Re: [expert] Hardwiring an interrupt
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, R_Yeo wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, Axalon Bloodstone fingered: Hmm, don't do that ? No seriously now make sure your not useing the hd optimization and maybe it will go away. Somewhere between, apmd kernel bios the hd controler and the hd lies the problem but it's not a simple one to solve :/ Maybe the laptop lists would have better info Great, I'll give it a go. But how do I go about disabling the HD optimisation? boot with "linux nohdparm", if that has no effect you should boot with the kernel-linus to see if it is a kernel problem or a Mandrake problem -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] apache and imap configuration
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Timothy Litwiller wrote: How do I change the configuration so that users can post web pages? for example I would like to put a .www directory in each users directory /home/user/.www Use /home/user/public_html and make sure it's readable by nobody (or whatever user runs inside apache). You'll get your my.domain.com/~user pages this way. -- Vincent Danen, ICQ: 54924721 . telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org BBBS/LiI . Internet Rex for Linux Beta . Freezer Burn BBS Linux Information and other Goodies at Freezer Burn: www.freezer-burn.org
Re: [expert] Irwin tape backup
Ivan Trail wrote:
Brand Name: Irwin
Product deacription: Accutrak Standard EZPort parallel tape backup
system
MFG product ID: A120EP
MFG Serial #: mooo46211
MFG ID # 662676
It says it holds 120M, and it connects to the printer parallel port.
That is about all I know. If anyone knows how to tame this beast, drop
me a line.
120MB ? Looks like the old-style QIC-40 or QIC-80 tapes ... Have a
look
at the ftape ("floppy tape") driver, which is supposed to support
QIC tape drives. I think there might also be an FTAPE-HOWTO.
AFAIK there are two big interrogation points:
1. the ftape driver was originally designed for drives connected
to the _floppy_ controller. I'm not sure at all that it can
access anything on the parallel port. But it _could_ have evolved
since ... so look anyway.
2. _some_ Irwin drives were _not_ supported, because they were
not compatible with the QIC-80 standard (although the physical
media were the same). I wouldn't know if it applies to your
particular brand of drive.
Besides ... what with today's HD capacity, is it reasonable to
want to backup on a 120MB media ??? Even with compression, it
can hardly store more than 200MB ...
--
Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
[expert] [OT] Opinion, please results
Hello All, Yesterday I asked the question if I should continue to post relevant off-topic subjects such as CERT Alerts? The original message, posted last Sunday, was ultimately sent to ORBS. The reply letter to the sender (I received a copy too) stated the content was not SPAM, but an opinion written by a highly respected Linux writer. If the writer is correct, American's stand to lose far more than the right to a refund if the current lobbying by MS, and other software giants, is successful. Caveat Emptor! I heard from 20+ members living in in AU, FR, Alaska and many other locations. You are young, old, system administrators, system designers and home users. More importantly, there was a recurring theme: Note THIS subject line, please. The votes: 1-didn't care, 1-Probably not the right forum, and the balance? Over-whelming support. Thank you for your time. The reason I originally chose MANDRAKE is for disro support. You are all awesome! Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] problem with xfs in mandrake 7.0
I tried to install Polish diacritics fonts on my linux box (ISO8859-2) but KDE didn`t see this fonts so, I tried to modify the paths in xfs config file. then xfs crashed. I reinstalled it, all fonts end still the same - in error log file I have always something like "fonth path do not exists or bad font." What to do... ?
Re: [expert] ESS SOLO-1 driver
"Stout, Wayne" wrote: I'm running 6.1, and there seems to be some kind of problem with the alsa drivers and the kaudioserver. If I use KDE, I get garbled sound that won't stop. I end up having to reboot to get it to quit. But, if I use Gnome, everything is fine. Go fig. To get an ESS Solo-1 going in MDK 6.1 6.1 includes a module for the Solo-1 with its default kernel. This is *all* you need to do: As root I typed at the command line (in text mode, I had not started X) "modprobe esssolo1.o" enter case sensitive, the o at the end is lowercase letter o, dont type the "quotemarks", enter means press the enter key on your keyboard. I then started X/KDE opened the sound mixer panel to ensure it was working (it was), stuck in a cd, played it The Alsa drivers weren't necessary. I think the important point is to load the module *before* you start X. If this sounds a bit patronising - sorry, I'm going to post this somewhere else for a newbie. I actually sliced a GIG off M$ reinstalled 6.1 because not knowing if it worked was annoying me BTW, 7.0 configures it automagically. -WBD
Re: [expert] apache and imap configuration
:~for example I would like to put a .www directory in each users directory :~ :~/home/user/.www :~ :~How do I make apache see these directories, do I have to add each one to :~the httpd.conf files or is there some way that it will work :~automatically. How about making a link from /home/user/.www to APACHE-WEB-DIR/user? D.
Re: [expert] RPM does not work in Mandrake v7
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 09:07:18PM -0700, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Can you detail for us please you drive layout, and exactly what forms and types of media are and arenot inserted when the problem occurs Please It occured on my box right after installation, while i was trying to install some rpms not provided by mdk. When i did an strace on rpm, i saw that it was locked when trying to access /mnt/cdrom (dunno why it needs to access this dir). I had no media in the drive, i knew there was some problems with supermount so i decided to remove it. That fixed the problem for me, and it was with the BETA 7.0b Oxygen, i don't know if it works with the last release. $gil@tootella:-)df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 100M 40M 55M 42% / /dev/hda11000M 811M 189M 81% /mnt/DOS_hda1 /dev/hda4 993M 713M 229M 76% /home /dev/hda7 792M 704M 48M 94% /usr /dev/hda6 793M 534M 218M 71% /usr/local /dev/hda8 200M 28M 162M 15% /var -- Sylvain GIL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Dis donc, Cortex, tu veux faire quoi cette nuit ? - La même chose que chaque nuit, Minus: tenter de conquerir le monde! (choeurs) C'est Minus et Cortex, Cortex, Cortex.
RE: [expert] apache and imap configuration
:~/home/user/.www :~ :~How do I make apache see these directories, do I have to add each one to :~the httpd.conf files or is there some way that it will work :~automatically. How about making a link from /home/user/.www to APACHE-WEB-DIR/user? If you meant create user web directories straightly in the APACHE-WEB-DIR directory, so that when I type http://yoursite/user/, I get the right user page, yes it will works, no problem. But you will experience administrative problems. You'll have to create as much APACHE-WEB-DIR/user directories as the number of user you want to allow to have a personal page. After creating the directories, you'll have to make the directories belong to the right user (or make them all belong to a special account on which users have no rights, but then you'll have to hire someone to check and do the changes the users want to do on their personal pages, a kind of Big Brother saying what is good and what is wrong, what can be made public and what is to go to trash can...). You'll have then to allow the user to get to his web directory. Here is the difficult part : the user account can be located on another server than the web server (as it is most often the case). So you'll have to allow the users to go on the web server to update their pages (except for the Big Brother case). This means .rhosts files, NFS and so on... Your web server won't be very secure then... You can do it, but it is a lot of work for doing in another way something that Apache does automatically. As answered Tim Howell in a previous message, Your system is probably already set up to do this, but with the public_html directory. Look for the UserDir directive in your httpd.conf file, and modify it according to your needs. Don't forget to restart Apache after you've made your changes. # UserDir: The name of the directory which is appended onto a user's home # directory if a ~user request is recieved. UserDir public_html ^^^Change this to .www and don't forget to give read rights to the user under which Apache is running Look for the following lines in httpd.conf: User nobody Group nobody You'll then access the page with http://yoursite/~user/ If your user account is located on another server, you surely have already made his home exportable via NFS, don't you? If you have an automounter on the web server, then you have no work to do. Mathieu
[expert] Samba Version Location
Can anyone tell me the correct version of Samba to download for version 7.0 of Linux Mandrake? When I looked on the samba site I didn't notice a version for Mandrake. Also, if you know of the url where it can be downloaded would you please include it. Thanks... Robert
Re: [expert] eth0 error
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Stout, Wayne wrote: eth0: 21041 transmit timed out, status fc26, CSR 12 50c8, CSR 13 ef01, CSR 14 , resetting... And I noticed in the logs just under this line there is: eth0: 21143 10 Mbps sensed media. Exactly which module are you useing, tulip.o old_tulip.o or the de4x5.o ? if it's a 100mbs you can specify that to the module, it does seem they search in the reverse expected order, from 10mbs-100mbs. Hmm It was using tulip.o. I changed it to old_tulip, and everything is working now. Thanks for the help! Wayne (who is glad to be able to send this from linux)
Re: [expert] root other security issues
:~A few things have evaded me while grasping the major concepts of Linux :~security (must be several years of miseducation under NT :-) :~1) it it possible to change the username of root? Seems to be more safe when :~under a dictionary attack No idea. I do not think it would bring any aditional security: root-account is an account which has the UID 1, and one can easily find such account by dumping the passwd. :~2) I've implemented NIS for "domain-authentication". Would it be possible to :~implement something like a "domain-root" account? Something similar to the :~NT "Domain Administrator" which is automatically Administrator (super-user) :~on a member of an NT-domain. Sure, if you do not mind the security implications. From /var/yp/Makefile: # We do not put password entries with lower UIDs (the root and system # entries) in the NIS password database, for security. MINUID is the # lowest uid that will be included in the password maps. # MINGID is the lowest gid that will be included in the group maps.: MINUID=100: MINGID=80 Set it to 1, and voila! However, I do not recomend this at all. hope this helps Denis - Mag^H^H^HDr. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik University of Vienna||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo- February 17-th 2000: The Linux Demo Y2k Day!!!
RE: [expert] StarOffice woes.
Try the Star Office for Linux mailing list... http://www.egroups.com/group/star-linux |-Original Message- |From: Sheldon Lee Wen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: 09 February 2000 06:57 |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert] StarOffice woes. | | |Hi, | | I'm having a hell of a time with star office51 that I |downloaded from |sun. Everytime I run it it shows the splash screen and then pops up a |dialog |box saying that an unrecoverable error occurred. | |So I deleted the .sversionrc file and my Office51 directory. |Initially I |had |it network installed and ran a local install from the directory where |the |network install was located. Before rerunning the the installer I |removed the |directory from my home dir. I've done this to death. I tried |another net |install |and a full install into my home dir over and over. I tried making sure |that |java is installed and playing around with my environment variables. | |Funny thing is that root and my wife have no problems running it. But |everyone |else gets the same error. So I tried copying my wifes home account and |replacing |mine with the copy. I got farther but I'd still get the same |error after |it was |loaded. So I backed up my home directory and made a new one. Same |problem. |So I made a new user and logged in as him and installed it from a net |install. |Same problem. I'm beyond baffled now. | |Any suggestions? |
Re: [expert] Samba Version Location
Robert Ayers wrote: Can anyone tell me the correct version of Samba to download for version 7.0 of Linux Mandrake? When I looked on the samba site I didn't notice a version for Mandrake. Also, if you know of the url where it can be downloaded would you please include it. ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/7.0/Mandrake/RPMS/ Try this. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately | | explained by stupidity." (Hanlon's Razor?) | +--+
Re: [expert] Samba Version Location
Robert Ayers wrote:
Can anyone tell me the correct version of Samba to download for version 7.0
of Linux Mandrake?
When I looked on the samba site I didn't notice a version for Mandrake.
Also, if you know of the url
where it can be downloaded would you please include it.
Thanks...
Robert
I went to root and typed in "samba"
Usage: /usr/sbin/samba {start|stop|restart|status}
was the reply.
as in it may be installed already??
GB,
Sam
http://www.wcc.net/~peacemkr/linuxindex.html
NOT an IE friendly site.
Re: [expert] netscape mail username
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hello, I keep getting the following error message from Netscape 4.7. Netscape is unable to use the mail server because you have not provided a username. Please provide one in the preferences and try again. I keep trying to fill in the forms in the preferences, but to no avail. Anyone know what to put where? Edit Preferences Mail Newsgroups Identity: Fill out that information there, and then go to : Preferences Mail Newsgroups Mail Servers and fill out all that info there, INCLUDING the menu that pops up when you try to add a mail server. There will be a place for your username (*typically* everything before the @ symbol in your email address.) If you've already done that and are still having problems, then you've got something misconfigured elsewhere. John
RE: [expert] ISDN ? !
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, you wrote: It's a problem of configuring / installing some basic!! functions. after getting 2 msg I wonder if there are no other one running ISDN ?! I thought I get the original ( not commercial ) package from http://www.millenniumx.de/download.html but I'm willing to get it once more to be shure. I'm running ISDN, but I'm not using KISDN. I'm using an external ISDN router, so I don't have these problems. John
[expert] mouse
I got a new geforce card and installed the drivers they work fine for x but now my mouse is going crazy it works in the console dmesg says ps2 but xf86config says ps2 too and it like when u move it goes screwy
Re: [expert] apache and imap configuration
ok, I figured it out, I needed to chmod 0755 the user directory also Jean-Michel Dault wrote: The Apache is set up to serve personal web pages in: /home/user/public_html I do not suggest a ".www" directory, since many ftp clients do not list directories with a dot before them. Just create the public_html directory in each of your user's file, then chmod it to 0755 so it's world readable. Or, better, if you want to create this directory automagically each time you add a new user, add the directory in /etc/skel. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Timothy Litwiller wrote: Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 09:51:10 -0600 From: Timothy Litwiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] apache and imap configuration How do I change the configuration so that users can post web pages? for example I would like to put a .www directory in each users directory /home/user/.www How do I make apache see these directories, do I have to add each one to the httpd.conf files or is there some way that it will work automatically. My ISP does something like this but doesn't seem to want to answer questions about how to setup something similar. to get to a users web page on my isp we have a url like this. www.myisp.com/~user and when ftping files in we have to make sure they get in the .www directory for them to be seen. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
[expert] printer
hello: I have a Cannon bjc-240. Every time I print it puts too much ink on the paper. How can I regulate the printing darkness to stop this ink waste? -- Guillermo Belli - Linux User #131340 ICQ #38321312 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
[expert] problems with rusage
i have tried to compile ssh 1.27 and octave 1.0.16, but they were complaining about struct rusage, which does not seem to have a well defined size. i've given a look to sys/resource.h, but i've found nothing odd. have ever encountered any such problem? -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ferrara Linux User Grouphttp://www.ferrara.linux.it
Re: [expert] Anybody had trouble with KISDN on Mandrake 7.0
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 21:27:36 +0100, Oeystein Hermansen wrote: -Just installed KISDN (ISDN package for KDE which work just like Dial-up on - Win98). -Strange thing: I had used it on Mandrake v6.0 and 6.1 without any -problems. Installled 7.0 and it still worked. But after upgrading fraom -7.0 to 7.0-2 (second ISO image), it won't work. - -The error message is "dialing to dev ippp0 failed". -Any suggestions ... Shure... it's my problem too :-) as far as I'm coming inside the problem I knew that there is no ioption.ippp0 at your system ( which is needed to do the call ). I'm running MD 6.1 with the latest updates. Now I give it a try by installing isdn step by step without kisdn to see what has to be where. let's be in contact to solve OUR problem :-) Bye Peter Tel: +49 (30) 742 61 10 Fax:+49 (30) 743 750 02 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #: 55400701
Re: [expert] Anybody had trouble with KISDN on Mandrake 7.0
I found the solution myself.It was to easy. In the adminprogram for KISDN, called KCMKISDN, there is a section where you set the path to the to deamons. One path (don't know which since I am sitting at work right now) points to /sbin and on to /usr/bin. In the Mandrake setup, they shall both point to /sbin. Then it worked. It just couldn't find the deamon to start. Oystein H. "Klaus Peter Elsner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09.02.2000 17:57:13 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Oeystein Hermansen/ALLIANSE/NO) Subject: Re: [expert] Anybody had trouble with KISDN on Mandrake 7.0 On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 21:27:36 +0100, Oeystein Hermansen wrote: -Just installed KISDN (ISDN package for KDE which work just like Dial-up on - Win98). -Strange thing: I had used it on Mandrake v6.0 and 6.1 without any -problems. Installled 7.0 and it still worked. But after upgrading fraom -7.0 to 7.0-2 (second ISO image), it won't work. - -The error message is "dialing to dev ippp0 failed". -Any suggestions ... Shure... it's my problem too :-) as far as I'm coming inside the problem I knew that there is no ioption.ippp0 at your system ( which is needed to do the call ). I'm running MD 6.1 with the latest updates. Now I give it a try by installing isdn step by step without kisdn to see what has to be where. let's be in contact to solve OUR problem :-) Bye Peter Tel: +49 (30) 742 61 10 Fax:+49 (30) 743 750 02 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #: 55400701
[expert] English installaion and European characters
This is something I've been wondering about. I have an english install of Mandrake 7, and an american keyboard. How do I write german and french characters in programs like xemacs, kmail? Merci bien und vielen Dank fuer die Hilfe. -- Stephen
[expert] Security .. OT?
This is a security question. I don't know if it's off topic or not. How do we protect our system from this type of activity? ...Snipped from: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1501144.html "University of Washington computers also were used for attacks on computers in France, Norway and Australia, he said. The attack software was installed primarily on computers using Sun Microsystems' Solaris and Linux--both variations of the Unix operating system. To break into those computers, the intruder took advantage of known vulnerabilities that allowed him or her to take almost complete control of a computer then erase his or her tracks, Dittrich said..." Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] X problems
I am running LM 6.1 and have been using it for the last 6 months or so, without any problem. The last fews days I have been having problems with a shimmering effect on my desktop (KDE,Gnome,ect.). For instance if I look at a border in this window there is a very apparent sawtooth effect running all up and down the borders. It is also quite apparent in text. However when I exit X and go back to a terminal screen the problem is not there, but if I start X again the problem will reappear. Also this problem is intermittent, it has totally cleared up while typing this post. Last night I was on it for 2 or 3 hours with no problem. This is a dual boot machine and if I boot into Windows there is no problem. Being an E-tech for 25 years and repairing televisons for 18yrs it appears that something is disturbing the timing of the horizontal scan, like a beat frequency effect. Any help would be appreciated. Michael Cates
Re: [expert] screen blanking in X?
You can type the command: xset s on If you're running KDE, you should be able to put that in a file, make it executable (chmod +x file), and then put it in the Autostart folder. -- Stephen On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, you wrote: I'm not really sure what happened to make it stop screen blanking in X. It just stopped doing it after I upgraded to 3.3.6 of XFree. If someone could be so kind as to point out the method to get X screen blanking automagically again, I'd appreciate it. TIA ++ | d a v i d @ m i h m reality.sys corrupt! | | dmihm @ rchitecture.comreboot universe(y,n)? | | dmihm @ swbell.net | | webmaster @ afterstep.org ICQ:906859 | | ftpmaster @ afterstep.orgwww.rchitecture.com | ++
