Re: [expert] MDK9.2 package arrived - Qs and comments
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 1:09 am, Damon Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:21, Daryl Johnson wrote: U, except by this time half of the menu entries had disappeared :o) Didn't feel inclined to add them all under the circumstances. Did you see the errata page re. the update-menus command? Damon No, missed that one. regards Daryl -- Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! -- G.B. Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 22:56, Bill wrote: I dont believe it is a router issue. They could have a acl in place but then you wouldnt see the answer from the server it would just block it alltogther. I dont remember ever seing a Cisco router checking the header files in emails to block a person. I think they may have a timeout issue like mentioned before. They may be trying to prevent anyone from trying to run a script to get in there box through there email server software. This is the first time I have seen an email server not respond the correct way using telent to port 25. In any case it seems to be there problem. I would contact there sys admin and see whats up with this issue. Please let us know what the answer is if you get one. p.s. I do have to tread lightly; I contract for this company and the person I emailed is my point of contact -- I'm not sure how they will react if I tell them how hard I've been working to 'figure out' their system *grin* -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #387: Your computer's union contract is set to expire at midnight. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Just trying this out-Testing
Seeking help for my problem for the situation below:- Delivery attempt history for your mail: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 19:10:05 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: smtp;450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [144.135.25.173] Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:08:49 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: smtp;450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [144.135.25.173] I received this reply from my states LUG :- From the messages below, the linux-mandrake.com list is refusing mail from 144.135.25.173 because 144.135.25.173 has no reverse DNS. Ask Telstra support to identify 144.135.25.173 and give it a reverse DNS. Interesting that mta09ps.email.bigpond.com also has no forward DNS. Having contacted my ISP I have received the answer as follows:- Dear BigPond Customer, The BigPond team would like to apologise for some intermittent email problems you may have experienced this week. We quickly dedicated all available resources to the problem, working to address it by rebalancing the email load. We had the capacity to deal with the problem and we believe it was resolved by early Wednesday afternoon. We will continue to closely monitor email performance. Thank you for your patience. You can check the current state of all of our systems at http://telstra.com/servicestatus/ Yours faithfully, The BigPond Team --- (TM) Trade Mark of Telstra Corporation Limited ABN 33 051 775 55 Thus I am trying it out to see if this message gets through. Apologies for any inconvenience to the list. Charlie. -- The dignity of a man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. Martin Esslin This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Codepage setting for man command
I installed the Mandrake 9.2 in the Czech localization. The command man (for example man man) generates bad output - the codepage ISO 8859-2 is converted to starange characters. The MDK 9.1 man command works O.K. The environment variables LANG, NLSPATH, etc. are set exactly the same way as they were in MDK 9.1. Can anybody tell me, where to set the correct codepage up ? Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Q: Failure to boot installed Linux PPC 9.1 on G3
Hi Stew B. all, Got my G3 to boot with the benh-kernel - exactly as you instructed! It did not work the first time, but after running rescue and editing /etc/yaboot.conf so that the kernel actually pointed to the root-file-system instead of the ram-disk used by rescue, things appears to work well!!! Thank you very much! Regards, Morten Sabroe Mortensen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: 12. november 2003 13:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Q: Failure to boot installed Linux PPC 9.1 on G3 On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: Hi, Just installed Mandrake Linux PPC 9.1 on what I belive is called a BlueWhite G3 (actually, it appears greenish). When I reach the First Stage Mandrake Linux PPC Bootstrap and press 'l', the kernel starts its initialisation, but does not find the IDE-disk - the output contains the line - hda: driver not present It ends up with a Kernel panic: No init found.-message. This, I *guess*, is the result of the kernel not being able to find the root file system. What does this really mean? There have been issues on selected machines with IDE. The ide drivers changed quite significantly in the kernel.org kernel, and don't seem to work on some Apple machine in the final released version, whereas they do seem to work in the version the installer uses. Changing to the BenH kernel will probably resolve your issue. Boot rescue, go to the console, mount your / on /mnt mount /dev/hdaX /mnt (x=number of your /) chroot /mnt mount /proc /proc -t proc place your 1st CD in the drive mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom (a guess, yours may not be hdc) urpmi kernel-benh (this should grab the rpm from the CD and install it) if the above fails, then: rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-benhTAB cat /etc/yaboot.conf (verify a new entry in /etc/yaboot.conf) umount /mnt/cdrom umount /proc exit (exit chroot) umount /mnt (don't fret if this fails) sync; sync reboot select the benh kernel from the kernel selections after l If this works, edit /etc/yaboot.conf and change the default to the benh kernel. Then run ybin (as root) -- Stew Benedict Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Q: Updating disk of 1998 G3 from 6 Gb to... 120Gb?
Hi all, Got a BlueWhite G3 with a 6 Gb hard disk. Just got it to run Mandrake PPC 9.1. I would like to upgrade the harddisk, because I need more space. Would it be possible to replace the existing 6 Gb with a never IDE disk of a size of e.g. 120 Gb? -And run Mandrake on it? Does anyone know what restrictions apply for the size of the harddisk?? Does a FAQ on the subject exist? If the information is worth anything, then - as far as I can tell - the machine is from around 1998, it uses IDE33 and has an OpenFirmware number of 3.1.0 dated 1998-something. Regards, Morten Sabroe Mortensen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Q: Updating disk of 1998 G3 from 6 Gb to... 120Gb?
Please disable your Return Receipt function for all mails to this mailing-list. TIA Morten S. Mortensen wrote: Hi all, Got a BlueWhite G3 with a 6 Gb hard disk. Just got it to run Mandrake PPC 9.1. [snipped] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] club cont urpmi
Hi has anyone managed to do a urpmi.addmeadia for the club contrib. no problems adding others but this one always fails, just as if there is nothing there ?? TIA Richard -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] club cont urpmi
Hi, Do you 9.1 or 9.2 club contribs? I have 9.2 club contribs working (used the mirrors-list on mandrakeclub). What is exactly happening? Does it find the hdlist.cz? Clement. Le Jeudi 13 Novembre 2003 11:06, Richard Bown a écrit : Hi has anyone managed to do a urpmi.addmeadia for the club contrib. no problems adding others but this one always fails, just as if there is nothing there ?? TIA Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems retrieving mail: fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:28:59 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I had similar probs with 9..2 that I had with earlier versions.. I had to manually remove postfix (with --nodeps in my case) and reinstall it to get it working properly. I found that although it was running, it wasn't running properly till I did that.. no idea why. (and it was a clean 9,2 install, not an upgrade.) and this was in conjunction with fetchmail? Nope, but thats irrelivent... fetchmail passes the mail to postfix (the MTA) and postfix passes it to procmail for local delivery.. So if postfix aint working properly, then fetchmail isn't going to be able to pass to it which was your problem right? rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Hijacking threads
Hi! I took a look about netetiquete and never wonder about hijacking, but how can you know I hijacked a thread? I use pine. I looked at Mandrake mailing-list repository and find my e-mail well addressed to the respective threads though. Moreover, please, how to reply a e-mail which content says nothing about the subject, thus needing change subject, but avoiding hijacking? Greg Meyer wrote: Whichever comes sooner, when people stop hijacking threads on this mailing list or when hell freezes over. Ooops, I'm sorry, was that sarcastic :-) Cheers, Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Apologies - Hijacking threads
Hi List! Ok, I found out what a mess I did about hijacking. My fault, pardon for that. Hope it'll never happen again :-). Cheers, -- -- Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva -- B.Sc. - Dep. Física - UFPA M.Sc. - Dep. Física - PUC/RJ D.Sc. - IBCCF/UFRJ Bolsista Pesquisador LAC-INPE São José dos Campos (SP), Brasil www.lac.inpe.br/~alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hijacking threads
On Thursday 13 November 2003 06:34 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi! I took a look about netetiquete and never wonder about hijacking, but how can you know I hijacked a thread? I use pine. I looked at Mandrake mailing-list repository and find my e-mail well addressed to the respective threads though. Moreover, please, how to reply a e-mail which content says nothing about the subject, thus needing change subject, but avoiding hijacking? There is a message ID in the headers which is included in the In-Reply-To: field that most mail clients use to thread messages. Some mail clients thread by subject though, so they escape this. If the subject of a thread drifts, it is proper, and even desired, to change the subject to reflect what the discussion has become. This is so mail filtering and scoring routines can properly deal with the messages. Many posters, apparently in an effort to save themselves the time it takes to post a new message, simply reply to any message, delete the whole thing and change the subject. This is annoying, because my mail client threads by the message ID, so in a thread about postifx mail headers, you get this (please excuse my ascii art): Re: [expert] Postfix Headers |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers | |-[expert] Public downloadable 9.2 iso images |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers I think people are supposed to ignore these posts in order to encourage the offender to repost properly. I unfortunately let myself be rude instead, for which I apologize. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Q: Updating disk of 1998 G3 from 6 Gb to... 120Gb?
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: Hi all, Got a BlueWhite G3 with a 6 Gb hard disk. Just got it to run Mandrake PPC 9.1. I would like to upgrade the harddisk, because I need more space. Would it be possible to replace the existing 6 Gb with a never IDE disk of a size of e.g. 120 Gb? -And run Mandrake on it? Does anyone know what restrictions apply for the size of the harddisk?? Does a FAQ on the subject exist? If the information is worth anything, then - as far as I can tell - the machine is from around 1998, it uses IDE33 and has an OpenFirmware number of 3.1.0 dated 1998-something. Don't know if it applies to the BW G3's, but the early iMac, like my RevB, need to find yaboot and the kernel in the first 6GB (I think, may be 8GB). It's an Open Firmware bug. What I do is keep the bootstrap below this limit and use a shared /boot for all the various installs I have on the drive. -- Stew Benedict Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hijacking threads
You should apologise yourself, you quite right. I see the point. Thanks. Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 06:34 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi! I took a look about netetiquete and never wonder about hijacking, but how can you know I hijacked a thread? I use pine. I looked at Mandrake mailing-list repository and find my e-mail well addressed to the respective threads though. Moreover, please, how to reply a e-mail which content says nothing about the subject, thus needing change subject, but avoiding hijacking? There is a message ID in the headers which is included in the In-Reply-To: field that most mail clients use to thread messages. Some mail clients thread by subject though, so they escape this. If the subject of a thread drifts, it is proper, and even desired, to change the subject to reflect what the discussion has become. This is so mail filtering and scoring routines can properly deal with the messages. Many posters, apparently in an effort to save themselves the time it takes to post a new message, simply reply to any message, delete the whole thing and change the subject. This is annoying, because my mail client threads by the message ID, so in a thread about postifx mail headers, you get this (please excuse my ascii art): Re: [expert] Postfix Headers |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers | |-[expert] Public downloadable 9.2 iso images |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers I think people are supposed to ignore these posts in order to encourage the offender to repost properly. I unfortunately let myself be rude instead, for which I apologize. -- -- Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva -- www.lac.inpe.br/~alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Disapearing menu's
All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde. Would anyone who can check, test and let me know? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Q: Updating disk of 1998 G3 from 6 Gb to... 120Gb?
Aha! Sounds good. For PC's with IDE33 from around the same time, one of the magical limits was 8 Gb - but that might be BIOS-related and PC-specific and have nothing to do with G3's. There is also something about a 120 Gb limit, I belive - something BIOS- and IDE100-related. I will keep the boot-strapping below the first couple of Gb's, then! By the way - are there any reasons/advantages in trying to update my Open Firmware 3.1.0 - disk-related or not - or should I just leave it as is? Regards, Morten Sabroe Mortensen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: 13. november 2003 13:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Q: Updating disk of 1998 G3 from 6 Gb to... 120Gb? On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: Hi all, Got a BlueWhite G3 with a 6 Gb hard disk. Just got it to run Mandrake PPC 9.1. I would like to upgrade the harddisk, because I need more space. Would it be possible to replace the existing 6 Gb with a never IDE disk of a size of e.g. 120 Gb? -And run Mandrake on it? Does anyone know what restrictions apply for the size of the harddisk?? Does a FAQ on the subject exist? If the information is worth anything, then - as far as I can tell - the machine is from around 1998, it uses IDE33 and has an OpenFirmware number of 3.1.0 dated 1998-something. Don't know if it applies to the BW G3's, but the early iMac, like my RevB, need to find yaboot and the kernel in the first 6GB (I think, may be 8GB). It's an Open Firmware bug. What I do is keep the bootstrap below this limit and use a shared /boot for all the various installs I have on the drive. -- Stew Benedict Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hijacking threads
On Thursday 13 November 2003 07:29 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: You should apologise yourself I thought I did, but if it was not clear, I apologize for being rude. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hijacking threads
Oh sorry Greg! I thought I wrote: You *shouldn't* apologise yourself. What a mess I'm doing. I beg your pardon for that. :-) Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 07:29 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: You should apologise yourself I thought I did, but if it was not clear, I apologize for being rude. -- -- Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva -- www.lac.inpe.br/~alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems retrieving mail: fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:52:49 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Rats, and here I was hoping that I had a new Guinea Pig to help me troubleshoot stuff before I upgrade my machine. ;-} Sorry, bud. I'm gonna wait 'til they have all the bugs worked out. I got too much on my plate right now to be messin' with this stuff. I'm not dissing 9.2, other than the postfix thing, it was all pretty much good, no real problems, esp since I don't use KDE EG. Anyhow, thanks very much for the effort, I really appreciate the help, it is just too soon for me when I can have everything working the way I want it with 9.1. Cheers all! Shite, gotta redo my sig, forgot to back that up... :-(-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems retrieving mail: fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:33:43 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nope, but thats irrelivent... fetchmail passes the mail to postfix (the MTA) and postfix passes it to procmail for local delivery.. So if postfix aint working properly, then fetchmail isn't going to be able to pass to it which was your problem right? It certainly looked like it. The smtp component of fetchmail was not connecting to Postfix, because Postfix was sayin' I don't know who the hell you are, or vice versa, at least that's the way it looked to me. Should this be something I report as a bug? Or is it a change in the way Mandrake is configured in 9.2 with regard to hostname (this whole Zeroconf thing)? Thanks Franki! -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] a stuck postfix
I am not sure this is working but I had tried to send mail out my mail server here. It was working a few days ago and now isn't. I've tried starting and reloading my postfix and even rebooted. I had these problems last week when I was trying to figure out my spam leakage problem. Anyway, I removed Postfix and reinstalled, and put my saved configuration back in place. I got it working only by rebooting -- going to telinit 1 and then to telinit 3 failed to produce the desired effect. I've had some stuck mail in there before -- but at least it was trying to send it; now it's not even doing that. And I haven't altered /etc/postfix/master.cf (attached) since -- at least not until now. I do have smtp entries in that file - and that's supposedly the reason why it wouldn't work (if they weren't there, that is). But I'm still getting problems. /var/log/mail/errors: - the gaps are the reboot and retries Nov 13 05:16:22 m206-157 postfix/smtp[20777]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Nov 13 05:16:22 m206-157 postfix/smtp[20778]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Nov 13 05:35:26 m206-157 postfix/smtp[21502]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Nov 13 06:06:52 m206-157 postfix/smtp[2274]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp /var/log/mail/warnings [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# tail /var/log/mail/warnings Nov 13 06:20:12 m206-157 postfix/smtp[2406]: warning: deliver_request_get: error receiving common attributes Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: private/smtp socket: malformed response Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: private/smtp socket: malformed response Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description Nov 12 22:23:33 m206-157 postfix/master[1305]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 2416 exit status 1 Nov 12 22:23:33 m206-157 postfix/master[1305]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling Nov 12 22:23:33 m206-157 postfix/master[1305]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 2415 exit status 1 This was working perfectly until my box was compromised. Tomorrow night I'll probably throw in the towel and go qmail. Or maybe just keep sending mail through smtp.tsoft.com as MAPS still has not taken my IP off of their list. By the way, I had this entire post rejected because of one word --- deeelist (as in delisting my server). I got a response that said my post would not go out, along with a return address unknown to MandrakeSoft's servers. This reminds me of Prodigy filters -- one instance when someone wanted to let people know their daughter graduated magna cum laude -- and prodigy blocked on the word cum. IMHO this kind of brain dead list filtering is going to cause more problems than it solves. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -- # # Postfix master process configuration file. Each line describes how # a mailer component program should be run. The fields that make up # each line are described below. A - field value requests that a # default value be used for that field. # # Service: any name that is valid for the specified transport type # (the next field). With INET transports, a service is specified as # host:port. The host part (and colon) may be omitted. Either host # or port may be given in symbolic form or in numeric form. Examples # for the SMTP server: localhost:smtp receives mail via the loopback # interface only; 10025 receives mail on port 10025. # # Transport type: inet for Internet sockets, unix for UNIX-domain # sockets, fifo for named pipes. # # Private: whether or not access is restricted to the mail system. # Default is private service. Internet (inet) sockets can't be private. # # Unprivileged: whether the service runs with root privileges or as # the owner of the Postfix system (the owner name is controlled by the # mail_owner configuration variable in the main.cf file). # # Chroot: whether or not the service runs chrooted to the mail queue # directory (pathname is controlled by the queue_directory configuration # variable in the main.cf file). Presently, all Postfix daemons can run # chrooted, except for the pipe, virtual and local delivery daemons. # The files in the
RE: [expert] Q: Updating disk of 1998 G3 from 6 Gb to... 120Gb?
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: Aha! Sounds good. For PC's with IDE33 from around the same time, one of the magical limits was 8 Gb - but that might be BIOS-related and PC-specific and have nothing to do with G3's. There is also something about a 120 Gb limit, I belive - something BIOS- and IDE100-related. I will keep the boot-strapping below the first couple of Gb's, then! Just so I'm clear, not just the bootstrap, but your kernel/initrd also. By the way - are there any reasons/advantages in trying to update my Open Firmware 3.1.0 - disk-related or not - or should I just leave it as is? Dunno. I rarely run MacOS, so all OF does for me is boot the machine. I leave it alone for the most part. -- Stew Benedict Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Trying to fix a few things after installing 9.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have not seen this message before (Cannot open bayes_path...) and have no idea what it means. As far as I can tell my setup is OK. syslog excerpt: Nov 13 08:53:45 lapdog spamd[3101]: Cannot open bayes_path /home/praedor/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: Nov 13 08:53:45 lapdog spamd[3101]: processing message [EMAIL PROTECTED] for praedor:501. Nov 13 08:53:46 lapdog spamd[3101]: clean message (-99.2/5.0) for praedor:501 in 1.0 seconds, 1202 bytes. I installed MDK 9.2 over my 9.1 install two days ago. I left /home untouched, including my .spamassassin dir and its contents. I am now running the very same version of spamassassin as I was before the upgrade so there can be no change there. What does this mean? I also don't see any indications that procmail is doing anything. I usually would see some sort of indication in my logs that procmail was dealing with each message as it came in. Now there is no indication at all that procmail is working. I have the same .procmailrc that worked with 9.1 as I have now. Where do I look to ensure procmail is used? Isn't it in postfix's main.cf? - -- 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 v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s5QkaKr9sJYeTxgRAkObAKC3WfdOEQ3UzZOUPXkrUr0UnADfqwCdGBxS RUZkkRyknsdIzarOs2wR+L0= =y0Db -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems retrieving mail: fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 05:02, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:33:43 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nope, but thats irrelivent... fetchmail passes the mail to postfix (the MTA) and postfix passes it to procmail for local delivery.. So if postfix aint working properly, then fetchmail isn't going to be able to pass to it which was your problem right? It certainly looked like it. The smtp component of fetchmail was not connecting to Postfix, because Postfix was sayin' I don't know who the hell you are, or vice versa, at least that's the way it looked to me. Should this be something I report as a bug? Or is it a change in the way Mandrake is configured in 9.2 with regard to hostname (this whole Zeroconf thing)? It's definitely Zeroconf related, but whether to call it a bug... same behavior was there in 9.1, and it is designed behavior which does help with basic desktop networking. It's running a server on it that makes the problem :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sound issues with 9.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had a fun evening last. I received SuSE 9.0 yesterday (9.2 came two days ago). I installed 9.2 on my laptop and have it essentially running fine now but no sound. I can get sound working for a single session but that's it. This is on an IBM Thinkpad with an esssolo1 sound device. It worked fine in 9.1 (and 9.1, and previous). The problem I am having is coincident and isolated to 9.2, both the default 2.4.22-10mdk kernel and the 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdkcustom (which I built yesterday). My card is properly identified and the correct module is loaded. My mixer settings are correct, not zeroed out. All I get is white noise (if my volume is set high enough) from the speakers. There are no error messages that I can find associated with sound and the kde soundserver setup in the Control Center doesn' t produce any useful information. The ONLY way I have found to get sound working (in any current session) is to killall artsd, login as superuser and run alsaconf. After that, I restart artsd (as user) and viola, sound works fine. If I then make any changes in the control center (like set it to autodetect instead of alsa, or vice versa) and restart the soundserver, sound is lost again. If I have sound working and then logout and login again, sound is lost. I have updated kde, have a new kernel, have run MandrakeUpdate and installed all the fixes. No good. No sound. Any ideas on getting this fixed once and for all? Anyone else run into this situation? 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 v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s5j1aKr9sJYeTxgRAiw2AJ9/o1aCbLSKVBThqAaLflXurzNGKwCfZ70P Yf6Iiw1Yqi0LWcTZfYQg94M= =y7q6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trying to fix a few things after installing 9.2
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have not seen this message before (Cannot open bayes_path...) and have no idea what it means. As far as I can tell my setup is OK. syslog excerpt: Nov 13 08:53:45 lapdog spamd[3101]: Cannot open bayes_path /home/praedor/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: Nov 13 08:53:45 lapdog spamd[3101]: processing message [EMAIL PROTECTED] for praedor:501. Nov 13 08:53:46 lapdog spamd[3101]: clean message (-99.2/5.0) for praedor:501 in 1.0 seconds, 1202 bytes. Permissions on either /home/praedor/.spamassassin/bayes or its dir, maybe? Does every dir above that file have execute perms for other, so that the dir tree can be traversed down to that file by spamd? What does this mean? I also don't see any indications that procmail is doing anything. I usually would see some sort of indication in my logs that procmail was dealing with each message as it came in. Now there is no indication at all that procmail is working. I have the same .procmailrc that worked with 9.1 as I have now. Where do I look to ensure procmail is used? Isn't it in postfix's main.cf? Yes, it is. You need to have a line in there that reads: mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN This may be commented out in the default main.cf file, IIRC. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 21:05, Michael Holt wrote: ... your setup is probably fine. Theirs is FUBAR'd. No fault of yours. Well, it seems to be the general opinion that I can't really do anything about this situation? It just seems so odd that they would make their servers *that* inaccessible. you assume that they know what they're doing... many people in the IT world don't. p.s. thanks for doing all the footwork of hitting their servers, I don't even really know where to begin :) no problem -- this sort of thing is part of what I do for a living these days, and I was really bored at work :-) LOL :) Cool. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 21:16, Michael Holt wrote: ... Except they drop connection before he could ever send From.. Maybe they've set a ridiculously low timeout or something, but it doesn't act like any real world mailserver I've ever seen. See, that's the thing. I haven't done any playing with cisco routers, but I would imagine that the ios is smart enough to drop anything except an email packet at port 25 and then with all the recent problems with ddos attacks and virii, etc, I would think that they *would* want to seriously filter the headers that come in. But you guys are saying that the headers on my email - no matter which machine I'm sending from - are absolutely normal? Nobody would or could do it differently? Cisco routers are actually very dumb. If the router or a regular firewall is blocking the mail, then the three way TCP handshake will never complete. If a proxy-using firewall (Raptor or the so-called security servers in PIX and Check Point (so-called because the number one source of security holes on those firewalls)) is in use, it will accept enough headers to make a decision on. Dropping the connection right after 220 for servers that aren't on any BL is broken behavior. Well thanks everyone for all the info -- I've definitely learned some stuff (including that I need to do some studying!:) ) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 22:59, Michael Holt wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 22:56, Bill wrote: I dont believe it is a router issue. They could have a acl in place but then you wouldnt see the answer from the server it would just block it alltogther. I dont remember ever seing a Cisco router checking the header files in emails to block a person. I think they may have a timeout issue like mentioned before. They may be trying to prevent anyone from trying to run a script to get in there box through there email server software. This is the first time I have seen an email server not respond the correct way using telent to port 25. In any case it seems to be there problem. I would contact there sys admin and see whats up with this issue. Please let us know what the answer is if you get one. p.s. I do have to tread lightly; I contract for this company and the person I emailed is my point of contact -- I'm not sure how they will react if I tell them how hard I've been working to 'figure out' their system *grin* I'd stop by the sysadmin's desk on the way to the coffee pot and ask her/him, assuming it's the kind of place you can walk around in. Failing that, an off-hand comment about how their email system doesn't seem to accept mail from your home address and see if they'll introduce you to the sysadmin. Point of contact may not need to know that it's widely broken, the sysadmin can help them to that knowledge. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Interesting problems installing 9.2 on desktop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First, a little info about a SuSE install: Last evening I tried installing SuSE 9.0 (just arrived) on my Athlon XP desktop over MDK 9.1. Interesting. Not as simple as the Mandrake install but I managed to get it on and running after three or four abortive attempts: I could not get grub or lilo to install into my HDD's MBR. Near random (and desperate) tweaking finally got it to go. SuSE 9.0 is...OK, though it didn't install most of the packages I manually selected (I selected almost everything). It has a system somewhat similar to Mandrake's for those who elect to manually select packages. The prosuite comes with 5 CDs plus two additional CDs with special SuSE toys on them. In any case, it installed the contents of only the first CD. I wasn't overly impressed (I may give it a shot again later) so I decided to give 9.2 an install. It went onto my laptop without problems but I had a hell of a time getting it to install onto my desktop. 9.1 and 9.0 installed on this same setup without problems. 9.2 almost forced me to either go back to 9.1 or go ahead and stick with SuSE. First off, 9.2 refused to even start to install. It took me quite a while to get it to work. I would bootup the install CD and it would seem to be starting out OK, with the initial progress bar climbing up to about 98% but then it would stop, the screen would go blank without any message whatsoever, and it would sit there for as long as I desired to let it. After a LOT of hair pulling and trying various install options (vgalo, text only, appending a noapic option to the install kernel, checking bios to make sure something wasn't amiss), I finally found that the problem lay with the 2.4.22-10mdkboot kernel on the CD. I could get the install to work ONLY when I selected the 2.2.19 kernel. This limited my install options later but it got me into the installer. I installed everything I could and all seemed OK. It then came time to reboot for the first time. Reboot and...blank screen, just like during initial attempts at installing. Trying to do a failsafe bootup produced a message onscreen after initial boot but I don't recall the exact text (I left the transcript at home on a notepad) but it APPEARED to be associated with APIC. I had APIC disabled in bios and even with a noapic kernel option, I would get this message concerning some APIC-associated (apparently) item (involving ESR whatever that is). What finally did the trick (very oddly in my opinion) was going into bios and enabling APIC. After doing this I could bootup just fine. I now think that perhaps I would be able to do a normal install if, and only if, I enabled APIC in bios first, regardless of sending a noapic switch upon bootup. The biggest problem, and it is unacceptable, is that I could not get 9.2 to format my partitions as ReiserFS. 9.0 and 9.1 could. SuSE 9.0 could. 9.2 would error out almost immediately as soon as it tried to format any partition as ReiserFS. I got stuck with ext3 (yech!). Because I am not happy with my partition scheme and a few other problems - like not setting my /var partition large enough - I will be reinstalling 9.2 once again on this system. It looks like I will need to first start installing 9.1 or SuSE again so I can get my HDD partitions formatted as ReiserFS and then terminate the install and then start an install with the 9.2 CDs and elect NOT to format any partitions. Has anyone else run into a similar problem with 9.2 and ReiserFS? 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 v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s523aKr9sJYeTxgRAggpAJ9FEpL2kjS57CxX+JkQZLWntO6AcACeLVWz CCPAwaXm7UmqFbF/zBSzf1U= =h1wG -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 09:43 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Yeah, i have a choice: acpi=on and then no parallel port, or acpi=off, and then the comp doesn't shut down. Not sure what acpi=ht means. I'll hae to check it out This is all under 9.1. eric Google 'acpi=ht', that'll explain it better than I can. I searched it when Mandrake started usin it instead of =off. Basically it still disables acpi, but allows for cpu enumeration. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 11:12 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 07:10 pm, Jesper S. Knudsen wrote: Hi Will there be no public downloadable 9.2 ISO's avialable for non club members? Looks like they are available now -- see the upper right hand corner at www.linux-mandrake.com. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Apologies - Hijacking threads
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 11:55 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! Ok, I found out what a mess I did about hijacking. My fault, pardon for that. Hope it'll never happen again :-). Alan, you don't learn these things if no-one points it out to you. We've all made mistakes while learning them, which is why we put up the TWiki page about common mistakes. I hope you noted, too, that avoiding hijacking makes it more likely that your post will be seen by people who can give the best answers :-) 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] Disappearing menu's
If we've already run the update-menus, would applying this patch be a valid test? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:35 AM To: Expert List Subject: [expert] Disapearing menu's All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde. Would anyone who can check, test and let me know? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Michael Holt wrote: I haven't done any playing with cisco routers, but I would imagine that the ios is smart enough to drop anything except an email packet at port 25 But there is no such thing as an email packet, per se - all vanilla SMTP transactions are conducted in plain text. This is why telnet is so useful as a method to test SMTP servers, because with it you can mimic what an SMTP client sends *exactly* in all respects. There is AFAIK no way for an SMTP server to tell whether it is talking to an SMTP client or a human using telnet (except possibly an absurdly short timeout, enforced between the first character of a line and the last - as humans type very slowly, from machines' point of view - but given the lags on the WAN, such an arrangement would cut off many machines as well, I'd expect). and then with all the recent problems with ddos attacks and virii, etc, I would think that they *would* want to seriously filter the headers that come in. Yes, but it never gets far enough along in the process to allow you to send it any headers. As has been said, that server appears to be broken. But you guys are saying that the headers on my email - no matter which machine I'm sending from - are absolutely normal? Nobody would or could do it differently? Well, let's not go that far ... :) I don't have your original post with the two sets of headers in it handy, but IIRC the SquirrelMail headers identified the sending machine using a FQDN (and, moreover, one which had a valid rDNS entry), and the Evolution headers did not. That is a significant difference, and one that *will* matter to some SMTP servers, when they are deciding whether or not to accept the mail. It doesn't explain the odd behavior of your boss' system (as that system never even sees those headers), but it may pose a problem when sending mail to some other sites. I'd say to begin by checking your SquirrelMail config file, located at /var/www/squirrelmail/config/config.php (if you are using the MDK RPM version of SquirrelMail), to ensure that you are using the same instance of Postfix for both methods. If we can rule out a difference in SMTP servers used, we can narrow the problem down considerably. Here's mine: $useSendmail = true; $smtpServerAddress = 'localhost'; $smtpPort = 25; $sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $use_authenticated_smtp = false; In my case, both SquirrelMail and Postfix are running on the same box. That may not be the case in your setup, but what's important here is that wherever Postix is running, both SquirrelMail and Evolution are using the same server to send through. I suspect that that's not true here, as that would be the simplest explanation for the differing headers. Including the output of postconf -n, run on the Postfix box, might be helpful also, as would the re-inclusion of the two sets of headers; all that matters is the last couple of Received: headers from each message, as those will be the ones that pertain to your sending system(s). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] club cont urpmi
I was referring to the club contribs as listed on the club download page, all I get is this, this site goes a little further but never downloads [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# urpmi.addmedia -h ftp.physics.auth.gr_devel ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/unsupported unable to take medium contrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.contrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1] exists unable to take medium contrib_ftp.lip6.fr_i586_9.1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.contrib_ftp.lip6.fr_i586_9.1] exists unable to take medium distrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.distrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1] exists unable to take medium old8_1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.old8_1] exists unable to take medium plf_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.plf_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1] exists unable to take medium updates into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.updates] exists added medium ftp.physics.auth.gr_devel examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD (x86) (cdrom3).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Bittorrent RPMs.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz] retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of ftp.physics.auth.gr_devel... ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/base/synthesis.hdlist.cz ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/synthesis.hdlist.cz ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/synthesis.hdlist.cz ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/base/synthesis.hdlist1.cz ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/base/synthesis.hdlist2.cz 0% of 0 completed, ETA = --:--:--, speed = 0 Sorry thats a bit long and theres more trying 9.2 and contribs [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# urpmi.addmedia -h spirit.profinet.sk_ ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/ unable to take medium contrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.contrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1] exists unable to take medium contrib_ftp.lip6.fr_i586_9.1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.contrib_ftp.lip6.fr_i586_9.1] exists unable to take medium distrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.distrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1] exists unable to take medium old8_1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.old8_1] exists unable to take medium plf_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.plf_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1] exists unable to take medium updates into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.updates] exists added medium spirit.profinet.sk_ examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.International CD (x86) (cdrom3).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Bittorrent RPMs.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz] retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of spirit.profinet.sk_... ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/base/synthesis.hdlist.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/synthesis.hdlist.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/synthesis.hdlist.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/base/synthesis.hdlist1.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/base/synthesis.hdlist2.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/synthesis.hdlist1.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/synthesis.hdlist2.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/synthesis.hdlist1.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/synthesis.hdlist2.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/base/hdlist.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/hdlist.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/hdlist.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/base/hdlist1.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/base/hdlist2.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/hdlist1.cz ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/hdlist2.cz
Re: [expert] Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 13 November 2003 8:41 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 11:12 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 07:10 pm, Jesper S. Knudsen wrote: Hi Will there be no public downloadable 9.2 ISO's avialable for non club members? Looks like they are available now -- see the upper right hand corner at www.linux-mandrake.com. -- cmg Nothing has changed on the page that link goes to Carroll. Still the Raw tree and the messages about joining the Club, the LG CD-ROM problem and the delay because of it. Maybe the page just needs to be updated but I snooped on sunet.se and uninett.no and there are no 9.2 ISOs on either of them. Matters not to me except for the people around here that want to do the Try before you buy routine. I'm glad I looked before I told anyone they could download the images. g Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 09:41:01 up 2 days, 21:46, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.63, 0.50 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, when for the truth he ought to die. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s7U+G11CaRuZZSIRAkDlAJ4xhPtIWCbHAGwNv0OtONLU2EcH8QCbBzDb 4escIYGKnoeiWU/yaFInzU0= =mMEU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] More than just sound problems with 9.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since I am getting no error messages in syslog nor from artsmessage, I took a look at .xsession-errors after a fresh login. This is what is in it: I don't know what it means by Mixer not found. I can start kmix just fine and it appears perfectly OK. I can open up alsamixer as well and it is OK. If I do an lsmod I see the sound driver is properly loaded. Then there is the issue regarding konsole_grantpty. Huh? NEVER seen this before anywhere. Anyone know what the deal is here? Excerpt from .xsession-errors: Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 ERROR: kmix: Mixer cannot be found. Please check that the soundcard is installed and that the soundcard driver is loaded. WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) \x08 Major opcode: * ERROR: kmix: Mixer cannot be found. Please check that the soundcard is installed and that the soundcard driver is loaded. Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 konsole: cannot chown /dev/pts/0. Reason: Operation not permitted konsole_grantpty: determined a strange device name `/dev/ptmx'. konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/pts/0::/dev/pts/0. : This means the session can be eavesdroped. : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in : /usr/bin/ and setuid root. Here is the sound portion from lsmod: snd-seq-midi5088 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-opl3-synth 12680 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-instr 7204 0 (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth] snd-seq-midi-emul 6940 0 (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth] snd-ainstr-fm 2944 0 (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth] snd-seq-oss32000 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 6080 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq42576 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-instr snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss43652 1 snd-mixer-oss 14232 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-es1938 14404 3 snd-opl3-lib8004 0 [snd-opl3-synth snd-es1938] snd-hwdep 6304 0 [snd-opl3-lib] snd-pcm79588 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-es1938] snd-timer 18436 0 [snd-seq snd-opl3-lib snd-pcm] gameport3284 0 [snd-es1938] snd-mpu401-uart 4704 0 [snd-es1938] snd-rawmidi17760 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi] snd-page-alloc 9044 0 [snd-es1938 snd-pcm] snd41444 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-instr snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-es1938 snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 6340 0 [snd] By the way, now running alsaconf doesn't give me even temporary sound. I get no sound at all. I am going to dump the tmb kernel and try another (perhaps go back to the 2.4.21-13 kernel from 9.0. Anyone? - -- 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 v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s7nMaKr9sJYeTxgRApnlAJ93MYM1FN9IfleJqz34OUJrY5WsygCeNyjg Ayb0UNOSxcoNLJQPX8AmT2s= =jZBJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just trying this out-Testing
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Charlie wrote: Seeking help for my problem for the situation below:- Delivery attempt history for your mail: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 19:10:05 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: smtp;450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [144.135.25.173] Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:08:49 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: smtp;450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [144.135.25.173] And this was sent directly from your Postfix server to Mandrake's, or by way of your ISP's SMTP server? If the former, was that your IP address as of when the message was originally sent? I received this reply from my states LUG :- From the messages below, the linux-mandrake.com list is refusing mail from 144.135.25.173 because 144.135.25.173 has no reverse DNS. Ask Telstra support to identify 144.135.25.173 and give it a reverse DNS. Sounds correct to me. The question is, who is 144.135.25.173, and where does/did that system fit into the transmission chain? Interesting that mta09ps.email.bigpond.com also has no forward DNS. I'm not clear as to where that figures into the equation, as you did not include a header that mentions that hostname. FWIW, email.bigpond.com has a valid forward DNS (139.134.6.70), but that address fails to resolve back to that hostname (or any other one, for that matter) ... interesting ... Having contacted my ISP I have received the answer as follows:- Dear BigPond Customer, The BigPond team would like to apologise for some intermittent email problems you may have experienced this week. We quickly dedicated all available resources to the problem, working to address it by rebalancing the email load. We had the capacity to deal with the problem and we believe it was resolved by early Wednesday afternoon. We will continue to closely monitor email performance. Thank you for your patience. You can check the current state of all of our systems at http://telstra.com/servicestatus/ Yours faithfully, The BigPond Team --- (TM) Trade Mark of Telstra Corporation Limited ABN 33 051 775 55 If you were sending through their SMTP server(s), then that reply doesn't really address the specific problem, and looks like a canned response (hardly surprising, that g). If, OTOH, you were trying to send directly, not only does the state of their mail servers have no bearing on your difficulties (as you're bypassing them), but by mentioning what you're doing, you could be opening an unpleasant can of worms, if running a mail server violates your TOS/AUP ... just a word to the wise, as they say. ;) Thus I am trying it out to see if this message gets through. It did ... but the headers in it are a bit odd, IMHO. It seems to have gone by way of several of Telstra's SMTP servers before being sent on to Mandrake's, and it appears that the first of Telstra's mail systems is misidentifying itself to the second ... but it worked, somehow! :) Received: from gizmo13bw.bigpond.com (gizmo13bw.bigpond.com [144.140.70.23]) by smtp1.mandrax.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0165513564 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 13 Nov 2003 03:13:51 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 24570 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2003 07:57:58 - Received: from unknown (HELO mwpp-p-144-139-163-63.prem.tmns.net.au) (144.135.24.81) by gizmo13bw.bigpond.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2003 07:57:58 - Received: from mwpp-p-144-139-163-63.prem.tmns.net.au ([144.139.163.63]) by bwmam05.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_3_2d 38/574539); 13 Nov 2003 17:58:11 I presume that mwpp-p-144-139-163-63.prem.tmns.net.au is your system? If so, it has a valid rDNS entry as well, which is nice to know. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members
Charlie M. schrieb am Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:45:41 -0700: Maybe the page just needs to be updated No, sorry, no new news so far. It's still only the tree but no ISOs. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:47, Jack Coates wrote: you assume that they know what they're doing... many people in the IT world don't. LOL I'm working on the 'NMCI' project in Bremerton, WA right now - the 'Naval Marine Corps Intranet'. I believe that there are a few really sharp people doing the engineering, but each day my bubble gets a little more crushed realizing how true your statement is. I just assumed that the people I went to work with new more than I and were all professionals... -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #152: My pony-tail hit the on/off switch on the power strip. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sarg
Okay installed sarg from Mandrake 9.2 and ran it and got the error below. Why does this not work out of the box like previous versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# sarg SARG: File not found: /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log James S. Lawson (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:56, Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:47, Jack Coates wrote: you assume that they know what they're doing... many people in the IT world don't. LOL I'm working on the 'NMCI' project in Bremerton, WA right now - the 'Naval Marine Corps Intranet'. I believe that there are a few really sharp people doing the engineering, but each day my bubble gets a little more crushed realizing how true your statement is. I just assumed that the people I went to work with new more than I and were all professionals... Yeah, nothing like interviewing job candidates to burst that bubble :-) There are some very good people out there, but the dangerous ones are the ones that know just enough to do things but don't know enough to realize that they shouldn't do that thing. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:51, Jack Coates wrote: Cisco routers are actually very dumb. If the router or a regular firewall is blocking the mail, then the three way TCP handshake will never complete. If a proxy-using firewall (Raptor or the so-called security servers in PIX and Check Point (so-called because the number one source of security holes on those firewalls)) is in use, it will accept enough headers to make a decision on. Dropping the connection right after 220 for servers that aren't on any BL is broken behavior. Ok, in reading the rfc 2821, I come to these relevant lines: The SMTP client MUST, if possible, ensure that the domain parameter to the EHLO command is a valid principal host name (not a CNAME or MX name) for its host. If this is not possible (e.g., when the client's address is dynamically assigned and the client does not have an obvious name), an address literal SHOULD be substituted for the domain name and supplemental information provided that will assist in identifying the client. In my original post, I included my headers. They show that the webmail header came with my verizon dsl id: Received: from www.holt-tech.net (unknown [server.internal.ip.address]) by servername (Postfix) with SMTP id 13833205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:16:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-34.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.35.151.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user michael) by server.internal.ip.address with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Notice the second received line evrtwa1-blah-blah. Could that string be what allows me to connect to their server? Short of that, I'm at a loss as to what else could be dropping me. When I use the client machines, that line becomes whatever machine name I'm at along with it's internal ip. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #257: That would be because the software doesn't work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sarg
I'm going to try real hard not to be sarcastic... failed. oh well. Maybe because your squid log isn't in that location? Or because the sarg user doesn't have access and the sarg writer assumed that any failure to open the file is a File not found (e.g., improper error message)? On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:13, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay installed sarg from Mandrake 9.2 and ran it and got the error below. Why does this not work out of the box like previous versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# sarg SARG: File not found: /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log James S. Lawson (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ 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] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:56, Jack Coates wrote: I'd stop by the sysadmin's desk on the way to the coffee pot and ask her/him, assuming it's the kind of place you can walk around in. Failing that, an off-hand comment about how their email system doesn't seem to accept mail from your home address and see if they'll introduce you to the sysadmin. Point of contact may not need to know that it's widely broken, the sysadmin can help them to that knowledge. I'm on a remote site :'( but I think I'm just going to email them and see if I can bug them about it - sometimes innocent ignorance has an appeal :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #251: Processes running slowly due to weak power supply Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stuck postfix
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:08, dfox wrote: I am not sure this is working but I had tried to send mail out my mail server here. It was working a few days ago and now isn't. I've tried starting and reloading my postfix and even rebooted. I had these problems last week when I was trying to figure out my spam leakage problem. Anyway, I removed Postfix and reinstalled, and put my saved configuration back in place. I got it working only by rebooting -- going to telinit 1 and then to telinit 3 failed to produce the desired effect. I've had some stuck mail in there before -- but at least it was trying to send it; now it's not even doing that. And I haven't altered /etc/postfix/master.cf (attached) since -- at least not until now. I do have smtp entries in that file - and that's supposedly the reason why it wouldn't work (if they weren't there, that is). But I'm still getting problems. /var/log/mail/errors: - the gaps are the reboot and retries Nov 13 05:16:22 m206-157 postfix/smtp[20777]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Nov 13 05:16:22 m206-157 postfix/smtp[20778]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Nov 13 05:35:26 m206-157 postfix/smtp[21502]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Nov 13 06:06:52 m206-157 postfix/smtp[2274]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp those are bad. Try copying /etc/services into the jail, or better yet turn off chrooting in master.cf. /var/log/mail/warnings [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]# tail /var/log/mail/warnings Nov 13 06:20:12 m206-157 postfix/smtp[2406]: warning: deliver_request_get: error receiving common attributes Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: private/smtp socket: malformed response Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: premature end-of-input on private/smtp socket while reading input attribute name Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: private/smtp socket: malformed response Nov 13 06:23:33 m206-157 postfix/nqmgr[1838]: warning: transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description Nov 12 22:23:33 m206-157 postfix/master[1305]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 2416 exit status 1 Nov 12 22:23:33 m206-157 postfix/master[1305]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling Nov 12 22:23:33 m206-157 postfix/master[1305]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 2415 exit status 1 internal communication issues. This was working perfectly until my box was compromised. Tomorrow night I'll probably throw in the towel and go qmail. Or maybe just keep sending mail through smtp.tsoft.com as MAPS still has not taken my IP off of their list. Are you seriously implying that you haven't formatted the disk and started over? A malicious user has been on your system sending spam and you haven't wiped the disk clean?? If this is the case, stop now, put in the distribution CD, reboot, and do a clean install. Be sure to format all partitions and restore personal files from backup. By the way, I had this entire post rejected because of one word --- deeelist (as in delisting my server). I got a response that said my post would not go out, along with a return address unknown to MandrakeSoft's servers. This reminds me of Prodigy filters -- one instance when someone wanted to let people know their daughter graduated magna cum laude -- and prodigy blocked on the word cum. IMHO this kind of brain dead list filtering is going to cause more problems than it solves. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -- __ 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] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:26, Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:51, Jack Coates wrote: Cisco routers are actually very dumb. If the router or a regular firewall is blocking the mail, then the three way TCP handshake will never complete. If a proxy-using firewall (Raptor or the so-called security servers in PIX and Check Point (so-called because the number one source of security holes on those firewalls)) is in use, it will accept enough headers to make a decision on. Dropping the connection right after 220 for servers that aren't on any BL is broken behavior. Ok, in reading the rfc 2821, I come to these relevant lines: The SMTP client MUST, if possible, ensure that the domain parameter to the EHLO command is a valid principal host name (not a CNAME or MX name) for its host. If this is not possible (e.g., when the client's address is dynamically assigned and the client does not have an obvious name), an address literal SHOULD be substituted for the domain name and supplemental information provided that will assist in identifying the client. In my original post, I included my headers. They show that the webmail header came with my verizon dsl id: Received: from www.holt-tech.net (unknown [server.internal.ip.address]) by servername (Postfix) with SMTP id 13833205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:16:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-34.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.35.151.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user michael) by server.internal.ip.address with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Notice the second received line evrtwa1-blah-blah. Could that string be what allows me to connect to their server? Short of that, I'm at a loss as to what else could be dropping me. When I use the client machines, that line becomes whatever machine name I'm at along with it's internal ip. that could be it, but you'll have to use ethereal or tcpdump or something to watch the session and see if you're even able to send a EHLO/HELO statement; I was never able to get that far. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:26, Bill Mullen wrote: But there is no such thing as an email packet, per se - all vanilla SMTP transactions are conducted in plain text. This is why telnet is so useful as a method to test SMTP servers, because with it you can mimic what an SMTP client sends *exactly* in all respects. There is AFAIK no way for an SMTP server to tell whether it is talking to an SMTP client or a human using telnet (except possibly an absurdly short timeout, enforced between the first character of a line and the last - as humans type very slowly, from machines' point of view - but given the lags on the WAN, such an arrangement would cut off many machines as well, I'd expect). Yeah, I'm starting to get that. I was reading the smtp rfc and it would seem that one could send all the same commands via telnet. I guess it just seemed like it should be more complicated than that. and then with all the recent problems with ddos attacks and virii, etc, I would think that they *would* want to seriously filter the headers that come in. Yes, but it never gets far enough along in the process to allow you to send it any headers. As has been said, that server appears to be broken. But you guys are saying that the headers on my email - no matter which machine I'm sending from - are absolutely normal? Nobody would or could do it differently? Well, let's not go that far ... :) Darn! :) I don't have your original post with the two sets of headers in it handy, but IIRC the SquirrelMail headers identified the sending machine using a FQDN (and, moreover, one which had a valid rDNS entry), and the Evolution headers did not. That is a significant difference, and one that *will* matter to some SMTP servers, when they are deciding whether or not to accept the mail. It doesn't explain the odd behavior of your boss' system (as that system never even sees those headers), but it may pose a problem when sending mail to some other sites. I'd say to begin by checking your SquirrelMail config file, located at /var/www/squirrelmail/config/config.php (if you are using the MDK RPM version of SquirrelMail), to ensure that you are using the same instance of Postfix for both methods. If we can rule out a difference in SMTP servers used, we can narrow the problem down considerably. Here's mine: $useSendmail = true; $smtpServerAddress = 'localhost'; $smtpPort = 25; $sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $use_authenticated_smtp = false; In my case, both SquirrelMail and Postfix are running on the same box. That may not be the case in your setup, but what's important here is that wherever Postix is running, both SquirrelMail and Evolution are using the same server to send through. I suspect that that's not true here, as that would be the simplest explanation for the differing headers. Including the output of postconf -n, run on the Postfix box, might be helpful also, as would the re-inclusion of the two sets of headers; all that matters is the last couple of Received: headers from each message, as those will be the ones that pertain to your sending system(s). postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 default_privs = nobody delay_warning_time = 4 mail_owner = postfix mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix manpage_directory = /usr/share/man mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain $mydomain mydomain = holt-tech.net myhostname = earth mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/24 myorigin = holt-tech.net newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-1.1.11/README_FILES sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-1.1.11/samples sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix setgid_group = postdrop smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name ($mail_version) (Mandrake Linux) Here was my config.php: $useSendmail = false; $smtpServerAddress = '192.168.0.3'; $smtpPort = 25; $sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $use_authenticated_smtp = false; I changed the ip address to 'localhost' and I haven't changed the 'useSendmail' option. Yes, the postfix server and the squirrel server reside on the same box (as does most everything else). Here are the relevant headers: Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta130.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:14:06 -0800 Received: from www.holt-tech.net (unknown [server.internal.ip.address]) by servername (Postfix) with SMTP id 13833205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:16:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-34.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.35.151.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user michael) by server.internal.ip.address
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:23, Jack Coates wrote: Yeah, nothing like interviewing job candidates to burst that bubble :-) There are some very good people out there, but the dangerous ones are the ones that know just enough to do things but don't know enough to realize that they shouldn't do that thing. LOL, no kidding :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #10: hardware stress fractures Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Sarg
Yeap you are right it should be /var/log/squid/access.log. I just thought that these packages were made to be installed out of the box and work sorry for that. It did come from the disks.. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:26 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Sarg I'm going to try real hard not to be sarcastic... failed. oh well. Maybe because your squid log isn't in that location? Or because the sarg user doesn't have access and the sarg writer assumed that any failure to open the file is a File not found (e.g., improper error message)? On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:13, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay installed sarg from Mandrake 9.2 and ran it and got the error below. Why does this not work out of the box like previous versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# sarg SARG: File not found: /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log James S. Lawson (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ 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] Re: Cyrus-imapd
Norman Zhang escribió: Thanks. I tried exactly the above and creating smtp as follows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# more /etc/pam.d/smtp auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth accountrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth But still couldn't get it to work (continuous prompt for username/password from OE). I then changed pwcheck_method: sasldb. I can now send/receive mail. Really strange, that should not work at all (to check the sasldb it should be pwcheck_method: auxprop according to the documentation). Sasl is probably using another method instead of plaintext. Try to add mech_list: plain in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf to see if it makes a difference However, I still have one more question, sasldb means I need to useradd/passwd to create new users. I also need to add users to cyrus through cyradm. Well, yes, but this is a separate issue: you have to create a *mailbox* with cyradm. The authentication method is configured through sasl. Cyrus-imapd in my package is configured to use saslauth-pam. Configuring postfix for smtp auth is another issue altogether (though the authentication is managed using cyrus-sasl libraries). I need to update two user databases separately. Without users created locally, I can't seem to login to the user account and access inbox. Is there a way to simplify this? I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish. If you want *no* local users, just create mailboxes in cyrus and use the sasldb (or whatever other method you prefer, ldap, mysql, whatever) to grant access to mailboxes that are not tied to local users. If you instead want local user and authenticate with the system database (/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow), cyrus-imapd is already configured that way, and smtp_auth in postfix should work the way I told you (mind me, I'm not using smtp_auth with sasl v2, I'm using it with an older version and the setup is different and no good for you). If it doesn't work you'll have to check the log files (for postfix and for saslauthd -- in /var/log/messages ) to see what's going wrong (I know it's a pain). Check the docs in /usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.15 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
[expert] Resurection of a Dead LG Drive
All, They can be repaired. I put the info in the TWiki as well here's the blurb. LG has put out information on how to correct the problem of a dead drive to to an MDK install. Got to LG's Website (http://us.lgservice.com/ ) Click on the Devices Icon and then choose cdrom from the list. Click the link Dead.gif to get the instructions and then grab the correct firmware from the same page as Dead.gif to get the needed firmware. And yes. You need to do it from a M$ box. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] opening ports
Hi, Anyone know what ports I need to open on the firewall to connect to Live365.com mp3 servers. Thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Sarg
NP - -there are rough edges, and this is one of them. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:12, Lawson, Jim wrote: Yeap you are right it should be /var/log/squid/access.log. I just thought that these packages were made to be installed out of the box and work sorry for that. It did come from the disks.. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:26 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Sarg I'm going to try real hard not to be sarcastic... failed. oh well. Maybe because your squid log isn't in that location? Or because the sarg user doesn't have access and the sarg writer assumed that any failure to open the file is a File not found (e.g., improper error message)? On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:13, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay installed sarg from Mandrake 9.2 and ran it and got the error below. Why does this not work out of the box like previous versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# sarg SARG: File not found: /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log James S. Lawson (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ 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] Sarg
I agree I thought by now they would have them ironed out. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:38 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] Sarg NP - -there are rough edges, and this is one of them. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:12, Lawson, Jim wrote: Yeap you are right it should be /var/log/squid/access.log. I just thought that these packages were made to be installed out of the box and work sorry for that. It did come from the disks.. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:26 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Sarg I'm going to try real hard not to be sarcastic... failed. oh well. Maybe because your squid log isn't in that location? Or because the sarg user doesn't have access and the sarg writer assumed that any failure to open the file is a File not found (e.g., improper error message)? On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:13, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay installed sarg from Mandrake 9.2 and ran it and got the error below. Why does this not work out of the box like previous versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# sarg SARG: File not found: /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log James S. Lawson (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ 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] Sarg
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 6:13 pm, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay installed sarg from Mandrake 9.2 and ran it and got the error below. Why does this not work out of the box like previous versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# sarg SARG: File not found: /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log The standard build of all packages I have come across is to install into /usr/local. All MDK RPMs are built to install in /usr. The option to change the installation directory is usually a parameter to ./configure. My guess would be that the sarg developers missed a bug that failed to check the option, alternatively the MDK packagers failed to specify it correctly. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] opening ports
dunno , but you could try tail -f on your firewall logfile and try to connect to live 365, if its rejecting or dropping you should see which port its trying to use. HTH Richard On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:34, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, Anyone know what ports I need to open on the firewall to connect to Live365.com mp3 servers. Thanks, Dan __ 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] Squid Proxy
Stupid question. I turn on the firewall and squid stopped working. I add the port 3128/tcp still stopped working. and Idea's. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Squid Proxy
did you restart the firewall after adding the port? Are you using the DrakConf control center or working directly with shorewall or doing something else? On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:14, Lawson, Jim wrote: Stupid question. I turn on the firewall and squid stopped working. I add the port 3128/tcp still stopped working. and Idea's. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ 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] Squid Proxy
DrakConf control center in kde. Applied the setting squid stopped. this I think uses shore wall unless they changed it form 9.0 and 9.1 -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:25 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Squid Proxy did you restart the firewall after adding the port? Are you using the DrakConf control center or working directly with shorewall or doing something else? On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:14, Lawson, Jim wrote: Stupid question. I turn on the firewall and squid stopped working. I add the port 3128/tcp still stopped working. and Idea's. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ 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] Squid Proxy
as root, type service shorewall restart in a console. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:33, Lawson, Jim wrote: DrakConf control center in kde. Applied the setting squid stopped. this I think uses shore wall unless they changed it form 9.0 and 9.1 -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:25 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Squid Proxy did you restart the firewall after adding the port? Are you using the DrakConf control center or working directly with shorewall or doing something else? On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:14, Lawson, Jim wrote: Stupid question. I turn on the firewall and squid stopped working. I add the port 3128/tcp still stopped working. and Idea's. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ 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] Disappearing menu's
On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:48 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: If we've already run the update-menus, would applying this patch be a valid test? The patch will prevent you from having to run update-menus in the future. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:35 AM To: Expert List Subject: [expert] Disapearing menu's All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde. Would anyone who can check, test and let me know? James -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd
Hi, [root]# more /etc/pam.d/smtp auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth accountrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth But still couldn't get it to work (continuous prompt for username/password from OE). I then changed pwcheck_method: sasldb. I can now send/receive mail. Really strange, that should not work at all (to check the sasldb it should be pwcheck_method: auxprop according to the documentation). Sasl is probably using another method instead of plaintext. Try to add mech_list: plain in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf to see if it makes a difference I followed http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/postfix-sasl.php. I changed pwcheck_method: sasldb in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf then followed by saslpasswd2 -a smtpd. I already have sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN in /etc/imapd.conf. I also made smtpd_sasl_local_domain = in /etc/postfix/main.cf. Is this the correct way of doing things? However, I still have one more question, sasldb means I need to useradd/passwd to create new users. I also need to add users to cyrus through cyradm. Well, yes, but this is a separate issue: you have to create a *mailbox* with cyradm. The authentication method is configured through sasl. Cyrus-imapd in my package is configured to use saslauth-pam. Configuring postfix for smtp auth is another issue altogether (though the authentication is managed using cyrus-sasl libraries). I'm just confused. I was hoping to authenticate against cyrus mailbox and do smtp auth with one set of account. That way it would be easy to maintain. By changing pwcheck_method: sasldb in smtpd.conf, I made it to authenticate against sasl.db for smtp auth, and login to cyrus mailbox against /etc/passwd? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Disappearing menu's
what about the screensavers? Should they be visible now? David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Disappearing menu's On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:48 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: If we've already run the update-menus, would applying this patch be a valid test? The patch will prevent you from having to run update-menus in the future. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:35 AM To: Expert List Subject: [expert] Disapearing menu's All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde. Would anyone who can check, test and let me know? James -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Squid Proxy
I did had to stop shore wall. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:38 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] Squid Proxy as root, type service shorewall restart in a console. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:33, Lawson, Jim wrote: DrakConf control center in kde. Applied the setting squid stopped. this I think uses shore wall unless they changed it form 9.0 and 9.1 -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:25 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Squid Proxy did you restart the firewall after adding the port? Are you using the DrakConf control center or working directly with shorewall or doing something else? On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:14, Lawson, Jim wrote: Stupid question. I turn on the firewall and squid stopped working. I add the port 3128/tcp still stopped working. and Idea's. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ 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
[expert] Lyx-qt and Mandrake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of a recent rpm of Lyx-qt available for Mandrake? praedorh - -- 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 v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s++HaKr9sJYeTxgRApr8AJ9hfuBpGkNtnN3AQ8P5Q6S2wrG0BQCgjbOi aiCiKsgUzLLgg2JraE+Q8Lk= =FVcl -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Just trying this out-Testing
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 04:15 am, many eyes noted that Bill Mullen wrote: It did ... but the headers in it are a bit odd, IMHO. It seems to have gone by way of several of Telstra's SMTP servers before being sent on to Mandrake's, and it appears that the first of Telstra's mail systems is misidentifying itself to the second ... but it worked, somehow! :) Hi Bill, Seeing it on the list quite smartly after sent is what I was looking for. I only sent snippets of content by way of a truncated explanation. Apparently the information that Telstra's DNS was not identifying itself was the problem. Mandrake didn't like it and they didn't accept it. It was used as a test with another SYMPA system to overcome the problem, and after a few days not being able to send to the list, this is rectified. You say that it has been done in a convoluted way? I really have no idea about any of these things. It works and it appears not to be delayed along the way, seems all right to me. But it wasn't for over a week. Charlie -- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Helen Keller This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Cyrus-imapd
Norman Zhang escribió: I followed http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/postfix-sasl.php. I changed That documentation is outdated: it's for version 1 of the sasl library. 9.2 is using verion 2. The documentation is in /usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.15/ (there's also a migration guide). pwcheck_method: sasldb in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf then followed by saslpasswd2 -a smtpd. I already have sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: PLAIN in /etc/imapd.conf. I also made smtpd_sasl_local_domain = in /etc/postfix/main.cf. Is this the correct way of doing things? You're mixing two separate issues. One thing is cyrus-mapd configuration and another is postfix configuration. /etc/imapd.conf configures cyrus-imapd. Options there with a sasl_ prefix are for sasl configuration (authentication), i.e. how users are supposed to authenticate against cyrus-imapd. /etc/postfix/main.cf is postfix configuration, while sasl options for postfix should go to /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf [] I'm just confused. I was hoping to authenticate against cyrus mailbox and do you simply *don't* authenticate against cyrus-imapd mailbox, you authenticate against some database containing secrets. For that cyrus-imapd uses sasl, so it can use various methods to exchange credentials between the client and the server and various sources for secrets. smtp auth with one set of account. That way it would be easy to maintain. By but you can configure both cyrus-imapd and postfix (or better the sasl library as used by cyrus-imapd and the sasl library as used by postfix) to use the same sources and/or the same methods for authentication. changing pwcheck_method: sasldb in smtpd.conf, I made it to authenticate against sasl.db for smtp auth, no, you gave an invalid option so sasl ignored it and used a different method than plaintext password (other method that, incidentally, takes its secrets from the sasldb). and login to cyrus mailbox against /etc/passwd? smtpd.conf has nothing to do with cyrus-imapd authentication. You configure that in /etc/imapd.conf. You can configure it the same as postfix. The difference is that options for sasl in /etc/imapd.conf have to be prefixed by sasl_, while there's no need for such prefix in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf. Besides this difference the options are the same. 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] Disappearing menu's
On Thursday 13 November 2003 03:45 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: what about the screensavers? Should they be visible now? That should be fixed with the existing updates. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] opening ports
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 15:02, Richard Bown wrote: dunno , but you could try tail -f on your firewall logfile and try to connect to live 365, if its rejecting or dropping you should see which port its trying to use. HTH Richard On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:34, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, Anyone know what ports I need to open on the firewall to connect to Live365.com mp3 servers. Thanks, Dan I'm running mnf on 9.1 and the default policies are supposed to log, and they have on other services, but they don't log anything for this. The default is to reject all traffic lan to wan, unless there is a rule allowing it, I can change it to accept and I can connect, but there is nothing logged for this. Thanks, Dan __ 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] Squid Proxy
not sure what this means... I'm guessing that you did restart shorewall and you still can't access squid? If so, drakconf probably misconfigured shorewall and you'll need to fix it manually. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:53, Lawson, Jim wrote: I did had to stop shore wall. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:38 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] Squid Proxy as root, type service shorewall restart in a console. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:33, Lawson, Jim wrote: DrakConf control center in kde. Applied the setting squid stopped. this I think uses shore wall unless they changed it form 9.0 and 9.1 -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:25 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Squid Proxy did you restart the firewall after adding the port? Are you using the DrakConf control center or working directly with shorewall or doing something else? On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:14, Lawson, Jim wrote: Stupid question. I turn on the firewall and squid stopped working. I add the port 3128/tcp still stopped working. and Idea's. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ 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] Squid Proxy
Sorry yes did service shorewall restart. Checked proxy did not work so then did service shorewall stop. To get squid to work again. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:27 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] Squid Proxy not sure what this means... I'm guessing that you did restart shorewall and you still can't access squid? If so, drakconf probably misconfigured shorewall and you'll need to fix it manually. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:53, Lawson, Jim wrote: I did had to stop shore wall. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:38 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] Squid Proxy as root, type service shorewall restart in a console. On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:33, Lawson, Jim wrote: DrakConf control center in kde. Applied the setting squid stopped. this I think uses shore wall unless they changed it form 9.0 and 9.1 -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:25 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Squid Proxy did you restart the firewall after adding the port? Are you using the DrakConf control center or working directly with shorewall or doing something else? On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:14, Lawson, Jim wrote: Stupid question. I turn on the firewall and squid stopped working. I add the port 3128/tcp still stopped working. and Idea's. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original __ 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] Disappearing menu's
I thought so too (that's what the advisory said they fixed) but I still only get the three - blank screen, mandrake slide show and random. I've run update-menus -v and have no available updates listed on my Mandrake Update Center. Could I have pulled from a bad mirror? Has anyone else who has performed these updates got their screensavers to show up? It's not all that important, but now I'm just curious about what is really going on David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Disappearing menu's On Thursday 13 November 2003 03:45 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: what about the screensavers? Should they be visible now? That should be fixed with the existing updates. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake
I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 since RedHat is effectively discontinuing the full-fledged hobbyist version of RedHat and splitting the userbase between Fedora for those of us who don't have several hundred dollars for enterprise linux and those who have the money and need for Enterprise linux. My question is, how well would the switch go? I typically keep my home directory on it's own partition and another partition with some MP3s and other miscellaneous data. I typically blow everything else away and reformat. One thing I liked about RedHat was that when I did this, it would recognize how my system was partitioned and offer to re-use the old partitions. Will Mandrake do this for me? I'm on RedHat 9.0 right now with ext3 file systems throughout. I have used Mandrake before, but the last time I think I used it was back around Mandrake 5 or 6, before they made it so difficult to get ISOs of the distro. I basically liked it then, but there were a few advanced features I wasn't so thrilled with, but I'm looking at giving it another shot. Thanks... John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:26, Bill Mullen wrote: Including the output of postconf -n, run on the Postfix box, might be helpful also, as would the re-inclusion of the two sets of headers; all that matters is the last couple of Received: headers from each message, as those will be the ones that pertain to your sending system(s). postconf -n [snip] mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain $mydomain mydomain = holt-tech.net myhostname = earth mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/24 myorigin = holt-tech.net [snip] Okay, I think you should at least change the myhostname = line, found in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file. Having the short hostname of your Postfix box here does you no good, as it is of utterly no use to the destination system. OTOH, if you changed it to holt-tech.net, then at least the name resolves in one direction (forward), and agrees with the hostname in your MX record for the domain. It would still fail an rDNS check, though, if that check doesn't merely look for whether an rDNS entry exists, but goes further to insist that it match the stated hostname (which it won't). :( Bear in mind that the myhostname = setting in main.cf doesn't need to bear even the slightest resemblance to what your system actually calls itself; it is the string that is sent whenever Postfix identifies the system on which it is running to other systems (both clients and servers). As such, the value of this setting *will* have an impact on whether or not mail is accepted from you by some servers, as it is sent in the HELO/EHLO statement when Postfix initiates a connection as a client. If your external hostname (the one supplied you by your ISP, and currently evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-034.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net) remains constant or nearly so, then *that* is the ideal string to put into main.cf as your myhostname = value, because then your name resolves in both directions. If you can do this, it mitigates a lot of problems of this variety. The mere fact that the hostname is obviously tied to the IP address should not be a deal-breaker in and of itself, even if you use DHCP, as many cable and DSL setups that use DHCP in fact change the IP address very rarely. One could even cobble together a script that determines the current real hostname, rewrites main.cf to reflect the change, and reloads Postfix, and then set that script to run after every IP address change (both dhcpcd and dhclient can be configured for this, and if you use a router, you could instead run the script as a cron job to test for such a change, then do its thing if one has occurred). If your IP address changes often, that hack might allow you to still use your system's real name in main.cf. Note: if you change myhostname = in main.cf, be sure to append the string , earth.$mydomain to the mydestination = line, so that Postfix continues to be aware that the box sometimes goes by that name as well. Here was my config.php: $useSendmail = false; $smtpServerAddress = '192.168.0.3'; $smtpPort = 25; $sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $use_authenticated_smtp = false; I changed the ip address to 'localhost' and I haven't changed the 'useSendmail' option. No problem, it's just talking SMTP directly to port 25, rather than invoking the sendmail pseudo-app. No need to change anything else here. Yes, the postfix server and the squirrel server reside on the same box (as does most everything else). Okay, and I gather that the Evolution box is a different one, but also on the same LAN with the server system. Here are the relevant headers: Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta130.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:14:06 -0800 Received: from www.holt-tech.net (unknown [server.internal.ip.address]) by servername (Postfix) with SMTP id 13833205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:16:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-34.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.35.151.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user michael) by server.internal.ip.address with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta156.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:00:02 -0800 Received: from machinename (unknown [host.internal.ip]) by servername (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0606E205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:02:11 -0500 (EST) You should be able to get rid of the unknown bit in the latter set of headers by putting an entry into the /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts file on the Postfix box that identifies the Evo system (machinename) by tying its internal IP address to its hostname. It would need to be here, as Postfix runs chrooted (in its default MDK configuration), and cannot see the real /etc/hosts file. You might also want to throw
Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:57, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 since RedHat is effectively discontinuing the full-fledged hobbyist version of RedHat and splitting the userbase between Fedora for those of us who don't have several hundred dollars for enterprise linux and those who have the money and need for Enterprise linux. welcome. A list etiquette thing on this list is to not set reply-to -- see http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/rely-to. My question is, how well would the switch go? I typically keep my home directory on it's own partition and another partition with some MP3s and other miscellaneous data. I typically blow everything else away and reformat. One thing I liked about RedHat was that when I did this, it would recognize how my system was partitioned and offer to re-use the old partitions. Will Mandrake do this for me? I'm on RedHat 9.0 right now with ext3 file systems throughout. yes. You should write down which partition is which if you can't recognize them by size, as diskdrake will just show you the partitions and ask where you want to mount them. I have used Mandrake before, but the last time I think I used it was back around Mandrake 5 or 6, before they made it so difficult to get ISOs of the distro. I basically liked it then, but there were a few advanced features I wasn't so thrilled with, but I'm looking at giving it another shot. Thanks... John I think you'll be pleasantly suprised at the growth that's happened since then. There are some newbie-unfriendly rough edges in Mandrake, but overall it's an ideal power-user's desktop or server. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake
On Thursday 13 November 2003 05:07 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:57, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 since RedHat is effectively discontinuing the full-fledged hobbyist version of RedHat and splitting the userbase between Fedora for those of us who don't have several hundred dollars for enterprise linux and those who have the money and need for Enterprise linux. welcome. A list etiquette thing on this list is to not set reply-to -- see http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/rely-to. Sorry... It's in there by default in KMail since I have multiple email addresses configured. :-) Will try to do better next time. ;-) John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:06, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:26, Bill Mullen wrote: Including the output of postconf -n, run on the Postfix box, might be helpful also, as would the re-inclusion of the two sets of headers; all that matters is the last couple of Received: headers from each message, as those will be the ones that pertain to your sending system(s). postconf -n [snip] mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain $mydomain mydomain = holt-tech.net myhostname = earth mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/24 myorigin = holt-tech.net [snip] Okay, I think you should at least change the myhostname = line, found in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file. Having the short hostname of your Postfix box here does you no good, as it is of utterly no use to the destination system. OTOH, if you changed it to holt-tech.net, then at least the name resolves in one direction (forward), and agrees with the hostname in your MX record for the domain. It would still fail an rDNS check, though, if that check doesn't merely look for whether an rDNS entry exists, but goes further to insist that it match the stated hostname (which it won't). :( Luckily that's a pretty rare test as few ISPs or hosting companies will make changes in rDNS for their customers. Lots of legit mail is blocked when that test is used and eventually someone with some authority slaps the wrist of the fool admin, who goes and sulks about how their clueless management won't let them fight spam :-) Bear in mind that the myhostname = setting in main.cf doesn't need to bear even the slightest resemblance to what your system actually calls itself; it is the string that is sent whenever Postfix identifies the system on which it is running to other systems (both clients and servers). As such, the value of this setting *will* have an impact on whether or not mail is accepted from you by some servers, as it is sent in the HELO/EHLO statement when Postfix initiates a connection as a client. If your external hostname (the one supplied you by your ISP, and currently evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-034.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net) remains constant or nearly so, then *that* is the ideal string to put into main.cf as your myhostname = value, because then your name resolves in both directions. If you can do this, it mitigates a lot of problems of this variety. The mere fact that the hostname is obviously tied to the IP address should not be a deal-breaker in and of itself, even if you use DHCP, as many cable and DSL setups that use DHCP in fact change the IP address very rarely. if the address is in a DHCP pool assigned for home users, more and more servers out there will block direct SMTP connections from it; only relaying through the ISP's server will work in this case. One could even cobble together a script that determines the current real hostname, rewrites main.cf to reflect the change, and reloads Postfix, and then set that script to run after every IP address change (both dhcpcd and dhclient can be configured for this, and if you use a router, you could instead run the script as a cron job to test for such a change, then do its thing if one has occurred). If your IP address changes often, that hack might allow you to still use your system's real name in main.cf. Note: if you change myhostname = in main.cf, be sure to append the string , earth.$mydomain to the mydestination = line, so that Postfix continues to be aware that the box sometimes goes by that name as well. Here was my config.php: $useSendmail = false; $smtpServerAddress = '192.168.0.3'; $smtpPort = 25; $sendmail_path = '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; $use_authenticated_smtp = false; I changed the ip address to 'localhost' and I haven't changed the 'useSendmail' option. No problem, it's just talking SMTP directly to port 25, rather than invoking the sendmail pseudo-app. No need to change anything else here. Yes, the postfix server and the squirrel server reside on the same box (as does most everything else). Okay, and I gather that the Evolution box is a different one, but also on the same LAN with the server system. Here are the relevant headers: Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta130.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:14:06 -0800 Received: from www.holt-tech.net (unknown [server.internal.ip.address]) by servername (Postfix) with SMTP id 13833205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:16:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-34.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.35.151.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user michael) by server.internal.ip.address with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername)
Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 2:18 am, et wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 10:37 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Anne Wilson escribió: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote: It has been a while since I last dd a disk drive (it is best to make them the same type and size). Assuming that the old disk is /dev/hda and the new disk is /dev/hdb the following command should work: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb I've heard people recommend this before, but I'm not sure why this is better than cp -a ? I do remember that the last time I tried to copy a whole directory to a new partition I had some problems before I got it right, so I want to be clear before I start. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html suggests to use cp -a I used that howto many times (either to recover from disk failure or to prepare a copy of the current distribution to a different partition before an upgrade) and I found it very useful. Bye I recently upgrade from hdb being a dvd reader and hdc a 5 gig, and hdd a cdwriter, to a dvd writer at hdd and a 120 gig at hdc, in MDk 9.1. I plugged in the drive to the case, and I started the computer, fired up MCC, went to diskdrake and told it the change, and that I wanted to make a 45 gig /var/www. it asked if I wanted what was now in my /var/www copied over (of course I did, and it did fine), and I now have a separate /var/www from /var. have you just tried to see if you can just do it with out thinking about it and using the gui? I never thought of the gui, et. I used cp -a when I needed to move /var to a new partition. Life is extremely complicated here atm, so I'm hoping it will last out a few more days as there is no chance of getting/installing a new drive before that. And I haven't even tested the fan theory yet. I'll let you know what happens. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Another option, and a great program have a look at www.mondorescue.org Dj Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] [newbie] Register programs in MDK 9.1 - Mozilla?
Hello experts, I orginally posted this question on newbie but didn't get a single reply - maybe you guys can help =) Maybe something in the KDE control panel??? Or file handlers??? Thanks in advance --- Hi all, I recently urpme'd my orginal mozilla installation on my 9.1 box and installed Mozilla 1.5 using the mozilla installer from the Mozillia site. Now it seems Mozilla isn't my default browser. For example, when I click on a link in GAIM or Evolution, nothing happens. Does the new installation need to be 'registered' with MDK 9.1 so it knows the new 1.5 install is my default browser? How do i fix this? Thank in advance, Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:06, Bill Mullen wrote: Okay, I think you should at least change the myhostname = line, found in the /etc/postfix/main.cf file. Having the short hostname of your Postfix box here does you no good, as it is of utterly no use to the destination system. OTOH, if you changed it to holt-tech.net, then at least the name resolves in one direction (forward), and agrees with the hostname in your MX record for the domain. It would still fail an rDNS check, though, if that check doesn't merely look for whether an rDNS entry exists, but goes further to insist that it match the stated hostname (which it won't). :( Luckily that's a pretty rare test as few ISPs or hosting companies will make changes in rDNS for their customers. Lots of legit mail is blocked when that test is used and eventually someone with some authority slaps the wrist of the fool admin, who goes and sulks about how their clueless management won't let them fight spam :-) Yes, that is taking spam fighting to an extreme that breaks the acceptance of much perfectly valid mail. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater, as it were. :) Checking for the mere existence of an rDNS entry ought to be sufficient, IMHO, as that allows the recipient to identify the sending system to a reasonable degree of certainy. You don't need more than that, really. Bear in mind that the myhostname = setting in main.cf doesn't need to bear even the slightest resemblance to what your system actually calls itself; it is the string that is sent whenever Postfix identifies the system on which it is running to other systems (both clients and servers). As such, the value of this setting *will* have an impact on whether or not mail is accepted from you by some servers, as it is sent in the HELO/EHLO statement when Postfix initiates a connection as a client. If your external hostname (the one supplied you by your ISP, and currently evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-034.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net) remains constant or nearly so, then *that* is the ideal string to put into main.cf as your myhostname = value, because then your name resolves in both directions. If you can do this, it mitigates a lot of problems of this variety. The mere fact that the hostname is obviously tied to the IP address should not be a deal-breaker in and of itself, even if you use DHCP, as many cable and DSL setups that use DHCP in fact change the IP address very rarely. if the address is in a DHCP pool assigned for home users, more and more servers out there will block direct SMTP connections from it; only relaying through the ISP's server will work in this case. Quite true, and one's best recourse in that situation is using the ISP's server as a relay, at least for the problem domains (I have to do that with a few). OTOH, that isn't what's happening to Michael, as his Postfix *can* send direct to the problem server(s), but only with certain clients having originated the message and given it to Postfix for delivery. Strange, isn't it? -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] opening ports
Ok, go thru the config files for mnf and set to log everything, its a real pain, but you should then see the incoming packet getting dropped. I'm not familiar with mnf , but OK with bastille and shorewall. But they all have to interface with iptables in the end Richard On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 21:25, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 15:02, Richard Bown wrote: dunno , but you could try tail -f on your firewall logfile and try to connect to live 365, if its rejecting or dropping you should see which port its trying to use. HTH Richard On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:34, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, Anyone know what ports I need to open on the firewall to connect to Live365.com mp3 servers. Thanks, Dan I'm running mnf on 9.1 and the default policies are supposed to log, and they have on other services, but they don't log anything for this. The default is to reject all traffic lan to wan, unless there is a rule allowing it, I can change it to accept and I can connect, but there is nothing logged for this. Thanks, Dan __ 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] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:49, Bill Mullen wrote: ... Quite true, and one's best recourse in that situation is using the ISP's server as a relay, at least for the problem domains (I have to do that with a few). OTOH, that isn't what's happening to Michael, as his Postfix *can* send direct to the problem server(s), but only with certain clients having originated the message and given it to Postfix for delivery. Strange, isn't it? I wonder if it's triggering a oversensitive spam or virus checker by having odd headers... I've just been messing with a CGI interface to Spam Assassin, you can change a score from 6 to 8 just by using \r\n line endings instead of \n and inserting spaces between Name and email in the To and From headers... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [newbie] Register programs in MDK 9.1 - Mozilla?
run gconf-editor, go to desktop gnome url-handlers and set http and https to what you want. Better yet, search the archives for yesterday, I posted a script named mozy which will open the URL as a new tab in an existing Mozilla :-) On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:32, Tango Echo wrote: Hello experts, I orginally posted this question on newbie but didn't get a single reply - maybe you guys can help =) Maybe something in the KDE control panel??? Or file handlers??? Thanks in advance --- Hi all, I recently urpme'd my orginal mozilla installation on my 9.1 box and installed Mozilla 1.5 using the mozilla installer from the Mozillia site. Now it seems Mozilla isn't my default browser. For example, when I click on a link in GAIM or Evolution, nothing happens. Does the new installation need to be 'registered' with MDK 9.1 so it knows the new 1.5 install is my default browser? How do i fix this? Thank in advance, Tango __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree __ 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] Thinking of switching to Mandrake
On Thursday 13 November 2003 04:57 pm, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 since RedHat is effectively discontinuing the full-fledged hobbyist version of RedHat and splitting the userbase between Fedora for those of us who don't have several hundred dollars for enterprise linux and those who have the money and need for Enterprise linux. I think Fedora will actually be much more suited to the hobbyist than RedHat was. I have been playing around with both on my Thinkpad and have written a quick comparison available here: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/fedora_v_mandrake.html My question is, how well would the switch go? I typically keep my home directory on it's own partition and another partition with some MP3s and other miscellaneous data. I typically blow everything else away and reformat. One thing I liked about RedHat was that when I did this, it would recognize how my system was partitioned and offer to re-use the old partitions. Will Mandrake do this for me? I'm on RedHat 9.0 right now with ext3 file systems throughout. It will do the same thing, ask you if you want to use your existing partitions. If you usually use this method, then your switch should be quite easy. I have used Mandrake before, but the last time I think I used it was back around Mandrake 5 or 6, before they made it so difficult to get ISOs of the distro. I basically liked it then, but there were a few advanced features I wasn't so thrilled with, but I'm looking at giving it another shot. There are many features that it has that I love, but others hate, like msec and shorewall. As with anything, it really just takes some getting used to and going through the learning curve. mandrake also has a lot of nice default config files (well remarked too) for most apps, like postfix and samba. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:49, Bill Mullen wrote: ... Quite true, and one's best recourse in that situation is using the ISP's server as a relay, at least for the problem domains (I have to do that with a few). OTOH, that isn't what's happening to Michael, as his Postfix *can* send direct to the problem server(s), but only with certain clients having originated the message and given it to Postfix for delivery. Strange, isn't it? I wonder if it's triggering a oversensitive spam or virus checker by having odd headers... I've just been messing with a CGI interface to Spam Assassin, you can change a score from 6 to 8 just by using \r\n line endings instead of \n and inserting spaces between Name and email in the To and From headers... Interesting, I didn't know that about SA. That's possible, I suppose - we haven't seen the full headers on any of these messages, just portions thereof ... OTOH, if it's only his boss' server that's doing the rejecting, *it* probably isn't seeing them either, because it won't let the delivery process get that far! ;) Then again, if it's his boss' server, $DEITY only knows why it is willing to listen to his Postfix box long enough to accept mail from it at all, when neither you nor I can even get it to listen to our telnet attempts long enough for us to say EHLO to it ... :( It's no wonder that the single most likely place to run into a sysadmin outside of the office is down at the local pub, eh? :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Interesting problems installing 9.2 on desktop
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [..] The biggest problem, and it is unacceptable, is that I could not get 9.2 to format my partitions as ReiserFS. 9.0 and 9.1 could. SuSE 9.0 could. 9.2 would error out almost immediately as soon as it tried to format any partition as ReiserFS. I got stuck with ext3 (yech!). Because I am not happy with my partition scheme and a few other problems - like not setting my /var partition large enough - I will be reinstalling 9.2 once again on this system. It looks like I will need to first start installing 9.1 or SuSE again so I can get my HDD partitions formatted as ReiserFS and then terminate the install and then start an install with the 9.2 CDs and elect NOT to format any partitions. Has anyone else run into a similar problem with 9.2 and ReiserFS? I frequently get problems with formatting partitions as reiserfs. When using mkreiserfs, there is a message to reboot after using fdisk, which I tend to think is related. At least, in every case that was a problem for me, after creating partitions and choosing to format reiserfs in diskdrake, the partitions are not formatted as reiserfs. What I do is reboot, usually do a mkreiserfs on the command line, and all works after that. I have done this during an install, also, after creating partitions, reboot, and I believe diskdrake will do the reiserfs format at that point. The install can then be completed. Rolf 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 v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/s523aKr9sJYeTxgRAggpAJ9FEpL2kjS57CxX+JkQZLWntO6AcACeLVWz CCPAwaXm7UmqFbF/zBSzf1U= =h1wG -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] club cont urpmi
Richard Bown wrote: I was referring to the club contribs as listed on the club download page, all I get is this, this site goes a little further but never downloads [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# urpmi.addmedia -h ftp.physics.auth.gr_devel ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/unsupported unable to take medium contrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1 into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.contrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1] exists This looks, at first glance, like the problem with the Club urpmi scripts not giving a proper command to use. When I have had to deal with this before, I went to the url, which is several levels above the pertinent RPMS or i586 directory, and drill down to where the rpm packages are. Then, take the rest of the url and add it to the command, after unsupported: /MandrakeClub/9.2/i586, for example. I have not used the -h switch but do 'with hdlist.cz' after the url to point to the hdlist.cz file in the i586 directory. The -h switch would probably work, once you give the correctly specified rpms directory. The rest of the errors about not being able to find the list file for other sources, I believe, might be a result of running this malformed addmedia command. You might want to remove them with urpmi.removemedia contrib_ftp.club-internet.fr_i586_9.1, for example. Rolf TIA Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hijacking threads
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:12:25 -0500, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 06:34 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi! I took a look about netetiquete and never wonder about hijacking, but how can you know I hijacked a thread? I use pine. I looked at Mandrake mailing-list repository and find my e-mail well addressed to the respective threads though. Moreover, please, how to reply a e-mail which content says nothing about the subject, thus needing change subject, but avoiding hijacking? There is a message ID in the headers which is included in the In-Reply- To: field that most mail clients use to thread messages. Oh! D'oh, now I get it. Some mail clients thread by subject though, so they escape this. If the subject of a thread drifts, it is proper, and even desired, to change the subject to reflect what the discussion has become. This is so mail filtering and scoring routines can properly deal with the messages. Many posters, apparently in an effort to save themselves the time it takes to post a new message, simply reply to any message, delete the whole thing and change the subject. I'm guilty of this. :-( This is annoying, because my mail client threads by the message ID, so in a thread about postifx mail headers, you get this (please excuse my ascii art): Re: [expert] Postfix Headers |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers | |-[expert] Public downloadable 9.2 iso images |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers |-Re: [expert] Postfix Headers I think people are supposed to ignore these posts in order to encourage the offender to repost properly. I unfortunately let myself be rude instead, for which I apologize. I'm glad you are! I didn't know that was what was happening. I won't do it anymore. Phil -- Using Mandrake Linux 9.1 www.mandrakesoft.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members
On Thursday 13 November 2003 11:45 am, Charlie M. wrote: Thursday 13 November 2003 8:41 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Looks like they are available now -- see the upper right hand corner at www.linux-mandrake.com. -- cmg Nothing has changed on the page that link goes to Carroll. Still the Raw tree and the messages about joining the Club, the LG CD-ROM problem and the delay because of it. Maybe the page just needs to be updated but I snooped on sunet.se and uninett.no and there are no 9.2 ISOs on either of them. Matters not to me except for the people around here that want to do the Try before you buy routine. I'm glad I looked before I told anyone they could download the images. g Regards; Charlie Charlie: My bad. Sorry about sending you on a wild goose chase. I made the mistake of not realizing when Mandrake says, Mandrake 9.2 is now available for download, they really mean that Mandrake 9.2 is available for download to Club members only. MOF, it wasn't even obvious to me when I followed the download link. Somebody ought to write a browser plug-in to detect marketspeak (Q. How do you know if a salesman is lying? A. His lips are moving.) -- cmg Friday the 13th falls on a Thursday this month. (Churchy LaFemme) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] opening ports
The firewall part of mnf is basicly shorewall with a fancy interface, there are other services such as intrusion detection and dhcp also. Anyhow, all drops and rejects are already logged, and this is not being logged, maybe I need to use a proxy, but I can change the lan to all policy to accept instead of reject and it works, so I guess I'll go that route. Thanks, Dan On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:50, Richard Bown wrote: Ok, go thru the config files for mnf and set to log everything, its a real pain, but you should then see the incoming packet getting dropped. I'm not familiar with mnf , but OK with bastille and shorewall. But they all have to interface with iptables in the end Richard On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 21:25, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 15:02, Richard Bown wrote: dunno , but you could try tail -f on your firewall logfile and try to connect to live 365, if its rejecting or dropping you should see which port its trying to use. HTH Richard On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:34, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, Anyone know what ports I need to open on the firewall to connect to Live365.com mp3 servers. Thanks, Dan I'm running mnf on 9.1 and the default policies are supposed to log, and they have on other services, but they don't log anything for this. The default is to reject all traffic lan to wan, unless there is a rule allowing it, I can change it to accept and I can connect, but there is nothing logged for this. Thanks, Dan __ 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
[expert] urpmi questions
Evening everyone. I just installed Mandrake 9.2 via FTP onto one of our servers to test out. We are looking for a replacement OS for our servers. One thing I wanted to learn is some of the Mandrake specific tools, specifically urpmi and msec. I was working with urpmi trying to learn its functions and have a couple of questions. Is there a way to list the packages that are available to download? For instance, I was playing around and typed: urpmi samba It gave me a list of dependencies, which is nice, but then said it was going to install samba 2.2.8a. Is there a way to grab the 3.0 version? I'd like a way to see what I have available, through the command line. Secondly, is there a way with urpmi to see what versions of the software I have? I know I can with rpm -qa |grep package. Can you do this with urpmi? That should be about it for now... Learning the ropes here. Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disappearing menu's
On Thursday 13 November 2003 4:34 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: I thought so too (that's what the advisory said they fixed) but I still only get the three - blank screen, mandrake slide show and random. I've run update-menus -v and have no available updates listed on my Mandrake Update Center. Could I have pulled from a bad mirror? Has anyone else who has performed these updates got their screensavers to show up? It's not all that important, but now I'm just curious about what is really going on David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer That should be fixed with the existing updates. I updated my new 9.2 (which the source I got the 3 iso's from said was done from the Oct. 28 versions, but I can't be sure that's correct- it was on ebay) on Nov.4, and everything works fine- screensavers are all there. Are you sure you got all the updates? Robert Crawford Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Thinking of switching to Mandrake
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:57:04PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 [...] Funny to see some old hands from redhat-list show up here all in a sudden... Welcome, John! :-) I've actually done the same, though I came from RHL7.3 and I did a full install (MDK9.1 - the 9.2 CDs only arrived yesterday). Cheerio, Thomas -- - Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Thinking of switching to Mandrake
On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:33 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:57:04PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 [...] Funny to see some old hands from redhat-list show up here all in a sudden... Welcome, John! :-) I've actually done the same, though I came from RHL7.3 and I did a full install (MDK9.1 - the 9.2 CDs only arrived yesterday). Heh... well, when your O/S vendor decides they no longer want anything to do with hobbyists you have to make other arrangements. :-) Thanks for the warm welcome! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:06, Bill Mullen wrote: Unless, of course, the only one giving you fits is your boss', which we have already established is hosed in some bizarre fashion g ... but having Postfix use a more valid hostname may fix that situation, too, even though that doesn't fully explain that server's rather eccentric behavior. Ok, here's my new postconf: mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain $mydomain, earth.$mydomain mydomain = holt-tech.net myhostname = earth.holt-tech.net mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/24 myorigin = holt-tech.net I added my client machine to /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts and added the above to main.cf then I sent a message to my boss from the client machine to see what happens. I'm not sure when I'll hear back, so I'm just going to wait a bit and see. I want to wait to make any more changes to see if this has any effect. HTH! That's great! Thanks again! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #373: Suspicious pointer corrupted virtual machine Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:22, Jack Coates wrote: if the address is in a DHCP pool assigned for home users, more and more servers out there will block direct SMTP connections from it; only relaying through the ISP's server will work in this case. This is what I was first thinking; but I'm able to use the webmail from behind my firewall - that's still a direct connection. It seems like rDNS would have to be the culprit. I guess I'll have to wait a bit and see if I get a message back from my boss. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 38. OH, CRUD! (as they scrabble at the keyboard for ^c). --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:41:55 -0800 Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider coding it simply: myhostname = holt-tech.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
