Re: [expert] packet forwarding solved wget question

2003-01-31 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Fri 2003-01-31 at 21:08:22 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Also, I have another issue: I'm using wget to retreive some river flow > stats on a website and mailing parts off using grep and sendmail and cron. > It was easier than I thought, but it isn't pretty the way I'm doing it. >

Re: [expert] SSH daemon question

2003-01-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Feb 01, 2003 at 12:17:05AM -0500, Scott Crumpler wrote: > I'm noticing some wierd behavior on the behalf of my OpenSSH daemon... When > it starts listening, there is only one instance of the process in memory. > But after I connect to it, there are 3 instances. Now I can understan

Re: [expert] root rsh access to mandrake machine

2003-01-31 Thread Jack Coates
and root may be blocked by /etc/securetty. On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 21:01, Jim C wrote: > I strongly reccomend you use ssh instead. > > That having been said it may be disabled in the xinetd config. > Alternatively shorewall may have the ports closed and rightfully so. > > Michael Noble wrote: > >

[expert] SSH daemon question

2003-01-31 Thread Scott Crumpler
I'm noticing some wierd behavior on the behalf of my OpenSSH daemon... When it starts listening, there is only one instance of the process in memory. But after I connect to it, there are 3 instances. Now I can understand 2 instances (one to handle the connection and another one that f

[expert] packet forwarding solved wget question

2003-01-31 Thread Bryce Conner
My original problem with packet forwarding was solved by reducing the DHCP lease time to some low number in dhcpd.conf. Evidently I'm losing my lease somewhere and making it longer didn't help but a short lease seems to fix the problem. Not sure why my lease would be lost. Also, I have another

Re: [expert] root rsh access to mandrake machine

2003-01-31 Thread Jim C
I strongly reccomend you use ssh instead. That having been said it may be disabled in the xinetd config. Alternatively shorewall may have the ports closed and rightfully so. Michael Noble wrote: I have been trying without success to rsh into a Mandrake 9.0 machine. I tried putting a netgroup nam

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-31 Thread Chuck Burns
On Fri, January 31 2003 7:54 pm, mike wrote: : Not one of the hijackers was Iraqi, 15 of the 19 were Saudi however; our : ally. This ain't about 9/11, its about 11/??/2004. : Oh boy! All the things I could do to him! And he'd never say it was me, if I sent someone else to do it! WOOT! -- Chuck B

Re: [expert] password change script

2003-01-31 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Jan Wilson wrote: * Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030131 16:14]: 7 systems is plenty for NIS. I've done it for as few as 3. Save yourself some headaches, put in NIS. It's easy! Brian York wrote: Does anyone have or know of a script/program (preferably perl) that could be configured to

Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs

2003-01-31 Thread Scott Crumpler
On this same note... When I was trying to compile the KDE 3.1 package "kdelibs", I got some weird compile errors that appeared to be simple syntax errors...anyone seen anything like this? I'll get an exact error message if someone thinks that they can help me. BTW Lyvim Xaphir, I finally join

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-31 Thread mike
Saddam has been a dictator (evil) and had weapons for 20 years and there has not been a global event. Dubya has been President for 2 years and he is going to start one. Taken with the fact that there are 2 other unrelated nations that he includes in his "axis of power", this is a dangerous si

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-31 Thread mike
Not one of the hijackers was Iraqi, 15 of the 19 were Saudi however; our ally. This ain't about 9/11, its about 11/??/2004. On Wednesday 29 January 2003 01:48 am, Franki wrote: > get a grip people > > I don't know much about iraq.. none of us really do.. and thats the point, > we hear them p

[expert] root rsh access to mandrake machine

2003-01-31 Thread Michael Noble
I have been trying without success to rsh into a Mandrake 9.0 machine. I tried putting a netgroup name and also the machine name (both unqualified and fully qualified) into /.rhosts. Nothing seems to help, I keep getting access denied. I'm sure it is probably a very simple thing I am missing. Can

Re: [expert] password change script

2003-01-31 Thread Jan Wilson
* Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030131 16:14]: > 7 systems is plenty for NIS. I've done it for as few as 3. > Save yourself some headaches, put in NIS. It's easy! > > Brian York wrote: > >Does anyone have or know of a script/program (preferably perl) that > >could be configured to change a u

Re: [expert] password change script

2003-01-31 Thread Jim C
You might consider skipping NIS and going straight to LDAP. I've heard that NIS is less reliable. Can anyone verify? Mandrake has a good HOWTO for LDAP. NIS is pretty easy though. All you do is make sure you've got all the required daemons running and then set the name you want for your NIS d

Re: [expert] sftp and chroot

2003-01-31 Thread Mark
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 02:41, J.P. Pasnak wrote: > > On January 30, 2003 06:25 am, Mark wrote: > >> Hello There, > >> > >> OpenSSH does do what you want via using a package called "scponly" > >> I have been using this package for some time.. it's excellent.. > >> > >> Have a look at http://www.subl

Re: [expert] password change script

2003-01-31 Thread Ric Tibbetts
7 systems is plenty for NIS. I've done it for as few as 3. Save yourself some headaches, put in NIS. It's easy! Ric Brian York wrote: Does anyone have or know of a script/program (preferably perl) that could be configured to change a users password on all linux machines on a network. I know

Re: [expert] Mandrake Off Topic list

2003-01-31 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 13:49 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi all, > > Given the amount of traffic and passion related over the last few days > concerning things totally off topic where Mandrake Linux is concerned > has led me to a place where I'm willing to try an experiment of sorts. > > I've cr

[expert] Mandrake Off Topic list

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi all, Given the amount of traffic and passion related over the last few days concerning things totally off topic where Mandrake Linux is concerned has led me to a place where I'm willing to try an experiment of sorts. I've created a mailing list for anyone here on the newbie and expert lists wh

Re: [expert] support for gnome-python2 and pygtk2 in Mandrake 9.1

2003-01-31 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 January 2003 04:30 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Would anyone happen to know if there will be support for gnome-python2 and > pygtk2 in Mandrake 9.1? See my response on newbie list Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1Beta2 - no way to install it here

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Weaver
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 15:55 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi wobo.. as far as your wheeled mouse thats likely the easiest part. just go with the generic two button, or generic wheel mouse. I realized that the wheel did not work in the install

[expert] Ripping & recording audio CDs: resources used?

2003-01-31 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I've got 2 computers, 1 PC with a RW and a DVD reader, and a laptop with a DVD-RW combo. In all 3 atapi units have something common: ripping and recording audio CDs take 100% cpu and make the system almost unusable. This only happens with

[expert] password change script

2003-01-31 Thread Brian York
Does anyone have or know of a script/program (preferably perl) that could be configured to change a users password on all linux machines on a network. I know a nis server would be better but we don't have enough linux machines yet to require one (only 7 linux servers). Thanks Brian Want to b

Re: [expert] sftp and chroot

2003-01-31 Thread J.P. Pasnak
MdkActe said: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:33:28 -0600 > "J.P. Pasnak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> sftp and/or scp work just fine, but allowed the user to 'walk' the >> filesystem. I ended up just tightening the filesystem - a modified >> msec level 4 - and now I have the client using Filezilla

Re: [expert] sftp and chroot

2003-01-31 Thread MdkActe
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:33:28 -0600 "J.P. Pasnak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sftp and/or scp work just fine, but allowed the user to 'walk' the > filesystem. I ended up just tightening the filesystem - a modified > msec level 4 - and now I have the client using Filezilla with scponly > as th

[expert] support for gnome-python2 and pygtk2 in Mandrake 9.1

2003-01-31 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Would anyone happen to know if there will be support for gnome-python2 and pygtk2 in Mandrake 9.1? -- Regards Trevor === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 290542 at http://counter.li.org Registered M

Re: [expert] sftp and chroot

2003-01-31 Thread J.P. Pasnak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On January 31, 2003 02:52 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > Have you tried just using sftp or scp instead of ftp over ssh? > > James sftp and/or scp work just fine, but allowed the user to 'walk' the filesystem. I ended up just tightening the filesyste

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1 ... and cooker viability ..

2003-01-31 Thread W. Kasberg
On Thursday 30 January 2003 17:44, Robert Goshko wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 09:02, Sascha Noyes wrote: > > To all those that are lusting after kde 3.1 on 9.0, word has it (from > > deno on mandrakeclub.com) that Laurent Montel (Mandrakes resident "kde > > guy") is busy building 9.0 packages but

[expert] 9.1Beta2 not usable (for me)

2003-01-31 Thread W. Kasberg
I found Beta2 is not usable at my workstation. I had most problems which are already mentioned in other mails: especially I did not get installed: - printers - networking (ISDN and DSL) - could not (re-)configure X-Server But the worst thing is: After installing beta2 I could not boot to my workin

Re: [expert] One hell of a thread, and the plugger...

2003-01-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 23:26, J. Craig Woods wrote: > Just wanted to thank all who shared their views. It was most > interesting. It takes all kinds to make the "world go around". Winston > Churchill once said, "Democracy is the worst form of government in the > world, except for all other forms"

Re: [expert] pocket pc

2003-01-31 Thread James Sparenberg
Congrats on the newborn. don't worry.. you're only about 3 or 4 months from sleep *grin*. James On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 04:28, James Beam wrote: > Sorry, cant't help right now. My linux box is > completely crashed, and my wife had a nice child two > weeks ago, so my crowded schedule is absolut

Re: [expert] sftp and chroot

2003-01-31 Thread James Sparenberg
Have you tried just using sftp or scp instead of ftp over ssh? James On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 21:33, J.P. Pasnak wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On January 29, 2003 21:11 pm, J.P. Pasnak wrote: > > On January 29, 2003 14:38 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > Praedor Tempus A

Re: [expert] Yenta Socket and Compaq Laptops

2003-01-31 Thread James Sparenberg
OK I've got the box working... I found a 16bit Netgear card. Since this doesn't use cardbus all I had to do was edit /etc/pcmcia/config file for this card and poof I'm up. One question though how do I generate the key for WEP? I'm using MAC address control right now. but I'd love to know the res