Re: [expert] A little vi help
On stardate Mon, 8 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Randy Kramer wrote:
Michael Holt wrote:
I do have
another question; I've read books that say they've were written using vi
and I started wondering if you could actually apply fonts and control size
of fonts as well as italics, bold, etc. Is that possible? Does vi have
something built in that will allow you to format a document?
AFAIK (and like J. Craig Woods said) there is nothing built into vi to
let you do those kind of things. I can imagine that someone who writes
a book in vi uses one of two approaches (or a combination of the two):
Not built in, true, but I do almost all my documentation in vi/TeX. One
nice thing about vi is that you can filter sections of text through
external programs, or read directly from the stdout of any program. This
allows me to format a section of text by doing (trivial example):
:10,50! fmt
For TeX code I've created a bunch of little helper scripts to do things
like plug in an image or format columns. E.g.:
#/bin/sh
# epsinsert
GEOMETRY=`grep -A1 % Image geometry $1|tail -1`
# echo $GEOMETRY
WIDTH=`echo $GEOMETRY|cut -d' ' -f1`
HEIGHT=`echo $GEOMETRY|cut -d' ' -f2`
echo \\begin\{figure\}[label]
echo \\centering
echo \\includegraphics[height=${HEIGHT}pt,width=${WIDTH}pt]{$1}
echo \\caption\{ CAPTION \}
echo \\label\{label\}
echo \\end\{figure\}
This can be called with:
:r! epsinsert images/somefile.eps
OK, that might have just left me a little behind; I'm going to do a search
on google for tex and I'll get back to you!
Mike :-)
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Re: [expert] a long standing probelm .... apache site on a win32 part...
»faisal gillani« sagte am 2002-04-08 um 21:03:58 -0700 : what might be causing this ? How are you trying to access your site? How did you setup the aliases? What are the permissions on the directories up to the directory holding your site? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 0 hours 27 minutes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HELP-weird log messages appearing every 15 seconds or so
That was a great answer, thank you very much, I am going to start checking what you suggested. Roberto... --- Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since i upgraded to Mandrake 8.2 I am getting the following log message from the kernel. Apr 8 22:30:36 rarmente kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:50:da:da:c7:57:08:00 Apr 8 22:32:36 rarmente kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0 I use swatch to monitor my log files and it is constantly showing this messages. I would appreciate if somebody gives me a hand to understand this message. Roberto Assuming both messages refer to the same packet, you've got a machine sending a wire broadcast (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff) to the local broadcast (255.255.255.255) and claiming to be the loopback IP (127.0.0.1) -- the problem is that packets to/from the loopback must never appear on a LAN. The sender has an ethernet card with the MAC address 00:50:da:da:c7:57... I don't see a vendor code (00:50:da) for this card at http://www.cavebear.com/CaveBear/Ethernet/vendor.html so I can't tell you who the vendor is. Hope the neighbouring machines on your eth0 is not too big... if eth0 is connected to a DSL, you'll have to work with your local ISP to try to locate it. If you want to try to find it yourself, you can ping all the addresses in your subnet (individually or with ping -b 255.255.255.255 -- add -I eth0 if you have other net adapters) and check the ARP cache with arp -a | grep -i 00:50:da. If you get a hit, you will at least know the real IP | address of the offender. Caution, it *could* be you... HTH, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a long standing probelm .... apache site on a win32part...
faisal gillani wrote: but it seems it only works when i copy the whole site into /var/www/html which i dont want .. what might be causing this ? Have you tried to make a symbolic link under /var/www/html that points to your fat directory ? How about changing the Document_Root entry in httpd.conf ? KevinO Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A little vi help
Michael Holt wrote: OK, that makes sense. I'm new to vi but really enjoy the ability to move around by keystroke and not have to mess with the mouse. I was wondering if there was a sort of common way the *nix people have done that I haven't seen yet; there are so many tools in the *nix world (TeX, LaTeX - I don't really know what those things are - yet) Word processors are great, but I tend to get a little lost in all the options they offer nowadays and there just seems to be something nice about sitting in front of a translucent, shaded Eterm window doing my work rather than an ugly gray desktop with click-able 'buttons' everywhere that I never can remember which one is which and with that I shall /rant Thanks! Mike :-) Yes, Mike so true. Many, many tools. And the best way to learn them is one at a time. That is why, in my *very* original post, I did not enumerate all the different ways to use the stdout process for different programs i.e. TeX, LaTeX, etc. As you have seen from some very good examples, provided by the list members here, there is always great flexibility in doing what you want to get done in UNIX/Linux. I would only caution you to learn vi as well as you can. Learn the keystrokes, insert mode, search patterns, bringing text in and out, etc. Once you feel good about these vi functions, you can take your data from vi to almost anywhere you want to go. Hey there is a jingo here: where do you wanna go, today? Truly, the choices are with us who work in UNIX/Linux. The web page I posted on vi is a very simple means for learning some basic vi stuff. Dr John, The night trippin UNIX guy (at least, I try to be) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Two different IPs with 1 Ethernet card
Hi! I have a PC with an Ethernet card in my LAN and I was wandering if there is a way I could add a second network with a different IP, mailserver, ftp server and so on Could anyone enlighten me on this? TIA Thanasis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] NFS Troubles
OS: LM8.2 Problem: Shut down process stops with the following message: Unmounting NFS filesystem: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered umount2: Device or resource busy umount: /net: device is busy[FAILED] QUESTION: Where do I go to stop this nonsense? - I've tried to not have NFS start on boot and I've also tried to shutdown NFS but this problem persists. I don't even want to use NFS. Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Two different IPs with 1 Ethernet card
Yeah, one of the ways that you can do this is to use linuxconf. -Networking - Server tasks tab - IP Alias for virtual hosts - eth0 - fill in the additional IP numbers. Sevatio Thanasis Koutras wrote: Hi! I have a PC with an Ethernet card in my LAN and I was wandering if there is a way I could add a second network with a different IP, mailserver, ftp server and so on Could anyone enlighten me on this? TIA Thanasis 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] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82
Thanks for the heads up Lyvim. Stupid question follows: I am now downloading the rpm for what they call the Mandrake UP kernel. What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction), or am I supposed to know that? I assume this is the right one, but only by process of elimination i.e. not secure, not smp, not enterprise. TIA Brian On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 17:18, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Hey, get your new NVIDIA RPM's here! Version 2880 for LM82 -- http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° 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] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82
Uni-Processor, i.e.only one processor - not SMP. Brian Parish wrote: What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Asus Mobo A7V266-E Rebooting Suddenly
Have any of you had a problem with an Asus A7V266-E motherboard rebooting suddenly in the middle of running apps? Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Two different IPs with 1 Ethernet card
Or you can do this way, as discussed before: Just like main config file, just add :X to the name: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 . . . /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:X and for example ifcfg-eth0:0 DEVICE=eth0:0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.2 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 ONBOOT=yes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases is the script which do the actual job to bring them up... On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Sevatio wrote: Yeah, one of the ways that you can do this is to use linuxconf. -Networking - Server tasks tab - IP Alias for virtual hosts - eth0 - fill in the additional IP numbers. Sevatio Thanasis Koutras wrote: Hi! I have a PC with an Ethernet card in my LAN and I was wandering if there is a way I could add a second network with a different IP, mailserver, ftp server and so on Could anyone enlighten me on this? TIA Thanasis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive
- Original Message - From: Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ExpertMandrake-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:31, Hoyt wrote: As someone who considers himself a journalist (several tutorials, reviews and opinion pieces published in MaximumLinux and LinuxFormat magazines; three chapters contributed to Red Hat Linux 7.2 Unleashed and currently a technical reviewer for SAMS Publishing), I don't consider a lot of what I see published on-line as journalism. It's usually opinion, fluff and shallow writing because that's what is easy and cheap to offer; on-line publishers don't have a lot of loot to throw to writers, much less buy them off - neither do Open Source companies. I agree; I've noticed a painfully discernable difference in quality. Not that there's any high quality material to be found on the web at all; on the contrary, if you look in the right places there's quite a bit of it. Still what you point out holds true enough; the good sometimes is nearly overrun by the amateurish or unprofessional. Remember that controversy builds page hits and advertisers are happy with higher page hit counts. My editorial pieces are written that way (controversial), but I try to avoid that in my factual articles. It's up to the Editor to see that the two types of writing stay separate; some do a better job than others and in my opinion, the boundaries are a little less clear for on-line publishing. When I wrote for MaximumLinux, Editor in Chief Brian DelRizzo told me that if a product was bad, write why it was bad; if it was good, write why it was good; don't pull a punch because they advertise; help them make the product better. I was told I could write what ever I wanted as long as it was factual. I have written some unfavourable reviews and the only response I ever got from an advertiser was that I got the capitalisation of their name wrong. MaximumLinux was the favorite mag of mine for all time. I loved the genre of users that you guys represented, the new approach to the Linux world that you had. It seemed more aggressive and hip than everything that had come before. Sort of a car-racing attitude as applied to Linux. It was very cool. I've still got the premiere issue and every other one I could scarf off the stands. To this day, I still wonder why the publication did not make it, as opposed to the success of Linux magazine and Linux Journal. Never did make any sense to me. As an intelligent reader, you should be sceptical of everything you read. Don't let someone else do your thinking for you. Learn to separate opinion from fact. But there are several ways to consider facts, are there not? Even facts are possible victims of perception. This is easily demonstrable. For instance, take a 16 ounce container. Put 8 ounces of water in it. Is the container then half empty or half full? Both perspectives are true, yet one has a negative slant and the other has a positive. Newsforge has gone beyond the half glass scenario, way into the realm of FUD, by making statements that are obviously lies. For instance, take the assertion recently that the subscription model of business is not a valid business model. It's obvious that the subscription model is already working for many companies, such as Transgaming, which I pointed out numerous times on their site. Yet their writers continue to ignore such points in favor of fuddist oriented attitudes. Can you imagine the tidal wave of fuddism that would have burst through if MandrakeSoft had actually attempted a truly new way of business? It's no wonder that new ideas have a way of being drowned to death in committee. It's not that they are bad ideas, it's just that there's an overabundance of a$$h*les around. Their attitude to the Linux world is irresponsible in comparison to, for example, how Linux Journal handles it. Here your views are verified when we compare the online anti-journalists to the bona-fide Linux Journal journalists. Your points about there being no such thing as bad press, a la Hollywood, had actually occurred to me; however, to me it is irresponsible to grab for hits at the expense of a new and struggling company such as MandrakeSoft, just so you can cover your own rear. It's like trying to stay afloat by pushing someone else under the water. But Mandrake is not the only one; other distros have taken hits as well. I'm not casting an anathema spell on criticism unilaterally, you understand; quite the opposite, in fact. I'm fully capable of sorting facts from fud; and it's my opinion that there is more of the latter than the former. I don't mind a critical eye; but with the same eye I'm also looking for negativists hunting fodder for their negative orgasms. I don't believe that the solution is to post positive because that is just a public relations ploy, simply putting a favourable
Re: [expert] Asus Mobo A7V266-E Rebooting Suddenly
Sevatio wrote: Have any of you had a problem with an Asus A7V266-E motherboard rebooting suddenly in the middle of running apps? Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Not sure if this helps but did you install the mobo? I once built a computer using an Asus (earlier model) mobo, and it was rebooting on its own all the time. When I opened the box, and took a look at my wonderful craftsmanship, I could see that I set a toggle switch for pc133 mem, and then loaded pc100 modulules. Pretty smart, eh? The moral of the story: you might want to take a look at all your jumpers and any toggle switches on the mobo. Also look for bad memory by running a mem test... Hope this helps. -- 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] Asus Mobo A7V266-E Rebooting Suddenly
If you did install it yourself then you may also want to check that there are no updates for the motherboard manual. The manual that came with our A7M266-D had the IDE activity LED wire going into the keyboard lock! Not until I looked through the updated version on the Asus website did I realise why the keyboard wasn't responding :) Paul. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J. Craig Woods Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Asus Mobo A7V266-E Rebooting Suddenly Sevatio wrote: Have any of you had a problem with an Asus A7V266-E motherboard rebooting suddenly in the middle of running apps? Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Not sure if this helps but did you install the mobo? I once built a computer using an Asus (earlier model) mobo, and it was rebooting on its own all the time. When I opened the box, and took a look at my wonderful craftsmanship, I could see that I set a toggle switch for pc133 mem, and then loaded pc100 modulules. Pretty smart, eh? The moral of the story: you might want to take a look at all your jumpers and any toggle switches on the mobo. Also look for bad memory by running a mem test... Hope this helps. -- 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] NFS Troubles
Looks like some of the necessary NFS programs(mountd?) never started so the shutdown scripts are complaining. I would try uninstalling nfs-utils-clients package or otherwise don't run the netfs start script - that is if you are not using _any_ networked drives. On Tuesday 09 April 2002 06:16 am, Sevatio wrote: OS: LM8.2 Problem: Shut down process stops with the following message: Unmounting NFS filesystem: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered umount2: Device or resource busy umount: /net: device is busy[FAILED] QUESTION: Where do I go to stop this nonsense? - I've tried to not have NFS start on boot and I've also tried to shutdown NFS but this problem persists. I don't even want to use NFS. Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82
Brian Parish wrote: See what I mean - stupid question! Thanks Nick On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 21:01, Nick Thompson wrote: Uni-Processor, i.e.only one processor - not SMP. Brian Parish wrote: What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction) The only stupd question is the question not asked :-) Dr John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Troubles
Sevatio wrote: OS: LM8.2 Problem: Shut down process stops with the following message: Unmounting NFS filesystem: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered umount2: Device or resource busy umount: /net: device is busy[FAILED] QUESTION: Where do I go to stop this nonsense? - I've tried to not have NFS start on boot and I've also tried to shutdown NFS but this problem persists. I don't even want to use NFS. Thanks, Sevatio Sevatio, Are you running autofs and am-utils? The autofs creates the mount point /net. Turn these program off in whatever run level you boot into. If they are running before you boot do a service autofs stop and then get those bad boys out of there... Dr John, The night tripper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Troubles
Lars Nordin wrote: Looks like some of the necessary NFS programs(mountd?) never started so the shutdown scripts are complaining. I would try uninstalling nfs-utils-clients package or otherwise don't run the netfs start script - that is if you are not using _any_ networked drives. No, he just has a service running called autofs (man autofs). He needs to shut it down (as explained my earlier post). This autofs service creates the mount point /net. Take a look at /etc/auto.master. Autofs will also create mount /misc. Dr John On Tuesday 09 April 2002 06:16 am, Sevatio wrote: OS: LM8.2 Problem: Shut down process stops with the following message: Unmounting NFS filesystem: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered umount2: Device or resource busy umount: /net: device is busy[FAILED] QUESTION: Where do I go to stop this nonsense? - I've tried to not have NFS start on boot and I've also tried to shutdown NFS but this problem persists. I don't even want to use NFS. Thanks, Sevatio 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] a long standing probelm .... apache site on a win32 part...
well i havent tried a symbolic link .. but have edited he documentroot entry in httpd.conf can you tell me how to do this symbolic link ? thanks Faisal KevinO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: faisal gillani wrote: but it seems it only works when i copy the whole site into /var/www/html which i dont want .. what might be causing this ?Have you tried to make a symbolic link under /var/www/html that points to your fat directory ? How about changing the Document_Root entry in httpd.conf ?KevinOWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax
Re: [expert] a long standing probelm .... apache site on a win32 part...
well i didnt have any alias .. the whole fat partitoon have full read write access as defined in the fstab . i am accessing the site from both locally from other workstations ... thanks faisal Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »faisal gillani« sagte am 2002-04-08 um 21:03:58 -0700 : what might be causing this ?How are you trying to access your site? How did you setup the aliases?What are the permissions on the directories up to the directory holdingyour site?Alexander Skwar-- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english)Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommenUptime: 0 hours 27 minutesWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax
Re: [expert] HELP-weird log messages appearing every 15 seconds or so
did you by any chance enabled or configured ipv6 on yours system? --- Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since i upgraded to Mandrake 8.2 I am getting the following log message from the kernel. Apr 8 22:30:36 rarmente kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:50:da:da:c7:57:08:00 Apr 8 22:32:36 rarmente kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0 I use swatch to monitor my log files and it is constantly showing this messages. I would appreciate if somebody gives me a hand to understand this message. Roberto __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Two different IPs with 1 Ethernet card
--- Thanasis Koutras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have a PC with an Ethernet card in my LAN and I was wandering if there is a way I could add a second network with a different IP, mailserver, ftp server and so on Could anyone enlighten me on this? TIA Thanasis The way I added a second network to our existing one was like so: ifconfig eth1:0 (new ip address) /sbin/route add -host (new ip address) dev eth1:0 I added those two lines to rc.local so it would bind on reboot and then I adjusted my iptables accordingly. HTH __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE3 install fairly well... just a few things to fix
I installed KDE3 last night on my 8.1 box. All in all a good experience. There were some deps I needed to fulfill, probably around 10 or so. KDE3 comes up just fine, as long as you are user. The KDE3 is listed in the kdm login screen dropdown. (I installed KDE3 alongside of KDE2.2.x However I have a few issues. KDE3 isnt an option for login for root. Although when logged in as root, i can run the control center and kde3 is listed. Also my fonts look real bad again. Anti-aliasing is checked (as user) And I get some error about some font xxx-xxx-medium-xxx not being found I get about 4 of those error boxes. Also, some modules arent in control center (user) I get an error box stating I am trying to run an older module, or perhaps it wasnt installed. Sound - Fine, Video - Fine (XF4.1) I didn't delete my .kde dir yet, backed it up though. The icons are real nice in 3, except I don't like the one for Konqueror. Konqueror seems slower to me Any help on the few probs P.S. kfontinstaller seems gone.. is there a new version for kde3? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] HP scanjet 7400c
Has anyone successfully installed this scanner? I checked the mandrake hardware compatibility list and it's not listed as either supported or unsupported. So far I have been unsuccessful in getting it recognized as a USB scanner. The sane frontend/backend/xsane packages are all installed and I did read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/scanner-hp-sane.txt and scanner.txt. I haven't tried connecting it as SCSI yet. If anyone has managed to get it to work, I'd appreciate some tips on how you did it. Im using Mdk 8.2. Thanks -- Thomas K. Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6) Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdksmp, Uptime: 3 days 2 hours 9 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] smbmount error
Thanks for posting this! Whenever I mounted a Samba share after installing 8.2 (with the 2.4.18 kernel), an ls of the share directory would hang, and then ls anywhere would hang. I was never able to kill the processes, and eventually I would have to reboot. This patch solved the problem! - Kathy On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:36, Bo O. Erichsen wrote: found the patch for the bug: http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/00-smbfs-2.4.18-codepage.patch.gz i guess it's patched in the next kernel package.. ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT: Can someone test a tab problem for me with konqueror 2.2.2 or 3.0?
I've discovered a problem with konqueror 2.2.1. I will report it to kde if it has not already been solved in 2.2.2 or 3.0, and I'm wondering if someone here who has 2.2.2 or 3.0 installed could test this and let me know. This will probably be easier for someone who is already familiar with editing on the c2 wiki or twiki. Description of the bug: When editing in a textarea (like a wiki (TWiki)), konqueror can accept a tab as input and display it properly. However, after the textarea is saved and reopened for editing, the tab is now displayed as a single space (which causes a multitude of problems if the textarea is saved again). I have found the problem with konqueror 2.2.1 and confirmed it occurs on twiki and the c2 wiki (links below). There is some chance it is a problem specific to these sites, but I don't really believe that. I'd like to have the testing done on one of those two sites. If you want to test elsewhere it could provide interesting results (especially if the results are different). c2 wiki (you don't have to register to edit): * a place to test: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?TabSandbox * a page with more explanation of the problem (at the bottom -- rather rambling): http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ConvertSpacesToTabs twiki: (it is preferred that you register to edit): * a place to test: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/TabSandbox Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hmm, somebody correct me if I'm wrong but if you really want to protect that deleted file, then you must unmount that drive, or there is a chance some other background app/daemon may use the space in question...isn't that right? Sounds like a good point to me! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Filters
procmail recipe: :0: * ^FROM.*aol.com /dev/null :) On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 08:06, Jarmo Kettunen wrote: On Saturday 06 April 2002 16:42, you wrote: A lot of spam can be blocked by the ISP... however, many ISPs are incompetent in this respect. My ISP uses an upstream SP to handle mail; I was totally unimpressed by these people, so I setup my own domains and mailer (postfix). Details at http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix/ HTH, Pierre Thanks for reply Pierre I'm sure,I saw in my past life (read when used win) some mailers where could be set filters so,that unwanted messages were checked and deleted from isp before downloadining...Took a little longer time,but what a heck... I have no hurry... Got a do something...That @aol.com stuff is driving me nuts... Regards Jarmo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] smbmount error
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 11:54, K Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:36, Bo O. Erichsen wrote: found the patch for the bug: http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/00-smbfs-2.4.18-codepage.patch.gz i guess it's patched in the next kernel package.. ? Thanks for posting this! Whenever I mounted a Samba share after installing 8.2 (with the 2.4.18 kernel), an ls of the share directory would hang, and then ls anywhere would hang. I was never able to kill the processes, and eventually I would have to reboot. This patch solved the problem! This is fixed in 2.4.18.7mdk, which is nothing more than the stock 8.2 kernel with the smbfs codepage fix. I still don't know why this isn't errata. -- Brad Felmey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Troubles
actually /net is amd. It's in the package am-utils. service amd stop chkconfig --del amd On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 06:52, J. Craig Woods wrote: Sevatio wrote: OS: LM8.2 Problem: Shut down process stops with the following message: Unmounting NFS filesystem: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered umount2: Device or resource busy umount: /net: device is busy[FAILED] QUESTION: Where do I go to stop this nonsense? - I've tried to not have NFS start on boot and I've also tried to shutdown NFS but this problem persists. I don't even want to use NFS. Thanks, Sevatio Sevatio, Are you running autofs and am-utils? The autofs creates the mount point /net. Turn these program off in whatever run level you boot into. If they are running before you boot do a service autofs stop and then get those bad boys out of there... Dr John, The night tripper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 22:49, daRcmaTTeR wrote: good heavens! who got this one started!?! ;) Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR Hoyt is a *real* journalist (one of the good ones) and I used to contribute a computer column to a local business newspaper. So when we ran into each other critical mass was exceeded and there was a thermonuclear word explosion. ;) L8R, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] klyx error
Is anyone running the Klyx latex frontend? Since at least the version shipped with KDE 2.0 it has been unusable because the background and foreground colors are black. If I do a highlight of the text area it will show that there is in fact proper text, but it is impossible to use. I'm checking this on Mandrake 8.2 Download, but have noticed the problem as far back as 8.0. If someone doesn't mind, can you please start Klyx, create a new document, then check if the text is visible. Thanks, Kwan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert]
I've noticed another problem with the 8.2 installation/upgrade. I did an Expert Install on a disk with a /boot, /, and /home/ partitions. Only /home was not formated. Installation is flawless. If I re-create a previously defined user from the command prompt and specify the UID, the next login to KDE will completely lock the system. It appears to have lots of problems migrating the KDE 2.2.1 preferences correctly. The only way around it is to delete all the kde references in the user's home directory and then manually re-adjust the preferences. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Unfixable RPM DB corruption in 8.2
I recently upgraded from 8.0 to 8.2 on a P3-733 machine running an Acer MB (M25D, I think). After a week or so, and without being certain of the exact sequence of events leading up to this, the RPM database seems to have become corrupted. 'rpm -q --all' lists 537 packages, ending with an old 'kernel-2.4.3-20mdk', then gets a SEGV and core dumps. Notably, I had been trying to 'rpm -e' this package at about the same time that I first noticed the corruption. There were more than 537 packages installed, as well. 'rpm --rebuilddb' cranks away for a while, then also gets a SEGV and core dumps, leaving about 18 MB of stuff behind in /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.pid Both errors are repeatable. It's possible that the sequence of events leading up to this was something like: - Upgrade to 8.2 - Install and remove various additional packages (notably, removing some old packages from 8.1 and 8.2 Cookers). - At some point, fill up the partition containing /var/lib, without noticing it. - Attempt to rpm -e kernel-2.4.3-20mdk and kernel-source-2.4.3-20mdk. - Notice RPM DB corruption. However, I'm not particularly confident in stating this was the actual sequence of events. Is this known behavior? Do I have any options other than a clean re-install of 8.2? Searching through old archives of the expert list, I came across a pointer to Pascal Bourguignon's howto on rebuilding the DB: http://hermes.afaa.asso.fr/users/pascal/linux/rpm-rebuilddb I'm willing to give this a try if there's a good chance of success, though I'd first like to hear if anyone else has dealt successfully with this problem. Thanks, Jon Leech Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Troubles
Bryan Whitehead wrote: actually /net is amd. It's in the package am-utils. service amd stop chkconfig --del amd NO again! This is getting old. Don't you people read what is posted here. MAN AUTOFS! This service is what creates /net. Are you smoking crack? If you want to reboot, and not be told that the mount point /net is busy, you must turn off the service called AUTOFS I can not make it any simpler than this Craig Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 04:41 am, you wrote: Thanks for the heads up Lyvim. Stupid question follows: I am now downloading the rpm for what they call the Mandrake UP kernel. What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction), or am I supposed to know that? I assume this is the right one, but only by process of elimination i.e. not secure, not smp, not enterprise. TIA Brian Not a stupid question. STands for IIRC, Uni-Processor. As opposed to SMP Symetric Multi-Processor. IE, you have one CPU. SMP has 2 or more. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] smbmount error
Brad Felmey wrote: On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 11:54, K Montgomery wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:36, Bo O. Erichsen wrote: found the patch for the bug: http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/00-smbfs-2.4.18-codepage.patch.gz i guess it's patched in the next kernel package.. ? Thanks for posting this! Whenever I mounted a Samba share after installing 8.2 (with the 2.4.18 kernel), an ls of the share directory would hang, and then ls anywhere would hang. I was never able to kill the processes, and eventually I would have to reboot. This patch solved the problem! This is fixed in 2.4.18.7mdk, which is nothing more than the stock 8.2 kernel with the smbfs codepage fix. I still don't know why this isn't errata. OKAY, maybe I am on a toot but I have not experienced any difficulty with mounting win2000 shares. I am using kernel 2.4.18-6mdk. I am using samba 2.2.3a-10mdk. What gives? Shit, if you guys need a patch, I want one too Hell, I forgot who I am whoami=cwoods Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Unfixable RPM DB corruption in 8.2
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 18:59, you wrote: Acer MB (M25D, I think). After a week or so, and without being certain of the exact sequence of events leading up to this, the RPM database seems to have become corrupted. 'rpm -q --all' lists 537 packages, ending with an old 'kernel-2.4.3-20mdk', then gets a SEGV and core dumps. Notably, I had been trying to 'rpm -e' this package at about the same time that I first noticed the corruption. There were more than 537 packages installed, as well. 'rpm --rebuilddb' cranks away for a while, then also gets a SEGV and core dumps, leaving about 18 MB of stuff behind in /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.pid Both errors are repeatable. It's possible that the sequence of events leading up to this was something like: - Upgrade to 8.2 - Install and remove various additional packages (notably, removing some old packages from 8.1 and 8.2 Cookers). - At some point, fill up the partition containing /var/lib, without noticing it. - Attempt to rpm -e kernel-2.4.3-20mdk and kernel-source-2.4.3-20mdk. - Notice RPM DB corruption. However, I'm not particularly confident in stating this was the actual sequence of events. Is this known behavior? Do I have any options other than a clean re-install of 8.2? Searching through old archives of the expert list, I came across a pointer to Pascal Bourguignon's howto on rebuilding the DB: http://hermes.afaa.asso.fr/users/pascal/linux/rpm-rebuilddb I'm willing to give this a try if there's a good chance of success, though I'd first like to hear if anyone else has dealt successfully with this problem. I have had this happen in the past, and to avoid it in the future I do regular backups of /var/lib/rpm What I did to fix the problem was the following (found thru lots of trial and error) 1 - backup /var/lib/rpm --- just to be safe 2 - run 'rpm -qa | sort | less ' -- take a look at the output and see if there were any funky named packages -- packages named with all sorts of odd symbols 3 - run kpackage to delete the funky packages as you will not be able to do it from the command line 4 - rpm --rebuilddb and all was ok. Depending on what you installed before or after your 8.2 upgrade, it might just be easier to do a clean install. -- Alex http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl Linux 2.4.18 #5 Sat Mar 9 21:44:22 EST 2002 i686 8:50pm up 1 day, 3:53, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.06, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] smbmount error
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 19:18, J. Craig Woods wrote: OKAY, maybe I am on a toot but I have not experienced any difficulty with mounting win2000 shares. I am using kernel 2.4.18-6mdk. I am using samba 2.2.3a-10mdk. What gives? Shit, if you guys need a patch, I want one too If'n it ain't broke - don't fix it. This patch was purely for smbfs between systems with different codepages, and you'd most likely not see it unless you were running Samba servers with different codepage settings or Windows boxen with different locales set. Some of us got the snot kicked out of us by this bug, and were very happy to see .7mdk arrive to save the day. -- Brad Felmey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82
Uni-processor or Simetric multiprocessor should not have any effect IMO. its just the kernel driver module right? and thats going to the GFX card anyway. I used UP modules on SMP kernel fine before i think. JG J. Craig Woods wrote: Brian Parish wrote: See what I mean - stupid question! Thanks Nick On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 21:01, Nick Thompson wrote: Uni-Processor, i.e.only one processor - not SMP. Brian Parish wrote: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82
anyone got a mandrake box with more than 2 cpus then? I have a dual machine here, but aint seen any triple cpu motherboards ever for x86 JG Not a stupid question. STands for IIRC, Uni-Processor. As opposed to SMP Symetric Multi-Processor. IE, you have one CPU. SMP has 2 or more. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82
J. Grant wrote: anyone got a mandrake box with more than 2 cpus then? I have a dual machine here, but aint seen any triple cpu motherboards ever for x86 uhh, er...d00d, SMP==_Symmetric_ multiprocessing. yes, there are quite a few boards that run 4 xeon processors. none for AMD...yet. BTW, any one using more than 2 processors is hereby required to loan me a few cycles during my next kernel or qt compile. no exceptions. -- Jason Guidry http://www.gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mobile Postfix Accounts
Anyone know how to configure postfix or provide a link on how to setup postfix so that my users can check their mail from within the internal network and abroad on the road? -- Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited Chicago Based and Operated Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. Linux 2.4.18-6mdk i686 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CPU bug
Hi, I found this information in the hardware list information, which is CPU Bug: foof What does it mean? My CPU hasefection? What is your CPU? Most modern CPUs (P100? possibly and above) should be immune to the F00F bug. That's a particularly nasty bug that exploits an invalid (intel) opcode. There should be workarounds for it for most recent kernels, what version are you running? Li Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82
On April 9, 2002 08:09 pm, J. Grant wrote: anyone got a mandrake box with more than 2 cpus then? I have a dual machine here, but aint seen any triple cpu motherboards ever for x86 Nor will you. 3 is not a power of two. :-) -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CPU bug
Thanks, I am running a Mobile Pentium 266MHz CPU with mandrake 8.2 Li - Original Message - From: dfox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [expert] CPU bug Hi, I found this information in the hardware list information, which is CPU Bug: foof What does it mean? My CPU hasefection? What is your CPU? Most modern CPUs (P100? possibly and above) should be immune to the F00F bug. That's a particularly nasty bug that exploits an invalid (intel) opcode. There should be workarounds for it for most recent kernels, what version are you running? Li 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] HELP-weird log messages appearing every 15 seconds or so
To add to a previous post... check all your nics to see if perhaps it IS one of your own boxes. If it is then it makes the search much easier. The next step will be if you want to dig deeper is to do a packet trace of this traffic and find out what the payload is. That will be useful to determine why it is happening. Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: did you by any chance enabled or configured ipv6 on yours system? --- Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since i upgraded to Mandrake 8.2 I am getting the following log message from the kernel. Apr 8 22:30:36 rarmente kernel: ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:50:da:da:c7:57:08:00 Apr 8 22:32:36 rarmente kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0 I use swatch to monitor my log files and it is constantly showing this messages. I would appreciate if somebody gives me a hand to understand this message. Roberto __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Lorne Shantz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] CPU bug
Hi, I found this information in the hardware list information, which is CPU Bug: foof What does it mean? My CPU hasefection? Thanks Li
