Rainer

Thanks Adam.

Looks like there's a new version of Guarddog out:

http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/

After a little reading, and in the context it's in, yes "fw" does seem to represent "my end" after all. (solved) ;)

Thanks guys - I've created a Bugzilla account - probably will look towards the 10.2 ideas page here first:

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...andrakelinux102

Btw - do the devs tend to add a little feedabck over the months in the Status column or have we sort of missed the boat for 10.2 ideas.

Also - does anyone know whether there's a Cooker snapshot out before Beta 1.

Thanks.

Heh..heh

urpmi.update -a

that did the trick ;)

Thanks for that Adrian.

Just a quick question really - is it common for there to be a sizeable lag regards security update advisories etc and the packages appearing on your chosen update mirrors - there's advisories out today but:

urpmi --update --auto-select

produces:

Everything already installed

Thanks Adrian, good information - I'll into those - on a similar point - do you have to have some king of Bugzilla account etc to submit ideas to this page here: (ideas for 10.2)

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...andrakelinux102

Thanks.

For interest - does anyone here test the beta's and send bug reports in and such - any starting point tips etc - thanks

Bit of a vague query really - how flakey does everyone think 10.2 beta 1 'll be in early January - worth installing for play etc on another partition, or possibly better waiting for RC1.

This is what I've had some luck with tonight: (after a few retry's/reboots/ etc) - - drop them in at a root prompt - bit adhoc but worked in the end.

urpmi.addmedia --update updates http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates with media_info/hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia main http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/main with media_info/hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia contrib http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/contrib with media_info/hdlist.cz

and take it from there - good luck.

Cheers guys - after some tweaking/different mirrors/database locked and what not, have finally got everything updated, ending with "Everything already installed" from a final urpmi --update --auto-select ;)

Hi all - just installed 10.1 official - set up an urpmi update source from Easyurpmi: ie

urpmi.addmedia --update updates http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates with media_info/hdlist.cz

Then issued:

urpmi --update --auto-select

Says it's got to install around 73 packages for dependancies (around 240mb) - now - it seemed to be updating succesfully and then near the end it errored - so I then issue urpmi --update --auto-select again to see what updates were left and I get:

To satisfy dependencies, the following 5 packages are going to be installed (20 MB):
drakxtools-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586
drakxtools-backend-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586
drakxtools-newt-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586
harddrake-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586
harddrake-ui-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586
Is this OK? (Y/n) y

I then get these errors on "yes"

    http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/./harddrake-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
   http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/./drakxtools-backend-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
   http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/./harddrake-ui-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
   http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/./drakxtools-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
   http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/./drakxtools-newt-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404



...retrieving failed: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404



       0% of 14 completed, ETA = --:--:--, speed = 182

...retrieving failed: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404


...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 22 or signal 0

Installation failed, some files are missing:
   http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/./drakxtools-backend-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
   http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/./harddrake-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
   http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/./harddrake-ui-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
   http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/./drakxtools-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
   http://www.sunsite.org.uk/package/mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/./drakxtools-newt-10.1-27.1.101mdk.i586.rpm
You may want to update your urpmi database




...retrieving failed: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404

Does anyone know what those final few update errors are and any remedy etc.

Thanks alot.

Thanks guys - I'll have a look back through the msec documentation - think it was updated 2002 or something last time I checked - is there a "solved" button or something for members to finish a thread or do the mods do that - thanks.

Thanks all - does anyone know the specific reason why in the MCC, the "Higher" reccomendation is:

"If your machine is only a client on the Internet, you should choose a lower level."

Is it just that using "higher" on a daily basis is too awkward for a typical desktop computer/user - ie being restricted to your home directory etc?

amaroK ;)

Hi - I'm unsure as to what constitutes a "local" zone in shorewall (for my comp) - after setting the default outbound policy to DROP in /etc/shorewall/policy with:

fw	net	DROP

you can then allow basic web surfing by adding this to /etc/shorewall/rules:

ACCEPT fw net udp 53
ACCEPT fw net tcp 80

ie you're allowing outbound DNS queries and outbound connections to port 80 - now, this works fine/good and everything's ok - but - what I am unsure about is whether "fw" is definately the correct representation of my local zone (in the above rules), as opposed to say "loc" or "eth0" or a private ip adress like "192.168.0.2".

Thanks.

Thanks guys.

Marked the thread Solved - Artificial Intelligence

Hi - any advice on whether to run on "Standard", "High" or "Higher" for an ordinary web surfing, email, etc computer on the net (Mandrake 10.1 CE) ? - in the MCC, the "Higher" wording says:

"If your machine is only a client on the Internet, you should choose a lower level."

So, is it ok to use "Higher" or would everyone reccomend just using "Standard" or "High".

Thanks.

Hi all - just a couple of questions:

1) - Are there any security updates for 10.1 Community Edition? - have used EasyUrpmi to add Main & Contrib repositories - but after a month of checking regularly there still isn't an "updates" respository on EasyUrpmi for 10.1 CE.

2) - In the absence of an updates repo. for 10.1 CE, should you just manually update the security advisory packages using urpmi/rpm? - would like to update libxpm4.

3) - Does anyone know when 10.1 Official will come out in a .iso format for general download?

Thanks for any help.