[expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-24 Thread Schlomo Schwartz
I'm getting a tonne of spam from the *.em5000.net domain (amongst others) and I've been adding their IPs in by hand into my ipchains list of nodes to deny connections to port 25, but damnation, do they ever have a lot. I was wondering if there was a way either in ipchains or iptables to block

[expert] Mandrake 8.1 On Older Hardware

2002-02-24 Thread Ashley Reynolds
Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any tips on installing Mandrake 8.1 on older hardware. I acquire a lot of Pentium I boxen, that I like to attack with Linux, and have recently been having trouble installing Mandrake 8.1 on machines with less than 64Mb of RAM, and the like.

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 On Older Hardware

2002-02-24 Thread James
Ashley, Two suggestions. One when the intial screen comes up press f1 for more options and chose the text installer. This requires a lot less ram. If it's a really low memory device (less than around 32 megs) you might want to check out the RULE project at

Re: [expert] Boot Loader Solved but more problems, now kernel panic

2002-02-24 Thread Jorge Giménez Mayorgas
Hi again. This is my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/es-latin1.klt lba32 prompt timeout=5000 message=/boot/message-graphic menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hde1

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-24 Thread Randy Kramer
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this! I caught your message when I was back scanning the threads. Lyvim, No problem, thanks for replying! Lyvim, Questions: Have you ever tried any of the dcop (or kdcop) stuff for interprocess communication among apps?

[expert] How to set up KDE3 compiled from CVS?

2002-02-24 Thread Frederik Himpe
Hi, I have compiled KDE3's arts, kdelibs and kdebase from CVS, and installed it in /opt/kde3. Now, what's the best way to actually start using kde3, i.e. In which script should I set the QTDIR, KDEHOME and KDEDIR variables? How can I add KDE3 to the Mandrake's KDM login manager? Maybe other

Re: [expert] procmail qmail config

2002-02-24 Thread Randy Kramer
nDiScReEt wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: There are at least two ways to do this: Assuming you only want to share mail among computer on your home LAN, and they are all Linux, I think the simplest way is via a shared directory. Simply pick one of your computers to be the main computer

Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-24 Thread Randy Kramer
I can't answer this question, but I'd like to piggyback a related question (I think). Background: I'm learning about email, procmail, postfix, pop servers, etc. I've become aware (I think) that if you have a shell account at your ISP you could potentially run Procmail on the ISP's machine, and

Re: [expert] probally a daft question BUT

2002-02-24 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:13:41 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) studiouisly spake these words to ponder: well I'll be dipped! so _thats_ how patch works!! I've been wondering about that for the longest time but just never got around to figuring it out. That's awesome! Yeah at first it

[expert] Booting from a SCSI DVD

2002-02-24 Thread Frederic Soulier
Hi I currently have the following setup: IDE controler #1 - channel #1HD - channel #2(not used, I want to leave the HD alone) IDE controler #2 - channel #1DVD - channel #2Zip250 I have an IDE Tape drive which I want to use and

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 On Older Hardware

2002-02-24 Thread Hoyt
On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:33 am, you wrote: Hi all, I'm just wondering if anyone can give me any tips on installing Mandrake 8.1 on older hardware. I acquire a lot of Pentium I boxen, that I like to attack with Linux, and have recently been having trouble installing Mandrake 8.1 on

Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-24 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 08:51:23 -0500 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy, If you have your own domain/IP, you can use PostFix' anti-spam features to greatly refuse spam before it gets delivered... Most spam comes through open relays and by blocking mail from any known open relay, we

Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything

2002-02-24 Thread ed tharp
On Saturday 23 February 2002 18:34, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:17:25PM -0800, Michael Holt wrote: 6:04pm... Expert ran for the door shrieking: FLAMED BY YOU NAZI FROG COCKSUCKERS eh? Nazi frog ___ ?? Dude, do frogs even *have* ..? :-P no, no, the frog does the

Re: [expert] msec mail (twice)

2002-02-24 Thread FL
Thanks a lot, this was due to an error in the config file and also a domain name problem. With root@localhost everything works fine now. Francois At 16:54 23/02/02 +0100, you wrote: Look in /etc/security/msec/security.conf Maybe this update has corrupted or changed this config file. In this

[expert] Kernel IP virtual server?

2002-02-24 Thread Randall Jonasz
Hey everyone, I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server. Does anyone know where it is located? I've disabled ipvsadm with chkconfig

Re: [expert] Making Mounts accessable to all users

2002-02-24 Thread Nexist Xenda'ths
Hello Dave: /dev/sda4 is owned by root:root. I did try chowning it to root:users, then I chowned the mount points to root:user. so the permissions for the device were lr-xr-xr-x root:users /dev/sda4 and the MOunt point was drwxrwxrwx root:users /mnt/zip after mount -t vfat /dev/sda4

Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-24 Thread Brian
you should be able to use an entry like this: 64.37.64.0/18 to define what to block in your deny line These 'spam companies' are starting to get so out of hand now. DM360, etracks, freejokesforyou, targetedemaildirect, customoffers, and ROI have been an especially big problem in the last few

Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?

2002-02-24 Thread ed tharp
are you looking for IPtables? On Sunday 24 February 2002 11:01, you wrote: Hey everyone, I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server.

Re: [expert] DVD (newbie) full screen

2002-02-24 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... Rich Buckner ran for the door shrieking: Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:53:34 -0800 From: Rich Buckner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Joham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] DVD (newbie) full screen On Wednesday 20 February 2002 02:42

Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything

2002-02-24 Thread Michael Holt
3:54am... jipe ran for the door shrieking: Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 03:54:18 +0100 From: jipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Fine I give up on everything Le Dimanche 24 Février 2002 03:25, vous avez écrit : Ta mere est tellement grosse

Re: [expert] xemacs 3D effects in MDK 8.1

2002-02-24 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
I think I finally came up with a solution I like. The user's private resource file ~/.Xresources can include these lines: *Background: LightGrey XTerm*background: white 'xterm' needs a separate resource, unless one likes its background to be grey. But Tcl/Tk applications and Xemacs seem to be

[expert] prelude output

2002-02-24 Thread udo rader
hi, I've configured one of my boxes to be my firewall and have installed various packages for increasing security on the fw-box, one of them is prelude. does anybody of you have an idea what this output of prelude means (that I sometimes find in the automated daily system check-mails):

Re: [expert] prelude output

2002-02-24 Thread Schlomo Schwartz
Hi Udo, I don't know about prelude, but you might want to check out PureSecure by Demarc (demarc.org). It uses snort to detect questionable network activity, logs it all into a database (MySQL), and brings it all together in a VERY nice web front end. IMHO, it's the best network intrusion

Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-24 Thread Schlomo Schwartz
Hi Brian, thanks for the reply, --- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should be able to use an entry like this: 64.37.64.0/18 to define what to block in your deny line So that just takes care of the 64.37.64.x nodes, right? They own 64.37.64.0 - 64.37.127.255, so would you have to do the

Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?

2002-02-24 Thread Ashley Reynolds
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Randall Jonasz wrote: I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server. Does anyone know where it is located? I've

Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-24 Thread J. Craig Woods
Schlomo Schwartz wrote: Hi Brian, thanks for the reply, --- Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should be able to use an entry like this: 64.37.64.0/18 to define what to block in your deny line So that just takes care of the 64.37.64.x nodes, right? They own 64.37.64.0 -

[expert] leafnode/fetchnews need help

2002-02-24 Thread dfox
I've been getting Usenet articles for sometime off and on using the leafnode/fetchnews NNTP reader. I can get the groups I want to read with no problems but fetchnews seems to go overboard, and is now trying to get *all* news out there, even some in binaries newsgroups, and if left to continue,

[expert] GTK Themes in Mandrake 8.1

2002-02-24 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
Hello everyone. I've got an annoying problem. A while back I imported some GTK themes. Now, not only can I not delete them (where are they?), but if I change to another widget set I still get remnants of one of the new ones I installed. For example, if I use High Color Default for my widget

Re: [expert] Choosing between Kde and Gnome with startx

2002-02-24 Thread dfox
Hello My system is set up not to use the graphic login window (somehow this won't allow me to use multiple Xs) so I need to call KDE I simply issue the command startx -- :.0.0 (or 1.0 or 2.0 ...) . For gnome I have tried startgnome but What I've done is to put lines for both window

Re: [expert] Choosing between Kde and Gnome with startx

2002-02-24 Thread Darwin Gottfried
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 13:54, dfox wrote: [..] What I've done is to put lines for both window environments in my $HOME/.xinitrc. A quick edit with vi, comment out the one you want to run and put a # comment just before the line you don't want to run, then save startx. You could also use

Re: [expert] Choosing between Kde and Gnome with startx

2002-02-24 Thread Hoyt
On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:16 pm, you wrote: You could also use Xtart. Which will show you a curses menu of the WM's installed and allow you to select which one to use. I've been using it for a couple months now, I like it. What package provides Xtart? Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com

Re: [expert] Can you block out entire netblocks?

2002-02-24 Thread James
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:02:04 -0800 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should take care of all from .64.0 to .127.255. It's based on the mask, like 255.255.255.0 would be the same as /24, which is a full class C block of 256 addresses. It seems like there's a program available or included

Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?

2002-02-24 Thread ai4a
Randall Jonasz wrote: Hey everyone, I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't find anything in the kernel config for ip virtual server. Does anyone know where it is located? I've

[expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian?

2002-02-24 Thread Hoyt
I'd rather see the effort put into a 486 version of Mandrake than into a Debian-Mandrake. I'd rather see APIC support fixed. I'd rather see the Auto Install Floppy option fixed. Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?

2002-02-24 Thread Randall Jonasz
Hi Ashley, Cool! Thanks for the info. Cheers, Randy On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Ashley Reynolds wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Randall Jonasz wrote: I just compiled kernel 2.4.17 on mandrake 8.1; everything boots up nicely except for a module required by ipvsadm. For the life of me I can't

[expert] Grammar checker

2002-02-24 Thread Phil
Hello All, Does anyone know of a grammar checker for Linux? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Choosing between Kde and Gnome with startx

2002-02-24 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Sunday 24 February 2002 05:48 pm, you wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:45:07PM -0500, Hoyt wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:16 pm, you wrote: You could also use Xtart. Which will show you a curses menu of the WM's installed and allow you to select which one to use. I've been

[expert] adaptec ava 1502-a

2002-02-24 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, I have a Microtek Scanmaker E3 with an addaptec ava 1502-a scsi card, both of which are reported to work with Mandrake Linux , according to the supported hardware list. However I can't seem to find a module for this card. A generic module maybe? Can anyone tell me how to set this up? I'm

Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal

2002-02-24 Thread gnerd
I'm with you, Hoyt, re: the 486 version of Mandrake. There's still a lot of legacy hardware out there that could use the Mandrake ease of use touch with optimized performance. They'd probably have to ditch X and go with some kind of SVGA solution (or maybe port one of the PDA Xes), but IMO

Re: [expert] Kernel IP virtual server?

2002-02-24 Thread Randall Jonasz
Hi Charles, I looked under Networking options, but there is no ip virtual server listed. I'm using kernel sources from kernel.org and Ashley pointed out, this feature is added on by Mandrake. It is not apart of the stock kernel. Thanks for your help anyway! Randy On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, ai4a

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-24 Thread Brandon Dorman
I'll try doing it with the data tag, but here is the site i got my original information off of. http://linuxdocs.org/sln/cdcommands/ the pertinant section: Writing an ISO to a CD-ROM using cdrecord Assuming that all you want to do is create a CD based on the ISO 9660 file system standard,

Re: [expert] Is 8.2 upgrade working???

2002-02-24 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
On Saturday 23 February 2002 11:07 pm, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:01:37PM -0600, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello (again) I wonder whether upgrading 81. to 8.2 beta3 is a easy job. I don't want to lose any data. I remeber that using the upgrade option on 8.1 wasn't a

Re: [expert] Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian? - Hoyt's proposal

2002-02-24 Thread James
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:16:46 -0500 gnerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm with you, Hoyt, re: the 486 version of Mandrake. There's still a lot of legacy hardware out there that could use the Mandrake ease of use touch with optimized performance. They'd probably have to ditch X and go with

Re: [expert] leafnode/fetchnews need help

2002-02-24 Thread dfox
Not to worry it stops fetching from groups you don't read - check your config settings - it's heavily commented. Well, I can set the expiration date for what's needed - which is all right. But I read that texpire(8) is thread-based rather than article- based - what effect should that have (if

Re: [expert] Grammar checker

2002-02-24 Thread James
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:57:37 +1000 Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Does anyone know of a grammar checker for Linux? My boss. *grin* *sorry* -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Boot Loader Solved but more problems, now kernel panic

2002-02-24 Thread Larry Sword
Jorge Giménez Mayorgas wrote: Hi again. This is my lilo.conf I really don't see anything wrong with your lilo file, except the exceptional long timeout=5000 setting. Suggest you change to a more reasonable 50. From your lilo file: You have the Linux partition as /dev/hde1 with lilo at

Re: [expert] adaptec ava 1502-a

2002-02-24 Thread James
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:03:24 -0500 Daniel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Microtek Scanmaker E3 with an addaptec ava 1502-a scsi card, both of which are reported to work with Mandrake Linux , according to the supported hardware list. However I can't seem to find a module

[expert] devfs, hdc=ide-scsi (Mdk 8.1) and the symbolic link /dev/cdrom

2002-02-24 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
I have recently upgraded from 7.2 to 8.1 (better later than never). This has caused me problem with the handling of my CDROM drive and CD-writer on my computer; I have both, the CDROM is /dev/hdc and the CD-writer /dev/hdd. I prefer to have both drives being emulated SCSI using ide-scsi. I

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-24 Thread David Oberbeck
Hmm, It seems that the issue may lie in older CD-ROM drives; I did a quick test (8 non-critical systems) and 1/2 of the systems will boot the ISO - 700 MB and 650s, and half will only boot from a 650 disk (these tended to be older drives). All CD-ROMS, however, will read both sizes.

[expert] Services not running on bootup

2002-02-24 Thread Fridhar
I had to reset my system while running. Now when the system boots up none of the services startup. I have to manually start them to have my LM 8.1 running. I presume the file system mus have been screwed up. When I shutdown the system, it cannot unmount some partitions reporting that

[expert] Services not running on bootup

2002-02-24 Thread Fridhar
I had to reset my system while running. Now when the system boots up none of the services startup. I have to manually start them to have my LM 8.1 running. I presume the file system mus have been screwed up. When I shutdown the system, it cannot unmount some partitions reporting that cannot link

Re: [expert] devfs, hdc=ide-scsi (Mdk 8.1) and the symbolic link /dev/cdrom

2002-02-24 Thread Hoyt
On Monday 25 February 2002 01:44 am, you wrote: pmi fi;e I have recently upgraded from 7.2 to 8.1 (better later than never). This has caused me problem with the handling of my CDROM drive and CD-writer on my computer; I have both, the CDROM is /dev/hdc and the CD-writer /dev/hdd. I prefer to