[expert] Matrix fortune
Hello all, Any one know where can I download "The Matrix" fortune? Hung vu -- Takeshi's small space http://donganh16.tk/ Join KDE-i18n-Vi? http://vi.i18n.kde.org VYSA: http://vysasports.vngate.net/ Vietlug: http://vietlug.sourceforge.net KDE Man http://site.techviet.com/Vu.Hung/archive/kdeman1.jpg --- -- 4:20pm up 1:20, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.18, 0.31 Woody: Hey, Mr. Peterson, what's up? Norm: The warranty on my liver. -- Cheers, Breaking In Is Hard to Do Sam: What can I do for you, Norm? Norm: Open up those beer taps and, oh, take the day off, Sam. -- Cheers, Veggie-Boyd Woody: What's going on, Mr. Peterson? Norm: Another layer for the winter, Wood. -- Cheers, It's a Wonderful Wife Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Autofs doesn't mount my floppy - help wanted.
I am using autofs4 for automounting under MDK 8.1. I have a directory, /mount, which I use for automounting. It works fine for my DVD drive, CDRW drive, a local windows partition, and a remote windows share via smbmount. However, I cannot seem to get my floppy to automount. For instance, if I issue "ls /mount/floppy" after putting a disk in the drive, I get a "no such file or directory" error message. The same command for the dvd drive, for instance, works just fine after putting a CD in the drive. At first, I thought perhaps the floppy drive itself was bad, but if I try to manually mount it at a mount point, it works fine, and I can also create a file system on the (unmounted) drive. I have devfs active as is the MDK 8.1 default. Here is my /etc/auto.master: # $Id: auto.master,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:03 hpa Exp $ # Sample auto.master file # Format of this file: # mountpoint map options # For details of the format look at autofs(8). #/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60 #/net /etc/auto.net --timeout=60 /mount /etc/auto.mount --timeout=15 and my /etc/auto.mount: # $Id: auto.master,v 1.2 1997/10/06 21:52:04 hpa Exp $ # Created 10-21-2001 NL # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage dvd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec,user :/dev/dvd cdrw-fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user :/dev/cdrw floppy -fstype=auto,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,unhide:/dev/fd0 windows -fstype=vfat,user,exec,umask=0 :/dev/hda2 kirk-fstype=smbfs,user,nosuid,noauto,noexec,rw,password=pass://kirk/ddrive Finally: ls -l /dev/fd0 give me: lr-xr-xr-x1 root root8 Mar 4 02:41 /dev/fd0 -> floppy/0 total 0 and ls -l /dev/floppy give me: brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 0 Dec 31 1969 0 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 84 Dec 31 1969 0u1040 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 88 Dec 31 1969 0u1120 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 28 Dec 31 1969 0u1440 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 124 Dec 31 1969 0u1600 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 44 Dec 31 1969 0u1680 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 60 Dec 31 1969 0u1722 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 76 Dec 31 1969 0u1743 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 96 Dec 31 1969 0u1760 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 116 Dec 31 1969 0u1840 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 100 Dec 31 1969 0u1920 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 12 Dec 31 1969 0u360 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 16 Dec 31 1969 0u720 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 120 Dec 31 1969 0u800 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 52 Dec 31 1969 0u820 brw-rw1 nl floppy 2, 68 Dec 31 1969 0u830 so I should have permission to access the device. Any help? N Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] emu10k problems
Im am now running 8.2 b4, but this error has occured since 8.1. I have a SBLive sound card, which is detected and installed during setup. I can play MP3s, wav files, TV card wroks fine too. But I dont get system sounds in gnome. When I attempt to use hardrake to setup the card I get "can't find alsa". In 8.1, in spite of the error, the system sounds would begin to work. In 8.2, no such luck. Whats the deal? Rob http://linuxlaunchpad.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] No sound from crossover plugin
On Friday 08 March 2002 18:03, you wrote: > On Friday 08 March 2002 21:43, you wrote: > > > > Anyone have the crossover plugin installed and sound working on Mandrake > > 8.1? > > > > praedor Yes. You don't by any chance have aRtsd running do you? http://crossover.codeweavers.com/html/html/techsupport.html#NO-SOUND -- Live fast, die young, you're sucking up my bandwidth. -- J.P. Pasnak, CD [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca Kernel version: 2.4.18-4mdk Current Linux uptime: 23 hours 49 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No sound from crossover plugin
On Friday 08 March 2002 21:43, you wrote: > I am running Mandrake 8.1, updated, and KDE 2.2.2 on my IBM thinkpad with > esssolo1 sound. Sound works. I have the crossover plugin installed along > with quicktime 5 and the windoze media player. They both start and show > movies fine but there is no sound at all from them. > > How do I get sound to work for the crossover plugin in KDE? As far as I > can tell there is nothing wrong with my system. > > Anyone have the crossover plugin installed and sound working on Mandrake > 8.1? > > praedor -- Just to confirm: IBM thinkpad, crossover works fineno sound! -- Harm Bathoorn. "One has authority, until it's called on" Corto Maltese..Sign of the Capricorn;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] MOBO Question
I'm building a multi-purpose box (multi-OS). So selecting a mobo is a balancing act trying to ensure interoperability between the vairous operating systems The most problematic being between Solaris,a nd Linux. So far the ASUS A7V266-M carries excelent certification with Solaris. Has anyone had any experience with it with Linux? Any input is greatly appreciated. TIA -- 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
Re: [expert] high perf partitionning question again....
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, gikoreno wrote: > > > /boot -> 36MB > > > / -> 5GB > > > /usr -> 10GB RAID0 > > > /usr/local ->10GB RAID0 > > > swap -> 2GB > > > /var -> 10GB RAID0 > > > /tmp -> 5GB > > > /opt -> 10GB RAID0 > > > /home -> 22GB RAID0 > > > X -> 16GB > > > > Is there a reason for breaking up swap like this? I.e., are you > > interleaving swap partitions between the others? > > Yes, the idea was to ensure that the drive's read/write heads were > always close to a swap partition (on the faster part of the hard drive). I > was told this is supposed to improve performance. > I've generally placed a single swap partition on each drive, or used a dedicated swap drive, but never interleaved it as you're doing. Maybe the RAID would give some performance boost, but I'm not convinced that it would be significant. Where did you see this recommendation? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?
Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> Now, why you don't want to use pam. The pam authentication method
> should be used if you *don't* use passwd/shadow authentication. For
> instance, you would use pam if you used LDAP to authenticate logins
> (may even work with NIS). If you want to use pam and still
> authenticate against /etc/passwd (really, /etc/shadow), then you must
> change /etc/shadow from mode 0600 to mode 0644. For some reason, SASL
> will always error out, and I suspect this is because it is trying to
> read /etc/shadow as the postfix user. This is the same thing with the
> shadow method, which reads /etc/shadow directly. I've verified that
> chmod'ing /etc/shadow to 0644 allows both pam and shadow to work
> (using Evolution as a test client).
Interesting. I always thought that pam had it's own method of accessing
the password file. Thanks for the information.
> Unfortunately, that sucks and is very very insecure. /etc/shadow must
> not be anything other than 600 as that defies it's whole purpose. Now
> *why*, when using pam method, this is required I don't know. There
> must be something wrong in the SASL libs for this to be a requirement
> (although searching some archives on the postfix ml, everyone seems to
> have this issue). Note, I haven't tried it with pam using something
> other than the system passwd file (ie. didn't test against LDAP/NIS,
> etc.).
One of the things mentioned at a web site I found describing using AUTH in
postifix was that if you were going to use the "pwcheck_method: shadow"
style was that they recommended that you set /etc/shadow as mode 640 and
then change its group to a group that the postfix user belonged to. That
way, postfix could read the file. I suspect that it would work that way as
well WRT what you describe above (you don't need to go 644, which I agree
is *horrible* from a security standpoint).
> Now, for your case, you want to use pwcheck method. /usr/sbin/pwcheck
> is a daemon, run as root, that acts as a go-between between postfix
> and /etc/shadow. There is no initscript for it, and pwcheck launches
> itself into the backgroun, so you can just add to the end of
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local "/usr/sbin/pwcheck". For testing, change your
> smtpd.conf to pwcheck and just run /usr/sbin/pwcheck on the cmdline as
> root.
I will try that and let you know what happens.
> > Heck, I even tried setting "pwcheck_method: sasldb" instead, ran saslpasswd
> > to create a user account, and the flipping thing *still* aborted when I
> > connected to the SMTP port on my machine with sasl turned on. Argh.
>
> Did you restart postfix after making this change?
Yea, I sure did. "/etc/init.d/postfix restart" after various changes. I
wanted to be sure that nothing was being cached without my knowledge.
> If so, what kind of errors are you getting in your logs?
When I connect to port 25 after doing the restart, I get the exact same
error messages I've listed in this thread before. No variation at all.
> If you run sasldblistusers as root, what does it say?
# sasldblistusers
user: mrobin realm: {myhost} mech: DIGEST-MD5
user: mrobin realm: {myhost} mech: PLAIN
user: mrobin realm: {myhost} mech: CRAM-MD5
#
"mrobin" is a friend of mine who I'm trying to give relay access to. :-)
> > Any ideas?
>
> I think pwcheck is your best bet for what you want. Please try that.
> Make sure you completely restart postfix after you change your
> smtpd.conf... I don't know if it caches the contents of that file or
> not, but I did notice in my testing that it seemed to be required.
Like I said above, I did issue a restart rather than reload command. Heck,
I even restarted saslauthd each time as well, just in case.
> Also, you can read http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/postfix-sasl.php
> which is "Enabling SASL support in postfix". I'm pretty sure it's at
> least 99% accurate. It also has links to two other how-to's I've
> found.
I will do that for sure.
> If, after all of this, it still doesn't work, then I can only assume
> you're cursed or something. =) Because I did verify that pam worked
> (with 644 /etc/shadow), shadow worked (with 644 /etc/shadow), sasldb
> worked (always has over here), and that pwcheck worked (happy 600
> perms on /etc/shadow).
Oh great, I'll go down in history.
User: "I can't get this $#@!ing thing to work!"
Support: "You must have the Curse Of Dave."
:-)
ARGH!!! Just to try it out before sending this off, I tried setting pam
again (because it was quicker at this point) and changed /etc/shadow to
mode 644. I did a restart of both saslauthd and postfix. I connected to
the SMTP port, and the flipping thing *still* errors. As usual, in the
syslog, I see:
postfix/smtpd[18867]: fatal: SASL per-process initialization failed
postfix/master[18842]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 18867
exit status 1
postfix/master[18842]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup
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[expert] No sound from crossover plugin
I am running Mandrake 8.1, updated, and KDE 2.2.2 on my IBM thinkpad with esssolo1 sound. Sound works. I have the crossover plugin installed along with quicktime 5 and the windoze media player. They both start and show movies fine but there is no sound at all from them. How do I get sound to work for the crossover plugin in KDE? As far as I can tell there is nothing wrong with my system. Anyone have the crossover plugin installed and sound working on Mandrake 8.1? praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] high perf partitionning question again....
--- On Fri 03/08, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, gikoreno wrote: > > > > > DISK 2: > > SWAP 128MB > > /usr 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd > > /usr/local 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd > > SWAP 128MB > > /var 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd > > SWAP 128MB > > /tmp 5GB XFS > > SWAP 128MB > > /opt 5GB RAID0 XFS 2st > > /home 11GB RAID0 XFS 2st > > > > > > Summary: > > /boot -> 36MB > > / -> 5GB > > /usr -> 10GB RAID0 > > /usr/local ->10GB RAID0 > > swap -> 2GB > > /var -> 10GB RAID0 > > /tmp -> 5GB > > /opt -> 10GB RAID0 > > /home -> 22GB RAID0 > > X -> 16GB > > Is there a reason for breaking up swap like this? I.e., are you > interleaving swap partitions between the others? Yes, the idea was to ensure that the drive's read/write heads were always close to a swap partition (on the faster part of the hard drive). I was told this is supposed to improve performance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to enable authentication in Postfix?
On Fri Mar 08, 2002 at 12:05:04AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: > >> $ cat /var/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf > >> pwcheck_method: pam > >> $ > >> > >> (I figured you might want to know what's in the smtpd.conf file. :) > > > > This is very bad. What you are doing here is telling SASL to use > > pam... not good. Two things here: > > > > 1) smtpd.conf should contain "pwcheck_method:sasldb" > > 2) it belongs in /usr/lib/sasl not /var/lib/sasl > > > > If this doesn't fix your problem, I will be really surprised... > > Prepare to be really surprised, then. :-( /me hates being a perfectionist Ok... I'll be damned if this gets past me... I stayed up *really* late last night (this morning?) trying to figure this out and while I was at it, I wrote a document on the whole thing for MandrakeSecure. Go figure... =) > I took a look in my /usr/lib/sasl directory and found that it already had a > smtpd.conf file. > > $ cat /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf > #%PAM-1.0 > auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth > accountrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth > $ > > I added "pwcheck_method: pam" to the bottom of the file (waiting until I get > your reply on why it's bad to use this), and when I connected to port 25, > again I got the error messages I've listed before. Ok. The problem is how SASL works with this. There are four pwcheck methods... pam, shadow, sasldb, and pwcheck. The pam auth method interfaces with pam, apparently. shadow reads /etc/shadow directly. sasldb uses the /var/lib/sasl/sasl.db file. pwcheck interfaces with the pwcheck daemon which reads the /etc/shadow file. Now, why you don't want to use pam. The pam authentication method should be used if you *don't* use passwd/shadow authentication. For instance, you would use pam if you used LDAP to authenticate logins (may even work with NIS). If you want to use pam and still authenticate against /etc/passwd (really, /etc/shadow), then you must change /etc/shadow from mode 0600 to mode 0644. For some reason, SASL will always error out, and I suspect this is because it is trying to read /etc/shadow as the postfix user. This is the same thing with the shadow method, which reads /etc/shadow directly. I've verified that chmod'ing /etc/shadow to 0644 allows both pam and shadow to work (using Evolution as a test client). Unfortunately, that sucks and is very very insecure. /etc/shadow must not be anything other than 600 as that defies it's whole purpose. Now *why*, when using pam method, this is required I don't know. There must be something wrong in the SASL libs for this to be a requirement (although searching some archives on the postfix ml, everyone seems to have this issue). Note, I haven't tried it with pam using something other than the system passwd file (ie. didn't test against LDAP/NIS, etc.). Now, for your case, you want to use pwcheck method. /usr/sbin/pwcheck is a daemon, run as root, that acts as a go-between between postfix and /etc/shadow. There is no initscript for it, and pwcheck launches itself into the backgroun, so you can just add to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local "/usr/sbin/pwcheck". For testing, change your smtpd.conf to pwcheck and just run /usr/sbin/pwcheck on the cmdline as root. > Heck, I even tried setting "pwcheck_method: sasldb" instead, ran saslpasswd > to create a user account, and the flipping thing *still* aborted when I > connected to the SMTP port on my machine with sasl turned on. Argh. Did you restart postfix after making this change? If so, what kind of errors are you getting in your logs? If you run sasldblistusers as root, what does it say? > Any ideas? I think pwcheck is your best bet for what you want. Please try that. Make sure you completely restart postfix after you change your smtpd.conf... I don't know if it caches the contents of that file or not, but I did notice in my testing that it seemed to be required. Also, you can read http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/postfix-sasl.php which is "Enabling SASL support in postfix". I'm pretty sure it's at least 99% accurate. It also has links to two other how-to's I've found. If, after all of this, it still doesn't work, then I can only assume you're cursed or something. =) Because I did verify that pam worked (with 644 /etc/shadow), shadow worked (with 644 /etc/shadow), sasldb worked (always has over here), and that pwcheck worked (happy 600 perms on /etc/shadow). -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://www.freezer-burn.org/bios/vdanen.gpg | gpg --import" 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk uptime: 44 days 15 hours 57 minutes. msg50645/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] devfs & 2.4.18 trouble
Hi Has anyone tried upgrading a standard mandrake 8.1 to kernel 2.4.18 and gotten it to work properly? I get loads of boot errors with devfs: [ cut from syslog ] ... devfs_register(tts/0): could not append to parent, err: -17 ... devfs_register(dsp): could not append to parent, err: -17 /Ronny Nilsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] high perf partitionning question again....
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, gikoreno wrote: > > DISK 2: > SWAP 128MB > /usr 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd > /usr/local 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd > SWAP 128MB > /var 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd > SWAP 128MB > /tmp 5GB XFS > SWAP 128MB > /opt 5GB RAID0 XFS 2st > /home 11GB RAID0 XFS 2st > > > Summary: > /boot -> 36MB > / -> 5GB > /usr -> 10GB RAID0 > /usr/local ->10GB RAID0 > swap -> 2GB > /var -> 10GB RAID0 > /tmp -> 5GB > /opt -> 10GB RAID0 > /home -> 22GB RAID0 > X -> 16GB Is there a reason for breaking up swap like this? I.e., are you interleaving swap partitions between the others? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cannot set gnome as default session
well, the main difference between gdm and kdm is that gdm is completely independent from xdm (the "original" login-app) and that is has some "advanced features" (eg. /etc/rc.d/-like start/stop scripting capabilities). kdm on the contrary sits on top of xdm and is something like a different "gui" for xdm, leaving it with the same issues that the underlying xdm has (security etc.). but for general usage its just the same question as if KDE or gnome is better. udo Am Fre, 2002-03-08 um 11.58 schrieb Lyvim Xaphir: > I'm curious here, because I've never tried gdm. What made you select > gdm over kdm? Were there features in gdm that were not available in > kdm, or what? > > > On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 21:35, Mr. Necro wrote: > > Hey, when I wanted to change my default session for gdm I simply did as > > you did and went into > > > > /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions > > > > then I opened up Default and default in emacs, then simply changed the > > line to the one found in the Gnome file (also in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions). > > I backed up all the files for the original directory, then saved > > everything (as root of course) and rebooted. > > > > I don't know if you already did this, or if I'm telling you things that > > are redundant, but that's what I did and it seemed to fix the problem, > > as my default is now Gnome and I don't have to manually select it from > > sessions any longer. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > _ > 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] high perf partitionning question again....
Hi everyone: I have 2x 45 GB matched hard drives and I am planning on repartitionning them to have a high performance workstation/server system. I have also 512MB of RAM and will be upgrading to 1GB soon. So here is my plan so far: In order per disk: DISK 1: /boot 36MBext3 SWAP 128MB /usr 5GB RAID0 XFS 1st /usr/local 5GB RAID0 XFS 1st SWAP 128MB / 5GB XFS SWAP 128MB /var 5GB RAID0 XFS 1st SWAP 128MB /opt 5GB RAID0 XFS 1st /home 11GB RAID0 XFS 1st DISK 2: SWAP 128MB /usr 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd /usr/local 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd SWAP 128MB /var 5GB RAID0 XFS 2nd SWAP 128MB /tmp 5GB XFS SWAP 128MB /opt 5GB RAID0 XFS 2st /home 11GB RAID0 XFS 2st Summary: /boot -> 36MB / -> 5GB /usr -> 10GB RAID0 /usr/local ->10GB RAID0 swap -> 2GB /var -> 10GB RAID0 /tmp -> 5GB /opt -> 10GB RAID0 /home -> 22GB RAID0 X -> 16GB I know they don't sum up exactly, but it's just to give you an idea (the other 16GB I might allocate them to /home or to 2 w2k partitions) As you can see, everything is a RAID with the exception of / and /tmp. the server use of it will be SSH, FTP, HTTP, SMB, etc. So I need lost of room for storing files, and also lots of room for applications, since it will be mainly a high-performance workstation. My questions are the following: 1.- are the proportions right? What should I change? 2.- Can the root (/) partition be a RAID too, or is is not recommended (in case of a problem, for example, would I prefer having a normal partition rather than a RAID?) 3.- Should I make /tmp RAID 0 too? I left it like that to keep some sort of symmetry on both drives, but maybe it's not needed, and I could rearrange and make it a RAID0 too? Ok, thank you very much in advance for your advice. gikoreno Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] For Civileme (or anyone else who can help)
Jones,Daniel E. wrote: > Perhaps it is a reference to the Hawaiian word for 'quick', which is > 'wikiwiki'. Hey, pretty good guess -- actually it is a reference to exactly that. The referenced page (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/MeteredInternetAccessEuropeShipboardAn) is a page from a fairly new type of software known as a wiki. The first wiki was created by Ward Cunningham. He chose the name at least partially based on the Hawaiian word "wikiwiki" which he recognized as the name of the (quick) airport shuttle in Hawaii. The intent is to allow people to quickly make and edit web pages, including allowing anyone to edit a page anyone else has created (collaboration). See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/AboutThesePages, and especially http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/AboutThesePages#Some_Useful_Links for some links to more information. A WikiWord is formed by "scrunching" two or more capitalized words together, like AboutThesePages. If you put such a WikiWord on a page (on most wikis) it automatically creates a link to a page called AboutThesePages. If the page exists, the link looks like a normal link (in blue and underlined) -- if the page does not exist, the link looks more normal (maybe blue) but has a question mark afterwards. If you click on the question mark, you are led to create the new page. In a way, the WikiWord thing is a distraction -- there are other easy ways to create a new page that don't involve a wiki word (except, currently, as the name of the page). If I knew enough to rewrite TWiki, I might take the WikiWord stuff out. Some of the developer's of TWiki are thinking along similar lines. TWiki is the variety of wiki I like best so far -- it has an active community of developers, it stores all old revisions of a page, it can be set up to require a password for creating or reading pages, can include drawings, and other features that don't immediately come to mind. See: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/WikiWord * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/TestSketch Wikilearn is the temporary twiki site for WikiLearn, a web site intended to help newbies to Linux (perhaps immigrating from Windows) to learn Linux and anything and everything about free and open source software and programming. My intent is to do that by recording my (and other's) learning experiences. I would love to have help in creating content or setting up and maintaining the site. See some lists of ToDos at: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDos * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDosDiscussion * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDosLatestVersionOfTWiki * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDosOld As it states in http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDos#If_You_Want_to_Help: If anyone is interested in any of the tasks listed above, write to me -- even it you can't do it now, but have a desire to learn. (I'm not in a position to instantly teach anyone how to do this, but having someone else interested in learning with me might restore my flagging enthusiasm -- it seems like it's been a much longer road than I expected.) If you're interested in learning anything about Linux, free software, or programming, and willing to contribute content, just peruse the web site and jump in. Eventually I'd hope to have a better framework (see http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WikiLearnToDos#Partial_List_of_Webs), but for now, if you have something to add, start a page or edit an existing page. There is a fairly new thing in TWiki -- parent / child pages and I haven't really worked out how I want to use that feature, especially as opposed to using sub webs. See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/TWikiBreadCrumbTrail. If you have questions, write to me (or post them on the TWiki). Before you can edit or create pages you must register at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration. The registration process is painless, and asks a few innocuous questions. A simple way to start a page is to paste the following into your browser's address bar: "http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/"; followed by the name of the page you want to create, like TestPage, then press enter. If the page exists, you will see it, if not you will be led to create it. Edit an existing page to get an idea of the simple TWiki markup language that can be used. (Until you need the markup, you can just type plain text, which will appear just fine.) Randy Kramer > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > > > On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 13:28:13 -0500 > > Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > > > > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/MeteredInternetAccessEuropeShipboardAn > > > > Randy, > > > > I realize this is OT, but what the heck are wiki-words and such things? I > > recognize the little robot guy from Buck Rogers.-- > > daRcmaT
Re: [expert] cannot set gnome as default session
grin ..., this will definetively work, yes. But this is not the "clean" way to do this, just some kind of workaround that doesn't completely satisfy my agonized sysadmin-heart ;-)) udo Am Fre, 2002-03-08 um 03.35 schrieb Mr. Necro: > Hey, when I wanted to change my default session for gdm I simply did as > you did and went into > > /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions > > then I opened up Default and default in emacs, then simply changed the > line to the one found in the Gnome file (also in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions). > I backed up all the files for the original directory, then saved > everything (as root of course) and rebooted. > > I don't know if you already did this, or if I'm telling you things that > are redundant, but that's what I did and it seemed to fix the problem, > as my default is now Gnome and I don't have to manually select it from > sessions any longer. > > > > > > 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] Eudora Mail
On Friday 08 March 2002 00:55, you wrote: > > Actually I was reffering to the slow GSM connection. Using the IMAP > > protocol requieres me to browse online taking even more time. Staroffice > > worked in the same fashion out the box but isn't really a gain. Filtering > > on the server side of course works an the 'trick' I personally use is > > letting all mail go to my mainbox at home, filter the mail there and > > forward what's left and usable to my GSM. That way if things get really > > messy I can always connect remotely and clean things up if need be:) > > But it's not what I would advise a collegae who want's to switch from > > Windoze to Linux. > > Good idea! -- Not really, It requires a new e-mail adress for aboard ship for one. Secondly it requires that the main machine be online 24/24 when the whole family is aboard for a longer period of time (we don't like it, because of the fire risk) and/or a fair amount of discipline by wife&kids when they're at home to not shutdown or at least boot the machine on a daily basis to collect the mail and or for me to connect. -- Harm Bathoorn. "One has authority, until it's called on" Corto Maltese..Sign of the Capricorn;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Alert!!! HP is releasing a version of Mandrake Linux without GPL or source!
On Thursday 07 March 2002 05:55 pm, you wrote: > On Thursday 07 March 2002 10:34, you wrote: > > Actually, Mandrake sells the standard version of linux without the source > > with it, but that don't violate GPL as Mandrake has it available to > > download. > > > > Harold > > I don't think they _sell_ with out including the source, thats what the > other 2 or three disk are that you did not need from the powerpack during > the install. download is a different matter, since it is the GPL version. > I bought the standard version and got no cd with the source code on it.. I got 2 CD's with the open source rpm's on it and 1 CD with a couple or 3 commercial programs on it.. Harold > > On Thursday 07 March 2002 09:02 am, you wrote: > > > ( breathe... ) that one got me scared... > > > > > > anyway is there something we are supposed to do when we see > > > companies violating GPL? contact the autor for the software? kill the > > > company mascot? anything like that? > > > > > > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:47:35 -0800 > > > > > > > > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > All, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Here is comes. A release of Mandrake without GPL or Source. If > > > > > you go to http://www.hp.com/security/products/linux/eval/ > > > > > > > > > > You will find a 60 day timed copy of the iso (only way provided) > > > > > that is a FULL working version of Linux. No links are provided to > > > > > source code for the GPL'd code anywhere. (see below for coment > > > > > fromth the page.) > > > > > > > > If you had bothered to click the 'source code policy' link it takes > > > > you to this page > > > > http://www.hp.com/security/products/linux/opensource/ and you would > > > > have seen this. > > > > > > > > " source code policy > > > > > > > > Modifications to the Linux kernel related to HP Secure OS Software > > > > for Linux are made available as source code. The Multi-Compartment > > > > Gateway Agent (MCGA), the implementation of the secure administration > > > > model, the lockdown mechanism, key parts of the auditing mechanism, > > > > and utilities for managing containment are not released as source > > > > code. In general, HP intellectual property that resides in the user > > > > space of the operating system is not made available as source code. > > > > > > > > HP makes the sources to the following available with HP Secure OS > > > > Software for Linux: > > > > > > > > * Modifications to the Linux kernel > > > > * Dynamically loaded kernel modules (DLKMs) for containment and > > > > audit * The audit daemon > > > > > > > > obtaining source code > > > > Source code is provided with the product media, and as an added > > > > benefit to the Linux community, HP provides the source code on its > > > > FTP site: > > > > > > > > ftp.hp.com/pub/security/hplx_source/" > > > > > > > > > > > > I see nothing here that would violate GPL. > > > > The source code for Any Mandrake pkgs, even if HP does not provide > > > > it, would of course be available from Mandrake. > > > > > > > > > > > > Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] boot image and creation
hello, I want to recreate "cdrom.img" with a "personalized" kernel, where i can find documentation to recreate it with syslinux installation(in order to install mdk without windows). Context: - I have a HD which can't switch in (U)DMA mode(hardware problem). - I can't force kernel to stay in pio mode for this device with a boot parameter, ONLY kernel with DMA support DISABLE work! (I read many faq, docs ... and asked few mailing without good answer) - This HD work(and boot) perfectly in pio mode under windows 2000 - last thing, i can't replce it (garantie is finished :~() Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Alert!!! HP is releasing a version of Mandrake Linuxwithout GPL or source!
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 17:42, ed tharp wrote: > On Thursday 07 March 2002 06:45, you wrote; > > can anything be done? i mean... if they violate the gpl... ? > > well... I personally won't have sex with Carly (Fiorina) until she gets the > GPL right. that ought to fix her.. > Ed, that's entirely too severe a punishment. ;) _ 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] cannot set gnome as default session
I'm curious here, because I've never tried gdm. What made you select gdm over kdm? Were there features in gdm that were not available in kdm, or what? On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 21:35, Mr. Necro wrote: > Hey, when I wanted to change my default session for gdm I simply did as > you did and went into > > /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions > > then I opened up Default and default in emacs, then simply changed the > line to the one found in the Gnome file (also in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions). > I backed up all the files for the original directory, then saved > everything (as root of course) and rebooted. > > I don't know if you already did this, or if I'm telling you things that > are redundant, but that's what I did and it seemed to fix the problem, > as my default is now Gnome and I don't have to manually select it from > sessions any longer. > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ 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] How to enable authentication in Postfix?
David Guntner wrote: > Prepare to be really surprised, then. :-( > > I took a look in my /usr/lib/sasl directory and found that it already had a > smtpd.conf file. > > $ cat /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf > #%PAM-1.0 > auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth > accountrequired /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth > $ > > I added "pwcheck_method: pam" to the bottom of the file (waiting until I get > your reply on why it's bad to use this), and when I connected to port 25, > again I got the error messages I've listed before. > > Heck, I even tried setting "pwcheck_method: sasldb" instead, ran saslpasswd > to create a user account, and the flipping thing *still* aborted when I > connected to the SMTP port on my machine with sasl turned on. Argh. > > Any ideas? I wish I did, David. But hell, I must say this thread has become quite exciting. It has drama, suspense, and I hope it will soon have a conclusion. Keep at it guys, good luck, and do keep us posted on the solution. -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Broken Content type in Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter- Issue #33
Hi Grant, I see that you use Mozilla 0.9.8 for Linux. Me too. My Mozilla is set to UTF-8 everywhere too, but there's no problem with me (or maybe I didn't notice it?) I've deleted the newsletter, so could you send it me again so that I can see if there's anything special? Have you tried to display a webpage written in UTF-8 and see if you've got the same problem? BTW, maybe we can move this discussion out of the list and continue it in private. J. Grant wrote: > Hello Fong, > > I have set utf8 as default, so if email comes it where the sender has > missed out the relevent headers (like this one) it assumes its utf8 > which means all the !"£$%^&*( comes out as > > JG > > Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: > > I didn't have any problem with the newsletter either. On the other > > hand, the newsletter is in English, so whether the message's header > > indicates UTF-8 or US-ASCII or anything else, the result should be the > > same. > > > > What email programme do you use? Maybe your programme associates > > wrongly UTF-8 to a symbol font. > > > > Fong > > > > > > > > >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
