Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-10-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 11:20:57PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Look in CVS. http://anthill.vmlinuz.ca/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/anthill-0.2/html/backend/language/Anthill.pot is the file you want. That's the lastest skeleton. It's all .po/gettext stuff... pretty straightforward. If you

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-10-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Oct 01, 2003 at 02:04:29AM -0500, Vox wrote: translations, the better. I will refuse none (other than perhaps klingon!) Come on! klingon translations are important! :) Not to me... =) I'd rather have one in elvish if possible. Elvish is good...but it's damn hard :)

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-10-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Oct 01, 2003 at 06:13:16PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Wanna do a wookie translation? =) I could offer a Kenny translation for all SouthPark addicts... lol. I kinda think we should stop this now... this is getting *way* OT. But very humorous nonetheless! -- MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm

2003-10-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 09:54:43PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: I've been looking for something that will let me do programming on my palm (and a word processor is *not* optimal for this), but having vi (or emacs, really) would be really really useful (sometimes I can't justify hauling my

Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm (OT)

2003-10-01 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 10:21:21PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah well, maybe someone smarter than me can port vi to palmos... =) See, we're on the same page here - c'mon 'someone', get to portin' =) Seriously though, it seems we have similar problems; cost too much for the ones that

Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm (OT)

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 08:00:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] WinCE??? What are you thinking??? :) I'm thinking there is probably a hack to let me get Linux on a machine that would run WinCE. =) What about the Zaurus; is it any good? I was really hyped for the I don't know.

Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 11:01:38PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Your wife won't let you haul around the laptop either, eh? =) Well, I just spent some time googling and the closest I've come is a version of vim for WinCE (I knew I should have gotten that HP thingy instead of the Tungsten).

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 08:42:50PM -0700, Eric Huff wrote: I preparation for the coming of 9.2, is the proposed Anthill bug tracking system going to be available/used? This is part of the reason I've been so busy in the last 2 weeks.. doing some frantic bug squishing in the

[expert] 8.2 EOL

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
Just a heads up to everyone.. today is the last day of support for 8.2. It will not be receiving any more security updates from this point forward. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc

Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 11:58:32AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: hehehe... well, my wife knows not to argue about laptops on vacation... I don't go anywhere for a long period of time without my machine. I remember last year going to the mountains with my dad and brother... brought my ibook with

Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 01:42:48PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: It started originally as sympa and never changed. The only reason I got the mandrakesecure lists running under ezmlm-idx is because I use qmail on the mandrakesecure.net server. That will likely change in the future, however. I

Re: [expert] Problem with 9.0 and updates

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 06:54:13PM -0700, Michael Noble wrote: I have installed 9.0 on a machine with 1G of memory so of course it uses the enterprise kernel. When I go to get updates it tries to access the cdrom drive and hangs for a long time. If I put a cd in the drive the update goes

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 08:20:51PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: I preparation for the coming of 9.2, is the proposed Anthill bug tracking system going to be available/used? Since there are so many (self included) who've been asking for this I'd like to possibly hold some fingers

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 08:22:34PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: I was going to wait until this week to mention it (when I hopefully get the rest of the translations done and can roll out anthill 0.2.4) but... Arrghhh! Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I was so

Re: [expert] Problem with 9.0 and updates

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 09:36:46PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: I have installed 9.0 on a machine with 1G of memory so of course it uses the enterprise kernel. When I go to get updates it tries to access the cdrom drive and hangs for a long time. If I put a cd in the drive the

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Oct 01, 2003 at 06:38:11AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: translations in russian, finnish, polish, and dutch. The incomplete translations are french, italian, spanish, and chinese. I'd love if some folks could step forward and help finish those four languages (since it's kind of

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 10:12:10PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Do you need Korean? I might be able to get help from my wife and/or her friends if things are too Geeky. Absolutely! The more the merrier. Currently I have finished translations in russian, finnish, polish, and

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 11:43:13PM -0500, Vox wrote: Absolutely! The more the merrier. Currently I have finished translations in russian, finnish, polish, and dutch. The incomplete translations are french, italian, spanish, and chinese. I'd love if some folks could step forward and

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Sep 28, 2003 at 04:52:43PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: I preparation for the coming of 9.2, is the proposed Anthill bug tracking system going to be available/used? Since there are so many (self included) who've been asking for this I'd like to possibly hold some fingers to the

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 08:50:19AM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: I preparation for the coming of 9.2, is the proposed Anthill bug tracking system going to be available/used? Since there are so many (self included) who've been asking for this I'd like to possibly hold some fingers to

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 08:59:36AM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: gnupg key upload seems broken? It uploads the key, then says no keyfile uploaded. filename was jcoates-pubkey.asc if that helps. It should work. Can you send me a copy of the file you tried to upload? I uploaded mine when I set it

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 05:53:12PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I was going to wait until this week to mention it (when I hopefully get the rest of the translations done and can roll out anthill 0.2.4) but... Arrghhh! Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I was so deeply wading

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 11:42:08AM -0600, Charlie M. wrote: gnupg key upload seems broken? It uploads the key, then says no keyfile uploaded. filename was jcoates-pubkey.asc if that helps. ... http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/ ... I uploaded mine when I set up the account, no

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 12:16:59PM -0600, Charlie M. wrote: It was a little booboo on Jack's part. The gpg upload works fine. When we aren't making little boo-boos we probably aren't doing anything. g ain't that the truth... =) Yesterday when I cooked my friend's box I(-; Gotta go

Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm

2003-09-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 09:18:50PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Hey all, I want VI on my visor - anyone got it? I've been searching ever since I got my visor about a year and a half ago, but nothing... mike Hi Mike, I admit its a novel idea, but why? writing on a visor is hard enough.

Re: [expert] vi editor on visor/palm

2003-09-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 09:41:39PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: I dunno... I think vi on my palm would rock. Better than the note pad or memo pad, and while having Documents To Go is cool, I think having vi on their instead would be awesome. I've been looking for something that will let me do

Re: [expert] Security Updates - Versions DON'T MATCH CVEs

2003-09-26 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 11:54:20PM -0400, Albert Whale wrote: My Apologies Vincent, I didn't mean to post in HTML, but XP Blew up last night on my laptop, and killed my Netscape preferences, I'm still recovering. Thantks, I';ve switched to Text mode. Thank you. Now if you could work on not

Re: [expert] SSH idiot guide

2003-09-26 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Sep 26, 2003 at 08:44:59PM +0100, Richard Bown wrote: Hi All , is the an idiot guide to setting up ssh anywhere.? Not really an idiot guide, but might be of interest: http://linsec.ca/bin/view/Main/OpenSSH the same article is on MandrakeSecure someplace, but the above is the one that

Re: [expert] Security Updates - Versions DON'T MATCH CVEs

2003-09-26 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Sep 26, 2003 at 09:17:36AM -0400, Albert Whale wrote: Smarter minds than mine will have to figure that out. I've used nessus for scanning a few times, but never really looked at it's internals. I'm sure you could probably accomplish something with NASL (I think that's what their

Re: [expert] To All

2003-09-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 08:39:24AM -0400, HaywireMac wrote: I never expected, nor requested, this kind of message to the list so I just want to thank you for stepping forward and doing it. Takes a lot of guts to do it. =) I have gone through the archives and read some of the responses to my,

Re: [expert] Security Updates - Versions DON'T MATCH CVEs

2003-09-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 04:51:58PM -0400, Albert Whale wrote: I am running a System Scan on Several machines. The interesting ones to me are Linux Mandrake 8.2 and 9.1. The issue here is that the Scanning Tools (here I am using Nessus), expect a specific reply in order to accept or reject

Re: [expert] Security Updates - Versions DON'T MATCH CVEs

2003-09-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 11:13:23PM -0400, Albert Whale wrote: My response will be short simply due to the fact that you posted in html and I can't quote it and can't be bothered to cut-n-paste. Every Mandrake advisory includes the CVE names for the correlating problem. Trying using the CVE search

Re: [expert] Security Updates - Versions DON'T MATCH CVEs

2003-09-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 11:16:24PM -0500, Vox wrote: I guess my point was missed. We don't want to perform queries. Unless the PHP or HTML Page we pull up from MandrakeSecure Queries the Data to sort it and correlate the CVEs and the MDKSAs (and RPM names). This is what the Management

Re: [expert] Security Updates - Versions DON'T MATCH CVEs

2003-09-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 09:40:16PM -0400, Albert Whale wrote: Can you fix your reply-to's as well? It's irksome that replies aren't going to the list. I am running a System Scan on Several machines. The interesting ones to me are Linux Mandrake 8.2 and 9.1. The issue here is that the

Re: [expert] Security Updates - Versions DON'T MATCH CVEs

2003-09-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 25, 2003 at 08:56:38PM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: My response will be short simply due to the fact that you posted in html and I can't quote it and can't be bothered to cut-n-paste. Every Mandrake advisory includes the CVE names for the correlating problem. Trying using the

Re: [expert] Question for Vincent

2003-09-24 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 24, 2003 at 02:03:48AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Just so that I can verify, The recent rpms you put out for 9.1 and 9.0 on openssh. Did those have the first or second round of patches. Seems that on the openssh export (meaning non openBSD) they made an error with the PAM

Re: [expert] Question for Vincent

2003-09-24 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 24, 2003 at 02:12:33PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Just so that I can verify, The recent rpms you put out for 9.1 and 9.0 on openssh. Did those have the first or second round of patches. Seems that on the openssh export (meaning non openBSD) they made an error with

Re: [expert] Re: 9.2RC2 on VMware / TWIKI-ing

2003-09-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 23, 2003 at 08:35:13AM -0700, Eric Huff wrote: Yeah that's me thanks. BTW, just some nitpicking--VMWare should be spelled as VMware. Perhaps you may want to change that too? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/VmWare In the Twiki if you want something not

Re: [expert] openssh-3.7p1 Mandy 9.0

2003-09-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 23, 2003 at 06:51:53AM -0700, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: [..] greatest out there, and YES, i know Mandrake has released an rpm patch for 3.6p1. But, with our internal scan, anything running a version identified as vulnerable, even if patched, is flagged. So i have always used

Re: [expert] openssh-3.7p1 Mandy 9.0

2003-09-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 23, 2003 at 09:52:53AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: [..] greatest out there, and YES, i know Mandrake has released an rpm patch for 3.6p1. But, with our internal scan, anything running a version identified as vulnerable, even if patched, is flagged. So i have always used

Re: [expert] TWIKI-ing, was 9.2RC2 on VMware

2003-09-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 23, 2003 at 09:26:14AM -0700, Eric Huff wrote: And only WikiWords work with the treeview commands. Sooo, a page named VmWare works, VMware doesn't. Right, but that's only for the page. You can use something like this: [[VmWare][VMware]] which will link to the page

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread Vincent Danen
Jason PS, I am American (Dual NZ citizen) but have been happily living in New Zealand for over 8 years now... Vincent Danen wrote: One side, This statement by RH was made before the release of 9 9 is in the stores all that was dropped was the less profitable high end

Re: [expert] 9.2RC2 on VMware

2003-09-22 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 08:21:34AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: I installed 9.2RC2 on VMware. I can startx, but when I exit from the Xwindows. My console is all warped. I get four tiny screens. The two on the top is identical. Two at the bottom, I can't see anything, but grided color lines. I

Re: [expert] Re: 9.2RC2 on VMware

2003-09-22 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 07:41:01AM -0700, Norman Zhang wrote: I installed 9.2RC2 on VMware. I can startx, but when I exit from the Xwindows. My console is all warped. I get four tiny screens. The two on the top is identical. Two at the bottom, I can't see anything, but grided color lines.

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 10:11:37AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: One side, This statement by RH was made before the release of 9 9 is in the stores all that was dropped was the less profitable high end boxed sets. (those costing $100.00 US +) the lower end boxed sets are

Re: [expert] Re: 9.2RC2 on VMware

2003-09-22 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 09:15:09AM -0700, Norman Zhang wrote: So this happens with 8.2 too. I would like to narrow this down, so I can submit appropriate bug report to right people. Is this a Mandrake, VMware or XFree issue? My guess would be the video driver. What's the host OS? Does

Re: [expert] Re: 9.2RC2 on VMware

2003-09-22 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 10:36:07AM -0700, Norman Zhang wrote: My host OS is W2K Pro SP4 and am running VMware version 4.02 build-5592. 9.2RC2 would display the text properly if I boot into console mode. startx would display properly too. But after I exit from the Xwindows session, the text

[expert] respect your fellows

2003-09-22 Thread Vincent Danen
Without beating a dead horse, and posting with no expectation or want of a response, I would encourage everyone to respect their list mates when writing messages to the list. By respecting your list mates I mean please be courteous when speaking, be respectful of them and their opinions, and

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 12:24:00PM -0600, Charlie M. wrote: Here's an idea tho... I was recently in a local bookstore that caters to *NIX junkies and saw some Yellowdog packages there. The cool thing is, tho, that they came in a regular DVD case, just like a movie. I'm wondering if there

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 12:50:19PM -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Sorry for shouting but I know at least ten people here in Edmonton that would jump at that if it were available. 2 would buy from Mandrake store if they could, the others either don't use credit cards on-line or don't use

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 02:48:55PM -0400, HaywireMac wrote: Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: That none of these critics and dreamers has yet provided the world with a comparable, more profitable linux distribution suggests that, notwithstanding the possibilities of a million

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 12:57:57PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: [...] Excuse me.. But how about this both of you shut up I'm tired of wah and whine. end it here and now. Too bad Todd isn't around to start blocking. You don't need Todd for that. I am perfectly capable of removing

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 03:57:11PM -0700, John Wilson wrote: [...] Sadly, Rolf, having no visible distrubution channel, ie product on physical shelves in bricks and mortar physical stores, will reduce Mandrake to invisibilty in North Amercia. Like it or not, and that applies to MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 10:38:01PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Folks, this thread ends now. Mark, I'm not picking on just you... I'm making it a blanket thing... this thread ends *now*. If there are any postings under this particular thread, any general nastiness, etc. I will start liberally

Re: [expert] What a bunch of baloney

2003-09-21 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 03:17:49AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: [...] Oh, and Vincent, I'd vote for a ban if this guy continues his bad language. No need to vote. I am attempting to discuss with him off list as that's kinda where it belongs. -- MandrakeSoft Security;

Re: [expert] 9.2RC2 on VMware

2003-09-21 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Sep 21, 2003 at 10:29:46PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: I installed 9.2RC2 on VMware. I can startx, but when I exit from the Xwindows. My console is all warped. I get four tiny screens. The two on the top is identical. Two at the bottom, I can't see anything, but grided color lines. I

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Sep 20, 2003 at 01:23:03AM -0600, Charlie M. wrote: [...] - From what I've seen so far from the boxes I've 'cooked'; and the postings on cooker from people regarding their upgrade experiences, it's looking as though the urpmi upgrade path will be less trouble than at any previous

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Sep 20, 2003 at 12:28:16AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Anne looks good. Vincent, Who would be the one who could possibly make a link from the sympa signup page to this page. Won't do us any good if no one reads it. Better yet, would be if it could get put into the

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-19 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Sep 19, 2003 at 11:20:30AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListE tiquette Also was the info on Hijacking left out intentionally? Left to me, I think, and I'll do it today. I haven't checked the page yet,

[expert] Re: Memory Leak in XFree updates

2003-09-19 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Sep 19, 2003 at 10:40:47PM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: Ever since I updated my XFree packages last week, I have been seeing X use massive amounts of memory and I am concerned there may be a memory leak or something. Here is some output from top. See how X is using 212M. Way more

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-18 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 09:41:34PM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: Let's try path #3. Get someone competent so Vincent doesn't have to re-train multiple people (thus wasting enormous amounts of time). Let's try path #4. Go to Scotland and get Vincent cloned. You don't have to name

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-18 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 18, 2003 at 09:49:47AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: With all that in mind, I think this one-man operation is pretty damn speedy. absolutely, but... let's step into the managerial mind for a little while: Well, let's put this properly. Vincent doesn't *need* help.

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-18 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 18, 2003 at 07:29:36PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Thanks from here too for the hard work you do Vincent. Tuning in to the list on top of security updates is over and above the call of duty :-) =) Unfortunately, there's no one else active on the expert list.. the

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 06:02:22AM -0700, Tango Echo wrote: They did? How do you recieve notification? I though I was subscribed to the exploit list, but I haven't recieved a message in well over 6 months. Do I need to resubscribe or are you receiving noitification by other means?

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 08:19:45AM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: That is another problem. I found out about it from other distribution's security announcements then I checked MandrakeSecure and found that they posted the information there. They should send an announcement like this to the

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 01:52:09PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Advisories go out in many forms; I can't help it if you don't pay attention to one of the many: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - full-disclosure ml - RSS feed from MandrakeSecure - MandrakeSecure website (on nearly

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 02:03:48PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Advisories go out in many forms; I can't help it if you don't pay attention to one of the many: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - full-disclosure ml - RSS feed from MandrakeSecure - MandrakeSecure website (on nearly

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: Problem is people don't take security seriously, so they don't sign up for the list. There isn't much we can do to combat that... in the same way, they may skip those messages we put on every single list and then what? Yep

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 02:07:26PM -0700, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: Are you serious?? One man operation?? What will happen if/when the heat stroke gets you? Wandering. What heat stroke? Anyways, there is a backup person in case I do get run over, drowned, beat by my wife, etc. so no

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 02:42:25PM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: I think all things considered, we aren't that slow. If you're defining slow by a few hours, shame on you, if you're defining it by a few days, shame on me. I think we're fairly close to the other big players when it comes to the

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 18, 2003 at 02:01:32AM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Let's try path #3. Get someone competent so Vincent doesn't have to re-train multiple people (thus wasting enormous amounts of time). Let's try path #4. Go to Scotland and get Vincent cloned. You don't have to name him

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Sep 15, 2003 at 02:20:21PM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: BSD would be a kernel just as linux is just a kernel. I bet 100%of the companies using BSD and apache-PHP/mySQL on their webserver would not be there without mySQL, how good is BSD without any of the programs that are packed

Re: [expert] Re: Whoa there...

2003-09-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 16, 2003 at 01:11:33PM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: BSD would be a kernel just as linux is just a kernel. I bet 100%of the companies using BSD and apache-PHP/mySQL on their webserver would not be there without mySQL, how good is BSD without any of the programs that are

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 16, 2003 at 10:05:18PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 16, 2003 at 10:45:07PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 10:51:44AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Much of the problem is that if it is noticed that too many users do textinstalls, they'll probably be removed. And how do you imagine they'll notice that? Data Mining, Once you log in it sends back to MDK information

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 02:56:30PM -0600, Charlie M. wrote: Much of the problem is that if it is noticed that too many users do textinstalls, they'll probably be removed. And how do you imagine they'll notice that? Data Mining, Once you log in it sends back to MDK

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 02:10:58PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Much of the problem is that if it is noticed that too many users do textinstalls, they'll probably be removed. And how do you imagine they'll notice that? Data Mining, Once you log in it sends back to MDK

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-12 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 04:02:47PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: What on God's green earth makes you think MandrakeSoft would ever stoop to something like this? We do have principles you know. The question was how I could imagine that it would be noticed. Not a

Re: [expert] Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

2003-09-10 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Sep 10, 2003 at 09:07:07AM -0700, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: Since i build my own kernels from www.kernels.org, patch them with openMosix, do i still need to apply Mandrake's kernel patch? Only if you want to apply them all. If you use the absolute latest 2.4 kernel, you should be

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-19 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Aug 19, 2003 at 07:31:02PM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process (Neverwinter Nights, if it matters :). I don't know if it's possible for a remote user to crash the game process in a way which would leave them

Re: [expert] does Mdk's php support mysql?

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 04, 2003 at 07:24:50AM -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote: I'm trying to learn some php/mysql and i've came across this error message whenever i try to load a one-line php file that connects to a local mysql database: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect()

Re: [expert] Apache 2, SSL, Virtual Hosts

2003-08-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Aug 03, 2003 at 04:15:01PM +0200, Stefano Pogliani wrote: do you mean that I have to change the _default_:443 into 192.168.0.2:443 and set the right ServerName (i.e. webmail.poglianis.net) ? Yes. Should I also generate a NEW self certificate for webmail.pogliani.net ? Yes. Make

Re: [expert] does Mdk's php support mysql?

2003-08-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Aug 04, 2003 at 01:52:16AM -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote: I'm trying to learn some php/mysql and i've came across this error message whenever i try to load a one-line php file that connects to a local mysql database: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in

Re: [expert] Kernel Update - NVIDIA Driver Problem

2003-08-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Aug 01, 2003 at 06:08:17PM -0500, Jeffrey Litterick wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a computer with a Geforce 4. I am or should say was using the standard NVdriver that was installed automatically with Mandrake 9.1. When I first installed Mandrake I had the same problem

Re: [expert] www.mandrakesecure.net?!?

2003-07-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Jul 31, 2003 at 07:12:59PM +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote: So I think 1) They have server problems 2) they change their infrastructure. They have been updating their servers, (both hw and sw) and changing dns setups an so on... Even tonight or tomorrow there will be some dns

Re: [expert] www.mandrakesecure.net?!?

2003-07-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Jul 31, 2003 at 06:22:13AM -0500, stefmit wrote: Is it just me, or is this site ($subject) having big problems?!? Cannnot reach it for the second day in a row ... Hmmm ... same with archives.mandrakelinux.com?!? Could it be me, from three different locations (CW, Sprint and ATT

Re: [expert] www.mandrakesecure.net?!?

2003-07-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Jul 31, 2003 at 02:02:30PM -0500, stefmit wrote: Is it just me, or is this site ($subject) having big problems?!? Cannnot reach it for the second day in a row ... Hmmm ... same with archives.mandrakelinux.com?!? Could it be me, from three different locations (CW, Sprint and

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel

2003-07-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jul 28, 2003 at 08:22:15PM -0700, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Mandrake should change their kernel installation instructions in the latest Security Advisory since they say there: To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package(s)

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel

2003-07-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jul 29, 2003 at 10:48:06AM -0700, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Sure. What do you mean by making the thing a hyperlink? You mean do a a href=http://...;kernel update/a thing? Why would I want to do that in an all-text (no HTML) message? A decent mail client would make that clickable or

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel

2003-07-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jul 29, 2003 at 01:04:54PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Regarding the instructions for the kernel upgrade, they include: 'Once you have modified your lilo.conf or menu.lst file, execute lilo -v or sh /boot/grub/install.sh, again depending upon your bootloader.' I have never

Re: [expert] I Hate RPM's!!

2003-07-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Jul 29, 2003 at 10:54:20AM -0700, Tru64 User wrote: i checked my openssl, it was version 0.9.6x (vulnerable) MandrakeUpdate, does not offer its upgrade via security updates. What vulnerability are you thinking of, specifically? Is it this one:

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Jul 25, 2003 at 03:02:12PM -0600, Charlie wrote: Please back out to 18mdk or 13mdk until we get this fixed. I have to pull those kernels off the mirror sites now. Thanks for alerting us to this. This sort of thing demonstrates the need for a formal bug tracker for post-release

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel

2003-07-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jul 28, 2003 at 08:26:24PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Mandrake should change their kernel installation instructions in the latest Security Advisory since they say there: To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package(s)

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-25 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Jul 24, 2003 at 07:20:31PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: While vincent wakeup, I am uploading new kernel packages to: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~quintela/updates/9.1/ Thanks for providing those so quickly, Juan. I'll be installing them shortly. :-) They're making their way

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 11:56:14AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. Since, then, any number of processes which used to write files that were writable only by

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update breaks msec

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 12:21:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: (Again, this is in the hopes that someone from Mandrake is still reading this list) Well, at least partially. :-) In addition to the other error I reported regarding the new kernel (2.4.21- 0.24mdk) causing all files to be

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 01:26:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: Glad to see you're still on the list, Vincent. :-) Someone has to make sure you guys behave.. =) I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 03:29:29PM -0600, Charlie wrote: Would a copy of /var/log/security/writable.diff help? There's a *lot* of files that weren't writable that are now. 8.5 kB to be exact. I do believe I'm going to boot back to .22mdk. Or .18mdk. At least until somebody figures this out.

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 02:34:09PM -0700, Bryan Whitehead wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. Since, then, any number of processes which used to write files that were writable only

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