Re: [expert] garbage collection ?
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:35, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:30, elPunishar wrote: hi everybody, i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be okay since i'm running a lot of programs. BUT it doesn't come down again even when i close the programs... memory use just grows and grows (slow but steady), then beginns to fill up the swap space... memory at 80% full is normal disk caching, and Windows does it too (they just don't report it). Growing usage and using swap may not be normal though. Try running top and pressing M to sort by memory usage, then watch it. You may have an app leaking memory. ... -- Jack at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've got a few apps open. Why would 80% of 1G of memory be normal? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 0. Just add yourself to the password file and make a directory... --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] garbage collection ?
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote: Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've got a few apps open. Why would 80% of 1G of memory be normal? well, it's normal for me :-) I've read that the VMM will allocate as much RAM as feasible and practical to disk caching. -- Jack at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... LOL, I didn't mean anything by it, I've heard that too and wondered what the basis was :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 50. [looks at workstation] Say, what version of Dos is this running? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] java in my path?
Hey, I need to know where to go to add the java binary to my path - who do I modify? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 92. What software license? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] java in my path?
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:37, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:16, Michael Holt wrote: Hey, I need to know where to go to add the java binary to my path - who do I modify? just you: edit ~/.bash_profile JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01/ export JAVA_HOME PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin everyone -- edit /etc/profile and add the same. Ahh... thank you Sir! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == Windows NT source code now available... download WIN2000.BAS now! -- From a Slashdot.org post Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] garbage collection ?
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:36, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:18, Michael Holt wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote: Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've got a few apps open. Why would 80% of 1G of memory be normal? well, it's normal for me :-) I've read that the VMM will allocate as much RAM as feasible and practical to disk caching. -- Jack at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... LOL, I didn't mean anything by it, I've heard that too and wondered what the basis was :) If I do a cat on /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 390709248 371380224 193290240 13205504 181313536 Swap: 1230839808 48295936 1182543872 MemTotal: 381552 kB MemFree: 18876 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 12896 kB Cached: 172232 kB SwapCached: 4832 kB Active: 147668 kB Inactive: 190916 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree:0 kB LowTotal: 381552 kB LowFree: 18876 kB SwapTotal: 1201992 kB SwapFree: 1154828 kB And the only thing beyond kde open is evolution. James Ok, now I'm seeing what you guys are saying. I did cat /proc/meminfo and got similar results. Then I started vmware+WinXP and this was my output: total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 527233024 522104832 5128192045056 423895040 Swap: 263168000 626688 262541312 MemTotal: 514876 kB MemFree: 5008 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers:44 kB Cached: 413416 kB SwapCached:544 kB Active: 125232 kB Inactive: 24 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree:0 kB LowTotal: 514876 kB LowFree: 5008 kB SwapTotal: 257000 kB SwapFree: 256388 kB Committed_AS: 148076 kB Then I killed vmware and tried again: total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 527233024 477216768 50016256040960 384438272 Swap: 263168000 626688 262541312 MemTotal: 514876 kB MemFree: 48844 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers:40 kB Cached: 374884 kB SwapCached:544 kB Active: 120796 kB Inactive: 254776 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree:0 kB LowTotal: 514876 kB LowFree: 48844 kB SwapTotal: 257000 kB SwapFree: 256388 kB Committed_AS: 112800 kB I gained some back, but not as much as I originally had free. That's strange, when I looked at it an hour ago, I had barely used any memory and none of my swap. So I must have just not had enough opened this morning? Now I'm going to have to shut down and see what it looks like - maybe I'll run root-tail and keep an eye on it. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == Windows is the best $89 solitaire game you can buy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] garbage collection ?
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:22, Dick Gevers wrote: Okay. Is this a poker game? LOL :) Yeah, you're bringing the pizza, right? :) Running [EMAIL PROTECTED] niced at -5 'Nice' sets the schedule priority - ok, what does that mean? How does that affect your performance both overall and for the specified program? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == Windows is the best $189 solitaire game you can buy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] maps
Anyone know of a good software similar to 'streets and maps'? I tried one a while back where you had to compile the maps and it was pretty rough. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 34. What is all this I here about static charges destroying computers? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:31, Jack Coates wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01//bin that looks okay... but . is effectively in my path!! I discovered this by doing a tab completion line that matched a script in my ~. This is with msec level 3 Maybe related to bash programmable completion? Anyone else seen this behavior? I don't quite understand what the problem is. Are you saying that '.' shouldn't be in your path or that it should be? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == -6. Ooops, I should really have change directory before doing that chmod -R bin.bin . --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:53, Jack Coates wrote: I don't quite understand what the problem is. Are you saying that '.' shouldn't be in your path or that it should be? should not. It's not that big a deal I suppose, but it's not The Right Way(TM) for things to be. :) You seemed pretty emphatic about it's presence in earlier posts; What effect does it have? It means you can execute hidden files? If that's the case, couldn't you do that anyway - if you knew what the filename was? I suppose just for policy, you would want as few things in a users path as possible - is that just what it's about? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 0. Just add yourself to the password file and make a directory... --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:01, Bill Mullen wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Michael Holt wrote: What effect does it have? It means you can execute hidden files? If that's the case, couldn't you do that anyway - if you knew what the filename was? I suppose just for policy, you would want as few things in a users path as possible - is that just what it's about? What having :.: (or its equivalent, ::) in your $PATH does is allow the current working directory to be included in any search for executable files. This is (wisely, IMHO) considered to be a security risk, as it can lead to the execution of a file other than the one you had intended, if that file has the same name and the :.: appears earlier in the PATH than the directory in which the intended file resides. Obviously, it is *far* more important that such an entry not be part of root's PATH than a user's, but it's a risk in the latter case as well. Ahh, that makes sense. So it's mostly good housekeeping. Thanks. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 14. dd if=/dev/null of=/vmunix --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:54, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:21, Michael Holt wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:53, Jack Coates wrote: I don't quite understand what the problem is. Are you saying that '.' shouldn't be in your path or that it should be? should not. It's not that big a deal I suppose, but it's not The Right Way(TM) for things to be. :) You seemed pretty emphatic about it's presence in earlier posts; What effect does it have? It means you can execute hidden files? If that's the case, couldn't you do that anyway - if you knew what the filename was? I suppose just for policy, you would want as few things in a users path as possible - is that just what it's about? the real issue for me is expected versus non-expected behavior. There is a security risk, which is fairly arcane unless a large class of boxes are going to exhibit this behavior (no matter how arcane and difficult the hole, if hundred of boxes will respond in the same way then an exploit script will be written). Hey, makes sense. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 32. Ummm... Didn't you say you turned it off? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Clean up old logs (more specific)
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 08:34, David E. Fox wrote: My firewall has been up and running for the last 2 years now. While trying = to cleanup the partitions I noticed a wholalotta log files from various stu= Please don't post HTML. Adrian, isn't logrotate working? Or do you want to clean the stuff up now? At any rate, find would do the job: # find . -type f /var/log -mtime 30 | xargs rm That gets rid of files modified over 30 days ago. When I tried doing the line you defined above, I get this output: find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression] rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. So I did it this way: find /var/log -type f -mtime 5 | xargs rm And it works. The only thing that catches my attention is that in the 'find' man page, '-mtime' says: -mtime n File's data was last modified n*24 hours ago. This would seem to me to mean a static multiplyer. In other words, '-mtime 30' would be any logs created exactly 30 days ago - not 31, not 29. How would you state 'anything over 30 days'? And why did you create the syntax the way you did above; with the '.' after 'find' and the order of commands? Thanks! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 81. The drive ate the tape but that's OK, I brought my screwdriver. --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 22:17, Bill wrote: hmmm kinda weird. Here is the results of some nslookup stuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] beau]$ nslookup qualxserv.net Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. Server: 66.47.48.51 Address:66.47.48.51#53 Non-authoritative answer: *** Can't find qualxserv.net: No answer [EMAIL PROTECTED] beau]$ nslookup qualxserv.com Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. Server: 66.47.48.51 Address:66.47.48.51#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: qualxserv.com Address: 65.246.197.37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] beau]$ nslookup Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. set type=mx qualxserv.net Server: 66.47.48.51 Address:66.47.48.51#53 Non-authoritative answer: qualxserv.net mail exchanger = 10 ns1.qualxserv.com. qualxserv.net mail exchanger = 10 qxssmtp3.qualxserv.com. Authoritative answers can be found from: qualxserv.net nameserver = ns3.qualxserv.net. qualxserv.net nameserver = ns1.qualxserv.com. qualxserv.net nameserver = ns2.qualxserv.com. ns1.qualxserv.com internet address = 65.246.197.32 ns2.qualxserv.com internet address = 65.246.197.33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] beau]$ telnet ns1.qualxserv.net 25 Trying 65.246.197.32... Connected to ns1.qualxserv.com (65.246.197.32). Escape character is '^]'. 220 qxsdns1.qualxserve.com ESMTP Server (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service 5.5.2650.21) ready There is the answer. Previously they were using qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. as there mail server for .com now for .net they are using ns1.qualxserv.com and qxssmtp3.qualxserv.com. so its just a forward to there working .com email servers. if we do a mx record lookup for .com we get qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. that server is not answering for port 25 stuff. Interestingly enough they have the same number assigned to there email servers which is 10 I thought that was a no no. Man I have been outa the internet systems stuff for two years now and can still do this stuff. Im so far out of the loop now seeing how I just got my trucking drivers license (class a) with all endorsements to look for work in the trucking industry. I gave up on the computer industry. Hey I just learned something! Could you explain the '10' thing to me? I drive a tow truck for AAA during my down-time between jobs. I don't have the cdl stuff, but there seems to be plenty of cars running into each other to stay busy :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 49. Oops! (said in a quiet, almost surprised voice) --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 07:22, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 06:57, Michael Holt wrote: ... if we do a mx record lookup for .com we get qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com. that server is not answering for port 25 stuff. Interestingly enough they have the same number assigned to there email servers which is 10 I thought that was a no no. Man I have been outa the internet systems stuff for two years now and can still do this stuff. Im so far out of the loop now seeing how I just got my trucking drivers license (class a) with all endorsements to look for work in the trucking industry. I gave up on the computer industry. Hey I just learned something! Could you explain the '10' thing to me? MX records have a priority option between 1 and 100. Higher priority gets first choice of delivery, lower priority is essentially backup. I drive a tow truck for AAA during my down-time between jobs. I don't have the cdl stuff, but there seems to be plenty of cars running into each other to stay busy :) So then having two servers with the same priority level would be either / or? Or would it just hose your servers? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #341: HTTPD Error 666 : SysAdmin was here Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 10:01, Bill wrote: That is what my understanding was. you wouyld asign like 5 to your primary email server and 10 to the backup. Assigning the same number would just make things a little screwy. Ok, that would make sense. I'm still confused as to why one would let me in and one wouldn't - I think they need to hire a new engineer :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #316: Elves on strike. (Why do they call EMAG Elf Magic) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Evolution auto-signatures
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:31, Jack Coates wrote: Anyone mess with Evo's script signatures? It's formatting badly, as so: -- Jack Coates at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... As I went down to Glasgow city, just to see what I might spy, what should I see but Nancy Whiskey, a playful twinkle in her eye... I bought her a drink I had another, ran out of money so I did steal, she ran me ragged lovely Nancy for seven years alone unwell. -- Nancy Whiskey from The Snake by Shane McGowan and the Popes Basically all the newlines are stripped. Same script's output looks like this on the command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ sig.sh -- Jack Coates at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... You choose your leaders and place your trust, and their lies won't slow down and their promises rust, you'll see killing machines and more rockets and guns, And the public wants what the public gets but I don't get what this society wants, I'm going underground -- Going Underground from Sound Affects by The Jam! On another note, I'd doing these quotes in fortune format, so let me know if their interest and I'll start posting the dailies on my web site. -- Jack This is my evo script sig: #!/bin/csh -f =20 echo /pre-- cat /home/michael/.asciisig /usr/games/fortune I had done some googling around and found that the /pre -- tag needed to be there even in the ascii message - something with evo. The actual sig file it calls is the static part and then obviously, fortune. I stuck with #! c shell because it seems to work. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #259: Someone's tie is caught in the printer, and if anything else gets printed, he'll be in it too. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 06:16, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:00, Pierre Fortin wrote: Consider coding it simply: myhostname = holt-tech.net Ok, now the question becomes, why am I using my domain name instead of my host name where it asks for my host name? From my previous message in this thread: ] Bear in mind that the myhostname = setting in main.cf doesn't need to ] bear even the slightest resemblance to what your system actually calls ] itself; it is the string that is sent whenever Postfix identifies the ] system on which it is running to other systems (both clients and ] servers). ] As such, the value of this setting *will* have an impact on whether or ] not mail is accepted from you by some servers, as it is sent in the ] HELO/EHLO statement when Postfix initiates a connection as a client. It is not asking for your hostname - it is asking you to *set* what hostname you want it to send to other systems. You want to use one that will resolve in at least one direction, which is why holt-tech.net is needed here, and why your ISP-given hostname is even more preferable (as the latter resolves in *both* directions). There is nothing wrong with using the same value for the $myhostname, $mydomain and $myorigin variables, in case you're wondering. Ahh, that makes sense now -- thank you for clearing that up. I really had no idea that there was so much possible tweaking to make all this work. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #221: The mainframe needs to rest. It's getting old, you know. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Evolution auto-signatures
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:17, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 11:09, Michael Holt wrote: ... echo /pre ba-da-boom. thanks! LEAST I could do! :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #413: Cow-tippers tipped a cow onto the server. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers (update)
Well, I just wanted to give an update to the postfix prob. The fix? I just found out that this company just switched their email server from '.com' to '.net'. I don't know what they're doing, cause they still have the '.com' server up and running. It must have been some kind of redirect / relay because I still can't get through if I use the '.com' address from evolution, but I am able to get through if I email to the '.net' address. They definitely have something weird going on but at least I know I'm not _completely_ incompetent. Weird... Anyway, thanks Jack, Bill and Pierre! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #235: The new frame relay network hasn't bedded down the software loop transmitter yet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 22:56, Bill wrote: I dont believe it is a router issue. They could have a acl in place but then you wouldnt see the answer from the server it would just block it alltogther. I dont remember ever seing a Cisco router checking the header files in emails to block a person. I think they may have a timeout issue like mentioned before. They may be trying to prevent anyone from trying to run a script to get in there box through there email server software. This is the first time I have seen an email server not respond the correct way using telent to port 25. In any case it seems to be there problem. I would contact there sys admin and see whats up with this issue. Please let us know what the answer is if you get one. p.s. I do have to tread lightly; I contract for this company and the person I emailed is my point of contact -- I'm not sure how they will react if I tell them how hard I've been working to 'figure out' their system *grin* -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #387: Your computer's union contract is set to expire at midnight. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:47, Jack Coates wrote: you assume that they know what they're doing... many people in the IT world don't. LOL I'm working on the 'NMCI' project in Bremerton, WA right now - the 'Naval Marine Corps Intranet'. I believe that there are a few really sharp people doing the engineering, but each day my bubble gets a little more crushed realizing how true your statement is. I just assumed that the people I went to work with new more than I and were all professionals... -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #152: My pony-tail hit the on/off switch on the power strip. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:51, Jack Coates wrote: Cisco routers are actually very dumb. If the router or a regular firewall is blocking the mail, then the three way TCP handshake will never complete. If a proxy-using firewall (Raptor or the so-called security servers in PIX and Check Point (so-called because the number one source of security holes on those firewalls)) is in use, it will accept enough headers to make a decision on. Dropping the connection right after 220 for servers that aren't on any BL is broken behavior. Ok, in reading the rfc 2821, I come to these relevant lines: The SMTP client MUST, if possible, ensure that the domain parameter to the EHLO command is a valid principal host name (not a CNAME or MX name) for its host. If this is not possible (e.g., when the client's address is dynamically assigned and the client does not have an obvious name), an address literal SHOULD be substituted for the domain name and supplemental information provided that will assist in identifying the client. In my original post, I included my headers. They show that the webmail header came with my verizon dsl id: Received: from www.holt-tech.net (unknown [server.internal.ip.address]) by servername (Postfix) with SMTP id 13833205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:16:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-34.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.35.151.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user michael) by server.internal.ip.address with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Notice the second received line evrtwa1-blah-blah. Could that string be what allows me to connect to their server? Short of that, I'm at a loss as to what else could be dropping me. When I use the client machines, that line becomes whatever machine name I'm at along with it's internal ip. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #257: That would be because the software doesn't work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:56, Jack Coates wrote: I'd stop by the sysadmin's desk on the way to the coffee pot and ask her/him, assuming it's the kind of place you can walk around in. Failing that, an off-hand comment about how their email system doesn't seem to accept mail from your home address and see if they'll introduce you to the sysadmin. Point of contact may not need to know that it's widely broken, the sysadmin can help them to that knowledge. I'm on a remote site :'( but I think I'm just going to email them and see if I can bug them about it - sometimes innocent ignorance has an appeal :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #251: Processes running slowly due to weak power supply Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta156.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:00:02 -0800 Received: from machinename (unknown [host.internal.ip]) by servername (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0606E205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:02:11 -0500 (EST) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #57: Groundskeepers stole the root password Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:23, Jack Coates wrote: Yeah, nothing like interviewing job candidates to burst that bubble :-) There are some very good people out there, but the dangerous ones are the ones that know just enough to do things but don't know enough to realize that they shouldn't do that thing. LOL, no kidding :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #10: hardware stress fractures Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:06, Bill Mullen wrote: Unless, of course, the only one giving you fits is your boss', which we have already established is hosed in some bizarre fashion g ... but having Postfix use a more valid hostname may fix that situation, too, even though that doesn't fully explain that server's rather eccentric behavior. Ok, here's my new postconf: mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain $mydomain, earth.$mydomain mydomain = holt-tech.net myhostname = earth.holt-tech.net mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/24 myorigin = holt-tech.net I added my client machine to /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts and added the above to main.cf then I sent a message to my boss from the client machine to see what happens. I'm not sure when I'll hear back, so I'm just going to wait a bit and see. I want to wait to make any more changes to see if this has any effect. HTH! That's great! Thanks again! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #373: Suspicious pointer corrupted virtual machine Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 14:22, Jack Coates wrote: if the address is in a DHCP pool assigned for home users, more and more servers out there will block direct SMTP connections from it; only relaying through the ISP's server will work in this case. This is what I was first thinking; but I'm able to use the webmail from behind my firewall - that's still a direct connection. It seems like rDNS would have to be the culprit. I guess I'll have to wait a bit and see if I get a message back from my boss. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 38. OH, CRUD! (as they scrabble at the keyboard for ^c). --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:00, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:41:55 -0800 Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider coding it simply: myhostname = holt-tech.net Ok, now the question becomes, why am I using my domain name instead of my host name where it asks for my host name? TIA -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 34. What is all this I here about static charges destroying computers? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:53, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:41:55 -0800 Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider coding it simply: myhostname = holt-tech.net Exactly. Using earth.holt-tech.net gives no benefit, because that name does not resolve, while holt-tech.net alone *does* (forward, at least). Ok, too late, I already hit 'send' on my last before reading this one. Why would this tag be in the conf file if it wants domain name? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #22: monitor resolution too high Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:57, James Sparenberg wrote: 3 people are in a car. An Electrical Engineer, A Windows programmer, and a Mechanical Engineer. They are trying to get a car to re-start after it dies. The Electrical Engineer is under the hood testing the wiring, the Mechanical Engineer is under the car Checking out if the measurements are matching the blueprints. The Programmer is opening and closing windows, and a kid who is riding by on his Bike suggests putting gas in the tank. James :) I like that -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #10: hardware stress fractures Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:05, Bill Mullen wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Michael Holt wrote: I added my client machine to /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts and added the above to main.cf then I sent a message to my boss from the client machine to see what happens. I'm not sure when I'll hear back, so I'm just going to wait a bit and see. I want to wait to make any more changes to see if this has any effect. You did either restart or reload Postfix after making the changes, right? If not, the main.cf change won't take effect until you do. Si Senor! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 70. Hmm, maybe if I do this... --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] firebird / evolution new session
Hey, I just started using evolution and I've found that when I click on a link from my email, it tries to start a new session of mozilla. When this happens, mozilla complains about having a session already open. How do I make it look to see if an instance is already open? I imagine that this is probably more to do with how mozilla gets called to begin with, so; I used gnome control center to change the default handler to mozillafirebird %s -- I thought the %s was what was supposed to take care of my problem? tia -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 36. It is only a minor upgrade, the system should be back up in a few hours. ( This is said on a monday afternoon.) --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] firebird / evolution new session
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:03, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 07:36, Michael Holt wrote: Hey, I just started using evolution and I've found that when I click on a link from my email, it tries to start a new session of mozilla. When this happens, mozilla complains about having a session already open. How do I make it look to see if an instance is already open? I imagine that this is probably more to do with how mozilla gets called to begin with, so; I used gnome control center to change the default handler to mozillafirebird %s -- I thought the %s was what was supposed to take care of my problem? tia use this attached script as your default browser instead -- it opens new tabs if there's already a browser open, or opens a new browser if necessary. Set up for Mozilla now, but making it work with Firebird or whatever would be fairly simple from the examples. Thanks to Ciff Wells, who wrote it. : thanks!!! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == -8. Ignore the errors. It complains too much. --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] firebird / evolution new session
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:03, Jack Coates wrote: use this attached script as your default browser instead -- it opens new tabs if there's already a browser open, or opens a new browser if necessary. Set up for Mozilla now, but making it work with Firebird or whatever would be fairly simple from the examples. Thanks to Ciff Wells, who wrote it. Hey Jack, Just an update; script works great! Since I don't use mozilla (I use firebird) I just linked 'mozilla' in my path to MozFbird so I didn't have to mess with the script at all. Thanks again! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 18. where did you say those backup tapes were kept? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:11, Bill Mullen wrote: Also worth knowing is that view is equivalent to vi -R (and quite a bit easier to remember) ... gview is the same as gvim -R, also ... That's not nearly as fun though! Want a rush? Logon as root and start randomly opening files with vi :) Seriously though, thanks for the 'view' command. I'll switch to that I think, it seems easier to remember - especially if I can still override with :w! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == -2. `We are shutting xxx down from 8.30 to 10.30 on Thursday to install a new tape drive.' The machine was up at about 2pm sans-tape drive --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:50, Eric Huff wrote: I just upgraded to 9.2 though, and noticed that when I shutdown the machine, it actually powered all the way off; instead of just stopping at the end and waiting for me to turn it off. Do you have a printer hooked up to the paralell port? If so check and see if it works. On my comcrap, i seem to have a choice: run acpi or run the paralell port. i can't do both... eric Hmmm... I just removed the acpi=ht line from lilo.conf and now all is well. I'm not sure if that disables acpi - I would think so. Anyway, the machine shuts off now. I don't have any parallel devices to connect to my machine, so that's a moot point for me. Have you tried removing acpi from your lilo? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 40. The backup procedure works fine, but the restore is tricky! --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Q: Failure to boot installed Linux PPC 9.1 on G3
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 05:58, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Morten S. Mortensen wrote: Hi Stew B. all, Move to cooker-ppc? Because the cooker-version tries to repair this or what? There is not much cooker over the 9.1 version, is there? ccoker-ppc is a bit of a misnomer. It's a general purpose Mandrake on PowerPC list, both for the development and released versions. I just suggested moving so we don't annoy the x86 folks with Apple noise :) I'm not annoyed, if that counts :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 37. The sprinkler system isn't supposed to leak is it? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] movies, jpegs, etc
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 00:43, Peter Watson wrote: PS. I missed the most important difference. Kino allows unlimited DV capture, M$ moviemaker appears to allow the same, but the resultant files are somehow crippled so that they appear to other applications to be only 7008 frames long. This severely limits your ability to do any post processing, such as conversion to MPEG 1/2 in order to master a VCD or DVD, I don't know how or why this is done but it is typical of M$ to build in restrictions to otherwise functional software, look at XP Home networking abilities. The overall result is that moviemaker is really only a toy and cannot be cosidered for any attempt to produce serious video output. Regards Pete Cool! Thanks for the very detailed response! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 94. Hey!! The suns don't do this. --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 09:29, Artemio wrote: Michael Holt wrote: I don't have any parallel devices to connect to my machine, so that's a moot point for me. Have you tried removing acpi from your lilo? Well, yes - but in mdk 9.1 - and it didn't change anything for me. How about on 9.2? Like I said, I've been living with this for quite a while now; if it hadn't been for noting that it worked briefly during an upgrade, I probably would have just continued to use it as-is. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #128: Power Company having EMP problems with their reactor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:12, James Sparenberg wrote: Eric, Don't haunt Newbie so to me it's just proof that great minds run on the same wavelength. *grin* James Alright, let's not get carried away now ;) __ -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 18. where did you say those backup tapes were kept? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] postfix headers
Hey all, Sorry for the long post, but I'm confused here. I've been using squirrelmail for several months now, but I wanted to switch to a local mail client. Squirrelmail really is local because my postfix email server is behind the firewall along with my host machines. I want to use the webmail when I'm outside the firewall and Evolution/Pine/Outlook/whatever when I'm inside. Anyway, I've gotten a couple of returned emails since I've started using evolution saying that the destination server refused the email. I don't have any way of testing their systems to see why it's being rejected so I just tried sending a couple messages to an external test account on yahoo and then comparing the headers. The following are two sets of headers; the first is from squirrelmail where I was logged on remotely to webmail but from the same side of the firewall. The second is from evolution, also on the same side of the firewall. ** X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via 66.218.93.72; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:14:06 -0800 X-YahooFilteredBulk:4.35.151.34 Return-Path:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta130.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:14:06 -0800 Received: from www.holt-tech.net (unknown [server.internal.ip.address]) by servername (Postfix) with SMTP id 13833205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:16:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-34.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.35.151.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user michael) by server.internal.ip.address with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Subject:another test From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Add to Address Book To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Content-Length: 4 *** X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via 66.218.93.80; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:00:02 -0800 X-YahooFilteredBulk:4.35.151.34 Return-Path:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta156.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:00:02 -0800 Received: from machinename (unknown [host.internal.ip]) by servername (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0606E205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:02:11 -0500 (EST) Subject:test From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Add to Address Book To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-8mdk Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:01:59 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 314 Both messages were written in ascii (html turned off) but I've noticed that they don't have the same type of tags at the bottom. The received lines for both also seem to be quite different. What I need to know is, are these differences enough to keep my email from getting through on some systems? Could someone be considering my email to be potentially dangerous or spam or something of that nature because of these headers? Thanks in advance, -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 97. Go get your backup tape. (You _do_ have a backup tape?) --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:10, Jason Williams wrote: I dont see anything in your headers that would warrant them being malicious or spam. The only real thing I can see is that when you logged in remotely, its showing the verizon connection that was initiated. Is this a bad thing? This is just saying where I logged in from, no? My router does NAT loopback, so I just log onto my webpage using my domain name and then hit the webmail page and log in. I assumed that this is what is being added here. There are no other messages regarding why it was blocked? No bounce backs? connect to qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com[65.246.197.34]: server refused mail service I didn't save any others. It's only been a few, but since I just tried using a different system, everything is suspect. What version of postfix are you running? postfix-1.1.11-4mdk / Mandrake 9.0 Jason -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #194: We only support a 1200 bps connection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:37, Jason Williams wrote: $ telnet 65.246.197.34 25 Trying 65.246.197.34... Connected to 65.246.197.34. Escape character is '^]'. 521 qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com access denied Connection closed by foreign host. Ok, question -- why would a server let you telnet into port 25? I would think that a connection like that would get dropped for sure. You may want to consider upgrading to a new version of Postfix. There have been quite a few enhancements as well as security features that have changed since this release. A quick note: If you do upgrade, note that the way rules are applied (UCE specifically) into Postifx 2.x are slightly different than 1.x. I think I'm going to hold off upgrading pf for just now; time constraints and all. I'm planning on migrating the server to mdk9.2 here soon - just waiting to make sure enough release bugs are squashed :) Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. Jason Thanks so much for your help! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #266: All of the packets are empty. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:38, Jack Coates wrote: Try watching a mail session with ethereal sometime... it's just telnet to port 25, though a server is faster and has fewer typos than a human. You can send mails though, -- I posted an example of how to do it earlier today, with the Dead Kennedies quote, but I think it's still floating around in Sympa. Ok, I'll check it out :) I'm curious though, I'm still unable to get through to that address via evolution, but squirrelmail goes through just fine. Telnet to that address gets access denied. I tried telnetting to my own server port 25 and it didn't get denied - so - yeah, I believe you. I'm still confused about why I can't email through postfix to that specific email address. I tried it from my wife's laptop using win2k and outlook to my test account and the headers looked almost identical to those of evolution. It obviously works because I'm writing to you right now using evolution. Something in their server is rejecting me based on something that is happening differently on evolution -- what the heck would it be? The only thing that I can see that would be different would be the received lines in the headers. Any thoughts? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #309: firewall needs cooling Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:40, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:16, Michael Holt wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:38, Jack Coates wrote: Try watching a mail session with ethereal sometime... it's just telnet to port 25, though a server is faster and has fewer typos than a human. You can send mails though, -- I posted an example of how to do it earlier today, with the Dead Kennedies quote, but I think it's still floating around in Sympa. Ok, I'll check it out :) I'm curious though, I'm still unable to get through to that address via evolution, but squirrelmail goes through just fine. Telnet to that address gets access denied. I tried telnetting to my own server port 25 and it didn't get denied - so - yeah, I believe you. I'm still confused about why I can't email through postfix to that specific email address. I tried it from my wife's laptop using win2k and outlook to my test account and the headers looked almost identical to those of evolution. It obviously works because I'm writing to you right now using evolution. Something in their server is rejecting me based on something that is happening differently on evolution -- what the heck would it be? The only thing that I can see that would be different would be the received lines in the headers. Any thoughts? well, I've only sort of been following this, but if one client gets access denied with telnet to 25 and the other doesn't, then the first is probably tripping a blacklist rule. Does your wife's laptop connect via a VPN (hence via a different network)? Ok, I think this has gotten confused. My server is hosting web, email, etc. You can logon from anywhere if you have an account, and use webmail. When I log on to the web mail server, which is sitting in my living room - behind the router connected to dsl, I can send email to a particular person. Now I can also specify that same server as an email server and connect to it with client machines, i.e., other boxes; with client mua's, i.e., outlook, evolution, pine, whatever. When I connect with outlook for example, the received line of my email header ends up looking like this: Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta130.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:14:06 -0800 Received: from www.holt-tech.net (unknown [server.internal.ip.address]) by servername (Postfix) with SMTP id 13833205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:16:15 -0500 (EST) When I use squirrelmail (my webmail server) it looks like this: Received: from 4.35.151.34 (EHLO servername) (4.35.151.34) by mta130.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:14:06 -0800 Received: from www.holt-tech.net (unknown [server.internal.ip.address]) by servername (Postfix) with SMTP id 13833205CFC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:16:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from evrtwa1-ar17-4-35-151-34.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net ([4.35.151.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user michael) by server.internal.ip.address with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Now, I've changed the ip's and machine name's but you get the idea. This is sent to a test account just to see what the headers end up like. The problem is that when I email my boss (I'm a contractor and my point of contact works for this specific company) I get refused and my email is bounced with this: connect to qxssmtp2.qualxserv.com[65.246.197.34]: server refused mail service Received: from myclientmachine (unknown [192.168.0.4]) by myemailserver (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E918200099 This is just a snippet but the rest is just email information. I'm not able to telnet to this person's email server at all, from anywhere. I'm wondering if they have something set on their server to drop any email that doesn't show an fqdn in the received string. Maybe to keep from getting email from a server that's been taken over as a relay? If this is the case, how would I set postfix so that emails originating from other boxes on my lan would appear to be the server sending them? So that the above headers taken from both webmail and client machines would look identical? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #173: Recursive traversal of loopback mount points Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:34, Jack Coates wrote: Their server won't accept connections from anything that I have access too, and I have access to some pretty high traffic (and legit :-) mail servers -- I don't see how they can get mail from any one. They don't even give the chance to AUTH. Since that server is the only MX record listed in their zone, they're self-blackholed. My guess is they're whitelisting, which IMHO is The Beginning Of The End. Ok, I don't fully understand the term 'whitelisting', but I assume that it means only specified senders get in? I'm able to send to any account I've ever tried in the past (hotmail, yahoo, my server when using squirrelmail), how could this be setup? I've got to be doing something wrong, I just don't know what. p.s. thanks for doing all the footwork of hitting their servers, I don't even really know where to begin :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 100. Uh-oh. --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 17:10, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 07:18 pm, Michael Holt wrote: I'm wondering if they have something set on their server to drop any email that doesn't show an fqdn in the received string. Maybe to keep from getting email from a server that's been taken over as a relay? If this is the case, how would I set postfix so that emails originating from other boxes on my lan would appear to be the server sending them? So that the above headers taken from both webmail and client machines would look identical? Michael, is it possible that you are using a different From: address when using Squirrelmail versus when you use Evolution? They may be whitelisting based on the From listed as the sender. No - that stuff is all the same. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #371: Incorrectly configured static routes on the corerouters. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:26, Jack Coates wrote: Ok, I don't fully understand the term 'whitelisting', but I assume that it means only specified senders get in? right. I'm able to send to any account I've ever tried in the past (hotmail, yahoo, my server when using squirrelmail), how could this be setup? I've got to be doing something wrong, I just don't know what. your setup is probably fine. Theirs is FUBAR'd. No fault of yours. Well, it seems to be the general opinion that I can't really do anything about this situation? It just seems so odd that they would make their servers *that* inaccessible. p.s. thanks for doing all the footwork of hitting their servers, I don't even really know where to begin :) no problem -- this sort of thing is part of what I do for a living these days, and I was really bored at work :-) LOL :) Cool. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #253: We've run out of licenses Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:27, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 17:10, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 07:18 pm, Michael Holt wrote: I'm wondering if they have something set on their server to drop any email that doesn't show an fqdn in the received string. Maybe to keep from getting email from a server that's been taken over as a relay? If this is the case, how would I set postfix so that emails originating from other boxes on my lan would appear to be the server sending them? So that the above headers taken from both webmail and client machines would look identical? Michael, is it possible that you are using a different From: address when using Squirrelmail versus when you use Evolution? They may be whitelisting based on the From listed as the sender. Except they drop connection before he could ever send From.. Maybe they've set a ridiculously low timeout or something, but it doesn't act like any real world mailserver I've ever seen. See, that's the thing. I haven't done any playing with cisco routers, but I would imagine that the ios is smart enough to drop anything except an email packet at port 25 and then with all the recent problems with ddos attacks and virii, etc, I would think that they *would* want to seriously filter the headers that come in. But you guys are saying that the headers on my email - no matter which machine I'm sending from - are absolutely normal? Nobody would or could do it differently? Well thanks everyone for all the info -- I've definitely learned some stuff (including that I need to do some studying!:) ) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #321: Scheduled global CPU outage Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:43, Eric Huff wrote: On my comcrap, i seem to have a choice: run acpi or run the paralell port. i can't do both... eric Have you tried removing acpi from your lilo? Yeah, i have a choice: acpi=on and then no parallel port, or acpi=off, and then the comp doesn't shut down. Not sure what acpi=ht means. I'll hae to check it out This is all under 9.1. eric Hmm... I don't pretend to know about kernel stuff, but it seems odd that that would affect your parallel ports. All I can say is, try 9.2 - I don't have any p port stuff, but without acpi in lilo -- off or on -- just removed altogether, my machine shuts down now. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #339: manager in the cable duct Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 22:56, Bill wrote: I dont believe it is a router issue. They could have a acl in place but then you wouldnt see the answer from the server it would just block it alltogther. I dont remember ever seing a Cisco router checking the header files in emails to block a person. I think they may have a timeout issue like mentioned before. They may be trying to prevent anyone from trying to run a script to get in there box through there email server software. This is the first time I have seen an email server not respond the correct way using telent to port 25. In any case it seems to be there problem. I would contact there sys admin and see whats up with this issue. Please let us know what the answer is if you get one. Alrightty then, I'll see what I can find out from them. Hey thanks again everyone, I'll let you know what I come up with. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == SysAdmin excuse #226: A star wars satellite accidently blew up the WAN. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] pc doesn't shutdown
I haven't had my pc shutdown all the way for quite some time. I was using mdk9 then 9.1 and now 9.2 and I've just gotten used to it. I just upgraded to 9.2 though, and noticed that when I shutdown the machine, it actually powered all the way off; instead of just stopping at the end and waiting for me to turn it off. That was on an upgrade type install from 9.1 to 9.2. For other reasons, I did a reinstall of 9.2, wiping the old partitions to start out fresh. Now I'm back to having to hit the power button to turn the machine off. I know this is vague, but any ideas where to look? Now it's going to bug me. The machine is an Asus a7m266-d dual athlon board. I haven't done any of the bios updates because they don't offer any improvements that I could tell. Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
How can I start / stop the gpilotd manually? I want it to get started when the machine boots but I'd like to be able to shut it off manually. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] movies, jpegs, etc
James Sparenberg mused: There was/is one that was by many considered to be studio quality called broadcast 2000 You can find the files here http://www.tux.org/pub/packages/orphaned/broadcast2000/ in source form and If you go to rpmfind or rpm.pbone.net you might find a src rpm as well. James Thanks James, I d/l'd it and am going to start playing with it now. I'm curious though; cinelerra is supposed to be the replacement for bcast2k and I googled around for bcast; do you know why they stopped supporting bcast? Thanks again -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
Jack Coates mused: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:58, Michael Holt wrote: How can I start / stop the gpilotd manually? I want it to get started when the machine boots but I'd like to be able to shut it off manually. In a terminal, type pkill gpilotd AAA!!! DUH!! I'm sorry I'm very distracted this morning :/ Ok, killing the thing isn't really a problem - starting it when the machine boots would be nice. :) I got a little frustrated trying to find the actual 'gpilotd' on/off button. I'd like to be able to run the gpilotd as an init script, but I don't know where it lives. I did some googling around but had no luck. Anyway, thanks Jack! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
Artemio mused: I may not be right, but this can be something connected with ACPI. If in /etc/lilo.conf for main linux image you have acpi=off in append string - try to change it to acpi=on and say lilo to re-install the loader. Or, if you have acpi=on try to set it to off. Hey, awesome! I had acpi=ht; I removed that line altogether and added noapic for kicks. By the way, which is it? ACPI or APCI? Or are they two different things? Thanks though, it works now! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
Jack Coates mused: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:42, Michael Holt wrote: Jack Coates mused: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:58, Michael Holt wrote: How can I start / stop the gpilotd manually? I want it to get started when the machine boots but I'd like to be able to shut it off manually. In a terminal, type pkill gpilotd AAA!!! DUH!! I'm sorry I'm very distracted this morning :/ Ok, killing the thing isn't really a problem - starting it when the machine boots would be nice. :) I got a little frustrated trying to find the actual 'gpilotd' on/off button. I'd like to be able to run the gpilotd as an init script, but I don't know where it lives. I did some googling around but had no luck. Anyway, thanks Jack! NP :-) if you've got a sessions-capable window manager, your configger will have some sort of a start these programs tool. Otherwise, put an executable script into ~/Desktop/Autostart/ and call it from there. If you go that route, look our for how you edit the script -- Anything in the folder will be executed, including ~ backup files. It's not so much that I can't start the program; the start program is 'gpilotd-control-applet'. The thing is, I just want to put my visor in it's cradle and hit the sync button - I've been using jpilot, but you have to hit the button on the cradle then click the sync button on jpilot and sometimes that doesn't work and if you don't hurry, it times out and you have to start over on the series of clicks and button pushes. Gnome-pilot is supposed to have the gpilotd (daemon) which runs in the background. Now once you've started it via the applet / dialog (which also brings up a dialog box asking you to confirm the device and settings), you can hit the cradle button to sync and it works great. The problem is that I don't leave this machine on, so I don't want to have to manually start that applet each time and even if it does start automatically, I still need to hit the 'ok' button each time. I just want it to start silently in the background. I can't seem to find any documentation that covers what I want it to do. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
Tim Sawchuck mused: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:48:46 -0800 (PST) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: Artemio mused: I may not be right, but this can be something connected with ACPI. If in /etc/lilo.conf for main linux image you have acpi=off in append string - try to change it to acpi=on and say lilo to re-install the loader. Or, if you have acpi=on try to set it to off. Hey, awesome! I had acpi=ht; I removed that line altogether and added noapic for kicks. By the way, which is it? ACPI or APCI? Or are they two different Two *very* different things! Thanks to Google: ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) www.acpi.info/ The 82093AA I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (IOAPIC) provides multi-processor interrupt management www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/290566.htm Tim hehe, I thought that was just a type-o! :) thanks -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:57, Jack Coates wrote: no it isn't, that's the control panel applet, which happens to start gpilotd for you if it isn't already running. Just run gpilotd from a startup script. Ok, if I do 'which gpilotd' it's nowhere to be found. If I do 'gpilotd' from the command, I get --bash command not found. In fact, if you do 'gpiltab' you get: gpilotd-control-applet gpilotd-session-wrapper gpilot-install-file The actual 'gpilotd' seems to be buried somewhere. I tried doing 'vi gpilotd-control-applet' just to see if I could see what is happening, but it wasn't very helpful for me. you're lucky that it works at all, gnome-pilot is one finicky pile of junk -- er, fine piece of software. :-) :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:13, Artemio wrote: Hey, awesome! I had acpi=ht; I removed that line altogether and added noapic for kicks. So - did it work? Yeah, and I removed the noapic line because evidently, I don't need it! :) The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing ACPI = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface APIC = Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller ...dictd at localhost port 2628 :-P Yes and thank you for that too! I'm getting rug-burn on my nose now :) I'm off to see if I can find some other stupid question to ask now! Thanks again :) -- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 14:13, Jack Coates wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] html]# urpmf gpilotd libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotd.so.2 libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotd.so.2.1.0 libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotdcm.so.2 libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotdcm.so.2.0.2 libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotdconduit.so.2 libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotdconduit.so.2.0.3 gnome-pilot:/usr/bin/gpilotd-control-applet gnome-pilot:/usr/bin/gpilotd-session-wrapper gnome-pilot:/usr/lib/gpilotd ... ah hah. There's your gpilotd... that session-wrapper thing might be useful... try using file on it, and if it's a script then it might tell you something useful. You da man!! :) Ok, I ran /usr/lib/gpilotd and all is well. Now, what did 'file' tell me beside the fact that this was an executable file? I noticed that you said if it's a *script* then it might tell you something useful. I tried running file on some scripts; it seems to describe what type of scripts you're looking at. Is that what you were getting at? Thanks Jack! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] movies, jpegs, etc
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:26, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:05, Michael Holt wrote: James Sparenberg mused: There was/is one that was by many considered to be studio quality called broadcast 2000 You can find the files here http://www.tux.org/pub/packages/orphaned/broadcast2000/ in source form and If you go to rpmfind or rpm.pbone.net you might find a src rpm as well. James Thanks James, I d/l'd it and am going to start playing with it now. I'm curious though; cinelerra is supposed to be the replacement for bcast2k and I googled around for bcast; do you know why they stopped supporting bcast? Some of what they where doing was patented after the fact and they felt that the chances of running into expensive lawsuits wasn't worth the risk. James Ahh, I see. Thanks James -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:34, James Sparenberg wrote: ACPI is part of Linear Algebra and beyond my ken. *grin* James Yeah, thanks. I wasn't screwed up enough with just two definitions :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:50, James Sparenberg wrote: APCI Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller errr APIC sorry. James APIC AIPC ACIP AICP APCI ACPI I CNA'T TKAE IT AYNMROE!!! :P -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] movies, jpegs, etc
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:42, Peter Watson wrote: Kino will allow you to do some simple video editing and includes effects like fades and barn doors also you can create titles etc from gifs or jpegs (hint use gimp to create them), it is not as comprehensive as premier but miles better than M$ moviemaker. I have not usef cinelerra but from what I hear it is very good, probably equal or better than premier Regards Pete So are you saying 'miles better' because it's m$? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == 19. hey, what does mkfs do? --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:33, Jack Coates wrote: yeah, if file says it's a script, then you vi -R the script and see what it does (-R means read-only :-) Yeah, pulled that one before ... ouch -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] movies, jpegs, etc
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:26, Peter Watson wrote: No it can do more things IMO:- Create titles - do fewer but better effects - export video in more ^ ^^ formats(like divx) - show frame numbers (as well as times)when editing -more flexible editing tools. Regards Pete Ok, that's what I'm looking for. I want to be able to do some of those better effects. So, how would I approach that? Moviemaker can take still jpegs and turn them into transitions like a page flip for example. How would I accomplish that on linux? Is that where the gimp would come in? I guess I'm looking for any plugins or whatever that could go into kino. I'm going to play more with kino and cinelerra and see how it works out. Thanks! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com == If Microsoft built cars, you could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought Car95 or CarNT. But, then you would have to buy more seats. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] movies, jpegs, etc
Hey all, M$ has a somewhat new program called 'moviemaker' which you can download for free for winxp. I would like to know if there is something comparible for linux. I was asked if I could help with some video production at my church and they want to use Adobe Premier. As always, I would like to introduce as much opensource as possible. I haven't done much video editing, and what I have done was on Windows, several years ago. I would like something that could handle both jpeg compilation like moviemaker and also something that could do video transitions with effects similar to premier. Being able to make photos 'shatter' into the next photo or have like a 'page-flip' effect. Same with the video; maybe being able to 'twist' the video and merge into other footage. Any suggestions? Things I've looked at already are: cinelerra kino mjpeg filmgimp As I've said, I don't have much video editing experience; if one of the programs I've already mentioned does what I've asked, feel free to point that out :) Thanks! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] more msec questions
Hi ... me again :/ I'm at msec 4, which defaults to 6 days on password aging. I've used drakconf to set password aging to several different numbers and I've tried setting my changes in level.local - no good, still stays at 6 days. I've also tried restarting all services and even reboot the machine - still not happening. Thanks for any suggestions... -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com So in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] more msec questions
Michael Holt mused: Hi ... me again :/ I'm at msec 4, which defaults to 6 days on password aging. I've used drakconf to set password aging to several different numbers and I've tried setting my changes in level.local - no good, still stays at 6 days. I've also tried restarting all services and even reboot the machine - still not happening. Thanks for any suggestions... I'll answer my own post... I did chage -M on the individual users and it seems to have stuck; why wouldn't that work through my previous methods? thanks -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com So in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl
Daniel Anderson mused: Hi, This may be a bit off topic but it does involve Linux. I,m considering getting Verizon dsl, since it is now available in my area, and my wireless connection is not reliable. I had a Verizon dialup account once for about three years, with no problems, until one day I could no longer connect to the mail servers unless I used windows. Are any of you using Verizon dsl, and if so are there any problems with using Linux? Thanks, Dan Not a problem here. I've been using Verizon for like 3-4 years without any problems to speak of. I use a hardware router and run a server, etc. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com So in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:5 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] msec level 4
Good morning, I´ve got another msec question. I was working on a different computer on my lan and hadn´t put it´s id in my hosts file on my server yet. I was lazy and didn´t feel like getting on a system which had access (for ssh that is) so I was trying different toys to see which had access. I couldn´t get on user accounts using ftp, or ssh, etc, but then I tried telnet and got right in. I though, ´hmm, that´s odd...´ I´m also able to get in using my domain name - which I´m not able to do using ssh. I´m confused; why can I telnet get right in but ssh is blocked? I know the obvious answer - remove telnet from the server - but I would like more information about this before removing the symptom. Thanks -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨For we are God´s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.¨ Eph. 2:10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec level 4
Bill Mullen mused: I don't run telnet (naturally g), but I'd guess that access to it is probably controlled by xinetd, rather than by /etc/hosts.allow. If that's the case, you'll have an /etc/xinetd.d/telnet[d] file where this sort of thing can be configured. After you've made any changes to that file, the xinetd service would need to be restarted, for those changes to take. Actually, I was just playing with my linux box earlier and found that I can indeed ssh into the server. When I had the trouble, I had been running Windows 2000 from the same box. Some background... I have several small hdd´s that a friend gave me (4G) which I use to configure different systems on so that I can get familiar with them. I loaded win2k on such a drive and put it in a pull out bay and booted the system. I just used the same static ip that the regular system uses ´cause I didn´t want to add another host to my server. This was fine except that the machine name was different. I added that to the hosts file on the server. Anyway, I assume that my original problem must have been that I didn´t identify the Windows box the same as the linux box (ip, machine name, fqdn). As far as the telnet-server - done ;) I actually hadn´t realized that I had the server part installed -- doh! Be sure to urpme telnet-server sometime soon, though! ;) HTH! Yes! It does! Thanks -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨For we are God´s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.¨ Eph. 2:10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec level 4
Bryan Phinney mused: I would guess that something is either not configured correctly, you have installed some software that has changed the default settings, or you are hitting a different machine than you think you are hitting. I have tried this on my web server which is also set to msec level 4 and it does NOT work. Telnet connections are refused, just like SSH was initially until I opened that up using hosts.allow. It is possible that you have altered your hosts.deny file and the cron job that is supposed to change it back simply hasn't run yet, but it should get around to it. However, default at msec level 4 is to create a hosts.deny file that denies all. Until you explicitly allow connections in hosts.allow or remove hosts.deny, it should be refusing all connections. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Hmm... I´m going to have to do some more playing around. I´ll let you know what I broke ;) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨For we are God´s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.¨ Eph. 2:10 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec???
Bryan Phinney mused: Msec level 4 denies everything by default. Therefore, you must explicitly allow the things that you want to allow in the hosts.allow file. This will override the hosts.deny file so that anything that is not allowed is denied. I had the same problem with my web server, once you understand that the default behavior is to deny, it makes perfect sense. Yeah, that makes sense. I was reading different posts on HOW to allow things though, and trying to find which way would stick which was confusing. I put ´All: All´ in my allow file just so I can make it work and I found a sample allow file on the web that I´m going to play with when I get home from work today. Since you´re running a web server, would you mind posting a copy of yours? (/etc/hosts.allow file, that is). I´ve got kind of an ´all-in-one´ type of server - I don´t really have the resources to split things up. I´m running apache, webmail (postfix, squirrelmail, etc), samba, ftp, ssh, blah; just pretty much everything - on the same box. It would be nice to setup a firewall (other than port fowarding on my router), get msec all hardened up, and make everything all secure - but I think I have too many things going to do that. Anyway, all suggestions excepted :) Thanks -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don´t... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec???
Wow! Thanks for all the help Bryan! I´m going to go through the list and see what I can start implementing. Yeah, I do have a hardware router with port forwarding setup. I´m going to start playing with those other tools you mentioned. Thanks again -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don´t... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] msec???
Ok, I´ve read all the posts I could find and it looks like no one has had any luck with msec? I´ve been doing fine forever at ´high´ security; now a friend from work is dogging me about making things more secure. Since he´s an m$ guy, I want to prove how much better *nix can do things and so I am off and ready to make that server of mine so secure that you can´t get ANYTHING done! Well, I´ve succeeded! I can´t get anything done! Ok, sorry ´bout that; now here´s my problem: When I go to msec level 4 - I can´t login to squirrelmail, use ssh, use ftp - I´m just about completely locked out. I´ve tried commenting out the line msec put in /etc/hosts.deny denying all, but it gets overwritten. I read a post about using chattr +i, but I´m using xfs so that´s no good. I tried adding ´authorize_services (all)´, but that didn´t help. I would really like to have secure level 4 or maybe even 5, but I need to be able to use my computer and I don´t know how to manually set the same environments without using msec. What can I do to fix this mess? I want the wheel group, etc. Thanks in advance! -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don´t... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] msec???
Jack Coates mused: Start by read the /usr/share/msec/perm.* files, then apply changes to /etc/security/perm.local. Next, did you know that all the msec stuff is in script? Read it, quite enlightening. /usr/sbin/msec is the wrapper that figures out what to do, then calls python and bash scripts that live in /usr/share/msec. msec.py is the really powerful one. Look out for password aging, for instance :-) The bad news is that IIRC some of this stuff is dependent on kernel patches like GRSecurity, and so msec is toggling kernel flags that can only be touched during bootup. Cool, Thanks Jack -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don´t... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??
Rob Blomquist mused: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image should I use to flash it? Rob -- Hey Rob, I didn't hear back from you whether you wanted that file or not? I'll be home around 6:30 - 7:00 tonight - let me know, k? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen¨ Heb. 11:1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??
Rob Blomquist mused: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image should I use to flash it? Rob -- I´ve got a boot image for you if you like -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] thinkpad buttons; how to enable them?
Kwan Lowe mused: It depends a lot on your particular window manager, but here is a start: Run xev in a terminal window to determine what the keycode settings are for the extra keys. Use these to populate your local .Xmodmap file to look like: keycode 146 = XF86Mail keycode 147 = XF86Search What about those usb keypads that you can attach to a laptop? Has anyone tried one under linux? -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website
HaywireMac mused: How would one configure Apache so that anyone using IE would be met with a nice friendly message that they are not welcome? This is REALLY easy. Here´s a link to read all about: http://www.devin.com/ieblock_howto.shtml Server side includes are probably the easiest way to do it; no need to even mess with apache (other than setting up the ability to use ssi´s. It´s been a common practice ever since the browser plugin wars. You write one page for the rest of the world and then a specific page for ie. You have to save your pages as .shtml and then make apache aware that you´re using shtml. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website
Jack Coates mused: [snip] look at how little the growth is for XP, .NET extensions, all that hype. Win98 is being abandoned, but for Linux and Win2000. And look at the huge increase in Mozilla on Windows. That´s pretty cool! Maybe a trend? It´s amazing how many people I run into nowadays who´ve at least tried linux compared to a couple of years ago when no one knew what it was. Just about 5 years ago I was an m$ advocate and balked at mozilla - times sure change :) -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com ¨There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary, and those that don´t¨ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Streaming MP3-wav conversion problem
This is a script I use for batch conversion; works on one or more mp3's. If this doesn't work, maybe there is a problem with the xmms plugin you mentioned? #!/bin/bash # allmp3wav for i in *.mp3; do echo $i tgt=$(echo $i | sed -e s/mp3/wav/) mpg123 -b 1 -s -r 44100 $i | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - $tgt done mike I am trying to convert a streaming MP3 file to a wav file for editing in Audacity. The mp3 stream was caught by XMMS with the MPEG Layer 1/2/3 plugin. XMMS and Noatun play it prefectly, so I bet that I can convert it to a wav file somehow. I have tried lame, bladeenc, and mpg123 to try to either output it as a wav, raw, or standard output (so I could pipe it back to an encoder to rebuild the mp3 into something converable). Here is the output from lame showing the problem it is having with the bitstream, variable frequency, and the number of channels. Any ideas? $ lame --decode incoming/KEXPraw.mp3 input: incoming/KEXPraw.mp3 (48 kHz, 2 channels, MPEG-1 Layer III) output: incoming/KEXPraw.mp3.wav (16 bit, Microsoft WAVE) skipping initial 1105 samples (encoder+decoder delay) Frame# 1/289994 452 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 2/289994 356 kbps L R bitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 3/289994 452 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 4/289994 388 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 5/289994 448 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 6/289994 128 kbps LMSR ibitstream problem: resyncing... Frame# 7/289994 416 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Error: sample frequency has changed in MP3 file - not supported Frame# 8/289994 160 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... . . . Frame# 137/289994 193 kbps bitstream problem: resyncing... Error: number of channels has changed in MP3 file - not supported Error: sample frequency has changed in MP3 file - not supported Frame# 138/289994 299 kbps fatal error. MAXFRAMESIZE not large enough. Segmentation fault -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] script help
Hey, I'm looking for some help on my little backup script for my server. I'm not a real savvy scripter so please bare with me :) I googled around awhile back and put together a bu script that has served my purpose well until now. It's just a few lines as you will see and I use it with cron to make a cdrw every morning at 3am. Now the info on my server is starting to outgrow just on cdrw (jpgs and such) so I would like to know how I can modify my script to be able to exclude either certain files or directories. I imagine that sed would be involved, but I don't completely understand that tool so I'm hoping that someone might be able to give me some pointers and maybe even explain how the code will work in that setting. Well, here's what I've got now: #!/bin/bash # # create daily backup of essential files # DATA=/var CONFIG=/etc # set $(date) # # daily full backup: # tar -cvf /mnt/backup/data/df$2$3.tgz $DATA # tar -cvf /mnt/backup/config/cf$2$3.tgz $CONFIG # # make iso image and burn it to disk: mkisofs -o /tmp/backup.iso /mnt/backup/* # cdrecord -v blank=fast dev=0,2,0 speed=2 -eject /tmp/backup.iso rm -f /tmp/backup.iso rm -f /mnt/backup/data/* rm -f /mnt/backup/config/* In this setting, I can just add all the directories that I want to back up, but it would be much simpler to add just the parent directories and then exclude *.jpg for example or maybe a whole child directory. Thanks a bunch for any help! Mike -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - sound embedded in jpg
Cool - I might try the mpeg / avi idea; sounds like a pretty good alternative! Mike Hi This seems to be a very proprietary format. Supposely they have plans for support for multiple desktop platforms. But I doubt they ever will support linux. They have a plugin for IE. To create files for the soundpix format you have to buy the software, that is obvious. Can not see that Mplayer has any support for this either. I would guess to embedde sound i jpeg files and maintain standards, they fill the metadata of the jpeg with encoded sound. For the program you only supply a jpeg and a wav file. With an example file it might not be difficult to make a player for the fileformat. If you are able to get example files you could try to preceede the mplayer developers or some other multimedia developers for the linuxplatform. For the same effect you could make an avi or mpeg file with the same picture throughout the whole file. For testing if you have windows installed you can teste the soundpix sampler http://www.zdnet.com.au/downloads/pc/swinfo/0,236746,9597669,00.htm Regards Torstein Michael Holt wrote: Hey, Sorry for the OT, but I just received an email for a product called 'soundpix' which allows you to embed sound in a standard jpeg. I thought that sounded cool, but I don't want to buy the software and then realize all I had to do was download a gimp plugin or something else that simple. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT - sound embedded in jpg
Hey, Sorry for the OT, but I just received an email for a product called 'soundpix' which allows you to embed sound in a standard jpeg. I thought that sounded cool, but I don't want to buy the software and then realize all I had to do was download a gimp plugin or something else that simple. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] drakbackup
Wednesday, civileme mused: The employer was too cheap to give me a separate workstation, so it was my six years of work that was lost. For the same reason, it was risky to try restoring from tape though I had always done one file a month. Anyway, the tapes were stretched and dirty and the drive was unusable. I have been burning CDs since that time, even when the burns were at 1X. Civileme Oooh! I think I would have to smack that employer around a little! Well, back from my original post - I googled around for some other ideas and end up with a simple bash script that I adjusted to fit my own needs and then did crontab -e for 3:45 am every morning. I don't have more than 300 megs total that I'm backing up, it's just the configs, web, email, etc... that takes time to get back. Anything else (mp3's, digital photos, programs, etc... I put on cdr's. This stuff goes on cd/rw: #!/bin/bash DATA=/home /var CONFIG=/etc set $(date) tar -cvf /mnt/backup/data/df$2$3.tgz $DATA tar -cvf /mnt/backup/data/cf$2$3.tgz $CONFIG mkisofs -o /tmp/backup.iso /mnt/backup/* cdrecord -v blank=fast dev=0,2,0 speed=2 -eject /tmp/backup.iso rm -f /tmp/backup.iso rm -f /mnt/backup/data/* rm -f /mnt/backup/config/* So far, this seems to be doing great! I often stay up late and fall asleep at the keyboard, so all I have to do is make sure I've switched disks in the morning and I never lose anything important. Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] drakbackup
Hey all, I've been trying to use drakbackup with both cdr's and rw's but I get FATAL: Does not appear to be recordable media! with both. I'm able to burn a disk with cdrecord - just drakbackup fails. Any suggestions? Thanks! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] drakbackup
5:42pm, civileme mused: Well google around and you can find scdbackup which is oriented toward 650Mb disks. And I have tested it to work on 9.0 with supermount disabled, and a $25.95(US) CDRW drive which is rated 4x4x24 Even with that, the drive barfs on CDRW media, even for blanking, with 9.0 DO NOT USE CDRW media for this either--most of it is 650 and there are MANY supposed CDRW drives which will not work with CDRW media of the more modern flavor or insist on trying to treat all the CDRW media as 700Mb capacity. Civileme Is this something mdk specific or is it just a feature not available to the linux community yet? RW's have been out so long, I just assumed that the technology had been stablized by now. Thanks Civileme! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] drakbackup
9:07pm, civileme mused: Umm, I just moved the Acer Drive to my son's computer (he uses the unmentionable system in its latest incarnation) and it behaves the same--choking on CDRW disks, so I imagine it is unresolved hardware issues with the druive hardware and the brand of media (one style did not throttle the drive) So it aint even linux-specific Just one of those things that you never know til you test. I have a Wearnes 4x2x24 that works acceptably and a no-name that does 700Mb media perfectly either CD-R or CDRW, but won't touch 650s at all and it is rated 40x12x48 (and that one made me a religious buyer of very cheap CD-Rs cause backing up a 40G disk using it is not a wasted day) as to the quality of drakbackup, I cannot speak because I have been using scdbackup since 1999, but I do know that it works better with supermount disabled. (MOF, with supermount enabled, I can crash the kernel with a dd from CD to floppy). That might be the mandrake specific issue you seek. Civileme Well I guess that about does it then - I'm off to check out scd. Nothing ever seems to be simple these days :-) Thanks for the replies! Mike p.s. I know someone who can perform an exorcism on your son's computer if you like! :-) -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ut2003
OH MY GOSH I finally got it! I can't believe the hoops I had to jump through to get it working. The box I installed it on is running the smp kernel which *may* have made a difference (but shouldn't have), I disabled supermount and devfs, I wasn't able to run the installer from within 'X', it had to be done from the command line, and finally, I had to run the installer like so: ./linux_installer.sh instead of sh linux_installer.sh or it would complain about glibc 2.1 and exit the install. There was NO documentation on the box nor within and very little on the web - for being commercial software, I think epic could have done quite a bit better than that... 3 DAYS to install that game!!! Thanks for the suggestions, Mike On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:36:39 +0100 From: Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ut2003 I have the whole ut2003 runing fine in my Mandrake 9.0 with Geforce4 Pentium III. I had to dissable the buggy supermount, open two konsole, put the third cd-rom in the second cd-drive and I used the other console to mount the next cds in the first cd-driver. If you need more help I could explain it you in more detail. El Jue 16 Ene 2003 03:00, Ronald J. Hall escribió: On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:54 am, Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, Has anyone installed ut2003? I'm stumped - I've just spent the last two days trying to install but after about 6 or 7 hours, it goes into this loop where it keeps creating the same folder within it self ( it creates a folder called scorched earth and populates it with some files then under that directory it creates scorched earth then populates it with the same files as the last and keeps on going like that until I hit ^c to stop it) I've tried turning supermount completely off and stopping devfs in my lilo.conf file (just a wild guess) and I'm going to retry it to see how far it gets. Until then though, does anyone have any suggestions? I'm stumped. Thanks, Mike Mike, is that the demo or the full game? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ut2003
Full - but I have it running now - FINALLY! Now for nvidia to patch their last 4191 drivers and I'll be a happy camper! Thanks, Mike On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:00:03 -0500 From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ut2003 On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:54 am, Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, Has anyone installed ut2003? I'm stumped - I've just spent the last two days trying to install but after about 6 or 7 hours, it goes into this loop where it keeps creating the same folder within it self ( it creates a folder called scorched earth and populates it with some files then under that directory it creates scorched earth then populates it with the same files as the last and keeps on going like that until I hit ^c to stop it) I've tried turning supermount completely off and stopping devfs in my lilo.conf file (just a wild guess) and I'm going to retry it to see how far it gets. Until then though, does anyone have any suggestions? I'm stumped. Thanks, Mike Mike, is that the demo or the full game? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ut2003
Hey all, Has anyone installed ut2003? I'm stumped - I've just spent the last two days trying to install but after about 6 or 7 hours, it goes into this loop where it keeps creating the same folder within it self ( it creates a folder called scorched earth and populates it with some files then under that directory it creates scorched earth then populates it with the same files as the last and keeps on going like that until I hit ^c to stop it) I've tried turning supermount completely off and stopping devfs in my lilo.conf file (just a wild guess) and I'm going to retry it to see how far it gets. Until then though, does anyone have any suggestions? I'm stumped. Thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] console questions
Duh!! Thanks - I used '^z' to suspend the mp3 player but forgot that it was - well - SUSPENDED! Thanks again, Mike Saturday, KevinO mused: Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, Thing is, when I hit '^z' to leave the mp3 player, the sound stops too. I would like to leave the sound on and then do something else in the foreground. After you do the CTRL-z, type bg and the 'job' will continue in the background. Type fg and you can bring the job back into the foreground again. - -- KevinO Matz's Law: A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux_logo on thinkpad
Ahh, thank you! That was it. I plugged it in and rebooted - there it was - 363.965MHz. Thanks everyone for the suggestions! Bye the way, I was half asleep when I wrote the original post so forgive me for the subject line having little to do with the message; my brain was shorting out! :-) Mike 12:33pm, James Sparenberg mused: Gratuitous Snipping Action Notice that the MHz is correct. But your model 600 is olde rhtan mine, so Tom may be right about your being underclocked. Did you check the CPU info while on battery? Some Laptops have tried the fantastic concept of slowing the CPU to lengthen batter life while on battery. Could this be what happened? My laptop reports speed correctly (ok 498.85mhz not 500 but close enough) This also fits with Tom's statement about underclocking. James -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
And on the subject of fast machines - I have a dual athlon 1900+ system - does UT2003 have the ability to use smp? I'm really annoyed that q3a only enables smp for windows machines - they note some 'bug' that made them decide to disable it in the linux version - I wish they would have just fixed the 'bug'! Anyway, that was one of the reasons I built the dual system, better game action! Mike 12:14am, Ronald J. Hall mused: On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:44 am, you wrote: You need to be running a very fast machine with the proprietary nVIDIA drivers (as well as an nVIDIA video card) and lots of memory and disk space. BTW, it works great as long as you have a very fast machine. Just out of curiosity, what r u calling a fast machine? We installed the demo on my sons computer: Duron 850mhz 256 megs ram Nvidia 32 meg Geforce 2 and it works fine. Nowadays, a computer isn't fast to me unless its 2.0 ghz or faster. :-) -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux
Miark, you say it slows down in heated game play - is that single player or network? Could it be network related? Just a thought. Mike Yesterday, Miark mused: :-) Yes, I got the splash screen. I know when the nVidia drivers aren't working becuase TuxRacer is simply unplayable. But it's a-rockin' right now. By the way, here's my relevant system info: 1.1GHz Athlon, 1.0 GB RAM, and GeForce 4MX 460. How close, in actuality, should the performance be between playing in Winsux and Linux? Is it possible that my XFree needs a tweak? Might UT need to be called up with special parameters? Is it possible that UT2003 is not using the nVidia drivers despite the fact they're there? I doubt this last one because the play is smooth until it's in the middle of really heated play. Miark -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] video Streaming with Mozilla
I *think* mplayer handles that correctly. I seem to remember being able to watch something not too long ago with that stream type using mplayer. Mike Yesterday, villoing mused: Does anyone know where to find and how to install a soft which would allow me to see wideo streaming on Mozilla. When I tried to watch something on www.fabchannel.com, I get this message: this page contains information type (application/x-mplayer2)... rgds ... -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] console questions
Hey all, ok, I'm starting to get more and more into using the console since I've been discovering how much faster it moves on my 366Mhz laptop :-) I've learned how to suspend jobs and put them in fg / bg; is it possible to start a console-based mp3 player and then, say, open vi and write or open pine and read email? Thing is, when I hit '^z' to leave the mp3 player, the sound stops too. I would like to leave the sound on and then do something else in the foreground. Thanks! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
