RE: [expert] restricting connections to installed software
At 00:26 10/11/99 -0500, you wrote: Ah, I see what you are getting at. A per-executable (or whatever) licensing/seat type deal? I don't know of any way to do this (aside from putting each binary to license into a separate directory?) That defeats the purpose of 'max connections' then, doesn't it? Essentially, what we want to perform is a network installation of large commercial software products and restrict their use on the server by setting a maximum number of connections. Currently, installing a copy of WordPerfect on our server theoretically allows access to the program by multiple workstations despite the actual ownership of less than half a dozen licenses. Does anyone have any ideas? tcpwrappers ??? --- Ian Douglas, Wild Web Services http://www.wildwebservices.com/ ph: 613.253.3147 fx: 613.253.1029 pg: http://www.wildwebservices.com/pager.html
Re: [expert] mandrake install probs
:~is not configured.. Running Xconfigurator aborts giving me an error of :~"cannot find/load card database :~Question!!: How/where can I get this card database and install it manually??? :~ :~I've tried installing this almost 8 times now and everytime it gives me the :~same error. :~I downloaded the ISO image and verified the md5..it passed. This is VERY strange. I have had some problems with Mandrake, but instalation goes really smoothly. What kind of machine is it? Are you sure the hardware is OK? cu Denis - Mag. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
[expert] Lilo on HD dead
Dear friends: I cannot boot up to Linux from my HD, only from my boot diskette. I updated my kernel (five files, if I recall) to 2.2.13-22. I then edited my /etc/lilo.conf and created a new boot disk. I have no problem booting with my new boot diskette but I can't boot with my HD. At the Lilo prompt, it starts booting: booting linux.up... And then freezes for ever. Here is my new kernel: [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.2.13-22mdk Here is my lilo.conf: [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ cd /etc/ [sher@adsl-77-232-189 /etc]$ cat lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-22mdk label=linux-up root=/dev/hda1 read-only [sher@adsl-77-232-189 /etc]$ Would really appreciate someone's help. I can't figure this out. The boot sequence using my boot diskette is perfect: everything is normal and everything got an OK. So, why won't Linux boot up from the HD. Never had this problem before. Here is a list of the rpms that were automatically updated by MandrakeUpdate earlier today. I have checked and each of them has been properly installed. See below. Any idea why I can't boot from the HD? initscripts-4.23-35mdk.i586.rpm kernel-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-doc-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-fb-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-ibcs-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q initscripts initscripts-4.23-35mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-doc kernel-doc-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-fb kernel-fb-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-headers kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-ibcs kernel-ibcs-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-pcmcia-cs kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-smp kernel-smp-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-source kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ Hope one of you experts can figure this out. Thank you all so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] AIX interoperability
On 9 Nov 99, at 21:32, Bruce Endries wrote: Does anyone have experience using Linux in conjunction with AIX? I am particularly interested in authentication and NFS sharing. I haven't done anything on the authentication side, but I have an F50 running AIX 4.3.2.0 with SAMBA installed, and that works okay. I also use NFS quite regularly to get stuff across to my Linux box, i.e with the RS/6000 acting as an NFS server. I seem to recall seeing something posted in the comp.unix.aix newsgroup to the effect that if you want to use an AIX box as an NFS client with a Linux NFS server, you need do "nfso -o nfs_use_reserved_ports=1" on the AIX side to avoid the possibility of file corruption. Check the NG yourself, though, before relying on the vagaries of my memory for anything mission-critical! :-) Phil Edwards Technical Specialist == Travellog Systems Phone +44 (0)1444 459016 The Priory, Haywards HeathFax +44 (0)1444 456655 West Sussex, RH16 3LB mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] United Kingdom http://www.travellog.co.uk ==
Re: [expert] ORB Drive
John, -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, 9 November 1999 21:40 Subject: Re: [expert] ORB Drive On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote: Anyone have any experience with an ORB drive. Had 2 Sparq drives that crashed and burned and damaged discs as well. I noticed on their web site that the same guy that ran Syquest before declaring bankruptcy or whatever is now running Castlewood, the company that makes the ORB. I bought the IDE version to test out (I would normally use SCSI) - I have a client who could use about 5/6 on different Linux servers. At the moment you can't use them as removable drives on Linux. I have started using this test drive on NT and backup across the network - it is still a bit flakey I think but at least seems to work on NT. I have finally got a response from Castlewood and the guy reckons they will have a Linux driver in the new year . . . OnStream (www.onstream.com, IIRC) has Linux drivers for the IDE version(s) of their removeable media drives. SCSI drivers coming soon. OnStream only produce tape drives - I hate tape drives . . Phil. Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Mobile: +61:0411-185-652 Fax: +61:2:9929-5312 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] samba setup
AFAIK all windows networking uses netbios. Netbios either runs over IPX or TCP/IP. I don't know if it runs over netbeui (moot point anyway). Samba thus does use netbios, BUT only over tcp/ip. Denis Havlik wrote: :~I believe my local network is NetBIOS running on TCP/IP and doesn't use :~WINS resolution. It's behind a socks5 firewall (not that that has anything :~to do with it). As you may see from my smb.conf file below, I've created :~an account called 'winloser' which is a member of the group users. The :~directory /export/cifs below is owned by root and the group users. If :~there's any other info I can provide, let me know... 1) please do not cross-post. 2) AFAIK samba does not support netbios. samba does smb/TCP. Either your local network runs under smb/TCP, and you should proceed with samba, or it runs under netbios (i.e. servers run "Novel-netware", in which case samba is a wrong tool for you. 3) try configuring the samba with "swat". It is much easier for a newbie cu Denis - Mag. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo- -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions
Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length
Think its supposed to be about 100 m, but that might be for cat3 John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, you wrote: Anyone know how long I can got with Cat-5 10BaseT cabling and not have attenuation errors or lost data, etc? IIRC, it's a couple hundred yards at least... However, as I recall, there's also the total length of your network to consider. If it's longer than, say, 3-400 yards, you might need to consider some repeaters... John -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions
Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length
UTP cat or cat max length = 100 meters Jeanette Alwyn Schoeman wrote: Think its supposed to be about 100 m, but that might be for cat3 John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, you wrote: Anyone know how long I can got with Cat-5 10BaseT cabling and not have attenuation errors or lost data, etc? IIRC, it's a couple hundred yards at least... However, as I recall, there's also the total length of your network to consider. If it's longer than, say, 3-400 yards, you might need to consider some repeaters... John -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions
RE: [expert] restricting connections to installed software
At 12:26 AM 11/10/99 -0500, Ian Douglas wrote: Ah, I see what you are getting at. A per-executable (or whatever) licensing/seat type deal? I don't know of any way to do this (aside from putting each binary to license into a separate directory?) That defeats the purpose of 'max connections' then, doesn't it? I thought the 'max connections' was per share? If so, my suggestion was to have a granularity of one licenseable object/share. Is this not what you were trying to do? Essentially, what we want to perform is a network installation of large commercial software products and restrict their use on the server by setting a maximum number of connections. Currently, installing a copy of WordPerfect on our server theoretically allows access to the program by multiple workstations despite the actual ownership of less than half a dozen licenses. Does anyone have any ideas?
[expert] Oh, Bugger...
Up until quite recently, I had a pristine new install of 6.1 on an (almost) brand new PC. Having got everything up and running, I clicked on the "Updates" desktop icon. To my delight, it went off and found me some new versions of stuff. I clicked "select all" and then clicked "Go!". One of the updates was the 2.2.13-22mdk kernel. Now my machine won't boot properly. I've amended /etc/lilo.conf to point at the new kernel image, and run /sbin/lilo to update everything. When I re-boot, the machine gets as far as the "finding module dependencies" bit, then hangs. I can CTRL-C to continue booting up, but then I have no network card, no sound and no access to any of my non-Linux filesystems. I promise that if someone can help me get this fixed, I won't recklessly apply OS updates ever again without checking the documentation and/or making backups first!!! Phil Edwards Technical Specialist == Travellog Systems Phone +44 (0)1444 459016 The Priory, Haywards HeathFax +44 (0)1444 456655 West Sussex, RH16 3LB mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] United Kingdom http://www.travellog.co.uk ==
[expert] Win Modems
A lot has been discussed in these writings concerning winmodems. Check out this site for a few linux ideas for them. Why waste 'em if you got 'em? http://www.linmodems.org John
RE: [expert] restricting connections to installed software
Does anyone have any ideas? tcpwrappers ??? Want to be a little more descriptive? How is that going to help me?
RE: [expert] Making a new kernel?
-Original Message- From: Joseph Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I did configured my 3Com905C, ether static or module loadable. Also I see errors related to sound, since no driver is there to support my SB Live sound card. lsmod shows module sound unused. Not familiar with the issues around SB Live - but I assume you've run sndconfig and set it up (if possible)? What is in your /etc/conf.modules ? Now it turns out that module 3c90x (good for my NIC) has been there from the CD install, but linuxconfig tool just hasn't got an entry for that module. I hand type in 3c90x when configure network and it boots and works well. Hmm... so does that mean your problem is solved? Are you losing the network on reboots? Sorry - this is a bit unclear to me. Now I still have to compile the kernel to include my SB Live card driver and I am nurverous about dealing with the module. You should be fine. It's been my experience that sound works more consistent when set as modules rather than coded into the kernel, but I believe there was a whole thread here on the SB Live card so follow that advice... You should make sure that you have clean source. Lots of folks in the Alpha world don't like kernel source RPMs for whatever reason - they always pull the "raw" source. You should also make sure your source tree is clean by starting the process with "make mrproper" - but be advised that this will wipe out any .config file in the tree! Please let me know how to find .config info and I'll post it. I guess it is in /usr/src/linux That is correct. Good luck - Don On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Vanco, Donald wrote: Can you get into single user mode and try inserting the modules you need and see which one is freezing the system? Can you post the .config info? I usually see issues with NICs or sound. Don -Original Message- From: Joseph Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 4:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Making a new kernel? Hi, The kernel I compiled of the src with Mandrake 6.1 CD is always not working properly, either freezing when "Finding module dependencies" occurs or crashing when runing. I suspect that the new modules screws up the existing ones there, but I'm not quite sure. Should I delete all the existing modules in /lib/modules/ before do "make modules_install"? All I did is make mrproper make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install What else do I need to do? Thanks, Joe
Re: [expert] Lilo on HD dead
Did you run /sbin/lilo after updating lilo.conf? On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I cannot boot up to Linux from my HD, only from my boot diskette. I updated my kernel (five files, if I recall) to 2.2.13-22. I then edited my /etc/lilo.conf and created a new boot disk. I have no problem booting with my new boot diskette but I can't boot with my HD. At the Lilo prompt, it starts booting: booting linux.up... And then freezes for ever. Here is my new kernel: [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.2.13-22mdk Here is my lilo.conf: [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ cd /etc/ [sher@adsl-77-232-189 /etc]$ cat lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-22mdk label=linux-up root=/dev/hda1 read-only [sher@adsl-77-232-189 /etc]$ Would really appreciate someone's help. I can't figure this out. The boot sequence using my boot diskette is perfect: everything is normal and everything got an OK. So, why won't Linux boot up from the HD. Never had this problem before. Here is a list of the rpms that were automatically updated by MandrakeUpdate earlier today. I have checked and each of them has been properly installed. See below. Any idea why I can't boot from the HD? initscripts-4.23-35mdk.i586.rpm kernel-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-doc-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-fb-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-ibcs-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q initscripts initscripts-4.23-35mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-doc kernel-doc-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-fb kernel-fb-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-headers kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-ibcs kernel-ibcs-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-pcmcia-cs kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-smp kernel-smp-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-source kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-189 sher]$ Hope one of you experts can figure this out. Thank you all so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] ORB Drive
Michael, -Original Message- From: Michael Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, 10 November 1999 12:25 Subject: Re: [expert] ORB Drive Hmm..you guys are going to hate this. But I have had no probs with my orb drive here. I installed it. booted up linux, and mounted it, formated the disks as ext2, did some test backups, unmounted, remounted, restored, wrote backup script, made cron entry, left disk in drive and went skiing. been doing daily backups for 8 weeks now. I like the orb, install, boot up, pure majic in my opinion, co-exsists with my ls-120 and other ide's. Zip drives are a pain in the butt compared to the orb. Thanks for your note - just to explain the problem I had and get a little more detail from you . . - I put a first cartridge in the (IDE) Orb drive and put an ext2 filesystem on it - I removed the first cartridge and put a second cartridge in the drive and put an ext2 filesystem on it - I mounted the filesystem and copied a number of files to it and did a listing to check that files were copied OK - I unmounted this cartridge, put the first cartridge back, mounted it and did a listing = it listed the files that had been put on the second cartridge! When I contacted the distributor and (eventually) Castlewood they seemed to know that this is what would happen - are you sure you are not getting this effect? Regards, Phil. Philip Rhoades Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Mobile: +61:0411-185-652 Fax: +61:2:9929-5312 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length
Ian Douglas wrote: Anyone know how long I can got with Cat-5 10BaseT cabling and not have attenuation errors or lost data, etc? Depends on the quality of the cable. I believe the maximum theoretical length is like 1200 feet or something. Well, the official spec in the RFC is 105 meters for coax, but the STP will go farther. Intense planning effort is necessary to protect the cable ends from g-force in a longitudinal direction. A hub on top of a bookshelf with its interconnecting STP Cat-5 cabling in the drop ceiling above it was moved by overzealous renovators resulting in a fall that jerked the cable ends. The result? Short. Hub replaced for excessive ringing. Ethernet card replaced for excessive ringing, and three hours of my time figuring out the fault and replacing cable in a ceiling. I have hubs linked by a 10base2 backbone and it works acceptably. the runs are 8 to 15 meters on the cat 5 and 15 meters between hubs using coax for a total of 45 meters of coax. Civileme
[expert] Web Benchmarking Software
I am looking for a program that will benchmark a web server. I have found a few but nothing that really works. Preferably I would something that would run off of a Linux Mandrake 6.1 box. However I do have both NT and 98 available if I have to. Suggestions anyone? Thanks Andy Abshagen
Re: [expert] samba setup
:~AFAIK all windows networking uses netbios. Netbios either runs over IPX or :~TCP/IP. I don't know if it runs over netbeui (moot point anyway). Samba thus :~does use netbios, BUT only over tcp/ip. :~ Ups. Schit, i should sllep more, I think... Of coarse it does... cu Denis - Mag. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [expert] Sendmail configuration and PPP
Hi, Great many thanks to all who responded to my question. Meanwhile I set my hostname into sendmail.cf according to Alex Kirillov's advice: # my official domain name # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain Djvaisburd.Foo.COM and it seems to work with me. phobet-winterchan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : So, if your ISP's relay machine was "relay.isp.com", then you would have the following line: # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DSrelay.isp.com Great, I'll check this. If you really want to take the jump, and "Go Where No One Has Gone Before" (Well, almost no one...), take a ride over to http://www.sendmail.org. I just want to understand what am I doing ;) Thanks again. Tima.
[expert] BeroFTP
is it possible to restrict the number of connection from any IP to BeroFTP to one?
Re: [expert] Oh, Bugger...
:~One of the updates was the 2.2.13-22mdk kernel. Now my machine won't :~boot properly. I've amended /etc/lilo.conf to point at the new kernel :~image, and run /sbin/lilo to update everything. When I re-boot, the :~machine gets as far as the "finding module dependencies" bit, then Have you installed the new "kernel-modules" package? :~hangs. I can CTRL-C to continue booting up, but then I have no :~network card, no sound and no access to any of my non-Linux :~filesystems. :~ :~I promise that if someone can help me get this fixed, I won't :~recklessly apply OS updates ever again without checking the :~documentation and/or making backups first!!! Updating the kernel is a bit different from updating most of the other other packages. Basically, if you screw things with "normal" programs, you can usually stil boot (at least in single user mode) and repair it. On the other hand, screwed kernel instalation often leaves you with a system which cannot boot at all which is rather annoying (where have i put the "rescue disk?") . Next time you decide to make the kernel update, try something like this (*): 1) Install the new kernel, but leave your old kernel where it is. Same with kernel modules. I THINK you can do this by applying "rpm -i" instead of "rpm -U". It certainly works if you compile the kernel yourself 2) Make a new initrd. Something like: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.13-22mdk.img 2.2.13-22mdk 3) add a new entry to "/etc/lilo.conf". Something like: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-22mdk label=new root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.13-22mdk.img read-only 4) run lilo. On reboot, choose "new" - if it works properly, you can rename the "new" to "linux" and the old "linux" entry to "new", run "lilo" and reboot again. In case anything goes wrong, you can still use the old one... Hope this helps Denis (*) THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO DO IT
Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length
Ian Douglas wrote: Anyone know how long I can got with Cat-5 10BaseT cabling and not have attenuation errors or lost data, etc? Depends on the quality of the cable. I believe the maximum theoretical length is like 1200 feet or something. My MCSE book sez 100 meters (~300 ft) for Cat-5 UTP 10BaseT and if memory serves me correctly it is cut down to 50 meters (~150 ft) for Cat-5 100BaseT -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] modules - rebuild
Sorry to hear about this... I don't know if this applies to you but when it happened to me, I found out that I needed to rebuild/compile my modules everytime I upgraded the kernel. [This was part of a kernel compile - make_modules] Hope this helps! S. Douglas Smith Sr. - "Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience, and the last effort of genius." George Sand -
RE: [expert] Oh, Bugger...
you're lucky, since mine did not even allow me to ctrl-c to proceed. it turns out that the modules.dep under /lib/modules/2.2.13-22 was somehow screwed up and even depmod -a won't fix it. basically, there is one more "/" in the middle of the path names. after i got rid of them, everything is ok. hope this help. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Denis Havlik Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Oh, Bugger... :~One of the updates was the 2.2.13-22mdk kernel. Now my machine won't :~boot properly. I've amended /etc/lilo.conf to point at the new kernel :~image, and run /sbin/lilo to update everything. When I re-boot, the :~machine gets as far as the "finding module dependencies" bit, then Have you installed the new "kernel-modules" package? :~hangs. I can CTRL-C to continue booting up, but then I have no :~network card, no sound and no access to any of my non-Linux :~filesystems. :~ :~I promise that if someone can help me get this fixed, I won't :~recklessly apply OS updates ever again without checking the :~documentation and/or making backups first!!! Updating the kernel is a bit different from updating most of the other other packages. Basically, if you screw things with "normal" programs, you can usually stil boot (at least in single user mode) and repair it. On the other hand, screwed kernel instalation often leaves you with a system which cannot boot at all which is rather annoying (where have i put the "rescue disk?") . Next time you decide to make the kernel update, try something like this (*): 1) Install the new kernel, but leave your old kernel where it is. Same with kernel modules. I THINK you can do this by applying "rpm -i" instead of "rpm -U". It certainly works if you compile the kernel yourself 2) Make a new initrd. Something like: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.13-22mdk.img 2.2.13-22mdk 3) add a new entry to "/etc/lilo.conf". Something like: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-22mdk label=new root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.13-22mdk.img read-only 4) run lilo. On reboot, choose "new" - if it works properly, you can rename the "new" to "linux" and the old "linux" entry to "new", run "lilo" and reboot again. In case anything goes wrong, you can still use the old one... Hope this helps Denis (*) THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO DO IT
[expert] color problems with kwintv
Well, upgraded to bttv-0.6.4h and, got beautiful color. -sen S. Newhouse writes: Hi, I just installed a Hauppauge Win/TV card in my mandrake-6.1 system with a Diamond 770L video card. I am using bttv-6.0.4 and kwintv-0.7.4. There is no color. Before, when running on RH-5.2 with bttv-0.5.18, and a Matrox MII video card the color was fine. Any ideas? TIA, -sen
[expert] remove/unsubscribe
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Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length
Speaking of 10base2 ... what is the maximum bandwidth on coax? I thought I had heard that it couldn't carry much more than a few megabits per second. --- Ian Douglas, System Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [expert] restricting connections to installed software
Sorry, I misunderstood your original comment. If a binary file is stored in a folder and that fodler is shared, then yes, in theory, max connections should restrict the use. However, we're finding that multiple workstations can access the binary files, thereby exceeding our available licenses. I guess I'll keep playing with it to see if it works. Thanks. --- Ian Douglas, System Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Lilo on HD dead
Dear John and friends: John has got it! Thanks a million. I feel embarrassed, folks. Did everything right. Changed the version number of the kernel in /etc/lilo.conf. Just forgot to initialize it by doing /sbin/lilo. Just did it, and Lilo is working perfectly off the HD. Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length
At 12:21 PM 11/10/99 -0500, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: Ian Douglas wrote: Anyone know how long I can got with Cat-5 10BaseT cabling and not have attenuation errors or lost data, etc? Depends on the quality of the cable. I believe the maximum theoretical length is like 1200 feet or something. My MCSE book sez 100 meters (~300 ft) for Cat-5 UTP 10BaseT and if memory serves me correctly it is cut down to 50 meters (~150 ft) for Cat-5 100BaseT for 100Base its 185 meters for Cat-5 if my microsoft Networking Essentials book is right. jack Jack Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (NIV)
[expert] New Italy Telecom price
Hi
next month Telecom Italia change phone price...
... I use kppp-log to log my call price what can I do ?
There is a way to change it myself ?
Thanks
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Re: [expert] Lilo on HD dead
Dear Civileme: All my thanks! You are absolutely right. I forgot to /sbin/lilo. Now Lilo boots fine. Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] samba setup
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Alwyn Schoeman wrote: AFAIK all windows networking uses netbios. Netbios either runs over IPX or TCP/IP. I don't know if it runs over netbeui (moot point anyway). Samba thus does use netbios, BUT only over tcp/ip. Lets clear up one thing. Samba/Windows file shareing, is a protocol for transfering files. TCP/IP, and Netbeui are networking protocols. Netbios is a whole other beast, it is an application layer protocol (think thats the P.C. term) it works indepentant (so to speak) of the network protocol in the same sense Samba/Windows file shareing do. Last time i checked (april maybe) Samba only support tcp/ip, where as the M$ implementation will run over tcp ipx or netbeui Denis Havlik wrote: :~I believe my local network is NetBIOS running on TCP/IP and doesn't use :~WINS resolution. It's behind a socks5 firewall (not that that has anything :~to do with it). As you may see from my smb.conf file below, I've created :~an account called 'winloser' which is a member of the group users. The :~directory /export/cifs below is owned by root and the group users. If :~there's any other info I can provide, let me know... 1) please do not cross-post. 2) AFAIK samba does not support netbios. samba does smb/TCP. Either your local network runs under smb/TCP, and you should proceed with samba, or it runs under netbios (i.e. servers run "Novel-netware", in which case samba is a wrong tool for you. 3) try configuring the samba with "swat". It is much easier for a newbie cu Denis - Mag. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo- -- ~~ Alwyn Schoeman Systems Engineer Prism Secure Solutions
RE: [expert] ORB Drive
Tapes are good if you know what they are doing. Must keep the heads clean. Cannot expect to take a tape made in one and read it in another (most of the time works but sometimes it doesnt). You have to have a schedule of testing the tapes. Something like once a week restore a random file and once a month restore a whole partition (if you have the space). At least this way the surprises are minimized. -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ORB Drive John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: John, OnStream only produce tape drives - I hate tape drives . . Understood.. but at this point, it would appear that it's the only "multi-gig" removeable media drive available for Linux users. John U How about an IDE HDD in a drawer? I use two of them and leapfrog and backup is down to single user for maintenance and the copy command. The backup (20 Gb worth) takes less time than my UPS is able to stay up. That's multi-gig and (kinda) removable. After a MAC WorkGroup Server 80 crashed in 1996 here and ALL of its QIC cartridges proved unrecoverable AND everyone lost 6 years work, people in this location are allergic to the mention of the word "tape". I have a Python program that takes the big disk and transfers all its files to CD-R on an off-line machine once a week. I'm not sure I could rebuild a bootable without reinstalling, but I know I can restore all the data files. No fancy compression schemes or anything like that. It can take a 2 G file (or even larger if such were supported) and spread it across several CD-Rs. I leave space on some of them, and may not make the most efficient use of CD-R space, but at $.90 each, it is more important to save labor and data than it is to maximize use of space on CD-Rs. The proggie also prints out a catalog of what is on each disk and a set of labels on plain old Avery 5160s. Not fancy but it works. But it is not "removable media" because it is the entire HDD that is removed, not just the media. Still 20 G on a HDD is a lot easier to handle than 10 JAZ cartridges which incidentally cost three times the price of the 20G HDD. And, of course, it is fun to try to make JAZ and its 2G really work well with Linux. Hope this is useful to someone else. Civileme
[expert] LILO won't boot off HD -- Solved!
Dear friends: I feel rather embarrassed: After changing the version number of the kernel in /etc/lilo.conf you have to /sbin/lilo as root. I forgot to do that. Now Lilo boots up perfectly. My thanks to those of you who wrote in to remind me. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] ORB Drive
Fred Frigerio wrote: Tapes are good if you know what they are doing. Must keep the heads clean. Cannot expect to take a tape made in one and read it in another (most of the time works but sometimes it doesnt). You have to have a schedule of testing the tapes. Something like once a week restore a random file and once a month restore a whole partition (if you have the space). At least this way the surprises are minimized. Yeppers, I wasn't the sysadmin at the time, but some schedule of testing was done. The tape drive was what crashed the machine, and it did so with the spectacular results one would expect from a 1000W switching UPS (spitting hot metal which KOed the disk). No other tape drives would read it, and I believe a data recovery service made $1000 evaluating 5 tapes (at $200 per tape) to report that nothing was recoverable. The WorkGroupServer Motherboard and case and floppy were reused, but not as a WGS. The HDD, the tape drive, the power supply and the cabling had to be trashed. And you are exactly right, no other tape drive would read the tapes. Civileme -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ORB Drive John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: John, OnStream only produce tape drives - I hate tape drives . . Understood.. but at this point, it would appear that it's the only "multi-gig" removeable media drive available for Linux users. John U How about an IDE HDD in a drawer? I use two of them and leapfrog and backup is down to single user for maintenance and the copy command. The backup (20 Gb worth) takes less time than my UPS is able to stay up. That's multi-gig and (kinda) removable. After a MAC WorkGroup Server 80 crashed in 1996 here and ALL of its QIC cartridges proved unrecoverable AND everyone lost 6 years work, people in this location are allergic to the mention of the word "tape". I have a Python program that takes the big disk and transfers all its files to CD-R on an off-line machine once a week. I'm not sure I could rebuild a bootable without reinstalling, but I know I can restore all the data files. No fancy compression schemes or anything like that. It can take a 2 G file (or even larger if such were supported) and spread it across several CD-Rs. I leave space on some of them, and may not make the most efficient use of CD-R space, but at $.90 each, it is more important to save labor and data than it is to maximize use of space on CD-Rs. The proggie also prints out a catalog of what is on each disk and a set of labels on plain old Avery 5160s. Not fancy but it works. But it is not "removable media" because it is the entire HDD that is removed, not just the media. Still 20 G on a HDD is a lot easier to handle than 10 JAZ cartridges which incidentally cost three times the price of the 20G HDD. And, of course, it is fun to try to make JAZ and its 2G really work well with Linux. Hope this is useful to someone else. Civileme
Re: [expert] printer
That's a lot more features for less money than the 1120! Civileme wrote: I have had good luck with the HP OfficeJet 630. SANE will run it as a scanner, and the HP 6xxC driver runs it. It sells for about $300. Also have done well with HP 850 and 870 using the same driver. HP 612/712 etc, the driver supplied is so alpha the printer doesn't notice it. 100% unresponsive for BW, Color, and combined drivers. BAsically avoid winprinters and stick to those that http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor lists in his database as "works perfectly" Civileme John LeMay wrote: I'm doing well using the HP1200/1600 filter on a new HP1120C printer. Haven't tried 11x7, but 8.5x11 works well in color and b/w. Alain Ayerra wrote: Im looking for a new inject printer for my computer,but i don know what brand/model work best under Linux. I want to buy a printer that is suppoterd with black and color printing. Best regards: Alain. -- John J. LeMay Jr. NJMC, LLC. http://www.njmc.com -- John J. LeMay Jr. NJMC, LLC. http://www.njmc.com
Re: [expert] Web Benchmarking Software
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: I am looking for a program that will benchmark a web server. I have found a few but nothing that really works. Preferably I would something that would run off of a Linux Mandrake 6.1 box. However I do have both NT and 98 available if I have to. Suggestions anyone? Thanks Andy Abshagen Linux: look for Nbench, and Unixbench, and for X, HDbench, and x11perf, and there's always hdparm for drives, and somethin called cpuburn, but I haven't tried that. x11perf -rop GXcopy GXxor -repeat 2 -all results_file.txt ..will put the whole system thru a coupl'a hours of h#!! I believe it's already there if you have Mandrake 6.x That's all I've found, 'course if you know how to get lm_sensors, and klm, (mdk rpm's) workin, in spite of the documentation (lacking, contrary), then by all means, holler back W9.x there's a zillion, but i believe 3dmark99max is a good all around system test w/ video card included. ZD's CPUmark99 for the processor, their downloadable Winbench 99 stuff. I use Sandra99, but not too sure how much to trust the results (cpu and mem BM's seem to be alright), WinTune98- but only for the video tests. I believe CPUmark99 is the best for testing L2 latency changes. For both OS's, you can use Prime95 (internet prime number search, either the search, or it includes a 'torture test' that will report errors. If you know how to stop Windows 9x from being present, a _very_good DOS system test is SafBench. Tests cpu/cache/ram and records any errors, w/ or w/o 'hlt's, lot's of other options All the BM's I've mentioned are free BUT, the final say so comes down to the apps I use that stress my hardware the most flight sims (W98). SL35D@567 L2,7 PC100@126 cas2 (till I verify some temps, then 608), V3-2k@178mhz -- .. Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [expert] Oh, Bugger...
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Phil Edwards wrote: One of the updates was the 2.2.13-22mdk kernel. Now my machine won't boot properly. I've amended /etc/lilo.conf to point at the new kernel image, and run /sbin/lilo to update everything. When I re-boot, the machine gets as far as the "finding module dependencies" bit, then hangs. I can CTRL-C to continue booting up, but then I have no network card, no sound and no access to any of my non-Linux filesystems. Did you make a new initrd image? Run this: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.13-22mdk.img 2.2.13-22mdk That should fix the problem. The RPM doesn't do it by default (it probably should, or at least mention you need to do this, but it doesn't). A good "mini-FAQ" on upgrading kernels can be found at: http://tux.tzo.net/tips/kernel.php3 I promise that if someone can help me get this fixed, I won't recklessly apply OS updates ever again without checking the documentation and/or making backups first!!! grin That's what they all say... =) Vincent Danen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) . ICQ: 16978834 http://shx.tzo.net . telnet://shx.tzo.net . http://tux.tzo.net BBBS/LiI . Internet Rex for Linux Beta . Stronghold Enterprises/X BBS Check out the new Linux Information site at http://tux.tzo.net
Re: [expert] Web Benchmarking Software
Andy, Have you tried Apache Bench? It ships with Apache web server and it provides all the typical web server benchmarking features. Other Windows-based options include WebBench or the Microsoft Webserver Benchmarking tool. Andy Abshagen wrote: I am looking for a program that will benchmark a web server. I have found a few but nothing that really works. Preferably I would something that would run off of a Linux Mandrake 6.1 box. However I do have both NT and 98 available if I have to. Suggestions anyone? Thanks Andy Abshagen -- John J. LeMay Jr. NJMC, LLC. http://www.njmc.com
Re: [expert] fax (fwd)
By "typical" I meant that once the data was collected (ie who to send the fax to, the number to dial, the cover sheet to add, etc) that it was most likely nothing more than could be done by lpd. Therefore, we need someone with some programming knowledge to check out the data stream sent by a Winfax client to a Winfax server and (a) replicate this stream in a Linux app and (b) put together a gui that can capture a print stream from a Linux app, setup all the fax info, and shoot it to the Winfax server. Denis Havlik wrote: :I have a request, since we are talking about fax solutions for Linux. I :would like to see a fax client for Linux capable of working with a :Winfax Pro 9 fax server. Since this works as the typical "print driver" :format of fax client/server, I'm sure it wouldn't be too be of a chore :for a skilled developer to come up with a gui and get the print stream :correct. What is a "typical client-server format" for you? For me, "typical" is what "lpd" does, but i do not think windows printing system comes anywhere near to it - can you be more specific on "typical"? In particular, what is a difference between a "normal" print-job and a "fax" print job on windows clients? I.e., how is the info on tel-number co. sent to fax-server. cu Denis - Mag. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo- -- John J. LeMay Jr. NJMC, LLC. http://www.njmc.com
Re: [expert] Lilo on HD dead
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Dear John and friends: John has got it! Thanks a million. I feel embarrassed, folks. Did everything right. Changed the version number of the kernel in /etc/lilo.conf. Just forgot to initialize it by doing /sbin/lilo. Just did it, and Lilo is working perfectly off the HD. HEHE I'll do you one better. I trashed my LILO.CONF file and wondered why I couldn't get LILO to work... :-) Fortunately a friend who taught me how to compile my own kernel fixed it for me and I was finally able to boot off the hard drive again! :-) Now you know the reason it's STRONGLY suggested you do an "rpm -i" instead of "rpm -u" on the kernel. :-) John
RE: [expert] ORB Drive
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Tapes are good if you know what they are doing. Must keep the heads clean. Cannot expect to take a tape made in one and read it in another (most of the time works but sometimes it doesnt). You have to have a schedule of testing the tapes. Something like once a week restore a random file and once a month restore a whole partition (if you have the space). At least this way the surprises are minimized. Yep that oughta do it. :-) I've heard horror stories about people who keep reusing the same tapes over and over and wonder why they can't restore off a tape that's 5 years old and has innumerable "writes" to it. :-) John
Re: [expert] ORB Drive
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: U How about an IDE HDD in a drawer? I use two of them and leapfrog and backup is down to single user for maintenance and the copy command. The backup (20 Gb worth) takes less time than my UPS is able to stay up. I understand what you're saying, but the idea of having three or four "backup" hard drives is a bit much for me... Plus, I don't have any 5.25" drive bays open. :-) I wish I did I have a Python program that takes the big disk and transfers all its files to CD-R on an off-line machine once a week. I'm not sure I could rebuild a bootable without reinstalling, but I know I can restore all the data files. No fancy compression schemes or anything like that. It can take a 2 G file (or even larger if such were supported) and spread it across several CD-Rs. I leave space on some of them, and may not make the most efficient use of CD-R space, but at $.90 each, it is more important to save labor and data than it is to maximize use of space on CD-Rs. The proggie also prints out a catalog of what is on each disk and a set of labels on plain old Avery 5160s. Not fancy but it works. I really like THAT idea... :-) I'm seriously considering getting a "Smart Friendly" SCSI CDRW drive. Use it instead of my SCSI CD drive for both reading and writing and I'll be emailing you asking for a copy of that util! :-) John
Re: [expert] Lilo on HD dead
Dear John: Thanks so much again. We are all still babes in the woods. Well, at least I am. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [expert] Lilo on HD dead
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote: Dear John: Thanks so much again. We are all still babes in the woods. Well, at least I am. No sweat. Just sharing a story of my own pitfalls so you don't feel so bad! :-) John
Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length
10 megabits that's the reason its called 10base-X Ian Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/11/99 04:01:49 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Hamka B Hj Suleiman/SKO/PCSB/Petronas) Subject: Re: [expert] CAT-5 10BaseT cable max length Speaking of 10base2 ... what is the maximum bandwidth on coax? I thought I had heard that it couldn't carry much more than a few megabits per second. --- Ian Douglas, System Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Data Collision - How to improve transfer?
I know this is not really a Linux issue but... I'm transferring data between my linbox and winbox. Both are equipped with 10/100 NICs through a 10/100 hub. My max transfer rate stops around 600k/s and my hub's collision light stays on for the majority of the time during transfer. Is there any way to improve this transfer rate by cutting down the data collision? Seve
