Re: [expert] Help - my box has been compromised!

2003-11-05 Thread David Guntner
to like pain. --Dave (And yes, I've administered sites running qmail. I'll take postfix every time.) -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] 9.2 made slashdot

2003-10-25 Thread David Guntner
KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/1737244 I get Page cannot be displayed. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Help please! Cannot stop this spam

2003-10-20 Thread David Guntner
delete the message from the far end as though it had delivered it. Try putting in the reject code that you're seeing at your end from your local postfix/qmail/sendmail daemon, and see if that helps. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com

Re: [expert] Help please! Cannot stop this spam

2003-10-20 Thread David Guntner
errors, you would never know about them (Not saying don't do it if it's really needed, just be aware... :) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread David Guntner
Praedor Atrebates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks all, I have it working in a desireable fashion now. I am once again using fetchmail + postfix and, now, spamassassin to deal with my incoming mail. Procmail is properly directing a subset of my mail to my mailbox directly and passing

Re: [expert] Spamassassin help request: Resolved

2003-10-08 Thread David Guntner
Praedor Atrebates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thanks for the reply but the problem was: I had a ~/.fetchmailrc. It worked so long as I started fetchmail myself. If I tried to start fetchmail thus (as root) /etc/init.d/fetchmail start or if I started up MCC and then tried to start

Re: [expert] Mail server

2003-10-05 Thread David Guntner
mailbox from his ISP. And of course install Postfix. :-) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Dynamic dns

2003-09-13 Thread David Guntner
HaywireMac grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:25:28 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Check out www.no-ip.com. I use them, and have liked them for some time now. They deal with NAT just fine, and have a Linux updater client. but they charge you

Re: [expert] Dynamic dns

2003-09-13 Thread David Guntner
HaywireMac grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 04:11:49 -0700 David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Personally, I don't have a problem with that. :-) It's not an unreasonable price they're asking. I use them, so I mentioned them as an option. Nothing against you

Re: [expert] Dynamic dns

2003-09-13 Thread David Guntner
-- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dynamic dns

2003-09-12 Thread David Guntner
Erik Evjenth grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I am migrating from Win XP to Mandrake Linux. My Apache web server is up and running I have a *simple* problem with dynamic IP and DNS: 0. Registered my domain for $7.95 with GoDaddy 1. My DNS is through Zoneedit.com (to support Dynamic DNS)

Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?

2003-08-31 Thread David Guntner
Bill grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Star Date Saturday 30 August 2003 11:17 am, David Guntner sent this sub-space message. I am trying to use -j REJECT because I want to reject the packet. I also want to log it. However, I see that my problem was that I was trying to do a -j REJECT LOG

Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?

2003-08-30 Thread David Guntner
Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 13:51, David Guntner wrote: I'm setting up some iptables rules to block certain kinds of packets on my ML 9.1 machine. The man page talks about logging options to have

Re: [expert] iptables - any way to log?

2003-08-30 Thread David Guntner
Bill grabbed a keyboard and wrote: You can look on the web for iptables log which is where I found what I use. -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m limit --limit 10/hour -j LOG --log-prefix IPTABLES UDP-IN: Ah, ok. Now I see what I was doing wrong. I am trying to use -j REJECT because I want to

[expert] iptables - any way to log?

2003-08-29 Thread David Guntner
in response. Does anyone know what the actual syntax is on an iptables command to have it log when that particular reject rule is fired? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public

[expert] Microsoft drives people to Linux :-)

2003-08-24 Thread David Guntner
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-5065859.html Interesting story. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-23 Thread David Guntner
Udo Rader grabbed a keyboard and wrote: If it were, some construct like the thing below could then list all files in /opt/too_many_files except no_not_this_one: % ls -l /opt/too_many_files/*{!no_not_this_one} Yes, I know this doesn't work, but is there any other efficient way to do this in

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-21 Thread David Guntner
Robert W. grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:05, David Guntner wrote: Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:47, David Guntner wrote: I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process (Neverwinter Nights

Re: [expert] Dynamic DNS service provider

2003-08-21 Thread David Guntner
). --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-21 Thread David Guntner
Robert W. grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 02:49, David Guntner wrote: Robert W. grabbed a keyboard and wrote:logging On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:05, David Guntner wrote: What about changing the shell to /bin/false. Will that prevent themimplement getting a login shell

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-19 Thread David Guntner
Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:47, David Guntner wrote: I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process (Neverwinter Nights, if it matters :). I don't know if it's possible for a remote user to crash the game process in a way

[expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread David Guntner
., etc., etc. Their file format is not a standard FAX format from what we can tell. So, is there software that can be used to convert an efax file into a standard tiff file (which can then be tiff2ps'd)? Any help would be, well, helpful. :-) --Dave -- David Guntner

Re: [expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread David Guntner
Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: crossover handles these like a champ -- costs some bucks, but it does the job. Ok, so what is crossover, and where does one get it? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg

Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-19 Thread David Guntner
. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread David Guntner
my messagein the first place. :-) efax.com seems to be using a propriatary format in their .efx files, and they require you to use their Windows based program to open the file up. Joy. Conversion utilities would be neat. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say

Re: [expert] Postfix UCE Controls and Fetchmail

2003-08-18 Thread David Guntner
Bryan Phinney grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Not sure if this is the right list for this type of question but I will plunge in anyway. I am running Postfix 2.04 on my Linux system and using Fetchmail to pull down mail from my ISP and inject it into Postfix. I have local aliases setup for all

[expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

2003-08-18 Thread David Guntner
I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process (Neverwinter Nights, if it matters :). I don't know if it's possible for a remote user to crash the game process in a way which would leave them sitting in a shell, but since I don't know that the chances are 0%, I'm thinking that

[expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread David Guntner
I've got something weird going on and hope someone can help me out here. I'm running ML 9.1 with the latest version (from the update site) of the various packages. I've got a CD Writer (HP 9100i) installed in the slave on the secondary IDE controller. Mandrake sees it and harddrake configured

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread David Guntner
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wanted us to know: Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. When going

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread David Guntner
Larry Sword grabbed a keyboard and wrote: 1. Take a look at your /etc/fstab file. see if you have and entry for none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount ... 2. Look in the file /etc/lilo.conf and that you have an append line that has the cdwriter as hdd=ide-scsi. This will id it as a

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread David Guntner
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wanted us to know: meantime, question: Why does doing something to make it think that's an IDE device is a SCSI device make this work better? Is there any reason that I would *need* to do that for the DVD ROM? In the words of the great

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread David Guntner
that there will be companies that will pay rather than take a chance of being sued for copyright violation. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Procmail configuration sample

2003-08-06 Thread David Guntner
}. So I, for one, don't understand what it is that you're wanting to do here :-) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Root/SU Exit

2003-08-01 Thread David Guntner
Felix Miata grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Nope. Control-D is simply used as an end-of-file indicator. If you EOF a *lot* of different program inputs, it will end that program (or at least, end it from looking for further input :). In the case of a shell prompt

Re: [expert] Kernel Update - NVIDIA Driver Problem

2003-08-01 Thread David Guntner
Jeffrey Litterick grabbed a keyboard and wrote: My question is what is the best way to get the NVdriver module loaded correctly in the new kernel. For right now I changed my X driver from NVIDIA to nv and it works but I lost all 3d acceleration. I would like to avoid if possible downloading

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

2003-07-31 Thread David Guntner
:-) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-07-31 Thread David Guntner
Felix Miata grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Cute: #urpmi kdebase-kdm-3.1-83mdk.i586.rpm The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: kdebase-3.1-83.3mdk (due to unsatisfied kdebase == 3.1-83mdk) kdebase-devel-3.1-83.3mdk (due to unsatisfied kdebase == 3.1-83mdk)

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

2003-07-31 Thread David Guntner
Bill Mullen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: The first rule of thumb on any Linux or *nix-based system is, Do as root only that absolute bare minimum that /must/ be done as root. What he said. Remember, when you are running as root, disaster is one typo away. --Dave Want to buy your

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

2003-07-31 Thread David Guntner
Felix Miata grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I don't do it often, but the usual reason is not remembering or not being able to figure out how to do some kind of configuration in bash that Mandrake provides GUI tools to do easily. I've never figured out the ramifications of doing su in a normal

[expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?

2003-07-30 Thread David Guntner
show up in the login window when I've selected the clock from the control panel under login preferences. I can't seem to remember how I did it on my already-set up machine. :-) Can someone point me in the right direction, please? Thanks! --Dave -- David Guntner

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

2003-07-30 Thread David Guntner
Greg Meyer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Just uninstall the bootsplash package urpme bootsplash [...] urpme mdkkdm urpmi kdebase-kdm Well, that seems a bit of a brute-force approach, but I guess it will work. :-) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say

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

2003-07-30 Thread David Guntner
. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-07-28 Thread David Guntner
stefmit grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Three machines running MDK 9.1: one of them prompts me with the existence of a new kernel, the other two don't (via MCC -- Software Management -- Mandrake Update). Is there a setup I may have missed on two machines, to enable kernel updates to show up? I

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

2003-07-28 Thread David Guntner
Avi Schwartz grabbed a keyboard and wrote: 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

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-24 Thread David Guntner
On Thursday 24 July 2003 08:25 am, Juan Quintela wrote: While vincent wakeup, I am uploading new kernel packages to: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~quintela/updates/9.1/ Thanks for providing those so quickly, Juan. I'll be installing them shortly. :-) --Dave Want to buy your

[expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update breaks msec

2003-07-23 Thread David Guntner
: printf: `m': invalid format character Nothing has been changed in that file. This only showed up with the new kernel in place. Please go over the new kernel and release a bugfix for these two problems. Thanks! --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http

[expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread David Guntner
. Thanks! --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread David Guntner
Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Glad to see you're still on the list, Vincent. :-) On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 11:56:14AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread David Guntner
Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:26, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 11:56:14AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update breaks msec

2003-07-23 Thread David Guntner
Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 12:21:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: (Again, this is in the hopes that someone from Mandrake is still reading this list) Well, at least partially. :-) In addition to the other error I reported regarding the new

Re: [expert] redirect to /dev/null...how?

2003-07-22 Thread David Guntner
it. I have tried, in kmail, redirecting to /dev/null and moving to folder /dev/null but neither works. How would this be done in kmail? Let Procmail do it for you instead. In your .procmailrc file, put: :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes /dev/null And you're done. --Dave -- David

Re: [expert] command line to be executed every reboot

2003-07-04 Thread David Guntner
Octavi Fors grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I would like that a certain command line as chmod 666 /dev/v4l/video0 is executed every time I reboot my PC running MDK8.2. What should I do? In which script under /etc should include such command line? Edit etc/rc.local and put that line at the

Re: [expert] What is sshd-restarter?

2003-07-03 Thread David Guntner
Greg Meyer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I asked this question on newbie, and I got no answer, so I'll repost here. Is anybody wiling to enlighten me as to what sshd-restarter does, and why it runs every 5 minutes? It does exactly what the name implies. It checks for a dead ssh daemon, and

Re: [expert] Parent vs Child

2003-06-30 Thread David Guntner
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I

Re: [expert] Change default editor.

2003-06-12 Thread David Guntner
in question so I set them this way. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Kernel: i8253 too high?

2003-05-29 Thread David Guntner
and I had to hit the reset button to reboot. Anyone know what this message means? And maybe what can be done to keep it from showing up again? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server

Re: [expert] Kernel: i8253 too high?

2003-05-29 Thread David Guntner
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:43, David Guntner wrote: kernel: i8253 too high! Resetting (not 100% sure of the number, but it was close to that) That was the final entry on the screen. Everything else had stopped. Even my main

Re: [expert] daylight-saving time

2003-04-06 Thread David Guntner
Philip Webb said: my computer's clock just made the change to N American EDT automatically. is this controlled by Xntpd, which i have running, or by something else in the Mandrake-Linux set-up (9.0rc1 currently)? i can't find anything in the NTP document'n on the subject. At a shell prompt,

Re: [expert] daylight-saving time

2003-04-06 Thread David Guntner
Bill Mullen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Philip Webb wrote: 030406 David Guntner wrote: One of your rc.d scripts sets the timezone (TZ) variable at boot time. seems not. It is probably based on the ZONE= setting in /etc/sysconfig/clock. Ah, you're right

[expert] DMA on hard drives turned off?

2003-04-03 Thread David Guntner
, if there are any pitfalls I should be aware of regarding using it with any of the above three drives? Thanks for any info. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want

Re: [expert] DMA on hard drives turned off?

2003-04-03 Thread David Guntner
Kwan Lowe grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 17:31, David Guntner wrote: I seem to remember that there's a command you can stick in your rc.local to turn drive DMA on. Can anyone let me know what it is? And, of course, if there are any pitfalls I should be aware

Re: [expert] DMA on hard drives turned off?

2003-04-03 Thread David Guntner
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Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread David Guntner
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:49, Alan Shoemaker wrote: David Guntner wrote: I've done a clean install of 9.1 on the machine which used to run 9.0. In 9.0, I had sound. In 9.1, only silence. No hardware has changed, so I'm kind-of hard

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread David Guntner
Anne Wilson grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Friday 28 Mar 2003 5:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:27, David Guntner wrote: I've done a clean install of 9.1 on the machine which used to run 9.0. In 9.0, I had sound. In 9.1, only silence. No hardware has changed, so

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread David Guntner
Mike grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Friday 28 March 2003 12:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:27, David Guntner wrote: I've done a clean install of 9.1 on the machine which used to run 9.0. In 9.0, I had sound. In 9.1, only silence. No hardware has changed, so

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-28 Thread David Guntner
to something else, and made a link to /usr/bin/play called aplay (which seems to work), but I'd prefer to do something configuration-wise, if possible. :-) Regardless, replacing aplay with play seems to have done it for the time being. :-) --Dave David Guntner grabbed

[expert] ssl with apache2?

2003-03-27 Thread David Guntner
for use with Apache 2? As much detail as possible would be helpful. :-) Thanks in advance for any help. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-27 Thread David Guntner
help/pointers/clues/RTFMs would be appreciated. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] www.TrueMajority.com

2003-03-07 Thread David Guntner
* to be on a political mailing list, I would have joined one. And I'm pretty sure the last time you posted this, it was requested of you that you don't do so in the future --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server

Re: [expert] postfix rewrite, trying to rewrite email header

2003-02-24 Thread David Guntner
bascule said: i am trying to get postfix to rewrite one of the headers that appears in all the emails i send, in every email i send incl. this one there is: Received: from mycroft.excession (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by host.domain.tld (Postfix) as one of the first

[expert] What is z2?

2003-01-26 Thread David Guntner
someone compromising the apache user or whatever (I've got the current security patches in place for the web server)? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy

[expert] Does Linux impose a time limit on processes?

2003-01-18 Thread David Guntner
kind of time limit, perhaps? Any information or ideas on where to look into this would be appreciated. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] There will be a good Mandrake Future?ยก

2003-01-16 Thread David Guntner
Damian Gatabria grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Over here, we are taught that is different from is symbolized with a striked-out = sign. Well, since my keyboard is missing the striked-out = key, != will have to do. :-) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say

Re: [expert] What is 'wheel' is it safe how do I use it?

2002-12-29 Thread David Guntner
Jim C said: Really? I mean if you create an admin user can't you then restrict root from ever logging on? What do you mean by create an admin user? Root is root. For some things, you've *got* to be root to make them work. As to restricting root login, that's easy. Your sshd config file

Re: [expert] [Attn Todd] MySQL not starting at boot

2002-12-19 Thread David Guntner
. Oktober 2002 21:51 schrieb David Guntner: This question was asked by someone else earlier, but I never saw a response. Sorry if one was given and I was just being blind... :-) I've done chkconfig --add mysql so I know it should be starting. When checking the comments at the beginning

Re: [expert] Can't find my D: and E:

2002-12-19 Thread David Guntner
I'm completely at a loss for how this has anything to do with Mandrake Linux, or even Linux in general, in any way, shape, or form Emily Chan said: Hello, I was trying to install winXP in my computer this week. I had win98 then in C: and would want to keep it and install winXP in E:.

[expert] Postfix overrides not working....

2002-12-06 Thread David Guntner
hostname I've put in there for debugging purposes). Anyone have any ideas why this isn't working? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?

2002-12-05 Thread David Guntner
rpmfind.net is listing packages, but when you click on any of them, you get a page doesn't exist on this server type of message. It seems that it's not just Mandrake packages that this is happening with, either. Anyone know what's going on over there? --Dave -- David

[expert] named: lame server?

2002-12-05 Thread David Guntner
:-) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] named: lame server?

2002-12-05 Thread David Guntner
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:47:21PM -0800 : Of late, I've been getting TONS of named: lame server resolving messages anytime a DNS lookup takes place locally. I've got the caching nameserver package installed

Re: [expert] Colortail. A wonderful tool for adding color to your syslog or any other text file!

2002-12-05 Thread David Guntner
/colortail.html And the patch to make it compile on 9.0 from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/colortail/colortail-0.3.0-gcc3.patch.gz?download Well, that could be useful. :-) Thanks for the information, I'll check it out. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say

Re: [expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?

2002-12-05 Thread David Guntner
description. I.E., the one ending with a .html in the file/link name. I'm not sure how downloadable that will be... :-) --Dave On Thursday 05 December 2002 05:38 pm, David Guntner wrote: rpmfind.net is listing packages, but when you click on any of them, you get a page

Re: [expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?

2002-12-05 Thread David Guntner
pbone.net as well. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?

2002-11-27 Thread David Guntner
to be in it to turn off password expire. Does anyone know what needs to be set where to turn it off? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] How to set passwords to NOT expire?

2002-11-27 Thread David Guntner
it to 9 and ran msec again to apply it. I've stopped getting the warning notice for now, so I guess it worked. :-) --Dave --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public

Re: [expert] Postfix/kmail problem

2002-11-26 Thread David Guntner
reason that you can't select Local mailbox (the top option) instead? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] How to make /proc available to apache user?

2002-11-20 Thread David Guntner
works just fine. So the question is: How do I enable /proc for apache? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] How to make /proc available to apache user?

2002-11-20 Thread David Guntner
. --Dave David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: I've got a php script running a web page, which needs to be able to do things like ps to determine if other processes that it will start and stop are running. I've discovered that (apparently) by default, the /proc filesystem

Re: [expert] Turning off Root login

2002-11-20 Thread David Guntner
in place even through your next reboot). HTH. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Gamma correction/adjustment for monitor?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
? Thanks in advance! --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Directions on making a mail list.

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
ya. Easy, one-word answer: Mailman. You should have a rpm file for it on one of your Mandrake CDs. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack

[expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
at the screen level. So the big question is: Is there a way to tell screen to not *care* about your terminal type, but to just go ahead and run as though it were in a dumb terminal? Any information/ideas/etc would be appreciated. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 18:15, David Guntner wrote: So the big question is: Is there a way to tell screen to not *care* about your terminal type, but to just go ahead and run as though it were in a dumb terminal? Any information/ideas/etc

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
John McQuillen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:31, David Guntner wrote: Well, the TERM value that *I'm* using doesn't come in to play, in this case. :-) I'm using a PHP web application which uses expect to spawn screen and do its thing. So it's the apache user

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
John McQuillen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Can't you just include ?TERM=xterm in your link to the application? FWIW, I just tried it that way, and it didn't work --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
. A little fine-tuning, and I might actually get this interface working right. :-) Thanks for the help, to you and John. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want

Re: [expert] Java ssh applet (was (Re: html front end to pine?)

2002-11-18 Thread David Guntner
On Sunday 17 November 2002 01:28 pm, Torstein Hernes Dybdahl wrote: Do not know how to install or set it up. Check out hte faq. But not rare for commercial products to miss instructions. Thats how they make money support. Quick check on the web for java-ssh gave this:

Re: [expert] html front end to pine?

2002-11-17 Thread David Guntner
://www.squirrelmail.org --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mailboxes size on Postfix

2002-11-17 Thread David Guntner
day. :-) HTH. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Java ssh applet (was (Re: html front end to pine?)

2002-11-17 Thread David Guntner
an running? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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