RE: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg I have the same setup at home (postfix for localhost, and dynamically assigned address), and what I found out from some receiving systems/ISPs was that they were rejecting my

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 07:46 schrieb Frankie: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James ... Don't doubt you on this ... but if you are feeling left out ... I can send you some of what we get *grin*. James

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 08:41 schrieb Martin Fahrendorf: Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 07:46 schrieb Frankie: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James ... Don't doubt you on this ... but if you are feeling left out ... I can send

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 8:44 pm, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Just a quick one. Sorry to send to expert, but have tried to newbie one and it has not appeared for some reason. How do I get rid of a manually configured scanner which I setup with Control Centre. It does not exist on the parallel

Re: [expert] Screen saver for a background and other eye candy thoughts

2003-07-23 Thread Jim C
You'll need libpng3-devel, ImageMagick-devel, XFree86-devel, IIRC ... it shouldn't need too much else. If you already have xplanet-1.0.1 on that box, uninstall it before installing the RPM that this will produce. Then get my scripts and run the install.sh script. Make sure you have wget. :)

[expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
Lately whenever I start xcdroast the create cd page opens with the CD/Image Info selected. This results in a wait of a minute or so before I can do anything. Has anyone else had this problem, and is there a fix? I think it has been ever since I installed the version in 9.1, but I'm not

RE: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Fahrendorf Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 08:41 schrieb Martin Fahrendorf: Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 07:46 schrieb Frankie: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Martin, On Wednesday 23 July 2003 08:47, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: [...] The main problem with amavis and postfix is a missing feature in the current postfix version. You can not reject spam mails. So you lose ane defence line in your battle against spam. Oh, the main problem is not

Re: [expert] printerdrake problem

2003-07-23 Thread charlie
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:50 pm, David Hlik had this to contribute :- Hi i switched advanced options in printerdrake and now i see only 1 printer ... and i can do anything ... i can't get to the main menu, where i can add and set printers. It is strange ... David Hlik Sometimes you have to get

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Peter Stokes
Hi Anne Yes, there are no scanners listed there. I guess there must be a config file which sane is picking up which I just cannot find. Peter On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 08:15, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 8:44 pm, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Just a quick one. Sorry to send to expert,

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 09:55 schrieb Joerg Mertin: Hi Martin, On Wednesday 23 July 2003 08:47, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: [...] The main problem with amavis and postfix is a missing feature in the current postfix version. You can not reject spam mails. So you lose ane defence line

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
Hi agian, Peter. It sounds as though Mdk has lost it as you wanted, so now go into sane and run the scan for devices there. That should do it. Anne On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 9:20 am, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Anne Yes, there are no scanners listed there. I guess there must be a config file

Re: [expert] Kmail +shortcut for send all mails in outgoing folder

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 10:58 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I use more and more shortcuts in Kmail. What I really miss are two things. 1) fetch mail before send Don't know about this 2) a keyboard shortcut for sending all mails in outgoing folder The File menu has 'Send Queued

[expert] vnstat cron

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello all, when I run 'vnstat /var/www/html/usage' from a shell, I get a text file with the correct output. When I run the same as a cron task, it outputs a blank file. any ideas why? -- Best regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In the beginning the Universe

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Martin, thx for the hint. I might give it a try. However - what buzzes me here is that if you use the proxy method to identify spam - you have to get the spam anyway through it - don't you ? So - the spam will use your bandwidth to get analyzed by the proxy application - and the proxy

Re: [expert] Kmail +shortcut for send all mails in outgoing folder

2003-07-23 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 10:21 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 10:58 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I use more and more shortcuts in Kmail. What I really miss are two things. 1) fetch mail before send Don't know about this 2) a keyboard shortcut for sending all

Re: [expert] Kmail +shortcut for send all mails in outgoing folder

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 9:52 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 10:21 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 10:58 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I use more and more shortcuts in Kmail. What I really miss are two things. 1) fetch mail before send

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 10:49 schrieb Joerg Mertin: Hi Martin, thx for the hint. I might give it a try. However - what buzzes me here is that if you use the proxy method to identify spam - you have to get the spam anyway through it - don't you ? So - the spam will use your bandwidth to

Re: [expert] redirect to /dev/null...how?

2003-07-23 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 22 July 2003 09:34 am, Mark Watts wrote: I am now very confident in my spamassassin filtering - I haven't had any misidentified spam for weeks. I have set a kmail filter to direct spam as identified by spamassassin into my kmail

[expert] Apache-mod_perl (ADVX v2)

2003-07-23 Thread J.C. Woods
In starting to work with ADVX, version 2, I have noticed that the httpd-perl daemon does not run as a separate process, as it does in the older versions of 1.3.xx. Does this mean that the apache-mod_perl is not needed, or not in use, in version 2 or should httpd-perl be running as a separate

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Peter Stokes
Hi Annee No it is still there, must be a file somewhere... Peter On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 09:27, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi agian, Peter. It sounds as though Mdk has lost it as you wanted, so now go into sane and run the scan for devices there. That should do it. Anne On Wednesday 23 Jul

RE: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Frankie
Well, at the high end of the spam game they do tests to see if an address is valid or not.. such things as image links in email that are actually links to a server side script at their end that is passed an id matching the email address that that particular message was addressed to. Also some

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hia there, so - actually - the new possibility with the Proxy sounds quite interesting, and are what I was looking for a long time now. Does anyone has some hints as what I'd need for it (which version of Postfix would be required), and some examples - on how to configure all that ? Of course

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 11:58 am, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Annee No it is still there, must be a file somewhere... Peter In /home/peter/.sane/xsane there will probably be a .drc file that relates to your scanner. Try adding .sav to the extension, so that you can get it back if you need it.

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 03:33, Anne Wilson wrote: Lately whenever I start xcdroast the create cd page opens with the CD/Image Info selected. This results in a wait of a minute or so before I can do anything. Has anyone else had this problem, and is there a fix? I think it has been ever

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Anne, you should give K3B a shot. It's very nice! Get the 0.9 version from the cooker. Ralph On Wednesday 23 July 2003 03:33 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Lately whenever I start xcdroast the create cd page opens with the CD/Image Info selected. This results in a wait of a minute or so before I

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Peter Stokes
Hi Anne Nice try, but after I delete it and then run xsane, it reappears as if by magic. So where does it get it from, sending me nuts Peter On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 11:58 am, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Annee No it is still there, must be

Re: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts

2003-07-23 Thread Ken Thompson
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 11:26 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:15, Ken Thompson wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Regarding changes in gaim, yes the changes stay as I have set them but to no effect, nothing is changed in the message

Re: [expert] Apache-mod_perl (ADVX v2)

2003-07-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
J.C. Woods wrote: In starting to work with ADVX, version 2, I have noticed that the httpd-perl daemon does not run as a separate process, as it does in the older versions of 1.3.xx. Does this mean that the apache-mod_perl is not needed, or not in use, in version 2 or should httpd-perl be

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 1:32 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 03:33, Anne Wilson wrote: Lately whenever I start xcdroast the create cd page opens with the CD/Image Info selected. This results in a wait of a minute or so before I can do anything. Has anyone else had this

Re: [expert] Screen saver for a background and other eye candythoughts

2003-07-23 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 00:27, Jim C wrote: You'll need libpng3-devel, ImageMagick-devel, XFree86-devel, IIRC ... it shouldn't need too much else. If you already have xplanet-1.0.1 on that box, uninstall it before installing the RPM that this will produce. Then get my scripts and run the

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
Anne Wilson wrote: Hmm - I think it still holds on a while even if there's nothing in the drive. I must admit I do sometimes put a blank in before firing up, though. Anyway, I'll not do that next time, and see if it cuts the waiting time. Yup, it will do that even if empty. But it'll

Re: [expert] vnstat cron

2003-07-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Colin Jenkins wrote: Hello all, when I run 'vnstat /var/www/html/usage' from a shell, I get a text file with the correct output. When I run the same as a cron task, it outputs a blank file. any ideas why? Does the file starts with #!/bin/sh so that it is recognized as a shell script? Are you

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 1:52 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Anne, you should give K3B a shot. It's very nice! Get the 0.9 version from the cooker. I had k3b running under 9.0, but never got on with it quite as well as xcdroast (opposite to what many people find, I know). It simply doesn't run

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 3:29 pm, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Anne Nice try, but after I delete it and then run xsane, it reappears as if by magic. So where does it get it from, sending me nuts Sorry, Peter, right out of ideas now :-(. If I think of anything I'll get back to you. Anne

[expert] Wine troubles

2003-07-23 Thread Ken Thompson
Hi all, I'm using -- Wine 20030115(stock install from 9.1) to try to run TotalA, it starts and the mouse is usable but there is no keyboard recognised. O/S is Mandrake 9.1 with updates Video is nVIDIA Gforce2 32Mb RAM Memory 512Mb. TotalA ran fine using Codeweavers 20020904 under Mandrake 9.0..

RE: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts

2003-07-23 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Run strace ymessenger and you will see a large amount of files that are not found, or dirs even. Some are X files. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Ken Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread Peter Stokes
Hi Anne Cheers anyway. Peter On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:06, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 3:29 pm, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Anne Nice try, but after I delete it and then run xsane, it reappears as if by magic. So where does it get it from, sending me nuts Sorry,

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 04:59, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hia there, so - actually - the new possibility with the Proxy sounds quite interesting, and are what I was looking for a long time now. Does anyone has some hints as what I'd need for it (which version of Postfix would be required), and

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-23 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 07:29, Peter Stokes wrote: Hi Anne Nice try, but after I delete it and then run xsane, it reappears as if by magic. So where does it get it from, sending me nuts Peter Just a guess... Look for it in /root as well. If it sees it in root it could be adding it

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
Frankie wrote: If the spam get rejected they know that you don't accept the mail. It is up to the sending server to handle the rejection. OTOH, since spam detection mechanisms are not perfect (and black lists based ones are evil), rejecting means you can lose good emails, while with filtering

Re: [expert] vnstat cron

2003-07-23 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 08:17, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Colin Jenkins wrote: Hello all, when I run 'vnstat /var/www/html/usage' from a shell, I get a text file with the correct output. When I run the same as a cron task, it outputs a blank file. any ideas why? A shot here. Does the file

RE: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts

2003-07-23 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 09:46, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: Run strace ymessenger and you will see a large amount of files that are not found, or dirs even. Some are X files. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB Dang you are right. Never really cared since kyim aytm

[expert] Avoiding NFS clients Hang when NFS server dies

2003-07-23 Thread Tru64 User
Hi All, My Unix boxes are heavy crossmounters of disks served mainly by Mandy Linux, + mandy-mandy mounts. Problem is that if any one host goes down, all other hosts hang with a df. Additionally, other programs that utilize df (eg. our backups, ssh --when it tries to generate random seed runs a

Re: [expert] Screen saver for a background and other eye candythoughts

2003-07-23 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 00:27, Jim C wrote: You'll need libpng3-devel, ImageMagick-devel, XFree86-devel, IIRC ... it shouldn't need too much else. If you already have xplanet-1.0.1 on that box, uninstall it before installing the RPM that this will

Re: [expert] vnstat cron

2003-07-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Colin Jenkins wrote: Hello all, when I run 'vnstat /var/www/html/usage' from a shell, I get a text file with the correct output. When I run the same as a cron task, it outputs a blank file. any ideas why? Does the file starts with #!/bin/sh so that it is recognized as a

RE: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Frankie
yup, right you are... but you can set spamassassin to only reject mail over a certain threshold, and just tag the rest as spam.. I have mine setup to quarantine spam with a score over 20.. and it has yet to catch any non spam. (I have tagging setup to 4.5 or over) I am only using quarintine at

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 12:01 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Hmm - I think it still holds on a while even if there's nothing in the drive. I must admit I do sometimes put a blank in before firing up, though. Anyway, I'll not do that next time, and see if it cuts the waiting time.

Re: [expert] Avoiding NFS clients Hang when NFS server dies

2003-07-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 01:47 pm, Tru64 User wrote: None of these are a cure. Any additional suggestions out there? _Thanks Richard Hmm, never tried this (think I'll go try in a minute though) but is it possible to put a line like: umount /nfs-mounted/directory /dev/null into one of

RE: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Frankie
ok, well when i get some time, I will knock up a howtoo.. (and put it on the twiki) but in answer to one of Joerg's question go to the postfix site and grab the latest snapshot. there is some documentation on the proxy methods. (also the postfix mailing list archives.) rgds Franki

[expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update breaks msec

2003-07-23 Thread David Guntner
(Again, this is in the hopes that someone from Mandrake is still reading this list) Well, at least partially. :-) In addition to the other error I reported regarding the new kernel (2.4.21- 0.24mdk) causing all files to be written as world writable, I noticed something else in my system

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 11:56:14AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. Since, then, any number of processes which used to write files that were writable only by

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update breaks msec

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 12:21:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: (Again, this is in the hopes that someone from Mandrake is still reading this list) Well, at least partially. :-) In addition to the other error I reported regarding the new kernel (2.4.21- 0.24mdk) causing all files to be

[expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread David Guntner
I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. Since, then, any number of processes which used to write files that were writable only by themselves (leafnode as user news, mailman as user mail and so

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 7:52 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2003 12:01 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Hmm - I think it still holds on a while even if there's nothing in the drive. I must admit I do sometimes put a blank in before firing up, though. Anyway,

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread David Guntner
Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Glad to see you're still on the list, Vincent. :-) On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 11:56:14AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything isworld writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:26, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 11:56:14AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. Since, then, any number of processes

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread David Guntner
Jack Coates grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:26, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 11:56:14AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread AAW
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:26 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 11:56:14AM -0700, David Guntner wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. Since, then, any number of

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update breaks msec

2003-07-23 Thread AAW
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:32 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 12:21:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: (Again, this is in the hopes that someone from Mandrake is still reading this list) Well, at least partially. :-) In addition to the other error I reported regarding

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

2003-07-23 Thread Stephane Junique
Hello Larry, I indeed saw several reports of ASUS A7M266-D running Linux on the net, which is why I bought an AMD bi-proc mobo in the first place: I was sure that it would work smoothly... Very strange, this WD drive stuff. I also have a WD drive ! The 120GB model with 8MB of cache. But the

Re: [expert] [OT] Microsoft is a platinum sponsor for LinuxWorldMalaysia 2003 - eh?

2003-07-23 Thread Richard Bown
There is'nt anyone on this list who has'nt at some time been a victim of microsoft. Do you really expect comments not to be made ? I really get angry at work with that rubbish S/w and the attitude of managers who think the sun shines out of BG's bum, and wont even consider linux. Strange that

Re: [expert] [OT] Microsoft is a platinum sponsor for LinuxWorldMalaysia 2003 - eh?

2003-07-23 Thread Charlie
quoting Carroll Grigsby; Tuesday 22 July 2003 06:06 pm: snip Charlie: Do like I did. Postpone that stroke by taking advantage of the [OT] tag on this thread and set (yet another) filter. I'll grant that it's not much help for a list member who is paying for every byte that comes down his

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update breaks msec

2003-07-23 Thread David Guntner
Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 12:21:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: (Again, this is in the hopes that someone from Mandrake is still reading this list) Well, at least partially. :-) In addition to the other error I reported regarding the new

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Miark
Try deleting the .xcdroast/ directory. Miark On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:33:48 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lately whenever I start xcdroast the create cd page opens with the CD/Image Info selected. This results in a wait of a minute or so before I can do anything. Has anyone

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything isworld writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
David Guntner wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. Since, then, any number of processes which used to write files that were writable only by themselves (leafnode as user news, mailman as

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread AAW
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 03:28 pm, David Guntner wrote: Also, what are the filesystems in question? Unfortunately my mirrors in GMT-8 still haven't caught up so I can't do any verification yet. Assuming I understand your question correctly, I'm using ReiserFS for all filesystems except

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

2003-07-23 Thread Stephane Junique
Hello Todd, Thank you for your answer. I tried to pass noapic and acpi=off to the kernel, but it didn't help. But I believe you are in the right direction, something has to be switched off in the kernel, probably something that was not in the 2.2 kernel: I have just installed redhat 6.2 and it

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Mertin
Thx Franki, I'll give it a try. Right now - on all the Mails I have seen tagged as Spam, and I also asked all users to check the Spam-Mails they have received - It didn't happen so far - that a non-Spam Mail was tagged as Spam. Rather the other way around - that Spam-Mail got undetected

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is worldwritable?

2003-07-23 Thread Charlie
quoting AAW; Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:48 pm: snip I'm seeing the same thing. Below is a copy of my post on aolm. Here too. I just installed the new kernel yesterday morning when I had to boot after a power outage. I didn't even think to check until just now. There are a lot of differences

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday July 23 2003 03:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 23 Jul 2003 7:52 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hmm, I've always liked Gcombust. Works great out of the box here. Of course, as T. Brinkman says, nothing works as good (or reliable) as doing it from a shell. :-) I haven't

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 01:26:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: Glad to see you're still on the list, Vincent. :-) Someone has to make sure you guys behave.. =) I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 03:29:29PM -0600, Charlie wrote: Would a copy of /var/log/security/writable.diff help? There's a *lot* of files that weren't writable that are now. 8.5 kB to be exact. I do believe I'm going to boot back to .22mdk. Or .18mdk. At least until somebody figures this out.

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Sword
Stephane Junique wrote: Hello Larry, I indeed saw several reports of ASUS A7M266-D running Linux on the net, which is why I bought an AMD bi-proc mobo in the first place: I was sure that it would work smoothly... Very strange, this WD drive stuff. I also have a WD drive ! The 120GB model with

[expert] driver/module problem wit 2 NIC of same type (3c59x)

2003-07-23 Thread Vtucatz elPunishar
hi everyone! i just installed mdk 9.1 on my router/firewall/server box which of course has 2 network cards. i have 2 3com card, both of the 59x type, one bomerang, one fast etherlink.. each of them alone in the system works great, in fact i am right now online with the fast etherlink.

[expert] vnstat cron (fixed)

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello All, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hello all, when I run 'vnstat /var/www/html/usage' from a shell, I get a text file with the correct output. When I run the same as a cron task, it outputs a blank file. Thanks for the feedback. when I added the path, /usr/local/bin/vnstat

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 02:34:09PM -0700, Bryan Whitehead wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. Since, then, any number of processes which used to write files that were writable only

Re: [expert] driver/module problem wit 2 NIC of same type (3c59x)

2003-07-23 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2003 01:04 schrieb Vtucatz elPunishar: hi everyone! i just installed mdk 9.1 on my router/firewall/server box which of course has 2 network cards. i have 2 3com card, both of the 59x type, one bomerang, one fast etherlink.. each of them alone in the system works

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 05:20:12PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 02:34:09PM -0700, Bryan Whitehead wrote: I hope someone from Mandrake is still reading this list. I got the advisary for the new kernel in my mail, and installed the new kernel. Since, then, any

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything isworld writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Ok. Did a little playing here, using /var/lock/subsys/* as my determination point. kernel: everything world writeable kernel-secure: normal perms (most everything world readable except syslog IIRC) kernel-enterprise: normal perms Enterprise is broken also. Please see my previous post. Also, it

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 06:16 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: Ok. Did a little playing here, using /var/lock/subsys/* as my determination point. kernel: everything world writeable kernel-secure: normal perms (most everything world readable except syslog IIRC) kernel-enterprise: normal perms

[expert] Bug Report: phpgroupware-0.9.14.006-0.1mdk.noarch.rpm not signed

2003-07-23 Thread AAW
The recent update package for LM 9.1 (MDKSA-2003:077) is not signed (md5 only). Arn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Bug Report: phpgroupware-0.9.14.006-0.1mdk.noarch.rpm not signed

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 07:04:14PM -0500, AAW wrote: The recent update package for LM 9.1 (MDKSA-2003:077) is not signed (md5 only). New packages are signed and are being mirrored. The new md5sums are in the advisory on the MandrakeSecure website. -- MandrakeSoft Security;

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is worldwritable?

2003-07-23 Thread Charlie
quoting Greg Meyer; Wednesday 23 July 2003 06:04 pm: snip For additional edification, I did not install the stock update kernel, but instead applied the netraverse win4lin patches and rebuilt using my config file from the -22mdk club kernel (make oldconfig). I am getting the same symptoms

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 08:30 pm, Charlie wrote: -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jul 23 16:26 tmdns -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jul 23 16:26 xfs -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jul 23 16:26 xinetd After a reboot to the .22mdk kernel this is what I get.

[expert] driver/module problem wit 2 NIC of same type (3c59x)

2003-07-23 Thread Vtucatz elPunishar
hi everyone! i just installed mdk 9.1 on my router/firewall/server box which of course has 2 network cards. i have 2 3com card, both of the 59x type, one bomerang, one fast etherlink.. each of them alone in the system works great, in fact i am right now online with the fast

Re: [expert] lm_sensors oddity

2003-07-23 Thread AAW
On Sunday 20 July 2003 10:53 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: On Mandrake 9.1, with lm_sensors-2.7.0-2mdk, I have run sensors-detect and accepted the default settings. The oddity is that the sensors command, or gkrellm, or ksensors only show the value (at least for temps, which is obvious) that

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 06:14 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Tho it's even simpler with a few aliases an the CL ;) I knew you were gonna say that. judge dread voice roflol --

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 08:04:26PM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: Ok. Did a little playing here, using /var/lock/subsys/* as my determination point. kernel: everything world writeable kernel-secure: normal perms (most everything world readable except syslog IIRC) kernel-enterprise: normal

[expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-23 Thread John Haywood
Sorry to ask here -it´s just that I know someone here can fix me up (shameless grovel!!). I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going to have problems with cat file|grep regex

RE: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Frankie
Hi Joerg, I setup two local user accounts on the server.. ham and spam. anyone that gets incorrectly detected ham or spam can resend it to the spam or ham accounts on the server.. and I run a crontabs to process the ham and spam and use it to create the bayes DB. /usr/bin/sa-learn --spam

[expert] Re: ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Norman Zhang
Mandrake Linux Advisory: 24mdk Kernel Update Unsafe This is an urgent message for all 9.1 users. Please back out of the 24mdk kernel update and downgrade to 18mdk or 13mdk as soon as you are able. A problem exists in all kernels (except kernel-secure) where newly created files are created mode

Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
John Haywood wrote: Sorry to ask here -it´s just that I know someone here can fix me up (shameless grovel!!). I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going to have problems with cat file|grep

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update and then everything is world writable?

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 04:46:09PM -0700, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Ok. Did a little playing here, using /var/lock/subsys/* as my determination point. kernel: everything world writeable kernel-secure: normal perms (most everything world readable except syslog IIRC) kernel-enterprise:

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update breaks msec

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 01:26:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `m': invalid format character /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character /etc/cron.daily/msec: line 66: printf: `@': invalid format character

Re: [expert] ATTN MANDRAKE: Kernel update breaks msec

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 04:08:29PM -0500, AAW wrote: Ummm... let's be a little logical here. Why would you blame the kernel for something in msec? The kernel touches /boot and /lib/modules... why would it have anything to do with msec? Did you look at line 66 of that file? What

[expert] como instalar modem agere system em mandrake 9.1

2003-07-23 Thread Wanderley Costa
já tentei com o kppp, sem exito. baixei alguns drives, também sem exito! o que fazer agora linux: mandrake 9.1 modem: agere system Obrigado. Wanderley Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.

2003-07-23 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2003 19:10 schrieb Luca Olivetti: Frankie wrote: If the spam get rejected they know that you don't accept the mail. It is up to the sending server to handle the rejection. OTOH, since spam detection mechanisms are not perfect (and black lists based ones are evil),