[expert] Blocking web access by IP

2001-10-05 Thread cb
I've got a number of apparently MS nodes on the internet that were victims of the recent worms that were going around. They keep hitting my web server and are annoyingly filling up my logs. I was wondering if anyone knew of any way to refuse connections from particular IPs. I'm running

Re: [expert] 8.1 Final MDK is a no go...

2001-10-05 Thread J. C. Woods
James W. McComas wrote: I had the same problem on the same MOBO except for ATI Radeon vid.. I disabled the UDMA 5 optionin BIOS and went back to UDMA 3 and it worked perfectly. Then enabled UDMA 5 and it worjed perfectly. That chipset doesn't seem to want o install Mandrake at ATA 100

Re: [expert] rm lots of files at once SOLVED - summary (WAS: RE: Out of inodes )

2001-10-05 Thread Fabrice De Volder
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:16:13 -0400 Dave Salovesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi From: Tarragon Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Did you try : rm -rf /var/spool/mail First thing I tried (actually it was cd /var/log/mail and then rm -rf *), resulting in the too many arguments message.

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 inst, and a few questions

2001-10-05 Thread oscar
Clint Olson escribi: Hi, I just sucessfully installed LM8.1 final. It went great -- but I have a couple of notes and questions. 1. In KDE, why doesn't the root login have any icons on the desktop? I know that it's not good to login to KDE as root, but it would be nice to have some icons on the

Re: [expert] Blocking web access by IP

2001-10-05 Thread J. C. Woods
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a number of apparently MS nodes on the internet that were victims of the recent worms that were going around. They keep hitting my web server and are annoyingly filling up my logs. I was wondering if anyone knew of any way to refuse connections from

Re: [expert] Network Printing

2001-10-05 Thread Corey Van Allen
On Thursday, October 4, 2001, at 11:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday we bought a HPLaserJet 4100N and we conected it directly to the network (it has it own ethernet card). We have several computers in the network, ones runing windows98 and others linux (Mandrake 7.2 and

Re: [expert] LM81 random freeze at package installation

2001-10-05 Thread J. C. Woods
Jeffrey Twu wrote: But once I disabled UDMA support in the BIOS, magically all the problems went away! Jeff, one fast question: did you disable UDMA on the harddrive only or did you disable UDMA for both the harddrive and cdrom? Thanks, -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the

Re: [expert] not a good experience with LM8.1!

2001-10-05 Thread Alexander Poslavsky
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:11:18 -0600 Praedor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What window manager do you use? Perhaps it would be instructive for Orkunt for someone with anemic hardware 8\ to explain how they get a fully workable system...unless your system is CLI-only. I doubt that would be much

Re: [expert] Excessive Mem/CPU Usage in 8.1

2001-10-05 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2001-10-04 11:08 * Incoming subspace signal from Jason Maurice Kikta [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I had a similar problem with 7.2 and 8.0. It had something to do with 'md-devices' compiled into the default kernel. If I remember correctly I could unload a module called md.o (rmmod md.o) and

[expert] Fw: 8.1 hanging on first boot - help!

2001-10-05 Thread nick
I have tried installing 8.1 5 or 6 times now and its always the same problem it hangs just after the 'Welcome to Mandrake Linux Press I for interactive..' message or after the 'Configuring kernel parameters' message. Anyway I have changed filesystems and partitioning to see if that helps I have

Re: [expert] /etc/shadow

2001-10-05 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
this is strange. I was just going to write a mail to this list about this. it seems that /etc/shadow accepts both crypt passwords (the short passwd) and MD5 passwords. (34 characters with $ and slashes does seem to me like md5). I found this because I was transferring users between servers so I

Re: [expert] Filesystem Boot Error

2001-10-05 Thread pesarif
- Original Message - From: SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-Mandrake Expert (Request) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 3:22 AM Subject: [expert] Filesystem Boot Error I haven't had any problem with Kernel 2.2.19-10mdk on LM8.0 booting, until now, after adding the

Re: [expert] Announcement only mailing list

2001-10-05 Thread Paul Cox
On Wednesday, Oct 03, 2001, Ran Hooper wrote: What's my best bet for an announcement only mailing list running on Mandrake? Preferably with a Web front end for management from Windows and compatible with Postfix. Of course authentication and users able to remove themselves is a must too. I

[expert] mozilla and galeon crashes when using java_vm

2001-10-05 Thread Mark D'voo
whenever i visit a page that use java, galeon and mozilla crash with this error: INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of java_vm failed: 13 System error?:: Permission denied Gdk-ERROR **: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server :0.0. INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack

Re[2]: [expert] I want to be able to CHOOSE !

2001-10-05 Thread Onur Kucuk
CAE Doing an expert install if you toggle to the flat list you can manually CAE select Every package contained on the 3 cds. CAE They will not all play nice together. CAE Things will break, others will not work, and your system may not even CAE boot. CAE Distros such as SuSE and RH

Re: [expert] Blocking web access by IP

2001-10-05 Thread cb
On Fri 05 Oct at 02:48:02 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a number of apparently MS nodes on the internet that were victims of the recent worms that were going around. They keep hitting my web server and are annoyingly filling up my logs. I was

Re: [expert] floppy PnP conflict in mdk8.1

2001-10-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:34:38 -0700 generic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, does anyone know how to turn off isapnp from scanning for PnP devices? According to the boot message on my laptop (Dell Lattitude C800), the standard floppy resource is being taken: ... isapnp: Scanning for PnP

Re: [expert] Sound card recommendations

2001-10-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Um, is there a better card than the SoundBlaster Live!? (And what are you planning on doing with that old SBL!...?) I've found their Linux support (in recent times) to be better than any other card, and as far as hardware goes, I know of no better consumer-price-level card. -- Asheesh. On

[expert] DHCP and CUPS

2001-10-05 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I connect to a network where my IP is assigned by a router/gateway using DHCP. The other computers on the network are getting their IP's the same way. This is practical since we use a lot of laptops on different networks. DHCP makes this easy. My problem is printing. The computer having

Re: [expert] Sound card recommendations

2001-10-05 Thread hardcorepush
sb live works great for me, autodetected all the way back to 7.2. I got an OEM version for 40bucks. I could be wrong, but I think the different versions of the SBLive concerns different software bundled with it and few hardware features. Remember the software wont work under linux, so buy

[expert] Mandrake SNF

2001-10-05 Thread Chris Grevstad
Anybody here know how to install the SNF edition of Mandrake? I've installed it but I can't get it to accept https connections so I can actually configure it. According to the docs, it should just work, but somehow I think not everything is installed (like Bastille, for example), neither

RE: [expert] Mandrake SNF

2001-10-05 Thread Franki
well, I don't know, never used bastille, but as far as I know, snf is based on mdk 7.2 which didn't have bastille Bastille became standard in Mandrake with the advent of 8 I believe.. Frank Hauptle Network Payment Solutions. === |To correct

RE: [expert] Blocking web access by IP

2001-10-05 Thread Daniel Woods
you could turn that into a script that either scans your logs for them,, (see the archives, I have posted one) or you could get creative, and get apache to run .exe files as perl and put the script where ever the infected servers are asking for cmd.exe and root.exe files (the paths they

Re: [expert] I want to be able to CHOOSE !

2001-10-05 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thursday 04 October 2001 09:30 pm, you wrote: The Everything install has been debated before. It is not a pratical mode of installation. Do you want an everything Desktop, Workstation, or Server installation? Do you want an everything Standard, Enterprise, or SMP kernel installation?

Re: [expert] floppy PnP conflict in mdk8.1

2001-10-05 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:34:38 -0700 generic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, does anyone know how to turn off isapnp from scanning for PnP devices? According to the boot message on my laptop (Dell Lattitude C800), the standard floppy resource is being taken:

[expert] LM81 can't find -ltermcap?

2001-10-05 Thread Jeffrey Twu
Hi folks, I was trying to compile the JOVE text editor in LM81, but it had problems with finding the termcap library. [jctwu@web ~/jove]$ make cc -O -o jjove commands.o keys.o argcount.o ask.o buf.o jctype.o delete.o disp.o insert.o io.o jove.o marks.o misc.o re.o screen.o termcap.o

Re: [expert] LM81 can't find -ltermcap?

2001-10-05 Thread Jeffrey Twu
Nevermind. I want /usr/lib/libtermcap.a, which I can get by installing a libtermcap-devel RPM, which isn't installed by default but is on the second ISO. -Jeff On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 06:30:52PM -0700, Jeffrey Twu wrote: Hi folks, I was trying to compile the JOVE text editor in

RE: [expert] DHCP and CUPS

2001-10-05 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
If dhcpD and DNS is installed on the same machine, the dhcp scripts will automatically dynamically update the DNS as machines join the network. That is provided that they are properly named. This permits you to utilize their names for shared printers in spite of having dhcp allocations. The