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  2. Slackware

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    Thanks hitest, I went ahead and subscribed to the Slackware security update mailing list.

    Anyway, my issue has been resolved.

    To get this functionality from slapt-get, you need to have gnupg installed.

    Absolute 12 has gnupg2 by default, but not gnupg.

    I installed gnupg 1.4.7-i486-1 and all is working correctly.

    If you're wondering whether gnupg(1) will conflict with gnupg2,

    apparently it will not. From the gnupg2 announce:

    "However, both versions may be installed alongside without any conflict."

    source:

    http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-ann...6q4/000239.html

    Thanks to Jason over at jaos dot org for the solution.

  3. Browser

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted · Edited by Ham Blowfist

    Perhaps they were referring to installing the different components of SeaMonkey.

    In addition to the browser, you can also install the chat client, mail client, etc.

    I've used SeaMonkey from the release of Firefox 2 (because I liked FF 1.5 so much better).

    But since Firefox 2.0.0.5 came out, it seems much faster and more stable, so I tend to use it

    over SeaMonkey now.

    Some people have trouble installing SeaMonkey, so I'm going to give a list of commands to follow.

    First, if you're distro uses sudo (like Ubuntu) DON'T USE SUDO to do the install.

    Extract the SeaMonkey installer with:

    tar -xvzf seamonkey-1.1.3.en-US.linux-i686.installer.tar.gz

    Then cd into the installer directory.

    For the next few commands, you must be root (again, don't execute the installer with sudo)

    to become root and stay root in Ubuntu:

    sudo su

    most others just:

    su

    (You MUST run SeaMonkey once as root before you can run it as a regular user,

    in the code below, as soon as SeaMonkey starts quit it immediately - don't continue to run it as root)

    ./seamonkey-installer									  
    /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey
    exit

    If all went well, you can now run SeaMonkey with:

    /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey

    You'll want to make a shortcut to that command.

    The SeaMonkey icon will be at:

    /usr/local/seamonkey/chrome/icons/default/seamonkey.png

    To uninstall SeaMonkey:

    cd /usr/local
    rm -dr seamonkey

    (For the rm command, you have to be root)

    That's about it.

    Hope this helps.

  5. Slackware

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    I was wondering how Slackware users update their systems.

    Is slapt-get the best way?

    If some forum members are using slapt-get, would you tell me what version?

    Do you recommend using it?

    I'm using version 0.9.12a and I can't get "slapt-get --add-keys" to work.

    This is the error I'm seeing:

    slapt-get: src/gpgme.c:204: slapt_add_pkg_source_gpg_key: Assertion `e == GPG_ERR_NO_ERROR' failed.

    Aborted

    I pulled 0.9.12a from cvs because 0.9.12 was giving me a "segfault".

    Apart from the verification error, it seems to be working correctly.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    BTW, I'm using Absolute Linux 12.0 (Which is awesome!)

  6. Post Your Linux Screen Shot

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted · Edited by Ham Blowfist

    Here's Zenwalk 4.6.1 running on my old Athlon 750.

    I had some trouble getting my ancient modem and ES1868 sound card working (both ISA).

    Apparently Zenwalk comes without any support for the ISA bus,

    I had to download the kernel source and recompile with ISA, ISA PnP and sound drivers.

    (first time compiling a kernel, can't believe it works!!!)

    Minor bug complaint: the menu system.

    To get to them, you right-click on the desktop.

    But occasionally the menus will completely disappear while I'm browsing them.

    Also the "Quit" menu item is reluctant sometimes. I may have to click it a few times

    before it responds. Both of these happen only rarely.

    (I suppose these could be symptoms of a noob rebuilding his kernel, don't think so though)

    Edit: since some updates were pushed a few days ago, I haven't seen these problems reoccur.

    Either it's fixed, or my comp has just decided to behave on its own.

    Other than that seems to be a solid, fast, good looking distro.

    Really like how it mounts USB drives and cdroms.

    Overall: pretty sweet.

    Recommend you give it a try. :)

    screenshotzn3.jpg

  10. Address Bar Question

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    In the address bar, type in:

    about:config

    Then search or scroll to this key:

    browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll

    Right-click and select "toggle", you want the key set to "true".

    This is for Firefox 1.5 but should be the same for 2.0.

    (I'm a SeaMonkey user) :thumbsup:

  14. Mount My Partition

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    i would not trust windows with anythign but fat. I have ssen it kill ext2/3 partions in a hartbeat..
    Good to know. We'll just stick with FAT then.

    (Its been a long time since I even booted Windows - its just taking HD space at the moment)

  15. Mount My Partition

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    When you access a disk, you need to mount it first. ...Create mount points in /media for the Windows partitions. It is good to use /media/C for C: and /media/D for D:, etc. to make things easy to remember.

    foo@bar:~$ sudo mkdir /media/C /media/D

    To make the disks accessible when you boot the computer, you need to add a few lines to /etc/fstab. This file indicates which disks are available. Add the following two lines:

    /dev/hda1 /media/C ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

    /dev/hda5 /media/D vfat defaults,umask=0000 0 0

    The fourth column lets you specify options for mounting the partition, and nls=utf8,umask=0222 means that any user can read the NTFS partition.

    To mount the two partitions without restarting, run the following command:

    foo@bar:~$ sudo mount -a

    The two partitions are now available and will be automatically mounted the next time Ubuntu is restarted.

    (Copy/Paste from Ubuntu Handbook)

    If you would like a more specific answer, please post output from: sudo fdisk -l

    and the file system you would like to use on the 15 gig partition.

    Note: Windows can (with a little help) read/write to an EXT3 partition. I think ReiserFS as well.

  18. Post Your Linux Screen Shot

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    Is Xubuntu any faster than Ubuntu 6.06?

    I don't really know, I guess it has to be. Though I'm just a noob,

    I know XFCE is lightweight and built for speed.

    There's no eye-candy and only minimal functionality built in -

    You're going to need to add a few Gnome or KDE apps to make in useful,

    (Gnomebaker for example).

    I can say that Xubuntu 6.06 at 750 MHz "feels" every bit as fast as SUSE

    10.1 on my xp2600. (of course SUSE is pretty feature-bloated).

  20. Xubuntu Firewall

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    Well, I enabled some repositories in Synaptic (installed by default, but not enabled)

    now there's Lokkit, Guarddog, Firestarter, and several other firewall tools available.

    Also found out the proper method to install my own iptables script,

    and ensure it loads before any network adapters are initialized.

    So I have many choices. (too many)

    Still, I think they could have included at least one of these tools with Xubuntu.

  21. Xubuntu Firewall

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    I'm playing with Xubuntu 6.06 (Xfce 4.3.90.2) on an old 750 MHz AMD machine,

    and it doesn't seem to come with any simple way to configure a firewall

    for my dial-up Internet.

    My solution (for now) was to add these lines to /etc/rc.local

    (copied/pasted from a help file included with the distro.)

    Putting them there was just a shot-in-the-dark on my part.

    ## Insert connection-tracking modules (not needed if built into kernel).# insmod ip_conntrack# insmod ip_conntrack_ftp
## Create chain which blocks new connections, except if coming from inside.iptables -N blockiptables -A block -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPTiptables -A block -m state --state NEW -i ! ppp0 -j ACCEPTiptables -A block -j DROP
## Jump to that chain from INPUT and FORWARD chains.iptables -A INPUT -j blockiptables -A FORWARD -j block

    It seems to work. I get good results from those on-line port scanning sites.

    But I would like some opinions/advice please:

    1. Is there a better place to put this other than /etc/rc.local?

    (for example, if I added an ethernet card in the future, could the script start

    filtering too late, after the card was initialized and accepting traffic.)

    2. Do you think this is adequate in a home/desktop/dial-up setting?

    (Is there anything inherently wrong with these commands?)

    3. I've used Guarddog in the past (on RedHat 9) and really liked it.

    But there's no version available for "Dapper Drake". I guess it hasn't been updated in a while.

    What other Guarddog-like program could I be using?

    I'm trying to figure out iptables - but it seems pretty complicated.

    (not that there's anything wrong with that.)

    Thanks for any help you can give.

  22. Disable Safe Mode

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    BIOS password, Admin password in XP, (even root password on a Linux box) -

    all can be easily bypassed.

    If you have physical access to a machine, you own that machine. period.

    If you really don't want anyone to use it, remove the hard drive and take it with you.

    Or you could encrypt sensitive data with Truecrypt.

    and there'll be no way for anyone to see it.

  23. Help A.s.a.p Please.......

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted · Edited by Ham Blowfist

    I'm wondering if Beagle is causing this,

    SUSE 10.1 is working great for me, but when Beagle indexes the hard drive -

    everything slows to a crawl. I'm not using it, so I disabled it.

    Have a look at top and see if this is the problem.

  25. Formating A Thumb Drive

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    It was likely my fault - I forgot to unmount /dev/sda1 before formating.

    I put /dev/sda1 as the floppy drive, checked "Zero out and quick format", and provided a volume label.

    A box popped up saying "drive must be unmounted" - click OK.

    Then it asked for root password - which I gave.

    Then kfloppy crashed, without any error messages, it just disappeared.

    And the drive was unmountable - unreadable - "hosed".

    A format from the command line brought it back.

    Probably my bad. But I didn't try again.