Re: [expert] Driver for AC'97 modem

2002-11-30 Thread James Sparenberg
If you know the name for the driver try doing a google search on it and seeing if anyone has mirrored it. James On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 23:29, Patrick Atlas wrote: AC'97 modem seems to be rather recent. I am looking for a driver (Mandrake linux). There is a page on compurative.com to load a

Re: [expert] Driver for AC'97 modem

2002-11-30 Thread Patrick Atlas
Yes, I did. But no more pages available... Patrick Le sam 30/11/2002 à 08:59, James Sparenberg a écrit : If you know the name for the driver try doing a google search on it and seeing if anyone has mirrored it. James On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 23:29, Patrick Atlas wrote: AC'97 modem

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-30 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2002-11-29 21:16 * Incoming subspace signal from Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] : so much is missing. I HATE the new mandrake package installer! I can't look at both install and uninstall. This is a nuisance. Also, you have to give the root passwd for installing, uninstalling, updating,

Re: [expert] Serious problems with GTK2 on 9.0

2002-11-30 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2002-11-27 18:00 * Incoming subspace signal from Maxim Heijndijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I have had 9.0 installed for over a month now, but since yesterday every GTK2 app (menudrake, userdrake) that I try to start hangs and locks up X. Keyboard no longer functions and I have to reset.

[expert] grip

2002-11-30 Thread villoing
How can I make informations contained in each track of a cd recognizeable by grip ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Hack attack analysis

2002-11-30 Thread Franki
Two good tools for stopping hacks from succeding are the same ones some of the hackers use.. Whisker (a perl script) and nessus. Wisker has been scanning your machine looking for exploits, gives them a report on vunerable and they probably downloaded some script kiddie tools and hacked you..

RE: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-30 Thread Franki
yes, its called gShield.. (http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html) you have one config file... you tell it your internet interface (say ppp0 or eth1) and your internal interface (say eth0 for instance) then you scroll down and it has options of YES, NO or FORWARD under ssh say YES under

[expert] interesting firewall solution to cmd.exe, default.ida etc

2002-11-30 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I was just updating my version of gshield, and it seems they have added some new features.. The most interesting of which is that you can specify strings that you want dropped if they appear from external packets.. in the file for that, you just specify: cmd.exe default.ida root.exe

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-30 Thread Tim C
On Saturday 30 November 2002 02:41, James Sparenberg wrote: Did a little checking the calc I have is kcalc... strangely enough according to pbone.net ... kcalc is part of i18n rpms.. meaning I have it because I install Korean as a second language on my box... ??? Yep I'm as supprised as

[expert] Install of 'unsupported'

2002-11-30 Thread Ron Stodden
A software install to 9.0 of the entire unsupported/kde3.1-rc3 directory produces errors: libglut.so.3 is needed by kdegraphics-3.1-0.rc3.1-mdk htdig is needed by kdebase-3.1-0.rc3.6-mdk Install aborted. What to do? -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use ftp.sunet.se

[expert] Printing in Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-30 Thread rob
Greetings all, Actually this has been plagueing me since 8.2 but continues in 9.0. Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it? bad printcap name 'HP DeskJet970C', has '' character Here is my /etc/printcap file |HP DeskJet970C:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\

[expert] lisa

2002-11-30 Thread Ron Stodden
According to kpackage, lisa is installed and is a kind of 'network neighbourhood' thingy with a daemon installed by ksysv. But 'man lisa' describes a lisajous figure drawing utility. Also: [root@small ron]# lisa [root@small ron]# NetManager::prepare: bind (TCP) failed, errno: 98 Stupid

Re: [expert] Install of 'unsupported'

2002-11-30 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ron Stodden wrote: A software install to 9.0 of the entire unsupported/kde3.1-rc3 directory produces errors: libglut.so.3 is needed by kdegraphics-3.1-0.rc3.1-mdk htdig is needed by kdebase-3.1-0.rc3.6-mdk Install aborted. What to do? urpmf libglut.so.3

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-30 Thread Ron Stodden
Jack Coates wrote: and I also recommended Monmotha for a reason :-) It's a lot easier than shorewall because it only battens down the external interface. I find gShield rated better than MonMotha. I use it. Very easy to install as well. http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html -- Ron.

RE: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-30 Thread Franki
yeah, the new 2.8 version of gShield has alot of extra stuff I hadn't expected.. Its one very good firewall.. I've been using it for about 2 years or so now.. Mandrake should ditch shorewall, and pickup gSheild as the default, it has a ton of stuff that to my knowledge shorewall doesn't.. even

Re: [expert] Install of 'unsupported'

2002-11-30 Thread Ron Stodden
Rolf Pedersen wrote: Ron Stodden wrote: A software install to 9.0 of the entire unsupported/kde3.1-rc3 directory produces errors: libglut.so.3 is needed by kdegraphics-3.1-0.rc3.1-mdk htdig is needed by kdebase-3.1-0.rc3.6-mdk Install aborted. What to do? urpmf libglut.so.3

Re: [expert] Install of 'unsupported'

2002-11-30 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ron Stodden wrote: Rolf Pedersen wrote: Ron Stodden wrote: A software install to 9.0 of the entire unsupported/kde3.1-rc3 directory produces errors: libglut.so.3 is needed by kdegraphics-3.1-0.rc3.1-mdk htdig is needed by kdebase-3.1-0.rc3.6-mdk Install aborted. What to do? urpmf

[expert] Files embedded in *.doc

2002-11-30 Thread Marek
Hi I sometimes receive MS word *.doc files with *.exe or *.mpg files embedded in them. Open Office opens the doc file no problem, but how to run the exe or mpg ? saving it saves it as a doc again. -- /Marek \\Pawinski.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-30 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:00 am, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: * Stardate: 2002-11-29 21:16 * Incoming subspace signal from Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] : so much is missing. I HATE the new mandrake package installer! I can't look at both install and uninstall. This is a nuisance. Also, you

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Lorne
On Friday 29 November 2002 11:57 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:53, Lorne wrote: Thanks. That is an excellent idea! Now I have to try to remember how to keep the tail of a log constantly writing to the monitor. I KNOW I can do it, just so long since I have, I forget

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 30 November 2002 12:00 am, Vox wrote: This time Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Thanks. That is an excellent idea! Now I have to try to remember how to keep the tail of a log constantly writing to the monitor. I KNOW I can do it, just so long since I have, I

Re: [expert] lisa

2002-11-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sun, 01 Dec 2002 02:07:42 +1100 Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to kpackage, lisa is installed and is a kind of 'network neighbourhood' thingy with a daemon installed by ksysv. But 'man lisa' describes a lisajous figure drawing utility. Also: [root@small ron]# lisa

Re: [expert] rpm signature using sudo

2002-11-30 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. On Thu 2002-11-14 at 16:02:26 -0700, Vincent Danen wrote: On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 03:35 PM, bascule wrote: using urpmi via sudo, will the key checking be done as root or as the user runing sudo, that would explain some messages i get about 'bad' keys since i haven't got

Re: [expert] Hack attack analysis

2002-11-30 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 30 November 2002 04:17 am, Franki wrote: Two good tools for stopping hacks from succeding are the same ones some of the hackers use.. Whisker (a perl script) and nessus. Thanks, I'll go check them out and run it against my new firewall. Wisker has been scanning your machine

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-30 Thread Miark
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:16:22 -0700 Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no package named ethereal is the answer I get. It's a contrib RPM. Sounds like you need to add some RPM sources, such as RPMFind, PLF, Texstar, etc. For now, at least, add RPMfind as follows: urpmi.addmedia rf

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Charlie
On November 30, 2002 09:58 am, Lorne wrote: snip OOH! I like that too! I imagine you can tell it key words to color? Here catch: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html for the app's 'homepage'. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at

RE: [expert] Hack attack analysis

2002-11-30 Thread Franki
Its not that hard to stay secure with any linux distro, especially if you are not running public servers.. Here are some steps you can look into. (I do all of these, except for hogwash) 1. Run a firewall like gShield to drop all packets to ports you want closed to the net. (all of them unless

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-30 Thread Jim C
Man, where were you 4 weeks ago. ;-) Franki wrote: yes, its called gShield.. (http://muse.linuxmafia.org/gshield.html) ... wrappers for this sort of thing, though. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Printing in Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-30 Thread Jim C
I also have a printin problem. An issue I've been trying to cope with since I got my first Linux distro. Every time I try to print it prints to high on the page. I loose enough that if I print from Netscape or Mozilla the top line that tells you what the URL of the printed page was is

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-30 Thread Jim C
Why not suggest it? Surely they must have a means of getting input from thier users and if they don't have a suggestion box perhaps they should get one. Franki wrote: yeah, the new 2.8 version of gShield has alot of extra stuff I hadn't expected.. Its one very good firewall.. I've been using

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-30 Thread J. Grant
Just use smoothwall.org its great, even if the developers are cocky and not arogant :) JG Jim C wrote: Why not suggest it? Surely they must have a means of getting input from thier users and if they don't have a suggestion box perhaps they should get one. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-30 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Miark wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:16:22 -0700 Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no package named ethereal is the answer I get. It's a contrib RPM. Sounds like you need to add some RPM sources, such as RPMFind, PLF, Texstar, etc. For now, at least, add RPMfind as follows: urpmi.addmedia rf

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Vox
This time Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Saturday 30 November 2002 12:00 am, Vox wrote: This time Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Thanks. That is an excellent idea! Now I have to try to remember how to keep the tail of a log constantly writing

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Vox
This time Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On November 30, 2002 09:58 am, Lorne wrote: snip OOH! I like that too! I imagine you can tell it key words to color? Here catch: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html for the app's 'homepage'. Cool! :) Now

RE: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-30 Thread Franki
hey, I have been sprouting about gShield for ages.. If you search the newbie archives for gShield, you'll find my name there quite a bit.. I used to love pmfirewall /ipchains for older linux.. mostly because it was an easy layout and I could add my own rules to the list using the same format as

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-30 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 30 November 2002 11:00 am, Miark wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:16:22 -0700 Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no package named ethereal is the answer I get. It's a contrib RPM. Sounds like you need to add some RPM sources, such as RPMFind, PLF, Texstar, etc. For now, at least, add

RE: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-30 Thread Franki
nah, not my job, as I said before, I have spoken many times of it in the mailing lists.. and it would take alot more then one user before mandrake listened... if 500 users switched to gShield and they all told mandrake, then maybe they would consider it... (at the very least, they really should

Re: [expert] Files embedded in *.doc

2002-11-30 Thread James Sparenberg
The mpg I've never seen... The exe it would seem to me wouldn't be executable because it's a Windows Binary and won't run under Linux. (Be grateful in a way... less hassle with win virus's) The only way out here might be crossover office and run OOo for windows. As for the mpg. a number of mpg

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 30 November 2002 11:13 am, Charlie wrote: On November 30, 2002 09:58 am, Lorne wrote: snip OOH! I like that too! I imagine you can tell it key words to color? Here catch: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html got it. Looking at it now. for the app's 'homepage'.

Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users

2002-11-30 Thread Woody Green
Add the umask option. umask modifies the virtual (ntfs does not support UNIX style permissions) permission bits in inverse octal form. eg: Where read+execute would be 5 in chmod, in umask it is 2 (7-5). The first number specifies the owning user's permissions, the second, owning group, the

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 30 November 2002 12:05 pm, Vox wrote: Yes, that's that :) What I do is: - turn everything back to white (too many damn colors make it hard to notice things for me...the default config is a pain for my eyes) - Mark the name of my workstation in a dark color (same with

Re: [expert] Hack attack analysis

2002-11-30 Thread J. Craig Woods
This posts warrants another posting. For all of you that are new to security, i.e. firewalls, services binding to ports, and os level securtity, these are good suggestions. Good job, Franki. I would, as well, add another level or step: this would include file security, and rootkit checking. To

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 11:35, Lorne wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 11:00 am, Miark wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:16:22 -0700 Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no package named ethereal is the answer I get. It's a contrib RPM. Sounds like you need to add some RPM sources, such as

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-30 Thread Philip Webb
021130 Maxim Heijndijk wrote: from Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I HATE the new mandrake package installer! I can't look at both install and uninstall. This is a nuisance. Also, you have to give the root passwd for installing, uninstalling, updating, or managing the sources. no! only to enter

Re: [expert] Hack attack analysis

2002-11-30 Thread James Sparenberg
I'll second chrootkit. I actually use it pro-actively on all of my servers and re-actively on ones people suspect have been hacked and want me to test. It has found problems and from what one of my friends tells me ... a hacker (They managed to find a salesman who was creating his own network

[expert] mplayer in VESA mode ...

2002-11-30 Thread XI
Hi, I have a mandrake9.0 and I use mplayer. There is a bug when I use mplayer in vesa mode (this is for reading movies without X, in text mode only): mplayer always segfault when I try to use it in vesa mode (and it works with other modes) The problem is easily reproductible, if you have a mdk9

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-30 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2002-11-30 15:10 * Incoming subspace signal from Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 021130 Maxim Heijndijk wrote: from Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I HATE the new mandrake package installer! I can't look at both install and uninstall. This is a nuisance. Also, you have to give the

Re: [expert] Hack attack analysis

2002-11-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I'll second chrootkit. I actually use it pro-actively on all of my servers and re-actively on ones people suspect have been hacked and want me to test. It has found problems and from what one of my friends tells me ... a hacker

Re: [expert] Hack attack analysis

2002-11-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 15:48, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I'll second chrootkit. I actually use it pro-actively on all of my servers and re-actively on ones people suspect have been hacked and want me to test. It has found problems

Re: [expert] Install of 'unsupported'

2002-11-30 Thread s
On Saturday 30 November 2002 06:28 am, Ron Stodden wrote: A software install to 9.0 of the entire unsupported/kde3.1-rc3 directory produces errors: libglut.so.3 is needed by kdegraphics-3.1-0.rc3.1-mdk htdig is needed by kdebase-3.1-0.rc3.6-mdk Install aborted. What to do? install

Re: [expert] Install of 'unsupported'

2002-11-30 Thread Ron Stodden
s wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 06:28 am, Ron Stodden wrote: A software install to 9.0 of the entire unsupported/kde3.1-rc3 directory produces errors: libglut.so.3 is needed by kdegraphics-3.1-0.rc3.1-mdk htdig is needed by kdebase-3.1-0.rc3.6-mdk Install aborted. What to do? install

Re: [expert] Hack attack analysis [OT]

2002-11-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 30 November 2002 07:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 15:48, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I'll second chrootkit. I actually use it pro-actively on all of my servers and re-actively on ones people

Re: [expert] Printing in Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-30 Thread Donna and Matthew Persico
On 30 Nov 2002 07:41:57 -0500, rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Greetings all, Actually this has been plagueing me since 8.2 but continues in 9.0. Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it? Here's a guess... Try getting rid of the space and the bar in the first entry |HP DeskJet970C:\ The

Re: [expert] Hack attack analysis [OT]

2002-11-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 17:13, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 07:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 15:48, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: I'll second chrootkit. I actually use it pro-actively on

Re: [expert] Hack attack analysis [OT]

2002-11-30 Thread nDiScReEt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 30 November 2002 7:13 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 07:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 15:48, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 30 November 2002 03:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Gary
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:13:19 -0700, you wrote: Here catch: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html I tried to install colortail and found it required regex. Found gnu regex-0.12.tar.gz, but it wont compile, it says it carnt find ecircle. Any ideas for a fix or is there a Mdk regex

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 30 November 2002 06:49 pm, Gary wrote: On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:13:19 -0700, you wrote: Here catch: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html I tried to install colortail and found it required regex. Found gnu regex-0.12.tar.gz, but it wont compile, it says it carnt find

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Ray Warren
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:49:46PM +1100, Gary wrote: On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:13:19 -0700, you wrote: Here catch: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html I tried to install colortail and found it required regex. Found gnu regex-0.12.tar.gz, but it wont compile, it says it

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Lorne
I am kind of confused. I just rebuilt my mandrake security firewall. Snort didn't install correctly. It did on the second attempt. Now the system has been up for 4 hours approximately and it looks like perhaps I'm already in trouble!?!?!?! /snort/portscan.log:Nov 30 17:15:03 xxx.3.247.xxx:1024

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread mike
Sometimes I get reports from Snort of port scans coming from my own machine.I wonder what's up? Mike On Saturday 30 November 2002 10:26 pm, you wrote: I am kind of confused. I just rebuilt my mandrake security firewall. Snort didn't install correctly. It did on the second attempt. Now the

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Daniel Woods
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Lorne wrote: I am kind of confused. I just rebuilt my mandrake security firewall. Snort didn't install correctly. It did on the second attempt. Now the system has been up for 4 hours approximately and it looks like perhaps I'm already in trouble!?!?!?!

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-30 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 19:26, Lorne wrote: I am kind of confused. I just rebuilt my mandrake security firewall. Snort didn't install correctly. It did on the second attempt. Now the system has been up for 4 hours approximately and it looks like perhaps I'm already in trouble!?!?!?!

[expert] urpmi --auto-select getting jiggy with apache

2002-11-30 Thread Jack Coates
I've got a 9.0 box with Apache 1.3.26 on it, and urpmi is trying to upgrade me to Apache 2.0 without my consent. Oddly enough, if I export X and use MandrakeUpdate instead, I get a completely different set of packages to upgrade. what gives? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...

Re: [expert] urpmi --auto-select getting jiggy with apache

2002-11-30 Thread James Sparenberg
Do you perhaps have a cooker list in your urpmi database. I've noticed on occasion that urpmi can get confused vs Mandrakeupdate almost as if they aren't reading the same files. Unfortunately I've never managed to make it reproduceable. James On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 21:24, Jack Coates wrote: