Re: [expert] DNS cache to disk (Is it possible?)
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi I have installed bind/named on my system and configured it to act as cache-only. However, I have seen that the information is stored IN MEMORY. Ok, this is not good news for me because I have a dial-up account and the servers of my ISP seem to be quite slow (even slower than my local DNS). Do you know of any way to make named store DNS information on disk? That would be a real DNS cache. Maybe I should use 3rd. party programs. Moreover, when named is started, everything is fine, but... named[365]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo) named[365]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].1024 named: named startup succeeded named[377]: Ready to answer queries. named[377]: sysquery: sendto([128.8.10.90].53): Network is unreachable What does this last line mean? What the hell is that "sysquery"? Thanks! -- Joan Ensesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can use Squid to proxy for named and tell it to cache to disk. The simplest way to configure this (in terms of effort) is to download webmin-0.78-1mdk.noarch.rpm from a cooker mirror and then use netscape to open http://127.0.0.1:1 with login name root and root password for password, then click the "servers" tab and configure squid... Perhaps there is an option under BIND 8 which may also be configured from that same screen. Civileme
[expert] resolving nslookup
Before I proceed into this message, I just want to thank everyone who has been kind enough to answer my questions regarding sendmail and DNS issues. I understand that the majority of answers are available on line in various HOWTOs and informational sites, but one of the least desirable things for me is to be sitting in front of my computer (on this tiny little 15" monitor) reading page after page of documentation, most of which makes very little sense, and even more that is not an interesting topic for me. This list has been an extremely valuable resource for getting answers quickly, enabling me to move onto subjects that are far more interesting for me. I know that may sound a bit pompous, and I apologize, but the inner workings of DNS and various other tools is not necessarily my forte. I'm doing this more so to become familiar with Apache, the OS as an OS (not a Web administrator) and to learn PHP programming. So again, I thank everyone for their patience and friendly attitude! I've been dinking around with setting up my DNS as a caching only name server (not because I want to know about DNS persay, but in order to set up sendmail...) and have been following a document I found online. However, after following the instructions precisley (or as close as could be allowed given various directory differences) I thought I had it all set up. Unfortunately, when I run nslookup, I get the following output: [root@belgarath wizaerd]# nslookup *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.3.1: Non-existent host/domain Default Server: phnxpop1.phnx.uswest.net Address: 206.80.192.1 Here's how my system is setup. I'm on Mandrake version 7.0, and I have two NIC cards. One is connected via DHCP to US West VDSL. The second I've assigned an IP of 192.168.1.1 and it is connected to a Win98 box. I have DHCPD running to assign a new IP to the Win98 box (it was simpler to setup) and that IP always resolves to 192.168.1.2. This 192.168.3.1 that shows up in the nslookup makes no sense to me. I've gone into linuxconf to set the primary search IP to be 192.168.1.1, but when I reboot, it resets itself to 192.168.3.1. I wonder if this is because I am using DHCPD to assign an IP to the Win98 machine? Regardless, I still cannot get the nslookup to actually see the 192.168.1.1 unless I issue a specific server while in nslookup. Off the cuff, would anybody know what I may be missing here? THANX!! Joseph E. Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd Wizaerd's Realm Canvas, 3D, Graphics, ColdFusion http://www.wizaerd.com = Zanova, Inc. http://www.zanova.com Moving Business Forward. =
[expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
I really would like to be able to use my CD-writer in Linux, but it seems so complicated. I wade through man pages, how-to's, emails, readme's, and I get close, but never there. I have a CDRW at hdc, and a Zip drive at hdd. I've got lilo.conf set right, and I added "modprobe ide-scsi" to rc.local. Interestingly, the Zip comes in before the CDRW: scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '13.A' Removable Disk 0,1,0 1) 'Memorex ' 'CDRW-2216 ' '1.0b' Removable CD-ROM I found some info on MandrakeUser.org that led me to delete /dev/cdrom and create a symlink /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd1. Just guessing, I also created a /dev/zip linked to /dev/scd0. Xcdroast seems to see the CDRW OK, although I haven't learned enough about the program to actually try anything. I've used a Windows program to burn CDs, but it was a lot less complicated. I haven't been able to mount the CDRW and Zip, and I'm guessing I need the answer to the question I asked at the top. This is what I have in fstab: /dev/scd0 /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1 I =think= I still need to disable generic IDE support, and I =think= I need to put the following statements somewhere, but I don't know where: options ide-cd ignore=hdb# tell the ide-cd module to ignore hdb alias scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon access of scd0 pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # before sg, load ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # before sr_mod, load ide-scsi Do you see what remains to be done? -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] resolving nslookup
It must be the case that *some* configuration file has that address, or
at least that network, hard-coded. Try searching the /etc directory and
it's descendent for that address. To find the culprit, do this:
grep -r 192.168.3 /etc
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
PS: Sometimes you learn things *answering* questions. I've actually
still been doing stuff like this the old-fashioned way, using
find /etc -type f -exec grep 192.168.3 {} /dev/null \;
[this is the sort of thing you do when you've been using Unix for nearly
20 years], but I suddenly remembered having seen rgrep in a previous
post on this list and decided to try it in order to answer the question
and then, on a hunch, I tried "grep" itself. For Mandrake 7, at least,
"grep" itself actually supports the -r option. Cool, eh? Hopefully
some other experts learned something, too.
Wizaerd wrote:
I've gone into linuxconf to set the primary search IP to be 192.168.1.1, but
when I reboot, it resets itself to 192.168.3.1. I wonder if this is because
I am using DHCPD to assign an IP to the Win98 machine? Regardless, I still
cannot get the nslookup to actually see the 192.168.1.1 unless I issue a
specific server while in nslookup.
Off the cuff, would anybody know what I may be missing here?
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Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
Lane,
I take it your cdrw is an ATAPI device?
I take it your ZIP is an ATAPI device?
Lane Lester wrote:
I =think= I still need to disable generic IDE support, and I =think= I need to
put the following statements somewhere, but I don't know where:
options ide-cd ignore=hdb# tell the ide-cd module to ignore
hdb
Much better is to add the following to your /etc/lilo.conf for the
linux image:
append = "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
alias scd0 sr_mod# load sr_mod upon access of scd0
Why? What is sr_mod? sg provides (emulated) SCSI read (sr).
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # before sg, load ide-scsi
No. place a "/sbin/modprobe sg" line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
The sg module will report on the SCSI devices as it is installed.
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # before sr_mod, load ide-scsi
Not needed.
Set up symbolic links:
/dev/zip -- /dev/sg4 {This is a guess, remember that a zip drive
only uses partition 4}
/dev/cdrw -- /dev/sr0
Then reboot, check your lsmod for all modules loaded.
Now read and write a mounted zip disk and read a mounted CDROM to
check.
Then umount the cdrw and run cdrecord -scanbus to verify write access
to the cdrw.
I'm not sure about the ZIP, since I don't have one.
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Re: [expert] REMOVE ME Please!
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Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, you wrote: [CHOMP] I mean that when using defrag, the program continued defragmenting the next partition without realize that. That's why he recommended me that the first partition after a win partition should be the swap one, that doesn't matter if it is destroyed. Logical precaution. I agree with the sentiments. :-) John
Re: [expert] REMOVE ME Please!
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RE: [expert] REMOVE ME Please!
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Re: [expert] os by default
Just configure lilo with Win / Dos as first line, Linux second line delay anything from 5 secs ( default ) to 30 secs ... On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: hi, i have linux mandrake 5.3 and windows in my machine .I want to know how configure lilo for that windows is the os by default.Thank you for your help __ message envoye depuis http://www.ifrance.com emails (pop)-sites persos (espace illimite)-agenda-favoris (bookmarks)-forums Ecoutez ce message par tel ! : 08 92 68 92 15 (france uniquement) -- ...
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[expert] L 7.0(2) and PHP 3.0.16
I'm having trouble compiling PHP on a freshly installed LM 7.0 machine. I used the norwegian locale when I installed, but I don't know if this is the problem... The errors I get are with "functions/microtime.c" in the PHP tree. Something about "usg".. I tried to install every package imaginable to make it work... even tried to change the locale to US English to no use... Anyone else experienced this and found a sollution to this ? Thanks for your time. Stig-Ørjan Smelror
Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
Ron Stodden said:
I take it your cdrw is an ATAPI device?
I take it your ZIP is an ATAPI device?
Yes and yes, hdc and hdd, respectively.
Much better is to add the following to your /etc/lilo.conf for the
linux image:
append = "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
Now done.
No. place a "/sbin/modprobe sg" line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
This is now there:
/sbin/modprobe sg
/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi
Set up symbolic links:
/dev/zip -- /dev/sg4 {This is a guess, remember that a zip drive
only uses partition 4}
/dev/cdrw -- /dev/sr0
OK, except I used cdrom instead of cdrw, since I have only the one
CD drive.
Then reboot, check your lsmod for all modules loaded.
Module Size Used by
ide-scsi7584 0
aic7xxx 111024 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sg 15792 0
Now read and write a mounted zip disk and read a mounted CDROM to
check.
The CD reads OK, but an attempt to mount the Zip gives:
[root@localhost /root]# mount /mnt/zip
mount: /dev/zip is not a block device
[root@localhost /root]# mount /dev/sg4
mount: can't find /dev/sge in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
The reason for the "sge" is that sg4 is a symbolic link to sge. That
made me think the link should be from zip to sgd (since its IDE device
is hdd), but changing that didn't help. Here's my current fstab (the
commented stuff is what works with IDE):
#/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1
#/dev/hdd /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
/dev/zip /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1
Then umount the cdrw and run cdrecord -scanbus to verify write
access to the cdrw.
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '13.A' Removable
Disk
1,1,0 101) 'Memorex ' 'CDRW-2216 ' '1.0b' Removable
CD-ROM
I'm not sure about the ZIP, since I don't have one.
I sure wish you did, because I really need to solve that. But I
appreciate very much your help; it looks like I have CDRW capability
now. Time to do a test CD write!
--
Lane
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] Norton Antivirus and Bloodhound
Civileme wrote: The "local" Alaska Linux Users Group reports that Norton Antivirus and Bloodhound, Norton's newer "heuristic" virus hunter, is claiming LILO is a boot sector virus in newly installed dual-boot systems. I think NAV has been doing this for several years. I don't think that NAV actually thinks LILO is a virus, but instead merely sees the mbr is not as it would be on a system with only MS OSs installed, that is, NAV is merely warning the user of something it doesn't understand and therefore can't properly interpret for the user. With the increasing popularity and use of Linux on dual-boot systems, though, NAV or BH should definitely allow for other boot managers being installed in the mbr. It's good to know that someone's on the ball though - McAfee. mike So, for their next installfest, they will be recommending the McAfee virus scanner for linux that is there to protect windows. Civileme -- Beta-Testing Netscape 6 Mailer
Re: [expert] RPM woes
Bruce E. Harris wrote:
Hi,
I am a convert moving over from Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 (and before). So far I
like Mandrake much more. However I have a very disturbing problem. RPM won't
work anymore run anymore. Attempts to install a RPM will lock my system badly.
Usually causing it to log out of X, many time I must do a hard shut down (kill
power), or the HDD will just chatter and do nothing.
I get an error ending with can't update (some lib6 cant remember the
whole name, and the error msg will not generate anymore) but the last part is
/var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm
Any ideas?
Not really, but you might try reinstalling rpm from the Mandrake/RPMS directory
on the install cdrom. Then, if you still have these problems, try rebuilding the
rpm database
rpm --rebuilddb
If you still have problems using rpm, then read the rpm man pages, thoroughly.
There's also a --initdb option, but the documentation or man page doesn't explain
either of these options to any noteworthy extent.
What version of rpm are you using, if you still have problems?
rpm --version
Read the man page on rpm and there you'll also find verify options. I'm not sure
if this would do any good wrt the rpm requiredby database, but it might be
helpful in verifying rpm itself.
You can also do a search for RPMs which require the lib*6 file which seems to be
a problem.
rpm -q --whatrequires {filename}
{filename} may need the entire path.
You can also check what RPM provides this problem file
rpm -q --whatprovides {filename}
In this case, you may or may not need the complete path.
Do a search for the directory where this problem lib*6 file is located. It
should be in either /usr/lib or /lib, but if it's not there, then use the find or
rpm command
find / -name {filename}
Using rpm, you need to know which package or RPM provides this lib*6 file, such
as from the --whatprovides rpm query. Once you have this information
rpm -qil {package-name}
{package-name} must only contain the base name of the package, or at least no
more than this part and the version+release. Don't include the .i386.rpm or
.noarch.rpm part, because this part isn't recorded in the rpm database.
If you still have problems, then post a follow-up; although, you might want to
first check what you could do using other rpm options.
mike
--
Best Regards,
Bruce
[expert] RC.FIREWALL file from LM 7.02?
Can someone send me the DEFAULT "rc.firewall" file that is in Linux Mandrake 7.02? I managed to munge mine up real good and it's not working... It's in /etc/rc.d/... === Andrew Vogel: Program Manager at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. Actor, director, dog (JRT) lover, Miata owner, much, much more! My homepage: "http://www.drewvogel.com". Play I-War, FF7PC, BC3K! Offical BC3K Tester. Linux! "The only way OUT is THROUGH." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- dug: you da man! you da man!"Drew Vogel is its own reward." ric: isn't "the man" the guy who's always bringing everyone down? dug: nope! 'cause YOU da man!! Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail
You can use Sendmail to *send* mail in its default configuration. It's just that you won't be able to *receive* mail from the *outside*. But to send mail from PHP or from another machine on the network, you don't have to configure anything. To send mail for yourself from ColdFusion or PHP, just tell it to send mail to "root", and not "root@somewhere", so it will deliver it locally. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Wizaerd wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 07:29:57 -0700 From: Wizaerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail Ok, I need some information, but you'll need some background information... I have a linux box at home hooked up to the internet with DHCP through US West VDSL. The IP has never actually changed, but it could at any time because of the DHCP. I have a Windows 98 box connected via a second NIC card to the Linux machine, which uses the Linux box as a gateway/router/firewall to the internet. So because of the DHCP connection, I don't have DNS running and I don't use Sendmail. On the Linux box, I have Apache 1.3.12 installed and am in the process of learning PHP. However, one of the things I want to do is convert my ColdFusion discussion forum over to PHP, but was hoping I could send myself email notifications during the testing period (so when I do copy this app to a real server it would work as expected...)... Is there someway to use sendmail and the mailing options of PHP without using DNS and having a static IP? Or better yet is there a way to use sendmail and DNS without having a static IP? Thanx! Joseph (Joe) Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd Wizaerd's Realm http://www.wizaerd.com 3D Art, ColdFusion, Illustration, Canvas a little bit of everything... ColdFusion Developer Zanova, Inc. http://www.ZanovaInc.com Moving your business forward...
Re: [expert] RPM woes
rpm --rebuilddb
solved my problem, also allowed me to fix Apache. After the rebuilddb I was
able to erase Apache and asso files and reinstall...all is well for now.
Bruce
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, you wrote:
Bruce E. Harris wrote:
Hi,
I am a convert moving over from Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 (and before). So far I
like Mandrake much more. However I have a very disturbing problem. RPM won't
work anymore run anymore. Attempts to install a RPM will lock my system badly.
Usually causing it to log out of X, many time I must do a hard shut down (kill
power), or the HDD will just chatter and do nothing.
I get an error ending with can't update (some lib6 cant remember the
whole name, and the error msg will not generate anymore) but the last part is
/var/lib/rpm/requiredby.rpm
Any ideas?
Not really, but you might try reinstalling rpm from the Mandrake/RPMS directory
on the install cdrom. Then, if you still have these problems, try rebuilding the
rpm database
rpm --rebuilddb
If you still have problems using rpm, then read the rpm man pages, thoroughly.
There's also a --initdb option, but the documentation or man page doesn't explain
either of these options to any noteworthy extent.
What version of rpm are you using, if you still have problems?
rpm --version
Read the man page on rpm and there you'll also find verify options. I'm not sure
if this would do any good wrt the rpm requiredby database, but it might be
helpful in verifying rpm itself.
You can also do a search for RPMs which require the lib*6 file which seems to be
a problem.
rpm -q --whatrequires {filename}
{filename} may need the entire path.
You can also check what RPM provides this problem file
rpm -q --whatprovides {filename}
In this case, you may or may not need the complete path.
Do a search for the directory where this problem lib*6 file is located. It
should be in either /usr/lib or /lib, but if it's not there, then use the find or
rpm command
find / -name {filename}
Using rpm, you need to know which package or RPM provides this lib*6 file, such
as from the --whatprovides rpm query. Once you have this information
rpm -qil {package-name}
{package-name} must only contain the base name of the package, or at least no
more than this part and the version+release. Don't include the .i386.rpm or
.noarch.rpm part, because this part isn't recorded in the rpm database.
If you still have problems, then post a follow-up; although, you might want to
first check what you could do using other rpm options.
mike
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Best Regards,
Bruce
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RE: [expert] Mandrake Floppy Install???
If you have another Linux computer on the network, you can do what I did. I don't have a CD-ROM burner so I downloaded the iso to my Slackware Linux. I mounted the iso with a loopback device (mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 /path/to/iso.image /mnt/cdrom). I then setup the NFS export for /mnt/cdrom. I then did a NFS install on the target computer. Pretty kewl, I think. Hope this helps, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of M Thompson Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake Floppy Install??? I would suggest borrowing a friend's external CD-ROM. It would be a feat to fit 650Mb onto multiple floppy disks. Matt From: "Sean Armstrong" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Mandrake Floppy Install??? Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:14:26 CDT Does anyone know how to do a floppy install with Mandrake 7.0-7.02?? I don't have a cdrom drive on an old notebook that I've been running Debian on. I would like to install Mandrake 7.0-7.02 on it instead using floppies. Is this possible? Thanx, SA __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer
No. place a "/sbin/modprobe sg" line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local. This is now there: /sbin/modprobe sg /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi You don't actually need this at all, FWIW. It'll all happen automatically, at least if you have Mandrake 7. Now read and write a mounted zip disk and read a mounted CDROM to check. The CD reads OK, but an attempt to mount the Zip gives: [root@localhost /root]# mount /mnt/zip mount: /dev/zip is not a block device [root@localhost /root]# mount /dev/sg4 mount: can't find /dev/sge in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab The reason for the "sge" is that sg4 is a symbolic link to sge. That made me think the link should be from zip to sgd (since its IDE device is hdd), but changing that didn't help. Here's my current fstab (the commented stuff is what works with IDE): I think you want /dev/sga4 (the fourth partition of the first device) rather than /dev/sgd (the entire span of the fourth device). -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] apache help needed!!!
Weird. Glad to see everything is working, but I wish I'd found out what was the problem. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 18:43:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux Mandrake Expert Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] apache help needed!!! On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: If you cannot "su" to another user, can you at least login into another user (from the console of by ssh) and do you have error messages in /var/log/messages? Nope couldn't log in at all. No user's other than root had permissions to execute any shells. Was very strange. Ended up doing a complete reinstall and now it works fine, but I was getting nowhere with the server beforehand... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org
Re: [expert] Surfing with linux/netscape problems.
I'm afraid we've all noticed this. FWIW, I tried them with Netscape 6, Preview 1, and they are ok there -- though you can't actually play some of those games 'cause it claims you lack Java support; my guess is that they have a hard-coded browser check. Russell Sutherland wrote: [This must be a FAQ but I have not been able to find the answer] Environment: $ uname -a Linux joefox 2.2.14-15mdk #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000 i686 unknown $ rpm -qa | grep -i netscape netscape-common-4.70-6mdk netscape-communicator-4.70-6mdk netscape-navigator-4.70-6mdk I've met up with an occurence that makes surfing the net in linux something that seems like it needs to be worked on a bit. Perhaps there is something wrong with my current version of netscape, and perhaps there is something wrong with my configuration, but perhaps the linux netscape is just plain broken. I thought that by describing the problem I might be able to ask people more knowledgeable than myself which one of these was in fact true. I find that when I visit sites that use java applets for example: http://www.pogo.com http://www.soda.co.uk things seem functional for a short period of time (this time period varies slightly, I have never been able to get through an entire game of chess though) but then they freeze up. At this point, moving the netscape windows causes everything in them to become a uniform colour, and they can no longer be closed using the "x" in the corner. The only way to get rid of them is to kill -9 their pid. Has anyone else experienced this problem or is anyone informed of what the problem might be? Thanks -- Quist ConsultingEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 219 Donlea DriveVoice: +1.416.696.7600 Toronto ON M4G 2N1 Fax: +1.416.978.6620 CANADA WWW: http://www.quist.on.ca -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
[expert] CDRW multisession?
I got xcdroast working, it writes CDR's okay, but I need help making my CDRW's multisession. I made my master recorded it, but it "fixated" it instead of laying down the tracks for future use it sealed the CDRW from any future use. Now can I erase the CDRW and try again?? Is there any way to format a CDRW for future use?? I've been to the xcdroast man page, README, and the author's website. Can any of this be done without going to packet writing or UDF format?? All my windoze CDRW's are in UDF and I would like to go to ISO 9660 for both OS's. Thanks for reading this! Vern
Re: [expert] CDRW multisession?
I think with gnome toaster you can rewrite cdr's give it a try. I ran it under windowmaker. - Original Message - From: "vern" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 11:00 PM Subject: [expert] CDRW multisession? I got xcdroast working, it writes CDR's okay, but I need help making my CDRW's multisession. I made my master recorded it, but it "fixated" it instead of laying down the tracks for future use it sealed the CDRW from any future use. Now can I erase the CDRW and try again?? Is there any way to format a CDRW for future use?? I've been to the xcdroast man page, README, and the author's website. Can any of this be done without going to packet writing or UDF format?? All my windoze CDRW's are in UDF and I would like to go to ISO 9660 for both OS's. Thanks for reading this! Vern
[expert] Kernel Parameter vga=0x0301
Hello, I have recently installed Mandrake 7.02 on both of my home machines. Oddly enough, on both of them I had the exact same problem. The installation would go fine, but when the machine rebooted I would get a kernel panic because it was not able to mount the root filesystem. On both machines Mandrake was installed on its own seperate hard drive (slave on the primary controller). The first machine is an AMD Athlon 700 (Viper chipset) and the second is an IBM Aptiva Pentium II 266. Whats weird about this was the solution. :) If I add "vga=0x0301" to the append line of lilo.conf, rerun lilo, the filesystem mounts fine. Heh, don't think for a second that figured out this solution from the ground up. :) I noticed it after installing numerous distros of Linux on one machine and having the exact same problem. I then installed SuSE 6.3 and it actually worked. I noticed that it appended vga=0x0301 to lilo.conf so I tried it out on Mandrake - it worked. Sure enough, if I remove it right now, it won't be able to mount the root fs. Can anyone tell me what this parameter does? Or why it was necessary to add it to the only two machines in the world I have installed Linux on? Was this a fluky thing that just happened to work? I'd be interested in hearing whats up with this. Thanks... -Necro
Re: [expert] RC.FIREWALL file from LM 7.02?
Andrew Vogel wrote: Can someone send me the DEFAULT "rc.firewall" file that is in Linux Mandrake 7.02? I managed to munge mine up real good and it's not working... Here is the two-line content: # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too. echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] CDRW multisession?
You can erase the CDRW and try again; it is possible to have a non-UDF multisession CD. However, I don't use xcdroast so I don't know how to do either from there. vern wrote: I got xcdroast working, it writes CDR's okay, but I need help making my CDRW's multisession. I made my master recorded it, but it "fixated" it instead of laying down the tracks for future use it sealed the CDRW from any future use. Now can I erase the CDRW and try again?? Is there any way to format a CDRW for future use?? I've been to the xcdroast man page, README, and the author's website. Can any of this be done without going to packet writing or UDF format?? All my windoze CDRW's are in UDF and I would like to go to ISO 9660 for both OS's. Thanks for reading this! Vern -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
Re: [expert] Norton Antivirus and Bloodhound
It's not that NAV (Bloodhound is a component of NAV) can't understand the boot sector. It's that NAV is seeing that the boot sector has changed, and is telling the user. Changing the boot sector is EXACTLY what many viruses do, so this is EXACTLY what you want NAV to do, in most cases. You can turn this functionality off. The reason McAfee doesn't do the same thing is that it doesn't scan the boot sector like NAV. In other words, it doesn't do as good a job. Russ Mike Corbeil wrote: Civileme wrote: The "local" Alaska Linux Users Group reports that Norton Antivirus and Bloodhound, Norton's newer "heuristic" virus hunter, is claiming LILO is a boot sector virus in newly installed dual-boot systems. I think NAV has been doing this for several years. I don't think that NAV actually thinks LILO is a virus, but instead merely sees the mbr is not as it would be on a system with only MS OSs installed, that is, NAV is merely warning the user of something it doesn't understand and therefore can't properly interpret for the user. With the increasing popularity and use of Linux on dual-boot systems, though, NAV or BH should definitely allow for other boot managers being installed in the mbr. It's good to know that someone's on the ball though - McAfee. mike So, for their next installfest, they will be recommending the McAfee virus scanner for linux that is there to protect windows. Civileme -- Beta-Testing Netscape 6 Mailer
