[expert] Switching from user A to user B -- My thanks to all!

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

My thanks to everyone who responded to my query. You have all been very
helpful. It's wonderful knowing that there are always people on the list
who a) know so much more than we newbies know and b) are willing to go
out of their way to help us.

Thanks again.

Benjamin
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Re: [expert] Re: [Announce] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Beta 2 available

[Mike & Tracy Holt]

Ron Stodden wrote:
> 
> Kadjo N'DOUA wrote:
> >
> > MandrakeSoft is happy to announce the second Beta of its next release
> > (Ulysses). Among many new features, you will discover KDE 2 (1.94),
> > MenuDrake, Kernel 2.2.17 & 2.4 ...
> >
> > Read the announcement:
> > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en//72beta2.php3
> >
> > download it:
> > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72betaftp.php3
> > --
> >
> > Kadjo N'Doua
> > Web Content Editor
> > http://www.linux-mandrake.com
> 
> Kadjo,
> 
> Well, what a mess!
> 
> These ISO images predate the 7.2beta tree by about two weeks.  The
> 7.2beta tree is sill being updated with about 100 replacement files
> per day, with the update-in-progress flag still up.  When that
> disappears, that defines the frozen beta 2, I would have thought. We
> are all patiently waiting.
> 
> So, which is the definitive 7.2 beta 2?
> 
> There can only be ONE, surely!
> 
> Also, the link to the mirrors on your announcement page does not
> work, so what is the point of making any announcement if you make it
> impossible to determine the download tree?
> 
> The ISO download paragrah is repeated, the second time with different
> servers!
> 
> Not very good for a Web Content Editor :-).  Take a moment to test
> your work locally as a user before uploading it, eh?   Then test it
> again.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Ron. [AU]
> 


Hey Ron, 
Just wanted to let you know that, as of this morning (9/15/00) at about
6am, I was able to grab the 7.2 beta 2 iso off of one of listed mirrors
and I'm using it right now.  Works great!  Much improvment over the
first beta.

Have fun!
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[expert] Remote Administration Confusion

[Eric Mings]

I recently posted the my problem below to the newbie list. However, I 
think it may be more likely I'll find an answer on this list. I 
wouldn't consider myself a newbie, though I am not an expert either. 
Probably in the vast waste land in between where I know just enough 
to be dangerous ;-)

I have been trying to get a handle on how to remotely administer a 
linuxbox I would like to have colocated at my ISP. I have read howtos 
and minihowtos until my head is spinning. God what I wouldn't give 
for a simple Timbuktu like approach to this problem in linux. So far 
I have gotten ssh2 setup on both machines (which are current on my 
LAN and I'll call "local" and "remote"). I can use ssh to login from 
local to remote as root, which I would think is the first step. 
However, now the confusion begins. Ideally I would like to display a 
kde desktop on my local machine that reflects the remote machine. I 
have heard numerous times about people supposably doing this such 
that it works just like sitting in front of the remote machine (apart 
from bandwith delay in response). Both my machines are running 
mandrake 7. I will be using a cable modem to connect from the local 
to the remote machine at the isp. Could someone please tell me the 
concrete simple steps to get this working?

I also gather that it might be useful (and much faster) to use NFS to 
mount the remote machine disk on my local machine, but I also get the 
impression that security in that approach is a big concern.  Thoughts 
on this approach would also be appreciated!

And yes, I already know about webmin as a partial solution, but it 
doesn't get close to what I would need to be able to do to make this 
practical for me.

Thanks much for any advice!
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Re: [expert] Problems with my Intel Pro/100 under Mandrake 7.1

[JASON SNYDER]

I am running a two year old EEPro100 card in one of my Linux boxes running mdk
7.1 and operation has been flawless.  Two years ago I had a problem where I
would get transceiver lockup errors clogging stout full of messages
intermittently, but that went away a couple of upgrades ago (around the time
that I switched from RedHat 6.0 to Mandrake 6.1.)  About 10 months to a year ago
I stumbled across a documented bug in the EEPro100 driver where on the newer
managed cards the driver would screw up and set the MAC address to all 0's.
That was supposed to have been fixed long before the 2.2.15 kernel came out, but
I would have to sift through a some stuff to make sure.

Ernesto Javier Gutierrez Hidalgo wrote:

> I installed Mandrake 7.1 on a system already runnig NT 4.0.  Apparently the
> network card is found (HardDrake shows it as found and eepro100.o exists
> under /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net).  However, ifconfig eth0
> gives back an error regarding device not found.  Also, insmod
> /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/* generates an error saying that modules were
> compiled for kernel 2.2.15-4mdk and running kernel was supposed to be 2.2.14
> (and indeed uname -r returns 2.2.14).  But /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk ?
>
>   Has any of you have found a similar problem ? Also, previously to
> installing Mandrake Linux I installed SuSe in the same system and the card
> was working OK ...
>
>   Anyway, Any suggestions guys ?  Thanks,
>
> UnProZ
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Re: [expert] Gateway question

[Greg Stewart]

Since you plan to use pmfirewall, you're half way there.

There is no need for any additional hardware... the two NICs you have
connect the two computers, and a modem in one dials the ISP, correct?

This is enough.

When you install pmfirwall, your external interface will be ppp0 (your
modem) and the internal interface (say 'yes' to masquerading) will be eth0.

It's reall very simple, just answer the questions carefully... you can
always run the install script again.

let me know if you have any problems.

--Greg


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> Hi have a home network setup, two computers each with a single NIC.
> A crossover cable.
> I can ping and telnet between them fine.
> I want to share a dialup connection on one machine.
>
> Can I use the single NIC with the same IP as the gateway, or do I define
> another IP for the same card and call this the gateway?
> Is it easier just to install another NIC in this machine and give it an IP
> number?  Can this be eth1?  If so,  on a dialup connection, does the
second NIC
> plug into anything? I plan to use pmfirewall to share connections and do
> IPchains, etc.
>
> The other machine will eventually do duel boot with linux and win98, so I
plan
> to install SAMBA also.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> Thanks
> Ron
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[expert] Adding "GNOME" to gdm in MDK7.2beta2

[TK Kim]

OK, this is a first for me.
I installed 7.2 beta2 and it would go into KDE(1.93) automatically
without going thru a login manager.  However when I log out, it would
drop out to what seems like kdm(kde login manager?).  From there, I
could choose whichever installed desktop environment and go in with
the selected environment.
Anyways, I upgrade KDE to the lastest(1.94) and then I went into
Gnome(1.2) and installed the lastest version of Helix Gnome.
During the installation, it asked to change to gdm(Gnome login
manager?).  so I did and restart.

Here lies the problem, in the new gnome login manager titled 'Helix Gnome',
under 'session', Gnome is NOT listed?  huh?

so my questions:

1. How do I add 'Gnome' to the current(gdm) login manager and where is
it?

2. why does it go right into KDE without logging in and how do I fix it?



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[expert] Re: [Announce] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Beta 2 available

[Ron Stodden]

Kadjo N'DOUA wrote:
> 
> MandrakeSoft is happy to announce the second Beta of its next release
> (Ulysses). Among many new features, you will discover KDE 2 (1.94),
> MenuDrake, Kernel 2.2.17 & 2.4 ...
> 
> Read the announcement:
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en//72beta2.php3
> 
> download it:
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72betaftp.php3
> --
> 
> Kadjo N'Doua
> Web Content Editor
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com

Kadjo,

Well, what a mess!

These ISO images predate the 7.2beta tree by about two weeks.  The
7.2beta tree is sill being updated with about 100 replacement files
per day, with the update-in-progress flag still up.  When that
disappears, that defines the frozen beta 2, I would have thought. We
are all patiently waiting.

So, which is the definitive 7.2 beta 2?

There can only be ONE, surely!

Also, the link to the mirrors on your announcement page does not
work, so what is the point of making any announcement if you make it
impossible to determine the download tree?

The ISO download paragrah is repeated, the second time with different
servers!

Not very good for a Web Content Editor :-).  Take a moment to test
your work locally as a user before uploading it, eh?   Then test it
again.

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[expert] Gateway question

[Ron Marriage]

Hi have a home network setup, two computers each with a single NIC.
A crossover cable.
I can ping and telnet between them fine.
I want to share a dialup connection on one machine.

Can I use the single NIC with the same IP as the gateway, or do I define
another IP for the same card and call this the gateway?
Is it easier just to install another NIC in this machine and give it an IP
number?  Can this be eth1?  If so,  on a dialup connection, does the second NIC
plug into anything? I plan to use pmfirewall to share connections and do
IPchains, etc.

The other machine will eventually do duel boot with linux and win98, so I plan
to install SAMBA also.

Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Ron
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Re: [expert] IPchanins authentication

[Michael R. Batchelor]

>> I have a friend who wants to use a Mandrake box with ipchains to act
>> as
>> a gateway. I told him this was pretty easy to set up, until he asked
>> me
>> how to require authentication against a W98 user name. This is where
>> I
>> got lost.

[...]
>unless I'm misunderstanding you, get a old  486/66 DX and goto
>coyote.linux.com..


I need a little more than "just" a gateway. Let's say I have the trusty
old 486 set up, and three computers. On eah of the three computers are 4
users named husband, wife, child1 and child2. What I want is for users
husband, wife and child1 to get out the gateway on any of the three
nodes, but I want child2 to be denied access regardless of the node.

The problem with the samba solution is that samba authenticates for
access to it's own smb shares, not for ipchains. 

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Re: [expert] installing special files?

[Asheesh Laroia]

Repeat the procedure I said, and if there's an error message, tell me it
word-for-word.  Verbatim.  Exactly what was there?

It's probably the lack of some package, but it could be something else.

Try it again, if it's not too much.  Tell me *exactly* what happens.

Best of luck.

-- Asheesh.

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> In a message dated 15-Sep-00 21:50:35 Central Daylight Time, 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> << Hope this helps:
>  
>  become root
>  Do the following, character for character:
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  cd /root
>  cd tmp
>  mkdir downloads
>  cd downloads
>  tar zxvf pr0g.tar.gz
>  ls
>  
>  
>  
>  ./configure
>  make
>  make install
>  
>  You're done!
>  
>  Tell me what happens.
>  
>  Best of luck
>  
>  -- Ashesh Laroia.
>  
>  PS: What program is it? >>
> well i just found out my fan works contrary to the toshiba linux article, but 
> none the less i cant get make to work with other programs and i tried the 
> suggested method but it tells me cannot find source file indir
> ?
> am i missing something
> 
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Re: [expert] installing special files?

[Mwinold]

In a message dated 15-Sep-00 21:50:35 Central Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< Hope this helps:
 
 become root
 Do the following, character for character:
 
 
 
 
 cd /root
 cd tmp
 mkdir downloads
 cd downloads
 tar zxvf pr0g.tar.gz
 ls
 
 
 
 ./configure
 make
 make install
 
 You're done!
 
 Tell me what happens.
 
 Best of luck
 
 -- Ashesh Laroia.
 
 PS: What program is it? >>
well i just found out my fan works contrary to the toshiba linux article, but 
none the less i cant get make to work with other programs and i tried the 
suggested method but it tells me cannot find source file indir
?
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Re: [expert] installing special files?

[Asheesh Laroia]

Hope this helps:

become root
Do the following, character for character:




cd /root
cd tmp
mkdir downloads
cd downloads
tar zxvf pr0g.tar.gz
ls



./configure
make
make install

You're done!

Tell me what happens.

Best of luck

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[expert] Console equivalent of VNC?

[Asheesh Laroia]

Hello everyone.

I wanted to know if there was a way I could access a tty device (say,
tty6, where I run PINE) from an xterm.  Just as I can access different Xs
through VNC, is there an equivalent?  I've tried screen, but I have no
idea how to use it.

Thanks in advance.  I eagerly await a response.

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[expert] Problems with my Intel Pro/100 under Mandrake 7.1

[Ernesto Javier Gutierrez Hidalgo]

I installed Mandrake 7.1 on a system already runnig NT 4.0.  Apparently the
network card is found (HardDrake shows it as found and eepro100.o exists
under /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net).  However, ifconfig eth0
gives back an error regarding device not found.  Also, insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net/* generates an error saying that modules were
compiled for kernel 2.2.15-4mdk and running kernel was supposed to be 2.2.14
(and indeed uname -r returns 2.2.14).  But /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk ?

  Has any of you have found a similar problem ? Also, previously to
installing Mandrake Linux I installed SuSe in the same system and the card
was working OK ... 

  Anyway, Any suggestions guys ?  Thanks,

UnProZ  






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Re: [expert] IPchanins authentication

[Tom Massey]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Michael R. Batchelor wrote:

> I have a friend who wants to use a Mandrake box with ipchains to act as
> a gateway. I told him this was pretty easy to set up, until he asked me
> how to require authentication against a W98 user name. This is where I
> got lost.
> 
> Any ideas?

I expect you'll want to look at Samba in this
situation.  Samba can make a Linux box look like NT
for a number of purposes - you'll almost certainly need to use it in an
environment with Win98 machines talking to a Linux box. Not sure how to
solve your particular problem sorry, but this might be a start.

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Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[C Nielsen]

If you logon using the terminal mode then when you quit KDE or GNOME and are at
the prompt, type "exit" and then logon with the other user name. If you use the
GUI logon the quit KDE or GNOME and the chose another user from the list of
choices.
 The nice about Linux is you seldom have to reboot if at all...hope this helps.

CN



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> 
> Dear friends:
> 
> Is it possible to switch from user A to user B without rebooting? That
> is, just by logging out of KDE (or Gnome) as user A and relogging as
> user B and back to user A? Or do you have to reboot each time you change
> user on a single Linux machine?
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> Benjamin
> -- 
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> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
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> 
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[expert] IPchanins authentication

[Michael R. Batchelor]

I have a friend who wants to use a Mandrake box with ipchains to act as
a gateway. I told him this was pretty easy to set up, until he asked me
how to require authentication against a W98 user name. This is where I
got lost.

I know that one could force the box to disallow packets from a specific
computer, but how can you set up something similar to the windows
challenge/response? I suppose one could hack up a bunch of stuff and use
an internal Kerboros server, but that's a lot of work?

I would really like to see this office not decide on an NT solution, but
it's got to be done with W98 clients.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
MB
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[expert] reiserfs info needed

[Vincent Danen]

Just out of curiousity, what's the file size limit with ext2?  I think
it's 2GB but I need to know for sure.  Does anyone know?

Also, is there a limit to file sizes under ReiserFS?  Or, rather, a
logical file size limit?  I know with XFS it's 9 million TB and the
filesystem itself can be a maximum of 18 million TB.  Does anyone know
what these limits are for reiserfs?

Reason I ask is I'm writing an article on reiserfs and want to make
sure I accurate information here.  Thanks!

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Re: [expert] enrcyption

[Tyler Longren]

I believe this can be done through a combination of PHP and GNUPG or PGP.

Not for sure though.

Tyler Longren

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To: "Expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 11:15 AM
Subject: [expert] enrcyption


> I have a web page I created I want to use sendmail but I want to encrypt
the
> email for security. Can this be done if so how.
>
> thanks
> robert
>
>
>






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[expert] Re: Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Mage and friends:

You are RIGHT! I knew about the "exit" option but I used only to get
back from "root" to "user". I didn't know that you could type "exit" as
USER and that that would bring up the login prompt. I tried it and it
works just as you suggested. What a relief!

All my thanks to everyone who answered my question. You've all been
great!

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[expert] Fwd: Network - Print server Question

[Larry Blodgett]

>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:46:01 -0500
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Larry Blodgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Network - Print server Question
>Cc:
>Bcc:
>X-Attachments:
>
>I have a small local network with 4 machines netmask = 255.255.255.0
>
>PC 192.168.7.1
>PC 192.168.7.3
>PC 192.168.7.77
>Mac192.168.7.2
>
>And an HP JetDirect EX Plus (J2591A) print server module connected 
>to a DeskWriter printer.
>
>I cannot telnet to to the JetDirect so I can configure it.  It is 
>set by default to configure using RARP/BOOTP so it comes up with an 
>address of 192.0.0.192 and dev  gateway of 192.0.0.192.  I can't 
>ping or telnet to the 192.0.0.192 address.
>
>How do I get into this box to configure it
>I am not running DHCP and would prefer not to worry with it.

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Re: [expert] I hang up my linux box

[Sarang Lakare]

try Ctrl-Alt-F1.. you might be able to go to a terminal.. generally the
kernel is alive.. only the X dies.

it could be the problem of the window manager u are using.. try using
somethign different!

-sarang



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Re: [expert] Call to Mandrake: KOffice package for PC and SPARC

[Sarang Lakare]

Hi,

unfortunately KOffice won't work on windoze... its better to stick with
StarOffice.. I have bright hopes from the next version (6.0) which will be
GPLed and will be out on Oct 13th.

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Re: [expert] enrcyption

[lselinger]

I have a web page I created I want to use sendmail but I want to encrypt
the
email for security. Can this be done if so how.

thanks
robert

Hrmmm ... ok I think I need a little clarification . what does the
email have to do with your web page?  For encrypting *known* email the best
suggestion I have is either pgp (not pgp2) or gpg.  This is a key signing
techniqe for encrypting/signing and varification of email etc.  It works on
a two key system.  In order for it to actually work however you need the
recipients key (as this is the key used for encryption) When the message is
sent and encrypted using the recipients key, they use their password to
_unlock_ or decrypt the message.  I'd break down the logistics but I'm not
sure if this is what you are looking to do.

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[expert] warning no access to tty

[Timothy S Hare]

Hello,
After failing to be able to login as I describe below from my previous
message, I was able to login using csh instead of sh but I received the
following error message:

warning no access to tty (inappropriate ioctl for device) thus no job
control in this shell

I want to fix it so I can return to using bash and get rid of this error.
Any help would be appreciated.

Best Regards,
Timothy


Old Message:
I cannot login anymore. I just upgraded a few packages. In particular I
upgraded initscripts to something like 5.27-20mdk. and a few others that
shouldn't effect anything (ie., rpm 3.0.5 rpm-devel, rpm-python). When I
rebooted I found that after typing my name and password I was returned to
the login prompt after being acknowledged as logging in.
 
I entered the system through 'I' interactive bootup and couldn't find any
problems. I created a new user but to the same effect.
 
The log records PAM_pwd[556]:(login) session opened for user my_name by
LOGIN (uid=0)
 
immediately followed by PAM_pwdb[556]:(login) session closed for user
my_name

I receive essentially the same result through gui logins.

I received a comment that it has something to do with /etc/profile.d

My system is Mandrake 7.1 on a Shuttle MVP3 motherboard, 196megs ram
The packages I have installed recently include
initscripts 5.27-20-mdk
fileutils-4.0-13mdk
rusers-0.17-2mdk
procps-2.0.7-6mdk
man-pages-1.31-1mdk
ipchains-1.3.9-8mdk
cpio-2.4.2-18mdk
dev86-0.15.0-3mdk
devfsd-1.3.10-3mdk
firestarter-0.4.1-1mdk running firestarter after install caused a core
dump.

 Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Timothy
 
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[expert] enrcyption

[rharvey]

I have a web page I created I want to use sendmail but I want to encrypt the
email for security. Can this be done if so how.

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Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[Ken Thompson]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote:

> > Dear Alan:
>
> Thanks so much for such a prompt response.
>
> The problem is that when I log out of KDE, I am faced with my $ user
> prompt. My options are a) to su to root or to type startx. In other
> words, how do I bring up the text "login" menu so I can type the user
> name and password for user B. That's what I can't figure out. Would
> appreciate your help. Or can this switch be done from WITHIN KDE itself?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Benjamin

Benjamin,
it sounds like you are starting in runlevel 3 (text mode).
If you will edit your /etc/inittab file from this:
id:3:initdefault:
to this:
id:5:initdefault:
You will have the graphical log in screen both when starting and when logging 
out.

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Re: [expert] RPM problem

[clorden]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I tryed to compile the XFree86 4.0.1 SRPM from cooker but as soon as the
> > "build" phase starts, I get the error: "FG: no job control".
> > 
> Ah!  This happened to me as well, but I got around it.

Ah, well.

> First, did you upgrade gcc?  Perhaps to 2.1.3-16mdk?  Compile it
> yourself? (I did...I first built the gcc rpms from src rpms).  Upon
> installing the newly created gcc rpms, I started getting that problem

No, I did not install any new gcc. I use the version supplied with
MDK7.1 (gcc-2.95.2-7mdk ).

> As it turned out, it appeared that the actual app called "gcc" did not
> exist any longer and the rpm --rebuild command was looking for
> gcc.  What you DO have is gcc-color (or something like that).  What
> I did was create a symlink from gcc-color to gcc.  The problem vanished.

Well, both gcc (symlink to gcccolor) and gcccolor are present. If gcc was not
present sure I could not get anything compiled... But this problem seems to
affect only certain RPMS and not others.

I think it could be a RPM issue, since I do not get the same error trying to
compile directly (not using rpm, but "simulating" it with the .spec file).

Any idea?!?!

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Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[Alan Shoemaker]

[snip] 
> The problem is that when I log out of KDE, I am faced with my $ user
> prompt. My options are a) to su to root or to type startx. In other
> words, how do I bring up the text "login" menu so I can type the user
> name and password for user B. That's what I can't figure out. Would
> appreciate your help. Or can this switch be done from WITHIN KDE itself?
[snip]

Benjaminoops! I assumed that you were booting into level
5.  All you need to do at the $ prompt is type exit.  You will
then be allowed to login again (as whoever) and after that can
execute startx as the new user.

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Re: [expert] UMP midi plugin for Netscape

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:09:58AM -0500, Wayne Stout wrote:
> I was having the same problem until I created $HOME/.netscape/plugins
> and copied ump.so into that directory. One of those things that you
> shouldn't have to do, but that got it working for me.
> 
> As always, YMMV.

Thanks. It seems to already be there:

ccurley@charlesc $ ll plugins
total 862
drwxr-xr-x2 ccurley  ccurley  1024 Sep 13 18:08 .
drwx--6 ccurley  ccurley  1024 Sep 15 08:50 ..
-rwxr-xr-x1 ccurley  ccurley435701 Jan 12  1999 ump.so



> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
> Charles Curley wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone gotten UMP (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/), a midi
> > plugin
> > for Netscape, to play on Mandrake Linux 6.1? I have installed the
> > library
> > and timidity. I can go to the test page
> > (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html), and click on
> > the
> > "click here" link. The first time I did this, a file downloaded, then
> > Netscape went to the next page, but I heard nothing. Subsequently,
> > Netscape simply goes to the next page, and again I heard nothing.
> > 
> > The mime types appear to be set up correctly. Here is the relevant part
> > of my ~/.mime.types:
> > 
> > #mime types added by Netscape Helper
> > type=audio/midi  \
> > desc="UMP plugin version 1.10"  \
> > exts="mid,midi"
> > #mime types added by Netscape Helper
> > type=audio/x-midi  \
> > desc="audio/x-midi"  \
> > exts="mid,midi"
> > 
> > I did check on another web site
> > (http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/david/TUheadsd.html), and got no joy
> > there.
> 

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[expert] login problem

[Timothy S Hare]

Hello,
I cannot login anymore. I just upgraded a few packages. In particular I
upgraded initscripts to something like 5.27-20mdk. and a few others that
shouldn't effect anything (ie., rpm 3.0.5 rpm-devel, rpm-python). When I
rebooted I found that after typing my name and password I was returned to
the login prompt after being acknowledged as logging in.
 
I entered the system through 'I' interactive bootup and couldn't find any
problems. I created a new user but to the same effect.
 
The log records PAM_pwd[556]:(login) session opened for user my_name by
LOGIN (uid=0)
 
immediately followed by PAM_pwdb[556]:(login) session closed for user
my_name

I receive essentially the same result through gui logins.

I received a comment that it has something to do with /etc/profile.d

My system is Mandrake 7.1 on a Shuttle MVP3 motherboard, 196megs ram
The packages I have installed recently include
initscripts 5.27-20-mdk
fileutils-4.0-13mdk
rusers-0.17-2mdk
procps-2.0.7-6mdk
man-pages-1.31-1mdk
ipchains-1.3.9-8mdk
cpio-2.4.2-18mdk
dev86-0.15.0-3mdk
devfsd-1.3.10-3mdk
firestarter-0.4.1-1mdk running firestarter after install caused a core
dump.

 Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Timothy
 
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Re: [expert] UMP midi plugin for Netscape

[John Rye]

Charles Curley wrote:
> 
> Has anyone gotten UMP (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/), a midi plugin
> for Netscape, to play on Mandrake Linux 6.1? I have installed the library
> and timidity. I can go to the test page
> (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html), and click on the
> "click here" link. The first time I did this, a file downloaded, then
> Netscape went to the next page, but I heard nothing. Subsequently,
> Netscape simply goes to the next page, and again I heard nothing.
> 
> The mime types appear to be set up correctly. Here is the relevant part
> of my ~/.mime.types:
> 
> #mime types added by Netscape Helper
> type=audio/midi  \
> desc="UMP plugin version 1.10"  \
> exts="mid,midi"
> #mime types added by Netscape Helper
> type=audio/x-midi  \
> desc="audio/x-midi"  \
> exts="mid,midi"
> 
> I did check on another web site
> (http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/david/TUheadsd.html), and got no joy
> there.
> 
> My sound system works well enough to play CDs. I have KDE running, and the
> KDE desktop mixer appears to work. I have "playmidi-2.4-8mdk" installed,
> and it sucessfully plays the midi file from Netscape's cache (except that
> it doesn't sound like led zeppelin even to my rock-avoiding ears :-):
> 
> ccurley@charlesc $ find . -iname "*.mid" -exec ls -l {} \;
> -rw---1 ccurley  ccurley 45820 Sep 15 07:41 
>./cache/05/cache39C226E516325E8.mid
> -rw---1 ccurley  ccurley  4316 Sep 13 06:35 
>./cache/19/cache39BF74996340313.mid
> -rw---1 ccurley  ccurley 51620 Sep 15 07:50 
>./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
> ccurley@charlesc $ file ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
> ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid: Standard MIDI data (format 1) using 17 tracks
> ccurley@charlesc $ playmidi ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
> Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details please see the file COPYING.
> 
> ccurley@charlesc $ pwd
> /home/ccurley/.netscape
> ccurley@charlesc $
> 
> Thank you
> 

Charles

I stuffed around with that plugin for several days before giving it
away - just couldn't get to do anything sensible at all.

I eventualy got Plugger 3.2 from http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html

This one seems to all that I require in terms of Net plugin stuff.

Cheers

John



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Re: [expert] UMP midi plugin for Netscape

[Wayne Stout]

I was having the same problem until I created $HOME/.netscape/plugins
and copied ump.so into that directory. One of those things that you
shouldn't have to do, but that got it working for me.

As always, YMMV.

Wayne


Charles Curley wrote:
> 
> Has anyone gotten UMP (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/), a midi
> plugin
> for Netscape, to play on Mandrake Linux 6.1? I have installed the
> library
> and timidity. I can go to the test page
> (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html), and click on
> the
> "click here" link. The first time I did this, a file downloaded, then
> Netscape went to the next page, but I heard nothing. Subsequently,
> Netscape simply goes to the next page, and again I heard nothing.
> 
> The mime types appear to be set up correctly. Here is the relevant part
> of my ~/.mime.types:
> 
> #mime types added by Netscape Helper
> type=audio/midi  \
> desc="UMP plugin version 1.10"  \
> exts="mid,midi"
> #mime types added by Netscape Helper
> type=audio/x-midi  \
> desc="audio/x-midi"  \
> exts="mid,midi"
> 
> I did check on another web site
> (http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/david/TUheadsd.html), and got no joy
> there.



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Re: [expert] installing special files?

[Mwinold]

In a message dated 14-Sep-00 20:18:06 Central Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< Hope this helps:
 
 become root
 Do the following, character for character:
 
 
 
 
 cd /root
 cd tmp
 mkdir downloads
 cd downloads
 tar zxvf pr0g.tar.gz
 ls
 
 
 
 ./configure
 make
 make install
 
 You're done!
 
 Tell me what happens. >>
no configure file for this particular file!
although i tried that for a different program and it said no source file in 
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RE: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[Don Livingston]

Benjamin,

When you get your $ prompt, type 'exit' [enter].  The current user will be
logged off, and the login prompt will reappear.

Normally if you logout of KDE using the logout option on Kpanel, you are
offered the ability to sign in again under a different user name, assuming
of course that other users have already been created.  How are you logging
out of KDE currently?

Takzhe sovetuju prochest' knigu "The Linux Users Guide", kotoraja novichkam
ob"jasnjaet pervye shagi pol'zy Unix-a.  Ee mozhno dostat na
www.linuxdoc.org.

Vsego nailuchsego, Don Livingston.

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Benjamin Sher
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:44 AM
> To: Expert
> Subject: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?
>
> Is it possible to switch from user A to user B without rebooting? That
> is, just by logging out of KDE (or Gnome) as user A and relogging as
> user B and back to user A? Or do you have to reboot each time you change
> user on a single Linux machine?




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[expert] UMP midi plugin for Netscape

[Charles Curley]

Has anyone gotten UMP (http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/), a midi plugin
for Netscape, to play on Mandrake Linux 6.1? I have installed the library
and timidity. I can go to the test page
(http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff/midiSamplePage.html), and click on the
"click here" link. The first time I did this, a file downloaded, then
Netscape went to the next page, but I heard nothing. Subsequently,
Netscape simply goes to the next page, and again I heard nothing.

The mime types appear to be set up correctly. Here is the relevant part
of my ~/.mime.types:

#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=audio/midi  \
desc="UMP plugin version 1.10"  \
exts="mid,midi" 
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=audio/x-midi  \
desc="audio/x-midi"  \
exts="mid,midi" 


I did check on another web site
(http://www.bluemountain.com/eng3/david/TUheadsd.html), and got no joy
there.

My sound system works well enough to play CDs. I have KDE running, and the
KDE desktop mixer appears to work. I have "playmidi-2.4-8mdk" installed,
and it sucessfully plays the midi file from Netscape's cache (except that
it doesn't sound like led zeppelin even to my rock-avoiding ears :-):


ccurley@charlesc $ find . -iname "*.mid" -exec ls -l {} \;
-rw---1 ccurley  ccurley 45820 Sep 15 07:41 
./cache/05/cache39C226E516325E8.mid
-rw---1 ccurley  ccurley  4316 Sep 13 06:35 
./cache/19/cache39BF74996340313.mid
-rw---1 ccurley  ccurley 51620 Sep 15 07:50 
./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
ccurley@charlesc $ file ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid: Standard MIDI data (format 1) using 17 tracks
ccurley@charlesc $ playmidi ./cache/14/cache39C2293400B3B7D.mid
Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details please see the file COPYING.
 
ccurley@charlesc $ pwd
/home/ccurley/.netscape
ccurley@charlesc $

Thank you


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Re: [expert] Configuring fstab

[A V Flinsch]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> my cdrom is configured in the fstab file like this:
> 
> /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  auto
> ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0
> 
> the question is that when I try to mount a hfs cd, or a udf cd the kfm
> don't do it ok. I have to open a su console and mount it by hand,
> specifically the file system.
> 

from the mount man page 

   The  type  iso9660  is the default.  If no -t option is given, or if
   the auto type  is  specified,  the  superblock  is  probed for  the
   filesystem type (minix, ext, ext2, xiafs, iso9660, romfs ,ufs, ntfs,
   qnx4, bfs are supported).  If this probe fails, mount  will try  to
   read  the  file  /etc/filesystems,  or,  if  that  does  not exist,
   /proc/filesystems.  All of the filesystem types listed there will be
   tried, except for those that are labeled "nodev" (e.g., devpts, proc
   and nfs).  

In other words, the auto option in mount does not understand hfs or udf
(which is why it works if you specify it manually)

> There's a way to do it with the kde, or an automatic way to detect
> correctly the file system?

Try adding the filesystems in question to /etc/filesystems. That might work.


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Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[Andrew George]

Hi Benjamin,
You've actually got a couple of options here
All this assumes your not booting to runlevel 1 of course (ie your getting
a login prompt each time you boot)

Firstly, at a $ prompt...you can type 'exit' to logout and get another
login prompt
Secondly, if your still running the same number of consoles as standard,
press ALT+F2 to go to the second console and log into that as the other
user (ALT+F1 to return). Bear in mind that you've only one X server so you
cant startx on the second console while your running x on the first.

Oh for the sake of completeness
CTRL+ALT+Fx brings up console x while youre in X (Can't go to the console
you started x on)
ALT+F8 takes you to the x window if your running x and in another console

Hope this helps

Andrew

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote:

> Dear Alan:
> 
> Thanks so much for such a prompt response.
> 
> The problem is that when I log out of KDE, I am faced with my $ user
> prompt. My options are a) to su to root or to type startx. In other
> words, how do I bring up the text "login" menu so I can type the user
> name and password for user B. That's what I can't figure out. Would
> appreciate your help. Or can this switch be done from WITHIN KDE itself?
> 
> Thanks so much.
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> 
> 




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RE: [expert] TV-Card stoped working

[Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS]

I know that when I upgraded from 7.0-2 to 7.1 my Hapaugge (sp) card 
stopped working too. It seemed that modprobe wouldn't load the needed 
modules. I changed those lines to insmod and all was fine. This seems 
strange though as I modprobe other things and they work. Just these few 
won't for some odd reason.

Brian  Klar

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To: Expert Mandrake List
Subject: [expert] TV-Card stoped working


My Zoltrix tv-max tv capturer suddenly stoped working after I updated to
mandrake 7.1. I copy all my old configuration of conf.modules but it
seems that it's not able to change the chanel. I know that it almost
works becuase after a reset from Win98 it keeps the channel, but no way
to change it. I updated xawtv and even the kernel.
Some suggestion?, some good page about configurating video4linux?
someone with the Zoltrix?

Help my penguin wants to watch TV!

Thanks. Berni


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[expert] Configuring fstab

[Leopold Palomo]

Hi,

my cdrom is configured in the fstab file like this:

/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  auto
ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0

the question is that when I try to mount a hfs cd, or a udf cd the kfm
don't do it ok. I have to open a su console and mount it by hand,
specifically the file system.

There's a way to do it with the kde, or an automatic way to detect
correctly the file system?

Best regards,

Leo

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RE: [expert] Configuring sendmail

[RNDr. Peter FREIMANN]

Yes, I often use such redirections - you can indeed have a line like this in
your /etc/aliases:

:  , ...

you can even have the same local user name on both the left and right side
..

btw. don't forget to run "newaliases" after the modification ...

p.f.

RNDr. Peter FREIMANN, ICQ# 1181033
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> > I would like to configure an mail account of a system to do and especial
> > thing.
> > The question is that I would like to have an mail account that when
> > receive one mail it forward it to two addresses.
> > I know that I can do something similar with aliases, but it works with
> > mail addresses of another domain?
> >




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[expert] Configuring fstab

[Leopold Palomo]

Hi,

my cdrom is configured in the fstab file like this:

/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  auto
ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev0 0

the question is that when I try to mount a hfs cd, or a udf cd the kfm
don't do it ok. I have to open a su console and mount it by hand,
specifically the file system.

There's a way to do it with the kde, or an automatic way to detect
correctly the file system?

Best regards,

Leo

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[expert] Call to Mandrake: KOffice package for PC and SPARC

[Marco Fioretti]

Hello,

Does anybody know where and/or when one could
find compiled, stand-alone binaries for the
whole KOffice suite?

By this I mean one or more binaries that one
could just copy on any winXX/Linux/sparc machine
and run off the box, without any prerequisite.

The reason for this request is that, in mine and
many other companies, the upper management is trying
to impose a complete switch from (in my case) Solaris
to MS-only platforms (does anybody remember Civileme?).

Unfortunately, lots of people still believe that (apparently)
lower TCO costs and GUI-only environments are all it takes
to make *any* company successful...

What's even more desolating is that one of the reasons to
downgrade every engineer to the MS level is "to speed internal
communications", i.e. to email everybody a 10 words
meeting call written in ... Powerpoint (it *DID* happen...)

An easy to install complete office suite which is:

even more free than StarOffice
full featured, but
less demanding than Office 2000, and
much more stable

could be a very useful weapon in such a fight (I'm thinking to
presentation slides with a footer like "made with the free,
cross-platform  KOffice suite")

<>

If such stand-alone packages don't exist yet, is there any
Linux distributor aiming at the desktop market willing to
build them? It would also provide tons of testers, and make
a good point whenever one is trying to say to his company
"let's not waste money like this, we have Linux"
<>

DISCLAIMER: as is painfully obvious from the body of this
message, all the opinions and requests above are only mine,
and do NOT reflect the positions of my employer.


Thanks for your time,

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Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[Greg Stewart]

I don't know if you've seen this yet, but to clarify (just in case), Type
the word 'exit' at that $ prompt as Mage explained below.

From: "Mage Grimau"
> Text/console: exit brings you to the login prompt. Log in.
> X: logout brings you to the login screen. Log in.
>

For a graphical login, if for some odd reason you would want this, in
terminal window, type:   linuxconf
got to Boot Options,
and select Graphical Login.

--Greg


The problem is that when I log out of KDE, I am faced with my $ user
prompt. My options are a) to su to root or to type startx. In other
words, how do I bring up the text "login" menu so I can type the user
name and password for user B. That's what I can't figure out. Would
appreciate your help. Or can this switch be done from WITHIN KDE itself?

Thanks so much.

Benjamin


 
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[expert] owbership of index.html

[Patrick Erler]

hello MANDRAKE!

something is permanently changing the ownership of /home/httpd/html/index.html
back to root.root. but what program is it??

regards,

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Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Alan:

Thanks so much for such a prompt response.

The problem is that when I log out of KDE, I am faced with my $ user
prompt. My options are a) to su to root or to type startx. In other
words, how do I bring up the text "login" menu so I can type the user
name and password for user B. That's what I can't figure out. Would
appreciate your help. Or can this switch be done from WITHIN KDE itself?

Thanks so much.

Benjamin


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Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[Mage Grimau]

Benjamin Sher wrote:
> 
> Dear friends:
> 
> Is it possible to switch from user A to user B without rebooting? That
> is, just by logging out of KDE (or Gnome) as user A and relogging as
> user B and back to user A? Or do you have to reboot each time you change
> user on a single Linux machine?
> 

Text/console: exit brings you to the login prompt. Log in.
X: logout brings you to the login screen. Log in.

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[expert] I hang up my linux box

[Leopold Palomo]

> Hi,
>
> ok, I know that I'm saying a sacrilege sentence, but it's true.
> I have a linux box witn LM 7.1 and a kernel customized for using the udf
> druvers and the ide-scsi option.
> Otherwise, I have a more or less normal hardware.
> A scsi card Future domain, a ide hd and cdrom and a scsi yamaha cdr.
> Also a s3Virge/gx2 vga card from data expert (I'm not very happy with
> it).
>
> Well, the question is that from some days ago, working normally my X
> crash and my system too. So,
> what is the normal procedure to know what is working bad?
>
> The log message doesn't say any about it..
>
> Thank's a lot .
>
> Leo
>
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[expert] Configuring sendmail

[Leopold Palomo]

> Hi,
>
> I would like to configure an mail account of a system to do and especial
> thing.
> The question is that I would like to have an mail account that when
> receive one mail it forward it to two addresses.
> I know that I can do something similar with aliases, but it works with
> mail addresses of another domain?
>
> Best regards, Leo
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Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[Alan Shoemaker]

Benjamin Sher wrote:
[snip]
> Is it possible to switch from user A to user B without rebooting? That
> is, just by logging out of KDE (or Gnome) as user A and relogging as
> user B and back to user A? Or do you have to reboot each time you change
> user on a single Linux machine?
[snip]

Benjaminyes, do it exactly as you stated.  Rebooting is
unnecessary.

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RE: [expert] Eating Crow with mandrake 7.2 beta and sound issues

[Vic]

Looked at man group and it did not tell me what to type to\
add my username to group audio

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Ken Wahl wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Vic wrote:
> 
> > Well I don't know how to make myself a member of 
> > the audio group, kuser is broken so I just open the audio
> > ports all wide ope=n its easier and its all I know for now
> 
> Look at man group.
>  
> > > >= Original Message From BillK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
> > > >Thats not the best solution.  My 7.1 system came with an audio group -
> > > >just add the users to that group and they should be able to have
> > > >access.  As an aside, where does kde keep its mime types - I am
> 
> Per user mimetypes are located in /home/logname/.kde/share/mimelnk
> Global KDE mimetypes are in /usr/share/mimelnk
> 
> 
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> 
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Re: [expert] installing special files?

[Andrew George]

err in the tar.gz file...was there a file called "configure" ?
where exactly did you get the file? I might have a peek to see what I can
make of it
AG
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> well its not in a package it was stored in a tar.gz file there was a makefile 
> and i tried to use that as well but i cant make heads or tales of the damn 
> thing and the man file for make was no help
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > ok well i finally got make installed it was missing, so here is a transcript
> > of what i tried
> > 
> --CUT--SNIP-PART---> 
> 
> > but as you can see fan is a c file wich i think needs to be compiled
> > and the creater said to use make install to install this file, any 
> suggestions
> > 
> >  
> Which software package is it? and where can it be found if its not
> proprietory? Maybe one of us have already installed it. Was there
> a "Makefile" file in any of its directories?
> 
> Jim
> 
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Re: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln

[Richard Donkin]

Matthew Micene wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> 
> > the XFS port listed in the pmfirewall.conf file
> >
> 
> I am still trying to track down the actual UDP port it listens on but as
> far as I can tell, netstat -nlp shows port 1029 open but doesn't list
> which process has it open.  lsof doesn't show xfs using UDP, but both show
> the unix socket in use by xfs.  The xfs man pages talk about TCP port
> assignment and I can't find the source for the -udpPort 0 workaround I am
> playing with.  That all said :) when xfs is started with -udpPort 0, udp
> port 1029 stops listening. *shrug*

The default XFS setup on mandrake is 'unix/:-1' which means it uses unix
domain sockets rather than TCP/UDP sockets.  So there's no chance of
someone not on the machine talking to xfs.  If it has been changed on
your machine, the XF86Config file is one place to look for the current
setting.

> 
> 
> > yesterday, and added to it all the ports for known trojans (linux,
> windows > and otherwise), one by freakin' one of them, and now have a list
> of ipchains > rules a mile and a half long!
> 
> Nah, paranoid is having a listing that denies all traffic from the IANA
> reserved blocks properly listed and/or bitmasked so no one can use the
> reserved addresses (and not just the RFC 1918 ones either :) to spoof
> pakcets at my firewalls :)  as well as the known trojan port list, a black
> hole list for known bad addresses *grin*

The simplest setting is to deny everything, then only permit things that
you want to use.  As for denying RFC1918 addresses (10.x/8, 172.16.x/12
adn 192.168.x/16), there is little point to doing this - no ISP carries
routes for these addresses, so any return packets from such addresses
will be lost.  I think the only point of doing this would be to guard
against blind attacks where the return packets are not necessary to the
attack, but it's unlikely these would come from such addresses so it's
better to guard against them in other ways.

It's best to have a separate firewall if you have a spare PC and
ethernet cards - that way you can install a stripped down firewall such
as those based on LRP (www.linuxrouter.org) or the new Smoothwall,
www.smoothwall.org, which looks pretty good.  Mandrake is not a very
good choice for firewalls unless you have a spare Pentium or better;
it's quite hard to get hold of the 486 Mandrake CD.

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[expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

Is it possible to switch from user A to user B without rebooting? That
is, just by logging out of KDE (or Gnome) as user A and relogging as
user B and back to user A? Or do you have to reboot each time you change
user on a single Linux machine?

Thank you so much.

Benjamin
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RE: [expert] Eating Crow with mandrake 7.2 beta and sound issues

[Vic]

Well I don't know how to make myself a member of 
the audio group, kuser is broken so I just open the audio
ports all wide ope=n its easier and its all I know for now

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> 
> the user is a mamber of the sudio group already.  Any other ideas?
> 
> 
> Abe
> 
> 
> >= Original Message From BillK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
> >Thats not the best solution.  My 7.1 system came with an audio group -
> >just add the users to that group and they should be able to have
> >access.  As an aside, where does kde keep its mime types - I am
> >experimenting with esd and find that when the daemon is running kde
> >sometimes locks up so I want to redirect the kde player (i.e., whatever
> >it uses)
> >
> >BillK
> >
> >
> >Vic wrote:
> >>
> >> At a root shell I type:
> >>
> >> chmod a+rw /dev/sndstat; chmod a+rw /dev/audio; chmod a+rw /dev/dsp
> >>
> 
> Jesus saves,
> Allah forgives, 
> Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
> 
> 
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