hi,
If you want to keep an eye on what you firewall is doing then you can
always just watch the messages it is putting out. I just learnt this
funky new thing today (thanks to the ibm lpi tutorials...and a little
extrapolation):
tail -f /var/log/messages | grep Shorewall
will give you
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Hi Guy,
On Saturday, December 13, 2003, at 10:33:09 PM PST, you wrote:
Last night I spent an exasperating 6 hrs struggling with numerous
issues. I'll submit them as bugs if appropriate. I feel these issues
(and many more like them) are
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Am Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2003 03:00 schrieb Carren Stuart:
What do you people all use/prefer for a firewall to run
with Mandrake?
Guarddog is a nice tool as a frontend to iptables.
Gruß / regards
ce
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 10:49 pm, John wrote:
Hi
I have been uable to access my cdrom and floppy drives. The
following message comes up: /mnt/cdrom file doesn't seem to exist
anymore. I am running md9.1 and have not had any problems using
both until now. Would appreciate any suggestions on
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 2:44 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Sometimes we refer newbies to search the archives. Generally that's
a great idea, what with all those recurring questions. But where
are those archives, a newborn newbie might ask ?
Well, the obvious thing to do is to point ones browser to
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 3:48 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2003 02:31, Eric Huff wrote:
Therefore, I suggest that someone comfortable with the twiki
list (Anne, maybe ?) wrote a short howto about searching the
archives.
It's already there :)
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 5:37 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
Even at it's basic configuration, Shorewall is much better
than a hardware router.
Would you elaborate on that Lyvim? My limited experience is the opposite.
My router has stateful iptables (or ipchains?) and is pretty much as
configurable as
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:00:34 +1300
Carren Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are always more questions! :-)
What do you people all use/prefer for a firewall to run with Mandrake?
I am not overly impressed with the inbuilt firewall configuration ...
so far I have had to disable it
On Friday 12 December 2003 08:58 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:
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Friday 12 December 2003 1:38 pm, robin wrote:
whack
Thanks (and thanks to Charlie) - I reckon I'll go for the Audigy 2,
then. I was originally going to get a Turtle Beach card, but
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 10:49 pm, John wrote:
Hi
I have been uable to access my cdrom and floppy drives. The
following message comes up: /mnt/cdrom file doesn't seem to exist
anymore. I am running md9.1 and have not had any problems using
both until now. Would appreciate any
Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote:
On Saturday 06 December 2003 00:29, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
Yep!!!
Not those but
Got a Asus A7N266 (all in one) and now a MSI 6570G (all in one!)
Both worked nicely on mdk 9.0, 9,1 and 9.2!
For graphic acceleration you need the nvidia rpm
et wrote:
On Friday 12 December 2003 08:58 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:
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Friday 12 December 2003 1:38 pm, robin wrote:
whack
Thanks (and thanks to Charlie) - I reckon I'll go for the Audigy 2,
then. I was originally going to get a Turtle Beach card, but
Charlie wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:18 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote:
snip
The system here with 512 MB RAM has never used swap, but I do have a 128
MB swap partition just in case.
Charlie
Heck charlie ,
I have 512 MB of RAM and mine often needs it, especially
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and
return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John
--
John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
On Sunday 14 December 2003 13:48, John Richard Smith wrote:
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen
and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John, I have the nice, black screen writing all the [OK]'s.
My
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 2:31 pm, robin wrote:
Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote:
On Saturday 06 December 2003 00:29, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
Yep!!!
Not those but
Got a Asus A7N266 (all in one) and now a MSI 6570G (all in one!)
Both worked nicely on mdk 9.0, 9,1 and
On Sunday 14 December 2003 05:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 10:49 pm, John wrote:
Hi
I have been uable to access my cdrom and floppy drives. The
following message comes up: /mnt/cdrom file doesn't seem to exist
anymore. I am running md9.1 and have not had any problems
I'm trying to get my Zaurus 5500 to connect to my Mandrake 9.1 box (using
the USB connection). I followed the instructions on some site, but it
didn't seem to work. Anybody here made it work?
Miark
I suceeded with this one:
http://www.ruault.com/Zaurus/ethernet-over-usb-howto.html
Guy Rouillier wrote:
smbumount from a command line. BTW, why can any user do smbmount, but
only root do mount? Doesn't seem to make sense.
Perhaps because smbmount is a virtual mount - all it does is give access
to another machine.
Sir Robin
--
Certitude is possible for those who only own
On Sunday 14 December 2003 12:37 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
I have to disagree here, since I was able to install 9.2 on a firewall
box with 2 nics, then use Drakconf to share the connection. The
firewall box is minimal hardware, 200 mhz Pentium I MMX with 80 megs of
memory; not costly at all.
On Sunday 14 December 2003 12:33 am, Guy Rouillier wrote:
Before I begin, let me start by saying I am a fan of Linux, so the
points I raise below are from the converted. Last night I spent an
exasperating 6 hrs struggling with numerous issues. I'll submit them as
bugs if appropriate. I feel
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2003 13:48, John Richard Smith wrote:
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen
and return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John, I have the nice, black screen writing
Therefore, I suggest that someone comfortable with the twiki
list(Anne, maybe ?) wrote a short howto about searching the
archives.
I misread the this originally. There definitely isn't a howto on
the twiki, just the list of archives.
And i did email Charles to tel him the mandrake archive
On Sunday 14 December 2003 01:33 am, Guy Rouillier wrote:
Before I begin, let me start by saying I am a fan of Linux, so the
points I raise below are from the converted. Last night I spent an
exasperating 6 hrs struggling with numerous issues. I'll submit them as
bugs if appropriate. I feel
On Sunday 14 December 2003 14:57, John Richard Smith wrote:
snip
So I don't get it.
/snip
Neither do I, John. But I remember having this graphics on my
initial install of 9.2. As usual when upgrading (=install), I
start tweaking things, including lilo. If I recall correctly, I
removed
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2003 14:57, John Richard Smith wrote:
snip
So I don't get it.
/snip
Neither do I, John. But I remember having this graphics on my
initial install of 9.2. As usual when upgrading (=install), I
start tweaking things, including lilo. If I recall
On Sunday 14 December 2003 15:29, John Richard Smith wrote:
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2003 14:57, John Richard Smith wrote:
snip
So I don't get it.
/snip
Neither do I, John. But I remember having this graphics on my
initial install of 9.2. As usual when upgrading
In my Shorewall GUI everything is unchecked, so I figured all was
well. However, a stealth scan at http://sygatetech.com reveals that
the following ports are closed, but not stealthed :
WEB 80
IDENT113
NetBIOS 139
SMB445
How can I stealth them ? - Does it matter ?
Thanks
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Yes, certainly. I didn't mess around in /boot this time, because I
kept the original kernel ( I don't have a LG device ).
What happens if you remove quiet ( I did ) ?
Kaj Haulrich.
If I remove quiet from the append line it gives you an even longer and
more detailed
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 5:45 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
In my Shorewall GUI everything is unchecked, so I figured all was
well. However, a stealth scan at http://sygatetech.com reveals that
the following ports are closed, but not stealthed :
WEB 80
IDENT113
NetBIOS 139
SMB
Dennis Myers wrote:
(7) Open Office works okay, looks like the Windows version, but is
glacial at loading. The Windows version loads much faster on the same
hardware (dual boot.)
Open Office loads the whole package when you call it. MS Office generally
loads most of itself when you boot up
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 2:31 pm, robin wrote:
Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote:
On Saturday 06 December 2003 00:29, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
Yep!!!
Not those but
Got a Asus A7N266 (all in one) and now a MSI 6570G (all in one!)
Both worked nicely on mdk 9.0, 9,1
On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:09, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 5:45 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
In my Shorewall GUI everything is unchecked, so I figured all
was well. However, a stealth scan at http://sygatetech.com
reveals that the following ports are closed, but not stealthed
Charlie, you said:
The next thing you need to do is open a terminal, become super user
and run the command drakxservices. Be sure sound is set to start at
boot as well as alsa if
that's what you're using. Just scroll down the list and find the
services set to start at boot. If those two
John Richard Smith wrote:
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Yes, certainly. I didn't mess around in /boot this time, because I
kept the original kernel ( I don't have a LG device ).
What happens if you remove quiet ( I did ) ?
Kaj Haulrich.
If I remove quiet from the append line it gives you an
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Sunday 14 December 2003 2:50 am, Melissa Reese wrote:
ALERT! I feel another of those damned Charlie's writing another book
moments approaching.
Hi Guy,
On Saturday, December 13, 2003, at 10:33:09 PM PST, you wrote:
Last night I spent an
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Sorry Brian, but I take exception to this statement:
I definitely would not suggest to someone coming from the Windows
world whose current idea of a good firewall is Kerio with a system
tray icon on their primary machine, that they should jump
On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:07, John Richard Smith wrote:
Anyway I'm still stuck with this squashed up gui boot script that annoys
me and I just know there must be a way to alter it ?
John
John,
I just removed the vga=bla line in my default choice (win4lin in this case)
and I get a
On Sunday 14 December 2003 01:55 pm, Carren Stuart wrote:
As I have already admitted, I understand little of the linux firewall
or how it operates behind the scenes. I DO however understand how my
Windows based firewall Kerio works, and I HAVE done my homework on
installing it and setting it
On Sunday 14 December 2003 01:55 pm, Carren Stuart wrote:
Sorry Brian, but I take exception to this statement:
I definitely would not suggest to someone coming from the Windows
world whose current idea of a good firewall is Kerio with a system
tray icon on their primary machine, that they
JoeHill wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:20:18 +
Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would you elaborate on that Lyvim?
Never mind, guys, Lyvim would disagree if I said the Earth was round, and go on
at great length to explain why.
From what I know of Lyvym, he'd probably say that the
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 15:52, Anne Wilson wrote:
I couldn't say about that particular card, but my older machine has a
SB Live!5.1 which shows up as an es1371. My original SB Live!5.1
used the emu10k1, but this one will not run with that driver. It
seems that boards having the same name
On Sunday 14 December 2003 04:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 3:23 pm, John wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2003 05:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 10:49 pm, John wrote:
Thanks for response. Tried harddrake and noticed the files had
changed.
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 10:10 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote:
Then I clicked on player settings. I noted that Use External
Player was checked but that no player was specified. I deselected
the use external player option and tried again. I selected the KDE
open wav file and hit the play button.
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 10:14 pm, John wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2003 04:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 3:23 pm, John wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2003 05:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 13 Dec 2003 10:49 pm, John wrote:
Thanks for response. Tried harddrake
I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my Dell Inspiron 5100, 512MB RAM, 2.66
Ghz, 64MB ATI Radeon, with a WindowXP partition. Boots fine, except for
ACPI, when I click on the Battery Icon in the task bar I get the message
Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI installation. ACPI was probably
I'll just add to two very good posts, that, in my experience (which is fairly
balanced in this respect,) administrating Mandrake is no harder or easier
than administrating Windows 2000 Professional.
--
Richard Urwin
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
I am not terribly good with linux
- I ran Red Hat for a while and then with all this fedora BS desided to move over to Mandrake. The install went great -
the only issues are that a) My Sound Blaster Live Platnum
produces no sound and My ATI All In Wonder Pro doesn't
seem to be reconized as
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 7:48 pm, Johan wrote:
Hi,
Please inform me what the last two digits mean in an fstab entry.
I have read it somewhere through the years and don't seem to be able to
find it again.
Thanks
man fstab
look for the fifth and sixth fields.
In short, the fifth field indicates
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 10:52 pm, Chymmylt Bwoid wrote:
The main problem is I can't get mandrake to find the internet. I have a
cablemodem (opt Online) plugged into a linksys router. Themachine worked
fine in it's last config(WinXP Pro and Redhat 9 -dual boot - both OS's
found the net find)
I
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:48:46 +0200
Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Please inform me what the last two digits mean in an fstab entry.
I have read it somewhere through the years and don't seem to be able
to find it again.
Thanks
from tuxfiles.org:
The 5th column in /etc/fstab is the
Richard Urwin wrote:
I'll just add to two very good posts, that, in my experience (which is fairly
balanced in this respect,) administrating Mandrake is no harder or easier
than administrating Windows 2000 Professional.
Never having used Win2k, I don't know. But it's certainly easier than
John Richard Smith wrote:
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and
return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John, I'm unclear if you are referring to the initial boot menu screen
(I saw in later posts you are
Well, I managed to solve the only problem with my new laptop, and it was
too simple.
Here's a tip, folks - never plug in a mouse when you're installing Linux
on a laptop that has a touchpad. That was my whole problem. Turns out
that touchpads are detected by Mandrake as a standard PS/2 mouse.
On Sunday 14 December 2003 04:52 pm, Chymmylt Bwoid wrote:
snip terribly good with linux- I ran Red Hat for a while and then with all
this
fedora BS desided to move over to Mandrake. The install went great -the
only issues are that a) My Sound Blaster Live Platnumproduces no sound and
My ATI
Bryan Phinney wrote:
Well, based on the rest of what you say, you don't sound very converted to me.
Bryan, please keep in mind this is a newbie list. I realized when I
composed my initial message that I ran the risk of offending those who
might perceive me as attacking their child, and I
John Richard Smith wrote:
no it's something else, I read ,
install=/boot/boot.b
These entries tell LiLo where some files it needs are located.
'/boot/boot.b' is a symlink pointing to either of these files:
boot-graphic.b for a graphical boot screen,
boot-menu.b for a
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 09:48, John Richard Smith wrote:
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and
return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John
I uninstalled bootsplash
urpme bootsplash
I don't know if it
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 08:48, John Richard Smith wrote:
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and
return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John
I've read the rest of this thread, and there is yet another way
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 06:20, Richard Urwin wrote:
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 5:37 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
Even at it's basic configuration, Shorewall is much better
than a hardware router.
Would you elaborate on that Lyvim? My limited experience is the opposite.
My router has stateful
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 16:46, robin wrote:
JoeHill wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 11:20:18 +
Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would you elaborate on that Lyvim?
Never mind, guys, Lyvim would disagree if I said the Earth was round, and go on
at great length to explain
On 14 Dec 2003 22:35:35 -0500
Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I can elaborate. I have a Zyxel router here that has features much
the same as what you described, however I am still unable to match the
flexibility of a firewall running iptables/shorewall to the point where
I can
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Bryan,
Funnily enough, I actually agree with most of what you are saying :-)
What it really comes down to for me though is this. I use my computer
as a home computer only. It is primarily a tool for me to communicate
with the wider world and my
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:20:39 +1300
Carren Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to be
able to feel secure using Linux but I don't the level of security
someone in business might need. At the moment I dont *feel* secure
because I dont understand how the firewall works, and I can't begin to
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 10:28, Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2003 12:37 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
I have to disagree here, since I was able to install 9.2 on a firewall
box with 2 nics, then use Drakconf to share the connection. The
firewall box is minimal hardware, 200 mhz
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 23:14, JoeHill wrote:
On 14 Dec 2003 22:35:35 -0500
Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I can elaborate. I have a Zyxel router here that has features much
the same as what you described, however I am still unable to match the
flexibility of a firewall
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That's exactly where Smoothwall will fit in nicely :-) Download,
boot, BAM, yer secure. http://smoothwall.org/about/
I looked at that but unless I'm totally thick it requires a separate
box to install it on, which I don't have :-)
It looks
Kaj,
It might have been obvious to others but until you pointed out the proper
URL I have been frequently frustrated trying to search for Mandrake info in
the archives. Thanks.
While conducting my very first search for an SMBCLIENT problem I have been
trying to solve for several months I
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Dear all,
I visited a Compaq exhibition the other day and with me I brought my Knoppix
3.2 live CD. I managed to persuade the sales person to let me try booting the
notebook with the CD.
The notebook was Compaq NX7000:
- - Intel centrino (Pent.
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