[expert] Video player sound problem
I encounter a major problem with sound in smpeg, even on a fresh 7.1 install. Animation is very slow, and application doesn't exit properly. Using -nosound option resolves the problem, but that's not very convenient :-) It's not a perm problem, as even root is affected. In rare cases i've been able to have normal rendering, thus i suspect something as a process conflictiong with another, or a lock problem somewhere. Using xmps leads also to the same result, so i suspect this must be a general problem. I precise i use KDE, and i use kernel module for my oss-solo soundcard. -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Sleep doesn't exists. Just lack of cafeine.
[expert] what is this error ?
Hi. I got this error : Jun 19 11:50:55 kosh named[25641]: sysquery: nlookup error on ? Jun 19 11:51:06 kosh last message repeated 21 times Jun 19 11:57:18 kosh named[25641]: sysquery: nlookup error on ? Jun 19 11:57:24 kosh last message repeated 3 times I supposed i got two error here, the first is "named" and the second i don't know what it mean by "last message repeated 3 times" etc... any idea ? -lz Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[expert] Compiling kernel-2.2.16-4mdk
Hello, With help from the list I have installed the new kernel. Now I would like to recompile it. However, it came in RPM form and there is no linux-2.2.16 directory in /usr/src. Should I have created one before installing the kernel? Can anyone tell me how to recompile the kernel, please? -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone for setup.
Re: [expert] Compiling kernel-2.2.16-4mdk
Also sprach lun, 19 jun 2000 : Hello, With help from the list I have installed the new kernel. Now I would like to recompile it. However, it came in RPM form and there is no linux-2.2.16 directory in /usr/src. Should I have created one before installing the kernel? Can anyone tell me how to recompile the kernel, please? Are you sure you've installed kernel-source-2.2.16 rpm, and not kernel-2.2.16 only ? -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Sleep doesn't exists. Just lack of cafeine.
[Cooker] 7.1 and Cooker install problem
Finished downloading 7.1 and created the boot floppy from hd.img. Tried everything possible but it doesn't see /dev/hda8 where the download is. Tried using hd.img from Cooker but have the same problem. Does anybody have an idea how I can fix this? /dev/hda8 is an ext2 logical partition under /dev/hda2 alt-F4 shows install only seeing /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 no partition on /dev/hda shows up in the list of partitions to select from BTW, I don't have any room to move it over to /dev/hdb. Thanks.
Re: [expert] Compiling kernel-2.2.16-4mdk
on 6/18/00 11:14 PM, Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello, With help from the list I have installed the new kernel. Now I would like to recompile it. ... Can anyone tell me how to recompile the kernel, please? the user guide will walk you through it step by step. G
Re: [expert] Make certificates
on 6/18/00 8:26 PM, Necrotica wrote: I've been going through a demonstration on how to set up an ecommerce web site with Apache, PHP4, MySQL, and OpenSSL. The documenation assumes that you are compiling all of the above from source. The instructions advise that when you are compiling Apache that you should run "make cerificates" to create your own certificate. Alas, the Apache RPM came installed when I installed Mandrake. My question is, can this be done with the RPM installation, or should I download the source and just generate a certifcate without actuall installing? Any advice would be helpful. Thanks... -Chris look for an OpenSSL source RPM. or it might come with apache source G
Re: [expert] What happened in 7.1???
what do you mean Bobby Welch wrote: Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Office : 09-9526993. ICQ : 15748705 Have a Nice Day... :-) --
Re: [expert] SCSI Errors with 2940U2W gone with Mandrake 7.1
on 6/18/00 7:43 PM, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: For weeks I have been plagued with errors when trying to install Linux on my new machine with it's Adaptec 2940U2W and Seagate LVD drives. Previously I would receive errors such as: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 and SCSI host 0 ch 0 reset pid 0 timed out - trying harder and aborting command due to timeout: pid 0 scsi 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 and host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting This would appear to loop indefinitely (I did not wait "indefinitely" to find out!). Unfortunately, no one seemed able to determine the actual problem. Besides installing 7.1, I had also: * Installed an active terminator on the end of the SCSI chain, LVD side. * Set terminiation to "auto" on the adapter, both Ultra and Ultra2 sides. * Enabled "term power to SCSI chain" on BOTH of the LVD drives I had installed. * Enabled termination on the CDROM residing on the Narrow/Ultra side. I hope this message makes it to anyone else having this same problem! John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. Mandrake Linux 7.0 (2.2.14) / Polarbar Mailer 1.16c JDK 1.1.8 IBM build l118-2515 just as an addendum; there are two things I can think of that aren't on your list: 1. make sure the jumpers are set to different settings on the drives 2. check that the BIOS is set to detect SCSI I have Mandrake Linux 7.0 (2.2.14) installed with the Adaptec 2940U2W with 2 IBM U2W drives. I installed it on an third IDE drive. the installer hung on trying to detect the card or load the driver the first couple of times but I did get it to go after I changed the jumpers and the BIOS settings. also the 2940U2W has it's own BIOS that you can drop into, it has utilities to check the bus and drives. Gavin
[expert] smb mount
heya all !! :-) i am running mdk 7.1 on my machine at work i want to mount a volume from another Linux machine (RH 6.1) on my local network. when i am trying to mount i am getting this : [root@sysadmin installs]# mount -t smbfs //mail/hda /mnt/mail_machine Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed mount: backgrounding "//mail/hda" [root@sysadmin installs]# Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed this is NOT a password issueany thought anyone ? -- -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Office : 09-9526993. ICQ : 15748705 Have a Nice Day... :-) --
[expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with ATT's Cablemodem email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just "mail"? So if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for POP3 SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't get through to their crappy support center. Seve
[expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve
I'm using VNC for Linbox to Linbox. I'm able to log in and get vncviewer to see the remote mouse cursor move but all I get is a gray background with no other functions. I've looked at "xstart" and it's set to run "twm". Is there something I'm missing here? Seve
Re: [expert] SCSI Errors with 2940U2W gone with Mandrake 7.1
Gavin Clark wrote: on 6/18/00 7:43 PM, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: For weeks I have been plagued with errors when trying to install Linux on my new machine with it's Adaptec 2940U2W and Seagate LVD drives. Previously I would receive errors such as: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 and SCSI host 0 ch 0 reset pid 0 timed out - trying harder and aborting command due to timeout: pid 0 scsi 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 and host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting This would appear to loop indefinitely (I did not wait "indefinitely" to find out!). Unfortunately, no one seemed able to determine the actual problem. Besides installing 7.1, I had also: * Installed an active terminator on the end of the SCSI chain, LVD side. * Set terminiation to "auto" on the adapter, both Ultra and Ultra2 sides. * Enabled "term power to SCSI chain" on BOTH of the LVD drives I had installed. * Enabled termination on the CDROM residing on the Narrow/Ultra side. I hope this message makes it to anyone else having this same problem! John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. Mandrake Linux 7.0 (2.2.14) / Polarbar Mailer 1.16c JDK 1.1.8 IBM build l118-2515 just as an addendum; there are two things I can think of that aren't on your list: 1. make sure the jumpers are set to different settings on the drives 2. check that the BIOS is set to detect SCSI I have Mandrake Linux 7.0 (2.2.14) installed with the Adaptec 2940U2W with 2 IBM U2W drives. I installed it on an third IDE drive. the installer hung on trying to detect the card or load the driver the first couple of times but I did get it to go after I changed the jumpers and the BIOS settings. also the 2940U2W has it's own BIOS that you can drop into, it has utilities to check the bus and drives. Gavin I fear you will find Adaptec support WORSE, not better in kernel 2.4. Seems some folks purporting to be Adaptec officials and with credentials suggesting the same made an appointment to work with one of the kernel authors... And then they no-showed. The kernel traffic articles on linuxcare recounted the circumstance and described it as yet another example of Adaptec going out of its way to be uncoooperative. THe 2940U2W controller has how many different firmware versions? Adaptec knows but it isn't telling, as usual. This particular brand is a nightmare to keep up with. I recall something like 17 or 19 versions of the 2940. I no longer politely express my concern to Adaptec, I just avoid their products. Civileme
[expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed
I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and bottom of the X-windows. Even though an 800x640 test passes, it gets reset to 640x480. The on-board video card is a Sis620 8MB (I set to 2 or 4 for testing). Anyone know the scan frequencies for this monitor or which monitor setting will best fit it ? Is there a monitor listing database on the internet ? Thanks... Dan.
[expert] smb moutn problem :(
heya all !! :-) i am running mdk 7.1 on my machine at work i want to mount a volume from another Linux machine (RH 6.1) on my local network. when i am trying to mount i am getting this : [root@sysadmin installs]# mount -t smbfs //mail/hda /mnt/mail_machine Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed mount: backgrounding "//mail/hda" [root@sysadmin installs]# Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed this is NOT a password issueany thought's anyone ? -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Office : 09-9526993. ICQ : 15748705 Have a Nice Day... :-) --
Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve
on 6/19/00 1:27 AM, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm using VNC for Linbox to Linbox. I'm able to log in and get vncviewer to see the remote mouse cursor move but all I get is a gray background with no other functions. I've looked at "xstart" and it's set to run "twm". Is there something I'm missing here? Seve I think the window manager isn't starting. happens to me sometimes too. however I can log in fine to another user who is set a different window manager like KDE. try setting it to use a different window manager Gavin
Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
you should out mail.yourispname.whatever (net/com etc...) Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with ATT's Cablemodem email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just "mail"? So if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for POP3 SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't get through to their crappy support center. Seve -- -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Office : 09-9526993. ICQ : 15748705 Have a Nice Day... :-) --
Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with ATT's Cablemodem email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just "mail"? So if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for POP3 SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't get through to their crappy support center. Seve poptart.home.net24.0.26.112 poptart.home.net24.0.26.113 ports 25 ans 110 are OPEN on those and the host -a says they belong to the home.com nameservers 24.0.0.27 and 24.2.0.27 The information here was derived by magic from a friend who hates shoddy support desks. Civileme
RE: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
If your E-mail is working this way under Winblows then it was probably not by design... but rather luck. The "mail" entries are the default for Winblows. They are supposed to be changed by the user to what is appropriate. The fact that it may be working for you is attributable to the ISP's DNS automatically appending the isp's domain to the request... I.E. if "mail" works, it really should be set to "mail.myisp.com" substituting the ISP's domain name for "myisp.com". You can then enter the FULL address into Linux's E-Mail programs for both pop and smtp, and they should work... thus SMTP = mail.myisp.com pop3 = mail.myisp.com Easy. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Sevatio Octavio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:21 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To? | | |I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with ATT's |Cablemodem email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the |POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just |"mail"? So if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for |POP3 SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't |get through to their crappy support center. | |Seve |
RE: [expert] smb mount
See below. BTW: You are sending to the list in HTML format. (please everyone don't flame ME... my E-Mailer responds in kind...) -JMS -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of LinuxGeekSent: Monday, June 19, 2000 3:47 AMTo: expert listSubject: [expert] smb mountheya all !! :-) i am running mdk 7.1 on my machine at work i want to mount a volume from another Linux machine (RH 6.1) on my local network. when i am trying to mount i am getting this : [root@sysadmin installs]# mount -t smbfs //mail/hda /mnt/mail_machine Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed mount: backgrounding "//mail/hda" [root@sysadmin installs]# Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed this is NOT a password issueany thought anyone ?--Oh YES IT IS!Had this NOT been a password issue you would have gotten a"connection to XXX failed" message early on, before getting a password prompt.The remote machine "mail" is not accepting your login as root. This could be the case for many reasons...I.E. uppper lowercase hashing not set properly... encryption, etc.Don't assume that because you can login to Linux that these username/password pairs apply to Samba as well. They don't.Samba identifies itself to the remote machine as the user you are currently logged in locally.In your case you are logged in as root...Go to the remote machine... THERE as root try "smbclient -L mail -U root" and see if it accepts the login using the same password. If it doesn't here's your problem. If it does then one machine may be using clear text (the default for 6.1) while the other may be using encrypted (used with 7.1 but not available with 6.1 until later...)Also samba does not always pick up the local username properly...Try specifiying it as you attempt to connect..."smbclient -L mail -U root" and login and see if you can see the shares.Once you can you should be able to mount the volume.If you get logged in, but do not see the shares... well the remote machine has a problem or permission issue...-JMS
RE: [expert] what is this error ?
You are running the "named" daemon. If you installed it during the initial setup, it is running but it is not configured properly. You must either disable it or fix the problem by editing the configuration files for named... To stop it... /etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Lang Zhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:20 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert] what is this error ? | | |Hi. |I got this error : | |Jun 19 11:50:55 kosh named[25641]: sysquery: nlookup error on ? |Jun 19 11:51:06 kosh last message repeated 21 times |Jun 19 11:57:18 kosh named[25641]: sysquery: nlookup error on ? |Jun 19 11:57:24 kosh last message repeated 3 times | |I supposed i got two error here, the first is "named" and the |second i don't |know what it mean by "last message repeated 3 times" etc... | |any idea ? |-lz | |Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com |
Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
Thanks!!! This gets me a bit closer to finding out the name of the mail server. How did you get "poptart" again? I'm not understanding how it was "derived by magic". I have the IP so maybe I can findout that way. Seve -Original Message- From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 2:59 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To? Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with ATT's Cablemodem email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just "mail"? So if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for POP3 SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't get through to their crappy support center. Seve poptart.home.net24.0.26.112 poptart.home.net24.0.26.113 ports 25 ans 110 are OPEN on those and the host -a says they belong to the home.com nameservers 24.0.0.27 and 24.2.0.27 The information here was derived by magic from a friend who hates shoddy support desks. Civileme
[expert] Re: [kde-alpha] Beta 2
Look on any cooker site in the contribs directories. -Chris On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Ray wrote: Has anyone seen the Mandrake rpms for KDE beta 2 yet??
Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve
Thanks for responding. What's the line entry you used to have xstart start kde? Perhaps my syntax isn't correct. Seve -Original Message- From: Gavin Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 2:36 AM Subject: Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve on 6/19/00 1:27 AM, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm using VNC for Linbox to Linbox. I'm able to log in and get vncviewer to see the remote mouse cursor move but all I get is a gray background with no other functions. I've looked at "xstart" and it's set to run "twm". Is there something I'm missing here? Seve I think the window manager isn't starting. happens to me sometimes too. however I can log in fine to another user who is set a different window manager like KDE. try setting it to use a different window manager Gavin
Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed
Dan. I've had simular problems with my Optiquest monitor even though I know the mode lines. What I have been able to do since 7.0 is use DrakeConf I just accept the best XF86Config will give me (even though it "passes" a higher test). Then in DrakeConf I'm able to set my monitor and resolution without a hassle. You might try this and see if it works for you as well. James At 01:43 AM 6/19/00, you wrote: I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and bottom of the X-windows. Even though an 800x640 test passes, it gets reset to 640x480. The on-board video card is a Sis620 8MB (I set to 2 or 4 for testing). Anyone know the scan frequencies for this monitor or which monitor setting will best fit it ? Is there a monitor listing database on the internet ? Thanks... Dan.
Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
Okay, here's how I finally figured out the mail server address ... I looked up the machine's IP# and it returned something like c123456-a.whatever.yourstate.home.com . Your mail server is then "mail.whatever.yourstate.home.com" . Hopefully, this rule applies elsewhere. Thanks again to all that helped. seve -Original Message- From: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 3:48 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To? Thanks!!! This gets me a bit closer to finding out the name of the mail server. How did you get "poptart" again? I'm not understanding how it was "derived by magic". I have the IP so maybe I can findout that way. Seve -Original Message- From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 2:59 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To? Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with ATT's Cablemodem email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just "mail"? So if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for POP3 SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't get through to their crappy support center. Seve poptart.home.net24.0.26.112 poptart.home.net24.0.26.113 ports 25 ans 110 are OPEN on those and the host -a says they belong to the home.com nameservers 24.0.0.27 and 24.2.0.27 The information here was derived by magic from a friend who hates shoddy support desks. Civileme
[expert] useradd
I have recently installed (fresh) Mandrake 7.0. This machine is just for my home use, and only has one machine hooked to it, a Win 98 box. My problem is that yesterday, I tried to add a user via useradd and received an error on the lines of useradd :Binary :command not found Please enter the 3 letter airport code Done ... What the H##l is this. I get this same error via linuxconf, or terminal window. I get the same when I try to run adduser. Although both programs show as being on the drive! I get this whether I am logged in as Root or as user then su So I need to know how I can add a user now? Any help would be appreciated, Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager)
Re: [expert] useradd
hi :-) air port ?? maybe linux is trying to send you to a vacation or somethinghehe... :-) if you run X try kuser from kde good luck Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: I have recently installed (fresh) Mandrake 7.0. This machine is just for my home use, and only has one machine hooked to it, a Win 98 box. My problem is that yesterday, I tried to add a user via useradd and received an error on the lines of useradd :Binary :command not found Please enter the 3 letter airport code Done ... What the H##l is this. I get this same error via linuxconf, or terminal window. I get the same when I try to run adduser. Although both programs show as being on the drive! I get this whether I am logged in as Root or as user then su So I need to know how I can add a user now? Any help would be appreciated, Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -- -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Office : 09-9526993. ICQ : 15748705 Have a Nice Day...:-) --
[expert] Grub/incorrect ram detection
Hi, I previously had grub 0.5.94 from debian/woody installed which detected all 128 megs of ram correctly and the OS all 128 too. Now after installing the mandrake 7.1 grub, both debian and mandrake only claim there is 64 megs available. I assume it was grub since that was the only thing that changed for the debian partition and now it also only sees 64 megs. Please reply to me directly since I am not subscribed to this list. Thanks, Mike
Re: [expert] jdk1.2.2
i actually had similiar problems and i think it says on their website that it (technically) only works with redhat, caldera, and slackware. i bought redhat and got it running fine... From: Volker Schlecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2000-06-17 14:31:11 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] jdk1.2.2 In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] X-Sequence: 566 Hello, has anyone managed to install Sun's JDK1.2.2 (production release) on Mandrake 7.0 yet ? If yes, please be so kind to contact me - I am very close to going insane over their so called "installation instructions", thank you in advance! cya, Volker
Re: [expert] 7.1 install multi-disk question/gripe
Armand wrote: Bonjour! You're really making this more difficult than necessary. All you need is the first box checked, didn't it say extra like on the paper envelope that the disc was in? The second and third check boxes say applications, you didn't want those did you? -- Armand "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Greets all, I purchased mandrake 7.1 disk 1 and 2 from www.lsl.com and installed last night. My question is, during the install (custom/workstation/install) I was asked which of 3 additional disks did I have and none of the titles given for the three matched that which was on either of my disks (Mandrake 7.1 Install i586 and Mandrake 7.1 Extras i586). [snip] -- Fri Jun 16 10:25:00 MDT 2000 Had it said "extra" I wouldn't have written. -- Joseph S. Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam... No windows, no gates. Apache inside Registered linux user #1696600 ICQ #63389227
[expert] Missing monitor def in 'Drake 7.1, 3Dfx 3000
I just attempted to configure X on my 7.1 box and noticed that the Nokia 447Z is not defined. I wouldn't consider this an issue except that the other 447 and 447Zx models (Zi, Za, etc.) are defined. Am I missing something? Also, anyone know about configuring a 3Dfx 3000 AGP adapter with either 3.3.6 or 4.0? Looks like the card was incorrectly detected as a "Generic" even though (I think) there is support for this card. - This message was sent using MI-Webmail. No matter where you are, never lose touch. Get your Email using MI-Webmail. http://www.monmouth.com/
Re: [expert] kernel compile - rpm VC tar.gz
:~I am a relatively experienced linux user, who is used to compiling custom :~kernels using tarballs from ftp.kernal.xx.org. I have installed Mandrake 7.0 to :~have a look and would now like to customize the kernel. The bottom line is, I :~would prefer to go via the tarball route rather than rpm's, but I'd like to :~know a little more about Mandrake before deciding. :~ :~I gather from the rpm names (kernel-2.2.16-4mdk.src.rpm and :~kernel-linus-2.2.16-2mdk.src.rpm) that there is some customization done by :~Mandrake to the pristine kernel sources. How much, and do any experienced users A lot :~out there have a feel for how *well* ? Also, there is a guide on mandrake.org hee... Like, you can run a lot of hardware which does not work with pristine kernel? supermount... And kernel-secure is a story of its own. Anyway, you can choose, so take what suits you the best :-) cu Denis -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @)(private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---oOO--(_)--OOo- visit our new discusion forum: http://linuxpole.com
Re: [expert] smb moutn problem :(
LinuxGeek wrote: heya all !! :-) i am running mdk 7.1 on my machine at work i want to mount a volume from another Linux machine (RH 6.1) on my local network. when i am trying to mount i am getting this : [root@sysadmin installs]# mount -t smbfs //mail/hda /mnt/mail_machine Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed mount: backgrounding "//mail/hda" [root@sysadmin installs]# Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed this is NOT a password issueany thought's anyone ? -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Office : 09-9526993. ICQ : 15748705 Have a Nice Day...:-) -- i presume you have samba running on both machines and that the share is visible from elsewhere. what is the hostname that mail resolves to? it must be the same as the mail machine says it's netbios name is. for example it must be in an /etc/lmhosts file or in /etc/hosts. have you tied: smbclient -L //mail -I xx.xx.xx.xx where xx.xx.xx.xx is mail's ip. if this works and mount doesn't then the netbios names don't match. if this doesn't work either, then at least one the machines (samba) isn't configured correctly. can you access shares on this (not //mail) machine from any other machine? if both machines can talk to other (say windows) machines but not to eachother, you can always use nfs.
Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with ATT's Cablemodem email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just "mail"? So if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for POP3 SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't get through to their crappy support center. Seve you can just use mail for both, but you must have the actual domain name that this machine is in. for example: cgws1.ab.wave.home.com this must be specified in /etc/resolv.conf: search cgws1.ab.wave.home.com nameserver 24.64.2.33 nameserver 24.65.2.34 this should be configured using linux-config in Name server specification. if you are using dhcp to configure your connection, this will get filled in automatically, provided that you use the correct host name for you machine, eg: CS938382-A.cgws1.ab.wave.home.com and leave the "primary name + domain", aliases, IP address, and netmask fields blank in the adaptor specification in "basic host information".
Re: [expert] jdk1.2.2
I haven't had problems with jdk1.2.2 (Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1) EXCEPT that I must set LC_ALL to en instead of my default value (es).
RE: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
Do we have any Media One Cable modem users on this net please ??
Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve
you need to look in ~/.vnc/xstartup. there, an xterm should be started and the twm window manager will be started. I've installed icewm, and start it instead of twm, from that file./ On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm using VNC for Linbox to Linbox. I'm able to log in and get vncviewer to see the remote mouse cursor move but all I get is a gray background with no other functions. I've looked at "xstart" and it's set to run "twm". Is there something I'm missing here? Seve
Re: [expert] smb moutn problem :(
hi Daryl yes , samba is running on both machines and the mail machine can be accessed using the network from all the windowz machines... i cannot access it from my Linux workstation. tried to mount -smbfs and -nfs and nothing for smb it asked for a password. i tried all the passwords i knew - nothing. for nfs it says it cannot find the volume... :( Daryl Pawluk wrote: LinuxGeek wrote: heya all !! :-) i am running mdk 7.1 on my machine at work i want to mount a volume from another Linux machine (RH 6.1) on my local network. when i am trying to mount i am getting this : [root@sysadmin installs]# mount -t smbfs //mail/hda /mnt/mail_machine Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed mount: backgrounding "//mail/hda" [root@sysadmin installs]# Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed this is NOT a password issueany thought's anyone ? -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Office : 09-9526993. ICQ : 15748705 Have a Nice Day...:-) -- i presume you have samba running on both machines and that the share is visible from elsewhere. what is the hostname that mail resolves to? it must be the same as the mail machine says it's netbios name is. for example it must be in an /etc/lmhosts file or in /etc/hosts. have you tied: smbclient -L //mail -I xx.xx.xx.xx where xx.xx.xx.xx is mail's ip. if this works and mount doesn't then the netbios names don't match. if this doesn't work either, then at least one the machines (samba) isn't configured correctly. can you access shares on this (not //mail) machine from any other machine? if both machines can talk to other (say windows) machines but not to eachother, you can always use nfs. -- -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Office : 09-9526993. ICQ : 15748705 Have a Nice Day...:-) --
Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: If your E-mail is working this way under Winblows then it was probably not by design... but rather luck. The "mail" entries are the default for Winblows. They are supposed to be changed by the user to what is appropriate. They're also the default because they'll usually work - if the client DNS info is setup correctly. In Windows' DNS setup (UNIX equiv. is /etc/resolv.conf) there is a setting named "Domain Suffix Search Order:" (equivalent to the "search" line in resolv.conf) that lists anywhere from one to several domains. If you specify a hostname, for instance, "mail", your computer will try to look that name up. On the internet, this will fail; no machine is named simply "mail." Now, your computer will suffix the domains listed in this "Domain Suffix Search Order" field to the hostname, and attempt to lookup the hostname again. Example: my resolv.conf contains "ksu.edu" and "cc.ksu.edu" and "cis.ksu.edu". Now, let's say I try to contact "polaris" via TCP/IP. The initial lookup fails - "polaris" does not exist. Next, the computer tries "polaris.ksu.edu", which again fails. Next, we try "polaris.cc.ksu.edu", which also fails. Finally, we try "polaris.cis.ksu.edu" which succeeds. The IP address returned from that final lookup is used as the address for "polaris," then. Thus, if you have the correct domains listed in your resolv.conf, or Windows' TCP/IP stack "Domain Suffix Search Order" field, you can use "mail" or "www" or "ftp" as easy contact names: no need to type in the entire fully qualified Internet hostname. Thus, "mail" in the server name field, will work for many people without any extra configuration. The fact that it may be working for you is attributable to the ISP's DNS automatically appending the isp's domain to the request... It's not your ISP's DNS server which adds the suffix: it's your client that does so! -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-Original Message- |From: Sevatio Octavio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:21 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To? | | |I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with ATT's |Cablemodem email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the |POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just |"mail"? So if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for |POP3 SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't |get through to their crappy support center. | |Seve |
Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with ATT's Cablemodem email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just "mail"? So if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for POP3 SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't get through to their crappy support center. It's the DNS. Just use the same DNS info and mail will work as SMTP/POP with KMail.
Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve
Okay, I checked the log file and it's telling me that "xrdb" cannot find $HOME/.Xresources . I can't find .Xresources anywhere. Would you happen to have a copy to send me? Seve -Original Message- From: Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sevatio Octavio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:07 AM Subject: Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve you need to look in ~/.vnc/xstartup. there, an xterm should be started and the twm window manager will be started. I've installed icewm, and start it instead of twm, from that file./ On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm using VNC for Linbox to Linbox. I'm able to log in and get vncviewer to see the remote mouse cursor move but all I get is a gray background with no other functions. I've looked at "xstart" and it's set to run "twm". Is there something I'm missing here? Seve
Re: [expert] useradd
You can alos try mandrake tool userdrake (console or X), but i'm not sure if it is a autonomous tool, or just a frontend fro useardd. A+ Also sprach lun, 19 jun 2000 : I have recently installed (fresh) Mandrake 7.0. This machine is just for my home use, and only has one machine hooked to it, a Win 98 box. My problem is that yesterday, I tried to add a user via useradd and received an error on the lines of useradd :Binary :command not found Please enter the 3 letter airport code Done ... What the H##l is this. I get this same error via linuxconf, or terminal window. I get the same when I try to run adduser. Although both programs show as being on the drive! I get this whether I am logged in as Root or as user then su So I need to know how I can add a user now? Any help would be appreciated, Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Sleep doesn't exists. Just lack of cafeine.
[expert] In Search of .Xresources
I'm troubleshooting my VNC. I'm getting that grey screen and the logs are showing me that xrdb cannot find .Xresources . Would any of you know what .Xresources is used for and what programs are associated with it. AND most importantly, could you show me what the content should be for that file? Thanks, Seve
[expert] Supermount configuration
Seems i've lost supermount capacity in some manner, and i can't retrieve it. I've the last kernel 2.2.16-4, with supermount as a module, and a correct fstab, but no way. I can load the module manually, using lsmod, so it's not a conf.modules problem either. So, what is wrong ? -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Sleep doesn't exists. Just lack of cafeine.
Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: I'm helping someone kick the M$ habit but I'm stuck with ATT's Cablemodem email setup. Looking at IE Owchluk-Xpress, it has the POP3 and SMTP set as "mail". How do they get away with just "mail"? So if I wanted to use Kmail instead, what would I put down for POP3 SMTP servers? mail.home.com doesn't work and I can't get through to their crappy support center. you should out mail.yourispname.whatever (net/com etc...) e.g. my @home is mail.fndl1.wa.home.com ...trying to send from my newly Mandraked I-Opener, will try that addy to send
[expert] Postfix and Procmail
Hi! I'm running Mandrake 7.0 with a dial-up connection. My mail system involves Postfix to send , fetchmail to collect on POP3, procmail to distribute, mutt to read, write and generally be man's best friend! It works! It works because I invoke procmail from within my .fetchmailrc like this mda '/usr/bin/procmail -f - RCPT=%T /home/glyn/.procmailrc' Now the fetchmail manual says this is a bad idea, so I've tried to use let postfix call up procmail direct but can't get it to work - incoming post gets placed in the queue and returned to sender if I'm not careful. Can anyone tell me how to get Postfix and Procmail to talk to each other? Or where to find clear guidance on the subject? TIA Glyn M. -- ** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: [expert] smb moutn problem :(
LinuxGeek wrote: hi Daryl yes , samba is running on both machines and the mail machine can be accessed using the network from all the windowz machines... i cannot access it from my Linux workstation. tried to mount -smbfs and -nfs and nothing for smb it asked for a password. i tried all the passwords i knew - nothing. for nfs it says it cannot find the volume... :( Daryl Pawluk wrote: LinuxGeek wrote: heya all !! :-) i am running mdk 7.1 on my machine at work i want to mount a volume from another Linux machine (RH 6.1) on my local network. when i am trying to mount i am getting this : [root@sysadmin installs]# mount -t smbfs //mail/hda /mnt/mail_machine Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed mount: backgrounding "//mail/hda" [root@sysadmin installs]# Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed this is NOT a password issueany thought's anyone ? -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Office : 09-9526993. ICQ : 15748705 Have a Nice Day...:-) -- i presume you have samba running on both machines and that the share is visible from elsewhere. what is the hostname that mail resolves to? it must be the same as the mail machine says it's netbios name is. for example it must be in an /etc/lmhosts file or in /etc/hosts. have you tied: smbclient -L //mail -I xx.xx.xx.xx where xx.xx.xx.xx is mail's ip. if this works and mount doesn't then the netbios names don't match. if this doesn't work either, then at least one the machines (samba) isn't configured correctly. can you access shares on this (not //mail) machine from any other machine? if both machines can talk to other (say windows) machines but not to eachother, you can always use nfs. -- -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Office : 09-9526993. ICQ : 15748705 Have a Nice Day...:-) -- what happened when you tried smbclient? the password to smbclient can be ignored. nfs won't work unless an nfs shared volume is configured on //mail and the userid you are logged onto your machine as has access.
RE: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
|-Original Message- |From: Matt Stegman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 11:46 AM |To: Linux-Mandrake Expert List |Subject: Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To? | | | |On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | If your E-mail is working this way under Winblows then it was |probably not | by design... but rather luck. | | The "mail" entries are the default for Winblows. They are supposed to be | changed by the user to what is appropriate. | |They're also the default because they'll usually work - if the client DNS |info is setup correctly. | |In Windows' DNS setup (UNIX equiv. is /etc/resolv.conf) there is a setting |named "Domain Suffix Search Order:" (equivalent to the "search" line in |resolv.conf) that lists anywhere from one to several domains. If you |specify a hostname, for instance, "mail", your computer will try to look |that name up. On the internet, this will fail; no machine is named simply |"mail." Now, your computer will suffix the domains listed in this "Domain |Suffix Search Order" field to the hostname, and attempt to lookup the |hostname again. | |Example: my resolv.conf contains "ksu.edu" and "cc.ksu.edu" and |"cis.ksu.edu". Now, let's say I try to contact "polaris" via TCP/IP. |The initial lookup fails - "polaris" does not exist. Next, the computer |tries "polaris.ksu.edu", which again fails. Next, we try |"polaris.cc.ksu.edu", which also fails. Finally, we try |"polaris.cis.ksu.edu" which succeeds. The IP address returned from that |final lookup is used as the address for "polaris," then. | |Thus, if you have the correct domains listed in your resolv.conf, or |Windows' TCP/IP stack "Domain Suffix Search Order" field, you can use |"mail" or "www" or "ftp" as easy contact names: no need to type in the |entire fully qualified Internet hostname. Thus, "mail" in the server name |field, will work for many people without any extra configuration. | All correct... but you are making one big and highly unlikely assumption... That he entered the domain suffixes in Windows. Remember, you are dealing with a user that never even fixed his E-Mail entries... It is many more times as unlikely that the domain suffix search order was added by him... something else kicked in here... namely that the DHCP server assigned his machine to be a member of his ISP's domain... In so doing, "mail" will resolve to his ISP's domain... | The fact that it may be working for you is attributable to the ISP's DNS | automatically appending the isp's domain to the request... | |It's not your ISP's DNS server which adds the suffix: it's your client |that does so! Eh, no... Ask him to check his settings, and you'll find the domain suffix search order blank... -JMS
Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: Thanks!!! This gets me a bit closer to finding out the name of the mail server. How did you get "poptart" again? I'm not understanding how it was "derived by magic". I have the IP so maybe I can findout that way. Type host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (your ip), in console and it will return your full domain name. Replace your subdomain, everything up to the first '.', with 'mail' (for your newsreader its the same thing but 'news').
[expert] PPPoE and DSL
I might be ready to hang myself. I live in a rural area of Pennsylvania, USA. I have a "mom and pop" phone company/isp that cannot even spell ISDN. I was shocked when they announced ADSL for my area (I even live within the 2.5 mile radius from my POP as required). I thought my unreliable and s-l-o-w (24000 baud) ISP connection blues were finally over. I was disappointed (but not surprised) to learn that my telco/isp does something weird to make it difficult for me. They require the use of PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet). I think they are using it for radius authentication through PPP-PAP (at least they do this for dial-up accounts). I use a Mandrake 6.1 box for ppp dial on demand and simple firewall services. I was hoping I could just add a second NIC and interface it with my DSL router, but I guess it isn't that simple. Is there a PPPoE solution (the simpler the better, RPM's appreciated) for Linux/Mandrake?
RE: [expert] smb moutn problem :(
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of LinuxGeek Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 3:47 AM To: expert list Subject: [expert] smb mount heya all !! :-) i am running mdk 7.1 on my machine at work i want to mount a volume from another Linux machine (RH 6.1) on my local network. when i am trying to mount i am getting this : [root@sysadmin installs]# mount -t smbfs //mail/hda /mnt/mail_machine Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed mount: backgrounding "//mail/hda" [root@sysadmin installs]# Password: tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname SMB connection failed this is NOT a password issueany thought anyone ? -- Oh YES IT IS! Had this NOT been a password issue you would have gotten a "connection to XXX failed" message early on, before getting a password prompt. The remote machine "mail" is not accepting your login as root. This could be the case for many reasons...I.E. uppper lowercase hashing not set properly... encryption, etc. Don't assume that because you can login to Linux that these username/password pairs apply to Samba as well. They don't necessarily. Samba identifies itself to the remote machine as the user you are currently logged in locally. In your case you are logged in as root... Go to the remote machine... THERE as root try "smbclient -L mail -U root" and see if it accepts the login using the same password. If it doesn't here's your problem. If it does then one machine may be using clear text (the default for 6.1) while the other may be using encrypted (used with 7.1 but not available with 6.1 until later...) Also samba does not always pick up the local username properly... Try specifiying it as you attempt to connect... "smbclient -L mail -U root" and login and see if you can see the shares. Once you can you should be able to mount the volume. If you get logged in, but do not see the shares... well the remote machine has a problem or permission issue... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On |Behalf Of LinuxGeek |Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:41 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] smb moutn problem :( | | |hi Daryl | |yes , samba is running on both machines and the mail machine can |be accessed using the |network from all the windowz machines... |i cannot access it from my Linux workstation. |tried to mount -smbfs and -nfs and nothing |for smb it asked for a password. i tried all the passwords i knew |- nothing. |for nfs it says it cannot find the volume... :( | | | | | |Daryl Pawluk wrote: | | LinuxGeek wrote: | | | | heya all !! :-) | | i am running mdk 7.1 on my machine at work | i want to mount a volume from another Linux machine (RH 6.1) |on my local network. | | when i am trying to mount i am getting this : | | | [root@sysadmin installs]# mount -t smbfs //mail/hda /mnt/mail_machine | Password: | tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname | SMB connection failed | mount: backgrounding "//mail/hda" | [root@sysadmin installs]# Password: | tree connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRinvnetname | SMB connection failed | | this is NOT a password issueany thought's anyone ? | | -- | Best Regard's , | Amir Tal, | System Administrator | Intercomp Ltd. | | Office : 09-9526993. | ICQ : 15748705 | | Have a Nice Day...:-) | -- | | | | i presume you have samba running on both machines and that the share is | visible from elsewhere. what is the hostname that mail resolves to? it | must be the same as the mail machine says it's netbios name is. for | example it must be in an /etc/lmhosts file or in /etc/hosts. have you | tied: | | smbclient -L //mail -I xx.xx.xx.xx | | where xx.xx.xx.xx is mail's ip. if this works and mount doesn't then the | netbios names don't match. if this doesn't work either, then at least | one the machines (samba) isn't configured correctly. can you access | shares on this (not //mail) machine from any other machine? if both | machines can talk to other (say windows) machines but not to eachother, | you can always use nfs. | |-- |-- |Best Regard's , |Amir Tal, |System Administrator |Intercomp Ltd. | |Office : 09-9526993. |ICQ : 15748705 | |Have a Nice Day...:-) |-- | | |
RE: [expert] smb moutn problem :(
| |what happened when you tried smbclient? the password to smbclient |can be ignored. | |nfs won't work unless an nfs shared volume is configured on //mail |and the userid you are |logged onto your machine as has access. | | | | | Only if there is a guest account that is permitted to view the shares... then Samba "falls thru" in spite of the bad password. -JMS
Re: [expert] zenith monitor scan frequencies needed
James, At 01:43 AM 6/19/00, you wrote: I picked up an old Zenith monitor (model ZCM1492BA1). It does not list in Xconfigurator and so I am having a hard time getting it right. I used an 8514 monitor at 640x480, but I still can't see part of the top and bottom of the X-windows. Even though an 800x640 test passes, it gets reset to 640x480. The on-board video card is a Sis620 8MB (I set to 2 or 4 for testing). Anyone know the scan frequencies for this monitor or which monitor setting will best fit it ? Is there a monitor listing database on the internet ? Thanks... Dan. Dan. I've had simular problems with my Optiquest monitor even though I know the mode lines. What I have been able to do since 7.0 is use DrakeConf I just accept the best XF86Config will give me (even though it "passes" a higher test). Then in DrakeConf I'm able to set my monitor and resolution without a hassle. You might try this and see if it works for you as well. James Is there a command line version (non X-version) of DrakConf. I hate working inside XF86Config file, it is not friendly. I noticed that my /var/log/user.log shows... Jun 19 01:07:31 aladdin xfs: Warning: The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist . Jun 19 01:07:31 aladdin xfs: Entry deleted from font path. How do I install that font ? I believe there is a DrakFont, but how about from the command line ? Thanks... Dan.
Re: [expert] PPPoE and DSL
Sure. http://64.28.67.35/search.php3?query=pppoe "james.fogg" wrote: I might be ready to hang myself. I live in a rural area of Pennsylvania, USA. I have a "mom and pop" phone company/isp that cannot even spell ISDN. I was shocked when they announced ADSL for my area (I even live within the 2.5 mile radius from my POP as required). I thought my unreliable and s-l-o-w (24000 baud) ISP connection blues were finally over. I was disappointed (but not surprised) to learn that my telco/isp does something weird to make it difficult for me. They require the use of PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet). I think they are using it for radius authentication through PPP-PAP (at least they do this for dial-up accounts). I use a Mandrake 6.1 box for ppp dial on demand and simple firewall services. I was hoping I could just add a second NIC and interface it with my DSL router, but I guess it isn't that simple. Is there a PPPoE solution (the simpler the better, RPM's appreciated) for Linux/Mandrake?
[expert] Re: SCSI Errors with 2940U2W gone with Mandrake 7.1
Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but LVD doesn't use termination does it? Certainly not the same kind as SE, which uses active terminators. (by LVD does still require termination. The active terminators I used apparently can be used with Ultra2/LVD and Ultra devices. I assume by Ultra and Ultra2 sides you meant, wide and narrow connectors to Yes, wide and narrow would also explain this, but... the same buss, since I think this card is a two bus, LVD on one, SE on the other. The card has 68-pin connectors on BOTH the Ultra2 and Ultra sides. The Ultra side also has a narrow connector. Two busses, three internal connectors. Some controllers do get confused when two connectors of different widths are used on the same buss. If you are using the narrow and wide connectors Not the case here... high end of the bus is terminated, and the low end isn't. Then set the This *STILL* confuses me. Can anyone define what is meant by "high" and "low" end of the bus? Term power is almost always a universally good thing, unless a drive has a shorted diode or fuse. It's important to know that this is NOT enabled by default on the Seagate drives I had. In fact, the tech that setup the hardware (incorrectly) at first did not enable this, nor did he use LVD cables, terminators, etc. I guess the point is that most of today's techs that are assembling hardware know little about SCSI, and know even less about newer incarnations of SCSI. I know I've learned a great deal, and I've been working with SCSI for upwards of 6 years now. - This message was sent using MI-Webmail. No matter where you are, never lose touch. Get your Email using MI-Webmail. http://www.monmouth.com/
Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve
I don't have an .Xresources file either, however VNC runs fine for me. Have you tried specifying a different window manager in xstartup? Okay, I checked the log file and it's telling me that "xrdb" cannot find $HOME/.Xresources . I can't find .Xresources anywhere. Would you happen to have a copy to send me? - This message was sent using MI-Webmail. No matter where you are, never lose touch. Get your Email using MI-Webmail. http://www.monmouth.com/
[expert] Installing DB2 7.1 For Linux on Mandrake 7.1
(A a story of a confluence of version numbers) After running db2 for linux 6.1 for awhile on RedHat 6.1 happily, I decided to upgrade to DB2 7.1 I figured while I'm at it, I might as well do a fresh install of Mandrake 7.1 to finally get this buggey i810 graphics board on the machine to work while I'm at it. Installation of 7.1 was bumpy to say the least, after it freezing several times, black screening, ect I finally got the bugger to install (i810 video wasn't all I hoped it would be.) Oh well, it's a server so I won't be too picky on the graphics board not working right. I downloaded the trail personal edition from IBM's web site (http://www.ibm.com/db2). db2 6.1 on rh 6.1 install went easy (After2 fixpacks and following a faq on problems installing on redhat). This time I'm getting an interesting error attempting to install db27.1 on M7.1 when running db2setup as root: Internal Error: DBI1502E An error was encountered when opening or reading from file /tmp/.db2inst.swap. Any Ideas? -David Talbot
Re: [expert] PPPoE and DSL
I'm not sure which router you have, however I've heard the Netgear supports PPPoE rather well. You might also want to check out the Netopia 7100/7200 (depends on the DSLAM your provider is using) as it provides a more complete solution including firewall, VPN, and some other "cool" stuff that the big boys would charge plenty for. I might be ready to hang myself. - This message was sent using MI-Webmail. No matter where you are, never lose touch. Get your Email using MI-Webmail. http://www.monmouth.com/
Re: [expert] 7.1 install multi-disk question/gripe
The disk is referred to often as the "Extras" disk, the ISO is merely EXT, but the install refers to it as Extension. Notice the EXT that seems to be common throughout? :-) On 19 Jun, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: You're really making this more difficult than necessary. All you need is the first box checked, didn't it say extra like on the paper envelope that the disc was in? The second and third check boxes say applications, you didn't want those did you? -- Armand My question is, during the install (custom/workstation/install) I was asked which of 3 additional disks did I have and none of the titles given for the three matched that which was on either of my disks (Mandrake 7.1 Install i586 and Mandrake 7.1 Extras i586). -- Fri Jun 16 10:25:00 MDT 2000 Had it said "extra" I wouldn't have written. -- --- Nil carborundum illegitimi http://andysocial.com
Re: [expert] Missing monitor def in 'Drake 7.1, 3Dfx 3000
try linux.3dfx.com I believe that's the addy...I found drivers for the card there Jim - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 9:39 AM Subject: [expert] Missing monitor def in 'Drake 7.1, 3Dfx 3000 I just attempted to configure X on my 7.1 box and noticed that the Nokia 447Z is not defined. I wouldn't consider this an issue except that the other 447 and 447Zx models (Zi, Za, etc.) are defined. Am I missing something? Also, anyone know about configuring a 3Dfx 3000 AGP adapter with either 3.3.6 or 4.0? Looks like the card was incorrectly detected as a "Generic" even though (I think) there is support for this card. - This message was sent using MI-Webmail. No matter where you are, never lose touch. Get your Email using MI-Webmail. http://www.monmouth.com/
[expert] MegaRAID trouble (7.1)
Hi all, I first of all would like to thank all the Linux-Mandrake developers and contributors for making a really great distro. Now over to my "problem". I've tried to install 7.1 on an elder HP NetServer LH II with an AMI MegaRAID card. During the installation everything works fine. It loads the MegaRAID module as well as the AIC7xxx module, finds the 3 RAID disks I set up. I'm able to partition them, format them and install on them. But when the install is over and it's time to boot into my newly installed system it spits out a "Kernel panic: Can't mount blablabla". I see it booting up 'til the SCSI part (knowing it _should_ load the MegaRAID module before the AIC7xxx) fails to load MegaRAID... I've tried the regular install, I've tried the expert mode, I've tried the regular text mode to no avail... I had to "resign" ;) to SuSE as I didn't want to use Redhat (which also worked flawlessly). I'm no programmer or a really good linux hacker so I can't come up with a sollution to this _and_ I was hoping one of you would be able to shed som light on this issue for me. BTW. I found the same problem with the 7.02 version Many thanks for your time. Best regards, Stig-Ørjan Smelror
[expert] Lilo questions????
Steve Litt's article (Litt's Lilo Lessons) is without doubt the best article I have ever read on lilo. But as you know knowledge is a dangerous thing and I have a few simple questions. (I have sent them to Steve but he may not answer and I know many of you are just as knowledgeable) My disk is setup in the following partitions. hda1 /boot 100 Meg hda2 / (for DOS) 2 Gig hda3 / (for Slackware 7.0) 2 Gig hda4 extended hda5 / (for Mandrake 7.1) 2 Gig hda6 / (for Caldera 2.4) 2 Gig hda7 / (for Experimental) 2 Gig hda8 / (for CDRW scratch) 800 Meg hda9 / (for swap) 100 Meg question 1 Do I set hda1, hda2, hda3, hda5, hda6 and hda7 to bootable in cfdisk? question 2 Where is the lilo that contains the information that sets up all the partitions? question 3 What is the function of hda1? I assume it holds common information about the overall setup. question 4 Since, there is a /boot in all the distribution roots how does the /boot (hda1) function? -- Larry Blodgett Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Linux, WinNT, MS-DOS - also known as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Re: [expert] Lilo questions????
Larry Blodgett wrote: Steve Litt's article (Litt's Lilo Lessons) is without doubt the best article I have ever read on lilo. But as you know knowledge is a dangerous thing and I have a few simple questions. (I have sent them to Steve but he may not answer and I know many of you are just as knowledgeable) My disk is setup in the following partitions. hda1 /boot 100 Meg hda2 / (for DOS) 2 Gig hda3 / (for Slackware 7.0) 2 Gig hda4 extended hda5 / (for Mandrake 7.1) 2 Gig hda6 / (for Caldera 2.4) 2 Gig hda7 / (for Experimental) 2 Gig hda8 / (for CDRW scratch) 800 Meg hda9 / (for swap) 100 Meg question 1 Do I set hda1, hda2, hda3, hda5, hda6 and hda7 to bootable in cfdisk? question 2 Where is the lilo that contains the information that sets up all the partitions? question 3 What is the function of hda1? I assume it holds common information about the overall setup. question 4 Since, there is a /boot in all the distribution roots how does the /boot (hda1) function? -- Larry Blodgett Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Linux, WinNT, MS-DOS - also known as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Whoa... If you install with a /boot sector, then the install routine will put the kernel there. Make that one bootable. If at all possible put DOS as /dev/hda1 and the /boot partition/filesystem as 2--DOS may not like being anything but first on the disk. The scratch area for rom burning I would call /romburn and make sure every one of the installs can mount it at boot time--saves a lot of frustration. /dev/hda9 is OK for swap. It can challenge your system to put it in the middle, but at either end it avoids the physical vs logical drive geometry problem. Now your BIG /boot sector will contain a copy of EACH kernel for each distro, a map and a few other things... And it might be 10% used if you really pack it with experimental kernel boots. And every linux you install, except maybe Caldera, will use the /boot sector successfully--perhaps it would be better to install DOS/Windows then Caldera then the others. The lilo and grub loaders for Mandrake last since it will likely assemble a nice picture for you and recognize the other kernels and such--and on Caldera choose to put LILO in the MBR. Caldera is somethibg of an orphan distro because it makes cross-booting such a chore and tries to correct the deficiency by offering BootMagic as part of their commercial distro. Civileme
[expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?
Hi, I was wondering if anybody has managed to get the Lucent linux568.zip driver working with MDK 7.1, kernel 2.2.15-4mdk? Worked fine in MDK 6, 6.1, 7, but I can't get it going with 7.1. Running the ltinst script (as root) gives: insmod: ltmodem: no module by that name found Though the script seems to put the module in /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc, and make the link to /dev/modem etc, just doesn't load the module. Strangely, I don't get the usual error message about 'kernal mismatch' when running the script. I do get '***unresolved symbols in module' at boot when it checks for module dependencies. But in dmesg I find: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline registered. Lucent Modem driver version 4.27.5.66 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS14 at 0x1000 (irq = 11) is a Lucent registered device ppp0 PPP BSD Compression module registered PPP Deflate Compression module registered Which seems to me to indicate it's detecting and loading it OK, but when I try to use it, it dials OK, but then PPPD dies with the error message 'Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference'. Anybody know what that means? Would I be better off going back to the MDK 7 kernel - and if so, does anybody know what works in the new kernel that won't with the old one (eg Reiser FS). I'd prefer not to go back to my 14.4 modem Thanks, Tom Massey
Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?
This module doesn't work with kernel 2.2.15 or 2.2.16. 2.2.14 kernels seems to be the latest that can use the module. I'm not sure what's changed, but I do know that it causes a kernel OOPS when trying to load pppd and will often make the system highly unstable. When I do find the solution, I will post it here. Anybody else who figure this out, please let me know. But if you want to get this working now, just use kernel 2.2.14. John Kim Linux System Engineer @ ASL - visit us as www.aslab.com On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Tom Massey wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody has managed to get the Lucent linux568.zip driver working with MDK 7.1, kernel 2.2.15-4mdk? Worked fine in MDK 6, 6.1, 7, but I can't get it going with 7.1. Running the ltinst script (as root) gives: insmod: ltmodem: no module by that name found Though the script seems to put the module in /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc, and make the link to /dev/modem etc, just doesn't load the module. Strangely, I don't get the usual error message about 'kernal mismatch' when running the script. I do get '***unresolved symbols in module' at boot when it checks for module dependencies. But in dmesg I find: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline registered. Lucent Modem driver version 4.27.5.66 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS14 at 0x1000 (irq = 11) is a Lucent registered device ppp0 PPP BSD Compression module registered PPP Deflate Compression module registered Which seems to me to indicate it's detecting and loading it OK, but when I try to use it, it dials OK, but then PPPD dies with the error message 'Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference'. Anybody know what that means? Would I be better off going back to the MDK 7 kernel - and if so, does anybody know what works in the new kernel that won't with the old one (eg Reiser FS). I'd prefer not to go back to my 14.4 modem Thanks, Tom Massey
[expert] Problem on Installation on Adaptec SCSI Controller under Mandrake 6.5
Sir/Mam, Kindly provide us a technical support on Mandrake. Is Mandrake 6.5 support Adaptec SCSI Controller 29160 or not? If not what version this OS support the controller? Or do we need to download a driver for that card.. Hoping for immediate responce. Thanks, Cris
Re: [expert] useradd
Just a thought...maybe it is not airport code...maybe it has to do with the version of Mandrake 7.0 (Air) you are using? Maybe that has something to do with it? Bambi Guillaume Rousse wrote: You can alos try mandrake tool userdrake (console or X), but i'm not sure if it is a autonomous tool, or just a frontend fro useardd. A+ Also sprach lun, 19 jun 2000 : I have recently installed (fresh) Mandrake 7.0. This machine is just for my home use, and only has one machine hooked to it, a Win 98 box. My problem is that yesterday, I tried to add a user via useradd and received an error on the lines of useradd :Binary :command not found Please enter the 3 letter airport code Done ... What the H##l is this. I get this same error via linuxconf, or terminal window. I get the same when I try to run adduser. Although both programs show as being on the drive! I get this whether I am logged in as Root or as user then su So I need to know how I can add a user now? Any help would be appreciated, Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -- Guillaume Rousse Iremia - Université de la Réunion Sleep doesn't exists. Just lack of cafeine.
Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?
John Kim wrote: This module doesn't work with kernel 2.2.15 or 2.2.16. 2.2.14 kernels seems to be the latest that can use the module. Yeah, 2.2.14 works fine. I'm not sure what's changed, but I do know that it causes a kernel OOPS when trying to load pppd and will often make the system highly unstable. It does indeed - crashed me 3 times this morning (bit of a new experience - thought I was using Windows again ;-) That Reiser FS is pretty amazing though - never seen the system boot up after a crash so fast. Of course, now my problem is - Reiser isn't supported in 2.2.14 is it? So time to reformat... When I do find the solution, I will post it here. Anybody else who figure this out, please let me know. I doubt it'll help, but I did notice that it seems to be behaving the same way the original linux565a.zip (or whatever it was called) did when I was using kernel 2.2.12. But if you want to get this working now, just use kernel 2.2.14. Will do. Thanks.
[expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User - How To?
Typically if I wanted to run something automatically at bootup, I would put a statement into /etc/rc.d/rc.local . Those apps will run under the ownership of 'root'. How do you get rc.local to run apps under a specific user? Seve
Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - Resolved
You're right. I didn't need .Xresources. My problem was that the machine name that VNC was using to invoke the vncserver was not resolving to 127.0.0.1. I corrected /etc/host and it works now. Thanks for all your help. Seve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 19, 2000 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve I don't have an .Xresources file either, however VNC runs fine for me. Have you tried specifying a different window manager in xstartup? Okay, I checked the log file and it's telling me that "xrdb" cannot find $HOME/.Xresources . I can't find .Xresources anywhere. Would you happen to have a copy to send me? - This message was sent using MI-Webmail. No matter where you are, never lose touch. Get your Email using MI-Webmail. http://www.monmouth.com/
Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?
On 19 Jun 2000, at 17:31, John D. Kim wrote: This module doesn't work with kernel 2.2.15 or 2.2.16. 2.2.14 kernels seems to be the latest that can use the module. I'm not sure what's changed, but I do know that it causes a kernel OOPS when trying to load pppd and will often make the system highly unstable. What's up with pppd! Linuxconf doesn't like it either in 7.1! To be clearer, Linuxconf does a chmod 4755 on pppd anytime you touch its network access setup. HTTP access on port 98 won't work no matter how you define the access. Do a chmod 755 on pppd and Lonuxconf http access works fine. What does pppd have to do with this??? gerry http://www.gogood.com
Re: [expert] LT winmodem with MDK 7.1?
Tom Massey wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anybody has managed to get the Lucent linux568.zip driver working with MDK 7.1, kernel 2.2.15-4mdk? Worked fine in MDK 6, 6.1, 7, but I can't get it going with 7.1. Running the ltinst script (as root) gives: insmod: ltmodem: no module by that name found Though the script seems to put the module in /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc, and make the link to /dev/modem etc, just doesn't load the module. Strangely, I don't get the usual error message about 'kernal mismatch' when running the script. I do get '***unresolved symbols in module' at boot when it checks for module dependencies. But in dmesg I find: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline registered. Lucent Modem driver version 4.27.5.66 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS14 at 0x1000 (irq = 11) is a Lucent registered device ppp0 PPP BSD Compression module registered PPP Deflate Compression module registered Which seems to me to indicate it's detecting and loading it OK, but when I try to use it, it dials OK, but then PPPD dies with the error message 'Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference'. Anybody know what that means? Would I be better off going back to the MDK 7 kernel - and if so, does anybody know what works in the new kernel that won't with the old one (eg Reiser FS). I'd prefer not to go back to my 14.4 modem Thanks, Tom Massey Well, you are free to pursue this BECAUSE others have worked very hard to bring themselves and you this freedom. Binary-only applications for sale are one matter. Binary-only DRIVERS are quite another. There is no way to audit the code, and we are talking about something that has DIRECT access to the kernel, unlike an application which must use an Application Programming Interface (API) to request kernel services and has only the privilege of the user running it. Microsoft attributes a full 25% of its crashes to 3rd-party drivers. My system has uptime equalling the install of 7.0 on one machine, and equalling the install of 7.1 on another. Crashes are a thing of the past for me because I can read the source, and so can everyone else, and all those eyes do spot problems quickly. Letting folks come in offering binary-only drivers for their hardware and buying the hardware and using the drivers is something like undermining the work of the people who put so much effort into making it possible for you to choose to do this. It is unlikely that compatibility or non-compatibility with binary-only drivers will be a concern of people writing kernels or preparing distros. A built-in threat to stability (if included) is unlikely to ever achieve any priority for inclusion. If you want your devices supported, encourage the manufacturers to supply drivers in source. And I am not referring to Mandrake specifically but all of the linux distros--they all use roughly the same kernel. In the mean time, while waiting for manufacturers to come to their senses, I will not install binary-only drivers or buy products which require them. Civileme
Re: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User - How To?
Sevatio Octavio wrote: Typically if I wanted to run something automatically at bootup, I would put a statement into /etc/rc.d/rc.local . Those apps will run under the ownership of 'root'. How do you get rc.local to run apps under a specific user? Seve I would simply put it into the appropriate user's .bashrc (or whatever shell you are talking about) Or, if it is to be run as, say, nobody, I would put a call to setuid() in the source of the program and recompile. Sheesh, maybe there is a simpler way... Anyone? Civileme
[expert] ipmasq question (dont you get sick of these?)
ok...i am running ipmasq, and i have it set up and working like i want it. tonight i had a special situation arise that was out of my control, and i need to know how to resolve it ASAP. i need to connect to an ftp site that is running on a nonstandard port, port 1999 any clues as to how i can get onto the site and get farther than issuing the port command? it works fine (ftp port command) on sites that run on the standard port (21) thanks much tony
Re: [expert] Binding sound to $DISPLAY
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I posted this about a week ago, the only response I got was to try Gnome. Absolutely not an option, Gnome being the resource hog of hogs, I don't even use it on the server with 256Mb. The client runs BlackBox, it only has 40Mb Ram. No, I read the post, it said try esd (e sound daemon) - it will do what you want with some tweaking esd != gnome gnome != esd -- +++ 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] ipmasq question (dont you get sick of these?)
fluid wrote: ok...i am running ipmasq, and i have it set up and working like i want it. tonight i had a special situation arise that was out of my control, and i need to know how to resolve it ASAP. i need to connect to an ftp site that is running on a nonstandard port, port 1999 any clues as to how i can get onto the site and get farther than issuing the port command? it works fine (ftp port command) on sites that run on the standard port (21) thanks much tony Perhaps you are making this a bit too complicated. Use a GUI ftp client and tell it to run in passive mode. Give it the url and tell it port 1999. IF that doesn't work, email me privately because I am interested in this situation. Civileme \
[expert] ipmasqadm ipchains
Dear All, i have a ip 168.95.1.1,it didn't provide httpd ftpd services, if i want someone link to http://168.95.1.1 of ftp://168.95.1.1 , it will auto port fordward into my intranet PC 192.168.0.1, and my questions is : how to use ipmasqadm command line?it sould be matchup with ipchains rules? Please tech me step by step,thanks, regards, -- [1;31mAuthor¡J[maman66 [1;31m[[mleo.emedia.com.tw[1;31m][m.
[expert] Umax woes
Ok. I Tried upgrading sane and xscanimage to 7.1 versions, and it broke xscanimage. Locks up for a hard reboot. Went back to 7.0 cd and there is no xscanimage package. Just Sane. Replaced 7.1 sane with 7.0 and xscanimage is back and it works. So maybe the 7.1 is only broken in sane/xscanimage. At least as far as my setup goes. -- Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org Need a Real Texas Radio Fix?http://www.kut.org
Re: [expert] useradd
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: [snip] Any help would be appreciated, Brian D. Klar - CVE Try from the command line as root useradd -m -d /home/username username -- Armand -- Mon Jun 19 08:40:00 MDT 2000
Re: [expert] KDE beta 2 and 7.1
I found a site and downloaded a 'kdeall' rpm which had the full meal deal in it... everything but qt, which was a separate download.. http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc/index.html HTH, Monte On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Greg DeYoung wrote: I downloaded the new KDE beta2 (1.91 Kleopatra) RPMS from the KDE website. They did not have Mandrake RPMS in the FTP but they had Red Hat. I assumed they they should be the same. First when I tried to instal the QT 2.1.1.3 it said that I was missing the libqt.so.1 for some dependancies and qt-egcs-10x for some others. I found a QT 2.1.1.1 and it did install from the RPM. I then tried to install the KDE RPMS in this order kdesupport kdelibs kdebase then the rest. I couldn't even get past the kdesupport without dependancy conflicts with the kdebase 1.1.2-61 that is in 7.1. Does anyone know how to install KDE beta 2(1.91) on a Mandrake 7.1? Thanks, Greg DeYoung __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [expert] PPPoE and DSL
PPPoE is in LM 7.1. I haven't used it thought. Bill -Original Message- From: james.fogg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:11 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] PPPoE and DSL I might be ready to hang myself. I live in a rural area of Pennsylvania, USA. I have a "mom and pop" phone company/isp that cannot even spell ISDN. I was shocked when they announced ADSL for my area (I even live within the 2.5 mile radius from my POP as required). I thought my unreliable and s-l-o-w (24000 baud) ISP connection blues were finally over. I was disappointed (but not surprised) to learn that my telco/isp does something weird to make it difficult for me. They require the use of PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet). I think they are using it for radius authentication through PPP-PAP (at least they do this for dial-up accounts). I use a Mandrake 6.1 box for ppp dial on demand and simple firewall services. I was hoping I could just add a second NIC and interface it with my DSL router, but I guess it isn't that simple. Is there a PPPoE solution (the simpler the better, RPM's appreciated) for Linux/Mandrake?
Re: [expert] KDE beta 2 and 7.1
Yes the rpm's are out! kde2 is looking very very sweet. It even feels faster. You can get them at this page on the kde.org site. http://koffice.kde.org/install-binaries.html In general I was really happy with what I am seeing. I had the following problems on install. 1. openssl must be installed. It won't work without it. It needs certain libs. 2. It can never find /usr/bin/perl even if it exists. So when it balks just install the rpm --nodeps and it works fine. 3. The page above has links to pages that first give you an order to install kde2 and allow you to run kde2 in parallel with kde even sharing apps between the two. 4. It has the same bug in K(menu) panel Edit Menu as kde1 on 7.1 *sigh* otherwise it seems to be headed in the right direction. The interface is very smooth. Graphics and colors are more "alive" all in all it's going to be a really nice product. At 09:15 PM 6/19/00, you wrote: I found a site and downloaded a 'kdeall' rpm which had the full meal deal in it... everything but qt, which was a separate download.. http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc/index.html HTH, Monte On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Greg DeYoung wrote: I downloaded the new KDE beta2 (1.91 Kleopatra) RPMS from the KDE website. They did not have Mandrake RPMS in the FTP but they had Red Hat. I assumed they they should be the same. First when I tried to instal the QT 2.1.1.3 it said that I was missing the libqt.so.1 for some dependancies and qt-egcs-10x for some others. I found a QT 2.1.1.1 and it did install from the RPM. I then tried to install the KDE RPMS in this order kdesupport kdelibs kdebase then the rest. I couldn't even get past the kdesupport without dependancy conflicts with the kdebase 1.1.2-61 that is in 7.1. Does anyone know how to install KDE beta 2(1.91) on a Mandrake 7.1? Thanks, Greg DeYoung __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [expert] ipmasq question (dont you get sick of these?)
try this From the command line ftp xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1999 Where xxx etc is the ip number or domain name of the site you are trying to get into. At 07:27 PM 6/19/00, you wrote: ok...i am running ipmasq, and i have it set up and working like i want it. tonight i had a special situation arise that was out of my control, and i need to know how to resolve it ASAP. i need to connect to an ftp site that is running on a nonstandard port, port 1999 any clues as to how i can get onto the site and get farther than issuing the port command? it works fine (ftp port command) on sites that run on the standard port (21) thanks much tony
Re: [expert] Supermount configuration
Guillaume Rousse wrote: Seems i've lost supermount capacity in some manner, and i can't retrieve it. I've the last kernel 2.2.16-4, with supermount as a module, and a correct fstab, but no way. I can load the module manually, using lsmod, so it's not a conf.modules problem either. So, what is wrong ? Had a similar problem when I installed kernel-2.2.16-4 Since my cdrw is an ide I also use ide-scsi module. I had to add the lines in my config.modules file: First line at top. alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi and at the bottom line. post-install supermount modprobe scsi_hostadapter After changing the lines in my fstab and setting the links correctly things returned back to normal.
Re: [expert] Apache + CGI = Error?
Wow. Thanks so much. I know I can't imagine Microsoft saying, "Oh, ASP isn't working on your IIS? Well, I wrote IIS, so send me your error log and we'll see what we can do." Wow. Thanks. But anyway, you said that the /perl directory isn't really CGI. So, I reinstituted my /cgi-bin directory. If you want the httpd.conf file, just ask. In the error log, when I try to POST to www.mathjmendl.org/cgi-bin/visitorbook.pl, it says, "Premature end of script headers." If you need/want that script as well, just ask. Again, thanks so much for your reply! Sincerely, Asheesh Laroia. On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Serving static HTTP content works great. However, perl scripts were always a huge problem. Since I didn't modify anything before trying Perl, I was wondering what steps some of you have taken to allow a Mandrake Air server to dish out dynamic (perl-based) content. Your server looks okay. Have a look at http://AsheeshEnterprises.com/perl/test.pl This is the default test script, all seems okay. However, the scripts installed in the /perl directory are made to run perl as a cgi and not mod_perl. mod_perl is very strict on what it runs. Your visitorbook.pl churns an internal error, I would need your error_log to diagnose it. You can mail me personnaly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you would like me to check it out. You can trust me, my name is in http://AsheeshEnterprises.com/index.shtml ;-) Jean-Michel Dault Corporate Developer MandrakeSoft (Montreal)
Re: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User - How To?
su userid -c \"command line\" -s shell path See the start case in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs for an example. On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: Sevatio Octavio wrote: Typically if I wanted to run something automatically at bootup, I would put a statement into /etc/rc.d/rc.local . Those apps will run under the ownership of 'root'. How do you get rc.local to run apps under a specific user? Seve I would simply put it into the appropriate user's .bashrc (or whatever shell you are talking about) Or, if it is to be run as, say, nobody, I would put a call to setuid() in the source of the program and recompile. Sheesh, maybe there is a simpler way... Anyone? Civileme
Re: [expert] rc.local Starting Applications Under Specific User -
su userid -c \"command line\" -s shell path
See the start case in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs for an example.
And a script might look like (WebXXX is made up) ...
--- start cut
#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for WebXXX
#
PROG=webxxx
PROGDIR=/home/httpd/webxxx/bin
WSUSER=erl
if [ $WSUSER = `whoami` ] ; then
STARTCMD="$PROGDIR/$PROG restart"
STOPCMD="$PROGDIR/$PROG stop"
else
STARTCMD="su - $WSUSER -c \"$PROGDIR/$PROG restart\""
STOPCMD="su - $WSUSER -c \"$PROGDIR/$PROG stop\""
fi
if [ ! -x $PROGDIR/$PROG ] ; then
echo "WebXXX can not execute: $PROGDIR/$PROG, aborting ..."
exit
fi
if [ "$1" = "start" ] ; then
echo "WebXXX starting ..."
cd $PROGDIR
/bin/sh -c "$STARTCMD"
elif [ "$1" = "stop" ] ; then
echo "WebXXX shutting down ..."
cd $PROGDIR
/bin/sh -c "$STOPCMD"
else
echo "usage $0 {start | stop}"
fi
--- end cut
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote:
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
Typically if I wanted to run something automatically at bootup, I would put a
statement into /etc/rc.d/rc.local . Those apps will
run under the ownership of 'root'. How do you get rc.local to run apps under a
specific user?
Seve
I would simply put it into the appropriate user's .bashrc (or
whatever shell you are talking about)
Or, if it is to be run as, say, nobody, I would put a call to
setuid() in the source of the program and recompile.
Sheesh, maybe there is a simpler way... Anyone?
Civileme
Thanks... Dan.
