Re: confusing printing problem -fixed!

2000-12-31 Thread Cathy Segedy
I got it to work. thanks for the help. powering on and off the asante box, *then* rebooting the linux machine, somehow made it so that the printer was responding to the non-spooling name again. (though now both show up with nbplkup). thankyou! cathy

Re: DSL or Speedway - probably FAQ by now

2000-12-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
i'm not sure about the hardware kit from staples. Verizon's DSL uses PPoE which is supported by Linux. I recently helped a client with his DSL system, and since his Laptop was pretty much DOA, I plugged in my laptop into his DSL and it came up right away. DSL comes in several different

Re: New distribution?

2000-12-31 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Charles Farinella wrote: I know that everyone is jazzed about Debian, but I'm a little concerned about the install. If you want to try out Debian, but don't want to brave the install, check out Storm Linux. It's Debian with a slick installer. After the install, just change your apt-sources

happy new year

2000-12-31 Thread Joshua S. Freeman
To everyone on the list.. may 2001 be your best year yet! cheers, J -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Joshua S. Freeman | preferred email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

symlink ~ windoze shortcut?

2000-12-31 Thread Karl J. Runge
Hi, I was visiting my father-in-law over the holidays and, as usual, I wound up fixing things on his Win95 computer. He has a space problem on his 2GB C: drive and we traced it down to a huge amount of "clip art" in one application. He uses that application a lot and has customized it

Re: symlink ~ windoze shortcut?

2000-12-31 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
The short answer: No. The long answer: 1)No. Because: Windoze does not have any concept of symlinks. The binaries call things from hard-coded places. This is also the reason that you can't just move a binary from one directory to another. It just isn't a part of the file system spec. 2) Yes.

Re: New distribution?

2000-12-31 Thread Randy Edwards
I know that everyone is jazzed about Debian, but I'm a little concerned about the install. Ben isn't jazzed. :-) Seriously, the install isn't that bad -- as long as you don't expect to have everything working perfectly in an hour or so. Debian requires some tweaking and playing to get

Re: New distribution?

2000-12-31 Thread Jeffry Smith
They've solved the KDE/Debian issue (the legality of distributing KDE (GPL) and QT (QPL) together, since there we license conflicts, not because QT was not open-source). KDE 2 is in unstable now, so it will be in the next stable. Someone's got the KDE stuff for potato, outside of Debian.

Re: IPSEC Appliances Revisited

2000-12-31 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Michael O'Donnell wrote: Ken Lussier wrote: Nortel Contivity Extranet Server 1510: That, I presume, is the Roman spelling... That, I presume, is a reference to by bad spelling ;-) However, in this case, I actually spelled everything correctly. Either that, or Nortel has spelling issues of

Re: New distribution?

2000-12-31 Thread Randy Edwards
I'd try Debian, but have not found one with KDE2. Now that the license issues have been cleared up, the new testing version of Debian ("Woody") officially has KDE2 in it. If you add the line: deb http://kde.tdyc.com/ potato kde kde2 contrib rkrusty into your /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: symlink ~ windoze shortcut?

2000-12-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
I think that the only solution you have is to move the applicaiton. There are utilities you can get to move an entire application to a different partition. As Ken Lussier mentioned, you can hack the registry, but I think a good data mover app, would be a bit better. McAfee's Uninstaller can

odd message

2000-12-31 Thread Tom Rauschenbach
Hi folks This Dec 31 15:12:39 localhost rpc.statd[302]: gethostbyname error for ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿b760 8049710 8052c28687465676274736f6d616e797265206520726f7220726f66 just appeared in my syslog. Other than pointing out that my machine

Re: odd message

2000-12-31 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Dec 31 15:12:39 localhost rpc.statd[302]: gethostbyname error for ^X÷ÿ¿^X÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Y÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^Z÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿^[÷ÿ¿b760 8049710 8052c28687465676274736f6d616e797265206520726f7220726f66 just appeared in my syslog. Other than pointing out that my machine thinks

Re: odd message

2000-12-31 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Odds are good that you just had someone try to use a buffer overflow explooit on your machine. What services do you have open? Did your security log show anything exciting? I'm sure others on here would know more than I about figuring out a) What happened, and b) if you've actually been

Re: odd message

2000-12-31 Thread Tom Rauschenbach
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Odds are good that you just had someone try to use a buffer overflow explooit on your machine. What services do you have open? Did your security log show anything exciting? I'm sure others on here would know more than I about figuring out a) What

Re: odd message

2000-12-31 Thread Rich Payne
Why are you running rpc.statd on a machine on the internet? It's part of NFS which is a horrible security leakdo a /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop then run ntsysv and disable that and anything else you don't think you need (aka: just about everything!). --rdp On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Tom

Re: odd message

2000-12-31 Thread Tom Rauschenbach
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Rich Payne wrote: Why are you running rpc.statd on a machine on the internet? 'Cuz I don't know any better!! I have turned off the things I know about. I also have _Maximun Linux Security_, I guess I need to read it too. It's part of NFS which is a horrible security

Re: odd message

2000-12-31 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
This looks more like a remote format string vulnerability than the work of a rootkit. rpc.statd has several format string vulnerabilities. The give-away is the long HEX string preceeded by unreadable characters. The unreadable characters are the formatted string that statd accepts as input, and