Re: [expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah

[Jean-Charles RIPAULT]

---Reply to mail from Orlando Lewis about [expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah

> I am considering building a dual Pentium 2 or Celeron system.  I have been
> told that NT only benefits from the dual processors using specific software
> applications such as Adobe.  And that it generally cruises along on one CPU.
> Is this true and if it is does the same logic apply for Linux.  The system
> will be a dual boot workstation.  What are the pros and cons on both OS's
> and what are the recommended CPU and board combos?
> 

---End reply

Linux benefits fairly well of multi CPU (SMP) also. It takes advantage of
all multi-threaded applications (most of the "big" applications are
multi-threaded).

For instance, I use a bi-PPro 200 with 80MB RAM.

Jean-Charles
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

--

I've known him as a man, as an adolescent and as a child -- sometimes
on the same day.

Re: [expert] Connection to X server ?

[Joachim Holst]

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Sergio Korlowsky wrote:

> Joachim Holst wrote:
> 
> > Hi !
> >
> > Does anybody know why Mandrake 6.1 & KDE in user mode has trouble with the
> > connect to the X server ?? Sometimes KFM disconnects from X with an error
> > message saying "can not connect to :0 Host not allowed"..
> >

> 
> just type: xhost +localhost
> that íll fix it
> 

Thank's I'll try that !

Should that perhaps be reported as a bug sincne it's a new installation
without anything done to it (Kernel recompilation doesn't count).

/Jocke!
---
For 20 dollars, I'll give you a good fortune next time ...

[expert] Re: Netscape

[ibi]

When Netscape is run under Linux is it subject to the same security
issues cause by M$? 

Pj
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Security/CERT

[Civileme]

CERT finally managed to publish a warning about the ftp bounce attack
about

12 years

after its use was initiated.

If you are among the members of this list, you keep far more competent
company than CERT
has in its staff.  Sad, but true.

Actually, I expect better from an illustrious institution.  Some of
their software products are top-notch, but the folks running CERT have
such a high threshhold for trouble reports (presumably to prevent the
occasional embarrassing hoax) that an exploit affecting all versions of
IIS running on Windows NT through SP5 (remote administrator
status) known since MARCH, has not yet reached reportability.  To see
it, go here:

http://www.eeye.com/database/advisories/ad06081999/ad06081999.html

Normally, by the time a linux issue is reported, it has long been
solved.

If you would like a real scare, visit http://www.insecure.org.  You may
never want to play Quake over the internet again.  Most of the exploits
there are close to two years old and many of them still work.

Civileme

ibi wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just received a CERT advisory warning about security issues with
> AMD-Daemon, WU-FTPD and others:
>   http://www.cert.org/summaries/CS-99-04.html
>
> Pj
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah

[ibi]

This site has good information about dual processors, overclocking, etc
on a variety of boards. I'm partial to ASUS/Intel myself. 

http://bxboards.com/power2u.shtml

Pj
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2

[Duncan Hall]

Did netscape crash or get uncleanly shutdown before you noticed this?
I also see this in top once in a while and always when netscape 4.7
is acting up.
Dunc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
folks,
    i was wondering why is it when i run top i can see
ld-linux.so.2 running
occassionally.  Isn't it a library file?  Should it be running
as a process??
Attached sample log:
(See attached file: log1.txt)
  
 
Name: log1.txt
   log1.txt   Type: Plain
Text (text/plain)
 
Encoding: base64
   Description:
Text - character set unknown

-- \\- Duncan Hall
- SysAdmin Viator - Sydney AU +61 2 93616137 -\\ --
 

Re: [expert] Security

[carville]

On 23 Nov, Devin Vo wrote:
- Thanks for the explanation.
- 
- 1. It's definitely coming from the outside (ip address in my "secure" log)
- 2. Who ever is attempting is not by mistake because they keep coming back.
- 3. Telnet port is open because I need to login into the machine while away
- from home.
- 4. A connect and disconnect attempt gives a different message(whether you
- enter user/passwd or not)
- "login: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM"
- 
- Again I don't think they made it in but seeing them coming back everyday
- bothers me.

If you have a 7x24 connection I suggest you get secure shell

ftp://ftp.zedz.net/pub/crypto/redhat/SRPMS/

Then disable telent for the outside connection.

-- 
Stephen Carville

A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free
society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be 
infringed.

Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2

[Dovydas Kulvinskas]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> folks,
> i was wondering why is it when i run top i can see ld-linux.so.2 running
> occassionally.  Isn't it a library file?  Should it be running as a process??
> 
> Attached sample log:
> 
> (See attached file: log1.txt)
> 
>   
>   Name: log1.txt
>log1.txt   Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>   Encoding: base64
>Description: Text - character set unknown

 update your Netscape to glibc2.1 version

 Dovydas

Re: [expert] uninstalled rpm

[Larry Sword]

"Herman Van Keer (softouch)" wrote:

> > > Can I recreate the database? Or do I have to reinstall every rpm to get
> > > the database up to date?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Herman
> >
> > Try rpm --rebuilddb
>
> I tried that before (I should have told it), but this only rebuilds an
> existing database -  it does not recreate a database based on the installed
> software.
> Or do I miss something?
>
> Thanks anyway,
> Herman

I lost my db before and thought I had used the  rpm --rebuilddb. However after
reading the man rpm , Rebuilding Database Options, it may have been: rpm
--initdb?

Re: [expert] Keeping correct time?

[carville]

On 24 Nov, Clyde J. Kell wrote:
- Hello Everyone,
- I'm really beginning to wonder if maybe I should dump this
- particular Linux distribution! Linux-Mandrake 6.0 
- 
- I've recently noticed that the clock doesn't stay set.
- The time displayed on the launch bar in the KDE window manager.
- It seems to run about 14 hours ahead! I leave my system up 24/7 and
- usually connected to the net about 10 hours per day.
- 
- When I installed Mandrake, I picked the Central time zone for my clock.
- I'm running on an AMD K6-2 400mhz with 64 meg rams.
- 
- Any suggestions?

Check that /etc/localtime points to the correct timezone

Check that your hardware clock is really set to GMT

Once the above are correct (and amke sure they are correct _first_), run
"rdate -s time.nist.gov" once a day.  I put the following script in
/etc/cron.daily:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov 

-- 
Stephen Carville

A well educated citizenry, being essential to the maintenance of a free
society, the right of the people, to keep and read books shall not be 
infringed.

Re: [expert] Security/CERT

[ibi]

Hello, 

I just received a CERT advisory warning about security issues with
AMD-Daemon, WU-FTPD and others:
  http://www.cert.org/summaries/CS-99-04.html 

Pj
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Connection to X server ?

[Sergio Korlowsky]

Joachim Holst wrote:

> Hi !
>
> Does anybody know why Mandrake 6.1 & KDE in user mode has trouble with the
> connect to the X server ?? Sometimes KFM disconnects from X with an error
> message saying "can not connect to :0 Host not allowed"..
>
> /Jocke!
>  --
>
> ... The free UNIX operating system
>   :::'  ...  ..
>   :::  *  ::.::'
>   ::: .::  .:.::.  .:: .::  ::. :'
>   :::  ::   ::  ::  ::  ::   :::.
>   ::: .::. .::  ::.  . .:'  ::.
> ..:::.::'   ..
>

just type: xhost +localhost
that íll fix it

sk

Re: [expert] Keeping correct time?

[Dana Laude]

Well, here's what I'd do.  Sync your time with ntpdate, then shutdown and put
that time into your bios.  Then, leave your computer off for say..., 24hrs. 
If the time is off after that, then it's a problem with your motherboard.

Regards,

Dana

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Clyde J. Kell wrote:
> I'm really beginning to wonder if maybe I should dump this
> particular Linux distribution! Linux-Mandrake 6.0 
> 
> I've recently noticed that the clock doesn't stay set.
> The time displayed on the launch bar in the KDE window manager.
> It seems to run about 14 hours ahead! I leave my system up 24/7 and
> usually connected to the net about 10 hours per day.
> 
> When I installed Mandrake, I picked the Central time zone for my clock.
> I'm running on an AMD K6-2 400mhz with 64 meg rams.

[expert] ld-linux.so.2

[hamkas]

folks,
i was wondering why is it when i run top i can see ld-linux.so.2 running
occassionally.  Isn't it a library file?  Should it be running as a process??

Attached sample log:

(See attached file: log1.txt)

 Text - character set unknown

Re: [expert] Keeping correct time?

[Jim Popovitch]

Dump your motherboard, or it's processor.  My Mdk 6.0 systemS have been
keeping perfect time despite the dead batteries on the motherboards.  :)

- Original Message -
From: Clyde J. Kell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 3:56 AM
Subject: [expert] Keeping correct time?


> Hello Everyone,
> I'm really beginning to wonder if maybe I should dump this
> particular Linux distribution! Linux-Mandrake 6.0
>
> I've recently noticed that the clock doesn't stay set.
> The time displayed on the launch bar in the KDE window manager.
> It seems to run about 14 hours ahead! I leave my system up 24/7 and
> usually connected to the net about 10 hours per day.
>
> When I installed Mandrake, I picked the Central time zone for my clock.
> I'm running on an AMD K6-2 400mhz with 64 meg rams.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Clyde J. Kell
>

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[Civileme]

Jason, to save yourself some time, look at http://www.computernerd.com

They're a retailer that sells tested processors for overclocking.  They warranty them 
to work at a certain speed for 3 years.  The Celeron 366 is not necessarily 
overclockable to 550, but it might work.  Better to buy a tested processor than to 
sift through the commercial
offerings.

The overclocking is simple.  Just kick the bus speed.  The 366 is 366 on a 66 MHz Bus, 
408 on a 75 MHz bus, 456 on an 83 Bus, and 550 on a 100 Bus.  There is also a petition 
about for signature requesting Intel NOT to implement plans to remove the 
multiprocessor function from
the Celeron pins which Intel is apparently considering.  I think you can also find the 
petition at that site.

Civileme

Larry Sword wrote:

> Jason Antonacci wrote:
>
> > I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a dual-celeron 
>system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP circutry was removed 
>from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in parallel.  Is anyone else 
>running a system like this?
> >
>
> Here! Running an Abit BP6 with 2X366 Celerons OC to 550.
>
> >
> > Jason S. Antonacci
> > Computer Support Specialist IV
> > Univ. of Georgia - Savannah River Ecology Lab
> > 
> > Office: 803.725.5984
> > Pager: 706.869.4043
> > Fax: 503.218.7129
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > >>> Ted Helton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18 Oct 99 17:26:50 >>>
> > Yep I'm running it on an ABit BP6 w 2 Celeron 433's
> >
> > Also installs a uni processor kernel so you can boot either SMP or UP.
> >
> > Ted
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 12:07 PM
> > > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject:  [expert] Mandrake SMP
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Ethan Bambock

Re: [expert] Security

[Erick Beck]

Unless there is compelling reason not to do so, another thing you should
consider would be disabling/deleting the telnet daemon completely and using
secure shell to log in from your remote host.  This would have the double
benefit of both encrypting your session and cutting off that avenue for
whoever is poking around your system.

Erick

Devin Vo wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> 1. It's definitely coming from the outside (ip address in my "secure" log)
> 2. Who ever is attempting is not by mistake because they keep coming back.
> 3. Telnet port is open because I need to login into the machine while away
> from home.
> 4. A connect and disconnect attempt gives a different message(whether you
> enter user/passwd or not)
> "login: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM"
>
> Again I don't think they made it in but seeing them coming back everyday
> bothers me.

[expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah

[Orlando Lewis]

I am considering building a dual Pentium 2 or Celeron system.  I have been
told that NT only benefits from the dual processors using specific software
applications such as Adobe.  And that it generally cruises along on one CPU.
Is this true and if it is does the same logic apply for Linux.  The system
will be a dual boot workstation.  What are the pros and cons on both OS's
and what are the recommended CPU and board combos?

Re: [expert] uninstalled rpm

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Herman Van Keer (softouch) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I did something stupid in a moment of stress and lack of time...
> (now I have more stress and less time -left-   ;-)   )
> 
> Trying to deal with netscap's dying at irregular intervals, I wanted to
> install the rpm from rpmfind.net (version 7).
> I had some failing dependencies - one was rpm version 3.03.
> 
> And then in that insane moment i typed rpm -e rpm - which removes the
> old version and left nothing to rpm the new rpm
> (one moment of silent for such a stupid move   ;-))
> 
> I downloaded source and recompiled rpm  -working fine BUT off course the
> database is gone.
> Can I recreate the database? Or do I have to reinstall every rpm to get
> the database up to date?
> 
> Thanks
> Herman

What version did you originaly have, it shouldn't have removed the files
from /var/lib/rpm/ as rpm doesn't own them. 

--
MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon

[expert] Keeping correct time?

[Clyde J. Kell]

Hello Everyone,
I'm really beginning to wonder if maybe I should dump this
particular Linux distribution! Linux-Mandrake 6.0 

I've recently noticed that the clock doesn't stay set.
The time displayed on the launch bar in the KDE window manager.
It seems to run about 14 hours ahead! I leave my system up 24/7 and
usually connected to the net about 10 hours per day.

When I installed Mandrake, I picked the Central time zone for my clock.
I'm running on an AMD K6-2 400mhz with 64 meg rams.

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Clyde J. Kell

[expert] Connection to X server ?

[Joachim Holst]

Hi !

Does anybody know why Mandrake 6.1 & KDE in user mode has trouble with the
connect to the X server ?? Sometimes KFM disconnects from X with an error
message saying "can not connect to :0 Host not allowed"..

/Jocke!
 -- 

... The free UNIX operating system
  :::'  ...  ..
  :::  *  ::.::'
  ::: .::  .:.::.  .:: .::  ::. :'
  :::  ::   ::  ::  ::  ::   :::.
  ::: .::. .::  ::.  . .:'  ::.
..:::.::'   ..

Re: [expert] Question for C/C++ programmers

[Colin Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 08:19:36PM -0800, Arandir wrote:
> 
> There are not GTK books, yet... But I understand one is on the way.
> "Programming Qt" is available from OReilly, and its included documentation is
> the best anywhere.
> 
Actually there's two GTK books,
  Harlow, Eric - Developing Linux Applications with GTK+ and GDK
and a more advanced one by Havoc Pennington,
   the title is something like Developing Gnome & GTK applications,
it's recently published but is also available online (if you follow the 
Developer documentation links from www.gnome.org, you'll find it)

Colin

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[Tom Brinkman]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a dual-celeron 
>system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP circutry was removed 
>from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in parallel.  Is anyone else 
>running a system like this?
> > 
> > Jason S. Antonacci
> > Computer Support Specialist IV
> > Univ. of Georgia - Savannah River Ecology Lab
> >
> Abit BP6 motherboard will run with dual-celerons. BTW,
> please edit your line length to something a bit more
> "realistic" (like 70 or 80 characters.) Thanks. :-)
>   John

   I'm a little scared to say anything the way this kind'a complaint
was received a few days ago, but w'ta heck.  I've been around long
enough on BBS's and the Net to remember when it was 'netiquette' to
limit line length to 65 chars.  Now a days 70 or 72 is still
considered polite.  Not using the whole width allows for text to be
quoted a few times before it starts partially bouncing to the next
line making the whole damn thing unreadable.  It's just a point of
etiquette that's based on common sense, as most all are.

   And I prob'ly wouldn't of reponded now, 'cept for a question.
Seems most recent mail programs correct for newcomer's ignorance
and wrap the text whether it was sent that way or not... isn't
Kmail capable of this?  If it is, how?  I know it can be set to
wrap while sending, but how 'bout receiving?

   -- 
..  Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]  .

Re: [expert] To much memory used

[Steve Philp]

"Roberto A. F." wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
>  My linux mandrake is slow but it's seem required to much merory.
>  What do you think ? 28Mb only for a shell bash as user !

Remember that part of that memory (around 10M from the looks of it) is
being used for filesystem caching and buffering.  

>   PID USER PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME
> COMMAND
>   286 roberto8   0  1344 1344   944 S   0  0.0  2.1   0:00 bash
>   241 xfs0   0  1340 1340   772 S   0  0.0  2.1   0:00 xfs

If you're not running X, turn off xfs.  You can use:

chkconfig xfs off
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs stop

to stop it.

>   280 root   1   0  1156 1156   892 S   0  0.0  1.8   0:00 login
> 
>   301 roberto   10   0  1044 1044   860 R   0  0.5  1.6   0:00 top
>   153 root   0   0   764  764   408 S   0  0.0  1.2   0:00 klogd
> 
>   143 root   0   0   648  648   528 S   0  0.0  1.0   0:00
> syslogd
>   183 root   0   0   636  636   532 S   0  0.0  1.0   0:00 crond
> 
>   198 root   0   0   600  600   496 S   0  0.0  0.9   0:00 lpd
>   168 daemon 0   0   512  512   428 S   0  0.0  0.8   0:00 atd

Do you use this?  I haven't come across anything in home use that I use
this for.  For the most part, I just schedule it with cron.  Turn if off
if you're not using it.

> 1 root   1   0   492  492   416 S   0  0.0  0.7   0:04 init
>   217 root   1   0   468  468   392 S   0  0.9  0.7   0:00 gpm

Do you need mouse control on the text console?  If not, turn it off.

>   281 root   1   0   424  424   356 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00
> mingetty
>   282 root   1   0   424  424   356 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00
> mingetty
>   283 root   1   0   424  424   356 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00
> mingetty
>   284 root   1   0   424  424   356 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00
> mingetty
>   285 root   1   0   424  424   356 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00
> mingetty
> 2 root   0   0 00 0 SW  0  0.0  0.0   0:00

You've also got 5 empty terminals running.  Need 'em?  If not, you can
pare that down to 2 or 3 by editing /etc/inittab.


> kflushd
> 3 root   0   0 00 0 SW  0  0.0  0.0   0:00
> kupdate
> 
> --
> 
>   {*}
>  <>  \./Z/ Roberto A. Foglietta
> <><>  |_
> ~~ e-mail : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> DDNNNDMNIF web-mst: http://www.fisica.unige.it/linuxgrp

-- 
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] samba

[Geoff Croxson]

At 02:21  23/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
>   Hi all. I think that i have samba running on my linux box for i see a
>share iin the win98 network neighborhood but can not access it for it says
>i need a password. What do I need to do to get it work so that the win98
>boxes can access the linux samba server, thanks in advance. 
If you log into a WinNT domain, then setup your Linux box as a BDC and
syncronise your userlist I'm not sure if you have to make the users
manually... smbadduser?? I think command is.

Alternatively, if there is no domain, you can get user's accounts created
on the Linux box, set it up as a PDC and set the domain and get users to
Authenticate to it.

... my 2 cents worth..
trash my suggestions if they don't sound right


Regards

Geoff Croxson
---
Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068   
Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218
Humanities and Social Sciences Fax:9514 1041
University of Technology, Sydney   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[alann]

Steven Smith wrote:
> 
> The SMP circuitry was 'disabled' by Intel (on Celeron processors). There are
> motherboards and 'sockets' that 'enable' the circuitry...
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Jason Antonacci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 9:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron
> 
> I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a
> dual-celeron system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP
> circutry was removed from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in
> parallel.  Is anyone else running a system like this?
> 
> Jason S. Antonacci
> Computer Support Specialist IV
> Univ. of Georgia - Savannah River Ecology Lab
> 

One of my local linux buddies has dual Celerons in his box.

Works fine.  His system rocks!

Alan

==
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
running Linux Mandrake 6.1 and/or BeOS.

Re: [expert] Security

[Devin Vo]

Thanks for the explanation.

1. It's definitely coming from the outside (ip address in my "secure" log)
2. Who ever is attempting is not by mistake because they keep coming back.
3. Telnet port is open because I need to login into the machine while away
from home.
4. A connect and disconnect attempt gives a different message(whether you
enter user/passwd or not)
"login: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM"

Again I don't think they made it in but seeing them coming back everyday
bothers me.

- Original Message -
From: Ramon Gandia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Security


> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999,  Devin Vo wrote:
> > I think I have someone attempting to break into my Linux box.  I see
these
> > messages in /var/log/messages
> >
> > "Nov 22 19:03:54  telnetd[2786]: ttloop:  read: Connection reset by
peer"
> >
> > I don't think he got in but I like to know what this message means.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I also have here a Linux box made by Cobalt Microsystems.
> It has a monitoring software that tests every so many
> minutes for the working of the various components, such
> as the ftp server, the telnet server, the POP3 server,
> IMAP and so on.  In other words, the monitor program
> attempts to log into those services every so many
> minutes.
>
> When the login prompt is received by the monitor, the
> monitor assumes the service is working and it terminates
> the connection.  The Log file then shows the message
> you quoted above.
>
> So what it means is that someone tried to log in, and
> got the login prompt, but he then terminated the
> connection (reset by peer) without attempting to supply
> a username and password.
>
> This could have been done by an automatic program to find
> open ports, or it could have been done manually by
> someone for whatever reason which I leave to your imagination.
> Often it is legit, like someone trying to get POP3 mail
> but forgetting to supply the port 110;, ie, telnet
> mail.nook.net instead of telnet mail.nook.net 110.  Get
> the idea?
>
> It also means that your telnet port; 23, is open in ways
> that you probably do not intend.  In your case it
> means your tcp wrapper (inetd) program is allowing the
> telnet port 23 to be open to possibly unintended persons.
> If your port is closed outside your network, then the
> attempt at login came from WITHIN your network.  Check
> your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files to see
> if things are properly set up.
>
> If you think you are properly set up and want it tested,
> you can send me a private email with your host name and
> IP and I can probe it for you from outside your network
> and see what results I get.  If indeed the port is
> closed and does not result in the message "reset by
> peer" then the cause if from within your network, or
> even within your machine from some rampant program.
>
> You are doing the right thing by reading your log files
> and finding things like this.
>
>
> --
> Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net
> http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575
> P.O. Box 970  fax. 907-443-2487
> Nome, Alaska 99762-0970  Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525

Re: [expert] uninstalled rpm

[Herman Van Keer (softouch)]

> > Can I recreate the database? Or do I have to reinstall every rpm to get
> > the database up to date?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Herman
>
> Try rpm --rebuilddb

I tried that before (I should have told it), but this only rebuilds an
existing database -  it does not recreate a database based on the installed
software.
Or do I miss something?

Thanks anyway,
Herman

Re: [expert] samba

[Steven W. Laird]

jack malone wrote:
> 
> Hi all. I think that i have samba running on my linux box for i see a
> share iin the win98 network neighborhood but can not access it for it says
> i need a password. What do I need to do to get it work so that the win98
> boxes can access the linux samba server, thanks in advance.

Here is the easiest way:
1.  The workgroup name should be the same as your windows box. Default
in win98 is WORKGROUP, you'll have to change the name in the
/etc/sbm.conf file from MYGROUP to WORKGROUP. (Or whatever you want it
to be...)
2.  It's easiest if the user name and password are EXACTLY the same on
both the linux and win98 boxes.
3.  If you're using Mandrake 6.1, encrypted passwords are enabled by
default. If you're using 6.0 you can either enable encryption in
smb.conf or turn encryption off on the win98 box. (See Samba docs for
more info)

Re: [expert] samba

[David van Balen]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, jack malone wrote:

>   Hi all. I think that i have samba running on my linux box for i see a
> share iin the win98 network neighborhood but can not access it for it says
> i need a password. What do I need to do to get it work so that the win98
> boxes can access the linux samba server, thanks in advance. 



You should be able to log on with an existing account on the Linux box
or, if you don't want to have to supply a password, you should be able to
add "guest ok=yes" to your share's definition in /etc/smb.conf. Also, make
sure you have the guest account set up correctly under samba.

DvB





> 
> jack 
> 
> 
> Jack Malone
> East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind
> dba Horizon Industries 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 903-595-3444
> fax 903-595-3447
> 

Re: [expert] samba

[Herman Van Keer (softouch)]

jack malone wrote:

> Hi all. I think that i have samba running on my linux box for i see a
> share iin the win98 network neighborhood but can not access it for it says
> i need a password. What do I need to do to get it work so that the win98
> boxes can access the linux samba server, thanks in advance.

You can also define a general 'public' directory through /etc/smb.conf
(see in the default smb.conf file - there are some examples worked out, though
commented out)

That will allow everyone to access any file in that directory - so beware that
file may (not) survive [between users]

Hope this helps
Herman

Re: [expert] samba

[Herman Van Keer (softouch)]

jack malone wrote:

> Hi all. I think that i have samba running on my linux box for i see a
> share iin the win98 network neighborhood but can not access it for it says
> i need a password. What do I need to do to get it work so that the win98
> boxes can access the linux samba server, thanks in advance.

As far as I know, you have to create users on your linuxbox. Their names should
match the names they are using to enter their windoze boxes - and they have to
have a password (both the same - on the linux box as well as on their own win98
box).
(hopefully they do not have name with spaces in ??)

That should allow them to enter their 'personal' space on the server.

>
> jack
>
> Jack Malone
> East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind
> dba Horizon Industries
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 903-595-3444
> fax 903-595-3447

Re: [expert] samba

[Civileme]

Well, first, your machines must agree on a password authentication.

By default, your 98 boxes run encrypted passwords, but on such a simple scheme I
wonder why they bother.

So fire up Linuxconf and encrypt the passwords for samba on the linux box.

If you have done that, then, you may need users defined (with passwords) on the
linux box..  It is NOT sufficient to have them in /etc/hosts, nor is it even
necessary.  It is necessary to add them as users, with the same logins and
passwords as on 98.

If you still have difficulty, message me privately at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Civileme

jack malone wrote:

> Hi all. I think that i have samba running on my linux box for i see a
> share iin the win98 network neighborhood but can not access it for it says
> i need a password. What do I need to do to get it work so that the win98
> boxes can access the linux samba server, thanks in advance.
>
> jack
>
> Jack Malone
> East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind
> dba Horizon Industries
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 903-595-3444
> fax 903-595-3447

[expert] To much memory used

[Roberto A. F.]

Hallo,

 My linux mandrake is slow but it's seem required to much merory.
 What do you think ? 28Mb only for a shell bash as user !

  5:45pm  up 0 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.32, 0.10, 0.03
21 processes: 20 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.3% user,  1.1% system,  0.0% nice, 98.4% idle
Mem:   62924K av,  28388K used,  34536K free,   8448K shrd,   1428K buff

Swap: 144544K av,  0K used, 144544K free 19796K
cached

  PID USER PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME
COMMAND
  286 roberto8   0  1344 1344   944 S   0  0.0  2.1   0:00 bash
  241 xfs0   0  1340 1340   772 S   0  0.0  2.1   0:00 xfs
  280 root   1   0  1156 1156   892 S   0  0.0  1.8   0:00 login

  301 roberto   10   0  1044 1044   860 R   0  0.5  1.6   0:00 top
  153 root   0   0   764  764   408 S   0  0.0  1.2   0:00 klogd

  143 root   0   0   648  648   528 S   0  0.0  1.0   0:00
syslogd
  183 root   0   0   636  636   532 S   0  0.0  1.0   0:00 crond

  198 root   0   0   600  600   496 S   0  0.0  0.9   0:00 lpd
  168 daemon 0   0   512  512   428 S   0  0.0  0.8   0:00 atd
1 root   1   0   492  492   416 S   0  0.0  0.7   0:04 init
  217 root   1   0   468  468   392 S   0  0.9  0.7   0:00 gpm
  281 root   1   0   424  424   356 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00
mingetty
  282 root   1   0   424  424   356 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00
mingetty
  283 root   1   0   424  424   356 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00
mingetty
  284 root   1   0   424  424   356 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00
mingetty
  285 root   1   0   424  424   356 S   0  0.0  0.6   0:00
mingetty
2 root   0   0 00 0 SW  0  0.0  0.0   0:00
kflushd
3 root   0   0 00 0 SW  0  0.0  0.0   0:00
kupdate


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Re: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Patrick Putteman]

To go back to the main question : Yes, there IS some sort of Linux client
for MS Exchange. I ran on it once, I think it was on Freshmeat.
Don't remember its name or how (un) functional it is though

Just my 2 cents ;o)

Patrick
- Original Message -
From: "Vanco, Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 8:59 PM
Subject: RE: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network


> 
> > And if the Exchange is anywhere near to being a standard
> > mail-server, than you should be able to use just about any
> > mail-program
> > which supports POP3 and/or IMAP. I.e. just about any mail
> > program at all.
> >
> > To name few: pine, elm, kmail, Netscape, balsa...
> It has been my (sad) experience that none of these clients "play
> nice" with Exchange as the server.  There are different capabilities for
POP
> and IMAP (purely from the Exchange side) that make integration a real
pain.
> If anyone has found a client that plays well with Exchange I'd love
> to hear your comments.  Netscape is about the best so far - other than the
> fact that I can't send anything... ;)
>
> Don
>

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[John Aldrich]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a dual-celeron 
>system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP circutry was removed 
>from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in parallel.  Is anyone else 
>running a system like this?
> 
> Jason S. Antonacci
> Computer Support Specialist IV
> Univ. of Georgia - Savannah River Ecology Lab
>
Abit BP6 motherboard will run with dual-celerons. BTW,
please edit your line length to something a bit more
"realistic" (like 70 or 80 characters.) Thanks. :-)
John

Re: [expert] uninstalled rpm

[Larry Sword]

"Herman Van Keer (softouch)" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I did something stupid in a moment of stress and lack of time...
> (now I have more stress and less time -left-   ;-)   )
>
> Trying to deal with netscap's dying at irregular intervals, I wanted to
> install the rpm from rpmfind.net (version 7).
> I had some failing dependencies - one was rpm version 3.03.
>
> And then in that insane moment i typed rpm -e rpm - which removes the
> old version and left nothing to rpm the new rpm
> (one moment of silent for such a stupid move   ;-))
>
> I downloaded source and recompiled rpm  -working fine BUT off course the
> database is gone.
> Can I recreate the database? Or do I have to reinstall every rpm to get
> the database up to date?
>
> Thanks
> Herman

Try rpm --rebuilddb

Re: [expert] samba

[jack malone]

Hi all. I think that i have samba running on my linux box for i see a
share iin the win98 network neighborhood but can not access it for it says
i need a password. What do I need to do to get it work so that the win98
boxes can access the linux samba server, thanks in advance. 

jack 


Jack Malone
East Texas Lighthouse for the Blind
dba Horizon Industries 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
903-595-3444
fax 903-595-3447

RE: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Stout, Wayne]

: Denis Havlik [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> sorry, I was so eager to post my questions, that I forgot answering yours:

Ah well, it happens to the best of us. :)

:~>Our file servers are NT, mail server runs MS Exchange, and we develop
:~>software on SCO Unix boxes. Individual pc's have hard coded IP addresses.

>This is really cute. Normally, one would expect it to have UNIX/Linux 
>servers and NT running on the desktop (until it gets replaced by
>Linux). :-)

All of our pc's run 95. We also work on somewhat dated hardware, so Linux
seems to be a perfect solution, if I can convince everyone...

>What is it that you use to connect from SCO-box? I suppose you can use the
>same. 

We use terminal emulation programs for our connections to the SCO boxes. I
personally use Reflection 2, but everyone else uses something called
Deja-win. 16 bit clients, not particularly stable.

I should be able to use xterm and telnet to the SCO boxes, right?

>And if the Exchange is anywhere near to being a standard
>mail-server, than you should be able to use just about any mail-program
>which supports POP3 and/or IMAP. I.e. just about any mail program at all.

It looks like our POP mail comes in through out firewall (which runs RH 5.1,
btw), but I can't tell from the settings in Outlook98 what the Exchange
server is set up as. :\

Thanks for the tips. This shouldn't be *too* difficult. (Famous last words)

Wayne

RE: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Vanco, Donald]

> And if the Exchange is anywhere near to being a standard
> mail-server, than you should be able to use just about any 
> mail-program
> which supports POP3 and/or IMAP. I.e. just about any mail 
> program at all.
> 
> To name few: pine, elm, kmail, Netscape, balsa...  
It has been my (sad) experience that none of these clients "play
nice" with Exchange as the server.  There are different capabilities for POP
and IMAP (purely from the Exchange side) that make integration a real pain.
If anyone has found a client that plays well with Exchange I'd love
to hear your comments.  Netscape is about the best so far - other than the
fact that I can't send anything... ;)

Don

Re: [expert] Here's a Situation

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Civileme wrote:

> Gigabyte GA-5AX  (ALi Aladdin V AGPset)
> ATI Rage IIC 8Mb AGP
> IBM/Intel EtherPro/100

My guess is our best friend (not) irq shareing for some funny reason on
these two.

> SB 64 AWE (ISA)
> 64 or 128 MB RAM
> 
> Received 4 systems in August.  All were brutalized by UPS and 2 had to
> be returned.
> 
> One was installed with L-M 6.0 It was properly updated and works
> One was installed with L-M 6.1  It goes into paralytic shock when the
> network card is accessed, shutting down the video into powersaver mode.
> 
> The crash is real.  Can't get the video to respond, can't telnet in
> Nothing
> 
> In 6.0 this same machine dies when the network is accessed, but does not
> go into screensaver mode--If ping is run from it, it is FOUR tries and
> freeze.
> 
> Nothing useful in any logs
> 
> Changed memory--no effect
> Changed Motherboards to an Intel LX chipset--no effect
> 
> Swapped in a different network card Labeled IBM 10/100 EtherJet PCI
> Adaptor with Wake On LAN Assm P/N 30L5760
> THIS IS THE SAME Card I started with, just from a different
> machine--SAME pattern of crashes with nothing in the logs.
> 
> Switched to Caldera 2.3  Failed Install twice.  Finally installed then
> crashed on AMD, again, nothing useful in the logs, but it did fail video
> twice before freezing.
> 
> Tried RedHat, which is what these came installed with--worked great
> until I added the network module, then down we go.
> 
> Swapped in a cheap ($5) NE2000 PCI clone.  Ping times to the server
> dropped from 22 ms to 0.1 ms and no crash.
> 
> This IBM 10/100 Ethernet card has an Intel chipset on it with what looks
> like a house number.  In Win98 it shows up as an Intel EtherPro and an
> IBM 10/100 BOTH.  It sort-of works there, until you try networking.
> 
> I have one of six that works properly under linux.  Perhaps a different
> lot?
> 
> Guess the point here is AVOID THIS CARD
> 
> 
> Civileme
> 
> 
> 
> 

--
MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon

Re: [expert] Security

[Devin Vo]

It's Mandrake 6.1

- Original Message -
From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Security


> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Devin Vo wrote:
>
> > I think I have someone attempting to break into my Linux box.  I see
these
> > messages in /var/log/messages
> >
> > "Nov 22 19:03:54  telnetd[2786]: ttloop:  read: Connection reset by
peer"
> >
> > I don't think he got in but I like to know what this message means.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Wow i've not seen this sense Redhat 5.0.
>
> How about some generic system info :) like Mandrake version is a big start
>
> --
> MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> --Axalon
>

Re: [expert] Security

[Ramon Gandia]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999,  Devin Vo wrote:
> I think I have someone attempting to break into my Linux box.  I see these
> messages in /var/log/messages
> 
> "Nov 22 19:03:54  telnetd[2786]: ttloop:  read: Connection reset by peer"
> 
> I don't think he got in but I like to know what this message means.
> 
> Thanks

I also have here a Linux box made by Cobalt Microsystems.
It has a monitoring software that tests every so many
minutes for the working of the various components, such
as the ftp server, the telnet server, the POP3 server,
IMAP and so on.  In other words, the monitor program
attempts to log into those services every so many
minutes.

When the login prompt is received by the monitor, the
monitor assumes the service is working and it terminates
the connection.  The Log file then shows the message
you quoted above.

So what it means is that someone tried to log in, and
got the login prompt, but he then terminated the
connection (reset by peer) without attempting to supply
a username and password.

This could have been done by an automatic program to find
open ports, or it could have been done manually by
someone for whatever reason which I leave to your imagination.
Often it is legit, like someone trying to get POP3 mail
but forgetting to supply the port 110;, ie, telnet
mail.nook.net instead of telnet mail.nook.net 110.  Get
the idea?

It also means that your telnet port; 23, is open in ways
that you probably do not intend.  In your case it 
means your tcp wrapper (inetd) program is allowing the
telnet port 23 to be open to possibly unintended persons.
If your port is closed outside your network, then the
attempt at login came from WITHIN your network.  Check
your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files to see
if things are properly set up. 

If you think you are properly set up and want it tested,
you can send me a private email with your host name and
IP and I can probe it for you from outside your network
and see what results I get.  If indeed the port is
closed and does not result in the message "reset by
peer" then the cause if from within your network, or
even within your machine from some rampant program.

You are doing the right thing by reading your log files
and finding things like this.


-- 
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http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED]
285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575
P.O. Box 970  fax. 907-443-2487
Nome, Alaska 99762-0970  Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525

Re: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Ramon Gandia]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999,  Denis Havlik wrote:
> 
> MS Exchange. Can anyone explain me what is this program good for? 
> Is it true that you have to pay per-seat licences for it? 
> And what is a reason for actually doing so.
> 
> Please - this is a serious question. I have never seen any MS-Exchange
> server, and it really makes me wonder why would anyone pay for a mail
> server, especially on per-seat basis. How much does it actually cost?

I would speculate that the owner already has an NT server
in the network, and needs to add Mail capability.  He does
not want to add a Linux box because he neither wants the
expense of an extra box, nor does he want to learn UNIX
to run it.  These are legitimate reasons.

Having said that, I would like to know the costs and other
reasons for choosing the MS Exchange server software package,
and what it can do that Linux mail servers can't or don't.

-- 
Ramon Gandia = Sysadmin == Nook Net
http://www.nook.net[EMAIL PROTECTED]
285 West First Avenue tel. 907-443-7575
P.O. Box 970  fax. 907-443-2487
Nome, Alaska 99762-0970  Alaska Toll Free. 888-443-7525

RE: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Vanco, Donald]

> MS Exchange. Can anyone explain me what is this program good for? 
When done right it's an extremely functional system that provides
features I've not seen in Unix/Linux (scheduling, etc).  When done wrong
(like the way my company has deployed it) it can be quite frustrating to
deal with.  As with any MS product, you have to really be selective on the
users that you intend to support and the capability of the hardware.  The
way it's done here the systems probably spend more time mirroring email to
one another than they do actually delivering mail to end users - but then it
takes me 6 hops just to get out of my own domain! Ugh. the joys of an
"NT based" IS team...

> Is it true that you have to pay per-seat licences for it? 
Yes.
> And what is a reason for actually doing so.
Why does anyone pay per seat for anything???  I suppose it's due to
the -ahem- functionality of the client...

Don

[expert] uninstalled rpm

[Herman Van Keer (softouch)]

Hi,

I did something stupid in a moment of stress and lack of time...
(now I have more stress and less time -left-   ;-)   )

Trying to deal with netscap's dying at irregular intervals, I wanted to
install the rpm from rpmfind.net (version 7).
I had some failing dependencies - one was rpm version 3.03.

And then in that insane moment i typed rpm -e rpm - which removes the
old version and left nothing to rpm the new rpm
(one moment of silent for such a stupid move   ;-))

I downloaded source and recompiled rpm  -working fine BUT off course the
database is gone.
Can I recreate the database? Or do I have to reinstall every rpm to get
the database up to date?

Thanks
Herman

[expert] Compile error on 2.2.13 (final)

[Vanco, Donald]

I am getting an error when I try to compile the 2.2.13(final) source.
in file ~init/main.o it tells me there's an undefined reference to
"__buggy_fxsr_alignment" in function "check_fpu"

Any thoughts?  I will likely pull raw source since the stuff I have now is
from an RPM/MandrakeUpdate.

Don

RE: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Steven Smith wrote:

> The SMP circuitry was 'disabled' by Intel (on Celeron processors). There are
> motherboards and 'sockets' that 'enable' the circuitry...

Originaly it was _disabled_, recently it has been _removed totaly_

Is my understanding of the situation
 
> -Original Message-
> From: Jason Antonacci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 9:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron
> 
> 
> I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a
> dual-celeron system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP
> circutry was removed from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in
> parallel.  Is anyone else running a system like this?
> 
> Jason S. Antonacci
> Computer Support Specialist IV
> Univ. of Georgia - Savannah River Ecology Lab
> 
> Office: 803.725.5984
> Pager: 706.869.4043
> Fax: 503.218.7129
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> >>> Ted Helton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18 Oct 99 17:26:50 >>>
> Yep I'm running it on an ABit BP6 w 2 Celeron 433's
> 
> Also installs a uni processor kernel so you can boot either SMP or UP.
> 
> Ted
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> > Sent:   Monday, October 18, 1999 12:07 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Subject:[expert] Mandrake SMP
> > 
> > Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Ethan Bambock
> 

--
MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon

RE: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Fred Frigerio]

The thing is that it isn't JUST and email server. It has collaboration
and scripting capabilities. Can do scheduling, etc. And yes you have to
pay per seat.

> -Original Message-
> From: Denis Havlik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 12:24 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network
> 
> 
> :~>Our file servers are NT, mail server runs MS Exchange, and 
> we develop
> :~>software on SCO Unix boxes. Individual pc's have hard 
> coded IP addresses.
> :~>
> :~>My biggest concern is connecting to the mail server. 
> Fortunately, we got rid
> :~>of the old MSMail server a few months back. Any 
> recommendations on a mail
> :~>client that can connect to an Excange server? Anything 
> else that may come
> :~>back to bite me?
> 
> MS Exchange. Can anyone explain me what is this program good for? 
> Is it true that you have to pay per-seat licences for it? 
> And what is a reason for actually doing so.
> 
> Please - this is a serious question. I have never seen any MS-Exchange
> server, and it really makes me wonder why would anyone pay for a mail
> server, especially on per-seat basis. How much does it actually cost?
> 
> cu
>   Denis
> -
> Mag. Denis Havlik  
> University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Austria(@ @)   tel: (++431) 4277/51179 
> ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
> 

Re: [expert] AOL access within Linux

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Al Smith wrote:

> I use a really good AOL IM for linux. It's called GAIM.
> 
> Goto freshmeat and do a search for it..
> 
> 
> www.freshmeat.net
> 
> -Al

better yet use rpmfind, gnorpm or maunaly find a cooker mirror

;)

--
MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon

[expert] Mandrake SMP w/ P54C??

[Vanco, Donald]

Hello all -
I was messing around with an old Digital Prioris machine (EISA) -
it's got dual Intel P54C processors (90's I think) but the SMP kernel will
not boot.  It boots the UP kernel just fine, but the SMP kernel panics
/proc/cpuinfo shows only one CPU (the WindozeNT it was running saw both).

Has anyone tried SMP on similar architecture?  The machine is dog
slow and older than dirt so I'll likely not do anything with it anyway, but
I'd like to see what it can do with SMP if possible.  Interesting machine -
when I opened it up I found one of the CPUs had another CPU glued on top of
it (upside down) acting as a heat sink.

Regards -
Don

[expert] Here's a Situation

[Civileme]

Gigabyte GA-5AX  (ALi Aladdin V AGPset)
ATI Rage IIC 8Mb AGP
IBM/Intel EtherPro/100
SB 64 AWE (ISA)
64 or 128 MB RAM

Received 4 systems in August.  All were brutalized by UPS and 2 had to
be returned.

One was installed with L-M 6.0 It was properly updated and works
One was installed with L-M 6.1  It goes into paralytic shock when the
network card is accessed, shutting down the video into powersaver mode.

The crash is real.  Can't get the video to respond, can't telnet in
Nothing

In 6.0 this same machine dies when the network is accessed, but does not
go into screensaver mode--If ping is run from it, it is FOUR tries and
freeze.

Nothing useful in any logs

Changed memory--no effect
Changed Motherboards to an Intel LX chipset--no effect

Swapped in a different network card Labeled IBM 10/100 EtherJet PCI
Adaptor with Wake On LAN Assm P/N 30L5760
THIS IS THE SAME Card I started with, just from a different
machine--SAME pattern of crashes with nothing in the logs.

Switched to Caldera 2.3  Failed Install twice.  Finally installed then
crashed on AMD, again, nothing useful in the logs, but it did fail video
twice before freezing.

Tried RedHat, which is what these came installed with--worked great
until I added the network module, then down we go.

Swapped in a cheap ($5) NE2000 PCI clone.  Ping times to the server
dropped from 22 ms to 0.1 ms and no crash.

This IBM 10/100 Ethernet card has an Intel chipset on it with what looks
like a house number.  In Win98 it shows up as an Intel EtherPro and an
IBM 10/100 BOTH.  It sort-of works there, until you try networking.

I have one of six that works properly under linux.  Perhaps a different
lot?

Guess the point here is AVOID THIS CARD


Civileme

Re: [expert] Looking for ReflextionX equilavent software in LINUX

[Derek Simkowiak]

> Am i missing anything, like a VCN-client, instead of the X-terminal?  

Weren't you using the VNC client to view your VNC server 
(desktop)?

How could you view the VNC server without running the VNC client? 
I'm confused.

With VNC, you run the VNC server on the system whose desktop you
want to view (and control).  Then, you use the VNC client to "connect" to
that VNC server, and through the client you can view that desktop.

I found VNC to be considerably faster than X-windows over the
network, although it's still a little slow over the modem.


--Derek

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Sylvain Vignaud wrote:

> Jason Antonacci wrote:
> > 
> > I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a dual-celeron 
>system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP circutry was removed 
>from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in parallel.  Is anyone else 
>running a system like this?

Yes it _was_ removed, it was done very recently (get em while you can the
older the better)

> This may be serious: there are 2 socket 7 motherboars for Celeron SMP,
> and moreover, a child-card that you plug in a PII Slot1 and which accept
> 2 celerons does exist.

socket 370, not socket 7. Visualy they've removed an additional corner
pin, internaly i've no clue the differences. The adapter for ppga to slot1
is reported to work very well on several MB's, i've not seen a bad report
on one yet.

> But celeron haven't been created for SMP, so using two of them won't
> give you that much performance; using 2 PII instead of 1 offer a bigger
> performance increase than using 2 celerons instead of 1 (Maybe 30% speed
> up?)

Overall useing slot1 is the best bet IMO, as they are designed from the
ground up (we hope), not just an after thought (as it were) for the ppga.
And i'll be damned if i can get this bp6 to run @100mhz with either of my
agp cards.

--
MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon

Re: [expert] rexe?

[Nikodemus Karlsson]

Thanks a lot! The -a option did work fine for me.

Nikodemus

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Nikodemus Karlsson wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > I'm trying to get remote execution (rexe) to work, but I have run in troubles.
> 
> rexec is broken bigtime on all Linux systems.
> 
> try 'rexec -a' to avoid one bug and '-p password' to avoid the other.
> 
> For gory details see
> 
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/libc-alpha/1999-11/msg0.html
-- 

*

Nikodemus Karlsson,  
Teacher in mathematics and science

*

Re: [expert] Security

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Devin Vo wrote:

> I think I have someone attempting to break into my Linux box.  I see these
> messages in /var/log/messages
> 
> "Nov 22 19:03:54  telnetd[2786]: ttloop:  read: Connection reset by peer"
> 
> I don't think he got in but I like to know what this message means.
> 
> Thanks

Wow i've not seen this sense Redhat 5.0.

How about some generic system info :) like Mandrake version is a big start 

--
MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon

Re: [expert] diskdrake

[Alan Shoemaker]

Chmouelthanks again.  Although I can't install it on my 6.1 system
because of dependencies on newt-0.40, oh well!! 

Alan

Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> 
> Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Chmoueltrue, diskdrake has disappeared from the rpms in cooker.  And
> > drakxtools is there, but when I try and install it a dependency on
> > libnewt.so.0.50 stops the install and there is nothing in the rpms named
> > libnewt? :-)
> 
> check newt-0.50.
> 
>   --Chmouel

RE: [expert] Looking for ReflextionX equilavent software in LINUX

[Bois, Mathieu]

To get quickier answers time through the modem line with X11 (not VNC), you
can use DXPC (http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~zvonler/dxpc/).

You have to compile and run it on both the server(s) and the dialup client :
it will compress on the fly the X11 messages for you.
It won't be a very CPU eating process on the server/client and it will make
you gain a lot of bandwidth.

I had tried it a long time ago, just for testings, so don't ask me how to
make it work : I don't remember anymore : read the docs on the web site!

Mathieu

> -Original Message-
> From: Denis Havlik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 November 1999 16:57
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Looking for ReflextionX equilavent software in
> LINUX
> 
> 
> :~>  Yes VNC can be slow.  It depends upon network speeds and 
> the cpu power
> :~>and ram on the server machine.  I found it to be as fast 
> or faster on dial
> :~>up connections for simple tasks (ie: document viewing, web viewing,
> :~>editing), and fast enough over networks.
> 
> How fast is it compared to X (i.e. exporting the whole screen 
> with XDMCP)?
> I have always assumed that it makes sense only for exporting 
> the screen
> from windoze machines to unix (since this is the only way to export
> screen from windoze machines), and never tried it out. 
> 
> Am i missing anything, like a VCN-client, instead of the X-terminal?  
> 
> cu
>   Denis 
> 
> ---
> Mag. Denis Havlik  
> University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Austria(@ @)   tel: (++431) 4277/51179 
> ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
> 

Re: [expert] Looking for ReflextionX equilavent software in LINUX

[Tima Vaisburd]

Denis Havlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> :~>  Yes VNC can be slow. 

> How fast is it compared to X (i.e. exporting the whole screen with XDMCP)?

I found VNC client on Windows + VNC server on Linux + X clients on Linux
to be dreadfully slow 
compared to X server on Windows + X clients on Linux. But I'm 100% sure
I did everything correct etc. ( standard disclaimer ).

What is XDMCP ?

> I have always assumed that it makes sense only for exporting the screen
> from windoze machines to unix (since this is the only way to export
> screen from windoze machines), and never tried it out. 

Hm, I need to work Linux from my machine at work, which is NT box.
I would be happy with high-quality free X server for Windows, but I haven't
seen one. Meanwhile I use Labtam's X-WinPro 5.1.
I think it is very good, but the demo version allows me to work 30 min only...

So I thought VNC could be a replacement for X server. The first results
were negative.

Tima.

Re: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Derek Simkowiak]

> I plan on using Mandrake 6.0, or possibly RH 6.0.

Congrats on using Linux in your company.

I'd recommend Mandrake over Redhat, because the packages are more
up-to-date.  I like to think of Mandrake as "Redhat plus patches and other
improvements", although I'm sure the Mandrake team would disagree :).

Also, go with 6.1 (of either O.S.), not the older 6.0.


Cheers,
Derek

Re: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Denis Havlik]

sorry, I was so eager to post my questions, that I forgot answering yours:


:~>Our file servers are NT, mail server runs MS Exchange, and we develop
:~>software on SCO Unix boxes. Individual pc's have hard coded IP addresses.

This is really cute. Normally, one would expect it to have UNIX/Linux 
servers and NT running on the desktop (until it gets replaced by
Linux). :-)

:~>
:~>My biggest concern is connecting to the mail server. Fortunately, we got rid
:~>of the old MSMail server a few months back. Any recommendations on a mail
:~>client that can connect to an Excange server? Anything else that may come
:~>back to bite me?

What is it that you use to connect from SCO-box? I suppose you can use the
same. 
And if the Exchange is anywhere near to being a standard
mail-server, than you should be able to use just about any mail-program
which supports POP3 and/or IMAP. I.e. just about any mail program at all.

To name few: pine, elm, kmail, Netscape, balsa...  

cu
Denis
-
Mag. Denis Havlik  
University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Austria(@ @)   tel: (++431) 4277/51179 
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Re: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Ronald J. Yacketta]

if you if you microsucks exchange server can support pop/imap then just
you can use fetchmail on the linux side to get the pop'ed email

"Stout, Wayne" wrote:
> 
> Greetings, everyone.
> 
> I'm about to attempt to build a linux box that will function on my company
> network, and I need to know if anyone knows of any pitfalls I may hit.
> 
> Some background:
> 
> Our file servers are NT, mail server runs MS Exchange, and we develop
> software on SCO Unix boxes. Individual pc's have hard coded IP addresses.
> 
> My biggest concern is connecting to the mail server. Fortunately, we got rid
> of the old MSMail server a few months back. Any recommendations on a mail
> client that can connect to an Excange server? Anything else that may come
> back to bite me?
> 
> I plan on using Mandrake 6.0, or possibly RH 6.0.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice you have.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> www.datasystem.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[Ronald J. Yacketta]

I have a dual celeron 300 overclocked to a total of 1000mhz
on the BP6 Mainboard, works nicely, tho I dont use it much *shrug*
I like my K2-6 450 better 

Jason Antonacci wrote:
> 
> I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a dual-celeron 
>system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP circutry was removed 
>from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in parallel.  Is anyone else 
>running a system like this?
> 
> Jason S. Antonacci
> Computer Support Specialist IV
> Univ. of Georgia - Savannah River Ecology Lab
> 
> Office: 803.725.5984
> Pager: 706.869.4043
> Fax: 503.218.7129
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> >>> Ted Helton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18 Oct 99 17:26:50 >>>
> Yep I'm running it on an ABit BP6 w 2 Celeron 433's
> 
> Also installs a uni processor kernel so you can boot either SMP or UP.
> 
> Ted
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 12:07 PM
> > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:  [expert] Mandrake SMP
> >
> > Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ethan Bambock

Re: [expert] upgrade problem via ftp or http

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Edward Pilipczuk - PAGI wrote:

> I have problem when upgrading 6.0 to 6.1 via ftp or http.
> Computer is Pentium 133MHz, 48MRAM, 6GB IDE disk partitioned to 3x2M, the third
> partition is mandrake 6.0, started via LILO from masterboot record.
> When starting upgrade using bootnet.img, the load of hdlist is done and after
> that is an error message that cannot mount existing linux partition !

Imediatly retry, it should unmount everything directly before or after
(forgotten which) displaying the error
 
> Any hints?
> ===
> Edward Pilipczuk
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ===
> 

--
MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon

Re: [expert] Looking for ReflextionX equilavent software in LINUX

[Bug Hunter]

  VNC clients exist for all platforms, including windows.  With windows X
server implementations being very expensive, VNC was a magnet.  For free,
it is well worth it.

  VNC only sends the changes over the network after the initial screen
load.  It is almost as fast as X on the local machine.  The only real slow
down I've noticed is in moving whole windows around when the window
manager didn't move an outline but the actual window itself.  On a true X
server the local server takes care of that and wholesale multiple-line
scrolling.

  I have noticed vnc server on Windows 95 doesn't work very well in terms
of speed, compared to the linux client. It is usable.

bug
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Denis Havlik wrote:

> :~>  Yes VNC can be slow.  It depends upon network speeds and the cpu power
> :~>and ram on the server machine.  I found it to be as fast or faster on dial
> :~>up connections for simple tasks (ie: document viewing, web viewing,
> :~>editing), and fast enough over networks.
> 
> How fast is it compared to X (i.e. exporting the whole screen with XDMCP)?
> I have always assumed that it makes sense only for exporting the screen
> from windoze machines to unix (since this is the only way to export
> screen from windoze machines), and never tried it out. 
> 
> Am i missing anything, like a VCN-client, instead of the X-terminal?  
> 
> cu

Re: [expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Denis Havlik]

:~>Our file servers are NT, mail server runs MS Exchange, and we develop
:~>software on SCO Unix boxes. Individual pc's have hard coded IP addresses.
:~>
:~>My biggest concern is connecting to the mail server. Fortunately, we got rid
:~>of the old MSMail server a few months back. Any recommendations on a mail
:~>client that can connect to an Excange server? Anything else that may come
:~>back to bite me?

MS Exchange. Can anyone explain me what is this program good for? 
Is it true that you have to pay per-seat licences for it? 
And what is a reason for actually doing so.

Please - this is a serious question. I have never seen any MS-Exchange
server, and it really makes me wonder why would anyone pay for a mail
server, especially on per-seat basis. How much does it actually cost?

cu
Denis
-
Mag. Denis Havlik  
University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Austria(@ @)   tel: (++431) 4277/51179 
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RE: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[Steven Smith]

The SMP circuitry was 'disabled' by Intel (on Celeron processors). There are
motherboards and 'sockets' that 'enable' the circuitry...

-Original Message-
From: Jason Antonacci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 9:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron


I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a
dual-celeron system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP
circutry was removed from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in
parallel.  Is anyone else running a system like this?

Jason S. Antonacci
Computer Support Specialist IV
Univ. of Georgia - Savannah River Ecology Lab

Office: 803.725.5984
Pager: 706.869.4043
Fax: 503.218.7129
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>>> Ted Helton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18 Oct 99 17:26:50 >>>
Yep I'm running it on an ABit BP6 w 2 Celeron 433's

Also installs a uni processor kernel so you can boot either SMP or UP.

Ted

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 12:07 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Subject:  [expert] Mandrake SMP
> 
> Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ethan Bambock

[expert] Security

[Devin Vo]

I think I have someone attempting to break into my Linux box.  I see these
messages in /var/log/messages

"Nov 22 19:03:54  telnetd[2786]: ttloop:  read: Connection reset by peer"

I don't think he got in but I like to know what this message means.

Thanks

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[Larry Sword]

Jason Antonacci wrote:

> I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a dual-celeron 
>system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP circutry was removed 
>from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in parallel.  Is anyone else 
>running a system like this?
>

Here! Running an Abit BP6 with 2X366 Celerons OC to 550.

>
> Jason S. Antonacci
> Computer Support Specialist IV
> Univ. of Georgia - Savannah River Ecology Lab
> 
> Office: 803.725.5984
> Pager: 706.869.4043
> Fax: 503.218.7129
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >>> Ted Helton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18 Oct 99 17:26:50 >>>
> Yep I'm running it on an ABit BP6 w 2 Celeron 433's
>
> Also installs a uni processor kernel so you can boot either SMP or UP.
>
> Ted
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 12:07 PM
> > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:  [expert] Mandrake SMP
> >
> > Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ethan Bambock

Re: [expert] problem with ATA/66

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Andrew Mitchell wrote:

> Tom Brinkman wrote:
[...]
> Unfortunately, since I don't have a patched kernel, I can't enable DMA
> access for my drives, as I am using an Ali M15x3 chipset. I get these
> results without tweaking (a bit off since I have about 20 netscape
> windows open)
> 
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  2.27 seconds =56.39 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 10.37 seconds = 6.17 MB/sec  
> 
> I really want to be able to enable UDMA, because in Mandrake 6.0, with
> only enabling UDMA, I was getting about 13-14 MB/sec, which sped it up a
> bit. 
> Is there a patched kernel available to download for 6.1, or do I have to
> get the sources and the patch (or kernel 2.3.x)?


Not yet there isn't, I did see a new ide patch from Andrea last week for
2.2. And the 2.3 patch is getting quite small. I've not tested either one
(don't have a problem cdrom, so's it's not much good for me to test)

Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[Sylvain Vignaud]

Jason Antonacci wrote:
> 
> I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a dual-celeron 
>system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP circutry was removed 
>from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in parallel.  Is anyone else 
>running a system like this?

This may be serious: there are 2 socket 7 motherboars for Celeron SMP,
and moreover, a child-card that you plug in a PII Slot1 and which accept
2 celerons does exist.
But celeron haven't been created for SMP, so using two of them won't
give you that much performance; using 2 PII instead of 1 offer a bigger
performance increase than using 2 celerons instead of 1 (Maybe 30% speed
up?)

Re: [expert] diskdrake

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Alan Shoemaker wrote:

> Chmoueltrue, diskdrake has disappeared from the rpms in cooker.  And
> drakxtools is there, but when I try and install it a dependency on
> libnewt.so.0.50 stops the install and there is nothing in the rpms named
> libnewt? :-)
> 
> Alan
 
So, 
A) upgrade (newt and all requires, timeconfig sndconfig ntsysv)
B) try rebuild drakxtools on your 6.1 system agains older newt
 
> Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > 
> > Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > Chmouelthanks, that fixed it.  Since diskdrake didn't show any
> > > missing dependencies when I installed the newer version, I didn't
> > > consider this solution.  Guess I will in the future.
> > 
> > i think pixel has fixed this, now diskdrake is erased and was moved to
> > drakxtools.
> > 
> >   --Chmouel
> 

--
MandrakeSoft  http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon

Re: [expert] Looking for ReflextionX equilavent software in LINUX

[Denis Havlik]

:~>  Yes VNC can be slow.  It depends upon network speeds and the cpu power
:~>and ram on the server machine.  I found it to be as fast or faster on dial
:~>up connections for simple tasks (ie: document viewing, web viewing,
:~>editing), and fast enough over networks.

How fast is it compared to X (i.e. exporting the whole screen with XDMCP)?
I have always assumed that it makes sense only for exporting the screen
from windoze machines to unix (since this is the only way to export
screen from windoze machines), and never tried it out. 

Am i missing anything, like a VCN-client, instead of the X-terminal?  

cu
Denis 

---
Mag. Denis Havlik  
University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Austria(@ @)   tel: (++431) 4277/51179 
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Re: [expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[Jean-Louis Debert]

Jason Antonacci wrote:
> 
> I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a dual-celeron 
>system. > Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP circutry was removed 
>from the celerons > and only P3 & P2 chips would run in parallel.

You have been had ... The celerons (at least the socket 370 ones)
support SMP, but
AFAIK Intel disabled (in the socket) a line from CPU to MB chipset,
activating
the SMP functions in the _chipset_.
So all what you need is a mainboard able to force this line (by BIOS or
jumper
or whatever). There are currently _many_ such boards, one of the best
known
being the Abit BP6 (which also has ATA/66 controller).

For more info see http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/99q2/990510/index.html



-- 
Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse  France
old Linux fan

[expert] dhcp

[Eric Dexter]

I have a question about a particular RPM that comes with Mandrake 6.1. What
dhcp client comes bundled on the ISO? I know the server is the ISC's
version ( http://www.isc.org ), but I can't figure out what the client is.

Specifically, my question is about the ability for the packaged dhcp client
to run external scripts after dhcp configuration. When/if my machine is
requested to change IP addresses by RoadRunner's DHCP server, I'd like the
client to re-run my firewall scripts so the ipaddress is current in my
ipchains rules.

Is this possible with the packaged DHCP client? Or, do I NEED to upgrade to
the ISC's clients as well?

Thanks in advance.



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[expert] Setting up linux box to connect to MS network

[Stout, Wayne]

Greetings, everyone.

I'm about to attempt to build a linux box that will function on my company
network, and I need to know if anyone knows of any pitfalls I may hit.

Some background:

Our file servers are NT, mail server runs MS Exchange, and we develop
software on SCO Unix boxes. Individual pc's have hard coded IP addresses.

My biggest concern is connecting to the mail server. Fortunately, we got rid
of the old MSMail server a few months back. Any recommendations on a mail
client that can connect to an Excange server? Anything else that may come
back to bite me?

I plan on using Mandrake 6.0, or possibly RH 6.0.

Thanks in advance for any advice you have.

Wayne

www.datasystem.com

[expert] Mandrake SMP w/ Celeron

[Jason Antonacci]

I was going through my Mandrake archives and saw your posting about a dual-celeron 
system.  Tell me you're serious!  I was told that all the SMP circutry was removed 
from the celerons and only P3 & P2 chips would run in parallel.  Is anyone else 
running a system like this?

Jason S. Antonacci
Computer Support Specialist IV
Univ. of Georgia - Savannah River Ecology Lab

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>>> Ted Helton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18 Oct 99 17:26:50 >>>
Yep I'm running it on an ABit BP6 w 2 Celeron 433's

Also installs a uni processor kernel so you can boot either SMP or UP.

Ted

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 12:07 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Subject:  [expert] Mandrake SMP
> 
> Does anyone know if Mandrake 6.1 supports Symmetric Multi-Processing?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ethan Bambock

[expert] Corel Linux experience

[Bug Hunter]

  I installed corel linux on a syquest removable (/dev/hdd) on an old
computer.

  It missed my network card entirely, and I didn't see any quick way of
getting it shoved in.  It also destroyed the lilo on the mbr of /dev/hda,
and the machine was unbootable.

  I booted using an install floppy and gave the kernel the new root and a
blank initrd  (linux root=/dev/hda2 initrd=)  After that I redid lilo and
put the corel kernel on my hda /boot partition.

  Corel will probably not properly work on very large drives that go over
the 1024 cylinder limit when using LBA.  The boot kernel was in root, and
put in the main partition with the rest of the code.  This makes upgrades
problematic.

  However, it was a very compact install (for linux).  I don't consider it
ready for prime time.  They need to put better access to the
documentation.  I had to use zcat to get to the /usr/doc text, and no
viewer I could see on their menus or html help let me at it within the
first 30 minutes or so.

bug

Re: [expert] AOL access within Linux

[Al Smith]

I use a really good AOL IM for linux. It's called GAIM.

Goto freshmeat and do a search for it..


www.freshmeat.net

-Al

Re: [expert] Looking for ReflextionX equilavent software in LINUX

[Bug Hunter]

  they have a mailing list which is very helpful (also available off of
their site).  I've not done what you said.   

  Yes VNC can be slow.  It depends upon network speeds and the cpu power
and ram on the server machine.  I found it to be as fast or faster on dial
up connections for simple tasks (ie: document viewing, web viewing,
editing), and fast enough over networks.

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Tima Vaisburd wrote:

> 
> Hi, this is probably off topic.
> 
> Bug Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >  Check out http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
> 
> 
> I dowloaded their latest 3.3.3 precompiled version and tried.
> Vncserver is on Linux vnc clients was both on the same Linux and separate
> Windows box.
> 
> It was VERY slow in both cases, and commands like xlsfonts or xfontsel
> crashed the vncserver.
> 
> Do you have any idea what was going on? Do I need to run vncserver as a root?
> 

[expert] Mouse pointer disappearing

[Vanco, Donald]

Hello -
I've got a Compaq Armada 1750 on which I've loaded Mandrake 6.1
(after a single day on RH 6.1 - ugh).

I've loaded and reloaded this laptop a number of times in the past
(it's something of a development tool) but this time it seems that something
has gone goofy with X.  If I leave the laptop sit for 10 minutes the screen
blanks - a function of the laptop BIOS, not the Linux OS.  In the past all I
had to do was touch a key or move the mouse and all came back just fine -
but now when I do so I have lost my mouse pointer.  I can still right click
and get a feel for the approximate position, but nothing I've been able to
do in this state has brought the pointer back.
I run a GL screensaver - but I "get back" from that just fine.
Any thoughts?  I re-run mouseconfig and Xconfigurator.  The system
supports both the built-in touchpad and an external PS/2 device
simultaneously.  I've got the mouse set for 2 button generic PS/2 w/3 button
emulation.

Thanx
Don

Re: [expert] diskdrake

[Sylvain Vignaud]

Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> 
> Chmoueltrue, diskdrake has disappeared from the rpms in cooker.  And
> drakxtools is there, but when I try and install it a dependency on
> libnewt.so.0.50 stops the install and there is nothing in the rpms named
> libnewt? :-)
package newt-* is present in last Cookers.

RE: [expert] Looking for ReflextionX equilavent software in LINUX

[nixien]

Hi Tima,

Sorry, I have not install VnC yet. and have no ideas what is happening at
the system. Anywhere, you will have a lot info if you join vnc mailing
lists. URL is available on the http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

Rgds,
nixien

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tima Vaisburd
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 5:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Looking for ReflextionX equilavent software in
LINUX



Hi, this is probably off topic.

Bug Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Check out http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

>  This program runs on windows and many flavors of Un*x, including linux.
>  It is GPL.  Source code on the web site.

>  I use it extensively.  It is very good, and performs almost as well as X
>  windows, without a lot of the stability problems the Micro$ X window
>  servers exhibit.

I dowloaded their latest 3.3.3 precompiled version and tried.
Vncserver is on Linux vnc clients was both on the same Linux and separate
Windows box.

It was VERY slow in both cases, and commands like xlsfonts or xfontsel
crashed the vncserver.

Do you have any idea what was going on? Do I need to run vncserver as a
root?

Tima.

Re: [expert] DISABLING PAM ?

[Sylvain Vignaud]

ibi wrote:
> I'm a home user. If I am happy with my system is there a reason to
> upgrade?
Well, if all your devices have kernel drivers, maybe not. But sometimes,
there are significant increase of speed, mainly in hard disk drivers
lately. So some new kernel may speed up your system.

[expert] upgrade problem via ftp or http

[Edward Pilipczuk - PAGI]

I have problem when upgrading 6.0 to 6.1 via ftp or http.
Computer is Pentium 133MHz, 48MRAM, 6GB IDE disk partitioned to 3x2M, the third
partition is mandrake 6.0, started via LILO from masterboot record.
When starting upgrade using bootnet.img, the load of hdlist is done and after
that is an error message that cannot mount existing linux partition !

Any hints?
===
Edward Pilipczuk
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [expert] Looking for ReflextionX equilavent software in LINUX

[Tima Vaisburd]

Hi, this is probably off topic.

Bug Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Check out http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

>  This program runs on windows and many flavors of Un*x, including linux.
>  It is GPL.  Source code on the web site.

>  I use it extensively.  It is very good, and performs almost as well as X
>  windows, without a lot of the stability problems the Micro$ X window
>  servers exhibit.  

I dowloaded their latest 3.3.3 precompiled version and tried.
Vncserver is on Linux vnc clients was both on the same Linux and separate
Windows box.

It was VERY slow in both cases, and commands like xlsfonts or xfontsel
crashed the vncserver.

Do you have any idea what was going on? Do I need to run vncserver as a root?

Tima.

RE: [expert] problem with ATA/66

[Bart³omiej Muryn]

Exactelly, as I know, from 2.2.10 all kernels have this possibility... BUT!
not for all chipsets.
For me (HPT366) there is only the patch, AND no possibility to boot from
this disk!
So I must wait untill the developpement of driver for this chipset finish...

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Mitchell
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 7:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] problem with ATA/66
>
>
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > /dev/hda:
> > > >  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.75 seconds
> =73.14 MB/sec
> > > >  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 21.91 seconds =
> 2.92 MB/sec
> > > >
> > > > I'm not gonna switch it just to show you guys, but on
> hde cache reads hit
> > > > around 125-150, and buffered gets up to about 5-10. A mighty big
> > > > improvment, but
> > >
> > > Something's mighty wrong with those readings Axalon...
> Here's my 18G WD:
> > >
> > >   [root@tippy /root]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> > >
> > >   /dev/hda:
> > >Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.73
> seconds =73.99 MB/sec
> > >Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.81
> seconds =16.80 MB/sec
> >
> > for my 8.4 WD ide0 slave
> >
> > /dev/hdb1:
> >  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.87 seconds =147.13 MB/sec
> >  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  6.04 seconds =10.60 MB/sec
> >
> >   Twice your cache reads, not as good as your disk reads.  Take
> > a look at 'info hdparm'. It recommends low settings for 'multcount'
> > and 'readahead'  for WD drives. I use 4, and 64, rather than your
> > 8, and 128.  I've tried 'em all tho, the above numbers are the best
> > I can get out of this older drive.
> >
> > dev/hdb:
> >  multcount=  4 (on)
> >  I/O support  =  1 (32-bit)
> >  unmaskirq=  1 (on)
> >  using_dma=  1 (on)
> >  keepsettings =  1 (on)
> >  nowerr   =  0 (off)
> >  readonly =  0 (off)
> >  readahead= 64 (on)
> >  geometry = 1027/255/63, sectors = 16514064, start = 0
> >  --
> > ..  Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]  .
> >
> Unfortunately, since I don't have a patched kernel, I can't enable DMA
> access for my drives, as I am using an Ali M15x3 chipset. I get these
> results without tweaking (a bit off since I have about 20 netscape
> windows open)
>
> /dev/hda:
>  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  2.27 seconds =56.39 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in 10.37 seconds = 6.17 MB/sec
>
> I really want to be able to enable UDMA, because in Mandrake 6.0, with
> only enabling UDMA, I was getting about 13-14 MB/sec, which
> sped it up a
> bit.
> Is there a patched kernel available to download for 6.1, or
> do I have to
> get the sources and the patch (or kernel 2.3.x)?
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