[expert] Should I upgrade to latest KDE
Hi, I seem to remember, that there was a date issue with KDE, in as much as if I havn't upgraded from the original KDE that is supplied with Mandrake 7.2. it would stop working. 'IF' (A big if I grant you) I remember correctly, the advise was that if I hadn't upgraded by a certain date it (KDE) would stop working. I am sorry that this is a bit vague, but that's all I can remember and now cannot find any reference to it. I put off upgrading as I had thought at the time that a new Mandrake would be out with all the new stuff. -- Steve Kitchener Systems Manager (Unix), Supply Chain Division AspenTech process. to the power of e. 1 Century Court Tolpits Lane Watford Herts WD18 9PT Tel +44 (0)1923 254499 EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB http://www.aspentech.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Should I upgrade to latest KDE
KDE isn't going to stop working by any given date on purpose. If it stops working, it's a bug. I've never seen GPL software with an expiration date put in it on purpose. Stephen Kitchener wrote: Hi, I seem to remember, that there was a date issue with KDE, in as much as if I havn't upgraded from the original KDE that is supplied with Mandrake 7.2. it would stop working. 'IF' (A big if I grant you) I remember correctly, the advise was that if I hadn't upgraded by a certain date it (KDE) would stop working. I am sorry that this is a bit vague, but that's all I can remember and now cannot find any reference to it. I put off upgrading as I had thought at the time that a new Mandrake would be out with all the new stuff. -- Steve Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs--with SSL support??
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:29:08 -0400 Bruce E.Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: BE I am looking into these various mail clients but need one that BE supports SSL BE since my secure mail server demands this. Any recommendations? I am BE using BE Mulberry, and Netscape but they are slow. BE BE Best Regards, Bruce Not certain it supports SSL, but Sylpheed is very fast. Why not check out sylpheed.good-day.net (no www) to be see if it has everything you need. Mike -- Always remember, I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. --Winston Churchill _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs
At 17.04 19/08/01, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:23, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I'm going to change mail program (I am currently using Eudora) in order to switch to Linux completely. Now I need to know which one is faster because I have mailboxes with more than 8K messages (for example, that with this ML inside). Mailboxen with 8000+ messages Delete those suckers, and use the mail archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/ I usually read the mail off-line, moreover finding some informations inside the HD is faster and less expensive than connecting to my dial-up provider and making a search in a on-line DB. I tried Evolution and KMail, but they semm rather slower compared to Eudora. I would prefer a Gnome app, if possible. KMail is fast enough for me... I gave a look to it, but the address manager literally sucks! I have never seen such a simple manager! I know Eudora's one is almost completely useless, but KMail is the opposite! It also crashed sometime. Another question: nobody mentioned Mozilla Messenger: does it sucks so much? Thank you for the help Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs
At 18.18 19/08/01, you wrote: Since I use a mapped home directory - the same one from both machines - I have all of my messages available wherever I am. Polarbar stores mail as individual pop files making it very easy to access messages even outside of the mail client. Individual POP files? one per message? if so, it wastes lots of space! Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs
At 17.40 19/08/01, you wrote: Go to sylpheed.good-day.net Sylpheed 0.5.3. isIMHO about as fast as they get. As usual, YMMV. Give it a try. It is an excellent MUA. Mike First: what does YMMV mean? Second: thank you for all your suggestions, I will try every app you mentioned. I would have liked a comparison more precise, but I will do it myself. Obviously if you know a page with some scientific comparison please indicate it. Thank you for your help. Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs--with SSL support??
Already did. I grabbed it as soon as I saw your email. It is quick and I do like it but too bad no SSL support. Bruce On Monday 20 August 2001 06:12 am, you wrote: On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 12:29:08 -0400 Bruce E.Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: BE I am looking into these various mail clients but need one that BE supports SSL BE since my secure mail server demands this. Any recommendations? I am BE using BE Mulberry, and Netscape but they are slow. BE BE Best Regards, Bruce Not certain it supports SSL, but Sylpheed is very fast. Why not check out sylpheed.good-day.net (no www) to be see if it has everything you need. Mike Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs
At 20.01 19/08/01, you wrote: Currently I use Pine for all my email needs. It's complete, robust and secure, but most people turn it down since it is console based. Your call, but my recommendation is pine. I will try EVERYTHING: my decision must be wise. Anyway, I think pine uses the same MBOX format of every other UNIX mail manager, isn't it? Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs--with SSL support??
At 18.29 19/08/01, Bruce E.Harris wrote: I am looking into these various mail clients but need one that supports SSL since my secure mail server demands this. Any recommendations? I am using Mulberry, and Netscape but they are slow. Best Regards, Bruce Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com I didn't ask this in my previous mail, but it's important: which mailers support multiple POP3 accounts and smtp outgoing mail? (my technical language may be wrong, please correct me if needed). Olaf Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Should I upgrade to latest KDE
Keep your eyes open. Like I said, there may be a bug which would time limit KDE 1, but I'm not aware of it. I know it wasn't time limited on purpose. (If it is.) Stephen Kitchener wrote: Hi, Thanks - I was stupid to think that there was, but I had to ask the question as I had thought that there was something that I read to that effect. Sorry for the noise. Digital Wokan wrote: KDE isn't going to stop working by any given date on purpose. If it stops working, it's a bug. I've never seen GPL software with an expiration date put in it on purpose. Stephen Kitchener wrote: Hi, I seem to remember, that there was a date issue with KDE, in as much as if I havn't upgraded from the original KDE that is supplied with Mandrake 7.2. it would stop working. 'IF' (A big if I grant you) I remember correctly, the advise was that if I hadn't upgraded by a certain date it (KDE) would stop working. I am sorry that this is a bit vague, but that's all I can remember and now cannot find any reference to it. I put off upgrading as I had thought at the time that a new Mandrake would be out with all the new stuff. -- Steve Kitchener -- Steve Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Should I upgrade to latest KDE
Hi, Thanks - I was stupid to think that there was, but I had to ask the question as I had thought that there was something that I read to that effect. Sorry for the noise. Digital Wokan wrote: KDE isn't going to stop working by any given date on purpose. If it stops working, it's a bug. I've never seen GPL software with an expiration date put in it on purpose. Stephen Kitchener wrote: Hi, I seem to remember, that there was a date issue with KDE, in as much as if I havn't upgraded from the original KDE that is supplied with Mandrake 7.2. it would stop working. 'IF' (A big if I grant you) I remember correctly, the advise was that if I hadn't upgraded by a certain date it (KDE) would stop working. I am sorry that this is a bit vague, but that's all I can remember and now cannot find any reference to it. I put off upgrading as I had thought at the time that a new Mandrake would be out with all the new stuff. -- Steve Kitchener Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com -- Steve Kitchener Systems Manager (Unix), Supply Chain Division AspenTech process. to the power of e. 1 Century Court Tolpits Lane Watford Herts WD18 9PT Tel +44 (0)1923 254499 EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB http://www.aspentech.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Ipv6 support
Hi all, I was told that Mandrake 8.0 is IPv6 enabled. However, I can not use it to implement IPv6 !!!.I guess to have IPv6 enabled is not enough to directly use it. What should I do to get IPv6 working, any additional patches that I should run?. any body can help ? Regards Gadir _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 beta1 problems...
I went a different route. Since I use Gnome instead of Kde I did not install kdepim. There is a newer release of kdepm available from cooker. Install it and it should properly rewrite those entries. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: Sergio Korlowsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:36 AM To: Charles A Edwards Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 beta1 problems... On Sunday 19 August 2001 03:09 pm, you wrote: Charles... I was having the same problem with the menus, I was planning to tinker those files and remove the double quotes, but I couldn't get as root for some oher problems, so I delete the files, ran update-menus and log out and log in again and everything was back in place, but I would like to replace those files I had to remove... would you mind sending me those three files? /usr/lib/menu/kdepim-kandy /usr/lib/menu/kdepim-korganizer /usr/lib/menu/kdepim-kpilot I supposed they were in there with a purpose, not by accident ;-) TIA Sergio Korlowsky The following was posted by Civileme on 8/17. Charles http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1223lang=en BUGS in BETA 1 and FIXES so you can test better BUGS KNOWN AND FIXES:p 1-Printer Test files are missing--because Printer install is completely accomplished during installation by PrinterDrake and because any later install is also by PrinterDrake,the installation of printers is not possible, because these packages are needed. Download ''printer-testpages'' rpm from Cooker./p p 2-Menus for all your window managers will be spotty and incomplete. There are two ways to fix this without a new RPM. /pulli a. Delete the following three filesulli /usr/lib/menu/kdepim-kandyli /usr/lib/menu/kdepim-korganizerli /usr/lib/menu/kdepim-kpilotli/ulli and run (as root) update-menus logout and loginli If you are unable to get a terminal running in KDE to do this hit alt-F2 and type konsole without the quotes.li b. (For tinkerers)ulli /usr/lib/menu/kdepim-kandy has an extra double quote () fillowing%c in the line--delete itli /usr/lib/menu/kdepim-korganizer has an extra double quote following korganize--change it to the letter ''r''li /usr/lib/menu/kdepim-kpilot has an extra double quote following kpilo -- change it to a ''t''./ulli Then run update-menus, logout and login./ul Civileme -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erik Kaffehr Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 beta1 problems... Hi! I did no problemswith installation, but my menues were also gone. So I could not do any real test. I was doing a fresh install on an unused partition of my disk. Erik söndag 19 augusti 2001 18:47 skrev du: Ok I have MDK8.0 installed on one drive and MDK8.1B1 on another. The most noticable thing is that 8.1B1 dident install my sound card correctly and has some long error message at boot and hangs during kdzu probing. After booting and logging in most of the menus are missing, ie. applacations, configuration, amusement, documentation, multimedia, networking etc... Maby I just got a bad download? Anyone else having this menu problem Just to let people know what problems i'm having with 8.1 Beta. Ralph -- SedeComp Comunicaciones Internet Solutions MandrakeSoft's VAR and System Integrator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on:http://www.keyserver.net/en/ |--| Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-5mdk uptime: 2 hours 20 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs
Hiya And yea, on Monday 20 August 2001 14:15, verily Olaf Marzocchi doth wroteth: First: what does YMMV mean? Your Mileage May Vary: Means that you might not get the exact same results as someone else... If your heart is set on Eudora, try running it through WINE. Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, Realtek Ethernet, i740 video card running at 1024@16bpp, Toshiba CD and LG 8080B CD-RW hda1: win 98, hda5 Linux ReiserFS, hda6 swap, hda7 ReiserFS (/home); hdb1: FAT32 with datas Any particular reason for publishing your specs? Strange... Regards Gabriel Fortuna Independent Newspapers Information Technology - Projects Networking Division T - +27 11 633 2833 F - +27 11 838 2528 You are going to have a new love affair. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 06:15:51AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: I've been hoping for a while that these would show up in unsupported rebuilt from the Cooker versions or something. Anyone got some advice before I try building 8.0 versions of these from the Cooker SRPMS? If you wait a bit (sorry, no ETA as we're having some difficulty with some components for 7.x) an update will be out for Apache which includes php 4.0.6 for 8.0 and 7.2. Until then, feel free to download the PHP packages from www.rpmhelp.net (which are unofficial). -- [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 2.4.7-8mdk uptime: 9 hours 4 minutes. PGP signature
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs--with SSL support??
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:25:29 +0200 Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: snip I didn't ask this in my previous mail, but it's important: which mailers support multiple POP3 accounts and smtp outgoing mail? (my technical language may be wrong, please correct me if needed). = Sylpheed 0.5.x will handle multiple POP and smtp accounts (I'm using 3) No I don't know of any scientific measures of speed done on a variety of MUA's, but I write only from my own limited experience. Of the gui mailers I've tried, (sylpheed, Mahogany, kmail, one or two other forgetable ones) sylpheed is the fastest in my experience. Some of the non gui (pine, mutt) may be even faster. Mike -- You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. - Frank Zappa _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:15:04 +0200 First: what does YMMV mean? You Mileage May Vary Just an American expression, meaning you may not have te same experience. Mike -- You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. - Frank Zappa _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?
On Monday, Aug 20, 2001, Digital Wokan wrote: I've been hoping for a while that these would show up in unsupported rebuilt from the Cooker versions or something. Anyone got some advice before I try building 8.0 versions of these from the Cooker SRPMS? Be patient... that's all I can say. =) -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.7-8mdk - Uptime: 4 days 2 hours 3 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?
I've been hoping for a while that these would show up in unsupported rebuilt from the Cooker versions or something. Anyone got some advice before I try building 8.0 versions of these from the Cooker SRPMS? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mandrake 8 install on megaraid system?
Jerry wrote: Works ok with my megaraid 3 channel. I'm not mirrored tho, straight raid 5. Detected w/ no problems during install. Thanks. My mirror (2 drives in a 1U) was detected during the installer boot, but when device detection occurred it returned with timeouts :/.. It's a single-channel IIRC, which is fine for 2 drives :) I spose I'll wait for 8.1 then... Cheers, - Matt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?
Thanks. I know you guys are busy doing bug squashing for 8.1. Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 06:15:51AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: I've been hoping for a while that these would show up in unsupported rebuilt from the Cooker versions or something. Anyone got some advice before I try building 8.0 versions of these from the Cooker SRPMS? If you wait a bit (sorry, no ETA as we're having some difficulty with some components for 7.x) an update will be out for Apache which includes php 4.0.6 for 8.0 and 7.2. Until then, feel free to download the PHP packages from www.rpmhelp.net (which are unofficial). -- [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 2.4.7-8mdk uptime: 9 hours 4 minutes. Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is the Reply-To header...??
Gets worse. I get bounce messages from one of those servers. Been awhile since those got in the headers though so I can't remember which one it was. Pierre Fortin wrote: Sorry if this has been covered before... I'm still catching up on my mail and have not yet seen this discussed... Using NS4.78, if I hit Reply, I get: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and if I hit Reply All: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This certainly makes things a tad confusing... any reason for setting: Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the headers...??? Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Get route conf
Eduardo P. Román O. wrote:
Who know, how can i get the config of the router from my linux
Haven't done this in a while since I don't use my Cisco any more...
writing the config to a net device with tftp:
ln -s /tftpboot /home/tftpboot
/etc/xinetd.d/tftp:
service tftp
{
socket_type = dgram
wait= yes
user= nobody
log_on_success += USERID
log_on_failure += USERID
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /home/tftpboot
disable = no
}
service tftp start
touch /home/tftpboot/name_of_config_file
on router:
write net (and follow prompts -- use same name_of_config_file)
I don't recall the details; but you may have to use one of:
/name_of_config_file
/tftpboot/name_of_config_file
/home/tftpboot/name_of_config_file
to be able to write the config to the Linux box.
HTH,
Pierre
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Re: [expert] adding stuff to Mandrake's kernel
AFAIK, the .config file that goes with the kernel sources is the one that built the vmlinuz-2.4.3-20mdk kernel. in fact, that is what i used to build 2.4.7 and the kernel i build was much smaller because i disabled some things i didnt need. the file /boot/config-2.4.3-20mdk is the same as the on in /usr/src/linux/.config file. the make command i use is 'make config' when i want to update 2.4.3 kernel and 'make oldconfig' when i used it for 2.4.7. to make a compressed kernel you must use 'make bzImage'. i dont have any vmlinux file on my system, so i assume that is how you name your kernels. reading the /usr/src/linux/README file fully will help a lot in understanding how to compile the kernel. --- Al Niessner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get the configuration used to build the kernel that installed with the Mandrake 8.0 system and which make rule is the correct one? I installed the kernel-sources rpm from my 8.0 distribution set. Then I added ACPI -- using 'make menuconfig -- because my new laptop uses that standard instead of APM and the APM support in the Mandrake kernel does not work with ACPI. The kernel I get in return is huge compared to /boot/vmlinux. So, how do I get the configuration used to generate the vmlinux that is installed? That kernel works well and I do not want to chase thousands of silly problems in kernel tweaking land in order to get ACPI added. Thinking that the .config supplied with kernel-sources was the one that make vmlinux-2.4.3-mdk20, I removed the RPM and then reinstalled and did a 'make dep vmlinux' and got a kernel that is 2.2 MB vs the 833 KB. To add insult to injury, it does not boot either. I then tried 'make bzImage' which gave me a 5.5 KB kernel that does not boot because it is missing a signature. That leaves me with the question. What configuration and make rule did the folks at Mandrake use in order to create vmlinux-2.4.3-mdk20? I would have thought that the Mandrake folks would have supplied the configuration with the sources or at the install time in '/usr/src/linux/.config-mdk20'. Oh well. Al Niessner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] logrotate and syslog
Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro wrote:
Hi!
I have a doubt...
I'm using a LM7.2 machine to store log from some Cisco routers in my network. I
observed that the logs weren't being rotated nor compressed. So I read the man
pages and changed the /etc/logrotate.conf, so now the Cisco log files are
rotated and compressed.
The new problem: when the logs are rotated by logrotate the syslog service
stops... or at least the part of syslog that should take care of my Cisco's
logs. Then I have to manually start syslog using the service syslog restart
command.
Has anybody had the same problem? Knows how to solve???
Mine works fine... Note that my rotate instructions are not in
/etc/logrotate.conf...
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog contains:
/home/logs/RouterLog {
rotate 5
weekly
postrotate
/usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
endscript
HTH,
Pierre
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[expert] Why is the Reply-To header...??
Sorry if this has been covered before... I'm still catching up on my mail and have not yet seen this discussed... Using NS4.78, if I hit Reply, I get: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and if I hit Reply All: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This certainly makes things a tad confusing... any reason for setting: Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the headers...??? Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nslookup is where?
On Monday 20 August 2001 08:44, Stephen Boulet wrote: Is there an nslookup command? Anyone know where to find it? -- Stephen [root@civileme tester]# nslookup Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases. Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing. bind-utils-9.1.1-1mdk Gey used to the new commands because rpm -q --whatprovides nslookup is already an empty vessel. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] nslookup is where?
Is there an nslookup command? Anyone know where to find it? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nslookup is where?
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Stephen Boulet wrote: Is there an nslookup command? Anyone know where to find it? -- Stephen nslookup has been depreciated. use the dig command now. if you *really* want nslookup, you can find it on http://www.rpmfind.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rsh - Permission Denied
when i added rlogin, rexec and rsh on my /etc/securetty file it looks like this: snipped till the end tty10 tty11 rlogin rexec rsh rsh stuff worked after i added those. --- John J. LeMay Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Reply to message from Darcy Brodie, CJL [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 19 Aug 2001 10:55:02 -0600 I believe that you will have to put this beside each of the tty enteries Checking the man page for sercuretty, it seems to indicate a single entry per line - one for each device. I'm no genius when it comes to understanding exactly how these terms work, but doesn't that seem to indicate a single space-delimted entry per line for each method (local term, rsh, etc)? John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 August 2001 07:19, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 17.04 19/08/01, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 August 2001 09:23, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: [snip] Mailboxen with 8000+ messages Delete those suckers, and use the mail archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/ I usually read the mail off-line, moreover finding some informations inside the HD is faster and less expensive than connecting to my dial-up provider and making a search in a on-line DB. per-minute charges? - -- Mon Aug 20 12:30:09 2001 Seq. TimestampUptime - 1: Thu May 17 01:44:04 2001 - 35 15:31:51 - 2.4.3-20mdk 2: Mon Jul 16 16:28:17 2001 - 34 20:01:44 - 2.4.6-3mdk -- 3: Thu Jun 21 17:33:18 2001 - 10 05:29:02 - 2.4.3-20mdk 4: Sun Jul 1 23:03:05 2001 - 7 10:13:18 - 2.4.3-20mdk 5: Wed Jul 11 15:11:11 2001 - 5 01:16:26 - 2.4.6-3mdk 6: Tue Jul 10 02:55:19 2001 - 1 09:18:42 - 2.4.3-20mdk 7: Wed Jul 11 12:14:35 2001 - 0 02:20:37 - 2.4.6-3mdk 8: Wed Jul 11 14:39:19 2001 - 0 00:31:20 - 2.4.6-3mdk 9: Wed Jul 11 14:35:45 2001 - 0 00:03:01 - 2.4.6-3mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7gUmljTz5dS9Us5wRAp38AJoC/ObB81BNRqlMT5gFnS8zeAyOswCdEsrZ kRPcCRVPNufNw5jByPWUxg8= =3xus -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE 2.2, printing of single, selected pages fails...
Hello together, printing of some selected pages in kdvi, kghostview etc. fails so all selected pages are printed in one sheet/paper!!! Has anyone else seen this bug!!! Ciao, Jürgen Hammelmann -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] address: J. Hammelmann, Brühlstr. 6 phone: +49-7034-61578, +49-179-2178869 D-71157 Hildrizhausen, Germany fax: +49-7034-652189 www: http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/~hammelje Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 2.2, printing of single, selected pages fails...
I have found it impossible to print from kghostview (don't know about kdvi). Kghostview renders pdfs fine but no matter how I try to print it, to a postscript file or to the printer or too a pdf, it fails every time. The printer produces one blank page regardless of how many pages the actual pdf has. I have been having to open the pdfs in either xpdf or acroread in order to print the pdf documents. I am using kde 2.2 beta on my laptop and kde 2.2 final on my desktop - same result in both cases. On Monday 20 August 2001 12:12 pm, Juergen Hammelmann wrote: Hello together, printing of some selected pages in kdvi, kghostview etc. fails so all selected pages are printed in one sheet/paper!!! Has anyone else seen this bug!!! Ciao, Jürgen Hammelmann Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 08:16:25AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: Thanks. I know you guys are busy doing bug squashing for 8.1. Actually, I'm not squashing anything for 8.1... =) I'm squashing stuff for 8.0 and 7.x... =) Sometimes that's a little more difficult than squashing the new stuff tho. -- [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 2.4.7-8mdk uptime: 14 hours 58 minutes. PGP signature
Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?
Yes. I still remember the PHP upgrade nightmare in Mandrake 7.2. Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 08:16:25AM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: Thanks. I know you guys are busy doing bug squashing for 8.1. Actually, I'm not squashing anything for 8.1... =) I'm squashing stuff for 8.0 and 7.x... =) Sometimes that's a little more difficult than squashing the new stuff tho. -- [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 2.4.7-8mdk uptime: 14 hours 58 minutes. Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 01:25:17PM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: Yes. I still remember the PHP upgrade nightmare in Mandrake 7.2. Hmmm... if you remember that one, you'll remember this one for quite a while to come as well. Of course, the upside is that future updates should be very easy to do (unless something major changes again), just because of the way Apache, mod_perl, PHP, et. all have become modularized by Jean-Michel. It's a better way to do things, but wreaks some havoc initially on the older distribs. Nothing major to worry about it, but don't expect too much from MandrakeUpdate when it comes out (unfortunate, but no way around it). -- [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 2.4.7-8mdk uptime: 15 hours 47 minutes. PGP signature
[expert] Problem with Bastille Firewall
This is an odd problem. The on-site docs seem to be less than useful. (Too much time spent with remedial firewall instruction and too little telling where the damn config scripts live.) Note: This is at a friend's house that is about 45 miles away. Not easy to get to, so some details may be from memory. there are two machines. Both have ethernet cards. (Tulip driver.) One has a modem. The dial-out script works fine. Using the connection sharing setup to connect out. (Probably my first mistake.) I changed the Bastille firewall to view the second machine as trusted. The second machine cannot route to the first UNTIL the gateway box initiates a connection to the second machine. If I ping from the second machine to the gateway, I get no route to host messages. If I ping from the gateway to the second machine, i get LONG pauses and absurdly slow ping times until things wake up and pings speed up. After this, routing works, but everything is slow with much dropped packets. Here are my questions: In the standard install of Mandrake 8.0 (power pack disc set), which firewall setup takes precidence and where is it configured? Why am i unable to route to the gateway box and how do I fix it? (Route tables look fine. This looks like a firewall issue.) Why are pings being occasionally dropped? (I have seen this once before with IPChains on another server. I did not have the time to investigate when it was noticed.) Ideas? Suggestions? Remedies? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Upgrading to KDE 2.2
Greetings, Could you describe how you did the upgrade? I am having a few problems as I attempt to do it. Did you install over 2.1.1 or remove it before? I also downloaded RPMs from ftp.kde.org - for Mandrake 8.0 i586 (should I download devel and static-devel RPMs?), but I get failed dependencies as I try to install: (I removed KDE 2.1.1 before trying to install 2.2, obviously from a command line) # rpm -Uvh kdelibs-2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-2.2-1mdk libpcreposix.so.0 is needed by kdelibs-2.2-1mdk libpcre.so.0 is needed by kdelibs-2.2-1mdk Any idea where I get these libs from? Also, what is the order of installation - which RPMs go first? Thank you, Aleksey On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Digital Wokan wrote: I've found everything for doing the upgrade to KDE 2.2 (had to d/l from ftp.kde.org). The only problem is that while egcs-c++-1.1.2-44mdk provides libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3, the kdesupport rpm doesn't seem to accept this. Does a package have to list a file in itself for it to be considered installed to other packages? I always thought provides was for meta-provisions like webserver or something like that. Anyone wanting to install KDE 2.2 may want to --nodeps the install of kdesupport unless someone releases an updated egcs-c++ package with the provides section fixed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problem with Bastille Firewall
The configuration for it is in: /etc/Bastille There is a utility to set it up. I dont remember the name, look in /sbin I think it is there. There is also a graphic utility. As for turning it on or off, there is a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d just for that. I suggest you try turning it off, try to see if you can have connectivity between the 2 machines and turn it back on. If you can not ping with the firewall being inactive then you have a hardware problem. Try: ifconfig -a to see your network cards check up iptables man page for more understanding of how the firewall is implemented. Gerard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 20 August 2001 16:18, Alan wrote: This is an odd problem. The on-site docs seem to be less than useful. (Too much time spent with remedial firewall instruction and too little telling where the damn config scripts live.) Note: This is at a friend's house that is about 45 miles away. Not easy to get to, so some details may be from memory. there are two machines. Both have ethernet cards. (Tulip driver.) One has a modem. The dial-out script works fine. Using the connection sharing setup to connect out. (Probably my first mistake.) I changed the Bastille firewall to view the second machine as trusted. The second machine cannot route to the first UNTIL the gateway box initiates a connection to the second machine. If I ping from the second machine to the gateway, I get no route to host messages. If I ping from the gateway to the second machine, i get LONG pauses and absurdly slow ping times until things wake up and pings speed up. After this, routing works, but everything is slow with much dropped packets. Here are my questions: In the standard install of Mandrake 8.0 (power pack disc set), which firewall setup takes precidence and where is it configured? Why am i unable to route to the gateway box and how do I fix it? (Route tables look fine. This looks like a firewall issue.) Why are pings being occasionally dropped? (I have seen this once before with IPChains on another server. I did not have the time to investigate when it was noticed.) Ideas? Suggestions? Remedies? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] floppy file system?
I know that this is not really on our topic, but I am about to start banging my head on the table Is there a way to format a floppy with ext2 or something that Linux will recognize and still preserve the long file names? Sorry for the trouble and thanks very much! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problem with Bastille Firewall
Its name is:
bastille-firewall
Technically, this is what is in it:
#!/bin/sh
#
# bastille-firewall Load/unload ipchains rulesets
#
# do not rename this file unless you edit /sbin/bastille-firewall-reset
#
# chkconfig: 2345 5 98
# description: A firewall/packet-filter script for Linux systems \
# that allows the machine to be used as a gateway system
#
# version 0.99-beta1
# Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Peter Watkins
#
#This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
#GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
#Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
# Thanks to David Ranch, Brad A, Don G, and others for their suggestions
#
# This script is designed to be used as a SysV-style init script.
#
# It should be run with a start argument
# 1) as an rc?.d S script, _before_ the network script
# [copy this to /etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall (or your equivalent of
# /etc/rc.d/init.d) and run 'chkconfig -add bastille-firewall' ]
# 2) any time an interface is brought up or changed, e.g.
# establishing a PPP conection or renewing a DHCP lease
# [copy 'bastille-firewall-reset', 'bastille-firewall-schedule'
# and 'ifup-local' to /sbin/]
#
# Normally you Do Not _Ever_ Want to run this with a stop argument!
#
# Note that running this with stop will disable the firewall and open
# your system to all network traffic; if you make changes to these rules,
# apply them by running the script again with a start argument.
#
# ** As of 0.99-beta1, this script merely kicks off the real script,
#either /sbin/bastille-ipchains or /sbin/bastille-netfilter
# Default is to use the 'ipchains' script, which will load the
# ipchains compatibility module if you're using a 2.4 kernel
REALSCRIPT=/sbin/bastille-ipchains
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
if [ -n $(uname -r | awk -F. ' $1 == 2 $2 2 {print}') ]; then
# We are using Linux 2.3 or newer; use the netfilter script if
availab!
if [ -x /sbin/bastille-netfilter ]; then
REALSCRIPT=/sbin/bastille-netfilter
fi
fi
if [ ! -x ${REALSCRIPT} ]; then
echo ERROR: \${REALSCRIPT}\ not available!
exit 1
fi
${REALSCRIPT} $1
Maybe it got created by the initialization script, I dont remember.
--
Gerard Perreault
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Monday 20 August 2001 18:01, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, root wrote:
The configuration for it is in:
/etc/Bastille
There is a utility to set it up. I dont remember the name, look in /sbin
I think it is there. There is also a graphic utility. As for turning it
on or off, there is a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d just for that.
What is the name of this script? I don't see one in /etc/rc.d/init.d
TIA,
-sen
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[expert] Re: floppy file system
Thank you! The only trouble is that if I use a DOS formatted floppy it dumps my long fine names. When I try to put them back as they should be they don't function properly for some reason. -- - Nick Registered Linux User #225209 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problem with Bastille Firewall
hi, i would say get off of this bastile-crap and use pure iptables-scripts. dont know if bastille uses iptables, but you learn more, and it is really no magic to set up your firewall by hand. it is easy to configure, you can set special rules for special ports, and you know what you do, and some more. basics for setting up a firewall: http://www.interhack.net/pubs/fwfaq/ sources and patches for iptables you can found here: http://netfilter.samba.org/ docs and howtos you can obtain here: http://netfilter.gnumonks.org/unreliable-guides/ http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/iptables_basics.html the cause for dropped pings could not so easily defined i think. there could be physical problems like cable, connector or bad configured network, look for collisions at your network device(s). g. z. On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Alan wrote: This is an odd problem. The on-site docs seem to be less than useful. (Too much time spent with remedial firewall instruction and too little telling where the damn config scripts live.) Note: This is at a friend's house that is about 45 miles away. Not easy to get to, so some details may be from memory. there are two machines. Both have ethernet cards. (Tulip driver.) One has a modem. The dial-out script works fine. Using the connection sharing setup to connect out. (Probably my first mistake.) I changed the Bastille firewall to view the second machine as trusted. The second machine cannot route to the first UNTIL the gateway box initiates a connection to the second machine. If I ping from the second machine to the gateway, I get no route to host messages. If I ping from the gateway to the second machine, i get LONG pauses and absurdly slow ping times until things wake up and pings speed up. After this, routing works, but everything is slow with much dropped packets. Here are my questions: In the standard install of Mandrake 8.0 (power pack disc set), which firewall setup takes precidence and where is it configured? Why am i unable to route to the gateway box and how do I fix it? (Route tables look fine. This looks like a firewall issue.) Why are pings being occasionally dropped? (I have seen this once before with IPChains on another server. I did not have the time to investigate when it was noticed.) Ideas? Suggestions? Remedies? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?
I don't use Mandrake Update. I haven't tried it recently, but I remember having difficulty figuring out what packages were updated at a glace. I usually rpm -Fvh * and take care of problems as they pop up, or I use kpackage (which for some reason now throws an error before installing each package). Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 01:25:17PM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: Yes. I still remember the PHP upgrade nightmare in Mandrake 7.2. Hmmm... if you remember that one, you'll remember this one for quite a while to come as well. Of course, the upside is that future updates should be very easy to do (unless something major changes again), just because of the way Apache, mod_perl, PHP, et. all have become modularized by Jean-Michel. It's a better way to do things, but wreaks some havoc initially on the older distribs. Nothing major to worry about it, but don't expect too much from MandrakeUpdate when it comes out (unfortunate, but no way around it). -- [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 2.4.7-8mdk uptime: 15 hours 47 minutes. Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: X Failure on New Mandrake 8 Install
tty7 screen is blank with blinking cursor in upper left corner. Other tty's produce expected login prompts that work as expected except for a welcome surprise: video mode instead of the customary 80 X 25 is the proprietary Tseng 100 X 40 mode. Awesome! A portion of the last third of /var/log/XFree86.0.log follows: * * * (II) Module vgahw: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3 (--) TSENG(0): Chipset: ET6100 (--) TSENG(0): PCI I/O registers at 0x6800 (--) TSENG(0): Ramdac: et6000 (--) TSENG(0): Clockchip: et6000 (**) TSENG(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 24 (==) TSENG(0): RGB weight 888 (==) TSENG(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) TSENG(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (==) TSENG(0): Using SW cursor (==) TSENG(0): Using linear Memory. (--) TSENG(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xE000 (II) TSENG(0): Video memory type: Multibank DRAM (MDRAM). (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs (--) TSENG(0): VideoRAM: 0 kByte. sounds like very little memory to me :-) Perhaps the warning just above that is important? (I'm no guru) Try compiling MTRR support into your kernel. I finally found the kernel config files for both my 7.1 and 8.0 Mandrake partitions. Both files have CONFIG_MTRR=y, so MTRR support should be in the kernel already. You could also post this question in col.x Now it looks like it could be a framebuffer problem. Obviously the video card has more than zero memory. The config file for 7.1 has no framebuffer section, while that for 8.0 does, and in that section there is no line referencing my video card chip, while there are for many others. That section does have CONFIG_FB_VESA=y, and it also has CONFIG_FB_VGA16=m, among many others. The BIOS of this PC is configured to allow QEMM in a DOS boot to maximize upper DOS memory. Specifically, this setting (Award BIOS) is called Used MEM base addr=C800 and Used MEM Length=32K. Anyone know if this could impact framebuffer or VideoRAM: 0 kByte? Well, I turned it off and tried startx again. The reaction has changed. The hatchmatte or whatever it's called that comes up before KDE is now showing up before the computer locks up, and the /var/log/XFree86.0.log now shows: VideoRAM: 4096 kByte Depth 8, (--) framebuffer bpp8 Loading sub module fb Loading module fb But also: Open APM failed System lacks support for MTRRs Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing from list! among other (WW)'s. When I run 'XFree86 -configure' and follow that up with 'XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new', X starts the same matte screen as 'startx', but it doesn't lock up the machine. I can even exit with Ctrl-Alt-BS. After reading in the XWindow-User-HOWTO, I tried from root 'kdm' This got me a little further. After the gray matte backgroud pops up on tty7, the screen color changes to Aurora's blue-gray, and then the shapes of the login chooser paint, and some of its contents. The go, clear, restart shutdown buttons look complete, but unless I click on one of the penquins, no other words appear, and except for the box with the Mandrake star and the penguins, no colors appear except black white. If I click on shutdown, a new totally black window appears. If I switch back to the session that started kdm, I can kill it. If I try 'startx', the KDE splash screen comes up. Its first icon blinks a few times, then the PC is locked up, hard reset required. So, something remains undone. What is it? -- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. President John Adams Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/ # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) #FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ #FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ #FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ # ModulePath can be used to set a search
[expert] Upgrading to 8.1...
I am currently running 7.2 with 2.4.4 kernel. I passed on upgrading to 8.0 because I am (mostly) happy with my current system, and didn't want to risk breaking things. However, 8.1 seems to include many things I have been waiting for (KOffice 1.1 - maybe KWord won't crash every time I close it; KDE 2.2; Evolution) so the upgrade is probably worthwhile. Here's the question: what are people's experiences with upgrading, rather than a fresh install? I don't want to have to go through the hassle of reconfiguring everything in /etc and all my KDE menus which would presumably result from a clean install, but I could do the clean install if the upgrading process breaks too many things. I am going to wait until 8.1 is officially released rather than the beta; I use this system too much to risk working with a beta on my primary computer. Any help / thoughts / advice? (BTW - I did consider just installing kde 2.2 and not upgrading the whole os, but there are just too many darn dependences on the rpms. That really is one place (maybe the only one) where I did like Windows - generally, products depended on windows-standard dll's came with everything else needed. There is a lot more work to upgrade anything under Linux. With choice comes complexity, and sometimes the complexity isn't welcome. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Upgrading to KDE 2.2
After downloading all files for the upgrade I did a rpm -qa | grep kde. I then move all the listed files into a separate directory. From that directory I did rpm -Fvh --test *. I then corrected any dependency problems by adding or removing some programs. Once I got a clean return on rpm -Fvh --test *, I then ran urpmi --auto-select *. I then went back and added a few of the downloads that were not listed with the rpm -qa | grep kde. If I recall right they were kdeartwork and kdebindings. This was last friday and other than a few minor problems with several screensavers, everything seems to be working great. Thanks Gary On Monday 20 August 2001 14:36 pm, you wrote: Greetings, Could you describe how you did the upgrade? I am having a few problems as I attempt to do it. Did you install over 2.1.1 or remove it before? I also downloaded RPMs from ftp.kde.org - for Mandrake 8.0 i586 (should I download devel and static-devel RPMs?), but I get failed dependencies as I try to install: (I removed KDE 2.1.1 before trying to install 2.2, obviously from a command line) # rpm -Uvh kdelibs-2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-2.2-1mdk libpcreposix.so.0 is needed by kdelibs-2.2-1mdk libpcre.so.0 is needed by kdelibs-2.2-1mdk Any idea where I get these libs from? Also, what is the order of installation - which RPMs go first? Thank you, Aleksey On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Digital Wokan wrote: I've found everything for doing the upgrade to KDE 2.2 (had to d/l from ftp.kde.org). The only problem is that while egcs-c++-1.1.2-44mdk provides libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3, the kdesupport rpm doesn't seem to accept this. Does a package have to list a file in itself for it to be considered installed to other packages? I always thought provides was for meta-provisions like webserver or something like that. Anyone wanting to install KDE 2.2 may want to --nodeps the install of kdesupport unless someone releases an updated egcs-c++ package with the provides section fixed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 8.0freq3 windowmanager problems
I'm not sure if this is the case with 8.1beta as well, but I upgraded from 8.0 freq 2 to freq3 and couldn't get any of my windowmanagers, bar KDE to work. I use enlightenment and it screwed up royally. I've had to re-install from scratch. This isn't a big problem, I'm just curious if anyone else has had this problem. Whenever I tried to start enlightenment, for example, X restarted most of the time, the rest of the time it just dumped me out to a command prompt. Very strange... Any comments welcome... Angus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] IBM Netfinity 5100 with ServRAID controller
I am trying to install Mandrake 8.0 on an IBM Netfinity 5100 with a ServRAID 4L controller. There are six 36GB drive attached to the 4L in a RAID 5 configuration. The system, controller, and drives are all at the lates level of their BIOS. Problem #1 When I start the install process, Mandrake recognizes the on-board Adaptec SCSI controller, but not the ServRAID controller. If I pick it from the list, everything appears to be fine. Problem #2 After I have configured my partitions on that big logical drive, Mandrake attempts to format the partitions. It will format my swap (512MB) and / (3GB) partitions, but when it tries to format /home (166GB) it eventually bombs out. The activity on the drives will stop and about five minutes later, I get the following message: An error occurred mkdir: error creating directory /mnt/home: input/output error When I click the OK button, I get the following error: An error occurred An error has occurred - no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem. I have tried this same install on an IBM Netfinity 5500 with the same internal setup with similar results. I am wondering if there is a problem with IBM's ServRAID controller and MDK 8.0? I noticed on Mandrake's hardware site, the ServRAID controller is listed as having been tested by users, but not certified by Mandrake. By the way, RedHat 7.1 works fine. I would much prefer Mandrake, though. -- Best regards, Brent mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any signs of a PHP-4.0.6 for Mdk8?
On Mon Aug 20, 2001 at 06:19:50PM -0400, Digital Wokan wrote: I don't use Mandrake Update. I haven't tried it recently, but I remember having difficulty figuring out what packages were updated at a glace. I usually rpm -Fvh * and take care of problems as they pop up, or I use kpackage (which for some reason now throws an error before installing each package). This won't work as a number of new packages are introduced. Basically, we're backporting the apache in 8.0/cooker to 7.x... this introduces new packages like apache-conf which is required. So a simple -Fvh will cause dependency issues. Your best bet, when they come out, is to do a -Uvh and only download the apache/php/mod_perl/mod_ssl packages you want to install (or the whole whackload) and run -Uvh on them. It's unfortunate, and that's why MandrakeUpdate won't work with it but there was no easy/reliable/whatever way to do it other than to re-work the packages entirely (which would be a waste because if we have to do it again, it means more work for the backport again). Might be a little painful at first, but there is a method to the madness... =) -- [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 2.4.7-12.3mdk uptime: 4 hours 1 minutes. PGP signature
Re: [expert] rsh - Permission Denied
John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: ** Reply to message from Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 19 Aug 2001 16:42:03 -0500 Have you tried adding the name and IP to /etc/hosts? For that matter, have you tried running your ssh connect command in verbose mode? If so, run it again, and post the output here. The hosts file is already setup correctly, and here's the output (pausing for a long time - this took a bit more than a minute this time): [root@cyclops] # ssh -v -v -v logan OpenSSH_2.9p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090581f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Seeding random number generator debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: restore_uid debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 0 geteuid 0 anon 1 -- Note LONG pause after this line is displayed I notice that you are not getting the uid for the user: I think it's normally, as least it is on my system, debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 501 geteuid 0 anon 1 It appears you do not have or send a uid??? debug1: Connecting to logan [192.168.2.10] port 22. debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 0/0 (e=0) debug1: restore_uid debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 0/0 (e=0) debug1: restore_uid debug1: Connection established. debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_2.9p1 debug1: match: OpenSSH_2.9p1 pat ^OpenSSH debug1: Local version string SSH-1.5-OpenSSH_2.9p1 debug1: Waiting for server public key. debug1: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits). debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /root/.ssh/known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /root/.ssh/known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 3 Warning: Permanently added 'logan' (RSA1) to the list of known hosts. debug1: Encryption type: blowfish debug1: Sent encrypted session key. debug1: Installing crc compensation attack detector. debug1: Received encrypted confirmation. debug1: Doing password authentication. root@logan's password: John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rsh - Permission Denied
Larry Sword wrote: Scratch the previous message. Appears that I didn't read fully or correctly, I see you are running and connecting as root. Larry John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: ** Reply to message from Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 19 Aug 2001 16:42:03 -0500 Have you tried adding the name and IP to /etc/hosts? For that matter, have you tried running your ssh connect command in verbose mode? If so, run it again, and post the output here. The hosts file is already setup correctly, and here's the output (pausing for a long time - this took a bit more than a minute this time): [root@cyclops] # ssh -v -v -v logan OpenSSH_2.9p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090581f debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Seeding random number generator debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be trusted. debug1: restore_uid debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 0 geteuid 0 anon 1 -- Note LONG pause after this line is displayed I notice that you are not getting the uid for the user: I think it's normally, as least it is on my system, debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 501 geteuid 0 anon 1 It appears you do not have or send a uid??? debug1: Connecting to logan [192.168.2.10] port 22. debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 0/0 (e=0) debug1: restore_uid debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 0/0 (e=0) debug1: restore_uid debug1: Connection established. debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_2.9p1 debug1: match: OpenSSH_2.9p1 pat ^OpenSSH debug1: Local version string SSH-1.5-OpenSSH_2.9p1 debug1: Waiting for server public key. debug1: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits). debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /root/.ssh/known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /root/.ssh/known_hosts debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 3 Warning: Permanently added 'logan' (RSA1) to the list of known hosts. debug1: Encryption type: blowfish debug1: Sent encrypted session key. debug1: Installing crc compensation attack detector. debug1: Received encrypted confirmation. debug1: Doing password authentication. root@logan's password: John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speed of various mail programs
I will try EVERYTHING: my decision must be wise. Anyway, I think pine uses the same MBOX format of every other UNIX mail manager, isn't it? I've found myself going back to elm after trying the other GUI mailers like kmail etc. The GUIs are nice, but painfully slow on an underpowered box (kmail is at least now usable on my athlon; on my P-100 it was very slow). Once you're used to elm it's very easy to use, and extremely fast. Olaf David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Upgrading WINE
I have Codeweavers-wine installed on my MDK8.0 and I want to upgrade it because a new WINE version has been released. Can I download WINE (that I just did a wine upgrade from winehq.com. Codeweavers seems to just be another variant of the stuff that comes from winehq. I opted for the unstripped .bz2 snapshot, about 4 megs or so in size, and installation is fairly straightforward. But there are several versions of builds, stable and not as stable, stuff built from the latest CVS, or of course there is the option of building it yourself - and it's not all that complicated to do that. Olaf David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Building RPMS as regular user
I did this many moons ago, but can't remember exactly what I'd done to set it up. I simply had a regular user account that had its own SPECS, BUILD, RPMS, SOURCES, and SRPMS directories in it where I could build RPMS without being root. I'm pretty sure I copies over the default rpmrc to ~/.rpmrc, but I can't remember what else you have to do to get this to work. If anyone's got any ideas, I'd love to hear them. Cheers, -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE They are called computers simply because computation is the only significant job that has so far been given to them. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pppd deamon died halfway through!!!
thanks for the help friend .. but sorry to dissapoint you but my pc dont have a ppp0 interface ... yes the modem is there but no ppp0 interface ... my moden is isapnp US robotics 56k sportster ... what to do now thanks Fasial --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, all this info is readable in man pppd and it can be yor friend have you tried the command ifup ppp0? what errors does it return? As I understand it, the noauth means that it does not require a secret to be transmitted back from the server to verify the server is the one you want. it does _not_ mean it does not want you to authorize your self to the server, just that the server does not offer up a password in return. authorization in both directions is a defualt in most unix network systems using IP. the demand function allows the ifup comand automagically when a requst to ppp0 is made, and will allow dialup automagiclly when a browser or mailcheck is started, even from some computer attached to the network and using your connection (Internet connection sharing) as the default route. the idle=xxx command is to hang up after a period of inactivity over the ip interface (ppp0) when noone is using the connection. xxx equals seconds so a statement of idle=600 would hang up the modem after 10 minutes. let me know the results of ifup ppp0 (InterFaceUP). to hang up an ifup ppp0 use ifdown ppp0 (and the 0 is the number zero, not a Cap O) On Sunday 19 August 2001 04:20, faisal gillani wrote: thanks for the reply friend... well no not that desperate to use wvdial... but i am a beginner @ pppd not found of writing scripts ..so wana use it .cause it is very straight foward .. but if you can help me connecting to my isp from command prompt then ill be happy to give it up . do you have any idea what does noauth means ? what impact does it have on pppd deamon config files thanks very much Faisal --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried just an ifup ppp0? for a command prompt dialing, with a demand and idle=xxx statement in the same file you added noauth to, you should have an auto dial in whenneeded and hang up when idle for xxx (in seconds. I don't mean to sound so dumb, but if you don't mind me asking, what is so important in using wvdial? On Saturday 18 August 2001 14:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well this problem of mine when i connect to my isp it says Athentication failed then pppd deamon died ...is half way through a friend of mine instructed me to put noauth in the customize pppd arguments in the connection properties of Kppp ... now i am connection to my isp sucessfully... but the problem is that i want to use wvdial from the command prompt dont want to use kppp X window ... how can i correct my wvdial problem now that i know that kppp is dailing with noauth help me out please its urgent ... thanks Faisal ??? ??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Building a custom install floppy...
Basically I'm trying to use a USB CD to install linux on a USB harddrive (don't ask, it's a laptop...) To this end I built a custom kernel with the stuff needed... The trouble is when I make the boot floppy with the blank.img and copy over vmlinuz and try to boot it just hangs after the message that it has decompressed the kernel is ready to run it... I've tried it with a bunch of different kernels, even the one that I use to boot my production server (so I know that one is valid)... Has anyoe used the blank.img to create a custom boot disk? And no I can't just use the network.img since the ethernet card is a pcmcia card... Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for.] [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ] PGP signature
[expert] Quotas on big harddisk
Hi, I try to set quotas on big harddisks, but I recive a errormessage, if I go over 4GB. ( cannot change current allocation ). This happend on different maschines with LM 7.2 and ext2 filesystem. Is there a limit? How can I limit diskusage about 20GB on ext2 or another filesystem like reiserfs ? Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
