Re: [expert] OT: /root
Pj wrote: I know the guru's already know the "Love Bug" copycat has been ported to Linux, so this isn't for you. The new versions are called "Jokes" and "Mother's Day Order Confirmation." The bad news for Linux users is if you read your mail in /root and NOT as /user - you are vunerable. Nuff said. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was under the impression that 'love bug' was written using VB sript and took advantage of the scripting host in Outlook Express... how then would that affect Linux? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [expert] [newbie] GPGP
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 14:31 +1000, Dennis Robertson wrote: I am trying to run gnupg with the gpgp gui front end in L-M7.0. When I try to decrypt with gpgp I get the error message: gpg: cannot open /dev/tty: Device not configured Gnupg works fine in a term. I cannot find any info on configuring /dev/tty. Can anyone assist? TIA. Ran into the same thing. I just couldn't get the frontend working. I'm using GnuPG everyday now. What I did? I just dumped the MUA which can't use gnupg. Now I use Mutt and it works perfectly together with gnupg. Using Mutt also prevents me from accidently opening HTML mails, another usability plus of Mutt! 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 Wolfgang, Thanks. I tried a KDE front end called Geheimnis but that has bugs in it as well. Looks like I check out Mutt, unless anyone else has been able to get a gui for gpg to work. Cheers. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone for setup.
[expert] what gets installed
I know this is going to sound a bit foolish, but I was hoping somebody could point me in the right direction. I have Mandrake 7.0 installed, and I've done the installation several times now. Everytime I re-install I'm getting better and better at picking and choosing (in expert mode) what gets installed and what doesn't. However, as I watch the installation progress bar, it lists a whole slew of programs or utilities that I'm not familiar with. Is there someplace where I can actually see or read about everything that gets installed or is installable? 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. =
Re: [expert] OT: /root
The virus/worm is dependent on the Windows Scripting Host (Windows Security Hole). The major cause for concern for linux admins is that if your users are clueless Windows users and use Outlook as their mail client you can get swamped with a lot of crap email. All other stories of it being ported to linux/Unix are a hoax, as of 4/8/2000. --- Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pj wrote: I know the guru's already know the "Love Bug" copycat has been ported to Linux, so this isn't for you. The new versions are called "Jokes" and "Mother's Day Order Confirmation." The bad news for Linux users is if you read your mail in /root and NOT as /user - you are vunerable. Nuff said. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was under the impression that 'love bug' was written using VB sript and took advantage of the scripting host in Outlook Express... how then would that affect Linux? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! == = Mage Grimau, Strange Unwashed Somewhat Slightly Dazed VoiceMail/Fax: 1-651-328-1145 __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: [expert] OT: /root
Mike, I'm not a programmer or expert. My Linux guru and several friends who own ISP's; run some flavor of *NIX on servers and their own machines sent the warnings. I believe them. My own guru said as long as I read mail only as /user I am safe. I believe him. He then explained why /user was safe and /root wasn't. I didn't understand it, but I'm looking forward to the day when I do. In the meantime that's why he's the guru and I'm the newbie. He says; I do and it's a perfect relationship. My L-M machine runs better than Winblows ever did. MANDRAKE ROCKS!!! Pj Michael Holt wrote: Pj wrote: I know the guru's already know the "Love Bug" copycat has been ported to Linux, so this isn't for you. The new versions are called "Jokes" and "Mother's Day Order Confirmation." The bad news for Linux users is if you read your mail in /root and NOT as /user - you are vunerable. Nuff said. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was under the impression that 'love bug' was written using VB sript and took advantage of the scripting host in Outlook Express... how then would that affect Linux? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [expert] Mutt or Pine (fwd)
Hello; I am re-sending this because I got a mail failed message saying a servers mailbox was full in .za? Perhaps full of love-bugs? anyhow JIC, sorry if unnecessary. -- russ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 22:04:15 +1000 (EST) From: Russ Pitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mutt or Pine On Sun, 7 May 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: Howdy all, I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing that where it downloads it to is where I have to point my Pine MUA to, but I cannot find in any how to's where this is and how to set it up. I would appreciate if anyone would avoid the temptation to point me to another how to (unless of course it is written for a complete spoon!) and give me some straightforward settings so I can get (preferably Pine) my mail up and running. I am gettting frustrated with underdeveloped GUI's. TIA, Wayne Wayne; Linux Journal Feb 98 has an excellent run down on setting up email. It is on their site. Check http://www ssc.com/ to get there. I use pine - postfix - isp -- isp -- fetchmail --procmail -- pine. If that makes sense. They each need configuring. You really need to read a bit but if you are totally bogged down I will mail you copies of my configs. YMMV! russ
Re: [expert] what gets installed
hello wizaerd, you don´t have to install LM7 several times. after installation you can use i.e. kpackage to see all packages you have installed. you can see a description (and all files) for each package. packages you don´t need you can uninstall here. if the package is needed by someother you will be warned. Wizaerd schrieb: I know this is going to sound a bit foolish, but I was hoping somebody could point me in the right direction. I have Mandrake 7.0 installed, and I've done the installation several times now. Everytime I re-install I'm getting better and better at picking and choosing (in expert mode) what gets installed and what doesn't. However, as I watch the installation progress bar, it lists a whole slew of programs or utilities that I'm not familiar with. Is there someplace where I can actually see or read about everything that gets installed or is installable? 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. =
Re: [expert] XMMS
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:07:32PM -0500, Gary Bunker wrote: - You can't mount an audio CD, so that's not a problem. Here's the - series of steps I take to use XMMS with CDs. Hope it's easy to follow: - - Open Playlist, and say "New List" to clear out anything that might be - in the way. - - Choose Dir + (add Directory), then move to the /mnt/cdrom and hit OK. - - Up pops the full CD, and after a couple seconds the CDDB listing of the - tracks appears. - - YMMV That seems to work for me; thanks. -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
Re: [expert] Star Office / JavaRuntime
www.blackdown.org On Sun, 07 May 2000, Acme Flyer wrote: If this is a 'newbie' question my apologies. Have Mandrake 7 up and running ... final move from windoze will be star office ... have looked for Java runtime to no avail ... could someone point me in the rright direction and indicate the basic install method ... Thanks to all who contribute to these lists, I have found them most helpful. Mike ( Acme Flyer ) -- Eugene GrimsdellSystem Administrator OSRAM South Africa www.osram.co.za Tell: +27 11 805-1777 Cell: +27 83 491-0955 Fax: +27 11 405-6695 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] XMMS
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: Actually, for audio thats true. But if its like the Ozzy Osbourne CD I have with .qwk movies, you need to mount it like a regular iso9660 CD. ( You probably know this.. :) ) Just pointing it out for any newbies that may be lurking.. Of course. :-) If there's DATA on the cd (some CDs are mixed formatnot sure if KSCD can handle a "mounted" hybrid CD) John
Re: [expert] xcdroast
On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: I have a TEAC CDRW. I tried burning an audioi CD with xcdroast on a CDRW disk. The copy works fine on my computer cdrom drive, but when I try to play it thro' an audi system the CD is not recognized. Is there any parametrs to set while recording. Or should I use a plain CDR disk to copy the CD? Did you "close" the CD? If so, I *have* heard that Audio CD players can't read CDRW disks. John
Re: [expert] Audio CD's
Yeah, I caught that. I thought I'd point out what little you need a sound card for. Or rather, that a sound card has little to do with burning, or even playing, CD-ROMs. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 7 May 2000, John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: No, you don't. You onlu need a sound card to play audio CD's via your computer - and that, only if you don't have a headphones jack on the drive. Matt: The question that Sridhar had was not about PLAYING CDs, rather about BURNING audio cds. :-) John
[expert] wuftp quotas
Does anybody know how tu use wuftpd to use Quoted Homdirs via nfs for real users. so they can only upload an specified ammount of data. Best Regards Grojer Jürgen CCN EB Mailadministration SIEMENS AG Austria Siemensstr. 88 - 92 1211 Wien Tel.: +43 51707 29153 Handy: +43 676 3792713 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] OT: /root
Pj, I just checked DataFellows' web site and did not see any reference to the notion that the Love Bug worm runs on Linux. I am highly skeptical that it does for two reasons: 1) It is VBScript based, and I am not aware of any VB Script interpreters for Linux other than Netscape. 2) Few, if any, Linux based mail readers will automatically run an unknown attachment. Mutt, PIne, Elm and RM and VM for Emacs do not. I am skeptical that any mail readers do. If they do, they would require user or administrator setup for the locations of the script interperters. Would you please ask your friends where they got this information? I expect that the ISPs on the list might like to know so they can determine for themselves whether the threat is real. On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:33:59AM -0500, Pj wrote: - Mike, - - I'm not a programmer or expert. My Linux guru and several friends who - own ISP's; run some flavor of *NIX on servers and their own machines - sent the warnings. I believe them. My own guru said as long as I read - mail only as /user I am safe. I believe him. He then explained why /user - was safe and /root wasn't. I didn't understand it, but I'm looking - forward to the day when I do. - - In the meantime that's why he's the guru and I'm the newbie. He says; I - do and it's a perfect relationship. My L-M machine runs better than - Winblows ever did. - - MANDRAKE ROCKS!!! - - Pj - - Michael Holt wrote: - - Pj wrote: - - I know the guru's already know the "Love Bug" copycat has been ported to Linux, so this isn't for you. - - The new versions are called "Jokes" and "Mother's Day Order - Confirmation." The bad news for Linux users is if you read your mail in - /root and NOT as /user - you are vunerable. Nuff said. - - Pj - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - I was under the impression that 'love bug' was written using VB sript - and took advantage of the scripting host in Outlook Express... how then - would that affect Linux? - - Mike - -- - == - Michael Holt - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Kirkland, WA - == - The Penguins are coming!!! - == -- -- C^2 No windows were crashed in the making of this email. Looking for fine software and/or web pages? http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
[expert] mdksecure kernel and SMP
Hi all, I'm new to the list and loath to call myself an expert, but I think I need experts to answer my question and there's no "sort-of-expert" category. I've just installed Mandrake Linux 7.0-2 with paranoid security level and using the mandrake secure kernel. I wound up with 2 kernels in lilo.conf, linux (vmlinuz-secure) and linux-up (vmlinuz). I found while trying to install some software meant for uni-processor machines (OSS) that the secure kernel defaults to SMP on. So I did the ol' xconfig; make dep; make bzImage; make bzlilo with the SMP option off, rebooted and it was still SMP. I gather from the above that the secure kernel comes precompiled only, with SMP on and no source, so you cannot make any changes. Is there a patch to the un-secured kernel to deal with the buffer-overflow attacks, so that I can configure the kernel to my system? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Joanne Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] [newbie] text editor?
Monte Milanuk said: Check out Nedit, the Nirvanha Editor. It is supposed to be designed to be familiar to Windows/Mac users, and is far more powerful than KWrite (but so is Xemacs, and gvim, if you have the time to invest in learning them) Alternatives include gEdit, GXedit, etc. I've tried a bunch of the easy ones, and I prefer Nedit. The thing I like best is the long list of previously-edited files that it remembers. The list can be edited to eliminate obsolete entries. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
Re: [expert] xcdroast
Well, after burning the CD the CD was ejected, by this I assume the full process was completed. I'll try it on a CDR and see what happens. Thanks Sridhar - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 6:39 AM Subject: Re: [expert] xcdroast On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: I have a TEAC CDRW. I tried burning an audioi CD with xcdroast on a CDRW disk. The copy works fine on my computer cdrom drive, but when I try to play it thro' an audi system the CD is not recognized. Is there any parametrs to set while recording. Or should I use a plain CDR disk to copy the CD? Did you "close" the CD? If so, I *have* heard that Audio CD players can't read CDRW disks. John
Re: [expert] Fix the damn mailing lists already
Steve Philp wrote: ATTENTION MANDRAKE STAFF: It's been expressed on these lists a couple times now, but noone from Mandrake has deemed it necessary to respond or fix the problem. It would appear that someone has subscribed the expert list to the newbie list. It's causing a doubling of the traffic and is causing messages to be sent to me three times (I'm subscribed to both lists). I'm about -this- close to just saying screw it and unsubscribing. I don't have the patience to wade through the duplicates to find the "real" messages. Fix the damn mailing lists. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve, While subscribing to this list requires a confirmation, unsubscribing doesn't. (hehe, I've had to do it a couple of times for people who keep whining - oops I mean I think it can be done that way) Cheers, -- Joe Gardner Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227
Re: [expert] XMMS
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: Actually, for audio thats true. But if its like the Ozzy Osbourne CD I have with .qwk movies, you need to mount it like a regular iso9660 CD. ( You probably know this.. :) ) Just pointing it out for any newbies that may be lurking.. Of course. :-) If there's DATA on the cd (some CDs are mixed formatnot sure if KSCD can handle a "mounted" hybrid CD) John I have my cdrom mounted, supermount, and can use xmms to play the .mp3 songs. Don't know about other formats or music because I don't have such a cd. Larry
[expert] OT: perl question
Is anyone out there really good with perl? I'm having some trouble with a
CGI script I'm writing and am hoping someone can help me (sorry for this
being slightly OT). What I'm trying to accomplish is a way to parse input
strings using arrays. I originally had:
@convfrom = ("%40", "%2F", ...);
@convto = ("@", "/", ...);
$count = 0;
foreach $T (@convfrom) {
@value1 = split(/\$convfrom[$count]/,$value1[1]);
$value1 = join("$convto[$count]",@value1);
$count++;
}
But this doesn't seem to export the value of $value1 or @value one outside
of the foreach statement, so then I tried:
$count = 0;
do {
@value1 = split(/\$convfrom[$count]/,$value1[1]);
$value1 = join("$convto[$count]",@value1);
$count++;
} while ($count $convtotal);
But this still doesn't work. For some reason, I don't think that I can
use split and join the way I am with these array variables. Does anyone
know a proper way to do this, or a better way to do it?
Please email me back directly, and again, sorry for the OT post but I
didn't know where else to post it. =) Thanks!
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Re: [expert] XMMS
On Mon, 08 May 2000, you wrote: I have my cdrom mounted, supermount, and can use xmms to play the .mp3 songs. Don't know about other formats or music because I don't have such a cd. That's a DATA CD, though, effectively. I'm talking about these hybrid CDs that have data AND music. I know there are some rock groups out there that are publishing web pages, etc to a CD and then adding music to the rest of the CD. John
Re: [expert] xcdroast
On Mon, 08 May 2000, you wrote: Well, after burning the CD the CD was ejected, by this I assume the full process was completed. I'll try it on a CDR and see what happens. Actually, what I *meant* to write was this: 1) did you "close" the CD? (My understanding is that XCDRoast does "close" the cd by default.) 2) CDRW disks don't work in non-computer CD players (from my understanding.) A plain CDR *should* work in an audio CD player (depending on how new it is, I should think -- newer CD players *should* be able to handle the different color of the CD.) John
Re: [expert] Mandrake (smp) on a dual celeron ABIT BP6 motherboard
On Mon, 08 May 2000, you wrote: Hi I got the same problem. If you know how to solve that problem please let me know. The only issue I know of is a tendancy to under report the RAM. The solution is to get the latest BIOS upgrade and flash it. John
RE: [expert] xcdroast
No, you must explicidly "close" the session or else your CD Player will not recognize it. Also the burn must be done in one session... In other words if you did not close the session initially you normally cannot go back and close it, and still have your player read it. Computers can handle this, audio players normally do not. "Closing" means that you finalize the CD. No further writing is possible. This has nothing to do with it being ejected. A burn can complete correctly but the session remain "open". -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Govindarajulu Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] xcdroast Well, after burning the CD the CD was ejected, by this I assume the full process was completed. I'll try it on a CDR and see what happens. Thanks Sridhar - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 6:39 AM Subject: Re: [expert] xcdroast On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: I have a TEAC CDRW. I tried burning an audioi CD with xcdroast on a CDRW disk. The copy works fine on my computer cdrom drive, but when I try to play it thro' an audi system the CD is not recognized. Is there any parametrs to set while recording. Or should I use a plain CDR disk to copy the CD? Did you "close" the CD? If so, I *have* heard that Audio CD players can't read CDRW disks. John
Re: [expert] mdksecure kernel and SMP
Joanne Treurniet wrote: Hi all, I'm new to the list and loath to call myself an expert, but I think I need experts to answer my question and there's no "sort-of-expert" category. I found while trying to install some software meant for uni-processor machines (OSS) that the secure kernel defaults to SMP on. So I did the ol' xconfig; make dep; make bzImage; make bzlilo with the SMP option off, rebooted and it was still SMP. You need to update lilo.conf. You will need to copy BzImage, and System.map to /boot. This is how its done.. First delete the modules for the kernel you are compiling, located in /lib/modules/ make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 (or other vesion) cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.14 next you need to edit, /etc/lilo.conf and either make a new label entry for it, or simple copy over the existing SMP kernel so you don't have to. After this is done, do /sbin/lilo then reboot.. if you need more detailed information, look in /usr/doc/mandrake/en/index.html and then select the user guide and goto Chapter 11 titled "Compiling and installing new kernels" hope this helps..
RE: [expert] mdksecure kernel and SMP
You're new kernel is /vmlinuz . Lilo.conf points to /boot/vmlinuz . Create a new kernel a million times and it still will execute the old kernel. I can't imagine why L.M. delivers it this way! Either: 1) cp -a /vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz 2) change /etc/lilo.conf to image=/vmlinuz or better 3) edit /usr/src/linux/Makefile and change INSTALL_PATH= to INSTALL_PATH=/boot then make bzlilo Hope this helps, Bill P.S. You can skip the make bzImage step when you build a new kernel. And after make bzlilo, don't forget: make modules make modules_install -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joanne Treurniet Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] mdksecure kernel and SMP Hi all, I'm new to the list and loath to call myself an expert, but I think I need experts to answer my question and there's no "sort-of-expert" category. I've just installed Mandrake Linux 7.0-2 with paranoid security level and using the mandrake secure kernel. I wound up with 2 kernels in lilo.conf, linux (vmlinuz-secure) and linux-up (vmlinuz). I found while trying to install some software meant for uni-processor machines (OSS) that the secure kernel defaults to SMP on. So I did the ol' xconfig; make dep; make bzImage; make bzlilo with the SMP option off, rebooted and it was still SMP. I gather from the above that the secure kernel comes precompiled only, with SMP on and no source, so you cannot make any changes. Is there a patch to the un-secured kernel to deal with the buffer-overflow attacks, so that I can configure the kernel to my system? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Joanne Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] Correction to my previous post!!!
I need to correct my description from the previous post: LILO gives me 2 options: 1.) linux 2.) floppy (NOT dos) Someone please help! Thanks. Peter -Original Message- From: Chen, PeterX Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 9:30 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Can Someone Help Me? Hey all, I just got my Mandrake PowerPack and just completed the installation process. I installed linux onto a system that was running Windows 2000 Advanced Server. The system has 2 hard disks and I used the Drax "recommended" mode to do my install. I didn't get a chance to pick which hard drive to install linux on (so I'm assuming it installed it on the same hard drive as my Windows OS). On my first boot into the system, there were 2 problems: 1.) I noticed that LILO only gave me two optons: - linux - dos HUH?! Oh GOD!! Where is my other OS??! I'm going to cry now. Where is the "dos" option in LILO? Doesn't LILO detect a Windows OS and include that as one of it's options? Someone please help me with this one. Is the documentation wrong when it says that LILO can work with NT based OS's? Does Win2k still need it's own boot loader? Or does LILO suffice. The documentation treats Windows Os's as one and the same. 2.) (as if it weren't bad enough already!) My KDM fails to start!!! I got the regular console login. The X configuration went fine during the install process. I get this error: kdm: error in loading shared libraries: libqt.so.1: cannot open shared objet file: No such file or directory. HUH?! In fact, when I do log on via console mode, if I let my system sit there for several minutes without doing anything, the same error pops onto the screen again. What is causing this problem? Can someone at least point me toward a direction? Or do I have to format, reinstall Windows 2000 and all the servers that ran on it and burn my Mandrake A! Sniff sniff, Peter
Re: [expert] Correction to my previous post!!!
Peter, Relax a bit. I believe you can recover with a bit of work. I think that installing Mandrake overwrote your Master Boot Record which previously loaded your MS OS. You need to recover from this by configuring your system to dual or multiply boot. You can buy your way out of your trouble by purchasing products such as System Commander, or Partition Magic. Alternatively, you can work your way out of trouble by using freeware equivalents. Perhaps your best freeware equivalent is LiLo which is part of your Mandrake distro. I don't know enough about Lilo yet to help you precisely, but you can start your reading by looking for the relevant HowTo docs in /usr/doc, or find your HowTos by running "locate howto". The lilo howtos are relevant, as are some of the dual and triple boot howtos. After you read some of these, the man pages might be helpful. Try apropos lilo man lilo man lilo.conf. HTH. John "Chen, PeterX" wrote: I need to correct my description from the previous post:
Re: [expert] OT: perl question
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 12:33:50PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
- Is anyone out there really good with perl? I'm having some trouble with a
- CGI script I'm writing and am hoping someone can help me (sorry for this
- being slightly OT). What I'm trying to accomplish is a way to parse input
- strings using arrays. I originally had:
-
- @convfrom = ("%40", "%2F", ...);
- @convto = ("@", "/", ...);
-
- $count = 0;
- foreach $T (@convfrom) {
- @value1 = split(/\$convfrom[$count]/,$value1[1]);
- $value1 = join("$convto[$count]",@value1);
- $count++;
- }
-
- But this doesn't seem to export the value of $value1 or @value one outside
- of the foreach statement, so then I tried:
-
- $count = 0;
- do {
- @value1 = split(/\$convfrom[$count]/,$value1[1]);
- $value1 = join("$convto[$count]",@value1);
- $count++;
- } while ($count $convtotal);
-
- But this still doesn't work. For some reason, I don't think that I can
- use split and join the way I am with these array variables. Does anyone
- know a proper way to do this, or a better way to do it?
-
- Please email me back directly, and again, sorry for the OT post but I
- didn't know where else to post it. =) Thanks!
First thing to do is get the CGI-lib perl module or equivalent. CGI-lib
has a function which parses your input into a handy associative array,
which I think is preferable to what you are trying to do here.
Then check CPAN for other web related modules. Chances are whatever you
want to do has already been done is on CPAN.
Then go read the recent archives of this list for how annoying we find the
list problems to be, and fix 'em. Thanks.
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[expert] Dual AMD K6's?
Hello, I have a two (2) part question: 1) Does anyone know of a motherboard which will accommodate dual AMD K6 processors? 2) If so, are the drivers available for the aforementioned hardware, for Linux? Any insights would be greatly appreciated :-) Until then... Good day... Regards, Jason H Carroll * * * * \\\|/// * * \\ - - // * * (/ @ @ \) * * -oOOo-(_)-oOOo * * * * * * We are only limited by our imagination * * * * * *
Re: [expert] OT: /root
Oh yeah - no doubt that you shouldn't do ANYTHING as root unless it's system administration - that's always a good rule to live by. I was just curious as to the nature of a port of a virus written specifically for Windows; it's hard enough to get ports for everyday programs that have been around forever! I'm not saying it's not possible or hasn't happened, it's just that, with all due respect, that's how urban legends get started. Just for educational purposes, if anybody has anymore info on this, I wouldn't mind hearing more about it. Thanks, Mike Pj wrote: Mike, I'm not a programmer or expert. My Linux guru and several friends who own ISP's; run some flavor of *NIX on servers and their own machines sent the warnings. I believe them. My own guru said as long as I read mail only as /user I am safe. I believe him. He then explained why /user was safe and /root wasn't. I didn't understand it, but I'm looking forward to the day when I do. In the meantime that's why he's the guru and I'm the newbie. He says; I do and it's a perfect relationship. My L-M machine runs better than Winblows ever did. MANDRAKE ROCKS!!! Pj Michael Holt wrote: Pj wrote: I know the guru's already know the "Love Bug" copycat has been ported to Linux, so this isn't for you. The new versions are called "Jokes" and "Mother's Day Order Confirmation." The bad news for Linux users is if you read your mail in /root and NOT as /user - you are vunerable. Nuff said. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was under the impression that 'love bug' was written using VB sript and took advantage of the scripting host in Outlook Express... how then would that affect Linux? Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [expert] Mandrake (smp) on a dual celeron ABIT BP6 motherboard
Hi Where can I get the QQ-Beta bios ? Can you give me the website? Thank - Original Message - From: "Don" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake (smp) on a dual celeron ABIT BP6 motherboard The QQ-? Bios is not stabel yet, so use the QQ-Beta bios for now. Don ptah wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Help please. I intend to run Mandrake 7.0-2 (smp) on a dual-celeron motherboard. Abit BP6 specifically. Does anyone have any experience to share? Are there any issues (hardware, software, performance) with this motherboard? Many thanks. :-) CHAN Kin Poon Yeah I do this configuration at one time. If you haven't bought the motherboard yet, I would *NOT* recommend it. The BP6 is not a stable motherboard. The HPT/366 controller in my opinion is substandard to the promise controller. I ran a dual 500 configuration, and the biggest issue in my opinion is the weak 66mhz FSB when two processor are trying to share it. Here is a little example, it takes my wife's 300a o/c to 464 (100mhz FSB) 8 hours 20 minutes usally to do a seti packet, it takes a single 500 on the BP6 around 10 hours 45 minutes, and DUAL 500's about 14hrs for each packet -- but thats 2 packets in 28 hours.. I got rid of it for stability issues and the 66 FSB. If you already have the motherboard, make sure you update to QQ bios. The HPT/366 is flakey and doesn't like the PCI devices to be overclocked. I would look into another solution, but if the FSB is not a big concern for you, then it should be ok, hopefully the QQ 2 beta bios has worked out even more kinks on this motherboard. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Dual AMD K6's?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1) Does anyone know of a motherboard which will accommodate dual AMD K6 processors? IIRC, only intel CPU's are supported in a dual configuration. the best place to look would be /usr/src/linux/Documentation/smp.txt??? -- +++ Allen Bolderoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] Correction to my previous post!!!
I think the problem with the installer is perhaps twofold: * It may only look for FAT partitions when setting up dual boot; no one would ever want to boot between Linux and any other OS than DOS-Based Windows, would they? * Even if it recognizes NTFS partitions as belonging to another OS (it _should_ recognize any non-ext2 non-swap partitions as belonging to another OS, I think), Microsoft did change the partition ID for NTFS 5. It shows up as... I don't remember. If you would, post the output from `fdisk -l /dev/hda`. I'm curious. As to solving your problem, it'll require only a little digging in /etc/lilo.conf, and _maybe_ some disk editing from fdisk. First, let's see that your NT root partition (I mean, "C: drive", damn those drive letters!) is marked active in the MBR. Try this: wopr:/root:1013# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1 1151204566 FAT16 /dev/sda2 *16 549 42893557 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 550 574200812+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sda4 575 1106 4273290 83 Linux See the asterisk beside my /dev/sda2 partition? That means it's marked "active" (aka "bootable", thus fdisk's column label of "boot"). Note that my NT partition is active, NOT my linux partition or DOS partition (yes, I do have three OSes on this computer). If the asterisk is not present beside your NT's "C: drive", you'll need to set the partition active. Run fdisk on the correct hard drive: # fdisk /dev/sda I'm running it on SCSI disk "a", your system may be different. Primary Master IDE drive is "/dev/hda". Your system probably uses one of those two devices. Now, type "p" and ENTER. Note how it prints out the partition table, just as running "fdisk -l *device*" does? Now, take note of the partition number for your "C: drive". Type "a" and ENTER. It'll ask you for a pertition number; you need to enter the one for your "C: drive". Now, enter "w" to save changes and quit. Regardless of whether or not it recommends a reboot, don't reboot yet. We still need to edit /etc/lilo.conf. Open it up in your favorite text editor. I like vi, but don't try it if you're not familiar with it. You probably ought to delete the "floppy" entry. I don't know why the hell they even put it in there. I don't know of a PC bios that can't boot from the floppy drive on it's own. Anyhow, we need to make a new entry for NT. I hope you remembered the device for your "C: drive"! You'll need to enter it in here. Use this template: other=/dev/sda2 label=nt Again, notice that this is set up for my system. Change what you need to. This section goes at the bottom of the file. If you'd like NT to boot as default, add a line just before "image=/boot/vmlinuz": default=nt This will boot the section labeled "nt" as default. If a "default=" line is not present, the first label mentioned will boot as default. Now, save and exit. Run "/sbin/lilo", which updates LILO in your MBR. Reboot. Are you, hopefully, satisfied? A few notes: 1) I am, in here, presuming NT 5's (I mean, Windows 2000; damn their new version numbering scheme!) boot loader behaves mostly the same as NT 4's. I'm pretty sure this is true. 2) Please, never run a "recommended" install again. I always advocate knowing what is going on your computer, and where it's going. 3) If this is too confusing, flame me and I'll clean out all the non sequitur cruft. 4) I'm a lot less help with the QT error. It looks like the QT libraries aren't correctly installed, which is very, very, bad, if you plan to use and KDE applications. I can suggest installing the QT RPMS again. Also try booting into a non X startup - "linux 3" at the LILO boot: prompt. That'll get you into Linux, from where you can try running "startx" and seeing if KDE'll load on it's own. Probably not, but at least you can log in and check on those RPMS. If in doubt, mount the CD-ROM and run 'rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/qt-*'. It won't necessarily fix your problems, but it ought to guarantee that the qt RPMS _are_ in fact, installed. If it spits out errors, then you'll know what the problem is. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Dual AMD K6's?
AMD chips cannot be used in dp configurations although the K7 should be able to by this fall when AMD introduces it's 770 chipset. Keith -- There's ease of use and then there's ease of usefulness. Choose usefulness. Choose Linux. On Mon, 8 May 2000, Jason wrote: Hello, I have a two (2) part question: 1) Does anyone know of a motherboard which will accommodate dual AMD K6 processors? 2) If so, are the drivers available for the aforementioned hardware, for Linux? Any insights would be greatly appreciated :-) Until then... Good day... Regards, Jason H Carroll * * * * \\\|/// * * \\ - - // * * (/ @ @ \) * * -oOOo-(_)-oOOo * * * * * * We are only limited by our imagination * * * * * *
[expert] Gabber...
Gabber is a GNOME implementation of the Jabber IM protocol. Information about it can be found at gabber.sourceforge.net. Anyway, has anyone got it to compile? It manages to get through ./configure unscarred, but when I type make it dies, saying "../include/jabberoo.hh:40: sigc++/signal_system.h: No such file or directory" Anyone have any ideas? It looks like I'm missing some GNOME libraries, but I've installed all the Mdk RPMs. Thanks so much in advance. Sincerely, Asheesh Laroia.
Re: [expert] OT DNS Server and nslookup Problems
This has taken me a little while to get back to. Unfortunately, I am
the only person in the company with a Linux desktop, and the "Love Bug"
struck...
Bill Shirley wrote:
You know, it's amazing how little information you've given us.
Although, I'm no DNS guru I have configured my DNS server and, I far as I
can tell, it works correctly. If you need help, for starters, post your:
/etc/HOSTNAME
/etc/resov.conf
/etc/named.conf
/var/named/localhost (or whatever it's called)
/var/named/127 (or whatever it's called)
Bill
I provided as little information as I did in the hope that someone would
recognize my problem and be able to help me, without me swamping the
list with lots of data. The files are:
/etc/HOSTNAME
ls2.oerl.au
/etc/resov.conf
search oerl.au
nameserver 10.132.112.245
/etc/named.conf
options {
directory "/etc";
forwarders{
10.132.64.29;
10.129.62.21;
10.25.64.21;
};
pid-file "/var/run/named.pid";
};
zone "112.132.10.in_addr.arpa"{
type master;
file "/etc/oerl.au.rev";
notify no;
};
zone "oerl.au"{
type master;
file "/etc/oerl.au.hosts";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"{
type master;
file "/etc/named.local";
};
/etc/oerl.au.hosts
@ IN SOA ls2.oerl.au.hostmaster.oerl.au. (
250401 ; serial
28800 ; refresh
7200 ; retry
604800 ; expire
86400 ; default_ttl
)
;
@ IN NS ls2
@ IN NS ls2.oerl.au.
;
; Adresses for the canonical names
;
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
sun1IN A 10.132.112.21
sun2IN A 10.132.112.22
RE: [expert] mdksecure kernel and SMP
On Mon, 08 May 2000, you wrote: You're new kernel is /vmlinuz . Lilo.conf points to /boot/vmlinuz . Create a new kernel a million times and it still will execute the old kernel. I can't imagine why L.M. delivers it this way! They don't deliver it that way(?) I compiled 2.2.15-1mdk this morning from the cooker source and headers rpm's. As MUO instructs, I edited the Makefile ie, 'EXTRAVERSION = -Tom', and _as instructed_, uncommented this line 'INSTALL_PATH=/boot'. After I finished with 'make xconfig', I ran 'make dep make clean make bzImage make install make modules make modules_install' (as instructed) and was all set to boot to the _new_ kernel courtesy of L.M. I don't remember, it was either at the end of 'make install' or 'make modules_install' that lilo was edited and re-run for me. Nothing to do but re-boot. Well, I did add the 'old' section (below) and ran '/sbin/lilo' again before I re-booted, but the label 'linux' was already pointing to the newly compiled kernel modules. | image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb6 append="" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk label=old root=/dev/hdb6 append="" read-only -- .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Either: 1) cp -a /vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz 2) change /etc/lilo.conf to image=/vmlinuz or better 3) edit /usr/src/linux/Makefile and change INSTALL_PATH= to INSTALL_PATH=/boot then make bzlilo Hope this helps, Bill P.S. You can skip the make bzImage step when you build a new kernel. And after make bzlilo, don't forget: make modules make modules_install -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joanne Treurniet Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] mdksecure kernel and SMP Hi all, I'm new to the list and loath to call myself an expert, but I think I need experts to answer my question and there's no "sort-of-expert" category. I've just installed Mandrake Linux 7.0-2 with paranoid security level and using the mandrake secure kernel. I wound up with 2 kernels in lilo.conf, linux (vmlinuz-secure) and linux-up (vmlinuz). I found while trying to install some software meant for uni-processor machines (OSS) that the secure kernel defaults to SMP on. So I did the ol' xconfig; make dep; make bzImage; make bzlilo with the SMP option off, rebooted and it was still SMP. I gather from the above that the secure kernel comes precompiled only, with SMP on and no source, so you cannot make any changes. Is there a patch to the un-secured kernel to deal with the buffer-overflow attacks, so that I can configure the kernel to my system? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Joanne Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake (smp) on a dual celeron ABIT BP6 motherboard
Go to the ABIT site www.abit.com.tw for the bios information and updates. ttyl, Don Vu Nguyen wrote: Hi Where can I get the QQ-Beta bios ? Can you give me the website? Thank - Original Message - From: "Don" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 12:15 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake (smp) on a dual celeron ABIT BP6 motherboard The QQ-? Bios is not stabel yet, so use the QQ-Beta bios for now. Don ptah wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Help please. I intend to run Mandrake 7.0-2 (smp) on a dual-celeron motherboard. Abit BP6 specifically. Does anyone have any experience to share? Are there any issues (hardware, software, performance) with this motherboard? Many thanks. :-) CHAN Kin Poon Yeah I do this configuration at one time. If you haven't bought the motherboard yet, I would *NOT* recommend it. The BP6 is not a stable motherboard. The HPT/366 controller in my opinion is substandard to the promise controller. I ran a dual 500 configuration, and the biggest issue in my opinion is the weak 66mhz FSB when two processor are trying to share it. Here is a little example, it takes my wife's 300a o/c to 464 (100mhz FSB) 8 hours 20 minutes usally to do a seti packet, it takes a single 500 on the BP6 around 10 hours 45 minutes, and DUAL 500's about 14hrs for each packet -- but thats 2 packets in 28 hours.. I got rid of it for stability issues and the 66 FSB. If you already have the motherboard, make sure you update to QQ bios. The HPT/366 is flakey and doesn't like the PCI devices to be overclocked. I would look into another solution, but if the FSB is not a big concern for you, then it should be ok, hopefully the QQ 2 beta bios has worked out even more kinks on this motherboard. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] Dual AMD K6's?
Am Die, 09 Mai 2000 schrieben Sie: Hello, I have a two (2) part question: 1) Does anyone know of a motherboard which will accommodate dual AMD K6 processors? 2) If so, are the drivers available for the aforementioned hardware, for Linux? Any insights would be greatly appreciated :-) Until then... Good day... Regards, Jason H Carroll Hello Jason, no way, AMD K6 and K6-2 do not support SMP in any way. Sorry, no luck. You might wait for Athlon Dual Mainboard. Regards Burkhard Zombronner
Re: Re: [expert] xcdroast
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Re: [expert] xcdroast
How do I close the CD in xcdroast? Sridhar - Original Message - From: "Jose M. Sanchez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 10:07 AM Subject: RE: [expert] xcdroast No, you must explicidly "close" the session or else your CD Player will not recognize it. Also the burn must be done in one session... In other words if you did not close the session initially you normally cannot go back and close it, and still have your player read it. Computers can handle this, audio players normally do not. "Closing" means that you finalize the CD. No further writing is possible. This has nothing to do with it being ejected. A burn can complete correctly but the session remain "open". -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Govindarajulu Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] xcdroast Well, after burning the CD the CD was ejected, by this I assume the full process was completed. I'll try it on a CDR and see what happens. Thanks Sridhar - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 6:39 AM Subject: Re: [expert] xcdroast On Sun, 07 May 2000, you wrote: I have a TEAC CDRW. I tried burning an audioi CD with xcdroast on a CDRW disk. The copy works fine on my computer cdrom drive, but when I try to play it thro' an audi system the CD is not recognized. Is there any parametrs to set while recording. Or should I use a plain CDR disk to copy the CD? Did you "close" the CD? If so, I *have* heard that Audio CD players can't read CDRW disks. John
[expert] Trouble booting from a bootdisk
Would someone please direct me to online instructions for using a Mandrake boot disk on Mandrake 7.0? Even better would be instructions here on how to use one. I just made a boot disk using mkbootdisk kernel where kernel was taken from the output of uname -a. I rebooted from the floppy, and typed "rescue" at the lilo prompt, and got the response: Kernel Panic: No init found: Try passing init=option to kernel. I am not sure what this means, and don't know how to proceed. I RTFM and found nothing relevant in the Table of Contents of either the User or Reference Manual for 7.0. TIA, John
[expert] [Fwd: [Cooker] scroll wheel on logitech mouse?]
Kevin Forge wrote: Michael Holt wrote: Kevin Forge wrote: Michael Holt wrote: Kevin Forge wrote: In a related question. Is there a way to make the middle button on one of these cheap MS compatible mice work in X ? Are you talking about a standard (U)nix style 3-button mouse? If so, you should be able to select 'generic 3 button mouse' (ps/2 or serial) in either mousedrak or xf86config. Not quite. It's a Microsoft mouse according to the auto detection. Indeed it has a switch on the bottom that says PC-MS and I have yet to make it work at the "PC" setting. If you have a similar mouse ( it's serial ) could you send me the pointer section from your /etc/X11/XF86Config ? I'm not sure of the syntax / wording and none of the tools lets me set it by hand. "XF86Setup" dies on startup. ( Major bug somewhere. Should tell that to the list ) I don't have a serial mouse, but I believe your XF86Config file should look like this: Section "Pointer" Protocol "Microsoft" Device "/dev/mouse" Buttons 3 Tried that in both 7.0 and 7.1 BETA ( which I am using now ). In fact that's what my XF86Config says now. Still no middle button. Next, I believe you need to ln -s from /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS1 (that would be com2) or whatever port you use. I'm using the 7.1beta right now, so I can't remember what tools are available on 7.0, I really recommend downloading 'mousedrak' if you don't have it. I'm sorry I can't be of more help, let me know if any of this works - k? -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
