[expert] authentication and reverse dns lookups

2002-03-12 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi several daemons (mail, ssh, rsh...) take a very long time to authenticate you if the adreess you're connecting from adesn't have reverse dns. in some cases (ssh) it's a feature in the configuration file, but in other cases (imap, pop) there isn't a configuration file, so I guess I have to

Re: [expert] authentication and reverse dns lookups

2002-03-12 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:59:33AM -0600, Michael Viron wrote: imap and pop are controlled via xinetd, so try looking in the /etc/xinetd.conf file. There is also a site at http://www.xinetd.org, which should provide you information on how to disable reverse lookups. thanx, xinetd was a

Re: [expert] Samba file creation problem

2002-02-26 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:28:14AM -0600, Wayne Stout wrote: Greetings, everyone. I've got a strange little problem happening with file creation on one of my Samba servers here. It's 100% repeatable, but makes absolutely no sense to me. I've asked this on the RedHat list, but got no

Re: [expert] Antivirus for Linux

2002-02-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi just out of curiosity, why do you need an anti virus for? if it's a mail server for commercial company then you shouldn't do less then a good commercial anti virus, and if it's for private use, then remember that this anti viruses scans for windows viruses, not linux. you can safely read your

[expert] tcsh question

2002-02-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I'm looking for the tcsh equivalent for this statement in /etc/bashrc: PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne \033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007`. my problem is with the 'echo -ne'. the built-in echo in tcsh doesn't understand '-ne'. does anyone have any ideas about that? (btw, I'm using tcsh on

Re: [expert] LILO error message

2002-02-19 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:11:08AM -0500, Hoyt wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2002 11:45 pm, you wrote: /dev/sda is not on the first disk LILO mini-HOWTO even simpler, man lilo.conf (you can find a description of the problem in one of the files in '/usr/share/doc/lilo...'. if I remember

Re: [expert] Win4Lin + VMWare

2002-02-17 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi for a short time I had on my computer both win4lin and vmware (I've used the updated kernel from win4lin), and I didn't find any limitations. (well, except for too much resources eating :)). Bye -- Haim On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:46:11PM -0500, gikoreno wrote: Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] VPN

2002-02-05 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi you can also try free/swan. at least in mkd8 it was part of the distribution. Bye -- Haim On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:22:19PM -0500, Sesame Galeo wrote: Hi All, For those who are setting up VPN, which software would you recommend to link travellers to an application running on

Re: [expert] proftpd configuration troubles

2001-12-20 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:54:01PM -0500, Theo Brinkman wrote: I'm trying to configure proftpd to allow a user to login to the web server and update files in the web site, but no matter what I try, when I run 'service proftpd start', I get the following error message: Starting proftpd:

Re: [expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS

2001-11-29 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:12:47PM +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: Mandrake 8.1 has been out for a while now.. and I'm curious... I've used ReiserFS for about a year and loved it, when 8.1 came out I was too chicken to try XFS even though it looked like it was better in a lot of ways. Can

Re: [expert] Domino Server on 8.1

2001-10-23 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:11:53PM -0500, Jerry Sommerdorf wrote: Anyone running a Domino server, and if so, any one having problems with it crashing? I'm running RNext Beta3 on Mandrake 8.0 and it's stable enough (considering the beta). do you have any problems on 8.1? please share the

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1/NVidia permission woes

2001-10-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
I'm not sure this is connected but what security level did you choose when you installed mandrake 8.1? I never really searched how it works but mandrake have some scripts that when you login to your computer on X as a regular user, it changes the owner of some devices to your user. so if I

Re: [expert] /etc/shadow

2001-10-05 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
this is strange. I was just going to write a mail to this list about this. it seems that /etc/shadow accepts both crypt passwords (the short passwd) and MD5 passwords. (34 characters with $ and slashes does seem to me like md5). I found this because I was transferring users between servers so I

[expert] 2 questions: urpmi, and gnome problems

2001-10-02 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi well, after a few days of running 8.1 (as desktop, I still have to test it as a server) I must say I'm VERY(!!!) impressed. I didn't like 8.0 (actually this release made me move my servers to debian - it was really unstable and a lot of things didn't work or worked badly). (btw, I DON'T want

Re: [expert] Help with postfix and virtual hosts

2001-10-01 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 06:29:14PM -0400, Dan Axtell wrote: Hello all, a couple of years ago I set up a small server with a few virtual IP address, sort of like: mainone.com -- has a MX record in DNS alternate.org -- has no MX record in DNS. I had set up qmail with virtual hosting and

Re: [expert] NVidia Driver problem (don't work!)

2001-10-01 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi on 8.1 release it works great. I have NVidia GeForce2 MX and I've downloaded the source rpm's and compiled them. Bye -- Haim On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:12:17PM -0700, Clint Olson wrote: Hi, I have Mdk 8.1beta and a GeForce2 MX gfx card. In the past, 8.0 + the NVIDIA

[expert] cleaning DAT tapes

2001-08-17 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've just got an old DAT tape, which I want to see if I can use. I also have a cleaning cassette, but I can't find out how to clean the tape. the only command I know to control SCSI tapes is mt, and there's no clean option there... can anyone please help? Thanks -- Haim Want to buy your

Re: [expert] cleaning DAT tapes - SOLVED

2001-08-17 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
ok, I've found the answer, inserting the cleaning cassette is enough. the cleaning is done automatically. Bye -- Haim On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:38:16AM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've just got an old DAT tape, which I want to see if I can use. I also have a cleaning cassette, but I

Re: [expert] Tuxracer with NVidia drivers on Mandrake 7.2?

2001-05-26 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
happen is that tuxracer won't run. As a rule it's not recommended to do that. do it only if you really know what you're doing, but in this case it's not a problem. Bye -- Haim On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:43:45PM -0400, Michael Leone wrote: On 25 May 2001 21:44:55 +, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi

Re: [expert] Tuxracer with NVidia drivers on Mandrake 7.2?

2001-05-25 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi did you install Nvidia's drivers as rpm or from a tar file? (just for curiousity, if you installed it from rpm try 'rpm -qf /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1'). it doesn't really matter, if that's the only thing missing then just install it with the 'nodeps' option: 'rpm -ivh --nodeps rpm file'.

Re: [expert] remote X Windows?

2001-05-19 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi all Unix's I know of, use that feature. it's a built in feature in Xwindow. on Mandrake it's enables by default (depending on your security settings). if you have two linux machines you can go to another virtual console (ALT F2) and type 'Xwrapper -query hostname display' where hostname is a

Re: [expert] heavy idle system load

2001-04-28 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
not explain why the system load average will not go below 1 even though I started no programs. On my 7.2 box, the load average would be somewhere around 0.06! Why is the load average so high? David Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've already answered this on this list about 4 days ago. search

Re: [expert] heavy idle system load

2001-04-27 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've already answered this on this list about 4 days ago. search in the body of the messages for kapm-idled. On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:26:21PM -0400, David Savolainen wrote: I finally got LM 8.0 running after a fashion. What I see so far is great! My current problem is a heavy system

Re: SV: [expert] ldconfig failed

2001-04-27 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
- Från: Haim Ashkenazi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 26 april 2001 12:32 Till: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Ämne: Re: [expert] ldconfig failed Hi I need something more to work with here. what happens when you run just 'ldconfig' as root? does it happen when your install

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia)

2001-04-24 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi what I meant was that you download the NVIDIA*.tar.gz files. if there isn't direct link to them, there is a link to their ftp so download it from there (read the howto). On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:54:00PM +0200, Erik Günther wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi

Re: [expert] MDK 8 and kernel useage

2001-04-24 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi The process that takes about 50% cpu all the time (that is when the computer is resting) is kapm-idled. I also was alarmed when I saw that the first time, so I searched for it in the kernel mailing list and I've learned that this is an idle process (some unix kernels use this method but

Re: [expert] Software Manager

2001-04-23 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi well, the new software manager has a lot of problems. where is the search in description or file list? but I think the most important problem is the fact that some of the packages only appear in flat mode view. some of the most important ones are: fvwm - my favorite window manager

Re: [expert] kernel-2.2.19 and no ReiserFS support!

2001-04-22 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi go to: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=754mode=threadorder=0 they are explaining how to install 2.2.19 with reiserfs support. On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 07:44:24AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Hello list, Has anyone else noticed this missing from this kernel or am "I" missing

[expert] Mandrake 8.0 rc2 and Fvwm

2001-04-15 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 rc1. haven't had time to play with it (I've only tried Nautilus - being a former Mac user I was curios). the thing that surprised me was that there was no Fvwm rpm. I guess most of Linux users think of it as just an old and ugly window manager, but I think

Re: [expert] Mounting ISO image on loopback device

2001-03-25 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi in order to mount an iso image use this command: mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 iso image mount dir I do it all the time and it always works. On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:27:39AM -0500, Robert Johansson wrote: Hi everyone! I recently downloaded the mandrakefreq ISO and tried to

Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi you didn't change /etc/hosts correctly. first add this line: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost and then add another line with: your real IP Tesla.real.domain Tesla this should solve the problem. On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 08:21:01AM -0600, Sean Armstrong wrote: When I type

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers

2001-02-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I never had a problem compiling the packages. I've used the tar.gz sources and it always compiled without a problem. the only problem I'm having with 0.9-6 is that after removing (renaming) some original messa libraries, the same that I renamed with 0.9-5, every time I run 'ldconfig' (or

Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
putting in a fake IP, but still nothing. Thanks in advance, SA From: Haim Ashkenazi Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please... Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:58:27 +0200 Hi you didn't change /etc/hosts correctly. first add this line

Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

2001-02-18 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
/netword-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0' (again, with the right device), editing it, and then running 'ifdown eth0' and 'ifup etho' (...replace eth0 with the correct device...). I don't remember if it's eth0:0 or eth0:1. try them both. Bye -- Haim On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:01:22AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote

Re: [expert] SAMBA help please.

2001-02-13 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi first, you can check with '/etc/init.d/smb status' to see if they are running (probably not). now go to '/var/log/samba' (as root) and check the logs. chances are that you'll find in the logs why the process doesn't start (e.g. a dns problem). Good Luck On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:50:05AM

Re: [expert] Mandrake boot

2001-02-13 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi what you have to do is to boot from the CD. when the you get the first screen (press F1 for help, Enter for install) press F1 and then write 'rescue' and Enter. when the system is up, mount your '/' partition on /mnt/disk (it's there by default, if not create it) and mount the other

[expert] Default terminal in gnome

2001-02-07 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Does anybody knows how to change the default terminal in gnome to be xterm and not gnome-terminal? I want that every item in the Mandrake-menu that has the 'open in terminal' box checked will open in xterm. Bye -- Haim

[expert] 5Dwm (4Dwm) for Linux

2001-02-04 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I don't know if anybody is excited about this as me but I've just found a sort of Linux porting to the wonderful IRIX 4Dwm. go to http://www.5Dwm.org and have fun. Bye -- Haim

Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web

2001-01-26 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
! Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 PS: The list is MUCH faster lately. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Haim Ashkenazi Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] d/ling docs

Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web

2001-01-25 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I mainly use 2 tools for this. search freshmeat.net for 'Getleft' and 'htmldoc'. the first can download a whole web page including pictures and the second can convert them to postscript or pdf (both from hard disk or directly from the web). On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:11:19PM -0800, Homer

Re: [expert] setting up printers and printing

2000-09-19 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi you do it with remote printer. put the IP in the "remote hostname". as for the "remote queue" I just put my name, and that's it. ofcourse you'll have to give the correct model... Haim