Re: [expert] OT (was Smoking Grass)

2002-04-24 Thread J. Craig Woods

Adam and Christina Koch wrote:
   |He was the guy who first made LSD

 
 Wrong,
 
 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was first synthesized by the Dr. Albert
 Hofmann in 1938.  He worked for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz
 Laboratories.
 
 You might want to read your drug history a bit more thoroughly.
 
 Adam

You are right, and I should have made that correction to Fellini's post 
but I was so jazzed that he knew who Owsley was, well, I just let it 
pass. For an old hippy like me, Owsley was the only maker of LSD that 
counted. After all, I never ate any of Hoffman's brew, and even he did 
not quite know what he had

Dr John
The Night Tripper

(repost for those that missed it)

His name is Augustus Owsley Stanley III, and he was the son of a 
Californian Supreme Court Justice. He was a chemistry major at the 
University of California at Berkeley, and the rest is, as they say, 
history. I might add that if you are interested, I am writing a book 
that is going to chronical this time period in US History but if you are 
a bit impatient, I would suggest:

The Haight-Ashbury, A History by Charles Perry (Vintage Books)




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Re: AW: [expert] samba and ACls in 8.2

2002-04-24 Thread Sylvestre Taburet

Le Mardi 23 Avril 2002 22:07, J. Craig Woods a écrit :
 Sylvestre,

 I am not the poster that originally posted that Samba came without ACL
 support but my question to you still stands *UN*answered. Although you
 were unable or unwilling to answer the question, I asked a very simple
 question: where is this samba.spec file your refer to? While doing an
 install of 8.2, I chose to have Samba installed. Now, my installed has
 completed, and there is no samba.spec file. I realize that if, after my
 OS installation, I decided to build and intall Samba, I would then find
 a samba.spec file. BUT after doing a complete OS installation with
 Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is
 no such file. So how would I know what --configure-with options have
 been used on Samba?


If you want to check the configure options samba was built with, then you 
have to check out the spec file in the samba SRPM. sorry about that.

You can also ldd on the smbd binary for instance, and check that libacl is 
properly linked:

[root@ryu root]# ldd /home/rpm/rpm/BUILD/samba-2.2.3a/source/bin/smbd
libacl.so.1 = /lib/libacl.so.1 (0x40029000)
libcups.so.2 = /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 (0x4002f000)
libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4004a000)
libnsl.so.1 = /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4004e000)
libpam.so.0 = /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x40064000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4006c000)
libssl.so.0 = /usr/lib/libssl.so.0 (0x401ab000)
libcrypto.so.0 = /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0 (0x401d8000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)

 The originator of this thread stated that no ACL support was compiled
 into the Samba that was installed while doing the system install. I
 think I hear you saying, yes, it was. Again, my question is very
 simple, how would I know what samba is compiled with since no
 samba.spec will exist on the system?


Looks like you don't trust mdk developpers very much, uh? ;o)

 BTW why is this thread not directed to the expert list?

Because I just didn'nt want to bother other members of the expert list by 
posting the samba.spec file on the list. BTW did you check the spec file I 
sent to you? did you see why I stated yes I have compiled the samba rpm with 
ACL support?


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[expert] Restricting Resourse Usage

2002-04-24 Thread Brian York

Is their a way to restrict the amount of network and other resource 
usage that a user on a remote computer can use?

Reason: I am on a lan at my college and i share 30 GB of music and 10 GB 
fo software. During a typical day i can be sending 500KB/s of data. I 
would rather this be around 200KB/s because it kills my connection and 
can slow down my hard drive (only one HD would be fine if i had another 
one). for my shares i use a guest account pcguest so reduing resorce 
usage is only going to affect people connected to me to download music.

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Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-24 Thread civileme

lorne wrote:

 I just found out that I won a 4 processor 200mhz pentium Pro server 
 with 1 gig of ram in it.We had some old equipment we are phasing out 
 at work and we drew straws who gets what.

 Old, but more than sufficient for my playing around. I've never looked 
 into mult processing with Linux. I know it is possible. Is it possible 
 with Mandrake? It is an old ALR, so dunno about other compatibility 
 issues. I know it has 1 or 2 raid controllers in it. DTP or something 
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Sounds like a beastly server or multiprocessing machine or a super node 
for a supercomputing cluster.

I found two Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 series at a local 
Charity store which had been picked by thieves, and on the day of the 
month when everything was 50% off I bought both.  One had a dead mobo 
and was missing the CD and had 128M RAM.  The other had a dead power 
supply and was missing the SCSI HDD and had 32Mb of RAM.  Between them I 
picked up working Matrox Mystique 220 and an old ELSA 3D PCI card.  One 
processor was loose in one case anfd the working Mobo had the processor 
1 ZIF zocket lever missing.

I found two PPro 200 512K cache matched step processors and put them in, 
jammong the faulty ZIF socket shut, put together one working machine 
with an IDE, a SCSI-3 drive and a DVD (turned out the CD was a DVD) 
drive, dropped in Mandrake 8.2 installed and did not even get asked if I 
wanted the UP or SMP kernel.  I added a UP boot later so I can run on 
one processor in case my technique of closing the damage ZIF socket 
proves faulty, but it came up with SMP kernel from the install and was 
happily running both processors.  My RAID was a software RAID0 between 
the SCSI-3 and an IDE drive, just to see if I could stress the comp and 
its filesystems.

Everything is still working and the speed is better than my K6-2 350.

Hmph!  It was disappointingly easy.

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Re: [expert] And the prize goes to Charles...

2002-04-24 Thread civileme

J. Craig Woods wrote:

 Charles A Edwards wrote:

 On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:12:09 -0500
 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  

 I am not the poster that originally posted that Samba came without ACL
 support but my question to you still stands *UN*answered. Although you
 were unable or unwilling to answer the question, I asked a very simple
 question: where is this samba.spec file your refer to? While doing an
 install of 8.2, I chose to have Samba installed. Now, my installed has
 completed, and there is no samba.spec file. I realize that if, after my
 OS installation, I decided to build and intall Samba, I would then find
 a samba.spec file. BUT after doing a complete OS installation with
 Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is
 no such file. So how would I know what --configure-with options have
 been used on Samba?

 The originator of this thread stated that no ACL support was compiled
 into the Samba that was installed while doing the system install. I
 think I hear you saying, yes, it was. Again, my question is very
 simple, how would I know what samba is compiled with since no
 samba.spec will exist on the system?


  

 You will not know.

 With an rpm pkg any option passed to configure must be done at the 
 behest of the person building the rpm.

 After installation of an rpm your only way of knowing what options 
 are/are not supported: if it works it is, if it doesn't it's not.

  
 Charles


 Congratulations are in order for Charles. He actually read the email, 
 and answered a very simple question. After many times reading the man 
 on rpm, I suspected this was the answer but it seems like there should 
 be a way to know what options are compiled into an rpm package that is 
 installed at the time of the system install.

 Thanks Charles,

 Craig Woods
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Of course, just make an ~/rpm directory with the subdirectories /BUILD 
/SOURCES /SPECS /RPMS /SRPMS, and

rpm -ivh samba-version.src.rpm

in an xterm or console AS USER.

Then look in the ~/rpm directory and you will see how it was built.  The 
.spec file should answer your question in most cases.

But to answer the question for the 8.2 Samba, it was (most likely) built 
with ACL support.  One of the package maintainers uses that feature.

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Re: [expert] OT (was Smoking Grass)

2002-04-24 Thread ed Tharp

On Tuesday 23 April 2002 11:19 pm, you wrote:
  |He was the guy who first made LSD

 Wrong,

 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was first synthesized by the Dr. Albert
 Hofmann in 1938.  He worked for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz
 Laboratories.

 You might want to read your drug history a bit more thoroughly.

 Adam
Owlsy was the one (according to Ken Keasey) who provided the acid for the 
electric koolaid acid tests of Haight Ashbury.



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[expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Jay



I am using a K7T Turbo Motherboard with a Maxtor 7200 RPM Harddrive and am using
the proper ide cable. Both support ATA100/UDMA5. When I load Linux it
ackowledges this, but sets the performance to UDMA33. Playing around with hdparm
does nothing, the harddrive stays stuck at UDMA2. Does anyone know how to fix
this???

-Jay 

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[expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Jay


I am using a K7T Turbo Motherboard with a Maxtor 7200 RPM Harddrive and am using
the proper ide cable. Both support ATA100/UDMA5. When I load Linux it
ackowledges this, but sets the performance to UDMA33. Playing around with hdparm
does nothing, the harddrive stays stuck at UDMA2. Does anyone know how to fix
this???

-Jay 


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Re: [expert] Restricting Resourse Usage

2002-04-24 Thread Pierre Fortin

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 04:53:06 -0400 Brian York [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Is their a way to restrict the amount of network and other resource 
 usage that a user on a remote computer can use?

Several:

1. http://www.chronox.de/ Uses kernel features

2. http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/  This can be run on a separate
box, or on and end-node and setup to restrict traffic.  It's intended to
test the impact of network restrictions and degradations; but should work
to emulate a 200kbps link.

3. Use Python's SocketServer.Forking{TCP,UDP}Server modules and insert a
delay between in/out (semi-kidding...  hopefully, you didn't need to read
this far... :^)

HTH,
Pierre

 Reason: I am on a lan at my college and i share 30 GB of music and 10 GB
 
 fo software. During a typical day i can be sending 500KB/s of data. I 
 would rather this be around 200KB/s because it kills my connection and 
 can slow down my hard drive (only one HD would be fine if i had another 
 one). for my shares i use a guest account pcguest so reduing resorce 
 usage is only going to affect people connected to me to download music.
 
 Thanks
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Re: [expert] File Permissions/Attributes factory reset

2002-04-24 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa

hi LX

when i want to reset the permissions to *factory
settings* depending on what type of security level i
enabled during install, i run 'msec X' where X is the
security level. 

as far as my tinee winee brain can remember, msec has
default settings (permissions for files, dirs,etc) for
each security level you chose from during the install.


hth =)
dianne

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 Just theoretically, let's assume that a real good
 friend of mine
 accidentally chmod'ded all file permissions from the
 root...to something
 else other than what they were originally.  Of
 course this wasn't me
 personally; you know I wouldn't do something like
 that. g
 
 Is there a utility available that would make it
 possible to salvage the
 filesystem by resetting all permissions back to
 factory settings?  Or a
 script, even?
 
 
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Re: [expert] Java IDE's for Linux Mandrake

2002-04-24 Thread John Layt

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:37, ngn wrote:
 Hi I'm in the way of develop in Java, In order to do it I'm looking for
 a good IDE of Java for Linux Mandrake

Number of options, none of which I've really used, so I can't vouch for which 
is best.

JBuilder from Borland, they have a free personal edition, but missing various 
advanced features.  See http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/personal/

Forte from Sun, also free community edition, also missing some advanced 
features.  See http://wwws.sun.com/software/Developer-products/ffj/index.html

Eclipse from IBM, new Open Source multi-language IDE, still under 
developement, but Java portion already works.  Is slated to replace 
VisualAge.  See http://www.eclipse.org/

Netbeans, Open Source project started by Sun, I've never played with it, but 
seems to be fully featured.  See http://www.netbeans.org/

And if you're really daring, the new multi-language version of kdevelop in 
CVS, called Gideon, can do Java.  See http://www.kdevelop.org

I'm surre there's more, but these would be the leaders.

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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Hoyt

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 07:46 am, Jay wrote:
 I am using a K7T Turbo Motherboard with a Maxtor 7200 RPM Harddrive and am
 using the proper ide cable. Both support ATA100/UDMA5. When I load Linux it
 ackowledges this, but sets the performance to UDMA33. Playing around with
 hdparm does nothing, the harddrive stays stuck at UDMA2. Does anyone know
 how to fix this???

Add this to the LILO/GRUB command line:

ide0=0x1f0 ide0=dma ide0=autotune ide1=dma ide1=autotune floppy=daring

and undo all the hdparm settings.

The best way is to duplicate the LILO stanza and add the above info in case 
it locks up your computer.

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Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:30, civileme wrote:

 Sounds like a beastly server or multiprocessing machine or a super node 
 for a supercomputing cluster.
 
 I found two Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 series at a local 
 Charity store which had been picked by thieves, and on the day of the 
 month when everything was 50% off I bought both.  One had a dead mobo 
 and was missing the CD and had 128M RAM.  The other had a dead power 
 supply and was missing the SCSI HDD and had 32Mb of RAM.  Between them I 
 picked up working Matrox Mystique 220 and an old ELSA 3D PCI card.  One 
 processor was loose in one case anfd the working Mobo had the processor 
 1 ZIF zocket lever missing.
 
 I found two PPro 200 512K cache matched step processors and put them in, 
 jammong the faulty ZIF socket shut, put together one working machine 
 with an IDE, a SCSI-3 drive and a DVD (turned out the CD was a DVD) 
 drive, dropped in Mandrake 8.2 installed and did not even get asked if I 
 wanted the UP or SMP kernel.  I added a UP boot later so I can run on 
 one processor in case my technique of closing the damage ZIF socket 
 proves faulty, but it came up with SMP kernel from the install and was 
 happily running both processors.  My RAID was a software RAID0 between 
 the SCSI-3 and an IDE drive, just to see if I could stress the comp and 
 its filesystems.

Ye Gods, Civ !  Raid0 between IDE and SCSIare you not committing
some sort of sacrilege ?!  It sounds like the purest heresy!

 
 Everything is still working and the speed is better than my K6-2 350.
 
 Hmph!  It was disappointingly easy.
 
 Civileme


I'm glad to see that someone else besides me likes messing around with
the old K62 processors.  I have one of those famous FIC VA-503+
mainboards here, and I just got some k62-550's in so I could populate
some older socket 7's and see where they will go.  One of the 550 cpus
is going on the VA-503+; can't wait to see how that turns out.


:)

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[expert] Need help on Grub/Lilo reinstall

2002-04-24 Thread David Rankin

Dear experts:

I had a GIANT memory fiasco. Installed some corrupted memory (booted
fine, BIOS mem check was fine) but upon booting into the OS, the system
crashd about about 5 minutes later leaving my primary hard drive
irrepairably coss-linked both clusters and files. The good news is that
I booted into the M$ OS on hda and my LM7.2 is still safe on hdb.

I will ultimately have to reformat hda which will wipe out my grub
boot loader. I need some advise on how to re-install grub after I
re-format and re-load the M$ OS on hda. I think I understand grub enough
to configure it after I get it installed, I'm just not sure about how to
get the code into the boot record.

Specifically, I don't know if its lilo first, then grub or vice
versa. Yes, I can rtfm, and I have. Yes, I know /sbin/lilo installs the
boot loader. I just haven't done it manually before and would like any
brief bits of wisdom you may be willing to share.

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Re: [expert] File Permissions/Attributes factory reset

2002-04-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 09:52, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote:
 hi LX
 
 when i want to reset the permissions to *factory
 settings* depending on what type of security level i
 enabled during install, i run 'msec X' where X is the
 security level. 
 
 as far as my tinee winee brain can remember, msec has
 default settings (permissions for files, dirs,etc) for
 each security level you chose from during the install.
 
 
 hth =)
 dianne


Thanks, Dianne.  Since I've never used msec, you've prompted me to give
it a try.  I ran it and set up a custom security level...new umasks,
user permissions, root permissions/umask, security reports, et al.  I
can't wait till my next login.  ;)



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[expert] NFS HELP - SECURITY CONFIGURATION

2002-04-24 Thread Lobsang Marques

Please see the attached file...


I have all my servers using 2 network cards. One for the public network and another
one for the private network. I'm trying to open NFS shares across the private network 
only
using mandrake 8.2 initily setup on highest security. There is something blocking my 
nfs shares
thru the private network. I configured hosts.allow as follows:

#
# hosts.allow   This file describes the names of the hosts which are
#   allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
#   by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#
portmap:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
nfsd:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
rpc.nfsd: 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
rpc.mountd:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
rpc.rquotad:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
nfs:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
#rpc: 192.168.0.0
lockd:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
#rquotad:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
#mountd:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
#statd:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
#ALL:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
nfsstat:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0


and also configured /var/security/fileshare.conf with RESTRICT=no

What else could be blocking my nfs shares?

When I try to mount my shares from another server I get the folowing error:

The host '192.168.0.5' is down

Thank You for your help !

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Re: [expert] Need help on Grub/Lilo reinstall

2002-04-24 Thread Hoyt

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 10:55 am, David Rankin wrote:


 I will ultimately have to reformat hda which will wipe out my grub
 boot loader. I need some advise on how to re-install grub after I
 re-format and re-load the M$ OS on hda. I think I understand grub enough
 to configure it after I get it installed, I'm just not sure about how to
 get the code into the boot record.

 Specifically, I don't know if its lilo first, then grub or vice
 versa. Yes, I can rtfm, and I have. Yes, I know /sbin/lilo installs the
 boot loader. I just haven't done it manually before and would like any
 brief bits of wisdom you may be willing to share.

You may have RTFM, but you missed the fact that LILO and GRUB are two 
different apps that do essentially the same thing. Since you mentioned GRUB 
first, I assume that is what you want to use.

Did you make a boot disk? If so, after your re-install Windows, boot with the 
boot disk and re-install GRUB as follows:

# grub-install 

will do the trick.

If you forgot to make a boot disk, shame on you. Make sure you have one next 
time. Write back if you need instructions to restrore GRUB without a boot 
floppy.

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[expert] Network audio

2002-04-24 Thread K Montgomery

Hi all,

I mostly use my Linux system remotely via XDMCP.  Does anyone know about
ways to play sound remotely over the network?  I've heard of the
Network Audio System.  Are there others?  Has anyone been able to get
one to work?  (FWIW, I've got Mandrake 8.2 and I mostly use Gnome.)

Thanks,
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[expert] mpg123 and 8.1

2002-04-24 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN

I reinstalled 8.1 using devfs. mpg123 gives the error:
audio: No such file or directory
I tried to add the -a /dev/sound/dsp, dsp1 with no
luck. Anyone have any ideas on this with devfs?
I made a link from /dev/sound/dsp, and dsp1, and audio with no
luck either.

Brian D. Klar - CVE
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[expert] Mandrake 8.2 PowerPack : StarOffice 6 doesn't work

2002-04-24 Thread Nicolas ROBAUX

Hi to all !
Did somebody manage to run Star Office 6 with Mdk 8.2 ?

I installed the RPM from the 8.2 Power Pack on my installed 8.2 Download 
Edition, run the installation script using an entry of the K-Menu - Office 
- StarWriter.
Then, when I run a StarOffice application, nothing happens. When launching 
it from an xterm, I receive an Application Error...
After that, impossible to relaunch the setup program... I tried 
installation under root and under user...
Nothing seems to work...

Does somebody know how to do ?

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Re: [expert] Network audio

2002-04-24 Thread kwan

On 24 Apr 2002, K Montgomery wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 I mostly use my Linux system remotely via XDMCP.  Does anyone know about
 ways to play sound remotely over the network?  I've heard of the
 Network Audio System.  Are there others?  Has anyone been able to get
 one to work?  (FWIW, I've got Mandrake 8.2 and I mostly use Gnome.)
 

The esound demon can work across the network. You need to wrap called
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Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 PowerPack : StarOffice 6 doesn't work

2002-04-24 Thread Raffaele Belardi

I've had no luck either with the Mandrake Club downloaded version. I am 
able to start all the SO applications, but they all crash when I try to 
open any MS document.

There has been some talk on this on the MDK Club, it seems (to me, at 
least) that the SO intallation is not too well crafted. Recently someone 
posted this link, you might want to give it a try (I haven't had the 
chance yet):
http://supportforum.sun.com/cgi-bin/WebX.cgi?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^0@.ee9dd94

If this it doesn't work, shout and I'll email you a collection of the 
posts on the subject I have seen on MDK Club.

regards,

raffaele

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi to all !
 Did somebody manage to run Star Office 6 with Mdk 8.2 ?
 
 I installed the RPM from the 8.2 Power Pack on my installed 8.2 Download 
 Edition, run the installation script using an entry of the K-Menu - 
 Office - StarWriter.
 Then, when I run a StarOffice application, nothing happens. When 
 launching it from an xterm, I receive an Application Error...
 After that, impossible to relaunch the setup program... I tried 
 installation under root and under user...
 Nothing seems to work...
 
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[expert] Amanda for mandrake 8.2 - backup system

2002-04-24 Thread Lobsang Marques

Anybody knows where we can find an Amanda rpm for mandrake ???

Or a manual on how to install it on mandrake ???

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[expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-24 Thread falcaraz

I mentioned this probably bug of 8.2 in the crashtesters list, but I  
have the feeling that not enought attention has been given. Other 
crashtesters have tryed with the same badly results. 
  
Try to copy files from the harddrive to a floppy using konqueror. You  
can do it with just a konqueror windows open or two. You can use both:  
kde2.2 or kde3. Every time the result is the same, you need reset the  
computer that becames absolutely hunged. If you use other file  
managers (krusader, nautilus...) you haven't any problem.  
  
Please test this.  
  
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[expert] New kde3 packages, partial translation

2002-04-24 Thread falcaraz

I have several kde3 rpm packages. The last ones were downloaded today 
in the ftp.kde.org following the mandrake web page recommendations. 
 
I have observed a problem with the Spanish language; I donwloaded the 
Spanish package but now the translation is not complete. For instance, 
if I open konqueror the help is in Spanish, but the menu bar shows the 
text in English.  
 
If I try to logout, the message is also in English. And the kde start 
messages also in English. Some of the kde control center messages are 
in Spanish, but others in English. 
 
Francisco Alcaraz 
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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Larry Sword

Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

Larry

Jay wrote:

 I am using a K7T Turbo Motherboard with a Maxtor 7200 RPM Harddrive and am using
 the proper ide cable. Both support ATA100/UDMA5. When I load Linux it
 ackowledges this, but sets the performance to UDMA33. Playing around with hdparm
 does nothing, the harddrive stays stuck at UDMA2. Does anyone know how to fix
 this???
 
 -Jay 
 
 
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[expert] Mdk Update Locking!

2002-04-24 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas

I can't use mdkupdate anymore!

It locks on ftp-linux.cc-gatech.edu !!!
It locks on 49% !!

Which file should I edit to remove it and make it work again?

I can't even install any soft from the CD's!

Using mdk8.1

TIA

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[expert] Amanda backup

2002-04-24 Thread Lobsang Marques

Has anybody ever installed Amanda on mandrake 

Does anyone knows a manual or guide for that ???

Thank You

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[expert] KDE 3 and Konsole...

2002-04-24 Thread Vincent A. Primavera

Hello,
I recently(today) installed KDE 3.0.1.  So far everything looks O.K.
except that I receive the error listed below when I close Konsole. 
Also, when runnning, Konsole seems to lock up the taskbar.  Here's the
error:

KDEInit could not launch 'konsole-noxft'

Any ideas?

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Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-24 Thread Damian G

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:03:04 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I mentioned this probably bug of 8.2 in the crashtesters list, but I  
 have the feeling that not enought attention has been given. Other 
 crashtesters have tryed with the same badly results. 
   
 Try to copy files from the harddrive to a floppy using konqueror. You  
 can do it with just a konqueror windows open or two. You can use both:  
 kde2.2 or kde3. Every time the result is the same, you need reset the  
 computer that becames absolutely hunged. If you use other file  
 managers (krusader, nautilus...) you haven't any problem.  
   
 Please test this.  
   
 Francisco Alcaraz  
 Murcia (Spain)  


true, it does happen.. and there i was thinking about bad floppies..
never knew that it was a Konq problem.. 


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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Charles A Edwards

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:38:33 -0700
Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):
 
 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
 
That line does not denote the UDMA state of a hd.
It is the bus speed for all pci devices and can perform at no higher than 33mhz.
AGP slots and ide controllers (both of which are also pci slots) overcome this by use 
of additional chips and instructions to increase their speed, but the baseline still 
will remain at 33mhz.
That is why if your MOBO supports only UDMA66 you can still use udma100 or even 
udma133 hds but at no higher level than udma66 unless you make use of an add-on 
controller card which contains the necessary chipset and instructions to provide for 
udma100/133.  


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Re: [expert] Armagetron crashes SDL. Any suggestion?

2002-04-24 Thread Gary Dunn

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 18:41, Leinad Jones wrote:
 
 Hi
 
 I've running 8.2 on my Vaio Z505S but when I try
 to run Armagetron it seqfaults and SDL exits.
 
 I've downloaded the source RPMS from SDL and
 armagetron and rebuilt them but I'm looking for
 suggestions on what else might be causing the crash?
 
 -Leinad

I'd start with a different app that relies on SDL, and 
be sure you have the latest version. Go to

http://www.libsdl.org/ 

Just a wild guess: try fewer colors -- 16 bit instead of 24 or 32.

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[expert] weird flashing 'D' on console

2002-04-24 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas

Hi There!

Once in a while, I get this 'thing' on all consoles!! It's a green D!
It does not matter what prog I call on console it keeps flashing, i.e.,
blinking!

Does anybody know about this?

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Re: [expert] NFS HELP - SECURITY CONFIGURATION

2002-04-24 Thread Gary Dunn

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:27, Lobsang Marques wrote:
 

 I have all my servers using 2 network cards. One for the public network and another
 one for the private network. I'm trying to open NFS shares across the private 
network only
 using mandrake 8.2 initily setup on highest security. There is something blocking my 
nfs shares
 thru the private network. I configured hosts.allow as follows:
 

With security=high it is difficult, if not impossible, to run nfsd. Try
a lower setting.

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[expert] /boot files

2002-04-24 Thread Phil R Lawrence

The Mandrake 8.2 docs say I need fresh copies of /boot/System.map and
/boot/vmlinuz after completing my custom kernel and module compilation.

But what about these files?
/boot/config   should I point this to a copy of the .config file I used for this
new kernel?

/boot/initrd.img  under what circumstances would I *not* need to mkinitrd for my
new kernel?

/boot/kernel.h  do I need a copy of my new one, from
/usr/src/linux/include/config/boot?

any others?

which of the above files affect LILO, such that I would need to rerun it?

If any of the above is necessary, why wasn't it mentioned in the docs?


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[expert] eth0 timeout adjustment

2002-04-24 Thread Phil R Lawrence

If I'm not plugged into the LAN, it is excruciating to wait for the eth0
initialization to fail upon boot.  How can I make it go faster?

Thanks,
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[expert] test (OT -- sorry)

2002-04-24 Thread Michael Holt

test

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Re: [expert] Amanda backup

2002-04-24 Thread Bo O. Erichsen

I've installed the amandaclient on a few workstations.. 
I took the srpms from redhat 7.2 and made the rpms from them. 

Afterwards i needed to add amandauser to the disk group and change the group 
id of the harddisks to disk and make it group readable too.

I installed the server from source two years ago .. it's still running fine. 
If you've got more specific problems i'd be happy to help.. But remember to 
check out the amanda mailling list archive first :).

Bo Erichsen

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 20:41, Lobsang Marques wrote:
 Has anybody ever installed Amanda on mandrake 

 Does anyone knows a manual or guide for that ???

 Thank You

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[expert] kernel-smp-2.4.18.12mdk-1-1mdk is not a smp kernel?

2002-04-24 Thread Victor

Hello,
I was wondering what was going on with this particular kernel package. 
It says it's for smp but after running it and after checking out its 
config file I realized that it isn't set up for smp.

On a somewhat related note. Now that the kernel is being compiled with 
gcc3.0.4 is it possible to get rid of the kernel-source package 
dependency on gcc (2.96).

Thanks,
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Re: [expert] New kde3 packages, partial translation

2002-04-24 Thread Damian G

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:07:52 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have several kde3 rpm packages. The last ones were downloaded today 
 in the ftp.kde.org following the mandrake web page recommendations. 
  
 I have observed a problem with the Spanish language; I donwloaded the 
 Spanish package but now the translation is not complete. For instance, 
 if I open konqueror the help is in Spanish, but the menu bar shows the 
 text in English.  
  
 If I try to logout, the message is also in English. And the kde start 
 messages also in English. Some of the kde control center messages are 
 in Spanish, but others in English. 
  
 Francisco Alcaraz 
 Murcia (Spain) 
  
 

hm.. you did select language in KDE control center, didn't you?
installing the lang package adds the language, but you have to set it...

sorry for the dumb suggestion, but is all i can think of.. my spanish
package works fairly well..  ;o)

HTH

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Re: [expert] kernel-smp-2.4.18.12mdk-1-1mdk is not a smp kernel?

2002-04-24 Thread Jay

The kernel-secure that comes with Mandrake 8.2 is apparently SMP, maybe give
that a try in the mean time

-Jay


Quoting Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hello,
 I was wondering what was going on with this particular kernel package. 
 It says it's for smp but after running it and after checking out its 
 config file I realized that it isn't set up for smp.
 
 On a somewhat related note. Now that the kernel is being compiled with 
 gcc3.0.4 is it possible to get rid of the kernel-source package 
 dependency on gcc (2.96).
 
 Thanks,
 Victor
 
 
 


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Re: [expert] /boot files

2002-04-24 Thread kwan

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Phil R Lawrence wrote:

 The Mandrake 8.2 docs say I need fresh copies of /boot/System.map and
 /boot/vmlinuz after completing my custom kernel and module compilation.

An incorrect System.map may give errors on boot. It *probably* (!?)
won't cause a boot failure though.
 
 But what about these files?
 /boot/config   should I point this to a copy of the .config file I used for this
 new kernel?

Not doing so won't cause problems.
 
 /boot/initrd.img  under what circumstances would I *not* need to mkinitrd for my
 new kernel?
 
If you have your filesystem drivers built statically into the kernel
(i.e., SCSI, IDE, ext3, reiserfs) then you generally do not need an
initrd image. I generally opt *not* to use one. 


 /boot/kernel.h  do I need a copy of my new one, from
 /usr/src/linux/include/config/boot?
 

This is recreated on boot via the /etc/rc.d/init.d/kheader script. 

 any others?
 
 which of the above files affect LILO, such that I would need to rerun it?

If your kernel image changes you'll need to rerun lilo (vmlinux,
bzImage). The others shouldn't make a difference. Of course, if you
change your kernel image you'll need to regen your initrd.
 
 If any of the above is necessary, why wasn't it mentioned in the docs?
 

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Re: [expert] KDE 3 and Konsole...

2002-04-24 Thread J Herzfeld

From:   Vincent A. Primavera 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent:  24 Apr 2002 13:46:50 +
Send reply to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[expert] KDE 3 and Konsole...

It's a known problem.
Look at the mandrake page
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/mdk-kde3.0.php3

or in one of the read me's in the kde download section.


The solution

KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0 have conflicting menu entries for Konsole. 
When Konsole is launched from kicker (the panel), kicker freezes 
until konsole is being closed. To workaround this, remove the 
Konsole button from kicker, and create manually an icon on the 
desktop which launches konsole.

 Hello,
  I recently(today) installed KDE 3.0.1.  So far everything looks O.K.
 except that I receive the error listed below when I close Konsole.
 Also, when runnning, Konsole seems to lock up the taskbar.  Here's the
 error:
 
 KDEInit could not launch 'konsole-noxft'
 
  Any ideas?
 
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Re: [expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-24 Thread Bodo Hasso Dietz

Em Qua, 2002-04-24 às 16:03, Damian G escreveu:
 On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:03:04 +0200
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I mentioned this probably bug of 8.2 in the crashtesters list, but I  
  have the feeling that not enought attention has been given. Other 
  crashtesters have tryed with the same badly results. 

  Try to copy files from the harddrive to a floppy using konqueror. You  
  can do it with just a konqueror windows open or two. You can use both:  
  kde2.2 or kde3. Every time the result is the same, you need reset the  
  computer that becames absolutely hunged. If you use other file  
  managers (krusader, nautilus...) you haven't any problem.  

  Please test this.  

  Francisco Alcaraz  
  Murcia (Spain)  
 
 
 true, it does happen.. and there i was thinking about bad floppies..
 never knew that it was a Konq problem.. 
 
 
 Damian
 

I trached my floppy... but was the same konqueror bug :-(


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Re: [expert] KDE 3 and Konsole...

2002-04-24 Thread Bodo Hasso Dietz

 Hello,
   I recently(today) installed KDE 3.0.1.  So far everything looks O.K.
 except that I receive the error listed below when I close Konsole. 
 Also, when runnning, Konsole seems to lock up the taskbar.  Here's the
 error:
 
 KDEInit could not launch 'konsole-noxft'
 
   Any ideas?
 
   Vincent A. Primavera
 

Hi Vincent.

Mandrake realeased the kde3 packages for ML8.2 and also correction of
two known bugs; see at this page:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/mdk-kde3.0.php3


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Re: [expert] eth0 timeout adjustment

2002-04-24 Thread Pierre Fortin

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:33:52 -0400 Phil R Lawrence
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 If I'm not plugged into the LAN, it is excruciating to wait for the eth0
 initialization to fail upon boot.  How can I make it go faster?

You should be able to fake it out with a 10*baseT loopback plug. 

RJ-45:  connect 1 to 3 and 2 to 6  IIRC

At least, it shouldn't require any system changes...

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Re:[expert] 8.2 bug about konqueror?

2002-04-24 Thread falcaraz

But Damian, 
 
1) With other filemanager doesn't happen 
2) If were true, is linux an stable system 
if a floppy with some errors can hung it? 
 
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Re: [expert] New kde3 packages, partial tran... Damian G

2002-04-24 Thread falcaraz

Yes I did, 
 
The result is similar that an spanglish ^_^ some words in Spanish, 
some others in English. Finally I returned to the original kde3 
packages from mandrake with some updated from texma. And it is runing 
almost well. 
 
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[expert] Security level config

2002-04-24 Thread Brian York

 When you install a fresh copy of LM 8.2 and you set it to 'higher' 
security through the installation you can get different sequrity options 
for the users and for the system. When i tried this a few weeks back i 
could not login directly as root (sure that was because of the 
configuration) so i reinstalled with the 'high' security option. The 
higher had some aspects that i liked about it. When i changed it after 
the install with the 'high' security i changed the security level to 
'higher' and with normal users could not list or read files from 
directories other than the users home. Thats the second thing that i 
didn't like (first was not being able to login as root) how can i 
customize the security level to disable feature that i don't like?

Thanks
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Re: [expert] /boot files

2002-04-24 Thread Phil R Lawrence

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

good info
Thanks!

 Phil R Lawrence wrote:
  If any of the above is necessary, why wasn't it mentioned in the docs?
 

 Which docs were you referring to?

I was using
www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/compiling-installing.html

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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Jim Dewar

am i correct in seeing that you have two harddrives on ide0?
one new, one old?
the new one supports dma while the other does not?

if so, doesn't mixing dma and pio drives on the same channel require the 
channel to reduce speed?
i could be wrong about this. 

moose

btw, what transfer rates are you seeing?

On April 24, 2002 01:12 pm, you wrote:
 This is what it says

 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
 VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
 hda: MAXTOR 6L020L1, ATA DISK drive
 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
 hda: 40132503 sectors (20548 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=2498/255/63, UDMA(33)


 -Jay

 Quoting Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:38:33 -0700
 
  Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):
  
   Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
   ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
 
  idebus=xx
 
  That line does not denote the UDMA state of a hd.
  It is the bus speed for all pci devices and can perform at no higher than
  33mhz.
  AGP slots and ide controllers (both of which are also pci slots) overcome
  this by use of additional chips and instructions to increase their speed,
  but the baseline still will remain at 33mhz.
  That is why if your MOBO supports only UDMA66 you can still use udma100
  or even udma133 hds but at no higher level than udma66 unless you make
  use of an add-on controller card which contains the necessary chipset and
  instructions to provide for udma100/133.
 
 
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Re: [expert] weird flashing 'D' on console

2002-04-24 Thread Damian G

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:14:44 -0300 (BRT)
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi There!
 
 Once in a while, I get this 'thing' on all consoles!! It's a green D!
 It does not matter what prog I call on console it keeps flashing, i.e.,
 blinking!
 
 Does anybody know about this?
 
 Ricardo Castanho


is it blinking in the upper left of the screen?

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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Larry Sword



Charles A Edwards wrote:

 On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:38:33 -0700
 Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

  
 That line does not denote the UDMA state of a hd.
 It is the bus speed for all pci devices and can perform at no higher than 33mhz.
 AGP slots and ide controllers (both of which are also pci slots) overcome this by 
use of additional chips and instructions to increase their speed, but the baseline 
still will remain at 33mhz.
 That is why if your MOBO supports only UDMA66 you can still use udma100 or even 
udma133 hds but at no higher level than udma66 unless you make use of an add-on 
controller card which contains the necessary chipset and instructions to provide for 
udma100/133.  
 
 
 Charles

You are correct. My reply was too terse and unclear. By looking in this 
area of the dmesg the explanations are to set the ide channels to higher 
values by adding correct information to the booting sequence. I have 
mine set to force the speed for the hard drive, a maxtor ata100.

In the lilo.conf, in the append line, I've added ide0=ata66 to force the 
  seting..

Works for me.

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Re: [expert] Security level config

2002-04-24 Thread skidley

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:11:54PM -0400, Brian York wrote:
 When you install a fresh copy of LM 8.2 and you set it to 'higher' 
 security through the installation you can get different sequrity options 
 for the users and for the system. When i tried this a few weeks back i 
 could not login directly as root (sure that was because of the 
 configuration) so i reinstalled with the 'high' security option. The 
 higher had some aspects that i liked about it. When i changed it after 
 the install with the 'high' security i changed the security level to 
 'higher' and with normal users could not list or read files from 
 directories other than the users home. Thats the second thing that i 
 didn't like (first was not being able to login as root) how can i 
 customize the security level to disable feature that i don't like?
 
 Thanks
 Brian
 
 
have a look at 
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php

I have a file /etc/security/msec/level.local where I can add any changes
I want or enable/disable some features. It uses mseclib so man mseclib
to see the options you can use. Heres an example of allowing root
logins:

$ cat /etc/security/msec/level.local

from mseclib import *

allow_root_login(1)

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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Jay

I'll give that a try? Any change this could cause dammage?

-Jay


Quoting Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 
 
 Charles A Edwards wrote:
 
  On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:38:33 -0700
  Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
 Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):
 
 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
 idebus=xx
 
   
  That line does not denote the UDMA state of a hd.
  It is the bus speed for all pci devices and can perform at no higher than
 33mhz.
  AGP slots and ide controllers (both of which are also pci slots) overcome
 this by use of additional chips and instructions to increase their speed, but
 the baseline still will remain at 33mhz.
  That is why if your MOBO supports only UDMA66 you can still use udma100 or
 even udma133 hds but at no higher level than udma66 unless you make use of an
 add-on controller card which contains the necessary chipset and instructions
 to provide for udma100/133.  
  
  
  Charles
 
 You are correct. My reply was too terse and unclear. By looking in this 
 area of the dmesg the explanations are to set the ide channels to higher 
 values by adding correct information to the booting sequence. I have 
 mine set to force the speed for the hard drive, a maxtor ata100.
 
 In the lilo.conf, in the append line, I've added ide0=ata66 to force the 
   seting..
 
 Works for me.
 
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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Larry Sword

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
VP_IDE: ATA-66/100 forced bit set (WARNING)!!
 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA

hda: Maxtor 5T040H4, ATA DISK drive
hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: DVD-ROM DDU1621, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 80043264 sectors (40982 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4982/255/63, 
UDMA(100)  * 

** the only thing I've done is th add the folling statement into my 
lilo.conf file's append line ...ide0=ata66. This will force the 
ata66/100 bit.

Larry


Jay wrote:

 This is what it says
 
 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
 VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
 hda: MAXTOR 6L020L1, ATA DISK drive
 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
 hda: 40132503 sectors (20548 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=2498/255/63, UDMA(33)
 
 
 -Jay
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Quoting Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
 
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:38:33 -0700
Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with

idebus=xx
 
That line does not denote the UDMA state of a hd.
It is the bus speed for all pci devices and can perform at no higher than
33mhz.
AGP slots and ide controllers (both of which are also pci slots) overcome
this by use of additional chips and instructions to increase their speed, but
the baseline still will remain at 33mhz.
That is why if your MOBO supports only UDMA66 you can still use udma100 or
even udma133 hds but at no higher level than udma66 unless you make use of an
add-on controller card which contains the necessary chipset and instructions
to provide for udma100/133.  


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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Larry Sword

Well, maybe. I've run the way for quit sometime and have experienced no 
problems.

Larry

Jay wrote:

 I'll give that a try? Any change this could cause dammage?
 
 -Jay
 
 
 Quoting Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
 

Charles A Edwards wrote:


On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:38:33 -0700
Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with

idebus=xx

 
That line does not denote the UDMA state of a hd.
It is the bus speed for all pci devices and can perform at no higher than

33mhz.

AGP slots and ide controllers (both of which are also pci slots) overcome

this by use of additional chips and instructions to increase their speed, but
the baseline still will remain at 33mhz.

That is why if your MOBO supports only UDMA66 you can still use udma100 or

even udma133 hds but at no higher level than udma66 unless you make use of an
add-on controller card which contains the necessary chipset and instructions
to provide for udma100/133.  


Charles

You are correct. My reply was too terse and unclear. By looking in this 
area of the dmesg the explanations are to set the ide channels to higher 
values by adding correct information to the booting sequence. I have 
mine set to force the speed for the hard drive, a maxtor ata100.

In the lilo.conf, in the append line, I've added ide0=ata66 to force the 
  seting..

Works for me.

Larry

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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread Darren King

I have the same problem.  I have a drive capable of ATA-100 and a board
capable of ATA-66 but I get udma 2.  I should get udma 3 (66).

I have those lines in my dmesg file.  Now what do I do?  Do I have to
play with the idebus= parameteR?

dARREN

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 04:38, Larry Sword wrote:
 Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):
 
 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
 
 Larry
 
 Jay wrote:
 
  I am using a K7T Turbo Motherboard with a Maxtor 7200 RPM Harddrive and am using
  the proper ide cable. Both support ATA100/UDMA5. When I load Linux it
  ackowledges this, but sets the performance to UDMA33. Playing around with hdparm
  does nothing, the harddrive stays stuck at UDMA2. Does anyone know how to fix
  this???
  
  -Jay 
  
  
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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread civileme

Charles A Edwards wrote:

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:38:33 -0700
Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

 
That line does not denote the UDMA state of a hd.
It is the bus speed for all pci devices and can perform at no higher than 33mhz.
AGP slots and ide controllers (both of which are also pci slots) overcome this by use 
of additional chips and instructions to increase their speed, but the baseline still 
will remain at 33mhz.
That is why if your MOBO supports only UDMA66 you can still use udma100 or even 
udma133 hds but at no higher level than udma66 unless you make use of an add-on 
controller card which contains the necessary chipset and instructions to provide for 
udma100/133.  


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Ummm,  read that line carefully...  It is a setting for the PIO modes, 
not the UDMA modes...

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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread civileme

Darren King wrote:

I have the same problem.  I have a drive capable of ATA-100 and a board
capable of ATA-66 but I get udma 2.  I should get udma 3 (66).

I have those lines in my dmesg file.  Now what do I do?  Do I have to
play with the idebus= parameteR?

dARREN

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 04:38, Larry Sword wrote:

Check your /var/log/dmesg for a line (something like):

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

Larry

Jay wrote:

I am using a K7T Turbo Motherboard with a Maxtor 7200 RPM Harddrive and am using
the proper ide cable. Both support ATA100/UDMA5. When I load Linux it
ackowledges this, but sets the performance to UDMA33. Playing around with hdparm
does nothing, the harddrive stays stuck at UDMA2. Does anyone know how to fix
this???

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No, 33 is the max for PIO transfers.  You could override with something 
like idebus=16 if you have a device that doesn't seem to work  (a really 
old CD drive for example).

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Re: [expert] KDE 3 and Konsole...

2002-04-24 Thread stephen

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:46:50PM +, Vincent A. Primavera wrote:
 Hello,
   I recently(today) installed KDE 3.0.1.  So far everything looks O.K.
 except that I receive the error listed below when I close Konsole. 
 Also, when runnning, Konsole seems to lock up the taskbar.  Here's the
 error:
 
 KDEInit could not launch 'konsole-noxft'

I see that one a lot, and have not found a solution - however running
kdeinit in a console gets the task bar restarted :)

 
   Any ideas?
 
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Re: [expert] UDMA/ATA no running at full potential

2002-04-24 Thread civileme

Jay wrote:


I am using a K7T Turbo Motherboard with a Maxtor 7200 RPM Harddrive and am using
the proper ide cable. Both support ATA100/UDMA5. When I load Linux it
ackowledges this, but sets the performance to UDMA33. Playing around with hdparm
does nothing, the harddrive stays stuck at UDMA2. Does anyone know how to fix
this???

-Jay 

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What else do you have on the channel?

have you loaded and tried drakopt?

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Re: [expert] And the prize goes to Charles...

2002-04-24 Thread Brad Felmey

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:04, civileme wrote:

 Of course, just make an ~/rpm directory with the subdirectories /BUILD 
 /SOURCES /SPECS /RPMS /SRPMS, and
 
 rpm -ivh samba-version.src.rpm
 
 in an xterm or console AS USER.
 
 Then look in the ~/rpm directory and you will see how it was built.  The 
 .spec file should answer your question in most cases.

[bfelmey]$ rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18.7mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES

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Re: [expert] Amanda for mandrake 8.2 - backup system

2002-04-24 Thread Brad Felmey

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 12:40, Lobsang Marques wrote:

 Anybody knows where we can find an Amanda rpm for mandrake ???
 
 Or a manual on how to install it on mandrake ???

rpmfind.net has rpms for RedHat and Rawhide (RedHat equivalent of
cooker). Should just go right on a Mandrake box.
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[expert] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 Mandrake 8.1 ??

2002-04-24 Thread db



I have a PIII 
with no OS, (with ATA33 controllers I believe), two empty HD,(10 gig ... 
probably ATA33, 40 gig ATA100) and need to install Windows 98SE, RH 5.1 and 
Mandrake 8.1 (Please don't ask why ...that's what I HAVE 
toinstall).I have been having fits trying to get the different 
factors to worktogether. Partitioning software (Dos fdisk, cfdisk, 
diskdrake, fips.exe),ATA 100, LBA, fat16, fat32, linux native, /mbr, /root, 
first 1024 cylindersetc. hh!Is there any way to do 
this relatively simply? (I am linux challenged!)Will the use of 
boot floppies avoid having to get a /boot partition into thefirst 1024 
cylinders?


Re: [expert] Directory perms (was And the prize goes to Charles...)

2002-04-24 Thread J. Craig Woods

Brad Felmey wrote:
 On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:04, civileme wrote:
 
 
Of course, just make an ~/rpm directory with the subdirectories /BUILD 
/SOURCES /SPECS /RPMS /SRPMS, and

rpm -ivh samba-version.src.rpm

in an xterm or console AS USER.

Then look in the ~/rpm directory and you will see how it was built.  The 
.spec file should answer your question in most cases.
 
 
 [bfelmey]$ rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18.7mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
 error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES
 

Check your perms on %sourcedir, and if needed do a chmod

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Re: [expert] How to install Win98, RH 5.1 Mandrake 8.1 ??

2002-04-24 Thread Nelson Bartley



Here's how I'd do it.

first, take out the 10 gig drive. install win 98 on 
the 40 gig as the first partition (say 10gb).
second, take out the 40gb drive, and install the 
10gb drive. 
third, install rh 5.1 on it.
fourth, reinstall the 40 gb drive as primary 
master, w/ the 10gb as primary slave
fifth install LM 8.2 (not 8.1) on the 40gb drive, 
usings its boot loader to install on the 40gb drive, having it boot 98, LM 8.2, 
and being able to load the lilo for RH 5.1 on the 10gb.

But I haven't had to do this at all, so I can only 
guess this would work (in theory).

Nb

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  Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:53 
  PM
  Subject: [expert] How to install Win98, 
  RH 5.1  Mandrake 8.1 ??
  
  I have a PIII 
  with no OS, (with ATA33 controllers I believe), two empty HD,(10 gig ... 
  probably ATA33, 40 gig ATA100) and need to install Windows 98SE, RH 5.1 
  and Mandrake 8.1 (Please don't ask why ...that's what I HAVE 
  toinstall).I have been having fits trying to get the different 
  factors to worktogether. Partitioning software (Dos fdisk, cfdisk, 
  diskdrake, fips.exe),ATA 100, LBA, fat16, fat32, linux native, /mbr, 
  /root, first 1024 cylindersetc. hh!Is there any way 
  to do this relatively simply? (I am linux challenged!)Will the 
  use of boot floppies avoid having to get a /boot partition into thefirst 
  1024 cylinders?


Re: [expert] Apache - how to run things in cgi-bin subdirectories?

2002-04-24 Thread Ikhlasul Amal

[Sun, 21 Apr 2002, 10:29:49 -0700 2.8K] David Guntner menulis (diedit):
% BTW, does anyone know if mod_perl only comes into play if 
% your perl scrips are located there, or does mod_perl come into play no 
% matter where the perl script is being executed from?
% 
% --Dave
---akhir kutipan---

IMHO, mod_perl follows Apache configuration whether it executes
perl script or not. If you want Perl script to be executed from
any location, you can consider its extension (.pl for example)
and handle it with Files ~ \.pl$ directive in config file.

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Re: [expert] And the prize goes to Charles...

2002-04-24 Thread civileme

Brad Felmey wrote:

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:04, civileme wrote:

Of course, just make an ~/rpm directory with the subdirectories /BUILD 
/SOURCES /SPECS /RPMS /SRPMS, and

rpm -ivh samba-version.src.rpm

in an xterm or console AS USER.

Then look in the ~/rpm directory and you will see how it was built.  The 
.spec file should answer your question in most cases.


[bfelmey]$ rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18.7mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES




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did you make an rpm directory locally?

Oh  also sorry about that---

make a file called ~/.rpmrc and another called ~/.rpmmacros

rpmmacros should look like this

%_topdir   /home/tester/rpm
%_tmppath  /home/tester/rpm/tmp

%_signaturegpg
%_gpg_name Mandrake Linux
%_gpg_path ~/.gnupg
%distribution  Mandrake Linux
%vendorMandrakeSoft

And rpmrc should look like this:

buildarchtranslate: i386: i586
buildarchtranslate: i486: i586
buildarchtranslate: i586: i586
buildarchtranslate: i686: i586

And make sure you install every package that begins with the letters rpm 
and also spec-helper.



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Re: [expert] Directory perms (was And the prize goes to Charles...)

2002-04-24 Thread David Relson

At 09:01 PM 4/24/02, you wrote:
Brad Felmey wrote:
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:04, civileme wrote:

Of course, just make an ~/rpm directory with the subdirectories /BUILD 
/SOURCES /SPECS /RPMS /SRPMS, and

rpm -ivh samba-version.src.rpm

in an xterm or console AS USER.

Then look in the ~/rpm directory and you will see how it was built.  The 
.spec file should answer your question in most cases.

[bfelmey]$ rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18.7mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES

Check your perms on %sourcedir, and if needed do a chmod

BTW did you ever imgagine that you would be so famous, Charles?

Dr John


If I remember correctly, directories usually have rwxr-xr-x (755) 
permissions.  The 'r' (read) permission allows programs to be read and run 
from the directory and the 'x' (execute) permission allows commands like 
'ls' to read through the directory.  For example,

[user@machine dir]$ ls -ld test
drwxr-xr--2 root   root   1024 Apr 24 21:20 test

[user@machine dir]$ ls -l test
ls: test/a: Permission denied
ls: test/b: Permission denied




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Re: [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-24 Thread lorne

hahahahaha... disappointingly easy somehow doesn't come to my mind 
when it is easy. :)

Well I got it home today. My wife was most displeased. She is 
threatening to send me out to the garage with all my junk. BG

It is pretty derned big! about 3 feet tall. It has 4 processors, they 
all work. 1 gig of ram, 10 4 gig drives and get this. It has two DPT 
raid controllers! Another 2740 to run the cdrom drive. Apparently it is 
old enough that it wont' boot to the cdrom, but hey, for free I'm more 
than happy to boot with floppy!! :) I'm so excited. This is great! Now 
to find the time to set it up. I'm in the middle of building a garage. 
The one I'm going to be exciled to probably. hahaha

civileme wrote:

 lorne wrote:

 I just found out that I won a 4 processor 200mhz pentium Pro server 
 with 1 gig of ram in it.We had some old equipment we are phasing out 
 at work and we drew straws who gets what.

 Old, but more than sufficient for my playing around. I've never 
 looked into mult processing with Linux. I know it is possible. Is it 
 possible with Mandrake? It is an old ALR, so dunno about other 
 compatibility issues. I know it has 1 or 2 raid controllers in it. 
 DTP or something like that I hear.




 

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 Sounds like a beastly server or multiprocessing machine or a super 
 node for a supercomputing cluster.

 I found two Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 series at a local 
 Charity store which had been picked by thieves, and on the day of the 
 month when everything was 50% off I bought both.  One had a dead mobo 
 and was missing the CD and had 128M RAM.  The other had a dead power 
 supply and was missing the SCSI HDD and had 32Mb of RAM.  Between them 
 I picked up working Matrox Mystique 220 and an old ELSA 3D PCI card.  
 One processor was loose in one case anfd the working Mobo had the 
 processor 1 ZIF zocket lever missing.

 I found two PPro 200 512K cache matched step processors and put them 
 in, jammong the faulty ZIF socket shut, put together one working 
 machine with an IDE, a SCSI-3 drive and a DVD (turned out the CD was a 
 DVD) drive, dropped in Mandrake 8.2 installed and did not even get 
 asked if I wanted the UP or SMP kernel.  I added a UP boot later so I 
 can run on one processor in case my technique of closing the damage 
 ZIF socket proves faulty, but it came up with SMP kernel from the 
 install and was happily running both processors.  My RAID was a 
 software RAID0 between the SCSI-3 and an IDE drive, just to see if I 
 could stress the comp and its filesystems.

 Everything is still working and the speed is better than my K6-2 350.

 Hmph!  It was disappointingly easy.

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