RE: [expert] Intruder security questions

2002-11-07 Thread Franki
also, everytime you send an email, your IP address is in the headers of the mail... so you are handing it out... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jdyer;maine.rr.com]On Behalf Of PlugHead Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2002 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] gdm + MDK9.0 + consolehelper

2002-11-07 Thread tito López
Hi all, Thereisa problem with the gdm and consolehelper program that I have been investigated, but I cannot figure out what it's going on. The symptoms are the following. If you use gdm as your session manager, then consolehelper stops displaying the dialog about root entering root passwd. for

[expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I am sick to death of my error_log for http being full of cmd.exe and root.exe stuff.. it makes it much harder to find useful stuff in the logs as a result.. (if you are not sure what you are looking for at the time.) is there any linux app that can do the same as CheckPoint, ie filter

Re: [expert] Quick fixes for problems in 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Alex Bennee
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 21:30, James Sparenberg wrote: For all of those small but extremely annoying little problems that keep coming up on this list. Someone has put together a page of Quick Hacks to solve them. Thought others might me interested in it as well. (Thanks to pclinuxonline.com I

[expert] GCC3 compiled Java SDK 1.4.1_01 ?

2002-11-07 Thread Seppo Järvinen
I've tried to follow LFS's documents on howto compile it yourself but with no success, so if anyone has successfully done this on Mandrake 9.0 and can share the package I'd be grateful. -- Seppo Jarvinen , [EMAIL PROTECTED]Never trust an operating system

LAST QUESTION :) Re: [expert] Intruder security questions

2002-11-07 Thread Gonzalo Avaria
Hi you all, well THANK YOU very much for the answers, i thought that you could not hack a machine with FTP, but when i started to look for the logs, i saw 3 guys trying to get thru the ftp, but only conected for like a second. Now i disabled the FTP and only work on sftp. I would like to ask the

[expert] Problems w/ Autofs

2002-11-07 Thread Manuel Soto
I have problems with autofs after upgrading to 9.0. This problems does not allow the system to shutdown. service autofs stop umount2: Device or resource busy[ OK ] umount: automount(pid13216): not found umount: /net: Illegal seek umount2: Device or resource busy

Re: [expert] PPP client Server setup

2002-11-07 Thread Manuel Soto
Another example: http://www.logontosurf.com/ On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 08:04, Sridhar wrote: Try this url http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO Sridhar Julio Gutierrez wrote: Does any one know where I can find information on how to make 2 computers

Re: [expert] scanning ip addys

2002-11-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:03 pm, Bill Beauchemin wrote: Is there a program out there that is like the old war dialers that can scan for ip's that are up and running. Something where I can put in a beginning addy and a ending addy and it will scan all the ips for a response? NMAP, by

Re: [expert] Problems w/ Autofs

2002-11-07 Thread JM5379
just a wild guess from what i've seen in other postings here... it looks like you have nfs running and have a cd into one of those directories (/net/...), or a program running that is accessing an nfs share/directory. as long as a mounting is active in one of those ways, it can't be unmounted.

[expert] Portable MP3 MD players?

2002-11-07 Thread Mark
As I am thinking of buying one and don't want to waste my money on one that won't work in linux. Does anyone know which portable MP3 MD players work in mandrake? There seems to be a lack of information about which ones work. As far as I can find not many r compatible. I was thinking of

Re: [expert] Problems w/ Autofs

2002-11-07 Thread Manuel Soto
How can I find which program is using the file system. I've a cron that shutdown the machine @10:30pm and it fail every day Thanks, Manuel Soto On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just a wild guess from what i've seen in other postings here... it looks like you have nfs

Re: [expert] Problems w/ Autofs

2002-11-07 Thread JM5379
try: lsof | grep /net lsof = list open files, searching for the string /net in the output --- Original Message --- From: Manuel Soto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Problems w/ Autofs How can I find which program is using the file system. I've a

Re: [expert] MDK 9 Sony Clié

2002-11-07 Thread Simon Ree
Doesn't make any differnece on my CLie, sure wish it did though. Simon On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 17:35:57 -0700 D. R. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6 Nov 2002 at 11:09, Simon Ree wrote: I have found that binding to ttyUSB1 will not work until

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-07 Thread Simon Ree
Did you try to rebuild your kernel from source? I had no luck at all on my laptop till I followed this procedure. /usr/src/kernel-2.4.19-Xmdk/ save .config make mrproper restore .config if you want make *config make bzImage modules make modules_install install Should allways work. Try it.

Re: [expert] Portable MP3 MD players?

2002-11-07 Thread Michael Holt
I have an older Nomad player (mp3) from creative which takes 128MB smart media cards. I used to look around on the net for others that might be using it under linux and I found one person with a project that never really made it very far. Rio seems to have some kind of kernel support, but that's

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-07 Thread Simon Ree
Hi, Try running it from my directions, it will automatically rename the new kernel to -XXcustom. You will end up with a complete new kernel and all the drakboot entries. I have tried using your approach and it never left me with a usable system. The method I listed is what I have been using in

[expert] kvirc 3.0.0.1 problem

2002-11-07 Thread francesco.melo
QHBox::property( TransparencyCapable ) failed: property invalid or does not exist QHBoxLayout::property( TransparencyCapable ) failed: property invalid or does not exist QToolButton::property( TransparencyCapable ) failed: property invalid or does not exist QSplitter::property(

Re: [expert] Portable MP3 MD players?

2002-11-07 Thread Robert Goshko
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 06:03, Mark wrote: As I am thinking of buying one and don't want to waste my money on one that won't work in linux. Does anyone know which portable MP3 MD players work in mandrake? There seems to be a lack of information about which ones work. As far as I can

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-07 Thread kwan
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Michael Holt wrote: edit makefile changing extraversion to 'mikescustom' delete /lib/modules/2.4.19-xx (as instructed to if you're not patching your kernel) You shouldn't really delete lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION, and is not necessary if you're changing the EXTRAVERSION

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-07 Thread Michael Holt
That's what I figured. It's running 'make modules' right now and I didn't delete the /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION directory this time so we'll see what happens. I was trying to follow the directions word for word last time and I keep writing down every step - this time it's GOT to work! Mike

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-07 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Thursday 07 November 2002 2:41 pm, Michael Holt wrote: Hey Simon, This is what I did: cd to /usr/src/2.4.19-xx make mrproper (didn't bother saving .config since I hadn't put anything in it yet.) edit makefile changing extraversion to 'mikescustom' delete

Re: [expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 02:40, Franki wrote: Hi guys, I am sick to death of my error_log for http being full of cmd.exe and root.exe stuff.. it makes it much harder to find useful stuff in the logs as a result.. (if you are not sure what you are looking for at the time.) is there any

Re: [expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread Todd Lyons
Franki wrote on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:40:45PM +0800 : I am sick to death of my error_log for http being full of cmd.exe and root.exe stuff.. my logs are always 90% full of this crap. anyone got any ideas??? In your /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf file, put this: IfModule mod_rewrite.c

Re: [expert] Problems w/ Autofs

2002-11-07 Thread Todd Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:56:30AM -0500 : just a wild guess from what i've seen in other postings here... it looks like you have nfs running and have a cd into one of those directories (/net/...), or a program running that is accessing an nfs share/directory. as long

Re: [expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread Craig Woods
Todd Lyons wrote: Franki wrote on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:40:45PM +0800 : I am sick to death of my error_log for http being full of cmd.exe and root.exe stuff.. my logs are always 90% full of this crap. anyone got any ideas??? In your /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf file, put

Re: [expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread kwan
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: Franki wrote on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:40:45PM +0800 : I am sick to death of my error_log for http being full of cmd.exe and root.exe stuff.. my logs are always 90% full of this crap. anyone got any ideas??? In your

RE: [expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread Franki
Thanks guys, I like the idea of redirecting them back to microsoft... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:todd;mandrakesoft.com]On Behalf Of Todd Lyons Sent: Friday, 8 November 2002 3:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] layer 7 application

RE: [expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread Franki
yeah, Todd, should make that part of the default mdk apache... I found a few different ways to achieve this sort of thing by talking to people, and reading the several posts from your guys... Most do something like this... but in a way.. if Mandake did this by default, they might be a legal

Re: LAST QUESTION :) Re: [expert] Intruder security questions

2002-11-07 Thread James Sparenberg
I'd run an nmap scan of my box. do urpmi nmap --fuzzy to find out all the rpms available here (nmap is nmap but there are some different gui's available) Run the scan and if you see something open that you don't want open, close it. The biggest reason this is useful is because it's the same

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-07 Thread Michael Holt
Success Thanks everyone for your help - I've finally learned how to recompile my kernel Ya-hoo!!! The only problem I had on the last round was that lilo choked because make install chose to long of a name for the label tag in lilo.conf. I fixed that and everything else went great!

Re: [expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:46:19 -0800 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Franki wrote on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:40:45PM +0800 : I am sick to death of my error_log for http being full of cmd.exe and root.exe stuff.. my logs are always 90% full of this crap. anyone got any ideas??? In

[expert] hard disk booting issue IBM PC.

2002-11-07 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I've finially decided to fix an issue that has bothered me for ages,, I'm just not sure its possible.. so I figured I'd ask you guys. Anyway, I've got a 300PL IBM PC. Its got a 40gig hard disk in it.. by itself the bios doesn't recognise the drive (see's it as an 8gig).. so I bought

[expert] LM 8.1: replacing gcc 2.95.x with gcc 3.2

2002-11-07 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using MCC, I just removed the gcc 2.95.x rpms, and installed the LM 9.0 gcc 3.2 rpms (including dependencies). Inside MCC, if I now do a search on all the packages that contain gcc, the only ones present are from 3.x. BUT if I do a g++ -v I get a

Re: [expert] hard disk booting issue IBM PC.

2002-11-07 Thread kwan
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Franki wrote: I've tried installing lilo in different places with different configs, but I am not sure what else I can do. I'm using a Promise ATA 133 controller in one of my machines. To get it to boot I had to go into the motherboard BIOS and select a boot option that

[expert] Turning off all power management... (was system resouce problem)

2002-11-07 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I think I have isolated the problem when I updated the kernel in 8.2... I'm having the same prob in mdk9.0 it seems that after a certain period of time, linux is going into some type of power management feature.. it gets slow, but if you go over and hit the keyboard it comes back.. I

Re: [expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread Miark
It is a pain to Microshaft, but I favor the other strategy of actually doing something that will slow down virus traffic: http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea/ But I agree, if you don't have a spare IP address, let M$.com deal with it. Miark On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 05:22:06 +0800 Franki [EMAIL

Re: [expert] hard disk booting issue IBM PC.

2002-11-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 06:00:33 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've tried installing lilo in different places with different configs, but I am not sure what else I can do. Even though the drive is ide and the pci controller card is for ide devices, because it is a separate controller your

[expert] troubles with ip masq'ing / forwarding - mon motha script Mdk 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Mcleod, Ian
I am using the mon motha script on a Mandrake 9.0 box with the shorewall service shutdown and mon motha started after I have cleared iptables with 'iptables -X' and set all three default chains to 'ACCEPT'. However, on the gateway box I have default gateway set to 172.0.0.1 - now I can access the

Re: [expert] hard disk booting issue IBM PC.

2002-11-07 Thread Brian Schroeder
Even if the BIOS can only see 8G, Linux should see and use then entire disk quite happily. It doesn't depend on the BIOS for that info. If you want to use windows as well, you may need to create an initial 8G (or less) partition for it. You could then boot the disk with no problems. But: If

Re: [expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread David Guntner
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Franki wrote on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:40:45PM +0800 : I am sick to death of my error_log for http being full of cmd.exe and root.exe stuff.. my logs are always 90% full of this crap. anyone got any ideas??? In your

Re: [expert] layer 7 application layer filtering.

2002-11-07 Thread David Guntner
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: In your /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf file, put this: IfModule mod_rewrite.c redirect /MSADC http://www.microsoft.com redirect /c http://www.microsoft.com redirect /d http://www.microsoft.com redirect /_mem_bin

Re: [expert]

2002-11-07 Thread HoytDuff
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:35 pm, Piero Piutti scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: Xlib: extension XiG-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD missing on display :0.0. OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. The answer was no farther away than the README.Linux file found in your installation of

RE: [expert] hard disk booting issue IBM PC.

2002-11-07 Thread Franki
Hi Charles... Sorry tookl so long to respond.. I shut down the box to check the apm settings and to see if I could specify SCSI as a boot device.. Its not even an option.. the IBM bios only has autodetect options on 4 possible ide connections.. and no boot options at all. I am starting to

[expert] copying files with scp

2002-11-07 Thread Sebastian McDonagh
Hi guys, Time to change over the mail server and am copying down /home to the new server. I am currently trying to do this via scp, now i dont claim to be any expert but from reading the man pages on scp i should be able to use the -rp switches to 1. Copy recursively and 2. maintain file

Re: [expert] copying files with scp

2002-11-07 Thread PlugHead
If I'm reading the man page correctly, the -p option preserves the modes of the files (e.g. rwx), not the owner. Keeping the owners could be a bit problematic, since the owner id on one system is probably different from the owner id on another system... If all of the your files need to have

Re: LAST QUESTION :) Re: [expert] Intruder security questions

2002-11-07 Thread PlugHead
As an additional precaution, you might want to look into getting and using chkrootkit. It searches your system for evidence that you've already been hacked, and seems to check for a fairly comprehensive list of trojans, worms, etc. If you're serious about security, you should also look into

Re: [expert] copying files with scp

2002-11-07 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 09:18 PM, PlugHead wrote: If I'm reading the man page correctly, the -p option preserves the modes of the files (e.g. rwx), not the owner. Keeping the owners could be a bit problematic, since the owner id on one system is probably different from the owner id

Re: [expert] copying files with scp

2002-11-07 Thread ddc_prueba
Surely a lapsus, it should be (replace user with your own login name): for i in * ; do chown -R user:user $i ; done Anyway, maybe you can make a one-file from them before (tar, cpio, ...) so after you scp it and decompress it on the new server you will probably have the right owner (it's quite