Re: [expert] Maximum file size

[Jean-Louis Debert]

iain wrote:
> 
> Is there a maximum file size with a samba share. When I back up a Win 2000
> server to a samba box it halts at just over 2 Gig.
> Any suggestions ??
> 
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

It depends on what file system your samba share resides. If it is
an ext2 file system (standard for linux) then yes, there is a 2GB
limit. But your samba share can reside on ANY type of filesystem
(supported by linux) so you could use another type which does not
have this restriction ... one example: UDF (file system used
on dvd-roms and magneto-opticals).

Or alternatively, you could organize your backup to be segmented 
in "slices" of less than 2GB.

 
-- 
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74 Annemasse  France
old Linux fan

Re: [expert] sendmail question

[Tom Massey]

faisal wrote:
> 
> Can i use sendmail from my normal home dialup connection to sendmail to the
> internet ?
> if yes then what about recieving mail do i need any special internet
> configuration for that ?
> i have no fix ip nor any dns entry .

Have a read through 'Mail the Unix Way' on mandrakeuser.org.
. This tells you how to use
Postfix (an alternative to Sendmail) and Fetchmail to set up the sort of
thing you want on a dial up connection. It's very easy to follow, and
pretty informative.

[expert] HDD > 33.8GB ???

[Ron Johnson, Jr.]

Hi,

http://www.linuxdocs.org/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html is a bit 
ambiguous as to whether, on the 2.2.x kernels, it *only*
works on 2.2.14, or >= 2.2.14.

And I'm refering to the generic kernel, not the mdk-patched
kernels.

Thanks in advance,
Ron
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[expert] sendmail question

[faisal]

Can i use sendmail from my normal home dialup connection to sendmail to the
internet ?
if yes then what about recieving mail do i need any special internet
configuration for that ?
i have no fix ip nor any dns entry .

[expert] Maximum file size

[iain]

Is there a maximum file size with a samba share. When I back up a Win 2000
server to a samba box it halts at just over 2 Gig.
Any suggestions ??


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[expert] ide-scsi and real scsi

[Mage Grimau]

I was using ide-scsi to use my cd burner under 7.1 just fine.
I added a real scsi (adaptec) card and HD.
Now cdrecord -scanbus just sees the real scsi and not my cd burner.
Can they work together, or do I have to remove the real scsi to use
my cd burner?

-- 
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Now you could spend the morning lying to your father quite amazed
about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed

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Re: [expert] forum.mandrakesoft.com

[Mage Grimau]

Jon wrote:
> 
> Have I missed something?  The forum seems to be down, but I haven't
> seen a thing on this list about it.  I miss it.
> 
>  -jon-

www.mandrakeforum.com

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about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed

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Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[Mage Grimau]

Stefan Srdic wrote:
> 
> You probly have your BIOS set to auto detect your hard drives specs!! What you
> want to do is enter the specific amount of sectors, cylinders and heads that
> your hard drive contains. This will correct your problem, Linux only sees as
> far as your BIOS does!!!

Nope. My BIOS sees a 1G drive. I have a 20G drive. Linux sees it 
just fine.

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about the Strange Unwashed and Happily Slightly Dazed

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Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Stefan Srdic]

frank wrote:

> oddly, most of the responses on this thread deal with lilo rather than grub,
> which is a clearly superior bootloader...to find out more about grub, type:
>
> info grub
>
> while at a command prompt (either in console mode or in a terminal emulator)
>
> if you've not got the manual on your machine, it's available online at:
>
> http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_toc.html
>
> the grub manual appears to have been written by someone who not only knew
> grub well, but knew how to effectively write a manual...it's excellent...
>
> briefly:
>
> 1. be in root
> 2. cd to /boot/grub (where the grub files are located)
> 3. (optional but advised) install grub first on a floppy:
> dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
> dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek1
> 4. after floppy trial-run, be in /boot/grub and type:
> grub (this puts you in the grub shell)
> 5. at grub prompt type:
> setup (hd0) to set in mbr
> or:
> setup (hdX,X) where X denotes hd and partition
>
> but be aware that grub uses a different and more coherent numbering system
> for hd and partitions than is generally used...in short, rtfm...
>
> frank
> ---
>
>

Thanks Frank, I set up Grub then tried it out, at first I was having boot
errors but I quickly edited the menu.lst file in /boot/grub to fix it!! While
reading the Grub info page I saw that grub can boot BZIMAGE files. Can LILO do
that as well? I could have avoided this whole mess by simply pointing LILO or
Grub to the Primary FAT32 partition which has the BZIMAGE that I use with
LINLOAD!

Anyway, now that this works I'd like to now any possible boot time arguments
that would increase the performance of my machine. Currently I boot linux
using:

linux root=/dev/hda6 ro mem=131072k auto vga=4 hda=autotune hdc=autotune
hdd=ide-scsi

Are there any boot time parameters that would allow me to load the Linux kernel
into a RAMdisk for uptimum performance?

Re: [expert] Cannot Telnet

[scrapmetaldevil]

ummm...do you have the telnet daemon enabled? and if it is, are you telnet-ing
to the port that is enable? Could also be a firewall problem. Go through linux
conf...the message below generally means the server is not running or you've
telnet-ed to the wrong port. Your info isn't very descriptive what you know is
enabled. After installation I had to go through my linuxconf and enable it. If
you are using a fire wall, make sure its not set on the port the server is set
to. I'm not much of a console user...so I can't really help in that arena.

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Dear Support,
> 
>  I cannot telnet to my system. I have a rtl100a Compex card which seems to work fine
> (because I can telnet to another system on the network). If I try to telnet to this
> system from anywhere on the lan (including this system itself) I get "CONNECTION
> CLOSED BY FOREIGN  HOST".
> 
> Please help
> SUNIL GUPTA

Re: [expert] forum.mandrakesoft.com

[Vincent Danen]

On Tue Sep 05, 2000 at 06:36:43PM -0700, Jon wrote:

> Have I missed something?  The forum seems to be down, but I haven't
> seen a thing on this list about it.  I miss it.

It's most definately not down!  there were some DNS problems that may
still be lingering, but it's definately up.  Also, you may want to try
http://mandrakeforum.com instead.

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Re: [expert] forum.mandrakesoft.com

[Charles A Edwards]

- Original Message - 
From: "Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 9:36 PM
Subject: [expert] forum.mandrakesoft.com


> Have I missed something?  The forum seems to be down, but I haven't
> seen a thing on this list about it.  I miss it.
> 
>  -jon-
> 
  
   The forum is fine. www.mandrakeforum.com
The links that are sent in the email announce are bad.

   Charles

 

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Ron Johnson, Jr.]

frank wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. put to word:
> 
> > If lilo is running fine for me, why change?
> 
> i've not advised you to change...my comments went to the poster asking about
> grub and getting answers about lilo...if lilo meets your needs, use it...if
> those needs expand to areas where lilo becomes not efficient, then you ought
> look for a tool which better handles the job...

'kay.  I thought you were on a grub-and-no-other crusade.

Ron
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[expert] Downloaded 7.2 still can not connect to Mediaone in chicago.

[Jeff Hoffman]

Looking for specific example of the network setup screens I can copy
from to make my installation work.  Anyone have some screen capture of
there setups?

Harddrake still sees the card corectly 3C905B-tx but the network set up
says it is a 3c590?  DHCPCD still fails???






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Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

[Benjamin Reed]

> I' ve heard that kernel puts some default priviledges to all
> files at the NTFS partition at startup. How can I change
> them? Is that the right solution?

If you value your NTFS partition at all, I would *strongly* suggest NOT
enabling write on it.  It's still marked "very experimental" for a reason.
If you use the write support regularly, it's not just possible, it's fairly
certain it will screw something up eventually...

At least, this has been my experience.  Your best bet is to have a fat32
partition in addition to your NT partition for exchanging stuff back and
forth.

--
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[expert] forum.mandrakesoft.com

[Jon]

Have I missed something?  The forum seems to be down, but I haven't
seen a thing on this list about it.  I miss it.

 -jon-

[expert] RE: [newbie] Dual Athlon Processors

[Jason Pierce]

There was an article on SlashDot about the Athlon vs. Coppermine.  One of
the comments mentioned the Tyan dual that is supposedly shipping later this
month.  Don't remember what article it was, but a search of "athlon
coppermine" brings it up as first.

Jason Pierce

*** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***

On 09|05|2000| at 04|15 PM| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

R>As much as I love AMD - for the time being dual systems are Intel based.
R>
R>I'd be interested in where you heard (or read) that Tyan was shipping a
dual
R>AMD this month?
R>
R>High traffic LAN server &/OR high-end gaming system 
R>
R>There is a difference in approaches to building a LAN server versus
building
R>a gaming machine.   IMHO, combining these two desires into a single
machine
R>would not be a good idea.  But ... I've seen stranger.
R>
R>/LT
R>
R>-Original Message-
R>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Pierce
R>Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 2:21 PM
R>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R>Subject: [newbie] Dual Athlon Processors
R>
R>
R>Hello all,  I'm thinking about building a new system.  Does anyone know
of
R>a(n inexpensive?) mobo that can house 2 Athlon Thunderbirds that works
with
R>linux?  I have heard that Tyan(www.tyan.com) is supposed to be shipping
one
R>sometime this month, but could find no refference to it on the Tyan site.
R>There are no dual boards listed in the AMD recommended list.  I'm
thinking
R>about using the system as a high traffic LAN server, and/or high-end
gaming
R>system.  For the gaming part,  what would be a good sund card and speaker
R>system?  Are there any sound cards compatable with linux that have
multiple
R>sound in ports?  I would like to beable to attach a cd changer, record
R>player, tape deck, etc.  Some of the Dolby speaker systems are pretty
nice,
R>anyone have any experience with them?  I plan on using a Voodoo 5(or
latest
R>Voodoo at time of building) for video.  I would also like to use multiple
R>PCI UDMA/100 controller cards.  Is it possible to use more than one PCI
R>hard drive controller card?
R>
R>Thanks, Jason Pierce

Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[Stefan Srdic]

You probly have your BIOS set to auto detect your hard drives specs!! What you
want to do is enter the specific amount of sectors, cylinders and heads that
your hard drive contains. This will correct your problem, Linux only sees as
far as your BIOS does!!!

Re: [expert] Helix-Gnome Again

[marler]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote:

> Well, I apparently got my helix-Gnome set up properly with one
> exception.  I can't for the life of me find where to allow multiple
> destops.  The Gnome setup program that I have crashes at certain points
> and don't know if that's where it is necessary to do this.

Assuming you're using Sawfish, the default Helix Gnome wm, just middle
click on the desktop, choose "workspaces", then "insert workspace". By the
way, to what "Gnome setup program" are you referring?  Is the control
center crashing?

/b

-- 

Barry Marler
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory
University of Georgia
Rm 158, Riverbend Research Center
110 Riverbend Road
Athens, GA 30602
(706)583-0168
(706)583-0160(fax)

Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[Mark Weaver]

BillK wrote:
> 
> Sarang, you maybe confusing the fact that lilo has always been able to
> work on large disk drives, but only if all required files are installed
> under cylinder 1024 (i.e., /boot/*).  The "clearly superior" grub as
> someone put it is both harder to use/modify than lilo, and documentation
> is less readable too (had to ask for help in how to reinstall after
> using lilo), its only advantages seem to be overcoming the 1024 limit
> and a prettier menu!
> 
> BillK
> 

Not enough of a difference to get me to change using something that I
know already works REAL good and doesn't complain about anything. Just
keeps on doing what it's supposed to do.  :)
-- 
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Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[BillK]

Sarang, you maybe confusing the fact that lilo has always been able to
work on large disk drives, but only if all required files are installed
under cylinder 1024 (i.e., /boot/*).  The "clearly superior" grub as
someone put it is both harder to use/modify than lilo, and documentation
is less readable too (had to ask for help in how to reinstall after
using lilo), its only advantages seem to be overcoming the 1024 limit
and a prettier menu!

BillK

Mark Weaver wrote:
> 
> Sarang Lakare wrote:
> >
> > > didn't "read" the partitioning documentation for "large" drives before you
> > > installed.  :)  If you had read that you would have seen that LILO can't
> > > see past cylinder 1024 which is why you kernel is having a problem.
> >
> > The LILO /Grub that come with 7.1 do not have the 1024 barrier :))
> >
> > -sarang
> 
> Darn it! someone forgot to tell LILO on my machine. I'm running Mandrake
> 7.1.
> --
> Mark
> 
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> ** <_||_> in the making of this |
> **  =\/=  message...| Registered Linux user #182496
> 

[expert] Helix-Gnome Again

[Harry Flaxman]

Well, I apparently got my helix-Gnome set up properly with one
exception.  I can't for the life of me find where to allow multiple
destops.  The Gnome setup program that I have crashes at certain points
and don't know if that's where it is necessary to do this.

Can someone offer me some feedback, please.

Harry

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Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[Mark Weaver]

Sarang Lakare wrote:
> 
> > didn't "read" the partitioning documentation for "large" drives before you
> > installed.  :)  If you had read that you would have seen that LILO can't
> > see past cylinder 1024 which is why you kernel is having a problem.
> 
> The LILO /Grub that come with 7.1 do not have the 1024 barrier :))
> 
> -sarang

Darn it! someone forgot to tell LILO on my machine. I'm running Mandrake
7.1.
-- 
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Re: [expert] installation

[Ken Thompson]

Probably not, but it would be interesting to find out.

On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> Yes, I realize that, but that is a DrakX text install, not an old-style text
> install.  There is a difference.  The DrakX text install was included simply
> to satisfy people who do not like graphics installs, but it still uses
> DrakX.  I would be willing to bet that an old-style text install would not
> work, either, but who knows?
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Ken Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 6:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [expert] installation
> 
> 
> : On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> : > Does anyone know whether Mandrake ever created a txt_boot.img file for
> : > Mandrake 7.1?
> :
> : Pressing F1 at the first screen (using either boot disk or booting from
> : CDROM) will bring up a text screen giving you several install choices
> : including a text insall. --
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RE: [expert] autofs and direct maps

[Lou Baccari]

Brian,

 Thanks for the reply,  it looks like you are the only one whos answered.
Do you know if there is any documentation on the net to support your
statement of 'linux doesn't support direct maps'?

Thanks again for the help...

Lou


-Original Message-
From: Schroeder, Brian
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 8:44 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [expert] autofs and direct maps


Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that autofs under
linux doesn't support direct maps.

Brian.

-Original Message-
From: Lou Baccari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:50 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [expert] autofs and direct maps



I'm trying to get autofs to map to the name of a direct map
'/var/spool/mail',  can the following files,
auto.master and autro.direct work?  These files are used successfully with
Compaq's Tru64 Unix.

Thanks,

Lou.

/etc/auto.master:
-

# mount-point   mapname mount-options
/-  /etc/auto.direct-rw,soft,intr
/corsair/etc/auto.corsair   -rw,soft,intr


/etc/auto.direct:
-

# key   mount-options   remote-location
/var/spool/mail quabbin:/usr/spool/mail

Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[Sarang Lakare]

> didn't "read" the partitioning documentation for "large" drives before you
> installed.  :)  If you had read that you would have seen that LILO can't
> see past cylinder 1024 which is why you kernel is having a problem.

The LILO /Grub that come with 7.1 do not have the 1024 barrier :))

-sarang

[expert] crc error on 7.1 cdrom.img install

[bascule]

hi, i posted the follwing two messages to 'newbie' but got no reply, i'm
hoping for a suggestion here as i'm stumped:
...
Subject: 


i just (took for ever actually) downloaded the two isos for 7.1, the
md5sums check out for both, after burning using xcdroast and verifying
the burnt image to be the same as the downloaded iso and double checking
the md5sum of the iso to be sure, there is still a discrepency between
the actual md5sum of the cdrom.img and the one quoted, this probably
explains whay installing from a floppy made from this image falls over,
but i can't see how this can be unless mandrake made an iso with a
faulty floppy image in it.

any ideas, suggestions?

the version file in the root of the burnt cdrom reads 'Linux-Mandrake
Helium 2517'
...

i just mounted the downloaded iso as a filesystem and examined the
floppy images from within that, bypassing the need to burn a cd, the
md5sum for cdrom.img in /images/ still does not match. any ideas please,
i visited the mandrake website but there is no mention of this

.

anyone got an idea that might not involve downloading again? am i
missing something obvious?

bascule

[expert] Perl question

[Cecil Watson]

A few weeks ago I upgrade PERL to 5.005.  Upon installing Webmin I got the
following error:

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en",
LC_ALL = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Webmin did install and run ok.  But I'd like to correct this.  I checked the
man page and didn't find anything on changing this, it may very well be in
there.  But I think I ventured into the twilight zone some yesterday, can
know the way out?  Thanks in advance,

cesman

[expert] hard lock with kernel 2.4-test7

[alphers]

Install of mandrake 7.1 on an ibm netfinity 8500R 4-proc Xeon 550.
2 pci eepro ethernet
1 olympic chipset ibm token ring
2 disks on adaptec aic 7890 using ai7xxx.o
not running X
2GB of ram
Install goes off fine.  I have to limit memory to under a gig for linux to 
recognize the disks on the adaptec card but other than that it runs great with 
the stock kernel.  When I compile kernel 2.4-test7(also happened with test6 and 
2.3.99-pre9) I can run for about 10 or 15 minutes and then get a hard lock.  no 
keyboard or mouse.  does not respond to ctl-alt-del.  hitting reset reboots the 
machine fine.  I have tried stripping down the kernel to just bare bones but got 
the same results.  
If anybody has come accross a similar problem or knows of a fix please let me 
know.  
If you need additional hardware descriptions please let me know.
thanks
Sam.

Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

[stephen boulet]

Configure your NFS partition via Webmin. It makes it much easier; you can set the 
permissions to the file there (read only, rw, etc.). Also, you can limit who sees the 
volume.

One gotcha is that you normally can't mount a NFS volume as root. But using webmin on 
the computer with the volume, you can disable this option.

-- Stephen

On Tue, 05 September 2000, Charles Curley wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:25:47AM +0300, Paschalis Pagonidis wrote:
> > 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as root. My Mandrake
> >version is 7.0 (it doesn't support "Write" priviledges to NTFS), but I
> >compiled the new kernel 2.2.16 which supports it. But the problem
> >remains!!! I' ve heard that kernel puts some default priviledges to
> >all files at the NTFS partition at startup. How can I change them? Is
> >that the right solution?
> 
> Possibly, all you need to do is edit /etc/fstab.
> 
> That said, I am skeptical that you can write to an NTFS volume, either
> safely or at all. NTFS is an undocumented file system, and changes have
> been made in the layout of data and metadata in the file system as NTFS
> has evolved. The most recent change is from NT 4 to W2K, and that is a
> major change.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
>   -- C^2
> 
> No windows were crashed in the making of this email.
> 
> Looking for fine software and/or web pages?
> http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[frank]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. put to word:

> If lilo is running fine for me, why change?

i've not advised you to change...my comments went to the poster asking about 
grub and getting answers about lilo...if lilo meets your needs, use it...if 
those needs expand to areas where lilo becomes not efficient, then you ought 
look for a tool which better handles the job...

frank
---

Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

[Charles Curley]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:12:17PM +0200, Pascal Grossé wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:25:47AM +0300, Paschalis Pagonidis wrote:
> > > 
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as root. My Mandrake
> > >version is 7.0 (it doesn't support "Write" priviledges to NTFS), but I
> > >compiled the new kernel 2.2.16 which supports it. But the problem
> > >remains!!! I' ve heard that kernel puts some default priviledges to
> > >all files at the NTFS partition at startup. How can I change them? Is
> > >that the right solution?
> > 
> > Possibly, all you need to do is edit /etc/fstab.
> > 
> > That said, I am skeptical that you can write to an NTFS volume, either
> > safely or at all. NTFS is an undocumented file system, and changes have
> > been made in the layout of data and metadata in the file system as NTFS
> > has evolved. The most recent change is from NT 4 to W2K, and that is a
> > major change.
> > 
> > 
> 
> If i remember well, even in the latest kernels, the NTFS module is for
> read only. So a hack in /etc/fstab will not change that. I read somewhere
> (cannot remember the exact url) that the NTFS driver is far too flacky to
> allow writing without loss of data. The principal cause of this is a lack
> of maintainer for this driver. Someone interested ? :-) In fact, i don't
> even know the status of the module in the 2.4.testX, but the same issue
> must arise here too...
> 
> Pascal Grosse 
> 

The lack of a maintainer is one thing, the lack of reliable information
about NTFS is another, and may explain the first.

My experience with NTFS is this: for two and a half years until about a
year ago I worked for Microsoft as a contractor, to write documentation
for the SDK. I was to expand on existing documentation and write new docs
for the features new to W2K. I signed an NDA, etc., etc. My experience as
a contractor to Microsoft, with alleged access to internal documentation,
is that there is no documentation for NTFS. None. The only way to know
what NTFS does is to read the source. The source is convoluted and
confusing. It is rarely commented, and where it is commented, the comments
are often wrong.

In short, no-one, not even the microserfs who allegedly maintain the
code, know what NTFS actually does.

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Re: [expert] PCI Serial port card

[Sarang Lakare]

The solution should be simple.. you just need to assign com3 (ttyS2) to
your serial control using set serial.. here is how u do it:

This is u're serial controller.
> Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 0).
>   Vendor id=131f. Device id=2000.
>   Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 10.
>   I/O at 0x6100 [0x6101].

> the setserial for ttyS0-ttys3 shows as follows
> /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
> /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
> /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
> /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3

now link whatever com port device to /dev/modem (should be > COM2).. so say

ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem

this will make the serial cotroller a  COM3 device..

now run,
setserial /dev/modem uart 16550A port 0x6100 irq 10

and your are done!.. now select /dev/modem as your modem in kppp and check
if it queries fine :)

this is the exact procedure for any PCI h/w modem. Kernel 2.4 will do this
automagically :)

> How to check the new serial ports and where are they located.

there are no new serial ports.. all machines have 2 serial ports.. the
others are all virtual!

let us know if this works.

-sarang

> 
> Thanks for the help
> Sridhar

[expert] Helix-Gnome Update

[Harry Flaxman]

I've just recently upgraded my Gnome to the helix version.  I've noticed
that it appears that all of the items on have on my desktop show up on
my taskbar.  Is there anyway to correct this?

Harry

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Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Ron Johnson, Jr.]

frank wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 02 May 2000, Stefan Srdic put to word:
> > I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 a while back. I have been using a boot
> > floppy and LINLOAD to boot into Linux whenever I'm not playing games in
> > Windows :-D
> >
> > Anyway, I want to install Grub on the MBR so that I can choose at boot up
> > which OS to load. I cant use LILO because of the location of the root
> > filesystem, its above the 1024th cylinder.
> >
> > I tried using DrakBoot with no success, I know that I have Grub installed
> > on my system. How do I configure and install it?
> 
> oddly, most of the responses on this thread deal with lilo rather than grub,
> which is a clearly superior bootloader...to find out more about grub, type:

If lilo is running fine for me, why change?

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RE: [expert] ps restrictions

[Carver, Paul, NLSOP]

Stephen F. Bosch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:

>Have you tried writing a shell script called "ps" and put it in your
>path? You could try setting it SUID root and have it in directory that
>appears early in your path (before the path where the real ps is located

If you're going to shoot yourself in the foot, use a small caliber weapon.

I would strongly suggest that you eradicate the concept of SUID shell script
from your mind. Particularly since the topic of discussion involves
increasing the security of a multiuser system.

I don't think it's impossible to write an SUID shell script that wouldn't
lead to a root exploit, but I don't think anyone below the level of Senior
Unix God should attempt it.

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[frank]

correction to previous brief instructions:

3. (optional but advised) install grub first on a floppy:
 dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
 dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1

(i'd left out the equal sign (=) between seek and 1)

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Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[frank]

On Tue, 02 May 2000, Stefan Srdic put to word:
> I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 a while back. I have been using a boot
> floppy and LINLOAD to boot into Linux whenever I'm not playing games in
> Windows :-D
>
> Anyway, I want to install Grub on the MBR so that I can choose at boot up
> which OS to load. I cant use LILO because of the location of the root
> filesystem, its above the 1024th cylinder.
>
> I tried using DrakBoot with no success, I know that I have Grub installed
> on my system. How do I configure and install it?

oddly, most of the responses on this thread deal with lilo rather than grub, 
which is a clearly superior bootloader...to find out more about grub, type:

info grub

while at a command prompt (either in console mode or in a terminal emulator) 

if you've not got the manual on your machine, it's available online at:

http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_toc.html

the grub manual appears to have been written by someone who not only knew 
grub well, but knew how to effectively write a manual...it's excellent...

briefly:

1. be in root
2. cd to /boot/grub (where the grub files are located)
3. (optional but advised) install grub first on a floppy:
dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek1
4. after floppy trial-run, be in /boot/grub and type:
grub (this puts you in the grub shell)
5. at grub prompt type: 
setup (hd0) to set in mbr
or:
setup (hdX,X) where X denotes hd and partition

but be aware that grub uses a different and more coherent numbering system 
for hd and partitions than is generally used...in short, rtfm...

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Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

[Pascal Grossé]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Charles Curley wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:25:47AM +0300, Paschalis Pagonidis wrote:
> > 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as root. My Mandrake
> >version is 7.0 (it doesn't support "Write" priviledges to NTFS), but I
> >compiled the new kernel 2.2.16 which supports it. But the problem
> >remains!!! I' ve heard that kernel puts some default priviledges to
> >all files at the NTFS partition at startup. How can I change them? Is
> >that the right solution?
> 
> Possibly, all you need to do is edit /etc/fstab.
> 
> That said, I am skeptical that you can write to an NTFS volume, either
> safely or at all. NTFS is an undocumented file system, and changes have
> been made in the layout of data and metadata in the file system as NTFS
> has evolved. The most recent change is from NT 4 to W2K, and that is a
> major change.
> 
> 

If i remember well, even in the latest kernels, the NTFS module is for
read only. So a hack in /etc/fstab will not change that. I read somewhere
(cannot remember the exact url) that the NTFS driver is far too flacky to
allow writing without loss of data. The principal cause of this is a lack
of maintainer for this driver. Someone interested ? :-) In fact, i don't
even know the status of the module in the 2.4.testX, but the same issue
must arise here too...

Pascal Grosse 

Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

[Charles Curley]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:25:47AM +0300, Paschalis Pagonidis wrote:
> 
>Hi,
>
>I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as root. My Mandrake
>version is 7.0 (it doesn't support "Write" priviledges to NTFS), but I
>compiled the new kernel 2.2.16 which supports it. But the problem
>remains!!! I' ve heard that kernel puts some default priviledges to
>all files at the NTFS partition at startup. How can I change them? Is
>that the right solution?

Possibly, all you need to do is edit /etc/fstab.

That said, I am skeptical that you can write to an NTFS volume, either
safely or at all. NTFS is an undocumented file system, and changes have
been made in the layout of data and metadata in the file system as NTFS
has evolved. The most recent change is from NT 4 to W2K, and that is a
major change.


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Re: [expert] installation

[pablito]

Yes, I realize that, but that is a DrakX text install, not an old-style text
install.  There is a difference.  The DrakX text install was included simply
to satisfy people who do not like graphics installs, but it still uses
DrakX.  I would be willing to bet that an old-style text install would not
work, either, but who knows?

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From: "Ken Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 6:19 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] installation


: On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote:
: > Does anyone know whether Mandrake ever created a txt_boot.img file for
: > Mandrake 7.1?
:
: Pressing F1 at the first screen (using either boot disk or booting from
: CDROM) will bring up a text screen giving you several install choices
: including a text insall. --
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Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...

[Ron Johnson, Jr.]

Mike Bowley wrote:
> 
> Deno
> 
> Did that URL actually work for you? I get a "host not found" error. I
> managed to find the top 10 tips article at :-
> 
> http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455

same thing happens to me.  Ditto for ping.  Maybe the host
is down...

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Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Ron Johnson, Jr.]

[snip]
> I the latest version of LILO, version 21.4-3, and I still cant boot
> over the 1024th cylinder. Everytime that I try to install LILO using
> KLILO I always get the same error message:
> 
> Warning:device 0x0306 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> Fatal:geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1291 > 1023)
> 
> Error: LILO died

I'm running LILO v21, and it boots just fine off a 4GB /
partition.

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RE: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

[Gabi Davar]

> A binary only driver locks you into a particular kernel 
> version as well.

In general True, but not in Nvidia's case. Their use the wrapper middle man
method to overcome this problem (and the license problem too).

The drivers ship in object file form with source code which wraps the kernel
API. Thus the user can recompile and link the wrapper with the driver
against any supported Kernel version (all of 2.2.x I believe). NVidia
provide SRPM which do the compile/install for you.

They've open sourced their 3.3.6 driver BTW.

Still I'm with you - I own an GeForce256 SDR and would love to see open
sourced drivers for it 

-Gabi

> -Original Message-
> From: Anton Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 1:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors
> 
> 
> Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Asheesh Laroia:
> 
> > What about the latest NVidia chip?  Reviews I've read
> > (www.tomshardware.com) say they're faster.
> 
> Until they stop providing binary-only drivers, no Nvidia chip 
> is going to
> see the inside of a box I build.  Linux support for both the 
> Voodoo series
> and for SB-Live! is phenominal.  The reason for this is the 
> open source
> drivers.  The original driver from Creative sucked.  Might as 
> well have not
> had sound.  Within a month of it being open sourced, quality 
> was up to the
> standards people expected of the card.
> 
> A binary only driver locks you into a particular kernel 
> version as well.
> OSS gets around this by recompiling everything everytime 
> there is a new
> kernel release (2.2 series).  But look at the poor souls who 
> had Aureal
> sound cards and depended on binary only drivers for them when 
> Aureal went
> out of business.  I'm not suggesting that NVidia is in danger 
> of bankrupcy.
> I am suggesting that you're going to be screwed if they decide to stop
> updating the drivers.
> 
> -- 
> Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541
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>  
> "First things first -- but not necessarily in that order" 
>   -- The Doctor, "Doctor Who"
> 
> 

Re: [expert] installation

[Ken Thompson]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> Does anyone know whether Mandrake ever created a txt_boot.img file for
> Mandrake 7.1?  If not, is there any way to install it if neither the DrakX
> graphics or text installation works?  I have SCSI-3 hard disks and two CD
> drives, one HP CD Writer and one CD Rom.

Pressing F1 at the first screen (using either boot disk or booting from
CDROM) will bring up a text screen giving you several install choices
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[expert] installation

[pablito]

Does anyone know whether Mandrake ever created a txt_boot.img file for
Mandrake 7.1?  If not, is there any way to install it if neither the DrakX
graphics or text installation works?  I have SCSI-3 hard disks and two CD
drives, one HP CD Writer and one CD Rom.

Mandrake 7.0 installed via txt_boot.img, but never recorded the passwords
properly.


- Original Message -
From: "Mike Bowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 2:49 AM
Subject: RE: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...


: Deno
:
: Did that URL actually work for you? I get a "host not found" error. I
: managed to find the top 10 tips article at :-
:
: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455
:
: Mike
:
: -Original Message-
: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Sent: 04 September 2000 14:15
: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Subject: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...
:
:
: 10 favorite Linux tips...
: (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455)
:
: I just read a Top 10 Tips for Linux Users Top 10 Tips for Linux Users ,
:  and this made me think...
: Everyone has its own favorite tips, any mine are certainly different from
: his:
:
:
:
: I never leave the bash, and use perl + xemacs for most
: of the work, so i do not consider "changing a shell"
: so important , and there is nothing better for printing
:  man-pages than xemacs + pretty-print.
: The rest is OK, except for the last tip, since you get this
:  out of the box for Mandrake-linux.
:
: I guess my favorite Linux tip is:
: use private/public keypair for ssh! And LM 7.1 comes with a
:  special surprise: Once you have generated such keypair with
:  "ssh-keygen", your X-session will be started as ancestor of "ssh-agent".
: So, all you have to do is just copy the public key to machines where you
: want to log-in,
:  and make sure to run "ssh-add". For the rest of the day
: you will not have to type any passwords. :-))
:
: How about YOUR favorite tips?
:
:
:

[expert] SCSI-2

[Tyler Longren]

Hi everyone,

Does anybody know where I can get a fairy cheap SCSI-2 hard drive?  Not
ultra-wide(UW), not SCA, not fibre, not LVD.  SCSI-2.  I need a new one for
one of my Mandrake boxes.  I haven't been able to find much.  Thanks!

Regards,
Tyler Longren

[expert] Problem Isntalling X server 4.01

[Maximo Monsalvo]

I'm download the binaries from  xfree86.org an execute sh xinstall.sh
Then the install x server in mandrake 6.0 and reboot linux the start hang
when load X font server .
Why ?
Is better install from RPM, how i makem to download rpm 

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Murray]

Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> 
> Oops.  My mistake.
> 
> The 1024+ patch has been in LILO since 21-3.  Weird
> 
> Well, get the new LILO and see what happens still.  It might make the
> difference
> 
> Now I'm **really** sorry about the confusion.
> 
> -- Asheesh.

I'm using the same version he is and it works - as long as I don't 
try to use KLILO to set it. KLILO gives me the same error he gets
when I try to save it. I have to do /sbin/lilo inside konsole to get
it to work right.

Re: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Asheesh Laroia:

> What about the latest NVidia chip?  Reviews I've read
> (www.tomshardware.com) say they're faster.

Until they stop providing binary-only drivers, no Nvidia chip is going to
see the inside of a box I build.  Linux support for both the Voodoo series
and for SB-Live! is phenominal.  The reason for this is the open source
drivers.  The original driver from Creative sucked.  Might as well have not
had sound.  Within a month of it being open sourced, quality was up to the
standards people expected of the card.

A binary only driver locks you into a particular kernel version as well.
OSS gets around this by recompiling everything everytime there is a new
kernel release (2.2 series).  But look at the poor souls who had Aureal
sound cards and depended on binary only drivers for them when Aureal went
out of business.  I'm not suggesting that NVidia is in danger of bankrupcy.
I am suggesting that you're going to be screwed if they decide to stop
updating the drivers.

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Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 04-Sep-00 by D. R. Evans:
> 
> No. It accepts the script based login just fine. It then changes gears to 
> PAP.

Most bizaare.

> (Maybe this whole thing has something to do with the takeover, since they 
> are now QWest.
  ^

That being the case, it may be time to shop for a new ISP.  Not only is
their tech support clueless, even when dealing with OSes they officially
support, but they are know for giving people instructions that only make
their problems worse.  They also seem to have this annoying lack of
communication internally.  The end result being conflicting instructions
from various tech support reps.

That said, I finally convinced my wife (a Windows user) last week that her
internet connectivity problems were Qwest related.  For one thing, Qwest
shares too many POPs with other networks (the local POP is shared by Juno
and Concentric).  A change to Earthlink (on an old Mindspring POP) sent her
troubles away.


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Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

[Mark Weaver]

Stefan Srdic wrote:
> 
> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> 
> > /sbin/lilo -V
> >
> > Hey, it works for me.  Check from the slashdot story what version
> > you'd
> > need to go past the magical BIOSBoundary TM.
> >
> > -- Asheesh.
> >
> > --
> > Sigh.  I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on
> > the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice.
> > (Craig E. Groeschel)
> 
> I the latest version of LILO, version 21.4-3, and I still cant boot
> over the 1024th cylinder. Everytime that I try to install LILO using
> KLILO I always get the same error message:
> 
> Warning:device 0x0306 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> Fatal:geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1291 > 1023)
> 
> Error: LILO died
> 
> I know that now using LILO is out of the question, as I said before I
> use LOADLIN and a bootdisk to boot up Linux. But, I would rather use a
> boot loader, how can I install and configure Grub on my system??

If you had a /boot partition of 15MB in size your machine would boot
just fine and LILO would be VERY happy and never complain about the
cylinder limitation.
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Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk & Mandrake

[Mark Weaver]

Todd Marshall wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately then you didn't read far enough--as I said..I have a working
> Linux installation...I'm not trying to boot from the large drive, just mount
> swap on it...
> the problem is that I cannot seem to make a workable partition table on the
> drive... everytime it rereads the partition table it says that it finds
> problems with it and that it won't work...
> therefore, I believe the problem lies elsewhere--either in the number of
> heads/cyl that the kernel "sees" or else in the partition table itself and
> how I make it...
> that's my problem...just SEEING the hard drive--lilo doesn't care if the
> hard drive even exists :-)

Oops...sorry. I misunderstood. I think you may want to check the
partition type to make sure it's the correct type. You can do that with
fdisk. That would be linuxs' fdisk. I believe you can also fix a wounded
partition table with this utility also.

but then again...it could be the hardware itself too. That wouldn't be a
big surprise. Check the Mandrake site's HCL and make sure that the drive
you're working with is on that list.
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Re: [expert] ATX Support

[Mark Weaver]

Mogens Jæger wrote:
> 
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> 
> > Greg Stewart wrote:
> > >
> > > Now why would you shudtdown in the first place? 
> > >
> > > --Greg
> > >
> > > > I have a atx system so i want my linux to shutdows automatically i know my
> > > > 98 does how to in linux ?
> > > >
> >
> > yeah...anyway. Why would you want to shut it down. It is more than able
> > to run indefinately without being rebooted or shutdown. that's the Linux
> > way!
> 
> In my simple opinion - we are some, who cares about the escalating
> power-consumption.
> My computer is not part of a network (besides my internet), so when I go to
> sleep, I don't see, why I should waste valuable energy!
> But OK - i must confess - I am an european, and we do many things different over
> here!
> Sincerely
> Mogens Jæger

Ok...that's a valid reason. And while we're at it has anyone really come
up with an amount or rate of power consumption for a normal single
processor box? I would be real interested to know what it is. 
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Re: [expert] Passing Broadcasts

[Greg Stewart]

I believe you can configure ipmasqadm to forward requests for certains
subnets to individual NICs, but I'm not exactly sure. You do want to set the
box up to act as a router, and I'm not positive the 2.2.x kernel will do
everything in that respect. I've read somethihng on the 2.4 kernel that will
allow linux to do everything a router can do an more, at kernel level, by
using the new iptables.

--Greg


> I have recently discovered a need to route Multicasts and sub net
broadcasts
> through my linux Mandrake release 6.1 computer.  I need to transport a
> broadcast from one Class C network across a Class B to the ending Class C.
> Can this be done?
>
> Also is it possible to take a Class C subnet broadcast and send it across
a
> Class B network and have machines answer?
>

 
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Re: [expert] ATX Support

[Mark Weaver]

Gavin Clark wrote:
> 
> on 9/4/00 6:07 PM, Mark Weaver  wrote:
> > Greg Stewart wrote:
> >> Now why would you shudtdown in the first place? 
> >> --Greg
> >>
> >>> I have a atx system so i want my linux to shutdows automatically i know my
> >>> 98 does how to in linux ?
> >>>
> > yeah...anyway. Why would you want to shut it down. It is more than able
> > to run indefinately without being rebooted or shutdown.
> 
> so is my power bill ;-)
> 
> Gavin

do they really take up that much juice though?
-- 
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Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

[Greg Stewart]

As far as I know there are *no* versions of linux, unix, or other OSes that
support writing to an NTFS volume that do not risk damaging the file system.
The best you can do, with any assurance that your files will still be there
in the morning, is read.  There is a utility on the market that will
*supposedly* aloow read and write on NTFS volumes from a DOS boot disk, but
it is not freeware nor shareware. And, quite expensive at that.

--Greg

- Original Message -
From: Paschalis Pagonidis

Hi,
I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as root. My Mandrake version is
7.0 (it doesn't support "Write" priviledges to NTFS), but I compiled the new
kernel 2.2.16 which supports it. But the problem remains!!! I' ve heard that
kernel puts some default priviledges to all files at the NTFS partition at
startup. How can I change them? Is that the right solution?

 
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RE: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...

[Mike Bowley]

Deno

Did that URL actually work for you? I get a "host not found" error. I
managed to find the top 10 tips article at :-

http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455

Mike

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Subject: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...


10 favorite Linux tips...
(http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455)

I just read a Top 10 Tips for Linux Users Top 10 Tips for Linux Users ,
 and this made me think... 
Everyone has its own favorite tips, any mine are certainly different from
his:  



I never leave the bash, and use perl + xemacs for most 
of the work, so i do not consider "changing a shell" 
so important , and there is nothing better for printing
 man-pages than xemacs + pretty-print. 
The rest is OK, except for the last tip, since you get this
 out of the box for Mandrake-linux.

I guess my favorite Linux tip is: 
use private/public keypair for ssh! And LM 7.1 comes with a
 special surprise: Once you have generated such keypair with
 "ssh-keygen", your X-session will be started as ancestor of "ssh-agent".
So, all you have to do is just copy the public key to machines where you
want to log-in,
 and make sure to run "ssh-add". For the rest of the day 
you will not have to type any passwords. :-)) 

How about YOUR favorite tips?

[expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...

[Deno]

10 favorite Linux tips...
(http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2904061455)

I just read a Top 10 Tips for Linux Users Top 10 Tips for Linux Users ,
 and this made me think... 
Everyone has its own favorite tips, any mine are certainly different from his:  



I never leave the bash, and use perl + xemacs for most 
of the work, so i do not consider "changing a shell" 
so important , and there is nothing better for printing
 man-pages than xemacs + pretty-print. 
The rest is OK, except for the last tip, since you get this
 out of the box for Mandrake-linux.

I guess my favorite Linux tip is: 
use private/public keypair for ssh! And LM 7.1 comes with a
 special surprise: Once you have generated such keypair with
 "ssh-keygen", your X-session will be started as ancestor of "ssh-agent".
So, all you have to do is just copy the public key to machines where you want to 
log-in,
 and make sure to run "ssh-add". For the rest of the day 
you will not have to type any passwords. :-)) 

How about YOUR favorite tips?

[expert] Passing Broadcasts

[Taylor James T NPRI]

I have recently discovered a need to route Multicasts and sub net broadcasts
through my linux Mandrake release 6.1 computer.  I need to transport a
broadcast from one Class C network across a Class B to the ending Class C.
Can this be done?

Also is it possible to take a Class C subnet broadcast and send it across a
Class B network and have machines answer?

[expert] Write to NTFS?

[Paschalis Pagonidis]

Hi,
I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as 
root. My Mandrake version is 7.0 (it doesn't support "Write" 
priviledges to NTFS), but I compiled the new kernel 2.2.16 which supports it. 
But the problem remains!!! I' ve heard that kernel puts some default priviledges 
to all files at the NTFS partition at startup. How can I change them? Is that 
the right solution?

[expert] Installation Problem with SCSI CDROM

[Juergen Wakunda]

Hello,

i tried to install Linux-Mandrake 7.1 GPL Edition, but it failed after
loading the SCSI driver (dc395x_trm, Tekram DC395U). The error message is
"i could not mount a device on /dev/scd0" (this comes up very quickly, without
any lights flashing on the CDROM). When i confirm this with "ok" (the only
choice), it says "initializing CDROM" and hangs forever.

In my system there is 1 IDE harddisk, the Tekram SCSI adapter, 1 SCSI CDROM
(scd0) and 1 SCSI CD writer (scd1).

Nearly the same problem is described here:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3 but for adaptec adapters.

I also tried the Mandrake 7.2 beta version, but it does not work either.
I think the only difference is, that it says "successfully initialized
dc395x_trm". 

Any hints?
Where can i report bugs of the beta version?

Thanks,
   Juergen