Ronin

Been running eggys for a couple of years now and the only stability issue you usually have to worry about is the stability of the box its on.

As for attacks, of course there are. If its on line it can be hit in some form or another. But unless you tick someone off or have a channel that someone really wants attacks are pretty rare.

If you head over to www.egghelp.org they have an excellent tutorial on setting them up as well as hundreds of scripts for eggdrops.

I have an 80g drive at home that is partitioned as follows: the first 10g for windows (wife likes it for her palm pilot, what can I say :) ) , the rest is for Mandrake. After coming back from a Christmas break when we booted into Windows I got an unmountable boot volume error linux of course boots fine :D . So I figure when I did the linux install I buggered the mbr somehow, seeing as I didn't check the Window OS its highly possible.

I figure if I back up my data on both drives from linux and make a linux boot disk I can do a repair or reinstall if necessary of the Windows OS, boot into it to confirm that it works then reboot with the linux disk in the drive to get into linux?

Is it then possible to repair lilo so its on the mbr so I can ditch the boot disk? And if so I figure its in the MCC for us GUI addicts, and also possible through cmd line?

Thanks for the help.

Did you install Linux on a computer you weren't supposed to and are now trying to hide it?

I don't know if this will work but if you make a linux boot disk, then fdisk /mbr to rebuild the mbr and then use the linux disk to boot into linux?

Then again that could totally hose your system and you have to do a repair of linux so do that at your own risk.

Just install pgp and import thier keys. Of course you have to confirm that you trust them but if you do that will make the messages go away. It's not saying that the package is bad, only that they key isn't recognized etc..

Not all LG drives were affected. Check it out by model number. The download version still has the issue, so be careful.

It still does? I thought they whole point of the delay was to fix it so it wouldn't do that?

No you can't do the switch, the drive is still at risk. However, the iso release of 9.2 has supposedly fixed the LG drive issue. And seeing as I have it on a machine here with a LG drive I can say it seems to be working fine.

Yep, I'm getting that error too. And have been getting it regardless of what server I try.

Cant help with the ping program but how about setting your email client to check mail every 5 minutes? That should keep the connection active enough.

Did you install the screensaver package in 9.2? I did and theres a nice Matrix one there.

Up and running fine for me. B)

I have no clue who they are but I poked around the site a bit which seems to include some softcore porn of all things and a picture of these guys:

 

http://mircea.interplus.ro/ftp/100HP215/IM000925.JPG

 

Don't know if I'd trust them for rpms :o

Why not trust them? Because they have a pron directory or that there are pictures of them? Neither reason makes any sense to me as a good reason for not trusting them.

A better one would be not knowing who they are so you'd be installing .rpms from an unknown source.

Great, I'm sure they'll do to that what they did to Novell. Bugger it up nicely.

Only way linux will survive I think is this technique. Sides RH isn't gone just changed to

http://fedora.redhat.com/.

I have a single line from my ISP coming in to my firewall, from the firewall theres a lan nic to a hub which currently has 3 machines on it, also from the firewall theres a DMZ nick which has the web/ftp server on it.

The firewall is running NAT so all machines seem to be coming from the same IP. Is that what you were looking to do?

Damn you iphitus for getting me all excited there.

The X frontend I think you're looking for is webmin. Proftp is already in it by default and I recall seeing an addin for vsftp so that too can be configured through webmin.

Can't help either way with your decision other then go for it. Unfortinuatly far too many managers are all hot and bothered about certs and fancy letters behind your name.

That and having one of those could make getting a paying IT gig that you want easier. I'm looking around home hoping to find someone that is giving one of those but so far I'm sol. :-)

Gnome or Fluxbox.

 

But isn't GNOME also bloated?

lol here we go another religous war over WM and whats bloated and whats not.

You disabled guarddog but did you stop the iptables from running? As I recall guarddog is a frontend for iptables so does killing gusrddog stop iptables from running?

I'm still reading up on bittorrent but from what I understand yes you have to run the server part also.

But that's no big deal, not talking security wise here, just run it, get the files you want then kill the server.

You can do what theYinYeti or install proftp or pureftp and use those.

I did that already. Users can actually get past the login and password stage of FTP, but then it just hangs when it is supposed to list the files...

 

Sounds like you firewalled them. Will need to forward port 21 through the router. I do this by going to 192.168.0.1 in a browser and logging in to my router's homepage. Most likely you can find more info on the manafacturer's website.

Tell them to either turn passive on or off. I bet one of those is the problem.

I do, I do

 

well, for the basics anyway. Still haven't quite figured out how to add a user who can only connect to say an upload or download folder.

Make your users shell /bin/false and make sure that in /etc/shells /bin/false is listed. They should only be able to go now where you specify Scoopy.

For a seperate dedicated box (which is how we should be doing it anyhow) :) IPCop wins hands down no contest. On the mdk box I'd have to go with kmyfirewall, it was the easiest/most intutive of the ones I tried outl

What will this do to my mdk web/ftp and when I get off my butt email server? I know it will obviously wipe the destination drive but if I pull the IDE cable of the web/ftp drive will it be able to read the EXT3 data there or will I have to back up and replace the data after installing e-smith?

I poked around on e-smiths site but couldn't find anything on this. Course that usually just means I didn't search properly. :)

Is it beer o'clock yet?