Murda

Haha, you saved my day. *rolling on the floor and laughing* Why the hell did you do that?

I have the same problem, the network icon on the desktop always shows that the signal is crappy but it works just fine. Maybe I have to update my kernel too. I'd test that official linux driver for rt2500 cards too, it gives you a GUI, where you can configure your card and scan for open wireless networks (I don't remember if that driver from serialmonkey has it too). I had great results with this application, but only bad thing is that you have to run it every time you power up your machine. As I use a A-Link PCMCIA card, here's a link for the driver download at A-Link download site: A-Link Support - Driver Download Note that you should drop all security options off from your access point, just for testing (and maybe unplug it from the internet so your neighbours can't use your connection). I still haven't got WPA/PSK working on my laptop, but with MAC address enforcing, it'll do fine for me. Even windoze driver for this card isn't working properly. I have it on my windoze machine, and my brother has it too. Only difference between this is that I can use it without the application supplied with those drivers (using windoze's own wireless connection wizard) and my brother can't. As a summary for these forum threads and posts: Do not buy a wireless card that has rt2x00 chip in it. It will not work properly on any OS these days.

You can use shorewall (MCC --> Security --> Set up firewall...) (translation from finnish) and open ports that you want to. I don't remember port numbers for Samba or NFS, so you have to find them yourself. Click the "Advanced Settings" -button (translation from finnish, so it might not be the same on your computer) to configure ports manually. Example: 22/tcp This would open a port for SSH server (no need to do it this way, because there is a checkbox for that). Remember that this opens the port for all traffic, outbound and inbound. You can select your security level from the same place (MCC --> Security --> Set security level...) (translation, again). I had some problems when I set my security level too high. I wasn't able to log in via SSH and do some other things, so you have to try them out and drop the security level if you can't access some services on your server from outside. There it is, have fun.

I didn't have to do anything, just configured a static ip, the gateway address and set DNS servers. It works perfectly now. Only problem is that the network hangs sometimes when I use terminal (for SSH connection) and Firefox at the same time. I mean, it just stops sending and receiving packets. It isn't a big problem though, because it happens so rarely, and when it happens, I just use: service network restart And everything is up and running again. It may have something to do with my temperature problems (laptop gets so hot that it almost burns my hand when I touch the bottom of the computer), but that's an another story. :D

Ah, it's that way. I'm using nano mostly and it does backups. Why didn't I think about that before posting...

Ok, today it gave me a Diff report to my mailbox. Not what I was looking for but it'll do. Consider this one solved. edit: some spelling mistakes. -Murda

Isn't Mandriva backing up these things automatically? After you edit a file like group.txt, there appears a new file called group.txt~ which contains the data that was stored in group.txt before you edited it. It will overwrite it after the second edit though. :D At least I think that's how it works. -Murda

Ok, i have that update script in /etc/cron.daily/update.cron. It has -rwxr-xr-x like everything else there. Yesterday i used urpmi --auto-select to see if there's anything that needs updating. There was packages like tar and unzip. I didn't update them. I just put the auto update script to cron. Today I used it again. It says "everything has been installed" (translation from finnish), but the report e-mail didn't tell me anything about it. Maybe tomorrow..

Ok, I'll do that. I tell you how it worked out in a few days.

But how do i make that urpmi installation output to go to that mailbox? root is already pointing to a mailbox named murda. Is there a local folder somewhere where I could dump log files and they appear as mail? I just found out that i don't need any information about installed packages. Msec runs a Diff check every night and reports those packages that have been modified, installed or deleted. The only thing now that would be nice is getting those error messages to a mailbox. Or is msec doing that too? At least i've never seen a mail like that (got some errors though when updating manually, but never seen a mail notifying me about that). I've been looking for this all around MCC but can't find it anywhere. Thanks. -Murda

Actually, my msec sends those reports to a local mailbox. I have postfix up and running. I've configured that in MCC to send them to "murda", not "murda@somewhere.net". I'm sorry that I didn't mention this before. But the question still remains, how can I put those reports that urpmi gives to my mailbox? Thanks, Murda.

Hi. I read posts about this thread on this forum, I just want to take them a bit further. System Updates Startup-Script [solved], How could I do this? Auto update 1. I want to configure my computer to check for updates daily (that is explained in those threads above, consider this one solved) 2. I want to get mail with other msec security warnings daily (it would be better if i get them in the same mail as those, not in a new one) with all packages that were updated, and if some server could not be contacted, I can run update manually or if the server has been dropped out permanently, I can pick a new one from Easy-Urpmi 3. I want to set urpmi not to update packages which contain text like "kernel", "kernel-source", "irssi" etc. because I want to update them manually if there's any need for them I were thinking that the script would look like this: urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select --auto --skip kernel kernel-source irssi Is it right? And what about that mail? A log file would be another option. PS. This is all about learning, just want to learn a bit more of these things. edit: [solved] Thanks. -Murda

Hi again. Just wanted to update this post. rt2500 driver is included in Mandriva 2006 so you don't have to follow this installation guide anymore. Just install Mandriva 2006 and you're ready to go. I don't know if there's any support for encryption, but as I can't see any other WLAN networks at home (and i know my neighbours don't have any WLAN cards), MAC address restriction will do just fine for me without any encryption.

Nice. I'll test this out today and post here how it works. Thanks.

I already have a Webmin server installed, but my hardware firewall blocks connections to Webmin port (10000) for security reasons. I just don't like the idea that someone can hack my webmin and do just about everything. Maybe this is the only option now. My SSH server is also protected with DenyHosts. It may have some effect if someone tries to access (brute-force attack) via Apache SSH client. DenyHosts would ban the local IP address of the server. But that's why I'm putting .htaccess there. If anyone just had the idea how to do that Apache SSH. Is it possible to make SSH server to listen 2 ports, like 22 and 5555. I would like to let that default port be the way it is, because there are other users that need access to that SSH server too.

Hi. I got this idea at work and I would like to have a SSH connection to home server. Bad thing that our firewall here blocks all connections through port 22 (SSH port). Is it possible to have a SSH client running on Apache? I think it is, but after a 30min googleing round, I couldn't find any name for a such program. I have Apache running on my home server, so i would like to install it there and browse to my home server from work with IE and login via SSH. Is there any other solution for this? And then SSL, do i need it? I know that i need htaccess (so people can't start hammering my server with usernames and passwords). This isn't an urgent one, but any help would be appreciated. I just want to learn more about Linux systems.

Thanks, this solved my problem. And Devries, as i said, i want to do this via console (SSH). :P My runlevel is 3 (KDE doesn't start), so i can't access Mandriva Control Center. -Murda

Hi. I've been searching this forum for answer to my question, but haven't found anything related to this. I can do this from Webmin, but i've forbidden all outside access to my server's Webmin. I want to do this via SSH. So my question is: How do i make processes run/not to run at boot time? My httpd (just an example) process starts at boot, but i don't want it to start automatically. Is there a command to do this or do i have to change some file under /etc ? I know that i can run and stop processes like this: su root service httpd start And stop: su root service httpd stop But i don't know where to look for this setting. Thanks. Murda

I partially found the answer there, but had to modify some of my settings. I had WPA/PSK with AES already configured on my Wireless Access Point, but was unable to configure it to my laptop (running Mandriva) without RaConfig. My solution to this was that i drop all encryption methods down and set MAC Address Restricrion/Enforcing online. Then i noticed a service called "wpa_supplicant" in my MCC. That can be the solution for this. But i'm pretty tired right now, this will do for me and my home network (now 3 computers connected via WLAN). Consider this one as solved. Thank you for help again. :P Edit: And remember, those qt3 packages are an essential part of this process. I didn't have qt3-devel package installed and that's why i got those errors during installation. (if you install qt3-devel, be prepared to download at least 10 other packages, ~128mb, to solve the dependancy problems)

Hi. I'm installing my Wireless adapter to my Laptop. I've been searching for this board for help, nothing. Then i googled and found this site http://forum.presence-pc.com/presencepc/Le...sujet-646-1.htm It shows how the installation process is done. I just get stuck after this command: make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=$PWD modules I get errors like: /home/murda/asennuspaketit/driver/rt2500/Module/rtmp_main.c:164: warning: passing arg 1 of 'readl' makes pointer from integer without a cast I get these from all of the files. I have kernel-sources installed that match my kernel that is in use right now. I've ran out of ideas now.

Ok, i found it. Unchecking wasn't my solution for this, but there's more options under this Security level place. Just set world writable file check to "No". Thanks. :)

I don't really know. But i'm sure that i don't even have a directory /etc/log.d. I'm not a Mandriva expert, so i can't know this. :P

Thanks, this is really a great app. I'm running it in daemon mode now. Just wondering why Mandriva hasn't put this yet to the installation media or even urpmi. Very useful app these days if you want to run a ssh server. Thanks again.

Hi. My "problem" is that i don't want to receive those Security Check Reports to my e-mail (only part of them). I like to get warnings, but when they are only spam: These come EVERY SINGLE DAY to my e-mail. Is there any way to suppress these? Those world writable files appear every time i reboot my system. So if i chmod o-w them, they will come back to that list (have tried it :P). And of course files like my httpd2.conf is modified, as i need to set my DocumentRoot and few other things. I know these files have to be modified to make my system work the way i like. I think it's just stupid to list those files there that need to be modified. Is there any way to list only "new modified files" and not those that were in the list last time? I would do it myself, but i just don't know where to look at. I also get rkhunter report there, but it doesn't bother me, just want to know my system is safe. This is my server box. Thanks. Murda.

Thanks, this solved my problem. I have no time to implement this to my shorewall yet, but maybe later. Thanks again. :)