Re: [expert] gAIM 0.9.17 rpm or binary

[Gary Bunker]

I'm running the latest (0.9.17) release, and the RPM is available at
the home of Gaim.  I believe that is www.marko.net/gaim

On  2 Jun, Alan N. wrote:
> Jesse McDonnell wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, John Kofinas wrote:
>> 
>> > > AOL's servers began giving No configuration errors to gaim users!

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Re: [expert] gAIM 0.9.17 rpm or binary

[Jesse McDonnell]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Civileme wrote:

> "Alan N." wrote:
> > 
> > Jesse McDonnell wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, John Kofinas wrote:
> > >
> > > > > AOL's servers began giving No configuration errors to gaim users!
> 
> 
> Source tarball of 0.9.18  (right--18) is at www.marko.net/gaim
> 
> You DL it to your home directory, raise a terminal and 
> 
> $ su
> Password: (root password)
> # tar xvzf gaim-0.9.18.tar.gz
> # cd gaim-0.9.18
> # ./configure
> # make
> # make install
> # make clean
> # exit
> $ gaim
> 
> 
> And you are OFFF and running.  

There's an rpm of 0.9.17 available also at the site and it does solve the
No Configuration problem.

Thanks for all the input.

Jesse McDonnell 
 

[expert] Open Motif

[Seak, Teng-Fong]

 Open Motif has been available for some time already, but
strangely there's no mention/discussion about it in the list or web
site.

 Will any OpenMotif rpm package be available for the next
Mandrake?  Will dynamically linked Netscape be used by default from
now on?  Will more Motif applications be included henceforth?

 Fong

[expert] Chinese characters problems in 7.0

[Seak, Teng-Fong]

 I know Mandrake 7.1 is about to come out, but I hope Mandrake's
developers are still taking this into consideration.

1)   During the graphical installation, we can choose amongst several
languages as interface language.  However, when Chinese (Big5) is
chosen, the characters aren't displayed correctly.  It seems that the
proper font file can't be found/ isn't loaded.

2)   There're several TTF for Chinese characters (both simplified and
traditional Chinese).  The only application with which I can display
Chinese is Netscape.  When I open a page in Chinese, things aren't
displayed correctly.  Maybe a problem in encodage, or a mix-up in
traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese.

3)   I've installed xcin (btw, it's not available during install
phase.  I had to find it in the directory and installed it
afterwards), but it can't be run.

 If you need more info, I will give it to you as soon as I have
reinstalled Linux-Mandrake in my new HD.

 Thanks in advance.

 Fong

Re: [expert] MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL

[Ron Johnson, Jr.]

Gavin Clark wrote:
> 
> on 6/2/00 12:02 PM, Stephen Atkins  wrote:
> 
> > Not sure if this belongs here but does any one know of a db convert from
> > MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL?
> >
> > Stephen Atkins
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> mysql has a way to export the whole database as a SQL file with all the data
> and instructions for building the whole thing from scratch. if MSSQL 7.0 has
> a similar export format you're home free. just export from mssql as SQL
> (yourdatabaseexport.sql) then drop it straight into mysql with:
> # mysql yourdatabase < yourdatabaseexport.sql
> 
> Gavin

Gavin's method is the simplest method, but the slowest (especially
if it's a large db).  Extract the tables into flat files, then
load them into the MySQL db.  Since you have many seperate flat
files, you can employ parallelism and load X number of tables 
at once.  The # of parallel loads should depend on the number
of devices you are spreading the tables across, how many 
controllers you use, and how many CPUs.  After you load all the
tables, create the indexes in parallel also...

Sinncerely,
Ron Johnson
Database Administrator
Lockheed Martin IMS

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[expert] Helix Gnome

[Joe Heafner]

Hi.

What are the advantages of Helix Gnome over the version that came with
Mandrake 7.0?

Thanks,
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Re: [expert] Security

[John Hawk]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Well, 7.0 has settable security levels.  Most linux distros
> equate to security level 2 (low) in their defaults.  If you set
> Security level 4 or 5 (High or paranoid)  You will set a daemon
> loose that audits your system for security and makes changes
> appropriatr to your security level--setuid bits are handy
> targets, and so are connection permissions to other machines.  
> 
> For better results except on servers, stay with a security level
> of medium or lower or figure to operate many things in chroot
> jails as a jailed root
> 
> John Hawk wrote:
> > 
> > Is anyone aware of why in MDK 7.0 a suid as root with modprobe suid would fail
> > to load a module.
> > 
> > Example modprobe ppa (also call's parport) error orignates from parport.
> > "Operation not permitted"  I have only obseved this in MDK 7.0. Obviously it is
> > a security issue but who,what,where and why?
> > 

Perhaps I failed to articulate the problem! 
This occurs despite security level (low - medium -high). 
For this reason I was looking for a "known bug" type of situation.
One would think if the executing program has both seteuid setegid (confirmed)
root that a exec should be performed. However, for some odd reason I can not
track where the denial is originating. I would assume a posibble culprit to be
security system pam.  This is a royal pain in the southern hemisphere!

Has anyone observed such untoward behavior?



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Re: [expert] MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL

[Gavin Clark]

on 6/2/00 12:02 PM, Stephen Atkins  wrote:

> Not sure if this belongs here but does any one know of a db convert from
> MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL?
> 
> Stephen Atkins
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
mysql has a way to export the whole database as a SQL file with all the data
and instructions for building the whole thing from scratch. if MSSQL 7.0 has
a similar export format you're home free. just export from mssql as SQL
(yourdatabaseexport.sql) then drop it straight into mysql with:
# mysql yourdatabase < yourdatabaseexport.sql

Gavin

Re: [expert] gAIM 0.9.17 rpm or binary

[Civileme]

"Alan N." wrote:
> 
> Jesse McDonnell wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, John Kofinas wrote:
> >
> > > > AOL's servers began giving No configuration errors to gaim users!
> > > >
> > >
> > > I am getting the same error and I don't have a clue why it is saying it. Other
> > > then the state aol server asks for is not the same gaim is sending out...
> > >
> > >
> > John,


Source tarball of 0.9.18  (right--18) is at www.marko.net/gaim

You DL it to your home directory, raise a terminal and 

$ su
Password: (root password)
# tar xvzf gaim-0.9.18.tar.gz
# cd gaim-0.9.18
# ./configure
# make
# make install
# make clean
# exit
$ gaim


And you are OFFF and running.  

Civileme

[expert] Slightly OT--Convention on Cybercrime

[Civileme]

Try this

http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/projets/cybercrime.htm

And GET IN ON THE DISCUSSION!!!

Before some politicians start taking this nonsense seriously and
brand us all criminals, tell them what you think.

Article 2--Accessing a computer to which he has no right--  If I
fat-finger a ping to the wrong address, have I become a
criminal?  If that address doesn't want to be pinged...  I have.


Article 6--  Wow, read this ONE in its entirety.  Mandrake
includes nmap in the distro and this would make possession of the
tool illegal.  It would also strip me of my best security
auditing tool and leave me wide open to the black hats unless I
allowed my hat to become a little grey and buried a CD in my
front yard and hoped the government didn't have metal detectors
when they inspected my site.

They say this is for discussion--go discuss and do so today!1! 
Otherwise we will find a need to nourish the roots of the tree of
liberty with the blood of free-speech patriots once again.

This is ten times worse than the digital millenium copyright act
and is an example of a series of governments taking themselves
too seriously and believing they have more power than they could
possibly achieve.  The only way they could enforce this is to
dismantle the internet, therefore selective enforcement could
become a political weapon.  ...  

One could compare the internet to a 1500 lane superhighway with
on-ramps from everywhere with all its regulations enforced by a
couple of Keystone Kops with broken whistles (and riding rusty
bicycles) while there are 500-man vigilante squads armed with
thermonuclear weapons.

So, let us declare silly season open and see if we can inject a
bit of common sense to this obviously runaway thread on the
channel covered by that URL.

Civileme

[expert] RE: grep complexity

[Michael R. Batchelor]

Joe Sheble wrote:
> Could grep be any more difficult to figure out?

Mastering Regular Expressions
By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
1st Edition January 1997
1-56592-257-3, Order Number: 2573
368 pages, $34.95
O'Reilly and Associates

It's front cover mentions perl, not grep, but don't be fooled. Get and
work through this book and you will understand grep as well as build the
most useful set of skills you'll ever have.

Michael

Re: [expert] gAIM 0.9.17 rpm or binary

[Alan N.]

Jesse McDonnell wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, John Kofinas wrote:
> 
> > > AOL's servers began giving No configuration errors to gaim users!
> > >
> >
> > I am getting the same error and I don't have a clue why it is saying it. Other
> > then the state aol server asks for is not the same gaim is sending out...
> >
> >
> John,
> 
> I don't know the exact reason for the problem but it worked
> Monday night and didn't on Tuesday. I found a posting after searching dejanews
> today suggesing that the latest gAIM release (0.9.17) works.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Jesse

OK, thanks.. allthough I-m running gaim with the helixcode version of
0.9.15..

Will look for a helixcode version.. I'm not sure if I can rpm -Uvh a
helixcode package.
Thanks
Alan

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Re: [expert] rsync help

[Allen Bolderoff]

The way to not ask for a password, is to cat from the client machine the 
~/.ssh/identity.pub to the ~/.ssh/authorized_users file on the server, it will 
no longer ask for a password when ssh ing from the client to the server as 
that user.

The following command will set this up for you.

ssh -l remoteusername remote.host.com 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys' 
<~/.ssh/identity.pub
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Re: [expert] rsync help

[Vincent Danen]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Christopher Quale wrote:

> You might want to look into the "expect" command. It allows you to
> interact with programs (similar to writing a ppp script). However,
> if you will be putting in passwords, of course be VERY careful
> with the read-write permissions on the scripts. The man page has
> some info, and I'm sure you'd be able to find something out on
> the net about it.

Yeah, I figured on the permissions part and got expect to work
now.  =)  Since it's only executable by root, it's sitting in /root as
chmod 700 which I think should be pretty good.

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Re: [expert] gAIM 0.9.17 rpm or binary

[Jesse McDonnell]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, John Kofinas wrote:

> > AOL's servers began giving No configuration errors to gaim users! 
> > 
> 
> I am getting the same error and I don't have a clue why it is saying it. Other
> then the state aol server asks for is not the same gaim is sending out... 
> 
> 
John, 

I don't know the exact reason for the problem but it worked
Monday night and didn't on Tuesday. I found a posting after searching dejanews
today suggesing that the latest gAIM release (0.9.17) works.

Good luck,

Jesse

Re: [expert] rsync help

[Christopher Quale]

Vincent,

You might want to look into the "expect" command. It allows you to
interact with programs (similar to writing a ppp script). However,
if you will be putting in passwords, of course be VERY careful
with the read-write permissions on the scripts. The man page has
some info, and I'm sure you'd be able to find something out on
the net about it.

Good luck,
Chris


Vincent Danen wrote:
> 
> I've got a client that wants to do backups off-site on my machine.  I've
> setup a user pointing to a non-standard home directory
> /files/backup-client and am using rsync with ssh.  I'd like to automate
> the process somehow, but I don't want to run rsyncd on my system.  With
> ssh it always asks for a password.  How can I avoid this?  I'm currently
> using:
> 
> rsync /home -r --copy-unsafe-links -l -p -o -g -t -e ssh
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:./
> 
> Is there a way I can either prevent ssh from asking for a password and
> read it from an environment variable or a file?  I'd like to throw this
> into a cronjob and let it go once a night.  The reason I want to use ssh
> is it's being sent across the internet so having a secure tunnel is
> relatively vital since files in /home and /etc are being transferred.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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[expert] Security

[John Hawk]

Is anyone aware of why in MDK 7.0 a suid as root with modprobe suid would fail
to load a module.

Example modprobe ppa (also call's parport) error orignates from parport.
"Operation not permitted"  I have only obseved this in MDK 7.0. Obviously it is
a security issue but who,what,where and why?

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Re: [expert] gAIM 0.9.17 rpm or binary

[Alan N.]

John Kofinas wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Anyone know where there are rpms or binaries of gaim 0.9.17? I didn't take
> > it personallybut I had *just* set up my daughter to run linux when
> > AOL's servers began giving No configuration errors to gaim users!
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Jesse McDonnell
> 
> I am getting the same error and I don't have a clue why it is saying it. Other
> then the state aol server asks for is not the same gaim is sending out...

Hmm, I just got the same thing.. opening the debug window showed the
last line saying:

State should be 4 but is 3 instead.

I have no idea what this means.. Maybe the gaim author is aware..

Apparently AOL changed something.

Alan

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[expert] RE: grep complexity

[Brian T. Schellenberger]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
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>   
> 
> Subject: Re: [expert] grep complexity
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:44:37 -0400
> From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: None to speak of
> To: "Expert@Mandrake"@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com
> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> I think that your biggest problem is not with the complexity of grep,
> but with the way that the Unix command line (shells) work.  The *
> "globs" get expanded  by the shell before the command ever sees them.
> This is one of the greatest stregths and weaknesses of the Unix shell as
> opposed to, say, the DOS CLI.
> 
> Joe Sheble wrote:
> >
> > Could grep be any more difficult to figure out?  I'll admit I'm new to
> > Linux, but so far everything I've set out to do (set up a server, set up
> > sendmail, set up Apache, set up PHP, etc...) I have accomplished fairly
> > easy.  Except for grep...  All I want to do is search all the *.c file
> > recursively starting from a specific directory for a specific string...
> >
> > grep -r -e "function something" -f *.c
> >
> > Isn't that what this is supposed to do?  Instead of getting a listing of
> > files containing the text I'm searching for and what line number it appears
> > on, I get pages after page after page of 'stuff', nothing of which has
> > anything to do with what I'm searching for.
> >
> > Yeah, I know... RTFM...  I've read, and re-read the man pages for grep over
> > and over and over, and so far it has remained gobblygook...  The one thing
> > missing in all man pages thus far are some useful examples...
> >
> > SO could somebody enlighten me about this mystery that is grep?
> >
> > 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...
> > 
> 
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Re: [expert] not able to set up udf filesystem.

[Brian T. Schellenberger]

Where did the "make install" install it to?  Most likely it's being
installed to some directory other than the Mandrake modules directory
(/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk, in my case; could be slightly different for
you if you installe the secure kernel or something)l.

Roger Munoz wrote:
> 
> has anyone successfully set up a udf filesystem in Mandrake 7.0? i have
> tried but to no avail. I downloaded and untarred the udf-0.9.2.tar.gz.
> and did the following.
> 
> INSTALLING:
> 
> "make udf.o"-- ok
> 
> "make install"   --ok
> 
> "make patch"--ok
> 
> TESTING:
> 
> "depmod -a"--ok
> 
> "modprobe udf",
> 
> message: can't locate udf filesystem
> 
> can anybody help!!!

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[expert] Any experiences with packet schedulers?

[Alexander Feigl]

Hi!

Has anybody here made experiences with packet schedules? Is it possible to
improve speed of interactive net connections (http) by installing a packet
scheduler 

Alexander

Re: [expert] Mandrake rpm's

[Warren Doney]

Joe Heafner wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Why is it so difficult to find rpm's compiled for i586? I know that
> using software compiled for i386 on my Pentium will work just fine, but
> if possible I'd really like to use the former. However, all the software
> archives that I know of only stockpile i386 packages. Are there other
> archives that I don't yet know about?

Try the /contrib section of your nearest Mandrake mirror.

-WBD

Re: [expert] Mandrake rpm's

[Wayne Petherick]

Joe,
go to www.rpmfind.net.  They have all of the i586 files you need.

Wayne

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Joe Heafner wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Why is it so difficult to find rpm's compiled for i586? I know that
> using software compiled for i386 on my Pentium will work just fine, but
> if possible I'd really like to use the former. However, all the software
> archives that I know of only stockpile i386 packages. Are there other
> archives that I don't yet know about?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Re: [expert] Mandrake rpm's

[Vincent Danen]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Joe Heafner wrote:

> Why is it so difficult to find rpm's compiled for i586? I know that
> using software compiled for i386 on my Pentium will work just fine, but
> if possible I'd really like to use the former. However, all the software
> archives that I know of only stockpile i386 packages. Are there other
> archives that I don't yet know about?

Best bet is to check contribs for stuff.  If you can't find it there, you
can look at www.freezer-burn.org/rpm.php3 for a few things (everything is
also compiled for i586), but the majority of that is in the main distro or
in contribs.

The other thing you can do is download the source rpm and do a:

rpm -bb --target=i586 *.src.rpm

But then you'll need to have installed any libraries or devel files
something might need to compile.

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[expert] rsync help

[Vincent Danen]

I've got a client that wants to do backups off-site on my machine.  I've
setup a user pointing to a non-standard home directory
/files/backup-client and am using rsync with ssh.  I'd like to automate
the process somehow, but I don't want to run rsyncd on my system.  With
ssh it always asks for a password.  How can I avoid this?  I'm currently
using:

rsync /home -r --copy-unsafe-links -l -p -o -g -t -e ssh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:./

Is there a way I can either prevent ssh from asking for a password and
read it from an environment variable or a file?  I'd like to throw this
into a cronjob and let it go once a night.  The reason I want to use ssh
is it's being sent across the internet so having a secure tunnel is
relatively vital since files in /home and /etc are being transferred.

Any ideas?

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Re: [expert] gAIM 0.9.17 rpm or binary

[Alan Shoemaker]

JesseI haven't found any rpms for the newest release of
gaim either, but here's an alternative for you.  

As root I put he below file in my /opt directory and executed
it.  I then removed it from the /opt directory and stored it. 
In the resulting /opt/aim directory there is a executable
script file called aim.  As a user you can link a desktop,
panel, or menu icon to that aim file and a java version of
AOL's aim client will launch on your desktop when you click
that icon.  

To remove the whole thing if you don't like it, just delete
the /opt/aim directory and any linked icons you've made.

ftp://ftp.newaol.com/aim/java/aim_1.1.19_linux.sh

Alan


Jesse McDonnell wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Anyone know where there are rpms or binaries of gaim 0.9.17? I didn't take
> it personallybut I had *just* set up my daughter to run linux when
> AOL's servers began giving No configuration errors to gaim users!
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jesse McDonnell

Re: [expert] gAIM 0.9.17 rpm or binary

[John Kofinas]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Anyone know where there are rpms or binaries of gaim 0.9.17? I didn't take
> it personallybut I had *just* set up my daughter to run linux when
> AOL's servers began giving No configuration errors to gaim users! 
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jesse McDonnell

I am getting the same error and I don't have a clue why it is saying it. Other
then the state aol server asks for is not the same gaim is sending out... 

Re: [expert] Changing the location of a MySQL db?

[Cecil Watson]

Thanks for the suggestion.  Here is what I did.

Stopped MySQL /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql stop
Made a new data directory.
Copied databases to the new directory.
Check make sure permissions are the same and in the old directory.
Edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql (changed datadir=/var/lib/mysql to the new
directory).  Note if you installed via source I believe you'd locate my.cnf
(should be under /etc) and make the change there.
Started MySQL /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start

:-)

Say...How can I find what files have been added to my system recently?

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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Changing the location of a MySQL db?


> :~>Is it possible to change the location of a MySQL DB?  I have one that
has
> :~>eaten most of my space on /dev/sda5 my /var.  How can I change the
location
> :~>of a db on /var/lib/mysql and have MySQL create new other databases in
> :~>another location?  Thanks in advance,
> :~>
> :~>Cecil
> [short]
> take the directory with database and move it to some other partition. Then
> mount this other partition to the place where these data used to be, and
> DB will not even notice that anything has changed. And stop thinking in
> windows terms .-)
>
> cu
> Denis
> --
> -
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RE: [expert] MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL

[Charles Boening]

I'm not too familiar with MySQL, but I do believe that there is a Windows
ODBC Driver for it.  I've never tried it, but you might check out the MySQL
web site.
With that, you could use MS SQL to export to an ODBC data source.

Another posibility would be to export the data to flat file(s) and then
import to MySQL.


Charlie
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Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 12:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL


Not sure if this belongs here but does any one know of a db convert from
MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL?

Stephen Atkins
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Re: [expert] Is Nandrake 7.1 beta 2 a beta distro or upgrade for Air?

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 02-Jun-00 by giancarlo:
| Hi
| 
|   Ola
| 
|   The question comes of the fact that had countless problems for install
| the version Hydrogen da Mandrake. After several attempts, which caused
| irreparable losses in the system  Air,
| I got  install him, using an installation disk with cdrom.img of
| /dosutilies, but I don't manage to see anything working of coherent form
| and as it was used to. The main problem is KDE that don't count anything
| than I choose, in the total, besides the have put all of the packages,
| inclusive games, for example, he alone exhibition some applications, no
| games and the tasks bar is empty! What is it this? How must procede with
| the version 7.1 beta2?
|   Any help will be well coming. Thank you very much.

As I recall, there was a menu bug in the Beta 2 that essentially
prevented proper menu generation.  I am surprised that you are
installing that version, given that Beta 3 has been out for some time
now.

In answer to the subject query 7.1b2 was a beta distro.  7.1 final
should be here soon :)

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[expert] Is Nandrake 7.1 beta 2 a beta distro or upgrade for Air?

[giancarlo]

Hi

Ola

The question comes of the fact that had countless problems for install
the version Hydrogen da Mandrake. After several attempts, which caused
irreparable losses in the system  Air,
I got  install him, using an installation disk with cdrom.img of
/dosutilies, but I don't manage to see anything working of coherent form
and as it was used to. The main problem is KDE that don't count anything
than I choose, in the total, besides the have put all of the packages,
inclusive games, for example, he alone exhibition some applications, no
games and the tasks bar is empty! What is it this? How must procede with
the version 7.1 beta2?
Any help will be well coming. Thank you very much.
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[expert] MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL

[Stephen Atkins]

Not sure if this belongs here 
but does any one know of a db convert from MSSQL 7.0 to 
MySQL?
 
Stephen 
Atkins
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[expert] gAIM 0.9.17 rpm or binary

[Jesse McDonnell]

Hi!

Anyone know where there are rpms or binaries of gaim 0.9.17? I didn't take
it personallybut I had *just* set up my daughter to run linux when
AOL's servers began giving No configuration errors to gaim users! 

TIA

Jesse McDonnell

[expert] philips webcam

[Fabrice SERVANT]

Hello there,
Does anyone, has tried to install the
"USB philips webcam PCVC680K (Vesta Pro)" ?

If you did you went to this site http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
to download modules.
But I need kernel 2.3.51 or to patch mine which is 2.2.14-15 with
a backport patch  "original 2.3.50-for-2.2.14 backport"

And it's not working at all

So if someone succeeded --> please help me (I'm tired compiling kernel)

byebye
fabricio


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[expert] philips webcam

[Fabrice SERVANT]

Hello there,
Does anyone, has tried to install the
"USB philips webcam PCVC680K (Vesta Pro)" ?

If you did you went to this site http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/
to download modules.
But I need kernel 2.3.51 or to patch mine which is 2.2.14-15 with
a backport patch  "original 2.3.50-for-2.2.14 backport"

And it's not working at all

So if someone succeeded --> please help me (I'm tired compiling kernel)

byebye
fabricio


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Re: [expert] not able to set up udf filesystem.

[Larry Sword]

Roger Munoz wrote:

> has anyone successfully set up a udf filesystem in Mandrake 7.0? i have
> tried but to no avail. I downloaded and untarred the udf-0.9.2.tar.gz.
> and did the following.
>
> INSTALLING:
>
> "make udf.o"-- ok
>
> "make install"   --ok
>
> "make patch"--ok
>
> TESTING:
>
> "depmod -a"--ok
>
> "modprobe udf",
>

> message: can't locate udf filesystem
>
> can anybody help!!!

TESTING:
type "depmod -a"
type "modprobe udf",
then "mount -t udf /dev/scd0 /mnt"
(assuming /dev/scd0 is your scsi cdrom)
or
 "mount -t udf -o loop image /mnt"
(Substitute "scd0", "image",  and "/mnt" as appropriate
for your system)

For sample images, send email to Thomas Tempelmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
with a subject of "Get UDF Sample Discs Access". You should get the
URL
sent back within 5 minutes.

Re: [expert] Mandrake rpm's

[dallard]

Joe

   got to www.rpmfind.net they have a whole bunch of i586 packages. There
may be some there that you need.

  Thanks

  Dany Allard

Joe Heafner wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Why is it so difficult to find rpm's compiled for i586? I know that
> using software compiled for i386 on my Pentium will work just fine, but
> if possible I'd really like to use the former. However, all the software
> archives that I know of only stockpile i386 packages. Are there other
> archives that I don't yet know about?
>
> Thanks,
> --
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> My Book 
> My Home Page 
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Re: [expert] A modest security idea for new distribution

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>Could you expand on this "chrooted" operation, or at least tell me
:~>where I can RTFM ?? 
:~>vern

Sorry, I thought everyone knows this...

[root@localhost denis]# rpm -qf `which chroot `
sh-utils-2.0-6mdk

man page:

CHROOT(1)  FSF  CHROOT(1)

NAME
   chroot  -  run  command  or interactive shell with special
   root directory

...

SEE ALSO
   The  full documentation for chroot is maintained as a Tex­
   info manual.  If the info and chroot programs are properly
   installed at your site, the command

  info chroot

   should give you access to the complete manual.

info:

File: sh-utils.info,  Node: chroot invocation,  Next: env invocation,
Up: Modi\
fied command invocation

`chroot': Run a command with a different root directory
===

   `chroot' runs a command with a specified root directory.  On many
systems, only the super-user can do this.  Synopses:

 chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARGS]...]
 chroot OPTION

   Ordinarily, filenames are looked up starting at the root of the
directory structure, i.e., `/'.  `chroot' changes the root to the
directory NEWROOT (which must exist) and then runs COMMAND with
optional ARGS.  If COMMAND is not specified, the default is the value
of the `SHELL' environment variable or `/bin/sh' if not set, invoked
with the `-i' option.

   The only options are `--help' and `--version'.  *Note Common
options::.

etc. In my opinion, chroot may be a nice way to fool any future viruses or
trojans. Drawback is that you actually have to install whatever is needed
to read your attachements below this directory, which means that you need
a lot of place for it - it is like having a (subset of) distribution
installed twice. On the other hand, whatever a virus/trojan does it will
do to this "second" system, where it does bother you because it can be
easily detected and repaired, and does not interfere with working of the
system!   

If "place" on HD is not a problem, this is absolutely the best way to deal
with executing mail attachements.

cu
Denis
:~>
:~>Denis HAVLIK wrote:
:~>
:~>> Would not help you much. What WOULD help is having all programs started
:~>> from mail programs chrooted to somewhere where they cannot do any damage.
:~>> 
:~>> my 2c
:~>> 
:~>> Denis
:~>> --
:~>> -
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[expert] Mandrake rpm's

[Joe Heafner]

Hello.

Why is it so difficult to find rpm's compiled for i586? I know that
using software compiled for i386 on my Pentium will work just fine, but
if possible I'd really like to use the former. However, all the software
archives that I know of only stockpile i386 packages. Are there other
archives that I don't yet know about?

Thanks,
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My Book 
My Home Page 
CVAC Home Page 
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Re: [expert] 6.1 upgrade

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>Are there any issuses in upgrading a mandrake 6.1 to mandrake 7 or should I
:~>wait for the 7.1?

wait.
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Re: [expert] Changing the location of a MySQL db?

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>Is it possible to change the location of a MySQL DB?  I have one that has
:~>eaten most of my space on /dev/sda5 my /var.  How can I change the location
:~>of a db on /var/lib/mysql and have MySQL create new other databases in
:~>another location?  Thanks in advance,
:~>
:~>Cecil
[short]
take the directory with database and move it to some other partition. Then
mount this other partition to the place where these data used to be, and
DB will not even notice that anything has changed. And stop thinking in
windows terms .-)

cu
Denis 
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Re: [expert] old version help

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>This might not be the place but I am in a real bad hurt for some help.
:~>
:~>I am trying to compile network adapter card drivers under Mandrake 6.1 running
:~>2.2.13-22smp kernel
:~>
:~>and none of them will compile with smp kernel. I have read that there is a
:~>problem with the src code in mandrake 6.1.. So what can I do??

Download a new kernel?
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Re: [expert] Changing the location of a MySQL db?

[Eric Aksomitis]

I guess a quick manual way would be move the files to another partition
and create symbolic links to the new files in their original location. 
If you go this route, you'll probably get even better speed if you can
have the indexes and tables on separate physical disks.  This is pretty
much the standard in Oracle Set-Ups.  Let me know if this works or if
you find a better way (I have some MySql work coming up where I need to
store more data than 1 partition as well)

Obviously, I would backup the data and have MySQL off when trying this.

Eric
http://www.dlcwest.com/~jed/re_answer.shtml


Cecil Watson wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to change the location of a MySQL DB?  I have one that has
> eaten most of my space on /dev/sda5 my /var.  How can I change the location
> of a db on /var/lib/mysql and have MySQL create new other databases in
> another location?  Thanks in advance,
> 
> Cecil

Re: [expert] dsl masq help

[Patrick Erler]

hallo freeman!

on Friday, June 02, 2000, 3:56:46 PM, you wrote:

fpc> I finally got my ip chains working on my linux mandrake
fpc> 70.2 box:)  

fpc> I am also using a third DSL dialer called Babylon because
fpc> I need an "ACCESS MANAGER" But I'm having a little problem! 

fpc> I seem to have a lack of speed.  The fastest connection I have is 17k sec.  I 
have recieved upto 100+++ k sec in a win98enviroment.  I just want it to work as good 
as when
fpc> I had it on win98. 
ask your provider if you need to adjust your MTU values (some
cisco-routers on their side need that and it may be adjusted by the
installer in win98). or just give it a try and adjust the value to
1412 (its an option in the pppd)...


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Re: [expert] dependency problems with rpms

[Vic]

I would like to suggest something for a RPM installer feature,
make it so instead of only telling you that its missing
libmxo25.so.9 or some dumb thing like that,
have it also tell you what rpm that this file is found in,
or give at least some possibilities of software packages
or names of softwares that it could be found in so
we don't have to go pestering every linux list
on the planet asking where wehre where werhe. screw the spelling


On Thu, 25 May 2000, Dan Jones wrote:
> I have had similar experiences, and think the problem has to do with the
> way that the RPMs (and the RPM database) specify dependencies.  It
> appears to me that when an RPM is installed, an entry is made in the
> database of what files have been installed (e.g.
> "/usr/lib/libexample.so.1")  When another RPM checks for dependencies,
> it checks that database  (e.g. for "libexample.so.1".  
> 
> Alas, as far as the database is concerned, "/usr/lib/libexample.so.1" is
> *different* that "libexample.so.1".  
> 
> A similar problem can occur when one of your dependencies was installed
> from a tar file (or anything that isn't an RPM).  In this case no entry
> at all occurs in the RPM database.  
> 
> IF you really have the necessary files/packages installed, just use
> --nodeps when you install using RPM.

Re: [expert] helix-gnome

[Vincent Danen]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, leith wrote:

> I have a problem installing helix-gnome.  The instructions are straight
> forward. After logging on as root, I ran the script and after download
> was complete I got these messages.  Is there something wrong???

You logged into X as root or you did a "su" in an xterm?

> Installer extracted into /tmp/installer.2299. Running
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: local not supported by C library
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> ==>Cleaning up temporary files...done.
> 
> 
> Help??
> Leith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

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Re: [expert] A modest security idea for new distribution

[vern]

Could you expand on this "chrooted" operation, or at least tell me
where I can RTFM ?? 
vern

Denis HAVLIK wrote:

> Would not help you much. What WOULD help is having all programs started
> from mail programs chrooted to somewhere where they cannot do any damage.
> 
> my 2c
> 
> Denis
> --
> -
> Dr. Denis Havlik
> Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Quality Assurance  (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me
> spread! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

[expert] Changing the location of a MySQL db?

[Cecil Watson]

Is it possible to change the location of a MySQL DB?  I have one that has
eaten most of my space on /dev/sda5 my /var.  How can I change the location
of a db on /var/lib/mysql and have MySQL create new other databases in
another location?  Thanks in advance,

Cecil

Re: [expert] realplayer for linux

[Eric Aksomitis]

I got the one from the web site as well, but it lacked one setting that
took me FOREVER to figure out what it should be.  In the applications
section of Netscape, it did NOT set the Real-Audio application to be :
realplay %s
I had to build a perl script and reverse-engineer the correct %?? in
netscape
that would make it work (which is required to easily launch real-audio
from a Yahoo-Broadcast).

Did I miss something obvious that I didn't do to not get that set
automatically?

Maybe Netscape should have been closed while running the install (nmaybe
it edited the config file?)

At any rate, if it does not get set, realplay %s is what I set it to and
it works

Eric
http://www.dlcwest.com/~jed/re_answer.shtml

Frode Haugsgjerd wrote:
> 
> im trying to instal rv50.redhat5xi386.rpm
> kpackage claims i need libg++.so.2.7.2
> ive had no luck localizing a package containing this file, is there a newer
> version
> of realplayer or anything else that would help?

Re: [expert] 6.1 upgrade

[George Jones]

None really. For me it just took FOREVER to do the upgrade. Somewhere 
around 3hrs where it only took 15min to install the thing!




Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@fleance.cr.usgs.gov on 06/02/2000 09:19:41 AM
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Are there any issuses in upgrading a mandrake 6.1 to mandrake 7 or should I
wait for the 7.1?

Re: [expert] Helix-Gnome question - International keyboard?

[laurent . duperval]

On  2 Jun, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
> 
> 
>Hello, experts,
> 
>  
>  Please pardon my utter ignorance, but I don't seem to be
> able to find equivalent of KDE's keyboard switch in that
> slick and shiny new Helix-Gnome I've been running for a 
> few days now with such pleasure. I need to be able to 
> write in a different language, but can't find how I switch
> the keyboards. It used to be so easy to do in KDE...
> 
>   Please advise me on how to do it or point to the "right"
> source of knowledge.
>  

in Applets | Utilities it's the internatioonal keyboard applet.

L

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[expert] dsl masq help

[freeman]

I finally got my ip chains working on my linux mandrake
70.2 box:)  

I am also using a third DSL dialer called Babylon because
I need an "ACCESS MANAGER" But I'm having a little problem! 

I seem to have a lack of speed.  The fastest connection I have is 17k sec.  I have 
recieved upto 100+++ k sec in a win98enviroment.  I just want it to work as good as 
when
I had it on win98. 

I thought it may be my modem so I brought it back to Bell
and got a new one with no change.  I also thought it might
be my nic card so I put it on a new one to no avail.
(I then went back to my 3com 3C509 combo card,  No need to)
use a 3c9xx 100meg card for Dsl ) 

Another problem I am encountering is I can only hit about
thirty to fifty percent of the world and load the full
page through masq on a win98 my windows 98 boxes.  I may go
to it but it won't load all the way.  I can ping the address's though!  I do have my 
dns and name server specified.  This occationally happen on linux as well.

any ideas would be great:)


Mike  


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Re: [expert] ? Loadlin --" not an image file" | OR| bootdisk script

[Frode Haugsgjerd]

run: mkbootdisk /dev/fd0 /boot/vmlinuz

On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> I have used loadlin before for booting from DOS/Windows as an emergency
> solution if lilo was wiped out ( other linux distributions) but when I
> tried the same thing for Mdk-7 I get the response from loadlin that
> the file I specified is not an image file. The file was a copy of 
> vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdkfb in the linux /boot directory that I copied to 
> the mounted DOS partition where I named it vmlinuz. I then exe the
> file " loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro " Loadlin complains then that
> the file is not an image file. The vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdkfb is the one I
> boot from LILO so I know its OK in the linux world.
> 
> The thing that concerns me is that the file is a large kernel
> 640+kb. Loadlin doesn't complain about memory or anything other than
> it not being an image file. I've read the loadlin.txt manual and HOWTOs
> on the web and couldn't find answers
> 
> IF that doesn't work, is there any shortcut to run the part of
> the install script that asks " do you want to make a bootdisk". I can
> just make several and hope to find one at a bad time :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Pendley
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] 6.1 upgrade

[Andrew Vogel]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 07:19:41 -0600, you wrote:

>Are there any issuses in upgrading a mandrake 6.1 to mandrake 7 or should I
>wait for the 7.1?
>
I don't know if there are any issues with upgrading from 6.1->7, but my
advice is to wait for 7.1 since it is right around the corner...

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[expert] Re: Digest of list expert

[Oleksandr Moskalenko]

> Subject: [expert] IP Masq / networking
> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 16:04:56 -0400
> From: "Joseph S. Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Linux Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cleveland Linux Users Group
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Quick question,
> 
> Am currently setting up my home network with IP Masq. etc.  to have
> access to my DSL line.  I have a single machine that is used for a
> gateway (and normal workstation) with 2 NIC's.  One is attached to my
> DSL modem, the other is attached to my hub.
> 
> The question is, when I assign a gateway addy to my networked boxes
> which addy do I use? the DSL, the NIC attached to the DSL or the NIC
> attached to the hub?
> 
> I know, real basics here but I've been running on stupid for a couple of
> months now and it's the simple things that trip me.  (I'd go off the
> deep end if I knew how to swim 8-)
> 
> TIA
> --
> Joseph S. Gardner
> Senior Designer / Technical Support
> Kirby Co.,  Cleveland, OH
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  Your gateway address will be the IP of the "inside" networking card,
the 
one attached to the hub to which your local network will be connected.
At least that's the way my system is set up and it works.
  Alex.

[expert] Helix-Gnome question - International keyboard?

[Oleksandr Moskalenko]

   Hello, experts,

 
 Please pardon my utter ignorance, but I don't seem to be
able to find equivalent of KDE's keyboard switch in that
slick and shiny new Helix-Gnome I've been running for a 
few days now with such pleasure. I need to be able to 
write in a different language, but can't find how I switch
the keyboards. It used to be so easy to do in KDE...

  Please advise me on how to do it or point to the "right"
source of knowledge.
 
  Thank you very much,

  Alex.

Re: [expert] SawFish problem

[Ralph F. De Witt]

A little over 6 hours for the full install.  Then there is the update, which I
have no idea how long. (Left home when it started and when I got back it was
done).

Ralph

Espen, on Thu, 01 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Thanks, Anton!!!
> That did the trick! 
> 
> BTW, with a 56k modem, does anyone know how long it
> takes to download Helix-Gnome?
> 
> tor, 01 jun 2000, skrev du :
> > Submitted 31-May-00 by Espen Knut Trydal:
> > | Hello all,
> > | I've got a dependency problem while installing sawfish-0.27.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > | 
> > | This is the error message I get:
> > | ***
> > | rpmerror: failed dependencies:
> > |  /usr/sbin/install-menu is needed by sawfish-0.27.2-1mdk
> > | ***
> > | What kind of package is that???
> > | 
> > | Thanks in advance
> > 
> > It's not a package.  There are two different ways of defining things
> > that an RPM needs:
> > 
> > First is Requires.  These are packages or virtual packages (set by
> > Provides)
> > 
> > Second is Prereq.  These prerequisites aren't for a specific package,
> > but for a specific file.
> > 
> > My guess is that you are trying to install the shiny new sawfish on a
> > 7.0 or earlier system without the new menu system.
> > 
> > [anton@bladehawke anton]$ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/install-menu
> > menu-2.1.5-19mdk
> > 
> > Grab the menu rpm from cooker :p
> > 
> > -- 
> >_
> >  _|_|_
> >   ( )   *Anton Graham
> >   /v\  / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > /(   )X
> >  (m_m)   GPG ID: 18F78541
> > Penguin Powered!

[expert] 6.1 upgrade

[Ray]

Are there any issuses in upgrading a mandrake 6.1 to mandrake 7 or should I
wait for the 7.1?

[expert] old version help

[Ray]

This might not be the place but I am in a real bad hurt for some help.

I am trying to compile network adapter card drivers under Mandrake 6.1 running
2.2.13-22smp kernel

and none of them will compile with smp kernel. I have read that there is a
problem with the src code in mandrake 6.1.. So what can I do??

Ray

Re: [expert] realplayer for linux

[Mike & Tracy Holt]

Don't bother, go to the 'real' web site and download the linux version of
Realplayer 7 for linux (they have both rpms and tar.gz downloads available).
It works great!

Mike


- Original Message -
From: Frode Haugsgjerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 1:51 PM
Subject: [expert] realplayer for linux


> im trying to instal rv50.redhat5xi386.rpm
> kpackage claims i need libg++.so.2.7.2
> ive had no luck localizing a package containing this file, is there a
newer
> version
> of realplayer or anything else that would help?
>

Re: [expert] IP Masq / networking

[Brook humphrey]

you use the nic attached to the hub.

"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
> 
> Quick question,
> 
> Am currently setting up my home network with IP Masq. etc.  to have
> access to my DSL line.  I have a single machine that is used for a
> gateway (and normal workstation) with 2 NIC's.  One is attached to my
> DSL modem, the other is attached to my hub.
> 
> The question is, when I assign a gateway addy to my networked boxes
> which addy do I use? the DSL, the NIC attached to the DSL or the NIC
> attached to the hub?
> 
> I know, real basics here but I've been running on stupid for a couple of
> months now and it's the simple things that trip me.  (I'd go off the
> deep end if I knew how to swim 8-)
> 
> TIA
> --
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> Senior Designer / Technical Support
> Kirby Co.,  Cleveland, OH
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
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> No windows, no gates.
> Apache inside
> 
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Re: [expert] PHP help

[Brook humphrey]

I set this up using a text file but you'll get the idea save the the
last ip in a field in your database and if the current ip matches the
last one then its the same person and no count is registered. I already
now this works because I'm using it.


$ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");

if ($ip != $data[6]) {
 $dstamp = date(Ymd);
 $wstamp = date(Ymd,mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")+(7 -
date(w)),date("Y")));
 if ($data[4] < $dstamp) {
$data[2] = 0; $data[4] = $dstamp;
 }
 if ($data[5] < $wstamp) {
$data[3] = 0; $data[5] = $wstamp;
 }
 $data[1]++; $data[2]++; $data[3]++;
 $fp = fopen($file, "w+");
 flock($fp, 2);
 fputs($fp,
"$data[0]|$data[1]|$data[2]|$data[3]|$data[4]|$data[5]|$ip");
 flock($fp, 3);
 fclose($fp);
  }


Gavin Clark wrote:
> 
> on 5/31/00 11:24 PM, Vincent Danen  wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, probably wrong list but... I need a little help with PHP.  I'm
> > trying to make a PHP-based counter for my web page but want it based on
> > unique visits (not refreshes, etc.)
> >
> > I'm storing the IP address in the MySQL table and want to compare the
> > current IP to the last IP address stored in the database, so this is what
> > I'm currently using (but it doesn't work):
> >
> > $curip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');
> > if ($ip != $curip) {
> > $count = $count + 1;
> > }
> >
> > But it increases on every refresh.  I don't see a different comparison
> > operator for strings (like in perl), otherwise I'd use "ne" instead of
> > "!=".  Does anyone know why this isn't working?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> "!=" is right. try looking at the data to see what you've really got.
> 
>   $curip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');
>  if ($ip != $curip) {
>  $count = $count + 1;
>  }
> echo '$ip= ' . $ip;
> echo ' $curip= ' . $curip;
> ?>
> 
> also - do you really want to store all those ip addresses for a simple hit
> counter? that table could get pretty big and you wouldn't count visitors who
> come via proxy servers and gateways (everyone from AOL would count as one
> hit) . I'd give the visitor a cookie and increment only if the cookie is not
> present. I use this technique to keep people from voting twice in my poll.
> the count is a little sloppy because lots of people turn cookies off but
> most people leave cookies on and in fact have never heard of them.
> 
> cookies are easy:
> 
> // test for cookie
> if (!$hit) {
> //increment counter
> $count++;
> //set hit cookie
> setcookie("hit","Been there!",time() +3600,"/");  /* expire in 1 hour */
> }
> 
> Gavin

Re: [expert] Partition Table

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:33:27AM -0500, John Burke wrote:
-> 
-> - Original Message -
-> From: "Norman Carver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 2:36 PM
-> Subject: Re: [expert] Partition Table
-> 
-> 


-> 
-> 3. Simply deleting hda5 (NTFS) and hda2 (extended) is also an option, but
-> you lose NT and you get a swap file which is too big, unnecessarily wasting
-> disk space.  The first two options allow you to keep NT, and I have resized
-> NT partitions with PM without any trouble (and also linux partitions!).

I take it this is NTFS for NT 3.x or 4.x. Have you done it with NFTS for
W2K? NTFS for W2K is considerably different in its internal structures. I
believe W2K has some calls you can make to NTFS to resize a partition, so
that might be a better way to do it.

I suspect that if PM does not already support W2K NTFS, it will. The
maintainers will also have their hands full with four, counte 'em, four
journaling file systems now or soon to be available for Linux.

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Re: [expert] A modest security idea for new distribution

[Denis HAVLIK]

:~>Hi,
:~>
:~>I've been reading all the security info on Outlook virii recently,
:~>installing procmail traps for my users, and discussing with friends the
:~>possibility of such threats appearing on Linux (and unices in general).
:~>While the probability of somebody writing an e-mail client that would
:~>lauch executables with a  single click is (hopefully) a remote one, and
:~>it really takes some effort and a lot of stupidity to use '/bin/sh' as
:~>your Netscape viewer for 'application/x-sh', it seems certain that at
:~>some time in the future Linux will be the target of virus attacks of
:~>sorts. Now, I think one could try (apart from educating users and
:~>avoiding risky 'features' in programs) to help users make their valuable
:~>data more secure by using ext2 file attributes and Linux access rights.
:~>What I mean is a smallish graphic utility somewhere on the Mandrake
:~>desktop (it would be great if someone added this to graphic filemanagers
:~>too) that would let the user to, say, 'lock/seal/secure this
:~>directory/file' by removing write access (dirs) and executing 'chattr
:~>+i' (files) through a grpahic 'su' wrapper (ksu/gsu). In a graphic
:~>manager, such directories/files could be marked in a special way. 
:~>
:~>Access rights prevent the hypothetical virus from destroying the whole
:~>system, but what counts most for a user is his own data, after all. A
:~>tool like above (or a filemanager feature) would IMVHO go a way towards
:~>avoiding data loss catastrophies, not only virii-related - a mistyped
:~>'rm -f' would also be less dangerous that way. All it would take would
:~>be for the user to 'lock' those directories they can't afford to lose.
:~>
:~>What do you think?

Would not help you much. What WOULD help is having all programs started
from mail programs chrooted to somewhere where they cannot do any damage.

my 2c

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[expert] ldconfig problem

[Stephen Boulet]

Hello all.

When I run ldconfig, I get the following output, which I'm hoping someone can
tell me how to fix:

[root@tolstoy /root]# ldconfig
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.3 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.1 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXlt.so.0 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXbae.so.4 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libMrm.so.1 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libwraster.so.1 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libglut.so.3 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libfont.so.1 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXIE.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libPEX5.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 is not a symlink
ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libMagick.so.4 is not a symlink  

Thanks.

-- Stephen

[expert] HP Brio

[Lee Willis]

Has anyone got any experience of getting the sound card in the HP Brio's
to work under Mandrake. lspcidrake reports it as

Cirrus Logic|CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator]

which I understand isn't supported by the default kernel but can be made
to work with the ALSA drivers. I've tried compiling and installing the
packages from the ALSA website (http://www.alsa-project.org) but with no
apparent success (I just seem to get static out of the soundcard!).

I did do it in fits and starts since this is my work machine and I only
get to play when the network is being shifted around or similar.

Anyone got any ideas?  GOt it working, thought of something I may have
missed?  I've tried playing with various mixers and I can change the
volume of static I get, but no proper sound :(   I have a vague idea
that 7.1 includes a sort of ALSA RPM, if this is the case I'll probably
re-install with that, but I can't remember where I got that idea from so
it may just be made up!

Lee
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Re: [expert] Partition Table

[John Burke]

- Original Message -
From: "Norman Carver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Partition Table


> Laurent:
> > Well, I don't know about others but it sure was enlightening to me. Now
I
> > have to make a decision:
> >
> > Fiddle with the partition tables using partition magic to try and set
things
> > straight or reinstall the whole thing. I think I'll be going with option
B.
> > My swap space is too large and there are some other issues to contend
with
> > also. Oh well, that's what this whole thing is about. At least I'm not
> > reinstalling for a stoopid reason.
>
> I don't know what your "other issues" are, but if you have
> access to PM, fixing your problem will require <<5min of
> your time.  Just queue up the 4-5 actions you need done and
> walk away from your machine for a while.  Trivial to do.


Actually, PM gives you several easy options if you trust it, and so far I
have had any trouble with it. Make sure you have a linux boot disk because
if you modify or move the root or boot linux partition lilo can't load the
kernel until you rerun lilo, which finds the new kernel location, and you
need the boot disk to rerun lilo.

1. The "best" option is what Norm recommended: use PM to move (but don't
resize) hda3 and hda4 to the end of the physical hard drive, then expand
hda2 to fill the free space, then you can even use PM to make the swap
partition, hda6, and label it as a linux swap partition. You have to rerun
lilo if you do this, then activate the swap partition from within linux (the
easy newbie way is to use linuxconf).

2. Slightly easier is to use PM to shrink the NTFS partition by 128M or so,
creating space in the extended partition hda2. Then make the swap file in
this space as above. You don't have to rerun lilo, but you waste some space
at the end of your hard drive (the space diskdrake was supposed to use for
the original swap file but couldn't because it would have been the 5th
primary partition).

3. Simply deleting hda5 (NTFS) and hda2 (extended) is also an option, but
you lose NT and you get a swap file which is too big, unnecessarily wasting
disk space.  The first two options allow you to keep NT, and I have resized
NT partitions with PM without any trouble (and also linux partitions!).

4. Finally, I agree that reinstalling linux is overkill. Even if you don't
trust PM, you can do option 3 with fdisk.

Good luck,

John

[expert] not able to set up udf filesystem.

[Roger Munoz]

has anyone successfully set up a udf filesystem in Mandrake 7.0? i have
tried but to no avail. I downloaded and untarred the udf-0.9.2.tar.gz.
and did the following.

INSTALLING:

"make udf.o"-- ok

"make install"   --ok

"make patch"--ok

TESTING:

"depmod -a"--ok

"modprobe udf",

message: can't locate udf filesystem

can anybody help!!!

Re: [expert] IP Masq / networking

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:00:01AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-> Hi !
-> 
-> On the LAN boxes the gateway should be the masqing linux box and on the
-> linux box the gateway will be the router or the IP of the ISP (if they
-> gave you an address). Ask them what IP you should assign to the gateway
-> address.
-> Bye,
-> Ago
-> 

This correct as far as it goes. The firewall has two ip addresses, so the
next question is, which one should he use? The answer is, the IP address
on the local network.

Also, in case he doesn't already know this, if he does not have a range of
IP addresses assigned to him, he should use an "experimental" network for
his internal network. See RFCs 1597 and 1918. Available networks are:

#Class  |  Networks
#  A|  10.0.0.0
#  B|  172.16.0.0  through 172.31.0.0
#  C|  192.168.0.0 through 192.168.255.0



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Re: [expert] SawFish problem

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 08:25:23AM +0100, Ted Wager wrote:
-> On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Espen wrote:
-> > Thanks, Anton!!!
-> > That did the trick! 
-> > 
-> > BTW, with a 56k modem, does anyone know how long it
-> > takes to download Helix-Gnome?
-> >
-> 
-> Hi
->  When you choose the bits you want it will tell you the d/load time
-> using a 56k modemMine said 1hr 30 minutes..I was online for 5 hours
-> and got a segmentation fault on the last meg !!! ...Needless to say my ISP
-> is not too good :-( 

If you can download via FTP, use ncftp. It will let you put gets and puts
into the background. Also, it will restart a transfer, and it will keep on
retrying. It's on the 6.1 disty, so it should be on the 7.x disties.


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Re: [expert] mailing lists in kmail

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:32:02AM +0200, Gillard Roland wrote:
-> Hi!
-> 
-> I wish to go on using kmail but I need sending
-> mail to a list of colleagues,
-> is there a way using an extra file?


Look up how to do aliases in the docs for your MTA, which is probably
sendmail.


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Re: [expert] PHP help

[Gavin Clark]

on 5/31/00 11:24 PM, Vincent Danen  wrote:

> Sorry, probably wrong list but... I need a little help with PHP.  I'm
> trying to make a PHP-based counter for my web page but want it based on
> unique visits (not refreshes, etc.)
> 
> I'm storing the IP address in the MySQL table and want to compare the
> current IP to the last IP address stored in the database, so this is what
> I'm currently using (but it doesn't work):
> 
> $curip = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');
> if ($ip != $curip) {
> $count = $count + 1;
> }
> 
> But it increases on every refresh.  I don't see a different comparison
> operator for strings (like in perl), otherwise I'd use "ne" instead of
> "!=".  Does anyone know why this isn't working?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

"!=" is right. try looking at the data to see what you've really got.



also - do you really want to store all those ip addresses for a simple hit
counter? that table could get pretty big and you wouldn't count visitors who
come via proxy servers and gateways (everyone from AOL would count as one
hit) . I'd give the visitor a cookie and increment only if the cookie is not
present. I use this technique to keep people from voting twice in my poll.
the count is a little sloppy because lots of people turn cookies off but
most people leave cookies on and in fact have never heard of them.

cookies are easy:

// test for cookie
if (!$hit) {
//increment counter
$count++;
//set hit cookie
setcookie("hit","Been there!",time() +3600,"/");  /* expire in 1 hour */
}

Gavin

Re: [expert] AppleTalk on Linux

[Civileme]

Larry Blodgett wrote:
> 
> Is Mandrake 7 compatible with netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3.tar.gz ?
> This is suppose to be RedHat ready, but is it Mandrake ready?


It used to support the MACs on my network before they were
retired.  They were Performa 475s circa 1994.  Yes it works.  But
you shouold find the same package on the Mandrake contribs.

Civileme

Re: [expert] AppleTalk on Linux - (add this to the 7.1 installer)

[Gavin Clark]

on 6/1/00 9:03 PM, Larry Blodgett  wrote:

> Is Mandrake 7 compatible with netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3.tar.gz ?
> This is suppose to be RedHat ready, but is it Mandrake ready?
> 
yes, I'm running it.
I had a little trouble getting it running when I compiled my own but I found
an RPM that set it all up right. it's not on the CD though and I can't
remember where I downloaded it from. It wasn't on the netatalk site. I may
have gotten it from a red hat mirror.


to mandrake: for those of us with mac networks appletalk is at least as
important as Samba but it's difficult to find information online about what
you need to set it up. please add the RMPM to your next version.

Gavin

[expert] reseting console settings

[Patrick Erler]

hallo expert!

don't ask me any details, but somehow i messed up my
console-settings.. keys don't react as they should (via telnet, i
don't sit directly at the box), strange characters instead of lines
and corners, stuff like that..

do you have some advice for me, how to reset to default all that mess?

thanks in advance...


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[expert] ? Loadlin --" not an image file" | OR| bootdisk script

[J. R. Pendley]

I have used loadlin before for booting from DOS/Windows as an emergency
solution if lilo was wiped out ( other linux distributions) but when I
tried the same thing for Mdk-7 I get the response from loadlin that
the file I specified is not an image file. The file was a copy of 
vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdkfb in the linux /boot directory that I copied to 
the mounted DOS partition where I named it vmlinuz. I then exe the
file " loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro " Loadlin complains then that
the file is not an image file. The vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdkfb is the one I
boot from LILO so I know its OK in the linux world.

The thing that concerns me is that the file is a large kernel
640+kb. Loadlin doesn't complain about memory or anything other than
it not being an image file. I've read the loadlin.txt manual and HOWTOs
on the web and couldn't find answers

IF that doesn't work, is there any shortcut to run the part of
the install script that asks " do you want to make a bootdisk". I can
just make several and hope to find one at a bad time :)

Thanks,

Jim Pendley
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[expert] mailing lists in kmail

[Gillard Roland]

Hi!

I wish to go on using kmail but I need sending
mail to a list of colleagues,
is there a way using an extra file?


Thanks in advance

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Re: [expert] SawFish problem

[Mage Grimau]

>From the HelixCode installation (which is the neatest install I've seen for
anything) you can trim it to as little as two hours or as long as eight,
depending on what you want to install. 

It would be really nice if:
1) It supported all single-click operations for those of us physically
incapable of double-clicking,
2) There was a way to tell it to NOT try to autosave KDE apps that don't
respond to the "save yourself" message. That annoying box makes MS software
seem almost usable.

For now, I'm stuck with KDE (not bad, but not as fast).

--- Espen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, Anton!!!
> That did the trick! 
> 
> BTW, with a 56k modem, does anyone know how long it
> takes to download Helix-Gnome?
> 
> tor, 01 jun 2000, skrev du :
> > Submitted 31-May-00 by Espen Knut Trydal:
> > | Hello all,
> > | I've got a dependency problem while installing
> sawfish-0.27.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > | 
> > | This is the error message I get:
> > |
> ***
> > | rpmerror: failed dependencies:
> > |  /usr/sbin/install-menu is needed by sawfish-0.27.2-1mdk
> > |
> ***
> > | What kind of package is that???
> > | 
> > | Thanks in advance
> > 
> > It's not a package.  There are two different ways of defining things
> > that an RPM needs:
> > 
> > First is Requires.  These are packages or virtual packages (set by
> > Provides)
> > 
> > Second is Prereq.  These prerequisites aren't for a specific package,
> > but for a specific file.
> > 
> > My guess is that you are trying to install the shiny new sawfish on a
> > 7.0 or earlier system without the new menu system.
> > 
> > [anton@bladehawke anton]$ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/install-menu
> > menu-2.1.5-19mdk
> > 
> > Grab the menu rpm from cooker :p
> > 
> > -- 
> >_
> >  _|_|_
> >   ( )   *Anton Graham
> >   /v\  / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > /(   )X
> >  (m_m)   GPG ID: 18F78541
> > Penguin Powered!
> 


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Re: [expert] IP Masq / networking

[ago]

Hi !

On the LAN boxes the gateway should be the masqing linux box and on the
linux box the gateway will be the router or the IP of the ISP (if they
gave you an address). Ask them what IP you should assign to the gateway
address.
Bye,
Ago

Re: [expert] realplayer for linux

[Tuukka Lahtela]

I have used realplayer 7.0 and it has worked well. I used the self
extracting one and was very pleased of how well it has worked on all of
the linux distros that I have tried(Mandrake, RedHat, Corel). There is a
version 8.0 but I have not tried it yet.  
http://www.real.com/player/7/index.html


On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Frode Haugsgjerd wrote:

> im trying to instal rv50.redhat5xi386.rpm
> kpackage claims i need libg++.so.2.7.2
> ive had no luck localizing a package containing this file, is there a newer
> version
> of realplayer or anything else that would help?
> 
> 

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Re: [expert] helix-gnome

[Lee Willis]

leith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have a problem installing helix-gnome.  The instructions are straight
> forward. After logging on as root, I ran the script and after download
> was complete I got these messages.  Is there something wrong???
> 
> 
> Installer extracted into /tmp/installer.2299. Running
> 
> Gdk-WARNING **: local not supported by C library
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> ==>Cleaning up temporary files...done.

The root user on your machine does not have permission to start X-based
applications on your screen. To fix this you need to do two things:

1) (As the user you started X with) type "xhost localhost"
2) As the root user before you run the go-gnome script type "export DISPLAY=:0"

Number 1 says to your X server that any user is allowed to display
programs as long as they are on the localhost (Your machine), if you
care about security you should probably do "xhost -localhost" after the
install to turn this off again

Number 2 says that any X-based applications you run in you current shell
they should contact display number 0 on the local machine to appear
on. (By the way this will only work if you run bash as your shell, other
shells set variables in different ways ...)

This should solve your problem

Regards
Lee
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Re: [expert] SawFish problem

[Ted Wager]

On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Espen wrote:
> Thanks, Anton!!!
> That did the trick! 
> 
> BTW, with a 56k modem, does anyone know how long it
> takes to download Helix-Gnome?
>

Hi
When you choose the bits you want it will tell you the d/load time
using a 56k modemMine said 1hr 30 minutes..I was online for 5 hours
and got a segmentation fault on the last meg !!! ...Needless to say my ISP
is not too good :-( 

   Regards Ted
  
Ted Wager..RedHat Linux 6.2
  g3tpi.ampr.org  44.131.147.8


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Re: [expert] realplayer for linux

[Eugene Grimsdell]

I found a rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b1.bin file at www.realplayer.com you just log
in as root and sh the file ie: 
# ./rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b1.bin
before I forget when it is downloaded chmod +x The file
I still have a copy and it runs on any distro of linux I tested it on ie
Mandrake, Redhat, Corel and Slackware and is about 7 MB.

On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Frode Haugsgjerd wrote:
> im trying to instal rv50.redhat5xi386.rpm
> kpackage claims i need libg++.so.2.7.2
> ive had no luck localizing a package containing this file, is there a newer
> version
> of realplayer or anything else that would help?
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