[expert] konsole settings
Ever since I upgraded my system from 8.1 to 9.0, and now 9.1, I have found that settings are not saved with konsole (schema, fonts etc). It looks like they should be saved in ~/.kde/share/config/konsolerc but it doesn't seem to happen. I prefer to keep several konsoles open but have to do so (and set schema/font) every time I start up. Any ideas? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: In order to control energy costs the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off until further notice... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] konsole settings
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 09:59, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: Ever since I upgraded my system from 8.1 to 9.0, and now 9.1, I have found that settings are not saved with konsole (schema, fonts etc). It looks like they should be saved in ~/.kde/share/config/konsolerc but it doesn't seem to happen. I prefer to keep several konsoles open but have to do so (and set schema/font) every time I start up. Any ideas? Works here *but* the thing about konsole settings that is a little bit peculiar is that, after you have got all the settings as you want them, you have to go to Setttings one last time and click 'Save settings'. Did you do that? Yep. Repeatedly... to no avail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:13, Jack Coates wrote: Red Hat definitely sucks pretty bad. I've been having to do a lot of work with 6.2 and 7.3 lately, building test environments to recreate customer-discovered bugs in. Man, I miss urpmi. up2date is just flatout broken in 6.2 (way out of support window, tell that to the thousands of customers still using it), and on 7.3 I've actually been installing Ximian's Red Carpet to get something that can do dependencies worth a damn. While I can't argue that RedHat's own update method stinks I would point out that there are alternatives (albeit inconvenient at least initially since you need to add them manually). The k12ltsp distro is a pure RedHat du jour with certain package enhancements (mostly added packages though a couple of them like dhcpd are just modified) and includes both yum and apt-get. There are repositories with official redhat packages for both update managers. Personally, I have found either one at least as easy to use as urpmi. We use K12os or Yellowdog on all our servers depending upon platform (x86, PPC). I'm a Mandrake user on my workstation and have been since 7.1. I know that the yum package is available for rh7.3 too (thought apt-get was but I can't find it). On rh6.2 you're probably out of luck as that's pretty old and I'm not aware of too many aside from Debian who were running a 'urpmi' type package manager back then. ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/yum/ Actually, as I look at it, if you add the following site to yum.conf (following the pattern already established in the file) it looks like you can 'yum update' all the way back to 6.2 - didn't know that. http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/8.0/i386/ ... [os,updates] I don't know 'how up to date' the 6.2 updates would be though as RH is almost certainly not doing them anymore. You seem to expect a lot out of them with regard to the updates. Does anyone keep updates for a distro that far back? It would appear Mandrake doesn't go back beyond 8.2 for current updates. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: In order to control energy costs the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off until further notice... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Devfsd and related issues
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:50, Anne Wilson wrote: I have been struggling with GnomeMeeting for some time now, getting all the help I can from this list, then from the GM mailing list. The end of that conversation was that devsd was the likely problem, and I would need to talk to someone who really understands Mandrake's implementation of it. A friend of mine has been having a similar fight with his Handspring Visor. Again, he has asked all he can for help. It appears that this is also a devfsd problem. Apparently some aspects of using Gnome-pilot on 9.1 were not properly implemented, as it was 'very You're right about devfs - at least in my experience anyway. When I first tried using my Handspring with mdk 8.1 I found then that the only way to get it to work reliably (or sometimes at all) was to disable devfs. I have no idea why Mandrake has insisted on staying with it all this time when it's as broken as it is. From what I see on the linux kernel list it would appear devfs will be going away anyway. The original maintainer has went away and nobody else seems to have done much with it either aside from cutting away major parts of it. That aside, if you check the archives from the 8.1/8.2 time frame there should be some threads where this exact thing was discussed and a few solutions found. I did finally get both of those versions to sync my Handspring by disabling devfs and a couple of other (forgotten) things. I don't recall that Gnome-pilot was involved but I could be wrong on that too. I did make one half hearted attempt at getting the sync working with 9.0 one time but gave up when it took more than a few minutes because I don't really need the sync anyway. On the whole my impression is that usb stuff, palm type device syncing at least, is still pretty immature with Linux. I've never seen it work out of the box - at least on Mandrake. I've never tried it with the k12os/RH systems I maintain (most cuz they're all servers) so I can't way whether it's Linux in general or something specific to Mandrake. I just found this in my email history. Maybe it'll help... historical_quote Add to or fix in lilo.conf... append= devfs=nomount ...run lilo and reboot. The config on my two 8.1 systems is like this: *add to /etc/modules* usbcore usb-uhci usbserial visor (depending on your system you may need usb-ohci instead of usb-uhci) *in /etc/sysconfig/usb* VISOR=yes My /etc/modules.conf also has... alias usb-interface0 usb-uhci ...although I think mdk8.1 set that up at install time - I don't remember doing it. Last I created a symlink from /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 to /dev/visor and set up jpilot to use it. After all that just start jpilot, hit the hot sync button on the visor USB cradle, and click the sync button in jpilot. FWIW, just in the way of information, the one 8.1 system we've gotten devfs to work on uses usb-ohci. On that system, with devfs enabled, if you watch the /dev/usb directory carefully you'll see the ttyUSBx entries pop up briefly when you hit the hot sync botton on the USB cradle. One of my co-workers uses that system. Somehow he happened to get everything to work right one time using the gnome pilot conduit settings in the gnome control center and it's been fine since. Note that the gnome control center must be used to set up the gnome pilot conduits although once they're set up they seem to work fine in KDE thereafter. He sync's his visor everyday to jpilot. That said though, it has been much easier for me to just sort of hard code this stuff as I've illustrated above instead of trying to get the devfs stuff to work. Maybe Richard Gooch (lkml) will someday get devfs working smoothly and it'll be the best thing since sliced bread but it appears not ready for prime time right now IMHO. /historical_quote -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: In order to control energy costs the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off until further notice... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT RedHat questions
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 08:02, Mike Rambo wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 18:07, Jack Coates wrote: About as OT as it comes, sadly... I'm needing to use an RH system, and I find that urpmi has me massively spoiled. Is there anything like it or a port of it for RH7.3? The old rpmfind/google dependencies hunt for every library and program under the sun is taking hours out of my day, and Ximian's red-carpet doesn't touch urpmi for completeness. I'm actually getting worried that the packages for common Perl stuff simply don't exist, as half the time I can't find them and end up compiling from source any way. What do other RH admins use, the apt-get port from Conectiva? The K12LTSP project has both yum and apt-get repositories set up and feature all the latest packages from RH (bugfix, security etc) for releases since RH7.3 IIRC. K12OS is simply the current RH release with preconfigured LTSP and K12 education related packages added (plus a bunch of the normal packages (DHCP etc) optimzed for the LTSP environment). K12 3.0.x is RH8 based - K12 3.1.x is RH9 based. I had a link to an apt-get package from K12 for RH7.3 at one time but I've lost it. It's out there but it'll take some searching. Here is a link for the rh73 rum package and a note that appeared on the k12 list about setup. I'm still looking for the apt-get package. ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/yum/ quote k12 list there is no such file or directory. I might add that I am running Red Hat 7.3 (LTSP 2.1.1). Thank you for the clarification. Yum and apt-get are not included in LTSP 2.1.1. You can get yum from here: ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/yum/yum-1.0-1_73.noarch.rpm The default configuration of that package does not include the K12LTSP packages. You can add those by appending this to /etc/yum.conf: [k12ltsp] name=K12LTSP baseurl=ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/apt/7.3/ -Eric /quote k12 list Both the yum and apt-get packages should be available on any of the K12 mirrors AFAIK. Of course we're an edu institution, but we have moved to K12OS on all of our servers largely because of the ease of updates and even full distribution upgrades these apps bring. http://www.k12ltsp.org Before everyone flames me I'll admit it's probably because I don't spend enough time with urpmi to understand it's potential but I have found either yum or apt-get easier to use, more successful, and less hassle. I often end up having to upgrade my Mandrake workstation the old fashion way by downloading and manually installing things. I wish I could 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to upgrade my mdk9.0 to 9.1. Is there a way to make urpmi do that? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: In order to control energy costs the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off until further notice... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: In order to control energy costs the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off until further notice... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.0 9.1 upgrade
Has anyone performed an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1? Any problems or things I need to watch for if I decide to go the upgrade route instead of a fresh install? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* NOTE: In order to control energy costs the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off until further notice... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mdk as Server OS ?
James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 03:37, Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Folks, this request might be off-topic, but might not be. For years now - I have always used Mandrake for Desktop Usage - always bought the boxes, but RedHat for my home server - download edition. The reason I'm asking - is that I actually love the script based up2date package, and the 7.3rh version - however - every month filling out their questions etc. to get my demo-account active - is getting on my nervs. I would pay for it - but don't know if paying for that, they will make as M$ - stop support for the old versions etc. letting me hanging in the rain. So - what I require - is a Server operating system that is not using any X-Interface for it's configuration. I would do everything by hand too - but don't care if a curses-based UI exists. I also require an automated Update system in place (I had written back in time one for automatically updating RPM's, similar to up2date from rh), but it would be nice to have that maintained by the distribution owner. There are pros and cons to it (like in everything) but you could take a look at the K12LTSP distro. As the name implies it is primarily built for educational institutions and as such will have things in it you may not want (like tux typing and the ltsp.org packages etc.). It is RedHat based but is released more frequently (with the latest official patches and updates) and has both apt-get (from debian but rpm based) and yum (yellowdog update manager) packaged and preconfigured. The K12LTSP folks manage package repositories for both managers. I also use mandrake on desktop and redhat (now K12LTSP) on servers and though I don't know your exact reasons, I may understand where you're coming from. The apt-get and yum mangers do for redhat what urpmi does for mandrake AFAICS - plus you have choice on which you prefer to use. http://www.k12ltsp.org/ I do this I create a cron job that runs every 24 hours doing urpmi.update -a then urpmi --auto --auto-select. This takes care of all of the updates auto-magically for me. And, since it's a cron job it mails me the results. One note I also add main and contribs to my urpmi database and disable the cd's, this way if it needs anything new ... it can get it. I've been doing this for about 2 years now without a hitch, and my boxes are never more than a day out of date. Beats the heck out of up2date. 4 servers running MDK and 9 desktops (small office) all of them do this, all are kept up to date. In two years I've had one problem and it was caused by backhoe vs fiber incident that cut my connection to a site in my urpmi database. Just for Fairness YAST in SuSe can do this as well although I haven't used it. But out of all the distro's RH is the most troublesome to keep up to date. (and the one with the most updates too. Mostly self caused.) James Now - I do have a fairly well knowledge of Mandrakes capabilities, and for my Desktop - I have no problem using it. However - a Server means for me, that all my backups are going on it, it has to be reliable, needs to be secured - and the system needs to be supported for at least a year or 2. Mdk has gone the way of often updating the distribution - which is great as long as I don't use it for my server... but I don't know as of yet of an automated Security-fix installation option for mdk... I had done my own operating system back in time - and could do it again, but I'd first like to see if I can avoiding reinventing the wheel ... Anyone has a RPM based distribution to propose - that is up to date, stable, light and easy to maintain ? Preferably free, but I'm also willing to pay for it, if it's worth the money... I would like to keep the RPM based distribution, as I have a very long experience with RPM's (MD5 Checksums and PGP Signatures where actually contributed from me to RedHat by the time of RedHat 2 beta), and I usually also like doing RPM's, but don't like the way Debian packages are done (reason I staid with RPM) Thanks for those... they are tremendously underused IMHO. Now if we can just get them to make boolean or available for dependencies I'd be in hog heaven. I'll have a new Server end of next-week, a Lex Light THIN Client 533 MHz 860A-3R53 Fan-less with 3Lan 10/100MBits, 1WiFi port, 256MByte Ram and 40GBytes Harddrive - barely bigger than an A5 format mini-computer - so I'll have something to play with... So - any hints/tips welcome ... Cheers Joerg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] [squid-users] running out of file descriptors
We're running squid-2.4.STABLE7-2mdk on Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin) for i586. It's been running ok for a few weeks. I noticed this morning numerous WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors errors in cache.log. Googling didn't come up with anything definitive. I did find a couple of ML messages about editing a header file in squid and recompiling but I hesitate to embark upon that adventure without knowing for sure that it is really related to my problem. Does anyone have any experience with this problem or know what that error refers to? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo Lansing School District Lansing, MI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [squid-users] running out of file descriptors
Kwan Lowe wrote: On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:42, Mike Rambo wrote: We're running squid-2.4.STABLE7-2mdk on Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin) for i586. It's been running ok for a few weeks. I noticed this morning numerous WARNING! Your cache is running out of filedescriptors errors in cache.log. Do you know if this is an application limit or one in the Linux kernel? Unfortunately no. What does your /proc/sys/fs/file-max value show? Are you approaching this value? [EMAIL PROTECTED] mrambo]# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 8192 Sorry, I don't know how to check whether I'm using them all up. Also, try doing a 'ulimit -a' from the squid user account and check if the 'open files' value is small. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# ulimit -a open files(-n) 1024 I don't appear to be able to use ulimit to increase this value (as user squid anyway) because of insufficient permissions. Plus I've found some stuff in the squid FAQ that indicates squid won't pick it up without a recompile anyway. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Brainstorm - add user script in Samba-LDAP
Jim C wrote: add user script = /usr/share/samba/scripts/smbldap-useradd.pl -w -d /dev/null -g Machines -s /bin/false %u The Machines group does exist doesn't it (not that I would know anything about that mistake personally ;-)? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Syncing Handspring Visor Deluxe?!
Rob Blomquist wrote: I am having a problem consistantly syncing my visor using KPilot/JPilot and anything else. Basically, I have attempted to follow every step to perfection, and I will sync 1 out of 20 times attempting, but I keep failing. I can't imagine that there is no one else with these problems, and I am curious how they can be solved. FWIW, here is how I got my Visor Platinum to work w/mdk 8.1. I had sent these steps to someone else who was having problems at that time - I'll jut quote the steps here that I sent to him. Note that the first step listed is crucial. Have you tried pushing the sync button on the cradle before starting the sync process on your computer? It looks like you might be using devfs(?). That has proven troublesome here. Also, I have only gotten jpilot to work reliably and the gnome-pilot gnome-pilot-conduits settings have seemed pretty much irrelevant. On my Mandrake 8.1 laptop I ended up disabling devfs and manually loading the drivers at boot time to get my HandSpring to work consistently. Here is how my box is configured: /etc/sysconfig/usb # -*- Mode: sh -*- snip USB=yes snip VISOR=yes /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. snip # load usb visor modules usbcore usb-uhci usbserial visor (Adjust for usb-uhci/usb-ohci on the line above as needed for your usb chipset.) If you _do_ use devfs you may want to check the following. I never got devfs to work but was told by more than one person that these entries were needed. OTOH, they already existed on my system and it didn't seem to make a difference. /etc/devfsd.conf should contain the lines: REGISTERusb/tts/[13579] EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/visor.script add $devpath UNREGISTER usb/tts/[13579] EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/visor.script del $devpath Note that the above is only two lines. One begins with REGISTER, the other with UNREGISTER. I also had to create nodes at boot time back when I had devfs enabled. Here is the script I used then: #! /bin/sh # Create usb device nodes. mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 c 188 1 snip 2-14) mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB15 c 188 15 chmod 0666 /dev/usb/ttyUSB* ln -f -s /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot (note that there are 16 nodes (0 through 15), I snipped some for brevity.) Hope that something here helps... I have always found devfs unreliable - probably others have too and is why it's apparently undergoing (or at least was undergoing) intense dismemberment by Al Viro and others for the upcoming 2.6 kernel. I'm running fairly old jpilot (0.99.1-0.3mdk) and pilot-link (0.9.5-3mdk) packages too so I'd think newer versions would probably only improve support. Don't know what effect newer versions may have on the steps needed to make it work though. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DHCP and DNS interaction
Matthew O. Persico wrote: I've read the DNS Howto and I've installed the bind and caching server RPMS. What I do not understand is how DNS works with DHCP? In short, I have a DHCP server running on an Linksys Router. My XP boxes all figure out what their names are over netbios and the Linux box is running smbd and nmbd so it broadcasts its name to the XP boxes. However, for the Linux box to be able to get to the XP boxes by name, the local DNS server has to somehow ask the DHCP server what's going on, yes? Does anyone have a pointer to a doc that explains that interaction? http://www.isc.org I'd suggest starting with these folks. Dynamic DNS sounds like what you're looking for. I guess it took me a couple of hours to figure it out the first time but it really isn't all that complicated. Also, it isn't so much that DNS works with DHCP but rather, DHCP can be set up to update DNS so long as DNS is set up to receive updates from DHCP. There are rules set up for allowing your DHCP daemon to update the DNS server with each IP address it leases (and removing those entries when they expire). It's all pretty slick and works very well. I have set it up on probably a dozen systems now. If you used the ISC Bind (you probably do) and DHCP (you don't) packages I could probably set you with some template files I always use - makes it so I don't have to memorize everything. Maybe this would make a good addition to a howto somewhere... The fly I see in this ointment is in regard to the fact that your linksys router is doing DHCP on your network. You'd have to determine whether the linksys can be configured to do the updates. If it can't, you're pretty much stuck unless you're willing to take the DHCP services off the linksys and put them elsewhere (like on the same box that runs DNS). For more info you can also look at some man pages - best info of these two is in ISC's dhcpd.conf man page. man named.conf (requires the named (Bind) packages) look for allow-update man dhcpd.conf (requires ISC dhcpd package) whole section on dynamic dns Hope this helps. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dhcp incomplete on mandrake??
Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am using DHCP on my home network. The DHCP server is my Linksys wireless router. I have XPPro (ethernet), XPHome (wireless ethernet) and Mandrake 9.0 (ethernet) on the boxes. DHCP assigns addresses to all boxes. I can ping all boxes by ip addresses from all boxes. I can ping all boxes by name from the XP boxes. When I ping by name on Mandrake, I get unknown host. I do not have any DNS servers running or any hosts files configured. ^ Thus the inability to resolve host names. DHCP is only half the story - DNS is the other half. Were you to run DHCP on your *nix box you could make the DNS updating automatic. You may be able to have your linksys router update a DNS server too, I don't know. That's something you'd have to look at the linksys docs to determine. Why does the Gates-ware figure out the names, but Linux does not? What other information can I provide to be helpful? Windows has it's own methods for doing almost everything - almost never efficient but usually at least minimally functional - that usually work quite apart from the normal worlds way of doing things. As someone else mentioned, it is probably using broadcasts and may well be using protocols apart from TCP/IP to accomplish this. Micro$ofts use of broadcasts burns up significant amounts of bandwidth but also allows their systems to function without proper name servers. Dynamic DNS is really the way to do this. hosts files are fine right up until you don't happen to get the same IP address from your DHCP server at which time you'll find name resolution broken again. Hope this clarifies... -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dhcpd.conf of woe
Jason Guidry wrote:
dhcpd keeps complaing that I have not made a subnet declaration for
my the
NIC connected to the modem (eth1). I'm obviously not serving connections
from this interface, and it isn't listed in dhcpd.interfaces. how do I make
a declaration for this interface? is DHCP _really_ the easiest way to go
about sharing my connection?
--my
dhcpd.conf-
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option domain-name home.net;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.3, 192.168.1.5;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
range 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.127;
}
#wireless net
subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 10.0.0.1;
option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255;
range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.127;
}
There are two ways to approach this...
1) Start dhcpd specifying the interface(s) you want it to work with on
the command line - it will ignore all others.
dhcpd -q eth0
In this example -q is quiet and dhcpd monitors only eth0.
2) Put an empty subnet declaration for your other network - no range or
other statements in that subnet declaration. This method will allow the
normal dhcpd startup scripts to work unmodified and has the benefit that
if your network changes later you only update dhcpd.conf and go - you
won't have to remember to also change the startup script.
subnet 10.74.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
}
This declares a subnet but with no range dhcpd will not respond to
requests yet your default startup scripts will work ok.
Hope this helps.
--
Mike Rambo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dhcpd.conf of woe
Jason Guidry wrote:
dhcpd keeps complaing that I have not made a subnet declaration for
my the
NIC connected to the modem (eth1). I'm obviously not serving connections
from this interface, and it isn't listed in dhcpd.interfaces. how do I make
a declaration for this interface? is DHCP _really_ the easiest way to go
about sharing my connection?
--my
dhcpd.conf-
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option domain-name home.net;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.3, 192.168.1.5;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
range 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.127;
}
#wireless net
subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 10.0.0.1;
option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255;
range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.127;
}
There are two ways to approach this...
1) Start dhcpd specifying the interface(s) you want it to work with on
the command line - it will ignore all others.
dhcpd -q eth0
In this example -q is quiet and dhcpd monitors only eth0.
2) Put an empty subnet declaration for your other network - no range or
other statements in that subnet declaration. This method will allow the
normal dhcpd startup scripts to work unmodified and has the benefit that
if your network changes later you only update dhcpd.conf and go - you
won't have to remember to also change the startup script.
subnet 10.74.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
}
This declares a subnet but with no range dhcpd will not respond to
requests yet your default startup scripts will work ok.
Hope this helps.
--
Mike Rambo
[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
Re: [expert] dhcpd.conf of woe
Jason Guidry wrote:
dhcpd keeps complaing that I have not made a subnet declaration for
my the
NIC connected to the modem (eth1). I'm obviously not serving connections
from this interface, and it isn't listed in dhcpd.interfaces. how do I make
a declaration for this interface? is DHCP _really_ the easiest way to go
about sharing my connection?
--my
dhcpd.conf-
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option domain-name home.net;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.3, 192.168.1.5;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
range 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.127;
}
#wireless net
subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 10.0.0.1;
option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255;
range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.127;
}
There are two ways to approach this...
1) Start dhcpd specifying the interface(s) you want it to work with on
the command line - it will ignore all others.
dhcpd -q eth0
In this example -q is quiet and dhcpd monitors only eth0.
2) Put an empty subnet declaration for your other network - no range or
other statements in that subnet declaration. This method will allow the
normal dhcpd startup scripts to work unmodified and has the benefit that
if your network changes later you only update dhcpd.conf and go - you
won't have to remember to also change the startup script.
subnet 10.74.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
}
This declares a subnet but with no range dhcpd will not respond to
requests yet your default startup scripts will work ok.
Hope this helps.
--
Mike Rambo
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Re: [expert] want no KDE on start up
J Herzfeld wrote: My system (8.2) brings up KDE on boot up. I'd rather it would stop at the console and not start up KDE or Gnome or anything. Edit the file /etc/inittab [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ more /etc/inittab # # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up # the system in a certain run-level. # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes # # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:5:initdefault: snip change it to id:3:initdefault: and you'll boot to CLI -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT - Groupware solution?
David Rankin wrote: Guys and Gals, I need your help figuring out if a groupware solution exists that will solve calendaring and address book needs at my office. My current setup is: Server: LM 7.2 Clients: (4) Win9X ME What I need is an application that will allow the Win machines to access a common calendar and address book for the firm on the server. I just need to be able to have the secretary and others add entries to the calendar or address book in a groupware fashion. Sort of like exchange and outlook. (not an option - hate both of them) The only catch is that I want the data on the Linux box to be able to be accessed from the Win workstations. It would really be great if you could sync a palm with the information as well. Evolution shows promise, but it doesn't have any sort of interface for the Win boxes that I know of. Mysql or postgress shows promise, but I haven't found a clean Win front end that looks like it would work. Right now we are simply using palm desktop on the secretary's machine with the common files stored on the server. This isn't a long term solution. I have also tried using an outlook folder in similar fashion with similar results. Does anyone know of any other projects that are underway that might offer a solution. What are you thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax Perhaps http://www.moregroupware.org - works from a browser... -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X login scripting
FWIW - I was wrong, kdm was running but the netstat thing just doesn't show anything. I finally figured out how force gdm to start by editing a line in /etc/X11/prefdm. Now the scripting in Pre/PostSession to mount shares based up who log's in works fine. That file may not be the best way to get gdm running but I didn't find any other obvious ways and this one worked... Mike Rambo wrote: I have been wanting to set up some login scripting to mount per user server shares from NT4 or Samba servers. After doing some reading today on a different topic I ran across some information that said that /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession and /etc/X11/gdm/PostSession might be used to accomplish this task - except it doesn't. I actually cannot find any sign that a display manager, gdm or otherwise, is even running on my Mandrake 8.1 system. netstat -ap | grep dm doesn't show anything regardless whether I start a gnome or kde session. This Pre/PostSession stuff appears to be a place where scripts using the $HOME and $USER variables can accomplish what I'm trying to do on a Redhat 7.x system. Is there any ONE location where scripting can mount shares for any number of users on a Mandrake system? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] X login scripting
I have been wanting to set up some login scripting to mount per user server shares from NT4 or Samba servers. After doing some reading today on a different topic I ran across some information that said that /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession and /etc/X11/gdm/PostSession might be used to accomplish this task - except it doesn't. I actually cannot find any sign that a display manager, gdm or otherwise, is even running on my Mandrake 8.1 system. netstat -ap | grep dm doesn't show anything regardless whether I start a gnome or kde session. This Pre/PostSession stuff appears to be a place where scripts using the $HOME and $USER variables can accomplish what I'm trying to do on a Redhat 7.x system. Is there any ONE location where scripting can mount shares for any number of users on a Mandrake system? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Praedor Tempus wrote: I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by hostname? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? Start quote of previous message on this topic Praedor Tempus wrote: On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:03 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I am hesitant to try this again...I run postfix on my system as my mta. I own the ravenhome.net domain. I want my postfix to identify outgoing snip I do own ravenhome.net and have an account with dydns. Works well. What concerns me is naming my system ravenhome.net and having no problems when I am not connected. In the past, I have edited my hosts file to change localhost entries to ravenhome entries and it borked my system. It has been Did you really _change_ the localhost entries? If so, that is a no-no. You _must_ have the localhost entries intact. You just _add_ entries for the additional IP/name combinations you need. [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ more /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.12mrambo.imcdom.local mrambo [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ a while so I don't recall the details but is this not really all I should HAVE to do to change my hostname? Simply replace the localhost.localdomain entry with ravenhome.net? This occured to me after I sent the previous mail unfortunately... *The answer to your question is below* Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set anything. *The answer to your question is above* Sorry if I've misunderstood or just stated the obvious but if you get some of this wrong it really will mess things up. In particular, localhost is required for many system processes. Without that /etc/hosts entry things will definitely go wrong... more snippage End quote Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
daRcmaTTeR wrote: Mike, apart from sheery confusion your point in that post was...what? -- On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Mike Rambo wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by hostname? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? Unless I missed the point, Praedor asked this question If it isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it? regarding what file to edit to change THE hostname of his box. My answer included the following which was itself part of an earlier question Praedor asked. DrJung (I think - I've already deleted the mail so I can't be sure) expressed the idea that questions were being answered by folks on the list but that Praedor might be missing some of the steps along the way in trying to implement the solution. I was trying to emphasize the answer to the question that was asked. Apparently I didn't do too well... *The answer to your question is below* Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts To clarify, if one wants to edit a file to change the hostname, /etc/sysconfig/network is the file to edit. relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set anything. *The answer to your question is above* Hoping to have done better this time ... ;-) -- Mike Start quote of previous message on this topic Praedor Tempus wrote: On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:03 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I am hesitant to try this again...I run postfix on my system as my mta. I own the ravenhome.net domain. I want my postfix to identify outgoing snip I do own ravenhome.net and have an account with dydns. Works well. What concerns me is naming my system ravenhome.net and having no problems when I am not connected. In the past, I have edited my hosts file to change localhost entries to ravenhome entries and it borked my system. It has been Did you really _change_ the localhost entries? If so, that is a no-no. You _must_ have the localhost entries intact. You just _add_ entries for the additional IP/name combinations you need. [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ more /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.12mrambo.imcdom.local mrambo [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ a while so I don't recall the details but is this not really all I should HAVE to do to change my hostname? Simply replace the localhost.localdomain entry with ravenhome.net? This occured to me after I sent the previous mail unfortunately... *The answer to your question is below* Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set anything. *The answer to your question is above* Sorry if I've misunderstood or just stated the obvious but if you get some of this wrong it really will mess things up. In particular, localhost is required for many system processes. Without that /etc/hosts entry things will definitely go wrong... more snippage End quote Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix
Praedor Tempus wrote: On Thursday 20 June 2002 07:26 am, Mike Rambo wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:03 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I am hesitant to try this again...I run postfix on my system as my mta. I own the ravenhome.net domain. I want my postfix to identify outgoing [...] Did you really _change_ the localhost entries? If so, that is a no-no. You _must_ have the localhost entries intact. You just _add_ entries for the additional IP/name combinations you need. I tried actually altering the localhost entries (long time ago) and also adding entries. Must I assign an extra IP like 10.0.0.x or 192.168.1.x for this to work? Thing is, I have a dynamic IP via dialup. The interface is a linmodem (/dev/tts/LT0). Would I have to go into, say, linuxconf and manually assign an address to this interface? But then, I use dhcp to get the address. How is this supposed to work in a case like mine? [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ more /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.12mrambo.imcdom.local mrambo [...] Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set anything. [...] I have altered the hostname once before but, of course, it doesn't do what I really want (to make postfix send email from ravenhome.net instead of localhost.localdomain). What I need to know, I suppose, is how do I get postfix to do this given that I really can't add an entry to /etc/hosts...what IP would I use? Above you use the 192.168.1- based address but how can I assign something like this to my linmodem/winmodem which is on sometimes, off most of the time, and actually acquires a different IP every dialup? praedor Here is a script you can run when the ppp interface is brought up. A good place to put it might be /etc/ppp/ip-up.local (this file probably won't exist but /etc/ppp/ip-up will automatically run it if you create it). AFAIK it is ok to relate a hostname to more than one IP address. You may need this if your server (overlord.ravenhome.net) has multiple interfaces (like an ethernet and a modem). You'll want that name associated with both IP addresses. You will need to edit several things to suit your system. Among them are DYNIF for whatever interface your modem comes up on if ppp0 is wrong, DYNHOST/DYNDOMAIN if I didn't get them right from one of your emails, get the CFILE entry right when you're ready to go live with the script (I have it set to test for - well - testing), and the static entries for localhost and any ethernet cards you might have down where it says to Manually add #!/bin/sh # # Create new /etc/hosts file with correct info on dynamically assigned addresses. # # What interface do we want dynamic information for? DYNIF=ppp0 DYNHOST=overlord DYNDOMAIN=ravenhome.net # File name we wish to update? #CFILE=/etc/hosts CFILE=test # Get the current IP address for interface with dynamically assigned address. DYNIP=`/sbin/ifconfig $DYNIF | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1` # Create new file - first remove the old one. rm -f $CFILE # Manually add the static entries for localhost and static IP addresses here. echo '127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost' $CFILE echo '192.168.0.1 myhost.mydomain.local myhost' $CFILE # Now the dynamic interface entry. echo $DYNIP''$DYNHOST'.'$DYNDOMAIN' '$DYNHOST $CFILE Although it is evil to attach potential executables to emails I'm going to do so in this case because email clients also tend to be evil when doing things with line wrap and such. Be sure to give the file execute permissions and you should be all set. Hope this helps. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/sh # # Create new /etc/hosts file with correct info on dynamically assigned addresses. # # What interface do we want dynamic information for? DYNIF=eth0 DYNHOST=overlord DYNDOMAIN=ravenhome.net # File name we wish to update? #CFILE=/etc/hosts CFILE=test # Get the current IP address for interface with dynamically assigned address. DYNIP=`/sbin/ifconfig $DYNIF | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1` # Create new file - first remove the old one. rm -f $CFILE # Manually add the static entries for localhost and static IP addresses here. echo '127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost' $CFILE echo '192.168.0.1 myhost.mydomain.local myhost' $CFILE # Now the dynamic interface entry. echo $DYNIP''$DYNHOST'.'$DYNDOMAIN' '$DYNHOST $CFILE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci
Running setup didn't help unfortunately. What I've finally had to do to get even partial operation is to install a card into the AGP slot in this box. That will finally fully disable the integrated video. So now instead of a Radeon 7000PCI and integrated s3 trio3d I have the Radeon and an ATI RagePRo AGP card. XFdrake (by way of setup or from CLI - makes no difference) will still not configure the Radeon to work - either by itself or as part of multihead setup. One difference though, is that now it at least offers to do a multihead setup. It didn't do that with the s3. OTOH, if I run XFree86 -configure I do get a configuration that at least starts up. I can log in and KDE seems to work ok - haven't tried Gnome yet. But the resolution and color depth stinks. I can't tell for sure what color depth is used but I think it's 8 bit (I see error messages complaining about using unsupported 8 bit when X exits). Resolution looks like 640x480. I've tried copying lines to force color depth and resolution higher but I only go back to scrambled video and/or lockups when I do. Does anyone know if Mandrake customized version of XFree86 4.20 in the 8.2 release or is it the standard stuff from the XFree86 project? How do I figure out what drivers are used and what drivers are available - seems like I saw a thread a while back that said there was more than one Radeon driver w/8.2 but I can't find it now. Perhaps someone could email me (probably off list?) some working configs for Radeon 7000 PCI cards? Might I fare better getting the standard package from the XFree86 project? Thanks Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 06 May 2002 15:10:58 -0400 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an IBM box (300PL) that has integrated S3 video. My son wants better video so I've obtained a 64MB Radeon 7000 PCI video card. I can't use an AGP card even though the machine has an AGP slot because of the way the case is built - one of those proprietary designs that only a few cards will properly fit. I was surprised to find that the hardware drake didn't detect any hardware changes when the box started up. I finally have the box booting to init 3. When I run XFdrake it finds both video cards now (new Radeon 7000 and the original integrated video) but I cannot find a configuration that'll work. I really only want the Radeon card set up so that's the one I select. It loaded XFree 4.20 the first time I selected the Radeon card but the system displays a scrambled screen and freezes when I try to test the configuration. I skipped the test one time and tried to 'startx' but that also displayed garbage and froze. The first place to start is your system BIOS, somewhere within it you should find an option allowing you to disable the onboard video. Afterwards rerun the Mandrake installation as Expert/Upgrade. You need not select any pkgs, but if they are not already installed you will need Mesa and libMesa for openGL with the Radeon. You can skip the network and printer configuration. When you get to the X installation it may still see the S3 but allow you to choose the Radeon. You will want 4.20 with 3d hardware accel. The whole process should take no more than around 15min. Rerunning the installation rather than attempting to use XFdrake will ensure that all the necessary pkgs are installed and that /etc/XF86Config-4 is properly written. I have 2 Radeons and both work well. Charles Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci
Running setup didn't help unfortunately. What I've finally had to do to get even partial operation is to install a card into the AGP slot in this box. That will finally fully disable the integrated video. So now instead of a Radeon 7000PCI and integrated s3 trio3d I have the Radeon and an ATI RagePRo AGP card. XFdrake (by way of setup or from CLI - makes no difference) will still not configure the Radeon to work - either by itself or as part of multihead setup. One difference though, is that now it at least offers to do a multihead setup. It didn't do that with the s3. OTOH, if I run XFree86 -configure I do get a configuration that at least starts up. I can log in and KDE seems to work ok - haven't tried Gnome yet. But the resolution and color depth stinks. I can't tell for sure what color depth is used but I think it's 8 bit (I see error messages complaining about using unsupported 8 bit when X exits). Resolution looks like 640x480. I've tried copying lines to force color depth and resolution higher but I only go back to scrambled video and/or lockups when I do. Does anyone know if Mandrake customized version of XFree86 4.20 in the 8.2 release or is it the standard stuff from the XFree86 project? How do I figure out what drivers are used and what drivers are available - seems like I saw a thread a while back that said there was more than one Radeon driver w/8.2 but I can't find it now. Perhaps someone could email me (probably off list?) some working configs for Radeon 7000 PCI cards? Might I fare better getting the standard package from the XFree86 project? Thanks Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 06 May 2002 15:10:58 -0400 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an IBM box (300PL) that has integrated S3 video. My son wants better video so I've obtained a 64MB Radeon 7000 PCI video card. I can't use an AGP card even though the machine has an AGP slot because of the way the case is built - one of those proprietary designs that only a few cards will properly fit. I was surprised to find that the hardware drake didn't detect any hardware changes when the box started up. I finally have the box booting to init 3. When I run XFdrake it finds both video cards now (new Radeon 7000 and the original integrated video) but I cannot find a configuration that'll work. I really only want the Radeon card set up so that's the one I select. It loaded XFree 4.20 the first time I selected the Radeon card but the system displays a scrambled screen and freezes when I try to test the configuration. I skipped the test one time and tried to 'startx' but that also displayed garbage and froze. The first place to start is your system BIOS, somewhere within it you should find an option allowing you to disable the onboard video. Afterwards rerun the Mandrake installation as Expert/Upgrade. You need not select any pkgs, but if they are not already installed you will need Mesa and libMesa for openGL with the Radeon. You can skip the network and printer configuration. When you get to the X installation it may still see the S3 but allow you to choose the Radeon. You will want 4.20 with 3d hardware accel. The whole process should take no more than around 15min. Rerunning the installation rather than attempting to use XFdrake will ensure that all the necessary pkgs are installed and that /etc/XF86Config-4 is properly written. I have 2 Radeons and both work well. Charles Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci
Thanks for all the responses. I'll have to try some of this after work tonight. The common theme though, seems to be to disable the built in video in CMOS/BIOS. That was one of the first things I looked for. Unfortunately it can't be done. There is an option in CMOS only for choosing whether the primary video is AGP or PCI - no disable is present. I suspect the built in video would be automatically disabled if I had been able to find an AGP card that would fit the case. As I wasn't able to do that, I had to use a PCI card and it doesn't disable the built in video - at least not entirely. I found that I had to set the CMOS primary video setting for PCI in order for the Radeon card to even be acknowledged by the system. When I did, the CMOS updated itself to reflect that the built in video card now has 0MB of ram but doesn't appear to have actually disabled it. This is a dual boot box. When it starts up I always hear a POST error (beeps) that indicate video card failure, I presume because of the 0MB video ram thing, but then it proceeds to boot into windows fine. The Radeon card is ok there but the built in video shows that it failed to start in the windows device manager. Since there doesn't seem to be a way to totally disable the integrated video on this mobo I think what I need to do is set up X for dual heads and then disable (or ignore) one of them but I don't know how to do that. a) does this sound reasonable? b) how the heck does one do that? Thanks. Mike Charles A Edwards wrote: The first place to start is your system BIOS, somewhere within it you should find an option allowing you to disable the onboard video. Afterwards rerun the Mandrake installation as Expert/Upgrade. You need not select any pkgs, but if they are not already installed you will need Mesa and libMesa for openGL with the Radeon. You can skip the network and printer configuration. When you get to the X installation it may still see the S3 but allow you to choose the Radeon. You will want 4.20 with 3d hardware accel. The whole process should take no more than around 15min. Rerunning the installation rather than attempting to use XFdrake will ensure that all the necessary pkgs are installed and that /etc/XF86Config-4 is properly written. I have 2 Radeons and both work well. James wrote: It may be working like the integrated sound on my mobo I had to go into BIOS and turn off the sound TWICE (in too different locations that's why the caps) in order to get it working. Even though Linux recognized the sound card it wouldn't let my SBLive! work until I did this. Now here is the funny part. Even though sound is turned off in BIOS both cards work. Just that when it's turned on the pci one doesn't. Also look to see if it's set up for AGP video only. This may also be the case. FemmeFatale wrote: Check bios, turn off on-board video. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: On Mon, 06 May 2002 15:10:58 -0400 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an IBM box (300PL) that has integrated S3 video. My son wants better video so I've obtained a 64MB Radeon 7000 PCI video card. I can't use an AGP card even though the machine has an AGP slot because of the way the case is built - one of those proprietary designs that only a few cards will properly fit. I was surprised to find that the hardware drake didn't detect any hardware changes when the box started up. I finally have the box booting to init 3. When I run XFdrake it finds both video cards now (new Radeon 7000 and the original integrated video) but I cannot find a configuration that'll work. I really only want the Radeon card set up so that's the one I select. It loaded XFree 4.20 the first time I selected the Radeon card but the system displays a scrambled screen and freezes when I try to test the configuration. I skipped the test one time and tried to 'startx' but that also displayed garbage and froze. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci
Thanks for all the responses. I'll have to try some of this after work tonight. The common theme though, seems to be to disable the built in video in CMOS/BIOS. That was one of the first things I looked for. Unfortunately it can't be done. There is an option in CMOS only for choosing whether the primary video is AGP or PCI - no disable is present. I suspect the built in video would be automatically disabled if I had been able to find an AGP card that would fit the case. As I wasn't able to do that, I had to use a PCI card and it doesn't disable the built in video - at least not entirely. I found that I had to set the CMOS primary video setting for PCI in order for the Radeon card to even be acknowledged by the system. When I did, the CMOS updated itself to reflect that the built in video card now has 0MB of ram but doesn't appear to have actually disabled it. This is a dual boot box. When it starts up I always hear a POST error (beeps) that indicate video card failure, I presume because of the 0MB video ram thing, but then it proceeds to boot into windows fine. The Radeon card is ok there but the built in video shows that it failed to start in the windows device manager. Since there doesn't seem to be a way to totally disable the integrated video on this mobo I think what I need to do is set up X for dual heads and then disable (or ignore) one of them but I don't know how to do that. a) does this sound reasonable? b) how the heck does one do that? Thanks. Mike Charles A Edwards wrote: The first place to start is your system BIOS, somewhere within it you should find an option allowing you to disable the onboard video. Afterwards rerun the Mandrake installation as Expert/Upgrade. You need not select any pkgs, but if they are not already installed you will need Mesa and libMesa for openGL with the Radeon. You can skip the network and printer configuration. When you get to the X installation it may still see the S3 but allow you to choose the Radeon. You will want 4.20 with 3d hardware accel. The whole process should take no more than around 15min. Rerunning the installation rather than attempting to use XFdrake will ensure that all the necessary pkgs are installed and that /etc/XF86Config-4 is properly written. I have 2 Radeons and both work well. James wrote: It may be working like the integrated sound on my mobo I had to go into BIOS and turn off the sound TWICE (in too different locations that's why the caps) in order to get it working. Even though Linux recognized the sound card it wouldn't let my SBLive! work until I did this. Now here is the funny part. Even though sound is turned off in BIOS both cards work. Just that when it's turned on the pci one doesn't. Also look to see if it's set up for AGP video only. This may also be the case. FemmeFatale wrote: Check bios, turn off on-board video. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: On Mon, 06 May 2002 15:10:58 -0400 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an IBM box (300PL) that has integrated S3 video. My son wants better video so I've obtained a 64MB Radeon 7000 PCI video card. I can't use an AGP card even though the machine has an AGP slot because of the way the case is built - one of those proprietary designs that only a few cards will properly fit. I was surprised to find that the hardware drake didn't detect any hardware changes when the box started up. I finally have the box booting to init 3. When I run XFdrake it finds both video cards now (new Radeon 7000 and the original integrated video) but I cannot find a configuration that'll work. I really only want the Radeon card set up so that's the one I select. It loaded XFree 4.20 the first time I selected the Radeon card but the system displays a scrambled screen and freezes when I try to test the configuration. I skipped the test one time and tried to 'startx' but that also displayed garbage and froze. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mdk8.2 and radeon 7000 pci
I have an IBM box (300PL) that has integrated S3 video. My son wants better video so I've obtained a 64MB Radeon 7000 PCI video card. I can't use an AGP card even though the machine has an AGP slot because of the way the case is built - one of those proprietary designs that only a few cards will properly fit. I was surprised to find that the hardware drake didn't detect any hardware changes when the box started up. I finally have the box booting to init 3. When I run XFdrake it finds both video cards now (new Radeon 7000 and the original integrated video) but I cannot find a configuration that'll work. I really only want the Radeon card set up so that's the one I select. It loaded XFree 4.20 the first time I selected the Radeon card but the system displays a scrambled screen and freezes when I try to test the configuration. I skipped the test one time and tried to 'startx' but that also displayed garbage and froze. Can anyone offer advice on how to get this to work? Thanks... -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
Jason Guidry wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: Hey, Before this thread goes away...where does the image come from. I tried asking a similar question a while back...I wanted to boot several mini-distros off the same disk. any insight on that? To which image do you refer? The floppy image is created using dd (dd if=/dev/fd0 of=whatever.you.want.img) from whatever boot floppy I happen to need at the time. The hard drive images are created by setting up one computer how we want it and using ImageCast to create the image. Norton Ghost will do the same thing. You have to keep in mind though the we're just working with Windows boxes in classrooms and offices. I don't know if either ImageCast or Norton Ghost support any of the various Linux partitions (which is what it sounds like you want to do). No, not quite (i don't think). I want to somehow, through ISOLINUX or whatever, multi boot a cd with several mini-*nix distros designed to run off a floppy or cd or something. for example, the ideal would be an aurora-like boot screen with the following options coyote astaro peanut closedBSD linux_router_project and there are more floppy distros. I thought it would be cool to have all of these on one CD as a convenience. is this even possible? Ahh.. - I think I get it. You want to be able to choose one of several floppy boot images on a CD, on the fly, and boot from any one of them? ICBW but I don't think that's possible. Reading the eltorito spec leaves me with the impression that things are of very specific sizes and in very specific places on a CD to make it bootable. You'd only be able have one actual boot image on the CD. Whether or not you could then hack that image to continue booting in any one of several different paths I don't know. While there are probably those out there that could pull that kind of programming off, I'm not one of them. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
Jason Guidry wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: jipe wrote: On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:23:06 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a bootable CD these days. i assume that the files and directories from which to create your iso image are in a directory named to_be_burnt. and you're creating an iso image in ~/burn first: create iso image like this cd to_be_burnt mkisofs -v -r -T -J -pad -b boot_image -c boot.catalog -o ~/burn/image.iso . then cd ~/burn cdrecord -v speed=? dev=?,?,? image.iso replace ? with appropriate values boot_image is the image from which the cd will boot. it has to be in the cd! give the path from where you're creating iso. bye jipe Hey, Before this thread goes away...where does the image come from. I tried asking a similar question a while back...I wanted to boot several mini-distros off the same disk. any insight on that? To which image do you refer? The floppy image is created using dd (dd if=/dev/fd0 of=whatever.you.want.img) from whatever boot floppy I happen to need at the time. The hard drive images are created by setting up one computer how we want it and using ImageCast to create the image. Norton Ghost will do the same thing. You have to keep in mind though the we're just working with Windows boxes in classrooms and offices. I don't know if either ImageCast or Norton Ghost support any of the various Linux partitions (which is what it sounds like you want to do). -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] bootable CD
Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a bootable CD these days. I'm need to make a bootable restore CD for our public safety department. I want to put their computer hard drive image on it and have it boot from the CD and start imaging automatically. I have the hard drive image file. I have the boot floppy image. I can't get it all onto a CD successfully. I now have two coasters which have a perfect copy of the hard drive image file but the stinking CD's won't boot. The computer boots from other CD's just fine. I'm using a 8.1 system now and have tried xcdroast, eroaster, gcombust, and mkisofs from the CLI to no avail. All of them complain that they can't find either the boot image or the boot.catalog file. I have tried placing the floppy image everywhere I can think of and it has permissions that would allow everyone from Charles Manson to the Pope to read it. This is frustrating because my old system (7.1) with kisocd just worked by giving it a file name and location. Unfortunately kisocd is no longer supported it would appear. README.eltorito says that the boot.catalog file will be automatically created but doesn't say where. It also speaks of the boot image but doesn't say where it needs to be. Absolute paths don't find it which is totally confusing. The CD-writing howto on LDP just points to the README.eltorito file included with mkisofs. What is the magic step here to make this work? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] bootable CD
jipe wrote: On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:23:06 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm just dense but how the heck do you create a bootable CD these days. i assume that the files and directories from which to create your iso image are in a directory named to_be_burnt. and you're creating an iso image in ~/burn first: create iso image like this cd to_be_burnt mkisofs -v -r -T -J -pad -b boot_image -c boot.catalog -o ~/burn/image.iso . then cd ~/burn cdrecord -v speed=? dev=?,?,? image.iso replace ? with appropriate values boot_image is the image from which the cd will boot. it has to be in the cd! give the path from where you're creating iso. bye jipe Yep. I had just figured this out when your email came through. I had tried to set it aside for awhile until someone told me what I was doing wrong but it drove me crazy with it sitting on the floor so I had to pull it back up and figure it out. Basically the key was that the boot image has to be in the same directory as the rest of the stuff that was recorded on the CD. I don't believe I had to do this on my old 7.1 box with kisocd - that package must have handled all that stuff in the background. In any case, it's all working now. Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pppd shutting down
I have a USR model 5686 external 56k modem (v90 though I see it could be upgraded to v92). Also, I actually have more of a problem with pppd becoming unresponsive (not dialing up the ISP when packets are available) than outright dying - dying has only happened 3 or 4 times. It's become unresponsive many times. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:40:45 -0500 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: do you have a 3com or US robotics modems? On Monday 25 March 2002 09:05, you wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: I have a machine set up at to facilitate sharing of a dial up connection for my home network. I am finding that pppd will suddenly die completely or sometimes just become unresponsive requiring a restart. The box is an older one still running mdk7.1 (yeah I know it's older but then so is the box). I don't see anything in the logs to indicate any problems. Are there any experts out there that can comment on why this might be happening? Thanks. Mike, I've noticed this also as I have my Mandrake box setup the same way. I've been told it's akin to the TCP stack filling up in a way. I'm not sure I understand this yet, but I've also heard that the firewall can get clogged up. seems rather bazarre to me. I've found that this occurs the most with my machine after it's been up more than three days and like yours requires an interface restart. I've been thinking about shortening the interval between crond ppp0 restarts to ensure a free flowing connection. Hi Ed, I don't know about Mike but that is what I have. A 3com US Robotics 56K modem. You've got my curiosity peeked now. Why do you ask? -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 - 7:05am up 12 days, 8:45, 3 users, load average: 0.64, 0.48, 0.28 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pppd shutting down
I'll have to check when I get home before I can be sure but I think this has already been done - I remember going through something with the system logs quite some time ago. This system also has all the updates applied except those that may have been made available in the last couple months if any (I think I last checked for new updates in late January). -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] civileme wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: I have a machine set up at to facilitate sharing of a dial up connection for my home network. I am finding that pppd will suddenly die completely or sometimes just become unresponsive requiring a restart. The box is an older one still running mdk7.1 (yeah I know it's older but then so is the box). I don't see anything in the logs to indicate any problems. Are there any experts out there that can comment on why this might be happening? Thanks. Mike, I've noticed this also as I have my Mandrake box setup the same way. I've been told it's akin to the TCP stack filling up in a way. I'm not sure I understand this yet, but I've also heard that the firewall can get clogged up. seems rather bazarre to me. I've found that this occurs the most with my machine after it's been up more than three days and like yours requires an interface restart. I've been thinking about shortening the interval between crond ppp0 restarts to ensure a free flowing connection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hmmm, /var/log/messages should be checked for 7.1. If you see a lot of log files with never-ending names, you need to look at the errata, and make the change (one character) in the script file for logrotate. If /var is part of / partition, you might be full or nearly so. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] pppd shutting down
I have a machine set up at to facilitate sharing of a dial up connection for my home network. I am finding that pppd will suddenly die completely or sometimes just become unresponsive requiring a restart. The box is an older one still running mdk7.1 (yeah I know it's older but then so is the box). I don't see anything in the logs to indicate any problems. Are there any experts out there that can comment on why this might be happening? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DHCP Server + DHCP Client
James wrote:
Mike if I understand you correctly I need to add.
default-lease-time 7200;
max-lease-time 82400;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 12.234.130.255;
option routers 12.234.130.1;
option domain-name-servers ;
option domain-name linuxpda.biz;
subnet 12.234.130.0 netmask 255.255.255.0{}
Now the question comes. What happens if the subnet I'm on from my ISP
changes? Gateway and subnet have changed twice since the @home fiasco.
James
Now to sorta answer my own question the dhcpd -q eth1 solved the problem
it starts and only looks at the internal nic. Thanks loads for the help.
James
James,
Sorry it's taken me so long to respond - I've been out.
I'll include our config file for you to look at - but you've
pretty much got it. Note the last couple of lines. If your
ISP changes the network you're on then you would have to
update this file to reflect the change. I would hope though
that there wouldn't be too many @home type messes and that
this wouldn't be needed very often. Or, you can use the
solution which you've already found by starting it at the
command line though that would appear to preclude the use of
your distributions startup scripts for the DHCP server
service.
# Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
# DHCPd Daemon Configuration File
# MHR last updated July 2001
# dlt=43200sec=12hours, mlt=259200sec=72hours
#
default-lease-time 43200;
max-lease-time 259200;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1, 207.73.196.250;
option domain-name ourdomain.local;
# wins server - hybrid type (wins - broadcast)
option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.1;
option netbios-node-type 8;
# ddns-update-style can be 'none', 'ad-hoc', or 'interim'
ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
ddns-domainname ourdomain.local;
ddns-rev-domainname in-addr.arpa;
# primary LAN - we leases addresses here
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.1.20 192.168.1.250;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
# dynamically update DNS records for the local zone
key DHCP_UPDATER {
algorithm HMAC-MD5.SIG-ALG.REG.INT;
secret qzmungedI==;
};
zone OURDOMAIN.LOCAL. {
primary 127.0.0.1;
key DHCP_UPDATER;
}
zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. {
primary 127.0.0.1;
key DHCP_UPDATER;
}
}
# our gateway LAN - we do not lease addresses here
subnet 10.8.24.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
}
Hope this helps.
--
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Re: [expert] DHCP Server + DHCP Client
James wrote:
All,
So far all the man pages and How to's I've found (linuxdoc and
linuxgazette) talk about using a DHCP server OR using DHCP with your
cable/dsl modem. What for the life of me I can't find is something that
tells me how in the blue blazes to do both. I'm on cable so that's DHCP
and working fine. I set up /etc/dhcpd.conf as follows.
#home dhcpd.conf file
default-lease-time 7200;
max-lease-time 82400;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.187.255;
option routers 192.168.187.1;
option domain-name-servers 166.90.172.7, 207.212.253.211;
option domain-name linuxpda.biz;
subnet 192.168.187.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.187.100 192.168.187.150;
}
Then when I run /etc/init.d/dchpd start (or restart) I get the error.
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:50:da:75:1a:f8/192.168.187.0
Sending on LPF/eth1/00:50:da:75:1a:f8/192.168.187.0
No subnet declaration for eth0 (12.234.130.39).
Please write a subnet declaration for the network segment to
which interface eth0 is attached.
exiting.
[FAILED]
Ok I understand that somehow I need to bind dhcp-client to eth0 (my
external nic) and dhcpd-server to my internal nic. What I can't figure
out how to do, is of course the binding. My external IP not only changes
IP number but subnet as well on many the occasion. Any ideas? I'm fresh
out. Thanks
James
The ISC DHCPd server configuration file *requires* a subnet
declaration for all networks represented on the box even if
addresses are not leased from some of them. Create an empty
subnet declaration (no range statement) for the network to
which eth0 is attached and you'll find the server daemon
will start. This will not interfere with dhcpcd on eth0 for
your cable/dsl setup because the declaration is empty -
without the range statement there is no pool of address from
which to lease. You can also, if you're worried about it,
specify on the command line when you start DHCPd that it
watch only eth1 if you want.
dhcpd -q eth1
Regards
--
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Re: [expert] firewall security
Lee Roberts wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've tried tiny firewall, bastille-firewall, and one other (can't remember the name). NONE of them block access to the UDP services no matter what I do. In InteractiveBastille, I don't enter anything for UDP service names or port numbers to allow on public interfaces but I entered 1:65535 for UDP services to block. I've posted this message previously and some replies say they don't have this problem with bastille. I'm using bastille on Mandrake 8.1 with iptables and kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk. Any suggestions other than suggesting that I learn iptables and write my own rules? Have you tried pmfirewall? My co-worker used it on his box. It was easy to set up and nmap found nothing when I ran it against the box afterward. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] black white icons
Larry Sword wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: I just built a new box to replace my mdk 7.1 workstation When it rebooted I found that the wheel mouse worked ok in most things but netscape now has only black and white icons. Maybe as a result of your monitor resolution settings. As I recall netscape will exhibit this behavior when set at low resolution of 256 color or at a higher resolution of some cards at 24 or 32 bits. Larry Thanks Larry - you called it. I had it set at 24 bits. Changing back to 15 restored the color. I'll get imwheel on this box too - makes you wonder why netscape requires it when nothing else does. Again - Thanks! -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DEVFS was usb support in Mandrake?
Mark Weaver wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:17:50 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Any idea where it all falls apart? I set up another mdk8.1 box yesterday and, after seeing your message, paid pretty close attention to what I did in getting my visor to sync with jpilot. FWIW, at this point I'm still working with the default 'out of the box' install though I will soon add all the security updates on this box. Hi Mike, here's the message I'm getting in J-Pilot when trying to hot-sync; Syncing on device /dev/visor Press the HotSync button now pi_bind Invalid argument Check your serial port and settings If you use a USB pilot press the Hotsync button before and repush the button Sync exiting with status -10 I'm not quite sure what to make of this. But the info you've posted is awesome and I really appreciate you taking the time to help scratch my brain on this one. -- daRcmaTTeR It's telling you it can't find a visor on the port at /dev/visor - this is the error I had before I shut down devfs and configured things as I indicated in previous posts. You'll also see this error if you start the sync in jpilot very much before pressing the hot sync button on the cradle. I'm at a loss for any further suggestions other than that you try to come up with another box somewhere so you can eliminate hardware problems (which is probably a long shot anyway). -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DEVFS was usb support in Mandrake?
Mark Weaver wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:04:02 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: It's telling you it can't find a visor on the port at /dev/visor - this is the error I had before I shut down devfs and configured things as I indicated in previous posts. You'll also see this error if you start the sync in jpilot very much before pressing the hot sync button on the cradle. I'm at a loss for any further suggestions other than that you try to come up with another box somewhere so you can eliminate hardware problems (which is probably a long shot anyway). -- all right...I'll go back and make sure I've got devfs disabled, but I'm almost certain I do. I placed nomount devfs in the append line of lilo conf per your instructions... yup. I've got devfs disabled in lilo.conf. I guess I'll just keep trying till it connects or gives me a some better feedback as to what's going on. thanks, -- daRcmaTTeR I don't know about nomount devfs - the line I've used is this... 6 edit /etc/lilo.conf and add append= devfs=nomount to your default linux boot entry (run lilo at the prompt to make the change take effect at next boot). An easy way you can check whether devfs is disabled is by whether there is a bunch of entries under /dev/usb. There should be a couple dozen things including ttyUSB0 through ttyUSB15 if devfs has really been disabled. If there is nothing then devfs is most likely still enabled. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DEVFS was usb support in Mandrake?
Mark Weaver wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 07:54:00 -0500 Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: In 8.1, I just added to the append line devfs=nomount reran lilo, did a complete shutdown, not restart. When the system started up, I had all my /dev/ links. My SCSI scanner works now as does CDRW, and TV card Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Hi Brian, I too have done the same thing as well as a few extra steps that involved entering the necessary module names in /etc/modules, and creating a symbolic link from /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 - /dev/visor. unfortunately while the information that Mike gave me was absolutle stellar I wasn't able to get my visor to work. I'm still not sure why. -- daRcmaTTeR Registered Linux User 182496 Mandrake 8.1 - 10:05am up 1 day, 19:48, 2 users, load average: 1.93, 1.79, 1.91 Any idea where it all falls apart? I set up another mdk8.1 box yesterday and, after seeing your message, paid pretty close attention to what I did in getting my visor to sync with jpilot. FWIW, at this point I'm still working with the default 'out of the box' install though I will soon add all the security updates on this box. To get the visor sync to work... 1 Make sure the USB service is started (check it by - /etc/rc.d/init.d/usb status) 2 edit /etc/sysconfig/usb - set visor=yes 3 edit /etc/modules - add usbcore usb-uhci (usb-uhci if Intel chipset, usb-ohci for most others) usbserial visor 4 make a symlink from /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 to /dev/visor (ln -s /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 /dev/visor) 5 informational - check /etc/modules.conf - if mdk setup found USB during install there'll probably be a line to that effect here. It'll also tell you whether you need usb-uhci or usb-ohci above. If there is nothing here make sure usb is not disabled in bios. 6 edit /etc/lilo.conf and add append= devfs=nomount to your default linux boot entry (run lilo at the prompt to make the change take effect at next boot). 7 reboot the system. 8 run jpilot - under filepreferencessettings set serial port to /dev/visor and speed to 9600 (I haven't checked whether faster speeds work). Shutdown jpilot. 9 run jpilot - put your visor in the cradle and press the hot sync button THEN click the sync button in jpilot. My Visor Platinum works every time. I also have a laptop that does have all the security updates and it works too implying that none of the updates break this in any way. Hope this helps. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?
daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:04:25 -0500 Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Mark Weaver wrote: Is there any? I can't get my visor working cause there doesn't happen to be anything to connect to. :( Mark What version of Mandrake are you using? I use 8.0 and USB support is in it. Start Mandrake Control Center click on System then Services scroll down the list until you see usb and usbd click on the little box to the left of on boot and the start button for each. Reboot and, as long as USB is enabled in your Bios you should have USB best wishes, norm Hi Norm, I'm using 8.2beta1 at the moment, although I had been using 8.1 and there wasn't any support for usb in that version either. I haven't seen any since 7.2. AFAICS devfs seems to be the culprit behind most USB problems. Mandrake had even recommended disabling it when they released the first kernel update after 8.1 was released. devfs is also why you don't see all the /dev links as you used to. The concept behind devfs says that those links are only created on the fly as they're needed, if you disable devfs they'll all come back and behave in the old manner. We have three 8.1 boxes here. We've only gotten one of them to sync via USB with our Handsprings using devfs - and even that one will only sync through jpilot (can't get evolution to work). The other two boxes we've had to disable devfs (I think you specify devfs = nomount or some such in lilo.conf) and use the hard coded links to get the Handsprings to sync via USB. I know I've read numerous messages where folks have had no problem with devfs, even some in this thread. But it does appear problematic to me. YMMV. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Connection to PHP has failed
I just installed the updated apache/perl/php packages on my mandrake 7.1 box. I followed the instructions on the support website including the edits to commonhttp.conf to enable php. The apache server itself works and I get the default index page distributed in the package by mandrake. When I try to load a php page I get a Connection to PHP has failed error. Anyone know what is causing this? These are the updates I have installed. apache-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-suexec-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-common-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-devel-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-modules-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-conf-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-mod_perl-1.3.22_1.25_01-1.4mdk apache-manual-1.3.22-1.4mdk php-4.0.6-5.1mdk php-common-4.0.6-5.1mdk php-gd-4.0.6-2.1mdk php-imap-4.0.6-2.1mdk php-mysql-4.0.6-3.1mdk php-readline-4.0.6-2.1mdk mod_php-4.0.6-5.1mdk php-manual_en-4.0.6-1.1mdk mod_sxnet-1.2.4-1.4mdk mod_perl-common-1.3.22_1.25_01-1.4mdk mod_perl-devel-1.3.22_1.25_01-1.4mdk mod_ssl-2.8.5-1.4mdk mm-1.1.3-8.1mdk Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] php on updated mdk7.1
I just installed the updated apache/perl/php packages on my mandrake 7.1 box. I followed the instructions on the support website including the edits to commonhttp.conf to enable php. The apache server itself works and I get the default index page distributed in the package by mandrake. When I try to load a php page I get a Connection to PHP has failed error. Anyone know what is causing this? These are the updates I have installed. apache-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-suexec-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-common-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-devel-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-modules-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-conf-1.3.22-1.4mdk apache-mod_perl-1.3.22_1.25_01-1.4mdk apache-manual-1.3.22-1.4mdk php-4.0.6-5.1mdk php-common-4.0.6-5.1mdk php-gd-4.0.6-2.1mdk php-imap-4.0.6-2.1mdk php-mysql-4.0.6-3.1mdk php-readline-4.0.6-2.1mdk mod_php-4.0.6-5.1mdk php-manual_en-4.0.6-1.1mdk mod_sxnet-1.2.4-1.4mdk mod_perl-common-1.3.22_1.25_01-1.4mdk mod_perl-devel-1.3.22_1.25_01-1.4mdk mod_ssl-2.8.5-1.4mdk mm-1.1.3-8.1mdk Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Configure NIC without an IP address
José J. Cintrón wrote: I need to configure a computer with 2 NICs one with an IP address and one without. When I attempt to enable the NIC that will have no IP address I get an error message saying that there is no IP address assigned (or something along those lines). Is there any way to accomplish this? TIA! +-- | José J. Cintrón +-- No - or at least I wouldn't think so. Why do you want to do this? With no protocol (TCP/IP or IPX etc) bound to the network card it is non-functional anyway. What are you trying to accomplish? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] palm m505 and linux
Roger Munoz wrote: Hi Has anybody managed to get the palm m505 usb cradle to work with jpilot in MDK8.1? Roger FWIW - our experience with the visor usb cradle and jpilot since I haven't seen a response, to the list anyway, regarding your query about the palm m505. Some, all, or none of this may apply to the palm - I don't have one so I don't know. For the handspring visor usb cradle you need the following: /etc/sysconfig/usb # -*- Mode: sh -*- snip USB=yes snip visor=yes /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. snip # load usb visor modules usbcore usb-uhci usbserial visor (Adjust for usb-uhci/usb-ohci on the line above as needed for your usb chipset.) /etc/devfsd.conf should contain the lines: REGISTERusb/tts/[13579] EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/visor.script add $devpath UNREGISTER usb/tts/[13579] EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/visor.script del $devpath At this point the automagic of devfs is supposed to make this just work though our experience is that this can be a precarious thing. Go into the gnome control center and use the pilot-link (or pilot-conduit - they seem to be the same thing) to set up the conduits and the initial sync. The critical thing we've found is to always press the hot sync button on the usb cradle before initiating any sync operations in jpilot or the conduit configuration. IF you can get the conduit configuration to go then everything seems to be fine thereafter - but it took us about a dozen attempts before we finally got it to all come together. The above uses devfs in mdk 8.1 to make it all happen automagically. If the automagic gives you trouble, as it did us at first, there is a (probably incorrect but functional) fallback position you can use. We used a script containing the following called from rc.local at boot time to manually create the usb nodes. This worked for us for a week or so until we got the automagic to work. #! /bin/sh # Create usb device nodes. mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 1 snip 2-14) mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 15 chmod 0666 /dev/usb/ttyUSB* ln -f -s /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot (note that there are 16 nodes (0 through 15), I snipped some for brevity.) If you can get the devfs automagic to happen you don't need this last stuff. Ours gave us problems at first and I don't even know what we did to fix it. YMMV. Good Luck. I hope some of this applies to the palm unit. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] palm m505 and linux
Opps, a couple of errors below *** Mike Rambo wrote: Roger Munoz wrote: Hi Has anybody managed to get the palm m505 usb cradle to work with jpilot in MDK8.1? Roger FWIW - our experience with the visor usb cradle and jpilot since I haven't seen a response, to the list anyway, regarding your query about the palm m505. Some, all, or none of this may apply to the palm - I don't have one so I don't know. For the handspring visor usb cradle you need the following: /etc/sysconfig/usb # -*- Mode: sh -*- snip USB=yes snip visor=yes /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. snip # load usb visor modules usbcore usb-uhci usbserial visor (Adjust for usb-uhci/usb-ohci on the line above as needed for your usb chipset.) /etc/devfsd.conf should contain the lines: REGISTERusb/tts/[13579] EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/visor.script add $devpath UNREGISTER usb/tts/[13579] EXECUTE /etc/dynamic/scripts/visor.script del $devpath *** These are two lines. One begins with REGISTER, the other with UNREGISTER. *** At this point the automagic of devfs is supposed to make this just work though our experience is that this can be a precarious thing. Go into the gnome control center and use the pilot-link (or pilot-conduit - they seem to be the same thing) to set up the conduits and the initial sync. The critical thing we've found is to always press the hot sync button on the usb cradle before initiating any sync operations in jpilot or the conduit configuration. IF you can get the conduit configuration to go then everything seems to be fine thereafter - but it took us about a dozen attempts before we finally got it to all come together. The above uses devfs in mdk 8.1 to make it all happen automagically. If the automagic gives you trouble, as it did us at first, there is a (probably incorrect but functional) fallback position you can use. We used a script containing the following called from rc.local at boot time to manually create the usb nodes. This worked for us for a week or so until we got the automagic to work. #! /bin/sh # Create usb device nodes. mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 1 snip 2-14) mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 15 chmod 0666 /dev/usb/ttyUSB* ln -f -s /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 /dev/pilot *** mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB1 c 188 1 snip 2-14) mknod /dev/usb/ttyUSB15 c 188 15 *** (note that there are 16 nodes (0 through 15), I snipped some for brevity.) If you can get the devfs automagic to happen you don't need this last stuff. Ours gave us problems at first and I don't even know what we did to fix it. YMMV. Good Luck. I hope some of this applies to the palm unit. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] tuxracer won't start
A co-worker is trying to get tuxracer to run on his box after installing 8.1. He, and I when I later tried it, is seeing an error Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. I have grepped through the RPMS on all three CD's looking for Xlib, xlib, GLX, or glx and found only one rpm containing xlib which didn't fix the problem. Anyone know what the error means and how to fix it? Thanks -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] tuxracer won't start
Juergen Hammelmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2001 14:42 schrieben Sie: A co-worker is trying to get tuxracer to run on his box after installing 8.1. He, and I when I later tried it, is seeing an error Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. I have grepped through the RPMS on all three CD's looking for Xlib, xlib, GLX, or glx and found only one rpm containing xlib which didn't fix the problem. Anyone know what the error means and how to fix it? Hi, you need opengl to run tuxracer!!! What graphics card do you have? Thanks to all who helped. The laptop I was messing with doesn't have 3d graphics which explains why it wouldn't work there. My co-workers box has an 8MB ATI 3d rageII+ pci card. The 8.1 installer loaded XFree4 by default. I'll make sure that glx and dbe is being loaded as a couple of folks have suggested and go from there. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why do I have 2 IPs?
Ken Thompson wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2001 03:32 am, you wrote: Hi! I use 56K dialup. And in kppp/Details, I have a Local and Remote IP. By telneting into both IPs, it seems that the Local IP is actually my computer... So why do I have 2 IPs? What does it achieve? Windows doesn't do this, I think. Umm, actually it does. All OS's AFAIK have this characteristic. Trying pinging 127.0.0.1 (or localhost so long as the box has a hosts file) on any windows machine and you'll see a response so long as tcp/ip is set up and functional. This address represents the local machine and is used by a variety of services even on a windows box. Guidescope is one such package as an example. It blocks banner ads from the web in your browser as you surf and does so as a proxy (as far as your browser knows anyway) at address 127.0.0.1. Thanks, pesarif In most cases Internet dial up connections use DHCP or dynamic IP addressing. What you are seeing is the address issued to your machine by the DHCP server and also the IP address od your IP's name server. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mdk8.1 laptop sound
I have 8.1 running dual-boot on a generic laptop with opl3sax sound - or at least that is how win98se identifies it. The laptop manufacturer is Twinhead according to the AMI bios id string. I've tried to set up the sound with sndconfig using the values windows reports but can't get it to work. I've seen that the alsa rpm's are installed but cannot get that to work either though I've never used alsa before and may not be doing it right. I've looked at the sound and alsa how-to's and checked mandrakeuser.org to no avail. Anyone have any insight on how to get the sound to work on this laptop? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dual booting with Win2k
Thanks to all - we'll give it a try! Ron Heron wrote: I have 8.1, W2k, and WinME on the same machine, but I just use lilo. I installed 8.1 on top of the win2k and winme, and when it came to configure lilo, the only thing i did differently was to make windows the default. I don't think you will have any problem using the standard install, but the Holt's approach is very interesting. I have to try it :) --- Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same setup on this machine; it's simple setup using the nt bootloader (which has always worked without a hitch for me). Install mandrake as normal but when you get to the point where you need to install the bootloader, tell it to use lilo (graphic or text - doesn't matter) and then install it on the /boot partition (or just / if you haven't specified separate partitions). Make sure that you create a boot floppy during the install because you won't be able to boot without it. After the install is done, leave your boot floppy in and reboot. Log in and then su to root and run this: dd if=/dev/hdax of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 The x in hdax should be the partition that you installed lilo to. Now move the bootsect.lnx file that you just created from the directory you're standing on to the Windows 98 root directory (c:\) and open the boot.ini file that's in that directory. Add the following line: C:\bootsect.lnx=whatever you want to show up in the boot menu Save and reboot (remove the floppy this time though). I've been doing this for over a year now and I've never had any problems. One other suggestion though; create a common directory that all three systems can access - I use My Documents on c drive. It's FAT32 so all 3 can read and write without problems and I'm not always wondering what I did with a file that I just downloaded. Also, I'm very careful about mounting my Windows 2000 system under linux; I only do it if necessary and only to maybe to copy a file and then I unmount it so I don't take a chance on corrupting it. Have fun! Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike Rambo Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 5:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] dual booting with Win2k One of the guys I work with is interested in putting Mdk8.1 on his workstation to try to learn to use it. His box presently dual boots Windows98 and 2000 and he uses both systems at times depending on what he has to do. He has a 30GB hard and therefore has enough room for all three systems. Are there any gotcha's or problems in doing this - particularly since 2000 uses it's own boot loader? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] dual booting with Win2k
One of the guys I work with is interested in putting Mdk8.1 on his workstation to try to learn to use it. His box presently dual boots Windows98 and 2000 and he uses both systems at times depending on what he has to do. He has a 30GB hard and therefore has enough room for all three systems. Are there any gotcha's or problems in doing this - particularly since 2000 uses it's own boot loader? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dual booting with Win2k
Thanks - I'd hate to trash his system trying to get him to switch ;-). Since you mentioned lilo/grub regarding the config file I hope it's safe to assume lilo will work in this regard as well as grub? I understand lilo better cuz I've used it longer and would prefer to use it if possible. Mike Andrea Fabris wrote: No prob. I use the same configuration and grub as boot loader. grub calls the w2k boot manager when booting windows partition, so he can continue to use both w2k and w98. If he has some problem he has only to use the fixmbr util shipped with the win2k console One note: i had some problem cause mdk inserted some strange lines in the lilo/grub conf file. mdk added some lines for mapping the hard disk device. i deleted these lines and now all works correctly Regards Andrea Fabris - Original Message - From: Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:55 PM Subject: [expert] dual booting with Win2k One of the guys I work with is interested in putting Mdk8.1 on his workstation to try to learn to use it. His box presently dual boots Windows98 and 2000 and he uses both systems at times depending on what he has to do. He has a 30GB hard and therefore has enough room for all three systems. Are there any gotcha's or problems in doing this - particularly since 2000 uses it's own boot loader? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mail server problems
Patricia Ballad wrote:
I've had a similar problem with my ISP (ATT @Home) refusing connections from my
linux box. Solution: I put together a bare-bones system w/ old parts I had lying
around, loaded Win95 and a proxy server. Now the ISP is happy (it's getting
connections from a windows box), I'm happy (my linux box connects to the 'net again),
and all those guys out there floating Code Red Co. are happily requesting 'cmd.exe'
from my linux firewall that sits behind the windows proxy. I call it The Tao of
Relation to One's ISP.
Good luck.
FWIW -
You may not have had to run the windows proxy. I don't have att@home
myself but some of the people in our local Linux Users Group do. Here is
part of a thread discussing this topic recently. It all appears to
center around the host name sent to att@home when the IP address is
obtained dynamically - they refuse to lease unless it's right.
Adam McDougall wrote:
I use isc-dhcp client and I have to put my given computer name in
etc/dhclient.conf because @home's dhcp server bases identity off of that
instead of the ethernet address. Substitute your network interface for
ed0. My installation technicion said the IP should remain the
same unless they need to replace a piece of equipment I forgot the name
of.
interface ed0 {
send host-name C144-A;
}
Adam
Jeremiah Korreck wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with setting up redhat with att@home,
I'm running version 7.1 with a dual boot to win2k.
Jeremiah Korreck
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Daniel Anderson wrote:
Dan--
What does your fetchmail log say? Simply connection refused? Can you
telnet to port 110 to talk directly to the pop server? What email client
are you using on the Windows side?
Sorry, I have more questions than answers. I have heard news that certain
ISP's are going to allow only certain pop clients (i.e. LookOut, and its
variants) to access their services.
Hi all,
I'd like to get some opinions on this problem before I contact the
isp. I've been running fetchmail to get my mail every four hours for
several months now,with no problems until oct 8,when the mail
server,postoffice3.bellatlantic.net ,stopped accepting my connections. I
am unable to connect with any mail program on the machine. I was able to
connect one time with Netscape from the other machine on the network,the
next connection was refused. I booted this machine into windows and have
no problem connecting at any time. I installed Mandrake 8.0 on another
machine and was able to connect one time only with a dialup connection
only ,not connected to my network. I have 3 machine on the network
including the firewall. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? Any
opinions will be appreciated.
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Re: [expert] iso's md5sum's
Oscar wrote: El Vie 19 Oct 2001 14:42, escribió: Sergio Korlowsky wrote: Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Are you running Anti-Virus software? If so turn it off, and download the images again. DO NOT trust yours unless the MD5 sums match. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike Rambo |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:53 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] iso's md5sum's | |Sergio Korlowsky wrote: | Did you download the md5sum file from ftp.rpmfind.net or still using | the same old file. | | I ask you this because I downloaded from rpmfind as soon as it was | available, and had no problems burning and installing from those iso | files. | |It's all from rpmfind.net - rsync says it's all fine but the |md5sums still do not match. I'm burning the iso's to CD anyway |and then I'll see whether they're useable. | | |-- |Mike Rambo |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to be sure...(and safe!) are these the same md5sums you're getting? 146e585fc46463cb911fd7ac28e6ed69 Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso 5876d473593db386bf54c612fd5dfb7b Mandrake81-cd2-ext.i586.iso 598a606c69859d732c146bc9299a4de8 Mandrake81-cd3-supp.i586.iso sk Yes, those md5sums are the same as those in the md5sums file I have. As an update on this, I tried installing using CD's made from the iso's I've been able to get - even with the wrong md5sum's. No surprise that, although the install completed and I really can't find anything yet that doesn't work, there were either 5 or 6 packages that had errors when the installer tried to install them. Because of that I tried again last night to download cd2. I went back to mandrake.redbox.cz because that is the only server I've gotten a good tranfer from (my cd1 iso came from there and is ok). I used a different ftp client to try and eliminate the possibility of a bad client. Came in this morning to find that Ncftp had downloaded the entire file but had hung at the tail end instead of closing and completing. I've seen that before with gftp and not figured out what causes it. As I pretty much expected the md5's do not match though the byte count does match that of the source. So, again I have went back with rsync to attempt to fix them and am told by rysnc'ing to rpmfind.net that the iso's I have are ok. I guess I can see if the ftp will go better from our RedHat 6.2 server instead of my workstation (or ask the guy next to me to use his winbox which I'm loath to do) but aside from that I'm out of idea's. It would sure be interesting to recalcuate the md5's on the various source file to see what they actually are. The fact that rsync reports them as matching doesn't make any sense - unless they really do match in which case I don't see how the md5's can be what they're claimed to be. What is the transfer mode? must be bin, not ascii. ?? Salu2 óscar. gftp is set to binary - and tranferred cd1 ok. I just can't get cd's 2 or 3. rsync, AFAICT, would by nature use an 8 bit word as would, I assume, a ftp transfer via web browser. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iso's md5sum's
Sergio Korlowsky wrote: Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Are you running Anti-Virus software? If so turn it off, and download the images again. DO NOT trust yours unless the MD5 sums match. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike Rambo |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:53 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] iso's md5sum's | | |Sergio Korlowsky wrote: | | | Did you download the md5sum file from ftp.rpmfind.net or still using | the same old file. | | I ask you this because I downloaded from rpmfind as soon as it was | available, and had no problems burning and installing from those iso | files. | | |It's all from rpmfind.net - rsync says it's all fine but the |md5sums still do not match. I'm burning the iso's to CD anyway |and then I'll see whether they're useable. | | |-- |Mike Rambo |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Just to be sure...(and safe!) are these the same md5sums you're getting? 146e585fc46463cb911fd7ac28e6ed69 Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso 5876d473593db386bf54c612fd5dfb7b Mandrake81-cd2-ext.i586.iso 598a606c69859d732c146bc9299a4de8 Mandrake81-cd3-supp.i586.iso sk Yes, those md5sums are the same as those in the md5sums file I have. As an update on this, I tried installing using CD's made from the iso's I've been able to get - even with the wrong md5sum's. No surprise that, although the install completed and I really can't find anything yet that doesn't work, there were either 5 or 6 packages that had errors when the installer tried to install them. Because of that I tried again last night to download cd2. I went back to mandrake.redbox.cz because that is the only server I've gotten a good tranfer from (my cd1 iso came from there and is ok). I used a different ftp client to try and eliminate the possibility of a bad client. Came in this morning to find that Ncftp had downloaded the entire file but had hung at the tail end instead of closing and completing. I've seen that before with gftp and not figured out what causes it. As I pretty much expected the md5's do not match though the byte count does match that of the source. So, again I have went back with rsync to attempt to fix them and am told by rysnc'ing to rpmfind.net that the iso's I have are ok. I guess I can see if the ftp will go better from our RedHat 6.2 server instead of my workstation (or ask the guy next to me to use his winbox which I'm loath to do) but aside from that I'm out of idea's. It would sure be interesting to recalcuate the md5's on the various source file to see what they actually are. The fact that rsync reports them as matching doesn't make any sense - unless they really do match in which case I don't see how the md5's can be what they're claimed to be. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Corrupted files -RPM
Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Yeap, that's what you get for ignoring the MD5SUMs errors I mentioned to you! -JMS steam I haven't found where this gentleman mentioned any md5's in his request - maybe he doesn't warrant your comment. _I_ am the one who has been having a problem and complaining about that. I think it intesting though, that I had the same files corrupted in the iso's I've obtained - although I had a few of others too (which could be installation differences). I was not ignoring the md5sums! That is _why_ I've posted the question to the list. In total I've ftp'd (or rsync'd) the cd2 file nearly 10 times now including again last night overnight using a different ftp client and getting the file from a yet another different site. The md5sums _still_ do not match. People post to this list presenting problems, what they've done (usually unsuccessfully) to solve them, and are looking for help from other people who hopefully know more - not just I-told-you-so's which are totally unhelpful and solve nothing. /steam |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stephen Liu |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 3:07 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert] Corrupted files -RPM | | |Hi All People, | |I have downloaded Mandrake-Linux 8.1 ISO Images from Internet |to a Windows |PC and burt 3 installation discs with Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum. | |During installing following files were found corrupted | |xmms-kjofol-skins-1.2.0-3mdk.i586.rpm |xmms-more-vis-plugins-unsafe-1.4.0-3mdk.i586.rpm |xmms-skins-1.0.0-11mdk.noarch.rpm | |I checked RPMNet but could not find them there. | |Kindly advise where can I have them downloaded. | |Thanks in advance. | |B.R. |Stephen Liu | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iso's md5sum's
Sergio Korlowsky wrote: Did you download the md5sum file from ftp.rpmfind.net or still using the same old file. I ask you this because I downloaded from rpmfind as soon as it was available, and had no problems burning and installing from those iso files. It's all from rpmfind.net - rsync says it's all fine but the md5sums still do not match. I'm burning the iso's to CD anyway and then I'll see whether they're useable. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] iso's md5sum's
Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Are you running Anti-Virus software? None in use - or even on the system for that matter. If so turn it off, and download the images again. I downloaded cd1 with no problem from mandrake.redbox.cz using gftp - md5's are ok. I've now downloaded cd2 either 5 or 6 times from different servers and cd3 once last night. The last download of cd2 and the download last night of cd3 were done by rsync. Subsequent checks using rsync report they are fine. I got the most recent md5sums file from the same server as the iso's (although it is the same as the first one from redbox.cz). rsync says the downloaded copies are identical to the remote copies yet the md5's don't match. I've even tried using rsync against a couple other servers to compare the local to remote files and they check ok. The third CD just finished burning so I'll just grab a spare box and see what I come up with. Seems like someone asked whether or not my workstation could be padding some of the packets or altering the packets in some way. This is something I have no idea about - but I don't know why it would. I certainly haven't knowingly done anything to precipitate this behavior. My workstation runs Mandrake 7.1 with all the applicable updates Mandrake has released applied. I've even used two different applications (gftp and rsync) to download the iso's so it shouldn't be a bad app either. Like I said, I'll grab a spare box and see what shakes out. I don't seem to have much choice... DO NOT trust yours unless the MD5 sums match. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike Rambo |Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:53 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] iso's md5sum's | | |Sergio Korlowsky wrote: | | | Did you download the md5sum file from ftp.rpmfind.net or still using | the same old file. | | I ask you this because I downloaded from rpmfind as soon as it was | available, and had no problems burning and installing from those iso | files. | | |It's all from rpmfind.net - rsync says it's all fine but the |md5sums still do not match. I'm burning the iso's to CD anyway |and then I'll see whether they're useable. | | |-- |Mike Rambo |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cant boot fm HDD
From msdos you can also run debug.exe and... fcs: 200 400 0 a mov ax,301 mov bx,200 mov cx,2 mov dx,80 int 13 int 20 [press the ENTER key here] g q and it'll blitz ddo's and whatnot (along with all the rest of the drives content). -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: --- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fdisk will not do a clean format in this situation. The Ontrack software operates on the same principle as EZ-Drive and creates a special protected sector on the hd prior to the MBR and no amount of formatting will remove it. there is one way to zap out anything on mbr or before it: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx count=10 usually, when a disk partition is corrupted or the MBR is messed up, you clear up the first sectors of the disk. its gonna be like a newly unformatted disk right after doing that command. it also efficiently deletes SystemPartitions (about 10 MB) created by Compaq, Dell, etc. The only manner in which it may be removed is by uninstalling it. You can then fdisk /MBR and format the hd with the utility of your choice including the Mandrake installation. Charles (-: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pppd deamon died halfway through!!!
faisal gillani wrote: thanks for the help friend .. but sorry to dissapoint you but my pc dont have a ppp0 interface ... yes the modem is there but no ppp0 interface ... my moden is isapnp US robotics 56k sportster ... what to do now thanks Fasial I haven't seen the start of this thread - apologies if I'm duplicating suggestions already made. Is a USR 56k internal even going to work with Linux??? My gut reaction would say it is not. In any case (and because you're new I'll try to make this a little more verbose) ppp0 is simply the first ppp type interface, and ppp interfaces are usually assigned to modems, the same as eth0 is the interface for your first ethernet card or tr0 for the first token ring card. You should be able to use minicom to test and see if it works. You need to know first which serial port the modem is supposed to be attached to. This is often part of the problem. PNP modems generally do not have jumpers by which you can force them to assume port parameters (com1, com2, com3, com4 - which BTW corresponds to ttyS0 through ttyS3). You will often use /dev/modem to connect to your modem but you find that /dev/modem is merely a symlink to /dev/ttyS0 (or 1,2,or3). The port is actually going to be one of the ttyS's. On a PNP modem that port has to be configured by some piece of software. Sometimes a PNP bios can set this up but more often, and nearly always on winmodems which this USR may be, the windows driver is what configures and enables the modem. Without this driver code, which won't work with Linux, the modem is unuseable. I'd suggest using minicom to test all four serial port addresses to see if you can find any modem at all. Just type minicom at the prompt in a text terminal. If you've never ran minicom before you'll probably have to do so the first time as superuser (root) and the command is usually minicom -s in that case. You access the help menu by pressing control-A and then the Z key. This will bring up the menu. Hit 'o' to get to the configuration menu. Then you select 'serial port setup' and can use /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, /dev/ttyS2, or /dev/ttyS3 to directly access each serial port in turn. Be sure to use bit rates (option E) slow enough to make sure you don't have a problem in that regard that might mask other problems - I'd suggest 9600 until you figure out whether the modem works at all - you can optimize for speed later. After you've set the communications port and bit rate you can select option M from that help menu to initize the modem. You should see something like ATZ and then OK. If you see nothing then minicom is probably not able to find a useable modem at all. If you see ATZ (or a similar command) but there is no OK response then minicom probably thinks it has found a modem but cannot successfully communicate with it. I'm guessing you won't get a response at all if you're running an internal USR modem. You'll probably have to get an external modem or very carefully select from the limited set of internal models that will work with Linux. Hope this helps. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPM V.4 for 7.x MDKs
I have a mandrake 7.1 system at work. When I ran into problems a few months back installing newer rpms, codeweavers wine IIRC, I found a link on mandrakeuser.org that said to use the rpm packages for 7.2 on 7.1 systems to solve this problem. Maybe I haven't installed enough software recently but I haven't had a problem since installing the mdk7.2 packages. Hope this helps. Mike Rambo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PCI IRQ conflict?
George Petri wrote: service sound start: Loading sound module (es1371) /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o: invalid parameter parm_irq /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.4/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o: insmod es1371 failed [FAILED] Interestingly, insmod tulip irq=xx and insmod es1371 irq=xx both give the invalid parameter parm_irq error :( Try modprobe instead of insmod like: modprobe tulip irq=xx -or- modprobe tulip I can't remember whether you'll need to specify the full path (or the filename extension) to the driver or not, though I think not. Try the modprobe without any resource parameters too. If you've got the system set up for the bios to assign device resources instead of a PNP OS the driver may be able to correctly detect them. Aside from this I'm about out of ideas - seems like some of this should have worked. Anyone else out there with an idea? Is it because of my cheap hardware that I can't change irq? Probably not. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] PCI IRQ conflict?
George Petri wrote: On Friday 03 August 2001 22:35, you wrote: Your sound and ethernet cards are stomping upon one another. Maybe Linux has better ability to deal with conflicting IRQ's but I'm surprised that you haven't had lockups - you likely would have with windoze. Does this IRQ conflict explain the poor performance of my Ethernet card? I'm surprised it works at all. I only know one way to deal with this (though there may be more). Edit the file /etc/conf.modules. You will probably have an 'alias eth0 some_driver_name' line in the file. Add the following just above that line. options some_driver_name irq=## io=0x### Just plug in numbers to work. I'd suggest irq 10 or 11 (you can 'more /proc/interrupts' to see what the system thinks is available). You may not need to specify an io port (leave it off if you don't) but 0x280 and 0x300 are usually ok if you find that you do. Restart the networking subsystem or reboot. I've tried all the combinations of irq and io port that you have suggested but every time I get this after running service network start: Setting network parameters:[ OK ] Bringing up interface lo: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: Delaying eth0 initialization. [FAILED] Even if I write options tulip irq=9 (irq 9 is the normal IRQ that my Ethernet card is on, sharing with the sound card), it still causes that error! My /etc/modules.conf looks like this: alias net-pf-4 ipx pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc Try it from another direction. Add a line here and see if this helps: options es1371 irq=5 post-install snd-card-ens1371 modprobe snd-pcm-oss pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 /proc/parport/0/irq alias sound-slot-0 es1371 options tulip irq=10 --- my line!!! alias eth0 tulip alias char-major-62 ltmodem Also, after you make any changes to conf.modules (or modules.conf - depends on the system) you should run 'depmod -a' to set dependancies. I also noted in another post that you have PNP OS set to true in BIOS. I always disable this to force hardware setup by the PNP bios (even when running the bloated evil OS). There may also be an option in bios to force the system to reset all device settings. This option, _IF_ it exists, will be in the same area in the bios as the PNP OS option. Set PNP OS to false and try a hardware redetect with this other bios option if you can. I don't know why the tulip card hasn't responded to the irq change option - I thought that it would. But it won't matter either if you can get the sound card to change. It might be necessary to re-run your sound set up after you change the sound irq. cat /proc/pci gives: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 12, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 4). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0xef00 [0xef3f]. Bus 0, device 14, function 0: Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 37). IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebff800 [0xfebff8ff]. cat /proc/interrupts (please ignore the acpi thing...I have been fooling around will the kernel...acpi will not be there after today!): CPU0 0: 529046 XT-PIC timer 1: 15373 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 9: 56576 XT-PIC acpi, es1371, eth0 -- CONFLICT 12: 275595 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 689712 XT-PIC ide0 15:118 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 Hope this helps. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] How to change IRQ number????
Assuming this device is plug-n-pray you might see if conf.modules could be used to set the irq. If an alias statement exists to load the driver you can probably set options as follows: options driver_name irq=## io=0x### alias device driver_name I have a desktop system (with the drivers but without any pcmcia devices actually in use) that uses a pre-install statement for the pcmcia_core driver. I don't know if you can use the same method to set operating paramenters or not. Another possibility would be the /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia file (at least on redhat type systems) which you might be able to use for this purpose. I don't have any settings like this on the one laptop I have linux running on but then it doesn't have any sound devices to conflict either. Hope this helps (and isn't a wild goose chase). -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] X - A - W - K wrote: Hi, I have LM 8.0 on my laptop and I have problems with PCMCIA card. It looks like sound card and PCMCIA card bus have the same IRQ numbre (according to the dmesg|more). I don't know if it is possible, but it looks like. System does recognize CardBus, but can't detect it o something like that So I would like to change it, I want to make work my PCMCIA. Does anybody know how to change IRQ numbres? I was trying command cardctl and it doesn't work, just because ther is no eth0 device... What shall I do??? Thanks for help. X - A - W - K -- Jest niezly ... i liscik napisze OnetKomunikator [ http://ok.onet.pl/instaluj.html ]
Re: [expert] UPS, PowerChute or NUT
mick tooher wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anybody out there has got the APC Back-UPS up and running under mandrake. I tried the red-hat rpms of PowerChute (available from the www.apcc.com) and they loaded nicely in Mandrake 8.0. However the soltware could not communicate with he serial-input port /dev/ttyS0. I get the message /dev/ttyS0 appears to be a local control port WARNING: Port must be configured for modem control in order to work with a Simple Signaling UPS If I try to cu to this port I get cu -l /dev/modem cu: creat (/var/lock/TMP000c8b): Permission denied cu: /dev/modem: Line in use Anybody got past this point in the installation. I also tried the nut program without success. P.S. Yes, I do gave the infamous 940-0020B serial cable from APC, which is the one that supposedly works??? Mick John Rye wrote: Does the UPC software 'stipulate' that /dev/ttyS0 is to be used?? Do you in fact have a modem assigned to one of your /dev/ttySx ports ? - which one ?? - how is it assigned/configured Are you able to use another /dev/ttyS? - give it another bash and see what happens. Be a bit careful with connections to /dev/ttyS0 port as your mouse (regardless of type) still/may/might be assigned here despite what you think as indicated by the error message getting returned above. I have been seeing the exact same error with /dev/ttyS1 (my mouse is on ttyS0). Sad to say, though the APC software purports to support any serial port I (also) have never gotten it to work on any. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] RPM Upgrade
Scott Taylor wrote: I can't find it. Does anyone know where to get it or how I can upgrade RPM for my Linux 7.1 server? Thanks. Scott. If I understand correctly you want to upgrade RPM itself (perhaps you're seeing errors of being unable to open packages because your version of RPM is too old??). According to info I found a couple months back on mandrakeuser.org you need the version of RPM that shipped with mdk7.2 to update mdk7.1. I upgraded to this version back then and it has solved the problem for me. You can get the newer mdk7.2 RPM rpm's from most any mandrake mirror. Be sure to 'rpm --rebuilddb' after you upgrade. Hope this helps. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] How (or can) I
make Wine start at boot time. I need to run a database server we normally run as an NT service. This database server (Faircom - required for some library automation software) runs as an NT service but will also work pretty well running under Wine on a Linux server. I'd like to have this start automagically at boot time so user intervention is not required. The closest I've gotten so far is to use Xvnc but I haven't been able to get it to work without some kind of intervention (when I check the app from another machine using vncviewer it is always waiting for me to click the mouse to place the app on the virtual screen). Is there a way around this behavior? As an alternative, how does Mandrake 8 accomplish automatic logins as a specific user and can the same be accomplished with Mdk 7.1 (which is what this server runs)? If I could get the machine to log in automatically as the user needed to run the database server I could have the screensaver kick in a minute later with password protection enabled. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] How (or can) I
David Joham wrote: You can always put in custom startup information in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Would that solve your problem? David I've tried everything along that line that I can think of. I can't find anything that will work. Basically, an X session has to be started and logged in to accept connections as the correct user to start the Wine/Faircom combination. Only then will Wine actually start. I can get Wine to start automatically when I manually log into the GUI but I cannot start the X session (already logged in) automatically. -Original Message- From: Mike Rambo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] How (or can) I make Wine start at boot time. I need to run a database server we normally run as an NT service. This database server (Faircom - required for some library automation software) runs as an NT service but will also work pretty well running under Wine on a Linux server. I'd like to have this start automagically at boot time so user intervention is not required. The closest I've gotten so far is to use Xvnc but I haven't been able to get it to work without some kind of intervention (when I check the app from another machine using vncviewer it is always waiting for me to click the mouse to place the app on the virtual screen). Is there a way around this behavior? As an alternative, how does Mandrake 8 accomplish automatic logins as a specific user and can the same be accomplished with Mdk 7.1 (which is what this server runs)? If I could get the machine to log in automatically as the user needed to run the database server I could have the screensaver kick in a minute later with password protection enabled. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Wine without Windows...
Vincent A. Primavera wrote: Hello, I understand that it is possible to run Wine without having Windows installed previously... Has anyone done this? And if so, how is it working out? With which applications? Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera If you mean without having a full blown windows install online you are correct. If you mean without any part of windows, that is problematic. You do not necessarily need a full windows install to run windows apps under wine but you usually will need some of the windows dll's to get most apps to work. We use wine to run a database server for some library software most of the schools in the district use. The database server (FAIRCOM) is designed to run as a NT service but will also run quite happily in the foreground under wine on a linux server but we had to have something like 8 or 10 of the windows dll's to make it work. I have had similar experiences with the other apps I've tried (although that is only a couple of packages). Hope this helps. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] cute RPM output..
Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: [root@tk-laptop RPMS2]# rpm -e kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm error: package kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm is not installed [root@tk-laptop RPMS2]# rpm -i kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm package kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk is already installed now what :) -t -- EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr If you do a 'rpm -qa | grep kdebase' you'll find that the name of the installed package you want to remove does not contain anything after the 'mdk'. To remove a package you'll need to use the name the package is known by in the rpm database - not the name used by the distro managers to keep things straight on the cd's. In this instance, your command should probably be... rpm -e kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk ...to remove the package. Once removed, your install command will be fine (although wildcards work for the install/freshen/uprade commands which could make the command shorter). Hope this is helpful. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] trouble with gftp
I have gftp-2.0.8-1.2-mdk installed but it won't launch. If I try to run it from a terminal I get the following error. /usr/bin/gftp-gtk: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0: undefined symbol: gdk_pixmap_colormap_creete_from_xpm I'm running mdk 7.1. I think this is something that upgraded last week when I did a bunch of upgrading using Mandrake update but since I haven't tried to use it for the last few days I'm not sure if the upgrade is related to the breakdown or not. If it matters, I have also tried reverting to the original verions released with 7.1 but that won't work either although it crashes with a bunch of entirely different errors. Anyone have any ideas what I can do to fix this? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] updating rpm 3.x (LM 7.1) to 4.x (ML 8.0)
Try the rpm package from MDK7.2. It is version 3.0.5-27mdk and is capable of reading v4 rpm's. Check out the hint at the bottom of this URL for more info. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/troubles/tquick5.html -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christian Rost wrote: Hi, as did RedHat before, the Mandrake guys introduced RPM 4.x with LM 8.0. Unfortunately, the rpm 4.x binary they're shipping with LM 8.0 can not be installed with rpm 3.x. I didn't find yet a smooth way to upgrade to rpm 4.x. Even the src.rpm 4.x files didn't help, because you need rpm 4.x to unpack them - seems to be pretty much a chicken-egg problem. RedHat offered an rpm 3.x with the capability to handle rpm 4.0 packages. Is there something similar in the LM world? Any comments are apreciated. Christian === roCon - Rost+Oberndörfer Consulting GbR Partner für Netzwerke, Marketing und Internet Universitätsstrasse 142 D-44799 Bochum fon: +49 (0) 234 971969-6 fax: +49 (0) 234 971969-8 www.rocon.de
Re: [expert] iso images
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, put a request in a few days ago and did get a reply, but to be honest after looking for ages for un-iso, and finding zilch , I think the wee beasty to use for building the file system from an iso image is mkisofs. Can some ne help with the syntax for extracting the file system to extract ready to load onto a cd.. bit like sex really unless you get pointed in the right direction the first time , you can end up in a mess TIA regards Richard An .iso _is_ ready to be burned to a CD. mkisofs (MaKe ISO FileSystem) creates the .iso to this end. Use: cdrecord -v speed=2 -eject dev=0,0,0 -data filename.iso (changing the speed and dev entries to match your system of course) to record the CD from an .iso under Linux. If you're using windows use EasyCD et al. Usually you have to do little more than click on the .iso in windows explorer to launch the whole process. Hope this helps. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Mdk8 - install goes ok but X refuses to start
At the start, I'd appreciate it if anyone responding would copy my email address. I somehow got dropped from the list about a month ago and for some reason have been unable to re-subscribe (or else my employer is filtering email from mandrake somehow). I have installed Mdk8 (from .iso) on two different machines (Dell P166, 64MB, 6GB IDE and Gateway Celeron 500, I810 chipset, 64MB, 8.6GB IDE) and have ended up with the same problem on both. The install goes fine including the setup and testing of X but upon rebooting both machines try to start X and end up dropping back to the CLI. Manual attempts to start X fail as well. I have looked through the list archives and haven't seen any other references to this problem (makes me wonder what I've done). install.log on the Gateway shows these three things - *perl setting locale failed *unpacking cpio archive - bad magic *glibc-2.2.2 install failed exit status 127 I haven't been able to check the Dell install for similar entries yet. /var/log/messages and /var/log/XFree86.0.log show nothing helpful either. Anyone have any insight on this problem? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] how to remove/install apache, php and mySQL
"Jamie M. Dyer" wrote: this is the story, I installed apache and mySQL, got them working fine. I tried to install php but that gernerated errors. A friend told me to install mySQL first, then follow the instructions in the php manual to install apache and php. I removed the apache, php, and mySQL directories and tried to install mySQL again. I followed the same instructions as the first time I installed it. but now I get errors. When I type the make command it says there is not make file. The only reason I can think this would happen is because of the prior installation. Am I right? if so how do I remove all of mySQL, apache and php. If im wrong can anyone tell me why this would be happening? I'm running MD7.2 and using the latest stable release of mySQL Thankyou JamieD Is there something special you need to do that the mdk7.2 packages won't do? MDK7.2 has Mysql, Apache, and PHP 4 already included. The only kink I found was that the mod_php rpm wasn't installed even using a full install on my system. After manually installing mod_php and enabling the php add-type entry in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I found that Apache/PHP worked perfect. I have to admit I haven't used PHP to access Mysql yet on that system but it seems unusual to me that Mandrake would build Apache, PHP, and Mysql together on the same system and not have interoperability enabled. I suspect it'll work fine. Concerning building all the above from scratch - I had no problems with that either so long as I built Mysql from source instead of installing a precompiled binary. I did run into a missing library problem when I first tried using one of the binaries from the Mysql site. Try the sources. Regards, -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] netscape problem
Bug Hunter wrote: I have had similar wierdness. Sometimes it was related to a plug in. Removing the plug in using 'rm' would fix it. Sometimes the files in ~/.netscape got hosed. Removing the entire directory would fix that. On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, root wrote: I came in this morning to find netscape broken on my workstation. Worked when I left on wednesday - broke when I came back today. The problem was that Netscape crashed completely and closed whenever I tried to open the mail client. The browser itself appeared ok. I'm running mdk 7.1 and was running the original 4.73 version released with 7.1. I tried various things and eventually decided to upgrade to the most recent version of netscape released for 7.1 (4.76-3.2mdk). After I finally got netscape-common and netscape-communicator installed (navigator gave conflicts with communicator plus I don't see why I need it if communicator is installed) I find I can only run it from in a terminal as root. I get a 'Bus Error' message when I try to run it as a normal user. Can anyone help me figure this out? Thanks. Well, it was indeed something in the .netscape directory. I moved the old directory to another name and netscape came right up under my normal user name and created a new .netscape directory. I was then able to get back most of my old settings from the old directory - basically everything except the address book. I imported the old file and all the names came back up but none of them work. I guess I'll have to re-enter them all manually. Thanks for the help. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Where is the 'HOSTNAME'?
TK Kim wrote: In Mandrake 7.2, where is the hostname located? Before it was set in the file 'HOSTNAME' in /etc directory, but in this new version, the file, 'HOSTNAME', does not exist in /etc. Did someone notice this? THX I found that too. My network appears fine but no /etc/HOSTNAME. Look in /etc/sysconfig/network and you'll find another place for the hostname though. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness
Phil Connor wrote:
I don't understand, dhcpd should just use the address of the NIC. How
does it know "the address is already in use"?
Nope! try setting the ipaddress for DHCPD as .0 example 192.168.20.0 and
then set your range to start with your nic address like 192.168.20.20 -
192.168.20.40
Yes, the subnet is declared as the network addresss - not the machine.
But dhcpd was still responding that it couldn't bind to the machine
address. Here is my dhcpd.conf.
# Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
# DHCPd Daemon Configuration File
# dlt=600sec=10min, mlt=43200sec=12hours
#
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 43200;
option domain-name-servers 10.8.1.7, 207.73.196.250;
option domain-name "forestview.edu";
subnet 10.33.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 10.33.1.10 10.33.1.250;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 10.33.1.255;
option routers 10.33.1.251;
}
Perhaps there is more that one dhcpd running on the box. What does the
log file say? What does the output from ifconfig say? What does your
dhcpd.conf file say?
Only if he has several or virtual address's which will all have to have an
entry/declaration even if their not used to give address out.
ifconfig shows only eth0 and lo. Nothing appears abnormal in any way.
Even the routing table looked normal and the server itself was able to
surf the web as normal. dhcpd just insisted on pukeing whenever I tried
to launch it. As I've said elsewhere though, I think there must be
something going on either with the server or the network as we're
getting sharing violations with Samba that shouldn't be happening. I
don't know what else on the network would cause this. Immediately after
I changed the server IP I pinged the original IP to see what I'd find.
Ping said there was nothing there.
?????
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Re: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness
Bill Shirley wrote: I don't understand, dhcpd should just use the address of the NIC. How does it know "the address is already in use"? Perhaps there is more that one dhcpd running on the box. What does the log file say? What does the output from ifconfig say? What does your dhcpd.conf file say? Bill I don't understand either and I don't know why it's giving that message. Maybe I'll check with the dhcp mail list that ISC has. I checked for the dhcpd pid. There was none. Nothing showed with ps ax either. ifconfig showed only the single ethernet card and lo and displayed nothing out of the ordinary. The dhcpd.conf file was unchanged from it's initial setup (and was checked for correctness too - it was/is ok). As I said before ... totally baffled! Something does appear to be going on with this server though. We've got what appear to be sharing violations with Samba shares that shouldn't be occuring. I haven't been back on location yet so I don't know for sure. That's for later this afternoon. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness
Yesterday we got called out for problems at one of the elementary schools and was surprised to find that the server was the source of at least part of the problems. The complaint was that server resources couldn't be accessed - and turned out to be true. The server is a file printer server for win3x and win9x clients using Samba. It also handles dhcp services for the network with ISC's dhcp server. OS is Mandrake 7.1. I checked /var/log/messages and found the syslog was restarting itself every 15 seconds or so and had been for the last three days. Couldn't figure out why. There wasn't anything else in the logs that stuck me as significant to the current trouble. We started working with the complaint that the classes were unable to access resources and ended up rebooting the server (restarting various services - network, smb - didn't help). This seemed to correct access at first but then we started getting dhcp address expirations on all the clients. I found that the box refused to start the dhcp server daemon with the error that it couldn't bind to the IP address because it was already in use. There is and was nothing else on the same IP address as the server but the only way I found to resolve that problem was to put the server on a different IP address. That's a wierd one I've never seen before. Now this morning I'm starting to get more complaints that the access problem has returned to some degree. Only a few computers in the school can access one of the important programs. Though I haven't been to the server console yet today, I have telnet'd in but didn't really find much. All the important services appear to be up and there aren't any unusual messages in the logs. Syslog is not restarting like it was when we were there yesterday. I'm wondering about record locking problems or something. The main app they're having trouble with is Accelerated Reader. It was previously on a Novell server that we have replaced with this mandrake server. We saved the files from the old server and ftp'd them to the new server. The novell server had no problems sharing this data but the error appears that it may be one of access to either the data or temp directories both of which have to be write enabled for updates. At least two computers are using this program with no trouble giving the students tests and updating records but most everybody else is locked out. The error (as I recall) is something to the effect of "error opening files" which of course doesn't give much to go on. Any idea what's happening here or where I can look for clues? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness
Jim Holthaus wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mike Rambo wrote: the box refused to start the dhcp server daemon with the error that it couldn't bind to the IP address because it was already in use. There is and was nothing else on the same IP address as the server but the only way I found to resolve that problem was to put the server on a different IP address. That's a wierd one I've never seen before. There was probably another computer on the subnet with the same IP address. That was my first thought. We ended up getting a new hub out of the van and hooking the server up to that hub on the table which went nowhere. Rebooting the server yielded the same results - dhcpd still found the address already in use. We then put the server back into the building network and reset the IP address. After a reboot dhcpd worked fine. We pinged the original IP. Nothing was there. I don't know what this was but it definitely appeared to be something in the server itself to me. Now this morning I'm starting to get more complaints that the access problem has returned to some degree. Only a few computers in the school can access one of the important programs. Start by looking at what's changed since the system last worked. Did you accidentally break something while trying to fix things yesterday? Do all of the clients know the new address of the server? After that, start working on network troubleshooting. Make sure your underlying communications between the server and clients works. Once you are confident of this, look at software specific problems like record locking. The only thing we changed was the server IP address. It appears the last day the server really worked right was three (now four) days ago. At least that was when the complaints started and it coincided with when the log files started to show syslog restarts every 15 seconds or so. We haven't changed anything on the server for almost a month and even then the work was only to install some new software (math blaster or something) in a shared folder. I'll look into the underlying network when I next get out there - we did have a switch go down a couple of weeks ago in another building. Possibility I guess. Thanks for the response. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] RE: [MandrakeForum] Install - CD won't eject for 2nd disk
Rick Commo wrote: This is just a wild guess at best! I saw something similar trying to peruse the CD on a running 7.1 system. I was *really* exasperated by the fact that the eject button didn't work. Finally I got a pushpin (like you would use for a cork board (didn't have a paper clip which has a longer reach)). I pushed gingerly expecting the kind of resistance that I have found when doing this on un-powered systems. Plus I was afraid of working against a powered up mechanism. In my particular case I found no resistance but rather the CD drawer light came on and the shelf came out. Perhaps there was an optical sensor or some sort. So you might want to try that. Again, you usually need to use a paper clip that has been unbent, but that's what that little hole in the front is actually for. Just go easy. Cheers, -rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MandrakeForum] Install - CD won't eject for 2nd disk Install - CD won't eject for 2nd disk (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2928082739) Robetr Maynord writes "I have been installing 7.1 on machines at the elementary school where I work. I use the Mandrake Deluxe version CDs. The problem is: on half of the machines, the first install CD does not eject, so I am unable to insert the 2nd CD. I have tried different CD drives (all ATAPI). On some machines (P200) it works. On other machines (IBM P300) the CD won't eject. If I use "cancel" to finish the install, the printer files aren't loaded. Any ideas?? Robert " Answer: This is a bug in 7.1 installer - If there isn't enough RAM to switch the ramdisk, installer will not be able to switch CD-s. You will see it on every machine with less than 40 MB. Solution is to choose single-CD instalation. FYI:in 7.2 DrakX installer will automatically detect low-RAM machines and switch to single CD instalation mode. I had a Dell machine doing this a while ago. In that case I had installed a couple extra hard drives and had changed the location of the CD drive. When I did it I didn't set the BIOS to autodetect the port I had moved the CD drive to - slave on the secondary port if I recall. It caused exactly what you describe - it wouldn't automatically open the tray for the second CD even though it asked for it. I tried opening the drive manually and inserting the CD but this didn't work (because it hadn't unmounted the first one correctly I think). When I finally thought to set the BIOS to autodetect that port it has worked ever since - I think I've reinstalled three times since then to test various things. You might give this a try. Regards. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] webmin file manager - blank screen
I get only a blank screen when trying to use the webmin file manager. Anyone have any idea why this is happening? I've read somewhere that fm is a java app - might this have anything to do with that. I do have ibm's jre and jdk v118 installed and it appears to work ok - at least with staroffice anyway. Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] cdrom boot
Alan N wrote: lorne schachter wrote: I've got two copies of the Mandrake 7.1 CD, one from Maximum Linux mag and one from Linux Labs. In either case, when I try to boot from them, it gets past 2nd stage ram disk and config CDROM and then exits with signal 11. From what I have learned at installfests from my local linux guru's, a sig 11 just about ALWAYS means a hardware problem of some type. Alan This reminds me that there are instances where it would be incredibly useful to have a list of what the different signals mean. Does anyone know where one exists? -- Mike Rambo Media Electronics Specialist Lansing School District
Re: [expert] Re : From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.
Sarang Lakare wrote: btw, do you guys know that once u run samba server, it shows up in other NT boxes as Windoze NT 4.2 server ;)).. wonder where the 4.2 came from ;) We've noticed that too. No idea where it comes from though. If I recall it also identifies it as NTFS an filesystem too. -- Mike Rambo Media Electronics Specialist Lansing School District
Re: [expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.
cavall_fort wrote: Hello, forum : I'd like to configure Linux Mand.7.1 to comunicate a win98 with internet. Please, I need the configuration, not links nor references to Howto, nor vague information ... (:-D) I have Samba well configured : I can see Linux from Win98 and Win98 from Linux. On the Linux box, PPP is well enabled, with the connexion OK. You didn't give very much detail about your system status. You'll first need to get PPP configured. I guess I'd suggest the netconf tool in linuxconf to do that if you haven't already done that part. To route your network traffic through your linux box to the internet you need just a few lines in your one of your ppp scripts - I use /etc/ppp/ip-up.local. That file won't probably exist on a default install but /etc/ppp/ip-up does look for it and will use it if you create it. After you create the file be sure to 'chmod +x ip-up.local' to add execute permission. #/etc/ppp/ip-up.local # Enable forwarding of IP packets. echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # Simple (underscore simple) firewall rules for masqerading IP packets # from the local network to any destination. # Flush all existing forwarding rules. /sbin/ipchains -F forward # Set default forwarding policy to DENY. /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY # Amend policy to masq forward any local traffic to any destination. /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ Note that you need to substitute the '192.168.1' with whatever numbers are appropriate for your local network. Also, your PPP configuration must correctly set a defaultroute to your ISP. You can check this by connecting to your ISP and using the 'route -n' command from a console. There should be a default gateway entry at the bottom of the list that has the IP address your ISP assigned you (assuming your ISP uses dynamic addresses as is common). If this is all correct you should only need to set the default gateway on your winboxes to point to your linuxbox and communication should work. Also, note that this only gets communication up - it doesn't touch getting the linuxbox to automatically dial out on demand. For that you might check out the following URL for help. And perhaps others have suggestions on that topic too. I'm still struggling with the demand dialing part of the equation myself. Good Luck. http://www.nleaudio.com/bnotes/dialondemand.htm -- Mike Rambo Media Electronics Specialist Lansing School District
Re:[expert] From Windows'98 to Internet thru Linux Mand. 71.
cavall_fort wrote: Hello, forum : I'd like to configure Linux Mand.7.1 to comunicate a win98 with internet. Please, I need the configuration, not links nor references to Howto, nor vague information ... (:-D) I have Samba well configured : I can see Linux from Win98 and Win98 from Linux. On the Linux box, PPP is well enabled, with the connexion OK. You didn't give very much detail about your system status. You'll first need to get PPP configured. I guess I'd suggest the netconf tool in linuxconf to do that if you haven't already done that part. To route your network traffic through your linux box to the internet you need just a few lines in your one of your ppp scripts - I use /etc/ppp/ip-up.local. That file won't probably exist on a default install but /etc/ppp/ip-up does look for it and will use it if you create it. After you create the file be sure to 'chmod +x ip-up.local' to add execute permission. #/etc/ppp/ip-up.local # Enable forwarding of IP packets. echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # Simple (underscore simple) firewall rules for masqerading IP packets # from the local network to any destination. # Flush all existing forwarding rules. /sbin/ipchains -F forward # Set default forwarding policy to DENY. /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY # Amend policy to masq forward any local traffic to any destination. /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ Note that you need to substitute the '192.168.1' with whatever numbers are appropriate for your local network. Also, your PPP configuration must correctly set a defaultroute to your ISP. You can check this by connecting to your ISP and using the 'route -n' command from a console. There should be a default gateway entry at the bottom of the list that has the IP address your ISP assigned you (assuming your ISP uses dynamic addresses as is common). If this is all correct you should only need to set the default gateway on your winboxes to point to your linuxbox and communication should work. Also, note that this only gets communication up - it doesn't touch getting the linuxbox to automatically dial out on demand. For that you might check out the following URL for help. And perhaps others have suggestions on that topic too. I'm still struggling with the demand dialing part of the equation myself. Good Luck. http://www.nleaudio.com/bnotes/dialondemand.htm -- Mike Rambo Media Electronics Specialist Lansing School District
Re: [expert] Linux on Compaq Prosignia?
/dev/null wrote: Does anyone have any experience with running Linux on Compaq Prosignia? Any web sites, etc...? We're running Proliants but the following site references Prosignia's too. http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/ Regards, -- Mike Rambo Media Electronics Specialist Lansing School District
Re: [expert] server question
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Is it practical / advisable to set up a single machine to act as a firewall/email/web server or am I looking for MAJOR trouble. I'm trying to run a SOHO with limited resources/computers but still need all the goodies. Practical - yes. Advisable - depends upon your situation. I think the general argument for putting the firewall on a machine by itself is that the more services you run on a machine the more potential there is that someone might be able to break it. We're running several machines that provide the resources you've mentioned, including the firewall, all on one machine - it's not hard to do. Then again, we don't have real great security concerns either. From what I've read, if you're a real stickler for detail you can tighten down the single machine pretty well but if you need the ultimate in security there's no substitute for a separate, very tight and restricted, firewall. Hope this helps. -- Mike Rambo Media Electronics Specialist Lansing School District [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] PPPD 'Lag'
On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, you wrote: Mr Sentient wrote: I have my linux 'gateway' setup to Dial-on-demand. Works great (well, almost). At the moment, if i try to connect with mIRC from my Windows Workstations, it takes 8-12 seconds before the gateway dials up. Is there any way I can shorten this time, without affect internal network performance? Thx in advance Would you mind going through a list of steps to do this. I've been trying to accomplish this for some time now without success. I have ppp itself working fine. I can telnet to the gateway and issue 'ifup ppp0' or do it from the gateway console and every machine on my network can communicate with the internet so I conclude forwarding and ipmasq is fine. I cannot figure out how to get the gateway to come up on demand automatically. I've tried several things with the demand option in pppd and tried to figure out diald once but with no success. Anything you (or anyone else) can offer? -- Mike Rambo Lansing School District
Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.
Mark Weaver wrote: ok...I'm a little confused here. If the toolbox is already included in this version of VMware how do I use it. The only thing that happens when I click on "Install VM toolbox" is it asks me if I want to read the documentation. I haven't seen how to use it yet. There are complete instructions on the VMware site. Assuming you're installing vmware for linux to run a win9x virtual machine you do: start the windows virtual machine enable the tools install mode open my computer and click the floppy drive there will be a toolsexe run it and follow the directions. -- Mike Rambo Lansing School District
Re: [expert] 7.1: I want reduced password complexity enforcement
Heinz Wittenbecher wrote: I know that's how earlier RedHats and even RH 6.2 behaves. It just "suggests" but 'drake seems to insist. Heinz Are you sure it's not accepting the passwords. My Mdk 7.1 system (medium security) behaves exactly as our RH 6.2 systems. It complains about password length etc but accepts them and functions fine. I have used adduser/passwd from the console, linuxconf from drakconf, user addition from drakconf, and webmin. They all accept a user of joe with a password of joe. They DO loudly complain about the password being bad (too short or dictionary) but they accept it just fine. If you're certain it's not accepting the users with the 'bad' passwords then I can't imagine what it might be. My system does. Have you tried webmin? http://127.0.0.1:1 (or http://localhost:1 ) from a browser if you want to try. Make sure the service is running if you don't connect. -- Mike Rambo Lansing School District
Re: [expert] cron stuff
Vic wrote: OK coolacious, thanks!! Just to verify (sorry) I put 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * play /Data/wavs/bong.wav in my 0anacron file just like you typed it? I'm not familiar with the 0anacron part - perhaps someone more knowledgeable will remark on that. I've always used crontab to set up stuff such as this. As long as 'play' is in your path the rest looks right. You might look at... http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/ ...as there is a blurb about cron there. -- Mike Rambo Lansing School District
Re: [expert] cron stuff
Andrew George wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Mike Rambo wrote: 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /path/to/do/something will make something happen every 10 minutes. Just wondering...wouldn't 0-50/10 * * * * /yourcommand Accomplish the same thing? Or do I need to read that MAN page again!! Andrew Sorry, didn't know you could do that - learn something new every day :-). -- Mike Rambo Lansing School District
Re: [expert] cron stuff
Vic wrote: I wonder how you make your cron daemon do things in less increments than just on the hour? I can make my system play a sound (a bong) to strike the hour by putting play bong.wav in my 0anacron file in the cron.hourly directory, but I want to have some other things happen like maybe every 30 minutes or on specific dates like appointment reminders if this is possible. Thanks Vic 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /path/to/do/something will make something happen every 10 minutes. -- Mike Rambo Lansing School District
[expert] segmentation fault doing a text install
We have an existing server (Compaq Proliant 2500) that we want to move from RedHat 6.2 to Mandrake 7.1. It has been running RedHat 6.2 since last spring when it was first installed but we've never done any optimizing for the Pentium class cpu. I had decided it would be easier to just put a distro on the machine that had everything already compiled for a Pentium cpu than manually recompiling the existing OS - especially since it hadn't been used for hardly anything to this point and there was thus no user data involved. The problem I've got is that we haven't found any distro yet that can identify the oddball video that this server has built in (thus no graphical install) and Mandrake is no different. Text mode install fails with a 'segmentation faults - seems like memory is missing as install crashes' every time it's ran. The system detects and loads the driver for an ncr53c8xx scsi card correctly and then asks whether there are any other scsi cards in the machine. When I answer 'no' it immediately displays the segmentation fault message and wants to shutdown. Anyone have any idea what I can do. I've tried to do a text install on a couple of other occasions (with different systems) and have never been able to get it to work but this is the first time I've never found a way around the problem. Thus far I'm simply unable to put Mandrake on this machine. I can't locate any updates that would appear to address this problem. Any ideas? -- Mike Rambo Lansing School District
[expert] Trouble accomplishing FTP installation
Hi all, We need to be able to install mdk Linux over our WAN. I have tried to copy the contents of the two CD's to our public ftp directory (placing the RPMS2 directory and contents from the second CD in the Mandrake directory along side the RPMS dir from the install CD) but cannot get the ftp install to succeed. I get the error 'cannot find file hdlists' and the install crashes. Is copying the contents of the second CD causing the problem or is something else going on? I know that copying the CD contents to a server (or even just loopback mounting the .iso file) works great with RH62 but I cannot get mdk71 to work as I've described. Any idea's? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo Lansing School District
