[expert] [Fwd: [Announce] Mandrake Donations Page is ready - now it's your turn!]
Gael Duval wrote: > > Hello, > > many people have requested that we open a donation page in order to > contribute to the development of Linux-Mandrake. You can do that now! > > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/ [snip] THANY YOU!! Not only can we now vote with our dollars, you have even addressed two of my biggest complaints about web sites: 1. "Credit card protection policy: MandrakeSoft does not store credit card data." ^^^ 2. Use of text field for State/Province allowing us to _type_ the whopping TWO characters; I *HATE* all those sites that use a menu... Suggestion: Other:[ ] Comments: [ ] Nit: tabbing between fields is not in order. THANKS!! Pierre
Re: [expert] Is it necessary have cron let htdig update its database when not running a web server
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:11:44AM -0400, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: > However, as I do not run a web server, I thought that I might just simply remove >htdig-delete from my cron.daily directory. Is there any reason why I should not do >this? I'm not saying it's the right way, but that's what _I_ would do. If you have something in your system that is generating errors and that something is not being used, simply disable it from running. IMHO, the best way to disable is: simply put as the second line of the script (after the #!/bin/*): exit 0 That disables the script, without you deleting it. As a bonus, if you ever try to delete it with rpm -e, you won't get "missing file" reported. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
Re: [expert] Can't create a database with Oracle
On Wednesday 18 April 2001 16:02, you wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to get Oracle 8.1.7 working on Mandrake 7.2 for the > past few days and I can't seem to get past the problem I'm having. I > installed Oracle without creating a database at install time, and > everything appeared to work fine. The problem is when I run the > database creation script I made with dbassist I get the following in > $ORACLE_HOME/admin/orcl/create/crdb1.log... > > Connected. > ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 seconds > CREATE DATABASE "orcl" > * > ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE > Disconnected. > > After this point everything else just spews ORA-03114 messages. Has > anyone else come across this? > > My machine is as follows: > > AMD duron 750 > 256MB RAM > 9GB available on the ORACLE_HOME partition, plenty of space elsewhere > > I didn't recompile the kernel as the values in the headers the Oracle > docs said to look at seemed appropriate. > The stock 7.2 kernel works just fine, no need to recompile. IIRC, what needs to happen is that oracle must be started in order to create the database. so su oracle export ORACLE_HOME=whatever /ORACLE_HOME/bin/svrmgrl SVRMGR> connect internal (enter oracle password if needed, you should not need it as the oracle user however) SVRMGR> startup system will crank away for a bit SVRMGR> exit then run dbassist as the oracle user andsee if that works Failing the above, just unintsall and reinstall and make sure to run dbassist from the installation. With 256M of ram it will work, with 128M it can be a bit dicey, with less than 128, you need to do it outside of the install process. Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
Re: [expert] 2.2.19 kernel upgrade
On Wed Apr 18, 2001 at 09:18:20PM -0400, David M.Kufta wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > Attempting to upgrade the kernel on a 7.2 box, has anyone done this following > instructions on Mandrakes site? [...] > It is also recommended that you download the necessary RPMs and > upgrade manually by following these steps: > >type: rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.19-4.1mdk.i586.rpm >type: mv kernel-2.2.19-4.1mdk.i586.rpm /tmp >type: rpm -Fvh *.rpm >type: mkinitrd -f --ifneeded /boot/initrd-2.2.19-4.1mdk 2.2.19-4.1mdk >type: ln -sf /boot/initrd-2.2.19-4.1mdk /boot/initrd.img >edit /etc/lilo.conf and double-check the options >type: /sbin/lilo -v > > Am I missing something here ? why mv kernel-2.2.19-4.1mdk.i586.rpm /tmp Because if you just do rpm -Fvh *.rpm without first installing the kernel seperately and then moving it (unless you want to -Fvh each rpm individually), you'll end up losing your existing kernel which, in the event that 2.2.19 *doesn't* work for you, you can at least reboot and use the previous kernel you had installed. This way you will have two kernels installed, not just the updated kernel. This is a safety precaution. Upgrading your kernel should be done with the utmost care. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD - Danen Consulting Serviceswww.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org - MandrakeSoft, Inc. Security www.linux-mandrake.com Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-19mdk uptime: 3 days 23 hours 41 minutes. PGP signature
Re: [expert] CDRW's and ISO's
You erase them. If you can't find the erase option in adaptec's software, then review the help file that came with it. It's not one of the friendlier software packages out there. > I'm trying to use CD-RWs to make installation disks of the betas that are being >released. Does anyone here know how to "re-initialize" them for use again burning an >ISO image to them? I am using ROXIO 5.1 (Easy CD Creator). >
[expert] 2.2.19 kernel upgrade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Attempting to upgrade the kernel on a 7.2 box, has anyone done this following instructions on Mandrakes site? MandrakeSoft Security Advisory MDKSA-2001:037 : kernel A number of security problems have been found in the Linux kernels prior to the latest 2.2.19 kernel. Following is a list of problems based on the 2.2.19 release notes as found on http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2219.html"> www.linux.org.uk All of these problems are corrected in the 2.2.19 kernel and it is highly recommended that all Linux-Mandrake users upgrade their systems to this kernel. It is also recommended that you download the necessary RPMs and upgrade manually by following these steps: type: rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.19-4.1mdk.i586.rpm type: mv kernel-2.2.19-4.1mdk.i586.rpm /tmp type: rpm -Fvh *.rpm type: mkinitrd -f --ifneeded /boot/initrd-2.2.19-4.1mdk 2.2.19-4.1mdk type: ln -sf /boot/initrd-2.2.19-4.1mdk /boot/initrd.img edit /etc/lilo.conf and double-check the options type: /sbin/lilo -v Am I missing something here ? why mv kernel-2.2.19-4.1mdk.i586.rpm /tmp - -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David M. Kufta Konsult Ltd. Wilmington,DE. USA http://n3meq.dynip.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= System Uptime for n3meq.dynip.com: 9:13pm up 4 days, 7:18, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.12, 0.04 - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE63jzjvVwLyIMtwSsRAu8VAJ9FCAJ/+6CwlGIaH9hnwjXwyeHEdgCfe2um 0fbrjN7gGKw9XkEu1aGowXE= =Em/5 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[expert] wild memory leak in rxvt
I thought I might have seen this before, but rxvt is taking up a whopping 138K of memory right now 000 501 1097 1096 9 0 139144 34864 do_sel S ? 2:21 rxvt The version of rxvt is the one included in 7.2: rxvt-2.6.3-3mdk David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[expert] DVD-ROM drive
Can anyone give me any pointers as to the use of a DVD-ROM drive with Mandrake 7.2, please? This question isn't about playing DVD-Video discs but about reading DVD-ROMs. Can I simply replace my CD-ROM drive with a DVD-ROM drive or do I need drivers and/or support for other filesystems? Do DVD-ROMs use the ISO9660 filesystem and are they compatible with supermount? I've searched my local documentation and Mandrake's Web site for "DVD-ROM" but all I found is a pointer to the LiViD project and playing MPEG-encoded movies which, while interesting, isn't what I want to do at this stage. Thanks. -- John Morley ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [expert]OS idenity,Dhcp Eth0 and more!!
On Monday 16 April 2001 13:23, you wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > I've used RealTek NICs, with no problems. Do you have a link > light on your cable modem? Here in San Antonio, RR uses Toshiba > PCX1100 modems...is the PC light on? Is the link light on your > PC NIC on? Is the ethernet cable premade? It needs to be a > "straight-through" cable, versus a cross-over. You state it needs to be a straight through cable (which I never verified before) and right you are. Forgive my ignorance but could you explain why? Until now I always (wrongly) saw my cable-modem (at home) as a sort of intermediate mini-pc. -- Semper avanti,sailing on Linux, Harm Bathoorn Free evermore. Hoek. NL. |~> | _ ___|__.__\_|_||_... \___\_|__||_|__|__ _\_Triade__NL__/ www.elv-transport.nl
RE: [expert] Netscape
Change your homepage to your local machine. Netscape tends to need to connect to your home page on start up or else it crashes, so local machine http://127.0.0.1 worked for me with this problem. Regards, Rowan Eppelstun Data Communications Engineer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stefaans Mostert Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Glug List Subject: [expert] Netscape i have a problem ;-) When I am not online with my modem netscape freezes up on me!! The moment I go online and reopen It works a charm but is bussy costing me money as I can not work offline Any Ideas? Stefaans
[expert] Can't create a database with Oracle
Hi, I've been trying to get Oracle 8.1.7 working on Mandrake 7.2 for the past few days and I can't seem to get past the problem I'm having. I installed Oracle without creating a database at install time, and everything appeared to work fine. The problem is when I run the database creation script I made with dbassist I get the following in $ORACLE_HOME/admin/orcl/create/crdb1.log... Connected.ORA-00445: background process "PMON" did not start after 120 secondsCREATE DATABASE "orcl"*ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLEDisconnected. After this point everything else just spews ORA-03114 messages. Has anyone else come across this? My machine is as follows: AMD duron 750 256MB RAM 9GB available on the ORACLE_HOME partition, plenty of space elsewhere I didn't recompile the kernel as the values in the headers the Oracle docs said to look at seemed appropriate. Any ideas? -- MarcGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[expert] Test
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[expert] Is it necessary have cron let htdig update its database when not running a web server
After installing Mandrake 7.2, for a good while got the following message DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified from running my cron.daily job. I tracked it down to the htdig-dbgen script where htmerge have problems because there are no words for it to index (as I don't have any web pages on my linux box). I have looked at the rpm's and it appears htdig-dbgen is installed as part of the htdig rpm. The dependencies tell that htdig by kdebase and thus part of the standard installation (as I understand it). I presume KDE uses it to generate the indexes of it help pages. So it does not seem that I can remove the htdig package. Now MandrakeSoft did not consider it a support problem that I got errors on a fresh installation, so they referred me to this list. My immediate work around was to make a single web page with a couple of words in /var/www/html/index.html. In this way htmerge always has a couple of words to index and is all happy. However, as I do not run a web server, I thought that I might just simply remove htdig-delete from my cron.daily directory. Is there any reason why I should not do this? Thanks in advance Peter -- http://cs-people.bu.edu/turtle/contact.html ``Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it''---Salman Rushdie
Re: [expert] tape backup device
Gavin, grab that sucker as fast as you can! Mark Gavin Rollins wrote: > > Need some advice, > > If possible could someone give me the lowdown on a tape device, the one I'm > looking at is located at Linux Mall > its a 20/40GB tape device called Imation SLR7. the manufacturer is tandberg. > the linux mall part # is 03331, its going for $48.00 the picture is of the > tape drive unit but $48 bucks is very cheap for a tape backup device.. > waiting for some feedback before buying. > > sincerely, > Gavin (Japan)
Re: [expert] CDRW's and ISO's
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Phil Green wrote: > > I'm trying to use CD-RWs to make installation disks of the betas that are being released. Does anyone here know how to "re-initialize" them for use again burning an ISO image to them? I am using ROXIO 5.1 (Easy CD Creator). > Maybe this should be on a windoze list - if there is one ;-) Anyhow, thewre is usually some option for clearing the disk - either wiping the directory or formatting the disk. If it isn't in Easy CD Creator, look around in the stuff supplied with the cd drive. I think Easy CD Creator is one of the few packages that writes any way reliably using iso 9660 with Rock Ridge extensions, but you don't have to use it to clean up the cdrw. BTW, my experience with cdrws was that they were not worth the money, because they were read poorly and the number of rewrites was very low. This came up as the address to send to when I clicked reply. <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm not on Beta or Maybe ware, but this pc runs mandrake 7.0 (Air). What's that about? -- Regards, Declan Moriarty Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius A Slightly Serious(TM) Company Without the optimist, the pessimist wouldn't know how happy he isn't.
[expert] TIP: "less" preprocessing
Two reasons for this post... 1. Propose the use of "TIP: ..." in Subject when one discovers something new which might be of interest to the general population. 2. Post a tip about "less"... After many years of using "less" (circa '90 IIRC), I still had not discovered this feature... less supports preprocessing, so instead of trying to figure out or remember commands like "prm -qpil" to see what files are provided in a *.rpm file, just try: less .rpm which will dump the package info and list of files only; not all the binary stuff as I'd expected... To see what else less preprocesses, here's a hint: LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s HTH someone, Pierre
[expert] tape backup device
Need some advice, If possible could someone give me the lowdown on a tape device, the one I'm looking at is located at Linux Mall its a 20/40GB tape device called Imation SLR7. the manufacturer is tandberg. the linux mall part # is 03331, its going for $48.00 the picture is of the tape drive unit but $48 bucks is very cheap for a tape backup device.. waiting for some feedback before buying. sincerely, Gavin (Japan)
Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1
Well, the README.INSTALL file was not correct, as it said that everything but kdebase would install without dependency problems. I ended up having to do an: rpm -Uvh --nodeps -force for about 5 of the 10 packages or so, but it works for the most part, so I can't complain. And let me be the first to say that KDE 2.1.1 is absolutely amazing. Konqueror 0wn5 GNOME -- that's all I have too say. ;-D, Eric Eric Krout Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~ekrout (Soon, EricKrout.com) Bucknell Computer Science & Engineering '03 Chairman, Bucknell's Assoc. for Computing Machinery (ACM) On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Marc wrote: > Problem is that kdesu is needed by some packages, but kdesu application is > already included in kdebase as well. Ans there some other packages that > overlap eachother. You should upgrade the packages with the options: > rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm > > I worked for me. Althoug it is not the most clean way of installing it > worked and I read this in a README.INSTALL on kde.org > . > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 10:27 AM > Subject: Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1 > > > > Eric Krout wrote: > > > Myself and many others have had problems upgrading to kde > > > 2.1 from 2.0.1, even though we're all using .rpm files. I > > > have seen a few FAQs on the web on how to do this, but none > > > that I've seen remarked about getting any errors that > > > prevent such an upgrade. > > > > > > I run a mailing list on my machine and cannot afford any > > > downtime that could happen as a result of screwiness with a > > > kde upgrade; however, I *really* want the newest version of > > > Konqueror ;) > > > > > > So, does anyone have a solution to these problems with > > > dependencies and symlinks that myself and many others have > > > been getting? I don't have enough spare time and can't > > > interrupt my uptime, so I'm looking for the easy way out > > > since I can't experiment much on my own. > > > > > > Thank you *very* much. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > Eric > > > > Ericthe most painless method is to do an upgrade install > > of MandrakeFreq. The iso is available on the mirrors or you > > can by the CD (real cheap) from either: > > > > http://www.cheapbytes.com/ > > or > > http://www.lsl.com/ > > -- > > Alan > > > > > > >
[expert] Netscape
i have a problem ;-) When I am not online with my modem netscape freezes up on me!! The moment I go online and reopen It works a charm but is bussy costing me money as I can not work offline Any Ideas? Stefaans
[expert] re
Hi To Section "Device" in /etc/X11/XF86Config if you use Xfree 3.* and in XF84Config-4 if you use Xfree 4.* James Sparenberg wrote: > Tommi, > Pardon me if the answer to my question is obvious, but where in the config do I put this. > > James
Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1
Problem is that kdesu is needed by some packages, but kdesu application is already included in kdebase as well. Ans there some other packages that overlap eachother. You should upgrade the packages with the options: rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm I worked for me. Althoug it is not the most clean way of installing it worked and I read this in a README.INSTALL on kde.org . - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1 > Eric Krout wrote: > > Myself and many others have had problems upgrading to kde > > 2.1 from 2.0.1, even though we're all using .rpm files. I > > have seen a few FAQs on the web on how to do this, but none > > that I've seen remarked about getting any errors that > > prevent such an upgrade. > > > > I run a mailing list on my machine and cannot afford any > > downtime that could happen as a result of screwiness with a > > kde upgrade; however, I *really* want the newest version of > > Konqueror ;) > > > > So, does anyone have a solution to these problems with > > dependencies and symlinks that myself and many others have > > been getting? I don't have enough spare time and can't > > interrupt my uptime, so I'm looking for the easy way out > > since I can't experiment much on my own. > > > > Thank you *very* much. > > > > Sincerely, > > Eric > > Ericthe most painless method is to do an upgrade install > of MandrakeFreq. The iso is available on the mirrors or you > can by the CD (real cheap) from either: > > http://www.cheapbytes.com/ > or > http://www.lsl.com/ > -- > Alan > >
Re: [expert] How do I copy a partition?
> I originally made my "/" partition too large (only 2% is used) and now I want > to shrink it because the /usr partition is full. My plan is to save the "/" > partition, delete the partition and then create a new one. I have already > saved the /usr directories. You may avoid all the hassle with the re-partitioning by moving any big directory from /usr to / and making symbolic link to it. This is the fastest workaround for your problem, e.g. # mv /usr/big_dir / # ln -s /big_dir /usr/big_dir In this case no further changes will be needed (i.e. resetting PATHs for installed software etc.) > The question is, how do I copy just the contents of the partition without > copying the entire Linux disk (cp -a would copy the entire disk)? I would suggest dump (look man dump, man restore). e.g.: /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0ucf /some_dir/target_file /dev/hda5 -- /dev/hda5 - your root file system device -- /some_dir/target_file a backup file. I hope this helps. Dump prevents links and all necessary privileges. I would avoid using cp command. I hope this helps Darek
