Re: [expert] can't locate binfmt error

2000-09-22 Thread Daniel Woods
Sep 21 16:11:51 24 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt- Sep 21 16:13:45 24 last message repeated 102 times Help please ! Sep 21 23:46:17 24 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt- # rpmfind binfmt Cannot install or locate resource binfmt Do you

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Daniel Woods
I've got to agree whole heartedly on this one. I bought two linksys cards because they had linux stickers all over them. It said on the box that it supported linux. When I open the box, I change to the linux directory and I read the notice that linksys doesn't support linux or what they

[expert] vim noai not working

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Being used to vi but not vim, I am surprised that I can't get vim to accept ':set noai'. Whenever I am trying to do a paste from the copy buffer (Ctrl-Insert from another application) and I don't want auto-indent, I try to set noai. For whatever reason, it still indents, which makes the pasted

[expert] can't locate binfmt error

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Sep 21 16:11:51 24 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt- Sep 21 16:13:45 24 last message repeated 102 times Help please ! Thanks... Dan. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] kernel error: I/O error on floppy

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Woods
running /boot/System.map-2.2.16-9mdksecure I get these in the error logs a few times a day... Sep 21 14:32:27 24 kernel: 7VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0) Sep 21 14:32:27 24 kernel: 6end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 There is no floppy in the drive. Is is

[expert] less gives color ESC codes for ls -l

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Woods
# ls -al | less ESC[00mtotal 500 drwx--7 root root 4096 Sep 4 17:30 ESC[01;34m.ESC[00m/ drwx-- 10 root root 4096 Sep 9 12:15 ESC[01;34m..ESC[00m/ -rwx--1 root root 6577 Jun 7 10:35 ESC[01;32mBackEnd.plESC[00m* -rwx--1 root

[expert] how to disable promisc mode on eth0

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Woods
I just realized that eth0 (internet) was in promisc mode (after using an nmap option to test my work server) /usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh calls /usr/bin/promisc_check There is no man page for this and no command line options to tell me what it can/can't do. I only found these

Re: [expert] security scripts

2000-09-16 Thread Daniel Woods
i accidently switch off the nighly security scripts.. how can i turn them back on? /usr/share/msec/custom.sh doesn't work somehow... /etc/crontab looks like this... SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02

Re: [expert] help? suid md5sum altered?

2000-09-14 Thread Daniel Woods
security warning: the md5sum for one of your suid ifles has changed, maybe an intruder modified one of these suid binary in order to put in a backdoor... checksum changed files : /usr/libexec/pt_chown i am not happy about the above mail to root, is there an

Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem

2000-09-14 Thread Daniel Woods
I am using Mandrake 7.1 and ncftp-3.0.1-2mdk. When accessing external web sites we need to go through a firewall requiring authentication. I have set up the ~/.ncftp/firewall file and using ncftp works fine. However when using ncftpget it does not seem to use this file at all and fails with

Re: [expert] What services are blocked by hosts.deny?

2000-09-11 Thread Daniel Woods
Hosts.deny works with inetd and tcpwrappers. Any service that is handled by inetd and passed to tcpwrappers can be configured by restrictions in hosts.deny. I am not aware that any other processes use hosts.allow/hosts.deny, but if anyone else knows, please mention it. You may also wish

Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!

2000-09-08 Thread Daniel Woods
Please wrap your lines to 72 characters... On Fri, 5 May 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote: I've recently attempted to write my own IP routing script (IPchains and IPmasquerading). I have some minor problems with my initial script and need some help from an experienced Linux user. First off, I

Re: [expert] web/email server

2000-09-07 Thread Daniel Woods
The plan is to use the port forwarding feature in the router but at this point I'm only certain of the web port being 80, is there one for mail? Mail uses SMTP port 25 to send out. See /etc/services for other port numbers. On that note is sendmail the software of choice or is there

Re: [expert] How to see IP address?

2000-09-01 Thread Daniel Woods
Submitted 01-Sep-00 by Sarang Lakare: Whats the command to get IP address of u're machine? The only way I know of is thru kppp when using modem... I am talking of dynamic IP addresses here.. I want something which i can put in a script! Assuming that you have only one network

Re: [expert] ipchains question

2000-09-01 Thread Daniel Woods
I just installed ipchains and configured it with pmfirewall. All seemes to go well and I started the /etc/rc.d/init.d/pmfirewall start. That went fine too. My question: I thought that I'd see ipchains running by doing a ps -ef | grep ipchains. I don't and was kind of wondering if my

Re: [expert] /sbin/route: delete problem

2000-09-01 Thread Daniel Woods
I use PortSentry which works great, and helps to keep out the little buggers. Problem is that sometimes that bugger is me coming in from a new machine to test with. Once I do, that machine is now banned via /sbin/route add -host 1.2.3.4 reject How do I un-do the route command

RE: [expert] /sbin/route: delete problem

2000-09-01 Thread Daniel Woods
Oops, responded to wrong message... sorry Tony :) I use PortSentry which works great, and helps to keep out the little buggers. Problem is that sometimes that bugger is me coming in from a new machine to test with. Once I do, that machine is now banned via /sbin/route add -host

[expert] /sbin/route: delete problem

2000-08-31 Thread Daniel Woods
I use PortSentry which works great, and helps to keep out the little buggers. Problem is that sometimes that bugger is me coming in from a new machine to test with. Once I do, that machine is now banned via /sbin/route add -host 1.2.3.4 reject How do I un-do the route command to allow

Re: [expert] Proxy/router setup How-To

2000-08-29 Thread Daniel Woods
Just want to know of a good resource on setting up a proxy server/router using linux. What I want to do is have 1 machine for my proxy that also provides my internet connection to 3 other boxes. The 3 machines also need to be able to transfer data between themselves. The box I want to use is

Re: [expert] $HOSTNAME and lookup error

2000-08-27 Thread Daniel Woods
Seems I'm on a role today.. I'm trying to remember how to change my hostname and I'm also having problems with my current hostname. Upon running proftpd, I get the following error... Starting proftpd: Allowing sessions again h24-xx-xxx-xx.ed.wave.shaw.ca - Fatal: unable to determine IP

Re: [expert] Firewall issues...

2000-08-26 Thread Daniel Woods
I'm not sure if this pertains to your problems, but I did run into a problem when I upped a firewall from 7.0 to 7.1. The problem that I had was that I couldn't get mdk 7.1 to dhcp its address on eth1. Seeing that eth0 seemed to be working properly, I switched eth0 and eth1 in the

Re: [expert] BSD install

2000-08-23 Thread Daniel Woods
Thomas, On the BSD install it asks you what type of encryption you would like to use. What is the suggested and what are the reasons for so many? Don't you think you're asking a BSD question on the wrong expert list ?!? Thanks... Dan.

[expert] re-install, saving passwd/shadow files

2000-08-23 Thread Daniel Woods
I want to do a re-install, or upgrade to a newer version. I know to save /home to keep the current user directories and make sure that it is not re-formatted upon installation. Re-installing will create new /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files. Can I copy back the current files after

[expert] mysql daemon not starting

2000-08-23 Thread Daniel Woods
When trying to start a freshly installed MySQL (first time), and then trying to run the daemon, I get these messages in the error.log ... 000822 10:31:04 mysqld started 000822 10:31:04 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 000822 10:31:04 Do you already have another

Re: [expert] cgi-bin problems / file not found running perl/cgiscript (solved)

2000-08-23 Thread Daniel Woods
Heinz, The -w option did it. #!/usr/bin/perl -w Thank you VERY much for all the help. For the sake of knowing "what" the problem was, can you report what the '-w' option told you in the error logs that helped you to solve the problem ? I'm guessing you had a Perl syntax problem, which

Re: [expert] re-install, saving passwd/shadow files

2000-08-23 Thread Daniel Woods
How do others save their /home/users when doing a new install on top of an existing one ? Do an 'expert' installation... and choose the partitions you want to re-format and those you want to keep ;-) Sergio I believe I said that in the first paragraph of my message... I want to do a

Re: [expert] server question

2000-08-16 Thread Daniel Woods
Tony McGee wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joseph S. Gardner pushed some tiny letters in this order: Is it practical / advisable to set up a single machine to act as a firewall/email/web server or am I looking for MAJOR trouble. I'm trying to run a SOHO with limited resources/computers

Re: Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL!

2000-08-16 Thread Daniel Woods
People shouldn't need to know ANYTHING about computers to use one, or read all sorts of documentation to get something done on one. The next generation of OS that makes it will the one that is programmed to interface with a human without a learning curve. Geeks will hate it. In the words of

RE: [expert] RPM content list before installing

2000-08-13 Thread Daniel Woods
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Ken Archer wrote: one of my "have-to-have" programs is Rpmfind. When you have to satisfy a dependency it will find the file for you. Such as # rpmfind libdps.so.1 It will find the file you need and download it for you. You can check it out here:

Re: [expert] Logging of apache-1.3.12-24mdk

2000-08-12 Thread Daniel Woods
I also installed this from cooker along with mod_perl and now I get "connection refused" trying to access my site on port 80. I even get refused trying to telnet to port 80 on loclhost, although I can telnet to 22/23/25/443... What went wrong ? I noticed that when I start up httpd, I now

Re: [expert] Logging of apache-1.3.12-24mdk

2000-08-12 Thread Daniel Woods
I noticed that the cooker version is changing the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf so that the web root path is now /var/www instead. Although it seems they have /var/www linked back to /home/httpd... so what's the point of that ? Compliance with FHS. FHS things all web pages should be in

RE: [expert] RPM content list before installing

2000-08-12 Thread Daniel Woods
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Ken Archer wrote: one of my "have-to-have" programs is Rpmfind. When you have to satisfy a dependency it will find the file for you. Such as # rpmfind libdps.so.1 It will find the file you need and download it for you. You can check it out here:

Re: [expert] Logging of apache-1.3.12-24mdk

2000-08-12 Thread Daniel Woods
I've got apache-1.3.12-24mdk installed on my machine. When someone accesses my machine via http it doesn't show up in the logs in /var/log/httpd. Sometimes it takes some minutes until the entry shows up in the logs, sometimes it doesn't appear at all! HostnameLookups is off and I also

Re: [expert] Logging of apache-1.3.12-24mdk

2000-08-12 Thread Daniel Woods
I've got apache-1.3.12-24mdk installed on my machine. When someone accesses my machine via http it doesn't show up in the logs in /var/log/httpd. Sometimes it takes some minutes until the entry shows up in the logs, sometimes it doesn't appear at all! HostnameLookups is off and I

Re: [expert] Logging of apache-1.3.12-24mdk

2000-08-11 Thread Daniel Woods
I've got apache-1.3.12-24mdk installed on my machine. When someone accesses my machine via http it doesn't show up in the logs in /var/log/httpd. Sometimes it takes some minutes until the entry shows up in the logs, sometimes it doesn't appear at all! HostnameLookups is off and I also

[expert] startx errno 111 and 3

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
I am still getting errors while trying to run X-windows as any user other than root. I am sure it's a permission problem somewhere but don't know where. Re-installing X-rpms has not worked. Authentication failed - cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console

[expert] install X *after* Linux

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
On a test server here, X was not installed to begin with because of disk space. Now I wanted to install X-windows and installed all the X and Gnome rpms (after many other dependencies). When I use startx, X-windows starts up but only gives me a terminal window. What else do I need to do, or add

[expert] port listening security warnings

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
I have these services opened in my inetd.conf file. Does the following output from the nightly security warnings seem reasonable/correct (port 32668 and 448) ? BTW, telnet and ftp are IP restricted (for backup access) and I do use ssh. Security Warning: There is modifications for port

[expert] RPM content list before installing

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
When using .tar.gz or .tgz files, it is easy to see what the list of files are. As well, you can easily untar it wherever you want. I want to know how to do this with RPMs. I can't seem to find a way to check the contents of an RPM or SRPM to determine *where* it will try to install them. I

Re: [expert] install X *after* Linux

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
Eric, If you installed everything needed: type in console: cd /root mv .xinitrc .xinitrc.old (don't worry if on error message occurs) cp /usr/bin/gnome-session .xinitrc chmod a+x .xinitrc startx Eric MC THANKS... this worked for root and regular users. Daniel Woods wrote

RE: [expert] RPM content list before installing

2000-08-10 Thread Daniel Woods
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Carver, Paul, NLSOP wrote: You can definitely do it. Check the man page. I think you have to add "-p filename" in addition to the "-ql". I'm not sure that "p" is the right option though. Ok, I missed that one. Using 'rpm -qp package-mdk.i586.rpm' works. And using 'rpm

Re: [expert] replyto entry in Pine config

2000-08-08 Thread Daniel Woods
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: but when I added that entry in that place all the other headers disappeared. what's up with that? could someone tell me where one defines the replyto address in Pine? m-s-c (main menu - setup - config) space down to

Re: [expert] scripts

2000-08-05 Thread Daniel Woods
Try: $ if [ -f ${x} ]; then echo ${x} ; else echo "NO" ; fi mysignature Forgot to ask: do you _have_ a file called "mysignature"...? I did, and this does work :) Thanks... Dan.

Re: [expert] scripts

2000-08-04 Thread Daniel Woods
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Pierre Fortin wrote: Daniel Woods wrote: This will work... cd {directory} ls -t | head -1 or ls -t $HOME | head -1 Using ksh (on Unix), this next line works to only accept files x=`ls -t | head -1`; if [[ -f $x ]]; then echo $x

Re: [expert] X not starting for non-root user

2000-08-03 Thread Daniel Woods
check if xfs is running.. it should be enabled in the startup scripts.. -sarang I have the following already running xfs -port -1 -daemon Thanks... Dan.

Re: [expert] sendmail

2000-08-03 Thread Daniel Woods
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Yacketta,Ronald J wrote: we (my company) has acquired another company, we are looking at point all of there MIX records to our companies DNS , but would like to have a message auto generated when we receive email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to tell the sender that the users

Re: [expert] X not starting for non-root user

2000-08-03 Thread Daniel Woods
I am still getting an authentication failed trying to 'startx' as a regular user. I forget the proper way to fix this. I tried to remove .Xauthority and .Xdefaults but only root can use X-windows. I also tried to re-install all the X-windows RPMs with "rpm -Uvh --force X*".

Re: [expert] X not starting for non-root user

2000-08-03 Thread Daniel Woods
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, David Talbot wrote: I Do the following as root: rm -f /var/gdm/* This will wack your server's MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE. I have nothing in there. Permission is 750 gdm gdm Now go to your user's home directory and type: xauth -ib exit I get an error... Attempting to break

Re: [expert] scripts

2000-08-03 Thread Daniel Woods
I am new to shell scripting, I would like to create a script in bash shell. that would do the following 1) find out the latest file ( text file)in a directory ( there are bunch of files in a dir) This will work... cd {directory} ls -t | head -1 or ls -t $HOME | head -1

Re: [expert] X not starting for non-root user

2000-08-03 Thread Daniel Woods
directory and rebuilding them from the skeletons (pretty drastic) Andrew I tried removing all .X* in user directory, but no change. I think I have a permission problem somewhere, which re-installing all the X* RPMs did not fix. On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, David

Re: [expert] scripts

2000-08-03 Thread Daniel Woods
This will work... cd {directory} ls -t | head -1 or ls -t $HOME | head -1 Using ksh (on Unix), this next line works to only accept files x=`ls -t | head -1`; if [[ -f $x ]]; then echo $x ;fi except that I could not get this to work with bash as x=`ls -t |

[expert] X not starting for non-root user

2000-08-01 Thread Daniel Woods
Re-posting after waiting a week... I am still getting an authentication failed trying to 'startx' as a regular user. I forget the proper way to fix this. I tried to remove .Xauthority and .Xdefaults but only root can use X-windows. I also tried to re-install all the X-windows RPMs with "rpm

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-28 Thread Daniel Woods
Your description of ghost makes me a bit nervous. I conjecture from it that ghost backs up partitions as disk images, not file by file. This has two problems. {snip} It backs up file by file. Norton's Ghost http://www.ghost.com does NOT support windows 2000 (just checked) and does NOT

Re: [expert] ssh vs openssh

2000-07-17 Thread Daniel Woods
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Ben Sugerman wrote: I would like to install ssh on Mdk 7.1, but the 2.0 sounce code fails in mid-compile with a complaint that it can not find -ltermcap. I tried using the rpm for redhat but it makes a number of complaints during the initialization of the host keys,

[expert] SSH authorized_keys setup

2000-07-11 Thread Daniel Woods
SSH is not so easy to get going out of the box when trying to setup the public keys. I have openSSH (in LM7.1) sshd running no problem, and I can use ssh.com client and secureCRT via password login, but I can't figure out the public key setup. I can create the private/public keys, transfer the

Re: [expert] Re: Security warnings @ rc.local

2000-07-09 Thread Daniel Woods
On another topic: I put some stuff in my rc.local file that is not executing upon bootup. In fact, I don't think -any- of my rc.local is executing, because when I run it manually, my "mods" work fine. What script calls this file? /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99local is linked to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

[expert] compiling kernel modules

2000-07-07 Thread Daniel Woods
3 important questions are preceeded with *** I have had the need to learn how to build a new kernel (ok, not so bad at all) for using VPN masq, to allow LAN client access to work VPN. I grabbed the 2.2.15 patch for VPN, and had 3 error hunks after the patch. Ok, no problem since they were easy

Re: [expert] compiling kernel modules

2000-07-07 Thread Daniel Woods
*** Another thing, how to compile a *secure* kernel version ? Looking at /usr/linux/Makefile VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 2 SUBLEVEL = 16 EXTRAVERSION = -9mdk So how this is not the -9mdksecure version. How upgraded from 2.2.15mdk to 2.2.16mdk-secure via MandrakeUpdate but

[expert] VPN problems to access university

2000-07-05 Thread Daniel Woods
Having looked into getting VPN to work from my NT at home thru my LM7.1 firewall/IPmasq, I am annoyed ! I have read the VPN howto and linux VPN masquerade. The former is if you want to create your own local VPN. The latter one indicates that you must patch the source and recompile the kernel. I

Re: [expert] New Server

2000-07-03 Thread Daniel Woods
The only things I'm not sure of is the Dlink DE-538TX 10/100 PCI ethernet card ... I have this and the DFE-530TX+ and both work well. Linux sees this as a 'rt18139' driver. Thanks... Dan.

[expert] root file/dir permission screwup

2000-07-03 Thread Daniel Woods
Boy did I screw up tonight. I accidently ran 'chmod o-rwx .*' inside my /root directory for security reasons. I should have known better and said .[a-zA-Z]* instead. This of course went on to change permissions in /bin /usr /mnt but then I killed it. Without risking security problems, I

Re: [expert] root file/dir permission screwup

2000-07-03 Thread Daniel Woods
Daniel Woods wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* ^ lines deleted Don't know if it is because of thr "trial version" but this is already the THIRD time t

Re: [expert] multiple names on one machine?

2000-07-03 Thread Daniel Woods
Bruce, I have a DNS server, web server and working on a mail server on my desktop. I am wondering if I can use several name on one machine. For example can I name the web server "www" mail server "mail" instead of the machine name on the same box? When I ping www/mail/news, I get my cable

Re: [expert] root file/dir permission screwup

2000-07-03 Thread Daniel Woods
Daniel Woods wrote: Boy did I screw up tonight. I accidently ran 'chmod o-rwx .*' inside my /root directory for security reasons. I should have known better and said .[a-zA-Z]* instead. This of course went on to change permissions in /bin /usr /mnt but then I killed it. Without

Re: [expert] root file/dir permission screwup

2000-07-03 Thread Daniel Woods
Boy did I screw up tonight. I accidently ran 'chmod o-rwx .*' inside my /root directory for security reasons. I should have known better and said .[a-zA-Z]* instead. This of course went on to change permissions in /bin /usr /mnt but then I killed it. Without risking security problems,

Re: [expert] multiple names on one machine?

2000-07-03 Thread Daniel Woods
For the benefit of others... You can even setup Apache to ignore the IP# and just respond to domain names... in case you're serving things up from a cablemodem. Seve I just played around with this two days ago and got it working. Being on a cablemodem, I wanted anyone (mainly cable company)

Re: [expert] ipmasq problems on LAN

2000-07-01 Thread Daniel Woods
I am resending this message because I did not see it posted after *12 hours*. My updated message is at the bottom. So after wasting/playing 4 hours trying to understand ipchains and correct it to secure it, I've run into a problem. I have set ipchains to forward MASQ 192.168.1.0 and deny

[expert] my KVM switch experience

2000-07-01 Thread Daniel Woods
I had decided to spend money on a KVM switch ($45) and cables for 2 computers ($30) in order to control both PCs from the same keyboard, monitor (19"), keyboard and mouse. This is the cheap version where you manually flip a switch to A-B-C-D. I figured that I could control and use both this

Re: [expert] ipmasq problems on LAN

2000-07-01 Thread Daniel Woods
please let the users know what is happening when 'msec' is executed. And even more, add a '--test' option to make no changes but tell what *would be* done without this option. Daniel Woods wrote: So after wasting/playing 4 hours trying to understand ipchains and correct it to secure it,

Re: [expert] ipmasq problems on LAN

2000-06-30 Thread Daniel Woods
So after wasting/playing 4 hours trying to understand ipchains and correct it to secure it, I've run into a problem. I have set ipchains to forward MASQ 192.168.1.0 and deny everything else... (/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall) start # Needed to initially load modules /sbin/depmod -a #

[expert] ipmasq problems on LAN

2000-06-26 Thread Daniel Woods
So after wasting/playing 4 hours trying to understand ipchains and correct it to secure it, I've run into a problem. I have set ipchains to forward MASQ 192.168.1.0 and deny everything else... (/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall) start # Needed to initially load modules /sbin/depmod -a #

RE: [expert] OT: any quality PC keyboards?

2000-06-23 Thread Daniel Woods
I bought an IBM Rapid Access II keyboard and feels good. I am also one of those picky types when it comes to keyboards ;) Although mine seems to have a sticky shift key :( And I've always liked keytronics before but I do not know how good their latest models are. Thanks... Dan.

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-23 Thread Daniel Woods
James, At 10:26 AM 6/22/00, you wrote: ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake-crypto/7.1/ I see openssh-2.1.0p2-1mdk.i586.rpm and other files. The latest openssh is 2.1.1 at http://www.openssh.com Actually, they just announce 2.2. Time to make a new RPM

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel Woods
I am very surprised that SSH is not standard in the distribution, or did I miss something ? I guess it does not really matter since I will install openSSH anyways. It can't be included in the pre-packaged Linux distros for legal reasons. Ok, so at

Re: [expert] FTP firewall problems

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel Woods
FTP connects to port 21 initially, but when you want to do a "ls" or transfer a file, it binds another port to build the data connection. If your firewall restricts ports 1024, this could be the problem. Solution is to use passive transfers. In Linux, after you login to the ftp server,

Re: [expert] reset to use Grub instead of lilo

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel Woods
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: Daniel Woods wrote: Since I had to change the memory setting from 126 to 124 (more for onboard video), I changed lilo.conf to set mem=126M, ran /sbin/lilo and now lilo shows up on bootup. So how do I reset things to use Grub

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel Woods
First, we do a rpm -ba --target i586 package. The manual pages are also bzipped to save space On most packages, we add the "Mandrake Touch": menu items in all window managers, icons, and we make sure everything is integrated and ready to use. This question would apply to any rpm

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-22 Thread Daniel Woods
It's great when everyone takes the time to respond, however getting 4 responses saying the same thing is definitely a mailing list problem. People don't get to see rsponses that have already been sent by someone but not yet sent out to everyone on the list. J-M, is there some reason

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Danielyou should probably not stick a metal screwdriver (the metal changes the adjustment, so when you remove the metal screwdriver, the setting you just carefully arrived at changes) in those holes. There are special plastic ones for that purpose. Radio Shack sells a pack of five

[expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
In LM7.1, I can't seem to find SSH installed or as an RPM. I checked "rpm -qa | grep -i ssh" to see i it was installed but none found. In the RPMS directory of the CD, I tried "ls -al *ssh* *SSH*" but nothing. I am very surprised that SSH is not standard in the distribution, or did I miss

[expert] reset to use Grub instead of lilo

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Since I had to change the memory setting from 126 to 124 (more for onboard video), I changed lilo.conf to set mem=126M, ran /sbin/lilo and now lilo shows up on bootup. So how do I reset things to use Grub instead ? (and with my senith monitor problems, please give me a command line answer, not

[expert] FTP firewall problems

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
(I need to ftp 300MB from work to home, and no cd-burner, or VPN access) I've recently installed and configured a new linux machine as a web server and firewall (connected to cable modem). Using ftp and telnet from my NT used to work but now FTP can't seem to accept commands. Telnet and

[expert] TERM tty color setting

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Nothing more annoying than telnetting into linux from another non-linux machine as vt100, and run 'll' (alias 'ls -alF --color'), only to get colors that don't jive with the telnet client. Remembering to 'export TERM=linux' is a pain but does not really work anyways. I have had to change my

[expert] X remote $DISPLAY explanation

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
With many years of Unix experience, I've usually just used windows and telnet in to my unix boxes for support or programming. So my X-windows is limited (2 yrs on HP). I've never used remote $DISPLAY settings. With my monitor problems, if I could just use my NT machine to connect to my linux

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
I am very surprised that SSH is not standard in the distribution, or did I miss something ? I guess it does not really matter since I will install openSSH anyways. Due to export restrictions on cryptography, we had to separate openssh from the main distribution. Crypto packages,

3c509 conflict, Was: [expert] 7.1 install Caveats

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
I did all that but then gave up and put the 3c509 card in the win98 (kids) box. It installs on win98, I set IP to local 192.168.1.2 but winipcfg/ipconfig show 0.0.0.0 instead. I don't get it !!! Of all the nonsense, the 3c509 TP ISA card caused the floppy drive to stop working (I took it

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
they are not part of the install. they are downloaded during the install from outside the US. if you use expert install you will get to choose the site. i didn't keep a list of sites. but i found the rpms in a directory called: .../Linux/Mandrake-crypto/7.1 the problem is that Mandrake

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, you wrote: In LM7.1, I can't seem to find SSH installed or as an RPM. I checked "rpm -qa | grep -i ssh" to see i it was installed but none found. In the RPMS directory of the CD, I tried "ls -al *ssh* *SSH*" but nothing. I am very surprised that SSH is not

Re: [expert] reset to use Grub instead of lilo

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Daniel Woods wrote: Since I had to change the memory setting from 126 to 124 (more for onboard video), I changed lilo.conf to set mem=126M, ran /sbin/lilo and now lilo shows up on bootup. So how do I reset things to use Grub instead ? (and with my senith monitor problems, please

Re: [expert] FTP firewall problems

2000-06-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Charles, (I need to ftp 300MB from work to home, and no cd-burner, or VPN access) I've recently installed and configured a new linux machine as a web server and firewall (connected to cable modem). Using ftp and telnet from my NT used to work but now FTP can't seem to accept

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-20 Thread Daniel Woods
I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and bottom of the X-windows. Even though an 800x640 test passes, it gets

Re: [expert] Apache + CGI = Error?

2000-06-20 Thread Daniel Woods
In the error log, when I try to POST to www.mathjmendl.org/cgi-bin/visitorbook.pl, it says, "Premature end of script headers." Most likely the first line of the script is incorrect. It should be /usr/bin/perl. Or a missing CGI script line... print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

[expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel Woods
I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and bottom of the X-windows. Even though an 800x640 test passes, it gets reset to

Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel Woods
James, At 01:43 AM 6/19/00, you wrote: I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and bottom of the X-windows. Even

Re: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User -

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel Woods
su userid -c \"command line\" -s shell path See the start case in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs for an example. And a script might look like (WebXXX is made up) ... --- start cut #!/bin/sh # # Startup script for WebXXX # PROG=webxxx PROGDIR=/home/httpd/webxxx/bin WSUSER=erl if [

Re: [expert] 7.1 install Caveats

2000-06-15 Thread Daniel Woods
Daniel Woods wrote: During the install process, LM7.1 only picked up one of my ethernet cards (PCI D-link DFE-1530TX 10/100) which it recognized as a "Realtek 8139 10/100 (rt18139)" (I assume that's ok). My regular ISA 3c509 card was not recognized, why ? I want th

Re: [expert] 7.1 install Caveats

2000-06-14 Thread Daniel Woods
When the CD comes up with the first screen and it says "hit F1 for help". Try it. You will find text install/expert mode at your fingertips, and also graphic installs where you preset the memory, and yes, even how to use the CD as a rescue. I am seeing complaints about leaving out the

Re: [expert] 7.1 install Caveats

2000-06-14 Thread Daniel Woods
During the install process, LM7.1 only picked up one of my ethernet cards (PCI D-link DFE-1530TX 10/100) which it recognized as a "Realtek 8139 10/100 (rt18139)" (I assume that's ok). My regular ISA 3c509 card was not recognized, why ? I want this machine as a firewall IP Masq, web and mail

Re: [expert] 7.1 install Caveats

2000-06-14 Thread Daniel Woods
When the CD comes up with the first screen and it says "hit F1 for help". Try it. You will find text install/expert mode at your fingertips, and also graphic installs where you preset the memory, and yes, even how to use the CD as a rescue. I am seeing complaints about leaving out the

Re: [expert] 7.1 install Caveats

2000-06-14 Thread Daniel Woods
During the install process, LM7.1 only picked up one of my ethernet cards (PCI D-link DFE-1530TX 10/100) which it recognized as a "Realtek 8139 10/100 (rt18139)" (I assume that's ok). My regular ISA 3c509 card was not recognized, why ? I want this machine as a firewall IP Masq, web and mail

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