[expert] kernel message: _M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message
I suspect that this message comes from my NIC but I'm not sure. So far everything on my Mandrake v9.0 system works fine - I just see a lot of these messages when I run "dmesg". I can't tell you the exact kernel version I'm running, but I could post it on the list tonight. The NIC is built into the MB and the driver is a sis900, I believe - but this may not be important if the message has nothing to do with networking. I just remembered that I'm also running win4lin v3.0(?) - not the latest version but the previous version. Message again: "_M_str_putnext: queue overflow: dropping a message" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] adding scsi tape drive
For a true SCSI tape drive (not an IDE tape drive that is accessed as a SCSI tape drive using the ide-scsi module), you do not need to run makedev nor re-install -> just load the scsi tape module (note the SCSI controller module has to be loaded first). I think that even the module will be automatically inserted when accessing /dev/st0 or when the systems boots and finds the SCSI controller. On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:54 pm, you wrote: > Michael Noble wrote: > > On another system that I had, I did try and use makedev, but it did > > not work. It made the devices, but links were not made to correct > > locations > > I ended up rebuilding the system with the drive in and all went well. > > The system now sees the tape drive, there really ought to be a better > > way to add hardware to a Linux box without having to rebuild the system. > > sometimes a reinstall is best. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] make NTFS visible and writable by users
To answer several questions, the NTFS read problem only applies when the disk is attached to the system as a normal disk (i.e. via IDE, SCSI (and may be even a SAN)) and not over the network. Think of it this way, when you export a filesystem via samba do the clients care that the underlying filesystem is ext2, ext3, reiser, XFS, FAT, etc.? No, because samba hides all that; the client makes smb filesystem calls. It is the same when a Linux system mounts a samba or NFS drive, it makes smb or NFS filesystem calls and nevers knows about the underlying filesystem on the server. On Wednesday 27 November 2002 05:43 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > Azrael wrote on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:26:26PM + : > > could anyone tell me how to make my NTFS partitions visible to all users > > (or at least 1 specific user), and writable by at least root. > > am guessing changing 'ro' to 'rw' does makes them writable.. but will > > seek help rather than make errors :) > > NO! > > Do NOT mount it rw. ntfs support in linux is only read capable. If you > attempt to write to it, you will damage your ntfs filesystem so badly > that it cannot be recovered. Do *NOT* mount it rw. If you want to > share data between win and lin, you need to use a fat32 partition. > > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Root login timeout
>From info page for bash `TMOUT' If set to a value greater than zero, the value is interpreted as the number of seconds to wait for input after issuing the primary prompt when the shell is interactive. Bash terminates after that number of seconds if input does not arrive. On Thursday 24 October 2002 03:57 am, Gary Hodder wrote: > Hi all, > > I use a dumb terminal to login and run a menu script as root. > After a short period of no activity the session is automatically logged > out. > How can I stop this or increase the time before auto logout? > > Thanks > Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TCP NFS for Linux?
On Monday 21 October 2002 07:34 pm, Jane Gray-Luhr wrote: > Anyone heard of a beta NFS for Linux that is built with TCP protocol? Linux can run NFS over TCP as a client, see: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ For more questions see the Linux NFS mailing list: http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/789/0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Best way to backup.
On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:55 pm, Steve Browne wrote: ... > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > > This works for me on an ext2 system. Not sure about ext3 and the > others. Warning: depending on your CPUs and drive sizes, the transfer > can take a LONG time. Like, five hours. Have you tried increasing the buffer size? Something like "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=8M" This should help, granted it won't do lots if you have 5400 RPM drive, with ISA IDE and a 486. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Patch for Mandrake 8.2 NFS (stale handles)
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 09:20 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Hi there. For a really great web site all about NFS go to: > http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/ Actually a better site on all things Linux NFS go to: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ This is where the most up to date Linux NFS info is kept and where to find the Linux NFS mailing list where Trond Myklebust and other NFS client coders dwell. The performance tuning section from the NFS How To is also very good and very handy: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/performance.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need facts to prove UNIX's superiority for mainfraim purposes over M$ MF Servers
See http://kirch.net/unix-nt/ http://www.kegel.com/nt-linux-benchmarks.html http://people.freebsd.org/~andreas/unix-vs-nt/ This is one of a series of articles on IPC, threads, memcpy, sockets and pipes and comparing the differences in speed. It indirectly tells you have fast your app will run depending on how much use use sockets, pipes, etc. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rt8/?loc=dwmain Some of these articles are old but I wouldn't think that things have changed greatly on the MS side. On Thursday 27 June 2002 02:44 pm, Roberto Armenteros wrote: > I need your help to move the word... > > At my company I am teaching a large group of employees > the great advantage of linux and unix in general over > the M$ Operating System when we talk about performance > and reliability in Corporate MainFrame applications, > webserver, and all kind of internet applications. I am > asking for your help because I would like to have > valid proff and plenty of it due to the great number > of Microsoft contractors in the company, who are > always saying one thing or another. One of them > actually challenged me by saying that MS and Unix in > general share about 50% the main frame business each. > I doubt that. So, please guys give me a hand on this. > The more reliable the sites the better. > > Roberto Armenteros Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake and msproxy
Try this, if you have a Windows system around then get Netscape Navigator/Communicator working with the proxy. If this works then Communicator/Konqueror will work too and the admin has to support it since you tested it via Windows. On Wednesday 10 April 2002 09:42 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > I have set it up at the application level putting in the proxy server, > etc. I am getting a proxy error page telling me that it could not > authenticate me. HTTP 407 Proxy Authentication Required. The proxy admin > is anti Linux, and won't help what so ever, unless I can tell him what > needs to be done. > > -Original Message- > From: Lars Nordin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 10 April 2002 14:22 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tony S. Sykes > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake and msproxy > > > I have that situation with my ISP and I have to configure proxying at > the > application level - so I have to configure netscape/konqueueror for web > and > ftp proxy. > > On Wednesday 10 April 2002 03:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 09 April 2002 20:27 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake and msproxy > > > > Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > > I am using Mandrake 8.1 behind a ms proxy server. How do I get it to > > > authenticate my user ID and password to allow me out onto the net? > > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- > This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you > have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not > use or disclose the information in any way, and notify me immediately. > The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not > necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd, unless > specifically stated. > Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their > attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) > to verify the integrity of such emails. > > Business Computer Projects Ltd > BCP House > 151 Charles Street > Stockport > Cheshire > SK1 3JY > > Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 > Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 > Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mobile Postfix Accounts
Postfix is just an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) and all it does is route mail. It sounds like you are talking about a MRA (Mail Retrieval Agent) which gives a user remote access to their mail box - you want to look into imap or pop3 servers and their configuration. If you just want users to pick thier mail then allowing internet access for the correct network ports for your pop3 or imap server is what you need, but if you want remote users to be able to send messages as well, then you will need either SMTP authentication (SSL connections or POP-before-SMTP) or have the user join the network via VPN. On Wednesday 10 April 2002 12:03 am, nDiScReEt wrote: > Anyone know how to configure postfix or provide a link on how to setup > postfix so that my users can check their mail from within the internal > network and abroad on the road? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake and msproxy
I have that situation with my ISP and I have to configure proxying at the application level - so I have to configure netscape/konqueueror for web and ftp proxy. On Wednesday 10 April 2002 03:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > -Original Message- > From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 09 April 2002 20:27 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake and msproxy > > Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > I am using Mandrake 8.1 behind a ms proxy server. How do I get it to > > authenticate my user ID and password to allow me out onto the net? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Troubles
Looks like some of the necessary NFS programs(mountd?) never started so the shutdown scripts are complaining. I would try uninstalling nfs-utils-clients package or otherwise don't run the netfs start script - that is if you are not using _any_ networked drives. On Tuesday 09 April 2002 06:16 am, Sevatio wrote: > OS: LM8.2 > > Problem: Shut down process stops with the following message: > > Unmounting NFS filesystem: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not > registered umount2: Device or resource busy > umount: /net: device is busy[FAILED] > > QUESTION: Where do I go to stop this nonsense? - I've tried to not have > NFS start on boot and I've also tried to shutdown NFS but this problem > persists. I don't even want to use NFS. > > Thanks, > Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Get same error when installing openssh or nessus
I'm trying to instal openssh-server and it complains about msec not being set
(see error below) but even after I run msec ("msec 2"), I get the same error.
I noticed that /etc/security/msec/security.conf was missing so I created a
link to /etc/sysconfig/msec from that path, but these had no effect also.
This is a Mandrake v8.2 system that was upgraded from v8.1.
[root@frid RPMS]# rpm -ivh openssh-server*rpm
Preparing...### [100%]
1:openssh-server ### [100%]
Couldn't find used secure level,
You should correct this problem by running /usr/sbin/msec
error: execution of %post scriptlet from openssh-server-3.1p1-1mdk failed,
exit status 1
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[expert] autologin, twice!
I have a Mandrake v8.0 system that has been upgraded from Mandrake 7.2 and 7.1. The problem I have is that the system automatically logs me in as it should at boot up but when I log out instead of going to the KDM screen, it logs me in again. How can I track down how the system is autologging me back in? Note, with the second autologin, the fonts of several things are the wrong size and the typematic key rate doesn't work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 as IPv6 Router
Cool! My guess is that ipv6 forwarding is set(?) - I think that ipv4 forwarding and ipv6 forwarding are two different modules but I could be wrong. Could any of the NAT'ing or firewalling interfere with the IPv6 routing? You might want to post this question on another more IPv6 centered list. I've tried setting up IPv6 between my Mandrake v8.0 box and RedHat v7.1 boxes without luck and this is over a home ethernet network. I'm still reading up on IPv6 and how it works. When I start up an IPv6 alias on my boxes the loopback and Scope:Link addresses come up but not a (standard?) Global:Link address (the sit interface does come up as well). I can ping6 the loopback address but not the Scope:Link address. On Thursday 01 November 2001 02:46 pm, you wrote: > I currently have my Mandrake 8 box working with a 6over4 tunnel. > I can ping6 various ipv6 sites (such as ipv6.research.microsoft.com) from > this box also, so I know my tunneling is working. > My setup looks like the following: > > Internet (IPv4 & IPv6)<-->ISP (IPv4 only)<-->MyLinuxBox (public IPv4, > tunneled IPv6)<-->My local Network > > I'm using iptables/nat on MyLinuxBox and I have various IPv4 machines > behind it. I'd also like to have this machine act as a router for IPv6. I > have radvd running and a Windows XP box that has correctly configured and > can ping6 MyLinuxBox. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to get > MyLinuxBox to route other requests out. > Hints? > > Thanks > Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tuning for large number of processes
Can you give us any data on memory usage? Memory shortage is my first guess. Does kswapd take a lot of processor time - if it is then the system is working hard to manage memory due to a shortage. Run top then hit "M" How is the disk I/O? This can cause the keyboard slowness but not the high load factors (I think). Install systat and run iostat or look at vmstat at the "bo " and "bi" columns. How may processes are being started? Top can show this. I remember hearing about some experimental kernels to handle system with many hundreds of process where the CPU queue was tuned for many CPUs but you may not be hitting these limits yet. See these two sites: http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org http://lse.sourceforge.net/scheduling/ On Thursday 04 October 2001 02:15 pm, Patrick warn wrote: > We run a database system that leaves a large number of connections to the > database open, but inactive most of the time. Since the database is of the > classic server variety, each database connection spawns a new copy of the > database. We have a four CPU Dell server with four GB of RAM. > > My problem is that the load on the computer is often well above 6, > sometimes it gets up to 12, at which point even the keyboard on the consol > is painfully slow. Looking at the cpu usage and memory usage, I am > surprised to find that they are not that high. However there seems to be a > direct correlation between the number of processes (our database > connections) and the load. > > My question: Is there something special that needs to be done to configure > Mandrake or the kernel to handle large numbers (400+) of processes? > >Wondering what it all means, > Pat > > Patrick Warn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SCO Binaries on Linux.
Look for IBCS (sp?) modules - this is Intel Binary Compatibility System (or something similar). My understanding is that you need the program, whatever components are needed for IBCS, and the shared libraries from SCO system for SCO binaries to work. This is how guys 3-4 years ago first got Informix to run on Linux but nowadays there is more software available for Linux then there ever was for SCO. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:10 pm, C.H. Close wrote: > Hi All, > Anybody really clever here that can tell me whether I can run SCO 3.2 > binaries on Linux Mandrake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Termcap on Mandrake
Try using either an ansi or at386 TERM on the SVR4 box since the linux TERM is most similar to those. Another option is to take the Linux TERMCAP/TERMINFO entry and get it working on the SVR4 box so that it has a linux TERM entry - see google or google groups for your specific UNIX. On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:06 pm, C.H. Close wrote: [ snip ] > If I try the same stunt using telnet on a KDE Konsole I can't get it to > work even if I change the TERM environment variable and export it. I > beleive the problem may be the fact that Linux uses the the termio > interface rather than the termcap one. Is there any way I can use > termcap to communicate with this server or am I barking up completely > the wrong tree!! > > Colin Close Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How to get pptp-client working?
I'm trying to use the pptp-client-1.0.2-5mdk package to connect to a MS VPN server but I don't think I'm calling the program correctly. The documentation says: pptp my.pptp.host debug name cananian remotename ntdialup \ 172.18.0.2:172.18.0.3 In my case the remote IPs are dynamic - given out by the VPN server. Also is my.pptp.host = VPN server? If anyone has had luck with getting this one to work please let me know. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] FYI: If kmp3 cores and neither kscd or kmix work
I just went through this the other day and someone else may be wondering why - and some of the programs won't let you know that they can't open certain device files (but running "strace program" will). If you are running Mandrake v7.2 and kmp3 dies with a segmentation fault or kscd won't work nor kmix won't work and may be you recently upgraded your kernel then check file permissions for the devices that the following links point to /dev/cdrom, /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp. Modifying these devices to be other readable and writable got these programs working for me again.
[expert] LM v7.2 and update kernel and IDE hard drive errors
I've been running LM 7.2 for a while w/o problems and I've been using this
hdparm tuning string:
hdparm -c3 -m16 /dev/hda
After switching to the 2.2.19 kernel, I get this message:
error message:
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: Write Cache FAILED Flushing!
I presumed that this is bad so I switch back to the earlier kernel - does
anyone know a way of preventing this?
Here is more info on the drive
hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount= 16 (on)
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq= 0 (off)
using_dma= 0 (off)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead= 8 (on)
geometry = 627/255/63, sectors = 10085040, start = 0
hdparm -i /dev/hda:
Model=WDC AC35100L, FwRev=09.09M08, SerialNo=WD-WT413014
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq }
RawCHS=10672/15/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=22
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=256kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=10672/15/63, CurSects=10085040, LBA=yes, LBAsects=10085040
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:160,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
hdparm -I /dev/hda:
Model=DW CCA5301L0, FwRev=900.M980,
SerialNo=DWW-4T3110 4
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq }
RawCHS=10672/15/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=22
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=256kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=10672/15/63, CurSects=10085040, LBA=yes, LBAsects=10085040
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:160,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
Re: [expert] network printing from SCO Unix to local printer on Mandrake
This would be better asked on one of the comp.unix.sco.* newsgroups but here is the answer anyway :) If you are using the "scoadmin" GUI, realize that it can only scan for other SCO boxes with printers (and I believe that it even says that some where on the menu or documentation). I have successfully configured a SCO v5.0.5 to print to a RH v6.2 box but you will have to (if I remember correctly) just fill in the settings in scoadmin->printers and not run the scan; scoadmin will just assume the settings are correct and try and use them. I believe that one the Linux box will have to add an entry for the SCO box in /etc/lphosts (or something like that). On Friday 25 May 2001 01:19, Darcy Brodie wrote: > I am hoping that you can assist me with this. > > I am attempting to connect a SCO unix remote printer que to a local > printer on a mandrake box. I have configured and successfully tested > the printer under CUPS, but when I attempt to locate the remote printer > on the SCO box, it is unable to locate it. This printer is visible and > usable from other Mandrake machines on the network. There is no mention > in any of the logs on the Mandrake machine of the attempts from the Unix > machine attempting to gain access to the printer. I have added the IP > and computer name to the /etc/hosts file, and allowed guest and public > access to the printer > > I am running Mandrake 7.2, with an IBM postscript printer (This > printer does work under the Unix, as I am replacing all our windoze and > dos machines with Linux). SCO Openserver ver 5.0 with updates for the > printing and security functions > > Darcy
Re: [expert] How to get Win 2k and LM 8 on sam HDD?
Thanks for the response, I reinstalled win2k and then Linux and I was very careful not to disturb the partition and ditto - I have win2k and Linux dual booting w/o problems. BTW I want to thank the KDE and Mandrake folks on the whole Kmail packaging - I wanted to transfer my e-mail from win95 & Outlook to Linux & KDE Kmail and the import scripts worked great. I still have to import over the address book but moving over all my old mail was great! On Friday 18 May 2001 12:25, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: > I do have a laptop (Toshiba) running Win 2k and Mandrake 8. > Installed Win first, then Mandrake, and all is fine. > I use Lilo to boot with.
[expert] How to get Win 2k and LM 8 on sam HDD?
Previously, when installing LM v7.2 on to a spare partition of a Win 95 system it was no problem to get them to dual boot via LILO or GRUB. I tried to do the same with Win 2k but I don't know if it can't be done via LILO or if I just screwed up the Win 2k partitions during the LM v8.0 install. I've read how you can use the Win 2k bootloader or use a floppy disk to book LInux off of but has any one on the list used LILO or GRUB to boot win 2k?
Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail!
- Original Message - From: "Ritesh Ahya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail! > Lars thanks for your information, actually i was trying to answer someone, > but the information you gave me was good. and it's a bit new for me. > o.k. let me ask you something ? > 1) Agreed, K mail works fine with stand alone, applications. is that true ? > Do you agree, i think yes ? Yes, Kmail functions just like MS Outlook Express - it is a POP client, and SMTP forwarder. > 2) Second, I want all the users on the single Linux box, to receive and send > mail. what can i offer them ? remember, a single Linux mandarke 7.2 box with > no, network. Like a family computer ? Tell me what should i do ? I need a more info here. If you are saying that you have a single Linux system that you use to connect to your ISP that multiple people use and each one of them has their own mailbox with the ISP then I would give them multiple accounts on the system (or just have multiple account in Kmail) and have each person access their mailbox on the ISP. > 3)Suppose, in a office of staff 10 in 10 networked computers. and What would > i have to do ? or what would i use ? to configure mail server ? which is the > best ? send mail ? or postfix ? what will i need to do ? First, you will need to read up on mail serving - see the linuxdoc.org HowTo's and get some books on sendmail/postfix and linux administration since you need to understand the basic infrastructure to have mail service working - networking (ethernet but more so IP networking), IP routing, DNS name resolution. That said if you want e-mail with OUT being able to send messages across the Internet then all you have to do is give users accounts on the Linux and configure Outlook Express/Eudora/Netscape/etc. to use that Linux server as the SMTP and POP servers. (Both server programs should be installed and enabled by default - I think). If you want to be able to send and recieve mail across the Internet then I would talk to an ISP first and see how much it would cost for them to provide your mail server instead of you trying to maintain it yourself.
Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail!
What are you trying to do? If you are trying to just send and receive mail then KDE Kmail or Netscape Messenger are sufficient and they can talk directly to your ISP/company's mail server. If you want to send mail internally on your Linux box - not between systems - then there is no configuration you need to do. If you are trying to set up a mail server then I would see some of the HOW-TOs on the linuxdoc.org site. - Original Message - From: "Ritesh Ahya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Postfix vs Sendmail! > Well, in mandrake 7.2 postfix will be installed by default, but i have never > ever found yet that, how to configure Post fix, nor from Gui nor from > console mode. > but my sir, said Post fix is working nicely by default in LMK 7.2, you can > use K mail with that and working fine ? do you want to use post fix for > stand alone application ? > Next, if you want to use send mail yet ? then you should installed it, but > remove package for post fix first, the install Send mail, you would be able > to configure send mail from Drake Conf. > you can use fetch mail with send mail too. or just Kmail. > please do tell me if you find anything, to cnofigure post fix from anywhere. > regards, > Ritesh.
Re: [expert] C questions:(very simple)
1) do a man on gettimeofday() - there are books on Unix programming that would show you this step by step 2) I haven't done it before but it is a stty setting, see stty - how you would call this from inside a program I don't know - Original Message - From: "vick Julius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 5:01 AM Subject: [expert] C questions:(very simple) > Hi there > 1)How can i write date from the system to a file inside a C programs? > 2) Is there a function in C to hide what a user types on the keyboard (like > the one we use on unix for typing a password)? > > Vick > Thanks > _ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > >
Re: [expert] MX record setup
You want to be careful when you modify your DNS records. Are there any mail servers currently handling mail for this domain, because fairly quickly after changing the MX record (a pointer to which host is recieving mail for your domain) mail will be sent to that domain and you mail server better be ready. If it is a new domain then you have some breathing room. It sounds like all you have to do for now is use dyndns to add an MX record for your host; this is presuming that your mail server system is ready to receive mail for your domain. - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [expert] MX record setup > I'm trying to setup my box for when I transfer my current domain > to this server...(get it all ready) > > right now...I have a static IP and using a DNS static IP hosting service > (www.dyndns.org) > to host : kompukit.dyndns.org > > I'm trying to setup sendmail, along with majordomo... > and I'll need a MX record...in the future...for sendmail > > dyndns.org...has a insert for MX records..and a backup feature... > so i thought I'd set it up now...to test...and then edit it later for my > server > > Lars Nordin wrote: > > > > What are you trying do? > > > > Setting up an MX record are for those setting up an e-mail server for the > > Internet being able to deliver mail to your domain. The named.conf and > > associated DB files contain the name to IP (and IP to name) mappings that > > all internet hosts need in order to connect to the servers in > > your domain. Do you have a registered domain? Who is providing the DNS > > service? > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "KompuKit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 4:35 AM > > Subject: [expert] MX record setup > > > > > I've been trying to learn how to setup MX record for my box... > > > and seen this (below) on a mailing list somewhere... > > > > > > I don't have this file../etc/named.whatever.com specified below > > > > > > where/how do i create it...anyone know? > > -- > Registered Linux User: 167369 > <= http://www.kompukit.com => > [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ# 7110071 > Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org > WebDesigner: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns > (Personal Server runs: M-F= 7pm-12am & S+S=12pm-12am) > >
Re: [expert] MX record setup
What are you trying do? Setting up an MX record are for those setting up an e-mail server for the Internet being able to deliver mail to your domain. The named.conf and associated DB files contain the name to IP (and IP to name) mappings that all internet hosts need in order to connect to the servers in your domain. Do you have a registered domain? Who is providing the DNS service? - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 4:35 AM Subject: [expert] MX record setup > I've been trying to learn how to setup MX record for my box... > and seen this (below) on a mailing list somewhere... > > I don't have this file../etc/named.whatever.com specified below > > where/how do i create it...anyone know?
Re: [expert] Proving networking issues...
Add to the list tcpdump (CLI) and X-windows based ethereal. As far as advice on what to look for, I can't give you much but you may want to ask this on a more network oriented newsgroup (see deja.com for a list) or mailing list. I would recommend two things though - try to track down why NIS and NFS died through the log files on both boxes; and if you think traffic is the issue see if your hubs and routers can provide you with traffic statistics to back this - all routers and most hubs (if they are smart) provide network statistics. - Original Message - From: "Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Proving networking issues... > One easy to understand, graphical sniffer/traffic analyzer is etherape. It > will produce a display of all the active addresses (IP or MAC) in a given > network domain and show traffic patterns by type (TCP/IP, UDP, etc) by color > code and amount of traffic by line thickness. It is gtk+ based and is > simple. For simply checking out traffic load, this would do it quite well. > > dsniff and snort are raw packet sniffers (of the two I like snort, > personally). > > On Tuesday 06 February 2001 10:23, Wayne Stout you wrote: > > I've been looking around for decent network sniffers, but am at a loss > > for what I'm looking for or at. Is there a good How-to or article I can > > read to help me figure out if indeed I have managed to horribly > > misconfigure the server? > > > > Wayne
Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller
Only controllers have IO ports and IRQs - not the devices attached to them - whether it is for SCSI or IDE. This is how you would do it under Red Hat - I work with Red Hat systems every day but my desktop is Mandrake so I've installed Red Hat systems many more times than Mandrake: Pick expert mode install and when you are specifying the CDROM, pick out the eata driver and check the "specific module arguments". The arguments will look like: eata=0x7410 this tells the driver to look for the controller at IO port 0x7410. Reading over the information in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/eata.c, it looks like the driver automatically probes for DPT EISA controllers in the range of 0x1C88 to 0xFC88 but if the IO port of your controller is different you will have to specify it. - Original Message - From: "Ira M. Bargon III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:58 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller When you said that i need to pass the io port or the irq to the driver, did you mean the io port or irq for the scsi controller or the cd-rom. Also what would be the syntax for that. For instance what would i need to state in order to give the io port of the device. Thanks. Ira -Original Message- From:Lars Nordin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:01:19 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller It sounds like you have a EISA DPT card -> www.dpt.com may not exist anymore since adaptec bought them up (so you may have to go to www.adaptec.com). I've used DPT SCSI controllers in the past and they worked fine (this was on Unixware). It sounds like you have the correct driver EATA but you may have to pass the IO port or IRQ to the driver. You should be able to hit some hotkey at startup and get at the SCSI controller BIOS or download the DPT configuration sw, either will show you how the card is configured. One last thing, on hardware RAID controllers like this one, configuring it usually simple (you might want to download the manuals for the controller you have); the controller hides the fact that it is a RAID and hence all operating systems see the RAID as a single disk (albeit a very large one). - Original Message - From: "Ira M. Bargon III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:14 PM Subject: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller [snip] Well I went with a Mandrake 7.2 install and couldnt get past step one. I dont know what scsi driver to use, i tried them all and none of them worked. Every drive on this server is scsi. The logo on the controller says DPT CM400. On bootup it lists as a pm2122a/9x. I am taking the asummption that the two hardrives are some type of raid array. I have never done an linux install on scsi so i am definately lost. Is anyone familiar with the hardware i listed above. Do you know what drivers i need to use to do the install. I was under the impression that i need to use one of the EATA drivers. None of these work. If having the raid configuration is going to be a pain, i will forget about it. Becasue i dont really see my self doing any hard drive intensive work. This server would just be for file storage, internet sharing, squid and samba. If anyone has any information for where i could even start that would be great. Thanks again. Ira ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot.
Re: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller
It sounds like you have a EISA DPT card -> www.dpt.com may not exist anymore since adaptec bought them up (so you may have to go to www.adaptec.com). I've used DPT SCSI controllers in the past and they worked fine (this was on Unixware). It sounds like you have the correct driver EATA but you may have to pass the IO port or IRQ to the driver. You should be able to hit some hotkey at startup and get at the SCSI controller BIOS or download the DPT configuration sw, either will show you how the card is configured. One last thing, on hardware RAID controllers like this one, configuring it usually simple (you might want to download the manuals for the controller you have); the controller hides the fact that it is a RAID and hence all operating systems see the RAID as a single disk (albeit a very large one). - Original Message - From: "Ira M. Bargon III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:14 PM Subject: [expert] Instalation of Mandrake 7.2 on SCSI Drives using PM2122a/9x Controller [snip] Well I went with a Mandrake 7.2 install and couldnt get past step one. I dont know what scsi driver to use, i tried them all and none of them worked. Every drive on this server is scsi. The logo on the controller says DPT CM400. On bootup it lists as a pm2122a/9x. I am taking the asummption that the two hardrives are some type of raid array. I have never done an linux install on scsi so i am definately lost. Is anyone familiar with the hardware i listed above. Do you know what drivers i need to use to do the install. I was under the impression that i need to use one of the EATA drivers. None of these work. If having the raid configuration is going to be a pain, i will forget about it. Becasue i dont really see my self doing any hard drive intensive work. This server would just be for file storage, internet sharing, squid and samba. If anyone has any information for where i could even start that would be great. Thanks again. Ira
Re: [expert] Linux VPN Server with WIN clients over internet
What you are looking for is PoPToP - a VPN server for Linux for MS WindowsXX VPN clients. The link I saved is apparently old but go to a search engine and look for it unless someone else on this list has the updated home page for it. - Original Message - From: "Andrew Judge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake Expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 6:26 AM Subject: [expert] Linux VPN Server with WIN clients over internet > I was wondering if there is an implementation of a Linux VPN server that > allows windows 9x clients to logon to the remote network using the native > VPN adapter supplied with Windows. If so, what would the clients be able to > access in the file system? Just curious since I know little about the > implementation of heterogeneous VPN using Linux as the server. I understand > that IPsec is considered the most secure and have looked at freeswan with > Windows 98 using PGPFreeware. The tutorial I saw was a little confusing > since it was for OpenBSD. I have also seen some tutorials with NAI's > PGPnet. What is the easiest way to implement such a VPN? > > Andy > > >
Re: [expert] How to run script at X-login - xsession doesn't work
I tried individually both $HOME/.xinitrc and $HOME/.Xclients and neither worked. Any other ideas? > - Original Message - > From: "Amit Bapat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:45 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] How to run script at X-login - xsession doesn't work > > > > try to put the script in $HOME/.xinitrc or $HOME/.Xclients. Look the X > > startup scripts and you'll find that it looks first for .xinitrc in your > > home dir and then looks for .Xclients. You can use either of them but not > > both. Make sure the file is executable. > > > > > > Original Message Follows > > From: "Lars Nordin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [expert] How to run script at X-login - xsession doesn't work > > Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:13:22 -0500 > > > > Earlier while running v7.1, I tried configuring both .xsession and > Xsession > > to run commands when I login to my system (after logging in via KDM) like > > the .profile, .bash_profile and .bashrc scripts do, but neither one > worked. > > I worked around it by putting a shell script in $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/; > I > > would have preferred that my script would have run earlier but this was > > acceptable. > > > > Now in v7.2, even this doesn't work, and I've even tried moving my script > to > > $HOME/.kde/Autostart/ and it still doesn't work. > > I've read before that the standard X-windows method is using > $HOME/.xsession > > or $HOME/Xsession - is there some security set up that I'm missing? > > > > > > > > _ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > > > > >
Re: [expert] Critical problem (Not a Hardware Problem)
It does almost sound like hardware - when you run RH or Debian do you stress the system to see if it dies? (like running several instances of "cp /dev/hda /dev/null" or "find / | cpio -o | compress > /dev/null") I was going to say that memory may be an issue but you have ECC RAM and that should squawk if there are errors. How did you get your distro? off the net? There were a few posts I saw that implicated that some of the Mandrake ISOs might be corrupt on some of the mirrors or become corrupt at download. BTW: Why do you have to recompile for SMP support? - may be I'm thinking of Red Hat but I could swear that Mandrake provided SMP kernel rpms. May be you should try temporarily pulling out one of the processors? (I'm grasping at straws here) - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Critical problem (Not a Hardware Problem) [ snip ] > This problem came up within 24 hours of performing a complete system update from > one of the Mandrake mirrors. However, this may be a coincidence. > > When I booted the machine, the LILO dialog screen came up as usual. If I > selected the standard "linux" or just let the default do the work, the same > result: An immediate reboot. LILO dialog comes up, default, reboot. The cycle > continued. > > Not having a working box, I performed an experiment. This is what I did (with > attendant results): > > 1. Performed a complete reinstall of Mandrake 7.2 (from scratch, including > reformatting the hard disk (I wanted to get rid of CUPS anyway)). Result: > Exact same problem, LILO, select, reboot. > > 2. Next, I switched distributions and loaded Debian 2.2r1 onto the box. It ran > just fine. No memory problems, no hard disk problems, nothing out of the > ordinary. > > 3. Next, tried loading Mandrake 7.2 back on. Exact same problem! LILO, select, > reboot cycle. Moreover, I tried to load from a boot floppy. Same problem! > > 4. Next, I switched yet again to RedHat 6.2. Same result as Debian. Normal > install and stable performance. > > Here is the configuration: > > Compaq Professional Workstation 8000 > Dual Pentium Pro (200 MHz) > 128 MB ECC RAM > two 4 GB Segate SCSI HD's (no RAID). > Voodoo3 2000 PCI video card. > > The odd thing is that Mandrake ran stable for several weeks before failure > (albeit just after a major update). However, if it was something with the > update, the reinstall should have cleared it up -- but it didn't. > > I plan to do some more troubleshooting tonight. I will first try to reload > Mandrake, only this time I will specify GRUB in lieu of LILO. > > Next, I will load Mandrake 7.1 and see if I can narrow the problem down to 7.2. > > One last thing, since this is an SMP system, and I have to recompile the kernel > for SMP (and I'm not sure about RH 6.2), I will first check out SMP enablement > in RH 6.2 and, if necessary, recompile the kernel for SMP and reboot to see > whether that is causing the problem. Note, however, that upon boot both > processors are initialized (as normal) so I don't think that SMP is a problem. > > Any other suggestions? > > TIA, > > Ron > ./.
[expert] Off Topic - Help needed with multiple tape cpio failure and RH v6.2!
My apologies since this concerns a Red Hat v6.2 system and not a Mandrake one but I may be some kind sole could help with this one. I'm backing up a RH system using an old Exabyte 2500SX 8mm DAT (SCSI) which requires using several tapes. When I back up the system, it works fine - when it hits the end of the tape it asks for a another tape - the problem I have is when I go back to verify that at the end of the first tape I get: "cpio: read error: Input/output error" and it stops there. I tried using different tapes and cleaning the tape heads. This is the command line I use to backup the fs find ... | cpio -o -C 65536 - H newc -O /dev/st0 and here is my verify: cpio -ivt -C 65536 -H newc -I /dev/st0 My next step is to look for a different controller to connect it to - it is currently connected to a Adaptec 1542CF via the external interface. Anyone run into or heard of similar problems? I know that Red Hat (and hence Mandrake) cpio for RH v6.1 had an issue with the '-v' flag where the standard out would get included in the archive and hence corrupt it - but I've tried it both ways.
[expert] How to run script at X-login - xsession doesn't work
Earlier while running v7.1, I tried configuring both .xsession and Xsession to run commands when I login to my system (after logging in via KDM) like the .profile, .bash_profile and .bashrc scripts do, but neither one worked. I worked around it by putting a shell script in $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/; I would have preferred that my script would have run earlier but this was acceptable. Now in v7.2, even this doesn't work, and I've even tried moving my script to $HOME/.kde/Autostart/ and it still doesn't work. I've read before that the standard X-windows method is using $HOME/.xsession or $HOME/Xsession - is there some security set up that I'm missing?
Re: [expert] Networking problems(solved)
1) Check the rc script for syslog. /etc/rc3.d/S**syslog linked to /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog 2) autologin? (Do you mean the graphical login? login as root start X-Windows and in the DrakeTools is an icon for modifying the X-Windows login screen) - Original Message - From: "Svante Signell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Networking problems(solved) > Thank you Lars for your help, > > (I also appreciate help from EagleIce regarding boot levels) > Now the install is OK and the upgrades are made (including > kdebase). Networking is working too. > Next step: > 1. No log files (like messages, kernel.log etc) are > created. Where to change that? > 2. Where to disconnect/change user of autologin (except rpm -e) > 3. XFree86 V4 & Banshee, separate posting. > 4. grub: is it sufficient to edit /etc/lilo.conf? What about > /boot/grub/menu.?? lilo is non-functional? Why is it installed? > > Thank you for your help, maybe I won't switch to another > distribution. I'm still not fluent enough in Mandrake;( Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Networking problems
Like I posted before check the links in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d or /etc/rc.5d/ for the script "network" in /etc/rc.d/init.d. I had the same problem upgrading. I was able to get the network running again by simply running "ln -s /etc/rc.d/network/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/SXXnetwork" where 'XX' is some two digit number. Run 'tksysv' if you like/need to use a graphical tool to fix this. - Original Message - From: "Svante Signell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 4:48 PM Subject: [expert] Networking problems > After upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 networking in non-functional. Any > pointers? Everything is a mess, the upgrade did not complete > either. Maybe it's time to switch to another distribution, I am using > debian and RH on other boxes? This graphical/framebuffer thing is > maybe good for newbies, but I feel like I've lost control of the > configuration :( > > > 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.
Re: [expert] 7.2 upgrade problems
I had the same problems; I ended up having to run XFdrake to configure X; rebuilding the symbolic links in /etc/rc5.d/ for "network" and "portmap" - this was why NFS was failing to start on my system no lo0 or eth0 devices! Be warned if you try to upgrade kdebase that you will get a cpio unlink error during the rpm upgrade/install - there is a posting on this list as to how to fix it. - Original Message - From: "Svante Signell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 5:53 PM Subject: [expert] 7.2 upgrade problems > Upgrading from 7.1 to 7.2 (.iso files) goes well until the > configuration of X. Probing is OK and everything is well, but > finishing gives the following error message: > > /mnt/dev/null/.kderc > not a directory > > and a hang here. Well we all know that dev files are not directories > :( Something wrong with the Perl script for the installer? I had to > kill the install process and manually reboot. > > 7.2 seems to run, but in first attempt the boot hangs on NFS (no > network at boot time), solved by uninstalling nfs-utils-*. > Also complaints on char-major-4 not found and default.png also not > found for gnome to start. More to come... > > BTW: The upgrade of .rpms (500 MB) took 5.5 hours!! Even if my first > hard disk is very slow, should it take that long? Going from 7.0 to > 7.1 did not. > > /Svante > > > 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.
Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x?
- Original Message - From: "Ron Heron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [expert] ext3, reiserfs, and MDK 7.x? > > > > > > > Now if ReiserFS only supported quotas ... > no streams support What do you mean by streams? If you mean the network layer used to support X.25, etc on commercial UNIXes then Linux does have it but is not a part of the filesystem; see www.gcom.com. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] network administrator
To answer your on what you should know to be a good Linux Admin, it really boils down to being a good admin period. I've met several poor NT administrators that were terrible admins in general since they didn't know what they were doing. IMHO a good admin is: - detail oriented (but not to the point that you don't get anything else done) - cautious (I know one UNIX admin that got lucky and upgraded from qpopper v2.x to v3.01 right after he finished compiling v3.01 and it worked OK) - Know the program/protocol they are working with OR where to get more info Linux/UNIX is different in that most of the time it forces you to know what the heck you are doing - this is because it is so configurable. (It is nice to know if you server is tight on memory or disk space that you can rip out X-windows (the GUI) and it will run fine) As far as the programming part many useful utilities are available pre-compiled but as one poster mentioned even if it isn't downloading it and compiling it is usually a 3 or 4 step process - unzip & untar, configure, make, make install (and many times the folks on the 'net that have gone to the trouble of compiling the program will share it with you). On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, fasi74 wrote: > Hello there > > I am a Windows NT Network Administrator "MCSE" now i would like to extend my > skill & go for Linux Administration. now the question is that does my > being an Nt administrator help me in any way with Linux.? > Also what should i know to be a good Linux Admin ? I heard linux users have > to > do a lots of programing too do i have to do that as well ? > > thankyou > Faisal -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation www.noblesys.com
Re: [expert] su - user -c "command" doesn't load profile
Try downloading "sudo" that was the old Linux "su" package - it should still be out there. On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Jasper Spit wrote: > On Mandrake 7.0 when you do a su - -c "command" from the root > account, 's profile is not loaded. When you just do a su - , > it works OK. > How can I get this fixed ? I can't remember having this problem on Red Hat > or SuSE. I upgraded to the newest sh-utils, but that didn't help either. > > Also, su doesn't return the correct errorcode if you use the -c flag, it > always returns 0. > This works fine on e.g. HP/UX and Sun Solaris. > > Jasper -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation www.noblesys.com
Re: [expert] Named referral errors??
This looks like your named server is seeing configuration errors in somebody's domain set up. Check a searchable FAQ at www.acmebw.com, choose the "Ask Mr. DNS" page Otherwise, look at www.isc.org/bind.html and the DNS resources there On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Tony Smith wrote: > I'm seeing occasional errors from bind on my Mandrake 7.0 system. They look > like this: > > Jun 22 14:07:49 blast named[13158]: bad referral (co.uk !< iacl.co.uk) > > Are these normal? If not, what could/should I do about them. > Thanks for your advice! > > Tony -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation www.noblesys.com
Re: [expert] files larger than 2 GB
I thought it was a kernel/glib/filesystem issue that really didn't have much to do with the word size of the hardware. You would figure that you could have the kernel compensate by doing the pointer/offset math 32-bits at a time and hence enable it to do a lseek on a 64 bit value on IA32 hardware (it would be slower); Especially since they have filesystems that are larger than 2GB (32bits) but it's been too long since I worked at that low of a level. - Original Message - From: Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [expert] files larger than 2 GB > -> > I would appreciate information about the possibility of creating files > -> > larger than 2 GB. [snip] > It is a Linux kernel limitation on 32 bit architectures (e.g. 80x86) [snip] > I seem to recall somewhere reading that this wil be addressed in the 2.4 > kernels. Any kernel watchers care to verify this?
Re: [expert] kmail-1.0.29.1 configure can not find pgcc-c++
Thanks! I installed libstdc++-devel and that did the trick. Now I have to get the X and probably the KDE libs as well - I installed my Mandrake box as a desktop, not planning on doing any develpment on it. On Wed, 31 May 2000, Sebastian Dransfeld wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2000, Lars Nordin wrote: > > > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot >create executables. > > > > You need libstdc++ > > seb -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [expert] kmail-1.0.29.1 configure can not find pgcc-c++
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > The original messages suggest that it is looking for g++. Maybe you > should make a link to *that*. pgcc-c++ is now installed and it does find g++ but the new error I get from configure is: checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for a C++-Compiler... checking for g++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [expert] Helix Gnome
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Muzza wrote: > Helix Gnome 1.2 and Sawfish, what a combination! Bugger KDE1.9(or 2) whatever > it's up to now. Fast, smooth and very classy. > Muzza. I'm curious is it much faster then the previous version of Gnome? The reason I use KDE is that all the systems I have to run Linux on are all P-2xx MHz systems (with 32 to128 MB RAM) and all the Gnome apps I've run are dog slow. Whereas the KDE apps have been markedly faster - these have been running Red Hat 6.0,6.1 and Mandrake 6.1 on Intel and Alpha HW - will Helix Gnome be as fast as the KDE apps that I now use? -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [expert] kmail-1.0.29.1 configure can not find pgcc-c++
On Thu, 25 May 2000, corey Ryan wrote: > I had the same problem at one time. What I am about to suggest, you might know >alreadybut I will say it anyway: > > 1. Make sure pgcc-c++ is installed on your system. Done. I have pgcc-c++ from MDK v6.1 installed => pgcc-c++-1.1.3-3mdk > 2. If pgcc-c++ is installed on your system, make sure the location of the > program is in your path. Done. [lars@frid kmail-1.0.29.1]$ which c++ /usr/bin/c++ I even tried creating a link from /usr/bin/c++ to /usr/bin/cpp to see if configure was looking for 'cpp' but that didn't work either. Thanks for the help -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
[expert] kmail-1.0.29.1 configure can not find pgcc-c++
I'm trying to update kmail on my Mandrake v6.1 box by compiling v1.0.29.1 but I
run into a problem with the configure script that comes with kmail.
I have pgcc-c++ (and pgcc) installed but it does not find it nor does it seem
to look for it.
This is the error I get:
[lars@frid kmail-1.0.29.1]$ ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i586-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i586-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i586-pc-linux-gnu
checking ktalkd find_user method... using /proc.
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... missing
./configure: programs: command not found
checking for a C-Compiler...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a C++-Compiler...
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create
executables.
===
How can I modify the configure script to detect pgcc-c++?
Otherwise, how can I fix this?
- other than upgrading to Mdk v7.0 or v7.1 (I'm the only one
in my company to run Linux for a desktop so I am my own PC support and
currently I don't have the time to do an upgrade. I have to admit that I did
gloat a little during the ILOVEYOU virus thing since Linux/kmail is in no way
vunerable)
--
Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [expert] How to read a 8mm tape with xerox docutech files
I learned this trick from an old UNIX guru:
Run dd if=/dev/tape of=/tmp/tape.out count=64
(replace /dev/tape with what ever your tape device name is)
('count' and 'bs' (blocksize) could vary depending on how much data
you want to pull off the tape)
the run 'file /tmp/tape.out' this will let you know if the system can
read and identify the data.
One thing that may be important is the blocksize used.
See if 'mt' can show what the blocksize is of the data on the tape and then
maybe you can match it using 'mt' again.
--
Lars Nordin
Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains
Ent. - Wrong! but thanks for playing. >From RFC822, the internal address headers are defined as not being case sensitive, and from RFC821, of the envelope addresses only the mailbox/'local name' part is considered case sensitive. And last RFC882, denotes that domain names are not case sensitive. While it maybe that the Postfix configuration files are case sensitive(which would surprise me), SMTP servers while doing SMTP transactions are not. BTW: To the original poster: post your question of the postfix mailing - they would be more knowledgable in answering. On Wed, 03 May 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: > Jon, > > Are you not aware that Unix, and so the entire Internet and Linux, > are case sensitive? > > FAKEFOO.COM and fakefoo.com are entirely different domains - and will > be, for ever and ever. > > Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux. -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [expert] Samba Printing
I'm sure there is a general HowTo on this but I use a similar configuration both at work and at home. First make sure that the Windows Networking is working correctly. >From the command line, run "smbclient //host/printer_share -P" - this should give a ftp like connection where you can give a command to print a local UNIX file. E.g. smbclient //ela/HP693C -P Password: xx smb: > print /etc/hosts smb: > quit This will halve the problem - whether it is on the UNIX or Windows side. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:38 PM Subject: [expert] Samba Printing > I'm having a problem with samba/smb printing. Namely that I can't. > > I have an Epson 740 connected via usb to a windows machine. Windows prints > great. I have it set to share as epson on machine magnolia. I have a password > on the printer. > > In printtool I've told it that it's on file://magnolia/epson. I've got the right > filter installed for it (prints fine when directly connected to linux box via > lp0). I have the password in. I told it the ip of the windows box. It DOES > send some info via the network when I tell it to print. But windows doesn't > even appear to blink. > > I've been working on this for about 4 days, looking all over the net and > nothing seems to get it to work. > > Any ideas? > > Thankee! > > Ty C. Mixon > F.T.C. Enterprises > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ 26147713 > >
Re: [expert] Linux Mail Server Synchronisation
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Why use Postfix? It is funded by IBM and they don't even use it: > Need proof it's related to IBM? On the Postfix web site: > "Postfix is the freeware project that I started during my sabattical year > in the USA while visiting IBM T.J. Watson Research. I am grateful to IBM > for the opportunity to write this software and for their permission to > give it away." What do you expect? We are talking about IBM here. BTW They did initially fund it but now it is completely out of their hands - Weitse and other concerned users maintain it not IBM. > Besides, the official release is a BETA release... If you follow the postfix mailing list (a fairly busy one) you'll see that Weitse always labels it a BETA release but hundreds of sites use it. I don't have numbers to back that up but talk to the folks that maintain the download sites and they could give you a better number of users. > I have Sendmail on all my servers sending and receiving millions of > messages per day, ... [snip] ... don't even know how I could implement all > those features using Postfix. You probably can't but that isn't what Postfix was designed for - e-mail hosting for companies and ISPs. They may have uucp working with but that wasn't part of the original plan. Granted, postfix hasn't existed half as long as sendmail but that is good and bad. > So, please explain me what's so hot about Postfix. Quite frankly, I don't > get it. I don't say Postfix is bad, but I would like to have concrete, > documented reasons that could convince someone to switch to Postfix. First, trying getting a new sysadmin to configure postfix and then sendmail which will they say is easier to understand and configure? I recieved a testimonial from a sysadmin that "postfix ran 3 times faster on half the hardware". As I said before postfix is a lot newer and the good side is that has been designed with security and speed in mind - sendmail can't claim that. Ask on the postfix mailing list about how they like it (this will be biased) but also on newsgroups/mailing lists for qpopper/wu-imapd/cyrus-imapd and find out what they use and how they like it. I personally don't hate sendmail but I do think that configuring it is a big pain in the butt. -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [expert] Linux Mail Server Synchronisation
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, William Ahern wrote: > I'm new to NFS, but I have always entertianed the idea of keeping mailboxes on > NFS, then using round-robin DNS to keep several smtp and pop/imap servers > available, though I'd like to hear what people have to say about locking > issues. A friend and I suggested this to a Solaris team administering a medium > sized university mail-server. They declined, and instead seem content shutting > down a huge Sun server every week or so to add memory and disk space. > > This way, you can offer very scalable and redundant mail services > (pop/imap/smtp) and have the shared disk space on a dedicated machine(s) that > can have robust disk services. Actually, you can probably do this quite easily > w/ 2 machines to start. One machine that the clients access and which really > only needs a moderate cpu and decent memory. The 2nd can be a tower w/ a nice > RAID card doing various levels of RAID on some reliable hot-swappable IBM > disks. A few grand, or less maybe, could easily get you off of the ground > running and ready for what comes your way 24/7 and room for growth on > commodity hardware... ;) This isn't quite the correct forum for this discussion, try some of the newsgroups/mailing lists for specific MTA(sendmail, qmail, postfix, exim, etc) and MRA(qpopper, wu-imap, cyrus-imap, etc.) programs and ask your questions there. Most of the newsgroups/lists I've been reading (sendmail, qpopper, postfix, cyrus-imap) have always said that using NFS is a no-no because of the file locking. I've read Weitse (creator and maintainer of postfix) comment on that Linux NFS(I presume both user and kernel) has buggy file locking so it may be just a case of these developer groups not recommending NFS in general because of problems with specific OS implementations. Post your question/comment and see what response you get (you might want to dig a little first to see what threads have already been discussed). I know that some are using NFS but with maildir type modfications or custom delivery program that tackle this issue, along with the issues of having distributed MRAs. Fairly recently a guy on comp.mail.imap posted a link to a paper about on how Earthlink implemented their system. http://www.earthlink.net/about/papers/mailarch.html I'd like to find out more about this but just haven't had the time - nor am I in charge of our company's mail server any longer so I've lost some of my incentive as well. -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [expert] resetting hosts.allow and deny files
> > No need to restart any daemons or reboot for the changes to take effect. >> > You do not have to restart inetd, but you have to force it > to reread the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. Send it > a hangup signal. No, you don't need to send inetd a HUP signal either - unless it has TCP wrappers built in to it. I'm running LM-6.1 and inetd is configured to start tcpd which does the host.[allow, deny] file searches and exec's the proper daemon if the action is allowed. Since inetd isn't doing the lookup and tcpd starts and ends with every port access all you would have to do change hosts.allow or hosts.deny. -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic
As somebody previously mentioned, this method is called ip aliasing. I'm running Mandrake v6.1 where the address for the main interface (eth0) is set via DHCPcd and then the alias is set afterwards since it is a static address. Here's what ifconfig -a reports [lars@frid lars]$ /sbin/ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:72:2F:A0 inet addr:10.0.3.40 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:205581 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:114153 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:5 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:9 Base address:0xa000 eth0:0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:C9:72:2F:A0 inet addr:128.0.200.109 Bcast:128.0.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:9 Base address:0xa000 It has worked great and has been rock solid and I haven't noticed any slowness from doing it this way (I have a Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 card). I have it configured via linuxconf which somebody already mentioned as well; it did require that I get some patches for Mandrake though so that the alias would be auto-magically configured every time at startup. I believe it was a patch for linuxconf ( or maybe for the network startup scripts) - search on Mandrake's or Red Hat's (or DejaNews) and you'll find the answer easy enough. On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, William Ahern wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Timothy Litwiller wrote: > > > > > how do I put two ip addresses to the same network card - > > > > > > specifically I would like to use my public IP address 203.53.###.53 and > > > a private ip address 192.168.2.53 on the same card. > ipaliasing you can use ifconfig like: ifconfig eth0:[n] where n is the > numbered address (1,2,3,4...) on that interface., etc. this method is around > from 2.0.x, but its discouraged. i dunno the new way... > -- > William Ahern > MIS, JINSA > > - > JINSA Online > http://www.jinsa.org/ > - -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
Re: [expert] Adaptec AHA-1510B drivers
As others have already posted check the SCSI HowTo's. You'll probably need to specify the driver name and parameters as part of the LILO boot - something like 'boot linux append="aha152x=0x120,11"' After you get it working you'll have to modify /etc/lilo.conf to reflect what works and rerun lilo. Lars Alejandro Arredondo wrote: Hello everybody, I can not make Linux to recognize my SCSCI card. Does someone knows how to setup it or where can I get the drivers. Thanks Alejandro Arredondo -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
[expert] Setting MIME types
Currently my system is configured so that if I'm using kfm or kruiser and click on a pdf or html file it does not start the application I want it to (Having StarOffice as the default app for html is horrid - it take 1 min to load and still doesn't display it right). I've read the FAQ but when I tried to change the bindings using (kfm -> edit -> mime types -> choose text/html.kdelnk -> properties -> bindings tab) it only lets me pick applications from a scroll bar and not type in the application I want to use. I'm running Mandrake 6.1 and I'd like to be able to configure this a little easier. Lars -- Lars Nordin Noble Systems Corporation
