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Errand Packets outbound?
by Edward Dekkers 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I woke up this morning to find my upload bandwidth saturated. I only know how to use iptraf so I pointed it to the ppp0 interface. There was a flood of udp packets going out from my external interface to FDCServers.demarc.cogentc and FDCServerNet.demarc.coge. Very weird addresses in other words. This is all iptraf gives me. Pointing iptraf at the eth0 interface shows no such packets which lead me to suspect the Linux box is sending them out. A reboot of the Fedora 4 box stopped the outbound traffic. I may have been root kitted? Any ideas? Regards, Ed.

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can't login SSH with private and public key
by M E Fieu 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

http://cfm.gs.washington.edu/security/ssh/client-pkauth/ I followed the article above to try to configure SSH login without password or using public key On the Client named Client1 and under username "chee" I generate a pri and pub key and passphrase of abc123 chee@client1$ mkdir ~/.ssh chee@client1$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh client1$ ssh-keygen -q -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -t rsa Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): abc123 Enter same passphrase again: abc123 On SSH server named server2, I have username "chee" as well and I create .ssh under home directory and scp the public to the directory and rename it as authorized_keys2 and authorized_keys for pro1 and 2 chee@client1$scp id_rsa.pub chee@server2:~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 and it was shown in the /home/chee/.ssh/authorized_keys2 and /home/chee/.ssh/authorized_keys2 with proper right but when I do the next step , I got the following error. Why ?? What's wrong? [chee@client1 .ssh]$ ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey server2 Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password). May I know if I specify an empty passphrase , by right I should be able to SSH from client1 to server2 with "ssh server2" after copying the public key of client1 to server2's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2. Is that correct ?? __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Apache Httpd on FC4 screwed up? FrontPage will not work w/o changes.
by Dan Thurman 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I finally did get my FrontPage extensions installed but not without being forced to change the apachectl file (to a previous version). The apachectl file from the CD *might* work but I haven't tested that one... I am using one from FC2!!! Using the apachectl from FC2 works for start, stop, restart, and it reports the flags such as -v from which FrontPage depends on, but the problem is that /etc/initd.d/httpd will not work on (re)boot so perhaps httpd script also needs to be reworked. The point is, that the updates after a fresh install FC4 is somehow the culprit IMHO. For now, I am using the apachectl from FC2 and changed the /etc/initd.d/httpd script so that it will work for reboots. Can someone shed some light on this please? Kind regards, Dan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.7/155 - Release Date: 11/1/2005

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Make KDE apps run remotely/other user be quiet
by Orion Poplawski 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When you start a KDE app on another machine you get messages like: Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-orion" Link points to "/tmp/kde-orion" kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. You get similar messages when you run as another user locally: Creating link /home/visitor/.kde/socket-cynosure. Created link from "/home/visitor/.kde/socket-cynosure" to "/tmp/ksocket-visitor" Creating link /home/visitor/.kde/tmp-cynosure. Created link from "/home/visitor/.kde/tmp-cynosure" to "/tmp/kde-visitor" kbuildsycoca running... Creating link /home/visitor/.kde/cache-cynosure. Created link from "/home/visitor/.kde/cache-cynosure" to "/var/tmp/kdecache-visitor" Is there any way to silence these messages or to make the whole process more lightweight? Thanks! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDaU+OORnzrtFC2/sRAvDTAKCmCP3deHrUj+MKgUbcXSrJbOyGzACgtacE j6cZBY+XBCaZtWKvKj9UZ/g= =f7+n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Java 1.50 not installed in FC4? Use Sun's version?
by Dan Thurman 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Well, I checked. Java 1.50 is not installed on FC4, even with all the updates. I searched the RPMs and see references to v1.4.2? Is that it?? Can I install Sun's v1.50 or what is recommended. I noticed this problem since FireFox did not find *any* java installed as a module .... Kind regards, Dan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.6/152 - Release Date: 10/31/2005

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no certificates!
by kwhiskers 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I am trying to digitally sign a document in open office writer 2.0, but no certificates are listed. I have pkcs12 (p12) certificates in firefox, mozilla and konqueror, but not in open office. How do I import the certificates?

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force NIC cards to eth1 or eth0
by Phil 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I have a box with two nic cards. Ex: NIC card 1, eth0, static ip 10.10.0.1 NIC card 2, eth1, static ip 192.168.0.1 Now it has been this way for a while... I have rebooted recently and now and the NIC/eth assignements are flipped... Is there a way to force NIC1 to remain as eth0 and NIC2 as eth1? Thanks.

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compiling src.rpm
by Guillermo Garron 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, I have netscape4-4.8-3.dag.src.rpm and i want to compile and install that. could anyone help me? or better does any one know where i can find the latest Netscape RPM for FC4? i tried # yum install netscape (nothing happens) :( thanks a lot. regards, Guillermo Garron

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Re: Windows install disc can't see my FC4 partitions
by Michael Wiktowy 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:19:33 -0500 From: Ken Schutte <kschutte(a)csail.mit.edu> >I need to setup a dual boot system on my x40 Thinkpad laptop. I've done >it without problems before, but this time I have FC4 installed first, >and now want to add a Windows XP partition. On intial FC4 setup, I used >disk druid and kept some open space, then later used qtparted in knoppix >to create an NTFS partition. Currently fdisk -l shows: > >Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux >/dev/hda2 14 3582 28667992+ 83 Linux >/dev/hda3 3583 3647 522112+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris >/dev/hda4 3648 4864 9775552+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > >When I try to boot from a Windows XP disc to install Windows, it quickly >flashes some text saying something like "please wait while checks your >system...", then the screen is blank and nothing happens and I have to >just reset. Should I be able to boot and install from a WinXP disc >given that partition table? > >Sorry if this it a bit of a windows question, but all these partions >were created in linux, so maybe somebody could help. > >Thanks! >Ken > > Try deleting your primary partition 4 (/dev/hda4) with something like fdisk and just leave the free space. Sometimes Windows barfs on NTFS-type partitions created by something non-Windows. It could be expecting it to be formatted already and it may not be (qtparted doesn't format it, IIRC) and the junk at the beginning makes the installer unhappy and comatose. Having just free space there might make the installer go into a different "fresh install" mode. Be prepared to have grub clobbered and read up on how to get it back or how to boot linux with the NTLoader. There is info on how to do this in various googlable HOWTOs. Also waiting a long time might solve your problem. It may just take a long, long, long time to "check your system". /Mike

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xset: bad font path element
by kwhiskers 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

* xset: bad font path element (#63), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax *What is this error that is constantly in my xsession-errors file? I have the same permissions on all my font directories, ie, unchanged from how they were when I installed the system. I have the same permissions on all my fonts, ie, unchanged from default, which I think was 644 (I am not home to check right now) I have xorg.conf set up with the font server left ecactly like it was originallly, I think unix:/7100 I have a fonts.dir in every directory, except for the one containing the postscript .gz fonts, because mkfontdir won't handle these (but when I removed them form my paths in /etc/X11/fs/config, the error was still there) There is a whole lot of discussion about this error on google. Thousands of questions but not one answer. What is it?* *

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