[expert] Really BAD update bug on Mandrake 8.2

2002-08-15 Thread mikalzet
All right you people, just try this (I repeated the procedure twice with the same result): 1) install a fresh 8.2 system install the openoffice rpm included in 8.2 distro everything works ok. 2) uninstall the openoffice rpm install openoffice.org 1.0.1 downloaded from openoffice.org site

Re: [expert] Hey Civileme

2002-08-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 19:24, J. Craig Woods wrote: Hey Civ, Just so you don't feel too bad about having to be job hunting again, I thought I might share this little tidbit of info with you. You are, no doubt, aware of Max Vision, and his recent travails. Well out check the following. The

Re: [expert] Hey Civileme

2002-08-15 Thread J. Craig Woods
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Christ, JC!! You too? Depressed, LX Ya, me too! I have been doing some 1099 work around the country but here in the last few months, things are really drying up in the IT sector. It is really tough out there. I don't think we will ever see the good times again,

RE: [expert] Hey Civileme

2002-08-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Christ, JC!! You too? Depressed, LX Ya, me too! I have been doing some 1099 work around the country but here in the last few months, things are really drying up in the IT sector. It is really tough out there. I don't think we will ever see the

RE: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
-Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-( On Wednesday 14 August 2002 10:25 am, you wrote: LOL Sorry.. Been there, done that. I cut a

[expert] Linux Cutting into SGI's terf

2002-08-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
-- LINUXPR: HOUSTON, WE HAVE LIFT-OFF: DELL, RED HAT, AND IMAX BLAST OFF ON Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Linux will play an important role in IMAX's first-ever digital re-mastering of Universal Pictures' and Imagine

[expert] Forwarded Message: Netwatch SRPM compile errors

2002-08-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
I don't know how many of you guys out there use Netwatch -- http://www.slctech.org/~mackay/netwatch.html But for those of you who don't, it's a very powerful tool for monitoring udp and tcp connections to and from your system. It can show all connections either by their human or machine names

Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, you wrote: An old saying: Computing experience is measured in the amount of data lost. Thats a great example. I'm not a sysadmin or anything remotely approaching that (or does home sysadmin count? smile) but its interesting for me to hear the stories

Re: [expert] Hey Civileme

2002-08-15 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 02:44, J. Craig Woods wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Christ, JC!! You too? Depressed, LX Ya, me too! I have been doing some 1099 work around the country but here in the last few months, things are really drying up in the IT sector. It is really tough

[expert] Using TCT...help

2002-08-15 Thread Operator
Tlug'ers and Experts, My question is based on a question from a book that was suggested to me by many admin's Its called Linux Adminsitration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder and Trent R.Hein. I've finished chapter 2 and now its exercise time. Most of the exercises in this chapter were

RE: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, you wrote: An old saying: Computing experience is measured in the amount of data lost. Thats a great example. I'm not a sysadmin or anything remotely approaching that (or does home sysadmin count? smile) but its interesting for me to hear

RE: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, you wrote: An old saying: Computing experience is measured in the amount of data lost. Thats a great example. I'm not a sysadmin or anything remotely approaching that (or does home sysadmin

[expert] Non root IPchains

2002-08-15 Thread Brad
Hi, I've written some IPchains into my perl script using perl-IPchains but the script has to be executed by root or ipchains refuses. Does anyone know how I can allow user apache to use ipchains, or how I can elevate my privileges within perl. Thanks, Brad. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, you wrote: An old saying: Computing experience is measured in the amount of data lost. Thats a great example. I'm not a sysadmin or anything remotely approaching that (or does home sysadmin count? smile)

Re: [expert] Non root IPchains

2002-08-15 Thread Mad Scientist
On Friday 16 August 2002 01:54 am, Brad wrote: Hi, I've written some IPchains into my perl script using perl-IPchains but the script has to be executed by root or ipchains refuses. Does anyone know how I can allow user apache to use ipchains, or how I can elevate my privileges within perl.

RE: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-(

2002-08-15 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
-Original Message- From: daRcmaTTeR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Bastille killed nfs! :-( On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 am, you wrote: An

Re: [expert] Using TCT...help

2002-08-15 Thread kwan
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Operator wrote: Run mactime to create an initial database of the time stamps associated with your system files. (done) Re-boot your machine (done) Run mactime again and determine which files have been modified by booting the machine. Which files were accessed but not

Re: [expert] Non root IPchains

2002-08-15 Thread Brad
Heh, yer I know what you mean, I just want to be able to drop DoS attackers straight into the firewall. I suppose another alternative would be to write a C program than can gain then drop root privs at it needs them, accepting only the passed in IP to construct the predefined rule, then only

[expert] Need Help aboyt hardware - off Topic...

2002-08-15 Thread Alfredo C. López
Hi! I work at an institute of physics here in Argentina. We will receive some money from a foundation in Germany to buy some machines to use in numerical simulations and we want to build a cluster with them. We already have a cluster (we have 20 PII 500-400 and 15 Durons 700 and some Athlon 1

Re: [expert] Non root IPchains

2002-08-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Brad wrote: Heh, yer I know what you mean, I just want to be able to drop DoS attackers straight into the firewall. I suppose another alternative would be to write a C program than can gain then drop root privs at it needs them, accepting only the passed in IP to

[expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
I'm getting close on my email server (using fetchmail, postfix, procmail, ipopd (and maybe later imapd) -- in fact, if you see this it came from my Windows box via the Linux email server. ;-) But, I have some bugs to work out yet, and some questions: Questions: 1. Anybody know a good way to

[expert] Re: Non root IPchains

2002-08-15 Thread Mad Scientist
Brad writes: Thanks Mad Scientist, your suggestion works fine, I've just got to decide if the security risk is worth it. The DoS attacks that this script stops have recently been totally taking my production system down. If all you're doing is adding rules and not removing, you could write

Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: I'm getting close on my email server (using fetchmail, postfix, procmail, ipopd (and maybe later imapd) -- in fact, if you see this it came from my Windows box via the Linux email server. ;-) But, I have some bugs to work out yet, and some

[expert] Re: Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread Mad Scientist
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: 1. Anybody know a good way to detect that a network link is active? The following will output a 1 to standard out if interface is up. I tested with eth0 but I assume it will work with ppp0 as well. ifconfig | grep interface -A 2 | grep -c UP

[expert] xterm from mandrake to solaris box

2002-08-15 Thread Oliver Thieke
Hi out there at the screens, I've got a borderline case here... I'm in the process of switching from a Windows environment to an Mandrake based one. Right now I'm struggling with the following problem: I want to connect with a xterm-Window from my Mandrake Box to a SUN Solaris box. I must use

Re: [expert] xterm from mandrake to solaris box

2002-08-15 Thread kwan
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Oliver Thieke wrote: Hi out there at the screens, I've got a borderline case here... I'm in the process of switching from a Windows environment to an Mandrake based one. Right now I'm struggling with the following problem: I want to connect with a xterm-Window from

Re: [expert] xterm from mandrake to solaris box

2002-08-15 Thread Mark Belanger
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:08, Oliver Thieke wrote: Hi out there at the screens, I've got a borderline case here... I'm in the process of switching from a Windows environment to an Mandrake based one. Right now I'm struggling with the following problem: I want to connect with a

Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread kwan
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: I'm getting close on my email server (using fetchmail, postfix, procmail, ipopd (and maybe later imapd) -- in fact, if you see this it came from my Windows box via the Linux email server. ;-) But, I have some bugs to work out yet, and some

Re: [expert] xterm from mandrake to solaris box

2002-08-15 Thread Alfredo C. López
Hi! You should accept connection from X servers to your tty with xhost + in any xterm or konsole in the mandrake machine. (this accept from everyone.. use with care) More info man xhost XHOST(1) XHOST(1) NAME xhost - server access

Re: [expert] Re: Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread jipe
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:50:52 -0700 Mad Scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: 1. Anybody know a good way to detect that a network link is active? The following will output a 1 to standard out if interface is up. I tested with eth0 but I assume it

[expert] Nautilus SVG Scalabe Gorilla theme

2002-08-15 Thread Martin
Does anyone have a mirror site for the above theme? I can't seem to get to jimmac.musichall.cz for some reason. An 8.2 rpm would be fine thanks! Martin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
daRcmaTTeR wrote: What if you just did something like this. 1) ping ISP... a) if icmp echo request == 'yes' then do the mail thing else run ifup command kick mailque fi what-cha think?

Re: [expert] Re: Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
Mad Scientist wrote: The following will output a 1 to standard out if interface is up. I tested with eth0 but I assume it will work with ppp0 as well. ifconfig | grep interface -A 2 | grep -c UP Ahh, cool! And I can adopt that to check the results of a ping (which is what I really need to

Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
kwan, Thanks! I've got several choices now ;-) Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a script that I use to check connectivity: #!/bin/bash STATUS=`ping -c 2 -q 11.22.33.44 2/dev/null` CODE=$? if [ $CODE -gt 0 ]; then echo Link is down. else echo Link

Re: [expert] xterm from mandrake to solaris box

2002-08-15 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Thursday 15 August 2002 17:08, Oliver Thieke wrote: Hi out there at the screens, Changing to Mandrake 8.2 I'm unable to figure out how to accomplish the same task. According to one of my LX books it should be as easy as using the following command: xterm -display 66.66.66.66:0

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-15 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 06:19:34PM -0600, engage wrote: [...] Now my upgrade to mod_ssl-2.8.5-3.1mdk worked real nicely. Do not give up, this is a security risk. It will work, if you make it work. I was unable to upgrade apache-suexec. I got an error message stating that

Re: [expert] trouble with libopenssl0 upgrade

2002-08-15 Thread engage
On Thursday 15 August 2002 07:35 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 06:19:34PM -0600, engage wrote: I was unable to upgrade apache-suexec. I got an error message stating that libmm.so.11 is required. But, I have been unable to get libmm.so.11 installed with the

Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Holt
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Praedor Tempus uttered these words of wisdom: I have installed and am using the hylafax package on my 8.2 system. I have never used this software before, nor any other linux fax software. I have tried sending a fax via CLI (which appears to be the only method available)

Re: [expert] Hey Civileme

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Holt
On 15 Aug 2002, Dave Sherman uttered these words of wisdom: Hang in there, guys! I was contracting and sub-contracting for almost a year, from June 2001 through March 2002. It was mostly part-time contracts, so I tried to keep a couple going at any time, but it was impossible to find enough work