Vincent Danen wrote:
On Fri Feb 16, 2001 at 01:36:39PM -0600, Tom Wike wrote:
I am going to take the plunge and try my hand at upgrading Mandrake
7.2 kernel to the latest kernel 2.4.1 using the RPM files in Mandrake
cooker - I have found these files:
kernel-doc-2.4.1-15mdk.i586.rpm
i am getting the following error when startxing it was working fine
before
"(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list!
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
*., ,.**Allah Hafiz*.,
If I understand correctly, glibc 2.2 is supposed to be backwards
compatible with any glibc 2.1 program that didn't rely on errors on
internal glibc API calls. If that's true, why has no effort been made
to release a glibc 2.2 for Mandrake 7.2 and include the appropriate
links for glibc 2.1 and
I have installed LM 7.2 with KDE. But now i want to
use old KDE which was available with LM 7.1. Please suggest me how to install
that old KDE ?Is it possible to have both KDE installed on my Linux ? If
yes, then please do let me know how ?
Thanking You.
- Kuldeep
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have installed LM 7.2. At the time of
installation I have added four users. After successful installation i have added
one more user. After adding a user and after restart, previous four users and
root passwords are NOT working. I am getting message Login Failed. But the
lastly added
Iforgot the password of root. Now It is
possible to change the password of root ? if it is possible, then please do let
me know.
Thanking You.
- Kuldeep
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:55:14AM -0600, Altoine B. wrote:
Mark Belanger wrote:
Stig-rjan Smelror wrote:
After I updated my installation of 7.2 StarOffice 5.2 won't run.
I get "Failed to load necessary components" and did a "strace" to see
what it was looking for. It says
I am having dual operating system on my computer. I
am having Windows Me and Linux Mandrake 7.2. On my linux i have installed X
server 3.3.6. In both the operating system i am using the same display
resolution (1024 by 768). In compare to windows. Linux 7.2 is displaying desktop
around 1
On Friday 16 February 2001 14:58, you wrote:
Folks,
I'm using an HP-FX70 flat panel screen on a Linuxized HP box and I'm
having trouble using the screen to its full resolution. When I use
DrakeConfig to set the resolution to 1024 x 768, the resolution it loved
under Windows, I get annoying
Hi all,
Firstly,, I am paranoid all the time,, and it works for me... I have no
unsecured connections on my server and I have yet to have had a sucessful
hack. (as far as I can tell anyway.)
I am looking for a way (one that doesn't require that I have a SSL cert.) to
secure either pop3 or IMAP
When I type nslookup Tesla I get the following response:
*** Can't find server name for address "my DHCP assigned IP#":Server failed
*** Default servers are not available
Resolv.conf has only the following written in it:
nameserver "My DHCP assigned IP#"
Also some people have suggested to just
Hi
you didn't change /etc/hosts correctly. first add this line:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
and then add another line with:
your real IP Tesla.real.domain Tesla
this should solve the problem.
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 08:21:01AM -0600, Sean Armstrong wrote:
When I type
Use the stunnel to wrap the POP and IMAP into secure connection by
tunneling the connection. Suggest you also move them to secure port number
instead of standard port. You can use the SSL Certificate that you make
yourself and validated yourself so that it is setup that way.
It
Has anyone implimented APOP?? it seems alot easier then using SSL.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russell "Elik"
Rademacher
Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2001 11:08 PM
To: Expert@Linux-Mandrake. Com
Subject: RE: [expert] Securing IMAP or
can't you just log in as single user and give a new pass word? it used to
work in RedHAt 6.2
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John J. LeMay Jr.
Sent: Sunday, 18 February 2001 11:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Root
Festina,
I can only speak for myself in this regard - I am testing Mandrake at work as
a NFS server vs Solaris 8 and I want NFS v3 plus the 2.4.1 kernel has better
SMP properties (I am running this on a Dell Optiplex 300 GX w/Dual PentIII) -
I have also heard that the networking was completely
That would be nice, except I am using DHCP and don't have a static IP
address. How do you get around this? I tried putting in a fake IP, but still
nothing.
Thanks in advance,
SA
From: Haim Ashkenazi Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...
Hi Faisal,
Nice signature. --I had a similar problem, turns out i unwittingly turned off the xfs
service in a
mad attempt to tighten down my system. It looks like your X font server is not
running. If you try
(as root)
# service xfs status
this should tell you if it's runnning or not. If it's
Start you PC with a bootdisk/CD. Mount your root password and edit
/etc/shadow. Delete the encrypted password for root. Reboot the machine
the usual way en login as root and leave the password blank. Should
work.
Kuldeep Shah wrote:
I forgot the password of root. Now It is possible to change
** Reply to message from Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 18 Feb 2001
23:26:33 +0800
can't you just log in as single user and give a new pass word? it used to
work in RedHAt 6.2
Where did you put the new password in RH6.2? /etc/password or /etc/shadow? The
passwords in /etc/shadow are
In RH6.2 standard install you can just type linux single at the lilo prompt
and off it goes,, unless you have lilo passworded as well, there is no
hassles.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John J. LeMay Jr.
Sent: Monday, 19 February 2001
Hi all,,
Has anyone had actual luck gettin the nvidea drivers working,,??
I have tried numerous times and no luck, I always get unresolved messages...
Tried rebuilding the src rpm, and that works, but still doesnt' work when
the binarys are installed...
I even tried the binary for MDK 7.1 and
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote:
- ** Reply to message from Kuldeep Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 18 Feb
- 2001 15:10:09 +0530
-
-
- I forgot the password of root
-
- I haven't tried this, but I think you can delete the password from /etc/shadow
- (assuming you are using shadow
actually, just going in and typing "passwd root" and entering a new one
should work fine too, it will overwrite the one that is there now,, that I
did many times in RH6.2 also.
hope this helps.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen
I gave up on the kword part of koffice a while ago and went to lyx (klyx is
REALLY broken). In any case, if you need to do a lot of citing of sources in
your documents, lyx is better anyway since it is the ONLY "wordprocessor" for
linux that supports automatic citation and bibliography
What a scary thread this is. I never realized it could be so easy to
take control of someone's Linux box. Or did I miss a key element of the
discussion? Why even have a password at all?
On 19 Feb 2001 01:30:43 +0800, Franki wrote:
actually, just going in and typing "passwd root" and entering
u do have to be in linux-single to do the below by the way ,
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki
Sent: Monday, 19 February 2001 1:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] Root Password
actually, just going in and
On Saturday 17 February 2001 20:47, Neal Lippman wrote:
1. Very frequently, I have program crashes, more so that I would have
expected for "released software." This occurs in KWord, Konquerer (less
often), and KMail (almost every night when I first started using it, for
some reason now much
I thought I had installed everything that I needed. I've installed this same
version of LM on the same machine before, without these problems. Can anyone
help me by telling me what I may have left out?
The first indication arose when I did the following:
[root@unicorn
** Reply to message from Bill Piety [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 18 Feb 2001
11:57:37 -0600
What a scary thread this is. I never realized it could be so easy to
take control of someone's Linux box. Or did I miss a key element of the
discussion? Why even have a password at all?
To perform this
Hi
I never had a problem compiling the packages. I've used the tar.gz sources and it
always compiled without a problem. the only problem I'm having with 0.9-6 is that
after removing (renaming) some original messa libraries, the same that I renamed with
0.9-5, every time I run 'ldconfig' (or
Yes. I have. Though at times, I'm not exactly sure how I managed it.
And it actually works better from the tarballs, not src rpms. Though I
think I did it the sencond time from those after upgrading XF4.0.1 to
XF4.0.2.
You'll find a great set of instructions on how to do this at
Thanks. I already have created the symlink for cdrom...that unfortunately
doesn't have anything to do with the bugginess in kde, though...
On Sunday 18 February 2001 01:18, Digital Wokan wrote:
Just an idea, Neal, but make a symlink from cdrom to dvd to clear that
up.
Oh, and I already cut
Thanks. I'll see about d/l'ing the new KDE then at least for kmail. Perhaps
it's time to go to staroffice for a word processor.
My printer problem wasn't with CUPS, it was with KUPS, eg Mandrakes interface
to it. It crashes when trying to configure a new printer. If the mandrake
printer guru
The bottom line is that it is essentially impossible to COMPLETELY secure any
pc to which you have physical access. It should be possible to do a
reasonably good job, if you are very careful, about securing a computer that
others DO NOT have physical access to, by shutting off the appropriate
Bill Piety wrote:
What a scary thread this is. I never realized it could be so easy to
take control of someone's Linux box. Or did I miss a key element of the
discussion? Why even have a password at all?
I don't know about you, but I don't allow random strangers physical
access to my
I can't believe that nobody has any idea at all about this. My laptop
is a very standard config... there's no way I'm the only one in the
world with this problem, and it's impossible that somebody doesn't know
what this error means. Please... anything at all.
After leaving my laptop (Compaq
Bill Piety wrote:
What a scary thread this is. I never realized it could be so easy to
take control of someone's Linux box. Or did I miss a key element of the
discussion? Why even have a password at all?
Bill, you have to be physically at that machine AND you have to NOT have
the CMOS
Dennis Robertson wrote:
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:55:14AM -0600, Altoine B. wrote:
Mark Belanger wrote:
Stig-rjan Smelror wrote:
After I updated my installation of 7.2 StarOffice 5.2 won't run.
I get "Failed to load necessary components" and did a "strace" to see
what it was
And CMOS password can be disabled by removing the battery for about 15
minutes, or plugging in a jumper on the motherboard.
you can also use tom's root boot (www.toms.net) to boot a floppy version
of linux and get to your hard drive.
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Altoine B. wrote:
Bill Piety
Hello experts.
It would seem that gcc (2.95.2-12mdk) in 7.2 is broken if you use
-fomit-frame-pointers. Here is a URL to a message which might help
explain:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-prs/2001-q1/msg00225.html
I tried to go to https://qa.linux-mandrake.com/ to report this as a
bug it would
Hi all,
While doing some mucking around in the /var/log directory and altering
/etc/logrotate.conf I
appear to have blown away /var/log/lastlog. Now, when I log in I am greeted by:
Last login: Wed Dec 31 1969 18:00:00 -0600
Which is before I was born. If I log out and log in again,
On Monday 19 February 2001 00:25, you wrote:
I put in a standard LM-7.2 setup from a 4 CD set. I didn't know
anything so let it install default settings for the most part.
First it took two weeks to figure out what was wrong in fstab so
I could mount the CDROM (and Mandrakesoft couldn't
some things that might help:
put in a cd that has rpms. I'm assuming that the RPMS are in a directory
named RPMS. substitute the correct directory in the following. From your
home directory, enter
rpm -qlip /mnt/cdrom/RPMS/*.rpm cdxfiles.txt
(where cdx is cd1, cd2, etc).
You now have
Steven,
Is there a way for just the DHCPD to make the updates? That way, as it
hands out the IP addresses, it updates the DNS. MetaIP in the Windows world
does this and it works quite well. Yes, you're right, my test machine was a
W2K workstation. I'll look at the docs you pointed me to more.
I installed the new 2.4.1 kernel on my Winbook Si2.
It works, all except for USB. No USB is recognized.
Does anyone have any ideas regarding USB and kernel 2.4.1???
The old 2.2 kernel did not recognize my USB either. However, it works
under (YUK) windows 98.
??
bug
Hi,
Thanks for offering a better solution.
Venkatesh
--- A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 17 February 2001 01:38, you wrote:
Hi all,
Please ignore my earlier (trivial) question.
The problem arose because the
users home and public_html
directories did not have search
I am migrating a Linux partition on one of my platforms from SuSE 6.4 to
Mandrake 7.2 and have encountered a problem with the ethernet card in the
machine. I know that the card works because the SuSE distribution found it
automatically. (I should mention, in passing, that the ethernet card is
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
Hello experts.
It would seem that gcc (2.95.2-12mdk) in 7.2 is broken if you use
-fomit-frame-pointers. Here is a URL to a message which might help
explain:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-prs/2001-q1/msg00225.html
[snip]
Thanks for pointing
El dom, 18 feb 2001, escribiste:
I can't believe that nobody has any idea at all about this. My laptop
is a very standard config... there's no way I'm the only one in the
world with this problem, and it's impossible that somebody doesn't know
what this error means. Please... anything at
Bug Hunter wrote:
I installed the new 2.4.1 kernel on my Winbook Si2.
It works, all except for USB. No USB is recognized.
Does anyone have any ideas regarding USB and kernel 2.4.1???
The old 2.2 kernel did not recognize my USB either. However, it works
under (YUK) windows
Kuldeep Shah wrote:
I am having dual operating system on my computer. I am having Windows
Me and Linux Mandrake 7.2. On my linux i have installed X server
3.3.6. In both the operating system i am using the same display
resolution (1024 by 768). In compare to windows. Linux 7.2 is
Joseph Red wrote:
Kuldeep Shah wrote:
I am having dual operating system on my computer. I am having Windows
Me and Linux Mandrake 7.2. On my linux i have installed X server
3.3.6. In both the operating system i am using the same display
resolution (1024 by 768). In compare to
Nope. I used the kernel rpm from cooker, along with the kernel-pcmcia
from cooker and upgraded modutils.
I had to force install the kernel (--nodeps), as kedaddins were not
"compatible" with it, and I had to upgrade (-U) the pcmcia, as the
previous version of pcmcia man pages weren't
1) - In theory, at least, the gui login panel should allow one to choose the
window manager, and it does provide tabs for gnome, enlightenment,etc., etc.
However, when I choose one of these, I always get KDE, no matter which I have
chosen.
This is a pretty standard Mdk 7.2 system.
2) -
Bill Piety wrote:
What a scary thread this is. I never realized it could be so easy to
take control of someone's Linux box. Or did I miss a key element of the
discussion? Why even have a password at all?
Bill,
I would have to agree. I can't believe it would be THAT easy to get into
even
One thing I noticed when I did my 2.4.1 compile, is that in the section on
USB support, there were a number of places to include / not include support
for a variety of USB devices. For instance, there was an item to select if
you were planning to use a USB printer. Presumably, without checking
AHA! Thanks for the tip. I have also noticed this, and never understood why
it happens. I, of course, solved the problem by just never booting windows
anymore...
On Sunday 18 February 2001 22:12, Altoine B. wrote:
Joseph Red wrote:
Kuldeep Shah wrote:
I am having dual operating
One thing I have noticed is that the "quality" of my display, by which I mean
the sharpness of text on the screen and the quality of the fonts, just
doesn't seem as good under X as it does under Windows booted on the same
system. (For reference, I am using KDE 2.0, mdk 7.2 with kernel upgraded
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Hi. I have a program that used to work under Mandrake 7.0 but now
(Mandrake 7.2) doesn't, giving me the following error when it tries
to connect to a remote DB server:
ERROR: MultiByte strings (MB) must be enabled to use this function
(This error
** Reply to message from Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 18 Feb 2001
22:14:34 -0500
Bill,
I would have to agree. I can't believe it would be THAT easy to get into
even one's own machine so easily when the root user's password has been
forgotten. Seems to me that's an incredibly HUGE
ok, and have you tried this?
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 Tesla.some-domain Tesla
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:55:42AM -0600, Sean Armstrong wrote:
That would be nice, except I am using DHCP and don't have a static IP
address. How do you get around this? I tried
on second thought, even if samba will start you won't be able to access it if it only
have the loopback IP. you can add an IP by copying
'/etc/sysconfig/netword-scripts/ifcfg-eth0' (if you're connecting through ethernet. if
not use the device your connecting through) to
Devin Rader wrote:
I've got Samba (both client and server) set up on my Linux box finally
(mandrake 7.2), but am still having problems accessing a share on my Win2K
Thanks!
Devin
The best for you:
ftp://se.samba.org/pub/samba/alpha/
samba-2.2.0-alpha2.tar.bz2
it works realy fine.
Hi there,
Erm, before this gets out of hand - there's a perfectly logical reason that you
can easily, with physical access to the machine, get root access without a
password. That reason is because you already have physical access to the disk so
you could easily boot your own system and mount
Hi Stephen,
A friend of mine had a similar problem. He finally suggested something like the
following
# pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf
# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
you might have to do something LIKE (i don't remember)
# insmod ne io=whatever irq=whatever
I think you shouldn't have to specify irq but
Hello there,
Can onyone give me a few direct pointers where I can find
information on the structure of reiserfs? I keep getting lost ;)
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