Re: [newbie] SSH from remote host?

2002-08-21 Thread David Johnson
As an update. Here is the valid portion of auth.log. Looks like it may be an SSH config problem? Aug 20 23:21:32 pengo sshd[5534]: error: Bind to port 22 on 10.0.0.10 failed: Address already in use. Aug 20 23:21:32 pengo sshd[5534]: fatal: Cannot bind any address. Aug 20 23:21:37 pengo

Re: [newbie] SSH from remote host?

2002-08-21 Thread Miark
David, You could try adding the following to /etc/hosts.allow: ALL : ALL : ALLOW and if that _works_ you should try and find a combo that addresses SSH directly, probably something along the lines of sshd sshd1 sshd2 : ALL : ALLOW Miark David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I've got a

[newbie] Where can I download Ximian Evolution?

2002-08-21 Thread Isaac Curtis
I'm running 7.2 Power Pack and it doesn't come on the CD. The only version I can find online is in debian format. Can L-M do .deb? If not, where can I find this program? KMail is driving me up the freaking wall and everyone's telling me this is the direction I need to go, I just need help

[newbie] Undelivered mail?

2002-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm getting more and more of these 'undelevered mail' messages, addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: which turn out to be messages I have posted to the list, and which have appeared on the list. It's getting to be really annoying. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail?

2002-08-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed 21 Aug 2002 10:03, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm getting more and more of these 'undelevered mail' messages, addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: which turn out to be messages I have posted to the list, and which have appeared on the list. It's getting to be really annoying. Anne So am

Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail?

2002-08-21 Thread Jure Repinc
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: So am I.they show up after a day or 2 :o( Good Luck, Harm. Same here. It is also happening by sending mail to Cooker Mailing list and probably to all mailing lists for Mandrake. Sometimes my e-mail shows up a minute or so after I send it, sometimes it take even

RE: [newbie] Undelivered mail?

2002-08-21 Thread Eileen Lopp
You're getting those because the mailserver handling mandrake's mailing lists is not configured correctly. Those should be going to the administrator for the mailserver, not to you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent:

RE: [newbie] really really out of topic

2002-08-21 Thread Franki
I'm interested Sridhar, where did you hear about XP throttling bandwidth down to save some for talking to M$ servers?? thats something that people should know about. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent:

Re[2]: [newbie] vnc

2002-08-21 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello Stormjumper, Wednesday, August 21, 2002, 3:10:15 AM, you wrote: S hi Colin, S i'm pretty much a newbie myself, S so what i'm putting here is just what works, S rather than what is correct. S but anyway, what i do is to edit /etc/X11/Xsession S near the end, around line 150, S there's

Re: [newbie] really really out of topic

2002-08-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
It was a while ago, so I can't remember exactly where I got it. At a guess, it was probably The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk) or The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net). On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:52:46 +0800, Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested Sridhar, where did you hear

Re: [newbie] Where can I download Ximian Evolution?

2002-08-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 03:38:53 -0400, Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running 7.2 Power Pack and it doesn't come on the CD. The only version I can find online is in debian format. Can L-M do .deb? If not, where can I find this program? KMail is driving me up the freaking wall and

Re: [newbie] really really out of topic

2002-08-21 Thread et
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 11:08 pm, you wrote: ok, so what's the deal with saying that the video card has 32mb of ram when it needs to use the system RAM??? Sean the video chip section will then use 32 megs of ram and will have that much less ram available for the system so when you specify

[newbie] Server behind a firewall

2002-08-21 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi, I have a simple home network made up of 3 computers. One is running ML 8.1 and is connected to the internet via DSL. It is sharing the net connection via NAT/IP masquerading and has a firewall setup using iptables. The other 2 computers are running Windows. Suppose I wanted to run a

Re: [newbie] Server behind a firewall

2002-08-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I have a simple home network made up of 3 computers. One is running ML 8.1 and is connected to the internet via DSL. It is sharing the net connection via NAT/IP masquerading and has a firewall setup using iptables. The other 2 computers are running Windows.

RE: [newbie] Server behind a firewall

2002-08-21 Thread David
This rule would allow traffic going to the www port (80) to be forwarded on. iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT Change destination addresses of web traffic to 5.6.7.8, port 8080. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -i eth0 -j DNAT --to 5.6.7.8:8080 This lot just came

Re: [newbie] Where can I download Ximian Evolution?

2002-08-21 Thread David A. Bartmess
Try www.ximian.org. And believe me, Evolution's years ahead of KMail (no offense to the KDE die-hards grin) On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 01:38, Isaac Curtis wrote: I'm running 7.2 Power Pack and it doesn't come on the CD. The only version I can find online is in debian format. Can L-M do .deb? If

[newbie] Newb needs FreeSWAN with Mdk8.2 and Win98/SSH Sentinel

2002-08-21 Thread Tommy Eaton
Hi there, I need to setup a VPN connection from a mandrake 8.2 box and a Win98 client running SSH Sentinel. Unfortunately I have been having a rather rough time... I've read a few docs but unfortunately not all of it is clear. Recently I came across this very user friendly document:

Re: [newbie] vnc

2002-08-21 Thread Michael Viron
If you want to make changes on a per-user basis, take a look at ~/.vnc/xstartup , which is where the information gets pulled from. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online http://www.findaschool.org At 01:38 AM

RE: [newbie] Server behind a firewall

2002-08-21 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, David wrote: This rule would allow traffic going to the www port (80) to be forwarded on. iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT Change destination addresses of web traffic to 5.6.7.8, port 8080. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -i

Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail?

2002-08-21 Thread s
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 03:03 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm getting more and more of these 'undelevered mail' messages, addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: which turn out to be messages I have posted to the list, and which have appeared on the list. It's getting to be really annoying. Anne

Re: [newbie] Where can I download Ximian Evolution?

2002-08-21 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 02:38 am, Isaac Curtis wrote: I'm running 7.2 Power Pack and it doesn't come on the CD. The only version I can find online is in debian format. Can L-M do .deb? If not, where can I find this program? KMail is driving me up the freaking wall and everyone's telling

Re: [newbie] Newb needs FreeSWAN with Mdk8.2 and Win98/SSH Sentinel

2002-08-21 Thread David A. Bartmess
have you tried linuxnewbie.org? They've got pretty decent coverage of a lot of different areas, so they might have an answer... On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 06:40, Tommy Eaton wrote: Hi there, I need to setup a VPN connection from a mandrake 8.2 box and a Win98 client running SSH Sentinel.

[newbie] CD burning software

2002-08-21 Thread David Sexton
Dose any one have any suggestions on CD duplication software? I copy a lot of cd's. I have tried X-CD-Roost but it only can read and copy from the CD Write drive. Thanks David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] SSH from remote host?

2002-08-21 Thread David Johnson
Miark, That did the trick. Thanks for the rank newbie advice! On Tuesday 20 August 2002 11:39 pm, Miark wrote: David, You could try adding the following to /etc/hosts.allow: ALL : ALL : ALLOW and if that _works_ you should try and find a combo that addresses SSH directly, probably

Re: [newbie] CD burning software

2002-08-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:52:02 -0500 David Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dose any one have any suggestions on CD duplication software? I copy a lot of cd's. I have tried X-CD-Roost but it only can read and copy from the CD Write drive. If you want to write on the fly you will need to add

RE: [newbie] CD burning software

2002-08-21 Thread David Sexton
Charles, One problem I am running grub and not lilo. So won't that change things? -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD burning software On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:52:02

Re: [newbie] rootkit

2002-08-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 21 Aug 2002 4:01 pm, Wilson, Jack wrote: Is there a script for checking for rootkits (chkrootkit) for Mandrake like there is for RH? Thanks Jack Yes... The search button in Mandrake Software Manager will find it for you. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [newbie] rootkit

2002-08-21 Thread Wilson, Jack
Thanks. I appreciate it. -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] rootkit On Wednesday 21 Aug 2002 4:01 pm, Wilson, Jack wrote: Is there a script for checking for rootkits

Re: [newbie] rootkit

2002-08-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday August 21 2002 10:01 am, Wilson, Jack wrote: Is there a script for checking for rootkits (chkrootkit) for Mandrake like there is for RH? Thanks Jack http://www.chkrootkit.org/ There's also Mandrake rmps,

[newbie] Mandrake 8.2 and Linux Standard Base

2002-08-21 Thread Patrik Marxer
Hi, I like Mandrake, I use it and support it as much as I can. I mention this to say that this is no flame mail. Nevertheless I am bothered by an article in a computer magazine: On http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/faq2 there is mentioned a lot about The importance of

[newbie] listening on udp 500

2002-08-21 Thread Jeffery Chapman
Hi, I'm trying to figure out why I cannot get my vpn client to work. One of the entries from netstat is: udp0 0 24.208.239.56:500 0.0.0.0:* Is there something in Linux or Mandrake's distribution to automatically listen on UDP 500? The IP address is the one for my box

Re: [newbie] CD burning software

2002-08-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:18:02 -0500 David Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, One problem I am running grub and not lilo. So won't that change things? Yes that does change things. It's been so long since I tried grub that I ca not tell you how. Try checking info grub. There should be

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 and Linux Standard Base

2002-08-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday August 21 2002 10:44 am, Patrik Marxer wrote: Hi, I like Mandrake, I use it and support it as much as I can. I mention this to say that this is no flame mail. Nevertheless I am bothered by an article in a computer magazine: On

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 and Linux Standard Base

2002-08-21 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 August 2002 8:44 am, Patrik Marxer did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: In the computer magazine c't (http://www.heise.de/ct/) of the 2002.07.29 they compare some Linux distributions, namely Suse (8), Red Hat (7.2), Debian

Re: [newbie] CD burning software

2002-08-21 Thread Dan LaBine
I'd like to suggest CDBakeOven, but it doesn't run on anything higher than KDE 2.2.2, until they update it. It works very similarly to EZ CD Creator, and it's the first one I've seen that detects your CDROM properly, not just your burner. Includes adjustable burn speeds, and Burn-proof options.

Re: [newbie] Can I switch my IDE controllers?

2002-08-21 Thread Hal Kellerman
If you haven;t edited anything in the interim (fstab, boot-loader configs,..) just switch back. I recommend that you create a backup copy of anything you edit in the process, that way if you must switch back un-editing what you have done will be easy. Hal - Original Message - From:

RE: [newbie] CD burning software

2002-08-21 Thread David Sexton
Charles well thanks for the help I might change over to lilo for the time being thanks for the help David -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD burning software On

[newbie] (small) problems after kernel upgrade

2002-08-21 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I'm setting up my pc to have linux as default os. I tried to install PCTEL drivers (winmodem), but it said something was missing in the kernel, so I recompiled it (in another mail I ask help for the modem). I heard that the preemptive patch was able to reduce latency so I also installed that

[newbie] Issue during boot

2002-08-21 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
About a month ago I installed a PCI GL 5446 graphic adapter (no 3D capabilities, 4MB of video memory) in order to save my poor chipset from that work (previous card: sis 620 integrated, shared memory). From that day I cannot see anymore the graphical boot, where every service showed [OK] or

[newbie] PcTel modem: how to install it

2002-08-21 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I have a pctel AMR winmodem and I'd like to use it under linux because the only serial port I have is used for the cellular cable that I built myself. I downloaded the opensource drivers (0.9.4) and the proprietary ones. Unfortunately, the first ones don't yet support AMR modems, while when I

Re: [newbie] swat/telnet not installed

2002-08-21 Thread tim lentowitz
excellent! that is exactly what i needed. i have beem messing with xinetd.conf and everything seems ok. when i did a urmpi telnet the telnet-server-krb5 was the only possible rpm it could find. i didn't see a samba-swat tho. maybe i'll have to look online for that rpm. so you would do a

Re: [newbie] Undelivered mail?

2002-08-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 21 Aug 2002 2:04 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 21 August 2002 03:03 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm getting more and more of these 'undelevered mail' messages, addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: which turn out to be messages I have posted to the list, and which have appeared on

Re: [newbie] OT: Outlook killers for Windows/Linux

2002-08-21 Thread tim lentowitz
what is the word on the street for Internet Exchange Messanger Server from IMA? http://www.ima.com/documents/release6_0.html From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT: Outlook killers for Windows/Linux Date: Tue, 20 Aug

Re: [newbie] Wireless help

2002-08-21 Thread Adam naples
For anyone with the same problem, here is how I just fixed it In the file /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts I had to set my mode to Managed And comment out the security key line. If you need more detail let me know, god knows I did. -an On 8/21/02 12:16 PM, Adam naples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Re: [newbie] OT: Outlook killers for Windows/Linux

2002-08-21 Thread xawk
Well, I think this link might help you: http://www.bynari.net Actually I don't know how it works in reality... See you, Tomek Nowinski

Re: [newbie] Mounting devices

2002-08-21 Thread FemmeFatale
Anne Wilson wrote: Large Root snip, sorta like trimming back weeds :) 1) How can I mount the Datafab card reader? 2) Is the film scanner unusable unless I can find a sane driver for it? When I tried to install it with a driver that looked possible I trashed my installation, so I don't

[newbie] United and Mandrake

2002-08-21 Thread Miark
In light of formation the UnitedLinux, and their FUD about fractured standards, I thought the following, from today's MDK newsletter was funny: On August 2nd, Mandrake Linux became the first Linux distribution certified by the Linux Standard Base (LSB). LSB Certification verifies

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-21 Thread Seth Zirin
On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 05:58, Randy Kramer wrote: * Is there an easy way to find such email if they are delayed by Postfix? (I tried looking in the defer directory (or was it deferred -- there are both) and it is filled with 10 or 15 (16?) directories with names like 1, 2, 3 ..., and some

Re: [newbie] swat/telnet not installed

2002-08-21 Thread Michael Viron
Old habits die hardthe first way I learned to restart a service (when I first started admining a linux box back in 1997), was by typing '/etc/rc.d/init.d/service_name restart'. You can of course, also use 'service service_name restart'. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

2002-08-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Seth, Thanks very much! I'll try these out over the next several days (and check the man page for postqueue). Randy Kramer Seth Zirin wrote: Postfix now includes sendmail compatibility commands so you should be able to display all queued mail with the simple command mailq. You can get a

[newbie] SCSI module error installing 8.2

2002-08-21 Thread Andy Davidson
I cannot seem to install 8.2 on an older PC (Pentium-MMX, so I needed the patch for the packages problem) with or without its SCSI card. Early on --- just after I choose Expert mode for the package selection --- I see a message that it is installing scsi|disk card, modules imm and ppa. All goes

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

2002-08-21 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
--- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip a little off the top I once took the problem up with two harddrive manufacturers, as to why you get two different sizes for the same drive , depending upon which machine you put it in, and indeed why the manufacturers size

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 and Linux Standard Base

2002-08-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 12:27 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday August 21 2002 10:44 am, Patrik Marxer wrote: Hi, I like Mandrake, I use it and support it as much as I can. I mention this to say that this is no flame mail. Nevertheless I am bothered by an article in a computer

Re: [newbie] United and Mandrake

2002-08-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 07:14 pm, Miark wrote: In light of formation the UnitedLinux, and their FUD about fractured standards, I thought the following, from today's MDK newsletter was funny: On August 2nd, Mandrake Linux became the first Linux distribution certified by the Linux

[newbie] 8.2 installation, and desktop

2002-08-21 Thread UrLoverGuy13
Hello, I am a linux newbie, and I am very interested in learning linux. I downloaded Linux 8.2, and i tried installing it but it has about 5 errors while installing the packages. Installation went through fine, and the packages didnt seem to cause much effect. When I rebooted my PC after

[newbie] What version (distro?) to run on my new box?

2002-08-21 Thread Isaac Curtis
All right folks, I'm about to order all the parts for my new machine, and I'm going to order the OS along with it. What do I order? I'm open to anything. I would be very interested in beginning a Debian learning curve, so that's one possibility. If I stay with Mandrake (which is where I'm

Re: [newbie] 8.2 installation, and desktop

2002-08-21 Thread Isaac Curtis
(response below quote) On Wednesday 21 August 2002 23:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am a linux newbie, and I am very interested in learning linux. I downloaded Linux 8.2, and i tried installing it but it has about 5 errors while installing the packages. Installation went through

[newbie] USB and LM 9.0 beta 2?

2002-08-21 Thread Terry Sheltra
Anyone running LM 9.0b2 and having problems with USB devices? I can not seem to get Mandrake to recognize my USB port on my laptop, and would like to use my Zip drive. I have the port enabled in BIOS, and this is what my /etc/modules.conf says: probeall usb-interface usb-ochi usb-storage