Re: OT: ready-to-use utility/script... to monitor network statusand...
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 13:08:27 +0200 (CEST), Bob Sloots wrote: hello bob, ... > I don't know either. I have heard of a modem-hack so the modem will > reestablish the connection, but never tried (to implement) it. What I do which modem is used in this hack? (unfortunately) we are forced to use the alcatel adsl speedtouch home device (for the austrian telekom officially does not support or even allow other adsl-modem devices unless an official writing is sent to the provider to be allowed to use another etc... etc) since a couple of hours I tried to reestablish this connection with the mentioned service and status webmin module: no succsess in relaunching the adsl-connection :( (but many successes in getting email notifications the service is down...) > is (indeed) run a crontab-job (every 5 minutes) that checks for the > pptp-manager and, if gone, restarts the adsl-connection. I am desperate and curious - of course - too: what exactly did you define in that crontab-job?? > Bob. greetings harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
OT: ready-to-use utility/script... to monitor network status and...
Mime-Version: 1.0 (GMessage framework 0.9.9.5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 0.9.9.5 ... if status is down -> restart this service? hello out there, I suppose, some of you will be surprised because there is certainly a simple solution already integrated in linux (cron jobs??) and even in mdk8.2 - if someone knows it - but at the moment I do not know what to do - time is running and we have serious problems in loosing our adsl/pptp connection which is (also) managed via this mdk82 box - 2 or 3 times a day I have to restart the internet connection by hand (at least I have to tell my colleagues how to do it for I am not "physically" there). I already tried to use the webmin module system and server status - I am informed via email that this desired service went down but the command (in webmin ui) to restart the service obviousely is not executed (eg "service network restart" or "service adsl restart") are there better ways to solve this restart-problem?? harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
Re: printing from mol
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:14:29 +0100, Matthieu Amiguet wrote: ... > cannot manage to configure it properly (the printer is not seen by macos) perhaps this site gives you the correct answers... : http://www.giub.unibe.ch/~eugster/appleprint.html greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
Re: (another) test: does list accept my email...
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(another) test: does list accept my email...
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test. does list accept my email...
problems with permissions and mounting smb-volumes...
hi out there, I know most of you are busy with 9.1 (I suppose) but nevertheless on older boxes (such as a 7600 box) I am still using 8.2 ;-). Strange things occured during the last few days: o If I want to change permissions of/for some folders (and their files) via chmod and 7xx codes the permissions are changed by the system after changing them previousely??? o automatic mounting of networked smb-shares via a) rc.local b) the drakeconfig tool (mounting smb-volumes with saving the entries in fstab) does not work at all - I still have to mount them manually (then it works of course) Does this have something to do with the start up procedures 'cause the module loading of the eth-interfaces are handled (perhaps??) after loading/reading rc.local or fstab files?? Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please -- --- Versendet durch AonWebmail (webmail.aon.at)
PPC8200: no mdk-booting after sucsessful install
Hi members, after having trouble with rebboting my old 8200 into mdk I found this hint in the list and thought that Stew's advice is the solution for me: >In a message dated 6/21/2002 6:58:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... >9) After the install finishes I copy the BootX App, BootX Extension and >the Linux Kernels folder to my System folder. I also did that according to the usual procedures (copying the folder Linux Kernels with the 4 files all.gz, all-2.2.gz, vmlinux and vmlinz-2.2 into the system folder...) >10) I restart my Mac and I'm greeted with BootX. The only option I plug >into BootX is sdb5 for the Root device sda7 ;) >11) I then click on the Linux button to boot into linux I also did that >12) I recived a message that states "VFS: Cannot open root device >"sdb5" or 08:15" "Please append a correct "root=" boot option" "Kernel >panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:15" "Rebooting in 180 >seconds.." I get the same error message therfore I tried Stew's advice: >Sounds like you're most of the way there. The piece you're lacking is >to used the kernel and initrd in the BootX folder on the CD to boot >the installed system. Copy them to an appropriate place in MacOS (Linux >Kernels folder?) then specify the initrd in BootX, as well as that >kernel, use sdb5, and add the option: I copied them already to the desired places... but: when I try to specify the initrd (form the Linux Kernel Folder in the System folder) you mentioned above then it's impossible to add the root dev information (such as sdb7) into the field next to the root device? because I only see the ramdisk size info??? >devfs=mount to the kernel arguments. I also tried to provide BootX with that kind of information - no success >You need the initrd as it had the mesh and sd modules to access the SCSI >drive. >HTH, Stew Benedict At the moment: Not for me ;-) Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
Re: I'm up and it's all good
Hello Barry Hertzberg and PPC-Users, ... >Damn that was hard. Now i can try to learn some of that CLI stuff. CLI? Please explain, I do not think th at you are talking about something like Cyberspace Law Institute http://www.cli.org/ ;) Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
Re: gurpmi problem
>On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Thomas Geenen wrote: > >>hi all the problem is [root@adsl172-187 rpm]# gurpmi problem reading >>synthesis file of medium "CD 1 Installation CD (Mandrake PPC 9.1 Where did you get this distribution?? I thought 8.2 is the most actual "complete" one :-o?? ... >One silly question. Where did you get a 9.1 PPC cooker CD with RPMS on >it? Ahh, I am not the only one wondering about that topic ;) Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
Re: using user drake causes error message:
Hello Stew, >On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Harald T Zipko wrote: > >> ... any ideas what this message really means? >> >> "cannot lock userlib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist" >> >> This one occures after starting userdrake... >> > >Temp files created by userdrake. You can safely delete them. >It's not smart enough to do so itself. OK, so I do not have to worry about ;) Thank you anyway! >Stew Benedict Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
using user drake causes error message:
... any ideas what this message really means? "cannot lock userlib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist" This one occures after starting userdrake... Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
Re: struggling with wireless device ...
Hello Todd, ... >>pci-adapter/pcmcia-card with a prism II chip... > >http://hostap.epitest.fi/ thank you for this hint ;) I'll try it asap and give you a short (or long - who knows...) feedback! Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
Re: struggling with wireless device ...
Hello Stew, >I've got a similar setup, but it's on an old system with pcmcia stuff >built from scratch. I've tried moving my old cards to Mandrake with ^^^ What exactly do you mean by that? Do I have to recompile the kernel? >2.4.X, but the modules don't build. I'm loading up the pcmcia >adapter/card and assigning it an IP on the host/access point machine, >then So you are doing this "by hand" - and you are speaking of a mdk 8.2 box which is acting as a wireless access point, right? >running dhcpd on both eth0 (wired) and eth1 (wireless) lans. Obviousely you have 2 LAN-connections, one cabled and one wireless... >You'd have to adapt it a bit to the current configuration, but I can That's the reason why I am asking here ;) How do I have to adapt it? frankly spoken, I have no idea... Ben Raser was telling me and the list that at least this adapter combination should act just like an ordinary ethernet device and should be edited like that - but unfortunately -for me- at the moment there is no chance to activate this device, except that it is shown during the boot process. Eg even in harddrake it's not recognized >probably help you out a bit. I would appreciate that! >Stew Benedict Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
Re: struggling with wireless device ...
Hello Ben, ... >Nope you shouldn't have to do that at all with pcmcia. The network >card should pretty much just show up. The airport cards aren't No sign of this... >pcmcia so they are supported more like most other network cards are >under Linux. You'll mention it in the next sentence, in this special case I do not use an apple airport card, just a combination of a pci-adapter/pcmcia-card with a prism II chip... >But honestly I haven't configured a pcmcia wireless card in Mandrake >since 7.2 (actually the machine is still running) and I know some Lucky you ;) >details about pcmcia have change since then so I'm not sure what the >exact steps are. Ahh, I am not the only one who isn' shure ...;) >I can't help you with setting up a Linux box as an access point.I have No problem at all, it's not so important at the moment, but in future it would make a lot of sense setting up a wireless LAN without having all those patch cables (pre-) installed... >absolutely no experience doing that. And the instructions I posted are >only relevent to clients not access points. You'll need special >software to do it right. Special software? So it is not enough what -eg- mdk 8.2 provides in their distribution? Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
Re: struggling with wireless device ...
Hello Ben, ... >I hope you didn't put the airport line your /etc/modules.conf since that >isn't applicable to your hardware. No, of course not ;) I thought according to the built-in prism II-chip I should use the link to the orinoco driver in modules.config: ... alias eth2 orinoco ... >Please send the output of this to the list: >ifconfig -a this shows only i0, eth0 and eth1, no eth2 - but I tried to enable the pc-card/adapter with eth2 :( >The ESSID is the network name that you are trying to connect to. Hmm, I want to use this box as LAN access point, so is it really neccessary to add this information in this line? >The ENC_KEY is the encryption key for the network you are trying to >connect to. You may or may not have this. If you're taking minimal >security precautions you really ought to. So I should delete this line or leave it empty? If I put some characters into this line, what effect does this have for connection issues? Sorry to ask for this informations - I really know nothing about that... >The access point refers to the device which connects to the wired >network. The mdk-box itself should be the LAN access point. >I can't give really good advice without further details about topology >of your wired and wireless network. If you can give me a better sense >of exactly what you are trying to do I can probably answer better. OK, the mdk-box is connected to the internet via usb-alcatel speedtouch (working). If I use the "normal" wired ethernet interface connected to a switch offering the clients access to the internet/intranet via dhcp everything works. But now the wireless lan adapter should overtake this "service", I hope you'll find this basic information useful to help me - thank you in advance! Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please --
struggling with wireless device ...
Hi out there, I am desperate :( - everything works except the wireless stuff For some hours I tried to enable a wireless pci-adapter/pcmcia-card device. According to the manufacturer's site the card is supported in linux for it is a prism II based pcmcia-system (I suppose I should use the orinoco driver - or am I wrong??) During boot process the device is obviousely recognized: cardmgr[1166]: product info: "", "IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN/PC Card","" Thanks to Ben I thought to activate the device according to his reply in marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&m=100118225827793&w=2 In addition in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (that should be the wireless interface...) I do not know exactly why and how to edit the following lines for this computer should work as a dhcp-server on an office lan... So I think the last line is useless, 'cause the computer itself should be the accesspoint - again, am I wrong?? WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=encryptionkeyforwep WIRELESS_ESSID=nameofaccesspoint Greetings Harald
Re: maconlinux (mol)
Nick, ... |I just downloaded the latest RPM's from www.maconlinux.org.. it now |supports OSX!! | |It works wonderfully on my G3 Powerbook, although I had to recompile the |mol-kernel package. I totally agree! Networking is even faster than using the classic or OS X-system! |If you have a few bits you need to run under OSX, then this is a great |way of running MDK & OSX side by side!! Well, I still have to use eg 9.x for there is no alternative to use probably the best and most easy to use statistical software for the Mac (statview...) |Very impressed! :^) Me too ;-) Greetings Harald
Re: mdk-server does not allow clients ftp-internet-connections/downloads...
Hello Ben, ... >Set the clients to use PASV or Passive transfers in ftp and it ought to "Embarassingly" - at least this is what the dictionary told me to be ;) . I knew that "Passive Mode" should be used - I completely forgot to check it out - sorry about my question... Greetings Harald -- Best regards Harald T Zipko [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please!
mdk-server does not allow clients ftp-internet-connections/downloads...
Hi, strange problem: clients connected to the internet via the mdk 8.2 box (dhcp-server) are not allowed to download files via ftp from the internet; other services are working without any problems (eg email transfer, browsing...) - do I have to open a special port in order to enable ftp download through the mdk-box (ftp download disabled due to standard "firewall" settings...)? Greetings Harald
Re: enabling quota not possible....
Hello Stew, > Hi Harold, > > Please don't interpret my comments as saying that non-working quotas is > acceptable. The issue just hasn't been raised before. I'm in the midst Stew, please note the following: I did not "complain" about your statments - I was just thinking about the fact that "it's very sad" to offer such a good linux distribution (meaning the following: how much time does it take to set up a completely working intra/internet-server with common file/printersharing facilities in addition to a DHCP/routing box... well, about 25 minutes!!!)) without providing the end user (that's me...) a working upgrade or step by step solution to solve this "quota problem". I am certainly not the one who is able to sit down and try to program/compile or whatever different bugs/apps - for I do not know anything about that ;-) - I am happy with my mac when he keeps up working and I am happy with my qube's when they are working. But times are changing, my collegues asked me to do something about backup solutions and worst case scenarios (eg what happens when the server crashes - are we still able to be connected to the internet, what about data recovery ...). So I took my spare time giving linux a chance and I started to setup some linux boxes by myself. That's all. Again: I am shure it's not your fault and I did not complain about your answers ;) > of the tail end of the pending 9.0 release (x86, not PPC), but I'll be > happy to look at 8.2 quotas once that is done. If indeed it's not working Is there a real chance that mdk still supports ppc's with another version (9.x)?? > on 8.2 x86 also, you might post on Mandrake-expert and see if someone has > a solution there. Good idea - perhaps they know something about it... Greetings Harald -- Best regards Harald T Zipko [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please!
Re: enabling quota not possible....
Hello Adam, thank you for your reply, I hope you do not mind I am sending your personal reply to the cooker list too ;) - I think "quota enabling" is important enough to be discussed - even when it's obviousley not possible (why not??) to enable this service with mdk 8.2... ... > i note Stewarts responce to you on the list. it is much the same as the Stewart, I was also happy to get at least one response ;) > one i got when i raised this issue a couple of months ago. So actually I am not the only one who wants to use quota... > i am provideing WWW and file services to students who just CAN NOT be > relied upon to consider disk usage properly. quotas are essential. i have That's the same I think of it - I am working as an admin in 5 small offices - and I want to keep some self configured intra- and internet-servers (old boxes which were put in the corner and nobody wanted to use them anymore) in the "corner" just in case that something happens to my cobalt Qube2/3's. And I know the guys working in that office: they just copy EVERYTHING on the server - without quotas enabled it would have take only a week to completely fill up the disks... After using SuSE (I was not very happy with that...) I like the easy to configure tools in mdk so I was willing to give mdk a chance - but what's wrong with that quota stuff?? Everything else worked fine... In addition the strange thing is that there are some people using quota with mdk 8.2 - I had already contact with them - they all told me the same: just follow the enabling instructions and it will work?! The last idea I was thinking about this issue: does quota - in combination with mdk - only work on some special formatted file systems (such as reiser, ...) > nothing to offer about quotas on mdk - sorry. > > -- > Adam Wolter > Office of Technical Services (OTS) > for > Film Media & Cultural Studies (FMC) > GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY. > > 'phone - +61 7 387 57940 > FAX - +61 7 387 53994 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings Harald -- Best regards Harald T Zipko [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please!
enabling quota not possible....
Hello out there, * first question: does anyone here use quota on his file system? I just went through the whole procedures (check quota in kernel/filesystems; edit the fstab-file; add a aquota.user-file in the desired filesystem; reboot and...): during boot process failure of enabling quota (something like invalid argument); also manually enabling does not work :( After that I also tried to enable quota on my other x86-pc-box to see if it works there - interestingly I see the same failure messages during boot process and there it is also not possible to enable quota manually... Any guesses or even better: the one and only working solution ;-)? * secondly did anyone successfuly set up his ppc (or xi86 box??) as an wireless accesspoint (LAN with file/printersharing...) using common available (PCMCIA-) adapters - if so, which (recommended) NIC proved to work properly? Greetings Harald -- Best regards Harald T Zipko [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-mails please!
Re: routing with ppc9500
Hello list and Stew Benedict, > Haven't used that tool, but I'd take a look at your routing tables: > > /sbin/route ZielRouter Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default 192.168.100.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 > and make sure packet forwarding is enabled: > > [stew@powerbook-cooker failure]$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > 1 ^ This entry is OK! > set in /etc/sysctl.conf: > [stew@powerbook-cooker failure]$ cat /etc/sysctl.conf > # Disables packet forwarding > net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 ^ This entry is also OK! So what went wrong with my configuration?? -- Best Regards! Harald Zipko [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-Mails
routing with ppc9500
Hello out there, after the (successfull ;-)!) install of mandrake on my ppc9500 I am trying to use this box as a router in the following way: ADSL | [bintec] |-192.168.100.1 | | |-eth0 (applemace) 192.168.100.2 [ppc9500] Mandrake 8.2 |-eth1 (hp-device) 192.168.1.6 | | [hub] | 192.168.x.x I used the mandrake controll center configuration tool to enable routing functionalities. >From the LAN I can ping/reach/traceroute to eth0 and eth1 but I am not able to reach >the defined gateway 192.160.100.1. Did I miss something important?? -- Best Regards! Harald Zipko [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-Mails
Re: install on pm 6400
+-: ORIGINAL MESSAGE : | | from: Stew Benedict | date: 16/Jul/2002Die 19:58:41 | subj: Re: install on pm 6400 | +-: ORIGINAL MESSAGE : Hello Stew & list, as mentioned earlier, I do have similar problems of getting linux to start after a successful installation on a ppc 9500. > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > > On 16/7/02 18:22, "Stew Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > > > > >> I got a guest on my website saying that his install doesn't work, to me > > >> everything > > >> looks ok (so all the options in BootX are ok). Het gets the following error > > >> during > > >> restart, anybody knows what the problem is ? > > >> > > >> mesh: target 3 synchronous at 5.0 MB/s > > >> Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD_ROM CR-8008 Rev: 8.0e > > >> Type: CD-ROM > > >> Loading mac53c94 module > > >> /lib/mac53c94.o: init_module: No such device > > >> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module > > >> parameters, including invalid IO or > > >> IRQ parameters > > >> ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally! > > >> Mounting /proc filesystem > > >> Creating root device > > >> Mounting root filesystem with flags noatime > > >> UFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,8) > > >> mount: error 22 mounting ext2 > > >> well, retryibng read-only without any flag > > >> UFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,8) > > >> mount: error 22 mounting ext2 > > >> pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 > > >> Remounting devfs at correct place if necessary > > >> Freeing unused kernel memory: 292k init 4k chrp 8k prep > > >> Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to > > >> kernel. > > >> <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.._ > > >> > > >> > > > > > > Is the hard drive ide or scsi? I see attempted load of scsi modules, but > > > then reference to mounting an ide drive on /. > > > > > > Stew Benedict > > It is an ide drive > > -- > > OK ide0(3,8) refers to hda8. Is that the correct partition for "/"? You > don't need the initrd, but you do need to specify devfs=mount or > devfs=nomount. Now, where do I have to specify that argument in BootX? I suppose you mean to add this to the kernel arguments... but it's still not working... Greetings Harald BTW: how do I save such error messages (text file?) as it was send from Jeroen Diederen although the box wants to reboot?? : No html: : e-Mails: : please!: : : : Best Regards! : : Harald Zipko : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : :..:
Re: install on pm 6400
+-: ORIGINAL MESSAGE : | | from: Jeroen Diederen | date: 16/Jul/2002Die 15:38:07 | subj: Re: install on pm 6400 | +-: ORIGINAL MESSAGE : Hello Jeroen, Yvon & list, > No, that's the problem, this is all set correctly. Strange and weird: obviousely I still have the same problem to get mandrake running after a successful install (according to the last message of Xdrake...)...: I am using vmlinux --> vmlinuz-2.4.18-6.1mdk all.gz --> initrd-2.4.18-6.1mdk.img greetings Harald > Yvon Thoraval wrote: > > > >I got a guest on my website saying that his install doesn't work, to me > > >everything > > >looks ok (so all the options in BootX are ok). Het gets the following > > >error during > > >restart, anybody knows what the problem is ? > > > > If you're speaking of a reboot after install, may be you've forgotten to > > change, in BootX : > > > > vmlinux --> vmlinuz-2.4.18-6.1mdk > > all.gz --> initrd-2.4.18-6.1mdk.img > > > > ??? > > > > -- > > Yvon Thoraval : No html: : e-Mails: : please!: : : : Best Regards! : : Harald Zipko : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : :..:
installation of mdk-8.2 on ppc9500 still not possibleÉ
Hello list, even after logging/studying approbiate FAQ's the installation of mdk-8.2 on my ppc9500 still does not work; First of all the really nice looking applescript produces error messages after some definition steps (installation of bootX not possible) and - in addition - the values, according to the readme AND the html-guide, of bootX settings are only producing a walkthrough to the 1st stage of the text-based installation... The entry of a manually defined SCSI driver installed in OLD WORLD ppc's ends up in the message that there's no CDROM drive found?? Settings: ppc 9500/200, 192 RAM; bootX with RAM-disc image of the Mandrake install folder: all.gz; Kernel: vmlinuz; Image size: 34000 Looking forward to your hints and ideas (in fact, I like Mandrake al lot, so why not using it on a old world ppc??) greetings Harald : No html: : e-Mails: : please!: : : : Best Regards! : : Harald Zipko : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : :..:
