[Cooker] different problems
Hello, A lot of GL packages came linked with libglide.so as xmms-mesa-1.2.2-1mdk ... is it normal ? I have a big i18n problem with dia-0.85-1mdk and gftp-2.0.7-1mdk, these programs crash (segmentation fault) when I'm in french but not in english. sawfish configuration tool doesn't work well, capplet crashes gnome-center when i try to configure workspaces (sawfish-0.30-1mdk). if somebody can help me ? thank a lot ! Thierry.
Re: [Cooker] Sticky bit
Oi, your explanation of the sticky bit is not correct. If it is set, only the owner of the file can delete the file. See the following example: btp333@btp5x14 ~ cd /usr/cd-image Directory: /usr/cd-image /usr/cd-image btp333@btp5x14 /usr/cd-image ls -al total 6567 drwxrwxrwt 5 btp301 bt_p35120 Jul 11 19:39 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 1024 Feb 24 21:10 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3614 Dec 30 1999 README.multi drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 12 2000 image -rw-r--r-- 1 btp434 bt_p4 6672384 Jul 3 14:12 image1.dat drwxr-xr-x 2 root root12288 Jan 4 2000 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 btp333 bt_p31024 Jun 8 15:37 mandrake btp333@btp5x14 /usr/cd-image Here we se a directory where the sticky bit is set. The user logged in is 'btp333' he could do a rm -rf mandrake and the directory mandrake will be deleted (he would not do it, because Mandrake is a nice distribution). But he cannot delete image1.dat because it belongs to 'btp434'. 'btp301' as the owner of the directory /usr/cd-image cannot delete anything inside it, because he does not own any of the files. 'root' naturally can delete all files and the directory /usr/cd-image itself (the directory is on a local disk of the machine). Till "Eric MC.D" wrote: To Till, For ex. if rwxrwxrwx is attributed to a file everyone can delete this file. The SUID and SGID bit are normaly applicable to prog. files. But this is also available for dirs. This is the Sticky bit for dirs. If the Sticky bit is set, only the prop. of the dir can delete a file in this dir. (also the root (0) of corse) To set this bit do: chmod u+t /dir or chmod 1777 /dir Now it becomes drwxrwxrwxt.
[Cooker] RPM Freshen Problem
When are we going to solve the problem with the -F feature of rpm saying "package whatever is already installed", and refusing to "freshen" all the other new packages given as arguments? That is, if you do "rpm -Fvh x*" and at least one of the packages begining with "x" is not new, the command will not update the others. This makes it very hard to update system every night, making the debugging of cooker much more cumbersome and problematic, not to say "manual" also ;-). I think this has been there for like two weeks now ... it this out of your control? -- Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Re: [Cooker] Help...Someone..!
Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for that. I await your menu editor. I have read the contents of /usr/doc/menu-2.1.5, and I'm trying to live with it, but I *do* *not* like it at all. If I wanted to be dictated to about how I do my everyday work then perhaps I would have chosen a distribution like Debian. [...] Out of sheer bloody-mindness, I continue, carefully backing up /usr/share/applnk so I can restore *my* links when a new RPM has zapped them. But I really don't need this and I'd appreciate it if you would consider whether the Debian Menu System really is "excellent software" or not. Put your links as menu entries in /usr/lib/menu/ and you'll have no more problems. :-) We've been criticized a lot for that menu system. Of course mainly by KDE or Gnome users, because on these desktops the menu system was standardly quite usable, compared to the one in icewm and so on. But, we (at least, "I") still believe that this is a good thing. Whatever RPM you install from our install cd, you'll get the menu entry in a uniform way, at the logical location, whatever WM you use. Now the menu is full of many apps ;-). Moreover, it's *very* good for the "newbie" users, for which this is a pain to "guess" what binary they have to use to try the software they want to. I often heard questions like "which is the *code* to launch that program". That reflects the understanding of basic users, and we have to make their life easier. Everyone has been a basic user once in his life. And for me, who I believe is not a "basic" user, it's a very neat system, once you know that you have to put the menu entries in the correct location. Of course, the kde menu editor is for the moment perfectly useless and this is a problem. I believe the menu editor soon to come shall fix that. -- Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: Fwd: Re: [Cooker] Help...Someone..!
Submitted 13-Jul-00 by Guillaume Cottenceau: We've been criticized a lot for that menu system. Of course mainly by KDE or Gnome users, because on these desktops the menu system was standardly quite usable, compared to the one in icewm and so on. I think that part of the problem is that not only do many apps come with predefined menu entries for Gnome/KDE and not our menu system, but when we use another variety (i.e. not mandrakeized) version of the window managers we no longer get menu entries with newly installed mandrakeized apps. Perhaps a contrib package could be made available that has the appropriate scripts from /etc/menu-methods so that those who run a vanilla or Helix Gnome, compile KDE themselves, or what have you can still benefit from the menu system. This package would also make "our" menu system available for users of other distros. I'm sure we all agree that if we want this system to become stndard it has to be accessible. One point that bugs me about the menu system is that the docs say that I can put menu entries in ~/.menu, but in practice this does not seem to work :/ -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [Cooker] 3dfx voodoo3 with XFree4
Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Hoyt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't the newest 4.0.1 supposed to include the tdfx.0 driver now? supposed to, yes. i did not tested it so I don't know. fred? yes : $ rpm -qlp XFree86-server-4.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm | grep tdfx /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/tdfx_drv.o -- Fred - May the source be with you
[Cooker] hackerkernel-source
The requires in "hackkernel-source-2.4.0-0.8mdk.i586.rpm" need to be fixed. [root@fulgore:/home/ftp/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS]# rpm -ivh hackkernel-2.4.0-0.8mdk.i586.rpm hackkernel-doc-2.4.0-0.8mdk.i586.rpm hackkernel-headers-2.4.0-0.8mdk.i586.rpm hackkernel ## hackkernel-doc ## hackkernel-headers ## [root@fulgore:/home/ftp/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS]# rpm -ivh hackkernel- hackkernel-2.4.0-0.8mdk.i586.rpm hackkernel-doc-2.4.0-0.8mdk.i586.rpm hackkernel-headers-2.4.0-0.8mdk.i586.rpm hackkernel-source-2.4.0-0.8mdk.i586.rpm [root@fulgore:/home/ftp/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS]# rpm -ivh hackkernel-source-2.4.0-0.8mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: hackkernel-headers = 2.4.0-test3-0.8mdk is needed by hackkernel-source-2.4.0-0.8mdk [root@fulgore:/home/ftp/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS]# -- Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] gnome-media and alsa
I installed latest gnome-media package, with nodeps as i don't use alsa. Gmix is broken : gmix: error in loading shared libraries: gmix: undefined symbol: snd_card_load I installed alsa-lib, it doesn't change anything. Note also that alsa-lib doesn't provides alsa-lib, only libaudio.so. -- : Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Sleep doesn't exists. Just lack of cafeine.
Re: [Cooker] gnome-media and alsa
Submitted 13-Jul-00 by Guillaume Rousse: Note also that alsa-lib doesn't provides alsa-lib, only libaudio.so. -- : An rpm provides itself by definition. For example, kernel-2.2.xx-xxmdk does not explicitly provide kernel (as shown below), but, because it is in the RPM database as an installed package, anything that requires kernel will be satisfied. /home/anton rpm -q --provides kernel module-info /home/anton -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [Cooker] RPM Freshen Problem
When are we going to solve the problem with the -F feature of rpm saying "package whatever is already installed", and refusing to "freshen" all the other new packages given as arguments? Good question. I still wait for a reply on my e-mail from last tuesday... This makes it very hard to update system every night, making the debugging of cooker much more cumbersome and problematic, not to say "manual" also ;-). Yes, confirmed. "Freshening" a running system is now a pain!!! I think this has been there for like two weeks now ... it this out of your control? Seems to be a problem with the original rpm tars: CHANGES under section "3.0.4 - 3.0.5" - internalize --freshen (Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]). E.g. in "depend.c" there is around line 631 the comment: /* FIXME: handling upgrades like this is *almost* okay. It doesn't check to make sure we're upgrading to a newer version, and it makes it difficult to generate a return code based on the number of packages which failed. */ Anyone who will fix this??? So long, Juergen
Re: [Cooker] Why so many corrupted rpms?
Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # rpm -U guile-1.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libguile.so.6 is needed by gnome-games-1.2.0-1mdk libguile.so.6 is needed by g-wrap-0.9.4-1mdk libguile.so.6 is needed by gnucash-1.4.2-3mdk well, this means you've to upgrade gnome-games, g-wrap gnucash too ...
[Cooker] How to Disk Copy a full Installation?
I am a system OEM in Bangalore,India selling systems bundled with Mandrake Linux. The problem is that with every system I sell, I need to install configure the system which takes HOURS!. Can I do a diskcopy instead? Please Help. This is a major bottleneck for me. SUNIL GUPTA LinkWorld.
[Cooker] Hackkernel 2.4.0-0.9mdk
Hello Further to my previous e-mail (Which went unanswered) I have a problem with this kernel: I have installed the kernel and amended grub accordingly. (It is running as the linux-up option) I have the initrd image which preloads reiserfs (Which is my filing system) I then get a VFS kernel panic, saying it is unable to mount root on sda5. It then recommends that I ammend a root= somewhere. Booting from 2.2.15 is fine. Any ideas??? Ta Alex
[Cooker] Go on, have a laugh at M$ expense
But seriously apparantly M$ are doing some market research (see http://www.firm.no/wi/p10541658/i.asp?r=157s=LTUUUYYVl=0) in the UK. Needless to say, having been forcefully removed from every list I had signed up to following a less than complimentary posting about the way Win 98 had screwed up my system, I answered the questions very honestly !!! Owen
[Cooker] installkernel grub
The installkernel script doesn't seem to play well with grub. Just for fun I installed a -9mdk kernel and it added an entry to menu.lst: (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-9mdk. /boot is a separate (ext2) partition at /dev/hda1 (aka hd0,0) so this entry pointed nowhere. -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [Re: [Re: [Cooker] libgncengine.so.0?]]
Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep, because it does not clear the old records. ? you mean, the noise in urpmi.cfg? I also have a file (urpmi.cfg) showing my ftp password in clear. not a big deal, is it? do you have any solution?
Re: [Cooker] urpmi holds promise.
David Walluck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know this list isn't tech support, but I have never been able t grasp urpmi. I can add an ftp sote, say rpmfind.net, and have it update me from there to cooker? The hdlists are very large aren't they? I'm living in the country now so I only get 28800 if it connects at all. And downloding a new hdlist every day would suck... yeah :(
Re: [Cooker] urpmi holds promise.
Bryan Paxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been playing around with urpmi a bit, wrote a little bash
wrapper/shell for it. I must say you've done a nice job pixel. The major
thing it lacks is a 'dist upgrade'. If there was a way to cleanly say
'rpm -qa | sort' then cut off the trailing version info(e.g.: -0.1.2-1mdk)
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" would do it
urpmi would become much more powerful.
i'm thinking about adding it. Not a big deal, and would be useful.
another big pb, is the handling of version constraints (eg: xxx-devel requires
xxx)
cu Pixel.
Re: [Cooker] a pure RMS compliant Linux-Mandrake distro (only GPLpackages)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pixel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: no Perl nope, perl is GPL *or* artistic, aka compatible with gpl... According to them, it's artistic, "a kinder and gentler" version of the GPL... It may be compatible, but it isn't the GPL, which was my point. /*perl.c * *Copyright (c) 1987-2000 Larry Wall * *You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public *License or the Artistic License, as specified in the README file.
Re: [Cooker] Sticky bit
Thomas SMETS wrote: Tx Eric, what did I do then when invoking chmod -Rv 6755 * ? Thomas, There you setted the 'Set user ID' and the 'Set group ID' !! BTW SUID and SGID. So when a file is set with ex: -rw-r--r-- with chmod 6755 becomes -rwsr-sr-x Remarked the 's' ? The SUID (s) replace the 'x'. See the description of chmod. So you setted new access priv. = (named) EXTENDED priv. to the user and group to facilitate the concept of access priv. used by processes and files. By this way you authorize other users to read and modif your data but only when using a prog who's select and control the plausibility on the modif in order to prevent any error. See also the EUID and RUID. Eric "Eric MC.D" wrote: Les SUID bit et SGID bit sont déterminants pour les droits d'accès des processus. Il ne sont normalement qu'applicables à des fichiers de programme. Mais il existe égal. des droits d'accès pour les rép. Si un utilisateur veut créer ou défaire un fichier dans un rép. où le droit d'accès est rwxrwxrwx il en est capable. Si tu veux que cela ne puisse être possible il existe donc ce qu'on appelle le Sticky bit pour les rép. Dans ce cas le signe t apparaît dans les droits attribués au reste du monde. Si le Sticky bit est appliqué seul le prop. peut supprimer un fichier du rép. Sauf le root biensur.(0) Il faut donc faire: chmod u+t /rép ou chmod 1777 /rép. Cela deviendra: drwxrwxrwxt .. C'est bien cela que tu veux ? Eric PS: la prochaine fois demande dans la liste debutant, comme cela il ne faut pas que se soit en Anglais. To Till, For ex. if rwxrwxrwx is attributed to a file everyone can delete this file. The SUID and SGID bit are normaly applicable to prog. files. But this is also available for dirs. This is the Sticky bit for dirs. If the Sticky bit is set, only the prop. of the dir can delete a file in this dir. (also the root (0) of corse) To set this bit do: chmod u+t /dir or chmod 1777 /dir Now it becomes drwxrwxrwxt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'lut, Est-ce que qqn pourrait me dire comment je puis realiser la chose suivante : /opt est un repertoire ou se trouve qq appli que je voudrais partager p.e. jdk's / jre's / Weblogic / ... (Weblogic cela sera pr plus tard, je crois) j'ai ensuite applique : chown -Rv root.users * # pr permettre a tt le monde d'etre reconnu comme utilsateur chmod -Rv 755 *# pr permettre a tt le monde de compiler d'executer ses pgrm Java mkdir src # Java source code mkdir Classes # Java class files Maintenant, je desire autoriser n'importe qui a creer des fichiers / repertoires / ... et les compiler, mais ss permettre d'ecraser ceux des autres. Je n'ai cependant pas reussi a utiliser le Sticky bit avec success. Qqn pourrait-il me donner des renseignement sur ce que je dois faire ? Merci, thomas, -- Thomas SMETS Phone : +32 (0)2 742. 05. 94. Av. de la Brabançonne 133 / 3 e-mail : tsmets @altern.org 1030 Bruxelles Quote of the day = Ignorance is when you don't know anything and somebody finds it out. === End of Quote =
Re: [Cooker] Sticky bit
Thomas SMETS wrote: I'd like to set my /opt directory as a king of shared environment. I downloaded jdk jre 1.1.8 / 1.2.2 / 1.3 set up some script so one could work with the three in different shells whitout too many clashes. Now what I want is to lock the directories so every one can see other's work but cannot overwrite it. I thought doing this would give the answer but it doesn't ! Every action is completed under the "root" account (su). Here set the Sticky bit 1xxx to the dir. Ex.: Thomas and Eric have acces to the /tmp dir. So Thomas decided to create a dir /tmp/new. Now Eric don't like Thomas, so he remove the /tmp/new when Thomas is away. Now, to protect his dir Thomas must set the Sticky bit so Eric can't remove it. The accesses however stay in place. # From /opt doing that would allow every member of the "users" group # to be part of the gid allowed for the files chown -Rv root.users * Here you setted (with shown) the SUID and SGID to '0'. Because the owner and group changed. Only chmod can change the extended acesses. # # Gives rx access to anyone (only root can modify) # Every one can access in full control every thing it creates (sticke bit) chmod -Rv 6755 * This way not only the owner AND root can modify, but EVEYONE ! If a SUID bit is placed say a prog, this prog obtain, the time he's used, the nbr of the owner with of corse all the priv. of the owner. Ex. : if the SGID is placed on a prog where the owner is 'root', then this prog obtain the '0' nbr = root and the prog an be executed. Do this with passwd and the user can change your passwd So know what you are doing. Octal values of are: Access priv.Value DUID bit4000 SGID2000 Now add both = 6000 and 6000 + 755 = 6755. Or chmod u+s filename for the SUID. and chmod g+s filename for the SGID. The SUID bit and SGID are only util if the exec authorization are defined in consequence. If they aren't for the owner or the group of the file, the identificator 's' is displayed as (S) majusc. Gives out : mode of jre118/lib/font.properties.ISO8859_15_FDIS changed to 6755 (rwsr-sr-x) For every files # Creating the Src destination directories. mkdir src mkdir Classes chmod -Rv 6755 * Now I though that as a normal user (su username) : Normal users are 500 + Su is for the root password to get the root priv. (0) 1. Could create any file I wanted in the ./src ./Classes without any troubles What troubles do you mean ? 2. Would receive the rxw priviledge while others would only get the rx. ??? I doesn't seems to be that. Could one hint to a solution ? Tx, Thomas, Did this respond on your question ? (Sorry about the English) Eric (see also the return on your next e-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'lut, Est-ce que qqn pourrait me dire comment je puis realiser la chose suivante : /opt est un repertoire ou se trouve qq appli que je voudrais partager p.e. jdk's / jre's / Weblogic / ... (Weblogic cela sera pr plus tard, je crois) j'ai ensuite applique : chown -Rv root.users * # pr permettre a tt le monde d'etre reconnu comme utilsateur chmod -Rv 6755 *# pr permettre a tt le monde de compiler d'executer ses pgrm Java mkdir src # Java source code mkdir Classes # Java class files Maintenant, je desire autoriser n'importe qui a creer des fichiers / repertoires / ... et les compiler, mais ss permettre d'ecraser ceux des autres. Je n'ai cependant pas reussi a utiliser le Sticky bit avec success. Qqn pourrait-il me donner des renseignement sur ce que je dois faire ? Merci, thomas, -- Thomas SMETS Phone : +32 (0)2 742. 05. 94. Av. de la Brabançonne 133 / 3 e-mail : tsmets @altern.org 1030 Bruxelles Quote of the day = Ignorance is when you don't know anything and somebody finds it out. === End of Quote =
Re: [Cooker] How to Disk Copy a full Installation?
Link World [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am a system OEM in Bangalore,India selling systems bundled with
Mandrake Linux. The problem is that with every system I sell, I need to
install configure the system which takes HOURS!. Can I do a diskcopy
instead?
Please Help. This is a major bottleneck for me.
many solutions:
- make an install on drive hdb, then either
1. dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc
2. dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc count=1 ; kernel_reread /dev/hdc ;
mke2fs /dev/hdc1 ; mount /dev/hdb1 /source ; mount /dev/hdc1 /dest ; cp -a
/source /dest
- try the oem feature
3. - burn a cd out of *latest* cooker
- boot on it telling "oem" to syslinux
!! it will destroy every data on the harddrive !!
- you now have a very automated install matrix
(duplicate it with "dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc bs=1M count=730")
put the harddrive in the oem box, the user will now have an *very* automated
install, just asking the root password and user password.
4. (just like 3. without burning a cd, doing the first part by hand)
have a look at the /etc/oem script on the rescue and do it by hand...
cu Pixel.
comments:
1. maybe copy unnecessary things - take too long
solution - use bs=8k count=
2. kernel_reread can be found on the new rescue, source is also at end of this
mail. This solution works with one partition. Can be easily enhanced to many
primary partitions... For extended partitions, more complicated, but not much :)
3. has just been added in latest cooker. It may still have some pb. The main
current limitation is IDE only, though it can be fixed easily for special cases.
#include stdio.h
#include sys/mount.h
#include fcntl.h
void die(char *msg)
{
perror(msg);
exit(1);
}
void kernel_read(char *dev)
{
int fd;
if ((fd = open(dev, O_RDONLY)) == -1) die("can't open device");
ioctl(fd, BLKRRPART, 0);
close(fd);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if (argc != 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: kernel_read_part hard drive device\n");
exit(1);
}
kernel_read(argv[1]);
}
Re: [Cooker] Sticky bit
Till Kamppeter wrote: Oi, your explanation of the sticky bit is not correct. If it is set, only the owner of the file can delete the file. See the following example: btp333@btp5x14 ~ cd /usr/cd-image Directory: /usr/cd-image /usr/cd-image btp333@btp5x14 /usr/cd-image ls -al total 6567 drwxrwxrwt 5 btp301 bt_p35120 Jul 11 19:39 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 1024 Feb 24 21:10 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3614 Dec 30 1999 README.multi drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 12 2000 image -rw-r--r-- 1 btp434 bt_p4 6672384 Jul 3 14:12 image1.dat drwxr-xr-x 2 root root12288 Jan 4 2000 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 btp333 bt_p31024 Jun 8 15:37 mandrake btp333@btp5x14 /usr/cd-image Here we se a directory where the sticky bit is set. The user logged in is 'btp333' he could do a rm -rf mandrake and the directory mandrake will be deleted (he would not do it, because Mandrake is a nice distribution). Yes, he can. Because the Sticky bit is not set and the are of the same group. But he cannot delete image1.dat because it belongs to 'btp434'. 'btp301' as the owner of the directory /usr/cd-image cannot delete anything inside it, because he does not own any of the files. 'root' naturally can delete all files and the directory /usr/cd-image itself (the directory is on a local disk of the machine). That's a standard right. Have nothing todo for rights when belong to the same group. Wrong explanation of me ? Till "Eric MC.D" wrote: To Till, For ex. if rwxrwxrwx is attributed to a file everyone can delete this file. The SUID and SGID bit are normaly applicable to prog. files. But this is also available for dirs. This is the Sticky bit for dirs. If the Sticky bit is set, only the prop. of the dir can delete a file in this dir. (also the root (0) of corse) To set this bit do: chmod u+t /dir or chmod 1777 /dir Now it becomes drwxrwxrwxt.
Re: [Cooker] Sticky bit
Interresting subject, do it ? Eric
Re: [Cooker] How to Disk Copy a full Installation?
The best is Kickstart, but when it is not possible to use it (too different machines, distro w/o Kickstart) I do more or less the following: Prepare the copying: - Install one machine completely and make a boot disk for it - Connect the installed machine to your local network Do this for every copy copy: - Connect a second PC with blank HD to your network - Boot the machine with a rescue CD (CD of MDK 7.1, or SuSE, or some of these credit-card rescue CDs which you get on every Linux fair. - partition the harddisk with 'fdisk' and format it with 'mkfs' and 'mkswap'. - Make it known for the first machine by entering it in roots .rhosts, /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts.equiv - Get access to the network entering hostname [your hostname] ifconfig eth0 inet [your IP] netmask [your netmask] route add default gw [your gateway IP] - Test the access with 'netstat -nr', 'ping [IP of first PC]' - Make mountpoints and mount all disk partitions, so that the later root directory will be /mnt. - Copy the 'root' partition cd /mnt rsh [IP of first PC] '(tar -cvplf - /)' | tar -xvpf - - Copy the other partitions cd /mnt rsh [IP of first PC] '(cd / ; tar -cvplf - usr)' | tar -xvpf - cd /mnt/usr rsh [IP of first PC] '(cd /usr ; tar -cvplf - local)' | tar -xvpf - cd .. - Adapt the configuration files (they are in /mnt/etc/... now) and edit /mnt/etc/inittab to start in a non-graphical run mode. - Boot the PC with the boot disk of the first PC, ignore all error messages. - Edit /etc/lilo.conf end enter 'lilo' to make the PC bootable. - Configure sound, graphics, network, printers, and so on with the Maandrake tools. - Boot the PC and all should work. Link World wrote: I am a system OEM in Bangalore,India selling systems bundled with Mandrake Linux. The problem is that with every system I sell, I need to install configure the system which takes HOURS!. Can I do a diskcopy instead? Please Help. This is a major bottleneck for me. SUNIL GUPTA LinkWorld.
[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] a2ps-4.13-2mdk
Ugh. We both goofed :(
Here's a specfile patch:
--- a2ps.spec Wed Jul 12 09:46:37 2000
+++ a2ps.spec.fixed Thu Jul 13 04:57:54 2000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
%define name a2ps
%define version 4.13
-%define release 2mdk
+%define release 3mdk
Summary: Converts text and other types of files to PostScript(TM).
Name: %{name}
@@ -55,17 +55,18 @@
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%post
-/sbin/ldconfig
-%{_install_info} a2ps.info
-%{_install_info} ogonkify.info
-%{_install_info} regex.info
+%{_install_info a2ps.info}
+%{_install_info ogonkify.info}
+%{_install_info regex.info}
+
+%post devel -p /sbin/ldconfig
%preun
-%{_remove_install_info} a2ps.info
-%{_remove_install_info} ogonkify.info
-%{_remove_install_info} regex.info
+%{_remove_install_info a2ps.info}
+%{_remove_install_info ogonkify.info}
+%{_remove_install_info regex.info}
-%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+%postun devel -p /sbin/ldconfig
%files -f %{name}.lang
%defattr(-,root,root)
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%{_includedir}/*
%changelog
+* Thu Jul 13 2000 Anton Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4.13-3mdk
+- Ugh. Fix %post and %preun (my fault :( )
+- move ldconfig (%post and %postun) to -devel
* Wed Jul 12 2000 Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4.13-2mdk
- split package in normal -devel one
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Re: [Cooker] How to Disk Copy a full Installation?
What about chooisng expert install and allowing it to create an autoinstall floppy? I have to re-format and re-install cooker every time I want to do clean testing. I use the autoinstall floppy (in RH known as kickstart) about 4-5 times per day. -Chris On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Link World wrote: I am a system OEM in Bangalore,India selling systems bundled with Mandrake Linux. The problem is that with every system I sell, I need to install configure the system which takes HOURS!. Can I do a diskcopy instead? Please Help. This is a major bottleneck for me. SUNIL GUPTA LinkWorld.
Re: [Cooker] different problems
Thierry SAURA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, A lot of GL packages came linked with libglide.so as xmms-mesa-1.2.2-1mdk ... is it normal ? No. For the moment Mesa is only running accelerated with 3dfx cards. Giuseppe's gonna make separate things bu we need a good solution to have acceleration to 3dfx and utah-glx-supported cards, which we don't have for the moment, as the GL libs are different.. I have a big i18n problem with dia-0.85-1mdk and gftp-2.0.7-1mdk, these programs crash (segmentation fault) when I'm in french but not in english. sawfish configuration tool doesn't work well, capplet crashes gnome-center when i try to configure workspaces (sawfish-0.30-1mdk). if somebody can help me ? thank a lot ! Uh this is bleeding edge and the authors sometimes release bugged software, that's why! :-) -- Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
[Cooker] ANNOUNCE: kde upgrade
Hello, We are in the process of the final rounds of some testing before we upgrade kde in cooker to kde2. This is a full replacement to the kde1 desktop and a lot of the associated utilities. KDE2 is a clean and pretty stable desktop with a lot of enhancements that I think will be very nice to have. With this update comes koffice which is the kde office platform. for more information on kde2 please visit the web site at http://us.mandrakesoft.com/kde/www If you have any comments or questions please let me know. -Chris
Re: [Cooker] How to Disk Copy a full Installation?
Link World [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am a system OEM in Bangalore,India selling systems bundled with Mandrake Linux. The problem is that with every system I sell, I need to install configure the system which takes HOURS!. Can I do a diskcopy instead? You probably can take advantage of the auto_install stuff. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/drakx/auto_inst.html -- Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Re: [Cooker] How to Disk Copy a full Installation?
Link World wrote: I am a system OEM in Bangalore,India selling systems bundled with Mandrake Linux. The problem is that with every system I sell, I need to install configure the system which takes HOURS!. Can I do a diskcopy instead? Please Help. This is a major bottleneck for me. SUNIL GUPTA LinkWorld. OMHO, Norton Ghost.Suggested by NAQUIN Frédérick. Eric
Re: [Cooker] Sticky bit
Another (maybe usefull) (restricted access):
If you are an exp. admin you know that users create files
they don't use anymore.
What create unused space.
The solution is to search the files who's are not accessed
a long time and to delete them.
But, as user to prevent this, at the point of user,
create a command in your .profile or .bashrc like:
find $HOME -type f -exec touch {} \; /dev/null 21
Run it in the background. So the admin can't find them.
For the admin:
A process more radical is to use the command 'du' on
the dirs of the users.
This display the nbrs of blocs of 512 bytes of every dir and
the admin can calc the utilised diskspace.
Ok, and what if the admin can't convainc the user
to delete his files ?
Eric
[Cooker] Hydrogen2 USparc: no networking?!?
Hello -- I have managed to install beta 2 of Mandrake 7.1 on this Ultra10 Creator3D (P/N: 380-0196-01) that was scrounged up at work (no one knows what it was used for, no S/W was with it, etc.) and after fighting a bit with X configuration and with the partition table (seperate bugs that will have to be reported seperatly), I now have a fast Linux box with a nice big screen. But networking doesn't work -- it looks like the NIC was not even detected! When I look into /dev, there doesn't seem to be any NIC detected. No "eth0", "eth1", etc. And the NIC Solaris IDs as "hme0" (or is it "hme1" ?) isn't there either. So how do I get networking to work -- or is it even possible with beta2? p.s.: are there any VCs under 7.1/Sparc? The "Wintel" key sequence doesn't seem to work! Bruno Majewski Internetworking Specialist / Spécialiste d'Interéseautage ATT Canada tél.: 613.688.4712 fax.: 613.688.4535 e-mail / courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Re: [Cooker] Why so many corrupted rpms?]
I hope you are proud of this answer !-(( These are the latest version available, so this means that YOU have to upgrade them. Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # rpm -U guile-1.4-1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libguile.so.6 is needed by gnome-games-1.2.0-1mdk libguile.so.6 is needed by g-wrap-0.9.4-1mdk libguile.so.6 is needed by gnucash-1.4.2-3mdk well, this means you've to upgrade gnome-games, g-wrap gnucash too ... =-= kk1 Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
RE: [Cooker] 3dfx voodoo3 with XFree4
Where i can take a XFREE 4.01 mdk of course ? thanks a lot! -- From: Frederic Lepied[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quinta-feira, 13 de julho de 2000 06:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] 3dfx voodoo3 with XFree4 Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "Hoyt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't the newest 4.0.1 supposed to include the tdfx.0 driver now? supposed to, yes. i did not tested it so I don't know. fred? yes : $ rpm -qlp XFree86-server-4.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm | grep tdfx /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/tdfx_drv.o -- Fred - May the source be with you
[Cooker] iostream.h missing in 7.1 ?
I was helping someone today because they couldn't find iostream.h libstdc++-devel isn't included in 7.1(neither is tcpd-devel for that matter). Why is this ? -- Bryan Paxton "How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it." -- Linus Torvalds. Public key can be found at http://speedbros.org/Bryan_Paxton.asc
[Cooker] IPMasqAdm
Something I don't see in most distros is IPMasqAdm, which I've seen mentioned over and over in some documents. I've found only a SuSE RPM and a generic RPM, both on rpmfind.net. Is it not used anymore? Is there something better? Has anyone made a Mdk RPM? Am I blind? Don Head [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Linux Mentor [1 314 692-1942] Wave Technologies, Inc. [1 800 826-4640 x1942] [AIM - Don Wave][ICQ - 18804935][Yahoo - Don_Wave]
Re: [Cooker] IDE patches unstable?
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Thierry Vignaud wrote: I don't think it's an eide driver bug : it's just that the new driver stress more hardware (if your eide hd and controller reports to support udma, you just want to use it). Huh. According to hdparm, it's not using dma at all. /dev/hdb: multcount= 16 (on) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 977/255/63, sectors = 15698592, start = 0 the problem won't appear with kernel-linus because it's nicer with hardware (try hdparm -Tt on /dev/hda to compare). For me, it's a hardware bug (hd or cable; eg, for udma66, lots of read error were due to bad cables ...) Alas, I don't have udma66, my motherboard is older than that... As far as I'm concerned, if one piece of software can read a piece of hardware perfectly, whereas another piece of software has difficulty with it, that's an obvious software problem. There may be hardware issues involved, but what it boils down to is the second piece of software isn't robust enough to support as much hardware as the first one does. The second piece of software is doing something with the hardware in question that it shouldn't. If there's no way to disable that feature (i.e. some hdparm setting to make it work), the software's busted and needs to be fixed.
[Cooker] another bad rpm :-((
# rpm -U librep-0.12.3-2mdk.i586.rpm unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic I am loosing faith, above all with one update a day :-( =-= kk1 Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
[Cooker] Burners
Hi, I'm going to be upgrading to a new ide burner...the HP 9300I and need to know some information. #1, how well does it work in Linux #2, will I have to recompile the kernel to make it into an emulated scsi device? If the kernel must be recompiled, I have a recomendation for the kernel crew: Build the kernel so that atapi devices such as burners are automatically setup as scsi emulation. I know how to build the kernel, but always end up pulling my hair out when I build a custom kernel. B. K. Barley
Re: [Cooker] ANNOUNCE: kde upgrade
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Christopher Molnar wrote: If you have any comments or questions please let me know. -Chris I hope you consider the problem I reported with nearly every app segfaulting. This makes it very unusable, not even usable for simple tasks. I am running cooker current as of today. I don't know of anything that would be causing this problem aside from bad code on KDE's part. It is an alpha after all... And an interesting note is that I stopped using GNOME because 1.0.x would crash every day (almost as much as Windows) whereas KDE 1.1.2 is nice and solid. I hope KDE2 will evenrtually meet that standard as well.
Re: [Cooker] IPMasqAdm
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 04:22:26PM -0500, Don Head wrote: Something I don't see in most distros is IPMasqAdm, which I've seen mentioned over and over in some documents. I've found only a SuSE RPM and a generic RPM, both on rpmfind.net. Is it not used anymore? Is there something better? Has anyone made a Mdk RPM? Am I blind? What's ipmasqadm? Do you want an rpm made? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org Current Linux uptime: 3 days 21 hours 24 minutes.
Re: [Cooker] another bad rpm :-((
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 04:44:31PM -0700, Quel Qun wrote: # rpm -U librep-0.12.3-2mdk.i586.rpm unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic I am loosing faith, above all with one update a day :-( I mirror cooker here every hour and it's perfectly fine. The reason for many new updates with librep was because of new versions and because of a little oops in -1mdk. If you'll notice, it went from 0.12.2 to 0.12.3 in a three day period, and from 0.12.3-1mdk to -2mdk in one day so I'm not sure what you're talking about? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org Current Linux uptime: 3 days 21 hours 26 minutes.
[Cooker] MySQL Client Program Problems.
Hello Guys. I am not sure if you know about this but I use the mysql_setpermission files quite often. However...the RPMS that I have gotten recently which is 3.22.32 version, it have client version of 9.38 or something. Now...here is the problem I came across when I tried to use it. I type in the command to start and after giving the correct password, this is what I get back. [root@unixhost1 bin]# mysql_setpermission Password for user to connect to MySQL: Can't make a connection to the mysql server. The error: Protocol mismatch. Server Version = 10 Client Version = 9 at /usr/bin/mysql_setpermission line 65, STDIN chunk 1. [root@unixhost1 bin]# I cannot figure out how to solve this, but I really need this fixed ASAP, since I use them to do the quick add of the mysql databases for our customers and after this upgrade...well.. I am really up the creek here. Any help is appreciated.
Re: [Cooker] urpmi holds promise.
Yeah : ( Sadly this is just a part that will take long and boring time.
I'm willing to put in time. What would need to be done is a manual break down of
every package of
it's requires and provides, put it all in a lovely list(via patch), write a parser for
the list,
and update the file as needed. This would not only make for better dep handling but it
would also
save time on updated your package/dep repository, as frowned on in another e-mail.
So e.g.: urpmi --updatedb
Would then simply grab a patch from whatever mirror patch it to the package/dep list
and yeah, well
you get it : P It sounds kinda of kludgy the way I've explained it, but I'm sure
could be done
cleanly.
That or simply have an hdlist which can be patched with ease.
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Bryan Paxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been playing around with urpmi a bit, wrote a little bash
wrapper/shell for it. I must say you've done a nice job pixel. The major
thing it lacks is a 'dist upgrade'. If there was a way to cleanly say
'rpm -qa | sort' then cut off the trailing version info(e.g.: -0.1.2-1mdk)
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" would do it
urpmi would become much more powerful.
i'm thinking about adding it. Not a big deal, and would be useful.
another big pb, is the handling of version constraints (eg: xxx-devel requires
xxx)
cu Pixel.
--
Bryan Paxton
"How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I
only coded it."
-- Linus Torvalds.
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Re: [Cooker] Burners
root wrote: Hi, I'm going to be upgrading to a new ide burner...the HP 9300I and need to know some information. #1, how well does it work in Linux #2, will I have to recompile the kernel to make it into an emulated scsi device? If the kernel must be recompiled, I have a recomendation for the kernel crew: Build the kernel so that atapi devices such as burners are automatically setup as scsi emulation. I know how to build the kernel, but always end up pulling my hair out when I build a custom kernel. B. K. Barley I have just installed the HP8250i as a backup device (they are basically the same, but the 9300I is faster). You don't need to do anything, just add hda=ide-scsi to the boot line in grub. My menu.lst file has the lines: title kernel-2.2.16-9mdksmp kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.2.16-9mdksmp root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x0f06 hda=ide-scsi initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.2.16-9mdksmp.img Which makes the writer (on /dev/hda normally) an IDE-SCSI device. It also makes the slave device an IDE-SCSI device, and if you don't want this you need to add an ignore= argument. Since I use a SCSI system, I don't care. Even if you do have a slave device (I just happen to have a Zip drive there) it is still available, it's just got a SCSI name. This may be marginally less efficient than directly accessing it, but I suspect this is pretty marginal. Make the edit and reboot. Then "cdrecord -scanbus" will list it. If you want to use it for backups, check out Fraser McCrossan's excellent cddump program. Really nice to be able to take a set of CDs into work in the certain knowlege that if the house burns down, I'll still be able to re-load everything on any machine anywhere (almost) :-) /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science PH: +61-8-8303-5586 The University of Adelaide FAX:+61-8-8303-4366 Adelaide 5005 South Australia
[Cooker] alsaplayer-0.99.32-3mdk
We are apparently missing some files (/usr/lib/alsaplayer/output/*) for this package: /home/anton alsaplayer AlsaPlayer 0.99.32 (C) 1999 Andy Lo A Foe [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others, see AUTHORS file for details ERROR: I could not find a suitable output module on your system. Make sure they're in "/usr/lib/alsaplayer/output/". Use the -o paræmeter to select one. ERROR: failed to load output add-on. Exiting... /home/anton rpm -ql alsaplayer /usr/bin/alsaplayer /usr/doc/alsaplayer-0.99.32 /usr/doc/alsaplayer-0.99.32/TODO /usr/doc/alsaplayer-0.99.32/sockmon.txt /usr/doc/alsaplayer-0.99.32/wishlist.txt /usr/lib/alsaplayer /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libalsa.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libalsa.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libbarfft.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libbarfft.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libcdda.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libcdda.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libfftscope.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libfftscope.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/liblevelmeter.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/liblevelmeter.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/liblogbarfft.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/liblogbarfft.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libmod.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libmod.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libmonoscope.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libmonoscope.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libmpg123.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libmpg123.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libnull.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libnull.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/liboss.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/liboss.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libspacescope.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libspacescope.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libsynaescope.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libsynaescope.so /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libwav.la /usr/lib/alsaplayer/libwav.so /usr/lib/menu/alsaplayer -- _ _|_|_ ( ) *Anton Graham /v\ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] /( )X (m_m) GPG ID: 18F78541 Penguin Powered!
Re: [Cooker] How to Disk Copy a full Installation?
Dear Mr. Christopher, Your Solution appears fine as a re-installation aid. But How do I do a DiskCopy? In Windows, I set up a secondary master, format it, and use Diskcopy c: d: /e/c/q/h/r/y from command prompt. The resulting disk when installed in the new system does not boot, so I set the bootable partition from Fdisk and the system is fully replicated. All program files settings work. Is there any such DISKDUMP facility from hda to hdb in LINUX? Sunil Gupta LinkWorld. Christopher Molnar wrote: What about chooisng expert install and allowing it to create an autoinstall floppy? I have to re-format and re-install cooker every time I want to do clean testing. I use the autoinstall floppy (in RH known as kickstart) about 4-5 times per day. -Chris On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Link World wrote: I am a system OEM in Bangalore,India selling systems bundled with Mandrake Linux. The problem is that with every system I sell, I need to install configure the system which takes HOURS!. Can I do a diskcopy instead? Please Help. This is a major bottleneck for me. SUNIL GUPTA LinkWorld.
Re: [Cooker] How to Disk Copy a full Installation?
Dear Mr. Till Kamppeter, Your Solution appears fine for a networked environment. But How do I do a DiskCopy? In Windows, I set up a secondary master, format it, and use Diskcopy c: d: /e/c/q/h/r/y from dos box. The resulting disk when installed in the new system does not boot, so I set the bootable patron from Fdisk and the system is fully replicated. All program files settings work. Is there any such DISKDUMP facility from hda to hdb in LINUX? Sunil Gupta LinkWorld. Till Kamppeter wrote: The best is Kickstart, but when it is not possible to use it (too different machines, distro w/o Kickstart) I do more or less the following: Prepare the copying: - Install one machine completely and make a boot disk for it - Connect the installed machine to your local network Do this for every copy copy: - Connect a second PC with blank HD to your network - Boot the machine with a rescue CD (CD of MDK 7.1, or SuSE, or some of these credit-card rescue CDs which you get on every Linux fair. - partition the harddisk with 'fdisk' and format it with 'mkfs' and 'mkswap'. - Make it known for the first machine by entering it in roots .rhosts, /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts.equiv - Get access to the network entering hostname [your hostname] ifconfig eth0 inet [your IP] netmask [your netmask] route add default gw [your gateway IP] - Test the access with 'netstat -nr', 'ping [IP of first PC]' - Make mountpoints and mount all disk partitions, so that the later root directory will be /mnt. - Copy the 'root' partition cd /mnt rsh [IP of first PC] '(tar -cvplf - /)' | tar -xvpf - - Copy the other partitions cd /mnt rsh [IP of first PC] '(cd / ; tar -cvplf - usr)' | tar -xvpf - cd /mnt/usr rsh [IP of first PC] '(cd /usr ; tar -cvplf - local)' | tar -xvpf - cd .. - Adapt the configuration files (they are in /mnt/etc/... now) and edit /mnt/etc/inittab to start in a non-graphical run mode. - Boot the PC with the boot disk of the first PC, ignore all error messages. - Edit /etc/lilo.conf end enter 'lilo' to make the PC bootable. - Configure sound, graphics, network, printers, and so on with the Maandrake tools. - Boot the PC and all should work. Link World wrote: I am a system OEM in Bangalore,India selling systems bundled with Mandrake Linux. The problem is that with every system I sell, I need to install configure the system which takes HOURS!. Can I do a diskcopy instead? Please Help. This is a major bottleneck for me. SUNIL GUPTA LinkWorld.
