Re: [expert] empty smb passwords?
Bill Shirley wrote: Yes. Yes, I have that, I've tried both hand-editing the /etc/smbpasswd file to have the strange "NO PASSWORDXXX" form, and using "smbpasswd schellenberger" (as root) and just hitting enter for the password. Either way, it fails to authenticate. But if I set the password to, say "s" (the single letter) and I use that, then it works fine. What am I missing here? Do you have these set in your global section? null passwords = yes # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd With smbclient use: smbclient //elmo/apps -U xx -N where xx is the username. Just type smbclient for it's syntax. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian T. Schellenberger Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] empty smb passwords? Has anybody had success getting Samba set up so that (some) ids can get in without passwords? Even when using local smbclient such accounts seem to always be rejected. -- "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. -- "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] cron confusion
Hello. I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have a file /etc/crontab that contains this: start % cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly stop how does this relate to the files in /var/spool/cron that are created by crontab(1). Sincerely, Ron -- 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
[expert] Posfix config for single dialup
Hi, I'm running a single machine, that connects to the internet via a dialup connection. After happily using Kmail for a while, I'd like to try postfix as an MTA and use either Pine or Mutt for mailreading (or even Kmail) I've read through all the documents I could find about how a proper unix mail setup should operate, I've got Fetmail configured OK, I'm pretty sure I can get postfix running right, and I think I know how to alias the domain, so when postfix sends mail to my ISP via SMTP it goes out with @netspace.net.au instead of with localhost.localdomain however, I can't figure out how I alias my username? I log onto the machine with a username andrew and I want the mail to go out with my login on the isp (ageorge) any help would be appreciated Andrew
Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?
Am Fre, 28 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: John Murphy wrote: But only till 2000 12 31. What use is that? Answer: None, to me. Hi Ron, why do you have reservations for such dates ? As long as such programs are usefull, you can use it. And if 12. 31 is coming in your near environment, and there is no comparable application, and - maybe, the price is not too bad - hmm, you can buy it or leave it. So you have your time to decide, is it the worth for you or not. Think, such applications, assumed the price is okay, have there worth in any way in comparation to such a thing like they are coming from Redmond or the area of there. With such applications like "winsel" you have to pay a lot of unnecessary money and you get a very very Beta-release of OS. "winsel" is a typical german word and says whimper in english. So my advice would be, dont't have a fear for that date - try it by yourself also and you have your choice or not - you can believe me. Good - or not ? bye Hans Schneidhofer Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?
Am Fre, 28 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: hi, You have to set X graphics to 16 bit and it solved the problem for me. I'm one of those guys who usually starts reading only when things go wrong! That's me too. Have resolved also my problems with your hint : set X graphics to 16 bit Now a first experience is available. Thanks again bye Hans Schneidhofer
Re: [expert] cdrecord CD-RW problems
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:31 -0700, Larry Sword wrote: "S. Newhouse" wrote: Civileme writes: Ummm--don't you have to blank CDRWs before writing to them? Here is the output of trying to blank the CDRW: -- cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting. Have you tried with the -force switch? From the man page: -force Force to continue on some errors. This option cur rently implements some tricks that will allow you to blank bad CD-RW disks. blank If used together with the -force flag, this option may be used to blank CD-RW disks that otherwise cannot be blanked. Note that you may need to specify blank=all because some drives will not continue with certain types of bad CD-RW disks. Note also that cdecord does it's best if the -force flag is used but it finally depends on the drive's firmware whether the blanking operation will suc ceed or not. As I posted before, I had a CD-RW which was first used under Windows98 with WinOnCD. I never got it blanked. # cdrecord -force blank=all dev=4,0 gave the same error as above. cdrecord *did* something to the media though because afterwards the CD-RW was totally unreadable even under Windows. wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
Re: [expert] cron confusion
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have a file /etc/crontab that contains this: % cat /etc/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash sets the default shell for the cronjobs to bash. PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin sets the default path for cronjobs. MAILTO=root tells cron where to mail it's output. HOME=/ used to chroot cron jobs, I believe. # run-parts this is a comment :) 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly cron jobs: the first says, on the first minute of every hour, every day, every month, every day of the week, run all the scripts in /etc/cron.hourly. The second says, on the second minute of the fourth hour of every day of every month, on every day of the week, run the scripts in /etc/cron.daily. And so on, and so forth. You know, this is detailed (maybe not so clearly) in crontab(3). All, except for the run-parts bit, which just runs every executable in a directory. I don't know if it's recursive or not. how does this relate to the files in /var/spool/cron that are created by crontab(1). I believe those are personal cron scripts, while these are system cron scripts. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Anyone Trying ViaVoice?
Vic said: What is ViaVoice? Where is it? It is IBM's voice recognition software. I have used the version that came with Lotus Word Pro for Windows and found it quite capable. Presumably you can download the Linux version from some IBM site. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] dual 3c509 NICs fail on re-boot
At 00:40 29/04/00 -0500, you wrote: What i did was remove 1 nic after i confugured it. Add the other, i had 1 509 and a 905 and i think both nics werent recognized or failed. After the before mentioned procedure they both function well under 7.0 V2. Regards, Pieter
Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book
I find Pine handy when I'm in runlevel 3 doing maintenance and someone calls me saying they sent me an e mail telling me 'You just gotta read it now' so I get to another tty (ctrl alt F2) and read it with Pine there. On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote: I love PINE. It's text-mode, but it still rocks. It can extract addresses from messages, too. It can even use a program to generate the signature (like /usr/games/fortune!!!). I use it, and i just rocks. I currently have 2,876 messages in my mailbox and, other than taking a few seconds to start, there is no adverse affect. It can even use the mouse in an xterm/konsole if you want it to. It simply rocks. Yeah! Go PINE! (I sent this with PINE, by the way) Sincerely, Asheesh Laroia. -- The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. -- Kin Hubbard -- ** Signature: Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
Re: [expert] cron confusion
Matt Stegman wrote: On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have a file /etc/crontab that contains this: % cat /etc/crontab [snip] # run-parts this is a comment :) 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly cron jobs: the first says, on the first minute of every hour, every day, every month, every day of the week, run all the scripts in /etc/cron.hourly. The second says, on the second minute of the fourth hour of every day of every month, on every day of the week, run the scripts in /etc/cron.daily. And so on, and so forth. You know, this is detailed (maybe not so clearly) in crontab(3). All, except for the run-parts bit, which just runs every executable in a directory. I don't know if it's recursive or not. Well, that was my real question: where's the documentation for the "run-parts bit"... how does this relate to the files in /var/spool/cron that are created by crontab(1). I believe those are personal cron scripts, while these are system cron scripts. And they work really well, even for root. /RANT There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert take longer than it should. College students have the time to poke around in it 20 hours per day, but the rest of us have day jobs kids... RANT Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
[expert] dump/restore
I just bought a 20GB tape drive for my server and have a question about dump. I'm using it like: /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 2000 / /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 2000 /home When I do this, it looks like dump overwrites the first backup of / so that only /home is one the tape. Is there a way to dump multiple filesystems onto one tape using dump? I have four partitions I need to backup, and want them put on the tape one after the other so my entire system is backed up. I looked for some commandline arguments to specify volume or something similar to appending it to the end of the tape, but I can't find anything like that. Help! -- [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
[expert] libstdc++ilibc6.1-1.so.2 not found
hi, am missing libstdc++ilibc6.1-1.so.2 this file. Does anybody know, where it can be found ? Is a Air (V 7.0) Thanks ind advance Hans Schneidhofer
Re: [expert] dual 3c509 NICs fail on re-boot
Eth0 is set to i/o 300, IRQ 10, eth1 is set to i/o 280, IRQ 11. This was done with the 3Com DOS utility. PnP was disabled at the same time. All IRQs are set to legacy in the BIOS, and PnP support is disabled. With these cards it's necessary to physically remove power from the card after getting everything set up. They have a power on routine which reads the NOVRAM. Set them the way you want them with the DOS util, shutdown and turn power completely off. If you have a newer machine with a software controlled power supply physically unplug the box from the wall and count to 10. Then boot it back up in DOS and use the utility program to check that everything stays where you left it. MB
[expert] Scan your ports from the outside.
Okay I'm ready to test my firewall where do I go to get a good port scan? The port scanner on cybercrime at ZDTV is only for windoze clients. I wonder why that would make a difference to the outside world. Vern
[expert] changed /etc/exports available for remote host
hi, have added an entry in /etc/exports and will make it available for a remote host. But remounting with mount -a the new added subdirectory results in :mount: 192.168.10.5:/usr/src/RPM failed, reason given by server : Permission denied. But RPM-directory have correct rw-rw-rw. So it only can be on the serverhost. So, now my question here starts : ist it possible in any way, that I can restart the nfs-serves, especially the new exported entries, without a reboot ? Have tried /etc/sysconfig/network stop and start. But with no success. Thanks in advance Hans Schneidhofer
[expert] million questions
Hi all ! Since I deleted the buggy linuxconf and don't want to use webmin or any other GUI interface I have some questions. 1.) which config file should I edit if I want that all new users go to the librarians group and create a home directory under for them /home/librarians/ 2.) If a user is a member of two different groups, like librarians and readers (the librarian is the primary/initial group) and creates a text file and the permissions of the file set to 660 will the members of the readers able to read and modify this file ? 3.) If I have a user and he has his own group but I want to change his group to librarians what should I do ? I tried the usermod -g librarians user_name but all of his files and subdirs has the same owner and group as before (username:username, not username:librarians) Thanks, Ago "If you love somebody set them free..." Sting is GPL fan :-)) A hivatalos magyar KDE oldal : www.kde.hu
Re: [expert] dump/restore
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 07:41:58AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: I just bought a 20GB tape drive for my server and have a question about dump. I'm using it like: /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 2000 / /sbin/dump -0u -f /dev/st0 -B 2000 /home When I do this, it looks like dump overwrites the first backup of / so that only /home is one the tape. Is there a way to dump multiple filesystems onto one tape using dump? I have four partitions I need to backup, and want them put on the tape one after the other so my entire system is backed up. I looked for some commandline arguments to specify volume or something similar to appending it to the end of the tape, but I can't find anything like that. Help! When you run the dump, you are using /dev/st0 and the tape is rewinding after it is done.. so when you run the next dump, it overwrites what you just put on the tape. Try using /dev/nst0 instead -- the "n" means it will not rewind. I could be wrong, but this is probably the case :) -- Jon Changnon, Director of Operations e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 440.951.9525 http://www.dncc.net
Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book
Kmail does the trick for me. Ralph Gavin Clark, on Fri, 28 Apr 2000, you wrote: have you tried netscape communicator? gavin -- From: "Bruce E. Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone recommend a good mail client with a good addressbook? Or at least a addressbook that will work with Kmail that can sort incomming addresses, and multipule addressbooks. I really do like KDE and the email client is OK, but I am not at all happy with the addressbook. I have used XFmail in the past and really like it. Best Regards, Bruce
Re: [expert] Scan your ports from the outside.
On 29 Apr, vern wrote: Okay I'm ready to test my firewall where do I go to get a good port scan? The port scanner on cybercrime at ZDTV is only for windoze clients. I wonder why that would make a difference to the outside world. Vern Try http://www.grc.com -- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059(fax)
Re: [expert] Scan your ports from the outside.
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:04:55AM -0400, vern wrote: Okay I'm ready to test my firewall where do I go to get a good port scan? The port scanner on cybercrime at ZDTV is only for windoze clients. I wonder why that would make a difference to the outside world. Probably one of the best tools out there is "nmap"... http://www.insecure.org/nmap/index.html IMHO of course. -- Jon Changnon, Director of Operations e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 440.951.9525 http://www.dncc.net
Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book
- Original Message - From: "Ralph F. De Witt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [expert] decent email client with a good address book Kmail does the trick for me. Outlook Express in VMware for me. (Hate me if you must.) I am looking at xfmail, though. Hoyt _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [expert] Anyone Trying ViaVoice?
Lane Lester wrote: Vic said: What is ViaVoice? Where is it? It is IBM's voice recognition software. I have used the version that came with Lotus Word Pro for Windows and found it quite capable. Presumably you can download the Linux version from some IBM site. -- Lane I imagine its much better now. I read this came from the OS/2's bundle of the voice recognition that came with Warp 4. ( Which worked pretty darn good back then ). We had a party one night and I amazed a bunch of people by surfing the net without touching a keyboard or mouse. It was cool.. Alan -- - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Running RedHat Linux 6.2 and/or BeOS 5.0. No Windows involved! -
Re: [expert] cron confusion
/RANT There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert take longer than it should. College students have the time to poke around in it 20 hours per day, but the rest of us have day jobs kids... RANT RANT I find it unbelievable that a computer user expects to know how to use 300+ programs by just walking up to a machine. If this where a Windows or DOS machine, would they really expect how to use all the programs on a store shelves without cracking a manual. /RANT All the silly little programs to make DOS or Windows do what you want it to do come with the with *nix. That is allot of functionality that is going to take some reading, but nothing like what you would have to do with other OS's, if you could get them to do it at all. BTW, welcome! Christopher Cox
Re: [expert] changed /etc/exports available for remote host
es ist possible: # /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop # /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start try that there is a way to force the deamons to see the new permissions without restarting NFS: # exportfs -a read the NFS how-to for more info http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ Gavin -- From: Hans Schneidhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] have added an entry in /etc/exports and will make it available for a remote host. So, now my question here starts : ist it possible in any way, that I can restart the nfs-serves, especially the new exported entries, without a reboot ?
Re: [expert] Anyone Trying ViaVoice?
- Original Message - From: "Alan N." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Anyone Trying ViaVoice? Lane Lester wrote: Vic said: What is ViaVoice? Where is it? It is IBM's voice recognition software. I have used the version that came with Lotus Word Pro for Windows and found it quite capable. Presumably you can download the Linux version from some IBM site. -- I only saw the SDK for Linux ViaVoice. Hoyt _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Re: [expert] Virtual Mail Hosting
Alberto Passariello wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:54:33 +0200, Jan Dittberner wrote: I have problems with some Outlook clients which want to connect to the vpop3 daemon on my Mandrake box. They get: "-ERR cannot open mailbox /var/spool/vmail/hostname//username" from the server. Is this a known problem? Is there a solution? Thanks Jan Dittberner verify the ownership of the mailbox file. if the owner is nobody change the owner to the appropriate id The server changes the ownership back to nobody himself, how can I avoid this? Jan Dittberner
Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?
Am Sam, 29 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: Thus spake Hans Schneidhofer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Am Fre, 28 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: hi, You have to set X graphics to 16 bit and it solved the problem for me. I'm one of those guys who usually starts reading only when things go wrong! That's me too. Have resolved also my problems with your hint : set X graphics to 16 bit Has anyone tried it with the updated win-toppage (0.92?) which allegedly does 24-bit colour? I installed it and when I type toppage -e I simply get the prompt back Hi Deryk, yeah, have tried it, but seems not be able to run with 24 or 32 bits. Get also only a silent prompt back. From the support-line I haven't got an answer yet. So am working (better playing around) with setting X to 16 bit. How is your impression about - is it looking good and useable for you ? I have a good feeling about. But am missing some example-files like backgrounds. Have you found some ? bye Hans Schneidhofer PS: is getting Canada a breath of springs now ? I'm loving Canada.
Re: [expert] changed /etc/exports available for remote host
Hi Gavin, thanks a lot. I was looking for such describings, but seems, that I'm missing some docs. Maybe, during the "update process" I have damaged something. Will take a look about due to this weekend. Because I also have a little trouble with some libs, which can't be found. But anyway, I'm very glad about your answer. It's very helpful yet. Thanks again and bye Hans Schneidhofer Am Sam, 29 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie: es ist possible: # /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop # /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start try that there is a way to force the deamons to see the new permissions without restarting NFS: # exportfs -a read the NFS how-to for more info http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ Gavin -- From: Hans Schneidhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] have added an entry in /etc/exports and will make it available for a remote host. So, now my question here starts : ist it possible in any way, that I can restart the nfs-serves, especially the new exported entries, without a reboot ?
[expert] scsi-device
hi, have discovered a little lack in my own memory : my little daughter powered off my scsi-tape without my knowledge. Now I would do a dump and found a : "couldn't open device dev/nst0" After powering on the tape, the same message appears. So now my little memorylack comes in action : is it possible to reinitialize a powered-off-scsi-device after powering on, without a reboot of the system ? Your help is very welcome. Thanks in advance Hans Schneidhofer
Re: [expert] Scan your ports from the outside.
Thanks to all (both) who responded I think I've found a pretty good "outside" port scanner at: hackerwhacker.com. grc.com only did the common ports, and nmap is what I use to check "in house" I wanted to be scanned by someone or something in the "real world" environment. And my logs show that "hackerwhacker" hit most of the 65K ports available. So many ports and so little time. Sigh! Vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Apr, vern wrote: Okay I'm ready to test my firewall where do I go to get a good port scan? The port scanner on cybercrime at ZDTV is only for windoze clients. I wonder why that would make a difference to the outside world. Vern Try http://www.grc.com -- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia Athens, GA (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059(fax)
Re: [expert] cron confusion - rant
From: "Christopher Cox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] /RANT There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert take longer than it should. College students have the time to poke around in it 20 hours per day, but the rest of us have day jobs kids... RANT RANT I find it unbelievable that a computer user expects to know how to use 300+ programs by just walking up to a machine. If this where a Windows or DOS machine, would they really expect how to use all the programs on a store shelves without cracking a manual. /RANT You CAN do that with a Mac. If you need the maunal to figure it out it's a bad program. But I think what he means is not that there is so much to learn but that there's no clear way to learn it. You don't even know that these tools are there, you discover them when someone on a mailing list says: 'try # fghd -fh' You have to learn just about everything slowly by stumbling across it. I'd compare it to playing 'Myst' or learning how to drive by studying the engineer's notes. Now there's a lot of stuff to document and it's all decentralized so no one person or company can just write a manual that covers everything. We'll probly end up with a distributed documentation and tutorial system, a cross between a search engine, an faq-o-matic, and a hand holding help system like on a mac or windows. luckily half the world's working on it. Gavin
[expert] add 2nd HDD and Colorado 350?
i picked up a Colorado 350 and a Western Digital 540MB HDD. i would like to add these to my box, but, I can find no info for how to hook up the Colorado Drive. It came with a cable that has a part labeled TO TAPE DRIVE, a part labeled TO FLOPPY DATA CABLE, and a part labeled TO FLOPPY CONTROLLER. I'd like any info on how to hook this beast up. Then I'd like someone to point me in thge right direction on how to get it working in linux. i believe that i can get the extra HDD hooked up from resources on the net. any help appreciated... -- David G. Thiessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ThiessenDG King George, VAICQ: 55163586 http://webpages.kg.hsanet.net/thiessendg
Re: [expert] add 2nd HDD and Colorado 350?
** Reply to message from "David G. Thiessen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:23:21 -0400 i picked up a Colorado 350 and a Western Digital 540MB HDD. i would like to add these to my box, but, I can find no info for how to hook up the Colorado Drive. If you have a "Multi-floppy" drive cable with an unused connector (presuming that you only have one FDD in your box), you can just plug it in, and if the drive has jumpers, set them to show that the drive is the 2nd in the chain! If you don't have a multi-drive cable, they're pretty common and inexpensive. As far as using it with Linux, well I can't say that I have any experience in that area. I use all SCSI devices. George
Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] VCD Player
Sorry. next question! I have tried this but can't locate the actual movie files. This has to be done from the command line and I don't know what they are called. Any help would be appreciated Wayne On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: You can use "mtvp" instead of "mtv". It comes with mtv, but it's the command-line version, and doesn't cut the audio. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 09:38:00 +1000 From: Wayne Petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] VCD Player Anyone know of a good FREE vcd player for linux? I am trying to use an unregistered MTV at the moment but the audio cuts out until it is registered. THanks, Wayne -- *** *** Wayne Petherick Criminology Department Bond University *** ***
[expert] How? Convert my Dialup Server from Scripting to PAP?
I'm running a Mandrake Linux 6.1 and a Redhat 6.0 (2 boxes) as dial-up servers. My users still login the scripting way. ( as in username enter password enter /usr/sbin/pppd enter. I want them to login as PAP. How do I do that? Thanks
[expert] Problem with Boot Loaders...
All: I'm admittedly a Linux Newbie, but nowhere near a newbie when it comes to machines and software OS'es... I date back to MS-DOS 3.3 Days. I thought I'd prevail upon the experts in the list. I''m trying to get Lilo or Powerquest's Bootmagic to work as a bootloader. Only problem is: Lilo won't load and BM won't properly boot the Linux Partition. I have a 20 gig Hard drive, with 6 for Linux and Swap partitions. LILO says can't be installed on a partitoin that goes beyond cylinder 1024... thats a laugh... 99% of the drives sold in the last five years have cylinders many times 1024... Boot Magic can't properly Identify the Mandrake OS partition, and won't Boot into it properly. Question: Is there a LILO alternative besides a boot disk or Loadlin, or is there some way to force bootmagic to ID the partiton right. Please respond to my email address as well as the List. Thanks, Steve Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] dual 3c509 NICs fail on re-boot
After the loss of much hair, I have finally found the answer to this problem of dual NICs failing. I appreciate the input that I received through this group. And I sincerely apologize for sending the original message in html!! For those who might want to know, here was the problem, and the solution... If the i/o adresses and IRQs were specified in conf.modules, either with a manual edit or through linuxconf, the NICs failed upon reboot. Once the specified settings were cleared, the NICs operated flawlessly regardless of the number of re-boots. Thanks, Greg - Original Message - From: Greg Gray To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 12:40 AM Subject: [expert] dual 3c509 NICs fail on re-boot This has really got me stumped and frustrated. I am running LM 7.0.2 on an Intel P133, 64 megs, 2.3 GB in HDDs, Trident 96xx video, SVGA monitor, SB16 sound card, and a pair of 3Com Etherlink III ISA NICs. Performing a clean new install, including formatting the HDDs, I have no problems setting up the networking so that eth0 has connectivity to the net through a cable modem, and eth1 has connectivity to my internal network. Everything works great, including forwarding and masquerading! Eth0 is set to i/o 300, IRQ 10, eth1 is set to i/o 280, IRQ 11. This was done with the 3Com DOS utility. PnP was disabled at the same time. All IRQs are set to legacy in the BIOS, and PnP support is disabled. At some point in time, upon re-booting, both NICs will fail. They work just fine through a network restart. The only way that I have been able to recover is with a complete re-install. Restarting the network doesn't correct the problem. Ifup doesn't work. Ifconfig shows only my lo interface. This is the third go around with this problem. It also happened with 6.something (the obvious answer here is that I have a hardware problem, but the only hardware common to this time and the 6.something failure is the Mobo, CPU, and case). Any suggestions would be appreciated. Greg
[expert] DVD-RAM
Hi there. Has anybody tried to use a DVD-RAM with Mandrake 7.0. I am thinking about buying one to replace my Jaz 2Go, specifically the Panasonic LF-D101. The device will be primarily used for backups (I am not interested about viewing movies with Linux). My config is Mandrake 7.0, kernel 2.2.14-15mdk with a InitIo 9100WU SCSI adaptater. Any comments welcomed. Francois
Re: [expert] anyone using toppage ?
Hans Schneidhofer wrote: why do you have reservations for such dates ? As long as such programs are usefull, you can use it. And if 12. 31 is coming in your near environment, and there is no comparable application, and - maybe, the price is not too bad - hmm, you can buy it or leave it. So you have your time to decide, is it the worth for you or not. The point is that Linux and its applications are traditionally products using the GPL or LGPL under the auspices of the Free Software Foundation, and that is the implicit assumption for anything Linux. While commercial Linux applications are perfectly possible, discussion of them here, unless their commercial nature is made plain up front, will lead people to assume they are also available under the GPL licensing scheme. For a commercial product such as IBM's TopPage, the value to a prospective purchaser is a function of many things, including its ability to more than pay for itself (say 10 times) by generating new revenue to the purchaser. Unless he can be firmly assured of that he will not buy - how then is his expenditure of time until 2000 12 31 to be brought to account? -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] cron confusion - rant
Gavin Clark wrote: From: "Christopher Cox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] /RANT There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert take longer than it should. College students have the time to poke around in it 20 hours per day, but the rest of us have day jobs kids... RANT RANT I find it unbelievable that a computer user expects to know how to use 300+ programs by just walking up to a machine. If this where a Windows or DOS machine, would they really expect how to use all the programs on a store shelves without cracking a manual. /RANT You CAN do that with a Mac. If you need the maunal to figure it out it's a bad program. But I think what he means is not that there is so much to learn but that there's no clear way to learn it. You don't even know that these tools are there, you discover them when someone on a mailing list says: 'try # fghd -fh' You have to learn just about everything slowly by stumbling across it. I'd compare it to playing 'Myst' or learning how to drive by studying the engineer's notes. You understood exactly. I'm a VMS programmer, *NO* OS has more documentation (except _maybe_ IBM's MVS). The phrase "The Big (Blue|Orange|Grey) Wall" (color depends on major version number) acurately describes the VMS doc set. Fortunately, there is a 2 volume index and descriptions on the binders and well layed out contents. Plus, the online help mirrors the hard copy in orgnization. Those huge license fees pay for *something* usefull... Now there's a lot of stuff to document and it's all decentralized so no one person or company can just write a manual that covers everything. We'll probly end up with a distributed documentation and tutorial system, a cross between a search engine, an faq-o-matic, and a hand holding help system like on a mac or windows. luckily half the world's working on it. It can't get here a minute too soon, IMO. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
Re: [expert] Problem with Boot Loaders...
Um, Steve, Somewhere along the way, your message got dated January 29th, 2000. You might want to check your system date/time. Russ Steve Olson wrote: All: I'm admittedly a Linux Newbie, but nowhere near a newbie when it comes to machines and software OS'es... I date back to MS-DOS 3.3 Days. I thought I'd prevail upon the experts in the list. I''m trying to get Lilo or Powerquest's Bootmagic to work as a bootloader. Only problem is: Lilo won't load and BM won't properly boot the Linux Partition. I have a 20 gig Hard drive, with 6 for Linux and Swap partitions. LILO says can't be installed on a partitoin that goes beyond cylinder 1024... thats a laugh... 99% of the drives sold in the last five years have cylinders many times 1024... Boot Magic can't properly Identify the Mandrake OS partition, and won't Boot into it properly. Question: Is there a LILO alternative besides a boot disk or Loadlin, or is there some way to force bootmagic to ID the partiton right. Please respond to my email address as well as the List. Thanks, Steve Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Problem with Boot Loaders...
Steve Olson wrote: I thought I'd prevail upon the experts in the list. I''m trying to get Lilo or Powerquest's Bootmagic to work as a bootloader. Only problem is: Lilo won't load and BM won't properly boot the Linux Partition. LILO and BM are NOT alternatives, in that you always need LILO installed on every Linux partition because it supplies the partition boot record. If you want to use both BM and LILO, then each Linux partition must have LILO installed on it (NOT on the MBR, hda1). I have a 20 gig Hard drive, with 6 for Linux and Swap partitions. LILO says can't be installed on a partitoin that goes beyond cylinder 1024... thats a laugh... 99% of the drives sold in the last five years have cylinders many times 1024... The 1024 refers to virtual cylinders and is only a restriction for booting from the BIOS. A big disk drive must be set up as LBA in the BIOS (backup first!) to lift the 1024 limit from about 500MB to about 8 GB, which usually meets all needs if all bootable partitions start below the 8GB line. The drive itself remembers its LBA status and does all the logical CHS to physical CHS translation. In any case, use of Boot Magic (which resides in the first drive first cylinder and is itself the only thing ever booted by the BIOS) enables you to boot bootable partitions anywhere on any disk because it has no 1024 cylinder limit. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [expert] Problem with Boot Loaders...
- Original Message - From: "Ron Stodden" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 11:51 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Problem with Boot Loaders... Steve Olson wrote: I thought I'd prevail upon the experts in the list. I''m trying to get Lilo or Powerquest's Bootmagic to work as a bootloader. Only problem is: Lilo won't load and BM won't properly boot the Linux Partition. LILO and BM are NOT alternatives, in that you always need LILO installed on every Linux partition because it supplies the partition boot record. If you want to use both BM and LILO, then each Linux partition must have LILO installed on it (NOT on the MBR, hda1). You can use nuni instead of LILO- no problems as to where it is installed on the drive. http://www.linuxforum.com/plug/articles/ Hoyt _ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
[expert] What rpm is telnetd in?
Hello, grepping /etc/inetd.conf for telnet says this: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd and doing "rpm -qa |grep tcp" produces tcp_wrappers-7.6-8mdk tcpdump-3.4-1mdk Where do I look, since I want to make sure that telnetd is at latest rev. Thanks, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+
[expert] Windows managers in init 5
Hi, I have installed blackbox,(RPM) but when I bootup in level 5, I don't see it as a choice. Where do I look? Did I miss something? -- Ronald
