Re: [expert] FYI: WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC...

2002-10-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 28 Oct 2002 12:04:02 -0800 Seth Zirin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:05, Pierre Fortin wrote: This is a quick overview of what I ran into after my friends got their WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC... [SNIP] the modem from the mobo and reseat it -- now works

[expert] FYI: WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC...

2002-10-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
This is a quick overview of what I ran into after my friends got their WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC... Pierre - Hopefully the installation issues in the following will be addressed by Mandrake if they don't want their distro viewed in a bad light... Recently, I suggested to a

Re: [expert] OpenOffice crashes

2002-10-21 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 21 Oct 2002 16:35:30 -0400 Christopher Cali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's where it looks like it's terminating: There's really no other info that looks out of the ordinary, it terminates fine! access(/tmp/OSL_PIPE_501_SingleOfficeIPC_1867879530, F_OK) = 0 connect(5,

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-19 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 15:39:08 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: What does MakeCD/mkcd expect to see as source? I have the current 3 ISOs mounted; but I suspect it may want an rsync tree... if so, do you have a quick tip for creating one from the ISOs

[expert] Mailer problems? Last 20+ posts are missing body part!!! Just me??

2002-10-19 Thread Pierre Fortin
Dunno if this body part will get through; but the last bunch of messages all came in with the body part completely missing... just the Mdk footer... Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 05:18:47 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron, Thanks! One question since I don't have time to experiment (doing so would delay my burns another week+)... ./MakeCD (no arguments) shows these options: --disc_building_tries maximum number of iteration to build

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:22:09 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought an Acer 6206 CD burner several years ago (the manufactured date on my drive is November, 1998). At the time, it came with Easy CD-Creator version 3.something and would only burn up to 650 MB CDs. Later,

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:30:59 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: The only difference I can see between 8.2 and 9.0 are the 650MB 9.0 ISOs... That's not a difference between 8.2 9.0, it is a difference between CD blanks. Read their ATIPs. cdrecord

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:01:09 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday October 16 2002 09:58 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: ARGHHH! Worse!!! What appeared to be under *700*, wasn't: 681836544 Mar 18 2002 Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso 680624128 Mar 18 2002

Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)

2002-10-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:19:54 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some kind of find capabilty on man pages would have helped... Did you try /stringreturn...? Same as find in less... i.e., /hard takes me right to hard ( soft) stuff HTH, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:37:00 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:01:09 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday October 16 2002 09:58 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: ARGHHH! Worse!!! What appeared to be under

[expert] Writing blank CDs...

2002-10-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi, I burned some 9.0 CDs, only to uncover a strange problem... Since ((CD1, CD2) 650MB CD3); and having both 650MB 700MB blanks, I decided to burn on appropriately sized blanks... [A while back, I burned LM8.2 onto 700MB CDs, so the media should not be an issue.] When trying to use the

Re: [expert] A question for real experts :)

2002-10-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 11 Oct 2002 20:33:53 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre back down Please. This is a neat tool yes. It does have it's place yes. It doesn't add any more traffic than normal pings. Neat tools in the hands to those who are troubleshooting are fine, especially when used

Re: [expert] A question for real experts :)

2002-10-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
cuz it's a cool tool... On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:46, Pierre Fortin wrote: snip flame Folks, ^ == NOT targeted at an individual The MAIN issue I was addressing was that people see some neat _tool_, rush out and get a copy, then proceed to ADD to the problem(s) someone else

Re: [expert] A question for real experts :)

2002-10-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 10 Oct 2002 15:46:25 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talk about on-topic -- I'm working with bing right now. Unfortunately, it's giving some very odd results on a DS-3 line, and they're the kind on non-deterministic odd that makes one think better numbers could be procured with

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:10:18 -0400 Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what you say, it appears that the ARP entry in the laptop is expiring... when the OS gets a packet for delivery, if an IP-to-ARP entry is available, it uses that entry... if no entry, it should broadcast an

[expert] Anyone else seeing these mail rejections?

2002-10-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi, Every once in a while, a message tries to come through the list that my mailer rejects with the following notice... anyone else seeing this sort of thing? I don't know which of my anti-spam rules are kicking in; if any... it actually looks like my mailer is complaing about a malformed

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:47:57 -0400 Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pierre, Ping first generates an ARP (broadcast) packet... long story short, sounds like the VLAN is expiring the this MAC address is on that port entry in its table, then failing to flood packets for

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 05 Oct 2002 00:09:39 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 08:10, Mark Stewart wrote: Networking gurus, your knowledge is desperately needed... I have my Mdk8.2 box setup on our corporate network with a static IP. Call it mybox.foo.com. I have a

Re: [expert] Twilight Zone every time a new distro hits the street...

2002-10-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 04 Oct 2002 23:38:22 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, And people wonder why we give our computers names... The do have personalities... least I think they do. (I have a comp at work that crashes every time the founder sits down at the keyboard of it but never

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:10:34 -0400 Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Networking gurus, your knowledge is desperately needed... I have my Mdk8.2 box setup on our corporate network with a static IP. Call it mybox.foo.com. I have a laptop running Win2K that lives on our wireless LAN and

[expert] Twilight Zone every time a new distro hits the street...

2002-10-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
It seems every time a new distro hits the street, one or more of my systems decides it wants attention... yup... I get weird problems, usually right after the latest distro has been downloaded -- this is not the first time... 9.0 not yet installed anywhere when LM8.2 decides to act up --

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 05 Oct 2002 04:31:18 +0800 William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds like the dns is not being setup correctly when running as a dialup. Bill, If you're referring to my ssh problems, it's not a DNS problem... while one or more sessions are temporarily hung, other ssh sessions

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:15:19 -0400 Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ping first generates an ARP (broadcast) packet... long story short, sounds like the VLAN is expiring the this MAC address is on that port entry in its table, then failing to flood packets for which there is no such

Re: [expert] Twilight Zone every time a new distro hits the street...

2002-10-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 21:12:31 -0400 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 October 2002 05:37 pm, you wrote: It seems every time a new distro hits the street, one or more of my systems decides it wants attention... yup... I get weird problems, usually right after the latest distro has

Re: [expert] Canon C5500 printer

2002-10-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:00:15 +1000 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a root terminal window enter: printerdrake Hi Ron, [delayed due to pop-before-smtp problems] Still no go... I can configure the printer via printerdrake or localhost:631 -- from all indications on the system, the

Re: [expert] Canon C5500 printer

2002-09-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
tired when I wrote this... using CUPS. I've even tried cat'ing data directly to the printer; no action at all from the printer... Canon products :^P and I just don't seem to get along... Pierre Cheers, Randy On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 22:24, Pierre Fortin wrote: Hi guys! Recently

[expert] Canon C5500 printer

2002-09-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi guys! Recently converted another M$ user to LM8.2 and have a problem... The printer is a Canon C5500 multifunction printer which works fine under W9x. Under LM8.2, everything *appears* to work -- file seems to be sent to printer, long files stay queued/active for longer time vs short files,

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 12:22:05 +0200 Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always bought 360k disks and formatted as 720kb! It was useful because you can copy 3.5 720kb disks into those old pizzas... (5.25). Due to remote access problems and Earthlink/Mindspring blocking SMTP port, I was

Re: [expert] Fwd: Ping: wrong data byte #0 error message

2002-09-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:09:27 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose I should run a sniffer on the network, but there really should not be a lot of traffic. Can anybody recommend a sniffer that comes with Mandrake 7.2 or 8.2 (i.e., so I can install from an rpm)? Oops... missed

Re: [expert] Ping: wrong data byte #0 error message

2002-09-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Believe it or not, this is an OLD bug in ping... search the archives -- I analyzed and posted the info quite a while back (over a year IIRC). The problem can happen when your link is quite busy and ping response are delayed longer than the ping timeout value... it's a race condition in ping...

Re: [expert] Fwd: Ping: wrong data byte #0 error message

2002-09-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi Craig, On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 10:07:51 -0500 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Complete ping response: PING 206.245.176.211 (206.245.176.211): 56 octets data 64 octets from 206.245.176.211: icmp_seq=0 ttl=122 time=1099.4 ms

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:42:10 -0400 HoytDuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 September 2002 11:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: ASR teletype These were very nice; wished I had one at the time to relace my Model 19. What? No 14...? : paper tape

Re: [expert] ipop3d Connection Refused

2002-07-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:56:27 -0400 (EDT) Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hosts.allow swat: 127.0.0.1 192.168.0 pop3: ALL 1. Have you tried ipop3d...? 2. What's in /etc/pam.d/pop? Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:31:52 -0700 (MST) Clayton Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a friend who was having problems such as this, i.e. somewhat random lockups of the system. What he found out was that he had an older Western Digital drive on the IDE bus that he originally was using for

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:33:40 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suppose you are typing rm -r /somepath/.somecorruptedconfigdir -f and at the point where you have typed rm -r / The cat jumps up to get your attention and lands a paw on Enter. Here's one I did many years ago on a

Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d

2002-06-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:05:55 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # # detecting the running process # proc=`ps r|grep process-name` # the apostrophe looking character is # NOT

Re: [expert] Testing - Can't get messages on the list.

2002-06-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:43:36 +0100 Ross Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 June 2002 19:57, Ric Tibbetts wrote: I don't get any messages at all. The e-Mail just doesn't show up on the list... Kind of dissapears into the twilight zone, and is never heard from again. The last

Re: [expert] can no longer post (without undue pain)

2002-06-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 01:22:25 +0200 gianpaolo racca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 19:58, J. Craig Woods wrote: WRONG AGAIN! The mail server, smtp.mandrax.org is not, repeat *NOT*, doing a reverse dns lookup on ip addresses (please see my *many* posts on this issue).

Re: [expert] OT: Testing a Modem / Telephone Line

2002-06-03 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:31:51 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that I get a lot of disconnects on my 33 kbps dial up line. Hi Randy, All of Bill's points plus... - do you have call waiting or other intrusive-notification features? sure the telco didn't add some by

honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]

2002-05-24 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 23 May 2002 23:15:52 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Load up the honeyport for Nimda and the shutdown script for codered and see what happens Civileme, Where can I find the tools you're referring to...? I have my own (http://pfortin.com/Linux/HoneyPort -- needs updating

Re: honeyport/shutdown [was: Re: [expert] OT, my ftp site]

2002-05-24 Thread Pierre Fortin
... :-} If someone attacks you with a gun, it's legal to disarm them... Try to disarm their machine if they use that... Pierre James On Fri, 24 May 2002 17:55:45 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 23 May 2002 23:15:52 -0800 civileme [EMAIL

Re: [expert] port forwarding: what am I doing wrong?

2002-05-23 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 23 May 2002 00:03:39 -0700 ajax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to forward port 23 to one of my internal computers. My gateway has a cable connection on eth1 (dynamic ip) and internal network on eth0 (static ip). I keep getting connection refused. I can ssh directly to port 23

Re: [expert] can ya help a brother out?

2002-05-23 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 23 May 2002 06:58:45 -0400 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I'm having a brain cramp here. I need to load the iptables NAT module into the kernel and I can't for the life of me remember the name of the little bugger to do an insmod on it. what's it's name? Mark,

Re: [expert] Mailing List problems

2002-05-03 Thread Pierre Fortin
-- % host vibe.ac % vibe.ac has address 213.47.198.91 --CUT-- obviously sympa/postfix on smtp.mandrax.org is not very nicely configured to only check for the IP but not for the domain-name ... Udo Am Don, 2002-05-02 um 23.36 schrieb Pierre Fortin: How can I fix this? I need

Re: [expert] Mailing List problems

2002-05-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 2 May 2002 14:46:23 -0400 jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently using Mandrake 8.2 (Kernel-secure) running Postfix and Imap. I use Imp/horde (horde.org) for webmail. Everything is fine except I cannot send mail to the expert/newbie mailing lists. Here is the error I get.

Re: [expert] Restricting Resourse Usage

2002-05-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 02 May 2002 21:43:36 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre, I have quoted this email on this webpage -- http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LimitingBandwidthUsage. If you have any comments, suggestions, or concerns, please let me know. At some point in the

Re: [expert] Restricting Resourse Usage

2002-04-24 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:53:06 -0400 Brian York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is their a way to restrict the amount of network and other resource usage that a user on a remote computer can use? Several: 1. http://www.chronox.de/ Uses kernel features 2. http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/ This

Re: [expert] eth0 timeout adjustment

2002-04-24 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:33:52 -0400 Phil R Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm not plugged into the LAN, it is excruciating to wait for the eth0 initialization to fail upon boot. How can I make it go faster? You should be able to fake it out with a 10*baseT loopback plug. RJ-45:

Re: [expert] cant stay connected

2002-04-23 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:56:41 +0900 Gavin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the problem, for some reason my work box will disconnect from the gateway if I'm idle for more than 20 to 30 min. to get it to connect again, I have to reboot. what could be causing this pain in the butt problem? all

[expert] OT: Sleuthing: Are you an unwitting web relay?

2002-04-23 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi, At the risk of starting a thread that won't die... :^) A few weeks ago, I noticed in my apache logs that someone was using my web site to proxy their browsing. This was briefly discussed here: Mar 10, see thread: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

Re: [expert] Reading Email headers

2002-04-22 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:53:59 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time for an interpreter... :^) Damian G wrote: but my point is, probably you can't track it down to a single person, virtually everyone who has you on their adress book can be sending them.. HTH

Re: [expert] print servers

2002-04-21 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:41:56 -0700 Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The most cost effective would be by using Samba. But looks like you are looking for an external hardware server that connects to your hub or switch and allows the printer to connect via a parallels port on the server.

Sleuthing [Re: [expert] Looking for the Spoofer (was Reading Email headers)]

2002-04-21 Thread Pierre Fortin
This is an interesting thread that can be educational for anyone that wishes to follow... it is a bit off-topic and we can take it offline if it bothers anyone... Jason DrJ, Can you guys send me, privately, the headers of these messages...? I'm a bit of a sleuth and am curious about this

Re: [expert] Reading Email headers

2002-04-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:00:29 -0500 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like someone has decided that I don't have enough headaches and has started sending me viri. Normally this would not bother me, but the problem is that the from line shows my email address on my website

Re: [expert] Monitoring cybercafe connections from the clients

2002-04-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:31:02 -0600 Alfredo Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Sáb 13 Abr 2002 10:17, escribiste: Hi I'm in my way to use Mandrake-Linux as a server in a cybercafe to share the internet connection, share the printers, etc,

Re: [expert] mayday! mayday! mayday!

2002-04-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:35:03 -0500 David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A *quick* mayday response while I think on it... This can happen when you have a symlink that points back [in]to the parent directory. So you end up copying that directory/file recursively over and over until... du -s

Re: [expert] External screen in laptop

2002-04-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:38:40 +0200 Rodolfo Canet-Castelló [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi experts: I'd like to start using my Toshiba Satellite 1800-750 to give presentations without reverting to Windows, but the Fn-F5 key combination does not work under Linux. Did anyone of you a similar

Re: [expert] socket error on remote dial-up

2002-04-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:28:48 -0600 Frederick Gleicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre: Thanks for the tip, I will check into that. I need to get other things done right now, and will get back to this list later. Is the memory leak in kppp or the pppd ? When I dial into this linux server

Re: [expert] expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

2002-04-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:54:28 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not because the standard is better quality but because you don't want to have your customers or business partners on the phone complaining they can't read your calculations or documents. Then why, when M$ comes out

Re: [expert] turnoff monitor after 5 minutes

2002-04-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:40:27 -0700 (PDT) faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am using mandrake 8.2/gnome 1.4 i would like to turn off my monitor after 5 minutes of inactivity ... i know how to do it in windows but not on linux can you tell me how ? Probably depends on which window

Re: [expert] Problem with pppd in LM8.2

2002-04-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:13:32 +0300 Nikolay V. Kursov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried to migrate from LM8.1 to 8.2 and got the next problem. If I connect to ISP via modem system hangs up soon after pppd starting. Does anyone happen on such problem? If you're using kppp to start pppd,

Re: [expert] Problem with pppd in LM8.2

2002-04-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 21:48:16 +0300 Nikolay V.Kursov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're using kppp to start pppd, you should see a dialog which offers to enable debugging; do it, and you may get a better clue why. If using dial-on-demand, adding debug to the /etc/ppp/options will cause

Re: [expert] HELP-weird log messages appearing every 15 seconds or so

2002-04-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since i upgraded to Mandrake 8.2 I am getting the following log message from the kernel. Apr 8 22:30:36 rarmente kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:50:da:da:c7:57:08:00 Apr 8 22:32:36 rarmente

Re: [expert] a long standing probelm .... apache site on a win32 part...

2002-04-08 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 21:03:58 -0700 (PDT) faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it has been almost a week i havent been able to solve this problem .. well i have my website residing on a local fat32 partition .. but my apache webserver is unable to pick it up i have played around with

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-04-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 23:53:37 -0600 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: From: J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:56 PM Subject: Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software

Re: [expert] Filters

2002-04-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:56:04 +0300 Jarmo Kettunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to set filters forinstance in Kmail,so that it drops mails FROM somebody not wanted? I would like to set aol.com to banned filter...I get huge number spam from there... I have looked from my

Re: [expert] changing default document on apache in 8.2

2002-04-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 00:04:27 -0800 (PST) faisal gillani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am having some problem in changing the default document name in apache server cant seem to find it can you tell me where to change it ? Check: /etc/httpd/conf/[common]httpd.conf: DirectoryIndex

Re: [expert] [Fwd: socket error on remote dial up]

2002-04-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 15:01:58 -0700 Frederick Gleicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having this problem since replacing redhat 7.0 with mandrake 8.0. The company server has dsl internet thru eth0, with a LAN on eth1 ( thru a hub/switch ). It also has a dialup modem, ppp0 in the server

Re: [expert] system upgrade -- moving users

2002-04-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 22:11:44 -0500 synrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a new server for my mail-web-file server setup. While I'm not worried about recreating configuration files for most servers, I don't know what to do with the users home directories and password files. Will

[expert] X mouse: depends on how X started...

2002-04-03 Thread Pierre Fortin
On LM8.2, I've been chasing a strange problem today... The mouse worked after 8.2 install; but now, I did what I hate most (reboot) after taking my laptop along on a short trip... Under the following conditions, the mouse *works in VC mode* (gdm); but not under X: - booting with or without

Re: [expert] wanna block this $%'!!!!

2002-04-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 05:05:38 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: To your /etc/postfix/main.cf file, add: header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks Then, create a /etc/postfix/header_checks file, and in it, place:

Re: [expert] wanna block this $%'!!!!

2002-04-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:42:51 +0900 Gavin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out my web page on this... http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix/ and for even more fun, mix in: http://pfortin.com/Linux/HoneyPort/ Knock on wood... I'm down to less than one per week that gets through... HTH, Pierre Dear

Re: [expert] toshiba laptop - FBDev and X lockups

2002-03-31 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:34:57 -0500 Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (BTW, the 6 on board uses FBDev faster and better than the SVGA, and with equal resolution.) Ditto for the 65550. I was using the chips drive with XFree 4.x in mandrake 8.2. I was experiencing severe X lockups (screen

Re: [expert] ORBZ spam blockers shutting down

2002-03-20 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:11:43 -0500 Bob Puff@NLE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, this is really sad news. ORBZ, the open mail relay checking system, is shutting down. http://derf.cc/orbz_shutdown.txt I thought it was down for some time now... I even noted this on my

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-19 Thread Pierre Fortin
David, Are you *sure* it's completely stopped...? Can you still ping or even ssh into the box? If so, issue telinit 3 and telinit 5... if that brings it back to life, I'd be really interested in knowing if Ctl+Alt+Fn locks it up again... My desktop is in this state now... everything looks

Re: [expert] ppp from user accounts doesn't work

2002-03-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:52:22 -0600 Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy using wvdial from user accounts. What am I missing? /dev/modem Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] pasting into email? OT

2002-03-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
Ken, I have just one word for you... Thanks!! Pierre There is a little trick you have to apply: use the standard X mouse actions as usual, but hold down the shift key while pasting the text to Pine or while selecting text for copy from Pine. Ken Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] pasting into email? OT

2002-03-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:59:38 -0800 (PST) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 12:38pm... Dave Sherman ran for the door shrieking: On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 12:31, Michael Holt wrote: Hey, hope everyone is enjoying the weekend! I have a question item number 1000 on my little annoyances

Re: [expert] new SOHO setup - suggestions? (OT?)

2002-03-15 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 15 Mar 2002, Ashley Moore wrote: Hi guys, Hi Ashley, I have a SOHO setup, so I can try to help... after praising Linux and its virtues to a friend i met a couple of months ago, he has asked me to setup a website with 'some sort of redundancy' to host his shop. Better get a handle on

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:48:26 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't even get the connect... but as strange as my nets been today I'm not suprised. If 8200 isn't working then the problem is not perl-httpd, or so I would think. Now for any who know, is this something that should be

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup - missing options ?

2002-03-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:55:13 -0500 Baines, Dominic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Richard, ...I'd seen the example but that is not applicable for use with the external interface. The 192.168.100. subnet is behaind one firewall connected to the internet... the 192.168.200. subnet is

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup - missing options ?

2002-03-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
... I'd recommend IP-in-IP vs GRE... HTH, Pierre Dominic -Original Message- From: Pierre Fortin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 March 2002 15:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup - missing options ? On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:55:13 -0500

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:33:00 -0600 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 20:26, Pierre Fortin wrote: Ooops... forgot to add that I needed to hit Return after sending the GET; so the full instructions are: telnet server 80 GET

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:21:46 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre, I never doubted you. Just wondering how it was supposed to work when it's bad that is. To clear up turning off proxy, are you refering to removing the following line from httpd.conf? [snip] Yes; turned

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
at 20:26, Pierre Fortin wrote: Ooops... forgot to add that I needed to hit Return after sending the GET; so the full instructions are: telnet server 80 GET http://some_other_server HTTP/1.0 Return Without the extra return, the command just sits there as you discovered

[expert] Wanna beta test HoneyPort? (inspired by LaBrea TarPit)

2002-03-11 Thread Pierre Fortin
Looking to have some fun with obnoxious 'net users and slow down their antics...? If so, I'm looking for a beta tester (or two or three :^) of my very simple HoneyPort which is a sticky port for those scumbags... :^) Pierre Tired of getting spam retries after setting up anti-spam features?

[expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
) -Original Message- From: Pierre Fortin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 7:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 1.3.x allows passthrough [Also reported to CERT since they have the same exposure; see below] I was monitoring my DSL link when I noticed some

Re: [expert] Fw: RE: Apache 1.3.x allows passthrough

2002-03-10 Thread Pierre Fortin
by placing a '#' in front of it also turn 'ProxyRequests' to OFF (this is around line 988 on my config file) -Original Message- From: Pierre Fortin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 7:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 1.3.x allows passthrough

Re: [expert] how to get an old SCSI tape running ? !

2002-03-09 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:01:41 +0100 Klaus Peter Elsner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi together , I've an (very) old SCSI streamer and a bundle of QIC 24 tapes and forgotten how to get it running with *nix I've never thought that I must get some data out of them =:( it has to run with an

Re: [expert] For Civileme (or anyone else who can help) -- [Fwd: [Fwd: Undeliverable Mail]]

2002-03-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 08:58:50 -0500 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [query with attachments] Randy, The problem is that your friend is trying to send directly from a dialup... this is one of the worst sources of spam, hence why Mandrake is denying such messages: Received: from

Re: [expert] For Civileme (or anyone else who can help) -- [Fwd: [Fwd: Undeliverable Mail]]

2002-03-05 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 19:05:04 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 March 2002 18:42, you wrote: On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 08:58:50 -0500 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [query with attachments] Randy, The problem is that your friend is trying to send directly

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-02 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:44:19 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:34:12 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the question is: Now that I've got things in place, how to I tell Postfix to enable

Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?

2002-03-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:34:12 -0800 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the new update of Postfix that was just released by Mandrake, I made sure to install it as well as the various libsasl .rpm files. I just tried to connect (manually) to my mail port to see how it looked. What I

[expert] I don't miss NS...

2002-03-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
galeon 0121 sylpheed 072claws I sure there must be a newer galeon version; but just wanted to say that I am very happy with galeon and sylpheed as my replacements for NS47x From ps (galeon): v pfortin 22668 08 82 116232 84364 ? SJan28 377:51 pf

Re: OT: was Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-03-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 01 Mar 2002 10:53:54 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing that is helpful are the DNS services. They make it possible to have a mailserver running on a machine that has a dynamic IP address. I've been using one on my home machine now for almost a year. It makes things

Re: OT: was Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:04:17 -0700 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a basic question, new to me. I recently bought a few domain names. At this point I am still trying to learn how (or if) I can use them...I have no idea as yet. I would like to be able to name my box

Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning

2002-02-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 01 Mar 2002 14:26:40 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess in a way that echoes my point Bill. It seems that on a 512MB system, swap doesn't get hit significantly under any but the most extreme circumstances. I would suggest if you want to cater to those extreme scenarios,

Re: [expert] Apache question

2002-02-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:50:28 +0100 wim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a webserver where the root directory is password proteced. In a subdir I have some files that may be accessed by everyone. Now, my question is: How can I remove the auth from the subdir? I tried in access.conf: But this

[expert] Mandrake Mirrors and spammers...

2002-02-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
Coincidence...? For several days now, spam attempts to my machine have been virtually non-existant... Last night, I was doing to research on rsync issues and this morning woke up to an onslaught of spam attempts... these were all rejected via my unknown-host rule; but I thought I'd raise

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