Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 installation on Raid 1

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Creighton
James Knott wrote: > Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > >> On 08/09/2007 10:04 PM, James Knott wrote: >> >> >>> Is /boot on it's own partition, outside of the RAID array? If you are >>> using RAID or LVM, /boot has to have it's own partition. >>> >>> >> Wrong. I think it used to

[opensuse] Dell Notebook

2007-09-28 Thread Richard Creighton
I have a friend that has a Dell notebook that is a Windows holdout. However, he keeps seeing my setup at home and listening to me tout SuSE and he sent me a question recently that I simply can't answer. Will it work on his machine? This is the information he sent me: The info on this machin

[opensuse] legalities

2007-09-29 Thread Richard Creighton
primm wrote: > > Hi and thanks Joe. You give me new hope. > > > Another doubt I had was as to whether this list was also for people using > opensuse commercially. Maybe I'm breaking the law making money indirectly > from opensuse. I don't mind paying for support but the advice here is all I > ne

Re: [opensuse] legalities

2007-09-29 Thread Richard Creighton
Jeremy Figgins wrote: > //begin-rant > That's a > brilliant move on Microsoft's part. Not only convince the manufacturers > to put Windows on every computer, but to also get the salespeople to > convince everyone else that the computer with Linux on it is somehow > breaking the law. That Linux u

Re: [opensuse] ftp permissions

2007-09-29 Thread Richard Creighton
primm wrote: > Anyway, could I use my feminine charm, invite you back for coffee and ask you > guru guys where /srv/www/htdocs is on xp? I honestly dare not start it as a > new thread. Theo would throw me off the list! > > Love from Lynn x x x > Don't worry about starting new threads Lynn. I

Re: [opensuse] ftp permissions

2007-09-29 Thread Richard Creighton
primm wrote: >> Ok Lynn, You've managed to hit my hot button. This is exactly what is >> wrong, and I mean what is REALLY WRONG with *US* now days. >> >> What a world Microsoft has created! It makes honest people *think* >> they are thieves >> >> Lynn, STOP feeling guilty about USING L

Re: [opensuse] ftp permissions

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Creighton
joe wrote: > primm wrote: > > >> It's just that the other girls don't like the >> look of openoffice. So I have to keep that machine for the time being. >> > > > Ah, too bad. Have they seen oOo 2.3? In any case, I would think that the cost > savings and virus resistance would justify oOo.

Re: [opensuse] legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Creighton
primm wrote: > It's true. It is impossible to get people to change from using office with > xp. > They will not use vista either. Yeah. read it again. Somehow microsoft has > instilled in them that this is the only way to write a document and send > e-mails. They will _not_ change to Linux or

Re: [opensuse] legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Creighton
>> Actually, M$ have recently announced that they are extending support for >> XP, for some unknown reason people are not buying as many Vista copies >> as M$ expected :-) >> > > Few hundreds reasons per product. > Count is mostly 2 (Vista & MS Office) which comes out as one good computer >

Re: [opensuse] legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Creighton
Carlos E. R. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Sunday 2007-09-30 at 08:51 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > > >> Actually, from what I've seen in articles around, Vista wants >> state-of-the-art equipment to run and much o

Re: [opensuse] Re: legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Creighton
Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Per Jessen wrote: > >> Richard Creighton wrote: >> >> >>> I cranked up 10.2 on a >>> 486DX-2 the other day just to see it run...slow, but it ran :) >>> >> How exactly did you manage that? Have you got

Re: [opensuse] legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Creighton
Per Jessen wrote: > Richard Creighton wrote: > > >> I cranked up 10.2 on a >> 486DX-2 the other day just to see it run...slow, but it ran :) >> > > How exactly did you manage that? Have you got a 486-version of 10.2? > > I've got a 486DX2 m

Re: [opensuse] legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Creighton
Per Jessen wrote: > Richard Creighton wrote: > > >> I cranked up 10.2 on a >> 486DX-2 the other day just to see it run...slow, but it ran :) >> > > How exactly did you manage that? Have you got a 486-version of 10.2? > > I've got a 486DX2 m

Re: [opensuse] legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Creighton
Hans Witvliet wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 09:51 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote: > >> On 09/30/2007 Richard Creighton wrote: >> > > >> M$ said they would support XP till 2010. >> > > Translated, that means: > worms and viri ai

Re: [opensuse] legalities

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Creighton
Per Jessen wrote: > Richard Creighton wrote: > > >> It is the collection of support software that becomes the personality >> of the distribution and it is also the reason our old 486 machines >> won't run anymore. >> > > Uh, I'm not sure

Re: [opensuse] Re: opensuse for 486

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Creighton
Per Jessen wrote: >> Hey, I'm all for it but I really don't think it is very likely in >> practice, as much as I hate to admit it. >> > > Oh, I doubt it too. 486s are now found mostly in embedded stuff, and > there are other distros catering for that market. My own 486 firewall > machine r

Re: IDE partitions [WAS: Re: [opensuse] legalities]

2007-10-01 Thread Richard Creighton
Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 9/30/07, Richard Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Carlos E. R. wrote: >> > > >>> That's not quite so now. For instance, the limit on the number of >>> partitions has been decreased from 64 to

Re: [opensuse] Re: IDE partitions [WAS: Re: legalities]

2007-10-02 Thread Richard Creighton
Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Richard Creighton wrote: > >> Greg Freemyer wrote: >> >> > I don't understand - you have full control over where the MBR is installed. > By default, it goes on the first drive found. If you want to change that, > you are fre

Re: [opensuse] Re: IDE partitions [WAS: Re: legalities]

2007-10-02 Thread Richard Creighton
Jonathan Arnold wrote: > At the installation screen, Expert Options tab, the Change... button lists > the Booting option. Here you can set up both the Grub menu and where the MBR > gets installed. > > When it works, which it didn't, plus it didn't offer to put it where I needed it anyhow ... 2

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice freezes the system

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Creighton
Kevin Donnelly wrote: > > certainly interesting to know about, but I'm not going to risk another > reboot, ... > *this* is the epitome of the Linux mentality vs the Windows mentality being demonstrated graphically.With Windows, you reboot to cure everything, to install anything, to

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice freezes the system

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Creighton
Kevin Donnelly wrote: > On Wednesday 03 October 2007 12:59, Richard Creighton wrote: > >> *this* is the epitome of the Linux mentality vs the Windows mentality >> being demonstrated graphically.With Windows, you reboot to cure >> everything, to install anything,

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 Binary Compatibility for SCO 5.0.5

2007-10-04 Thread Richard Creighton
Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 01:42 +0800, Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I have a customer with SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 running PROGRESS 6.2 and >> THOROBRED BASIC. I would dearly love to port to opensuse 10.3. >> >> Has anyone had any experience (luck!!??) run

[opensuse] I need a kernel

2007-10-09 Thread Richard Creighton
The last upgrade of the 10.3 kernel (.31) erased the only version that worked with my hardware raid controller driver. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of saving the RPM for *kernel*-bigsmp-*2.6*.*22.5*-*25*.i586.*rpm* on the raid the controller controls and guess what, before I could recover

Re: [opensuse] Swap Software RAID 1 not working, SuSE 10.3

2007-10-09 Thread Richard Creighton
Jake Conk wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to setup a fresh install of 10.3 with 2 disks and I used YaST > to mirror all my partitions. I had originally my raid swap partitions > on an extended partition but that didn't work and I thought that was > the problem so instead now I put the raid partitions o

Re: [opensuse] I need a kernel

2007-10-09 Thread Richard Creighton
Carlos E. R. wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 20:23 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > >> recover it, I had a power failure which required that I reboot. That >> left me in .31 due to the fact that the old kern

Re: [opensuse] I need a kernel

2007-10-09 Thread Richard Creighton
Sunny wrote: > On 10/9/07, Richard Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> the mistake of saving the RPM for >> >> *kernel*-bigsmp-*2.6*.*22.5*-*25*.i586.*rpm* >> >> on the raid the controller controls and guess what, before I could >> recover

Re: [opensuse] Swap Software RAID 1 not working, SuSE 10.3

2007-10-09 Thread Richard Creighton
uld go down right? Can you >>> give me the steps on how to make my md1 device a raid 0 without >>> reformatting my whole system? I don't think I can stop md1 unless I >>> stop all the md devices above it right? (md2/3/4/5) >>> >>> Thanks, >>>

Re: [opensuse] Swap Software RAID 1 not working, SuSE 10.3

2007-10-10 Thread Richard Creighton
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Oct 9 2007 21:04, Richard Creighton wrote: > >> I think I would try making your swap partition RAID 0 >> > > Swap on RAID0 is stupid, because swap is intelligent enough itself > to stripe to multiple locations. All it takes is t

Re: [opensuse] Kernel update for 10.3

2007-10-11 Thread Richard Creighton
Igor Jagec wrote: > On Sri, 2007-10-10 at 15:34 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > >> Noticed kernel update for 10.3 386 system and I am concerned that I >> will end up with a NON-booting system. >> > > That concerns me either. I didn't know that SUSE updates kernel packages > rather then in

Re: [opensuse] Kernel update for 10.3

2007-10-11 Thread Richard Creighton
Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 04:22 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > >> Igor Jagec wrote: >> >>> On Sri, 2007-10-10 at 15:34 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Noticed kernel update for 10.3 3

Re: [opensuse] Kernel update for 10.3

2007-10-11 Thread Richard Creighton
Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > > You might want to re-check this. I just upgraded to the new kernel and > it deleted the old one. The link to the "old kernel" actually points to > the new one. The new one just uses the full name instead of the link. > > I figured out what happened ... and you ar

Re: [opensuse] Kernel update for 10.3

2007-10-12 Thread Richard Creighton
Rajko M. wrote: > On Thursday 11 October 2007 07:01:08 pm Richard Creighton wrote: > > >> Thanks for pointing out the error, indirectly the bug and an idea for a >> useful exploit that may come in handy next time we get a kernel with an >> oops built in as an upda

Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

2007-10-15 Thread Richard Creighton
Aniruddha wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:36 +0200, Jos van Kan wrote: > > >>> (For example, your localhost is 192.168.2.167, and you are >>> connected to wanadoo.nl as 85.144.207.123). >>> >> There's a tool that does exactly that, sshipup. >> >> http://www.info-techs.com/download.shtml

Re: [opensuse] mainboard questions

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Creighton
Aniruddha wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 23:22 -0400, BandiPat wrote: > > >> === >> Buy ASUS, expect problems and no support when running Linux! It's been >> a constant problem with asus for a long time. You takes your chances >> with asus. There are better choices available. >> >>

Re: [opensuse] MPlayer documentation

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Creighton
Carl Hartung wrote: > On Tue October 16 2007 11:15:41 am Stan Goodman wrote: > >> I did from "/" as root, and turned up nothing >> recognizable. >> > > Try 'locate ' as normal user, e.g. in this case 'mplayer': > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> locate mplayer > <... snipped lines 1 thru 35>: > /usr

Re: [opensuse] Bootable 'Repair Installation' for 10.3

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Creighton
d_garbage wrote: > Hello list, > The 'repair' feature has helped me before and it would be good to have > it at hand, for when I (inevitably) bork my shiny new 10.3 install. > The original 'repair installation' option on the DVD was broken. Now > the yast module has been fixed, can you tell me how

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 not usable after local filesystem becomes read-only

2007-10-17 Thread Richard Creighton
Eduard Kracmar wrote: > After some time in KDE session, kio slave error pops up after I tried to > access some file on local filesystem (everywhere, in krusader, konqueror, > amarok etc) with message 'read only file system'. > > After logout from KDE I can't login in console neighter as user or

Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-18 Thread Richard Creighton
Mike Coan wrote: > I am in the process of building a new server for our small business. > > The current server is running opensuse 10.2 and has 4 SATA I drives. The > first drive has /swap, /boot (ext2 50 MB) and /storage (reiserfs 75 GB). > then there are 3 80GB drives as md0 in a raid5 confi

Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-18 Thread Richard Creighton
Mike Coan wrote: > On Thursday 18 October 2007 04:40:00 pm Richard Creighton wrote: > >> Mike Coan wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the reply. i am indeed using software RAID, not any RAID >>> included with the motherboard. Your configuration is much more >

Re: [opensuse] Cannot create raid 5 opensuse 10.3

2007-10-19 Thread Richard Creighton
Mike Coan wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2007 02:07:49 pm Richard Creighton wrote: > > Richard, > > Thanks so much for your persistence. I did in fact try it in two stages, > No problem ... glad it worked out > raid 5 array that SMART finally indicated the drive was

[opensuse] Re: [Bug 329702] yast2-repair module broken

2007-10-22 Thread Richard Creighton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329702#c13 > > > Lee Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> changed: > >What|Removed |Added > >

Re: [opensuse] Re: [Bug 329702] yast2-repair module broken

2007-10-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Richard Creighton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329702#c13 >> >> >> > Thanks for the information and especially the supergrub link. I have a > feeling a lot of people will be needing this. I fo

Re: [opensuse] Can I verify using k3b?

2007-10-25 Thread Richard Creighton
John E. Perry wrote: > Todd Ness wrote: > >> ... >> When you start the install there is an option to check your media. >> >> > > As I wrote in my post, the dvd's already written. K3b completed without > error. The only problem is that when I checked the "verify" button, I > didn't notice

Re: [opensuse] HowTo Install New 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58-default kernel and SAVE my present one too

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Creighton
David C. Rankin wrote: > > But so far in 10.3 every time I install a new kernel and source, Yast > or zypper or whatever the clever package, keeps removing the original > kernel. How do I make it stop. > > None of the automatic installation tools (Yast-zypper-smart) seem to leave the old

Re: [opensuse] HowTo Install New 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58-default kernel and SAVE my present one too

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Creighton
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > * Richard Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-31-07 11:22]: > >> David C. Rankin wrote: >> >>> But so far in 10.3 every time I install a new kernel and source, Yast &g

[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Creighton
Stephan Kulow wrote: > Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Boyd Lynn Gerber: > >> I do not know anyone that is able to use the repair system. I am talking >> about aprox... 200 users. This to me is a major pita. I really think >> that we should get a delta. I really need to create new iso's.

Re: [opensuse] save rpm files from online update

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Creighton
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > Coach-X wrote: > >> If I wanted zypper/yast to save the rpm files it downloads when doing an >> online update, how would this be done? >> > > Please see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293100 and vote > for it. > Their proposal to use the pro

Re: [opensuse] save rpm files from online update

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Creighton
Ness, Todd wrote: > use rsync to mirror one of the mirrors and then you have everything you > ever wanted or will need. > > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 14:17 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > >> Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: >> >>> Coach-X wrote: >>&g

Re: [opensuse] Re: save rpm files from online update

2007-11-02 Thread Richard Creighton
Ben Kevan wrote: > On Friday 02 November 2007 05:51:05 am Joachim Schrod wrote: > >> Ben Kevan wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 01 November 2007 10:58:47 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: >>> Coach-X wrote: > If I wanted zypper/yast to save the rpm files it downloads

Re: [opensuse] VMWare and 10.3 as a client OS

2007-11-12 Thread Richard Creighton
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > I am running the latest 5.5.x vmware on OpenUSUE 10.0. I want to install > OpenSUSE 10.3 as a client. Every time I try, the 10.3 install takes me > to a character screen where I can set up partitions and all. Obviously > there is something missing in the vmware environmen

Re: [opensuse] Small database program?

2007-05-26 Thread Richard Creighton
Use OpenOffice.org's BASE which is part of SUSE's distributionit is a replacement for MS-Access in many ways, can interface with MySQL and others if you like but can stand alone. Nick Zentena wrote: > Is there something small and simple? All I want is to set up a simple > home > databa

Re: [opensuse] Mount ISO as user

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Creighton
Carlos E. R. wrote: > Midnight Comander (mc) does the trick. > I knew about diving into *.bz and *.zip and being able to cd /#ftp:, but I didn't know about that one.Thank you for teaching a very old dog a new trick.MC has been a staple of mine for many years and now it has one more very g

Re: [opensuse] Mount ISO as user

2007-06-08 Thread Richard Creighton
HG wrote: > Hi! > > > Mike, that simple script looks good specially if it can be > incorporated into working directly from Konqueror. Have to try this > weekend. I'll also try the kio_iso for some reason, I didn't have it > installed. Lets see how it works. Thanks! > I tried both the kio_iso and

Re: [opensuse] Firefox plugin needed

2007-06-11 Thread Richard Creighton
I have been following this thread for some time.Please go to the following URL: http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60/ This is called the Jem Report on version 10.2 of SUSE. It is about 'Hacking' Suse to allow it to play multimedia. Novel/Suse does not ship a version of most

Re: [opensuse] automatic logon

2007-06-17 Thread Richard Creighton
I believe you can go into the YAST Administrator Settings, select Users & Groups, then select Expert options button and deselect the auto-login box for the user that is being logged in.I believe that if *any* user is selected for auto login, the system will try to ensure that user is logged in

[opensuse] Raid 5 installation

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Creighton
At the risk of appearing stupid, which I am willing to do, I recently purchased a ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with intergral RAID5 hardware controller. I also purchased 4 WD 400G SATA drives to make a 1.09T (usable space) raid5 array under Linux, SUSE 10.2. The MB setup shows the drives properly c

Re: [opensuse] Raid 5 installation

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Creighton
did need WIndoze, I would wear VMware rubber gloves :) When I test Alpha software, I always load it under VMware first to see what 'gotchas' show up but this is a new machine and new hardware with no OS yet installed. Thanks for the tip. Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 6/20/07, Rich

Re: [opensuse] Raid 5 installation

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Creighton
Thanks all. It turns out I *do* have the so-called 'fake-RAID' as was suggested earlier. I've made some progressbut Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 6/20/07, Richard Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At the risk of appearing stupid, which I am willing to

Re: [opensuse] Raid 5 installation

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Creighton
Greg Freemyer wrote: > Richard, (I'm top posting intentionally). > > I'm confused, you said previously you were never going to run windows > on the box, so why are you researching the windows / linux > compatibility dm-raid driver? > It has nothing to do with Windoze. It has to do with the fa

Re: [opensuse] Raid 5 installation

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > Richard Creighton wrote: > >> I get the following results: >> ASUS:/home/rich # dmraid -r >> /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_baedieei", raid5_ls, ok, 781422766 sectors, >> data@ 0 >> /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_baedieei&qu

Re: [opensuse] Raid 5 installation

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Friday 2007-06-22 at 03:21 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: > > > > controller built-in to the ASUS motherboard with the 4 SATA drives that > > board can natively control *without* having to use a 5th IDE or external > > drive just to boo

Re: [opensuse] Raid 5 installation

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Kenneth Schneider wrote: >>> controller built-in to the ASUS motherboard with the 4 SATA drives that board can natively control *without* having to use a 5th IDE or external drive just to boot the system> >>> The ultimate goal should be to have the best raid 5 possibl

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Kai Ponte wrote: > Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to > SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main > application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based > controls. > > In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a 1400x1050 > re

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Kai Ponte wrote: > >> I would say you are running the Legacy as the host and >> emulating a Johnny-come-lately-rip-off-of-OS/2 using a great pair of a >> software equivalent of rubber gloves stamped 'VMWare' to prevent >> contaminationa very smart way to goone I whole heartedly agree >>

Re: [opensuse] Sound card driver for Acer Aspire 9300

2007-06-26 Thread Richard Creighton
James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone had any luck getting the sound card to work or found drivers for > the sound card, MCP51 High Definition Audio, for an Aspire 9300? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks, > > James > I have an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with t

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2, desktop PC, disk being constantly written to. Any way to reduce it?

2007-06-30 Thread Richard Creighton
Tero Pesonen wrote: > Hi all! > > I subscribed to this list to ask about this issue. I've not found > almost any coverage on this topic, or then I've searched for wrong > keywords on Google and on various mailing lists. > > My issues is as follows: > I've recently upgraded to openSUSE 10.2 from S

Re: [opensuse] Re: Update of VMware ?

2007-07-01 Thread Richard Creighton
Erik Jakobsen wrote: > > > Hello Joe, and thanks for the info. > > The result: > > # depmod -a > lajka3:~ # modprobe vmnet > lajka3:~ # /etc/init.d/vmware start > VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured > Unable to stop services for VMware Workstation > Wha

[opensuse] dictionary attacks

2007-07-16 Thread Richard Creighton
Just about every day, often several times a day, my logs include hours of log entries that look like this: Jul 16 00:35:25 raid5 sshd[6966]: Invalid user admin from 83.18.244.42 Jul 16 00:35:30 raid5 sshd[6968]: Invalid user admin from 83.18.244.42 Jul 16 00:35:35 raid5 sshd[6972]: Invalid user ad

Re: [opensuse] dictionary attacks

2007-07-16 Thread Richard Creighton
Benji Weber wrote: > On 16/07/07, Richard Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My question is what, if any firewall rule could I write that could >> detect such attacks and automatically shut down forwarding packets from >> the offending node or domain? That

Re: [opensuse] dictionary attacks

2007-07-17 Thread Richard Creighton
John, you have been a tremendous amount of help. I am posting my reply to the list as well as direct to you because your answer may be of benefit to the list members and the question I pose may also be of significance John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Richard Creighton wr

Re: [opensuse] dictionary attacks

2007-07-17 Thread Richard Creighton
John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Richard Creighton wrote: > > But if the logging shows up prefixed with sshd as yours does: > Jul 17 00:38:27 raid5 sshd > Then you can be assured that the connection attempt DID get > to the ssh daemon, and was NOT dropped.

Re: [opensuse] dictionary attacks

2007-07-17 Thread Richard Creighton
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Richard Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-17-07 16:09]: >> Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2) SuSEfirewall2: Warning: >> ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled. >> SuSEfirewall2: Error: un

Re: [opensuse] dictionary attacks

2007-07-17 Thread Richard Creighton
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Richard Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-17-07 16:09]: >> Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2) SuSEfirewall2: Warning: >> ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled. >> SuSEfirewall2: Error: un

[opensuse] More dictionary attacks

2007-07-18 Thread Richard Creighton
Just when I thought it might have been over First, China, then France and now Iran. First things first: My SysConfig settings that I ended up with from the first thread that actually got into IPTABLES Sysconfig settings:FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_EXT 0/0,tcp,22,,hitcount=3,blockseconds=120,recen

Re: [opensuse] dictionary attacks

2007-07-18 Thread Richard Creighton
Joe Sloan wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Richard Creighton wrote: > >> >> >> Patrick Shanahan wrote: > Prayer is cool, but why a reboot? This isn't windoze, no need. Just tell > the firewall to reload, takes a second. > > Joe > Oh yo

Re: [opensuse] More dictionary attacks

2007-07-18 Thread Richard Creighton
Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:15:16AM -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: >> Just when I thought it might have been over >> >> First, China, then France and now Iran. >> >> >> First things first: My SysConfig settings that I ende

Re: [opensuse] More dictionary attacks

2007-07-18 Thread Richard Creighton
Marcus Meissner wrote: > >> OK, I'll bite...what worm and what can I do about it?and where >> is it coming fromfrom one of my systems (all Linux) or one of the >> destination IP's What defenses will work? > > Well, it tries to break into your system, but is very likely not in

Re: [opensuse] More dictionary attacks

2007-07-18 Thread Richard Creighton
zoran wrote: > Richard, > > Try to congigure your router, actually ban intruders IP in router., if > possible depends on manufacture. This wil save you a lot of time and it's > much more relaible. > > > Kind regards, > Zoran > I feel this is probably impractical simply because the IP of th

[opensuse] DNS security

2007-07-21 Thread Richard Creighton
Follows is a short exerpt of a log showing what I believe is unauthorized use of my DNS: Jul 20 18:26:07 Athelon named[21283]: client 148.160.29.10#34769: query: sanitaetshaus-haeusner.de IN A + Jul 20 18:29:16 Athelon named[21283]: client 148.160.29.6#33079: query: btu-online.de IN NS + Jul 20 18

Re: [opensuse] DNS security

2007-07-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: > Access to use your DNS server for recursive queries is controlled in > your named.conf in section options. > > Especially I have for example: > allow-query { ::1/128; 127.0.0.1; localnets; }; > recursion yes; > > Which means that only localhost and "localnets" are a

Re: [opensuse] DNS security

2007-07-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: > Richard Creighton wrote: >> Thank you Wolfgangnow another stupid question for you if you don't >> mind too much please. I can't see where in the YAST program this can >> be done other perhaps in the sysconfig editor, but

Re: [opensuse] DNS security

2007-07-22 Thread Richard Creighton
G T Smith wrote: > If you are looking for a GUI webmin might be worth looking at, it does > include a DNS management module. I'll look into that. I wanted to keep SUSE 'virgin' where possible because it helps when upgrading versions change. Ancillary support programs sometimes stop worki

Re: Fwd: [opensuse] Re: Is there a linux based program that can handle .drw files?

2007-07-26 Thread Richard Creighton
Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Thursday 26 July 2007 10:33, Chris Worley wrote: >> VMWare Player is free... find an existing Windows image to use and >> add your app to it. > > That would surely be a violation of the Windows license, would it not? > > > Randall Schulz If you are a legitimate ow

Re: [opensuse] Re: Is there a linux based program that can handle .drw files?

2007-07-26 Thread Richard Creighton
Robert Smits wrote: > On Thursday 26 July 2007 01:25, James Hatridge wrote: >> HI Bob et al... >> >> On Wednesday 25 July 2007 22:27, Robert Smits wrote: >>> Some years ago I used my home gardening program, Key Home Gardener, which >>> was a 16 bit Windows program, to lay out my lot, my septic sy

Re: Fwd: [opensuse] Re: Is there a linux based program that can handle .drw files?

2007-07-27 Thread Richard Creighton
Chris Worley wrote: > Doesn't VMWare have a 30 day trial? > > Use it to create a Win3.1 appliance, then use the appliance w/ VMWare. VMWare SERVER is FREE forever and doesn't need the player and distributing an appliance with win3.1 on it is probably illegal if distributed but VMWare SERVER is

[opensuse] DNS Error Log - Solved

2007-07-28 Thread Richard Creighton
If you run a DNS server on your system you probably have been plagued with external sites trying to forward queries through your DNS server. Even though you probably have told your named.conf to allow-query {"localnets";}; or a list of valid IP's you probably still have a bunch of unnecessary p

Re: [opensuse] DNS Error Log - Solved

2007-07-29 Thread Richard Creighton
Per Jessen wrote: > Richard Creighton wrote: > >> Jul 24 09:22:05 raid5 named[3935]: client 195.135.220.2#32768: query >> 'ns1.ricreig.com//IN' denied >> Jul 24 09:22:05 raid5 named[3935]: client 195.135.220.2#32768: query >> 'ns2.ricreig.com/A

Re: [opensuse] DNS Error Log - Solved

2007-07-29 Thread Richard Creighton
G T Smith wrote: > Ouch! If this is hosting the authorative master zone for the domain this > means you may have inadvertently broken your domain. I am not certain > this is a choice in this case... > > I think it is possible to configure the DNS to act as a cache forwarder > for local workst

Re: [opensuse] DNS Error Log - Solved

2007-07-29 Thread Richard Creighton
G T Smith wrote: >> The DNSStuff.com report shows the outside world can get the records, >> including reverse DNS info. The log exerpt was a bad choice where I >> had temporarily closed the DNS to the outside. I am not concerned about >> the size of the log, I know several ways to erase file

Re: [opensuse] DNS Error Log - Solved

2007-07-29 Thread Richard Creighton
Per Jessen wrote: > Richard Creighton wrote: > >> Bad choice of log exerptI have thousands of NON NS non MS queries >> and yes ricreig.com is my domain and I limit forwarded queries from >> out of localnet with 'options allow-recursion { localnet; }; ' i

Re: [opensuse] dictionary attacks

2007-07-29 Thread Richard Creighton
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Benji Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-16-07 05:04]: >> set the following line >> >> FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_EXT="0/0,tcp,22,,hitcount=3,blockseconds=120,recentname=ssh" >> >> in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 This will limit to a maximum of 3 >> attempts per 120s. > > This wor

Re: [opensuse] dictionary attacks

2007-07-29 Thread Richard Creighton
joe wrote: > > Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> * Benji Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-16-07 05:04]: >>> set the following line >>> >>> FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_EXT="0/0,tcp,22,,hitcount=3,blockseconds=120,recentname=ssh" >>> >>> in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 This will limit to a maximum of 3 >>> attempts

[opensuse] Firefox and Java

2007-07-30 Thread Richard Creighton
Earlier today I got a security update for java 1.4.2 (I think it was) and elected to install it. After installation, it happened that I got bit by the Openoffice.org writer freezes your system bug (which has an open bugzilla bug open) and I ended up having to reset my machine for the first tim

Re: [opensuse] Firefox and Java

2007-07-30 Thread Richard Creighton
BandiPat wrote: >> that has been working fine for many months. I even downloaded the >> Java 1.6 update rpm and installed it but they only tell how to >> install it for mozilla, not firefox. Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Richard > > === > Rich, > Just do a search, whereis or

Re: [opensuse] Problem with zypper

2007-08-16 Thread Richard Creighton
Adam Jimerson wrote: > For the past three days zypper has not been able to refresh my installation > And when I try to add it just using zypper all it says is that the URL is a > bad media attach point. Anyone know what is going on here? Zypper or one of its' libraries is broken. There ar

Re: [opensuse] Loggin internet activites

2007-08-17 Thread Richard Creighton
I assume everything goes through a central firewall system. Modify the firewall rules so that all NEW IP sessions are logged. Sessions that are established can be handled as currently handled. You will have to 'logrotate' fairly often but it is about the only place you can be assured of catch

Re: [opensuse] HOWTO enable Thunderbird 'Reply to list' feature

2007-08-18 Thread Richard Creighton
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > G T Smith wrote: > >> Dave Barton wrote: >> >>> Original Message >>> From: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Sat 18 Aug 2007 07:41:56 PM EST >>> G T Smith wrote: >>> 8<-- snip -->8 >>>

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta 2 - Yast installer issues?

2007-08-18 Thread Richard Creighton
If you are still able, you need to log into bugzilla and file a report so the guys there can fix it. I doubt they read this user forum buty theypay serious attention to the bug reports filed. http://bugzilla.novell.com This sounds like one of their fixes had a major undesirable side effec

Re: [opensuse] Software updates

2007-08-19 Thread Richard Creighton
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > No. opensuseupdater will only inform you of security updates. > >> Link to add as HTTP source: >> http://repos.opensuse.org/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/10.2/ >> >> >> If I decide to update Thunderbird, could I use a link similar to the one >> above? >> > It will n

Re: [opensuse] VMware Player 2 & Kernel Modules Building Failure

2007-08-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Erwin Lam wrote: > On Wednesday 22 August 2007, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote: > >> Hi ! >> >> I have SuSE 10.2 and: >> >> kernel-default-2.6.22.2-ccj52 >> VMware-player-2.0.0-45731.i386 >> >> + kernel sources and kernel syms 2.6.22.2-ccj52 installed. >> >> For unknown reason compilation

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