Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System
So sprach Arcana am Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:50:29PM -0400: as well as the Pentium III at a similar clock speed. The Athlon can't match Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing with floating-point and graphics) so the Duron, basically being the Athlon with a lot less L2 cache Hmm? Do you know that first hand, or did you just read it somewhere? Because I read in a mag, that especially in floating point math the Athlon beats a Pentium III. And this was so astonishing, because FP were always AMDs week side. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] realplayer woes
To ALL: Recently i have found that my realplayer is giving me segmentation faults when I try to use it. When the player opens up it is fine...then say I click the Take5 button it closes about 5 seconds later and gives me a segmentation fault. Also if I go to a web site and attempt to play a .ram file, it will only play for about 24 seconds, then close. It is the same with any .ram file that I attempt to play. Anybody have any suggestions??? Maxtor Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] RPC error
can anyone take a look @ my dmesg tell me whats wrong with my NFS ? telerror Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Telnet problem
It says "Socket operation on non-socket " when i try to run telnet deamon manually thanks Faisal Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System
Arcana wrote: As for the performance: the Duron outperforms the Celeron, so as a Celeron replacement, it absolutely boots Intel. However, don't expect it to perform as well as the Pentium III at a similar clock speed. The Athlon can't match Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing with floating-point and graphics) so the Duron, basically being the Athlon with a lot less L2 cache (64K as opposed to Athlon's 256K) won't be a PIII replacement. However, the cost of the Duron is probably a quarter of the PIII at an equivalent speed, so you could buy 4 Durons for 1 PIII :) See Tom's Hardware guide for an article that shows this is a very antiquated myth (the fact that AMD chips lack FPU power). 3D Studio Max Benchmark http://www2.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001017/athlon-13.html (Duron 800@900 beats Petium 3 1000 by 25%) Quote from Tom's Hardware: http://www2.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001017/athlon-03.html Athlon outperforms Pentium III in scientific and floating-point intensive applications. - FACT This fact is well known, but it gets easily forgotten. Athlon's FPU is way superior to the FPU of Pentium III. It is expected that even Pentium 4's FPU can't compete against Athlon's. Thus every software that requires double-precision floating-point calculations will run 40-50% faster on Athlon than on Pentium III. This difference can't even be equalized with clock speed. Since the Duron is more similar to the Athlon than the Celeron is to the P3, the Duron still does better than the P3 at most FPU-intensive applications (like the 3DSMax). Buchan -- |--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone +27824722231 email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za South Africas first satellite:http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za Control Models http://www.control.co.za |Registered Linux User #182071-| Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] kde2
I finally have a workable KDE2. I followed someones link posted on here, downloaded all the tar balls and installed. Takes forever (it seems) it compile, but in the end, KDE2 works like a champ. After about 4 different downloads of Mandrake RPM's and all failing attempts. I do have one problem though. Some of the .tar files error on /lib/lddlso.1 (something like it at least) but the tar files just say can't find -- skipping. And work. I only have one real issue (if you can even call it an issue), how is it that root has sound, but not a user? My radio card will work as user, but not KDE sound schemes. And Xmms will not work in KDE2. Thats it. 3 weeks of H*ll for the rpm's, one evening with the result of satisfaction with tar files. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote: So sprach Arcana am Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:50:29PM -0400: as well as the Pentium III at a similar clock speed. The Athlon can't match Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing with floating-point and graphics) so the Duron, basically being the Athlon with a lot less L2 cache Hmm? Do you know that first hand, or did you just read it somewhere? Because I read in a mag, that especially in floating point math the Athlon beats a Pentium III. And this was so astonishing, because FP were always AMDs week side. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ: 7328191 Same here, everything I remember reading about the Athlon the first few months it hit, said it outperformed the PIII in every aspect. My system runs a K63-400 and I love it as much as I do my operating system!! Hope to upgrade to an Athlon one day soon. -- Roland Hightower [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kd5rh.net icq# 2981212 Linux-Mandrake 7.1 Registered Linux user# 183785 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Where i can find Kde 2
Where i can download Kde 2 , is nesesary install Xfree4.0 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System
Sorry, I should have shown more explicity where the quote starts and ends See below. Buchan Milne wrote: Arcana wrote: As for the performance: the Duron outperforms the Celeron, so as a Celeron replacement, it absolutely boots Intel. However, don't expect it to perform as well as the Pentium III at a similar clock speed. The Athlon can't match Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing with floating-point and graphics) so the Duron, basically being the Athlon with a lot less L2 cache (64K as opposed to Athlon's 256K) won't be a PIII replacement. However, the cost of the Duron is probably a quarter of the PIII at an equivalent speed, so you could buy 4 Durons for 1 PIII :) See Tom's Hardware guide for an article that shows this is a very antiquated myth (the fact that AMD chips lack FPU power). 3D Studio Max Benchmark http://www2.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001017/athlon-13.html (Duron 800@900 beats Petium 3 1000 by 25%) Quote from Tom's Hardware: http://www2.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001017/athlon-03.html ==start of quote= "Athlon outperforms Pentium III in scientific and floating-point intensive applications. - FACT This fact is well known, but it gets easily forgotten. Athlon's FPU is way superior to the FPU of Pentium III. It is expected that even Pentium 4's FPU can't compete against Athlon's. Thus every software that requires double-precision floating-point calculations will run 40-50% faster on Athlon than on Pentium III. This difference can't even be equalized with clock speed." =end of quote Since the Duron is more similar to the Athlon than the Celeron is to the P3, the Duron still does better than the P3 at most FPU-intensive applications (like the 3DSMax). Buchan -- |--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone +27824722231 email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za South Africas first satellite:http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za Control Models http://www.control.co.za |Registered Linux User #182071-| Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- |--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone +27824722231 email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za South Africas first satellite:http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za Control Models http://www.control.co.za |Registered Linux User #182071-| Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ssh
If you want a basic howto guide (scp's manual can be confussing) let me know. *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Stephen Carville wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: - Thank you. That was the trick. I am now able to connect via ssh to - my system. - - Next question: How does one go about doing file transfers/ftp over - ssh? - - praedor - Use secure copy. 'man scp' -- --Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt == Living well is the only revenge. An eye for an eye only leads to lots of blind people. == Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Where i can find Kde 2
www.kde.org has kde2 for mandrake and others. -Original Message- From: Maximo Monsalvo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:38 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [expert] Where i can find Kde 2 Where i can download Kde 2 , is nesesary install Xfree4.0 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] startup in what looks like single mode
When I restart my PC, linux (Mandrake 7.1) comes up like it is in single mode. I get some kind of error stating that it is trying to mount loopback, and cant cause it is already mounted the I get the "you have been dropped to a shell, enter root password or CTRL-D for normal startup" CTRL-D just puts me into a reboot with the same stopper, same point. Entering root's pw then issuing init 5, brings the machine right up, and functions great. I have noticed upon reboot there is something stating that fsck will be forced upon next reboot What do I need to do to get the reboot back to normal?? Is there a shutdown script that needs modified or what ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ssh
Thank you, I would appreciate a basic howto for this. praedor Michael wrote: If you want a basic howto guide (scp's manual can be confussing) let me know. [...] On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Stephen Carville wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: - Thank you. That was the trick. I am now able to connect via ssh to - my system. - - Next question: How does one go about doing file transfers/ftp over - ssh? - - praedor - Use secure copy. 'man scp' Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] logrotate
Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when you type: [root@db2 mail]# rm * you get: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :) Thank you! -turgut PS: 5 million files is an estimate. - Turgut Kalfaoglu, EgeNet Internet Services http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] logrotate
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote:
Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches,
and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1)
that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories.
Let's also assume that when you type:
[root@db2 mail]# rm *
you get:
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :)
Use find to delete the files one at a time. This will take a while, but it'll
get the job done. Here is a sample find command that might do the trick for
/var/log/mail:
find /var/log/mail -ctime +3 -exec rm {} \;
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Re: [expert] logrotate
Turgut Kalfaoglu said at Ò[expert] logrotateÓ.
[2000-10-19 17:06]
Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches,
and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1)
that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories.
Let's also assume that when you type:
[root@db2 mail]# rm *
you get:
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :)
Try with 'xargs' (man xargs), it is just for that.
Also you could try also inside /var/log/ with find:
find . -exec rm -f {} \;
This second solution can be MUCH slower...
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Re: [expert] logrotate
Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when you type: [root@db2 mail]# rm * you get: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :) Thank you! -turgut PS: 5 million files is an estimate. - Divide and conquer: rm [Aa]* rm [Bb]* rm [Cc]* etc., etc. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ssh
Take a look at sftp, works great for me. There is some info on this page http://www.mcknight.de/jftpgw/howtouse-sftp.html Hope that helps Dany Allard Praedor Tempus wrote: Thank you. That was the trick. I am now able to connect via ssh to my system. Next question: How does one go about doing file transfers/ftp over ssh? praedor Asheesh Laroia wrote: I had the same problem when I upgraded my OpenSSH on my 7.0 server. Get the new pam-*.i586.rpm files from your local cooker, and install them. That fixed it for me. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] How to compile a kernel with the same options of the default one?
Hello I want to test kernel 2.4.0 but, at the same, I want to compile with the same options of a standard mandrake 7.0 kernel. Is it possible? If so, how? Many thanks Eduardo Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert]
ok so i just installed mandrake 7.2 and it rocks! im running a toshiba satellite 4100xdvd w/ 4meg trident cyber video card, etc.. i have never had this problem before but ever since moving to 7.2 i have a one centimeter gap at the bottom of the screen like the picture was adjusted to move up a little. there is no way to adjust the picture position with the laptop, is there a way to do it with linux? is this a configuration error or just an incompatibilty with Xfree864.x ? anyone? TIA Shawn Hafen Take the training wheels off your PC --==USE LINUX==-- __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] startup in what looks like single mode
Read the line above "you have been dropped to a shell, enter root password or CTRL-D for normal startup" and it will probably tell you you need to run fsck on a partition (most likely root). So run fsck (fsck can only be run on unmounted partitions, which is why you got this message) after entering your root password. When you are done, CTRL-D. Buchan Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: When I restart my PC, linux (Mandrake 7.1) comes up like it is in single mode. I get some kind of error stating that it is trying to mount loopback, and cant cause it is already mounted the I get the "you have been dropped to a shell, enter root password or CTRL-D for normal startup" CTRL-D just puts me into a reboot with the same stopper, same point. Entering root's pw then issuing init 5, brings the machine right up, and functions great. I have noticed upon reboot there is something stating that fsck will be forced upon next reboot What do I need to do to get the reboot back to normal?? Is there a shutdown script that needs modified or what ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- |--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone +27824722231 email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za South Africas first satellite:http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za Control Models http://www.control.co.za |Registered Linux User #182071-| Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] 7.1 on 486
will 7.1 not install on a 486? i'm trying to load a stripped down eMail station (no X) and booting up off floppy, i get No coprocessor found and no math emulation present. Giving up. i tried booting up in expert mode, but same result. any way around this? would an older, or diff distro work? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.1 on 486
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, George McConnell wrote: will 7.1 not install on a 486? I think 7.1 will only work on Pentium or better. Try Redhat, Debian, or SuSE if you want a current linux distro that runs on a 486. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOe8j633IcJJ+eC/CEQLP6QCgrRFRHlJOSZUv7SQYxZD6jjC28y8AoP4m VkrN3k/Orm2QHxUwyTnySkcY =fO7+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)
LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2) (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001019091828) Two days ago I asked your opinions about linux: where we are, what is good, what is bad, where should we go etc. Well, I got what I asked for: 71 answer so far. I'll try to summarize what You said so far, as a base for further discussion: First there were people who are basically asking to do exactly what we did so far: Keep all the packages up-to-date Add cool new programs to distro get rid of junk progs (WE NEED YOUR HELP HERE!) Offer our judgement on which programs should be installed, but let the user have the last word. Make instalation and usage easier Support more hardware Fix the bugs, close security holes Improve documentation Make servers easier to use too, not only Desktop machines (we just started doing this) Then there were people asking better support for particular class of devices or better integration of particular programs: Faxing USB, DVD, scanners, digital cameras other PDA-s (Psion) nettalk support wine configuration. There was some (rather light) cryticism of several points: bad ISDN support (this should be fixed in 7.2) neglecting the FAX software not uniform enough Too many programs doing the same thing Config programs do not tell you what they do. package selection during install is too much work to do. Some people wanted us to do impossible things like offering some commercial programs for free, solving DVD support problem (folks, this is political, not technical problem. We can not do much here, it is something you should do!), or basing the distro on closed-source code Others were asking for already existing features, or for features we just introduced in 7.2. I'll make sure to inform you better in the future... And finaly, there were few people who offered completely new ideas on what to do: Sell merchantising Pay someone to make some good UNICODE fonts Publish upgrade-packs instead of new distros. I hope I didn't forget anything important. If I did, please tell me and I will update this page. I intend to use it as a reference in further discussion. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness
Yesterday we got called out for problems at one of the elementary schools and was surprised to find that the server was the source of at least part of the problems. The complaint was that server resources couldn't be accessed - and turned out to be true. The server is a file printer server for win3x and win9x clients using Samba. It also handles dhcp services for the network with ISC's dhcp server. OS is Mandrake 7.1. I checked /var/log/messages and found the syslog was restarting itself every 15 seconds or so and had been for the last three days. Couldn't figure out why. There wasn't anything else in the logs that stuck me as significant to the current trouble. We started working with the complaint that the classes were unable to access resources and ended up rebooting the server (restarting various services - network, smb - didn't help). This seemed to correct access at first but then we started getting dhcp address expirations on all the clients. I found that the box refused to start the dhcp server daemon with the error that it couldn't bind to the IP address because it was already in use. There is and was nothing else on the same IP address as the server but the only way I found to resolve that problem was to put the server on a different IP address. That's a wierd one I've never seen before. Now this morning I'm starting to get more complaints that the access problem has returned to some degree. Only a few computers in the school can access one of the important programs. Though I haven't been to the server console yet today, I have telnet'd in but didn't really find much. All the important services appear to be up and there aren't any unusual messages in the logs. Syslog is not restarting like it was when we were there yesterday. I'm wondering about record locking problems or something. The main app they're having trouble with is Accelerated Reader. It was previously on a Novell server that we have replaced with this mandrake server. We saved the files from the old server and ftp'd them to the new server. The novell server had no problems sharing this data but the error appears that it may be one of access to either the data or temp directories both of which have to be write enabled for updates. At least two computers are using this program with no trouble giving the students tests and updating records but most everybody else is locked out. The error (as I recall) is something to the effect of "error opening files" which of course doesn't give much to go on. Any idea what's happening here or where I can look for clues? -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] logrotate
At 6:06 PM +0300 10/19/00, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when you type: [root@db2 mail]# rm * you get: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :) This should work. The syntax is for tcsh, but it should be similar in bash: # tcsh # foreach foo (*) # /bin/rm $foo # end -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- smalltime industries bringing you the latest in interplanetary transport technology, interactive web games, dada, art, poetry and pants. www.smalltime.com .. visit early and often -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mike Rambo wrote: the box refused to start the dhcp server daemon with the error that it couldn't bind to the IP address because it was already in use. There is and was nothing else on the same IP address as the server but the only way I found to resolve that problem was to put the server on a different IP address. That's a wierd one I've never seen before. There was probably another computer on the subnet with the same IP address. Now this morning I'm starting to get more complaints that the access problem has returned to some degree. Only a few computers in the school can access one of the important programs. Start by looking at what's changed since the system last worked. Did you accidentally break something while trying to fix things yesterday? Do all of the clients know the new address of the server? After that, start working on network troubleshooting. Make sure your underlying communications between the server and clients works. Once you are confident of this, look at software specific problems like record locking. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOe8u9n3IcJJ+eC/CEQI4OQCgyfdSZ5PZVStjA0MWc4zkUYrsGMsAnAoe eUaqhVeCzzFj/022U/mHeeCR =Zwu6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Sprint Broadband internet
"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: What Mandrake version do u use? Mdk6.0 uses "pump" for dynamicly assigned addresses. v6.1 also may use pump. Newer versions use dhcp. Pump handles dhcp *and* bootp -- if you aren't using pump you need dhcpcd. Dhcpd is the server daemon -- you need the client. -Stephen- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] logrotate
On Thu Oct 19, 2000 at 06:06:12PM +0300, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when you type: [root@db2 mail]# rm * you get: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :) Wouldn't: rm -rf /var/log/mail; mkdir /var/log/mail work? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net // Danen Consulting Serviceswww.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org // MandrakeSoft, Inc. www.linux-mandrake.com 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux uptime: 2 days 12 hours 44 minutes. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] 7.1 on 486
George McConnell wrote: will 7.1 not install on a 486? It will, but you have to download a dedicated iso file. You'll find one at www.linuxiso.org/download and at most ftp mandrake mirrors. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)
Publish upgrade-packs instead of new distros. This is probably one of the most important. What I (and I would think a lot of other users) need is an easier upgrade path. That is, one that doesn't require blowing away the previous installation and config files. Let's face it, even Micro$oft managed that (they just blow away every other operating system on one's machine in the process!) #;-D Regards, Ozz. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:18:29AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2) (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001019091828) Two days ago I asked your opinions about linux: where we are, what is good, what is bad, where should we go etc. Well, I got what I asked for: 71 answer so far. I'll try to summarize what You said so far, as a base for further discussion: Config programs do not tell you what they do. package selection during install is too much work to do. Let me add something here. Currently I believe Mandrake offers a server install and a desktop install (I haven't tried a 7.x installation, so I don't know). Fine as far as they go, but how about adding, possibly as a subset of the server install, a router/firewall install? This would add the appropriate software, e.g. IP chains tools, at install time. It would also tweak most config files, e.g. /etc/smb.config so that the computer's services were a) only visible on the lan(s) inside the firewall, b) visible to the Internet as well, depending on the user's choice at install time. This last requirment means a fair amount of sed/awk or perl work, so I don't know how feasible it is. In short, the router installation is up and running as a router, and secure, from the installation. Some people wanted us to do impossible things like offering some commercial programs for free, solving DVD support problem (folks, this is political, not technical problem. We can not do much here, it is something you should do!), or basing the distro on closed-source code Some people apparently don't know what we're doing here. :-) -- -- 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 PGP signature
Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)
This is probably one of the most important. What I (and I would think a lot of other users) need is an easier upgrade path. That is, one that doesn't require blowing away the previous installation and config files. Let's face it, even Micro$oft managed that (they just blow away every other operating system on one's machine in the process!) Uhm...that already exists doesn't it? I've upgraded from 7.0-7.1 without losing any of my setup. I've also done the upgrade from 7.1-7.2beta on one of my non-work computers. Where's the problem? Microsoft has managed to have an "upgrade" because they want to make you pay more money for an upgrade. What they provide is a new installation that looks to see if you have an old one (and thus can pay the lower price of the upgrade). But when you go from W'95-W'98 you overwrite the registry completely and they rearrange the directory structure sufficiently that you end up having to reinstall most third party applications. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)
Absolutely! Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Austin L. Denyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is probably one of the most important. What I (and I would think a lot of other users) need is an easier upgrade path. That is, one that doesn't require blowing away the previous installation and config files. Let's face it, even Micro$oft managed that (they just blow away every other operating system on one's machine in the process!) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)
Keep all the packages up-to-date Probably not a popular opinion but it makes more sense to keep most of those packages one version behind the cutting edge in your official distributions. All you need to do is look at what's going on right now with RH7.0 to see that being on the edge can spell lots of trouble. If you're going after the Windows user you can't have things crashing and being incompatible as they just aren't going to buy into the "download this and compile" model. Add cool new programs to distro Here there's a tradeoff between what the computer geek wants and what you want to support. Most computer users aren't going to understand that a lot of these programs aren't supported since you're the guys distributing them. get rid of junk progs (WE NEED YOUR HELP HERE!) You know what I think? I think you need to change the way you divide up the installation options. You're doing a really good job of letting experts select what they want installed. You do nothing to allow non-computer saavy people to do this. v7.2 seems to even drop the "normal/developer" option from the basic installation. In one way that makes sense why can't a less-than-expert person decide whether they want games on their machine or not? Make instalation and usage easier Lots of stuff that could be discussed here but it seems that with 7.2 you're moving in the right direction. Support more hardware Adding CUPS and gimp-print as install options is a significant step forward in my view. Being able to set up adsl is nice too. What's REALLY lacking in Linux right now in terms of device support is the lowly, everyone's got one, non-scsi scanner. I've had several people get completely turned off to the idea of Linux when they find their scanner isn't supported and these have been people who seem to understand the problems with winmodem and are willing to buy a new modem. Improve documentation In my view the LM manuals are among the best I've seen. From both a marketing and user satisfaction point of view, however, you probably need to make better distinctions between software you're including that other people must document and the stuff you're supplying that's truly Mandrake-supported software. For the first category, it would be nice if some web pointers were provided to get that support. Faxing USB, DVD, scanners, digital cameras gPhoto does a pretty good job for most digital cameras. I noticed that it's part of 7.2. Sure would like that scanner support though. wine configuration. This would be nice but at some point, probably soon, the Linux community is going to have to decide whether they're going to promote the creation of Franken-windows ports or true ports of popular software. not uniform enough One of the things I find "odd" about the Linux community in general is that application installation isn't standardized. The notion of paths and things like /usr/local/bin were designed into UNIX to permit a standard installation of application software such that people wouldn't have to go chasing all over the place looking for applications. The /usr/local concept also allowed installation of apps on a separate partition so that clean installations of the OS could be done (including partition reformatting) without destroying those app installations. What we see in the Linux world is that an rpm installation often dumps the app into /usr/bin or worse into its own directory that isn't part of the standard path (eg - Acrobat rpms put acroread into /usr/local/Acrobat4.0. I doubt you have control of that much but this stuff needs to be standardized if rpms are going to be the mechanisms by which we install software. Too many programs doing the same thing Certainly true and a result of the geek approach and richness of the Linux world. But the "Do we drop kedit, emacs, xemacs, vi or vim?" sorts of questions aren't ones I'd want to answer. Better up front choice ability is probably a better solution. Config programs do not tell you what they do. In attempting to answer questions in [newbie] I find that GUI tools are a double-edged sword. People want to use them because they don't know how to do simple edits in the config files. But this leaves them as ignorant of what's going on as Windows users are. Sometimes this makes them happy; sometimes this leaves them confused. It might be useful to figure out what it is that's confusing them and fix that rather than dealing with trying to educate them. One example that comes to mind is the use of those config tools to edit fstab. You can do it and it even works sometimes :-) But let's suppose a person wants to change the name of their Windows partition from win_c to primitive. They jump into their GUI tool and change the name. Then they come to [newbie] asking "I changed the name of my Windows partition from win_c to primitive. Primitive seems to work but win_c still exists but none of the files are in it any
Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System - BeOS M0andrake
Gavin Clark wrote: Speaking of BeOS, I want to check it out but their docs keep mentioning windows when installing it. This box is just mandrake. Can I get BeOS to install without MS? Thanks, Gavin Sure, thats the BEST way to do it.. Matter of fact many BeOS "tryer outers" are disgruntled since many people's hardware is left in such bad shape after M$ closes and tries to load Be that Be won't boot. Make a partition on your HD, install Be from a floppy ( you can find the info on Be's site ) and use Lilo or grub to boot. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness
Jim Holthaus wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mike Rambo wrote: the box refused to start the dhcp server daemon with the error that it couldn't bind to the IP address because it was already in use. There is and was nothing else on the same IP address as the server but the only way I found to resolve that problem was to put the server on a different IP address. That's a wierd one I've never seen before. There was probably another computer on the subnet with the same IP address. That was my first thought. We ended up getting a new hub out of the van and hooking the server up to that hub on the table which went nowhere. Rebooting the server yielded the same results - dhcpd still found the address already in use. We then put the server back into the building network and reset the IP address. After a reboot dhcpd worked fine. We pinged the original IP. Nothing was there. I don't know what this was but it definitely appeared to be something in the server itself to me. Now this morning I'm starting to get more complaints that the access problem has returned to some degree. Only a few computers in the school can access one of the important programs. Start by looking at what's changed since the system last worked. Did you accidentally break something while trying to fix things yesterday? Do all of the clients know the new address of the server? After that, start working on network troubleshooting. Make sure your underlying communications between the server and clients works. Once you are confident of this, look at software specific problems like record locking. The only thing we changed was the server IP address. It appears the last day the server really worked right was three (now four) days ago. At least that was when the complaints started and it coincided with when the log files started to show syslog restarts every 15 seconds or so. We haven't changed anything on the server for almost a month and even then the work was only to install some new software (math blaster or something) in a shared folder. I'll look into the underlying network when I next get out there - we did have a switch go down a couple of weeks ago in another building. Possibility I guess. Thanks for the response. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)
Uhm...that already exists doesn't it? I've upgraded from 7.0-7.1 without losing any of my setup. I've also done the upgrade from 7.1-7.2beta on one of my non-work computers. Where's the problem? I've not tried the latest releases, but upgrading 6.5 to 7.0 didn't work - I had to totally re-install. Microsoft has managed to have an "upgrade" because they want to make you pay more money for an upgrade. What they provide is a new installation that looks to see if you have an old one (and thus can pay the lower price of the upgrade). But when you go from W'95-W'98 you overwrite the registry completely and they rearrange the directory structure sufficiently that you end up having to reinstall most third party applications. Interesting - I've upgraded LOADS of machines from 95 to 98, and NEVER had any problems! Oh well. Regards, Ozz. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] CDWriter Question
I have installed 7.2 on a system and after install adde a CDRW ide/atapi drive. I configured the drive as described at MUO website and when I mount the drive with the command mount -t auto /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom it will only mount the cd read only. I have no clue why it is mounting in read only. I would appreciate any suggestions and possible fixes. Thank's, Dave Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Masq f/w and DHCPd on dynamic Internet address
So sprach JASON SNYDER am Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:29:46PM -0700: This seems like a cluggy way to do things. Is there a more elegant way to keep ipchains and dhcpd information up to date? I would especially Hmm, you might have a look at one of the dhclient packages that are available for the Linux Router Project (www.linuxrouter.org). This might get you started in some direction. These .lrp files are in reality nothing but tar.gz files, so there's no problem to use them on a "real" Linux like Mandrake. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] ./configure problem
I get this error everyonce in a while when trying to configure and make a program. It does not happen with every application, and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to correct it. Can anyone shed some light on this error for me: checking for KDE headers installed... configure: error: your system is not able to compile a small KDE application! Check, if you installed the KDE header files correctly. I have gotten this error with every distribution that I've ran. Currently running Mandrake7.2rc1 with everything installed that I can think of. -jon- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] logrotate
rm -Rf /var/log/news /var/log/mail mkdir -m 755 /var/log/news /var/log/mail It works, been there, done that. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Johnson, Jr. Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] logrotate Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches, and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1) that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories. Let's also assume that when you type: [root@db2 mail]# rm * you get: bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :) Thank you! -turgut PS: 5 million files is an estimate. - Divide and conquer: rm [Aa]* rm [Bb]* rm [Cc]* etc., etc. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] 7.1 on 486
I far as I know there is only a LM 7.02 iso version for i486. Burned a CD with it a couple days ago. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jean-Philippe Gois Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 7.1 on 486 George McConnell wrote: will 7.1 not install on a 486? It will, but you have to download a dedicated iso file. You'll find one at www.linuxiso.org/download and at most ftp mandrake mirrors. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] CDWriter Question
Is it a SCSI or IDE CDRW? If it is SCSI you will probably have to configure it to pretend it's ATAPI for the purposes of writing to it. I've set up a few different CDRW's so let me know what your using and maybe I can help. :) *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, David M. Kufta wrote: I have installed 7.2 on a system and after install adde a CDRW ide/atapi drive. I configured the drive as described at MUO website and when I mount the drive with the command mount -t auto /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom it will only mount the cd read only. I have no clue why it is mounting in read only. I would appreciate any suggestions and possible fixes. Thank's, Dave Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Masq f/w and DHCPd on dynamic Internet address
Download and examine the pmfirewall scripts from http://www.pointman.org. They do exactly what you need and you might be able to simply incorporate those scripts into your current firewall scripts...or, vice versa. --Greg - Original Message - From: "JASON SNYDER" [EMAIL PROTECTED] A year and some change ago I scrounged together a computer, put mdk on it, and set it up as a masquerade firewall and DHCPd server for my cable modem at home. I have a script that is run at boot (and is set up to be rerun at any time) to set up all of my ipchain rules and load kernel modules (like for ftp and such) and of course DHCPd has its config file. (The ipchains script has global [script] variables to store IP address for interfaces, store interface is which and stuff like that.) A couple of my friends saw what I did and realized that they needed something like that, so I set up computers for them. The problem is that my address never changes, so everything is always happy for me, but their addresses are dynamic and keep on changing. The current mdk 7.1 seems to be able keep rolling along when the IP address and default gateway change, but problems arise when the cable modem providers change the DNS servers and also in the rare instance that a machine gets rebooted. (Linux has been a solid performer, but there are others factors that come into play. One household got switched to a different network and was issued a new cable modem along with that and things chugged along ok until a month or so down the road when the computer was rebooted.) A possible solution that I thought of, but haven't tried yet would be to do the following: Write a script to update the ipchains and dhcpd config file when addresses change then have the script reload dhcpd and rerun the ipchains config file. Set up an hourly cron job to run this update script. 1. First have the script archive any pre-existing Sed scripts to update dhcpd and ipchains. Also have it look for a saved copy of resolv.conf and archive the saved resolve.conf file if present. 2. Have the update script run ifconfig and an Awk script to pull the Internet IP address out of the ifconfig output and generate a Sed script to update the ipchains and dhcpd config files. Also make a new saved copy of resolv.conf 3. Run diff on the new and archived resolv.conf files. If the new one is different, then run an Awk script to append Sed commands to the Sed script to update the dhcpd config file. (Do nothing if there is no archived file.) 4. Then, if there are archived Sed scripts, run diff to check for differences between the new and archived scripts. If there is a difference, run the new Sed script and rerun the ipchains config or reload dhcpd. (Do nothing if there is no archived file. This seems like a cluggy way to do things. Is there a more elegant way to keep ipchains and dhcpd information up to date? I would especially like to do something that would be triggered to update everything necessary the moment that dhcpcd got new IP information from the ISP. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness
I don't understand, dhcpd should just use the address of the NIC. How does it know "the address is already in use"? Perhaps there is more that one dhcpd running on the box. What does the log file say? What does the output from ifconfig say? What does your dhcpd.conf file say? Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Rambo Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 4:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness Jim Holthaus wrote: On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mike Rambo wrote: the box refused to start the dhcp server daemon with the error that it couldn't bind to the IP address because it was already in use. There is and was nothing else on the same IP address as the server but the only way I found to resolve that problem was to put the server on a different IP address. That's a wierd one I've never seen before. There was probably another computer on the subnet with the same IP address. That was my first thought. We ended up getting a new hub out of the van and hooking the server up to that hub on the table which went nowhere. Rebooting the server yielded the same results - dhcpd still found the address already in use. We then put the server back into the building network and reset the IP address. After a reboot dhcpd worked fine. We pinged the original IP. Nothing was there. I don't know what this was but it definitely appeared to be something in the server itself to me. Now this morning I'm starting to get more complaints that the access problem has returned to some degree. Only a few computers in the school can access one of the important programs. Start by looking at what's changed since the system last worked. Did you accidentally break something while trying to fix things yesterday? Do all of the clients know the new address of the server? After that, start working on network troubleshooting. Make sure your underlying communications between the server and clients works. Once you are confident of this, look at software specific problems like record locking. The only thing we changed was the server IP address. It appears the last day the server really worked right was three (now four) days ago. At least that was when the complaints started and it coincided with when the log files started to show syslog restarts every 15 seconds or so. We haven't changed anything on the server for almost a month and even then the work was only to install some new software (math blaster or something) in a shared folder. I'll look into the underlying network when I next get out there - we did have a switch go down a couple of weeks ago in another building. Possibility I guess. Thanks for the response. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Masq f/w and DHCPd on dynamic Internet address
Seems overly complex to me. You should run dhclient to get a IP address from you ISP for one NIC card. Set the other NIC card for your private LAN IP address (say 192.168.0.1). Run dhcpd to serve out private IP addresses for the other computers. Run a DNS server on your box so you don't need the ISP's name servers. One ipchains rule is all you need to setup IP masquerading and it doesn't require the IP address of the dhclient NIC. Just use 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 for the internet and 192.168.0.0/24 for the private LAN. Or am I missing something here? Bill PS You can prohibit dhclient from changing your resolv.conf by using: supersede domain-name "my.domain"; supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1; in the /etc/dhclient.conf file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JASON SNYDER Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Masq f/w and DHCPd on dynamic Internet address A year and some change ago I scrounged together a computer, put mdk on it, and set it up as a masquerade firewall and DHCPd server for my cable modem at home. I have a script that is run at boot (and is set up to be rerun at any time) to set up all of my ipchain rules and load kernel modules (like for ftp and such) and of course DHCPd has its config file. (The ipchains script has global [script] variables to store IP address for interfaces, store interface is which and stuff like that.) A couple of my friends saw what I did and realized that they needed something like that, so I set up computers for them. The problem is that my address never changes, so everything is always happy for me, but their addresses are dynamic and keep on changing. The current mdk 7.1 seems to be able keep rolling along when the IP address and default gateway change, but problems arise when the cable modem providers change the DNS servers and also in the rare instance that a machine gets rebooted. (Linux has been a solid performer, but there are others factors that come into play. One household got switched to a different network and was issued a new cable modem along with that and things chugged along ok until a month or so down the road when the computer was rebooted.) A possible solution that I thought of, but haven't tried yet would be to do the following: Write a script to update the ipchains and dhcpd config file when addresses change then have the script reload dhcpd and rerun the ipchains config file. Set up an hourly cron job to run this update script. 1. First have the script archive any pre-existing Sed scripts to update dhcpd and ipchains. Also have it look for a saved copy of resolv.conf and archive the saved resolve.conf file if present. 2. Have the update script run ifconfig and an Awk script to pull the Internet IP address out of the ifconfig output and generate a Sed script to update the ipchains and dhcpd config files. Also make a new saved copy of resolv.conf 3. Run diff on the new and archived resolv.conf files. If the new one is different, then run an Awk script to append Sed commands to the Sed script to update the dhcpd config file. (Do nothing if there is no archived file.) 4. Then, if there are archived Sed scripts, run diff to check for differences between the new and archived scripts. If there is a difference, run the new Sed script and rerun the ipchains config or reload dhcpd. (Do nothing if there is no archived file. This seems like a cluggy way to do things. Is there a more elegant way to keep ipchains and dhcpd information up to date? I would especially like to do something that would be triggered to update everything necessary the moment that dhcpcd got new IP information from the ISP. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] startup in what looks like single mode
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Buchan Milne Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] startup in what looks like single mode Read the line above "you have been dropped to a shell, enter root password or CTRL-D for normal startup" and it will probably tell you you need to run fsck on a partition (most likely root). So run fsck (fsck can only be run on unmounted partitions, which is why you got this fschk can only be run on READ ONLY partitions message) after entering your root password. When you are done, CTRL-D. Buchan Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: When I restart my PC, linux (Mandrake 7.1) comes up like it is in single mode. I get some kind of error stating that it is trying to mount loopback, and cant cause it is already mounted Is there a loopback device in your /etc/fstab? Comment it out. the I get the "you have been dropped to a shell, enter root password or CTRL-D for normal startup" CTRL-D just puts me into a reboot with the same stopper, same point. Entering root's pw then issuing init 5, brings the machine right up, and functions great. I have noticed upon reboot there is something stating that fsck will be forced upon next reboot What do I need to do to get the reboot back to normal?? Is there a shutdown script that needs modified or what ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -- -- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- |--| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone +27824722231 email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za South Africas first satellite:http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za Control Models http://www.control.co.za |Registered Linux User #182071-| Bill Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Masq f/w and DHCPd on dynamic Internet address
One thing that has been worrying me for awhile is the number of people who use home brew ipchains scripts and who may not *really* understand how it works! I hope you have tested it for holes etc! Go the pmfirewall or other well known script way and be sure of what you are doing when you modify, and test afterwards! BillK Greg Stewart wrote: Download and examine the pmfirewall scripts from http://www.pointman.org. They do exactly what you need and you might be able to simply incorporate those scripts into your current firewall scripts...or, vice versa. --Greg Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] CDWriter Question
Well, that's what you want. You don't want to mount the cdrom to write to it! You only need to use mount to read a disk, use cdrecord (console) or other program (cdrtoaster and Xcdroast are my favs) to write/rewrite CDs. I'm assuming the instructions on LM site were to instruct you on how to setup the 'ide-scsi' stuff if your runinning and eide/atapi drive. I hope that helps. I can help with ide cdrw's, scsi is better left to someone else ;) _Nick Webb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, David M. Kufta wrote: I have installed 7.2 on a system and after install adde a CDRW ide/atapi drive. I configured the drive as described at MUO website and when I mount the drive with the command mount -t auto /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom it will only mount the cd read only. I have no clue why it is mounting in read only. I would appreciate any suggestions and possible fixes. Thank's, Dave -- **** Nick Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Flickering X - Reboot seems only cure
I have a curious problem... Sometimes when I leave the machine running and the power management daemon shuts the monitor off, when I press a key or move the mouse to bring the display back up, it continually flickers with mouse movement. This doesn't happen all the time, but enough to be annoying. It also happens when I ctrl+alt+fx to a different ttyxx, but then again, not all the time. Generally I run enlightenment as my DM, but I have also experienced this with other DM's like KDE, Afterstep, etc...nothing seems to cure this problem except a reboot. I have tried restarting the server from the login manager after logging out of my current DM, ctrl+alt+backspace to kill and re-login, and other things to no avail. I have a PCChips PC100 M741lmrt mobo with an SiS 6326 chipset. I use the SVGA server set at 16bit color at a res of 1024x768 normally. I have tried different settings and still the flickering occurs sporadically...sometimes I can have an uptime of weeks without it occurring and sometimes just a few minutes. This has happened with every installation I have ever performed of both mdk 7.0 and 7.1. It's got to be a hardware issue or an issue with whatever daemon puts my monitor on standby. I thought apmd controlled this, but disabling it doesn't prevent this from occurring. So, am I missing something here? My monitor is Energy Star Compliant as most are (KDS Visual Sensations 7e) and I am running the stock X-server set that installs with the mdk 7.1 ISO downloadable set...All my hardware is supported, at least experimentally, by mdk 7.1 on the surface, but is there a known issue with any of the aforementioned video hardware? My 6326 set relies on 8mb of memory from my 160MB of RAM and I'm not running any resource sucking graphics programs or games, sometimes the flickering occurs when I've rebooted and then left it at the login manager. It remains off until I touch a key or move my Logitech MarbleMouse-two button(recognized as a Generic PS/2 with 3 button emulation enabled)..it comes on for a second and the monitor returns to standby during mouse movement and when mouse movement ceases. What's going on here? This didn't occur with mdk 6.5 or redhat 6.1 installs. -- _ Logos: The Word of the Aeon - "I shall endure for all time" -Frater Perdurabo- _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness
I don't understand, dhcpd should just use the address of the NIC. How does it know "the address is already in use"? Nope! try setting the ipaddress for DHCPD as .0 example 192.168.20.0 and then set your range to start with your nic address like 192.168.20.20 - 192.168.20.40 Perhaps there is more that one dhcpd running on the box. What does the log file say? What does the output from ifconfig say? What does your dhcpd.conf file say? Only if he has several or virtual address's which will all have to have an entry/declaration even if their not used to give address out. Phil Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #189889 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Rambo Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 4:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
