I am trying to configure a server to send status e-mail to myself with
the mail command.
Sendmail is not running.
How can I set mail to use the regular SMTP server? It always wants to
use the local sendmail, which doesn't work because sendmail isn't running.
Want to buy your Pack or
Login to the window manager using the login name 'root' and then your
root pw as the pw. Then you can call up Mandrake control center and set
up user accounts there or you can also do it in the terminal if you
wish.
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 03:57, Joe Harkins wrote:
I'm running Mandrake8.2 and
I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and KDE.
When I first install and log in for the first time and click the
removable media icon I can access my CD-ROM to browse files. However
when I close the file manager window and wish to log in later the CD-ROM
icon now has a padlock sign on it and when I click
What you need to do is, burn the ISO file onto a CDR. Then put that
into your cdrom drive and make your system boots off of the CD first.
Then from there the Mandrake CD should boot up. Then just go threw the
steps of the installation. I would do the recommended install. Once
you get to the
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
I have 2 simple and unrelated questions
1. Where can I go to download the 128 bit version of Netscape
4.73, and ssh?
2. Purely for nostalgia, and simple curiosity, is there a place
that one can go to download packages for CDE??? I know that
Gnome and KDE are probably way better, but my
1:- when I Minimize some windows, I never find it, and I can't
restore it,
where is a windows ???
Gnome isn't nice enough just to give you a taskbar, and if that's
what you're used to it's kind of annoying at first. There is an
applet under the applet utilities menu. I can't find
Why use ghost?
just become root and do a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/whatever
substitute the whatever with the file that represents the hard
disk you are trying to dump to.
Works great :-)
Dan
--
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary
necessities.
-- Mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a domain name registered to my IP Address. I am trying to set my Linux
box up as a mailserver. All I want to do, is be able to get mail at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone out there give
me some advice as to how to set this up using
This came to my attention after fighting ksnuffle for a week
trying to get it to compile. So in frustration, I wrote to the
developer of ksnuffle and was told that the problem stems from
the fact that gcc 2.95 does not like me.
Since that time, I have tried to compile multiple apps/utilities
Get plugger.
http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html
Here is a list of mime types it supports. PNG is on there, along
with WAV, MIDI, MPEG, MP3, and a shitload of others.
It will make your web browsing in Linux as good as it is with
Windows. (Would be better except Netscape crashes a lot :-)
Glenn Johnson wrote:
Hi all. I'm anxiously awaiting installation of a DSL line here at home. Are any
of you currently accessing the web with DSL? If so, was it easy to set up and
get on-line? How is it done?
Thanks a million.
Glennzo...
Took me about an hour, because I didn't change
Romanator wrote:
Dan,
Are you set up to some sort of @Home cable service? I am racking my
brains trying to configure my LANcity modem with my cable service
through Linux Mandrake 7.0. I can't believe it is taking so long?
I am ready to give up on this!!
Any ideas?
Nope, no ideas.
Is there a way to use chroot to force a user to stay within a
specific directory tree when logged in with bero-FTPD?
I have a number of FTP accounts on this computer, and would like
to keep the users from changing out of their home directories.
Security thing :-)
TIA,
Dan
andy barnes wrote:
What is the quickest, easiest and safest route to get into root when you
are logged on as a user, and is it possible to do so without cutting
your ISP connection?
go to the command line
type "su" w/o the quotes.
enter the password
off you go.
Dan
Mike Perry wrote:
Install the Mozzilla fonts in your Netscape.
YES!! Thanks for pointing that out. Easy to install, and the
fonts are really nice.
Dan
Vic wrote:
I need serious help here, I tried to install ProFtp because I
thought it was "sooo neat" and NOW--
I can't even do ftp at all!!
God I am ready to kick this dam computer out the
phreaking window
Sorry about that, would anyone know how I can
get my ftp server back online??
Stephen Bosch wrote:
I'm probably not gonna be a lot of help since I haven't done the
new kernel thing for a long time. However, as I recall, when you
type 'make config' it gives you three choices for every option.
y,n, or m. If you type 'n' then it doesn't make anything. You
have
Richard Kim wrote:
how do you start the sendmail program?
As a daemon, or from the command line?
From the command line, just type in sendmail and follow its
instructions. As a daemon, you will probably have to use some
init editor to tell it to start sendmail when the computer boots.
Dan
Barry Winch wrote:
This has to be a case of missing the obvious!! I have installed Manfrake 6.1
(2.2.13-22mdk). I can FTP and TELNET OUT of the box, but I can't telnet in,
no connection is ever established I can't even "telnet 127.0.0.1", all I get
is :
Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Joel West wrote:
PLease pardon my ignorance but :
What is LDAP?
Why would I use LDAP?
How do I use LDAP?
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
As I recall...I think its to help integrate UNIX stuff with a
Netware 4.1+ directory tree. But I could be wrong...look it up
on the
What the heck is this and why are you sending it to the newbie mandrake
list???
Chris
-Original Message-
From: Xavier Fromant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[newbie] C:\CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe
File:
I downloaded and installed Netscape 4.72 today, and just had a quickie
question.
When I installed, I attempted to check my e-mail with messenger, and Netscape
crashed. So, I ran it from a terminal to see the error messages. It crashed
again, and displayed the error message "Bus Error"
Use VMWARE...=) Excellent product!!
http://www.vmware.com/
Chris
-Original Message-
From: Mark Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 10:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [newbie] X window Trouble
speaking of X windows is there any
It appears this file will do an automated install of Linux-Mandrake (Kind of
like REDHAT's kickstart). Does anyone know anything about this or how to
use it??
Chris
2000, Ferris, Chris wrote:
:~Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:10:12 -0700
:~From: "Ferris, Chris" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:~Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:~To: "Newbie Linux-Mandrake (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:~Subject: [newbie] auto_inst.cfg.pl
:~
:~It appears this file will do an automa
David van Balen wrote:
As a side note, xcdroast should run as root so that cdrecord can run with
a more favorable nice value, reducing the possibility of buffer underruns.
Hence running as suid root and not changing the ownership of the file...
DvB
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aaron Zuercher wrote:
Hello,
I'm used to using MS Outlook Express and also Agent for email in Windows.
Looking for a comparable program in Linux.
Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Aaron
Netscape. Or Kmail. Or Spruce. Or Balsa. Or Pine. :-) Or Elm :-)
Actually, Magellen is what I am waiting
Joe Knapp -Technician wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I'm 3 days old in linux. Using ver 7.02 of mandrake (GOD THAT WAS A LONG
DLOAD!). Heh, anyway my question is a simple one, what is the best
programming envinronmet for coding c in linux? I'm just looking for some
opinions on this one so go ahead
"Hill, Andrew" wrote:
I need a little help!
I wanted to gain access to my windows drives, hda1 and hda5/6, as a
normal user. I asked for advice and received some which suggested adding
a new user group and allowing this group access to the hda1/5/6. I did
this using linuxconf, this
Lets see, I use Netscape 99% of the time, even on Windows. The Netscape
for Linux is bloated and not terribly stable, but it has more featurs
than anything else out there.
I also use KFM/Konqueror, and Amaya.
Unfortunatly, I admit to some use of Internet Explorer. What a piece of
crap that
You could try using the timetool.
Go to a console and type "su -c timetool" enter the root password and
off you go.
Dan
In your .bash_profile file, or whatever shell you use, add the
following:
alias ls='ls -Fa'
then whenever you type ls, it will actually do an ls -Fa.
Dan
I am trying to install ethereal 0.8.3. It needs libsnmp.o, does anyone
know where to get the sources for this library???
Dan
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote:
How can someone sign up for ICQ when running Linux? My niece wants to
sign up for her own account But ICQNIX doesnt support that feature. I
cant find anything on ICQ's site to let her sign up there. Any Ideas?
Hugh
--
"I haven't lost my mind -- it's
According to my know it all LInux book:
"Because they just standard (but removeable) SCSI or IDE disks most aspects of
their use are similar to those for other block devices."
In other words:
Find out which disk represents your zip drive. hda, hdb, hdc, or hdd.
Then edit your fstab with the
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I've installed the linux, and at the screen of a linux logo there, it ask me to type
the login name and password, after I type it, it don't not go to the KDE interface
but go into the bush command interface like dos ...how can I get into the KDE
interface?
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, you wrote:
Would anyone know of a shockwave plugin thats a rpm? Or how about a
real working sub.?
Thanks in advance
Hugh
--
"I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere."
--
Macromedia makes a Shockwave plugin for Linux. I have used it and it works
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
I have just purchased Linux-Mandrake and decided to install it on one of my
computers. I decided to let it have all three of the HDD's. Now that I
have installed it I want to try other things such as a duel boot, but all I
have is Linux right now. If I
I have a question.
After spending my day at work fixing some problems with Windows it lead me to
think about this.
Why is Linux more Stable than Windows???
All I hear about is how great Linux is compared to Windows but none of my books
really explain WHY except that it is free.
Linux
I am attempting to set up NIS to share passwords between two Linux computers.
When I go to make the NIS database I get the following:
failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredfailed to send
'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredyphelper: This program is
I have been trying to make an NIS database to share passwords and groups
between my two Linux computers, but I keep on getting the following errors when
I try to make the database:
failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Program not registeredfailed to send
'clear' to local ypserv: RPC:
On Tue, 07 Dec 1999, you wrote:
You probably get this question alot, but here goes:
Ive got a little home network, with NT 4 as a server. I keep all my
downloads on NT, for exemple, so how do i view them in linux? Is there
something I have to do in NT, AND in samba?
Also, after a few
Thanks for the help. I now have two more problems. These are probably the
last two before I will have Mandrake running as well as my old RH 5.2 setup.
First is this, I have an HP CDRecorder Plus IDE cdrecorder on /dev/hdd. I
would like to be able to burn cds with it. I have cdrecord version
Well.
I just got Mandrake Installed. So far nothing but grief with it. Don't know
what its doing but I have a couple of problems.
1. Seems that it installed KDE fine. Only problem is that it somehow messed
up the graphics for the buttons. NONE of the KDE apps have the correct pixmaps
for
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