[expert] authentication and reverse dns lookups
Hi several daemons (mail, ssh, rsh...) take a very long time to authenticate you if the adreess you're connecting from adesn't have reverse dns. in some cases (ssh) it's a feature in the configuration file, but in other cases (imap, pop) there isn't a configuration file, so I guess I have to change this option globally. can anyone send me a pointer on how/where to do it? (I know it's not recomended but I'm having a hard time with users connecting from home to read their mail and it takes them about 90 seconds to authenticate). thanx -- Haim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] authentication and reverse dns lookups
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:59:33AM -0600, Michael Viron wrote: imap and pop are controlled via xinetd, so try looking in the /etc/xinetd.conf file. There is also a site at http://www.xinetd.org, which should provide you information on how to disable reverse lookups. thanx, xinetd was a pointer in the right direction. if anyone is interested he can go to: http://herzl.nylug.org/pipermail/nylug-talk/2002-January/001563.html; I still have to test this but it seems that this is the solution. Bye -- Haim Michael -- Michael Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Database Administrator / Web Statistician Simple End User Linux At 04:44 PM 3/12/2002 +0200, you wrote: Hi several daemons (mail, ssh, rsh...) take a very long time to authenticate you if the adreess you're connecting from adesn't have reverse dns. in some cases (ssh) it's a feature in the configuration file, but in other cases (imap, pop) there isn't a configuration file, so I guess I have to change this option globally. can anyone send me a pointer on how/where to do it? (I know it's not recomended but I'm having a hard time with users connecting from home to read their mail and it takes them about 90 seconds to authenticate). thanx -- Haim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba file creation problem
Hi On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:28:14AM -0600, Wayne Stout wrote: Greetings, everyone. I've got a strange little problem happening with file creation on one of my Samba servers here. It's 100% repeatable, but makes absolutely no sense to me. I've asked this on the RedHat list, but got no response, so I thought I'd ask the good people of this list. Here's the situation. My Marketing department has a scanner attatched to a WinNT4 box that they do all of their image scanning through. They scan the image and save the file locally on the scanner machine. They then open the file on their own machines from the scanner box, make changes in Photoshop, and save the file. Here's the weird part. If they save the file directly to the Samba share, permissions are set to 006. However, if they save the file to their desktops first, *then* copy it to the Samba share, perms are set to 766, as shown below. -rwxrw-rw- 1 tracy Market 454264 Feb 18 15:44 svp5.tif ---rw-1 tracy Market 971432 Feb 18 11:24 28034 copy.tif The Samba machine is RH7.1, running Samba 2.0.10-2. In the smb.conf I have set 'create mode' and 'directory mode' to 776. What am I missing here? anything in the log file? (log.machine-name by default, consult smb.conf if you don't know where they are...) Bye -- Haim Thanks in advance for any help. Wayne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Antivirus for Linux
Hi just out of curiosity, why do you need an anti virus for? if it's a mail server for commercial company then you shouldn't do less then a good commercial anti virus, and if it's for private use, then remember that this anti viruses scans for windows viruses, not linux. you can safely read your mail in linux. if you still wants to read your mail in windows (why?), and it's for your home computer I would suggest buying a windows anti virus (they're designed for private use so they are cheaper...). Bye -- Haim On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:22:59PM -0500, Mike Leone wrote: Hey all. I'm trying to get antivirus scanning of my postfix mail server, and need an antivirus scanner. Is it true that TrendMicro's InterScan is free for personal Linux use? the web page doesn't say that, but it was mentioned on a mailing list I'm on. If not Trend, then who would be a good one? Most of the ones I've looked at are either commercial, or are time-demos for Linux, or don't do removals, just scans. I can do commercial, if it's a good one, and not too expensive. Anyone doing this? (I'm going to be using Amavis to call out the scanner; supposedly, it integrates well with postfix. -- O! Water cold we may pour at need down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed; but better is Beer, if drink we lack, and Water Hot poured down the back. The Fellowship of the Ring, JRRT Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] tcsh question
Hi
I'm looking for the tcsh equivalent for this statement in
/etc/bashrc:
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne \033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007`.
my problem is with the 'echo -ne'. the built-in echo in tcsh doesn't
understand '-ne'. does anyone have any ideas about that? (btw, I'm using
tcsh on solaris and the /bin/echo there doesn't understand these options
either).
Thanx
--
Haim
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Re: [expert] LILO error message
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:11:08AM -0500, Hoyt wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2002 11:45 pm, you wrote: /dev/sda is not on the first disk LILO mini-HOWTO even simpler, man lilo.conf (you can find a description of the problem in one of the files in '/usr/share/doc/lilo...'. if I remember correctly the solution is something like that: disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 but I could be mistaken (it was a while ago, since I had this problem..) Bye -- Haim http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Win4Lin + VMWare
Hi for a short time I had on my computer both win4lin and vmware (I've used the updated kernel from win4lin), and I didn't find any limitations. (well, except for too much resources eating :)). Bye -- Haim On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:46:11PM -0500, gikoreno wrote: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VPN
Hi you can also try free/swan. at least in mkd8 it was part of the distribution. Bye -- Haim On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:22:19PM -0500, Sesame Galeo wrote: Hi All, For those who are setting up VPN, which software would you recommend to link travellers to an application running on MDK 8.1 and a samba server ? I already evaluated PPTPD. Thanks Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] proftpd configuration troubles
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:54:01PM -0500, Theo Brinkman wrote: I'm trying to configure proftpd to allow a user to login to the web server and update files in the web site, but no matter what I try, when I run 'service proftpd start', I get the following error message: Starting proftpd: hostname.domain.tld - Fatal: unable to determine IP address of 'hostname.domain.tld'. I can't figure out how to tell proftpd that while the box may be called 'hostname.domain.tld', to the outside world it is 'www.domain.tld'. have you tried adding this to /etc/hosts? Can anybody help me? - Theo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Bye -- Haim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:12:47PM +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: Mandrake 8.1 has been out for a while now.. and I'm curious... I've used ReiserFS for about a year and loved it, when 8.1 came out I was too chicken to try XFS even though it looked like it was better in a lot of ways. Can anyone tell me what their experiences have been with XFS, now that people have had some time to play with it with Mdk 8.1? Has anyone switched from ReiserFS to XFS and never looked back? What's it like? :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi well, I've been using xfs from 2 days after 8.1 was out on all of my servers, and it works great. (actually I've been using it for much longer on all my sgi's servers...) you should make the switch. Bye -- Haim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Domino Server on 8.1
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:11:53PM -0500, Jerry Sommerdorf wrote: Anyone running a Domino server, and if so, any one having problems with it crashing? I'm running RNext Beta3 on Mandrake 8.0 and it's stable enough (considering the beta). do you have any problems on 8.1? please share the details because I'm in the process of upgrading all my servers and this one was next.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Bye -- Haim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1/NVidia permission woes
I'm not sure this is connected but what security level did you choose when you installed mandrake 8.1? I never really searched how it works but mandrake have some scripts that when you login to your computer on X as a regular user, it changes the owner of some devices to your user. so if I run now: $ls -l /dev/nvidiactl I get: crw---1 haim root 195, 255 Sep 29 14:48 /dev/nvidiactl and my '/etc/security/console.perms' have the dri line. try running 'msec 2' (just for the test) to see if that helps, if it does you can run 'msec custom' to set the security level so it will match your needs. Bye -- Haim On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:32:05PM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: After updating to Mandrake 8.1 and NVidia-1.0-1541, I'm having trouble running accelerated 3D as a regular user. The error is: $ bounce Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions are too resticitive. Please see the TROUBLESHOOTING section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps to corect. The steps in the readme say to delete the line beginning with dri: if your system has the file /etc/security/console.perms then you want to edit the file and remove the line that starts with dri. Trouble is, I can't log in after doing this as a regular user. Any help? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /etc/shadow
this is strange. I was just going to write a mail to this list about this. it seems that /etc/shadow accepts both crypt passwords (the short passwd) and MD5 passwords. (34 characters with $ and slashes does seem to me like md5). I found this because I was transferring users between servers so I copy and pasted the passwords and it worked on both occasions. very strange... Bye -- Haim On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:54:25PM -0700, Evan Nemerson wrote: Does anyone know what algorithm is used on the passwords in the /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd files? All the documentation I can find says crypt is used with two characters of salt which should output 13 characters. However my shadow file shows 34 character strings with dollar signs and slashes (shouldn't the output be alpha-numeric???). I already checked md5- nope. Please reply to my e-mail address since i don't subscribe to this list (sorry, but i get enough php-general to keep me busy). Thanks in advance, Evan Nemerson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 2 questions: urpmi, and gnome problems
Hi well, after a few days of running 8.1 (as desktop, I still have to test it as a server) I must say I'm VERY(!!!) impressed. I didn't like 8.0 (actually this release made me move my servers to debian - it was really unstable and a lot of things didn't work or worked badly). (btw, I DON'T want to open a debian vs. mandrake discussion!!!). now 8.1 works much better and even seem to take less resources then 8.0. 2 problems though: 1. evolution (and some other gnome apps) seem to be unstable. whenever I go offline in evolution it crashes. the same happens when I'm opening an ical attachment. I'm running the same evolution version (0.13) on my debian (potato with ximian gnome) and it performs all these tasks without a problem. does anybody else experiencing these problems? 2. After I got used to apt-get (being able to access many ftp sites with customized debs) I'm trying to do the same with urpmi. is there a way now to include contrib on the urpmi database? I still can't find any base/hdlist.cz on the contrib directory on the servers. is there a way to override this? Thanks -- Haim OT: now that there are new emu10k1 apps, is it possible to play midi's on SBLive without timidity? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Help with postfix and virtual hosts
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 06:29:14PM -0400, Dan Axtell wrote: Hello all, a couple of years ago I set up a small server with a few virtual IP address, sort of like: mainone.com -- has a MX record in DNS alternate.org -- has no MX record in DNS. I had set up qmail with virtual hosting and was able to send and receive email from accounts at alternate.org without a problem, although I remember it taking a while to figure out how to do it! Now I've replaced the machine and upgraded to LM 8.0, but I can't get qmail to work. Postfix seems a lot simpler to configure, and it works right with mainone.com, which has the MX record in DNS. I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to do virtual domains so that I can send/receive from alternate.org like I could with qmail, or do I have to get the DNS record changed for alternate.org to add an MX record. I'm not sure about sending (I mean how to configure it on the server side) but receiving to virtuall domains is easy. you can configure it with webmin (there is a virtuall domain tab on the postfix configuration) or edit derectly /etc/postfix/virtual. Good Luck Haim Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NVidia Driver problem (don't work!)
Hi on 8.1 release it works great. I have NVidia GeForce2 MX and I've downloaded the source rpm's and compiled them. Bye -- Haim On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:12:17PM -0700, Clint Olson wrote: Hi, I have Mdk 8.1beta and a GeForce2 MX gfx card. In the past, 8.0 + the NVIDIA accellerated drivers worked great. But with 8.1, they won't work. The error message comes when modprobe (or like utilities) try to load the compiled NVIDIA drivers. It says: unresolved symbol : _mmx_memcpy. I have tried both the tarball source and the Mdk 8.0 RPM, and they both say the same thing. Anybody have any idea what's wrong? Clint Olson CO-n-Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] cleaning DAT tapes
Hi I've just got an old DAT tape, which I want to see if I can use. I also have a cleaning cassette, but I can't find out how to clean the tape. the only command I know to control SCSI tapes is mt, and there's no clean option there... can anyone please help? Thanks -- Haim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cleaning DAT tapes - SOLVED
ok, I've found the answer, inserting the cleaning cassette is enough. the cleaning is done automatically. Bye -- Haim On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:38:16AM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've just got an old DAT tape, which I want to see if I can use. I also have a cleaning cassette, but I can't find out how to clean the tape. the only command I know to control SCSI tapes is mt, and there's no clean option there... can anyone please help? Thanks -- Haim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tuxracer with NVidia drivers on Mandrake 7.2?
Ok. a little lesson about RPM's. rpm has a database of all the files that were installed in rpm format (not all the files on your system!). so, when you try to install a new rpm it looks in this rpm's require field and check weather it has all the required files in this database. if it doesn't (like in your case, you didn't install libGLcore.so.1 from rpm, you installed it from tar) it issues this warning about missing dependencies. as I mentioned in my last reply, since you know you have this file then you can install it with 'rpm --nodeps -ivh tuxracer...'. the worse thing that could happen is that tuxracer won't run. As a rule it's not recommended to do that. do it only if you really know what you're doing, but in this case it's not a problem. Bye -- Haim On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:43:45PM -0400, Michael Leone wrote: On 25 May 2001 21:44:55 +, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi did you install Nvidia's drivers as rpm or from a tar file? (just for curiousity, if you installed it from rpm try 'rpm -qf /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1'). I never install NVidia's stuff from anything but tarballs. I have 3 different kernel versions that I boot to, for different things. I just compile a driver under each kernel version. And it's all working; I can even run other GL based stuff (gears gives me 500+ fps); it's just tuxracer that won't install. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF In Pennsylvania, it it illegal to sleep on top of a refrigerator outdoors. http://www.dumblaws.com/states/pennsylvania.html
Re: [expert] Tuxracer with NVidia drivers on Mandrake 7.2?
Hi did you install Nvidia's drivers as rpm or from a tar file? (just for curiousity, if you installed it from rpm try 'rpm -qf /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1'). it doesn't really matter, if that's the only thing missing then just install it with the 'nodeps' option: 'rpm -ivh --nodeps rpm file'. although this is usually not recomended, if you know you have the file that rpm complains about then you can use this option. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all I downloaded tuxracer .61 SRC RPM from rpmfind.net (I had to use the RH 7.1 sources, since all the Mandrake sources groused about not finding libSDL, even tho I did install it), and rebuilt it (Linux Mandrake 7.2). Anyway, the RH7.1 RPM rebuilt fine, but I couldn't install it, since it says [root@minas-aran i686]# rpm -ivh --test tuxracer-0.61-2.i686.rpm error: failed dependencies: libGLcore.so.1 is needed by tuxracer-0.61-2 Now, I have a Diamond Viper V770 graphic card; this is a NVidia TNT2 based graphic card. I'm running the latest 1.0-251 NVidia drivers, with no problems, on XFree86 4.0.2. The NVidia GLX driver installation removes the default libGLcore, and replaces it with their own. I did a search, and found /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1. lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 May 19 22:00 libGLcore.so.1 - libGLcore.so.1.0.1251* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 3457056 May 19 21:59 libGLcore.so.1.0.1251* (IOW, libGLcore.so.1 is a symlink to NVidia's replacement libGLcore) And /usr/lib *is* in my ld.so.conf, so it should be found and linked. And my XF86Config-4 does say load GLX, and does *not* say load GLcore, per NVidia's instructions. So what can I do now? I've been thru NVidia's site, to no effect, nor has a web search turned up anything useful. -- -- Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 50453890 PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF In Pennsylvania, it it illegal to sleep on top of a refrigerator outdoors. - - - Haim
Re: [expert] remote X Windows?
Hi all Unix's I know of, use that feature. it's a built in feature in Xwindow. on Mandrake it's enables by default (depending on your security settings). if you have two linux machines you can go to another virtual console (ALT F2) and type 'Xwrapper -query hostname display' where hostname is a name or an IP of another unix on your network, and display is your display name (if you already have your x windows working (:0) then use ':1'. from windows machines you can use exceed the same way as with Sun. Bye -- Haim On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:06:57PM -0700, Al Baker wrote: Hi All, @ Work, Sun workstations and remote X windows is very popular, most windows users use exceed to connect and use CDE. Is there anything similiar in Linux? There are many graphical utilities that require you to be on a solaris machine Aj __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] heavy idle system load
Hi this is what an idle process does. as soon as there is no load on the cpu, it starts taking over and most monitoring program will show you a cpu load of about +50%. the only time you can see a load of 1% is between the time that the cpu loads +goes down and the time that kapm-idled takes over. that's why it doesn't go +below 1% (it doesn't have enough time until the idle process starts working). On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:07:42PM -0400, David Savolainen wrote: Thanks for the pointer Haim. My apologies for the redundant post. As far as I can tell though, this still does not explain why the system load average will not go below 1 even though I started no programs. On my 7.2 box, the load average would be somewhere around 0.06! Why is the load average so high? David Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've already answered this on this list about 4 days ago. search in the body of the messages for kapm-idled. On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:26:21PM -0400, David Savolainen wrote: I finally got LM 8.0 running after a fashion. What I see so far is great! My current problem is a heavy system load. The load average is at 1 to 2 even with no apps running. Running top, I notice a program called kapm-idled is consuming 30% to 50% of my cpu cycles! Does this have something to do with power management? apmd is not running on my system. What is going on here? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks. David Bye -- Haim Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] heavy idle system load
Hi I've already answered this on this list about 4 days ago. search in the body of the messages for kapm-idled. On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:26:21PM -0400, David Savolainen wrote: I finally got LM 8.0 running after a fashion. What I see so far is great! My current problem is a heavy system load. The load average is at 1 to 2 even with no apps running. Running top, I notice a program called kapm-idled is consuming 30% to 50% of my cpu cycles! Does this have something to do with power management? apmd is not running on my system. What is going on here? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks. David Bye -- Haim
Re: SV: [expert] ldconfig failed
Hi since I don't know how knowledgeable you are in linux I'll start from the beginning. if I understand correctly the problem is when you're installing LM8. if it's a compatibility bug, there's nothing we can do at the moment, but first lets rule out the other options. the first thing you need to check is that the iso's are ok (all the instructions below are for unix envoirment. if you don't have a linux to test these things you'll have to find the windows replacements. I can't help you with that :-( ). run 'md5sum iso file' on both iso's. you should get these results: 0de166745f40bba5cd9c4f051d9cdccf Mandrake80-ext.iso 043ea0b220833fa209920ac0d2d0bd41 Mandrake80-inst.iso if that's ok, then you'll have to compare the the iso's to the cd you've burned: 'diff you're cdrom device iso file'. of-course you'll have to put the same cdrom in the device :-) now, when I tried it with the install cd, I got an error, so what I did was to mount the iso file (mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 iso file mount point) and the cd I just burned and then run 'diff -r mount point of the cd mount point of the iso'. the last thing you should do is to perform an installation from the HD instead of the cdrom (in case your cdrom drive is having hard time reading the cd you've burned). I don't remember how to do this ( the last time I've installed from HD was 3 years ago with a different distribution) but it should be on the manual that is on the cd. if I remember correctly you should make a Mandrake boot floppy and copy the Mandrake directory to a partition that you are not (!!) going to install on. it should be on the root directory (e.g. c:\Mandrake). Now, boot from the floppy and it should ask your what kind of installation you want to perform (cdrom, HardDrive, ftp...). as I said I don't really remember this procedure but it should be something like that (help anybody...). Two last words. 1. always send your mails to the mailing list so if anyone's having the same problem he could also use the information (and of-course, someone could also have a better solution). 2. if it's install without wheel mouse use this installation. you can always configure the wheel mouse later. On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:25:59PM +0200, Langborg Tom wrote: Hi It happens when i work with the installations off the hole md8. the problem comes in the end off the installation off the packets. The installation worked for me once. The major difference this time was formatting all partitions and no wheel mouse. But the most off the time i crashed with ldconfig failed. the next error messages is no hdlists found. /tom -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Haim Ashkenazi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 26 april 2001 12:32 Till: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Ämne: Re: [expert] ldconfig failed Hi I need something more to work with here. what happens when you run just 'ldconfig' as root? does it happen when your install with the Software Manager or also when you install manually from the second cd? what rpms does it happen with? On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:18:20PM +0200, Langborg Tom wrote: Hi I have a installation problems in md8.0. I got a error: ldconfig failed I try to install from the ISO CD's. The problems occur when install some packets from cd 2. Does any one have a clue? /Tom Bye -- Haim Good Luck -- Haim
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 GLX (Nvidia)
Hi what I meant was that you download the NVIDIA*.tar.gz files. if there isn't direct link to them, there is a link to their ftp so download it from there (read the howto). On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:54:00PM +0200, Erik Günther wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi just download the tar files from 'www.nvidia.com' and follow the instructions on the how-to. it's very simple and works without a problem. pay special attention to the part that deals with conflicts with Mesa libraries (in my case I had to delete all the '/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so*'). Hmmm... With rpm did you use? There aren't any drivers for LM8 the closesed is for RH7.1 that use 2.4.? kernel. ...or did you use src.rpm? On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:05:49AM +0200, Erik Günther wrote: Hi. First of all I installed LM8 last night and it worked fine for me. But acording to LM:s homepage LM8 cames with accellerated 3D for a number of vendors (Matrox, Nvidia, ATI(?)) but it doesn't seam to be aktivated. I started with adding Load GLX and Load dri to the XF86Config-4 (I'm useing X 4.0.3). Then GLX programs was able to run but slow. When I was useing LM7.2 I could use Nvidias driver and Nvidias GLX the all GLX programs was fast. (100fps in gears, fullscreen) So where is the accellerated 3D in LM8 I didn't find any RPM that could indicate that it hade Nvidias drivers... Anyone knows what to do? PS I'm haveing a SMP mashine with two 800 P3 and Nvidias Geforce2 Ultra (Asus 7700) DS. -- /EgU * Erik (EgU) Günther can be found at: Netch Technologies AB | www.ludat.lth.se/~dat94egu +46 (0)46 - 272 46 35 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Fortune: And tomorrow will be like today, only more so. -- Isaiah 56:12, New Standard Version Good Luck -- /EgU * Erik (EgU) Günther can be found at: Netch Technologies AB | www.netch.se/~erikg +46 (0)46 - 272 46 35 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Fortune: I thought YOU silenced the guard! Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] MDK 8 and kernel useage
Hi The process that takes about 50% cpu all the time (that is when the computer is resting) is kapm-idled. I also was alarmed when I saw that the first time, so I searched for it in the kernel mailing list and I've learned that this is an idle process (some unix kernels use this method but until now not linux). the 'bug' here is a cosmetic one. in order to figure out how 'idle' is your computer you have to add the kapm-idled cpu with the idle cpu (on the third row in 'top'). On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:18:08AM +1000, Andrew George wrote: HI, Just wondering, I installed MDK 8 on a spare partition and took it for a test drive. Overall it didn't look to bad, but I noticed that cpu usage seemed pretty high Anyone know if thats from the 2.4.3 Kernel or something gaga with the various monitoring tools? (K system monitor acted really bizzarlythree processes at 99% Kernel usage) Thanks Andrew Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] Software Manager
Hi well, the new software manager has a lot of problems. where is the search in description or file list? but I think the most important problem is the fact that some of the packages only appear in flat mode view. some of the most important ones are: fvwm - my favorite window manager bind-utils - how come this is not installed by default (even in workstation mode)? have you ever heard of a unix without nslookup? knsplugin - konqueror doesn't accepts netscape plugins without it. many others that I can't think of now. I hope they'll fix that soon. On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:00:42PM -0700, Digital Wokan wrote: Okay, I've got Mandrake 8.0 installed, and now there's this Samba update out. Since MandrakeSoft seemed to think MandrakeUpdate was such a bad thing, I'm trying to figure out this Software Manager they include. I got it set for security updates and picked a mirror, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to install the Samba update without resorting to ftp and the command line. This is not a new problem to me. I tried figuring this out before beta2 even hit the streets. I had to resort to rpm -Fvh and rpm -Uvh more often than not. -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] kernel-2.2.19 and no ReiserFS support!
Hi go to: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=754mode=threadorder=0 they are explaining how to install 2.2.19 with reiserfs support. On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 07:44:24AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: Hello list, Has anyone else noticed this missing from this kernel or am "I" missing something. The other day it didn't dawn on me to check for this until "after" I had begun the installation of the packages for kernel-2.2.19 per the security advisory from mandrake. Much to my shagrin(sp) the kernel paniced when I attempted to restart the machine to use the new kernel. I am running the ReiserFS on my system. I'll never run any other. I've since gotten that mess cleaned up and downloaded the kernel source, but I'm not seeing any support for Reiser while configuring the kernel for compile. Any thoughts? -- Mark * "what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :)" Bye -- Haim
[expert] Mandrake 8.0 rc2 and Fvwm
Hi I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 rc1. haven't had time to play with it (I've only tried Nautilus - being a former Mac user I was curios). the thing that surprised me was that there was no Fvwm rpm. I guess most of Linux users think of it as just an old and ugly window manager, but I think it's the most powerful wm (and if you spend some time and effort it looks better then any other wm). actually I've spent the whole Saturday adopting the new fvwm-themes to work with Mandrake menus, and of course I was very disappointed that fvwm wasn't included in rc1. anyone has any idea if Mandrake has abandoned fvwm or maybe it's there and I've missed it? Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] Mounting ISO image on loopback device
Hi in order to mount an iso image use this command: mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 iso image mount dir I do it all the time and it always works. On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:27:39AM -0500, Robert Johansson wrote: Hi everyone! I recently downloaded the mandrakefreq ISO and tried to mount it with mount -o loop -t iso9660 the iso my mount point What happens is that mount never exits. Pressing Ctrl-C won't help. I go to another console and look in the mount point directory and nothing is there. Also, at system shutdown/reboot the procedure stops at automount and I have to do a magic SysRq S-U-B. What could be the problem? If anyone knows a solution I'd be very grateful! cheers Robert Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...
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 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 run smbclient or smbmount. Neither worked. SMBD and NMBD are still not running even though I changed my /etc/hosts file to read 127.0.0.1 Tesla.localdomain localhost What is wrong here? Why can'y I get SAMBA to work correctly for me. I don't remember having this much trouble the last time I ran Linux.(Mandrake 6.1 about a year ago) Thanks in advance. SA From: "Albert E. Whale" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please... Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:45:34 -0500 Looks like a DNS issue. What happens when you type nslookup Tesla? What are your settings for name resolution? My name resolve is set as: host lmhost wins bcast Your's may vary depending on the environment and the stability of DNS. HTH Have a Great Day! _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] Nvidia drivers
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 install devel.rpm which does the same) '/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1' is regenerated. I didn't have time to get to the bottom of it, so for the moment I'm just deleting it every time it's created. does anyone have idea about this? On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:12:37AM +0800, Franki wrote: 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 that didn't work either,,, has anyone had any luck with this? I am using the standard 7.2 kernel... Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...
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 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... Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:58:27 +0200 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: Tesla. Tesla this should solve the problem. On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 08:21:01AM -0600, Sean Armstrong wrote: 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 run smbclient or smbmount. Neither worked. SMBD and NMBD are still not running even though I changed my /etc/hosts file to read 127.0.0.1 Tesla.localdomain localhost What is wrong here? Why can'y I get SAMBA to work correctly for me. I don't remember having this much trouble the last time I ran Linux.(Mandrake 6.1 about a year ago) Thanks in advance. SA From: "Albert E. Whale" Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please... Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:45:34 -0500 Looks like a DNS issue. What happens when you type nslookup Tesla? What are your settings for name resolution?My name resolve is set as: host lmhost wins bcastYour's may vary depending on the environment and the stability of DNS.HTHHave a Great Day! _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Bye -- Haim _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...
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 '/etc/sysconfig/netword-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0' (again, with the right device), editing it, and then running 'ifdown eth0' and 'ifup etho' (...replace eth0 with the correct device...). I don't remember if it's eth0:0 or eth0:1. try them both. Bye -- Haim On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:01:22AM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: 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 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... Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:58:27 +0200 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: Tesla. Tesla this should solve the problem. On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 08:21:01AM -0600, Sean Armstrong wrote: 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 run smbclient or smbmount. Neither worked. SMBD and NMBD are still not running even though I changed my /etc/hosts file to read 127.0.0.1 Tesla.localdomain localhost What is wrong here? Why can'y I get SAMBA to work correctly for me. I don't remember having this much trouble the last time I ran Linux.(Mandrake 6.1 about a year ago) Thanks in advance. SA From: "Albert E. Whale" Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please... Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:45:34 -0500 Looks like a DNS issue. What happens when you type nslookup Tesla? What are your settings for name resolution?My name resolve is set as: host lmhost wins bcastYour's may vary depending on the environment and the stability of DNS.HTHHave a Great Day! _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Bye -- Haim _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] SAMBA help please.
Hi first, you can check with '/etc/init.d/smb status' to see if they are running (probably not). now go to '/var/log/samba' (as root) and check the logs. chances are that you'll find in the logs why the process doesn't start (e.g. a dns problem). Good Luck On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:50:05AM -0600, Sean Armstrong wrote: Sorry if this is the wrong place to discuss this. I'm bringing it up because I don't know if it is because the SAMBA rpm with 7.2 is broken or not. I installed SAMBA and set it up. When I boot up I see SMB and NMB come up ok. But when I run ps -A I don't see the nmbd or smbd daemons running anywhere. And when I log off SMB and NMB fail to shut down(supposedly). I know its not running because I don't see my workgroup on the network. What's wrong? Any ideas? Thanks in advance. SA _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- Haim
Re: [expert] Mandrake boot
Hi what you have to do is to boot from the CD. when the you get the first screen (press F1 for help, Enter for install) press F1 and then write 'rescue' and Enter. when the system is up, mount your '/' partition on /mnt/disk (it's there by default, if not create it) and mount the other partition as they are on the original system (if you have a separate boot partition mount it on '/mnt/disk/boot', etc...). then cd to /mnt/disk and run 'chroot /mnt/disk'. this will make the system think '/mnt/disk' is '/'. now install lilo (/sbin/lilo -v) or grub and you should be able to boot again from linux. On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0500, Michael wrote: I installed win98 and Mandrake 7 on my computer,it works fine,but when I reinstalled win98 yesterday,I can not boot into Mandrake any more, any help? have to install Mendrake once more? thanks, Michael zhao -- Haim
[expert] Default terminal in gnome
Does anybody knows how to change the default terminal in gnome to be xterm and not gnome-terminal? I want that every item in the Mandrake-menu that has the 'open in terminal' box checked will open in xterm. Bye -- Haim
[expert] 5Dwm (4Dwm) for Linux
Hi I don't know if anybody is excited about this as me but I've just found a sort of Linux porting to the wonderful IRIX 4Dwm. go to http://www.5Dwm.org and have fun. Bye -- Haim
Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web
well, I couldn't agree more about wget. it's my favorite for downloading everything. the only advantage of getleft over wget is that it easily and quickly lets you choose which other files (pictures, zip files, etc...) that linked in this page you want to download. On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:21:43AM -0500, D. Stark - eSN wrote: Let's not forget wget. I imagine getleft is a lot like it, but wget comes with most every distro that has come out in the last few years. It can do complete mirrors of remote pages, but be warned that pages with javascipt to open new pages will fail. Unless Getleft is superhuman, it might not fair any better. But I've never used that one. wget is really handy to d/l hard-to-get links, because it has infinite re-try and timeout capabilities. Works well on ftp as well, and has a tiny memory and cpu footprint. the glory of the command line! Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 PS: The list is MUCH faster lately. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Haim Ashkenazi Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web Hi I mainly use 2 tools for this. search freshmeat.net for 'Getleft' and 'htmldoc'. the first can download a whole web page including pictures and the second can convert them to postscript or pdf (both from hard disk or directly from the web). On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:11:19PM -0800, Homer Shimpsian wrote: I know I can't be the first person to want for this. I've been searching since the web was created. Does anyone know of a way to d/l and concatenate all the different web pages in an online manual to enable one to print the sucker? like this site: http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/ I imagine the difficulty in programming such a thing is when there are links on the page that are not part of the manual. A TSR that allowed U to highlight the relevent links wound't be to impossible, right? Have Fun -- Haim -- Haim
Re: [expert] d/ling docs from the web
Hi I mainly use 2 tools for this. search freshmeat.net for 'Getleft' and 'htmldoc'. the first can download a whole web page including pictures and the second can convert them to postscript or pdf (both from hard disk or directly from the web). On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:11:19PM -0800, Homer Shimpsian wrote: I know I can't be the first person to want for this. I've been searching since the web was created. Does anyone know of a way to d/l and concatenate all the different web pages in an online manual to enable one to print the sucker? like this site: http://jgo.local.net/LinuxGuide/ I imagine the difficulty in programming such a thing is when there are links on the page that are not part of the manual. A TSR that allowed U to highlight the relevent links wound't be to impossible, right? Have Fun -- Haim
Re: [expert] setting up printers and printing
Hi you do it with remote printer. put the IP in the "remote hostname". as for the "remote queue" I just put my name, and that's it. ofcourse you'll have to give the correct model... Haim Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [expert] setting up printers and printing kesoft.com 19/09/00 00:54 Please respond to expert I need to print to network printers at school. They WERE samba shares until recently, and I could print to them via the samba printserver. Now, they are setup to be printed to directly. Problem is, I don't know how to set up the printers in this way. Using printerdrake, there are no options for this: local printer, remote lpd (unix), or samba. That's it. With the redhat printtool, there is an additional option for setting up a direct to port printer. I just don't know if THIS is the proper method. I need to print to the IP address of the printers, setup as lp, lp0, etc. How does one set this up? praedor Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
