Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
Dont forget about 'The Bat'. Think it's still alive. It was a real good mailer with lots of features. Regards, Joachim Holst H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 19 October 2003 23:28, Anne Wilson wrote: That's one I hadn't thought of. Thanks Here's another one: Calypso, it has some very nice features in it including filtering on the server. And it has good looks;) The only mailer I advise to Win sufferers. That one I'd never heard of. I'll put it on the list of possibles. I can see I have a lot of reading to do, to see which one would be easiest/best for her. Thanks Anne look for it on tucowsit's abandon-ware and very good IMO. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS install?
Gary Hodder wrote: I wonder if it will be possible to install Mandrake 9.,2 on an NFS system. I do not mean FROM an NFS system. I want to install Mandrake on a Diskless machine! Sorry for repeating stuff, but I want to make it clear that I do not want to install the system from an NFS mount! I haven't done it, but I know others have. The Linux Documentation Project is the best place on the net for information like this, www.tldp.org. Yours is at: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-Root.html Oh I see. The hard way :-) Had somewhat hoped that Mandrake would support it in the install phase. I usually hate to recompile Mandrake kernels have always had great trouble with them :-( You could also look at the Linux Terminal Server Project found at http://www.ltsp.org I have had 4 of these running ranging from pentium 120 with 32mb ram and up. 16mb of ram will work ok but 32 is better. My first was a dx2-66 with 8mb of ram, it worked but was a bit slow. The server will need plenty of ram, I had 512mb in the server and was using it as a client as well and it worked fine. LTSP is the reason that I want to install a machine on an NFS filesystem. LTSP needs a server. It's this server I want on an NFS filesystem :-) I do not want to waste 75GB to install an operating system that rarely will use more than 5. My server is real good at serving files but it doesn't have X on it and it never will either :-) Best Regards, Joachim Holst Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Backing up my DVDs in 9.2
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 00:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is *possible*, and I've read several HOWTOs on the net. I'm just curious whether anybody on this list has experimented with the various options out there, and which worked better than others. At the moment I just have a CD-burner so will be making VCDs; in the near future I will also have a DVD-burner, so would appreciate help on that also. Also, what should I look out for when purchasing my DVD-burner? Which play better with Linux? Well, I bought a pioneer DVD-R106 a couple of weeks ago and it works out of the box with LM9.2 (haven't tried it with LM9.1). Here in the UK you can find it for GBP 107.98 (incl. VAT) (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/DVD_RW_Drives.html) This is the first piece of hardware I bought that I tried first in Linux and worked 1st time! Backed up 4.4Gb of data yesterday on-the-fly in 16 minutes. So I'm a happy bunny :) Actually, a really really really happy bunny g Also plays all regions with ogle, mplayer, etc from plf. Finally, given that I have european family who don't get region encoding and send us DVDs as xmas gifts, do I want to look at decss, or other? Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Frederic P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and Evolution
No I did'nt submit a bug report ,I put it in the comments when it was in club test on the club test page.. maybe I should have raise a bug report. I prefer when raising a bug report to know someone else has seen the effect as well. The version on Cooker 1.4.4-9 prints OK Richard On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:11, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 06:11, Richard Bown wrote: I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 the same as the vast majority will do. If you print from 1.4 on a 9.1 system you get the same stupid font, and only able to type about 4 words before forcing on to a new line. Richard On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:25, Mike Carter wrote: I am using it right now and it is working just fine. BTW this is an upgrade of 9.2rc2 I am using. cheers, Mike On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 18:48, Richard Bown wrote: re: evolution from my previous mail the version of evolution ver 1.4.4 thats distributed is BUST. the version on cooker 1.4.4-9 is OK and needs to be moved to 9.2 upgrades ASAP. Richard still miffed Richard, I've talked with some friends at MDK and on this one they've asked me to ask you to submit a bug report at http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com. It's a self registration situation. They have also passed on that a bug fix is due out Wens (US time) to fix some of the problems in Evolution. What they are asking also is that after you file the bug report (on what you said above) please try the new rpm... then report success or failure for your problems. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT: Software patent stuff
Hi folks, And I thought it was all over... http://www.ffii.org.uk/council.html -- Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia GNU/Linux user #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 10 days, 8 hours, 20 minutes, 13 seconds and counting! kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What is the matter with Mandrake urpmi sources?
I'm getting the same with nearly every site that has club stuff on it, the only one which tries to download is the greek one, but that also fails. I guess its the amount of downloads of 9.2 is clogging the system. Before 9.2 was released I found the site at canterbury in the UK very reliable and quick. HTH Richard On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:11, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I run into this distressingly often. I try to update mandrake urpmi sources only to be told that there were problems or errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] download]# urpmi.addmedia -h mirrors.secsup.org_devel ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/SRPMS added medium mirrors.secsup.org_devel examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.texstar.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.updates_csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu_i586_9.1.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.distrib_ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu_i586_9.1.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] retrieving description file of mirrors.secsup.org_devel... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of mirrors.secsup.org_devel... ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/SRPMS/synthesis.hdlist.cz ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/synthesis.hdlist.cz ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/base/hdlist.cz retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium mirrors.secsup.org_devel examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.mirrors.secsup.org_devel.cz] problem reading synthesis file of medium mirrors.secsup.org_devel unable to update medium mirrors.secsup.org_devel Same thing with virtually any and all other possible sources. All I want is a kernel-source-tmb rpm so I can patch the orinoco driver and build the kernel. I cannot find this rpm. If I manually go to the websites instead of doing the urpmi thing (from MandrakeClub) I get the message that the file doesn't exist OR it downloads and segfaults when trying to install it. Where on this earth is it possible to acquire a kernel-source-tmb kernel of recent vintage? praedor - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lDNNaKr9sJYeTxgRAhyzAKCIc8uPHc2SYTJ76UGllIaQi5kxjQCeIBNp bJr/ab7knGahjAwrDNtnAWs= =u09d -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Solved: Direct Rendering
After working on it for many days, I was able to fix my Direct Rendering problem after a clean install of Mandrake 9.1, followed by a kernel upgrade to 2.4.22. Previously, I was trying to get DRI to work under 2.6.0test7 kernel, which I believe has serious problems with DRI, and I would be amazed and in awe if anyone has gotten that combination to work. After I re-installed Mandrake 9.1, I upgraded its kernel from source of plain-vanilla 2.4.22, which disabled the DRI. Binary distribution of DRI did not help; it just complained that my AGP heap was too old. I already had the DRI-CVS tree on my disk, I just re-did the kernel modules with make -f Makefile.Linux and manually copied radeon.o to /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/char/drm Upon restart, I had my DRI working again. Btw, the hardware is an IBM Thinkpad R40 with 1400x1050 X resolution. -turgut Turgut Kalfaoglu http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What is the matter with Mandrake urpmi sources?
From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, OK...but then, MandrakeClub happily sends you to the download page for src.rpms and includes (useless) urpmi instructions for each link. In any case, I then tried looking for kernel-source-tmb in MandrakeClub and found reference to it in Mandrake Cooker. I went to the download page, used the urpmi source link and then tried to install kernel-source, expecting a list to come up with the -tmb kernel among them. Nope. I got a 2.4.21-0.25mdk kernel and a 2.4.22 multimedia kernel. OK, I give up. So I decided to download the 2.4.22 multimedia kernel source and...boop! It doesn't exist. This inspite of the fact that I just updated ALL my urpmi sources immediately prior to this attempt. It shows up when I urpmi kernel-source but none of them actually exist. ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/kernel-tmb-enterprise-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/kernel-tmb-source-2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk.i586.rpm This same kernel set is also in MDK 9.2 contribs... As there have been problems with urpmi sources lately, try using --wget as it's not as picky as curl... #urpmi.update -a --wget #urpmi --wget kernel-tmb-source Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and GIMP ???
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:14, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 15:02, Richard Bown wrote: Hi this is minor but damn annoying After trying to print a jpeg from gimp-1.2.5-6mdk to an Epson C82 printer using CUPS, instead of a nice piccy of a swiss steam engine I got 1 line of about 20 characters mix of german, greek , math symbols. on page after page after page. Flushed the printer queueno change removed printer for config.no change disconnected the printer..no change power cycled the printer eventually stops reconnected the printer to PC. it starts again !!! reboot the PC its still going power down the pc it stopped reconfigure the printer in CUPs and print a test page.working Thats the first time I've ever seen that.. OK it may be a coincidence that 9.2 is involved as the other factor is the new kernel 2.4.22 has anyone seen similar ??? Richard One question. How many different drivers did drakprint have for your printer. One option could be to try one of the other ones. If this doesn't work. bugs.mandrakesoft.com is your friend. *grin* James Just checked there are now only 2 drivers for the Epson C82 the one I was using CUPS +GIMP and ghostscript + gimp, Ive now changed to the latter, and wait see if it happens again. This does look like a wayward process, as once the printer is removed from the config it should stop , but this does'nt, it just keeps spew ing out of the parport... maybe worth trying the printer on the USB port. I does mean I have to watch whats being printed, cant just send it remotely and trust.. else you end up with as much paper as you loaded all with a quarter line of garbage on the top of each sheet. Whats really strange is that rebooting dos'nt stop it onlt power down.. Richard __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:31:03 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Linux can be easily exploited. Don't believe me. Grab the old wu-ftpd anon ftp rpms install them get a cup of coffee and come back.. You will be root-kitted. However distro's like MDK dropping such huge holes helps a lot here. So I can put you down for 20 bones on the Windows box? ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Odd message during shutdown..
When I do a shutdown -h now, I get the usual mesages, plus some more: (writing all this from the top of my head): it first says: Sending all processes the TERM signal.. ;2R (note the ;2R on the second line. It just waits now, i hit ENTER, and I get something like: 'bash: invalid parameter ;' or something. I actually get the $ prompt and after I type a few lines, it resumes. I did an RGREP for this string, did not find it under /etc..! Any ideas? -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Odd message during shutdown..
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:06:47 +0300 (EEST) Turgut Kalfaoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TK When I do a shutdown -h now, I get the usual mesages, plus some TK more: TK TK (writing all this from the top of my head): TK TK it first says: TK Sending all processes the TERM signal.. TK ;2R TK TK (note the ;2R on the second line. It just waits now, i hit ENTER, TK and I get something like: 'bash: invalid parameter ;' or something. TK I actually get the $ prompt and after I type a few lines, it TK resumes. I did an RGREP for this string, did not find it under TK /etc..! TK TK Any ideas? TK -turgut Just remove the .UTF-8 stuff in /etc/sysconfig/i18n -- Onur Kucuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and USB flash memory
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, D. R. Evans wrote: Under 9.2, when I plug in the stick, a /mnt/removable icon appears on the desktop, but when I click on that icon, a Konq window pops up and says that there are no files on the stick. I mounted the stick myself and put the following in my /etc/fstab (after that, an icon called /mnt/usbstick appeared on the desktop the next time I used it)--ignore any linebreaks: none /mnt/usbstick supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc,fs=vfat,rw,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0 Of course, you'll have to enter mkdir /mnt/usbstick; chmod 666 /mnt/usbstick first. Note the trailing /disc (won't work without it here); /var/log/messages contains: = bite here = Oct 21 12:09:12 entoron kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1, assigned address 2 Oct 21 12:09:12 entoron kernel: hub.c: USB hub found Oct 21 12:09:12 entoron kernel: hub.c: 1 port detected Oct 21 12:09:13 entoron kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1.1, assigned address 3 Oct 21 12:09:13 entoron kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x67b/0x2517) is not claimed by any active driver. Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 67b/2517/1 Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 67b/2515/1 Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: Vendor: SHARKOON Model: USB2.0 Drive Rev: P1.0 Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Module setup usb-storage for USB product 67b/2517/1 Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage: Load scsimon Oct 21 12:09:17 entoron /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage: loading ... scsimon Oct 21 12:09:18 entoron /etc/hotplug/scsi.agent: loading ... sd_mod Oct 21 12:09:18 entoron /etc/hotplug/scsi.agent: sr_mod allready loaded Oct 21 12:09:18 entoron kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Oct 21 12:09:18 entoron kernel: SCSI device sda: 2048000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1049 MB) Oct 21 12:09:18 entoron kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Oct 21 12:09:19 entoron kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 = bite here = Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Odd message during shutdown..
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: When I do a shutdown -h now, I get the usual mesages, plus some more: Sending all processes the TERM signal.. ;2R (note the ;2R on the second line. It just waits now, i hit ENTER, and I get something like: 'bash: invalid parameter ;' or something. I actually get the $ prompt and after I type a few lines, it resumes. I understand that this is a problem with UTF-8 support on the terminal (some kind of uncatched control sequence). I had this under MDK9.1 when I selected Unicode representation; if you can live without Unicode, simply don't use it at the moment... Ad astra, -- Dipl.-Inf. Markus Ueberall Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Tel: (069)798-28361 Fax: -23340Institut für Informatik / Telematik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Backing up my DVDs in 9.2
On Monday 20 October 2003 09:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the dvd tools being what they are in their current state, I would not want to make the process any more difficult for myself and purchasing a USB drive simply adds that much more to the potential problems. You will have to look at something to that effect but you may want to query someone off of a public mailing list before asking someone to recommend a method for bypassing Digital Rights Management encryption. Oh, in that case I shelve my question. Thanks for the heads up. There are people around who can and will help you with this, just some of them would not wish to do so in a public, googled forum. ;-} -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [SOLVED] Burning bin/cue files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 04:48, stefmit wrote: Replying to myself ;) - just as I wrote the previous reply, I thought of starting to play with the parameters of cdrdao, and - lo and behold - the following simplified version of the command line worked! : $ /usr/bin/cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc --speed 24 --eject /home/scm/downloads/my_bin_file.bin Left to figure out: how do I make k3b to produce the above? ... though it sounds really stupid to even attempt that (i.e. emulating the GUI to produce a one-liner)... Stef On Monday 20 October 2003 08:53 pm, stefmit wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 08:01 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 08:21 pm, stefmit wrote: Anybody having ever tried and succeeded in burning bin/cue files? Yes, repeatedly. Using K3B amongst others. ... what others?!? It looks to me that k3b is just a frontend to cdrdao, and that looks like being the culprit, as I used the command line: /usr/bin/cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 --speed 24 --overburn -n -v 2 --eject --remote 31 /home/scm/downloads/my_bin_file.bin as per the log I sent, with the same effect (i.e. errors). So - is there any other program that would write bin/cue? I am getting the following error (I have google-d for it, obviously, but nothing came out of relevance to my problem, as a possible answer ... just some similar complaints ... ): Never seen this error. You sure that the Cue file is correct for this bin and that both are in a directory that is writeable and that you have correct permissions. Also, K3b needs to have a temp directory that is writeable as well. yes, yes and yes :) Thx, Stef I burn bin/cue files produced with vcdimager, like you I have found that I need to specify the driver or the cdrdao command fails, though not with the same error message as you. Maybe it is the absence of the driver flag which causes the problem Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lRGfbAtXXQnVtr0RAsziAJ4yI5gmhf9pOMXQE+TNBrE/55ZLuACfdTWZ zlWthX18FUIOWPbFEA6h24c= =FZqG -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Monday 20 October 2003 09:41 pm, Cy Kurtz wrote: C'mon, I'll give you ten to one on the Windows box... ;-) no no no wait a minute! What happens when Linux becomes as popular as windows? Most people writing virii are aiming at windows boxen, because they are more numerous. People writing virii want to do as much damage as possible, so they are going to go after the most popular OS. Every time I see this comparison, I wince. Explain to me how you can compare a single OS built by a monolithic entity that controls all of the source code and releases only the information that puts them in the best possible light with an OS built by literally dozens of different teams, each to their own specifications that basically share a common kernel but have different directory structures, package managers, peripheral drivers, etc. As much as I think that Linux will become a bigger target eventually, I do NOT think that anyone can generalize and say that one virus that exploits a vulnerability on one distribution of Linux will automatically propagate to every distribution. Ever tried to get a package that was built to be portable to actually port over to a different distribution? And they are trying to make it portable and can include code specifically designed to do so. Viruses have to be small and compact. Linux is not the same as Windows and comparisons of this nature only serve to make people forget WHY MS products have a tendency to be compromised more often and it has a lot to do with the unified environment, the same thing that MS is quick to take credit for when it works in their favor, and anxious to make people forget when you point out that it also works against them. I would not go so far as to say that Linux can not be compromised but given the age of the system, the fact that a lot more businesses run Linux which makes it a more attractive target for ego purposes, and the fact that with open source, MS could have been publishing exploits on Linux, if they were there, instead of funding dubious analyst research on ROI that nobody pays attention to, I feel pretty confident that Linux is much more secure than average Windows. The fact is that it is MUCH easier to write viruses for Linux, (something that these journalists often overlook) because of the fact that the source code is published so that virus writers can go through line by line and look for vulnerabilities. With Windows, they have to decompile and reverse engineer to find weak points that may end up being dead ends. Given the different nature of open source, we should be seeing many more viruses written for Linux than for Windows, if only because it is so much easier to do it. As for social engineering, based on my own experience, I would trust a Linux user to do the smart thing well before trusting the average Windows user, but hey, that might be just me. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?
I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting. This time it was my .bashrc file. I might have just powered off the machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing at the time of shutdown. After turning the machine on last night, I noticed that my shell prompt had changed, and discovered that the file was full of ASCII null characters. I've seen this happen a couple of times before on other machines. Then the file /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc had been similiarly trashed - full of zeros. And, it seems that the file size was larger than usual. I've been using the XFS filesystem on these machines for a couple of years now. Is this a failure of the disk drive, or should I switch to ext3 ?? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Burning bin/cue files
On Monday 20 October 2003 09:53 pm, stefmit wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 08:01 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 08:21 pm, stefmit wrote: Anybody having ever tried and succeeded in burning bin/cue files? Yes, repeatedly. Using K3B amongst others. ... what others?!? There is a commercial Linux burning application called Gear Pro Linux from gearsoftware.com that supports bin/cue. I have used it in the past but not lately. It looks to me that k3b is just a frontend to cdrdao, and that looks like being the culprit, as I used the command line: Well, just as a test, let's try something else assuming that you have other CD burning applications on your machine. Use bchunk to convert the bin/cue file to an ISO and then you can either mount the ISO as a loopback to make sure that it is good or you can burn the ISO using another app to make sure that your devices are all set up properly. If you can burn the ISO but not bin/cue, we can begin to look at other possibilities for a cause. If you don't have bchunk installed you can get it here: http://he.fi/bchunk/ command is : bchunk *.bin *.cue mybin which will create a mybin01.iso file. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel
Thanks for the suggestions; I ended up downloading Mandrake Cooker 2.4.22 from rpmfind.net , and confuguring it to death.After removing all the modules that I'll never need, the startup time of the machine has halved. (understandably, Mandrake installs almost everything, and whenever possible, as modules.) It's very stable; and runs well.. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:57:49 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Another misguided attempt by an MS apologist to deflect with smoke and mirrors, with a leavening of faulty logic, what is widely known: You thought *that* guy was a dildo, check this out: http://securityfocus.com/columnists/191 My favourite part: My Dad could teach the community a lesson ROTFLMAO! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases: Let our thoughts be correct. -- Confucius Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [SOLVED] Burning bin/cue files
On Monday 20 October 2003 11:48 pm, stefmit wrote: Replying to myself ;) - just as I wrote the previous reply, I thought of starting to play with the parameters of cdrdao, and - lo and behold - the following simplified version of the command line worked! : $ /usr/bin/cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc --speed 24 --eject /home/scm/downloads/my_bin_file.bin Left to figure out: how do I make k3b to produce the above? ... though it sounds really stupid to even attempt that (i.e. emulating the GUI to produce a one-liner)... Sounds like maybe the wrong device driver is configured in K3B. Also, you can turn off the overburn parameter in K3B. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Trouble mounting windows drive
Just installed 9.1 from 9.0 ( I know I'm a little behind) and I can no longer access my mounted windows drive as a normal user. # ls -l total 16 drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Oct 19 19:25 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Oct 19 19:25 cdrom2/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Oct 19 19:25 floppy/ drwxr--r-- 41 root root16384 Dec 31 1969 windows/ I can not chmod that directory either, I try and it goes through the motions like it is fine but does not change the permissions so I can not access this drive unless I su to root. Not sure what to do... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Simply Brilliant
Guy on the Toronto LUG list posted this. Sends a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] every time he gets one of those MS worms that are clogging so many people's servers. Apparently, a few lusers have already been taken offline 'til they clean their boxes as a result of this script. Personally, I don't have much of a prob with this, but I thought it might be of interest at least to see how it was done. http://www.wehave.net/spam/ -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Nothing is but what is not. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive
Just installed 9.1 from 9.0 ( I know I'm a little behind) and I can no longer access my mounted windows drive as a normal user. # ls -l total 16 drwxrwxrwx1 root root Oct 19 19:25 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root Oct 19 19:25 cdrom2/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root Oct 19 19:25 floppy/ drwxr--r-- 41 root root16384 Dec 31 1969 windows/ I can not chmod that directory either, I try and it goes through the motions like it is fine but does not change the permissions so I can not access this drive unless I su to root. Not sure what to do... Forgot to post the examples: //helios/export /mnt/helios_smb smbfs credentials=/tmp/pass 0 0 The credentials file will contain something like: user=dilbert password=d0gb3rt You'd of course put the credentials file somewhere safe and with appropriate permissions. If you don't want any authentication you'll need to make the share public in the smb.conf file on the server. -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive
Bleah...Sorry. Ignore that last message. Not enough coffee. Too early. I was responding to a Samba question in another email and just replied to the wrong thing (saw Windows in the subject). Need coffee. Please. -- The Digital Hermit Unix and Linux Solutions http://www.digitalhermit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Why can't I get my 802.11b card into monitor mode?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have kernel pcmcia orinoco-0.13e driver patched with the orinoco-0.13e-patch.diff to provide monitor mode. My wlan card is an orinoco gold. The patch appears successful as iwpriv indicates that monitor mode is now available: iwpriv eth0 results: eth0 Available private ioctl : force_reset (8BE0) : set 0get 0 card_reset (8BE1) : set 0get 0 set_port3(8BE2) : set 1 intget 0 get_port3(8BE3) : set 0get 1 int set_preamble (8BE4) : set 1 intget 0 get_preamble (8BE5) : set 0get 1 int set_ibssport (8BE6) : set 1 intget 0 get_ibssport (8BE7) : set 0get 1 int monitor (8BE8) : set 2 intget 0 dump_recs(8BFF) : set 0get 0 Trying to get into monitor mode: iwconfig eth0 mode monitor Error for wireless request Set Mode (8B06) : SET failed on device eth0 ; Invalid argument. Yet here I simply cannot get it into monitor mode. Why? What is missing here? praedor - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE/lTeAaKr9sJYeTxgRAjdjAJwNFMgu11/U50OCcCa4R9qBHt6j7QCWN6GW OLlPZDBG3jBG1LtUqZF8UQ== =bG4L -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Simply Brilliant
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:07 am, HaywireMac wrote: Guy on the Toronto LUG list posted this. Sends a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] every time he gets one of those MS worms that are clogging so many people's servers. Apparently, a few lusers have already been taken offline 'til they clean their boxes as a result of this script. Personally, I don't have much of a prob with this, but I thought it might be of interest at least to see how it was done. http://www.wehave.net/spam/ My guess would be it is NOT because of his complaints or the script but because ISP's are being swamped by all the traffic from their exploited machines and are now figuring out that they need to fix it before it bankrupts them or gets their ranges blacklisted by the rest of the net. Bigpond has reported troubles as well as Telstra from exploited machines on their networks, I am only surprised that more of them didn't figure out the impact sooner and start closing targeted ports, at least for outgoing traffic. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Monday 20 October 2003 11:02 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Carroll, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 9:16:16 PM, you wrote: Two machines, or dual boot? Run MS Publisher only when she MUST do it, and run ONLY that on Win. Email, surf, news, etc, in linux. CG Good advice, but isn't it a litle hypocritical for someone who CG uses The Bat, a Windows e-mail client? Not from my view. I would DEARLY like to find equals, in linux, for all the software I run, and abandon M$ entirely. Problem is, I like TheBat better than anything I have seen in linux. Much as I dislike M$, I still view the computer as a tool, and will stick with the best tools, even if they happen to run under M$. :-( Rikona: I was just teasing, and no harm was intended. Luckily, I'm in a position where I don't _need_ any MS stuff, and sometimes I like to gloat about it. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
Carroll Grigsby wrote: CG Good advice, but isn't it a litle hypocritical for someone who CG uses The Bat, a Windows e-mail client? Not from my view. I would DEARLY like to find equals, in linux, for all the software I run, and abandon M$ entirely. Problem is, I like TheBat better than anything I have seen in linux. IIRC, The Bat used to perform quite well under Wine (2-3 years ago). Wine has improved now. Try it ;-) /Jocke! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Simply Brilliant
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:29:55 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: My guess would be it is NOT because of his complaints or the script but because ISP's are being swamped by all the traffic from their exploited machines and are now figuring out that they need to fix it before it bankrupts them or gets their ranges blacklisted by the rest of the net. He actually did get direct replies from some of the recipients of his scripted mails, and was informed of exactly what action they took as a result, up to and including disconnection. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:02:42 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Problem is, I like TheBat better than anything I have seen in linux. How great can an e-mail client be?! That it would actually determine your use of a particular OS? That must some kind of e-mail client. ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] help for cups
Le Lundi 20 Octobre 2003 10:28, stephlub a écrit : I know it's not the newbie list but I really need help to have a cups server up and running quickly. I spent hours with this and can't bypass the problem. This is an 'ancient' Mandrake updated to 9.1 running on an an 'ancient', and a 'm afraid I had to clean it an install new like other os do if nobody can help me :-( Pqd worked fine and one time I reach to print a leaf but until I reboot. I tried to unistall/reinstall cups (erasing all the cups dir). Printerdrake says it can't apply configuration and can't connect server, both on the running linux and the update linux with CD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]# service cups start Launch CUPS :[ OK ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]# service cups status cupsd (pid 8520) running... [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]# echo |lp lp: error - scheduler not responding! [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]# service cups status cupsd stopped [EMAIL PROTECTED] useri]# lpadmin -p Printer lpadmin: Unable to connect to server: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]# lp lp: error - scheduler not responding! /var/log/cups/errors.log d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] AcceptClient(0x8084570) 0 NumClients = 0 D [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631. d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] AcceptClient: Adding fd 5 to InputSet... d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 D [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] decode_auth(0x4d57a008): Authorization string = d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] decode_auth() 5 username= d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] IsAuthorized: con-uri = / d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] FindBest: uri = /... d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] FindBest: Location / Limit 7f d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] FindBest: Location /admin Limit 7f d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] FindBest: Location CUPS_INTERNAL_BROWSE_ACL Limit 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] FindBest: best = / d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] IsAuthorized: auth = 0, satisfy=0... d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] POST / d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] CONTENT_TYPE = application/ipp d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 con-data_encoding = length, con-data_remaining = 141, con-file = 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 con-data_encoding = length, con-data_remaining = 133, con-file = 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 con-data_encoding = length, con-data_remaining = 98, con-file = 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 con-data_encoding = length, con-data_remaining = 61, con-file = 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 con-data_encoding = length, con-data_remaining = 1, con-file = 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest(0x4d57a008[5]): operation_id = 4002 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] get_printers(0x4d57a008[5], 0) D [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=1 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: Adding fd 5 to OutputSet... d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] WriteClient: Removing fd 5 from OutputSet... d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 D [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] CloseClient() 5 Is anyone can help me anymore before I clean my system? :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Odd message during shutdown..
Many thanks, everyone! -turgut Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] reiserfs Corruption...some advice
For the record, rebuild tree finished in 8hrs for a 900GB filesystem. All is well, except for one directory structure _Thanks --- Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:23, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: --- Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: soapbox if you've already backed it up, then go ahead and try rebuild-tree; what have you got to lose? I fully expect you'll have to format and start over, based on my experiences with ReiserFS, but since you've got a back up that's okay. Awww, it is a 900GB filesystem. Oh well, users, this FS is out of bounds for at least 24hrs! The corruption seemed to be on only one directory tree yeah, so was the last one I saw melt down under ReiserFS. If it makes you feel any better, rebuild-tree finished in about three hours the first day, IIRC. It took about the same time the next day, maybe longer. When it failed again the third day, it took about six hours to format an ext3 filesystem and restore from tape, which was the last time anyone had to worry about losing data on that system. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -li *6345* 18541 -rw-r--r--1 stuart user1772 Oct 17 09:43 s_01_6345.subrun.ctl.2d 18542 -rw-r--r--1 stuart user1567 Oct 17 09:43 s_01_6345.subrun.ctl.3d 18543 -rw-r--r--1 stuart user 3317856 Oct 17 09:43 p_02_6345.subrun.2d 18544 -rw-r--r--1 stuart user37602368 Oct 17 09:43 p_02_6345.subrun.3d AND [EMAIL PROTECTED] ll -i p_02_6345.subrun.ctl.3d 18546 -rw-r--r--1 stuart user1567 Oct 17 09:38 p_02_6345.subrun.ctl.3d So file with inode 18546 only shows up when listed explicitly. I could not rm/mv it either, claims no such file or directory, though i was able to cp it!! Strange! You might want to consider using a more stable FS next time though. Which is? (in your opinion, or proved ?) _Thanks Richard __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Bus collision
Hi, this morning my machine locked up while I was out of home. When I came back I noticed the keyboard, mouse monitor were locked(monitor in StandyBy). But I could ssh the machine without problem and every service was running ok(except for the X11 related programs - like VMWare - which were locked). I had to kill -9 the X process. But in the end did a hard-reset on the machine to get it back. Looking at /var/log/messages found this interesting messages: Oct 21 10:13:39 navi kernel: SMBus Via Pro adapter at e800: Bus collision! SMBus may be locked until next hard Oct 21 10:13:39 navi kernel: reset. (sorry!) I have an A7V266-C Asus board with 1GB of RAM(tested with memtest86). My /proc/pci looks like this: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] (rev 0). Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc00 [0xfdff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=8. Bus 0, device 13, function 0: Serial controller: 5610 56K FaxModem 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 1). IRQ 11. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd807]. Bus 0, device 14, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 16). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed80 [0xed8000ff]. Bus 0, device 16, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (#2) (rev 16). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0xb400 [0xb4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xed00 [0xedff]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 8). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd01f]. Bus 0, device 15, function 1: Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 8). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xb800 [0xb807]. Bus 0, device 17, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge (rev 0). Bus 0, device 17, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC BM IDE (rev 6). IRQ 11. I/O at 0xb000 [0xb00f]. Bus 0, device 17, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 35). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xa800 [0xa81f]. Bus 0, device 17, function 3: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#2) (rev 35). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xa400 [0xa41f]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev 162). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee00 [0xeeff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf000 [0xf7ff]. Master Capable. Latency=32. From what I've looked it looks like related with the USB interface(I have and APC UPS connected to it). I'm using the 2.4.22 Enterprise Kernel. Any ideas about what may caused the lock-up? Tks Rodrigo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Brian V Bonini wrote: Just installed 9.1 from 9.0 ( I know I'm a little behind) and I can no longer access my mounted windows drive as a normal user. # ls -l total 16 drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Oct 19 19:25 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Oct 19 19:25 cdrom2/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Oct 19 19:25 floppy/ drwxr--r-- 41 root root16384 Dec 31 1969 windows/ I can not chmod that directory either, I try and it goes through the motions like it is fine but does not change the permissions so I can not access this drive unless I su to root. Not sure what to do... Trying to chmod the mount point does no good; permissions and ownership on FAT32/NTFS partitions are set at mount time, usually from an option in the relevant /etc/fstab entry. Append ,umask=0 to the options portion of the appropriate line in /etc/fstab (i.e. the portion of the line that is just before the 0 0, and already contains some comma-separated options). HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to every- body is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.' -- Dave Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] help for cups
stephlub wrote: Le Lundi 20 Octobre 2003 10:28, stephlub a écrit : I know it's not the newbie list but I really need help to have a cups server up and running quickly. I spent hours with this and can't bypass the problem. This is an 'ancient' Mandrake updated to 9.1 running on an an 'ancient', and a 'm afraid I had to clean it an install new like other os do if nobody can help me :-( Pqd worked fine and one time I reach to print a leaf but until I reboot. I tried to unistall/reinstall cups (erasing all the cups dir). Printerdrake says it can't apply configuration and can't connect server, both on the running linux and the update linux with CD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]# service cups start Launch CUPS :[ OK ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]# service cups status cupsd (pid 8520) running... [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]# echo |lp lp: error - scheduler not responding! [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]# service cups status cupsd stopped [EMAIL PROTECTED] useri]# lpadmin -p Printer lpadmin: Unable to connect to server: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]# lp lp: error - scheduler not responding! /var/log/cups/errors.log d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] AcceptClient(0x8084570) 0 NumClients = 0 D [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631. d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] AcceptClient: Adding fd 5 to InputSet... d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 D [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] decode_auth(0x4d57a008): Authorization string = d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] decode_auth() 5 username= d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] IsAuthorized: con-uri = / d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] FindBest: uri = /... d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] FindBest: Location / Limit 7f d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] FindBest: Location /admin Limit 7f d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] FindBest: Location CUPS_INTERNAL_BROWSE_ACL Limit 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] FindBest: best = / d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] IsAuthorized: auth = 0, satisfy=0... d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] POST / d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] CONTENT_TYPE = application/ipp d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 con-data_encoding = length, con-data_remaining = 141, con-file = 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 con-data_encoding = length, con-data_remaining = 133, con-file = 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 con-data_encoding = length, con-data_remaining = 98, con-file = 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 con-data_encoding = length, con-data_remaining = 61, con-file = 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5 con-data_encoding = length, con-data_remaining = 1, con-file = 0 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest(0x4d57a008[5]): operation_id = 4002 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] get_printers(0x4d57a008[5], 0) D [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=1 d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: Adding fd 5 to OutputSet... d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] WriteClient: Removing fd 5 from OutputSet... d [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] ReadClient() 5, used=0 D [20/Oct/2003:10:07:13 +0200] CloseClient() 5 Is anyone can help me anymore before I clean my system? :-) I think you already said you opened port 631 on your firewall? Otherwise, I don't know what the problem is but have you looked at the docs/forums at http://linuxprinting.org/ ? Maybe a cc to till, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would get you his help. Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel Errors every Now and Then
Someone replied to this email and suggested that i run
ksymoops. I have accidentally delete his email..so i
dont remember who it was, but basically, I am looking
into whether he or someone else is good at
translating the output.
I thought the lines marked by = were of
interest to ksymoops, but am not able to translate
them.
DEBUG (Oops_format):
EIP; c0165472 __pollwait+22/1ae0 =
eax; cf3b6980 ___strtok+ef14be0/38aab2c0
ecx; f02f97a0 ___strtok+2fe57a00/38aab2c0
edx; cf547e60 ___strtok+f0a60c0/38aab2c0
esi; cf547e60 ___strtok+f0a60c0/38aab2c0
edi; bfffdb7c Before first symbol
ebp; cf64dec4 ___strtok+f1ac124/38aab2c0
esp; cf64deb4 ___strtok+f1ac114/38aab2c0
Trace; c0231532 tty_unregister_driver+24e2/3160
Trace; c022d7e4 tty_hung_up_p+15c4/28f0
Trace; c0165814 __pollwait+3c4/1ae0
Trace; c0165ce4 __pollwait+894/1ae0
Trace; c0208550 mosix_deputy_init_aout_mm+4720/4da0
Trace; c010c860 __read_lock_failed+466c/63cc
Code; c0165472 __pollwait+22/1ae0
_EIP:
Code; c0165472 __pollwait+22/1ae0 =
0: 8b 4b 04 mov
0x4(%ebx),%ecx =
Code; c0165475 __pollwait+25/1ae0
_Thanks
--- Ricardo (Tru64 User) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: Unable to handle
kernel
NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0082
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: *pde =
Usually system hangs for a while, then after some
minutes, goes back into operation mode. During hang,
ofcourse, no ps or top or w, anything, so I cant
really narrow down the problem.
And also below is the kernel warning messages::
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: printing eip:
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: c0165410
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: Oops:
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: CPU:1
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: EIP:
0010:[ext2_update_inode+864/944]Not tainted
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: EIP:
0010:[c0165410]Not tainted
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: eax: c3b1df2c ebx:
ecx: 402b4b78 edx: c3b1df2c
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: esi: e88b07e0 edi:
007e ebp: c3b1df00 esp: c3b1def4
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018
ss: 0018
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: Process sshd (pid:
29803, stackpage=c3b1d000)
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: Stack:
e88b07e0 000a c3b1df40 c016572b c3b1df2c
c3b1c000
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel:
0200 c3b1c000 7fff 402b4b78
0009
007e
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel:08048000
08086290 b820 0040 c0165ce4 000a
c3b1df90
c3b1df84
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: Call Trace:
[ext2_ioctl+363/688] [ext2_mkdir+228/240]
[udp_rcv+640/752] [syscall_trace+48/128]
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: Call Trace:
[c016572b] [c0165ce4] [c0208550] [c010c860]
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel:
Oct 15 09:53:34 nimbus kernel: Code: 8b 5f 04 8d 77
08
8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 83 eb 18 8b
~
Does this give a clue to anyone? Or, can anyone
offer
advise into how to proceed to troubleshoot the
problem?
_Thanks much
Richard
bus@/var/log/kernel$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.19-openmosix-7
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2
(Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #6 SMP Wed Aug 6
14:34:10 EDT 2003
nimbus@/var/log/kernel$ free
total used free shared
buffers cached
Mem: 20638002051148 12652 0
1748841593856
-/+ buffers/cache: 2824081781392
Swap: 2015960 575321958428
bus@/var/log/kernel$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
stepping: 7
cpu MHz : 2395.953
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8
apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts
acpi
mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips: 4784.12
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
stepping: 7
cpu MHz : 2395.953
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8
apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts
acpi
mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips: 4784.12
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Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 07:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 11:02 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Carroll, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 9:16:16 PM, you wrote: Two machines, or dual boot? Run MS Publisher only when she MUST do it, and run ONLY that on Win. Email, surf, news, etc, in linux. CG Good advice, but isn't it a litle hypocritical for someone who CG uses The Bat, a Windows e-mail client? Not from my view. I would DEARLY like to find equals, in linux, for all the software I run, and abandon M$ entirely. Problem is, I like TheBat better than anything I have seen in linux. Much as I dislike M$, I still view the computer as a tool, and will stick with the best tools, even if they happen to run under M$. :-( Rikona: I was just teasing, and no harm was intended. Luckily, I'm in a position where I don't _need_ any MS stuff, and sometimes I like to gloat about it. -- cmg ... Hee. I don't let my MS-using cohorts off that easy. The fact is, the longer I work in this industry, the closer to Stallman my attitude gets. I'm willing to make sacrifices in order to use free software. Windows is slower in VMWare than native; I don't care, because I only use the VMWare image when I absolutely have to. OOo is clunkier than MS Office; so what? It gets the job done, it's open source and it improves by leaps and bounds with every version since its release to open source. The Bat! might be a really really good email client, but I can't even imagine how it could be enough better than Evo for me to use it. The flip-side of this attitude is that I get access to apps that blow their MS counterparts out of the water. Having used Gaim and Trillian side by side, Trillian is junk, horrible UI. XMMS vs WinAmp? Hello, what were they thinking at Nullsoft? Evolution next to Outlook is too obvious for words, even with Evo's rough edges. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Where are wireless extensions?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have built my own kernel with ALL wireless modules activated. I have wireless-tools installed. Where are the kernel wireless extensions? Surely the 2.4.x kernels have wireless extensions in this day and age? How do I get kernel wireless extensions? praedor - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lVzaaKr9sJYeTxgRAt2+AJ0b09F4g8tWvcqlxs2PUNKzbsgppgCdFVJT XcwwGyD95XD1BTpFw16RSgM= =dTlj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Simply Brilliant
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:56 am, HaywireMac wrote: He actually did get direct replies from some of the recipients of his scripted mails, and was informed of exactly what action they took as a result, up to and including disconnection. Must be my cynical nature. Happy to know that someone actually cares about keeping the Internet clean for some reason besides money. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problem with Urpmi/RpmDrake under 9.2
I am not able to access my installation CDs nor any of the usual sites at PLF, Texstar, or Club_comm after the upgrade. How can I fix this problem. I remember it after the 9.0 to 9.1 upgrade, but forget how to fix it. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 usb camera
James Sparenberg wrote: it's a known bug. If it doesn't bugs.mandrakesoft.com *grin* James Heck tmb's kernels are there now... Why wait, try it now. If it works I'll give it a try later.. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Oct 2003 at 10:49, Rolf Pedersen wrote: I just finished my install and have the exact same problem. Then all the scripts need to be fixed :-( I've tried most of them, and none of them works as they stand. I've sent emails to the webmaster, Stéphane Alexandre aka Fafane @ the webmaster link on Club pages. You should do the same, detailing your experiences. I sent him an e-mail and he replied, giving me a different URL (although I notice that the actual web page still hasn't changed). But the URL he gave me, although it ends up at some different mirrors, still ends up giving exactly the same error when one actually executes the urpmi.addmedia command. There is definitely something very broken somewhere. This was a clean install of 9.2 on to a brand new system, so it is uncontaminated with any prior mandrakes, urpmi commands or anything; so I believe that the problem isn't with the installation here (and in any case, I don't see what I could be diong wrong -- it's only a cut-and-paste after all). Has anyone here actually succeeded in performing an addmedia with 9.2 using any of the URPMI setup scripts on the club site? If so, maybe that person could e-mail me privately and identify which script/mirror worked, so I can try that one too. Doc PS This is not a case of the mirrors being too busy. They happily download a bunch of files, and then all fail at the same place: immediately after downloading the ...i586/hdlist2.cz file. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5V5UWnXrLw2KRK4EQKHvQCgrGAMRtIAez834vyeb1orMmuPJgEAoNnY DLIfNDrLFhGaCS3uCQYxxHDl =1cul -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and USB flash memory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Oct 2003 at 22:24, James Sparenberg wrote: Doc, with mine since I disable all desktop Icons I insert then type mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk Poof it works. It must be all that clean living you do. When I do that, the system sits and thinks for about a minute and then says you must specify the filesystem type. If I specify the type, then it says that there's no such mount point. (So you must have created the /mnt/disk mount point in addition to what you say above, right?) And if I create the mount point, it says that /dev/sda1 does not exist. At which point I bury my head in my hands and reboot back into Windows. And in Windows, of course, to quote a wise man, Poof it works. Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5V64GnXrLw2KRK4EQKw1gCeKMW3oSwyGQa+m1ehbz1g0FABlAUAn1Bo EoJhduwVZuOB5JtEdxe/PjTB =ne1X -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Bittorrent bandwidth maximization
OK, I've looked at the faqs and I've read the expert list. I'm still
getting a max of 7.6 K/sec download speed where I should be seeing
between 70 to 90 K/sec.
I fiddled with the download.py file, finally changing it to:
('max_upload_rate', 0,
'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),
and
('max_uploads', 0,
the maximum number of uploads to allow at once.),
This increased my download speed from 2 something to what it is now,
which is 7 to 8 K/sec. I tried None, 13, but that caused it to bomb
out altogether. I'm running bittorrent-3.3-2mdk which was pointed at by
the Mandrakeclub site. I'm not running the gui I'm just running the
ncurses version. Can somebody point me to a faq I haven't seen or tell
me something I haven't tried to increase download speed. I've been
downloading for two days now and I'm only at 5.9%.
TIA
LX
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[expert] slightly off topic
Hi, using the mdk Gtk packages and on a couple of apps I'm trying to get going I see this error message. Can someone point me in the right direction please TIA Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] glfer-0.3.3]$ ./glfer Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mdk kernel modules
Hi all the kernel src 2.4.22.-10 mdk can any one tell me if the module svgalib_helper is supplied with the mdk src, as I need it :( TIA Richard -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and USB flash memory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Oct 2003 at 12:20, Markus Ueberall wrote: I mounted the stick myself and put the following in my /etc/fstab (after that, an icon called /mnt/usbstick appeared on the desktop the next time I used it)--ignore any linebreaks: none /mnt/usbstick supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc,fs=vfat,rw,--,umask=0,iocharset=i so8859-15 0 0 Of course, you'll have to enter mkdir /mnt/usbstick; chmod 666 /mnt/usbstick first. Note the trailing /disc (won't work without it here); /var/log/messages contains: No good here, still can't read the thing. There's clearly some sort of problem in the logfile: (this is an old logfile, but I checked and it's no different from a current one -- it's just a real pain to transfer the /var/log/messages info on to the machine where I am writing this): Oct 18 09:43:19 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Oct 18 09:43:19 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB) Oct 18 09:43:19 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Oct 18 09:43:20 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Oct 18 09:44:21 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB device not accepting new address (error=-71) Oct 18 09:44:26 localhost kernel: usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented Oct 18 09:44:36 localhost kernel: scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Oct 18 09:44:36 localhost kernel: SCSI error: host 1 id 0 lun 0 return code = 605 That USB device not accepting new address looks problematic to me. Anyone any idea what it means? Or, more to the point, how to get past that point? Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5WAYWnXrLw2KRK4EQJmIwCgjQuFuD1m+Whmhey17Hen1x9ew/sAoIhi Oe7CzJaaA90o4+/toLnw94pO =ZZ/v -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bittorrent bandwidth maximization
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:33, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
OK, I've looked at the faqs and I've read the expert list. I'm still
getting a max of 7.6 K/sec download speed where I should be seeing
between 70 to 90 K/sec.
I fiddled with the download.py file, finally changing it to:
('max_upload_rate', 0,
'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),
and
('max_uploads', 0,
the maximum number of uploads to allow at once.),
This increased my download speed from 2 something to what it is now,
which is 7 to 8 K/sec. I tried None, 13, but that caused it to bomb
out altogether. I'm running bittorrent-3.3-2mdk which was pointed at by
the Mandrakeclub site. I'm not running the gui I'm just running the
ncurses version. Can somebody point me to a faq I haven't seen or tell
me something I haven't tried to increase download speed. I've been
downloading for two days now and I'm only at 5.9%.
TIA
LX
I had the same problem + ALL adsl in South Africa gets capped at 3gig (up and
down together) so I would never have got the 3 cds anyway. I just bommed it
at 340meg after 48hours and ordered the Powerpak. I am running 9.2rc2 anyway.
Good luck
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Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 4:37 am, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Monday, October 20, 2003, 1:19:43 AM, you wrote: AW And just to add to the confusion, the last batch came from a user AW whose mails say that they are scanned by Panda antivirus. Might just be part of the social engineering. With better AV tools, this will become more common. Might make some recipients think it is OK to open. :-) I take your point. The problem is that she is part of a mailing group for her job. The people are trustworth, in that there is no way that they would intentionally cause problems, and actually problems from the home computers of individuals have rarely caused a problem (I think there were 2 cases a couple of years ago). It's their work computers that are virus-ridden, and that is just sickening. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Monday 20 Oct 2003 10:54 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Jack Coates escribió: There are virii that use Java, Javascript, Flash, you name it, and then there's the evil code masquerading as something innocuous. The issue here is architectural -- the OS bases execution decisions on nothing more than the file name suffix, then executes code with full privileges to do whatever it wants. Mozilla on Windows is better than IE on Windows, but it's still building castles in a swamp. Well, mozilla doesn't execute any attachment without asking first (you can disable the prompt, though, but it's there by default). And you can disable plugins (java and flash) and javascript for mail. And you can choose to see html mail either as simplified (safe) html or plain text (safer). That's what puzzles me. She would never open an executable. She would never agree to running one. Java and javascript are disabled for mail. She is set to read and write plain text. Still they have managed to do damage. At first I thought is was coincidence, but since the same files have to be replaced every time it happens I no longer believe that. I'm thankful that at least she is not contributing to the spread of viruses, but I can't understand how they are doing this damage. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 4:50 am, rikona wrote: I mostly discussed privacy, but there is a lot of bad stuff possible through the web also. If email attachments can be ruled out, could it be spyware or a Trojan rather than a virus? Kaspersky actually identified the viruses. Each time they have been one of the common-at-the-time ones. If she connects directly to the net, it is ESSENTIAL that she have a firewall, IMHO. Way too risky without one. Given she uses no M$ apps, this might be the biggest hole, and the source of her problems. I don't think it is the problem, in this case, given that she is not promiscuous in the kind of sites she browses, and that her av software was definite about the viruses found. I'm waiting for her to get back tomorrow, as Kaspersky will only talk to me about her licensed installation if I can give them sufficient identifiers - quite right too, but causing a delay. Hopefully they will be able to tell me how I can improve protection of her mail. If I get anything useful on that score I'll let you know. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 2:18 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:04:11 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Before flaming me read my signature. Sorry to spoil that bashing of the writer, but he makes a valid point. No he doesn't. It is not an OS, it is user who use it. 99.% of windblows viruses are based on the social engineering in addition to software flow. No flame, but that's not the point of the article. The author is rebutting another article which points out that Windows is quite clearly several times more vulnerable to trivial exploits. No one is claiming anything is impregnable. You know, I really did not see it that way you do. It seems to me that he does not deny that linux, properly configured and used, is a great deal more secure. But how often have we had long threads on the newbie list while we patiently try to convince someone that he really should not be running as root all the time, even if he is the only user on the system? It seemed to me that the point he was making was that linux will be vulnerable, if not as much as windows, if it is used in the same sloppy way. And I agree with him. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:56, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 20 Oct 2003 10:54 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Jack Coates escribió: There are virii that use Java, Javascript, Flash, you name it, and then there's the evil code masquerading as something innocuous. The issue here is architectural -- the OS bases execution decisions on nothing more than the file name suffix, then executes code with full privileges to do whatever it wants. Mozilla on Windows is better than IE on Windows, but it's still building castles in a swamp. Well, mozilla doesn't execute any attachment without asking first (you can disable the prompt, though, but it's there by default). And you can disable plugins (java and flash) and javascript for mail. And you can choose to see html mail either as simplified (safe) html or plain text (safer). That's what puzzles me. She would never open an executable. She would never agree to running one. Java and javascript are disabled for mail. She is set to read and write plain text. Still they have managed to do damage. At first I thought is was coincidence, but since the same files have to be replaced every time it happens I no longer believe that. I'm thankful that at least she is not contributing to the spread of viruses, but I can't understand how they are doing this damage. Anne Try disabling scripting in the section of directory function. (I'm not sure but it's called something like Microsoft active scripting) This is a system wide function. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and Evolution
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 01:40, Richard Bown wrote: No I did'nt submit a bug report ,I put it in the comments when it was in club test on the club test page.. maybe I should have raise a bug report. I prefer when raising a bug report to know someone else has seen the effect as well. The version on Cooker 1.4.4-9 prints OK Cool, This should be in it (The bug report system)IMHO. But the request did come from them (Mandrake) to get a bug report. Mainly because the guy monitoring the problems wants to have something to beat the developer over the head with *grin*. James Richard On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:11, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 06:11, Richard Bown wrote: I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 the same as the vast majority will do. If you print from 1.4 on a 9.1 system you get the same stupid font, and only able to type about 4 words before forcing on to a new line. Richard On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:25, Mike Carter wrote: I am using it right now and it is working just fine. BTW this is an upgrade of 9.2rc2 I am using. cheers, Mike On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 18:48, Richard Bown wrote: re: evolution from my previous mail the version of evolution ver 1.4.4 thats distributed is BUST. the version on cooker 1.4.4-9 is OK and needs to be moved to 9.2 upgrades ASAP. Richard still miffed Richard, I've talked with some friends at MDK and on this one they've asked me to ask you to submit a bug report at http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com. It's a self registration situation. They have also passed on that a bug fix is due out Wens (US time) to fix some of the problems in Evolution. What they are asking also is that after you file the bug report (on what you said above) please try the new rpm... then report success or failure for your problems. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 11:22, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Oct 2003 at 10:49, Rolf Pedersen wrote: I just finished my install and have the exact same problem. Then all the scripts need to be fixed :-( I've tried most of them, and none of them works as they stand. I've sent emails to the webmaster, Stphane Alexandre aka Fafane @ the webmaster link on Club pages. You should do the same, detailing your experiences. I sent him an e-mail and he replied, giving me a different URL (although I notice that the actual web page still hasn't changed). But the URL he gave me, although it ends up at some different mirrors, still ends up giving exactly the same error when one actually executes the urpmi.addmedia command. There is definitely something very broken somewhere. This was a clean install of 9.2 on to a brand new system, so it is uncontaminated with any prior mandrakes, urpmi commands or anything; so I believe that the problem isn't with the installation here (and in any case, I don't see what I could be diong wrong -- it's only a cut-and-paste after all). Has anyone here actually succeeded in performing an addmedia with 9.2 using any of the URPMI setup scripts on the club site? If so, maybe that person could e-mail me privately and identify which script/mirror worked, so I can try that one too. Doc For the main. urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz For contribs. urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 with hdllist.cz For PLF usrpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/9.2 with hdlist.cz For updates urpmi.addmedia updates ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz For jpackage urpmi.addmedia jpackage ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.2/contrib/jpackage/i586 with hdlist.jpackage.cz This worked/works on my 9.2 James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] slightly off topicSORTED
Need kicking for this one looks like I messed with the permissions when compiling an app... works OK with root access. Richard On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 19:53, Richard Bown wrote: Hi, using the mdk Gtk packages and on a couple of apps I'm trying to get going I see this error message. Can someone point me in the right direction please TIA Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] glfer-0.3.3]$ ./glfer Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 3:18 am, Dan Jones wrote: He did make a couple of valid point, although he doesn't make them very well, and they don't really rebut the article he's addressing. One, as Linux becomes more popular on the desktop, the temptation to dump it down becomes very strong. I've never used Lindows, but I understand that it's default install is quite unsecure and even uses root as the default user. As I understand it, the original Lindows did, but that was quickly withdrawn and replaced by a version that did not. That does not negate your point though. (I believe this was mentioned in the original article.) This doesn't negate the security advantage Linux has over Windows, but it definitely narrows the gap. Second, patches to fix the vulnerabilities exploited by the recent worms have been available for quite awhile. Normal users don't patch their systems. As Linux becomes more common, the number of unsecure systems out there will increase, which means we will see an increases in the number of Linux exploits in the wild. They won't be as numerous as Windows exploits, because the *nix architecture exposes fewer hooks, but they will come. I see the blind faith that it can't happen to us as the greatest risk. OK, if I'm careful about root usage it's limited in what it can do, but destroying data under my home directory would be devastating enough, and I'm not convinced that that could not be done. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Oct 2003 at 10:49, Rolf Pedersen wrote: I just finished my install and have the exact same problem. Then all the scripts need to be fixed :-( I've tried most of them, and none of them works as they stand. I've sent emails to the webmaster, St?phane Alexandre aka Fafane @ the webmaster link on Club pages. You should do the same, detailing your experiences. I sent him an e-mail and he replied, giving me a different URL (although I notice that the actual web page still hasn't changed). But the URL he gave me, although it ends up at some different mirrors, still ends up giving exactly the same error when one actually executes the urpmi.addmedia command. There is definitely something very broken somewhere. This was a clean install of 9.2 on to a brand new system, so it is uncontaminated with any prior mandrakes, urpmi commands or anything; so I believe that the problem isn't with the installation here (and in any case, I don't see what I could be diong wrong -- it's only a cut-and-paste after all). Has anyone here actually succeeded in performing an addmedia with 9.2 using any of the URPMI setup scripts on the club site? If so, maybe that person could e-mail me privately and identify which script/mirror worked, so I can try that one too. Doc PS This is not a case of the mirrors being too busy. They happily download a bunch of files, and then all fail at the same place: immediately after downloading the ...i586/hdlist2.cz file. You will have to modify the script if you want to use it to add a source. For example, take the url out of the command the script gives you, starting with ftp: and ending with mandrake/ or Mandrake/. Copy and paste that into your browser's address bar and go there. I just did this for the California site and the browser told me it was not accepting connections, the other was quite slow to load. This is a good way to check the speed and availability of a server. Try alternates until you find some reliable pattern for predictable usage. When you are in the mandrake/ or Mandrake/ directory of the server, drill down to 9.2/contrib/i586, which is the likely source you would add from this script. You will see all the rpms of this source, which is the first argument to urpmi.admedia: the directory containing the rpms you wish to add. Modify the command the script gives you to include this final part of the path to this directory: ftp://xx/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 for example. In 9.2, the location of the hdlists appears to have changed to be right in this rpms directory. So, you must also modify that part of the command that gives the relative path to the hdlist. It will now be: with ./hdlist.cz If you are adding contrib/, you might want to change the name of this source from the mirror-name-derived name the script gives you to simply contrib. See man urpmi.addmedia for the syntax explanation. The Mirrors-list link in the sidebar gives you other options for other sources: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=Mirrors-list Those might work out-of-the-box or you might have to verify the paths in a browser, as in the above example. I don't know why the script gives these commands but I know others have been able to add a source following this sort of strategy of confirming paths: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=12767forum=11 I was also able to add a club_comm source by typing drakclub at a root prompt and following that route. Rolf -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5V5UWnXrLw2KRK4EQKHvQCgrGAMRtIAez834vyeb1orMmuPJgEAoNnY DLIfNDrLFhGaCS3uCQYxxHDl =1cul -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 2:41 am, Cy Kurtz wrote: Take a default install of any Linux distro, and a default install of Windows, connect them to the internet with no firewall or any antivirus software, and see which one gets compromised 1st. Would you feel better if you were compromised the day after instead of the day before? no no no wait a minute! What happens when Linux becomes as popular as windows? Most people writing virii are aiming at windows boxen, because they are more numerous. People writing virii want to do as much damage as possible, so they are going to go after the most popular OS. Not entirely true, I think. People write viruses for windows because it is easy to - there are many vulnerabilities in many unpatched boxes and visual basic to write in. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Creative DAP Jukebox
Hi, Firstly I'm using Mandrake 9.1 I have all the Dev packages installed. This is my first post I have a little problem building gnomad2 (a linux GUI prog for the Creative DAP jukebox.) I cannot build libnjb which is needed. the make file dumps out when looking for: make[1]: Entering directory `/home/steve/Downloads/libnjb/src' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -c -o base.o base.c base.c:14:25: dev/usb/usb.h: No such file or directory In file included from base.c:16: libnjb.h:14:25: dev/usb/usb.h: No such file or directory In file included from base.c:16: libnjb.h:134: field `info' has incomplete type libnjb.h:146: confused by earlier errors, bailing out make[1]: *** [base.o] Error 1 OK so how can i fix this ? I think I have all the dev stuff installed but /dev/usb seems to be empty (I'm not sure is existed but I compiled another comms package for the nomad) Please help Thanks Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?
Glenn Burkhardt ha scritto: I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting. This time it was my .bashrc file. I might have just powered off the machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing at the time of shutdown. After turning the machine on last night, I noticed that my shell prompt had changed, and discovered that the file was full of ASCII null characters. I've seen this happen a couple of times before on other machines. Then the file /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc had been similiarly trashed - full of zeros. And, it seems that the file size was larger than usual. I've been using the XFS filesystem on these machines for a couple of years now. Is this a failure of the disk drive, or should I switch to ext3 ?? I've seen this many times (xfs too). Don't know the cause (apart from power failure/reset after a crash), but I'd like to. Bye -- - Yo también quiero una Europa libre de Patentes de Software - - I want a Software Patents Free Europe too! And you? - --- EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] 9.2 usb camera
On Monday 20 Oct 2003 7:36 pm, Larry Sword wrote: phriedrich: The camera is a SiPix StyleCam Deluxe. It's listed but when it starts to connect the lockup accrues. I just saw in the http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake92; * /Error Scenario/: *When plugging a USB webcam (some Philips webcam's, maybe others), system locks solid* Why There is a kernel bug when auto-loading the snd-usb-audio module. Solution Use ThomasBacklund http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/ThomasBacklund's kernel (packages beginning by kernel-tmb in contrib) until an update kernel might contain the fix as well. Looks like it's a known problem. Guess ill wait until it's fixed in the next kernel release. Don't be afraid to try a new kernel. Installing a new kernel, it lives alongside the old one. Nothing is changed - you can go back to the old one any time you want. You just get another boot option. Try it, it's easy and safe Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
Hello Carroll, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 7:36:19 AM, you wrote: CG I was just teasing, and no harm was intended. No offence taken. CG Luckily, I'm in a position where I don't _need_ any MS stuff, and CG sometimes I like to gloat about it. I'm envious. There is software I MUST use and it is only available for Win. :- -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media
I'm getting the same effect, but the one thing that occurs to me is is that you used to have to put the club username and password in. this is no longer asked for, I started to get urpmi.addmedia problems about 8 weeks ago. Any significance ?? Richard On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:22, Rolf Pedersen wrote: D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Oct 2003 at 10:49, Rolf Pedersen wrote: I just finished my install and have the exact same problem. Then all the scripts need to be fixed :-( I've tried most of them, and none of them works as they stand. I've sent emails to the webmaster, St?phane Alexandre aka Fafane @ the webmaster link on Club pages. You should do the same, detailing your experiences. I sent him an e-mail and he replied, giving me a different URL (although I notice that the actual web page still hasn't changed). But the URL he gave me, although it ends up at some different mirrors, still ends up giving exactly the same error when one actually executes the urpmi.addmedia command. There is definitely something very broken somewhere. This was a clean install of 9.2 on to a brand new system, so it is uncontaminated with any prior mandrakes, urpmi commands or anything; so I believe that the problem isn't with the installation here (and in any case, I don't see what I could be diong wrong -- it's only a cut-and-paste after all). Has anyone here actually succeeded in performing an addmedia with 9.2 using any of the URPMI setup scripts on the club site? If so, maybe that person could e-mail me privately and identify which script/mirror worked, so I can try that one too. Doc PS This is not a case of the mirrors being too busy. They happily download a bunch of files, and then all fail at the same place: immediately after downloading the ...i586/hdlist2.cz file. You will have to modify the script if you want to use it to add a source. For example, take the url out of the command the script gives you, starting with ftp: and ending with mandrake/ or Mandrake/. Copy and paste that into your browser's address bar and go there. I just did this for the California site and the browser told me it was not accepting connections, the other was quite slow to load. This is a good way to check the speed and availability of a server. Try alternates until you find some reliable pattern for predictable usage. When you are in the mandrake/ or Mandrake/ directory of the server, drill down to 9.2/contrib/i586, which is the likely source you would add from this script. You will see all the rpms of this source, which is the first argument to urpmi.admedia: the directory containing the rpms you wish to add. Modify the command the script gives you to include this final part of the path to this directory: ftp://xx/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 for example. In 9.2, the location of the hdlists appears to have changed to be right in this rpms directory. So, you must also modify that part of the command that gives the relative path to the hdlist. It will now be: with ./hdlist.cz If you are adding contrib/, you might want to change the name of this source from the mirror-name-derived name the script gives you to simply contrib. See man urpmi.addmedia for the syntax explanation. The Mirrors-list link in the sidebar gives you other options for other sources: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?name=Mirrors-list Those might work out-of-the-box or you might have to verify the paths in a browser, as in the above example. I don't know why the script gives these commands but I know others have been able to add a source following this sort of strategy of confirming paths: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=12767forum=11 I was also able to add a club_comm source by typing drakclub at a root prompt and following that route. Rolf -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5V5UWnXrLw2KRK4EQKHvQCgrGAMRtIAez834vyeb1orMmuPJgEAoNnY DLIfNDrLFhGaCS3uCQYxxHDl =1cul -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
Hello HaywireMac, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 8:02:15 AM, you wrote: Problem is, I like TheBat better than anything I have seen in linux. H How great can an e-mail client be?! That it would actually determine H your use of a particular OS? No, it doesn't. The controlling factors are programs that I must use that only run under Win. I could transfer a large 'chunk' of my work to linux if I could find a good replacement for DTsearch, a very good search engine/viewer. I asked here about it a while back, and nobody knew of a replacement. H That must some kind of e-mail client. ;-) It is rather nice. :-) A large part of my attraction is the security/privacy features, for which it is excellent. For example, if you're really paranoid, it can be set up to require an iris scan or a fingerprint ID to read/write every email. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
Hello Jack, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 9:11:31 AM, you wrote: JC I'm willing to make sacrifices in order to use free software. If your work requires software that only runs on Win, that's a BIG sacrifice. :-) JC The Bat! might be a really really good email client, but I can't JC even imagine how it could be enough better than Evo for me to use JC it. Try it, you might like it. :-) [Hides awaiting flaming response. :-)] JC The flip-side of this attitude is that I get access to apps that JC blow their MS counterparts out of the water. One of my key programs is DTsearch, a rather powerful search engine/viewer. Would you know of a linux program that is (hopefully) more powerful, or even comparable? I'd like to find one. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
Hello Anne, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 12:52:52 PM, you wrote: AW The problem is that she is part of a mailing group for her job. AW The people are trustworth, in that there is no way that they AW would intentionally cause problems, and actually problems from AW the home computers of individuals have rarely caused a problem (I AW think there were 2 cases a couple of years ago). It's their work AW computers that are virus-ridden, and that is just sickening. Look carefully at what is happening. Let's suppose a group of workers regularly communicate with the same, or different, people at work. The address books of these people at home will contain many address for people at work. A 'home' user gets a virus and it is sent out to others, but it 'spoofs' the work addresses in the book. On quick examination it would look as though these were sent from 'work' because of the spoofing, but the virus is on a home computer. In the M$ world, the address book is NOT your friend, and should be BLANK. Do we know, from actual virus scans, that the work machines are virus-ridden? If true, then someone there is NOT doing a good job. Also, who uses Panda AV? It might be a clue as to who has it. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Oct 2003 at 13:22, Rolf Pedersen wrote: You will have to modify the script if you want to use it to add a source. Well one hates to seem like an idiot, but exactly what is the point of these scripts if when one does exactly what the page says (cut, paste, execute) they fail -- and apparently the only way to find out how to modify them is to make one's idiocy public by posting questions here? I'll try to make the changes you suggest in the rest of your post, but it all seems pretty bizarre that Mdk provides this urpmi program and then provides scripts that only work after being edited rather than by simply following the instructions on the web site. I was also able to add a club_comm source by typing drakclub at a root prompt and following that route. Hmmm I can find no reference to a command called drakclub on the club download page or in the Definitive Manual. Where (and HOW!) is one supposed to find out about this stuff? Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5WhKGnXrLw2KRK4EQJgeQCg8kgnvYk5d553wPYycTMbWSsT2sMAn2hj 9pgVk1RK4ou9XNIy9XsaFCEf =oEGu -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:28:22 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Would you feel better if you were compromised the day after instead of the day before? Verry funny... ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Getting into trouble is easy. -- D. Winkel and F. Prosser Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
Hello Anne, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 12:56:06 PM, you wrote: AW That's what puzzles me. She would never open an executable. She AW would never agree to running one. Java and javascript are AW disabled for mail. She is set to read and write plain text. AW Still they have managed to do damage. The more you write, the more it looks as though it is not an email problem. AW At first I thought is was coincidence, but since the same files AW have to be replaced every time it happens I no longer believe AW that. Is it possible that the real problem has not been removed, and is still lurking on the machine? She might have multiple problems. It is not at all unusual in Win computers that are not locked down very tight. AW I'm thankful that at least she is not contributing to the spread AW of viruses, but I can't understand how they are doing this AW damage. If her address book has entries, don't be too sure. :-)) -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:14, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 09:41 pm, Cy Kurtz wrote: C'mon, I'll give you ten to one on the Windows box... ;-) no no no wait a minute! What happens when Linux becomes as popular as windows? Most people writing virii are aiming at windows boxen, because they are more numerous. People writing virii want to do as much damage as possible, so they are going to go after the most popular OS. Every time I see this comparison, I wince. Explain to me how you can compare a single OS built by a monolithic entity that controls all of the source code and releases only the information that puts them in the best possible light with an OS built by literally dozens of different teams, each to their own specifications that basically share a common kernel but have different directory structures, package managers, peripheral drivers, etc. As much as I think that Linux will become a bigger target eventually, I do NOT think that anyone can generalize and say that one virus that exploits a vulnerability on one distribution of Linux will automatically propagate to every distribution. Ever tried to get a package that was built to be portable to actually port over to a different distribution? And they are trying to make it portable and can include code specifically designed to do so. Viruses have to be small and compact. Linux is not the same as Windows and comparisons of this nature only serve to make people forget WHY MS products have a tendency to be compromised more often and it has a lot to do with the unified environment, the same thing that MS is quick to take credit for when it works in their favor, and anxious to make people forget when you point out that it also works against them. I would not go so far as to say that Linux can not be compromised but given the age of the system, the fact that a lot more businesses run Linux which makes it a more attractive target for ego purposes, and the fact that with open source, MS could have been publishing exploits on Linux, if they were there, instead of funding dubious analyst research on ROI that nobody pays attention to, I feel pretty confident that Linux is much more secure than average Windows. The fact is that it is MUCH easier to write viruses for Linux, (something that these journalists often overlook) because of the fact that the source code is published so that virus writers can go through line by line and look for vulnerabilities. With Windows, they have to decompile and reverse engineer to find weak points that may end up being dead ends. Given the different nature of open source, we should be seeing many more viruses written for Linux than for Windows, if only because it is so much easier to do it. As for social engineering, based on my own experience, I would trust a Linux user to do the smart thing well before trusting the average Windows user, but hey, that might be just me. I would as well, today, however as more and more of the windows world enters the world of Unix + the desire to make it as painless as possible may well increase the chances of something being haywire. There is little to stop someone from using betty or 123456 as a pasword. Warnings yes. But nothing tells them why it should be otherwise. One of the biggest security holes I've seen of late is the ability to setup auto login. Sine 9 out of 10 hacks are inside jobs gee. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:08:15 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It seemed to me that the point he was making was that linux will be vulnerable, if not as much as windows, if it is used in the same sloppy way. And I agree with him. I don't doubt that, but his point, to rebut the article on Security Focus, was faulty. He used what if? arguments to counter a simple and unarguable point, that Windows is exploited, as you yourself said, because it is easy to do. It's like arguing Earth doesn't revolve around the Sun because *some* astronomers might be using broken telescopes. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ When you die, you lose a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
Hello Anne, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 1:01:40 PM, you wrote: AW On Tuesday 21 Oct 2003 4:50 am, rikona wrote: I mostly discussed privacy, but there is a lot of bad stuff possible through the web also. If email attachments can be ruled out, could it be spyware or a Trojan rather than a virus? AW Kaspersky actually identified the viruses. Each time they have been AW one of the common-at-the-time ones. Kaspersky may not catch spyware or a Trojan. These tend to hang around, as you are describing, and often hide VERY well. If she connects directly to the net, it is ESSENTIAL that she have a firewall, IMHO. Way too risky without one. Given she uses no M$ apps, this might be the biggest hole, and the source of her problems. AW I don't think it is the problem, in this case, given that she is not AW promiscuous in the kind of sites she browses, and that her av AW software was definite about the viruses found. If she is directly connected to the net, with no firewall, I would rate that as a very severe risk. Just being connected is enough. No email or surfing is required. It is NOT uncommon for a brand new XP computer to be infected within an hour of being connected to the net. The more you describe, the more it seems like it may be this kind of problem. AW Hopefully they will be able to tell me how I can improve AW protection of her mail. Think about non-email sources of the problem, too. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 14:09, rikona wrote: Hello Jack, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 9:11:31 AM, you wrote: JC I'm willing to make sacrifices in order to use free software. If your work requires software that only runs on Win, that's a BIG sacrifice. :-) JC The Bat! might be a really really good email client, but I can't JC even imagine how it could be enough better than Evo for me to use JC it. Try it, you might like it. :-) [Hides awaiting flaming response. :-)] JC The flip-side of this attitude is that I get access to apps that JC blow their MS counterparts out of the water. One of my key programs is DTsearch, a rather powerful search engine/viewer. Would you know of a linux program that is (hopefully) more powerful, or even comparable? I'd like to find one. not sure what you want to do, but: dtsearch makes a version of their engine for Linux. Presumably it isn't far to a desktop client. swish-e looks great and is on my to-try list. ht::dig is kinda lame, but generally works. between find, locate and grep -r I haven't come up with a need for a search client for my local system. I can accept that I'm a freak though. if your data is in a database or can get there, finding or writing a search interface from your favorite language is really not hard. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
Hello James, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 2:25:06 PM, you wrote: JS as more and more of the windows world enters the world of Unix + JS the desire to make it as painless as possible may well increase JS the chances of something being haywire. I see this as the biggest threat. Especially if ever-less-computer-literate users demand a better 'user experience.' This will lead to less default security (interferes with some operations) and, especially, connect-everything-to-everything designs (lets the user do anything, from anywhere). The malware writers dream world. Are we already going down this slippery slope? -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:28, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:57:49 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Another misguided attempt by an MS apologist to deflect with smoke and mirrors, with a leavening of faulty logic, what is widely known: You thought *that* guy was a dildo, check this out: http://securityfocus.com/columnists/191 My favourite part: My Dad could teach the community a lesson ROTFLMAO! snip.in this case a hacker named Silvio Cesare, who proved with an alarming degree of success that one can patch a statically compiled kernel in memory. As time progresses, this will probably evolve into the standard means of putting a backdoor in a Linux system/snip this is funny? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We already see the start of this in Lindows. Root by default. I also recall reading something recently about giving macro-running capability to SO/OO ala Office (yeah, I know it has its own macros as it is but my impression was it might be an attempt to make the whole experience as much like Office as possible). This means macro viruses for linux if it is done the windoze way. praedor On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:44 pm, rikona wrote: Hello James, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 2:25:06 PM, you wrote: JS as more and more of the windows world enters the world of Unix + JS the desire to make it as painless as possible may well increase JS the chances of something being haywire. I see this as the biggest threat. Especially if ever-less-computer-literate users demand a better 'user experience.' This will lead to less default security (interferes with some operations) and, especially, connect-everything-to-everything designs (lets the user do anything, from anywhere). The malware writers dream world. Are we already going down this slippery slope? - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/la02aKr9sJYeTxgRAklxAJ95b+/oOOCoMPvp6cz67DkPW2KLUgCfQYQN P9CmmdTXYJjkHpE2G+bIMcI= =nSam -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and GIMP ???
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:12, Richard Bown wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:14, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 15:02, Richard Bown wrote: Hi this is minor but damn annoying After trying to print a jpeg from gimp-1.2.5-6mdk to an Epson C82 printer using CUPS, instead of a nice piccy of a swiss steam engine I got 1 line of about 20 characters mix of german, greek , math symbols. on page after page after page. Flushed the printer queueno change removed printer for config.no change disconnected the printer..no change power cycled the printer eventually stops reconnected the printer to PC. it starts again !!! reboot the PC its still going power down the pc it stopped reconfigure the printer in CUPs and print a test page.working Thats the first time I've ever seen that.. OK it may be a coincidence that 9.2 is involved as the other factor is the new kernel 2.4.22 has anyone seen similar ??? Richard One question. How many different drivers did drakprint have for your printer. One option could be to try one of the other ones. If this doesn't work. bugs.mandrakesoft.com is your friend. *grin* James Just checked there are now only 2 drivers for the Epson C82 the one I was using CUPS +GIMP and ghostscript + gimp, Ive now changed to the latter, and wait see if it happens again. This does look like a wayward process, as once the printer is removed from the config it should stop , but this does'nt, it just keeps spew ing out of the parport... maybe worth trying the printer on the USB port. I does mean I have to watch whats being printed, cant just send it remotely and trust.. else you end up with as much paper as you loaded all with a quarter line of garbage on the top of each sheet. Whats really strange is that rebooting dos'nt stop it onlt power down.. Richard Your being caught by the print buffer on the printer. The job could well be gone from the computer and totally in the print buffer on the printer itself. In such a case nothing you do on the comp will affect the printer (unless you have a locally mounted printer and the software from the manf needed to clear this buffer.) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
Hello Jack, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 2:39:18 PM, you wrote: One of my key programs is DTsearch, a rather powerful search engine/viewer. Would you know of a linux program that is (hopefully) more powerful, or even comparable? I'd like to find one. JC not sure what you want to do, but: JC dtsearch makes a version of their engine for Linux. I've talked with them about that. It isn't a program, but just a set of routines that interfaces with their unique data base structures. JC Presumably it isn't far to a desktop client. It's a long way to the program. :-) JC swish-e looks great and is on my to-try list. This does look good, and better than any suggestions made when I asked earlier. Thanks. The part that I missed right away when I tried the demo was the ability to do proximity searches ((search or find) [within 25 words of] (script and text)). This is a very powerful capability that I have come to like a lot. The demos also did not like complex nested expressions, and did not do them correctly, although the documentation said it did seem to use regex, which I didn't try. The other thing I like about DTsearch is the great number of formats it can index, and then display in an integrated viewer. I can scroll through 15 different formats, seeing the contents of each one, as fast as I can press a key. In a very large document, the viewer also shows each occurrence of the search word(s), and you can scroll through them from find to find very easily. The integrated viewer is VERY nice. Is there a way to get the output of swish-e to operate as an 'integrated viewer'? JC ht::dig is kinda lame, but generally works. This was suggested earlier. Not a candidate. JC if your data is in a database or can get there, finding or writing JC a search interface from your favorite language is really not hard. Are you suggesting the full DTsearch capabilities are easy to do? If so, tell me more. :-) It would be a very nice addition to open source programs, IMHO. Thanks for the info. -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?
Glenn Burkhardt wrote: I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting. This time it was my .bashrc file. I might have just powered off the machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing at the time of shutdown. After turning the machine on last night, I noticed that my shell prompt had changed, and discovered that the file was full of ASCII null characters. I've seen this happen a couple of times before on other machines. Then the file /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc had been similiarly trashed - full of zeros. And, it seems that the file size was larger than usual. I've been using the XFS filesystem on these machines for a couple of years now. Is this a failure of the disk drive, or should I switch to ext3 ?? Thanks. If you do not cleanly shutdown your machine your filesystem will not be fully commited to disk... And you will have problems like this. What version of mandrake? mdk8.1 had a problem with not shuting down clean even when using the halt command. -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry and Large Optical Systems Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 21, 2003 03:25 pm, rikona wrote: [..] AW That's what puzzles me. She would never open an executable. She AW would never agree to running one. Java and javascript are AW disabled for mail. She is set to read and write plain text. AW Still they have managed to do damage. She wouldn't have to Anne. Read about Gibe at your favourite security information source. Like this one: http://sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32gibef.html The more you write, the more it looks as though it is not an email problem. If as I suspect this new wonder worm is a variant of Gibe it's quite capable of infecting an entire local area network through shares, instant messengers and a few other methods I don't recall at the moment. It doesn't need to use the Outlook or any other address book. It is truly a nasty evil rotten piece of malware delivered by someone that should be tracked down, shot and p!$$ed on. Not necessarily in that order. AW At first I thought is was coincidence, but since the same files AW have to be replaced every time it happens I no longer believe AW that. Is it possible that the real problem has not been removed, and is still lurking on the machine? She might have multiple problems. It is not at all unusual in Win computers that are not locked down very tight. To have a chance of clearing my friend's network Sunday I had to physically disconnect (pulled the cables and shut down the router) all 3 of his machines from the network, disconnect and power down the printer, and shut the router down completely then not reconnect until everything was back to worm free status. It wasn't a fun way to spend the evening. AW I'm thankful that at least she is not contributing to the spread AW of viruses, but I can't understand how they are doing this AW damage. If her address book has entries, don't be too sure. :-)) As i posted above the address book isn't the only avenue for infection to spread. Any unsecured Windows box connected to almost any network with an infected machine will be toast in a very short time.sigh God I hate Windows! Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk 16:54:20 up 32 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.12 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lbwJG11CaRuZZSIRAjv8AJ9otPpGySiQSln2bPqN0kIqqombngCffg0U WcFC/jqU9tZghNMkXPBAmTg= =BLDr -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 15:22, rikona wrote:
Hello Jack,
...
JC swish-e looks great and is on my to-try list.
This does look good, and better than any suggestions made when I asked
earlier. Thanks. The part that I missed right away when I tried the
demo was the ability to do proximity searches ((search or find)
[within 25 words of] (script and text)). This is a very powerful
capability that I have come to like a lot. The demos also did not like
complex nested expressions, and did not do them correctly, although
the documentation said it did seem to use regex, which I didn't try.
The other thing I like about DTsearch is the great number of formats
it can index, and then display in an integrated viewer. I can scroll
through 15 different formats, seeing the contents of each one, as fast
as I can press a key. In a very large document, the viewer also shows
each occurrence of the search word(s), and you can scroll through them
from find to find very easily. The integrated viewer is VERY nice.
Is there a way to get the output of swish-e to operate as an
'integrated viewer'?
I don't know for sure, but I think that Nautilus or Konqueror would fit
the bill there. Both have intense MIME capabilities.
JC ht::dig is kinda lame, but generally works.
This was suggested earlier. Not a candidate.
JC if your data is in a database or can get there, finding or writing
JC a search interface from your favorite language is really not hard.
Are you suggesting the full DTsearch capabilities are easy to do? If
so, tell me more. :-) It would be a very nice addition to open source
programs, IMHO.
that viewer sounds tough, but here's a two function CGI web search
interface that uses MS-SQL as its backend:
sub ParsifySearchString ($) {
my ($input_string) = @_;
my @search_strings;
my $search_string = '';
my $quote_marker = 0;
@search_strings = split (/\s+/, $input_string);
foreach my $string (@search_strings) {
# MS-SQL chokes on these
if ($string =~
/\bis\b|\bof\b|\bbecause\b|\bwas\b|\bmany\b|\btoo\b|\bfor\b|\bwhile\b|\bthe\b|\ba\b|\ban\b|\bthis\b|\bthose\b|\bthese\b|\bthem\b|\bme\b/i)
{
next;
}
if ($string =~ /\band\b|\bor\b|\bnot\b/i) {
$search_string .= $string. ;
next;
}
if ($string =~ /\/ $quote_marker == 0) {
$search_string .= $string. ;
$quote_marker = 1;
next;
}
if ($string =~ /\/ $quote_marker == 1) {
$search_string .= $string. ;
$quote_marker = 0;
next;
}
if ($quote_marker == 1) {
$search_string .= $string. ;
} else {
$search_string .= \.$string.\ ;
}
}
chop $search_string;
$search_string =~ s/^\s|\\//;
$search_string =~ s/\ \/\ AND \/g;
$search_string =~ s/(\w+\) not (\\w)/$1 AND NOT $2/i;
push(@search_strings, $search_string);
return @search_strings;
}
sub SearchDB ($) {
my ($cgi) = @_;
# get the input query
my $input_string = $cgi-param('search');
my @search_strings = ParsifySearchString($input_string);
my $search_string = pop(@search_strings);
my $query = SELECT
Rank,ticket_id,subject,who,time_incoming,contents FROM
CONTAINSTABLE(support_emails, *, '$search_string') AS ct JOIN
support_emails AS e ON ct.[KEY] = e.id WHERE Rank 0 ORDER BY
ticket_id;
my $ticket_test = 0;
# Start the web page
print $cgi-header(-type = 'text/html');
print $cgi-start_html(
-title = Search Results: $search_string,
-bgcolor = '#ff',
);
#print h1$search_string/h1;
if (!$search_string) {print BUnable to process query, please
try again./B\n; exit(1);}
# Keep the whole table in output so it can be used from other
pages.
my $output = TABLE BORDER=1 BGCOLOR=\#c0c0c0\\n;
$output .= TRTD ALIGN=\CENTER\H2A
HREF=\http://...\;Support Web Home/A/H2;
$output .= FORM METHOD=POST
ACTION=\/cgi-bin/supportWeb.pl\;
$output .= INPUT TYPE=\hidden\ name=\page\
value=\search\;
$output .= INPUT SIZE=15 name=search value=\\;
$output .= INPUT TYPE=submit value=\Search Tickets\;
$output .= br/form/TD/TR\n;
$output .= TRTD ALIGN=\CENTER\Searched the Support
database for B$search_string/B.BR\n;
# $output .= FONT SIZE=\-3\$query./FONT/TD;
$output .= /TR/TABLEP\nTABLE BORDER=1
BGCOLOR=\#6a8d9c\ CELLPADDING=5 FONT SIZE=\-1\\n;
$output .=
TRTDBTICKET/B/TDTDBSUBJECT/B/TDTDBAUTHOR/B/TDTDBTIME/B/TD/TR\n;
$dbh-do(set textsize 2000);
my $sth = $dbh-prepare($query) or print Unable to prepare
query ($query): .$dbh-errstr;
Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Oct 2003 at 13:22, Rolf Pedersen wrote: You will have to modify the script if you want to use it to add a source. Well one hates to seem like an idiot, but exactly what is the point of these scripts if when one does exactly what the page says (cut, paste, execute) they fail -- and apparently the only way to find out how to modify them is to make one's idiocy public by posting questions here? It used to work; presently, it's broken. I'll try to make the changes you suggest in the rest of your post, but it all seems pretty bizarre that Mdk provides this urpmi program and then provides scripts that only work after being edited rather than by simply following the instructions on the web site. Yes, it is not optimal. Stuff happens. People try to find solutions and report to those who can fix it. Seems there is a bit of 'sweat equity' required to best enjoy this (I daresay, any) distribution of software, at the present time. The good news is that there are resources for discovering the efforts you need to make and no limit to what you can see of it or do with it. I was also able to add a club_comm source by typing drakclub at a root prompt and following that route. Hmmm I can find no reference to a command called drakclub on the club download page or in the Definitive Manual. Where (and HOW!) is one supposed to find out about this stuff? Drakclub has been discussed in Mandrake Club since at least March: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=568 and there are many more references to it to be found by the Search function. I am also aware of it by reading the cooker list and there are probably other sources, such as the newsletters sent by email. You can access this function by going to Configuration Other Discover Custom services in the menu. Rolf Doc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5WhKGnXrLw2KRK4EQJgeQCg8kgnvYk5d553wPYycTMbWSsT2sMAn2hj 9pgVk1RK4ou9XNIy9XsaFCEf =oEGu -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Flash Broken (FYI)
I had actually tried to search for the file with rpmdrake. I'll try with urpmf and see what happens. On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 05:17, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 12:42 am, Dave Seff wrote: I noticed that The Flash player from Macromedia.com is broken in 9.2 because of a missing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 I couldn't find it in any package so I symlinked it from libstdc++.so.5.0.5. It appears to be working but I am always thought symlinking the different versions was a ugly hack. On my machine /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is a symlink to /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so so if I do $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so I get libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk I bet you don't have that package installed. Just install the libstdc++2.10 package and you should be good to go. Something I have learned by getting familiar with urpmi, is that if I am missing some library file, just be typing urpmi libfoo6.2.2.so will install the right package most of the time. and if it doesn't urpmf [file name I need] will find the package, if it exists. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Flash Broken (FYI)
That worked also. Thanks everyone. On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 20:56, Dave Seff wrote: I had actually tried to search for the file with rpmdrake. I'll try with urpmf and see what happens. On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:29, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 05:17, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 12:42 am, Dave Seff wrote: I noticed that The Flash player from Macromedia.com is broken in 9.2 because of a missing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 I couldn't find it in any package so I symlinked it from libstdc++.so.5.0.5. It appears to be working but I am always thought symlinking the different versions was a ugly hack. On my machine /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is a symlink to /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so so if I do $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so I get libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk I bet you don't have that package installed. Just install the libstdc++2.10 package and you should be good to go. Something I have learned by getting familiar with urpmi, is that if I am missing some library file, just be typing urpmi libfoo6.2.2.so will install the right package most of the time. and if it doesn't urpmf [file name I need] will find the package, if it exists. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Shockwave Player for Linux Campaign
Done. More OEM's and companys should have this. It would be amazing to some people the responses they would get. Instead most of them just say, The only people that want this are Windows users with their heads still buried in the sand. On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 16:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Original Message --- From: Sebastien Routier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Shockwave Player for Linux Campaign Got this from an other list: --- One of my dwindling requirements for Windows is that our family likes Shockwave games on a few sites and Crossover's plug-in costs money. (Boo!) I saw a story about this on Newsforge and thought that we all can do something about this. Here's the link: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-kde/2003-Feb/0007.html I'll be signing up. --- I already signed up!! What about you? -- bye. /Sebast just added my .02 worth to their email __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
isn't not supplying the kernel source technically a violation of GPL? It probably was not intentional. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 06:37 pm, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Glenn Burkhardt wrote: I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting. This time it was my .bashrc file. I might have just powered off the machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing at the time of shutdown. After turning the machine on last night, I noticed that my shell prompt had changed, and discovered that the file was full of ASCII null characters. I've seen this happen a couple of times before on other machines. Then the file /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc had been similiarly trashed - full of zeros. And, it seems that the file size was larger than usual. I've been using the XFS filesystem on these machines for a couple of years now. Is this a failure of the disk drive, or should I switch to ext3 ?? Thanks. If you do not cleanly shutdown your machine your filesystem will not be fully commited to disk... And you will have problems like this. What version of mandrake? mdk8.1 had a problem with not shuting down clean even when using the halt command. Mandrake 9.1 with the updates: kernel-2.4.21.0.25mdk-1-1mdk SGI XFS 1.3.0pre2 I checked my system logs, and I definately just hit the power switch instead of doing a shutdown. I wouldn't be surprised if files that were in play were corrupted when the power is just turned off, but my .bashrc file hadn't been touched in a long time. In the other cases I've seen over the years, it was with Mandrake 8.1, and the /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file, which does get touched each time a user starts a session. I did find a reference to a suspiciously similar problem: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs11.html but it claims the problem was fixed in XFS version 1.1. But seeing the file filled with zeros makes me wonder. If the power goes off, I can stand having files that are being written trashed, but files with modify times older than 30 seconds have to be there, save a hardware failure. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?
Have you only seen this with XFS, or with other filesystems, too? Will ext3 be more robust for power failures? gracias... On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:03 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Glenn Burkhardt ha scritto: I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting. This time it was my .bashrc file. I might have just powered off the machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing at the time of shutdown. After turning the machine on last night, I noticed that my shell prompt had changed, and discovered that the file was full of ASCII null characters. I've seen this happen a couple of times before on other machines. Then the file /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc had been similiarly trashed - full of zeros. And, it seems that the file size was larger than usual. I've been using the XFS filesystem on these machines for a couple of years now. Is this a failure of the disk drive, or should I switch to ext3 ?? I've seen this many times (xfs too). Don't know the cause (apart from power failure/reset after a crash), but I'd like to. Bye Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] does the XFS filesystem lose data, or is my disk broken?
I'd think so. The journal catches the vast majority of problems, in my experience. On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:19, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: Have you only seen this with XFS, or with other filesystems, too? Will ext3 be more robust for power failures? gracias... On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:03 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Glenn Burkhardt ha scritto: I've seen a couple of times that files are filled with zero's after rebooting. This time it was my .bashrc file. I might have just powered off the machine, but the this file wasn't open for writing at the time of shutdown. After turning the machine on last night, I noticed that my shell prompt had changed, and discovered that the file was full of ASCII null characters. I've seen this happen a couple of times before on other machines. Then the file /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc had been similiarly trashed - full of zeros. And, it seems that the file size was larger than usual. I've been using the XFS filesystem on these machines for a couple of years now. Is this a failure of the disk drive, or should I switch to ext3 ?? I've seen this many times (xfs too). Don't know the cause (apart from power failure/reset after a crash), but I'd like to. Bye __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trouble mounting windows drive
el Tue, 21.October.2003 11:29 am, Bill Mullen escribió: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Brian V Bonini wrote: Just installed 9.1 from 9.0 ( I know I'm a little behind) and I can no longer access my mounted windows drive as a normal user. . . . I can not chmod that directory either, I try and it goes through the motions like it is fine but does not change the permissions so I can not access this drive unless I su to root. Not sure what to do... Trying to chmod the mount point does no good; permissions and ownership on FAT32/NTFS partitions are set at mount time, usually from an option in the relevant /etc/fstab entry. Append ,umask=0 to the options portion of the appropriate line in /etc/fstab (i.e. the portion of the line that is just before the 0 0, and already contains some comma-separated options). HTH! I fixed my Mdk9.1, with info I read on this list some time back, as root: edit the following line in fstab, /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 to /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 1 0 then execute: # /sbin/lilo Upon reboot it sets the vfat partition read/writeable by users. I can now read and write to the windows partition as user. No idea if I have actually compromised anything. YMMV. regards, Richard. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] NIC not starting with Mandrake 9.2
I have just installed 9.2 onto an IBM ThinkPad 390E laptop with 256Mb ram. It worked fine with 9.1 but now the NIC, although recognised at intallation does not start by itself. It is a Xircom CEM56 Ethernet/Modem and gets detected fine except after a cold start I get a message - Device eth0 does not seem to be present Any ideas how I can solve this? -- Robert Fisher www.fisher.net.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 14:12, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Oct 2003 at 13:22, Rolf Pedersen wrote: You will have to modify the script if you want to use it to add a source. Well one hates to seem like an idiot, but exactly what is the point of these scripts if when one does exactly what the page says (cut, paste, execute) they fail -- and apparently the only way to find out how to modify them is to make one's idiocy public by posting questions here? No one thinks you are an idiot. Trust me on that. I'll try to make the changes you suggest in the rest of your post, but it all seems pretty bizarre that Mdk provides this urpmi program and then provides scripts that only work after being edited rather than by simply following the instructions on the web site. And to be honest all the mirrors where changing at the same time we were downloading the iso's. I was also able to add a club_comm source by typing drakclub at a root prompt and following that route. Hmmm I can find no reference to a command called drakclub on the club download page or in the Definitive Manual. Where (and HOW!) is one supposed to find out about this stuff? Doc I've not been able to get this to work since 9.0 I'd forgotten about this one. James -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5WhKGnXrLw2KRK4EQJgeQCg8kgnvYk5d553wPYycTMbWSsT2sMAn2hj 9pgVk1RK4ou9XNIy9XsaFCEf =oEGu -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:11, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 07:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 11:02 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Carroll, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 9:16:16 PM, you wrote: Two machines, or dual boot? Run MS Publisher only when she MUST do it, and run ONLY that on Win. Email, surf, news, etc, in linux. CG Good advice, but isn't it a litle hypocritical for someone who CG uses The Bat, a Windows e-mail client? Not from my view. I would DEARLY like to find equals, in linux, for all the software I run, and abandon M$ entirely. Problem is, I like TheBat better than anything I have seen in linux. Much as I dislike M$, I still view the computer as a tool, and will stick with the best tools, even if they happen to run under M$. :-( Rikona: I was just teasing, and no harm was intended. Luckily, I'm in a position where I don't _need_ any MS stuff, and sometimes I like to gloat about it. -- cmg ... Hee. I don't let my MS-using cohorts off that easy. The fact is, the longer I work in this industry, the closer to Stallman my attitude gets. I'm willing to make sacrifices in order to use free software. Windows is slower in VMWare than native; Faster than native in Win4Lin I don't care, because I only use the VMWare image when I absolutely have to. OOo is clunkier than MS Office; ooh ... try 1.1 it's a world better. It even opens the same day you click on the icon! so what? It gets the job done, it's open source and it improves by leaps and bounds with every version since its release to open source. The Bat! might be a really really good email client, but I can't even imagine how it could be enough better than Evo for me to use it. The flip-side of this attitude is that I get access to apps that blow their MS counterparts out of the water. Having used Gaim and Trillian side by side, Trillian is junk, horrible UI. XMMS vs WinAmp? Hello, what were they thinking at Nullsoft? Evolution next to Outlook is too obvious for words, even with Evo's rough edges. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NIC not starting with Mandrake 9.2
I had this happen with a Winbook Laptop. Does the NIC come after a /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start command is issued? If it does try adding it to the end of the rc.local file and it will start up everytime. Worked for me. On Star Date Wednesday 21 October 2015 08:21 pm, Robert Fisher sent this sub-space message. I have just installed 9.2 onto an IBM ThinkPad 390E laptop with 256Mb ram. It worked fine with 9.1 but now the NIC, although recognised at intallation does not start by itself. It is a Xircom CEM56 Ethernet/Modem and gets detected fine except after a cold start I get a message - Device eth0 does not seem to be present Any ideas how I can solve this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:06, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 21, 2003 03:25 pm, rikona wrote: [..] AW That's what puzzles me. She would never open an executable. She AW would never agree to running one. Java and javascript are AW disabled for mail. She is set to read and write plain text. AW Still they have managed to do damage. She wouldn't have to Anne. Read about Gibe at your favourite security information source. Like this one: http://sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32gibef.html The more you write, the more it looks as though it is not an email problem. If as I suspect this new wonder worm is a variant of Gibe it's quite capable of infecting an entire local area network through shares, instant messengers and a few other methods I don't recall at the moment. It doesn't need to use the Outlook or any other address book. It is truly a nasty evil rotten piece of malware delivered by someone that should be tracked down, shot and p!$$ed on. Not necessarily in that order. With the amount of Iced Tea I've been drinking of late the 3rd step is a no brainer.. *grin* AW At first I thought is was coincidence, but since the same files AW have to be replaced every time it happens I no longer believe AW that. Is it possible that the real problem has not been removed, and is still lurking on the machine? She might have multiple problems. It is not at all unusual in Win computers that are not locked down very tight. To have a chance of clearing my friend's network Sunday I had to physically disconnect (pulled the cables and shut down the router) all 3 of his machines from the network, disconnect and power down the printer, and shut the router down completely then not reconnect until everything was back to worm free status. It wasn't a fun way to spend the evening. AW I'm thankful that at least she is not contributing to the spread AW of viruses, but I can't understand how they are doing this AW damage. If her address book has entries, don't be too sure. :-)) As i posted above the address book isn't the only avenue for infection to spread. Any unsecured Windows box connected to almost any network with an infected machine will be toast in a very short time.sigh God I hate Windows! Yeah, but the number one reason to keep windows around. Lots and lots of work. James Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk 16:54:20 up 32 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.12 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lbwJG11CaRuZZSIRAjv8AJ9otPpGySiQSln2bPqN0kIqqombngCffg0U WcFC/jqU9tZghNMkXPBAmTg= =BLDr -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virus?
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:03:22 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: snip.in this case a hacker named Silvio Cesare, who proved with an alarming degree of success that one can patch a statically compiled kernel in memory. As time progresses, this will probably evolve into the standard means of putting a backdoor in a Linux system/snip What's funny is this guy actually thinks it's relevant, or that he knows what he's talking about, hence my reference to the my dad... comment. If someone can gain root access in order to patch a running kernel, yer already owned. This is hype, pure and simple, another attempt to gain notoriety by pointing out flaws in a kernel that has proved itself beyond question more secure than the other kernel. To further claim that Linux needs to go the route of the Trusted Computing initiative...well, yer right, that's not funny, that's scary. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: Now it's complete because it's ended here. -- Muad'dib, Dune Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
