Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Avi Schwartz
James Conner wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote: I agree, I was being sarcastic. I just installed MDK 9.2 on a friends system, I'll do it on mine after I back everything up. Everything went peachy, only lost the menu's once. That bug/feature was fixed with

Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4

2003-10-18 Thread Avi Schwartz
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:49, Greg Sarsons wrote: Noted this before ... What I've done, there might be another way, is to run MCC. It the select System and select MenuDrake. There is no MCC any more (no System menu) :-( Is there

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-29 Thread Avi Schwartz
Lawson, Jim wrote: I hope Mandrake 9.1 is better than Mandrake 9.1. Mandrake 9.0 is great from my experience with it. But 9.1 lacks a lot in stability. I have to wonder what is this observation based on. Mdk 9.1 is my first mdk ever after using SuSE for many years. Admittedly I was forced to

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-29 Thread Avi Schwartz
Lawson, Jim wrote: I have the same luck with 9.0. 9.1 bombed for me. Have you tried to install sarg and run it with errors Some thing about /var/www/sarg is a directory. I just installed (to test it for you) sarg-1.4.1-1mdk. It works fine. The only thing I had to do was to change in

Re: [expert] Re: Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 01:58 AM, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:05:18PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). [...] Well, while

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 12:17 AM, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 20:05, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Avi Schwartz
That is another problem. I found out about it from other distribution's security announcements then I checked MandrakeSecure and found that they posted the information there. They should send an announcement like this to the mailing lists. Avi On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 08:02 AM,

Re: [expert] Very sorry for the hijacked threads

2003-09-17 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 05:17 AM, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:08:07 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What did Chomsky say about it? Well, exactly what that Cambridge research showed, that people learn language not in bits and pieces like the phonics method

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Avi Schwartz wrote: Also downloading the list of files can be a major pain. Couple of 15MB lists can take awhile, even at IDSL speeds (144K) not to mention dial-up speeds. Avi and set up an update source that uses rsync

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 01:03 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 08:19:45AM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: That is another problem. I found out about it from other distribution's security announcements then I checked MandrakeSecure and found that they posted

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 01:03 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: Advisories go out in many forms; I can't help it if you don't pay attention to one of the many: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - full-disclosure ml - RSS feed from MandrakeSecure - MandrakeSecure website (on nearly

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: I think all things considered, we aren't that slow. If you're defining slow by a few hours, shame on you, if you're defining it by a few days, shame on me. I think we're fairly close to the other big players when it comes to

[expert] What do I need to do to access my web server?

2003-09-17 Thread Avi Schwartz
Hi, I installed the advanced sever on 9.1, ran the server wizard to set it to serv both Intranet and Internet and 'netstat -lp' shows that httpd2 is listening to ports 80 and 443. However, when I try to connect via 'telnet localhost 80' I get a 'Connection Refused' message. There is no

[expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-16 Thread Avi Schwartz
Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that everything is up to date. Tried the graphical updater, the same

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-16 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 10:38 PM, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-16 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 10:52 PM, Vincent Danen wrote: On Tue Sep 16, 2003 at 10:45:07PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-16 Thread Avi Schwartz
to me bascule On Wednesday 17 Sep 2003 4:05 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-16 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 11:27 PM, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 20:05, Avi Schwartz wrote: Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources

Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-11 Thread Avi Schwartz
I've been using it for about 3 years now via Amavis as the virus scanner of all my email. Works great and the current version can be set to go out and check for updates automatically. In the past you had to download the virus definition files manually and install them. BTW, Vexira Antivirus

Re: [expert] AntiVir Personal Edition

2003-09-11 Thread Avi Schwartz
machine while she checks her email remotely :-) As for Linux viruses, there are rumored to be one or two of them, but I don't know of anyone that was infected by them. Avi On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 09:06 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Avi Schwartz Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:51:51 -0500

[expert] msec configuration problem

2003-09-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
Hi, This question started actually in the newbie mailing list but it may be more appropriate for the expert list. I setup my machine with security level 4 but I am interested in relaxing some of the permission settings. I made changes to /etc/security/msec/perm.local and then executed msec.

Re: [expert] msec configuration problem

2003-09-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 22:55 America/Chicago, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:11, Avi Schwartz wrote: Hi, This question started actually in the newbie mailing list but it may be more appropriate for the expert list. I setup my machine with security level 4 but I am interested

Re: [expert] connect with ssh to my box

2003-09-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
elPunishar wrote: hello everybody, i have my mdk9.1 box security level set on standard. now, i want to be able to connect with ssh or telnet to this box from another one in my lan. the connections are refused... where do i have to make the changes to allow this ? Assuming that sshd is

[expert] Cyrus-imap directory ownership

2003-08-03 Thread Avi Schwartz
From my past experience with Cyrus-imap on SuSE Linux and from reading the documents installed on my MDK 9.1 box, certain directories and files need to be owned by the 'cyrus' user. However, when I look at the directory hierarchy installed by the 2.1.12 rpm all these directories are owned by

Re: [expert] Cyrus-imap directory ownership

2003-08-03 Thread Avi Schwartz
Excellent. I just finished installing cyrus-imapd-2.1.14-4mdk and indeed the user was created the directories have the correct ownership. BTW, I always use Mozilla. It is my favorite browser. Than you very much! Avi On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 11:32 AM, Luca Olivetti wrote: Avi Schwartz

Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-07-31 Thread Avi Schwartz
Try another mirror. There is a kdebase-kdm-3.1-83.3mdk.i586.rpm around. I had to search few mirrors until I found it (sorry, I don't remember where it was). Avi On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 17:53 America/Chicago, Felix Miata wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: As for turning off mdkkdm. Go to

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel

2003-07-29 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Tuesday, Jul 29, 2003, at 11:22 America/Chicago, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Jul 28, 2003 at 08:22:15PM -0700, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Regarding the instructions for the kernel upgrade, they include: 'Once you have modified your lilo.conf or menu.lst file, execute lilo -v or sh

[expert] Why doesn't msec set directory permissions?

2003-07-28 Thread Avi Schwartz
I asked this question on the newbie side but received no replies. Maybe it is a question for the experts... Because the machine in question will end being a server connected 24x7 to the Internet, I set its security level to higher (4). However, I want to change the privileges for

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel

2003-07-28 Thread Avi Schwartz
Mandrake should change their kernel installation instructions in the latest Security Advisory since they say there: To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package(s) from one of our FTP server mirrors and upgrade with rpm -Fvh