Re: [expert] vim noai not working

2000-09-22 Thread Tony Smith
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: Being used to vi but not vim, I am surprised that I can't get vim to accept ':set noai'. Whenever I am trying to do a paste from the copy buffer (Ctrl-Insert from another application) and I don't want auto-indent, I try to set noai. For whatever

Re: [expert] listing all ip addys in a domain?

2000-09-19 Thread Tony Smith
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Bill Beauchemin wrote: Is there a way to list all the ip addresses or dns records for a domain or zone? Bill Beauchemin Try: $ nslookup ls some.domain.com You can't do this on other people's DNS' unless they've been set up incompetently. Tony Keep in

[expert] Laptops and X on external monitor

2000-09-13 Thread Tony Smith
and this is the last obstacle! Any ideas? TIA, Tony === Tony Smith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1189 893200 === Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

RE: [expert] glibc locale errors:

2000-09-11 Thread Tony Smith
Tony, please let me know how it goes. If there is a problem with 16mdk, we need to know and get it fixed ASAP. I'm going to be testing it here as well, so I'll see if I can reproduce your error. FYI... I just tried 16mdk on a 6.0 system and didn't experience any problems,

RE: [expert] Perl question

2000-09-11 Thread Tony Smith
Haven't noticed anyone replying correctly to this, so I'll tell you the solution .. at least it solved my problem which sounds like the same. For some reason my locale didn't get installed .. so I just did an rpm -Uvh on locales-en-2.3-3mdk.noarch.rpm .. this fixed the problem. Of course,

RE: [expert] Ipchains question

2000-09-11 Thread Tony Smith
I have configured a firewall using pmfirewall on mandrake 7.1 All goes well, but i have a problem : sometimes when i try to list the rules with 'ipchains -L', the list seems to freeze in the middle for an undetermined amount of time. This is not a reproductible effect, and it does not occur

RE: [expert] Perl question

2000-09-07 Thread Tony Smith
-Original Message- From: Cecil Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Perl question A few weeks ago I upgrade PERL to 5.005. Upon installing Webmin I got the following error: perl:

RE: [expert] glibc locale errors:

2000-09-07 Thread Tony Smith
On Wed Sep 06, 2000 at 03:19:27PM +0100, Tony Smith wrote: I'm running MDK 7.0 and I've just updated it to the latest glibc RPM on the mirror sites. Since then I'm getting locale errors from many of my commands (e.g. xterm). Here's my ~/.xsession-errors so you can see what I mean

[expert] glibc locale errors:

2000-09-06 Thread Tony Smith
y, locale unchanged Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged Some of the messages are reported by perl, but the bottom two are not. None of these messages were present before I updated the glibc version. Has anyone got any ideas before I revert to the previous version? TIA, T

RE: [expert] /sbin/route: delete problem

2000-09-01 Thread Tony Smith
I use PortSentry which works great, and helps to keep out the little buggers. Problem is that sometimes that bugger is me coming in from a new machine to test with. Once I do, that machine is now banned via /sbin/route add -host 1.2.3.4 reject How do I un-do the route command to allow

RE: [expert] The lights are on, but no one's home

2000-09-01 Thread Tony Smith
Tonight, I was watching the lights on the switch I have connecting my DSL line to my servers, and saw a prolonged, intensive activity to one of my machines that is a web server, amongst other things. During this activity, I telnetted in, and took a peek at the logs to see just what was

[expert] SRPMs for Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-31 Thread Tony Smith
. Thanks and regards, Tony === Tony Smith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1189 893200 ===

RE: [expert] SRPMs for Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-31 Thread Tony Smith
After re-reading the GPL it does state that there is no absolute requirement to have the source code available for download on a public ftp site, there only needs to be a written offer of a source code distribution made available on request (ie. a cdrom sent out by snail mail). This source

RE: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-30 Thread Tony Smith
Is there some reason they don't want the SRPMs available or is it just an oversight? Anyway, I think I'll mail someone at MandrakeSoft directly to try find out, Fergal I'm sure it must be an oversight - they must realise that if they fail to publish the source on demand someone (e.g. me ;-)

RE: [expert] help

2000-08-30 Thread Tony Smith
Hello I would like to search for a "specific text" on my machine. I would like to know all the FILENAMES and PATHS which contains a SPECIFIC TEXT. I know i have to playwith FIND or GREP but if any one of you have any idea please let me know As usual with Unix, there are several ways

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-29 Thread Tony Smith
Hi David, Resending without the stupid HTML attachments, shame on me! Out of curiosity, what command are you using to restart klogd? I think I have the same problem with one of my boxes. /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart kill -HUP does not do the trick. It has been my experience that

RE: [expert] Where are ALL the SRPMS?

2000-08-29 Thread Tony Smith
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 12:58:11AM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote: Hi, I've searched the archives of the mailing lists and seen this question arise several times but it doesn't seem to have ever been answered properly! Either the question has been ignored or the link provided isn't any

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-25 Thread Tony Smith
Out of curiosity, what command are you using to restart klogd? I think I have the same problem with one of my boxes. /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart kill -HUP does not do the trick. Tony

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-25 Thread Tony Smith
Sorry I couldn't be of any better help... but at eleast you've succeded in figuring out exactly what's not working. Thanks anyway. Maybe you can just add klogd to the cron.daily and cron restart it for you. That's what I've done. Seems to be working fine. I have no idea why klogd should

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-24 Thread Tony Smith
to klogd since restarting that restarts the messages. Looks like I'll just restart it every night for now. Thanks for all the help. Tony === Tony Smith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-21 Thread Tony Smith
Hi Greg, Hey, I've just realised something... For a while after my firewall comes up, I get a few logged DENY packet, and an occasional portsentry attack alert, but after some time, the network seems to go very quite. I had checked my machine fromwork this afternoon, and nothing was

RE: [expert] sendmail netscape messenger?

2000-08-21 Thread Tony Smith
I was wondering about something last night. Is it possible to get Netscape Messenger to use Sendmail to send the mail instead of one's ISP's mail server? the reason I ask is because Sendmail is so much faster than contacting my ISP's mail server. In your mail preferences, set the outgoing

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-18 Thread Tony Smith
I can't remember where, but I know that I *did* hear/read sometime in the very near past about something being buggy about syslogd--don't know if it was a version problem or an install problem (or whatever else...) Have you tried stopping syslog and doing anrpm -Uvh or maybe an rpm

[expert] SRPMS on FTP site

2000-08-18 Thread Tony Smith
Does anyone know why the SRPMs for 7.1 are not available yet on the mirror sites? TIA, Tony === Tony Smith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1189 893200 ===

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Tony Smith
One cute thing I noticed about logcheck...after I dumped the output of dmesg into logcheck.ignore (with appropriate changes to account for differing PID's) logcheck stopped supplying anything...I checked the output twice for wildcards that went to far and couldn't find any...after I deleted

RE: [expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Tony Smith
cure (from the 7.1 updates) Any suggestions gratefully received. TIA, Tony === Tony Smith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1

[expert] ipchains logging

2000-08-17 Thread Tony Smith
smart enough to cope with log rotations (mostly). I'm running MDK 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16-9mdksecure (from the 7.1 updates) Any suggestions gratefully received. TIA, Tony === Tony Smith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1189 893200 ===

[expert] How to trace IP packets...

2000-06-22 Thread Tony Smith
already sent a mail to the ISP, but given their normal lack of action, I don't expect a response. 2. Any ideas as to what kind of config error could cause this? Routing table? IP forwarding? All help gratefully received. Regards, Tony === Tony Smith Email: [EMAIL

[expert] Named referral errors??

2000-06-22 Thread Tony Smith
Hi All, I'm seeing occasional errors from bind on my Mandrake 7.0 system. They look like this: Jun 22 14:07:49 blast named[13158]: bad referral (co.uk ! iacl.co.uk) Are these normal? If not, what could/should I do about them. Thanks for your advice! Tony === Tony

RE: [expert] Mail Server - Very Interested In Setting Up, But....

2000-06-22 Thread Tony Smith
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sevatio Octavio Sent: 22 June 2000 13:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mail Server - Very Interested In Setting Up, But I'm looking at setting up a mail server but I'm a bit confused

RE: [expert] Apache + CGI = Error?

2000-06-21 Thread Tony Smith
Or a missing CGI script line... print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; This must be *the* first line printed out, and note the 2 "\n\n". This is only true for those not using the CGI.pm module. But even those using CGI.pm must include something like: print CGI::header(); Cheers, Tony

RE: [expert] vmware problems

2000-06-15 Thread Tony Smith
An alternative, and perhaps easier method is simply to enable both "Host-Only" and "Bridged" networking in the VM. Then you will have direct access to the Ethernet card from the VM and can even get an I.P. address via DHCP. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]