Re: [expert] SSH
On Fri Jan 18, 2002 at 09:20:28PM -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to make that work with my Win2K machine. I'm using ttsh on the Win2K PC to establish an SSH connection with the Linux machine. There's an option in ttssh for running remote X apps on the local X server but there doesn't appear to be a listing for an X server in the Win2K services. I suppose that there is an X app for Win2K somewhere? You need to be running an X server on your Windows machine and no, Win2k does not come with one. There are some commercial X servers for Windows, but I can't really remember which are good and which aren't... it's been a while since I looked (probably over a year). When I last did, there were no free X servers for Windows. What you probably need is to setup VNC... I know that you can get Windows showing up on your Linux box this way, but not sure about vice versa (I think it will work... I remember turning on and off the wife's xmms when I played with it before, but whether I was on the Windows machine or my Linux machine I don't recall). FYI (and this is more for others reading as I don't think this matters much to you in particular), I just got an X server running on MacOS/X... now all I need is to find an ssh client for MacOS/X and I can run xchat on it by tunneling it from my Linux box (wOOp!). -- MandrakeSoft Security, OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 9 days 11 hours 43 minutes. msg48195/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [expert] Firewall install - smoothwall
I may go get myself a copy, I'll give Linux Emporium a call this morning. I only have a v90 modem so downloading it is a no-no. Thanks again, Dave. Original Message: - From: Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:42:25 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [expert] Firewall install - smoothwall On Sat Jan 12, 2002 at 12:53:32PM +, David Stevenson wrote: I was thinking about that, but I am put off by the 32mb or ram min quoted on the MDK site. The laptop only has 8mb. I have succesfully loaded mdk 6 and 8 on the laptop, although I did not install any WM's or X as I thought it might fall over. I am happy configing a machine via manually editing text files. But, does SNF need to install X? If I have to buy an old 486'ish box, then I may as well use smoothwall. Any comments on the SNF and X? IIRC, SNF doesn't install X at all. I think the 32mb requirement is more for the installer as DrakX goes in GUI mode (but I think you can do the install in text mode the same way as with 8.0). All the SNF configuration is done via a special HTTPS port (8200 I believe), so you do the configuration by connecting to it on that port from another machine. -- MandrakeSoft Security, OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 9 days 11 hours 20 minutes. mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Strange Joystick Problem
I am running 8.1 with a Microsoft Sidewinder Pro USB joystick. It worked fine for a while. Now, when I use it as a normal user (even a newly created normal user) the buttons don't work properly. Using jscalibrator, almost all my buttons, when pressed, show up as button no. 8. When I use it as root, the buttons are all fine (i.e., when pressed button 1 shows in jscalibrator as button 1, button 2 shows as button 2, etc.). As a normal user, button 1, when pressed, shows as button 8 in my account, and button 6 in my kids' accounts and in a new account I created just to try to figure out what's going on. I've fiddled with the permissions and I've removed and recreated the joystick device, but no matter what I do it works fine for root but not for anyone else. Any ideas? Thanks. Rich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ppp/modem blues
Hi all, I've got a problem here. I want to install Mandrake on my thinkpad(P133, 40m ram, 1 gbHD) -no problem at all using 7.2 Here's the but: My gsm serial connection will not work and I realy need it to. symptoms: If/when the pcmcia card (cdromdrive) is in the socket I get 'sorry the modem is busy' on a query (it's on ttyS1) On removing the cdrom card I get a lot of gibberish on a query but at least the modem is found. Slowing down the modem to 2400 k reduces the gibberish that's all. The exact same configuration using Slackware7.2 works flawlessly. Anybody got any hints how to get this out of the way? I badly want Mandrake on the laptop as I use it a lot to show off to windoze users how linux makes old hardware look goood;) -- Thanks in advance, Harm Bathoorn. Free software is changing global economy the same way trade guilds did in the middle ages Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] samba
Hi listmembers, I am running LM8.0 I have a network that is comprised of 2 machines 1 windoze 98 and one LM 8.0 I have set up internet connection sharing through lm8.0 Control center and that works really well I'd like to set up SAMBA ,is this possible using the DHCP setup that LM 8.0 uses for internet connection sharing ? I have had a couple of goes without any luck. any help would be appreciated. Jason Pearce -- .-. oo| /` '\ (\_;/) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix can't send from one computer to another
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:15, Alan Olsen wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, pesarif wrote: Postfix refuses to send email from one computer on my network to another. It simply sends me repeated emails that say that the mail could not be delivered and will be retried because the host could not be found. These computers (cups166.reisersun and tux350.reisersun) are right next to each other and I can telnet to and from them and so I am amazed that postfix on both computers can't actually see each other. The imap service is running on both computers. The only file I configured on both computers for postfix is /etc/postfix/main.cf. I've attached main.cf for tux350.reisersun and main.cf.patch, in case you only want to see the changes that I've made. The cups166 version of main.cf is the same as that for tux350 except for myhostname. Cups166 is running MDK8.1 and Tux350 is running MDK8.0. The problem existed even when both computers where running MDK8.0. Obviously, it is my configuration error -- please tell me how to fix it. Do you have a DNS entry and/or /etc/hosts entry for these machines? cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 tux350.reisersuntux.reisersun tux350 tux 192.168.1.2 cups166.reisersun cups.reisersun cups166 cups Also you might check to make sure the ident service is running. i have seen postfix refuse to deliver mail if it was not running correctly. This is probably the problem. What is the ident service and where can I get it? Also check your firewall rules and make sure that things can connect to port 25. (hosts.allow and hosts.deny can also effect that.) Checked. Thanks, pesarif Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] What is an md device?
Hi! Does anyone know what an md device is? Also, every time I reboot, it says mdrecovery thread woke up and mdrecoveryd(10) flushing signals. What is mdrecoveryd (is it related to md devices)? Why does it have to wake up? And what does that number mean? For different versions of Mandrake, there are different numbers... Thanks, pesarif Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cannot Dial Callback Access
How to configure dialer (pppd or wvdial) to call remote access server with callback (like Shiva or NT server) ? Riev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Remote Gnome app error
Hello: I'm trying to run gnome applications from a remote host but get this error: GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. I only get this error from gnome app., no problem with kde or other X applications. Server system is running Mandrake 8.1. May be is a gnome specific problem? Any suggestion? Fedneg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keybindings - khotkeys stuff - volume control -a solution?
J.P. Pasnak wrote: I expanded on this to add in the keys that where not mapped yet, and did up an article on it at http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca/article.php?sid=475mode=order=0 Thanks for writing this! I'm looking for something a little bit more -- I understand it is one of the capabilities of khotkeys, but neither your article or the other one referenced in this thread really addressed it -- that is the ability to enter an arbitrary string of characters into an application (the application with the current focus) using a hot key. If anybody can extend the examples to deal with this, it would be much appreciated! (I wonder if dcop can work with the application with the current focus, or must we always specify which application / window we want to work with? I tried fooling with dcop once probably 6 months to a year ago, but didn't get very far. I'll try looking for my old notes -- hopefully I was clever enough to put them on my personal wiki.) Aside: I've linked to your article from WikiLearn, http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/KeyboardMacrosInLinux. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keybindings - khotkeys stuff - volume control -a solution?
Randy Kramer wrote: I'm looking for something a little bit more -- I understand it is one of the capabilities of khotkeys, but neither your article or the other one referenced in this thread really addressed it -- that is the ability to enter an arbitrary string of characters into an application (the application with the current focus) using a hot key. If anybody can extend the examples to deal with this, it would be much appreciated! (I wonder if dcop can work with the application with the current focus, or must we always specify which application / window we want to work with? I tried fooling with dcop once probably 6 months to a year ago, but didn't get very far. I'll try looking for my old notes -- hopefully I was clever enough to put them on my personal wiki.) Following up on my own post -- below is part of the text of an article (?) quoted from Advogato, http://www.advogato.org/article/242.html (I just checked, the article is still available). Unfortunately, all of the examples seem to require that you know the name of the target application (for example dcop kwrite KWriteIface insertText 'Windows rocks!' true), none of the examples seem to aim for the window with the current focus. Randy Kramer begin quote Some of this already works in KDE 2, posted 11 Feb 2001 by tackat What if the Unix GUI didn't need a mouse? What if every application could be controlled solely with the keyboard? This is already possible in KDE 2 for a long time via DCOP. Fire up kwrite (make sure you don't have two kwrites there at the same time -- otherwise you have to add the pid to those commands) and type into your favourite xterm: --snip-- dcop kwrite KWriteIface insertText 'Windows rocks!' true dcop kwrite KWriteIface setCursorPosition 0 8 true dcop kwrite KWriteIface insertText 'sux! KDE ' true dcop kwrite KWriteIface shiftHome dcop kwrite KWriteIface writeFile 'conquer_your_desktop.txt' --snip-- or check your Mail using KMail by entering: dcop kmail KMailIface checkMail or bind the command dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface? lock to your Pause-key using kmenuedit. That way you can start kscreensaver by pressing the Pause-key. To explore the possibilities you might want to use kdcop. end quote Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ftp - security?
Hi I have two friends that want to use my box as a library, and communicate via ftp. We are looking for a way to minimize the crypto needed, as they intend to load up and share movies and their mp3's in this ftp-server. Please - are there any way that they might login in a secure way, and open up their accounts, but let the transfer of files be more relaxed. One way might be to upload the stuff and then send the md5sum of the specific file in crypto. I am not subscribed to this list, so I will read your answers in the archive. regards guran -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.17.7mdk-1-1mdk version:2002-01-21-10:50 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftp - security?
I have two friends that want to use my box as a library, and communicate via ftp. We are looking for a way to minimize the crypto needed, as they intend to load up and share movies and their mp3's in this ftp-server. Hum.. not sure what you want to do.. Do you want to encrypt the files, or simply protect the passwords when using ftp ? Anyway, I think an ssh tunel could do the trick: if you forward any unpriviledged port to port 21 of the server, you will encrypt username and password, but because the data go to port 20, they won't be encrypted. On the client side you would do ssh -L 1234:ftp-server-name:21 localhost (not need to be localhost though) and again on the client, use any ftp client and connect to localhost on port 1234. Only problem, you need an ftp server which allows passive mode, I think wu-ftpd (default on lots of linux boxes) does not. Anyone knows whether sftp encrypts the data or not ? Thomas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 22:22, Jim Dawson wrote: Personally, I'm not to optimistic that a viable replacment for X is going to happen anytime soon. Sure, X has it's warts but it works well enough for most applications that developing an alternative isn't too high a priority. And besides, any alternative display system will need to have an 'X' compatability layer to run existing software, which will make it even slower than X displays. If I understand correctly, one of the things that makes X use more memory and run slower is that it is a network application, and as such, must run all of its requests through the local loopback on your workstation (X is both a client-server protocol and software suite). This being the case, couldn't someone write a localhost-only version of X that emulates the networking protocols without actually doing anything through the loopback device, and only runs on a local workstation? This would provide backwards compatibility with all X software, but would remove the network code and functionality that takes memory, processing power, and resources that could be better used elsewhere. Just a thought. Maybe someone can rip a few holes in my theory to prove me wrong. Dave -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] oooops -OT- and Holy Wars
Scott, I mean no offense, but thats just gross! My Penguin at home just winced when I opened this message. Eeasy now...this is a Linux list. Mark (a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR) Scott Thurmond wrote: When is the second half of OS/2 coming out? grin I used OS/2 for many years and had a lot of good success with it. I have always thought it was better than windows but the Big Blue isn't the best at marketing - at least when it comes to Gates and the boys. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Varney Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ps -OT- and Holy Wars How soon we forget: OS/2. Well, not completely - my wrist pad says Starting today, everything your computer has ever done, it will do better. OS/2 Mike Leone wrote: comment Holy Wars about which OS is the best will go on forever. And we can thank Linus for this because only a few short years ago there were no such discussions when it came to the desktop. Would it not be suffice to Sure there were, but they were limited to Mac or Windows. -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney 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
[expert] Disk Array ?
Hello experts I need to solve some storage stuff, and I had been thinking about storage systems like DiskArrays We have several machines running unix/solaris and a lot of linux machines ... The prices (in my country) for Arrays for solaris machines are so expensive... Does exist something (reliable, fast, ..etc) for linux ? rodrigo DGF, U. de Chile Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disk Array ?
rodrigo wrote: Hello experts I need to solve some storage stuff, and I had been thinking about storage systems like DiskArrays We have several machines running unix/solaris and a lot of linux machines ... The prices (in my country) for Arrays for solaris machines are so expensive... Does exist something (reliable, fast, ..etc) for linux ? How much space do you need (in gigabytes (or terabytes))? What constraints on speed? Linux has various types of RAID built in (in software) and can work with hardware RAID. Depending on your requirements, this may be a solution. (If you talk more about your requirements, someone more knowledgable can probably provide better advice than I can.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS and DHCP
On Sunday 20 January 2002 09:27 pm, you wrote: Another way would be to configure your DHCP server to use Dynamic DNS, since (if I remember correctly) you can put hostnames in the /etc/exports file rather than IP addresses. On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 20:29, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: I think that the easiest way to do NFS in a network with DHCP is to set-up the MAC address of the NFS server to receive always the same ip-address... This way, you can use the same /etc/exports file and, since the NFS server receive it's ip address from the DHCP server, you don't have to worry if you set up a fixed address in the NFS server and somebody getting that ip... HTH orlando Thanks guys, both are good suggestions but over my head for now. Lets look at this from a different angle; Let's make a simple 2 computer network sharing files using NFS, call them joe at 192.168.1.100 and moe at 192.168.1 101. Joe has /home/moe mounted on /mnt/moe and moe has /home/joe mounted on /mnt/joe. Now joe decides he wants to remove his modem and the telephone line for it and share moe's connection to the internet. So far, so good - - UNTIL: using the wizard changes the network over to DHCP and now neither joe nor moe can share files... Now in nearly everything I read it is expected that you (the user) are using a broadband connection and have 2 NIC cards in yer machine not. Moe has a dialup connection and joe has just trashed his modem and line... Now what? How do they get file sharing back??? Single NIC per machine and 1 modem in the moe machine. I thought at first I should be able to use the moe machine's IP for the gateway for the joe machine but that didn't seem to work, or possibly I just configured it wrong.. BUT there has to be a way to use the existing NFS network and still get Internet connection sharing.. Any thought's?? Thanks all, Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS and DHCP
I think that you can do this... moe's machine has two ip's... one static (NIC), one dynamic (modem ppp dial-up)... joe's ip is static (NIC) and at the same network that moe's NIC. I think that the NFS shouldn't have been affected... if it uses the NIC's to share files and internet connection. The problem is that I'm not used with that config of yours... I've no idea how to help you... Ken Thompson wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2002 09:27 pm, you wrote: Another way would be to configure your DHCP server to use Dynamic DNS, since (if I remember correctly) you can put hostnames in the /etc/exports file rather than IP addresses. On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 20:29, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: I think that the easiest way to do NFS in a network with DHCP is to set-up the MAC address of the NFS server to receive always the same ip-address... This way, you can use the same /etc/exports file and, since the NFS server receive it's ip address from the DHCP server, you don't have to worry if you set up a fixed address in the NFS server and somebody getting that ip... HTH orlando Thanks guys, both are good suggestions but over my head for now. Lets look at this from a different angle; Let's make a simple 2 computer network sharing files using NFS, call them joe at 192.168.1.100 and moe at 192.168.1 101. Joe has /home/moe mounted on /mnt/moe and moe has /home/joe mounted on /mnt/joe. Now joe decides he wants to remove his modem and the telephone line for it and share moe's connection to the internet. So far, so good - - UNTIL: using the wizard changes the network over to DHCP and now neither joe nor moe can share files... Now in nearly everything I read it is expected that you (the user) are using a broadband connection and have 2 NIC cards in yer machine not. Moe has a dialup connection and joe has just trashed his modem and line... Now what? How do they get file sharing back??? Single NIC per machine and 1 modem in the moe machine. I thought at first I should be able to use the moe machine's IP for the gateway for the joe machine but that didn't seem to work, or possibly I just configured it wrong.. BUT there has to be a way to use the existing NFS network and still get Internet connection sharing.. Any thought's?? Thanks all, Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ,~~v~~,,~~v~~, ,'. .', ,'. .', === + ====== + === / ~ \ / ~ \ /\_m m_/\/\_m m_/\ .\ +--+ /. / ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! \ / +--+ \ `\m/ \m/' `\m/ \m/' Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?
Dave Sherman wrote: If I understand correctly, one of the things that makes X use more memory and run slower is that it is a network application, and as such, must run all of its requests through the local loopback on your workstation (X is both a client-server protocol and software suite). This being the case, couldn't someone write a localhost-only version of X that emulates the networking protocols without actually doing anything through the loopback device, and only runs on a local workstation? This would provide backwards compatibility with all X software, but would remove the network code and functionality that takes memory, processing power, and resources that could be better used elsewhere. Just a thought. Maybe someone can rip a few holes in my theory to prove me wrong. Well, I am not (by any means) an expert. What I think is part of the problem is what I'll call loose coupling between the application and, for example, the video memory on the video card. This is alluded to on the Berlin site, in one of the FAQs. For example, I can imagine a video subsystem where [controls | widgets] (like a combo box) are generated and stored closer to the video card -- in X, they are generated in the application, and sent to the video device pixel by pixel. When this pixel by pixel transmission has to be via a network, it can be considerably slower than an alternate approach. I think as long as X is running locally, it is using very fast data transmission over the busses in the system (pci, agp, etc.). X could be faster even over a network if it transmitted a message to say please display a combo box at coordinates blah, blah, with background color blah, and filled with these choices, blah, blah, blah, etc. etc. etc., instead of generating the combo box in the application and then sending all the individual pixels. It is my understanding that Berlin is working on an approach more like this. You're right if you recognize that I've avoided the question about which is faster within a single computer -- I think one of the trends that will make video cards faster is having more intelligence within the video card. I think video cards can now generate triangles / polygons from commands rather than having them transmitted pixel by pixel. Sooner or later (maybe already), video cards will have the capability to generate [controls | widgets] from commands (all the electronic technology exists), and video display speed will be increased when applications send commands instead of pixels to the video card. Berlin is not ready for prime time yet (AFAIK), but, whenever I get a chance I like to mention Berlin so another way is recognized. (Of course, X may turn out to evolve just like Fortran -- I learned Algol before Fortran, and then wondered why they taught me Fortran -- over the years, Fortran has evolved to include most of the (good) features and more of Algol and other modern languages.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0.1
Ric: I installed the rpms that were in your list but missing from my installation and now print preview works. Thanks! Enrico Indiogine On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 12:45, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Salvatore I really wish I did have the answer to that one. but I'm afraid that it feed my inconsistancy comments. That you can install the same system, the same way twice, and have it behave differently both times. On my last install (to this box), I had problems with my sound server. It works fine now. NO one can explain why. Evolution: I can't say what's different. I just seem to have a rare one that works. My system is MDK 8.1 - Without any updates so far (Mandrake Update is acting up...). When I installed Evolution 1.0.1, I installed it from the cooker site. I did the update, after updating the original version to 1.0 So the update path files was: From original install, I updated the following packages, to bring Evolution up to 1.0 evolution-1.0-2mdk.i586.rpmlibdb3.3-3.3.11-5mdk.i586.rpm evolution-devel-1.0-2mdk.i586.rpm libgal18-0.18.1-1mdk.i586.rpm GConf-1.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm libGConf1-1.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm gtkhtml-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpmlibgtkhtml20-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm All of those were obtained from cooker. Then I updated to 1.0.1 by intstalling the following: evolution-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libcapplet1-devel-1.5.11-1mdk.i586.rpm evolution-devel-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libgal19-0.19-2mdk.i586.rpm gtkhtml-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm libGConf1-1.0.7-2mdk.i586.rpm libcapplet1-1.5.11-1mdk.i586.rpm libgtkhtml20-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm From there, it has worked great. At this point, I am extremely hessitant to change anything on my system. It all works. I want it to stay that way. ;) I wish I could be more help. I would suggest that you capture any errors (or core files) that Evolution is generating when it crashes, and file a bug report with the developers of Evolution. I know that you're not alone with this. Others have had the same problem that you're having. So there is a traceable problem somewhere. The developers would be more assistance to finding it than I would. As an aside: I have been watching some of the Redhat lists, and folks over there on RH 7.2 are having problems with Evolution 1.0.1 as well. Some of the reports I've seen over there are that all configuration information, imap folders, address books, etc are all missing... On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 08:32, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: Ric: Since I do have the same setup as you do and I am not able to print or print-preview both at home and at work, I am wondering if you or anyone else knows how to solve this problem I am having with the mail component crashing? Ciao, Enrico Indiogine On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 22:51, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Yes, printing works. Also, all of my existing configuration is still intact, as well as my address book, IMAP folders, filters, etc. In fact, in 1.0.1, the filters seem to work a bit better. MDK 8.1+Evolution_1.0.1 Ric On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 15:14, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: Good, but can you print from the mail component? When I try to print or print-preview the mail component crashes (MDK8.1+Evolution 1.0.1) Enrico Indiogine -- Salvatore Enrico Indiogine 2902 North Kentucky Avenue Roswell, NM 88201 505-627-0759 http://www.spinn.net/~hindiogine Registered Linux User #217339 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Salvatore Enrico Indiogine http://www.spinn.net/~hindiogine Registered Linux User #217339 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS and DHCP
Ken Thompson wrote: Single NIC per machine and 1 modem in the moe machine. I thought at first I should be able to use the moe machine's IP for the gateway for the joe machine but that didn't seem to work, or possibly I just configured it wrong.. This will (can) work. I think you have to do some things in moe's machine so it indeed works as a gateway. I think this can be done by configuring iptables or ipwhatever (the older thingie) properly. I recently saw a post from, IIRC, tester/civileme describing how to do this. Search the archives -- I can't immediately think of any real useful keywords -- IIRC, the subject was not explicity internet connection sharing. Good luck, Randy Kramer BUT there has to be a way to use the existing NFS network and still get Internet connection sharing.. Any thought's?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0.1
Glad to hear it! enjoy! Ric On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 09:47, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: Ric: I installed the rpms that were in your list but missing from my installation and now print preview works. Thanks! Enrico Indiogine On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 12:45, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Salvatore I really wish I did have the answer to that one. but I'm afraid that it feed my inconsistancy comments. That you can install the same system, the same way twice, and have it behave differently both times. On my last install (to this box), I had problems with my sound server. It works fine now. NO one can explain why. Evolution: I can't say what's different. I just seem to have a rare one that works. My system is MDK 8.1 - Without any updates so far (Mandrake Update is acting up...). When I installed Evolution 1.0.1, I installed it from the cooker site. I did the update, after updating the original version to 1.0 So the update path files was: From original install, I updated the following packages, to bring Evolution up to 1.0 evolution-1.0-2mdk.i586.rpmlibdb3.3-3.3.11-5mdk.i586.rpm evolution-devel-1.0-2mdk.i586.rpm libgal18-0.18.1-1mdk.i586.rpm GConf-1.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm libGConf1-1.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm gtkhtml-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpmlibgtkhtml20-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm All of those were obtained from cooker. Then I updated to 1.0.1 by intstalling the following: evolution-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libcapplet1-devel-1.5.11-1mdk.i586.rpm evolution-devel-1.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libgal19-0.19-2mdk.i586.rpm gtkhtml-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm libGConf1-1.0.7-2mdk.i586.rpm libcapplet1-1.5.11-1mdk.i586.rpm libgtkhtml20-1.0.1-2mdk.i586.rpm From there, it has worked great. At this point, I am extremely hessitant to change anything on my system. It all works. I want it to stay that way. ;) I wish I could be more help. I would suggest that you capture any errors (or core files) that Evolution is generating when it crashes, and file a bug report with the developers of Evolution. I know that you're not alone with this. Others have had the same problem that you're having. So there is a traceable problem somewhere. The developers would be more assistance to finding it than I would. As an aside: I have been watching some of the Redhat lists, and folks over there on RH 7.2 are having problems with Evolution 1.0.1 as well. Some of the reports I've seen over there are that all configuration information, imap folders, address books, etc are all missing... On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 08:32, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: Ric: Since I do have the same setup as you do and I am not able to print or print-preview both at home and at work, I am wondering if you or anyone else knows how to solve this problem I am having with the mail component crashing? Ciao, Enrico Indiogine On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 22:51, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Yes, printing works. Also, all of my existing configuration is still intact, as well as my address book, IMAP folders, filters, etc. In fact, in 1.0.1, the filters seem to work a bit better. MDK 8.1+Evolution_1.0.1 Ric On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 15:14, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: Good, but can you print from the mail component? When I try to print or print-preview the mail component crashes (MDK8.1+Evolution 1.0.1) Enrico Indiogine -- Salvatore Enrico Indiogine 2902 North Kentucky Avenue Roswell, NM 88201 505-627-0759 http://www.spinn.net/~hindiogine Registered Linux User #217339 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Salvatore Enrico Indiogine http://www.spinn.net/~hindiogine Registered Linux User #217339 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Tyan thunder K7 SCSI Problem
Hi everybody, I have built up a new system with tyan thunder k7 server system. But nearly all linux distributions give SCSI harddisk parity error. Data crc check failed. But Windoze 2k works perfectly on the system. I hate windoze systems. Does anyone knows what can I do? My scsi harddisk is Quantum ATLAS V 36GB. Thanks, Kursad
Re: [expert] anyone else see this?
try backing down your vetical size/position (DrakX most likely, on the monitor possibly). It looks like the image is folding over on itself. mg On Sunday 20 January 2002 06:46, Michel Clasquin wrote: Since this morning, the top inch of my monitor is very fuzzy. Text is quite unreadable tight at the top, then slowly becomes more legible as you pull the window down the screen. I suspect yesterday's upgrade (from cooker) to XFree86-4.1.99.6-2 OTOH, maybe my monitor is going south? 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? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS and DHCP
So far, so good - - UNTIL: using the wizard changes the network over to DHCP and now neither joe nor moe can share files... I used the Internet Connection Sharing Wizard, and it didn't change the network over to DHCP. I've set up a similar setup where you've got a modem + NIC in the 'gateway' machine and a NIC in the other machine connected via a switch and everything (except the modem) had static IPs. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftp - security?
Thomas Sourmail wrote: I have two friends that want to use my box as a library, and communicate via ftp. We are looking for a way to minimize the crypto needed, as they intend to load up and share movies and their mp3's in this ftp-server. Hum.. not sure what you want to do.. Do you want to encrypt the files, or simply protect the passwords when using ftp ? Anyway, I think an ssh tunel could do the trick: if you forward any unpriviledged port to port 21 of the server, you will encrypt username and password, but because the data go to port 20, they won't be encrypted. On the client side you would do ssh -L 1234:ftp-server-name:21 localhost (not need to be localhost though) and again on the client, use any ftp client and connect to localhost on port 1234. Only problem, you need an ftp server which allows passive mode, I think wu-ftpd (default on lots of linux boxes) does not. Anyone knows whether sftp encrypts the data or not ? about the only thing I would add to this is the most secure setup of an FTP server I've see is the way Proftpd sets up. You can dictate just where and who is logging onto your FTP server by setting this all up in the directives. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] will Kernel 2.4.17-7mdk run in LM8.0 ?
Hi , will Kernel 2.4.17-7mdk run in LM8.0 ? If so, how to do this? tried to try a newer kernel ( 2.4.8 ) and instead of installing it along side the stock kernel it took over. In lilo.conf file it gave the standard Linux entry and a new entry for the 2.4.8-12 kernel but it replaced both with the 2.4.8 kernel. the old initrd-2.4.3-20mdk.img and vmlinuz-2.4.3-20 were there but they no longer worked. Would like to try a newer kernel but don't want to break the old one, in case supermount is still not working. I have tried 8.1 but can't get very much to work very well at all on my box so I await 8.2. Thanks Mike McNeese Springdale Arkansas USA Linux user # 248955 - If obstacles are all you see, you have lost sight of the goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mdk8.1 - McAfee uvscan - Error: libstdc++.so.2.8
Hello, I have a Mdk8.1 workstation. I went to install McAfee VirusScan for Linux. No problems in install, but get the following error message: [bch@cmrlmail bch]$ uvscan uvscan: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I've searched and searched and can't seem to figure this out. Surely others are using this software combination. I did find some people have a similar problem with other software regarding libstdc++.so.2.8. There solution was to make a symblic link from my current version of the libstdc++ to libstdc++.so.2.8. I tried this by doing the command: [root@cmrlmail lib]#ln -s libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so libstdc++.so.2.8 then when I run uvscan again I get: [root@cmrlmail lib]# /usr/local/uvscan/uvscan /usr/local/uvscan/uvscan: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/uvscan/uvscan: undefined symbol: __eh_pc Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS and DHCP
On Monday 21 January 2002 01:15 pm, you wrote: So far, so good - - UNTIL: using the wizard changes the network over to DHCP and now neither joe nor moe can share files... I used the Internet Connection Sharing Wizard, and it didn't change the network over to DHCP. I've set up a similar setup where you've got a modem + NIC in the 'gateway' machine and a NIC in the other machine connected via a switch and everything (except the modem) had static IPs. Michael Hmmm, mine sure did. Said something about finding the network card and is now going to modify the network. It then installed DHCP and changed all the addresses to 192.168.1.x (or .0.x, don't remember for sure). My network is set up using 192.168.10.x so obviously it didn't work. Another thing too, the connection sharing didn't work after reboot. At that point I disabled connection sharing and changed back to static IP's and put the old IP addresses back in... Now my network is up and running OK without connection sharing. A head scratcher for sure.. -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is it possible to make it work??????
Hi Everybody, I'd like to ask you for help. I have an old 486 (25Mhz) laptop with 190 MB HDD, 4 MB in RAM and floppy (there is no cd-rom). I was trying to use it. And the only thing I can put there is Windows 3.1 with Word and Excell 95. I was wondering if there is any possibility to put there instead of Windows kind of small Linux with reduced KDE or GNOME (It would be nice to have just a KWord, Anjuta and Mozilla to surf on the net). I can imagine I would need a special linux distribution, kernel compilation, etc... Could someone tell me if it is possible??? Could you help me to make this instalation Thanks, Tomek Nowinski -- Placisz raz - uzywasz caly czas! http://www.onetmail.onet.pl/oferta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PCI GeForce2 cards
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:58:07PM +0200, Onur Kucuk wrote: TE I have an intel SR440bx motherboard which came with an nVidia Riva TNT TE chipset on-board. TE Recently I've decided it's just too out-dated for me and was thinking of TE buying a GeForce2mx PCI card (as I don't have an AGP slot). TE Has anyone used on of these in Linux? does it work ok with the nVidia TE drivers from the website? TE I already have the nVidia drivers working for my current chipset, so I'm TE hoping I can drop this card in with a minimum of fuss. TE Any thoughts, recomendations? TE Thanks, TE Tom It should work, I believe, hoping that you can disable your onboard vga. If not, and if nvidia drivers uses your onboard as default, you will be able to fix it by adding a line PCI 2:0:0 or something like that to your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and you will force it to use the pci card, correcting the problems. Cool thanks, the card is on it's way, so I'll keep the list informed on how everything goes when it arrives. Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
I am running MDK 8.1 and wonder what the best firewall solution is to install on my workstation. SNF is pretty cool but need to install that on a seperate machine. Any other ideas? I am not new to linux, however networking and firewalls are not my cup of tea, so if a firewall expert can give me a hint. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is it possible to make it work??????
Check out some of the mini distributions. YOu might not have KDE or Gnome as your desktop, but still can run a gui desktop if you wish. Check out mulinux http://sunsite.dk/mulinux/ I've not used it but peanut linux is often refered to http://www.cgocable.net/~jhendrix/ Check out a list at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/ Ron Tomek Nowinski wrote: Hi Everybody, I'd like to ask you for help. I have an old 486 (25Mhz) laptop with 190 MB HDD, 4 MB in RAM and floppy (there is no cd-rom). I was trying to use it. And the only thing I can put there is Windows 3.1 with Word and Excell 95. I was wondering if there is any possibility to put there instead of Windows kind of small Linux with reduced KDE or GNOME (It would be nice to have just a KWord, Anjuta and Mozilla to surf on the net). I can imagine I would need a special linux distribution, kernel compilation, etc... Could someone tell me if it is possible??? Could you help me to make this instalation Thanks, Tomek Nowinski -- Placisz raz - uzywasz caly czas! http://www.onetmail.onet.pl/oferta Name: message.footer message.footerType: Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: 8bit -- 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] ftp - security?
At 03:46 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Thomas Sourmail wrote: I have two friends that want to use my box as a library, and communicate via ftp. We are looking for a way to minimize the crypto needed, as they intend to load up and share movies and their mp3's in this ftp-server. Hum.. not sure what you want to do.. Do you want to encrypt the files, or simply protect the passwords when using ftp ? Anyway, I think an ssh tunel could do the trick: if you forward any unpriviledged port to port 21 of the server, you will encrypt username and password, but because the data go to port 20, they won't be encrypted. On the client side you would do ssh -L 1234:ftp-server-name:21 localhost (not need to be localhost though) and again on the client, use any ftp client and connect to localhost on port 1234. Only problem, you need an ftp server which allows passive mode, I think wu-ftpd (default on lots of linux boxes) does not. Anyone knows whether sftp encrypts the data or not ? about the only thing I would add to this is the most secure setup of an FTP server I've see is the way Proftpd sets up. You can dictate just where and who is logging onto your FTP server by setting this all up in the directives. Make sure you set up the config file or else anyone can go anywhere on your machine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] oooops -OT- and Holy Wars
I doubt we'll ever see a Warp 5 client. At 09:33 AM 1/21/2002 -0500, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Scott, I mean no offense, but thats just gross! My Penguin at home just winced when I opened this message. Eeasy now...this is a Linux list. Mark (a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR) Scott Thurmond wrote: When is the second half of OS/2 coming out? grin I used OS/2 for many years and had a lot of good success with it. I have always thought it was better than windows but the Big Blue isn't the best at marketing - at least when it comes to Gates and the boys. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is it possible to make it work??????
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 17:33, Tomek Nowinski wrote: Hi Everybody, I'd like to ask you for help. I have an old 486 (25Mhz) laptop with 190 MB HDD, 4 MB in RAM and floppy (there is no cd-rom). I was wondering if there is any possibility to put there instead of Windows kind of small Linux with reduced KDE or GNOME (It would be nice to have just a KWord, Anjuta and Mozilla to surf on the net). Tomek, With only 4MB RAM, there is no way you are going to be able to run X Windows with Linux. If possible, I would recommend you upgrade to at least 8 MB, or 16 would be even better. If you can do that, then I would recommend you try an older version of Mandrake or RedHat, like around version 5.1 or 5.2. Dave -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is it possible to make it work??????
On Tuesday 22 January 2002 00:33, you wrote: Hi Everybody, I'd like to ask you for help. I have an old 486 (25Mhz) laptop with 190 MB HDD, 4 MB in RAM and floppy (there is no cd-rom). I was trying to use it. And the only thing I can put there is Windows 3.1 with Word and Excell 95. I was wondering if there is any possibility to put there instead of Windows kind of small Linux with reduced KDE or GNOME (It would be nice to have just a KWord, Anjuta and Mozilla to surf on the net). I can imagine I would need a special linux distribution, kernel compilation, etc... Could someone tell me if it is possible??? Could you help me to make this instalation It certainly is! but depends on the trouble you want to take and what you're after. On the one hand if it's a standalone PC you'd have to be to real clear as to what you exactly want it to do -once that's clear it's only a case of 'being bothered'. On the other hand if it's a PC that can be connected to a server in a lan configuration the ltsp-project is something worth looking at (http:/www.ltsp.net). Frankly 486PC's have enough life in them yet, as long as you're sure to as what you want to achieve. -- Greetings, Harm Bathoorn. Free software is changing global economy the same way trade guilds did in the middle ages Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is it possible to make it work??????
i wouldn't use mandrake, try peanut linux, or search freshmeat for small linux distros, there are plenty of them that include X and kde on two or three floppies. mark On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 05:33, Tomek Nowinski wrote: Hi Everybody, I'd like to ask you for help. I have an old 486 (25Mhz) laptop with 190 MB HDD, 4 MB in RAM and floppy (there is no cd-rom). I was trying to use it. And the only thing I can put there is Windows 3.1 with Word and Excell 95. I was wondering if there is any possibility to put there instead of Windows kind of small Linux with reduced KDE or GNOME (It would be nice to have just a KWord, Anjuta and Mozilla to surf on the net). I can imagine I would need a special linux distribution, kernel compilation, etc... Could someone tell me if it is possible??? Could you help me to make this instalation Thanks, Tomek Nowinski -- Placisz raz - uzywasz caly czas! http://www.onetmail.onet.pl/oferta 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] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 16:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running MDK 8.1 and wonder what the best firewall solution is to install on my workstation. SNF is pretty cool but need to install that on a seperate machine. Any other ideas? I am not new to linux, however networking and firewalls are not my cup of tea, so if a firewall expert can give me a hint. 8.1 comes with Bastille firewall, I use it while I'm travelling on dial-up, and it is easy to set-up, and I tested it with a few of the security resources out there (ShildsUP www.grc.com) and such and it closes things up fairly good. Mandrake Control Centre - Security - Firewalling - Configure Answer the questions and you are off. -- ...Rob = Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada http://www.axis-dev.com/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World = 5:20pm up 7:34, 2 users, load average: 1.47, 1.41, 1.59 msg48234/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] ppp/modem blues secondtime
Hi all, This is the second time I'm sending this question. I'm sorta dissapointed at the silence. Does this mean that you all, despite all the noise you make don't really know the difference between the slack PPP and the Mandrake PPP (I certainly don't, but then I'm just a skipper trying to get his loaded barge from Amsterdam to Paris and Vv--but I'm willing to learn, only I do need help!) ..if so, that's just as bad as Windoze. Simply accepting all that's delivered with the PC (or the cdrom) as the 'walhalla' and no (real)questions asked! Frankly I'm heavily dissapointed.:( - I've got a problem here. I want to install Mandrake on my thinkpad(P133, 40m ram, 1 gbHD) -no problem at all using 7.2 Here's the but: My gsm serial connection will not work and I realy need it to. symptoms: If/when the pcmcia card (cdromdrive) is in the socket I get 'sorry the modem is busy' on a query (it's on ttyS1) On removing the cdrom card I get a lot of gibberish on a query but at least the modem is found. Slowing down the modem to 2400 k reduces the gibberish that's all. The exact same configuration using Slackware7.2 works flawlessly. Anybody got any hints how to get this out of the way? I badly want Mandrake on the laptop as I use it a lot to show off to windoze users how linux makes old hardware look goood;) -- Thanks in advance, Harm Bathoorn. Free software is changing global economy the same way trade guilds did in the middle ages Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is it possible to make it work??????
There is a Mandrake 7.0 version for 486 - 1 .iso file - I think it's still on the net for download, but you'll need a CDROM in the computer to use it. Memory will be a problem if you want to run any kind of X-Windows as well as hard drive space. Best thing you can do with that computer won't include GUI. On 21 Jan 2002 17:33:19 -0600 Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomek Hi Everybody, Tomek Tomek I'd like to ask you for help. Tomek Tomek I have an old 486 (25Mhz) laptop with 190 MB HDD, 4 MB in RAM and floppy Tomek (there is no cd-rom). Tomek Tomek I was trying to use it. And the only thing I can put there is Windows Tomek 3.1 with Word and Excell 95. Tomek Tomek I was wondering if there is any possibility to put there instead of Tomek Windows kind of small Linux with reduced KDE or GNOME (It would be Tomek nice to have just a KWord, Anjuta and Mozilla to surf on the net). Tomek Tomek I can imagine I would need a special linux distribution, kernel Tomek compilation, etc... Tomek Tomek Could someone tell me if it is possible??? Could you help me to make Tomek this instalation Tomek Tomek Thanks, Tomek Tomek Tomek Nowinski Tomek Tomek Tomek Tomek -- Tomek Placisz raz - uzywasz caly czas! Tomek http://www.onetmail.onet.pl/oferta Tomek Tomek Tomek -- Brian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Home Page: http://www.brimac.com/~brianmac Fine Photos: http://www.brimacphotography.com Art for Sale: http://www.artbrowser.com Classified Advertising: http://www.sellit2000.com But I thought YOU did the backups... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is it possible to make it work??????
On Monday 21 January 2002 04:51 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 17:33, Tomek Nowinski wrote: Hi Everybody, I'd like to ask you for help. I have an old 486 (25Mhz) laptop with 190 MB HDD, 4 MB in RAM and floppy (there is no cd-rom). I was wondering if there is any possibility to put there instead of Windows kind of small Linux with reduced KDE or GNOME (It would be nice to have just a KWord, Anjuta and Mozilla to surf on the net). Tomek, With only 4MB RAM, there is no way you are going to be able to run X Windows with Linux. If possible, I would recommend you upgrade to at least 8 MB, or 16 would be even better. If you can do that, then I would recommend you try an older version of Mandrake or RedHat, like around version 5.1 or 5.2. Dave I think FVWM will run with 4Mb RAM. I have redHat 4.2 if you want to try it. Pretty old release... -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tyan thunder K7 SCSI Problem
When I was installing this system i had numerous problems. It stems from the amd chipset support in the kernel for DMA *i think* Tyan were very unhelpful, and did not provide any solutions that worked. the problem I had was that IDE CDROMS did not work, and SCSI cdroms crashed half way through installation, and did not detect drives correctly. I changed the adaptec scsi card to an unbranded one and managed to install on a SCSI HD, so i have a 40GB IDE just sitting unused now. Several People on the kernel list were very helpful, I hope someone from tyan is on this list, they have not proffited from any good PR out of their poor support of this board I perchased. I have a TigerMP but i suspect its the same problem if its amd760MP chipset. try chaning scsi cards, or install over LAN to IDE, (but fast dma is not supported) hdparm /dev/hda JG Kursad Kayaturk wrote: Hi everybody, I have built up a new system with tyan thunder k7 server system. But nearly all linux distributions give SCSI harddisk parity error. Data crc check failed. But Windoze 2k works perfectly on the system. I hate windoze systems. Does anyone knows what can I do? My scsi harddisk is Quantum ATLAS V 36GB. Thanks, Kursad Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
Robert Goshko wrote: On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 16:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running MDK 8.1 and wonder what the best firewall solution is to install on my workstation. SNF is pretty cool but need to install that on a seperate machine. Any other ideas? I am not new to linux, however networking and firewalls are not my cup of tea, so if a firewall expert can give me a hint. 8.1 comes with Bastille firewall, I use it while I'm travelling on dial-up, and it is easy to set-up, and I tested it with a few of the security resources out there (ShildsUP www.grc.com) and such and it closes things up fairly good. Mandrake Control Centre - Security - Firewalling - Configure Answer the questions and you are off. I think Firestarter is the easiest to set up and run. It too closes up your box real well. -- -- Mike White Linux User #193432 Lorena, TX Waco Linux User Group -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is it possible to make it work??? - 2 part.
Thank you very much for your opinions!!! I am still very newbie in this... So in this moment I am considering 2 possibilities: 1. Getting this peanut linux or any other small liux distro - I would apreciate any suggestion, just because I don't have any idea. I have heard that there are PDA's with linux so I can imagine we could try to make something similar. Is it possible to stay with this 4 MB in RAM and take 32 MB of SWAP? Would it be possible? Then use about 100 MB for instalation and the rest for /home...??? Personally, I would prefere this solution. 2. Try a kind of diskless-workstation over LAN conection - I also would apreciate suggestions - I don't have any experince. Can I ask you again about your opinions, suggestions... kind of sites to visit, things to read. Thank you very much... Tomek Nowinski On lun, 2002-01-21 at 06:20, Mark Dvoo wrote: i wouldn't use mandrake, try peanut linux, or search freshmeat for small linux distros, there are plenty of them that include X and kde on two or three floppies. mark On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 05:33, Tomek Nowinski wrote: Hi Everybody, I'd like to ask you for help. I have an old 486 (25Mhz) laptop with 190 MB HDD, 4 MB in RAM and floppy (there is no cd-rom). I was trying to use it. And the only thing I can put there is Windows 3.1 with Word and Excell 95. I was wondering if there is any possibility to put there instead of Windows kind of small Linux with reduced KDE or GNOME (It would be nice to have just a KWord, Anjuta and Mozilla to surf on the net). I can imagine I would need a special linux distribution, kernel compilation, etc... Could someone tell me if it is possible??? Could you help me to make this instalation Thanks, Tomek Nowinski -- Placisz raz - uzywasz caly czas! http://www.onetmail.onet.pl/oferta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1011658259-762-2021 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Placisz raz - uzywasz caly czas! http://www.onetmail.onet.pl/oferta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
At 08:15 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, Mike White wrote: I think Firestarter is the easiest to set up and run. It too closes up your box real well. And yet another firewall script that does NOT do a thorough job... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is it possible to make it work??? - 2 part.
Tomek Nowinski wrote: Thank you very much for your opinions!!! I am still very newbie in this... So in this moment I am considering 2 possibilities: 1. Getting this peanut linux or any other small liux distro - I would apreciate any suggestion, just because I don't have any idea. I have heard that there are PDA's with linux so I can imagine we could try to make something similar. Is it possible to stay with this 4 MB in RAM and take 32 MB of SWAP? Would it be possible? Then use about 100 MB for instalation and the rest for /home...??? Personally, I would prefere this solution. The Little Linux Distros the other folks have mentioned are your best bet. The embedded ones for PDAs are for specific processors not compatible with Intel. Peanut and the others are designed for low-end Intel hardware. 2. Try a kind of diskless-workstation over LAN conection - I also would apreciate suggestions - I don't have any experince. Will this machine be used as someone's primary? If so, since you're on a lan, the diskless X-Window workstation might be a good bet. The Mandrake email archives are full of discussions about that. But don't let the best bet stop you from looking at the Little Linuxes. You'll discover things you can do with other old hardware that you can't do with any other OS, and it's always free. Can I ask you again about your opinions, suggestions... kind of sites to visit, things to read. Things to read... The Linux Documentation Project is free, and massive. It's here: http://www.linuxdoc.org/ If you prefer to learn with the smell and tactile input of paper, Running Linux is a good place to start: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux3/ But there are many other fine books for getting started. Do a search on the bookstore sites. If you don't want to buy a book, scope your local library. I've donated books to mine, and they're getting used a lot; I've checked. Since you're new, one thing you need to know is that this will not be a cakewalk. Linux and the other unices are some complex animals, and not at all like M$ windows or Mac. There are literally hundreds of ways to accomplish a single desire. What's cool is that you get to play with them all and pick the ones you like. If you're not on a schedule, try as many distros as you can get your hands on. Let yourself get frustrated, and post questions here and on other lists. Someone will help. M1k3 Thank you very much... Tomek Nowinski On lun, 2002-01-21 at 06:20, Mark Dvoo wrote: i wouldn't use mandrake, try peanut linux, or search freshmeat for small linux distros, there are plenty of them that include X and kde on two or three floppies. mark On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 05:33, Tomek Nowinski wrote: Hi Everybody, I'd like to ask you for help. I have an old 486 (25Mhz) laptop with 190 MB HDD, 4 MB in RAM and floppy (there is no cd-rom). I was trying to use it. And the only thing I can put there is Windows 3.1 with Word and Excell 95. I was wondering if there is any possibility to put there instead of Windows kind of small Linux with reduced KDE or GNOME (It would be nice to have just a KWord, Anjuta and Mozilla to surf on the net). I can imagine I would need a special linux distribution, kernel compilation, etc... Could someone tell me if it is possible??? Could you help me to make this instalation Thanks, Tomek Nowinski -- Placisz raz - uzywasz caly czas! http://www.onetmail.onet.pl/oferta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1011658259-762-2021 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Getting rid of a banner page
I'm starting to get annoyed by my linux system's habit of adding a banner page after each print job I run. It just wastes ink and paper, but I can't figure out how to turn this feature off. Help! - Theo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
At 08:18 PM 1/21/2002 -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:15 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, Mike White wrote: I think Firestarter is the easiest to set up and run. It too closes up your box real well. And yet another firewall script that does NOT do a thorough job... Hell, could you have been any more enigmatic? How about fleshing this critique out? Are you alluding to Firestarter, and what exactly are you saying? I do not use it but I love to learn about things unbeknownst to myself J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Getting rid of a banner page
to to http://localhost:631/ if u are using CUPS then change it in your printer options. u need to login as root JG Theo Brinkman wrote: I'm starting to get annoyed by my linux system's habit of adding a banner page after each print job I run. It just wastes ink and paper, but I can't figure out how to turn this feature off. Help! - Theo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
At 09:53 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, J. Craig Woods wrote: At 08:18 PM 1/21/2002 -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:15 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, Mike White wrote: I think Firestarter is the easiest to set up and run. It too closes up your box real well. And yet another firewall script that does NOT do a thorough job... Hell, could you have been any more enigmatic? How about fleshing this critique out? Are you alluding to Firestarter, and what exactly are you saying? I do not use it but I love to learn about things unbeknownst to myself I've used tiny firewall, bastille firewall, and firestarter. When I go to sygatetech.com for port scans, none of the UDP ports are blocked and some UDP ports are open (most of the UDP ports are closed - not blocked). The TCP port blocks are set up, though, except for TCP port 53 which I have manually blocked. I guess it's a good thing I don't have anything important on the Linux box yet. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ppp/modem blues secondtime
Harm Bathoorn wrote: Hi all, This is the second time I'm sending this question. I'm sorta dissapointed at the silence. Does this mean that you all, despite all the noise you make don't really know the difference between the slack PPP and the Mandrake PPP (I certainly don't, but then I'm just a skipper trying to get his loaded barge from Amsterdam to Paris and Vv--but I'm willing to learn, only I do need help!) ..if so, that's just as bad as Windoze. Simply accepting all that's delivered with the PC (or the cdrom) as the 'walhalla' and no (real)questions asked! Frankly I'm heavily dissapointed.:( - I've got a problem here. I want to install Mandrake on my thinkpad(P133, 40m ram, 1 gbHD) -no problem at all using 7.2 Here's the but: My gsm serial connection will not work and I realy need it to. symptoms: If/when the pcmcia card (cdromdrive) is in the socket I get 'sorry the modem is busy' on a query (it's on ttyS1) On removing the cdrom card I get a lot of gibberish on a query but at least the modem is found. Slowing down the modem to 2400 k reduces the gibberish that's all. The exact same configuration using Slackware7.2 works flawlessly. Anybody got any hints how to get this out of the way? I badly want Mandrake on the laptop as I use it a lot to show off to windoze users how linux makes old hardware look goood;) -- Thanks in advance, Harm Bathoorn. Free software is changing global economy the same way trade guilds did in the middle ages Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I also have a Thinkpad (TP600E) and I have had an interesting time configuring it. In regards to the problem with the pcmcia card, it really sounds like a resource conflict; either IRQ or io address. There is a way to tell the pcmcia card manager to not use a particular resource range. You need to add the resources you want excluded to the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file. Do you have Mandrake 8.1 installed already, or are you trying to install it? Best regards Arnold -- 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
[expert] GMT and Mandrake
Hello, I have a dual boot laptop, with a certain other proprietry OS on the other partion.. Anway, I'm in linux most thats what counts, but I have a problem with the clock, MDK seems to use clock set to GMT where as the other OS seems to think clock set to TOKYO. I found in /etc/sysconfig/clock ARC=false UTC=true (I changed this to false) ZONE=Asia/Tokyo I assumed UTC was the american name for GMT, as i had read that somewhere, but nothing happed after i changed it to false. I even rebooted! So how does one have 2 OS's co-existing on the same system with the same time zone? Windows does not have any options unfortunatly. I set MDK to GMT, but then all my email times are messed up. Any solutions appreciated. (but its only the windows time so not a serious loss IMO) JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 8.1, KDE 2.2.2, and Xinerama support
Just wanted to let everyone know, since noone had an answer for me, that a stock Mandrake 8.1 install has KDE that supports xinerama (I.E., it was compiled with the --enable-xinerama option). To access the xinerama options, go to KDE Menu -Config -LooknFeel - Window behavior - Advanced. Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
At 09:12 PM 1/21/2002 -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: I've used tiny firewall, bastille firewall, and firestarter. When I go to sygatetech.com for port scans, none of the UDP ports are blocked and some UDP ports are open (most of the UDP ports are closed - not blocked). The TCP port blocks are set up, though, except for TCP port 53 which I have manually blocked. I guess it's a good thing I don't have anything important on the Linux box yet. Probably some rules are written by Firestarter that only include -p TCP and not -p UDP options for some ports. Possible, one could hack the rules, changing REJECT to DENY, and adding UDP to rules, etc. With Firestarter, can you manually edit these rules in a conf file, i.e. add some new ones, change some already existing ones? Anyway, thanks for the extra info J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Getting rid of a banner page
'Configure Printer' under 'Manage Printers' showed no banner pages configured. The banner page I get is formatted as follows: username (in big text) machinename.domain.tld (in big text, cut off at right side of page) lpd: Job trailer Date: - Theo J. Grant wrote: to to http://localhost:631/ if u are using CUPS then change it in your printer options. u need to login as root JG Theo Brinkman wrote: I'm starting to get annoyed by my linux system's habit of adding a banner page after each print job I run. It just wastes ink and paper, but I can't figure out how to turn this feature off. Help! - Theo 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] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just my 2 cents! I use and prefer pcx_firewall! I've use Bastille before! All my ports are on stealth mode, except one! For the time being I am accepting ICMP pings but I can't cut that out also! []s Ricardo Castanho I am running MDK 8.1 and wonder what the best firewall solution is to install on my workstation. SNF is pretty cool but need to install that on a seperate machine. Any other ideas? I am not new to linux, however networking and firewalls are not my cup of tea, so if a firewall expert can give me a hint. - -- delivery NOT reliable = [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Para mais informações veja http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjxNBlMACgkQqJymTCNNyXGMgACeODu9GW3Lbx49VZLGj4y94iU5 w5oAnjCj/P0NnTScOVA9hyvc1O+fjh/D =bAFI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS and DHCP
Ken, I think the simplest answer is to let the machine that's sharing it's internet connection be a DHCP server, but then ignore it. i.e. Run the wizard on the gateway machine. Then just set up all the others to static addresses in the 192.168.0.x range. Make a hosts file and copy it to all machines and you are in business. Works for me! cheers Brian On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 12:02, Ken Thompson wrote: I asked this question a couple of days ago and probably didn't make myself clear. Let's forget about firewalls and Internet connection sharing for the present, I just want to set up my network on DHCP. What I need to know is how can NFS be used with DHCP? From what I *understand*, the IP address for the directory you want to export has to be in /etc/exports and the IP address for the directory you want mounted has to be in /etc/fstab. Given this how is it done with DHCP? If I make an entry in /etc/hosts I still need an IP address - right? Is there a low vitamin content HOWTO somewhere that I can look at? I have never set up any IP chains/tables and haven't the foggiest on how to go about it.. Network as it is now uses static IP addressing in the 192.168.x.x range and works fine but it would be nice to be able to just plug in my laptop or whatever and have it automagically become *part of the family*... -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 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] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:12, you wrote: At 09:53 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, J. Craig Woods wrote: At 08:18 PM 1/21/2002 -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:15 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, Mike White wrote: I think Firestarter is the easiest to set up and run. It too closes up your box real well. And yet another firewall script that does NOT do a thorough job... Hell, could you have been any more enigmatic? How about fleshing this critique out? Are you alluding to Firestarter, and what exactly are you saying? I do not use it but I love to learn about things unbeknownst to myself I've used tiny firewall, bastille firewall, and firestarter. When I go to sygatetech.com for port scans, none of the UDP ports are blocked and some UDP ports are open (most of the UDP ports are closed - not blocked). The TCP port blocks are set up, though, except for TCP port 53 which I have manually blocked. I guess it's a good thing I don't have anything important on the Linux box yet. Odd...I've got Bastille running and the UDP scan at sygatetech.com can't find one open port -- Andrew George --- The meek are contesting the will. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
