Re: [expert] fstab info for mounting /home to remote nfs

2003-08-30 Thread James Sparenberg
cat /proc/mounts | grep remotehome | awk '{ printf($3) /tmp/var }' One correction the above should have read cat /proc/mounts | grep mydata | awk '{ printf($3) /tmp/var }' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] best Motherboard.

2003-08-30 Thread Bill
Im looking to build another server and need the advice of the list. What would be the best motherboard to use MDK 9.x with? It needs to support dual 2.6gig 478 pin celeron proccessors. SCSI and IDE support No onboard video,lan, or sound. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?

2003-08-30 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 13:51, David Guntner wrote: Hi all, I'm setting up some iptables rules to block certain kinds of packets on my ML 9.1 machine. The man page talks about logging options to have it log to the syslog, but I can't seem to figure out the exact syntax to make it work.

Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?

2003-08-30 Thread Bill
You can look on the web for iptables log which is where I found what I use. -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m limit --limit 10/hour -j LOG --log-prefix IPTABLES UDP-IN: -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp -m limit --limit 10/hour -j LOG --log-prefix IPTABLES ICMP-IN: -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m limit --limit

Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?

2003-08-30 Thread David Guntner
Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 13:51, David Guntner wrote: I'm setting up some iptables rules to block certain kinds of packets on my ML 9.1 machine. The man page talks about logging options to have it

[expert] Cannot get sieve working with cyrus

2003-08-30 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, I'm trying to setup smartsieve for use with cyrus, but I'm going nowhere fast and the sparse documentation that comes with cyrus-sieve isn't helping me :) I don't seem to have SASL working with sieve. In the sieve docs we may find this advice: telnet foobar sieve If your

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-30 Thread Eric Huff
My understanding was that a tutorial was supposed to be an indepth lesson on how to do something like ... oh setup postfix. The HowTo section was supposed to be quick point of info like say how to make a floppy image, or some other quick tip. I see. I don't think we have stuck to

Re: [expert] What Wiki?

2003-08-30 Thread Eric Huff
We have a wiki? What URL? Is there any way we could get stuff like this added to the welcome message? I didn't get any response regarding who to contact for list admin stuff... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What Wiki?

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 7:47 am, Eric Huff wrote: We have a wiki? What URL? Is there any way we could get stuff like this added to the welcome message? I didn't get any response regarding who to contact for list admin stuff... No - I've already explored this. The problem is that if they

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 7:50 am, Eric Huff wrote: My understanding was that a tutorial was supposed to be an indepth lesson on how to do something like ... oh setup postfix. The HowTo section was supposed to be quick point of info like say how to make a floppy image, or some other

RE: [expert] reassigning ports

2003-08-30 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
I did this with an old ISP that blocked port 25. In my case, I had my dynamic dns provider store and forward to my server on an alternate port. I used 1054, but use whatever you'd like. modify /etc/services add a new service (say smtp2) with port 1054. leave smtp at 25 modify

Re: [expert] What Wiki?

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 07:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 7:47 am, Eric Huff wrote: We have a wiki? What URL? Is there any way we could get stuff like this added to the welcome message? I didn't get any response regarding who to contact for list admin stuff... No -

Re: [expert] What Wiki?

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:43:10 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Otherwise, perhaps a few of us could start adding the url to our sigs? Howz this? I'm even giving it more gloss than my own site, which of course is quite appropriate... :-P -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046

Re: [expert] reassigning ports

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 05:08:44 -0700 Brandon Vanderberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: modify /etc/postfix./master.cf not to nitpick...well, okay, to nitpick, but you mean main.cf, no? -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ The farther you go,

Re: [expert] What Wiki?

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 1:38 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:43:10 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Otherwise, perhaps a few of us could start adding the url to our sigs? Howz this? I'm even giving it more gloss than my own site, which of course is quite

[expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the mobo (wrong voltage). The G-Force2 MX-400 is a 2x/4x board. Is it safe to assume that it will have the right voltage, merely falling back to 2x if the mobo doesn't have the later standard agp? Anne -- Registered

RE: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Katinka Mills
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board

RE: [expert] reassigning ports

2003-08-30 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 05:08:44 -0700 Brandon Vanderberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: modify /etc/postfix./master.cf not to nitpick...well, okay, to nitpick, but you mean main.cf, no? -- HaywireMac Nope. master.cf has the lines I wrote about. Brandon Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 3:15 pm, Katinka Mills wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed A

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 3:15 pm, Katinka Mills wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed A

[expert] scanner

2003-08-30 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, I'm trying to get a Microtek Scanmaker E3 working with Mdk 9.1. The scsi modules are loading ok, but neither scannerdrake or xsane will detect the scanner. I had this working with Suse 8.2, same hardware. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan -- Daniel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your

RE: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Katinka Mills
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 11:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 3:15 pm, Katinka Mills wrote:

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-30 Thread Damian Gatabria
El mié, 20-08-2003 a las 16:55, Bryan Phinney escribió: 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?

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 23:50, Eric Huff wrote: My understanding was that a tutorial was supposed to be an indepth lesson on how to do something like ... oh setup postfix. The HowTo section was supposed to be quick point of info like say how to make a floppy image, or some other quick

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-30 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:44, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mié, 20-08-2003 a las 16:55, Bryan Phinney escribió: 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

Re: [expert] What Wiki?

2003-08-30 Thread Eric Huff
Otherwise, perhaps a few of us could start adding the url to our sigs? I didn't even have a sig! This is a great idea, Anne. -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] How to install the 2.6 Kernel

2003-08-30 Thread James Sparenberg
All, Found this one at kernel trap. Someone took the time and effort needed to do a HowTo on migration to the 2.6 kernel. http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799 It includes all upgrade needs on associated software etc. pretty complete. Enjoy! James Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-30 Thread Damian Gatabria
El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 18:24, Jack Coates escribió: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:44, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mié, 20-08-2003 a las 16:55, Bryan Phinney escribió: 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

Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?

2003-08-30 Thread Mark Weaver
David Guntner wrote: Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 13:51, David Guntner wrote: I'm setting up some iptables rules to block certain kinds of packets on my ML 9.1 machine. The man page talks about logging options to have it

RE: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-30 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Damian Gatabria Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 7:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Password Question El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 18:24, Jack Coates escribió: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:44, Damian

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-30 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 04:54, Damian Gatabria wrote: ... Yet, i hate the fact that cracking the admin password in Win2k is harder than in Linux... :o/ Maybe in theory, but I've never had the patience to wait for a john the ripper run to finish on any of my shadow files. If it takes more than a

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-08-30 Thread Mark Weaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the backup files do not fit the packages versions. So I was kinda wondering if there is such thing as a backup where to restore the whole system (including OS itself) you'd put the backup CD in and let it restore installer like. So without having to install linux first.

Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?

2003-08-30 Thread David Guntner
Bill grabbed a keyboard and wrote: You can look on the web for iptables log which is where I found what I use. -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m limit --limit 10/hour -j LOG --log-prefix IPTABLES UDP-IN: Ah, ok. Now I see what I was doing wrong. I am trying to use -j REJECT because I want to

Re: [expert] Cannot get sieve working with cyrus

2003-08-30 Thread Luca Olivetti
Damon Lynch wrote: Any clues as what to do now? Install at least libsasl2-plug-plain (for plaintext sieve authentication). Bye. -- Que les importa a las viudas, a los huérfanos, a los desvalidos si las masacres se hacen en nombre del totalitarismo o en el sagrado nombre de la libertad y la

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-30 Thread Eric Huff
I think it is a result of success that it has become difficult in this way, but to improve it needs a concerted effort. We would probably need some discussion about criteria for grouping things. I would suggest that volunteers start with a copy of the existing full index on a separate

[expert] OT: DNS question

2003-08-30 Thread yankl
Hi All, Question for dns guru If I own a domain yankele.com do I need to get mail.yankele.com register or can I assign it to myself? -- Yankl 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-30 Thread J.C. Woods
Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 04:54, Damian Gatabria wrote Now if you're talking about resetting the password, that's another matter -- piece of cake in either OS, but resetting the password is not something which will go unnoticed by the real admin. Very cool, now will the real

Re: [expert] OT: DNS question

2003-08-30 Thread Bill Mullen
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, yankl wrote: If I own a domain yankele.com do I need to get mail.yankele.com register or can I assign it to myself? If you own yankele.com, you own all subdomains thereof (*.yankele.com), and can create as many of them as you wish. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] OT: DNS question

2003-08-30 Thread J.C. Woods
yankl wrote: Hi All, Question for dns guru If I own a domain yankele.com do I need to get mail.yankele.com register or can I assign it to myself? No, you did not need separate registration for individual machines, as long as you own the domian name. Just make sure you set up the zone

Re: [expert] OT: DNS question

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 16:04, yankl wrote: Hi All, Question for dns guru If I own a domain yankele.com do I need to get mail.yankele.com register or can I assign it to myself? -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Just 'cause

[expert] POSIX Capabilities in out-of-the-box distributions

2003-08-30 Thread Richard Urwin
I am looking into the Linux Capabilities, which have been part of the kernel since 2.2. There was a security hole which was patched in 2.2.19, and they are used throughout the kernel. Because of this hole it is not possible for one process to change the capabilities of a different process, and

Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?

2003-08-30 Thread Bill
Good question. Im still trying to see when I get a droped packet form an ip that I have set to have its packets droped when it trys to connect. Its an email server that has been sending out those .pif virus files. I get logs for everything but havnt seen any that say droped. Maybe someone here