[newbie] How to use openssl create a SSL certificate for my apache server

2002-02-20 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi, Sorry this is probably a very basic question but I really cannot find the answer. Can anyone please teach me step by step how to create a SSL certificate, sign it by myself, and install it into apache server. Thank you! I am using Mandrake 8.1, apache 1.3.22, openssl 0.9.6b, and mod_ssl 2.8

[newbie] Mandrake Update

2002-02-20 Thread Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=-
Every time I try to use the MandrakeUpdate and I choose something to update I get the following error every time: "Some errors where encountered while checking your wishes:" "Bad, unreadable or not found packages" "Sorry, but all packages raised an error. So I can't proceed with the installa

Re: [newbie] Digest?

2002-02-20 Thread Paul Kraus
What does a list digest do? is it like an archive? On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 13:40, Matt Chinn wrote: > Is there a digest for this list?..I usually like to be on digests.. > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to bu

Re: [newbie] Anti-virus

2002-02-20 Thread Chris Keelan
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:03:49 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Bill Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> transmitted: > How do you target linux. Everyone runs so much different stuff. Not only that, but for a VB-style virus to propogate on Linux, you'd need to intervene as a user. I

RE: [newbie] Digest?

2002-02-20 Thread Eric Budinger
It allows a group of messages to be sent as one instead of Individual messages. Thus no more crowding of your inbox. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paul Kraus Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 1:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

RE: [newbie] Email

2002-02-20 Thread Paul Kraus
wow I sent this last night.. and it just now went through. > > On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 13:17, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus > > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:53 AM >

[newbie] smbtar vs tar

2002-02-20 Thread Paul Kraus
why use smbtar over tar? I am backuping a folder on one nt machine to a folder on another nt machine. ( its a temp thing) I mount both folders on my laptop using samba. I then issue the normal tar command and point to the respective mount points. Is there some kind of benifit to smbtar? there see

[newbie] win4lin 3.0 vnet

2002-02-20 Thread Paul Kraus
I have installed win4lin and set it for vnet. But when I booted windows there was no nic info at all. I added merge nic as the driver and set all the tcp ip setting to what they should be for dhcp. It then asked me for io/irq info for the card. I left it at the default setting. When I reboot it te

Re: [newbie] terminal launches

2002-02-20 Thread David Crouse
Now how did you know that?? or better phrased "Where did you learn that?" I had "assumed" that a terminal just worked like that. didn't realize that the & after the command would free the terminal.I had been opening up several terminals when using black box to start the

Re: [newbie] Anti-virus

2002-02-20 Thread David Crouse
I think this is a question that most of us asked when we first started using Linux. The virus problem is virtually nil(since most viruses are exploiting M$ flaws and security problems in M$ programs) however thinking along the same line --- securing your linux computer from outside in

Re: [newbie] network restart after suspend

2002-02-20 Thread Chris Keelan
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:02:59 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Hanan Shargi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> transmitted: > well... > ? what could be the problem in this case ? Without knowing which Inspiron and which NIC you're running, everything is a stab in the dark. Try disabl

Re:[newbie] network restart after suspend

2002-02-20 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 11:02 pm, Hanan Shargi wrote: > > after I do a : service network restart > I get the following : > > > Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding [OK] > Setting network parameters[OK] > Bringing up interface lo: [OK] > Enabling IPv4 packet forwardi

Re: [newbie] Where to put skins for xmms ?

2002-02-20 Thread Mister
Thanks for the help, took a while before i was able to write back as ive been real busy. Got it working :-) On February 19, 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: > On Monday 18 February 2002 17:17, you wrote: > > What directory would i put skins for xmms in ? > > Let's see, assuming that your login (userna

Solution and new esd Question (was Re: [newbie] Error: Couldn'tOpen Audio)

2002-02-20 Thread Nexist Xenda'ths
Hello: Everything was pointing to /dev/dsp. First I set the OSS plugin to /dev/sound/dsp which allowed it to play. I then set up the ESound Daemon (esd) with the correct device specified. the Commands were esd -d /dev/sound/dsp & esdctl unlock Now for the question, where do I put these

[newbie] VMware

2002-02-20 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I have LM8.1 and am running vmware2.04 on a virtual disk with Windows 95 as the guest operating system. I want to put the virtual disk on a different partition or add another virtual disk to extend the room for my guest operating system. Does anyone know a simple way to do this? For e

Re:[newbie] network restart after suspend

2002-02-20 Thread Hanan Shargi
well... I dont connect through DHCP, my machine is given a static internal IP ( 10.0.0.xx) so i guess i'm not connected directly to the internet i'm connected through the building's gateway ( all appartments in the building connect to one network and then connect to the internet through a gat

Re: [newbie] Installing the new Mozilla

2002-02-20 Thread Erylon Hines
My experience has been that it really is best to uninstall Moz when installing the latest release. It's easy: rpm -U name_of_rpm Or, you can use your package manager--just look around until you find the version of Moz that you're using and hit the uninstall tab--poof, it's gone. Backup your

RE: [newbie] Anti-virus

2002-02-20 Thread Franki
you don't need an antivirus on linux unless you are using a linux box to protect windows machines. there are no real virus's as such on linux.. however if you must, do a search of the archives for "trend filescan" I have posted its address and config many times. it will really only detect window

Re: [newbie] Mail question

2002-02-20 Thread Randy Kramer
Robin wrote: I can always count on your replay to questions. I am > going to search around for more info. I will let you know if I ever got > it working the way I want. Thanks! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Genius ColorPage-Vivid Pro II

2002-02-20 Thread Carlos Arigós
Is there any way to configure my Genius ColorPage-Vivid Pro II scanner (parport) in MDK 8.1? Thanks Carlos Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installing the new Mozilla

2002-02-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:20:07 -0500, Hanan Shargi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > a quick Question, I d/l Mozilla 0.9.8 rpm's for Mandrake and I was reading the > installation instruction, it said somewhere that it is better to uninstall the > old mozilla before installing the new release. > my

RE: [newbie] Mail question

2002-02-20 Thread Robin
Ah, good old Randy. I can always count on your replay to questions. I am going to search around for more info. I will let you know if I ever got it working the way I want. Robin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Randy Kramer > Sent:

Re: [newbie] Sending mail via Perl with Postfix

2002-02-20 Thread Kevin Old
Actually, I got it to work by just calling /usr/sbin/sendmail. Evitentally Postfix comes with a file called sendmail that redirects everything to postfix. Thanks for your help though, Kevin - Original Message - From: "skinky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kevin Old" <[EMA

Re: [newbie] Single Network Firewall setup

2002-02-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:54:32 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys > I finally convinced the supervisors in my university research group that > our windows machines are not very safe as they are...they are connected > to the net 24 hours a day with a couple of ports always open...and the > inf

Re: [newbie] Sending mail via Perl with Postfix

2002-02-20 Thread skinky
On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:39, Kevin Old wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a Mandrake 8.1 box running Postfix. I have a few CGI's that need to > send email. I have always used Sendmail and have been come stumped with > this line in my script after swtiching to postfix: > > # * NAME (AND LO

Re: [newbie] Sending mail via Perl with Postfix

2002-02-20 Thread Randy Kramer
Kevin Old wrote: > $mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; > > What should I put here? The line shown usually works -- there is a sendmail program included in postfix for just this reason. Mine seems to be in /usr/sbin/sendmail, although I don't have postfix running (yet). Randy Kramer Want to bu

Re: [newbie] Email

2002-02-20 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 09:53, Paul wrote: > I have sent like 5 messages to the server over the last two days and > have yet to see any of them show up. If anyone gets this message > please send me a response. Looks like your message went through this time. ***

Re: [newbie] Single Network Firewall setup

2002-02-20 Thread Brian Parish
If you have a spare low end Pentium machine and a couple of NICs lying around, you have liftoff. There are many firewall products you could use. I have found InteractiveBastille which comes with your Mandrake distro easy enough. Others have suggested that gShield is easier still. Basically the

[newbie] Sending mail via Perl with Postfix

2002-02-20 Thread Kevin Old
Hello all, I have a Mandrake 8.1 box running Postfix. I have a few CGI's that need to send email. I have always used Sendmail and have been come stumped with this line in my script after swtiching to postfix: # * NAME (AND LOCATION) OF THE SERVER MAIL PROGRAM * # Enter the name of your

RE: [newbie] installing the new mozilla

2002-02-20 Thread Hanan Shargi
Skinky, Many many thanks... I used the --force option and I'm running mozilla 0.9.8 now :-) This is a GR8 list Regards , >= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = >On Thursday 21 February 2002 09:13, Hanan Shargi wrote: >> skinky thanks for the hint .. i exported my bookmarks :) >> >

Re:[newbie] installing the new mozilla

2002-02-20 Thread skinky
On Thursday 21 February 2002 09:13, Hanan Shargi wrote: > skinky thanks for the hint .. i exported my bookmarks :) > > now i tried installing the new mozilla ( as root )using the following > command: rpm -Uvh mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk.rpm --nodeps > and it gives me the following error: > > file /usr/lib

Re: [newbie] Changing user

2002-02-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:56:28 -0800 "Mithrilhall2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason, when I reinstalled Mandrake I have it logging in > automatically with a certain user rather than prompting. I want to make it > so there are no default users logging in when the computer boots up. >

Re: [newbie] Changing user

2002-02-20 Thread shane
try looking in the mandrake control center, under boot, boot configuration. On Wednesday 20 February 2002 15:56, you spoke unto me thusly: > For some reason, when I reinstalled Mandrake I have it logging in > automatically with a certain user rather than prompting. I want to make > it so there a

[newbie] iptables / netfilter policies

2002-02-20 Thread tsmets
Based on rusty russels document I worked out the following rules. Could someone tell me if they look safe ? Topology : internet FW - intranet (192.168.1.xxx) (eth0) (eth1)gtw : 192.168.1.1 Aim : 1°. Any outb

[newbie] Changing user

2002-02-20 Thread Mithrilhall2000
For some reason, when I reinstalled Mandrake I have it logging in automatically with a certain user rather than prompting. I want to make it so there are no default users logging in when the computer boots up. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Mithrilhall __

Re: [newbie] Digest?

2002-02-20 Thread ed tharp
Matt... how can you help out from a "digest" we are all here to help each other. there are archives. On Wednesday 20 February 2002 15:23, you wrote: > On Wednesday 20 February 2002 01:40 pm, you wrote: > > Is there a digest for this list?..I usually like to be on digests.. > > Matt: No, it

Re: [newbie] ext 3

2002-02-20 Thread Jesus Hinojosa
It gives you the option at the beggining when you configure the partitions. unless you select to clean the whole disk. It will install the default configuration. - Original Message - From: "G.M.Laudone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:52 AM

Re: [newbie] Digest?

2002-02-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 01:40 pm, you wrote: > Is there a digest for this list?..I usually like to be on digests.. Matt: No, it's pretty much all or nothing at all -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re:[newbie] installing the new mozilla

2002-02-20 Thread Hanan Shargi
skinky thanks for the hint .. i exported my bookmarks :) now i tried installing the new mozilla ( as root )using the following command: rpm -Uvh mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk.rpm --nodeps and it gives me the following error: file /usr/lib/libnssckbi.so form install of mozilla-0.9.8-5mdk conflicts ith fil

Re: [newbie] Installing the new Mozilla

2002-02-20 Thread skinky
On Thursday 21 February 2002 07:20, Hanan Shargi wrote: > Hi, > a quick Question, I d/l Mozilla 0.9.8 rpm's for Mandrake and I was reading > the installation instruction, it said somewhere that it is better to > uninstall the old mozilla before installing the new release. > my Q is : can't I just

Re: [newbie] Email

2002-02-20 Thread skinky
On Thursday 21 February 2002 07:17, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Email > > > I have sent like 5 messages

[newbie] Must manually connect to internet?

2002-02-20 Thread asmiller
Sorry for the repost, but I quit getting posts from the list right after I sent this. I am running Mandrake 8.1 on a Dell C600 and using it as a mail and web server. Some setting changed recently and when it is rebooted, it now no longer connects to the internet automatically. I now have to

Re: [newbie] Anti-virus

2002-02-20 Thread John Richard Smith
No real need , I have never had a virus in Linux. I don't say it's impossible, but the ease of which viruses spread is due to the simple PC origine of Windows. No system of permissions for example. John On Wednesday 20 February 2002 11:25, you wrote: > May I know what's the best anti-virus sho

[newbie] Apache + PHP + PostgreSQL

2002-02-20 Thread Andre Dubuc
I've hacked away and actually got a working copy of Apache + PHP + PostgreSQL to install on my disk: Apache and PHP from source, and the rpm'd version of PostgreSQL 7.0.3 mdk. I have followed a tutorial from www.newbienetwork.net entitled "Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL" that included an html/p

Re: [newbie] ext 3

2002-02-20 Thread shane
well since 8.1 supports it (and many others like XFS and ReiserFS) i assume 8.2 will. ;-) the advantage is to have journaling, basically a diary for your disk, to better protect you in a crash. search the archives of the list for a lot more info. On Wednesday 20 February 2002 05:56, you spo

Re: [newbie] ext 3

2002-02-20 Thread G.M.Laudone
I cannot remember any option during the installation process of Mandrake 8.1 asking me if I wanted ext2 or 3or maybe it was when I partitioned the hard drive? Thanks again Maurizio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Anti-virus

2002-02-20 Thread Bill Davidson
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 07:24 am, Michel Clasquin wrote: > On Wednesday 20 February 2002 13:25, Tonton wrote: > > May I know what's the best anti-virus should I use in Linux? Please > > send me the URL for download. > > We're still waiting for someone to write a really nasty virus that > af

Re: [newbie] ext 3

2002-02-20 Thread Randy Kramer
G.M.Laudone wrote: > I cannot remember any option during the installation process of Mandrake 8.1 > asking me if I wanted ext2 or 3or maybe it was when I partitioned the > hard drive? Yes -- when you partition the hard drive (at least in expert mode) you can choose the filesystem type (lo

Re: [newbie] par for linux?

2002-02-20 Thread Bill Davidson
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 11:29 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > RAR format is an archiving format that is very popular in europe & > japan. mostly popular with Warez ppl too b/c its algorithms compress > better than .zip > > it was invented in Japan IIRC too. > > what else do you want to know? For win

[newbie] massive memory usage / php server problems

2002-02-20 Thread Jamie Kerwick
I have a linux box on which i run our Intranet. it had been running for 100+ days absolutely fine, until i installed phpnuke 5.5. Now it runs extremely slowly. I have noticed that there is a lot of memory used for caching. if i do a free -t i get these numbers, total used

RE: [newbie] ext 3

2002-02-20 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] ext 3 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ext 3 Hi girls and boys, I recently visited Redhat website and I saw tha

[newbie] Single Network Firewall setup

2002-02-20 Thread maurizio . laudone
Hi guys I finally convinced the supervisors in my university research group that our windows machines are not very safe as they are...they are connected to the net 24 hours a day with a couple of ports always open...and the information on thos pc are quite important...I thought we could use the Ma

Re: [newbie] unzip not in path

2002-02-20 Thread Derek Jennings
For some unknown reason the ML8.1 installer does not install the package unzip by default. Just install the rpm from your disc and archiver will then work with .zip files. derek On Saturday 16 February 2002 16:39, Bill Winegarden wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know how to put unzip in

Re: [newbie] Running slow.

2002-02-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 15 February 2002 12:44, Gerald Waugh wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jeffrey Madore wrote: > > I recently installed Mandrake 8.1 on my son's machine which consists of a > > 120Mhz processor and 84meg of ram. It now operates deadly slow. My > > understanding has been that one advantage of l

Re: [newbie] network restart after suspend

2002-02-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:00:20 -0500 Hanan Shargi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled in frustration: >Hi, > >I'm running Mandrake 8.1 on a dell inspiron notebook with a DSL >connection ( I connect to the building's DSL network through the lan card >only -internal IP withinn the network ) >my problem is

[newbie] KDE3 beta 2

2002-02-20 Thread Oder
Has anyone a experience or a trick on how to install KDE3 beta 2 in Mandrake 8.1? Thanks in advance, Oder.

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE INSTALL ON NEW COMPUTER

2002-02-20 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: > > Hello George, > > Thanks, > > I am afraid there is no /etc/lilo.conf, drakeX failed to create one. > So, just to prove a point to myself I did LM8.1 re-install all over again, > but this time I insisted drakX install Lilo instead of Grub. The result is > absolutely id

Re: [newbie] Anti-virus

2002-02-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:25:05 +0800, "Tonton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May I know what's the best anti-virus should I use in Linux? Please send me > the URL for download. A well-designed OS doesn't need a virus scanner. GNU/Linux is one such OS. Any "Linux virus scanners" that you may hear ab

Re: [newbie] Running slow [OT]

2002-02-20 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 23:51, you wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2002 16:54, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > To give fair credit, however, I understand that MS has replaced the > > legendary BSOD (R). It's black now. Yet another market-driven > > innovation. > > Oh good so the acronym BSOD still

[newbie] Web Camera

2002-02-20 Thread Tonton
Is there any software/player available in Linux-Mandrake so that I can use my Web Camera? brand: Logitech Web Cam Express (USB) __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Anti-virus

2002-02-20 Thread Tonton
May I know what's the best anti-virus should I use in Linux? Please send me the URL for download. Thanx __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com