I think I sent that message to your real e-mail address instead of the
list. Whoops. :-)
Anyway...
At the command line just type:
unalias rm
Then rm will no longer be aliased by the shell.
Just please PLEASE remember never to run rm -r as root or you face the
very real danger of trashing
Open a terminal and type rpm -ivh package-name and substitute the real
package name. If you want to know what files will be installed, do an
rpm -qpf package-name. If there is a script that is called install that
is installed by the rpm, then note its location so you can run it after
the RPM
Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have used PMFirewall for a long time, I just installed
Portsentry, I can't
seem to find where they keep logs or how you configure them to keep
logs any
help?
/var/log/messages.
The dmesg command will also output logs from the kernel, which is
where
Dave DeGear [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I've got my telnet and ftp servers working ok and would like to try
playing
with Apache. If I install the latest Apache rpm files should I
worry
immediately about any security problems with this. I'd like to
have it running
while I'm learning but
Tripwire is a program that uses cryptographic checksums (like md5,
crc32, and SHA1) to perform accounting on the filesystem.
Tripwire is generally used to make sure that a program like login, or
ps, or netstat isn't substituted for a version that is trojaned,
because the MD5 sums on the
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Ron Auer wrote:
Configuration question
After I finished the configuration, I loaded an application that requires it
to resolve IP address based on host name. So if I have a computer with name
of mypc.mt.org, it wants to resolve on mypc (since all PC must be in the
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Roger Sherman wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to set up Fetchmail so that it runs as a daemon in
the background? In fetchmailconf, for cycles to skip between polls, I put
300, as I wanted it to check every 5 minutes. But, if I type fetchmail at
the command prompt, it just
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
AAAaah...turn off the friggin HTML
mail!!! Www HATE HTML mail!
AAaaah.
You know, even my version of pine will get HTML mail these
bascule wrote:
hi dan, i've been deleting mail today so your message appears orphaned
but i think you are replying to a mail i sent and i would like to
thankyou for replying, you are right, i was confused initially about the
transient nature of ipchains rules and needing to run the commands
I use ipchains on 2 linux boxes I have here at home (no pmfirewall). There
is a pair of scripts, one called ipchains-save, the other
ipchains-restore.
If you write a bunch of firewall rulesets and you are happy, you can just
do something similar to:
ipchains-save /etc/firewall
Then in one of
Portsentry reported this:
Active System Attack Alerts
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Oct 17 20:36:51 hornet portsentry[642]: attackalert: UDP scan
from
host: 1Cust222.tnt5.phoenix2.az.da.uu.net/63.16.193.222 to UDP
port:
161
Oct 17 20:36:51 hornet portsentry[642]: attackalert: Host
63.16.193.222
Here is a weird one.
I have LM 7.1. Today I went to check my e-mail, and turned on
the monitor. Unfortunatly, the screen was blank. No kdm. Very
strange. So I hit alt-f2 and no virtual terminal. No virtual
terminals when I hit alt-f1, or alt-f3-f6.
I couldn't log in via ssh either. I
At 08:11 AM 9/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
Hello,
My first post on the newbie list...
I have been struggling for some time to get SSH to work on my Linux box
(2.2.13-4mdk : Mandrake 6.1).
I believe I finally have it up and running, because I am able to create a
SSH connection from/to the machine
ed wrote:
HI all I am wondering if anybody knows of a good linux security book
that will explain firewalls,ports,scaners..etc... To use to secure my linux
box and learn more about security. thanks in advance.
Get free
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
okay, my IDE CD-RW is acting up. I have an HP 9100 IDE/ATAPI. For some
reason, Linux refuses to recognize it. Every so often I would be able to use
it, but once I rebooted I couldn't anymore. I have reinstalled Mandrake about
15 times and even installed it from
Kathleen Dickason wrote:
Yay Eugene!! I did the same thing (Babelfish) but couldn't help either.
Kathleen,
who will put away the pom-poms and stop acting like a cheerleader now
Ra Ra Re, Kick em in the Knee.
Ra Ra Ri, Kick em in the eye
Ra Ra err...never mind...
Dan
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning
Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie
unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like
"Linux for Dummies" for example chapter by chapter?
Rob wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
oh cool, I went to that site at www.grc.com and they probed it and tested my
internet security and they stated that they had no way of getting into my
computer.
Just remember that GRC only tests a few certain well defined
ports.
Better
Ian Land wrote:
hi all
I have a Seagate STT8000-A ide tape drive. HardDrake shows the device as
/dev/hdd and dmesg identifies it properly. Can't get tar
or KDat to see it, however. I have a /dev/nht0 entry (which, as I understand
it, is what I should use as the mount point), and the
This is really annoying and I'm certain the solution is so easy
that I'm missing it.
EVERY time I boot up, kudzu comes up and complains that my zip
drive has been removed (which it hasn't). And morprobe -a ppa.o
results in the error message that it can't find module ppa.o.
ppa.o is in fact in
Greg Stewart wrote:
The writer(s) of portsentry assume you may need telnet and ftp and leave
those ports off the list lest you lock yourself out of your own machine.
If you are using ipcahins or a script wchi writes ipchains for (ie:
pmfirewall, www.pointman.org) You can, also configure
What is a good program to use that will log attempts to scan your
box?
Preferably something that can detect stealth scans.
TIA,
Dan
Thomas Lankester wrote:
Hi,
I have just upgraded my PC to run two PIII 700E processors but my Mandrake
7.1 installation predates this so I only get one CPU recognised at boot up.
Reading 'Running Linux' one solution seems to be to rebuild my kernel.
However, given the number of options
Is there anyone who has installed the ALSA drivers with Mandrake. I
compiled the utilities, the library, and the drivers. Also made the
devices as stated in the ALSA HOWTO. But it still installs the OSS
drivers.
Any advice would be helpful.
Dan
--
... I think I'd better go back to my DESK
Adrian Smith wrote:
i'm having some trouble with an RPM, getting lots of error messages.
i'm installing from the command line
is there any way to redirect the output to a txt file, such as in DOS one would type
"dir dir.txt"
um yes :-)
You redirect the same way actually,
Adrian Smith wrote:
thanks Dan
gosh, i hate it when the answer is so obvious that i can't find it.
=)
Sure :-)
One thing you find about MS-DOS, is that Microsoft in their eternal
wisdom (thats an oxymoron) decided that they would make DOS work similar
to UNIX, which is why you can use
Dan LaBine wrote:
Dear Mike and Tracy; I recommend "Halls" to get rid of that delicate cough!
It sounds like it's spreading to others in the forum.
Its getting worse to. :-)
Dan
P.S. Sorry, couldn't resist my $.02 :-)
Dennis Myers wrote:
Hi all, Here is a mail problem, I had this before my phone line problems
started and now that I'm back up and running, it hasn't gone away.
Netscape won't send mail. It says it can't create a temporary file. Then
it doesn't send the mail. Any help would be appreciated.
Something I was wondering as I viewed the GPG web page. It says it
supports all of these ciphers, Blowfish, Twofish, Cast, MD5, IDEA, and a
bunch of other ones.
So, which one to use? I personally doubt that they are all created
equal. Which ones are the best?
Dan
kppp allows you to specify commands to run on connect.
Under the account setup on the tab where you input the account name and
phone number, there are 3 boxes. One says execute command on connect.
Another says execute command before disconnect, and the last one says
execute command on
I was just curious about CDE. I've seen it on a Solaris machine before,
and figured that it would be an interesting experiment.
And no, Mandrake does NOT ship with CDE. You're probably right, if it
is avaliable for Linux, it certanily is no provided as open source. Oh
well.
Dan
Alexander Skwar wrote:
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 05:18:34PM -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Alexanderh, well no I guess it doesn't any longer. I
used CDE once, a while back, just to try it out (it was one of
CDE was available for Linux? I really didn't know that, and would like to
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
XMMS: under Preferences | Audio IO Plugins, hi-lite 'CD Audio
Player', choose 'enable' and 'OK'. Plays audio CD's better than any
other player I've heard. Xmms 1.2.2 is available on cooker now.
--
~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL
Hi again,
Just a small problem that is becoming really annoying.
I have upgraded to kernel 2.2.15 from 2.2.13 with plans to get
2.2.16 at
some point in the future.
Anyway, since I did the upgrade, modprobe can no longer find any
of my
kernel modules, and not being able to use my zip drive has
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