when one configures their network with

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-20 Thread Jim C
Thanks very much for your answer. Unfortunately I was unable to find it in the June issue table of contents, nor via search at linux-mag.com http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-06/toc.html Would you happen to have a closer reference? Thanks very much beforehand. Thanks also for the encouraging replies

[expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
I see that on the GM webpages there are rpms for a version later than that included in 9.1 The packages offered are gnomemeeting-0.98.0-1js.i586.rpm openh323-1.12.0-1.i586.rpm pwlib-1.5.0-1.i586.rpm Has anyone installed these? Should I expect any problems? I imagine I should

Re: [expert] Re: brouser gets redirected

2003-08-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:39, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 06:29, Alex Fisher wrote: Dan Dan, I get the site. Are you sure you don't have a bug in the works. I'd do some checking. (running mozilla 1.4 from texstar here.) James James, I

Re: [expert] XMMS crashing

2003-08-20 Thread kwan
mpg123 on that system plays them fine, but says (on both systems): Playing MPEG stream from Ronan Keating - InThisLife.foutemp3 ... Junk at the beginning 49443303 MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo A lot of my MP3 files have this problem, but they have always played fine (they

Re: [expert] urpmi dependancies issues?

2003-08-20 Thread Albert E. Whale, CISSP
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:38:19 -0400 Albert E. Whale, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what am I missing here? Sounds like you have may have Sources other than for 9.1 defined. Charles No, I don't have non 9.1 Sources listed. Besides the Installation CDs,

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 04:17, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 09:36 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dirty fix chmod /etc/resolv.conf to 444 (read only) and see what it is that complains when it can't write to the file. Thanks all, I found the solution. It turns out that the

Re: [expert] Re: brouser gets redirected

2003-08-20 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:20, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:39, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 06:29, Alex Fisher wrote: Dan Dan, I get the site. Are you sure you don't have a bug in the works. I'd do some checking. (running

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread Jim C
Just a quick note on this.. I find it better to run the command service tmdns stop then chkconfig --del tmdns as if tmdns was removed with rpm -e it gets installed and enabled again, when one configures their network with drakconf.. It's just better to switch it off.. When it is just switched

[expert] memtest86 other hardware testing utilities

2003-08-20 Thread Jim C
I've been looking for hardware testing utilities like memtest86. It looks really great. Subsequent searches also lead me to http://www.utilitygeek.com/ Good stuff but it is Windows stuff. Anybody know where I can find a Linux based hardware utilities site with goodies like this? Sure would

[expert] [OT] Microsoft advocates OSS

2003-08-20 Thread Guy Van Sanden
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=MICROSOFT-1BLK,65.52.0.0,65.55.255.255 This is an uptime report for the enitre Microsoft netblock, they sure are using a lot of Linux and FreeBSD (not to mention moving a lot of their sites to akamai on Linux). But the funniest part are the average

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 6:10 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:55, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or

Re: [expert] [OT] Microsoft advocates OSS

2003-08-20 Thread chort
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 13:46, Guy Van Sanden wrote: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=MICROSOFT-1BLK,65.52.0.0,65.55.255.255 This is an uptime report for the enitre Microsoft netblock, they sure are using a lot of Linux and FreeBSD (not to mention moving a lot of their sites to

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:21:48 -0700 Jim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll second this. I sure would like to know what it is good for. It must be good for something. And Why was it necessary to make it as the default in All network set-ups? Charles -- Be careful how you get yourself

Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

2003-08-20 Thread Dick Gevers
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:42:01 -0700, Jim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake: Lessee... It is the English (and therefore European) version... June 2003 Page 88. Article title is Run modern software on older computers; Linux on a diet

Re: [expert] [OT] Microsoft advocates OSS

2003-08-20 Thread Jim C
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=MICROSOFT-1BLK,65.52.0.0,65.55.255.255 This is an uptime report for the enitre Microsoft netblock, they sure are using a lot of Linux and FreeBSD (not to mention moving a lot of their sites to akamai on Linux). But the funniest part are the average

Re: [expert] urpmi dependancies issues?

2003-08-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:27:52 -0400 Albert E. Whale, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides that, the original Error was about the following: The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: bind-9.2.2-1mdk (due to conflicts with bind) caching-nameserver-9.0-2mdk (due to

[expert] Mandrake RULE involvement Was: Worried about resolution...

2003-08-20 Thread Jim C
I really would like to see Mandrake get involved with the RULE (Run Up-to-date Linux Everywhere ) poject. It would also really click with the CLIC project. ;-) [place wince here] One of the bigest problems we had with our cluster was with trying to use out-of-date hardware with modern

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-20 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:31, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 6:10 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:55, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz

[expert] Dynamic DNS service provider

2003-08-20 Thread Miark
I need to choose one, but I'm not sure _how_ to go about it. All all the features pretty much the same from provider to provider? Any recommendations? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dynamic DNS service provider

2003-08-20 Thread Jason Greenwood
http://www.dyndns.org/ Have several friends who use and swaer by their service. Cheers Jason Miark wrote: I need to choose one, but I'm not sure _how_ to go about it. All all the features pretty much the same from provider to provider? Any recommendations? Miark

Re: [expert] memtest86 other hardware testing utilities

2003-08-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 13:15, Jim C wrote: I've been looking for hardware testing utilities like memtest86. It looks really great. Subsequent searches also lead me to http://www.utilitygeek.com/ Good stuff but it is Windows stuff. Anybody know where I can find a Linux based hardware

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 02:29 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: What it is, is a re-implementation of Novel Network. And is supposed to be (according the the website I was directed to by someone) in very alpha form. As for the why. After watching the list on 9.1, I got the feeling that they

Re: [expert] Dynamic DNS service provider

2003-08-20 Thread Albert E. Whale, CISSP
Miark wrote: I need to choose one, but I'm not sure _how_ to go about it. All all the features pretty much the same from provider to provider? Any recommendations? Miark Mairk, Agreed that DynDns.org is good, I am also running that tools, and supplying the SPAM Fitlering/Web Hosting

Re: [expert] memtest86 other hardware testing utilities

2003-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:15 pm, Jim C wrote: I've been looking for hardware testing utilities like memtest86. It looks really great. Subsequent searches also lead me to http://www.utilitygeek.com/ Good stuff but it is Windows stuff. Anybody know where I can find a Linux based hardware

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting

2003-08-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 03:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I see that on the GM webpages there are rpms for a version later than that included in 9.1 The packages offered are gnomemeeting-0.98.0-1js.i586.rpm openh323-1.12.0-1.i586.rpm pwlib-1.5.0-1.i586.rpm Has anyone installed

[expert] Switching from Apache2 to apache_mod_perl-1.3.27

2003-08-20 Thread Albert E. Whale, CISSP
I've not been able to successfully receive a subscription from the ADVX-Users list yet, so I figured that I would field the question here. I have both the Apache2 and apache-mod_perl-1.3.27_1.27-7mdk packages installed. I need to run the apache_mod_perl server instead of apache2. Due to

Re: [expert] Re: Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:03, stefmit wrote: You haven't seen my post from Sunday, with all relevant links, have you? http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ -- link to source inside this article, worth reading, anyway, which is why I won't give the direct link ;) Stef No I hadn't

[expert] make bzImage error

2003-08-20 Thread a . ranu
hi... i am running kernel 2.4.19 but need to downgrade to 2.4.18 to run an application... installing the kernel source (linux-2.4.18.tar.gz) did not produce any errors... so i did a 'make dep' and 'make clean' and while executing 'make bzImage', it says smpboot.c:65: conflicting types for