Re: [expert] Color with echo in shell script

2003-11-14 Thread J.C. Woods
Jean-Pierre Denis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, jipe wrote: menuA[1]="$(echo -e " \e[1;34;46m-1-\e[0m\tCopy /etc/dhcpd.conf")" I would like to get more details on how to display color in shell script and on terminal. I understand that 34 and 46 are the color. How do

Re: [expert] chkrootkit and mailing results to root

2003-11-12 Thread J.C. Woods
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:14 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: As for the Mandrake mail servers, they are simply setup with the "smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unknown_client" param. And what the hell does this mean? It means, for one thing, you must have rD

Re: [expert] chkrootkit and mailing results to root

2003-11-12 Thread J.C. Woods
Bryan Phinney wrote: > He is running Postfix, the problem is that the Mandrake Mailing list does not like messages that are bounced through local mail servers for some reason. It rejects mine the same as his even though I use a smarthost to relay my messages so that they pass through my ISP ma

Re: [expert] Nows the time to Move.

2003-11-04 Thread J.C. Woods
Brian V Bonini wrote: OK, Guess what RH9 is the last Redhat distro to be released. At least as a free OS. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1371164,00.asp For the article. After next summer they will no longer support or release patches for RH. I think someone sent me a link

Re: [expert] Firewall questions

2003-10-30 Thread J.C. Woods
Anne Wilson wrote: Currently I rely on a hardware firewall, but I would like to add a personal software firewall. I know that I will need a slice of time to do sufficient reading to get the configuration right, so I thought that I would browse using Webmin to see what I needed to know, partic

Re: [expert] Interesting wireless driver tool

2003-10-29 Thread J.C. Woods
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just came across a message posted to the wlan-ng list. There is a company out there called "Linuxant" and they have released "Driveloader", a windoze driver compatibility layer and installer. Here is the info from their p

Re: [expert] 9.2 made slashdot

2003-10-25 Thread J.C. Woods
David Guntner wrote: KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/1737244 I get "Page cannot be displayed." --Dave Well you might not want to read what it has to say. While it reads of a less than auspicious beginning for Mandrake 9.2.,

Re: [expert] [OT] Geomagnetic storm alert

2003-10-24 Thread J.C. Woods
Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: HaywireMac wrote: Anyhow, it does turn out we have a case of mismatched terminology here, the *charged particles* in the solar wind can take days to reach the Earth, whereas, of course, the actual EM radiation only takes minutes. Actually, the "charged particles" that Fo

Re: [expert] is it possible for cracker to cover his track?

2003-10-23 Thread J.C. Woods
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:48 pm, Jack Coates wrote: .bash_history is cake; just kill -9 your own session instead of using logout or exit. wtmp is harder, that'll involve editing the logfiles. BTW, ssh has its own access lo

Re: [expert] msec and Directory permissions......

2003-10-23 Thread J.C. Woods
Ralph C wrote: Hi all, I have Bynari Insight Server installed and it installs everything inside /opt/is4/ directory as a chroot jail, where it runs it's own services like Postfix, Apache, Proftpd, etc... msec is changing the permissions. I need to make msec skip this directory and all sub dirs. H

Re: [expert] mandrake 9.2 freeswan problem

2003-10-22 Thread J.C. Woods
jakub urban wrote: hi all i have problem with ipsec on mandrake 9.2 kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk and freeswan-2.01-1mdk, when i start ipsec, i've got this error message 22 11:56:06 barbucha ipsec_setup: /usr/lib/ipsec/eroute: pfkey write failed, returning -1 with errno=22. any idea? thanks jaku

Re: [expert] Lecteur CD tue par l'install 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread J.C. Woods
TAMONE Francois - System Engineer wrote: Bonjour, L'installation de Mandrake 9.2 depuis le CD no 1 a rendu inopérant le lecteur de CD (IDE) de mon pc. Il s'agit d'un Dell Optiplex gx270 tout neuf. La BIOS du PC rapporte "Unknown device" pour le controlleur/slot concerné par le lecteur de CD alor

Re: [expert] (Solved) e2fsck -b 8193 won't help!

2003-10-20 Thread J.C. Woods
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 9:39 am, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello Just to say that I fixed the problems of resizing ext3 partitions with Partition Magic 8. Linux asks for e2fsck -b 8193 but the correct command for 4k filesystem is e2fsck -b 32768 in case someone else r

Re: [expert] test message

2003-10-17 Thread J.C. Woods
James Sparenberg wrote: I think it went dead again. Man what a week first we lose Texstar and now the list. Brother, you have not lost us. We are still here, and loving you as much today as we did yesterday ( which might not be saying to much). drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX Network/System Engi

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread J.C. Woods
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is nothing there. No locks, nothing. It would appear that however many there were (perhaps a total of 5 or 6 total, counting my numerous test messages to myself as one distinct message). My next task is to ensure tha

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread J.C. Woods
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 10 October 2003 09:36 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:34:38 -0400 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: Considering the effects of compromised home computers running XP on the'net, I would like to start a campaign to essentially "lock out"

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread J.C. Woods
Miark wrote: This may be just me, but "locking out" anybody based on their browser is not a tactic that is compatible or consistent with the Open Source way. In fact I think it's below us. We should be taking the high road and setting an example cuz 1) that's the quality of people we want to be.

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread J.C. Woods
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 10 October 2003 08:46 am, HaywireMac wrote: How would one configure Apache so that anyone using IE would be met with a "nice friendly message" that they are not welcome? Considering the effects of compromised home computers running XP on the 'net, I would like to sta

Re: [expert] nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x in asus 9180se

2003-09-30 Thread J.C. Woods
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have ASUS 9180SE AGP 8x video card 64MB ram (nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] rev 162). I have edited /etc/XF86Config-4 for driver as nvidia instead of nv. I get X OK with driver from nvidia site. But I have following lines in dmesg. 0: nvidia: loading NVIDI

[expert] Time to clean up your act, Mandrake.

2003-09-28 Thread J.C. Woods
Okay, others have mentioned it, and I will chime in as well. Hey, Mandrake, it is in the hope that you will fix the situation. We are missing out on receiving mail with your broken mail servers Sep 28 04:19:39 sherman named[23005]: lame server resolving '176.180.67.80.rev.lost-oasis.net' (i

Re: [expert] vi editor

2003-09-28 Thread J.C. Woods
James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:17, lorne wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:41 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: Nothing better than a "vi cheatsheet"! It just so happens I have such a page running on my apache server. It has all the shortcuts outlined in brevit

Re: [expert] vi editor

2003-09-27 Thread J.C. Woods
Phil G. wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 08:30:48 -0700 (PDT), Terje Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 05:43 pm, Terje Heen wrote: > Hi there. > How to edit the lilo.conf with vi?? > Can not seem to save the read only file > (not fami

Re: [expert] Machine Name resolution

2003-09-24 Thread J.C. Woods
James D. Parra wrote: Hello, We're having trouble getting machine name resolution from an DNS server. If we try to ping, for example, a machine named Mach1, we get an "unknown host Mach1" error. If we ping the FQDN, Mach1.domainname.com, we get resolution. Oddly, windows boxes can resolve the mac

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.2

2003-09-23 Thread J.C. Woods
ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 09:35, Lawson, Jim wrote: Request that prelude be put back in Mandrake 9.2 James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 A little late for that bud,,, but you 'should'

Re: [expert] please ignore

2003-09-19 Thread J.C. Woods
Richard Bown wrote: Uhmm , it took 3mins, so it works :)) On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 21:11, Richard Bown wrote: Sorry guys, its a test to see if my postings are getting to the list server. I suspect not :( sent at 2010 UTC Here is a test right back at you so that I may test the same functional

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-10 Thread J.C. Woods
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 03:49 pm, Molotov wrote: Hello list Sorry if I'm disturbing you with an already-solved problem. This is about 3D acceleration support with mdk 9.1 and a GeForce 4 MX 440. François If you ran the NVidia inst

[expert] Question for the willing (MandrakeSoft)

2003-09-08 Thread J.C. Woods
And, yes, I do hope you are willing. Does anyone know what kernel version will be included with the final release of LMDK9.2? I am still waiting for AGP version 3.0 kernel support (AGPGART for 8X cards), and I *understand* kernel 2.5 will have it (I could be wrong about this). I have found one

[expert] Questions for the willing (MandrakeSoft)

2003-09-08 Thread J.C. Woods
And, yes, I do hope you are willing. Does anyone know what kernel version will be included with the final release of LMDK9.2? I am still waiting for AGP version 3.0 kernel support (AGPGART for 8X cards), and I *understand* kernel 2.5 will have it (I could be wrong about this). I have found one

Re: [expert] Change HD speed depending on HD temperature and system load

2003-09-04 Thread J.C. Woods
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I noticed hdparm is able to change the acoustic management value of HD (-Y flag) and my HD (IBM 60GXP 40 GB) is able to report it's temperature (I use hddtemp), so I decided it could be neat to have a script to set the HDspeed automatically, for example every 15 minutes.

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 files

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" a

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-29 Thread J.C. Woods
ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 12:30, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** J.C. Woods Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:18:34 -0500 : So are we all happy now? No. Weather is cloudy, I haven't picked the right lottery numbers, one memory slot of my laptop is gone, and there's no more b

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-28 Thread J.C. Woods
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Thanks Carroll, I got my own message too. On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2003 08:50 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! It's more a test. I know that my e-mail to this list is going because I got answers bu

Re: [expert] Perl question - include?

2003-08-24 Thread J.C. Woods
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 12:56 am, Ron Stodden wrote: I am well aware.    The rule is that if the message I am replying to is in HTML, then my response to it will be in HTML, so the parent message integrity is preserved.  That was my deliberate choice of ac

Re: [expert] [OT] Microsoft advocates OSS

2003-08-21 Thread J.C. Woods
Jim C 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 akamai on Linux). But the funniest part are

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-06 Thread J.C. Woods
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: For the copy of Mandrake you now have. Wait...check that: it's $1399.00 for every CPU that's running a copy of kernel 2.4 or above. Who's ready to pay? SCO ready to clean out Linux users for $1399 per CPU By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Posted: 05/08/2003 at 21:35 GM http://www.th

Re: [expert] samba probs again

2003-07-30 Thread J.C. Woods
Richard Bown wrote: Thanks James, log.smbd showed this:- [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0] smbd/server.c:main(707) smbd version 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002 [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0] smbd/server.c:main(751) standard input is not a socket, as

Re: [expert] Apache-mod_perl (ADVX v2)

2003-07-24 Thread J.C. Woods
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: J.C. Woods wrote: In starting to work with ADVX, version 2, I have noticed that the "httpd-perl" daemon does not run as a separate process, as it does in the older versions of 1.3.xx. Does this mean that the apache-mod_perl is not needed, or not in use, in

Re: [expert] vnstat & cron

2003-07-24 Thread J.C. Woods
Check out your environment for the cron user. Most likely it is different from what your environment is when your run it from a shell. drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX Network/System Engineer http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.htm Let him that would move the world, first move himself. -- Socrates B

[expert] Apache-mod_perl (ADVX v2)

2003-07-23 Thread J.C. Woods
In starting to work with ADVX, version 2, I have noticed that the "httpd-perl" daemon does not run as a separate process, as it does in the older versions of 1.3.xx. Does this mean that the apache-mod_perl is not needed, or not in use, in version 2 or should "httpd-perl" be running as a separat

Re: [expert] [OT] Microsoft is a platinum sponsor for LinuxWorld Malaysia 2003 - eh?

2003-07-22 Thread J.C. Woods
James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 10:26, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:11:56 -0700 Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: Actually they probably *do* want to find a way to cooexist. Perhaps they can see the writing on the wall and have decided that cooexitance is better

Re: [expert] VPN client

2003-07-18 Thread J.C. Woods
Albert Charron wrote: Hi there. On my home computer, I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.1. My question is quite simple, so I'll go to it directly... Is there a VPN Client for Linux? I ask this because I often need a VPN connection when I work from home. For now, the only way I know is to reboot in

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-17 Thread J.C. Woods
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I've got one now in my hand. The magnets that actually turn the fan are on the outside edge that joins all the blade tips together in a circle. They don't ever actually touch anything. The center point seems to be the "magnetic tip." But I can't confirm that without unscrew

Re: [expert] firebird mailto handler

2003-06-24 Thread J.C. Woods
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Does anyone here know how to configure mozilla-firebird to correctly handle mailto links? Never mind. It's impossible right now. Firebird doesn't support it. ---