Re: [expert] Apache question

2002-02-27 Thread wim
David Guntner wrote: > Pierre Fortin grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >>On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:50:28 +0100 wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>I have a webserver where the root directory is password proteced. >>>In a subdir I have some files that may be accessed by everyone. >>>Now, my ques

Re: [expert] Konqueror/kmail and printing

2002-02-27 Thread James
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:49:26 -0500 Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just realized that I cannot print from konqueror or kmail. Staroffice is > fine. I am using CUPS. Any ideas? > Had a problem like that with netscape, it kept defalting to lp instead of lpr. Could this be i

Re: [expert] test message - please ignore

2002-02-27 Thread James
I couldn't it was the first e-mail in the box when I opened my reader poof it opened. Please accept my apologies. *grin* James On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:56:23 -0500 daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Didn't I ask you to ignore this? now close this message and go say 10 > hail marys

[expert] laptop issue, external keyboard/mouse kills mouse driver

2002-02-27 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
I have a laptop from Dell (Inspiron 4100). It has a PS/2 port on the back to connect an external mouse or keyboard. I've been trying to do so, but every time it results in the mouse driver dying. More precisely: I have the laptop running and get mouse events on /dev/psaux from the built-in touch

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

2002-02-27 Thread James
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:09:14 +1300 Tom Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:37:57PM -0500, Hoyt wrote: > > Sure. i have it, but it's -- 7.0 -- > > But to be honest, most of the really impressive advances that have > happened since 7.0 have been in KDE/GNOME/other graph

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

2002-02-27 Thread James
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:36:52 -0500 daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:03:21 -0800 > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:31:02 -0600 > > "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Brandon Dorman wr

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

2002-02-27 Thread gnerd
And daRcmaTTeR has a great point here. Legacy hardware makes good firewalls in a cash-strapped (SOHO) environment...provided you're not anal about ISA bus limitations. Mike daRcmaTTeR wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:09:14 +1300 > Tom Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words

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

2002-02-27 Thread Brandon Dorman
Heh, I'm a freshman in college. Although I wasn't offended by the post, I appreciate people looking out for the civility of this list. No one wants to see too much BASHing on the list. Midterms have hit, all i have time for is: eat, study, bathroom, study, class. Notice the absence of sleep..

[expert] Security problem with PHP

2002-02-27 Thread David Guntner
There doesn't seem to be a list or address to report things like this directly to Mandrake. I'm posting this here in the hopes that one of the Mandrake employees on the list will forward it to the appropriate people within the company. http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012002.html is th

[expert] Incompatibilty between Sis 900 ethernet card and kernels 2.4.x??

2002-02-27 Thread ngn
Hi I'm in the way of use a Linux MDK-8.1 box to route to a wirelees connection and to firewall it. So, I try to emulate it at home with 3 machines... I use one machine as a client, other one as the router-firewall [with two ethernet cards a Sis 900 and a Davicom] and the other one as the machine

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

2002-02-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:09:14 +1300 Tom Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:37:57PM -0500, Hoyt wrote: > > Sure. i have it, but it's -- 7.0 -- > > But to be honest, most of the really impressive advances that have > happened since 7.0

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

2002-02-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:03:21 -0800 James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:31:02 -0600 > "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brandon Dorman wrote: > > > > > > [root@localhost Brandon]# cdrecord -scanbus > > > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-

Re: [expert] formatting with ext3, Reiser

2002-02-27 Thread Brian Parish
Jon, Yes, ext3 is a journalising fs and so are Reiser and XFS. Like everything in Linux, you have LOTS of choices, but all seem to work well, although you see the usual "religious" arguments over their relative merits. AFAIK, ext3 is as good a choice as any. Regarding the hang on USB shutdown.

Re: [expert] formatting with ext3, Reiser

2002-02-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 04:41:28 -0500 Jonathan Dlouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > I have two hard drives, the boot drive formatted with ext3, the slave > formatted with ext2. I want to just format the slave drive with the newer > system. It has junk on it anyway,

Re: [expert] Evolution , & dual users

2002-02-27 Thread Jerry Sternesky
I have the Ximian build of Evolution 1.0.2 and for me it just simply switching the from address. I have up and down arrows to the far right of that box that allow me to toggle users. The reply to is them the one tagged to that accounts mailbox. On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 14:15, richard wrote: > Hi al

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

2002-02-27 Thread Tom Eastman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:37:57PM -0500, Hoyt wrote: > Sure. i have it, but it's -- 7.0 -- But to be honest, most of the really impressive advances that have happened since 7.0 have been in KDE/GNOME/other graphical interfaces and stuff like that. Most of the stuff that a 486 doesn't have the p

Re: [expert] POP3 Server problems in MK 8.0

2002-02-27 Thread Michael Viron
If you can't send something, that is an entirely different problem. That's a problem relating to postfix, not qpopper. Check the access file for postfix (under /etc/mail) and make sure you have it set up to where you can send from outside your network. Of course, any messages that you might hav

[expert] Konqueror/kmail and printing

2002-02-27 Thread Jesus Arocho
I just realized that I cannot print from konqueror or kmail. Staroffice is fine. I am using CUPS. Any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] POP3 Server problems in MK 8.0

2002-02-27 Thread Manuel Haro Marquez
Hi, I have a MDK 8.0 server working fine with postfix and qpopper; my problem is that I can receive email from out of my network but I can send messages to anywhere...! Somebody knows what is the problem? Manuel Haro On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Michael Viron wrote: > pop3 has absolutely nothing to

Re: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread David Guntner
Rusty Carruth grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > And I run that in a cron job. Here's my crontab entry: > > 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /etc/rc.d/init.d/what.a.hack Were you aware that you could just do: */5 * * * * /etc/rc.d/init.d/what.a.hack Which tells cron to run the job ev

Re[2]: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread Rusty Carruth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Tom Badran wrote: > > What im trying to do is get an email sent to me every time the IP changes on > > a specific machine, so i always have a record of it for logging in via ssh. > > The specific connection is ppp0 which auto redials on disconnect.

Re[2]: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread kwan
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Rusty Carruth wrote: > > There's probably much better ways to do this, but I got it working this way > and have no plan to fix it ;-) > Hey now, the very fabric of the Internet is stitched together with assorted hacks, workarounds, ugly scripts, "we'll fix it later" code, and

Re: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread Randall Jonasz
Hi Tom, I wrote a shell script for the same purpose. Here it is: #!/bin/sh NewIP="`/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}' \ | sed -e 's/.*://'`" if [ -e /home/rjonasz/ip.txt ]; then OldIP=$(cat /home/rjonasz/ip.txt) else OldIP="" fi if [ "$OldIP" != "$NewIP" ]; th

Re: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread Kyle McDonald
Tom Badran wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > How can i use an if in a bash script so that it will only run commands if the > specified file is empty? > > Basically, ive set up a cache system by which the output of ifconfig is > stored in /var/cache/IP/1 > > Then,

Re: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread kwan
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Tom Badran wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > How can i use an if in a bash script so that it will only run commands if the > specified file is empty? > > Basically, ive set up a cache system by which the output of ifconfig is > stored in /var/cache/

Re: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread Rusty Carruth
Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > How can i use an if in a bash script so that it will only run commands if the > specified file is empty? > > Basically, ive set up a cache system by which the output of ifconfig is > stored in /var/cac

Re: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread David Guntner
Tom Badran grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > How can i use an if in a bash script so that it will only run commands if the > specified file is empty? > > Basically, ive set up a cache system by which the output of ifconfig is > stored in /var/cache/IP/1 > > Then, every minute my script is ru

[expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can i use an if in a bash script so that it will only run commands if the specified file is empty? Basically, ive set up a cache system by which the output of ifconfig is stored in /var/cache/IP/1 Then, every minute my script is run. It first

[expert] Slow xemacs in 8.0

2002-02-27 Thread Sheldon E. Newhouse
Hello, I recently upgraded an 8.0 box PII-300 to 8.1 on a P4-2GHz. There are two problems. 1. When I try to load xemacs, it takes around 20 seconds to come up. This did not happen with 8.0 and it does not happen with emacs. 2. When I try to play some mpeg-1 files with mtv the video is jer

Re: [expert] black & white icons

2002-02-27 Thread Oscar
El mié, 27-02-2002 a las 14:41, Mike Rambo escribió: > I just built a new box to replace my mdk 7.1 workstation > I've used for a couple years here at work. When I installed > mdk 8.1 on it I was at a test bench that had only a two > button ps/2 mouse. Everything on the install appeared to go > ok

Re: [expert] Beta 3 - ISO buring problems

2002-02-27 Thread David ..
My unit is about 3 yrs old. (2x4x24), ya it's old, but I can wait 20mins for a burn. Anyways, it just seems like all of the burns I've tried for Mandrake using the ISO's the second cd always craps out on the install. CD1 is fine, but not CD2. I don't know what gives. >From: Terry Mathews <[EM

Re: [expert] Beta 3 - ISO buring problems

2002-02-27 Thread Terry Mathews
It's not really the age, as I had a Yamaha 4416 from 98 that worked with 700mb CDs just fine. The problem is that 700mb is not an ISO standard like 650mb is, and as such manufacturers of CD-R drives can choose on their own whether or not to include support for it. HP decided no. :-) Glad I bought

Re: [expert] test message - please ignore

2002-02-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Ah...don't worry. It's taken a little while to just be able to post to the list again. I'm glad to see that they're making it to the list again. Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > AAAHHH! > > Why can't I just ignore a 'i

Re: [expert] test message - please ignore

2002-02-27 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote: AAAHHH! Why can't I just ignore a 'ignore' request??? Damn it! Ooops! Ok, sorry, I will double it. ;-) >Didn't I ask you to ignore this? now close this message and go say 10 >hail marys and 20 our fathers and all should be ok.

[expert] test message - please ignore

2002-02-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Didn't I ask you to ignore this? now close this message and go say 10 hail marys and 20 our fathers and all should be ok. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] test message - please ignore

2002-02-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Didn't I ask you to ignore this? now close this message and go say 10 hail marys and 20 our fathers and all should be ok. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mail server on home LAN

2002-02-27 Thread Tim Holmes
| Hello, | | I'd like to set up a mail server for two users on my home LAN. I have a | mail account at my provider and I created two aliasses. Now my questions | are: | | - Can I configure sendmail to send mail to the SMTP server of my ISP? You can set up the mail client to send

Re: [expert] Measurable Firewall Rules

2002-02-27 Thread Jones,Daniel E.
I think we may need a little more clarification on what is wanted. It seems to me that what is being asked is: * I have three sets of things: a firewall, a server, and a bunch of clients. * both the server and the clients are behind the firewall * how do I set up the firewall to permit access

[expert] Evolution , & dual users

2002-02-27 Thread richard
Hi all If you configure evolution to have more than 1 account, how do you send my as not the default user? If you reply to mail addressed to the second account, it will send it to the smtp deamon as configured for that accont But if you want to send mail as the secound account holder, how ?? it a

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

2002-02-27 Thread Randy Kramer
Pierre, I've submitted quite a few IPs to osdb.org. Most aren't checked because they are already queued to be checked, a few check OK (not a relay), and a few say: We have tried to test your submitted host 64.39.15.20, but has been unable to do so, as it's unreachable. We will retry later. I

Re: [expert] black & white icons

2002-02-27 Thread Larry Sword
Mike Rambo wrote: > > I just built a new box to replace my mdk 7.1 workstation > I've used for a couple years here at work. When I installed > mdk 8.1 on it I was at a test bench that had only a two > button ps/2 mouse. Everything on the install appeared to go > ok. Now that I've got it at my wor

[expert] Re: [Cooker] wine .....??

2002-02-27 Thread Hoyt
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 11:27 am, you wrote: > If you have problems, then get rid of Mandrake's wine and use Codeweavers' > instead. Or if you want to pay US$19.95 for Codweavers Crossover Plugin, you get the cery cool plugin support for Linux and a slightly newer WINE than is in Codweave

Re: [expert] Apache question

2002-02-27 Thread David Guntner
Pierre Fortin grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:50:28 +0100 wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a webserver where the root directory is password proteced. > > In a subdir I have some files that may be accessed by everyone. > > Now, my question is: How can I remove t

Re: [expert] black & white icons

2002-02-27 Thread Larry Sword
Mike Rambo wrote: > > I just built a new box to replace my mdk 7.1 workstation > I've used for a couple years here at work. When I installed > mdk 8.1 on it I was at a test bench that had only a two > button ps/2 mouse. Everything on the install appeared to go > ok. Now that I've got it at my wor

[expert] firewall / virus wall with usage report?

2002-02-27 Thread Belkie, Dan
Hey Guys! Can anyone suggest some software that is a firewall / viruswall that also can email me bandwidth usage reports for the box? Thanks! -- = Dan Belkie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] formatting with ext3, Reiser

2002-02-27 Thread Larry Sword
Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > I have two hard drives, the boot drive formatted with ext3, the slave > formatted with ext2. I want to just format the slave drive with the newer > system. It has junk on it anyway, so I don't care about losing what's on it. > So how do I go about formatting the slave d

Re: [expert] Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa on FreeBSD?

2002-02-27 Thread mess-mate
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 09:13, you wrote: | On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:08:03 +0100 | | mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Peut-être. | > Va voir dans les ports de FBSD si il-y-est. | > En tout cas il faut avoir installé l'émulateur Linux. | | A very crude translation to English ( my Fr

Re: [expert] Apache question

2002-02-27 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:50:28 +0100 wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a webserver where the root directory is password proteced. > In a subdir I have some files that may be accessed by everyone. > Now, my question is: How can I remove the auth from the subdir? > I tried in access.conf: > Bu

Re: [expert] Measurable Firewall Rules

2002-02-27 Thread ngn
It seems that I wasn´t clear with my purpose. The thing I want is to implement a secure server which at the same time do not interfere with the needs of the clients. So, I'm wondering what type of firewall rules or measurements of security do I have to implement in order to satisfy my needs, --

Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning

2002-02-27 Thread Felix Miata
Rob wrote: > On Wednesday 27 February 2002 02:26, you wrote: > > Can anyone point me to a cookbook doc on partitioning? Not the > > mechanics, but how much to allocate. How much to allocate to /, swap, > > /usr? Should /usr/local and /home be on the same partitions, separate ones? > If its jus

Re: [expert] Mail server on home LAN

2002-02-27 Thread Rob
On Wednesday 27 February 2002 13:35, you wrote: > Hey guys, > - Can I configure sendmail to send mail to the SMTP server of my ISP? yes but try postfix is easier to configure look for 'smarthost' in docs. > - Is it possible use fetchmail to retrieve th email from my ISP and yes > - If you

Re: [expert] Measurable Firewall Rules

2002-02-27 Thread Alexandre Jacarandá
I've a single script for firewall that I created with my friend Felipe: echo "Inicando firewall ..." INTRANET=eth1 INTERNET=eth2 iptables -F iptables -X iptables -Z iptables -F -t nat iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP #Aceita conexao SSH iptables -A INPUT -i $INTERNET -p tcp --dp

Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning

2002-02-27 Thread Nick Thompson
One thing that almost all machines do, that often gets over-looked, is upgrade from time-to-time. Installing a new version of the OS or a different OS is always best done from scratch and of course you will backup before doing this, but you might be able to save some time if your own data in /

Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning

2002-02-27 Thread kwan
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Rob wrote: > Dont know of a cookbook but think > about what you need machine to do. > Like if its going to have lots of users you need more /home > if it a DB server then where to the DB files go ? /var ? Then need lots of > /var, > etc > If its just your home PC then it dont

Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning

2002-02-27 Thread Rob
Dont know of a cookbook but think about what you need machine to do. Like if its going to have lots of users you need more /home if it a DB server then where to the DB files go ? /var ? Then need lots of /var, etc If its just your home PC then it dont hurt to make one '/' root partition and just

Re: [expert] Measurable Firewall Rules

2002-02-27 Thread Rob
Not sure I quite follow your english but On Wednesday 27 February 2002 06:30, you wrote: > proxy/cache to the Internet through and ADSL with two ethernets > [a kind of "cheap" router-firewall], and of course some kind of > The fact is: I need a highly-almost unvulnerable-secure server which D

[expert] formatting with ext3, Reiser

2002-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
I have two hard drives, the boot drive formatted with ext3, the slave formatted with ext2. I want to just format the slave drive with the newer system. It has junk on it anyway, so I don't care about losing what's on it. So how do I go about formatting the slave drive? Incidentally, the new file

[expert] /dev/dsp ownership

2002-02-27 Thread Nick Thompson
On LM8.1 (with devfs) it seem that the first person to login and use the audio device /dev/dsp gets ownership of it with crw-- permissions, which seem correct to me. However, on logout, the ownership is retained and the next person to login can't use the audio device - even if they are in

Re: [expert] Beta 3 - ISO buring problems

2002-02-27 Thread James
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:22:21 + "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having a hell of a time getting beta 3 working or even installed. I load > up Cd1 find, no errors. Pop Cd2 in and I keep getting errors on different > packages. I'm must of burnt 3-4 CD already downloaded > the I

Re: [expert] Default Sound Card with two cards

2002-02-27 Thread James
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:51:24 + Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine with two soundcards > I seem to get sound mainly though the motherboard soundcard > and occasionally through the sound blaster. > How do I force all sound to go through the sound blaster > > I tried cha

[expert] Apache question

2002-02-27 Thread wim
Hello, I have an Apache question, so I hope that there are some Apache freaks in here :-) I have a webserver where the root directory is password proteced. In a subdir I have some files that may be accessed by everyone. Now, my question is: How can I remove the auth from the subdir? I tried in

Re: [expert] Where is HDPARM??

2002-02-27 Thread James
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:03:45 -0900 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Puff@NLE wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >Messing around with Mandrake 8.2 beta 2.. I still can't find hdparm. What package contains this program? > > > >Also, is this the appropriate place to submit bug reports? > > > >Bob

Re: [expert] Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa on FreeBSD?

2002-02-27 Thread James
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:08:03 +0100 mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peut-être. > Va voir dans les ports de FBSD si il-y-est. > En tout cas il faut avoir installé l'émulateur Linux. A very crude translation to English ( my French hurts French ears ) He is saying that in the ports collec