Re: [expert] Linux Backup

2002-12-05 Thread Daniel Woods
This backup script takes good care of the important things like /home/$user $user/document_folder(s) /etc #to get all the system config files in the event something #terrible happens and I've got to reload and recover ... snip ... Here's a simple backup script I wrote (found at bottom)

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] How to unmount /var?

2002-11-13 Thread Daniel Woods
Dave, On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Guntner wrote: Michael Viron grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Or linux single (without the quotes). You're aren't on the /var partition when you are trying to unmount it, are you? No, but it was almost as good. sheepish grin I forgot that /var/spool

Re: [expert] Dell Poweredge 2650 - NetXtreme contollers

2002-09-30 Thread Daniel Woods
I am installing Mandrake 8.2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2650 Server. The installation works great until I get to configure the Ethernet. The Server has a Dual NetXtreme Broadcom BCM5701 Gigabit Network controllers. How do I get the installation to proceed when these devices are not list in the

Re: [expert] simple php -apache - mysql content management system

2002-09-26 Thread Daniel Woods
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Nicolas VERITE wrote: tarvid wrote: looking for someone's favorite php-nuke alternative Jim Tarvid postnuke of course ! http://postnuke.com/ NĂ¿co From a security point of view, both of these are not a good choice. Even Vincent Danen (Mandrake security updates)

Re: [expert] Virtual Hosting Question

2002-09-26 Thread Daniel Woods
Scott, At 05:08 PM 9/23/2002 -0700, you wrote: ls -R | grep :$ | sed 's#:$##' | awk '{print \$0\}' | xargs chmod g+s Could I use something like this to set the proper ownership of a directory as well? I have copied all the user accounts from the BSDI machine to the Mandrake box,

Re: [expert] Virtual Hosting Question

2002-09-24 Thread Daniel Woods
Any new subdirectories created by the users will automatically have the sgid bit set. Unfortunately, it's not simple to automatically recurse all the directories and set the sgid bit. But a oneline bash command will do it for you: ls -R | grep :$ | sed 's#:$##' | awk '{print \$0\}' |

Re: [expert] Virtual Hosting Question

2002-09-24 Thread Daniel Woods
Daniel Woods wrote on Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:46:22AM -0600 : all the directories and set the sgid bit. But a oneline bash command will do it for you: ls -R | grep :$ | sed 's#:$##' | awk '{print \$0\}' | xargs chmod g+s Work through the logic and it will start to make sense

Re: [expert] looking for MY.CNF (mysql)

2002-08-21 Thread Daniel Woods
am looking for the file MY.CNF as described in the README of mysql, but didn't find such a file on my host. have installed mdk8.0 with mysql from the mdk-CD. have done an updatedb and locate MY.CNF as well as MY. and some playing arounds, but nothing I've found. I am shure, that a few

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread Daniel Woods
civileme wrote: I am one of the people bit by the cutbacks to keep Mandrake afloat and I STILL agree that their policy is on track. The idiots (and I can and will use that word for the lamers whose heads are so wrapped up in business they can't see five minutes into the future,

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread Daniel Woods
Civileme, Well, as much as I may have helped the company, in producing product the essential folks are Guillaume Cottenceau, Warly, Damien Krotkine, Pixel, David Baudens, Fred Lepied, Juan Quintela, Francois Pons, Fred Krozat, Daouda Lo and a few others. I agree with their evaluation as to

Re: [expert] Preventing msec from changing file permissions

2002-08-13 Thread Daniel Woods
Aleksey, I have I question/problem with msec on my 8.2 system: it keeps changing permissions on directory /home/PgDB. /var/log/auth.log has: ... Aug 13 15:01:00 ples msec: changed mode of /home/PgDB from 700 to 755 ... Trouble is, this is my data directory for PostgreSQL database, so it

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread Daniel Woods
Vincent, On Tue Aug 13, 2002 at 03:51:01PM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: Well, as much as I may have helped the company, in producing product the essential folks are Guillaume Cottenceau, Warly, Damien Krotkine, Pixel, David Baudens, Fred Lepied, Juan Quintela, Francois Pons, Fred Krozat

[expert] /bin/su Segmentation fault

2002-08-12 Thread Daniel Woods
Not sure what has happened, but I seemed to have a new problem after upgrading to the newest kernel put out by Mandrake to fix security holes. Regular users can su into root and other accounts. However, root causes these errors... --- as root user # su - newuser Segmentation fault # su -

Re: [expert] /bin/su Segmentation fault

2002-08-12 Thread Daniel Woods
On Sunday 11 August 2002 11:25 pm, you wrote: Not sure what has happened, but I seemed to have a new problem after upgrading to the newest kernel put out by Mandrake to fix security holes. ou, oh, not supposed to ever upgrade the kernel, allways install a new kernel. I do know that,

[expert] su - user - Segmentation fault

2002-08-02 Thread Daniel Woods
Not sure what has happened, but I seemed to have a new problem after upgrading the the newest kernel put out by Mandrake to fix security holes. --- as a regular user $ sudo su - newuser Segmentation fault $ su - newuser ... works ok after password entered $ su - ... works ok after root

[expert] logcheck and prelude

2002-07-30 Thread Daniel Woods
In LM 8.2, prelude service is included and generates messages to the log files. I use logcheck (and portsentry) and I keep getting messages like these ... Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jul 30 06:29:19 www prelude: Debug: Flushing queued report for id=0x4001d680, count=3... Jul 30

Re: [expert] How to use sudo?

2002-07-30 Thread Daniel Woods
type something really simple like sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog. It then prompts me for a password. No matter what password I put in (even when I put in the root password), it tells me the password is wrong. So, what the heck password does sudo want from me? :-) It wants the

Re: [expert] Overriding msec

2002-07-30 Thread Daniel Woods
I'm currently (trying to be) running my system with msec set to level 4 for the greater protection level. I've used kcontrol to set my login console settings so that it will show the available users with those new lame icons that replaced the cool penguins, and allow for a reboot from the

Re: [expert] Using X over SSH

2002-07-23 Thread Daniel Woods
Rob, You might want to try removing those lines in your hosts.allow on your RedHat machine and replace it with only this line: sshd : ALL That will allow TCP connections to sshd on all of your network interfaces. Of course, if you want to limit SSH connections to only those from

[expert] NFS LM8.1 server, AIX client problems

2002-07-23 Thread Daniel Woods
Has anyone been successfull in using LM8.1 for NFS mounting CD-Rom drives (on LM8.1, kernel 2.2) from an AIX 4.3.3 server ? Does NFS mounting work better with LM8.2 and kernel 2.4 ? I was only able to get something working (mostly) with the 2.2 kernel. I can remote mount from the AIX login by

Re: [expert] OT - Groupware solution?

2002-07-15 Thread Daniel Woods
wobo wrote... Why don't you have a look at sourceforge? Search there for 'Groupware' and read the descriptions. At first sight I found 2 projects for webbased groupware which would run perfectly in your intranet. So your secretary can continue work with programs she knows (browser) but the

Re: [expert] Memory limits in Mandrake 7.1

2001-12-05 Thread Daniel Woods
I have a 1000 MHz PIII box running Mandrake 7.1, all stock (no kernel recompiles or other stuff), with 1024 MB of RAM 2048 MB of swap space in a swap partition. I am having problems running jobs (processes) which want to use large fractions of the RAM (perhaps over 100 %, i.e. more than

RE: [expert] Qmail setup

2001-11-26 Thread Daniel Woods
Luca, I would like to setup a linux box to deliver mail locally and maybe in the future externally using Qmail. Anyone with a nice home page to suggest, where I can get some basic information how to setup Qmail for a local network ? Life with qmail is the canonical source. I found it

Re: [expert] Ports to keep open

2001-11-21 Thread Daniel Woods
If it's a webserver only, then you don't need SMTP And no one has a real need for port 113 (authentication). I'm trying to limit the ports open on a Linux box. If I reduce the list to : - SMTP/25 - ssh/22 - proftp/21 - http/80 - https/443 - authentication/113 Do you think that

Re: [expert] undefined function: mysql_connect()

2001-11-21 Thread Daniel Woods
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm afraid php-mysql is in my list. It's probably my fault for listing so many packages. I found that I had to disable SQL safe_mode in /etc/php.ini [SQL] sql.safe_mode = Off Thanks... Dan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] NFS LM8.1 server, AIX client problems

2001-11-14 Thread Daniel Woods
Daniel Woods wrote: I just checked, and this was done by the tech guys for the AIX client. I added the nfs_use_reserved_ports=1 to /etc/rc.uc.posttcpip so that he's be able to do his mounting... With this I was able to mount, however the problem is still that I can't

Re: [expert] tcpwrappers

2001-11-13 Thread Daniel Woods
I 'll try erasing the file altogether and rewriting it, it would'nt be the first time a non displayed control character had got in.. Try using 'cat -v file' to view control characters. Thanks... Dan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NFS LM8.1 server, AIX client problems

2001-11-13 Thread Daniel Woods
Laurent, Got some problems at work with an NFS server running on Linux (was kernel 2.2.18), and AIX NFS clients (4.2, 4.3.1 and 4.3.3). On AIX clients, we run as root: nfso -o nfs_use_reserved_ports=1 Then, we were able to mount the filesystems from our Linux box... I remember

Re: [expert] NFS LM8.1 server, AIX client problems

2001-11-12 Thread Daniel Woods
Laurent CREPET wrote: Got some problems at work with an NFS server running on Linux (was kernel 2.2.18), and AIX NFS clients (4.2, 4.3.1 and 4.3.3). On AIX clients, we run as root: nfso -o nfs_use_reserved_ports=1 Then, we were able to mount the filesystems from our

Re: [expert] tcpwrappers

2001-11-12 Thread Daniel Woods
now that in.telnetd is not used in later kernels I haven't heard about that ! the format of hosts.allow telnetd: xx.xx.xx.xx where xx.xx.xx.xx is an inet address is this the correct format ??? I would still use in.telnetd : 10.10.10.55 192.168.10. : allow in.telnetd :

Re: [expert] NFS LM8.1 server, AIX client problems

2001-11-08 Thread Daniel Woods
Craig (and anyone else that can help), Daniel Woods wrote: On the AIX client, the /etc/filesystems contains (as same for cd1, cd2) /ovid/cd0: dev = /ovid/cd0 vfs = nfs nodename = DUMMY.lib.ucalgary.ca mount = false type= nfs options = bg,hard,intr

RE: [expert] Find

2001-11-02 Thread Daniel Woods
Hi Julio, Using grep is a nice hack, and unix-ey in spirit, but in this case, find already supports what you want directly If you're looking for files between 4000 and 6000 bytes long in directory dir, you'd use find dir -size +4000c -and -size -6000c -print Actually, this

Re: [expert] rejecting sites mail with postfix

2001-10-28 Thread Daniel Woods
David, I am trying to block some spam sites from gaining entry into my system, and I run my own mail server (no pop - smtp right to my dsl address) and according to the manpages, it would appear that I should put the trouble- some sites in /etc/postfix/access, one per line, along with a

RE: [expert] Blocking web access by IP

2001-10-05 Thread Daniel Woods
you could turn that into a script that either scans your logs for them,, (see the archives, I have posted one) or you could get creative, and get apache to run .exe files as perl and put the script where ever the infected servers are asking for cmd.exe and root.exe files (the paths they

Re: [expert] last dumb question of the night,, :-) scp over ssh?

2001-10-03 Thread Daniel Woods
I have a linux box at home that I test things like amavis before moving it to other boxes... I have started an ssh sessionn with the -X and -C flags, for compression and X... up until now, I have been using putty and iXplorer to copy files back and forth over ssh between hosts... now

Re: [expert] 8.1 final

2001-10-03 Thread Daniel Woods
I downloaded 3 times the cd's from ftp.simauria.upv.es... 6 CD-R are now in the trash. The problem was: the files in the server are corrupted. I downloaded the ISOs from another mirror (slow, but secure) Did you run a checksum on the iso files before burning the CDs ? md5sum *.iso

Re: [expert] TCP wrapper

2001-09-26 Thread Daniel Woods
How do I set the hosts.allow for only class B address? The simple way is to add this line to: /etc/hosts.deny ALL:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL:DENY And then add these (example) lines to: /etc/hosts.allow ALL : 127.0.0.1 : allow ALL : 192.168.1. : allow sshd : 136.159. : allow # in.ftpd :

[expert] Re: twlc advisory: all versions of php nuke are vulnerable...

2001-09-25 Thread Daniel Woods
And here's a suggested fix from a BugTraq reader... Thanks... Dan. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 06:41:14 +0200 From: Magnus Skjegstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bugtraq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: twlc advisory: all versions of php nuke are

Re: [expert] The CodeRedWorm mystery

2001-08-16 Thread Daniel Woods
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: How many have you had? According to my logs, as of right now, I've got 897. (This would be a fun competition! -- who's got the most default.ida hits?) As long as people are checking for unique hits. I added these lines to /root/.bashrc file (for CodeRed II

Re: [expert] LAN ok but not external MASQ'ing

2001-08-15 Thread Daniel Woods
My win2K and win98 can access the internet via my Mandrake 8 firewall server. My new_box with Mandrake 8 can ping the others on the LAN, and vice-versa. However, new_box cannot ping the internet or access via the web. # ping yahoo.ca connect: Network is unreachable I did

Re: [expert] Why do I have ~/tmp?

2001-08-08 Thread Daniel Woods
Does anyone know why my Mandrake 7.2 /etc/skel directory has an empty subdirectory in it called tmp? I know that vim uses ~/tmp to store backup files. That's the only one that I know of for certain. I'm not a vim guru, but I imagine you could override that in your .vimrc. I'm just

[expert] cvspserver and xinetd access problems

2001-08-08 Thread Daniel Woods
I am having trouble setting up cvspserver with xinetd. # echo $CVS_RSH # echo $CVSROOT :pserver:dan@localhost:/home/cvs # cvs login (Logging in to dan@localhost) CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server localhost: Connection reset by peer # cat

[expert] MySQL access denied since LM 8

2001-08-07 Thread Daniel Woods
Since installing LM8 over my working LM7.1 system, I have problems with MySQL. Trying to access my virtual domain using phpWeblog http://www.sample.com/stories.php (fake name) Warning: Access denied for user: 'sample@localhost' (Using password: NO) in

[expert] LM8.0-Freq and iptables

2001-07-31 Thread Daniel Woods
Has anyone installed LM 8.0-Freq (June 20), and is using its' 2.4.5 kernel with iptables for firewalling and MASQ'ing ? # iptables -L iptables v1.2.1: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Module is wrong version Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. # rpm -qa | grep

[expert] how to convert from ext2fs to reiserfs ?

2001-07-26 Thread Daniel Woods
I want to upgrade a current LM7.1 server with 8.0-Freq version. I will do a fresh install but not re-formatting /home, /usr/local, /var to keep the data as is. The other partitions can be formatted. They are currently ext2fs and I wanted to know if the install would convert them to reiserfs if I

Re: [expert] help: ext2 superblock disk problems

2001-04-09 Thread Daniel Woods
Your partitions may have changed. Try mounting different partitions, looking for boot. # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt EXT2-fs: 03:0a: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1 or too many mounted

Re: [expert] renaming multiple files

2001-04-08 Thread Daniel Woods
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 13:45 -0600, Dan Woods wrote: Kelley Terry wrote: Is there a way to rename multiple files all of the format q_tif.bz2 to q.tif.bz2 where the # represent digits. In other -- For your needs, you would want something like...

[expert] help: ext2 superblock disk problems

2001-04-07 Thread Daniel Woods
It appears I screwed up a LM7.1 campus production server by trying to add a windows partition for backup purposes with PowerQuest Drive Image 3. At first I created ok at the end of the disk, and DI3 saw that but would not write the image file (of Linux partitions) to that C: drive. I copied the

Re: [expert] Can't locate module binfmt-0000

2001-03-29 Thread Daniel Woods
when you launch an executable in linux, the kernel identifies the format (elf, aout, etc) of the executable by the first couple of bytes. it then tries to load a module to handle the loading of that executable. if it cant find the appropriate module, an error is logged. e.g. % dd

Re: [expert] Where is C++?

2001-03-15 Thread Daniel Woods
I could find it in 6.2. One used /usr/bin/g++ (which pointed to pg++). I am unable to locate it in 7.1 nor in 7.2. ---Jay /usr/bin/gcc # ls -lF /usr/bin/gc* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 17 Sep 4 2000 /usr/bin/gcc - /usr/bin/colorgcc* -rwxr-xr-x2 root root86256 Apr

Re: [expert] Sendmail vs Postfix!!

2001-03-09 Thread Daniel Woods
Do you think sendmail is more secure than postfix as MTA's? Why? As Mike said... Sendmail: Wasn't written by Weitse Venema, who is God. Postfix: was. Weitse also wrote TCP wrappers. Postfix is definitely more secure and easier to administer than sendmail. Your choice should not be

Re: [expert] root over telnet

2001-03-09 Thread Daniel Woods
I have windows 2000 network in our office but me couple of my friend have built up a machine there to install mandrake in ..now cause we will use it for educational purpose dont have a monitor for it we would like to access it over telnet learn it ...it will be multiple accesed

[expert] duplicate bootup floppy

2001-03-06 Thread Daniel Woods
Someone asked me a question I was not able to answer properly. They have a server with disk problems, and could only boot up again by using the bootup floppy. They wanted to know how to make a duplicate of that floppy, as a backup. I could not think of an easy way, in Linux, to do a win-like

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.0

2001-02-28 Thread Daniel Woods
Will it have KDE 2.1, kernel 2.4.2?? I'm just guessing based on previous experiences with 'Drake, but since the product is already in Beta, I doubt you will see Linux 2.4.2 or KDE 2.1. Yes, it does. Read here... http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/80beta.php3 Thanks... Dan.

Re: [expert] securing FTP

2001-02-15 Thread Daniel Woods
I was wondering if there is a good way to secure FTP to encrypt passwords and logins so they are not sent as straight txt,,, apart from using SSH... This would be the best way... using secure port forwarding. Also look into the stunnel program. I have an app that uses standard ftp and I

Re: [expert] quick security question.

2001-02-11 Thread Daniel Woods
A friend of mine just setup his firewall with a striped down version of Mandrake 7.2 using rc.firewall. The strange thing is that when I scan the machine (nmap) I see the following port open. 31337/tcp filteredElite This is the @home cable service provider blocking those ports

Re: [expert] Request for improved RPM on Mandrake - PortSentry

2001-02-01 Thread Daniel Woods
Would it be possible to distribute the portsentry utility with the /etc/rc.d/init.d/portsentry script? Redhat always distributes the script along with the rpm. However I have noticed that it is missing in the Mandrake distributions. I agree. Perhaps Mandrake can add it my suggestions

Re: [expert] logrotate problem

2001-01-30 Thread Daniel Woods
You haven't upgraded the logrotate rpm available in the 7.1 updates yet, have you? Upgrade that and your logrotate problems will go away, Ok, thanks. And be sure to run MandrakeUpdate to get ALL the latest updates. Or do it manually and ftp all the rpms that have been updated since you

[expert] Vincent: Upgrade to BIND 9.1

2001-01-29 Thread Daniel Woods
Vincent, http://lwn.net/daily/#t40 Upgrade to BIND 9.1 imperative Security, January 29 (Monday) Nominum and ISC have put out a press release urging everybody to upgrade their nameservers to BIND 9.1. All previous versions have a vulnerability, the nature of which is not specified in the

Re: [expert] Vincent: Upgrade to BIND 9.1

2001-01-29 Thread Daniel Woods
Vincent, http://lwn.net/daily/#t40 Upgrade to BIND 9.1 imperative Security, January 29 (Monday) Nominum and ISC have put out a press release urging everybody to upgrade their nameservers to BIND 9.1. All previous versions have a vulnerability, the nature of which is not

Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers

2001-01-26 Thread Daniel Woods
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 with XFree86-4.0.2 GeForce DDR video card. After I installed the new Nvidia drivers, 0.6-6,my "power saver" or "DPMS" feature no longer works. Another reason for Open Source. It did work with the nv driver provided by XFree. I really would not care but nVidia's

Re: [expert] Linux Server hardware sizing / designing

2001-01-23 Thread Daniel Woods
You should consider using Tomcat - http://jakarta.apache.org Tomcat is purported to be much more robust than JServ (but I've never used JServ so I can't compare). Even better is Resin from http://www.caucho.com Their engfine is quite fast and no charge for non-commercial use ($500 for

[expert] sudo access to alias commands

2001-01-23 Thread Daniel Woods
In my .bashrc (or .aliases) for root, I have aliases and functions defined (instead of creating scripts). I am trying to figure out how my regular user account can access such an alias command as if I was logged into root. I want to use sudo so that the password prompt is only asked the first

Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case

2000-12-16 Thread Daniel Woods
praedor, Someone once posted a simple script for changing upper case letters to lower case, I believe, in this list. I didn't keep the message but I now have need of this script. Could someone please post such a script? Here's one post from the past... -- Date: Sat, 19 Aug

Re: [expert] Apache setup

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel Woods
I can get the client (NTbox) understand http://192.168.10.1/ but I can not go further to the user account such as http://192.168.10.1/~testuser/index.html I already chmod html to 777 (I also tried 755 and 711) but it still not working. Also I aready setup the account "testuser" is the

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 kernel-secure sources

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel Woods
I installed LM7.2 with security setting High. So it installed kernel-secure for me. I want to add a module to kernel for ip_masq_h323 to allow windows clients on the local network to use NetMeeting. I have ip_masq_h323.c. All I want is the kernel-secure sources so that I can recompile the

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 kernel-secure sources

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel Woods
-TO for more details, since it also talks about video-conferering. Original Message Follows From: Daniel Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Amit Bapat [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] LM 7.2 kernel-secure sources Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 12:29:16 -0700 (MST) I

Re: [expert] telnet and ftp services

2000-12-08 Thread Daniel Woods
My mandrake box doesn't want to start ftp or telnet services. Telnet in particular doesn't want to start even when I made sure that in.telnetd was installed and the /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf files looked OK. Is there something I should be doing? try "chkconfig telnet on" and

Re: [expert] Security levels and tweaking features

2000-12-07 Thread Daniel Woods
When I choose "medium" security from Drakconf I noticed that a few things change. One problem that I had was with public_html accounts on the webserver. I also had a problem with NFS mounts. My question is where are these changes controlled. cd /etc/security/msec Thanks... Dan. Keep

[expert] /etc/security/limits.conf restart

2000-12-07 Thread Daniel Woods
I modified the file /etc/security/limits.conf so that my username would be allowed to create large files (download 700MB iso images). Other users are restricted to 40 MB. The line I added was... dwoods hard fsize 70 The question is "how do I tell the system about this change

Re: [expert] ANNOUNCE: KDE 2.0.1 released (fwd)

2000-12-06 Thread Daniel Woods
I understand the need for Mandrake to continually develop new and better versions of their operating system, however it is coming at the expense of people who wish to have a stable operating system. That's true. Updating key packages to a system would be very nice :) Surely some kind

Re: [expert] mail as set-uid root process problem

2000-12-05 Thread Daniel Woods
If I send mail as a user, I always get this message: send-mail: warning: sendmail is set-uid root, or is run from a set-uid root process First off, I do not have sendmail installed, it is postfix, but nevertheless I would like to eliminate this problem/message. How do I do this? Who

RE: [expert] sshd and simple networking

2000-12-05 Thread Daniel Woods
i run sshd as a daemon. is there any reason for me to run inetd if i don't allow telnet or ftp? inetd doesn't control bind and postfix right? i'd like to lock down those two servers as much as i can. AFAIK, sshd daemon does not depend on inetd. It has been compiled with tcp_wrappers

Re: [expert] NTFS support

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel Woods
Tom Eastman wrote: I'm about to install Windows 2000 on my computer, I know that linux could read Windows NT NTFS partitions just fine, but can it read Windows 2000 NTFS? with win2k you get to choose whether to use ntfs or fat32. linux can work with either. tom berkley As far as I

Re: [expert] Finding files based on date

2000-12-03 Thread Daniel Woods
Bob, Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't work. At least in the form: find /etc/* -amin 8 Try this... # touch -t 12010001 /zhacked # find . -newer /zhacked | tee /zfiles This will create/modify file /zhacked to have a timestamp as indicated MMDDhhmm and then search for all

Re: [expert] I'VE BEEN HACKED!!! Need upgraded wu-ftp for 7.1

2000-11-29 Thread Daniel Woods
Bob, Right now the three biggest security threats to Linux are... 1/ not having wu-ftpd installed with the latest fixed version wu-ftpd-2.6.1-7mdk 2/ using sunrpc port 111 for NFS (stat.d exploit) 3/ using an older version of bind/named (DNS)

Re: [expert] nVidia drivers on Asus A7V mb

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Woods
I have now been working on the installation of the nVidia drivers for XFree86-4.0.1 for a week. And I believe, I am close to have it made working. BUT: First my system: Athlon (Thunderbird) 800Mhz on Asus AV7 (KT133 based) 380 MB RAM WinFast Geforce 256 DDR graphics

RE: [expert] How to enable telnet in 7.2?

2000-11-22 Thread Daniel Woods
the file inetd.conf was used before, but it appears that in 7.2 Mandrake has moved to an Inet super daemon with a better reputation for security named xinetd. You'll find the configuration files in /etc/xinet.d/ There is a configuration file for each service. xinetd gives you many

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

2000-11-15 Thread Daniel Woods
John, I have checked the logs, no probs. They show eth0, lo, network, route suceeded just fine. I have run ifconfig, and here I only get the lo showing up, with no mention of the card(etho). I have run "netstat eth0" and seen its alive.. ) I have run ifup eth0 and gotten the following:

Re: [expert] installing ssh

2000-11-09 Thread Daniel Woods
On Mon Oct 23, 2000 at 02:33:09PM -0600, Daniel Woods wrote: However I still can't install Openssh2.2.0p1 RPMS. # rpmu openssh*7mdk*rpm error: failed dependencies: [...] Why does it want rpmlib = 3.0.3-1 ? Because of some differences in the libs. It wants 3.0.5 which is what

[expert] can't find pam_appl.h

2000-11-09 Thread Daniel Woods
I am trying to install latest openssh on LM7.1 system. # rpmbuild openssh-2.3.0p1-1.src.rpm Installing openssh-2.3.0p1-1.src.rpm error: failed build dependencies: /usr/bin/rsh is needed by openssh-2.3.0p1-1 /usr/include/security/pam_appl.h is needed by openssh-2.3.0p1-1 I tried

Re: [expert] can't find pam_appl.h

2000-11-09 Thread Daniel Woods
/usr/include/security/pam_appl.h is needed by openssh-2.3.0p1-1 [askwar@teich ~/.netscape]$ rpm -qf /usr/include/security/pam_appl.h pam-devel-0.72-12mdk Yep, you were right... thanks :) Thanks... Dan. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [expert] installing ssh

2000-11-09 Thread Daniel Woods
So sprach Daniel Woods am Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 02:20:57PM -0700: # rpm -Uvh rpm-*3.0.5*rpm error: failed dependencies: menu 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-27mdk Have you tried updating both packages at once, ie. rpm -Uvh rpm* menu* ? Alexander Skwar It worked... I

Re: [expert] whois on linux

2000-11-07 Thread Daniel Woods
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:02:02PM -0700, Daniel Woods wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:55:47PM -0700, Daniel Woods wrote: Linux comes with "fwhois", the finger style whois. Where can I get the RPM or source code for the good old Unix style whois so I can use ...

Re: [expert] whois on linux

2000-11-03 Thread Daniel Woods
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:55:47PM -0700, Daniel Woods wrote: Linux comes with "fwhois", the finger style whois. Where can I get the RPM or source code for the good old Unix style whois so I can use ... whois [-h whois.host] hostname I use bw-whois, which has the

RE: [expert] any KVM issues with 7.1?

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Woods
I got a Belkin OmniView SE 4-port (one at home, two at work) and it works well ($225 CDN). This model handles PS/2 and serial mice since you CAN'T use adapters. It is ok to use AT-PS/2 adapters for older PCs. The main thing I found out is that for *real* use, you MUST spend $80 on a hi-res SVGA

[expert] whois on linux

2000-11-02 Thread Daniel Woods
Linux comes with "fwhois", the finger style whois. Where can I get the RPM or source code for the good old Unix style whois so I can use ... whois [-h whois.host] hostname Thanks... Dan. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] mail from CGI scripts

2000-11-01 Thread Daniel Woods
I have a system that generates PDFs, and I want to mail them back the user (whose name I have access to in the script). Currently I am just sending a mail to them with a link to the location of the file. Does anybody know how I would accomlish this ? I have messed around with the mailto

Re: [expert] Fw: cgi - file not found but it is there!!!!

2000-10-27 Thread Daniel Woods
I have several cgi files but a new one we just put into the directory wont run. when you try to run it, the system says file not found Whats up? thanks You haven't been paying attention to the list. I just gave a very long explanation of this for someone else two days ago. Search

Re: [expert] Perl scripts won't work???

2000-10-24 Thread Daniel Woods
Sam, Hey, so I'm having a weird problem maybe someone can help me with. I have a simple perl script named test.cgi that generates html (ie a cgi script) which looks like #!/usr/bin/perl # hello.pl -- my first perl script! print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "EOF"; HTML HEAD

Re: [expert] installing ssh

2000-10-23 Thread Daniel Woods
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: Where can I find `rpmlib 3.03_1? FAQ: In rpm = 3.0.4 From the Mandrake 7.1 CD, I have rpm-3.0.4-0.12mdk rpm-build-3.0.4-0.12mdk rpm-devel-3.0.4-0.12mdk rpm-python-3.0.4-0.12mdk However I still can't install Openssh2.2.0p1 RPMS.

[expert] which sound driver for Epox 8KTA board ?

2000-10-20 Thread Daniel Woods
I use a Epox 8kta M/B it works very well. I'm running a Thnuderbird 800 on it - I'm very pleased with the performance, stability and reliability of the system. That's nice to know :) ... I just picked up the *exact* same system this morning to use as a Linux server for a library

RE: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Woods
I use a Epox 8kta M/B it works very well. I'm running a Thnuderbird 800 on it - I'm very pleased with the performance, stability and reliability of the system. I'm running ML 7.1, windows me, BeOs Personal and they all coexist well. The AMD is fater than the Intel chips at same clock speed

[expert] adding a small iso to another iso

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Woods
I have two iso images: first (A) is 600MB, 2nd (B) is 20MB How can I merge them together ? Is there any way to 'easily' add (B) to (A) ? Can I loop mount (B) and then add contents to (A) directly. I''m hoping there is an easier way than unpacking them to hard drive and then creating a new iso

Re: [expert] IP Chains Problem

2000-10-03 Thread Daniel Woods
/sbin/ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p tcp -d $extip 3306 -l -j REJECT /sbin/ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p udp -d $extip 3306 -l -j REJECT $extip is my external IP.. Try something like... /sbin/ipchains -A input -p TCP -s ! 192.168.1.0/24 -d 0/0 3306 -j DENY -l /sbin/ipchains -A input -p UDP

Re: [expert] any non-X version of MandrakeUpdate?

2000-09-29 Thread Daniel Woods
Is there any non-X version of MandrakeUpdate? I second that ! For those of us running servers without X installed, or rarely used, a command line version would be nice. Perhaps add a command line parameter like '-x' or '--nogui' to not show/start the GUI. It would also be nice to be able to

Re: [expert] /var/log/news and /var/log/mail directory corruption?

2000-09-28 Thread Daniel Woods
Check the size of mail and news directory under /var drw---3 root root 5042176 Sep 26 15:25 news/ drw---2 root root 8466432 Sep 27 10:05 mail/ If I run "lsattr -R /var/log/news" this is part of the infinitely long output of the above commands!! I

[solved] Re: [expert] can't locate binfmt error

2000-09-25 Thread Daniel Woods
Daniel Woods wrote: After modifying /etc/conf.modules with 'alias binfmt- binfmt_misc' (also tried BillK's suggested 'alias binfmt- binfmt_aout'), I simply try 'ipchains -nL' and get the following error only the first time... Sep 22 11:32:36 24 insmod: Note: /etc

Re: [expert] can't locate binfmt error

2000-09-23 Thread Daniel Woods
Daniel Woods wrote: After modifying /etc/conf.modules with 'alias binfmt- binfmt_misc' (also tried BillK's suggested 'alias binfmt- binfmt_aout'), I simply try 'ipchains -nL' and get the following error only the first time... Sep 22 11:32:36 24 insmod: Note: /etc/conf.modules

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