Re: [expert] quotas again... please read me!
Julio Rodriguez grabbed a keyboard and wrote: this is the task: When the mailbox of a user on /var/mail/user have certain size (i.e. user 1000) the server generate a automatic warning mail for the user about the size exceding on his account (soft limit), so the user knows what is going on with his account... Could you please get me a little help with this??? This is something I threw together quickly. There may be a way of streamlining what is done here, but this does work. :-) First, login as root and create a file in /etc called toomuchmail.txt. This will contain the text of the warning message that you want to send. [root@rhpsfan2 mail]# cat /etc/toomuchmail.txt To: (address) Subject: Mail file is too big This is a quick note to let you know that your mail file is too large. Please download messages that you want to keep to your own computer, and delete them from your mail file here on the system. Thank you. System Administrator [root@rhpsfan2 mail]# (The root@rhpsfan stuff is part of my system prompt. :) Season the text of the warning message to suit your tastes. But leave that To: line as it reads above! :-) Make it mode 644 or 600, depending on whether or not you want your regular users to be able to read the contents without it being mailed to them. grin Next, create /sbin/mailsizecheck. This one should probably be mode 700. You can set it 744 if you want your users to see what the script is doing. No need to set the execute bit for regular users, since you don't want them running the thing anyway. :-) [root@rhpsfan2 mail]# cat /sbin/mailsizecheck #/bin/bash # Check mail file sizes for all users. umask 077 rm -f /tmp/address.list # make sure it's not already there cd /var/spool/mail # Find the big ones and build our list of addresses find . -type f -size +1000k -print | sed 's/\.\///' /tmp/address.list # Take the list and send the warning message to each one for address in `cat /tmp/address.list` ; do cat /etc/toomuchmail.txt | sed s/(address)/$address/ | \ /usr/sbin/sendmail -t ; done rm -f /tmp/address.list # clean up after ourselves :-) # End of script [root@rhpsfan2 mail]# Then, all you have to do is setup a crontab entry which runs /sbin/mailsizecheck once a day, and you're all set. HTH. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Serious bug in linux (I think)
Julia A. Case grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Quoting jipe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): directory's permissions have prior on the files permissions if root wants to put a file in /home/user that he doesn't want user to modify, he has to put it in a specific dir which he is the owner. Seems a bit strange to me that the directory permissions would take priority over a file, it would make more sense if the directory permissions would dictate what files could be created in the directory and not allow you to remove a file that you didn't have permission on. It's really not that strange, if you stop and think about what's actually happening. A directory is really nothing more than any other file. It's only special in that what it contains is pointers to where other files reside in the filesystem instead of text or whatever. When you create, move/rename, or delete a file, what you're doing is modifying an entry in the directory file itself, and not the file which you are creating/editing/deleting/whatever. If you have permissions to write to a file, you can make changes to the contents of that file. If you have write permissions to a directory (which is just another type of file), then you can make changes to the contents of that directory. Editing a file changes the contents of that file. Creating, moving/renaming, deleting a file is just editing the contents of the directory which points to the file that you're creating/moving/deleting, and thus is editing the contents of the directory. I hope this helps explain it a bit for you, and helps it make more sense. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Serious bug in linux (I think)
What are the permissions on the /home/user? I'm reasonable certain that all unixes behave as below. At least SunOS, Solaris, Linux, IRIX, and AIX all do. Michael Osten wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:19:25 -0700 Julia A. Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've not tried this on non-Mandrake boxes, but I think it may be a problem with linux in general not just Mandrake. As root touch /home/user/test1;chmod 600 /home/user/test1 touch /home/user/test2;chmod 600 /home/user/test2 As user mv test1 test3 mv test2 test3 Both succeed with no trouble (the 2nd one will ask if you want to override the mode 600). mv basically does a cp and a rm doesn't it (I didn't look at the source, just guessing) and you shouldn't be able to rm a file you don't have permission to write on. You can mv the files anywhere in your home dir you have write permissions, but you can't seem to move to say /tmp It would seem that if an admin put a specific file in your home dir that they didn't want you to modify, you could either move it or even replace it with this setup. I'll admit this would be a little odd, but still a bug. Since I'm not sure who to report this too, someone please let me know. Julia I've confirmed this is the case on both redhat and mandrake (anyone want to try on Solaris to make sure this isn't just a unix thing?) -- Michael Osten Reefedge Inc. -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org mQGhBDuxPdYRBADzFXgIcmDpZXOxYeplGQQdv1HONlLFxis5YiR2R7dQ6KAmZG/X 5xcXPcbrstXPuUJz4DPVaWTF59e1oXFuBFX/BSeyat45diu/cUZVLHjsEDqdodiG BPfsTNtaW3ZP245ZZVr3m4jedssXuboKNOlLX166N0aWqXGo3ncGXnR7dwCg6978 ZnAbBmOZg8zD+3Z9alWwa0MD/A2IlkVNg0K19jJuRvGOd3neXjESqQ/84d6NvGEG yKaTUMzESZEuF4hPynpSFkUPLSE+1tZ4hqkIzP2IYrD74ObZnkKVtcjNNB4GAdk/ kYsuEo6TNQC7xuTky3Slc/sXQL5YFFYeIO3Wdt0+L/E1vU3YVfPDhcnMe6lalGQH 5YwfA/dfU8o2x7JsS0eF3YiQhXQ2kHYfCTkmyD5QZZosHdmUmPGaMyTXvancHbNl cLDe9ZQubYSQQTBTmDBF8MfRmxInGTGn6jnVOc8dYVfkG7mVeQqI0hwYpAVj4TLp IMLddL0N1HBDI1R5h9xtXMGsj8rh85ZHAdhjWmXfRky4XQuqtCNNaWNoYWVsIE9z dGVuIDxtb3N0ZW5AcmVlZmVkZ2UuY29tPohXBBMRAgAXBQI7sT3WBQsHCgMEAxUD AgMWAgECF4AACgkQK9WwSrQMCYkpEgCg6g1gvlGn0E2FcQrPpP0+IP5FGzMAoNKB n2q/sJf35ugdDSef/uD+vYNVuQENBDuxPdgQBADG+SfLco3vL583je7Bz+n82X6w cgeS6tm4EqGb6NXcEa+FvniBefBueRssBzaEqhluUV9rzn5W+N7nf7VGoLI2oGhg ZFhVdNqR8SNofZue8lEqWMkIMdFlXRqojlzbejOXa54WVXEfSZybsuitKsfoDREO QDKa7MTPtnwEedaJIwADBgQAgcZ5nFJoZhGHfnqsz4LHjldFnr5PaeEiWYrYjBcz drLLaLf2EI5oAnMwDIN3apXb2MRMp1gD93kWcbY6DsVQMgGIXvNYjHR8mwuH/6l5 VNGVQOdiouXf1LqXjFlO+Ld0PqvDyILZPktDz8vd+rnhzv3u8GZduMytuJvPN9hQ L+WIRgQYEQIABgUCO7E92AAKCRAr1bBKtAwJiWnbAJ4wHX/ejEwC3VLJjFZyg+SN ORdi/QCfbY1VFUL0hTZtCdpXQ/W7rMxRq/s= =mqPG -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- Arnold Troeger Unocal Thailand Phone: 011-66-2-545-5456 5th Floor, Tower 3, SCB Park Plaza FAX:011-66-2-545-5374 19 Ratchadapisek Road, Chatuchak Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bangkok 10900, Thailand Microsoft Windows: for when your machine is just too fast Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Sample sendmail/postfix config?
Use Postfix, its far easier.. basic files are: aliases, This is for local user redirection. (to other local users or outside address's) virtual, This is for the redirection of users not on the system. so if your box is setup to receive mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and foo.com is not your hostname, and mark is not a local user, and you want to redirect that to @foo2.com then this file is your freind. Canonical, This file will essentially rewrite the from header to whatever you specify.. (I have never had a use for it, but I can think of possible uses for it...) all config in postfix is done from /etc/postfix/main.cf All the config files are very simple and are all commented. and the FAQ at postfix.org is very good for unique applications. Postfix is both smaller and faster then sendmail and is also more secure. The content_filter is fantastic also, if you want to pass mail to another app for some reason (like virus scanning.) works great, I learned postfix from scratch in a night or two,, now have several servers using it. I have never looked back at sendmail. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Theo Brinkman Sent: Saturday, 27 October 2001 7:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Sample sendmail/postfix config? Problem is, I don't understand them. They give a bunch of examples, but none of the comments describe what the particular file DOES, so I don't know what to look at to get an example for my case. (providing mail over the internet for a single domain) - Theo Dominique Fober wrote: You have a lot of examples in /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/cf df I'm having a devil of a time trying to get sendmail or postfix configured on a web/mail server I'm setting up. Could anybody send me/point me towards a sample, working config file (i.e.: sendmail.mc) for handling mail for a single domain. I've not had any luck finding samples or tutorials to help me out with this process. Everybody says the default, out of the box, installed one should work, but I've had no luck with it. - Theo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Sample sendmail/postfix config?
Try using webmin to setup your postfix server. Theres only like three lines you need to fill in for mail to one domain or several. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1
Hi all, I've got real probls with this, now to thrid install, at the moment half way thru putting 2.4.12-5mdk on ,, the kernel compiles ok, but not the modules.. having to use make -k modules. I can't get tthe telnet-server to be recognised , according all the package managers telnet-server-krb..is installed, I've even uninstalled and reinstalled again.. I know telnet's mucky old and insucure , but in my apps I need to use it, as I cant use ssh from my work location to gain access due to their firewalls and proxy servers. As soon as you type telnet address its command not recognised, I nver saw that with telnet fuctions on mdk 7.2. Any suggestions as to why...telnetd is installed ?? thanks Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1
r Hi all, r I've got real probls with this, now to thrid install, at the moment half r way thru putting 2.4.12-5mdk on ,, the kernel compiles ok, r but not the modules.. having to use make -k modules. r I can't get tthe telnet-server to be recognised , according all the r package managers telnet-server-krb..is installed, r I've even uninstalled and reinstalled again.. r I know telnet's mucky old and insucure , but in my apps I need to use r it, as I cant use ssh from my work location to gain access due to their r firewalls and proxy servers. r As soon as you type telnet address r its command not recognised, I nver saw that with telnet fuctions on mdk r 7.2. r Any suggestions as to why...telnetd is installed ?? r thanks r Richard I dont know about the kernel, but for the telnet I can say The package telnet-sever is contains the server, telnetd, and it will serve you telnet. So you can login to your machine from outside. The package telnet-client is needed, to run the command telnet adress . In MDK 8.1 there is no trouble in connecting to other systems using the telnet client. But I believe, yet, that no one could ever make his MDK 8.1 serve a telnet session. There is a bug out there but no one seems to be able to solve it yet :( Onur Kucuk _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1
couldnt you configure ssh to use the telnet port, and do the same on you work ssh app? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of richard Sent: Saturday, 27 October 2001 7:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1 Hi all, I've got real probls with this, now to thrid install, at the moment half way thru putting 2.4.12-5mdk on ,, the kernel compiles ok, but not the modules.. having to use make -k modules. I can't get tthe telnet-server to be recognised , according all the package managers telnet-server-krb..is installed, I've even uninstalled and reinstalled again.. I know telnet's mucky old and insucure , but in my apps I need to use it, as I cant use ssh from my work location to gain access due to their firewalls and proxy servers. As soon as you type telnet address its command not recognised, I nver saw that with telnet fuctions on mdk 7.2. Any suggestions as to why...telnetd is installed ?? thanks Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1 + compiling modules
On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 12:46, Onur Kucuk wrote: I dont know about the kernel, but for the telnet I can say The package telnet-sever is contains the server, telnetd, and it will serve you telnet. So you can login to your machine from outside. The package telnet-client is needed, to run the command telnet adress . In MDK 8.1 there is no trouble in connecting to other systems using the telnet client. But I believe, yet, that no one could ever make his MDK 8.1 serve a telnet session. There is a bug out there but no one seems to be able to solve it yet :( Onur Kucuk Hi All thanks for the replies Well now I know the telnet server dos'nt work with 8.1,thats going to save alot of time trying to get it working. What is a real pain in the bum is having to walk into another room to get data from another machine, with an app that dos'nt support ssh. I'll have to play with the redirect on iptables a bit to get round that. Next problem is compiling the modules on 2.4.12-5mdk using gcc-2.96 and also have egcs installed. still cant get the modules to compile, used the -k option and the modules needed didnt compile ie. both ethernet drivers one being ne2k !!! and the sound card driver. What is the definitive requirement for versions of egcs and gcc that work.. has anyone tried 2.4.13 and got both the kernel and modules to compile, if so I'll pull the tarball off and try that . TIA best regards Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] something very weid with 8.1
HI list, After many painful attempts at getting Mandrake 8.1 to install on my old AMD system at home, the strangest thing i've ever seen has happened. No matter what i do, and mean that literally, cause i think i've tried everything i can think of, i can not log into the mailserver and get my mail. that would be the mail server on the machine itself and not the one at my ISP. I've been doing mail like this ever since i started using Linux. i just like it that way. anyhow, this one has really got me stumped. And to make matter worse it lost my CD-RW drive and i can't remember just how to go about setting that back up so i can use it. otherwise i would just reinstall the imap package to get the mail going again. the consistant error i'm getting back when i attempt to get my mail from the system mailserver is an authentication error. and yes, i checked to make sure it was running. as far as i could tell it was. things like this are quite a bit different then they were/are in Mandrake 7.2 so it's going to take a bit of time for me to get used to where they've put everything. as always, any and all suggestions and or flames are graciously accepted. thanks, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] rpm or zip files
I wonder if anyone can tell me how I can get a i686.rpm file changed over to run on a i586 linux box. I also wonder why some would take a linux file or source and put it into a zip file.. How can I extract/unzip a zipped linux file Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Bastille Part 3
Interesting that the firewall worked great when I started it from the command prompt but I found that my internet connection was screwed up after rebooting (to make sure that bastille started up on a reboot). I wish I had followed the thread about this File size limit exceeded message, also, when trying to log in as su. I stopped the firewall (after logging in as root) and still can't go anywhere on the internet or log in as su. I want tight security but not this tight. Any simple solutions to my problem or I am going to have to spend another weekend figuring out how to undo my screwup? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1
From: Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/10/27 Sat AM 11:28:06 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Oct 2001 4:13 pm, you wrote: HI list, After many painful attempts at getting Mandrake 8.1 to install on my old AMD system at home, the strangest thing i've ever seen has happened. No matter what i do, and mean that literally, cause i think i've tried everything i can think of, i can not log into the mailserver and get my mail. that would be the mail server on the machine itself and not the one at my ISP. I've been doing mail like this ever since i started using Linux. i just like it that way. anyhow, this one has really got me stumped. And to make matter worse it lost my CD-RW drive and i can't remember just how to go about setting that back up so i can use it. otherwise i would just reinstall the imap package to get the mail going again. the consistant error i'm getting back when i attempt to get my mail from the system mailserver is an authentication error. and yes, i checked to make sure it was running. as far as i could tell it was. things like this are quite a bit different then they were/are in Mandrake 7.2 so it's going to take a bit of time for me to get used to where they've put everything. as always, any and all suggestions and or flames are graciously accepted. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but i couldnt get imap to work in 8.0, and havent tried since. Im suprised you lost your cd-rw as mandrake is very good at auto detecting these. Have you loaded to ide-scsi module? And you can just collect your mail locally from /var/spool/mail/username , and i think thats the only place pine/mutt/mail look. And is also easy to setup in kmail Hi Tom, Thats the really weird thing about it all - as far as the mail is concerned. It had been working. I've only had 8.1 setup and running on the machine for a few days. It had been working beautifully. In fact, I had imap AND pop3 accounts working using Sylpheed that were being accessed on my machine. None of the mail clients on my machine can connect to the mailserver and get the mail. i know where it is, just can't get from there here. know what i mean? As for the CD-RW thats the only CDROM device on the machine and that what i loaded the system with. then, last night when i realized what was actually wrong with the mail server - imapd either is broken or won't stay running - i slammed CD1 into the drive and promptly told that that device wasn't recognized by the system. I guess at this point I should mention that the version of Mandrake is 8.1beta3. Still, it is all very perplexing. while I would very much rather NOT go back to 7.2 simply because i want to be able to run glibc-2.2.x i'm going to try and load the final release of 8.1 onto the system. i've got that one running here at work and so far it seems to be ok. Still...what in the world happened to cause this? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 802.11b (wireless networking) hardware for Linux?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, Just wondering if anybody has experience with any 802.11b products under Linux? I am looking at setting up my IBM ThinkPad (laptop) as a wireless client for my home network. I am going through the wireless networking howto, and have read a couple of product reviews, but am looking for personal experiences from anyone who cares to share. Dave - -- Life is like a simile. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72tpnA68l26XsZUYRAj7VAJ9fJvdmEH9xKgYq/O14/p4Mpgk+/wCgxtg9 9R7ywlAnpgrx/BfTyU89T84= =qt5G -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] something very weid with 8.1
when I set up my mail server with 8.1 I set the security as high, which adds deny all to hosts.deny, so I added my IP address to host.allow to fix it, and it didn't work, so I had to hash out deny all from hosts.deny to check my mail, I have no idea why it doesn't work though... perhaps you have a similiar prob? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 27 October 2001 11:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] something very weid with 8.1 HI list, After many painful attempts at getting Mandrake 8.1 to install on my old AMD system at home, the strangest thing i've ever seen has happened. No matter what i do, and mean that literally, cause i think i've tried everything i can think of, i can not log into the mailserver and get my mail. that would be the mail server on the machine itself and not the one at my ISP. I've been doing mail like this ever since i started using Linux. i just like it that way. anyhow, this one has really got me stumped. And to make matter worse it lost my CD-RW drive and i can't remember just how to go about setting that back up so i can use it. otherwise i would just reinstall the imap package to get the mail going again. the consistant error i'm getting back when i attempt to get my mail from the system mailserver is an authentication error. and yes, i checked to make sure it was running. as far as i could tell it was. things like this are quite a bit different then they were/are in Mandrake 7.2 so it's going to take a bit of time for me to get used to where they've put everything. as always, any and all suggestions and or flames are graciously accepted. thanks, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] rejecting sites mail with postfix
Hi *, I have a quick question regarding postfix. I checked www.postfix.org, but the answer wasn't readily apparent. I am trying to block some spam sites from gaining entry into my system, and I run my own mail server (no pop - smtp right to my dsl address) and according to the manpages, it would appear that I should put the trouble- some sites in /etc/postfix/access, one per line, along with a REJECT message; probably the simplest way to do this. So I have a few lines: 163.net REJECT customoffers.com REJECT 263.net REJECT etc. I then restart postfix by 'service postfix restart', the access.db file is subsequently rewritten. Still though I get spam from these sites, and postfix seemingly is ignoring these rules. 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://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm or zip files
I also wonder why some would take a linux file or source and put it into a zip file.. How can I extract/unzip a zipped linux file Go to the software manager, enter zip, you should see the packages zip and unzip. They will either be installed already or you will have to do so. These work on all ZIP files that I have come accross. Dave. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm or zip files
HH I wonder if anyone can tell me how I can get a i686.rpm file changed over to HH run on a i586 linux box. As it is already compiled, I believe you probably cant, but the program may work. If not, you will need to find the source and recompile, or need to find a i586 one. HH I also wonder why some would take a linux file or source and put it into a HH zip file.. HH How can I extract/unzip a zipped linux file ^ you already wrote the answer :) Onur Kucuk _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Ipv4 stop system at shutdown
Sometimes my system can't shutdown properly, Aurora stops time to time in the option of stop the send packages IPv4 :-( Do you have any idea about the origin of the problem; I have reinstalled 8.1 but the problem still appears time to time and I need to switch off the computer by hand. Thansk a lot for your help, Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 802.11b (wireless networking) hardware for Linux?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Oct 2001 5:01 pm, you wrote: Hello everyone, Just wondering if anybody has experience with any 802.11b products under Linux? I am looking at setting up my IBM ThinkPad (laptop) as a wireless client for my home network. I am going through the wireless networking howto, and have read a couple of product reviews, but am looking for personal experiences from anyone who cares to share. Ive heard very good things about wavelan pcmcia cards. There is even a linux robotics project that uses them. As far as im aware, 802.11 compliant products are very well suported in linux, but i could be wrong. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72u1KXCpWOla2mCcRAiduAJ9kMrw+Vre4x3zhWu7UGUHkO2pvfwCgn8ei cvI/ErV49OHwV8JaOrZLO04= =ZQSN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Euro symbol in Spanish
Anone has reached 8.1 to have the Euro symbol using a Spanish keyboard? I have tried using 8859-15 iso but just a ? symbol appears using ALTGR+E. I have this symbols using latex and the eurosym package, but not for Staroffice, Kwriter and so one. Any help will be welcome. Thans a lot for your attention, Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As for the CD-RW thats the only CDROM device on the machine and that what i loaded the system with. then, last night when i realized what was actually wrong with the mail server - imapd either is broken or won't stay running - i slammed CD1 into the drive and promptly told that that device wasn't recognized by the system. I guess at this point I should mention that the version of Mandrake is 8.1beta3. Still, it is all very perplexing. while I would very much rather NOT go back to 7.2 simply because i want to be able to run glibc-2.2.x i'm going to try and load the final release of 8.1 onto the system. i've got that one running here at work and so far it seems to be ok. I was having some problems in RC1 still, and most of them seemed to be fixed by 8.1 final, so i guess that might fix them. Specifically, i was using very odd combinations of filesystems, and having many partitions seemed to screw RC1 sometimes, but everything was working in that regard with final. Also, i notice that turning of devfs (passing nomount to the kernel) gives alot of errors when programs expect /dev/cdrom* devices, that then need to be created manually. Maybe that will fix your problem with the cdrom. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72u43XCpWOla2mCcRAutmAJ9KSMZi9RkwcG5/AMGpjvDRL3d3RgCgkWJb SG7uJ+JnXoiTTZRkdyko9cA= =DH3d -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1
On 27 Oct 2001 14:32:16 +0100 richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 12:46, Onur Kucuk wrote: Among other things' But I believe, yet, that no one could ever make his MDK 8.1 serve a telnet session. There is a bug out there but no one seems to be able to solve it yet :( I know this is probably a rather duffless response to this thread but has anyone been able to run an earlier version of telnet server i.e. LM 8.0 or Freq. on their LM 8.1 which might work in this case? -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Euro symbol in Spanish
I have the euro symbol displayed in staroffice 5.2, but I can't print it. I only obtain a ? symbol in kde using ALTGR+E. May be the default font for display in kde does not have the 8859-iso, I will try changing the default font. On the other hand, the correct symbol is showed in gnome programs. To print it is another problem... Salu2 óscar. (pues eso, a ver si lo solucionamos entre todos, ¿eh?) El Sáb 27 Oct 2001 19:25, escribió: Anone has reached 8.1 to have the Euro symbol using a Spanish keyboard? I have tried using 8859-15 iso but just a ? symbol appears using ALTGR+E. I have this symbols using latex and the eurosym package, but not for Staroffice, Kwriter and so one. Any help will be welcome. Thans a lot for your attention, Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm or zip files
While RPM archived files are convenient they are not univerally used on all linux distributions. Also RPM binary files don't give you control or security over the files you install. Tar Ball or tar zipped files give the user more control and are used in all distributions. tar -xzf filename Ron Harold Hartley wrote: I wonder if anyone can tell me how I can get a i686.rpm file changed over to run on a i586 linux box. I also wonder why some would take a linux file or source and put it into a zip file.. How can I extract/unzip a zipped linux file Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ron Marriage Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/ Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User Group http://www.seidata.com/~seilug/ Blind Links http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nvidia full screen gaming
QH hello, QH I'm trying to get some gaming going on my new inspiron 8100. i have QH unreal tournament installed and running but it will not go into full QH screen unless the game resolution unless the game settings are set to QH 1400X1050 which results in extremely unacceptable mouse performance. QH i found documentation at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/nvidia_tsg.html that QH says this is a x configuration issue but my configuration matches their QH suggestions (as far as i can tell). i also wonder if this is related to QH nvidia not supporting devfs (but i don't know much about devfs). QH if you have run accross this, please let me know the solution or, better QH yet, point me in the dirction of the proper documentation. Other than te nvidia settings, how about your unreal tournament settings? First of all, use the latest unreal tournament, because they had lots of troubles in the developement period. I remember nvidia users had to change the video settings in a config file of UT, adding a line with tnt2 (or something like that). Maybe you shall check that. Any other opengl game has trouble ? Like, quake3 ? If not, then this belongs to Ut. Onur Kucuk _ 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://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] SB AWE64 failing to load - Mandrake 8.1
I recently upgraded (read: re-installed) to Mandrake 8.1. Since then, my sound card has not been working. The sound card was working fine under Mandrake 8.0 and still works when I boot to Win98SE. It's a Creative SB AWE64. When I run sndconfig, it first says: ISAPNP Probe Results A ISAPNP sound card was found in your system. The details are: Model: Creative SB AWE64 PnP:Audio OK. All looks good so far. Hit OK for the sound sample, and I get: modprobe error The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: init_module: No such device /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: insmod sound-slot-0 failed OK. Not so good... It spits me into manual config and I try a zillion combinations for IRQ/IO/DMA including those which work for Win98 and still, the same thing comes out. Also, I'm not sure if this is relavent, but when I probe the driver with insmod, it returns unresolved symbols. Is this supposed to happen? Maybe my sb.o is corrupt? [eric@europa eric]$ /sbin/insmod -p sb Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol probe_sbmpu_Rddc8ad00 /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol smw_free_R450f9aea /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol sb_dsp_detect_Rd8a2731c /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol sb_dsp_unload_Rc4884969 /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol unload_sbmpu_R74afd69c /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol sb_dsp_init_Re986438b Thanks for any help getting this working, -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 802.11b (wireless networking) hardware for Linux?
The following contains links and info that may be of help (taken from the handhelds.org mailing list.) From: Adam Boileau To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hidey ho all. After bleating about my wireless lan woes a week or so ago on the list, I'm pleased to say that thanks to the help of the list, I have a well functioning wireless lan rig. In case someone else in my positition is reduced to searching list archives, I'll outline how things went. I've got a D-Link DWL-650 11Mbps 802.11b pcmcia wireless lan card an ipaq 3660 running linux (Familiar 0.4), talking to my gateway (Debian 2.2) with an Aironet 4800 pcmcia-in-a-pci-card rig. Firstly, to clarify some issues around the DWL-650; it is a stock prism2 chipset 16 bit pcmcia card, of a fairly standard variety. It's not a wavelan, or cardbus. In stock linux, it doesn't appear to work with the (obsolescent) wvlan_cs driver, but apparently does with the orinoco/hermes driver (the replacement for the wvlan_cs). However the orinoco/hermes drivers don't work on Linux/ARM, due (apparently) to aligned-ness issues. My goal was to have working 802.11b in ad-hoc/IBSS mode to the various wlan clouds in my commuting-life. The only working solution appeard to be the Linux WLAN Project's[1] wlan-ng. The wlan/wlan-ng projects are an implementation of the 802.11b standards for Prism2 based cards. The wlan-ng drivers are the newer 11Mbps ones, whilst the older wlan ones are more mature, but only support 2Mbps. (As as interesting aside, the wlan/wlan-ng drivers support all manner of neat stuff, such as 'access point' functionality, promiscuity, and other neat tricks.) The wlan-ng drivers as yet have only unofficial patches for ad-hoc support, which I obtained from the wlan-ng mailing lists. (The turnover in patches is high, so check the mailing list to see where support is at - it may well be in the stock release now...) I'm runing linux-wlan-ng-0.1.8-pre13 with patches. I set out with familiar 0.4, using the stock 2.4.3-rmk2-np1 kernel. I set up the cross-compiler toolchain, (built a few things to test), and then configured a 2.4.3-rmk2-np1 kernel source tree and pcmcia-cs-3.1.29 tree to build wlan-ng against. The trick to getting wlan-ng to build and work on the ipaq, appears to be some mangling of the pcmcia voltage detection stuff. I read elsewhere on the mailing lists[2] that this is due to the Ipaq doing some auto-voltage-fu, and thusly confusing things that try to set it manually. Whilst not solving the problem, by mangling the code path[3] so it doesn't head off the wrong way, you can get a working build. Next, I discovered that the DLink shipped firmware lacked adequate ad-hoc mode support (apparently the windows drivers do some serious kludging to make it go), and also discovered that the version available from the dlink site was also inadquate. In a leap of faith, I 'upgraded' the card with a smc firmware[4] of the appropriate version, using the windows utility[5]. From there, it was a simple case of configuring /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.opts to set SSIDs and the like, insert the card, and bob's your uncle. There's still a few error messages here and there, but nothing that impairs functionality. Now I'm happily listening to streaming mp3, browsing, and battling pine with a stylus :) Adam [1] http://www.linux-wlan.org [2] http://www.handhelds.org/pipermail/ipaq/2001-May/006717.html [3] linux-wlan-ng-0.1.8-pre13/src/prism2/driver/prism2sta.c, line 2936 and friends [4] http://www.smc.com/drivers_downloads/library/S10008C3.zip [5] http://www.smc.com/drivers_downloads/library/WinUpdate_OEM_1.1.zip On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:22, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Oct 2001 5:01 pm, you wrote: Hello everyone, Just wondering if anybody has experience with any 802.11b products under Linux? I am looking at setting up my IBM ThinkPad (laptop) as a wireless client for my home network. I am going through the wireless networking howto, and have read a couple of product reviews, but am looking for personal experiences from anyone who cares to share. Ive heard very good things about wavelan pcmcia cards. There is even a linux robotics project that uses them. As far as im aware, 802.11 compliant products are very well suported in linux, but i could be wrong. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72u1KXCpWOla2mCcRAiduAJ9kMrw+Vre4x3zhWu7UGUHkO2pvfwCgn8ei cvI/ErV49OHwV8JaOrZLO04= =ZQSN -END PGP SIGNATURE- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Re: [expert] rejecting sites mail with postfix
David E. Fox wrote: Hi *, I have a quick question regarding postfix. I checked www.postfix.org, but the answer wasn't readily apparent. I am trying to block some spam sites from gaining entry into my system, and I run my own mail server (no pop - smtp right to my dsl address) and according to the manpages, it would appear that I should put the trouble- some sites in /etc/postfix/access, one per line, along with a REJECT message; probably the simplest way to do this. So I have a few lines: 163.net REJECT customoffers.com REJECT 263.net REJECT etc. I then restart postfix by 'service postfix restart', the access.db file is subsequently rewritten. Still though I get spam from these sites, and postfix seemingly is ignoring these rules. Are you sure..? :^) I thought it was too but the file dates said otherwise... Try: postmap /etc/postfix/access postfix reload HTH, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] nfs
How long should it take to mount an nfs volume? I've got a computer with using xfs and it takes a good 5 minutes to mount from the same network. When done mounting the transfer is about as good as it gets 80Mb/sec on 100Mb/sec NIC cards. Any thoughts on this? Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1
Well...i finished with the install of 8.1 final and so far everything appears to be working nicely. guess i'll keep my eye on this one for a while before i'm confident that it will be worry free. RC1 was nice, but it was flaky. as was beta3. but thats why they call it beta. i'm curious about something though. why'd they release RC1 and then not a week later the final release of Mdk 8.1 was on the servers? Mark From: Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/10/27 Sat PM 01:26:14 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As for the CD-RW thats the only CDROM device on the machine and that what i loaded the system with. then, last night when i realized what was actually wrong with the mail server - imapd either is broken or won't stay running - i slammed CD1 into the drive and promptly told that that device wasn't recognized by the system. I guess at this point I should mention that the version of Mandrake is 8.1beta3. Still, it is all very perplexing. while I would very much rather NOT go back to 7.2 simply because i want to be able to run glibc-2.2.x i'm going to try and load the final release of 8.1 onto the system. i've got that one running here at work and so far it seems to be ok. I was having some problems in RC1 still, and most of them seemed to be fixed by 8.1 final, so i guess that might fix them. Specifically, i was using very odd combinations of filesystems, and having many partitions seemed to screw RC1 sometimes, but everything was working in that regard with final. Also, i notice that turning of devfs (passing nomount to the kernel) gives alot of errors when programs expect /dev/cdrom* devices, that then need to be created manually. Maybe that will fix your problem with the cdrom. - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72u43XCpWOla2mCcRAutmAJ9KSMZi9RkwcG5/AMGpjvDRL3d3RgCgkWJb SG7uJ+JnXoiTTZRkdyko9cA= =DH3d -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SB AWE64 failing to load - Mandrake 8.1
It looks as if isa_pnp is linked into the kernel: # # Plug and Play configuration # CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_ISAPNP=y CONFIG_PNPBIOS=y -- Bjarne Eric Paynter wrote: OK. lsmod returns nothing that seems related to sound. Here is the output: [root@europa etc]# lsmod Module Size Used by binfmt_misc 6208 1 nfsd 70464 8 (autoclean) lockd 51440 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 66480 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] lp 5808 0 parport_pc 20240 1 parport24768 1 [lp parport_pc] af_packet 12560 0 (autoclean) usb-uhci 21232 0 (unused) usbcore50752 1 [usb-uhci] tulip 36400 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2880 1 (autoclean) ntfs 49776 1 (autoclean) rtc 5600 0 (autoclean) ext3 63084 1 jbd39168 1 [ext3] So I can't unload anything. I went into the Control Center and when I try to test the card, I get modprobe: Can't locate module isa-pnp. I scanned my HDD and sure enough there is no module by that name... I can't find any rpm on the CD that claims to have that file either. Now I'm really confused. Does Mdk8.1 not support isa-pnp anymore? That doesn't make sense so I must have missed something. This was a pretty vanilla install. I just chose recommended and selected all the workstation stuff and none of the server stuff so I can't imagine that I decided not to install it. Any other ideas? Thanks, -Eric On October 27, 2001 12:04 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: A frequent mistake people make when using sndconfig is NOT first clearing the existing sound modules from RAM. If you don't clear them sndconfig cannot load them again, since they already exist and interfere with the new load (unless you happen to have two identical boards). Under LM8.1 sndconfig does not fully configure many sound cards. The Mandrake Control Panel does a MUCH BETTER job. Remove all sound related modules from RAM lsmod rmmod sound etc. If rmmod states that a mod is busy, there is another module which must be removed first... Get rid of all of them then go into the control panel and configure your card from their. Reboot (yeah really, restarting the sound daemon does not seem to give you all the new device entries). Use AUXMIX to turn up all the mixer values and go back into the KDEcontrol Panel and Save the mixer state, so that things get automatically set upon the next boot. The KDEcontrol panel modifies the ALSA-CTL files which are used at boot. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric Paynter |Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 2:40 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert] SB AWE64 failing to load - Mandrake 8.1 | | |I recently upgraded (read: re-installed) to Mandrake 8.1. |Since then, my |sound card has not been working. The sound card was working fine under |Mandrake 8.0 and still works when I boot to Win98SE. It's a |Creative SB AWE64. | |When I run sndconfig, it first says: | | |ISAPNP Probe Results | | A ISAPNP sound card was found in | your system. The details are: | | Model: Creative SB AWE64 | PnP:Audio | | |OK. All looks good so far. Hit OK for the sound sample, and I get: | | |modprobe error | | The following error occurred running the modprobe program: | | /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: | init_module: No such device | /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: insmod | /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz failed | /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: insmod | sound-slot-0 failed | |OK. Not so good... It spits me into manual config and I try a zillion |combinations for IRQ/IO/DMA including those which work for |Win98 and still, |the same thing comes out. Also, I'm not sure if this is |relavent, but when I |probe the driver with insmod, it returns unresolved symbols. |Is this supposed |to happen? Maybe my sb.o is corrupt? | | |[eric@europa eric]$ /sbin/insmod -p sb |Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: |unresolved symbol |probe_sbmpu_Rddc8ad00 |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: |unresolved symbol |smw_free_R450f9aea |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: |unresolved symbol |sb_dsp_detect_Rd8a2731c |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: |unresolved symbol |sb_dsp_unload_Rc4884969 |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: |unresolved symbol |unload_sbmpu_R74afd69c
Re: [expert] SB AWE64 failing to load - Mandrake 8.1
That's even more interesting seeing as how I haven't recompiled the kernel. It's the 2.4.8 kernel that was released as a security patch a few weeks ago... -Eric On October 27, 2001 03:00 pm, you wrote: It looks as if isa_pnp is linked into the kernel: # # Plug and Play configuration # CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_ISAPNP=y CONFIG_PNPBIOS=y -- Bjarne Eric Paynter wrote: OK. lsmod returns nothing that seems related to sound. Here is the output: [root@europa etc]# lsmod Module Size Used by binfmt_misc 6208 1 nfsd 70464 8 (autoclean) lockd 51440 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 66480 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] lp 5808 0 parport_pc 20240 1 parport24768 1 [lp parport_pc] af_packet 12560 0 (autoclean) usb-uhci 21232 0 (unused) usbcore50752 1 [usb-uhci] tulip 36400 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2880 1 (autoclean) ntfs 49776 1 (autoclean) rtc 5600 0 (autoclean) ext3 63084 1 jbd39168 1 [ext3] So I can't unload anything. I went into the Control Center and when I try to test the card, I get modprobe: Can't locate module isa-pnp. I scanned my HDD and sure enough there is no module by that name... I can't find any rpm on the CD that claims to have that file either. Now I'm really confused. Does Mdk8.1 not support isa-pnp anymore? That doesn't make sense so I must have missed something. This was a pretty vanilla install. I just chose recommended and selected all the workstation stuff and none of the server stuff so I can't imagine that I decided not to install it. Any other ideas? Thanks, -Eric On October 27, 2001 12:04 pm, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: A frequent mistake people make when using sndconfig is NOT first clearing the existing sound modules from RAM. If you don't clear them sndconfig cannot load them again, since they already exist and interfere with the new load (unless you happen to have two identical boards). Under LM8.1 sndconfig does not fully configure many sound cards. The Mandrake Control Panel does a MUCH BETTER job. Remove all sound related modules from RAM lsmod rmmod sound etc. If rmmod states that a mod is busy, there is another module which must be removed first... Get rid of all of them then go into the control panel and configure your card from their. Reboot (yeah really, restarting the sound daemon does not seem to give you all the new device entries). Use AUXMIX to turn up all the mixer values and go back into the KDEcontrol Panel and Save the mixer state, so that things get automatically set upon the next boot. The KDEcontrol panel modifies the ALSA-CTL files which are used at boot. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric Paynter |Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 2:40 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [expert] SB AWE64 failing to load - Mandrake 8.1 | | |I recently upgraded (read: re-installed) to Mandrake 8.1. |Since then, my |sound card has not been working. The sound card was working fine under |Mandrake 8.0 and still works when I boot to Win98SE. It's a |Creative SB AWE64. | |When I run sndconfig, it first says: | | |ISAPNP Probe Results | | A ISAPNP sound card was found in | your system. The details are: | | Model: Creative SB AWE64 | PnP:Audio | | |OK. All looks good so far. Hit OK for the sound sample, and I get: | | |modprobe error | | The following error occurred running the modprobe program: | | /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: | init_module: No such device | /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: insmod | /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz failed | /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: insmod | sound-slot-0 failed | |OK. Not so good... It spits me into manual config and I try a zillion |combinations for IRQ/IO/DMA including those which work for |Win98 and still, |the same thing comes out. Also, I'm not sure if this is |relavent, but when I |probe the driver with insmod, it returns unresolved symbols. |Is this supposed |to happen? Maybe my sb.o is corrupt? | | |[eric@europa eric]$ /sbin/insmod -p sb |Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: |unresolved symbol |probe_sbmpu_Rddc8ad00 |/lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: |unresolved
Re: [expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1
On Saturday 27 October 2001 05:31 pm, you wrote: On 27 Oct 2001 14:32:16 +0100 richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 12:46, Onur Kucuk wrote: Among other things' But I believe, yet, that no one could ever make his MDK 8.1 serve a telnet session. There is a bug out there but no one seems to be able to solve it yet :( I know this is probably a rather duffless response to this thread but has anyone been able to run an earlier version of telnet server i.e. LM 8.0 or Freq. on their LM 8.1 which might work in this case? Faced with the same problems as the original poster, I have managed to telnet directly into my home box from work. Originally the problem was the host refused the connection. Open port 22 in firewall. Second problem was libwrap refused the connection. I had in.telentd: xx.xx.xx.xx in hosts.allow and it still didn't work. I moved xx.xx.xx.xx into the ALL: line and telnet from work, worked. I'm not suggesting there isn't a bug there, just putting forward a work-around that does work. -- CYA, Muzza. Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel version 2.4.8-26mdk Current Linux uptime: 3 days 17 hours 58 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bastille Part II
On Friday 26 October 2001 11:31 pm, you wrote: udp is what i believe is called a connectionless protocol, data is sent without regard to whether previous data has been received intact, tcp on the other hand allows for packets to be re-requested if they are missing or corrupt, udp is definitely used over the internet bascule On Saturday 27 October 2001 4:43 am, you wrote: I went to sygatetech.com and ran their UDP scan and it shows most ports closed and a few open ports. Maybe I don't fully understand networking protocols but isn't UDP a protocol used on LAN's only? If not, how do I put them into a stealth mode? The TCP ports all show blocked/stealth. Internet Protocols (UDP( connectionless Short for 'User Datagram Protocol', a connectionless protocol that, like TCP, runs on top of IP networks. Unlike TCP/IP, UDP/IP provides very few error recovery services, offering instead a direct way to send and receive datagrams over an IP network. It's used primarily for broadcasting messages over a network sk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LM 8.0 and Intel fortran 5.0
Hello I just wonder whether INTEL fortran 5.0 (redhat 7.1) would run flawlessly in LM 8.0. Any issues? Many thanks Eduardo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SB AWE64 failing to load - Mandrake 8.1
Eric Paynter wrote: I recently upgraded (read: re-installed) to Mandrake 8.1. Since then, my sound card has not been working. The sound card was working fine under Mandrake 8.0 and still works when I boot to Win98SE. It's a Creative SB AWE64. When I run sndconfig, it first says: ISAPNP Probe Results A ISAPNP sound card was found in your system. The details are: Model: Creative SB AWE64 PnP:Audio OK. All looks good so far. Hit OK for the sound sample, and I get: modprobe error The following error occurred running the modprobe program: /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: init_module: No such device /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: insmod sound-slot-0 failed OK. Not so good... It spits me into manual config and I try a zillion combinations for IRQ/IO/DMA including those which work for Win98 and still, the same thing comes out. Also, I'm not sure if this is relavent, but when I probe the driver with insmod, it returns unresolved symbols. Is this supposed to happen? Maybe my sb.o is corrupt? [eric@europa eric]$ /sbin/insmod -p sb Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol probe_sbmpu_Rddc8ad00 /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol smw_free_R450f9aea /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol sb_dsp_detect_Rd8a2731c /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol sb_dsp_unload_Rc4884969 /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol unload_sbmpu_R74afd69c /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz: unresolved symbol sb_dsp_init_Re986438b Thanks for any help getting this working, -Eric Try this. 1. Remark or remove an reference to a sound card in your /etc/modules.conf file, then do a depmod -ae. 2. Reboot and go into your BIOS and insure that PNP OS is set to NO. 3. Prossible when Linux reboots new hardware will be found. if not 4. Got to the control center and configure your SB 64 there. Good luck Larry -- Sword'sEdge Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bastille Part II
At 06:37 PM 10/27/2001 -0600, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: Internet Protocols (UDP( connectionless Short for 'User Datagram Protocol', a connectionless protocol that, like TCP, runs on top of IP networks. Unlike TCP/IP, UDP/IP provides very few error recovery services, offering instead a direct way to send and receive datagrams over an IP network. It's used primarily for broadcasting messages over a network OK, so how can I use Bastille to block those ports from the outside/public side/internet side? I wish I had more time to learn how to manually do this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 - Printing from Netscape 6.1
gnerd wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.0, and can print test pages from the CUPS config tool OK, but Netscape 6.1 won't print (although it says it printed successfully). I assume it's looking for lpr vs. CUPS. The printer is an Epson Stylus Color 740. Anyone know how to make it work? Oh, also, StarOffice doesn't seem to have a filter for this printer. Is there a way to make SO use the system print driver? Thanks in advance. Mike When you go to print a page within netscape and the print window appears enter xpp, without the quote marks, in the Print Command field. Larry -- Sword'sEdge Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 - Printing from Netscape 6.1
In CUPS, have you made the printer the default system printer? Mine (a Lexmark Z11) is and I had to do nothing for Netscape 6.1 and SO to print. Joe On Saturday 27 October 2001 04:14 pm, you wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.0, and can print test pages from the CUPS config tool OK, but Netscape 6.1 won't print (although it says it printed successfully). I assume it's looking for lpr vs. CUPS. The printer is an Epson Stylus Color 740. Anyone know how to make it work? Oh, also, StarOffice doesn't seem to have a filter for this printer. Is there a way to make SO use the system print driver? Thanks in advance. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SB AWE64 failing to load - Mandrake 8.1
On October 27, 2001 06:33 pm, you wrote: Try this. 1. Remark or remove an reference to a sound card in your /etc/modules.conf file, then do a depmod -ae. 2. Reboot and go into your BIOS and insure that PNP OS is set to NO. 3. Prossible when Linux reboots new hardware will be found. if not 4. Got to the control center and configure your SB 64 there. Good luck Larry You da man! That did the trick. My modules.conf had no references, but PNP OS was on in the BIOS. I turned that off, but Control Center still couldn't configure it. I tried sndconfig and it worked! Thanks everyone for your help. I'm listening to my mp3's again. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 - Printing from Netscape 6.1
Thanks for your response, Joe. Yes, the Epson is the default printer. Nothing happens. I've colmed the spool directories, and no print file ever appears. That's why I think it may be a Netscape problem...there's no /var/spool/lpr directory, but Netscape's print screen comes up expecting the default printer to be lpr. My default printer is ep. Dunno. I suppose I'll have to spend some time on it, just didn't want to; hoping someone else had seen the problem. Thanks for taking the time, though. I appreciate it. M1k3 Joseph Braddock wrote: In CUPS, have you made the printer the default system printer? Mine (a Lexmark Z11) is and I had to do nothing for Netscape 6.1 and SO to print. Joe On Saturday 27 October 2001 04:14 pm, you wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.0, and can print test pages from the CUPS config tool OK, but Netscape 6.1 won't print (although it says it printed successfully). I assume it's looking for lpr vs. CUPS. The printer is an Epson Stylus Color 740. Anyone know how to make it work? Oh, also, StarOffice doesn't seem to have a filter for this printer. Is there a way to make SO use the system print driver? Thanks in advance. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 - Printing from Netscape 6.1
Thanks for responding, Larry. I tried that, and got the same result. It's really weird...when I tell it to print, I get disk activity like it's spooling a file, but when I go look for it, it's not there. I'm stumped. But thanks for the suggestion, I'll try 'em all. M1k3 Larry Sword wrote: gnerd wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.0, and can print test pages from the CUPS config tool OK, but Netscape 6.1 won't print (although it says it printed successfully). I assume it's looking for lpr vs. CUPS. The printer is an Epson Stylus Color 740. Anyone know how to make it work? Oh, also, StarOffice doesn't seem to have a filter for this printer. Is there a way to make SO use the system print driver? Thanks in advance. Mike When you go to print a page within netscape and the print window appears enter xpp, without the quote marks, in the Print Command field. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bastille Part II (The answer)
On Saturday 27 October 2001 07:32 pm, you wrote: At 06:37 PM 10/27/2001 -0600, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: Internet Protocols (UDP( connectionless Short for 'User Datagram Protocol', a connectionless protocol that, like TCP, runs on top of IP networks. Unlike TCP/IP, UDP/IP provides very few error recovery services, offering instead a direct way to send and receive datagrams over an IP network. It's used primarily for broadcasting messages over a network OK, so how can I use Bastille to block those ports from the outside/public side/internet side? I wish I had more time to learn how to manually do this. -- Actually you can 'block' everything you want to block just using iptables, one simple, 'chain' line can make you 'invisible from outside. Then you can add the ports you want to open, or need to open. The best rule For a personal or desktop firewall. is: If you aren't going to use it, don't open it. The command to execute iptables is simple: as root type iptables. /sbin/iptables iptables v1.2.1: no command specified Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. the quickest way to protect your pc is with the following iptables chain: /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -j DROP The previous will allow you to, as the user of the computer, performed all your normal Internet activities. You will be able to browse the Web, ssh out, or chat with a friend on ICQ. On the other hand, the outside world, when trying to connect to your Linux box via TCP/IP, will simply be ignored. This is a reasonable and 'safe' solution for most Linux computers. However, one of the benefits of Linux is its remote management capabilities. one of the more popular ways is SSH, which operates on port 22, then you need to enable port 22 while keeping the rest of the connections closed. /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn --destination-port 22 -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -j DROP It is probably not a good idea to let the world connect to your machine on port 22 Therefore, you can limit which machines may connect to port 22, adding the -s option. /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -s 192.168.1.110/32 --destination-port 22 -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -j DROP the -s 192.168.1.110/32 will enable only the remote machine with the IP address of 192.168.1.110 to connect to your protected host. you may create an iptables-based firewall, but each line (chain) is read sequentially, so if you want to run a public Web server. on port :80 This could be done with the following commands: /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -s 192.168.1.110/32 --destination-port 22 -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn --destination-port 80 -j ACCEPT /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -j DROP A few days ago, I read an article... can't recall where by: Joshua Drake and he explains this in more detail. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] something very weid with 8.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Oct 2001 4:13 pm, you wrote: HI list, After many painful attempts at getting Mandrake 8.1 to install on my old AMD system at home, the strangest thing i've ever seen has happened. No matter what i do, and mean that literally, cause i think i've tried everything i can think of, i can not log into the mailserver and get my mail. that would be the mail server on the machine itself and not the one at my ISP. I've been doing mail like this ever since i started using Linux. i just like it that way. anyhow, this one has really got me stumped. And to make matter worse it lost my CD-RW drive and i can't remember just how to go about setting that back up so i can use it. otherwise i would just reinstall the imap package to get the mail going again. the consistant error i'm getting back when i attempt to get my mail from the system mailserver is an authentication error. and yes, i checked to make sure it was running. as far as i could tell it was. things like this are quite a bit different then they were/are in Mandrake 7.2 so it's going to take a bit of time for me to get used to where they've put everything. as always, any and all suggestions and or flames are graciously accepted. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but i couldnt get imap to work in 8.0, and havent tried since. Im suprised you lost your cd-rw as mandrake is very good at auto detecting these. Have you loaded to ide-scsi module? And you can just collect your mail locally from /var/spool/mail/username , and i think thats the only place pine/mutt/mail look. And is also easy to setup in kmail - -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Imperial College Dept of Computing - - PGP Public key available from: certserver.pgp.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72tKIXCpWOla2mCcRApkCAKCfxe6vfsF+6syfI8wl8uP0/15LyQCfeA9V Lv4VKlxmDjOJzks1fkP5fQ8= =Lh4y -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cable modem analysis
I have noticed a significant decrease in the performance of my cable modem lately. The modem is plugged into a linksys 4 port router that then has 4 PC's for a home network. What tools can I use to analyze the bandwidth I have available and how many people I might sharing with? If this is even the right approach. Looking at packets and determining what the results will mean is new territory for me, so if someone knows of a good write up for the novice I would appreciate it if they could point me to it. Thanks, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
