[expert] read-only floppy workaround
Just had a problem where I couldn't write to a floppy -- tried a number of things without luck, and google threads I read indicated hardware problems from those answering; but the OPs did not believe that since their floppy works under other OSs... I dug some more and found a workaround which simply involves rmmod/modprobe floppy... http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/query.php?bug=98 HTHSomeoneElseAvoidTheHassles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] read-only floppy workaround
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:12:03 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 Nov 2003 7:00 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just had a problem where I couldn't write to a floppy -- tried a number of things without luck, and google threads I read indicated hardware problems from those answering; but the OPs did not believe that since their floppy works under other OSs... I dug some more and found a workaround which simply involves rmmod/modprobe floppy... http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/query.php?bug=98 HTHSomeoneElseAvoidTheHassles You know what I'm going to say, don't you Pierre? It should be on the TWiki under HardwareIssues. Pretty please? Well... this is not a h/w issue per se... Actually, I think this should be in a WorkArounds section wherein all the entries are noted to be just that: workarounds they are only intended to be used until the root problem is fixed -- in this case, the floppy module, or maybe the kernel itself... This is not a permanent fix. Haven't visited the Twiki in a few weeks; but I'll have a look RSN... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . is effectively in my path!! I see the same on 9.2rc2 :^P should be bugged as a security flaw IMO Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:16:58 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a fix? If you have a choice (OSS/ALSA), try them. I was feeling the same way (see bug at http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/query.php?bug=57 ). Have you tried rmmod sound and modprobe sound...? ll /dev/sound would also be useful I noticed that any of dsp, mixer, sequencer were missing at times... I've sometimes used kill artsd to get sound too... IMO, sound is in a really bad state -- I'm still running 9.2rc2; but will install 9.2 tomorrow, so the fun will probably start all over... :P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix headers
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:41:55 -0800 Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider coding it simply: myhostname = holt-tech.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] chkrootkit and mailing results to root
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 07:49:26 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It rejects mine the same as his even though I use a smarthost to relay my messages so that they pass through my ISP mail servers. For some reason, Mandrake mailing list doesn't accept those. My only solution was to pass the mails directly through the ISP mail server for only the Mandrake mailing list and use Postfix for all my other mail which works fine. If I had to guess, I would guess that the mailing list is setup with some pretty rabid anti-spam rules of some kind, but that would be just a guess. Not very rabid at all... looking at your first header: Received: from user-11fa01q.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.245.0.58] helo=Neo.matrix) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AJuR7-0003SW-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:49:29 -0800 neo.matrix is not a valid [host.]domain which would cause the most basic of failures to deliver to Mdk's servers... you could not deliver mail directly to mine either as postfix rules (and a few blacklisted servers) are my sole anti-spam measures. If you have a permanent IP, setting myhostname to user-11fa01q.dsl.mindspring.com would be a quick, self-admin'ed, hack to verify this is the problem. Your mailhost is either not responding or port 25 is blocked, so I can't check that it's the source of neo.matrix... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Enabling a Laptop Touch Pad
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:03:07 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I loaded 9.0 onto my Dell Inspiron 3200, I did not connect the mouse, and the touch pad was working perfectly. Now that I have plugged in a mouse to the system, the mouse works fine, but the touch pad is a crazy clicking monster if the mouse is not plugged in, and I would like to use this laptop on the bus to work and so on, so the touch pad is a must. Now, is it possible to use either interchangeably? But the bottom line is getting the touch pad to work. How do I do that? What mouse setting do I need in XF86 or Harddrake? I'm supporting a friend with 9.1 on a Dell and the trick is to hit Shift then use the touchpad IIRC. Using the mouse requires hitting Shift again to go back to the touchpad. I may have fogotten the exact sequence; but HTH... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [dfox@m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com: hijack cont.]
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:09:44 -0800 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded: reviewing the logs, I have seen a large number of GETs in /var/log/httpd/*.log with very long pathnames and/or requests to xxx.xxx.xxx:25. I think that is how they got in. Not in; but through... I pointed this out to David in a private mail along with the below quick test for proxying... Seems that using :25 is a twist that I hadn't seen; but then again, most of us have turned off proxying after this was raised here months ago... Part of my msg to David: Hmmm... wonder if this is related to the www relaying that can happen in an apache server... [testing your address...] port 80 is blocked... is this done by your ISP? The way to check for httpd relaying is simple: telnet IP 80 [connected messages] GET http://some.remote.site HTTP/1.0enter enter If the returned page is from some.remote.site, your server is an open relay... I've seen this long ago and suspected people were using this to bump hit-counters causing possible charges ($$) between target and advertiser. Dunno if this could be used to relay mail; but would not be surprised. It appears that adding :25 was a pretty simple hack to abuse the apache proxying... yet another reason for everyone to verify that mod-proxy is disabled Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is the list down again?
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:52:23 +1100 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may mean something to someone? Charlie Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 1 day to the following recipients: Recipient address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reason: unable to deliver this message after 1 day Delivery attempt history for your mail: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:08:41 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: smtp;450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [144.135.25.173] Mdk is being nice... : sending from this address would get a 550 (permanent) error from my server... simply, that IP has no rDNS which many sites are using to reduce spam from unknown/forged sources... You'll have to (or have your ISP) fix DNS before mail is accepted by many sites from this IP. Check the headers of your message that did make it (the one I'm responding to) and you'll see that Mdk's server did resolve that IP to a name... HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KWeather
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:28:57 -0500 Phil G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't figure out how to start kweather. I have kdetoys 3.1-5 installed. Does it work with this version? Just did it... right-click on TaskBar, Add-Applet-Kweather Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ip addressing on lan
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:50:43 +1000 Brett W Tippet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stopped iptables and also ip6tables .. restarted the network .. same thing going on .. Another thing to note ... a ping from the machine that's failing with result in a reply from it's own NIC IP of destination unreachable .. any help? .. Have you tried rebooting? I haven't nailed it down yet; but I'm seeing a similar problem when I return from a trip (using modem with rcfirewall) and switch back to LAN use... clearing the iptables does _not_ allow traffic as it should... I have to reboot... In certain situations where iptables has been used, there appears to be a case where -F will not clear everything even though iptables -L -V -n claims nothing is there... In fact, I must make sure iptables has no rules installed at all from my rcfirewall, or I have to reboot again... just clearing the rules is insufficient. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:34:39 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Praedor, Sunday, October 12, 2003, 7:41:58 PM, you wrote: PA It seems patently indefensible and unfair to out-and-out ban PA opera, safari, konqueror, etc, as a matter of policy. It most PA certainly isn't a security problem as IE certainly isn't more PA secure than opera, etc. I've gone round and round with several companies on this issue (I use Opera), and the problem seems to be management: (1) the budget is VERY tight, and (2) it better look good, or you're toast. The more honest ones have admitted they can't justify developing for more than IE, given the huge REPORTED market share. With so many people using spoofing, it just makes the market share look even bigger than it is. We can't win for loosing. IMHO, only a very large number of complaints everywhere will begin to put a dent in this. OR... just one complaint in the _right place_ -- using a real example, here's what I typically do... Last Feb, while I was paying bills online -- all was fine until I got to my satellite TV bill -- when paying those bills over my DSL line previously, I didn't notice any problems; BUT... when I tried paying them over a dial-up, it was virtually impossible because the site was poorly designed for slow links -- everything was done with images (with no alt=Descriptive text) forcing me to wait for the complete page to see what I could do on the site... I thought about it and concluded that webmasters are generally proud of their efforts and are resistant to change... and they certainly don't like their baby criticized... So... what's one to do? Easy it turned out... I crafted a message to that company's President with comments like: | Subject: Can it be any more painful? | I'm sure that sending this to your webmaster(s) would get little, or no | attention; so... [snip stuff about my setup and DSL v. dial-up] | Your webmaster(s) may think the pages | look cool; but... have the pages ever been viewed the way many users see | them...? | | Today, I'm trying to pay via a SLOW dialup since I'm away from home. | | Trying to make a payment over a slow link, in a word, SUCKS!! | | To understand the problems, I strongly suggest you sit your webmaster(s) | in front of a 20-30kb modem attached computer and have them try to make a | payment... [should have his $$$ attention now... snip loads more details on how to make it better] This got me a same day response: | Thank you for your email and the constructive criticism... I will in fact | take your suggestion and view our web page and payment process [snip] | i find we learn best from our customers experiences. [snip] Less than 2 weeks later (YUP! Less than TWO weeks), I wrote him back: | Looks like you really shook up your webmasters... THANKS! | Looks MUCH better... | [snip details about improvements -- then compliment the staff which will surely find its way to the webmasters...] | but I am impressed with the speed at which you and your staff | accomplished the changes. | | I'm detecting a definitely a more customer oriented approach at | company than in the days I complained about transmission problems... My point is that there is no law against contacting the President/CEO of any company directly, putting the issues in business terms that s/he will understand -- don't get technical here; just enough so the s/he understands your pain in dealing with her company... many will deflect to a filter group; but some will address it personally. Any President/CEO who is overly filtering is not doing a good job anyway, IMO. Don't forget the follow-up compliments if you get the desired changes... HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:01:05 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I simply want the option, in the form of a button, to go ahead and try to use their site through a non-mozilla/non-IE browser. I have many complaints with my credit card provider; but at least they do just as you suggest... http://capitalone.com -- maybe showing this to your credit union might help... See also my other post on going to the top of the organization... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] grep weirdness -- I MEAN IT!!
I'm trying to nail down a situation where 9.2rc2 (haven't time to test previous versions) CHANGES my /etc/fstab entry from /mnt/camera to /mnt/hd, DELETES /mnt/camera, and ADDS /mnt/hd if it doesn't exist. Can anyone tell me what they get when, as root, the following command is entered: grep set_removable_mntpoints /proc/kcore | less Hint1: re-read the subject -- don't shoot the messenger... I'm just trying to determine if what I got was specific to my system, or widespread... Hint2: make sure all is saved. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
CROSS-POSTING [Was:Re: [expert] Xpdf - defining colors]
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:17:02 +0200 Tomas Rett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a semi-hijacked thread... Please stop cross-posting... on the Mdk lists, cross-posting does NOT work... Cross-posted messages end up on the SAME list; whichever one is listed first... I am not on newbie, yet get both your posts cuz they are both ending up on expert. If you insist on cross-posting, send individual messages -- it's been that way for years now... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:46:07 +0100 Nigel Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:10:59 + Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I could imagine which I may have seen mentioned on the Sylpheed list is closing Sylpheed with the button in the upper right hand corner: this could perhaps give rise to some settings not being saved and preferable would be closing with [ Ctr + Q ] or [ Alt + F X ]. I do have a habit of closing progs with the upper right hand button. I will try to apply some self control and see what happens however a 12 year habit is hard to change. I'll give it a try but surely a programme that catches a WM_DESTROY event enough to give you a Do you really want to close this programme box should also shut it down properly, also why didn't this happen in SuSE??? I've been using s-c since at least 0.6.x and virtually always close it with the Close button... s-c handles this method quite well... heck, it even handles Ctl+c reasonably gracefully... this is not likely your problem... I would suggest running either strace sylpheed or sylpheed --debug to make sure all the .sylpheed/* files are not erroring... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ESC in bash to clear the line
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:41:28 +0200 Tomas Rett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi listers ! I need the ESC key in bash session to clear the input line, i.e. the command. Could you tell me, how to set up the ~/.inputrc file ? Why not use built-in C-u and/or C-k depending on where you are on the input line...? If you really want ESC, I suspect you'll have to remove /etc/inputrc altogether since ESC is used extensively therein as an introducer for subsequent keystrokes. Not sure that would even work... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] setup email bounce
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:30:50 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I want to be able to setup an email 'bounce' from my server. If you just want to stop spam and other undesirable junk, I find postfix does an admirable job. For those obstinate sites that won't quit, they get blocked by iptables.. I want it on the server because I don't even want it to hit my mailbox. My postfix is setup to report delivery failures -- because that's the way I prefer it; but lately, even those have dropped to none in the past 48 hours or so... even the Mdk list server that was causing me (you too?) grief is finally quiet. I'm not sure if this is procmail or spamassassin or some other program. I've read some on procmail, but that seems to work on an individual basis. Never bothered with those. I want to be able to filter some domains globally and maybe still have the custom message. I like the bounce idea because if it's spam, I'm hoping that I can spam them back :) Not that simple... the best approach is to NOT bounce generally -- otherwise you just confirm your e-mal address for the offenders. Sometimes, there is a domain that goes nuts attempting to deliver mail from non-rDNS servers (refused by my postfix) -- in one case, I researched the domain, and warned the owner that I would start bouncing the delivery failures to him as the domain contact... got it's not me denials; but when the bounces arrived in his mailbox, it was amazing how quickly the attempts stopped we exchanged a couple of more mails where he still claimed it wasn't him -- I replied that while I couldn't conclusively say the attempts were from his domain, the fact that they stopped immediately (and haven't resumed) was only circumstantial evidence, yet good enough.. :^) Oh... there is the odd test every 1-2 months; but my bounce logic is permanent for this one... Some of my efforts are documented at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix/ I should point out that I only use postfix and sylpheed-claws. Postfix handles the rejections, and sylpheed-claws handles the bounces and only as I direct in the filtering rules. Mdk was the recipient of my latest volley -- this finally got their attention and while nothing was fixed, it still stopped after Mdk contacted their ISP about lost-oasis.net showing up as the hostname for that server. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] More list problems?
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:10:52 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last couple of days I have suddenly found that I am seeing lots of replies for which the original post never arrived - one of them my own. I had not been having that problem previously - at least not for ages. Is anyone else experiencing new problems of missing posts? Anne I'm in direct contact with Charles Duval @ Mdk... from a trace this morning, I'm suspecting another site in Paris may be corrupting DNS for one of their list servers... This is looking like it may the source of all the delivery failures I'm seeing here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] More list problems?
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:46:52 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:10:52 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last couple of days I have suddenly found that I am seeing lots of replies for which the original post never arrived - one of them my own. I had not been having that problem previously - at least not for ages. Is anyone else experiencing new problems of missing posts? Anne I'm in direct contact with Charles Duval @ Mdk... from a trace this s/uval/avant/ # ARGH! morning, I'm suspecting another site in Paris may be corrupting DNS for one of their list servers... This is looking like it may the source of all the delivery failures I'm seeing here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] More list problems?
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:47:45 -0400 Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: I'm in direct contact with Charles Duval @ Mdk... from a trace this s/Duval/Davant/ # early morning brain fart... morning, I'm suspecting another site in Paris may be corrupting DNS for one of their list servers... This is looking like it may the source of all the delivery failures I'm seeing here. I replied to the And next ? thread relatively early Sunday, and neither my post nor any in reply to it ever as yet has showed up here. It turns out that the problematic list server is correctly defined in Mdk's DNS; however, it randomly disappears from other servers across the 'net... at the moment, it looks like DNS may be being polluted by lost-oasis.net Charles is in contact with their ISP -- waiting to hear back... Hopefully, this might clear up a number of list problems fingers crossed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] By the way ( was: More list problems?)
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:54:34 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand why they don't switch from Sympa to mailman. Mark, If the problem is indeed DNS related as I indicated in other posts, switching would likely not solve much... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pcmcia nic weirdness - more ;(
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:00:02 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: different cards - so far: a Netgear FA511 and a Xircom XE2000. Both are detected correctly, but none would work with DHCP anymore (the original one did). And even under the scenario of having to manually change the IP addresses between home and work (where is that multiple profile - promised land thingy?!?), it works only if running first drakconf, changing everything (IP, mask, gateway, DNS, etc.), NOT working - though - the first time, then running # ifconfig eth0 with the parameters needed to setup the IP and netmask, then running # route for the new default - and, at this stage, the things still won't work - then again drakconf - after which - finally - the network starts properly. Attempted between each of the above steps a service network restart, with the eth0 always failing ... and NO - it won't work if I would just run ifconfig first, then drakconf: it seems to work only if: changes in drakconf -- no go -- ifconfig eth0 and route -- no go -- again drakconf -- finally! ... Wish I'd seen this sooner... *appears* I had this very problem with 9.2rc2 while on a road trip last week, though I never thought of retrying the conf TWICE... sigh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pcmcia nic weirdness - more ;(
Sorry guys... I know the attribution is wrong... reporting as a bug to sylpheed-claws now... On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:20:23 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:00:02 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: different cards - so far: a Netgear FA511 and a Xircom XE2000. Both are detected correctly, but none would work with DHCP anymore (the original one did). And even under the scenario of having to manually change the IP addresses between home and work (where is that multiple profile - promised land thingy?!?), it works only if running first drakconf, changing everything (IP, mask, gateway, DNS, etc.), NOT working - though - the first time, then running # ifconfig eth0 with the parameters needed to setup the IP and netmask, then running # route for the new default - and, at this stage, the things still won't work - then again drakconf - after which - finally - the network starts properly. Attempted between each of the above steps a service network restart, with the eth0 always failing ... and NO - it won't work if I would just run ifconfig first, then drakconf: it seems to work only if: changes in drakconf -- no go -- ifconfig eth0 and route -- no go -- again drakconf -- finally! ... Wish I'd seen this sooner... *appears* I had this very problem with 9.2rc2 while on a road trip last week, though I never thought of retrying the conf TWICE... sigh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TightVNC ?
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:13:46 -0500 H. Carter Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that. Apparently I am not receiving everything from the list... probably my fault. I went back and looked at the archive and bingo. or maybe messages are rejected from one of Mdk's servers (80.67.180.176) which has no rDNS info -- causes some of us to reject those posts as part of our anti-spam setups... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to modify the way msec behave?
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:29:22 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
My clam antivirus has been experiencing problems because of the way msec
behave.
It turns out that msec change the ownership of clamav's log in /var/log/
into root:adm. How do I prevent this?
{msec,Verisign,foo} hijacks {ownership,domains,bar}
Sounds like msec is hijacking all yet unclaimed resources -- why I
generally rpm -e the sucker
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Re: [expert] testing
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:32:27 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. The are just getting the kinks worked out of the new servers. If only they'd fix rDNS for the one at 80.67.180.176, I'd be happier and they would stop getting bounce messages from my server. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sound dissapeared!
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:38:12 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yes, both the computer and the speakers are plugged in to the power. Hopefully not with the microphone in the speaker jack like I did the other day... :^) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] eth0 doesn't get IP through dhcp - Problem vanished
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:53:35 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Mullen schrieb am Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:40:20 -0400 (EDT): On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Robert Thyberg wrote: Have had exactly the same problem, which is why this is being sent by Eudora!! Have 4-port router into a Cable modem. 2 Linux (9.2 rc2 and SuSE) and two Wins (2000 and XP). However mine has not accidently started working again altho I've tried all sorts of things. Reinstall seems to be the only thing to make it work for a while! Ideas?? Since you're using a router and trying to get an IP address from it (as opposed to a direct connection to the modem, where the address would come instead from your ISP), the simplest solution is to not use DHCP at all, and configure yourself a static address. Doesn't answer the why, but fixes the what once and for all ... :) Hmm, sounds reasonable and I used to work with static IPs until I bought this access point/router/switch. I couldn't get it to work with static IPs, only with dhcp. I may start another try when 9.2 final comes out and I switch my machines to the final. wobo Dunno if I've been having this problem; but my LAN connection would just stop receiving (as seen via other hosts) -- nothing would restore it other than reboot. Then, one day I discovered that disconnecting LAN cable and reconnecting it restored communication... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RC2 installation
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:42:07 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the md5sums don't check, or you suspect your CD drive Actually, the CDs may still be fine... see Twiki for how to determine if the CD is really OK (md5sum may be wrong due to padding). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?
On 10 Sep 2003 13:18:30 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS that runs off a SCSI Adaptec Host Adapter card. Under MD9.0, there was a query Do you have disk/scsi? when Upgrade-ing in Expert Mode, that allowed me to select the Adaptec Host Adapter aha152x, insert appropriate parameters, and the Canon scanner was recognised (I couldn't use it, due to lack of stable drivers, but that's another story). After that, the SCSI device was recognised automatically on boot-up. However under 9.1, Expert install doesn't recognise the SCSI card or provide any means of getting it incorporated manually, as far as I can see. Once the system is up, modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,.. etc.on the CLI gets the SCSI card and scanner recognised and MCC Scannerdrake gets the CanoScan onto the scanner database. But it's all lost when I power down - which I have to do frequently for some unavoidable dual-booting with Win$. It's a real PITA.:-( Is there something I'm missing during Expert install? Or is there some way of incorporating the modprobe, etc.into boot-up? I've tried modifications to /etc/modules.conf and modules with My /etc/modules.conf contains this line: probeall scsi_hostadapter aha152x ide-scsi depmod -a, lilo.conf ansd running /sbin/lilo, putting stuff into /etc/rc.d/rc.local I googled linux Adaptec/AHA1520, problems and installation. Problems referred to kernel problems around 1998,Installation gave essentially the same information as the Mandrake Twiki SCSI entry, and got me unfortunately, no further forward. TIA DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:32:02 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** Pierre Fortin Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:23:16 -0400 : On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:56:53 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Due to some problems during download of RC2 I ran into space issues in my partitions. I already moved /home to a separate partition which was easy. In case it helps, I use a separate /ISO partition for downloads (of course, I now avoid stupid s/w that insists on d/l'ing to /tmp or other) and ftp directly into it. I used gftp because I had this nearly complete DL of CD2 done with Mozilla and was looking for s/w which would resume a Mozilla download. James wrote that he did it with gftp and as he wrote it worked ok for this one iso. Had this problem with beta1, so I just moved the obfuscatedly-named file over to a partition with enough space, renamed it and used ftp's reget command --- worst part was getting this done before another Moz d/l ran out of space too... That's why I now have a /ISO partition and avoid Moz d/l'ing for anything large. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cooker bug server is broken?
I barely have time to post this; gotta hit the road... please forward to cooker if necessary. The cooker bug site has an expired certificate (localhost yet). When I try to post a 9.2rc1 bug, I get: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.47 (Mandrake Linux/4mdk) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.1 mod_ssl/2.0.47 OpenSSL/0.9.7b Server at qa.mandrakesoft.com Port 443 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha screws current system...
My observations on 9.2rc1 are a tad disappointing... 1a. USB mouse and IBM trackpoint worked simultaneously in 9.1 -- after installing 9.2, even after I told it where to find 9.1 for lilo, the USB mouse no longer works in my 9.1... Mouse on existing install related to newly installed lilo..?? Yup... Tried service usb start which gave: Initializing USB controller (usb-uhci): modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.22-1mdk/modules.dep (No such file or directory) [FAILED] Initializing USB controller (ehci-hcd): modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.22-1mdk/modules.dep (No such file or directory) [FAILED] Initializing USB controller (usb-ohci): modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.22-1mdk/modules.dep (No such file or directory) [FAILED] Loading USB printer modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.22-1mdk/modules.dep (No such file or directory) [FAILED] Huh??!!! WTF! That's not the kernel version in my 9.1... # uname -a Linux gypsy.pfortin.com 2.4.22-1mdk #1 Mon Aug 25 11:19:10 EDT 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux # ll /lib/modules total 1 drwxr-xr-x4 root root 1024 Jun 4 11:52 2.4.21-0.13mdk/ Even after telling 9.2rc1 installer where 9.1 is, I'm writing this (as we travel along I-40) on a crippled 9.2 kernel even though it *should* be the original 9.1... image=/boot/vmlinuz == (1) label=linux9.1 root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1mdk.img === (2) read-only (1) Install was on hda9, so shouldn't this read [/mnt]/91/boot/vmlinuz...??? (2) Should also read: [/mnt]/91/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img where /91 is the name I gave the 9.1 partition during 9.2 install... This is the classic problem of failing to corectly tell lilo where stuff really is... See below for more... 1b. X not configured to see both mice: 9.1 config: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/usbmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse2 Driver mouse Option Protocol PS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option Emulate3Buttons Option Emulate3Timeout 50 EndSection 9.2 config: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/usbmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection End result: 9.1 now only uses trackpoint (missing kernel libs); 9.2 only uses usb mouse (missing X config)... :^P 2. Compared to 9.2beta1, 9.2rc1 at least asks for alt OS locations; but even after telling it, I still had to try to remember the other bootable modes (failsafe, etc) -- sure would be nice if once told which partition the other OS is/are on, the installer could just do the right thing and use that partition's ./etc/lilo.conf to properly fill in the blanks... 3. While KDE still reports version 3.1, it is gawd-awful slow to start. Install itself: 1. Using hd.img, got tons of install errors while always in the Installing package xpp step... smells like cd[23] images were not used... Again, this is the non-glitzy stuff that makes or breaks a review... why can't the hd.img install all I've asked for, especially after spending MANY minutes going through all the packages, and never being told that I was wasting my time, to then just have the install miserably fall short...??? * getFile libmm1-1.3.0-3mdk.i586.rpm:Installation CD 2 (x86) * refusing medium 2 Then lots of this type of stuff: * rpm transactions start * getFile apache-modules-1.3.27-11mdk.i586.rpm:Installation CD 2 (x86) * refusing medium 2 = (3)(4) * retrying installing package apache-modules-1.3.27-11mdk.i586 alone in a transaction * opened rpmdb for writing in /mnt * opened rpm database for retry transaction of 1 package only * check failed : mm = 1.3.0 is needed by apache-modules-1.3.27-11mdk libmm.so.1 is needed by apache-modules-1.3.27-11mdk (3) So if CD2 is refused, it's a tad irritating for the human to have to click [OK] for each package on the refused medium... (4) Ditto for CD3... 2. This install locked up while trying to finish/reboot -- complained it could not umount partitions (nothing in logs); but the restart was clean notwithstanding the above. IMO, 9.2rc1 installer is still not past be^H^Halpha quality. ** More on lilo... To understand what is wrong with the installer's view of lilo.conf, here is my hand-crafted lilo.conf on the 9.1 side (/dev/hda1) -- the 9.2 version needs to take the opposing view of /dev/hda9 with hda1 as the foreign OS using /91 as the mount point... boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=menu vga=normal
Re: [expert] postfix smtp auth docu ?
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 07:04:20 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 September 2003 11:24 pm, Jack Coates wrote: Mine doesn't work with either of these, but saslpasswd works. Only problem is that every few months I add a user and spend a few hours trying to remember why it isn't working :-) I have a Makefile in my /etc/postfix directory that specifies all of the password databases, like access, aliases, etc. So, all I have to do when I reconfigure anything with Postfix is to remember to issue a make command in the directory and everything is recompiled and rehashed, and Postfix is automagically stopped and restarted. Very convenient. Would you mind sending me a copy (or even posting it)...? I never got around to messing with makefiles and currently use a script which I named make for the same purposes (see bottom of my page at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix/) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] More on threading
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 20:30:28 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For christmas. Does the latest KMail, Sylpheed, or claws support deletion of a entire collapsed thread in one step. This is what i'd love to see. I'd happily leave threads in my folders longer until they had well and truly dried up if i could expunge the whole thread quickly. sylpheed-claws has Select thread under the Edit menu. There is no shortcut assigned by default; but that's a minor issue cuz to [re-]assign a shortcut to most menu items, it's as simple as: 1. select the menu item (don't click on it) 2. while selected, press the key combination you want [re-]assigned to that item 3. enjoy. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha screws current system...
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:58:06 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you are dual booting 9.1 and 9.2. and your boot into 9.2 is reasonably ok. There are steps that need to be made by you when dual booting linux. Both vmlinuz.2.4.21-XX.mdk and initrd.2.4.21-XX.mdk.img have to be copied from 9.1 /boot to 9.2 /boot. Then you replace the 'vmlinuz' in the 9.1 stanzas with the full name of the vmlinuz for 9.1(given above). Run /sbin/lilo to make this stick. Then you should be able to boot to 9.1 ok. Do the same for 9.1, copying the 9.2 files into 9.1 /boot. It is up to you if you run /sbin/lilo at this stage. Which OS do you want as default? Hopefully your other issues may be solved by this also. Boy... you seem to completely misunderstand how lilo works, and how to use *separate* /boot directories on different partitions... # df (sorted for clarity) FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 485M 67M 393M 15% /# 9.1 /dev/hda5 3.9G 2.5G 1.3G 68% /usr # 9.1 /dev/hda6 485M 110M 350M 24% /var # 9.1 /dev/hda7# swap /dev/hda8 985M 19M 916M 3% /tmp # shared /dev/hda9 485M 62M 398M 14% /92 # 9.2 /dev/hda103.9G 754M 3.0G 21% /92usr # 9.2 /dev/hda11485M 49M 411M 11% /92/var # 9.2 /dev/hda124.9G 3.3G 1.3G 72% /home# shared /dev/hda134.9G 1.1G 3.5G 24% /usr/local # shared /dev/hda145.8G 5.0G 564M 90% /ISO # ** /dev/hda159.8G 34M 9.3G 1% /var/www # shared ** This is mounted by the installer (CD ISO images on this one), so it can't be mounted during the install. I don't use a shared /boot and there is no reason to copy kernel images between partitions -- just *properly* define the lilo stanzas. 9.1 and 9.2 *each* have a /etc/lilo.conf -- while they can't be identical, with appropriate stanzas in each, they can produce the same MBR. Rreread what you snipped and try to understand what happened -- then you should see what Mdk's installer did wrong... On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:26:31 -0400 Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Loading USB printer modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.22-1mdk/modules.dep (No such file or directory) [FAIL ED] Huh??!!! WTF! That's not the kernel version in my 9.1... # uname -a /snip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] scanner
On 30 Aug 2003 11:30:18 -0400 Daniel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get a Microtek Scanmaker E3 working with Mdk 9.1. The scsi modules are loading ok, but neither scannerdrake or xsane will detect the scanner. I had this working with Suse 8.2, same hardware. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan Here's an ancient script that sometimes helped me... bin/scsiup: #!/bin/sh # enable a SCSI drive/scanner which was offline at bootup echo scsi add-single-device 0 0 $1 0 /proc/scsi/scsi Call it with the id of the scanner, i.e.: scsiup 4 HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:06:03 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of setting up a new mailhost and plan to chroot it; but my current postfix is very anti-spam and documented at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix Pierre - is there a link to this on the HOW-TO page? [previous msg missed due to Mdk still not fixing rDNS for list servers] No... twiki is in need of re-organization... I tried to setup some structure to some topics in my first attempts; but I don't have time to clean it up -- besides, I wouldn't want to impose my structure... A bit of organization confuses me on the twiki site: Ditto. I see links to how-tos in the how-to section, and i see links to tutorials in the references section. Is there a difference, or should we combine these? Maybe we should start a new top-level tree(s) and only work on the Table of Contents part of that tree -- when we are somewhat satisfied, then move all the current stuff into it... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:18:34 -0500 J.C. Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So are we all happy now? Nope... not until Mdk fixes rDNS for one (more?) of the new servers... : Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Servers...
Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? They've recently been using: 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net and now: 80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net each time failing to properly setup rDNS until my filters start bouncing to postmaster@host... I've tried posting recently; to no avail, so I'll be surprised if this msg hits the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Servers...
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:54:46 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: Anyone know what the fsck Mdk is doing with the list servers...? They've recently been using: 80.67.180.167 azerty.mandrax.org 80.67.180.173 smtp.mandrakeonline.net and now: 80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net each time failing to properly setup rDNS until my filters start bouncing to postmaster@host... I've tried posting recently; to no avail, so I'll be surprised if this msg hits the list. Hi Pierre, Hey! guess what? It made it... I've noticed a lot of the same thing going on, and had to readjust my firewall so's I could get mail from the lists. I don't know what they're doing unless they're redirecting in order to avoid worm traffic as much as possible. Looks like I got your message too -- **BUT** my mailer is bouncing a lot of list msgs coming from their recent addition (80.67.180.172 mail.moondrake.net) because they can't seem to add proper DNS entries before starting to use new servers -- Mdk does this everytime they add/change hosts... only after getting automated bounces from me do they eventually fix their DNS... :^P Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] postfix problems
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:01:31 +0200 Kim Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix 20010228-p103 working well) And the installation didn´t work, so i uninstalled qmail. I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1 machine, and usually get some e-mails from the server, but now i don´t. I think qmail, either deleted some postfixfiles, or changed them in the installing process. So my question is what to do? /kim I never installed or worked with qmail; but postfix does replace sendmail... maybe qmail does likewise (check its docs)... if so, you'll have to re-install postfix. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:14:39 +0100 Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'd like to set up my own Postfix mail server but... I'm not entirely sure how to. I have my own domain name (which is currently hosted) but I'd like it to point to my fixed ip instead. What would be the best way to do this? And how should I set it up etc? I'm in the process of setting up a new mailhost and plan to chroot it; but my current postfix is very anti-spam and documented at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix I've heard that if it isn't set up correctly it's a spammers paridise is this true and if so how can I avoid it Make sure relaying is off -- of course, you'll need pop-before-smtp to allow mobile users to relay -- then again, some ISPs like mindspring/earthlink block port 25 from dialups -- that's also dicsussed on my pages. Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] FYI: Streamlined SSH access to different machines behind a singleIP
Since I just had to solve this problem with the help of google, I documented it here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/AccessingMultipleMachinesBehindASingleIPAddress Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 02:32:35 +0200 Udo Rader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,
I have a directory that contains several hundred files and I want to
copy them all except _one_ file.
This sounds so easy yet still I am stuck or blind or stupid. Is there no
not operator in bash?
If it were, some construct like the thing below could then list all
files in /opt/too_many_files except no_not_this_one:
% ls -l /opt/too_many_files/*{!no_not_this_one}
% cp `ls /opt/too_many_files/* | grep -v no_not_this_one` destination
This won't follow directories (just files); but you should get the idea...
Yes, I know this doesn't work, but is there any other efficient way to
do this in bash?
You'll probably get other fancier solutions -- If one command won't do the
job... think pipe...
happy hacking
udo
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Re: [expert] Python Question
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 22:15:22 -0700 James Sparenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps it would be best offline dunno. But would anyone know the
python equivalent to
grep Number $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals | awk -F= '{print $2;}'
For the life of me I'm stumped... but that's no great accomplishment.
Sorry if it's a bit OT but I don't have any visible friends who know
python. *grin*
James
No time to give the entire script, gotta hit the road... but I might
start my trek with this (of course, it's early, I'm rushed AND groggy...):
import fileinput
for line in fileinput.input([$HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals]):
key,val = line.split(=)
...
HTH
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Re: [expert] Making / Verifying 9.2beta ISOs
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:38:15 -0700 Seth Zirin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always dd the CD back to a /tmp file before running md5sum against it. Not necessary: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BadISOMd5sumNotAlways Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making / Verifying 9.2beta ISOs
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 14:15:05 +0200 Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, 2. August 2003 13:50 schrieb Pierre Fortin: On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:38:15 -0700 Seth Zirin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always dd the CD back to a /tmp file before running md5sum against it. Not necessary: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BadISOMd5sumNotAlways Cool that should be added to k3b :))) Or is there a varify button ?? Dunno. If you don'z mind I would forward this to them and make a feature requests. Steffen Use it freely... can't deny you since on my own website, I make this genetric statement: Knowledge is intended to be shared! The original intent of the Copyright and Patent Laws was to provide authors and inventors protection in exchange for sharing their Intellectual Property. I strongly believe in freely sharing knowledge; this is why I have chosen to publish this information. Of course, to protect my rights to the material and your rights to freely use, modify and share it too, I have chosen to make it available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Enjoy! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Comcast Routing
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:13:11 -0500 stefmit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running different IP networks, even though on the same infrastructure. So one could end up with two PCs, apparently on the same second layer connection, which could not talk to each other except for routing through the provider, Usually, the reason for this is that while adjacent PCs are able to see each other, and surprise, they may even see and respond to each other's ARPs... but... ARP replies are taken in as they arrive. So what happens is that if an ARP query/reply pair do succeed on the local network, a router can reply with a Proxy ARP reply becuause the router *knows* how to route the packets -- the problem arises because the proxy ARP reply arrives after the real, more direct one, and the proxy overwrites the original. Technically, the local pair of hosts do see each other _momentarily_; but a proxy reply highjacks the direct connection... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] time drift
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 10:37:53 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E Fox) wrote: Hi On a previous message I noted my issue with kde's clock having the wrong timezone. Still haven't sorted that out. But I noticed today that the system's time was wrong - still the right timezone but about 20 minutes off PDT using the 'popcorn' service (speaking clock). I apparently sync to time.nrc.ca, that's the one I picked, but if it's the source of the bad time, maybe the time is different in Canada? Nope... if your time is too far off the real time, your time will not get updated... get your clock closer, then ntp will sync as expected. Back when I installed I seem to recall there was a list of available time servers, but I haven't seen where this list is stored post-install. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:34:56 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds exactly as you describe... collisions! They are due to a number of reasons; but some things to check: 1. Bypass the hub with a direct (rolled) cable. If this works (check collisions in ifconfig), then replace your hub with a switch which doesn't suffer from the following... Note: some hubs are really switches... A real hub is a cheap buffered repeater -- the buffer is rather small (acts like an elastic buffer); it snaps when a sending NIC's crystal is out of specs -- the snap results in the hub sending a jam (collision) back to the sending NIC. Bypassing the hub eliminates the hub's elastic buffer. I'm surprised you're able to send that much data if this is the problem though... Well the hub I use a LinkSys NH-105 connects all the machines on the network, our DSL router, my Linux box, our File server, and my wife's laptop. One of mine is a LinkSys EFAH05W, sold as a hub (as opposed to the one sold as a switch); but it is really a switch. I wanted a real *hub* for net. monitoring purposes; but that's another story. I have not recently checked my wife's laptop, but the only time that I see these collisions is between my box and the file server. And yes, I did get 650Mb to pass after rebooting the server. Are they on both ends, or just between the LinkSys and one of the machines? 2. Near end collisions: are your cables direct, or running through hookups around the house? Poor connections and not enough twists in the pairs or poor cable at the sending end can result in near-end collisions due to crosstalk from sending signal back into sender's receiver circuitry-- hearing itself. We just moved, and right now all connections with the hub to machines are less than 10 feet. So I don't think there is a problem there, but maybe the hub to FS cable is bad, it has gotten a bit of strain, as I forget it is only 3 feet long. Near-end collisions have been know to occur on short cables and be resolved with longer cables; but I don't have a specific example as that experience was circa 1991. On the other hand, if near-end coll. are not the problem, and the coll. are only seen on one box, I might be tempted to swap the NICs to see if the problem changes. That said, this is ethernet, and collisions are normal to some extent. I was once doing some tests on a server/router pair and found that there were 30% collisions on a direct 10baseT/CAT5 link -- turned out to be the pseudo-random backoff algorithm in both machines was causing the problems. Both were trying to be aggressive in getting their data on the wire resulting in tons of early colisions. This is something that can't be fixed easily -- low-level driver changes needed -- no idea if that is in the Linux drivers, or in the NIC's logic (probably the latter)... 3. If your NIC is an Intel eepro10, consider trying something else... I had this very problem when transferring large files... interestingly, the apparently random failures were at exactly the same point on any specific file. No I run a mixture of 3Com 3C509 and D-Link RTL 8139 using the 8139too driver. When transfering a particular file, any chance the length of the transfer is always the same...? A long shot; but if so, it would be a problem the kernel folk should hear about... in that case, let me know and I'll dig out my notes... I will check the cables and the hub as you say, and replace as needed, upgrading the hub if needed. May be moot... but good luck. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't run perl scripts as non-root in 9.1
On 28 Jul 2003 18:26:34 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... I'm a dummy here but one question. Does the first line in the perl script the one that should be something like #!/usr/bin/perl Actually say that or does it say #!/usr/local/bin/perl Or worse: #!/usr.perl\r\n ? ^^ This is one of the most subtle problems when a script won't start... it's not visible in most editors unless in hex mode. This bug makes it appear the progname contains a carriage return as the last character of its name. I didn't respond sooner because the Subject implies the script does work when run as root... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] advice please postfix ect.
On 27 Jul 2003 09:17:40 +0100 Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I need to get postfix to accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,which at the moment its rejecting. Won't help for dyndns; but my postfix handles multiple domains -- documented at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix I'm still going to need to setup a pop sever on my sons firewall machine as he uses winyuk OS. Or install the imap (contains ipop) rpm, and start ipop service on your linux box, and make sure the the firewall passes port 110 inbound if you need to get mail from your server from the outside. I'll leave the choice of OS as firewall for others to shoot at... : Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:28:53 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving the file. Well, I rebooted the server, and it was able to move the 650 Mb without choking, but with almost constant errors. I will burn out my orange LED on the hub soon if this keeps up. And there don't appear to be any kernel messages about this. Rob This sounds exactly as you describe... collisions! They are due to a number of reasons; but some things to check: 1. Bypass the hub with a direct (rolled) cable. If this works (check collisions in ifconfig), then replace your hub with a switch which doesn't suffer from the following... Note: some hubs are really switches... A real hub is a cheap buffered repeater -- the buffer is rather small (acts like an elastic buffer); it snaps when a sending NIC's crystal is out of specs -- the snap results in the hub sending a jam (collision) back to the sending NIC. Bypassing the hub eliminates the hub's elastic buffer. I'm surprised you're able to send that much data if this is the problem though... 2. Near end collisions: are your cables direct, or running through hookups around the house? Poor connections and not enough twists in the pairs or poor cable at the sending end can result in near-end collisions due to crosstalk from sending signal back into sender's receiver circuitry -- hearing itself. 3. If your NIC is an Intel eepro10, consider trying something else... I had this very problem when transferring large files... interestingly, the apparently random failures were at exactly the same point on any specific file. 4. If you're using coax, you may have termination problems (no need to discuss now unless you have coax). This is a start; but the problem is most likely hardware... although, until it's found *and* fixed, never say: It can't be foo... : Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:17:16 +1000 charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:01 am, Pierre Fortin wholly or partly mentioned :- If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious and/or I'm too pissed to find it... I am uncertain if I understand your problem Pierre but I am using Mozilla-1.3-1mdk and have done in :- Edit/Preferences/Downloads enabled Open download manager. Is that what you want? That way every time that I download anything I have choice of any partition and directory. Select it and leave it do its work. It is done manually of course, Download Manager does choose the last partition or directory that I downloaded into as default but just a quick click and another is selected. Give the file or image it any name that you choose with or without the file extension, thus allowing you to better find it if you really do forget where you placed it. HTH Charlie. I salvaged my downloads, except for the 330M that died, by stopping one of the remaining downloads and resuming it with ftp's reget. When the download manager opens, no matter what you tell it, it still insists on using /tmp for the download, and IF that completes, it's moved to the specified location -- *that* is the STOOPID problem; not to mention that it totally misses the fact that *it* is doing multiple downloads and fails to realize that 1G+ just won't fit into 900M even if each d/l would on its own... The only reason I'm using moz is that galeon totally lost my respect when its config was moved out of the app into gnome IIRC. Been playing with opera; but I still haven't decided which browser sucks the least -- none are good. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:17:17 -0600 Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been playing with opera; but I still haven't decided which browser sucks the least -- none are good. Pierre, Have you tried Kget integrated into Konqueror??? Pretty durn nice.. I'm thinking of going back to basics... you know, the stuff before the 'net was rape^H^H^Hpopularized... ftp, teln^H^H^H^Hssh, elm^H^H^Hsylpheed-claws, hmmm... OK... half-way back... : Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] STOOOOPIDITY...
Gotta vent...
SIGH
WHY do browser writers insist they know more about the operating
environment than the user...?
Used Mozilla to download 9.2beta1 to *MY* choice of target disk (yup, I
finally have partitions available to test...); yet after over 300MB EACH
downloaded, cd1 bombed out for lack of disk space... wasted 330M of
bandwidth... :^
I KNOW WHERE there is enough disk space to d/l the 3 images, so I tell
Mozilla to d/l them there, yet the dumb fsck insists on d/l'ing to /tmp...
Lesseee. Moz logic:
cd1 at 665M available /tmp at 985M = fits!
cd2 at 664M available /tmp at 985M = fits!
cd3 at 666M available /tmp at 985M = fits!
so cd{1,2,3} *must* fit on /tmp...
Yeah, Right...! YUCH!
Since Moz is too dumb to realize that it should look at the SUM of the
downloads, I've also had to abort the cd3 d/l, hoping I can resume it via
ftp reget; otherwise, another 330M wasted bandwidth...
Better, if browsers would just *accept* the user's choice of d/l location,
we'd surely be happier... What's the point of d/l'ing to /tmp, only to
copy it to the final destination, when d/l'ing to the final location with
just a rename would suffice -- and avoid stupid design flaws like
forgetting to use the SUM of downloads... not to mention needing TWICE
the amount of disk space for ANY download!
/SIGH
If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious and/or I'm
too pissed to find it...
Then, there were the failed downloads overnight... appears that
ibiblio.unc.edu removed the images during those downloads; yet, Moz
claimed Finished after ~20M each...
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Re: [expert] Using Postfix to send mail.
On 23 Jul 2003 23:08:07 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing you could do.. it could be deadly if you get a lot of e-mail via Outhook excess. Filter for and drop all html e-mail. God knows it can be an extreme action, but in my case the amount of p0rn spam and the type of spam was way too much for me to stomach. So it all goes into the bit bucket. Yup... pretty extreme! :^) Using nothing but postfix rules, I still manage to keep my spam down to one (1) that sneaks through per day on average -- though virtually 100% of those come from mailers matching this regexp: /.*dsl.*/ so I'm thinking to blocking all those... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Internal mail
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:39:52 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Root is sending me messages that end up in /var/spool/mail/anne. I
Due to entries in /etc/aliases -- adjust and run newaliases if you want
to keep root stuff separate.
would like to set up KMail to bring these messages into a new folder,
Should only need to add account and/or filtering rule... I don't run
Kmail since I think sylpheed-claws is the best IMO; but a quick look
suggests you are looking for ConfigureKmail-{Identities,Network} where
you can create new identities(accounts) and servers... It's not obvious
how to tell Kmail that accountA uses serverX and accountB uses serverY;
but that's the general area...
but don't know how to set up internal mail accounts. Is it possible
Any valid userid can receive mail via [EMAIL PROTECTED] assuming you have
postfix or sendmail running on that machine; otherwise, you may need
fetchmail.
without using extra services? What do I need to do? What should I
postfix/sendmail/fetchmail are required to accept/fetch mail into your
system for multiple users.
read? If I can sort this out I would like to extend to internal mail
across our mixed lan.
Lots of resources available... what do you really want to do? Do you
have your own domain? Are you prepared to run your own mailhost? Do you
need a backup server? Wanna be your own boss when it comes to spam
handling? etc, etc... I've documented some of my postfix stuff at
http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix it that helps...
Anne
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Re: [expert] ethernet -cable modem
On 09 Jul 2003 19:37:05 +0100 Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jack, but where do I find it, its not on my system at the moment, or on the club/ distro servers mii-tool ^ Thanks Richard On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 18:32, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:02, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all I found a way some while ago to see if the link between the cable modem and my NIC was running full or half duplex and at what speed. I cant remember where or how I found it. Can anyone help please TIA miitool Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP printers on USB
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 23:57:46 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 03:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc, all work off the SIIG USB PCMCIA 4-port hub; but the printers will only work if connected to the laptop's builtin USB1.1 port. CUPS reports Unable to open USB device usb://hp/deskjet%205550: No such device, even after redoing the printer setup via http://localhost:631 Just moving the cable from the PCMCIA to the builtin port allows queued jobs to print. Pierre, Is it possible.. (and this is a real stab in the dark.) that the printer doesn't recognize the hub as a real USB port? So it doesn't activate. I've got an Epson that does that no matter what OS is on the other end. When I boot the box with the printer connected to the USB hub... I don't get all of the chugging and churning I normally get when it's directly connected. We got rid of the hub plugged it in directly and ... poof it works. Go figure. James I recall reading that some external USB hubs are not powered, and therefore are only usable with passive devices. That might explain James' problem, but probably not Pierre's. -- cmg Yikes! During testing, the power connector had fallen out of the PCMCIA adapter (where's my epoxy..?); but that is not my problem since I've rechecked... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Using Postfix with no network.
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:00:03 -0500 Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use Postfix to deliver my mail from mutt on my laptop running Mandrake 9.1. Sometimes I would like to compose mail while offline and have postfix queue it and deliver it when I'm back online. When I try to send mail mutt tells me there's no sendmail/network available. and I can't have the email queued. Is there a way to set Postfix to accept the email and then deliver it when I'm back online transparently? I wold not like for Postfix to bounce the mail back to me either. I never used mutt; but most mailers have a Send Later option... wouldn't that be less resource intensive than running postfix just to queue messages while offline...? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP printers on USB
On 07 Jul 2003 12:49:05 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc, all work off the SIIG USB PCMCIA 4-port hub; but the printers will only work if connected to the laptop's builtin USB1.1 port. CUPS reports Unable to open USB device usb://hp/deskjet%205550: No such device, even after redoing the printer setup via http://localhost:631 Just moving the cable from the PCMCIA to the builtin port allows queued jobs to print. Pierre, Is it possible.. (and this is a real stab in the dark.) that the printer doesn't recognize the hub as a real USB port? So it doesn't activate. I've got an Epson that does that no matter what OS is on the other end. When I boot the box with the printer connected to the USB hub... I don't get all of the chugging and churning I normally get when it's directly connected. We got rid of the hub plugged it in directly and ... poof it works. Go figure. James Sounds plausible... though anyone without a USB port on a laptop would need a PCMCIA hub -- only to have a printer that doesn't work with it... Never looked into it; but the line 2650 error is always there... even with no devices or USB/PCMCIA plugged in; only the builtin USB port... The timeouts have always been there with no apparent impact; though when the printer is not connected or does not work, those lines are not there... so I suspect they are from the printer -- confirmed with only printer connected to builtin. BTW, the builtin is UHCI: # lsusb -v | grep i Invalid product/subclass spec at line 2650 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB UHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 1860 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 and the PCMCIA appears as two OHCI hubs on a PCI hub... # lsusb -v | grep i Invalid product/subclass spec at line 2650 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 3 Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdk ehci-hcd iProduct2 PCI device 1033:00e0 iSerial 1 02:00.2 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB OHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 e08b1000 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB OHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 e086c000 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 ### builtin... idVendor 0x idProduct 0x iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 USB UHCI Root Hub iSerial 1 1860 iConfiguration 0 iInterface 0 Here is the full dump... [Actually, the original msg with full dump fails to end with a FIN, so I've truncated it to give the gist of the problem for now...] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] HP printers on USB
Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc, all work off the SIIG USB PCMCIA 4-port hub; but the printers will only work if connected to the laptop's builtin USB1.1 port. CUPS reports Unable to open USB device usb://hp/deskjet%205550: No such device, even after redoing the printer setup via http://localhost:631 Just moving the cable from the PCMCIA to the builtin port allows queued jobs to print. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Parent vs Child
On 30 Jun 2003 09:32:01 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:01, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I need is to have the parent process spawn the new process, then complete itself and die. While the child becomes independent and continues it's life until it completes it's actions. man nohup. --Dave also: man bash, see disown Still not getting the results I need The parent remains open in a wait state for the child to complete. I can kill the parent without affecting the child.. but the parent will not exit until the child does.. I'm getting closer. Basically this is going into an rpm which is part of a group of rpms. This one product that has to get installed ahead of a number of others (dependencies) has a long self install program that runs. There is no reason it can't run in the background while the other rpms get installed. Doing this would cut totally install of the group by about 50% is why I'm trying to to this. Thanks again for the answers James I'm experimenting ... If I find it all let ya'll know James, Haven't checked for the parent sticking around; but I used to start a task in background and then disown the job and disconnect from the remote host... let us know if that parent still hangs around in that scenario... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Parent vs Child
On 01 Jul 2003 14:45:24 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:37, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works as expected.. the parent automatically dies and the child continues it's run... Problem is when I put a similar case into an RPM and it runs it. It hangs. RPM will not continue until child runs it's course. And all the time that rpm #1 is open I can't start installing rpm #2 (the rpm database does not multi-task.) g. Although rpm uses bash shell scripts it sure doesn't use them correctly. Sorry, I don't follow all the threads... From what you say here, I think what you are up against is DB locking... and that won't be solved with multiple threads unless the DB allows it, which I doubt. Kinda sounds like the rpm DB is Linux' registry in this respect... correct and if I can figure out how to make rpm start the auto install script ... then release it to continue on it's merry way I can cut installation time for my company by 40% Or at least the time required to find out if all rpms install correctly. (the rpm in question takes about 80% of the total install time just waiting for the script is spawns to run.) Not to disimilar to the situation where you install a new kernel. It runs a number of commands (such as install_kernel) that if there was a way to run them ... then let the rpm command finish while they continue on their own. The system would be able to begin installing the next rpm while the install_kernel command etc finished on it's own. You know the old theory ... you can do anything with software... we'll, I'm trying to prove just that. *grin* So you're gonna rip rpm apart and have it use separate DBs aligned with the package categories already defined by Mdk... Cool! :^) :^) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Parent vs Child
On 01 Jul 2003 15:51:18 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On your point.. yes ... I agree that rpm could more affectively handle the database. There is no reason why it should lock the db after it figures out if all dependencies are met unless it's actively writing to the db. Data can be gathered and written asynchronously as easily as it could be done synchronously so why not... but that's another battle for another day. I wish I had time to help... but I'd suggest that a quick look into rpm should reveal one of at least two possibilities: 1 - rpm is well structured -- separation possible (maybe easy) 2 - rpm is spaghetti code -- lost cause If 1, it might be as simple as close/open db as you want... why re-invent the wheel if adding a bearing will eliminate the friction... Good luck. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Parent vs Child
On 01 Jul 2003 12:52:33 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works as expected.. the parent automatically dies and the child continues it's run... Problem is when I put a similar case into an RPM and it runs it. It hangs. RPM will not continue until child runs it's course. And all the time that rpm #1 is open I can't start installing rpm #2 (the rpm database does not multi-task.) g. Although rpm uses bash shell scripts it sure doesn't use them correctly. Sorry, I don't follow all the threads... From what you say here, I think what you are up against is DB locking... and that won't be solved with multiple threads unless the DB allows it, which I doubt. Kinda sounds like the rpm DB is Linux' registry in this respect... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I tried shorewall and setting it up via the nice drakconf frontend but it completely borked my ability to connect to the internet, seemingly regardless of what settings I made (as to allowing what to access, etc). http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/stronger-firewall-examples.html is about as low download impact as you can get... using it on a 21.6kb line at the moment -- sucks compared to my DSL; but the script tracks the dialup IP. The only problem I've had with it was a ~30sec delay each time I checked mail from my server... This was solved by adding a rule to allow ident from the server; I can provide the changes if you need them... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues UPDATE
On 29 Jun 2003 23:36:40 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my /etc/fstab (due to k3bsetup) I have: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder1auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 I still can't burn onto a dvdrw. Can anyone offer any enlightenment? man fstab and look up ro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Parent vs Child
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I need is to have the parent process spawn the new process, then complete itself and die. While the child becomes independent and continues it's life until it completes it's actions. man nohup. --Dave also: man bash, see disown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:27:33 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 07:01 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I tried shorewall and setting it up via the nice drakconf frontend but it completely borked my ability to connect to the internet, seemingly regardless of what settings I made (as to allowing what to access, etc). http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/stronger-firewall-examples.htm l is about as low download impact as you can get... using it on a 21.6kb line at the moment -- sucks compared to my DSL; but the script tracks the dialup IP. The only problem I've had with it was a ~30sec delay each time I checked mail from my server... This was solved by adding a rule to allow ident from the server; I can provide the changes if you need them... I would appreciate it if you would provide your changes...just in case. I'll try the script as is and see how it goes, then try your changes as needed. Thank you for the link. praedor # Setting a few other local variables # UNIVERSE=0.0.0.0/0 ### added addr of mail server here: SERVER=1.2.3.4/32 ### Added this: # identd - Enable the following lines if you need identd for your mailhost # echo -e - Allowing EXTERNAL access to the identd server $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTIF -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED \ -p tcp -s $SERVER -d $EXTIP --dport 113 -j ACCEPT ### just before this: # # - End OPTIONAL INPUT Section - Of course, I specified the various addresses to match my network... quite simple... just follow the instructions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:10:04 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, thanks to everyone's help it looks like I got my MTA configured right now. How can I allow a single client (IP address) besids the $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24 variable or can I do it with that variable like $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24, 333.444.555.10/24. Is that possable? Should be with 333.444.555.10/32 -- watch how you use the netmask... what yours says is mask the incoming address to 24 bits (333.444.555.0 - yucky example addy) then match it to 333.444.555.10 which would alwasys fail). What is the best solution for this?? If this is for remote access, you might want to consider pop-before-smtp -- several issues burned me in the early days; documented here: http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix/pop-before-smtp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:49:52 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have been using postfix for about a year or so and I needed to change my configuration and now I can't seem to get it working the same way I had it. At the end of my /etc/postfix/main.cf file I have: mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain myorigin = $mydomain smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, check_client_access, hash:/etc/postfix/access, check_relay_domains and then in the /etc/postfix/access I have: 111.222.333.444 OK 222.333.444.555 OK and so on. But now, with this setup, anyone can send mail through? i.e. Open Relay. I need it to beable to send mail for the entire domain and some clients outside the domain. Ralph See my page at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix/ -- it needs some updating; but you may find the answer there... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Open relay using Postfix. Need config help.
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:40:35 +0200 Martin Fahrendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2003 16:49 schrieb Ralph Crongeyer: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, check_client_access, hash:/etc/postfix/access, check_relay_domains Btw: does your smtpd_recipient_restrictions relay look like the list above? There should be a warning or an error in the logfiles (in /var/log/mail) about a mistyping. Normaly smtpd_recipient_restrictions should look like this (there is no comma between check_client_access and the hash table) : smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unknown_recipient_domain reject_unknown_sender_domain reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_non_fqdn_recipient permit_mynetworks check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/access reject_unauth_destination No, both forms are OK -- though it's easier to make mistakes with the comma separated list. The leading space form is better IMO, cleaner (then again, I prefer Python). IIRC, don't put comments in the middle though... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mail address masquerading
On 24 Jun 2003 11:55:10 +0200 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Does anyone know how I can rewrite addresses to the outside? http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#masquerade Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] crashing term windows.
On 22 Jun 2003 15:51:55 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed this... In 9.1 no matter what wm you use if you do xterm -e pwd (or any other command) the term window opens and crashes immediately. With no error in messages or anywhere else. This is true with xterm rxvt konsole gnome-terminal... all of them. James You're right as user or root... even strace xterm -e pwd (or any other command) dies with a clue which I don't have time to research... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] crashing term windows.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:16:31 +0930 Brian Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks to me that xterm isn't crashing, it's merely finishing the command it was given and exiting nicely. Try running something that stays around for a while instead of pwd - eg. xclock of vi a.tmp. Brian Doh!xterm -e pwd; sleep 5 From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 22 Jun 2003 15:51:55 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed this... In 9.1 no matter what wm you use if you do xterm -e pwd (or any other command) the term window opens and crashes immediately. With no error in messages or anywhere else. This is true with xterm rxvt konsole gnome-terminal... all of them. James You're right as user or root... even strace xterm -e pwd (or any other command) dies with a clue which I don't have time to research... _ Hotmail is now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/signup.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I Found my Martians
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 07:55:41 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops - another example of seeing the reply to a message that never came through - I never got Sridhar's. Are we all having this problem? Anne Hmmm... too bad we don't have access to the list servers... missing posts and duplicated posts -- gotta wonder if one of the servers has a glitch where it forwards the wrong msg at times... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mailing List mis-management?
On 16 Jun 2003 20:18:23 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:45, Pierre Fortin wrote: Anne, This is an *ancient* problem... I pointed it out about 2 years ago IIRC-- when there were all sorts of other mail issues... it wasn't fixed then and probably won't be fixed now... the solution is simple -- don't cross post... send 2 messages... Pierre, I wonder if this bug isn't intentional ... by taking the first address in a cross posted e-mail only, it's a great way to prevent cross posts and spam related cross posts. ... James How does that old saying go...? Something about not attributing foresight to an unexpected [side-]effect... If this was intentional, then that intention missed the mark of reducing traffic by not ignoring the extra addresses and simply using the first one N times... For historical perspective, see below for a discussion on my analysis (sent Dec 19,2000 -- 2 1/2 years ago...) about the list problems... Re-reading that old post, I have to wonder if those who don't see their posts are actually hitting a possible fix for Cause 3a... i.e., do those posts contain the list name 2+ times in the To: field? I suppose it's true that history repeats... On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:14:54 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earlier today I sent a post to the newbie list and the expert list, saying that we should get started on a hardward compatibility list on the TWiki site. Cross-posted, you understand (not a thing I normally do, but it seemed justified at the time). I received my two copies, which my filters put both into the newbie folder - or so I thought. However, Eric then mailed me about this. You may remember that he has brought up this subject before. I think that it was generally thought that he was mistaken (I admit I thought so too), but when he raised the question I checked the full headers for the posts. *Both* of them said Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had thought it strange that no-one from the expert list had answered, but it seems Eric is right - it never got there. An hour or two later, Greg posted to the newbie list that he had started the page. I forwarded his post to the expert list, for information. That was perhaps 5 hours ago. I has not shown up. We seem to have serious problems here. Anne [There may be better data from the archives; but this was the first message I found in mine...] - From Dec 19,2000 Rusty, Since you have the most complete set of questions... :^) Rusty Carruth wrote: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have analyzed just over 250 messages from Cooker and Expert lists. Of those, there were 20 duplicated and 3 triplicated messages. I'm impressed! I quit after 2 or 4 ;-) I just finally got tired to seeing all the why am I getting duplicates...? posts; asking the same question over and over does not solve the problem... you gotta dig deep[er]... : From my short sampling, these are the causes of message replication I came up with... Did you happen to attach a count to each of these causes? That might be very enlightening. I didn't feel the count mattered 'cuz a computer can make the same mistake forever without complaining; fix the cause and it'll behave regardless of counts... CAUSE 1: user 500@yavin.mandrax.org: I am of the opinion that user 500 is the 'expert list' expander/forwarder/whatever_ you_want_to_call_it. Yes; just pointing out that it was at the core of the issues. CAUSE 2a: sender is using M$ Outlook Express configured to send an Envelope-To: header. ... CAUSE 2b: sender is using Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) with aReply-To: header. See cause 2a for solution. But aren't these just triggers to the problem in user 500? Unless I've missed something, it seems that the right solution is to fix whatever user 500 is doing... Correct; though if we can reduce the problems in the meantime... However, the following ones require a smarter set of rules... CAUSE 3a: sending to more than one addressee. Examples: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], self, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], self, [EMAIL PROTECTED] So [EMAIL PROTECTED] == [EMAIL PROTECTED], eh? Wow, learn something new every day ;-) Does the 'self' entry seem to have anything to do with it? self was just to indicate that the sender was mailing a copy back to themselves to push a copy of their posts through their filters for filing. CAUSE 3b: sending to both To: and Cc: This is where my post got caught... though in my case, I sent: To: cooker... Cc: expert... Which means that when you think you are cross-posting, the list server simply sends both copies to the To: list; I missed this variation in my original post. CAUSE 3c: sending with BCC: which is not detectable from the messages we get
Re: [expert] Mailing List mis-management?
Anne, This is an *ancient* problem... I pointed it out about 2 years ago IIRC -- when there were all sorts of other mail issues... it wasn't fixed then and probably won't be fixed now... the solution is simple -- don't cross post... send 2 messages... On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:14:54 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earlier today I sent a post to the newbie list and the expert list, saying that we should get started on a hardward compatibility list on the TWiki site. Cross-posted, you understand (not a thing I normally do, but it seemed justified at the time). I received my two copies, which my filters put both into the newbie folder - or so I thought. However, Eric then mailed me about this. You may remember that he has brought up this subject before. I think that it was generally thought that he was mistaken (I admit I thought so too), but when he raised the question I checked the full headers for the posts. *Both* of them said Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had thought it strange that no-one from the expert list had answered, but it seems Eric is right - it never got there. An hour or two later, Greg posted to the newbie list that he had started the page. I forwarded his post to the expert list, for information. That was perhaps 5 hours ago. I has not shown up. We seem to have serious problems here. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
TWiki [Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel]
On 15 Jun 2003 14:12:07 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since valuable info like this needs to be captured I started a new section in the HowTo's on the Twiki... called Tips and Tricks. It's at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/TipsAndTricks With the object of allowing anyone who sees something they think is really neat and or usefull to put it in the twiki, The idea is that sometimes our suggestions result in a fix that is really a combination of suggestions. If this happens it would be real nice to capture. I'm hoping by setting it up ... then doing it a little myself to promote more people to put what worked in a place it can be researched. James Hope my additions/stucture are useful... just a start... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Coreldraw files to?
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 17:05:09 +0200 Francisco Alcaraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know any tool to translate coreldraw files to other more general format (jpg, ps, pnm)? Closest thing I found was XnView-static.i386.rpm -- http://www.xnview.com though it just gave what looked like a thumbnail of the entire doc; but it might work on your file(s) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Coreldraw files to?
On 14 Jun 2003 15:35:19 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 14:47, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Francisco, What is the extension? I don't have Corel Draw in front of me right now... But there should be something. james The extension is cdr Thanks James for your interest Found a batch converter that is supposed to do it. http://www.733kru.org/ called gfxcon Click on their applications link in the upper left corner and go from there. James Unfortunately, v0.3 fails: $ make g++ -c misc.c g++ gfXcon.c misc.o -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lImlib2 -lXpm -o gfXcon gfXcon.c: In function `void convert(gfXcon_argument**)': gfXcon.c:85: invalid conversion from `void*' to `void**' make: *** [cmpl] Error 1 gfXcon.c:85: image = imlib_load_image_with_error_return(infile, err); v0.2 fails on the same statement (gfXcon.c:82:) Thanks anyway... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Change default editor.
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:59:52 -0500 Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to globally change the default editor in Mandrake 9.1 Here's an example which fires up an emacs window if local, or runs emacs in the xterm if the session appears to be remote (I don't like running an X window over a modem). /etc/profile.d/editor.sh(perms=755): export EDITOR=emacs if [ $DISPLAY != :0.0 ];then export EDITOR=emacs -nw fi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:32:01 -0700 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what's the dumbest thing you have done? Wanting to remove all files in a dir, including dot (.foo) files: rm -rf .* ., .. (oops! -- recursed all the way back to /) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Certainly too late to report...
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 19:45:18 + charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:28 pm, Pierre Fortin sent this :- Here's an interesting install bug on 9.1... for which there is no place to report, even back on day 1 of 9.1final's release... I don't know what partitioning tool that you used. ML9.1's fdisk... the system was already running 9.1 -- I did nothing to fix the partitions, only got the 9.1 installer to finally accept what I'd done... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Certainly too late to report...
Here's an interesting install bug on 9.1... for which there is no place to report, even back on day 1 of 9.1final's release... I orginally installed 8.2 on my IBM Thinkpad A20m, then upgraded to 9.0, then to 9.1 Lots of folk have stated that I should have *installed* instead... well... install kinda sucks too... Today, I received my new 40G HD, and not wanting to risk losing data, I connected the new drive via a USB box... Still on 8.2-9.0-9.1, I created the following partitions on the new drive: Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 38154 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Device BootBlocks Id System As To become /dev/sda1 * 511984 83 Linux /91/ /dev/sda2 385576965 Extended /dev/sda54095984 83 Linux /91/usr/usr /dev/sda6 511984 83 Linux /91/var/var /dev/sda71023984 82 Linux swap /dev/sda81023984 83 Linux /tmp /tmp /dev/sda9 511984 83 Linux /x alt / /dev/sda10 4095984 83 Linux /x/usr alt /usr /dev/sda11511984 83 Linux /x/var alt /var /dev/sda12 5119984 83 Linux /home /home /dev/sda13 5119984 83 Linux /usr/local /usr/local /dev/sda14 6143984 83 Linux /ISO /ISO /dev/sda15 10397680 83 Linux /var/www /var/www and copied most of my data over from the old 12G HD with the following partitions: Disk /dev/hda: 12.0 GB, 12068904960 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1559 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Device BootBlocks Id System WasTo become /dev/hda1 * 597208 83 Linux / /old /dev/hda2 111888005 Extended /dev/hda5 975208 82 Linux swap /dev/hda63628768 83 Linux /usr /old/usr /dev/hda71527088 83 Linux /var /old/var /dev/hda85057608 83 Linux /home /old/home Note that the swap partitions are on the 40G partition 7 (4th) and 12G partition 5 (2nd)... Then, I physically swapped the old 12G and new 40G HDs... Powered up, inserted CD1 and started the install with F1-expert... Got to the partitioning step and... BUG: sda7 (now hda7) swap claims to be a Linux partition BUG: sda7 (now hda7) shows it will be mounted as /var BUG: sda5 (now hda5) claims to be a SWAP partition BUG: old hda5 (now sda5) swap claims to be a Linux partition BUG: old hda7 (now sda7) claims to be a SWAP partition Clearly a case of either NOT reading the partition tables or not paying attention to which is which... In expert mode, I found no way to unmount the SWAP=/var partition... Yup /var over the green partition... Next, I disconnected the external USB 12G HD and restarted the install using the default (Enter) mode... Here, got the same problem; but at least I was able to get around it... otherwise, I would have had to switch the drives back. Visually, both partitioning tools appeared identical, they reported similar erroneous partitions; but the normal mode was more capable than the expert mode... I now have the space needed to test 9.2 betas (if I can find time); but not sure I want to risk my hardwre by swapping disks for _this_ set of problems... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Stateful inspection firewall.
On 29 May 2003 00:02:10 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to deal with a Linksys today that gave us similar fits. It couldn't port forward say port 2200 to port 22 on an internal IP number ... so I had to make the internal Linux box listen to 2200 and 22 then forward 2200 to 2200+ internal IP... that worked AAA! James, If you get this message, it has travelled from my laptop on the road, thru mindspring which blocks port 25 from dialups, over port 2525 to my LinkSys, with port 2525 mapped to 25, into my mailhost, and on to the list... However, some protocols may not be NATable... I just tried 2200 to 22 and get connection refused. Pierre Tip: when on the road, over a dialup, remote access to your LinkSys can be had by ssh'ing inside and using lynx http://linksys (hopefully, you have Remote Management disabled) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91
On 28 May 2003 16:07:02 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peeps, There have been an alarming number of system freezes here recently, and I guess I'm not so much looking for a solution as I am for other LM91 users that have been experiencing similar things. There have been other system lockups, but I viewed them as anomalies at the time, and did not take notice of the circumstances at those times. However the last lockup was recent enough that I still had my ears pricked up. There were several applications open at the same time, several of which usually work without incident together. Evolution, Eterms (3), mplayer (CLI mode), xclock, qmail, Enlightenment, chronyd, esd, and kdm. The other app that I do not usually run was drakconf. I was composing an email in Evo, and drakconf had been open for perhaps 30 seconds. At the end of that 30 secs the cursor disappeared from Evo's composer window, and the system went unresponsive. Although E was still showing a desktop and the cursor could move about the screen, mouse clicking did nothing, as did ctrl-alt-backspace or cntrl-alt-del. No go with cntrl-alt-f1 thru 6 either. In the end the only recourse was the reset switch. The filesystem btw is XFS, and no problem with recovery this time. However I did not experience troubles of this sort under 8.2, so let me knock the hardware suggestions in the head right off the bat. According to LM82 the HW is immaculate (and has not changed); in addition, all LM91 updates have been applied. Has anyone else experienced similar situations or is my situation unique? Happens to me on occasion... usually seems to be a race condition with a popup window which then becomes hidden behind another window... I don't recall at the moment how I get at it to close it; but I've never had to reset that I recall... HTH --LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Stateful inspection firewall.
On 30 May 2003 09:29:15 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 06:31, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 29 May 2003 00:02:10 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tip: when on the road, over a dialup, remote access to your LinkSys can be had by ssh'ing inside and using lynx http://linksys (hopefully, you have Remote Management disabled) Yep do the same thing for remote management. My D-Link at home has a much better UI ... And it's nice to know that the mail trick workedMay have to set one up like that. (btw links works much nicer than lynx.) Unfortunately, that doesn't work cuz LinkSys gives an initial auth failure. lynx proceeds to where the LinkSys asks for user/passwd; but links won't and I haven't found how to get it past the auth failure that lynx does automatically... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: Spam puzzler
On Mon, 26 May 2003 09:22:28 -0300 (BRT) Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I verify if I have a misconfigured DNS? I mean, how can I know that I won't have e-mail reject for a such mechanism suggest by Pierre? Looking at your post's headers... Received: from iracema.biof.ufrj.br (iracema.biof.ufrj.br [146.164.76.162]) 1: 2: by chagas.biof.ufrj.br (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4QCQ8kh009901 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 26 May 2003 09:26:08 -0300 This initial header shows that your server claimed to be 1 and rDNS got 2 from your IP address... so both pieces match which is good. Conversely, the same initial Received header for missing rDNS should look like this: Received: from iracema.biof.ufrj.br (unknown [146.164.76.162]) If 1 and 2 don't match, then my mailer also tries to resolve 1 (the name you configured in your mailer). In this case, both must pass the test... Moral of the story: make sure your rDNS is correct and your mailer sends a known-to-DNS name in the HELO/EHLO packet, or your mail may be rejected... HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] failure message
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:53:32 -0800 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skippi wrote on Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:57:40PM -0700 : Greetings all. I am running a MDK 7.2 box and get the following message every so often at tty1 - 6: failure for servers telnet 1046406154 localhost Can anyone point me in the direct of the problem? This box is not a server or any such thing, simply a normal single user desktop. Five dollars says your box is cracked. Are you running a telnet server? If not, then twenty dollars says your box is cracked. Blue skies... Todd The large number is just an attempt to obfuscate the IP address... Here's a quick trick to determine the IP address** from the above... 1. Enter the number (1046406154) into kcalc (or any other dec/hex calculator) 2. Convert to hex (one click :) == 3E5EE40A 3. Separate into 4 octets (bytes) == 3E.5E.E4.0A 4. Convert each octet back to decimal == 62.94.228.10 ** this address may be the attacker phoning home *or* a new target (your machine is used as a jumping off point). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Named startup Failed - but is running!
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:11:56 -0500 Albert E. Whale, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Bind-9.2.1-2.2mdk on a Linux Mandrake 8.2 server. The startup script (service named start) indicates a Failure, as does the logfiles: Mar 18 13:54:11 access4 named: named shutdown succeeded Mar 18 13:54:11 access4 named[2903]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u named Mar 18 13:54:11 access4 named[2903]: using 1 CPU Mar 18 13:54:11 access4 named: named startup failed Mar 18 13:54:11 access4 named[2909]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Mar 18 13:54:11 access4 named[2909]: no IPv6 interfaces found Mar 18 13:54:11 access4 named[2909]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Mar 18 13:54:11 access4 named[2909]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 192.168.4.253#53 Mar 18 13:54:11 access4 named[2909]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 However, the rndc status reports the following: [/var/log] rndc status number of zones: 64 debug level: 0 xfers running: 0 xfers deferred: 0 soa queries in progress: 0 query logging is OFF server is up and running Does anyone know what is going on here? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MS crud
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:42:57 -0800 Dave Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good evening, Pierre... On Friday 14 March 2003 06:04 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Got a pointer to the strings' stuff...? I'm running 8.2 on my main server (9.0 issues)... http://articles.linuxguru.net/view/125 It would seem, based upon my reading the page, that most of us will have to patch our kernels before this will work, so being somewhat idle, I promptly downloaded the patch and applied it to the RedHat kernel running on one of my spare boxes, rebooted and tested it. Heck, it works. However, I should say that it slowed things down quite a bit, running only 64M of memory. I don't have anything scientific to prove that, just the observation. However, within five minutes, it did capture and DROP a set of packets. I was impressed. It's interesting; but as you've already noticed, a heavy drag on the performance... not to mention that fewer people would help in the war on M$ Crud using this method -- not able or willing to recompile the kernel... while the apache logs do get entries, I see this as the lesser of the evils and still think pursuing this at the user vs kernel level is better IMO... if an attacker is Nimda/CodeRed, somehow, I doubt it's owner would be simultaneously accessing my website for licit reasons... so blocking the entire address has the least impact on the performance of my system, which also won't slow down the system for other visitors. What have you tried in this matter? Feel free to take this thread offline-- we can summarize back... There it is. I'm going to experiment some more with this with a box and see if there are any additional drawbacks to using an iptables filter to trap Code Red. Then I'll summarize back here what I find. I'm still somewhat surprised how easily it all flew together, and it works! 8-) I may have a look at the code; but rather than strings, I would think quick-exit protocol-diving would be a better approach... but that's just me... Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:43:12 +0100 Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri 2003-03-14 at 21:48:20 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 March 2003 08:35 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Does Mdk even try just *starting* the applications included in a release? I am not sure they should. There are a lot of testers out there. And if none of them bothered to try the app *and* report problems, I would consider it reasonable to remove that app, because apparently nobody cares enough about it. That's plain wrong thinking... if Mdk wants to limit their sales to just those who test/run Cooker, I might agree... BUT... they want to sell as much as they can, and they really have no way of telling how people will use the distro. If there are some applications that won't even *start*, what does that say for Mdk QA??? After all, the distro is named Mandrake Linux, not Linux By A Rag-tag Bunch of Cooker/Wannabe Testers Who Didn't Have the Time or Inclination to Test All the Applications: Good Luck!... Virtually all the applications are not developed at Mandrake, just built there... so I see no reason why the apps can't at least be started to make sure the builds are of _some_ use or maybe the term NOOP is no longer well known. I'm still quite miffed at 9.0 for a number of reasons; however, last night, I asked another list member if ohphone just *started* in 9.1rc2... NOPE! pwlib problem Did anybody test it on the current cooker? IIRC, rc2 was almost 3 weeks ago now. Well, I just installed it from current cooker (ohphone-1.3.5-1mdk) and could start it without problem. Did not include much testing, because I did not care to read the manual, but I can make it searching for something it calls gatekeeper. :-) OK... THANK YOU! *that's* what I want to hear... but I still believe the packagers should at least *start* whatever they are building -- there is no other way to ensure the build is even usable. I convinced several users to make the move from Windows to Mandrake during 8.x; but with 9.0, ZERO! Yes, there were some fixes only after RC2: $ rpm -q --changelog ohphone * Tue Mar 11 2003 Florin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 1.3.5 - update requires - remove already intergrated c++fixes patch - update the lib64 patch * Sun Dec 01 2002 Gwenole Beauchesne [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.2.11-2mdk - Patch2: Make it lib64 aware I also searched the the bug database. Not a single entry for ohphone. Maybe there was a report directly on the cooker mailing list. For 9.0, I reported it, was even blamed for building it wrong, pointed out I just installed it, got the impression it would be fixed, not! If Mdk don't fix broken apps in a distro, they won't last IMO. Anyhow, regarding the the late update, I would say: blame yourself. (I do not mean anyone particular with yourself here.) The first part sounds like flame-bait; but the 2nd... unable to grok. Anyone can easily get a working ohphone by testing *and* reporting problems early. This process works. Really. Yup... you're right; but then, WHAT is the point of including broken apps in a distro...? Maybe the cooker process would be a WHOLE LOT smoother if the apps weren't just make; throw over the fence and keep fingers crossed... I have several books on software quality I'd be glad to donate to Mdk, if I thought they'd read them... Bye, Benjamin. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 01:29:01 +0100 Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [lots snipped] On Sunday 16 March 2003 00:28, Pierre Fortin wrote: That's plain wrong thinking... if Mdk wants to limit their sales to just those who test/run Cooker, I might agree... BUT... they want to sell as much as they can, and they really have no way of telling how people will use the distro. If there are some applications that won't even *start*, what does that say for Mdk QA??? After all, the distro is named Mandrake Linux, not Linux By A Rag-tag Bunch of Cooker/Wannabe Testers Who Didn't Have the Time or Inclination to Test All the Applications: Good Luck!... If you are long enoushould know that it can running flawless and do not even start on another machine. So testing on some given machines would not mean it does work for you. (for whatever reason) That is why you should test it if you want have running it. So the statement you are doing is not valid. Why do some people insist on replying, just to make some orthogonal, ephemeral points? I am talking about PROGRAMS THAT WILL *NOT* RUN ON ***ANY*** MACHINE BECAUSE THEY HAVE *NOT* BEEN COMPILED OR LINKED PROPERLY(PERIOD)! as stated above . What is needed is a good bugreport from you. And it got IGNORED! Not just once... All that was left to do was to rebuild the RPM *correctly* and release it as an UPDATE... For 9.0, I reported it, was even blamed for building it wrong, pointed out I just installed it, got the impression it would be fixed, not! You wouldn't be blamed for building it wrong if you are reporting it to cooker. Reporting it to cooker is what is needed. Right... on a RELEASED distro... oh, phooey... just go read the archives from shortly after 9.0 was released. Invalid statement. They don't put not working apps in mandrake, the only thing is they can't know if it is working for you. BUT THEY ***CAN*** KNOW IF IT WON'T WORK FOR *ANYONE*!!! NO? SIGH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:06:52 -0700 Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This msg is intended to rock the boat, shake the tree, whatever... I'm in no mood tonight for posturing, be kind to Mdk, whatever... I'm making this point one last time because I *CARE*; use it or lose it. [Note to Todd: feel free to terminate this thread anytime :] On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 08:35:18PM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: Does Mdk even try just *starting* the applications included in a release? This you'll have to ask the developers. I'm sure most use the applications they're in charge of. Some likely don't (I, for myself, am the maintainer of mailman and don't use it... one reason I've been trying to pawn it off on someone who does actually use it because I know I'm the worst person to package it). Look... all I'm suggesting is that before a prog is released, if someone just tried to start it before packaging/releasing it, a lot of time wouldn't be wasted - downloading it - installing it - trying it - BOOM aka segfault, missing libs, whatever... - reporting it - discussing it - starting all over - etc multiplied by the number of testers involved. Then, even worse, N_testers==0 (not even a token start by the maintainer) and it's released in this untested, unworking mode... The Linux community (testers and/or users) as a whole does not need its collective time wasted in this way... if the maintainer had released an update to ohphone, without even going into all the other 9.0 issues I've had, I would have worked to get more customers... but NO, the next thing I hear is how Mdk needs money... I've made it clear since the release of 9.0 that IMO, it's the worst release ever from Mdk... if 9.1 continues to make it difficult for someone like me to help get more customers, then you've not only lost me, you've lost some future sales, and maybe some repeat sales. And NO, I can't be doing that and cooker testing too... All I expect is a reasonably working release and ***updates when required***. If those updates don't come, then I can't in good conscience migrate someone to Mdk... (one exception; see below). All I've been asking is that Mdk help** _us_ help Mdk grow _their_ business... ** or at least, not place/perpetuate roadblocks in our way... no, rebuild per box is not a scalable answer... Errr... can you rebuild on one box and copy the rebuilt packages to the other? I'm not really sure what you're talking about here on a rebuild per box. How do you propose I do that in this scenario... I convince someone to make the switch, send them some CDs and sufficient information to get started and online. Then I connect remotely and help with the setup, answer questions, etc... Did I mention that these people are hundreds of miles away...?? With only one phone line...?? Have you tried to talk someone through something, when they've barely got the system working in that situation? Until 8.2, I could drop icons onto their desktop and and have them click on ohphone and *talk* to them... sure beats IM, IRC, chat, e-mail... especially when you can have them tell you (verbally) what they're doing as-they're-doing-it instead of try it, hangup, call me, try to describe it, Phooey I must've written a full chapter of this book already on this OHPHONE issue since the release of 9.0 ALL OF THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF THE IMPROPERLY BUILT PACKAGE HAD SIMPLY BEEN RE-COMPILED WITH THE ***CORRECT*** COMPILER AND PUT OUT AS AN UPDATE Anyways, I don't personally know anything about ohphone. I also wasn't ^^ ARGH! Why do people go through so much discussion, only to say this asking for bug reports. If you have a fix for something, please provide it. My *fix* as an END-USER is to report the problem and apply an update... I've MORE than done my part on the first step; but I'm STILL waiting for the update -- which surely won't come now that 9.1 is on the horizon. Errata, by what I'm referring to, is the stuff that goes on our errata pages. Ie. this doesn't work out of the box, so configure it this way or the like... see the current errata pages for an example of what I'm referring to. PLEASE.! Go to the maintainer of ohphone for 9.0 and follow exactly what happened, why it happened, how it got reported, what the answer was, why I replied **I** was not the one who compiled it wrong, what the response was, and then... what happened after... never mind the last step (answer==nothing). Then, watching over the maintainer, have the problem corrected, and document every step... then tell me how EACH AND EVERY [mostly new] **end-user** wanting/needing this product should be expected to do that... Sure _I_ could figure out how to do all that; but it's time away from trying to gain new converts... but that's Mdk's choice; just don't come whining to me any
Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 22:05:22 -0600 mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So young So angry! Damn that rap music! Suffice it to say: I've been retired since 1999 and don't have the same amount of lifetime left to waste as younger folk do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
