RE: [newbie] re: Allowing SSHD to accept outside connections

2004-10-09 Per discussione Michael Viron
no as the default (as part of the comments, uncommented values change the defaults. Michael -- Michael Viron Founder, mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

RE: [newbie] unable to mount/read floppy

2004-10-09 Per discussione Michael Viron
. As of 10.0 it was still in there, so it is a good bet that it is still part of 10.1 CE. Try adding yourself to floppy and see if that works. Michael Viron Founder, mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

RE: [newbie] Partitioning new HD

2004-10-09 Per discussione Michael Viron
to partitioning, it really depends on what you are going to use the system for. With a server, you typically separate /boot, /var /home, /tmp, /, and /usr to separate partitions. With a desktop, most people will only set up a / and /home partition (possibly adding /boot). Michael -- Michael Viron Founder

Re: [newbie] Viruses..........

2003-09-07 Per discussione Michael Viron
One last point, the two e-mail addresses you mentioned, are most likely spoofed (since sobig.F spoofs the from address). Take a look at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] sometime. Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux At 06:32

Re: [newbie] Fw: cheval-de-frise:______ __________ __________

2003-09-06 Per discussione Michael Viron
, russian, chinese, korean, and even danish. Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] IMPORTANT (was) Fw: cheval-de-frise

2003-09-06 Per discussione Michael Viron
Anne, looks like it was sent from adsl-67-122-222-126.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net to the list, but wasn't a spoof (otherwise we'd see bounces from it). Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux At 09:51 AM 9/4/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Thursday 04 Sep 2003 9:02 am, Anne

RE: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Per discussione Michael Viron
Franki, As I mention from time to time, we have http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org pointing there right now. (if you are wondering, I own mdklinuxfaq.org). Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux At 01:22 AM 8/27/2003 +0800, you wrote: -Original Message- From

Re: [newbie] Virtual Hosts in Apache 2.0

2003-08-15 Per discussione Michael Viron
and incorrectly use the page from /home/web/www, instead of the correct /home/web/test -- essentially ignoring any further entries. Hope this gives everyone (especially those wanting to set up virtualhosts) something useful to work with, Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Per discussione Michael Viron
snip Looks like they've decided to drop it or something: http://www.msnbc.com/news/952935.asp?vts=081520031730 Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux You are absolutely correct. www.windowsupdate.com is not coming up. I do know, however, that it does indeed

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesecure.net

2003-08-14 Per discussione Michael Viron
At 03:51 PM 8/6/2003 +0100, you wrote: snip We have a TWiki site at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome This can also be accessed via http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org (if that's more of a convenient url for you. You could also take a look at http://www.mdklinuxfaq.org once it comes up.

RE: [newbie] WE R @ it again.......my humblest apologies..

2003-07-23 Per discussione Michael Viron
Frank, I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. I figure that I'm relatively accomplished at Linux / Unix related stuff, but I don't know everything there is know (and so therefore still have much to learn). I've been on several linux related mailing lists. I can proudly trace my involvement

[newbie] [OT] General Comments / mdklinuxfaq.org

2003-06-10 Per discussione Michael Viron
mdklinuxfaq.org, please don't hesitate to let me know. I seem to remember that someone had created samba and / or ldap howtos -- anyone remember who it was? Michael -- Michael Viron Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-07 Per discussione Michael Viron
software in some phase of development that is free. Michael -- Michael Viron Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux snip I think that's where someone should step in and make it usable to the average non-computer literate person. It took my awhile to learn how to do things. I think

Re: [newbie] downloading and temporary file

2003-04-03 Per discussione Michael Viron
The other way, of course, would be to make /tmp a ln to a tmp folder on a larger partition. Michael At 01:32 PM 3/27/2003 +0100, you wrote: A browser is probably not the best way to download big files. I use a command line ftp front end, quite flexible once you get familiar with the options.

Re: [newbie] Booting up without GUI in Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-17 Per discussione Michael Viron
documents', /usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/index.html, on your desktop. there you will find info for boot process and init files. Or, to get more recent copies, try http://www.tldp.org Michael -- Michael Viron Manager of Online Operations / Project Manager General Education Online Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Aargh: Internet Explorer HTTPS = DNS fail

2003-02-12 Per discussione Michael Viron
Under tools -- Internet Options -- Advanced tab, make sure that Show friendly HTTP error messages is unchecked. That will provide information on what the error actually is. Michael At 10:46 PM 2/12/2003 +1300, you wrote: Does somebody recognize a strange error a friend is having while making

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-08 Per discussione Michael Viron
or missing. Michael -- Michael Viron Database Web Statistics Administrator Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] BIGDRIVES (128G) and MDK 9.0

2003-01-30 Per discussione Michael Viron
I was talking about IDE hard drives, not SCSI or RAID arrays -- sorry that I didn't make that clearer. Michael At 09:19 AM 1/30/2003 -0700, you wrote: I don't belive that is true. I have mounted a 2 terabyte scsi disk with MDK 9.0 no problem. It was an external scsi self-contained hardware

Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-11 Per discussione Michael Viron
At 09:37 AM 1/12/2003 +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 07:40, Adolfo Bello wrote: It really is easy and fast to setup VNC to run for remote login - you get a desktop (KDE or G()NOME - if you've got a 100mb connection on your network, it's beautiful - and you can run

Re: [newbie] Regarding off-toppic chit-chats: IRC

2003-01-08 Per discussione Michael Viron
Is this besides the #mandrake channel on irc.freenode.net ? Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux At 05:58 PM 1/8/2003 -0800, you wrote: PS. i'd be all for it. it'd be nice to have a list channel. If ya need a bot, you can also run eggdrop (comes

Re: [newbie] Which version please

2002-12-28 Per discussione Michael Viron
Just to clarify -- the last release for the 486 was 7.0, not 8.0 . If you installed 8.0 and had it working, it was a Pentium class processor. Michael At 08:46 AM 12/28/2002 -0600, you wrote: I IMHO would recommend you use 8.0 if you can get it to work. I too think it is a great version, an

RE: [linux] [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4

2002-12-03 Per discussione Michael Viron
Actually, FAT32 has been included as an available filesystem since win 95B came out. As for winnt 4, you have to purchase it as an extra piece of software. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online BTW

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Per discussione Michael Viron
and above releases) v - verbose f - use file following this flag (so that command would be tar -xjvf Linneighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 without the quotes). For more info, do a man bzip2, man tar, and man gzip without the quotes. -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Per discussione Michael Viron
Linneighborhood dot something? I think I read that it should be in /usr/local/bin, though there's nothing at all in that directory. Thanks to all who gave me advice, it was and is greatly appreciated. Ronnie Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 28/11/2002 08:49:30 Please respond to [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-17 Per discussione Michael Viron
confidential stuff on there. Of course, servers should also preferably be kept in a room that only required personnel have access to. Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] what does it want . . . and why?

2002-10-24 Per discussione Michael Viron
'.) to shutdown your computer. Depending on your security level, you may have to be logged in as root to do so. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online At 09:35 PM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: At 06:05 PM 10/24/2002 -0700, you

Re: [newbie] tightvnc Way cool!!!!

2002-10-05 Per discussione Michael Viron
By the way, the original vnc team has restarted development at http://www.realvnc.com . Michael At 02:27 PM 10/5/2002 +0800, you wrote: Hi Guys, I just got VNC running on my win and lin box's.. I currently have my linux box's desktop running on my windows machine.. This is S cool,

Re: [newbie] tightvnc Way cool!!!!

2002-10-05 Per discussione Michael Viron
Frank, Try these docs as a starting point -- they are for vnc, but should work the same for tightvnc, since they are both pretty much the same -- http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html . Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General

Re: [newbie] Permission problems with Apache

2002-09-12 Per discussione Michael Viron
www.domain.tld #ServerPath /domain #DocumentRoot /web/domain #/VirtualHost in /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf . Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online At 10:09 PM 9/12/2002 -0400, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I

Re: thread hijack! was Re: [newbie] offsite backup

2002-09-10 Per discussione Michael Viron
There is actually a port of openssh to windows http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/ and there is a guide for setting up an encrypted connection between 2 windows machines http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/sftp_rsa_win2k_howto.html . Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 update ?

2002-09-09 Per discussione Michael Viron
have 3 separate hard drives. One is a dedicated system drive, one is a dedicated /home drive, and the other is a dedicated backup drive. I also typically set up remote encrypted backups as quickly as possible. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online

Re: [newbie] permissions hell

2002-09-04 Per discussione Michael Viron
~ $ If you need something owned by root to be accessible to the wheel group, you'd change the settings from root:root to root:wheel. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] IP address

2002-08-25 Per discussione Michael Viron
Actually, he was talking about the '/xx' after the ip, which is typically used to denote the subnet mask of the ip. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online At 10:23 AM 8/25/2002 EDT, you wrote: People refer to xxx

Re: [newbie] vnc

2002-08-21 Per discussione 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 8/21

Re: [newbie] swat/telnet not installed

2002-08-21 Per discussione 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] Fifth Open Source office suite

2002-08-13 Per discussione Michael Viron
Well, staroffice is a sun enhanced version of openoffice, so I don't think you can say they are completely separate, Michael At 08:44 PM 8/13/2002 +0100, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this, but Gobe Productive is going Open Source

Re: [newbie] Can't block dos attack

2002-07-28 Per discussione Michael Viron
know, and I'll adapt this to deal with iptables). Michael -- Begin Script -- #!/bin/sh # # Block sites which originate Nimba queries from Apache server # Apache must be configured with HostnameLookups Off # Adapted from an earlier script found on one of the Mandrake lists # Changes by Michael

Re: [newbie] beta 9.0

2002-07-24 Per discussione Michael Viron
You can find the opensource release at http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/ . Michael At 04:50 PM 7/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: On Wednesday 24 July 2002 04:21 pm, you wrote: Hi, I don't know if any of you out there have installed the 9.0 Beta, but I have, because I love to tinker with new things.

Re: [newbie] debugging, compiling, building, and executing c files

2002-07-16 Per discussione Michael Viron
for whatever.c. Do a google search on makefiles, and you should be able to find a tutorial or howto on makefiles. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online http://www.findaschool.org At 11:07 PM 7/16/2002 -0400, Aru Sahni

Re: [newbie] Anybody running the distributed net client?

2002-07-15 Per discussione Michael Viron
Are you running this as root? If you are not, you'll get that error, as /etc/rc.d/init.d/ is owned by root (and rightly so). Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online http://www.findaschool.org At 04:54 PM 7/15/2002

RE: [newbie] Apache DocumentRoot

2002-07-07 Per discussione Michael Viron
. If you could send something to the list as to what is showing up in your error_log file (a few lines, preferably), I'm sure you'll get much more specific feedback as to what the problem is. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Online Operations Manager General Education

RE: [newbie] Basic www server configuration

2002-06-21 Per discussione Michael Viron
You could do this, which would allow it to resolve only internally (from the local machine), or you could talk to whoever is handling dns for your domain and get it done correctly. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education

Re: [newbie] changing UID name?

2002-06-13 Per discussione Michael Viron
The easiest way is to take a look at /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, and /etc/gshadow. In order to correctly switch everything over, you will have to remove the original login, either via the command line (ie, vi / joe / emacs, etc), or via a GUI based administration tool (such as

[newbie] test

2002-06-08 Per discussione Michael Viron
been having some problems lately with posts not showing on the list. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] permission denied

2002-06-01 Per discussione Michael Viron
Actually, you do not need to be root to read resolv.conf (I can read it just fine as a normal user), you need to be root in order to make changes to it. Michael -- Michael Viron Core System Administration Team, Simple End User Linux At 10:37 AM 6/1/2002 -0400, you wrote: you need a space

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Per discussione Michael Viron
are, of course, entitled to your opinion. But, believe me, things could be a lot more tech oriented then they are now. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer, General Education Online Core System Administration Team, Simple End User Linux At 03:44 PM 5/29/2002 -0600, you wrote

Re: [newbie] - inetd.conf file?

2002-05-14 Per discussione Michael Viron
Actually, this has nothing to do with the version of the kernel you are running--it has to do with the version of the distro you are running. Inetd was replaced by xinetd in Mandrake 7.2, relevant files include /etc/xinetd.conf, and the directory /etc/xinetd.d/ . Michael Viron -- Michael Viron

Re: [newbie] deny access to su

2002-05-14 Per discussione Michael Viron
executables under a user directory, for example...I've never actually done it, but I've been on servers that were set up that way. Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Administration Team Simple End User Linux At 01:21 PM 5/14/2002 -0700, you wrote: Michael Viron wrote: Change the group ownership

RE: [newbie] - inetd.conf file?

2002-05-14 Per discussione Michael Viron
Actually, sounds like the xinetd rpm isn't installed Try 'rpm -qa | grep xinet' and let us know what pops up. Michael At 02:34 PM 5/14/2002 -0700, you wrote: No such file /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd chkconfig --list | grep xinetd comes up empty chkconfig --level 345 xinetd onerrors

Re: [newbie] deny access to su

2002-05-13 Per discussione Michael Viron
Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel . Next, remove execute permission from other on su. Michael -- Michael Viron Core System Administration Team Simple End User Linux At 12:23 PM 5/14/2002 +0800, you wrote: hi, i'm running mandrake 8.2. i would like to deny certain user groups

Re: [newbie] Nimda

2002-04-29 Per discussione Michael Viron
, or block off their access, but don't shut their machine down. It's a legally questionable move to do that. Michael -- Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux At 07:10 AM 4/29/2002 -0400, you wrote: Hello, would anyone know where I can find a script that would

[newbie] FAQ Listing / why I've not been here

2002-04-28 Per discussione Michael Viron
End User Linux (http://www.seul.org), and various other projects. Anyways, in the coming days, you'll start seeing posts from me again as I can manage. Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Group, Simple End User Linux (Database Web Statistician Admin) Project Manager / Primary Developer, General

Re: [newbie] Apache server not in browse list

2002-04-12 Per discussione Michael Viron
directly in Network Neighborhood -- you'd have to either select Entire Network and then select the other workgroup / domain, or make sure the domains match. Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Administration Group Simple End User Linux At 10:10 AM 4/12/2002 -0400, you wrote: I have installed

Re: [newbie] What file do I change?

2002-04-11 Per discussione Michael Viron
either /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile, or /etc/motd. Michael At 08:10 AM 4/11/2002 -0500, you wrote: Hi all, Running MD 8.2 here. What file would the the root user modify if he wanted the change to be seen by users when they logged in? For example if you wanted them to see a Fortune Cookie

Re: [newbie] How to read and write to a Win XP partition

2002-04-10 Per discussione Michael Viron
If it is a NTFS filesystem, the linux kernel only supports read / experimental write on NTFS 4.0. The NTFS which is used by Windows 2k / Win XP is only supported as a read-only filesystem. To share files between Windows and Linux, you are better off to create a FAT32 partition (which has read /

Re: [newbie] Apache + PHP - htdocs?

2002-04-01 Per discussione Michael Viron
you are probably better off if they are owned by apache:apache. -- Michael Viron IT Consultant Pensacola, FL At 12:49 PM 4/1/2002 -0500, Andre Dubuc wrote: Having upgraded from LM8.0 to LM8.2, I've switched from source to the pre-compiled editions of Apache and PHP. For the life of me, I can't

Re: [newbie] POP server need telnet daemon?

2002-03-28 Per discussione Michael Viron
At 11:03 PM 3/28/2002 -0700, you wrote: Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/TestSketch * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailPostfixTrials These pages didn't really help my specific problem. The final piece of the puzzle for

Re: [newbie] POP server need telnet daemon?

2002-03-28 Per discussione Michael Viron
No, telnetd is not required by the pop3 server, although xinetd is. Michael -- Michael Viron Core System Administration Team, Simple End User Linux At 11:04 PM 3/28/2002 -0700, you wrote: Actually, my question was whether I need the telnetd--the daemon. But I expect the answer's still no, eh

Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.

2002-03-12 Per discussione Michael Viron
4. Pro Geek. Makes an actual living as technician in the field. Highly paid for his (rarely her) work, if ANY good at all, due to general great lack of competence in the technical area. Always extremely busy. Extremely poor communicators. Need to simply be given the job to do. Never ask them

Re: [newbie] Feel like joining in?

2002-03-12 Per discussione Michael Viron
I already have something semi-geared towards that, although it has largely been dormant for the last year or so (since I've been busy with other projects I'm involved with). It's tentatively titled 'Academic Web Information Repository' -- although I'm certainly not glued to the name. If any of

[newbie] Frequently Asked Questions

2002-03-12 Per discussione Michael Viron
My start on the frequently asked questions has moved due to a policy change by the group who was formerly handling website storage for my website. (They converted their linux servers to part of an all-Windows design lab by direction of the higher-ups in the dept sponsoring their group). They are

Re: [newbie] Leaving system running

2002-03-10 Per discussione Michael Viron
are going to leave an account logged in on the machine, especially if it is in an unsecured room, you should make sure that you lock the machine. Better still is to log out, since that way, there is no chance that you might leave the computer running, and forget to lock the display. Michael -- Michael

Re: [newbie] samba - online books?

2002-03-10 Per discussione Michael Viron
And, the one no one has mentioned yet, http://www.samba.org has all kinds of very useful information regarding samba -- after all, it's the website of the people who are working on samba in the first place. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [newbie] IMAP+Postfix

2002-03-08 Per discussione Michael Viron
imap with a valid user account. If it still doesn't work, send another e-mail to the list, with the specific problem you are encountering. Finally, try not to send in HTML, as it really screws up the formating on your message, and annoys people on the list. -- Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Mandrake memory capacity

2002-03-07 Per discussione Michael Viron
For 8.1, you need to install the enterprise version of the kernel, which is compiled for more than 1 GB of ram. Not sure what the max on it is...I think it was well over 2 GB, though. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://findaschool.org/~mviron At 06

Re: [newbie] how to open IMAP port?

2002-03-02 Per discussione Michael Viron
At 10:18 AM 03/02/2002 -0800, Steve Weltman wrote: On Saturday 02 March 2002 09:53 am, you wrote: I'm trying to set up Squirrelmail so I can have access to my mail via web interface It requires IMAP, which I believe I have running, but when I try to log in I get an error about contacting the

Re: [newbie] how to open IMAP port?

2002-03-02 Per discussione Michael Viron
Nope -- it's actually a standalone process, which can be turned on via /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start or via webmin. Make sure that you have all openssh packages installed (including openssh-server). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://findaschool.org

Re: [newbie] boot.img to floppy?

2002-02-22 Per discussione Michael Viron
depends on if you are using a windows or linux system. If it's windows, try rawritewin under dosutils. If it's linux, cd to that directory and type 'dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0' . Michael At 09:11 PM 02/21/2002 -0500, you wrote: How would copy a boot.img file to a floppy? Not just copy, but so

Re: [newbie] Set Backup

2002-02-16 Per discussione Michael Viron
This is because '.' (the current directory) is not included in $PATH by default for security reasons. Hence, to run 'backup' from within ~chuck, the command would be './chuck' . Otherwise it will search the current $PATH. Michael -- Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project Manager / Primary

Re: [newbie] @ *

2002-02-16 Per discussione Michael Viron
The '*' indicates that the file is an executable or has the 'executable' bit set (ie, rwx or r-x). The '@' indicates that it is a link to a different file, located in a different directory. Michael -- Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project Manager / Primary Developer / Schoolforge

Re: [newbie] group permissions

2002-02-13 Per discussione Michael Viron
-- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 02:07 AM 02/14/2002 -0800, you wrote: Could someone post an example showing how to change permissions for a certain group. Example: I have a group by the name

Re: [newbie] finding my ip

2002-02-12 Per discussione Michael Viron
Yes. Or at the very least, it is the IP that you currently have leased from the dhcp server. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:33 AM 02/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: Is the ip address

Re: [newbie] Permissions: Nobody in Apache + PHP

2002-02-09 Per discussione Michael Viron
There are several things to check For example which user / group owns /tmp? What are the read / write permissions on /tmp? If nobody does not have write privileges to /tmp, the file will not get updated. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration

Re: [newbie] Permissions: Nobody in Apache + PHP

2002-02-09 Per discussione Michael Viron
this to say that superusers have uid / gid equal to 0, while 'ordinary' users have uid / gid not equal to 0. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often

2002-01-29 Per discussione Michael Viron
upgrade hardware or update the kernel. Other than that, there isn't a need to. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:34 PM 01/29/2002 -0800, you wrote: I run a linux server, that hosts

RE: [newbie] Trouble De-Installing Linux on Dual OS computer

2002-01-27 Per discussione Michael Viron
partitions. Boot into windows, run 'fdisk /mbr' (note, this is windows fdisk) -- at that point, you will have cleaned linux off your computer completely. This is, of course, the same set of instructions that civilme and myself have sent to the list countless times. Michael -- Michael Viron

Re: [newbie] Starting Apache + PHP

2002-01-26 Per discussione Michael Viron
Take a look at http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/SoothinglySeamless/page1.html , which guides you step by step through setting up an apache web server, along with mysql, php, and mod_ssl. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web

Re: [newbie] good 486 distr? (was: trouble installing 8.0)

2002-01-25 Per discussione Michael Viron
There's also Mandrake 7.0 for i486. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 06:48 PM 01/25/2002 -0800, you wrote: thanks for the reply. i didn't realize lm 8 was optimized for the 586 (newbie

Re: [newbie] Kernell version

2002-01-21 Per discussione Michael Viron
uname -a as already mentioned or 'rpm -qa | grep kernel' will show you the kernel or kernels you have installed. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:29 AM 01/07/1996 -0600, you wrote: How

Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy Drive

2002-01-19 Per discussione Michael Viron
Or, for that matter, you may not be part of the 'floppy' group. On a medium level secured install, no user can mount a CD or floppy without being in the floppy / cdrom groups. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners

Re: [newbie] Firewall/Tcp-ip problem...

2002-01-16 Per discussione Michael Viron
Typically the ipchains / iptables files are found in /etc/sysconfig/ . Check there for a file listing the bastille rules. If it's not there, it should be somewhere under /etc . I don't know exactly, as I add firewall rules by hand. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior

Re: [newbie] First install

2002-01-16 Per discussione Michael Viron
:initdefault:'. (note the 5 in the second one, instead of 3) Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:14 AM 01/17/2002 +1300, you wrote: Hi folks - I've just installed my first copy of Linux

Re: [newbie] Installing Samba 2.2.2 on Mdk 8.0

2002-01-16 Per discussione Michael Viron
I don't know what differences there are between 8.0 and 8.1, but if all else fails, you can get the srpm from Mandrake 8.1 and try to rebuild it for 8.0 . Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida

Re: [newbie] problem with chicken or egg dependencies problem (or so it seems)

2002-01-16 Per discussione Michael Viron
new packages not previously installed, whereas '-U' is an upgrade of packages currently installed (or install, if the package in question is not installed). -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want

Re: [newbie] Now HOW can I access the save area? to a floppy directly from wordstar?

2002-01-16 Per discussione Michael Viron
of other gui based system configuration tools. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 01:58 PM 01/16/2002 -0600, you wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2002 01:26 pm, you wrote: Hello, Thanks

Re: [newbie] Sources for RPMs

2002-01-13 Per discussione Michael Viron
The best way to find it, is rpmfind.net Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:19 PM 01/13/2002 -0600, you wrote: I just got Mandrake 8.1 installed as my first introduction to Linux. I

Re: [newbie] e-mail via SSL

2002-01-12 Per discussione Michael Viron
protocol ssl (where protocol is the type of connection you want to encrypt). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 02:24 PM 01/12/2002 -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: Is there a HOWTO for doing e-mail

Re: [newbie] File system

2002-01-09 Per discussione Michael Viron
Filesystems'. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 07:17 PM 01/09/2002 +0530, Amish K. Munshi wrote: Hi, I wanted to know what is journaling file system and how does it differ from the previous file

Re: [newbie] root email spam

2002-01-08 Per discussione Michael Viron
Take a look in /etc/cron.daily -- that is everything that is being run on a daily basis, and probably the source of virtually every e-mail you're getting. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida

Re: [newbie] file sharing

2002-01-07 Per discussione Michael Viron
samba, nfs, appletalk, ftp, http, scp, sftp all come immediately to mind -- it all depends on who you want to share it to, between what operating systems, and what it is that you wish to share. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web

Re: [newbie] named configuration

2002-01-04 Per discussione Michael Viron
to an IP on your local network. To set all this up, you'd have to learn bind's syntax for what it calls 'zone' files. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Question - school related -- Have we been conned????

2002-01-04 Per discussione Michael Viron
or @webspinners.uwf.org . Of course, in all cases, I was never technically 'staff' per-se, (especially for the general / cs accounts), since I was (and still am) a 'volunteer' out there. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant / Founder Web Spinners

Re: [newbie] Where download Kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk and ...

2002-01-03 Per discussione Michael Viron
from any Mandrake ftp mirror, or from kernel.org if you feel adventurous and want to compile your own kernel. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 06:04 PM 01/03/2002 -0200, you wrote

Re: [newbie] no permission to mount cdrom

2002-01-02 Per discussione Michael Viron
Julian, It must be related to what security setting you use. On both a Mandrake 7.2 and an 8.1 box, I have a cdrom group listed. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:47 PM 01/01/2002

Re: [newbie] Make : tex Command

2002-01-02 Per discussione Michael Viron
My question now is what version of Mandrake are you using? If you are using 8.1, the dependencies are a lot different than 7.x (ie, a 7.x rpm won't work properly on 8.x, and a 8.x rpm will give off all kinds of errors on a 7.x box) Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior

Re: [newbie] Another new problem.. :(

2002-01-02 Per discussione Michael Viron
Well surgery on / is very difficult, because you cannot unmount it from a running system. You have several options... Method A: If /usr is a subdirectory of / instead of a separately mounted partition, you can move that to the second disk if there is room--Here's how: 1. Put in your second

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition Not Mountable

2002-01-02 Per discussione Michael Viron
Which version of Windows is it from? If it is from Windows 2000 / XP, it won't mount because it uses a newer NTFS than is supported by the current kernel release (I think they support up to NTFS 4 read, and (very experimental) write). Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978

Re: [newbie] SecurityUpdates and Kernel 2.4.8-31.2mdk

2002-01-02 Per discussione Michael Viron
-smp-2.4.8-31.2mdk.i586.rpm - multiprocessor 2.4.8 kernel kernel-source-2.4.8-31.2mdk.i586.rpm - kernel source for 2.4.8 HTH, Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] no permission to mount cdrom

2002-01-01 Per discussione Michael Viron
Gerald, This is actually further restricted, because user(s) mounting / umounting the CDROM must be in the 'cdrom' group. This also applies to the floppy. In order to mount / umount the floppy drive, you must be in the floppy group. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior

Re: [newbie] SSH Problem

2001-12-31 Per discussione Michael Viron
At 01:33 PM 12/31/2001 -0500, you wrote: Everything is working now. I changed the security level and /etc/hosts.deny denied localhost connections Actually, that was everything except for 'localhost' connections, since the line you posted was 'ALL:ALL except localhost:DENY' Michael -- Michael

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