[newbie] SNF admin password change

Hi All I love the SNF! This is the third installation for me. This time, I'm using a horrible keyboard with all kinds of sticky letters. So... I meesed up my admin password on install (NOT root), so I cannot authenticate to the web management screen. I know I can change it after being

[newbie] qmail on mandrake?

Hi all! Let me start by aplologizing if this mail is HTML encoded... GUI mail clients suck! I recently tried to get qmail running on my 7.2 MDK box, and ran into a few snags... I found this site, where I downloaded MDK RPMs.

Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

FYI... The cold boot workaround did work on the laptop! thanks! -ed- On Friday 17 August 2001 13:36, you wrote: Not quite sure I follow you here... Shutdown the machine, then do what from there? Direct boot? Boot from a win boot disk? Thanks for the help! -ed- Boot from LILO

Re: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

Not quite sure I follow you here... Shutdown the machine, then do what from there? Direct boot? Boot from a win boot disk? Thanks for the help! -ed- Excuse my jumping in here, but, did you load LM 8.0 and do you have the infamous via 686b southbridge chipsets on the computers. I am

[newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

Hi everyone! I've been having a repeating issue on dual boot winME + MDK machines, and I was wondering if anyone could help to shed some light on the subject, or ideally point me toward a solution. Machine A: AMD Athlon 700 Mhz DMA 20gig drive 376 MB

RE: [newbie] WinME slowdown after MDK install

Are you saying that it may be bacause the two OSs are on the same HD? Unfortunately with the laptop installing them on seperate HDs is not an option. -e- Ed wrote: On both of the machines, when WinME is installed ALONE, it screams, all games are really fast, and

[newbie] 2.4 routing question (easy one)

Hey Friends! I've gotten my mandrake security firewall all set up, and it's working great. Lan traffic can get out, IP addresses are getting translated, and outside queries are dumped. Great! But now I throw our Web and FTP server into the mix. It's going to live

RE: [newbie] mandrake security question

you go. regards frank Perth WA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Colmar Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2001 1:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] mandrake security question Hi all! I've got my mandrake security box up

[newbie] mandrake security question

Hi all! I've got my mandrake security box up and running... All is well, except for the few services that I want to make available to the outside world. I have the firewall configured to pass http traffic through to the internal ip address of our web server. 192.168.1.26

Re: [newbie] AIeee! server problems please help!

Replying to my own post here... For any other people that see this behaviour, be careful. I got a abuse report from our ISP, a sign that the box was rooted and was being used for malicious attacks. -e- Hi all I've got a Mandrake 7.2 server running a few

[newbie] AIeee! server problems please help!

Hi all I've got a Mandrake 7.2 server running a few services for the company I work for. Most importantly: FTP (configured for anonymous uploads), and http. A few days ago something happened... Anonymous FTP connections are refused, all SSH connections are refused,

Re: [newbie] root security mail messages

Replying to my own message here: The workaround I found is to go into the /etc/cron.hourly and locate the files that don't work. Mine was installed with mandrake 7.2: inn-cron-nntpsend I wonder why it doesn't work... Anyway, I moved it to: /etc/cron.hourly.old/ Seems to be ok now... -e-

[newbie] root security mail messages

Hi all! Glad to see the religious discussions have stopped. =P I've been running LM7.2 for several months now, and every 15 minutes or so, I get mail sent to root containing this: Subject: Cron root@reactor run-parts /etc/cron.hourly Can't open "/var/run/news/shlock786",

Re: [newbie] change animated .gif to open source format?

I'd like to see it! -e-