spinynorman
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I have downloaded webmin and when I try to use it, it opens a mozilla browser and take me to a web site. Is this supposed to happen?
To quote their web site, "Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix", so yes, it will do that...
Other posters have said that it's easy to use, but it looks complicated to me! I'm sure they'll be able to help if you proceed with it. :)
BTW my previous post was supposed to be humorous...
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Atually I did have more to lose, my computer wouldn't boot after setting the iptables, it would hang on...you guessed it iptables.
Sorry, kilimanjaro, my advice was based on disabling shorewall and setting up iptables - which worked fine for me. :D
I guess all the other firewalls you configured should be disabled too, but I can't be held responsible for the modifications you've made to the standard setup!
Must put a disclaimer in my signature box... :P
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spiny norman's way will work, but I don't believe the default mdk dm will allow you to log in as root.
Thanks, pmpatrick, I wasn't sure about that, but I thought we'd get there in the end! :)
just trying out some of my newbie skills on the fly! B)
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The worst that can happen with iptables is that you won't have a working firewall, which you don't have already...
I'll resend the message. Give it a try. :)
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What happened with the iptables instructions I PM'ed to you? :huh:
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If you can log in as root, login and go to a console and type
ls /home
This will list all users. Then do
su username
Type the actual username not 'username'. This gets you in without a password. To set a new password, use
passwd
If you've forgotten the root password, and you use lilo as your boot manager, reboot and use the escape button when the lilo menu appears. Type
linux single
This logs you in as root. Use 'passwd' to set a new password. Then use the preceding code to set a user password.
To get into KDE, Gnome or whatever, use 'init 5'.
Hope this helps. :)
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PCLinuxOnline links to this critical ArsTechnica article.
This release, within weeks of being unveiled, is almost up to a half a compact disc of updates. This is unacceptable in today's Linux market, and at this rate Mandrake will not survive long. We've all heard the "Mandrake is dying," yet somehow the company has managed to survive. Times are changing however: SuSE's latest release that is new and stable. Fedora is around the corner, and plenty of Mandrake users have learned enough about Linux to move on to Gentoo or Debian. This release is just plain bad, and a "Mandrake will kill your CD-ROM" reputation is not going to make things any easier on them.:( :( :(
[Edited to restore the original title]
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The Register reports that the US Army has abandoned Windows and chosen Linux for a key component of its "Land Warrior" programme... :)
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Mad Penguin has a link to a document published by the EU - The IDA Open Source Migration Guidelines (October 2003).
As IDA is Interchange of Data between Adminstrations, perhaps we'll see other governments producing national guidelines. :)
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PCLinuxOnline now has a review of an installation on an Athlon XP 1900+.
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I've found this command called 'enscript', which you can use at the command line - or do you want to print from within your applications?
Anyway, the link describes how it converts plain text to PostScript, and further on, in Outputting Text as a Poster or Sign, it uses word-wrap.
www.tldp.org/LDP/linuxcookbook/html/cookbook_19.html#SEC288
Use 'man enscript' for all the options... :)
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I think you need some spaces - these commands are not single words...
lilo -v
lilo -M /dev/hda
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The good news is that by jumping from 8.2 to 9.2, you didn't encounter this feature in 9.1 as some of us did!
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Any tips on configuring it to work PROPERLY then??
Shorewall recommend that you download sample files from their website and tweak them. I disabled shorewall and used iptables instead. :)
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And the show stopper, by default the firewall is turned off (bad) but when it is switched on (through mcc) it blocks all internet access!!!
The good news is that by jumping from 8.2 to 9.2, you didn't encounter this feature in 9.1 as some of us did! :)
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But Ixthusdan has me wondering who makes the MB that submits to M$ (I would avoid that one).
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PCLinuxOnline report an hysterical attack on the Free Software Foundation by Forbes - the magazine for World business leaders.
... a rare peek into the dark side of the free software movement--a view that contrasts with the movement's usual public image of happy software proles linking arms and singing the "Internationale" while freely sharing the fruits of their code-writing labor. -
OpenOffice.org is marking its 3rd Anniversary with a major initiative to bring the OpenOffice.org 1.1 office suite to students, schools and universities throughout the world.
In the UK...
"Skipton Girls High School, a Specialist Engineering School for Girls. . . are using this as an opportunity for global citizenship by getting students to burn OpenOffice.org 1.1 CDs for schools in areas of the world with no broadbansd access. This is good education, not just good economics. It has the potential to get pupils in contact across the world and generate greater international understanding."
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In advance of the official release announcement, the MandrakeSoft web site maintainers have uploaded the images for the 9.2 Feature Presentation. Tux Reports now has copies of most of these images...
http://www.tuxreports.com/article2385.html
Not that interesting, to be honest... :?
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Reading over the last parts about the shorewall firewall...
That thing isnt on by default is it?
Can't remember. Go into MCC/Security/Firewall and check that 'Everything (no firewall)' is ticked. :)
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....you mean shorewall is bunk w/o patching?
I wouldn't go that far. :shock:
There are several threads outlining the problem of setting up Shorewall via MCC. A number of posters, including me, found the only setting which would allow internet access was NO firewall.
It was probably an exaggeration to say you have to download the sample files. The Shorewall site does recommend it, but I'm sure it's possible to tweak the Mandrake config files, if you know what you're doing.
I decided to use iptables itself (rather than a front-end), as I was already familiar with it.
I'll try to be more precise in future... :)
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To quote myself from another thread:
If you have enabled your Shorewall firewall (as you should), that may be the problem. You have to download sample files from their website www.shorewall.net, and tweak them before it works properly.First, disable the firewall temporarily via MCC/Security/Firewall to see if the modem works then.
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You can change it yourself by editing your original post. :)