and I thought I was a masochist for having a 486 laptop. One combo
I've had luck with is Spam Assasin + MailScanner gets both spam and via
Mailscanner plus a number of available anti-virus company dat files ( I
recommend Sophos) you wind up with a really solid combo. Low number (I
never have
I had this on my laptop. The same symptoms described before. I went
into rpmdrake and removed all files. Then did a fake install ie go
through the motions but chose to install nothing. This reset the
disks. Lousy way to do it but it worked. In one of Todd's e-mails
shortly after that he
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 00:06 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote:
I had this on my laptop. The same symptoms described before. I went
into rpmdrake and removed all files. Then did a fake install ie go
through the motions but chose to install nothing. This reset the
disks. Lousy way to do it
Well i had no such problem with mandrake 8.2 but in
mandrake 9.0 when i mount an ntfs partition for the
use of apache server the mount point the device
stops responding .. on the same system Redhat 8.0 is
also running which dont have any problem as such can
you solve this ?
=
*º¤.,
Hi,
Im trying to set up my dads Mandrake 8.2/Win98 box, he recently went and got himself
an NTL connection, but none of the standard net wizards include setting up a USB cable
modem, and I cant find much to help after a look through the Linux USB pages. Has
anyone had any experience of setting
On Friday 01 Nov 2002 H:54 am, Simon Naish wrote:
Hi,
Im trying to set up my dads Mandrake 8.2/Win98 box, he recently went and
got himself an NTL connection, but none of the standard net wizards include
setting up a USB cable modem, and I cant find much to help after a look
through the Linux
alt-tab moves the focus to the window, but i still have to click in the window
with the mouse or else scrolling wiht the cursor keys doesn't work, scrolling
with the mouse wheel will work, but without the click in the window no
keyboard scroll
bascule
On Thursday 31 Oct 2002 5:44 pm, Jayme
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:40 +, bascule wrote:
alt-tab moves the focus to the window, but i still have to click in the window
with the mouse or else scrolling wiht the cursor keys doesn't work, scrolling
with the mouse wheel will work, but without the click in the window no
keyboard
Hello there,
I've installed Mandrake 9.0 and I've noticed that the system every 10
minutes does something like apm suspend mode for few seconds. I've posted
few
e-mails and I come to the conclusion that somehow the kernel things my
system is
... SMP with a single CPU.
Anyway, I've installed
At 11:54 PM 10/31/02, Jack Coates wrote:
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 20:37, Vox wrote:
This time Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
becomes daring and writes:
I'd also suggest preparing management for a new box -- classic pentiums
are fine for C apps but real dogs when it comes to Perl.
There's
sorry but that's not working for me, using tab again simply selects the next
'tabable' element such as a hyperlink,in fact using tab i was able to
'scroll' down my slashdot front page and using shift-tab i was able to
'scroll' up due the list of links on one side of the page, cursor control is
Hi All,
Does anybody know of Open Office Quickstart for Mandrake 9. I know there
are quite a few RPMs floating around but, they worked fine in Mandrake
8.2. Else, Open Office is a big turn down . Big, bloated, slow,
crashy!!!
Sandeep
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
Hi,
Does anybody know of Mozilla quickstart in Linux. Or there is no such
thing !!!
Well, this feature is there in M$ Windows and not in Linux I
thought it is an Open Source project originating in the Open Source
World, so shouldn't it be having good killer features in Linux atleast !
On Thursday 31 October 2002 07:49 pm, ET wrote:
On Thursday 31 October 2002 07:32 pm, Toshiro wrote:
Anybody knows why Mandrake is no longer providing this package?
Does that include its parts such as pico? It would be nice for pico to be
included by itself if possible as it is one of the
Use the editor in MC. It's dead simple to use. no silly command strings
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Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] where's pine?
On
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 08:34:42 -0500
Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does that include its parts such as pico?
Yes, sorry.
Here are the sticking points from their license
0.1 Is Pine Open Source?
It depends on how that term is defined. Source for Unix Pine is provided to allow
users
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Hi:
The short story is I have a new MSI KT3 ULTRA2 motherboard, and I have the
bios set for the default values. When I insert my MDK 9 cd #1 in the DVD rom,
and then restart, the machine boots from the DVD then after I hit enter to
proceed to
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Doesn't MC require a working X? If X is toasted, is the MC editor still
useable?
praedor
On Friday 01 November 2002 08:48 am, logic7 wrote:
Use the editor in MC. It's dead simple to use. no silly command strings
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Thanks Simon, I saved my souls... and my wireless connection.
I have point-by-point followed your indications and now my Netgear MA401
PCMCIA wireless card is working fine on my notepad.
Some points to fix, yet:
It seems that the
WIRELESS_ESSID
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY
options are erased after
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 13:10, David Rankin wrote:
Well,
All windows machines store time in LOCALTIME. Linux can store time in
hwclock in LOCALTIME or UTC/GMT. If you are running a dual boot system with
windows set the Linux hwclock to LOCALTIME otherwise the clock will be off by
your
MC is a command line tool. Doesn't need X at all. I make sure it's installed
on every linux box I have primarily because of the editor.
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Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 9:10 AM
To:
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 15:26, Bill Beauchemin wrote:
I wasa running a much older version of apache and openssl that i thought
were ok but no I guess this hack works with even the old stuff.
I also didnt think somebody would be interested in my little private
home email and web server.
devil's advocate
at its most basic:
vi filename (or vim; in mdk, vi is just a link to vim)
i (for insert mode)
make all changes; arrow keys, pgup/pgdn all work
Esc (exit insert mode, return to command mode)
:wq (: = enter command line, w = write file to current
filename, q = quit
Hi Steffen !
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 04:36, Steffen Barszus wrote:
A friend of mine has several win2k workstations and one Mdk 9.0
workstation. Discovering and mounting some directories of the win
stations was a task of seconds. Later that evening we discovered , he was
not able of writing to
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 15:41, Charlie wrote:
So sorry David. My reply was supposed to have gone in response to windwalker's
post not to yours! Didn't mean to screw up threading.
My original post was supposed to go to windwalker on the Newbie list;
hence the confusion. ;)
L8r,
LX
--
Yep,
I suffer from the (lack of) second cup of coffee syndrome myself all to
often
Charlie wrote:
So sorry David. My reply was supposed to have gone in response to windwalker's
post not to yours! Didn't mean to screw up threading.
I'll have to engage my brain before I start
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On 23 Oct 2002 at 10:41, Colin Walker wrote:
Thanks for that. A quick email to Gwenole came up with the answer
Get the glibc SRPM and look for EXCLUDE_FROM_STRIP=, add
libpthread-0.9.so.
In the cooker there are two kinds of glibc:
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From: john [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:11:20 +
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] How-To for an NTL supplied USB cable modem
On Friday 01 Nov 2002 H:54 am, Simon Naish wrote:
Hi,
Im trying to set up my dads Mandrake 8.2/Win98 box,
And it's still even easier than that with MC.
MC
browse to the file then F4
edit the file
F2 to save
done.
:)
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On Friday 01 November 2002 10:56 am, logic7 wrote:
And it's still even easier than that with MC.
MC
browse to the file then F4
edit the file
F2 to save
done.
I just tried mc for the first time to test the editor. It is
021101 various people observed that Mandrake no longer includes Pine
someone asked:
Does that include its parts such as pico?
It would be nice for pico to be included by itself if possible
as it is one of the easiest to use text-based editors there is.
this was discussed recently i
Hi,
Your ENC_KEY has to be hex to work (could be wrong). If you
can not get the info to stay in the ifcfg-ethx scripts you
can pass the ESSID and ENC key via iwconfig.
command line
su
iwconfig ethx essid youressid
iwconfig ethx enc yourhexkey
If that works for you create a shell script with
I cant get my Asus v8420 Graphics card to work properly.
It works just fine in text mode, but thats it. Mandrake 9 graphical
installation makes the computer hang. and when I try to install the card
after an succesful text installation DrakX tells me could not found any
devices
It works just
try mcedit, even easier then pico, lots of cool features to
part of mc and is on mdk9
rgds
frank
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[mailto:praedor;lapdog.ravenhome.net]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus
Sent: Friday, 1 November 2002 9:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
he might have been thinking of GMC which is for X
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of logic7
Sent: Friday, 1 November 2002 10:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] where's pine?
MC is a command line tool. Doesn't
Hi,
Sevatio wrote:
I've seen quickstarts of many kinds in Windoze, but out of
curiosity: How much resources does a quickstart consume? Doesn't
it preload parts of the application therefore unnecessarily using up
resources? Why not just start it from an icon?
With RAM so cheap and sop
I went and applied evry single security patch that mandrake had using
MasndrakeUpdate and remembered I had Snort running. I found a huge
portscan.log file and tooka look to find that the day before my system
was hacked it was portscaned by one ip from Roadrunner. I sent them a
nice email but my
personally, i wouldn't/don't want countless programs loading
automatically and unnecessarily, and this all begs the question -
which programs are to do this own their own? if mozilla nad
openoffice, why not every single program loaded on every
available storage medium?
unless each program has a
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote:
On Thursday 31 October 2002 07:49 pm, ET wrote:
On Thursday 31 October 2002 07:32 pm, Toshiro wrote:
Anybody knows why Mandrake is no longer providing this package?
Does that include its parts such as pico? It would be nice for pico to be
Bill Beauchemin wrote on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 09:53:38AM -0800 :
was hacked it was portscaned by one ip from Roadrunner. I sent them a
nice email but my questionsis. What if anything can I do about all these
portscans? Is there somewhere I can email to have these assholes delt
with?
Those
I am working on the same project and have the same setup using OpenVMS.
Brian
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From: Ken Hawkins [mailto:khawkins;nwcc.bc.ca]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:51 PM
To: mandrake expert
Subject: [expert] Spamassassin
Sorry if this is a repeat posting; suffering
Hi All,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
personally, i wouldn't/don't want countless programs loading
automatically and unnecessarily, and this all begs the question -
which programs are to do this own their own? if mozilla nad
openoffice, why not every single program loaded on every
available
I remember reading an article in Linux Journal or something like that that
explained how to setup snort or some other software package to automatically
detect a port scan in progress and then to automatically block any other
connection attempts by that IP address. It automatically creates a block
The whole issue of portscanning is debatable, some people say it should
be illegal, and others saying it's not a crime to 'peek in the windows'
so to say. I won't really get into the debate, but there isn't much you
can do about people portscanning you. Only open the ports you
Portsentry does this well for me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Chad
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] portscans
I remember reading an article in Linux Journal or
Chad wrote on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:49:41PM -0500 :
I remember reading an article in Linux Journal or something like that that
explained how to setup snort or some other software package to automatically
detect a port scan in progress and then to automatically block any other
connection
you should have nano available to you -- it's a GPL clone of pico,
behaves exactly the same.
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 05:34, Praedor Tempus wrote:
On Thursday 31 October 2002 07:49 pm, ET wrote:
On Thursday 31 October 2002 07:32 pm, Toshiro wrote:
Anybody knows why Mandrake is no longer
Hello,
It seems that on every Mandrake box I have, regardless of version (7.1, 8.2, 9.0),
today I got the following email from each box:
Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ]
Reloading httpd: [ OK ]
Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ]
Reloading httpd: [ OK ]
Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ]
Bob PuffNLE wrote on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:14:58PM -0500 :
Hello,
It seems that on every Mandrake box I have, regardless of version (7.1, 8.2, 9.0),
today I got the following email from each box:
Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ]
Reloading httpd: [ OK ]
Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ]
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Bob PuffNLE wrote:
Hello,
It seems that on every Mandrake box I have, regardless of version (7.1, 8.2, 9.0),
today I got the following email from each box:
Reloading httpd-perl: [ OK ]
It's probably the logrotate script reloading apache so that log files
get
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Chad wrote:
I remember reading an article in Linux Journal or something like that that
explained how to setup snort or some other software package to automatically
detect a port scan in progress and then to automatically block any other
connection attempts by that IP
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 14:16, Todd Lyons wrote:
There's a downside to it. Suppose some legitimate server sends you data
that the monitor considers to be a scan. All of a sudden your machine
is blocking that IP. What if that IP happened ot be your DNS servers,
or your mail server? It
Just to add to this thread a bit, but blocking the IP where the portscan
may appear to come from isn't a guarantee you'll stop the portscans.
Popular port scanning software like nmap supports whats called 'Idle
Scanning' which bounce the scan's off 'zombie' hosts, tricking IDS's to
report the
Hi u guys, well now i have a little problem. I tried
to install codeweavers wine, everything went fine and
on the last line i recieved
Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
I thougt that it was ok but not all the programs
installed, only winesetup and winemaker, but no wine.
So can
Toshiro wrote:
Anybody knows why Mandrake is no longer providing this
package?
the 'why' has been answered but nobody's mentioned that a pine
rpm is available in the 9.0 contrib directory on the mirrors.
--
Alan :)
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
I use linux almost every day and I noticed that apps provided with it take
more time to load than in windows.
Example: Qcad in win2k and linux mdk9; openoffice 1.0.1, mozilla (same box:
cel400 192 MB ram).
What about prelinking? could it improve startup times? if yes, would it
impact on
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 12:53, Bill Beauchemin wrote:
I went and applied evry single security patch that mandrake had using
MasndrakeUpdate and remembered I had Snort running. I found a huge
portscan.log file and tooka look to find that the day before my system
was hacked it was portscaned by
I just discovered badblocks which can scan for bad sectors on an already-running
system.
Miark
On 31 Oct 2002 17:46:19 -0800
James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
wobo during the install you can chose to have MDK check for bad
sectors... probably a good idea in this case.
James
On Friday 01 November 2002 05:05 pm, Miark wrote:
I just discovered badblocks which can scan for bad sectors on an
already-running system.
FSCK has an option to check for bad blocks. Use it instead, because you will
have to do that anyway if you want to remap the bad blocks (you can't feed
I run my own dns and email so blocking these ip's that are scanning me
are no problem.
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 11:16, Todd Lyons wrote:
Chad wrote on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:49:41PM -0500 :
I remember reading an article in Linux Journal or something like that that
explained how to setup snort
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 08:10, Ritesh Ahya wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have a problem if anybody can help me.
I have dual boot linux and win98.
win98 in first partition and rest is my linux.
at the time of installing linux, i installed lilo in a boot floppy so i can
run my linux only when i have a
I just have mine setup so that my open ports are web, ftp, http, pop3 smtp
on my servers. If any port besides those get scanned, the IP gets
firewalled. So far, I have had 0 problems. I also keep it updated,
security-patch wise. Even if I am blocking legitimate data, I would
rather be safe
Try joe, which I believe is still released with Mandrake. It's comparable
to pico.
Michael
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At 09:09 AM 11/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
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Doesn't
On Friday 01 November 2002 09:42 am, logic7 scribbled in crayon on a yellow
legal pad:
MC is a command line tool. Doesn't need X at all. I make sure it's
installed on every linux box I have primarily because of the editor.
Yes, and a statically compiled version would be a nice addition to the
On Thursday 31 October 2002 05:23 am, HoytDuff scribbled in crayon on a yellow
legal pad:
I would like to put the three CDs on my private FTP site to do local
installations. I copied the contents of the first CD to a publically
accessable directory and then added the RPMs from the second and
I'm now getting this error in my error_log file when trying to start
apache2
Cannot allocate shared memory: (17)File exists
Anyone have any idea what the name of that file is or where it's located?
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