Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote: During bootup the kernel needs to read /etc/fstab to know what other filesystems (partitions) to mount where. If /etc/fstab is not in the root filesystem, the system will never be able to finish mounting the filesystems. That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that. But it's still annoying. :-) It just makes more sense now. Thanks for the reality check. Actually, making separate filesystems of any of the following will stop the system in its tracks: /etc, /bin, /lib, /sbin Those really need to be in /. Agreed, now that I'm thinking straight. :-) Now as for alias rm rm -i I don't recall complaining about the rm alias :-) suppose you are typing rm -r /somepath/.somecorruptedconfigdir -f and at the point where you have typed rm -r / The cat jumps up to get your attention and lands a paw on Enter. Are you going to chuckle because you didn't type -f and the -i is already aliased in? Or are you going to determine if cat really tastes like chicken because you didn't have -i? I'd be determining if the cat really tastes like chicken, because when I want to get rid of a directory recursively, I type rm -rf /the/directory/to/delete Assuming that I'm not above the directory that I want to get rid of. 99.999% of the time (I'm sure it's actually 100%, but I'm allowing for the possibility that I might do it the other way), if I want to get rid of a directory, I will cd to the directory above the one that I want to get rid of, and then just rm -rf directoryname Which is much less dangerous than typing anything starting with / when using those options. :-) Finally, we are targeting windows desktop migrants and NT server migrations rather than trying to draw customers away from other linux distros, so you can expect an approach that does a little hand-holding as the audience has come to expect. (They say we don't do enough, especially when they blow up their systems using the update program on a kernel -- well look at our new kernel update numbering--it won't show as an update--have to DL and install) I'm glad to hear that. :-) When I was new to Mandrake, I was certainly one of the people who got caught by that when it still showed up. rpmdrake didn't give any warnings about using it on a kernel. I know better *now*, but it wasn't until it was too late that I learned that lesson --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pptp - some problems
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:44 am, hans schneidhofer wrote: hi, have an adsl-connection via eth0 and an internal network via eth1, both ethercards are now 3Com3c905 (10/100) but the process of opening a connecton to the internet is very slow. Not the speed itself. sometimes it takes between 2 - 4 minutes. the system I have is a mdk 8.0 and pptp-version: pptp-adsl-fr-1.0.2 CPU=350 MHZ. sometimes it happens, that if I only want to see the transactions on eth0 and eth1, the switch between eth0 and eth1 takes about 2 minutes or more. Is anyone there, who has experiences with two ethercards and (or) adsl-connection via pptp ? the ppoe is not possible, reason is on my provider. thanks for some hints and tips bye hans schneidhofer I had two 3Com 3C905B-TX ethernet cards in my Sony VAIO. One was connected to a Cisco 675 router my ADSL ISP had supplied and set up as a DHCP server. I was running SuSE at the time and configured it as a dhcpd. The eth1 was hooked to a NetGear 4 port hub, to which my other two computers were attached. The Sony was my internet fireway, router and server, besides being my wife's workstation. The connect took a 3 or 4 seconds on boot up and the same when the lease was renewed every twenty four hours. Surfing the internet from my PC, via my eth0 3C905B-TX card to her eth1 and then out through her eth0 to the internet was essentially instantaneous. The slowest part of the connection was the 40 -120 miliseconds that connecting to a website took. When I got my current box, also containing a 3COM 3CC905B-TX, I also changed ISPs to RoadRunner. They supplied a Toshiba cable modem, which I connected to my eth0 and configured it as a dhcpd with MCC. The connection is almost instantaneous. I suspect your connection is not creating /etc/resolv.conf and/or it is taking too long to resolve the DNSs -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
James wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:33:24 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Jes** Chr*** on a blue crutch !! -- tying jaw to head !!! -- On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:35, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Monday 17 Jun 2002 17:02, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 19:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: I believe that is true - I wouldn't try to have a separate /etc. My separate partitions are: snip I'm thinking with that kind of scheme such as you employ, you must have a buttload of disk space. ;) PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMAide3: BM-DMA at 0xec08-0xec0f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA insert the rest of his mind-numbing parititons here I'm with LX. Jesus is not quite the statement I'd reach for tho, thats too much of an understatement! 3 points. 1. No answer on the 3com thing yet. 2. What's LX 3. I was at a lab the other day for a business meeting. The have just under one PETAbyte of data in their Database server alone. Holyu crap James! I bet it take a little while to do a few small queries on that monster! I can't even begin to imagine what a PETAbyte looks like. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
civileme wrote: David Guntner wrote: KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: I tried to create a separate /etc filesystem ... Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong ... During bootup the kernel needs to read /etc/fstab to know what other filesystems (partitions) to mount where. If /etc/fstab is not in the root filesystem, the system will never be able to finish mounting the filesystems. That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that. But it's still annoying. :-) It just makes more sense now. Thanks for the reality check. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually, making separate filesystems of any of the following will stop the system in its tracks: /etc, /bin, /lib, /sbin Those really need to be in /. Now as for alias rm rm -i suppose you are typing rm -r /somepath/.somecorruptedconfigdir -f and at the point where you have typed rm -r / The cat jumps up to get your attention and lands a paw on Enter. Are you going to chuckle because you didn't type -f and the -i is already aliased in? Or are you going to determine if cat really tastes like chicken because you didn't have -i? I don't know about you, but 98% of the time my computer has a problem, the problem has its hands on my keyboard, and I have too much data flying in a single day to risk it til the next backup for the sake of a little convenience. I would call it thoughtful rather than paternalistic. Some of the things that might appear paternalistic are not in fact so. They are forced to some decision. For example, if you have an internet connection and a local network connection, you can put in one nameserver for the LAN and two for the internet. Major redesign at linux standards level is involved for more than 3 nameservers, and it either had to be two for one and one for the other or one for each and another reserved for an additional purpose. That is for the GUI setup scripts. Of course you find all of them regardless in /etc/resolv.conf, just set up a bit differently in /etc/sysconfig/network, and you can certainly change this with an editor. Finally, we are targeting windows desktop migrants and NT server migrations rather than trying to draw customers away from other linux distros, so you can expect an approach that does a little hand-holding as the audience has come to expect. (They say we don't do enough, especially when they blow up their systems using the update program on a kernel -- well look at our new kernel update numbering--it won't show as an update--have to DL and install) Civileme Civileme, Truely, it's guys like you working for a distro like Mandrake that cause me to love and respect Mandrake so much. Well said! No matter how you slice it, pound for pound... ounce for ounce, Mandrake has them all beat. While with Linux, it's all good the cream always rises to the top. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:17:37 -0400 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority James wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:33:24 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Jes** Chr*** on a blue crutch !! -- tying jaw to head !!! -- On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 12:35, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Monday 17 Jun 2002 17:02, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 19:39, Peter Ruskin wrote: I believe that is true - I wouldn't try to have a separate /etc. My separate partitions are: snip I'm thinking with that kind of scheme such as you employ, you must have a buttload of disk space. ;) PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMAide3: BM-DMA at 0xec08-0xec0f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA insert the rest of his mind-numbing parititons here I'm with LX. Jesus is not quite the statement I'd reach for tho, thats too much of an understatement! 3 points. 1. No answer on the 3com thing yet. 2. What's LX 3. I was at a lab the other day for a business meeting. The have just under one PETAbyte of data in their Database server alone. Holyu crap James! I bet it take a little while to do a few small queries on that monster! I can't even begin to imagine what a PETAbyte looks like. Mark Oh about an 80 x 100 foot room... and actually most queries he said take under 20 secs. It's wild I was drooling. They had one cluster of 2000 linux boxes. Right now they are all 1u's since blades still aren't up to snuff. This place rocked. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
et wrote: the moving target that a (IMHO) good Linux Distro should be is one of the greatest problems with creating book documentation, I would guess. by the time the reasearch and writting and printing and distribution of the paper goes out, it would be time for the next distro, with a number of improvments that would render the old book about as good as a 1970 phone book for Miami. the stuff flat out changed. It has been my experiance that the best documentation I can find is either refered to on is in this mail list (and the newbie list for installation) and some of the least fricton of any help method. I'm hoping WikiLearn can help address this problem. It's not there yet, by any means, but take a look at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/AboutThesePages. You can help, in any of these ways: * If you have a question, try seeing if it's answered on WikiLearn -- try http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/search/Wikilearn, or just click on search from any WikiLearn page. (Or try a Google search with site:twiki.org or site:twiki.sourceforge.net in the search query.) * If it's not answered (or you don't think it's answered, after at least some attempt at a search), try creating a WikiLearn page with the question on it. Post to expert (newbie, or any other mail list), saying that you have a question about such and such and it's posted at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/name of WikiLearn page. Suggest that people answer the question on that page. * Register to edit WikiLearn at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration. * Subscribe to get a daily notification of page changes at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WebNotify. * If you can answer a question, or help answer a question, edit the page with the question appropriately. * If you are experienced in Linux, Perl, cgi, html, and other good stuff, help me move WikiLearn to it's permanent location on SourceForge. Do a TWiki search on ToDo in page (topic) names, or help me set up utilities and procedures for things like backups and so forth. Notes: 1. Pages can be renamed, so if the initial name for a page is not intuitive / descriptive enough, the page name can be changed. Usually, it is a good idea to recreate the original page, delete all the boilerplate text, and put a note there saying Moved to name of new WikiLearn page. 2. WikiLearn is indexed on Google and similar web search engines. On Google, WikiLearn is indexed under two different domains, twiki.org and twiki.sourceforge.net. Last time I checked, the update cycle was 4 to 8 weeks, fortunately, sometimes the two domains are indexed at different times, thus (sort of) indexing the site twice as often. The content of this email has been moved to a WikiLearn page: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/HowYouCanHelp. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: I believe your solution will also remove a valid lockfile, ain't it? actually because it's specific to the file you're looking for it is only looking for a file which is so named in the variable. If that variable happens to be a lock file and there is no process running then wouldn't you want to remove the lockfile. if you're concerned about removing a lockfile which is legal while a process is running then check for the process at the beginning of the script and if it is found then you can terminate the program, else, allow the program to complete. Mark I sent this the other day, maybe no one saw it. Anyway any help on a script like this would really help. How do I do this? Can you give me an example of the script. Thanks Richard D. Bonebrake Asquith Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:33:40 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suppose you are typing rm -r /somepath/.somecorruptedconfigdir -f and at the point where you have typed rm -r / The cat jumps up to get your attention and lands a paw on Enter. Here's one I did many years ago on a SunOS box (as root), thinking it would delete only the path/.whatever files/directories: cd somepath rm -rf .* Civileme or anyone else, the next time you have a system that's about to be re-installed anyway, umount everything but the / and /usr partitions and try: rm -rf /root/.* I'm hoping today's rm does not follow ..; but it would be nice to know for sure after all those years since I had to re-install that old Sparc... I've made a note to try this when 8.3/9.0 becomes available; but... :^) Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] USB 2 Support in MDK 8.2
Hi, I'm trying to get USB 2 working under Mandrake 8.2, so far it fails to operate correctly when I use -- alias usb-interface ehci-hcd in modules.conf. Motherboard has a VIA VT8235 southbridge. If I use alias usb-interface usb-uhci then USB works fine as USB ver 1.0 12 MB/s. With 3 root hubs and 2 ports each. I have a Epson C42UX and a Freecom FX-1 CD-RW which are both detected in UsbView (/proc/bus/usb/devices) correctly and I have no problems printing, (haven't tried the FX-1 yet). As soon as I switch modules to alias usb-interface ehci-hcd the ehci module is picked up and configured (or so messages log tells me), however UsbView only reports 1 root hub (USB ver 2.0 480 MB/s) but with 6 ports!! As soon as a device is plugged in get the following kernel error; kernel: ehci-hub.c: GetStatus port 1 status 0x1803 POWER speed=2 CSC CONNECT kernel: hub.c: Cannot enable port 1 of hub 1, disabling port kernel: hub.c: Maybe the USB cable is bad? kernel: ehci-hcd.c: 00:10.3: free_config devnum 0 Any ideas? Thanks Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] wireless and pcmcia scripts/settings
Hi there ! Any feedback ? Does it work now ? N. Le lun 17/06/2002 à 11:49, Nicolas ROBAUX a écrit : Hi ! I'm just like you : my dektop is Mdk 8.2/WinXP, and it was my gateway to the net for my laptop (under MDK 8.1/WinME) Le dim 16/06/2002 à 22:13, Praedor Tempus a écrit : I am also on the linux wlan list and am pulling my hair out trying to get a Don't do that ! It is VERY easy, once you've understood where are the configuration files, and how they work ! So, doesn't Mandrake use the scripts and config files in /etc/pcmcia for this? There is a network.opts and wireless.opts in there. Is this not THE place that handles such settings? One of my main problems here is that no Nope, Mandrake and Red Hat don't use these files... Here is how it works : - All the settings of the PCMCIA cards are in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 or ...eth1, even the settings for wireless (WIRELESS_MODE, WIRELESS_ESSID, WIRELESS_ENC_KEY,...) - /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup reads these settings, and calls /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless - /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless use these settings and call the tool /sbin/iwconfig, and set up your card with iwconfig and the settings. - You're done. So, the only thing you have to do is to add the following lines in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (if your PCMCIA Wireless card is known as eth0) WIRELESS_MODE = Ad-Hoc WIRELESS_ESSID = your-wireless-network-name WIRELESS_ENC_KEY = off (Yes ! I disabled encryption...) Just read your ifup and ifup-wireless files, for more information. And don't forget to read man iwconfig too ! Hope this helps, N. 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] pros and cons of mandrake
I added a 3rd note to http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/HowYouCanHelp, as follows, to explicitly address the point of information becoming obsolete. The procedure is just one possibility, it is not cast in concrete. quote 3. As information goes out of date, and new information applies to new releases, I plan to preserve some old pages and implement a naming convention to identify old and new information. One possible scenario: A question answered about kde 3.0 might be answered on a page named ToastingRyeBreadWithKde. When kde 3.1 comes out, we might copy that entire page to a page named ToastingRyeBreadWithKde30, and add a note to the ToastingRyeBreadWithKde page saying that the information was developed for kde 3.0 and may need modification for 3.1. As time goes on, the page will (should) get modified appropriately. At the next release of kde, the process is repeated. /quote Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: et wrote: the moving target that a (IMHO) good Linux Distro should be is one of the greatest problems with creating book documentation, I would guess. by the time the reasearch and writting and printing and distribution of the paper goes out, it would be time for the next distro, with a number of improvments that would render the old book about as good as a 1970 phone book for Miami. the stuff flat out changed. It has been my experiance that the best documentation I can find is either refered to on is in this mail list (and the newbie list for installation) and some of the least fricton of any help method. I'm hoping WikiLearn can help address this problem. It's not there yet, by any means, but take a look at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/AboutThesePages. You can help, in any of these ways: * If you have a question, try seeing if it's answered on WikiLearn -- try http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/search/Wikilearn, or just click on search from any WikiLearn page. (Or try a Google search with site:twiki.org or site:twiki.sourceforge.net in the search query.) * If it's not answered (or you don't think it's answered, after at least some attempt at a search), try creating a WikiLearn page with the question on it. Post to expert (newbie, or any other mail list), saying that you have a question about such and such and it's posted at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/name of WikiLearn page. Suggest that people answer the question on that page. * Register to edit WikiLearn at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration. * Subscribe to get a daily notification of page changes at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WebNotify. * If you can answer a question, or help answer a question, edit the page with the question appropriately. * If you are experienced in Linux, Perl, cgi, html, and other good stuff, help me move WikiLearn to it's permanent location on SourceForge. Do a TWiki search on ToDo in page (topic) names, or help me set up utilities and procedures for things like backups and so forth. Notes: 1. Pages can be renamed, so if the initial name for a page is not intuitive / descriptive enough, the page name can be changed. Usually, it is a good idea to recreate the original page, delete all the boilerplate text, and put a note there saying Moved to name of new WikiLearn page. 2. WikiLearn is indexed on Google and similar web search engines. On Google, WikiLearn is indexed under two different domains, twiki.org and twiki.sourceforge.net. Last time I checked, the update cycle was 4 to 8 weeks, fortunately, sometimes the two domains are indexed at different times, thus (sort of) indexing the site twice as often. The content of this email has been moved to a WikiLearn page: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/HowYouCanHelp. Randy Kramer --- 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] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Richard Bonebrake wrote: Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: I believe your solution will also remove a valid lockfile, ain't it? actually because it's specific to the file you're looking for it is only looking for a file which is so named in the variable. If that variable happens to be a lock file and there is no process running then wouldn't you want to remove the lockfile. if you're concerned about removing a lockfile which is legal while a process is running then check for the process at the beginning of the script and if it is found then you can terminate the program, else, allow the program to complete. Mark I sent this the other day, maybe no one saw it. Anyway any help on a script like this would really help. How do I do this? Can you give me an example of the script. Thanks Richard D. Bonebrake Asquith Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Richard, Actually I did see your post and responded to it, but the list(s) seem to be experiencing some growing pains again and the message went haplessly into the ether. At any rate, when I saw your post asking this question the other day I started hacking away at it. since this is my first time at checking for a running process via a shell script we're somewhat in the same boat. I was about half way there when I got side-tracked by a few things that have held my attention since then. If you don't mind learning it together we can continue this, unless of course someone more knowledgeable in shell scripting chooses to supply the concise answer to this question. We can also of course do this on or off list. either way is fine with me. I personally would prefer to do it onlist so that it's in the archives for others to access, however some may prefer that since it's not directly on-topic with this mailing list that the thread be taken off-list. since we already know how to check for the existence of the .lock file itself all we need to do now is check for a running process. With that in mind this is where I'm currently at with this: # # detecting the running process # proc=`ps r|grep process-name` # the apostrophe looking character is # NOT an apostrophe and is necessary # for the entire command with arguments # to be loaded into the variable As soon as I get a chance I'll intend to workout just how to get the results of $proc into another variable so that you can run a kill command on the pid that is returned if the process exists. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Error with a large File
I am using dd and netcat to save the image of cd from one computer to another. on the machine with the cd I do dd if=/dev/cdrom | gzip | nc 192.168.1.1 12300 on the server (which is running Mandrake 8.2)I do nc -l -p 12300 disc.img But after the server has received about 130megs. The pipe breaks and says this error message: file too large Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
daRcmaTTeR wrote: # # detecting the running process # proc=`ps r|grep process-name` # the apostrophe looking character is # NOT an apostrophe and is necessary # for the entire command with arguments # to be loaded into the variable Mark, Thanks for this -- I like your coding / commenting style! I know some of the experienced bashers might not, but it sure is helpful for a newbie. ;-) No doubt, this will find it's way to WikiLearn, maybe after you publish the entire script. Nah, I won't wait, I'll put it on a page: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/BashCheckForARunningProcess -- we can change the name when/if someone thinks of something more appropriate. Feel free to use this WikiLearn page as your whiteboard for collaboration while you work out the rest of it. regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 01:18, James wrote: insert the rest of his mind-numbing parititons here I'm with LX. Jesus is not quite the statement I'd reach for tho, thats too much of an understatement! 3 points. 1. No answer on the 3com thing yet. 2. What's LX That I can answer. ;) LX happens to be my initials. I put them out there so nobody has to learn how to spell my name. ;) Faster for everyone to type, too. 3. I was at a lab the other day for a business meeting. The have just under one PETAbyte of data in their Database server alone. -- Femme That's understandable for businesses, but was all that drive capacity the property of Peter Ruskin personally? Maybe I misunderstood and he was emailing from work or something. Just curious. Best Regards, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Qmail auto-forward?
Is there a way to get qmail to automatically forward everything it receives? I would like qmail to get the incoming mail and pass it on, unaltered to our Exchange Server. Hopefully without adding all the user accounts to our Linux box. Eventually, I would have qmail filter the mail before passing it on, but first things first... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
Ladies and Gents, I'm having the following problem: Time changes every time I reboot the server. I keep changing it back, but the problem still persists. I did work with hwclock, tzselect and all that. I can do "export TZ=MDT" to change the timezone, but as soon as I log out, it kicks back so it seems that this is only for the user. This is really messing my day up. Can someone point me in the right direction so I can RTFM about this. Again, here is the problem: 1.) I can't keep the timezone set correctly on the server. Does it get its values from the hardware clock? THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! Regards,Vasiliy BoulytchevColorado Information Technologies Inc.
Re: [expert] USB 2 Support in MDK 8.2
Since you have both a USB1.0 and a USB2.0 what happens when you use both statements in you modules.conf file? alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias usb-interface ehci-hcd Larry Andy wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get USB 2 working under Mandrake 8.2, so far it fails to operate correctly when I use -- alias usb-interface ehci-hcd in modules.conf. Motherboard has a VIA VT8235 southbridge. If I use alias usb-interface usb-uhci then USB works fine as USB ver 1.0 12 MB/s. With 3 root hubs and 2 ports each. I have a Epson C42UX and a Freecom FX-1 CD-RW which are both detected in UsbView (/proc/bus/usb/devices) correctly and I have no problems printing, (haven't tried the FX-1 yet). As soon as I switch modules to alias usb-interface ehci-hcd the ehci module is picked up and configured (or so messages log tells me), however UsbView only reports 1 root hub (USB ver 2.0 480 MB/s) but with 6 ports!! As soon as a device is plugged in get the following kernel error; kernel: ehci-hub.c: GetStatus port 1 status 0x1803 POWER speed=2 CSC CONNECT kernel: hub.c: Cannot enable port 1 of hub 1, disabling port kernel: hub.c: Maybe the USB cable is bad? kernel: ehci-hcd.c: 00:10.3: free_config devnum 0 Any ideas? Thanks Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Winex Benchmarks from Dr Tom
Thought you guys might be interested in this; it's an evaluation of winex versus native linux games, with Quake 3 Arena as one of the barometers. There are other games tested as well. This was in an older Dr Tom newsletter that I overlooked, I don't usually check the non-list mail on a regular basis. Don't expect the winex benches to be spectacular; it ain't happenin yet. They're still getting everything streamlined. Oh..and by the waytake a guess as to which Linux distro Dr Tom used for these benchmarks? I'll save you the suspense...it was our old friend Mandrake Linux 8.2!! Woohoo, Mandrake making a dent, baby. http://195.200.172.1/I?X=f7dd7cc8290b684fb681ebedd6fecd1e FYI, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Winex Benchmarks from Dr Tom
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:48 pm, you wrote: Thought you guys might be interested in this; it's an evaluation of winex versus native linux games, with Quake 3 Arena as one of the barometers. I know I'm certainly interested! Thanks... -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 01:23, James wrote: In general I couldn't agree more. But when you are moving into the less than common world of File System changes, Serving Gigs of Data, Disconnected Users etc. Books do come in handy. The exact feature may change but the theory and general application don't. That is what I spend 50 a pop on. (And God and my wife both know that I wouldn't have gotten anywhere without Using Unix 1st edition I bought years ago.) James How about Tricks of the Unix Masters? Russell G. Sage, Circa 1987. That was my first one. ;) LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 17:34, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 01:18, James wrote: insert the rest of his mind-numbing parititons here I'm with LX. Jesus is not quite the statement I'd reach for tho, thats too much of an understatement! 3 points. 1. No answer on the 3com thing yet. 2. What's LX That I can answer. ;) LX happens to be my initials. I put them out there so nobody has to learn how to spell my name. ;) Faster for everyone to type, too. 3. I was at a lab the other day for a business meeting. The have just under one PETAbyte of data in their Database server alone. -- Femme That's understandable for businesses, but was all that drive capacity the property of Peter Ruskin personally? Maybe I misunderstood and he was emailing from work or something. Just curious. Too old to work - I'm as good as retired now (bus pass from December). Best Regards, LX -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 17 hours 20 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
bill, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Time changes every time I reboot the server. a week cmos battery on mainboard _can_ cause bios clock errors during a reboot. a dead cmos battery _will_ cause bios clock to reset every time system is powered down. system time is an root/admin responsibility. not a user. btw, speaking for myself and a couple of others, i filter _all_ messages for 'html' and read last or later. some never. reason, it seems that most html messages are at a smaller type size that plain text. to read said messages, i have to change mail reader configs to conform to those who use ms ole, aol, or what ever else they use and claim not to know how to disable html. [surprising how many *user* folk there are who do not know how to use 'help'] there for, for you to be sure your post are read as soon as possible by all followers of these list, please disable html. it may one day be to your advantage to do so. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email, text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] lost keyboard mouse
Just installed 8.2 on a p200MMX machine. Everything installed fine until after reboot. I lose the mouse AND keyboard at graphical login. If I start in maintenance mode, both function normally. I can log in, run linuxconf and other programs no problem. But the moment I go into X, I lose them. Any info greatly appreciated Ken PS KB and mouse work fine in winblows and on other linux comps Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] wu-ftpd and (import / NFS mount )
Dear Experts.. I made a symbolic link within the anonymous tree, but it doesn't work... (I can't get the directory ..), .. yes, I made a mistake, because the symbolic links are relative to my active root.. so, the solution, following the FAQ's, is: ... If you want to access files/directories/diskspace outside your chrooted environment, you'll have to import it using directory loopback mounts (available on at least Solaris) or using NFS mounts (available on most other operating systems but they have a performance impact)... ...well, I have been trying to mount , but without any success.. I really don't know how to: ...import it using directory loopback(import ? ) or: ...using NFS mounts .. (does exist a loopback option ?) Thanks in advance, Rodrigo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:05:55 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # # detecting the running process # proc=`ps r|grep process-name` # the apostrophe looking character is # NOT an apostrophe and is necessary # for the entire command with arguments # to be loaded into the variable Mark, This can also be done with just the ps command... Here's an example of what I use in my crontab... if [ -z `/bin/ps --no-headers -j -C program` ]; then \ /usr/bin/program; fi HTH, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: # # detecting the running process # proc=`ps r|grep process-name` # the apostrophe looking character is # NOT an apostrophe and is necessary # for the entire command with arguments # to be loaded into the variable Mark, Thanks for this -- I like your coding / commenting style! I know some of the experienced bashers might not, but it sure is helpful for a newbie. ;-) No doubt, this will find it's way to WikiLearn, maybe after you publish the entire script. Nah, I won't wait, I'll put it on a page: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/BashCheckForARunningProcess -- we can change the name when/if someone thinks of something more appropriate. Feel free to use this WikiLearn page as your whiteboard for collaboration while you work out the rest of it. regards, Randy Kramer You know Randy...in light of our past conversations about WikiLearn I don't know why I didn't think of that to begin with. doh! sorry about that. That _is_ a wonderful idea though. I take that heads up and begin to post the information there. by the way...as an asside..sorry for the long absence. I've been busier then a long-tailed cat in a room full O rockin chairs lately and haven't had any time to spend on the WikiLearn project. a situation I intend to rectify shortly. :) -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
Bill Davidson wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:10:16 +0300 Chavdar Videff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, There is something I would like to ask - when I configure my GUI I use the Mandrake Control Center - Hardware - Display. Everything is fine - my graphics adapter is recognized correctly, the colour depth is selected properly, however I did not see an option to change the refresh rate of the monitor - and it is annoying for it uses adapter default which is 60 Hz. I doubt in the functionality of the Xfree86config tool where there is an option for refresh rate properties. How can I set up my monitor refresh rate and is there a way as easy as the one windows provides (it was an issue a friend of mine pointed out when I tried to convince him that Mandrake linux is the best and he should forget all about M$). BTW I am using Mandrake 8.1 Thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may not sound easy, but you could edit /etc/XF86Config-4 manually. The file is commented well and the relevent lines are easy to find. Other than that, I was going to suggest the 'xf86config' command, but since you don't seem to like it... Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Sheesh Unless you have one of those that gets skipped, just test the configuration and let it fail by not answering in 10 seconds, then the monitor refresh opens up to you. If you have one of those that skips the test, then open a terminal window, su to root and # XFdrake --expert --noauto Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:05:55 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # # detecting the running process # proc=`ps r|grep process-name` # the apostrophe looking character is # NOT an apostrophe and is necessary # for the entire command with arguments # to be loaded into the variable Mark, This can also be done with just the ps command... Here's an example of what I use in my crontab... if [ -z `/bin/ps --no-headers -j -C program` ]; then \ /usr/bin/program; fi HTH, Pierre Pierre! That was absolutely awesome! thank you. :) I hadn't thought of doing it that way, i think primarily because I'm not very familiar yet with the bash -flags yet. However I see something coming together here. Richard: can you help me remember again what it is that we're looking for here again? I mean, what process is it that we're testing for? process == running program /* and can someone * please tell me * what those little * nicks on the tilda * key are ( ` )? */ -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] lost keyboard mouse
This is a follow-up on my previous message |Just installed 8.2 on a p200MMX machine. Everything installed fine until |after reboot. I lose the mouse AND keyboard at graphical login. | |If I start in maintenance mode, both function normally. I can log in, |run linuxconf and other programs no problem. But the moment I go into X, |I lose them. | |Any info greatly appreciated |Ken |PS KB and mouse work fine in winblows and on other linux comps I tried XFdrake, and everything is fine until I go to test the settings, then I lose KB and mouse again. I can't CTRLALTF1 to a console or anything. I haven't had to perform this many hard resets since Winblows 95, and it's hard to sell other on MDK, when it there is so much trouble with something as simple a generic standard PS/2 mouse KB. Hardware: Intel P200MMX 160mb RAM S3 Virge/DX** could this be the culprit? 3 hdd's 1Cdrom I will note that ALL of the hardware is detected and runs fine under winblows 98, and the KB and mouse in question have tested fine on other comps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake
On June 18, 2002 12:33 am, civileme wrote: I don't know about you, but 98% of the time my computer has a problem, the problem has its hands on my keyboard, That is a well known and ubiquitous phenomenon. Formally, it is called a PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair). g -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Using remote x server
Hallo! I'm planning using old computers (P75) as X terminals of a higher-powered server (XP1600+). I'll have 3 clients connected to this server, all of them with 17 monitors. I'd like to find a tutorial for me to be able to do this... where can I find one (or some help)? 8-? Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:01 am, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies and Gents, I'm having the following problem: Time changes every time I reboot the server. I keep changing it back, but the problem still persists. I did work with hwclock, tzselect and all that. I can do export TZ=MDT to change the timezone, but as soon as I log out, it kicks back so it seems that this is only for the user. This is really messing my day up. Can someone point me in the right direction so I can RTFM about this. Again, here is the problem: 1.) I can't keep the timezone set correctly on the server. Does it get its values from the hardware clock? THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! Regards, Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. Installed xntp, if it wan't already installed. I have a script in /etc/cron/cron.hourly called settime with the execute attribute set. The script contains: #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/ntpdate -b 199.240.130.1 In the config file /etc/ntp.conf I added the two server lines below 'fudge' server 127.127.1.0 # local clock fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 server 199.240.130.1 # ntp1.kansas.net server 199.240.130.12 # ntp2.kansas.net in case I ever make xntpd an active service. But, once an hour, my clock gets the latest setting from a time server. - -- JLK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9D52uq1Ef6ZbWHeERAi0oAJ0fKud1yNEn5+c49qcWrvfouOCq+QCg426V 6dfP4uzOnrp+L12CdjgSiE0= =+XUO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Error with a large File
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 10:25 am, INGNAR ALEJANDRO FREY ROS wrote: I am using dd and netcat to save the image of cd from one computer to another. on the machine with the cd I do dd if=/dev/cdrom | gzip | nc 192.168.1.1 12300 on the server (which is running Mandrake 8.2)I do nc -l -p 12300 disc.img But after the server has received about 130megs. The pipe breaks and says this error message: file too large Is the Mandrake box an Athlon by chance? - -- JLK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9D5wBq1Ef6ZbWHeERAm0/AJ9+uYJu/4+Wo6A9GW8dA7uMK4ndAgCgqUtv yFc+P3d0oSgJO5sXcu04xec= =tqZV -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 8.2 msec security issue
Mandrake 8.2 has a default security setting that leaves users' home directories world readable. I just read that you can enter other user's home directories and subdirectories and read the files. The Mandrake msec level by default choice is Standard. If you chmod each user's home dir to 700, upon reboot it reverts back to what it was before. If setting are changed in the Mandrake Control Center from Standard to High then users home dir is 711, 700 would be better though. Any thoughts? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Using remote x server
On Tue 18 Jun 2002 22:29, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I'm planning using old computers (P75) as X terminals of a higher-powered server (XP1600+). I'll have 3 clients connected to this server, all of them with 17 monitors. I'd like to find a tutorial for me to be able to do this... where can I find one (or some help)? 8-? Thanks! ;) If you haven't already looked: http://www.ltsp.org has some very nice stuff. it's more of a HOWTO than a tutorial though. And includes lots of useful software links:o) http://ebusiness.gbdirect.co.uk/case_studies/xterminal.html has some nice stuff too. Good Luck, Harm. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:28:35PM +0100, g wrote: btw, speaking for myself and a couple of others, i filter _all_ messages for 'html' and read last or later. some never. reason, it seems that most html messages are at a smaller type size that plain text. to read said messages, i have to change mail reader configs to conform to those who use ms ole, aol, or what ever else they use and claim not to know how to disable html. [surprising how many *user* folk there are who do not know how to use 'help'] there for, for you to be sure your post are read as soon as possible by all followers of these list, please disable html. it may one day be to your advantage to do so. - Tue Jun 18 15:40:59 CDT 2002 No g, they are telling you the truth...there is no way to disable HTML in the latest AOL packages...your way of kill filtering is I think the best way,,,you probably are not missing much. A work around for aol people seems to be to send from one of the free web based mail systems for anything on a mailing list that does not appreciate junky HTML. -- Olly P .. Biloxi Mississippi --... ...-- RV Char 257 Linux MDK 8.0 --- -.- Mutt /1.3.15i .-.-.- ASUS cubx atx plll -.-. --- -- .--. ..- - . .-. .. -..-. .. --. sitting home so long --... ...-- need to travel G. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...
my system locks when shutting down/rebooting with this error message umount: /net: device is busy. reinstalled to make sure i didn't have a bad install (it did happen, once). got the same error message. my system is a: amd athlon xp 1700 w/ 256 mb ram, msi motherboard, 40 gb hard drive, cd and dvd rom drives, dlink network card (and hub) any help will be greatly appreciated. -iggy ps, not afraid of RTFM, but have been unsuccessful in finding any references to my particular problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] An add I just recieved.
All, Just got this in a peice of spam I'll quote only the first two lines Windows XP has arrived... and you need to eliminate the learning curve quickly. So I did .. I only run Linux.*grin* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:30:14 -0400 iggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my system locks when shutting down/rebooting with this error message umount: /net: device is busy. reinstalled to make sure i didn't have a bad install (it did happen, once). got the same error message. Hi, Are you sure its locked or are you being impatient? I'm not being rude by asking you- my system sometimes takes an absolute age to unmount certain drives and sometimes it could have been mistaken for locking-up. If you are really sure that it is locking, then maybe you can run 'sync' several times (this flushes buffers to hard disk) in a terminal and then unmount your drives manually before shutting down. If the problem goes away then there maybe a permissions problem somewhere. If the problem persists, then excuse me for shrugging. :-) Hope that helps, G -- Gavin Laking 11:45pm up 1:59, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.21, 0.10 http://www.gavinlaking.co.uk/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:25:33 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows XP has arrived... and you need to eliminate the learning curve quickly. So I did .. I only run Linux.*grin* Hi, You might like to add this to your ~/.procmailrc file: :0 * ^From.*spammeraddress /dev/null That eliminates idiots too. :-) G -- Gavin Laking 11:52pm up 2:06, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.06 http://www.gavinlaking.co.uk/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 9:46 pm, ollyplaine wrote: - Tue Jun 18 15:40:59 CDT 2002 No g, they are telling you the truth...there is no way to disable HTML in the latest AOL packages...your way of kill filtering is I think the best way,,,you probably are not missing much. A work around for aol people seems to be to send from one of the free web based mail systems for anything on a mailing list that does not appreciate junky HTML. Why would someone using AOL be posting a linux mailing list? - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- cassandra.no-ip.org - Linux Kernel 2.4.18 + Preempt + ppSCSI -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9DxNIXCpWOla2mCcRAppjAKDP+w5kYgih24LHeHKgvsfsbB/joACfdNJU uN216U9SUxLhPmWzcQ+yGRo= =gJB9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:25:33 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Just got this in a peice of spam I'll quote only the first two lines Windows XP has arrived... and you need to eliminate the learning curve quickly. So I did .. I only run Linux.*grin* James learning curve... the only learning curve in Windoze XP is 'learning how to stop using your brain'... the media player convers audio files to the format it wants ( wma. and if you try to make an mp3, you get a wma, and a nice notify message listing the great advantages of the wma format ).. the drivers get automatically chosen and installed, even if they are not working, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it.. you get stupid little hints that explain things a 5 year old can understand.. ah, yes, they removed the stupid clippy from office, but now in the allmighty XP you get a stupider dog in the search file dialog ;oP XP was one of the main reasons i hardly ever boot a win partition anymore simply beacuse the learning curve was a brainwashing curve. i've seen an ad on TV about hose electronic gadgets they sell to exercise and loose weight.. it's something like a big strap with which you wrap your arm or leg, and turn it on.. then your muscles in that area starts twitching grossly with electric impulses while te voice in the add says your muscles exercise just like the order was coming from your brain!!! i guess that means this 'device' is designed to replace my brain? finally we'll be freed from the inmensely difficult task of THINKING well, i won't be waiting in line to buy one of those devices anytime soon, and the same goes for eXPee... ;o) ( how's that for a machines taking over movie script. hehehe... ) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...
my system locks when shutting down/rebooting with this error message umount: /net: device is busy. I used to get that alot. I think it has something to do with amd/autofs. My solution was to edit /etc/amd.conf--comment out the [ /net ] section and see if that helps. It's not a great solution, but if you don't use /net, then chances are it'll work for you. I'm wondering if it's some sort of conflict between amd and autofs. If you really need /net, you might want to check that angle out. HTH, -Jason = 'You have the right to remain silent,' he [Carrot] said. 'You have the right not to injure yourself falling down the steps on the way to the cells. You have the right not to jump out of high windows. You do not have to say anything, you see, but anything you do say, well, I have to take it down and it might be used as evidence.' (Guards! Guards!) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:11:56 -0400 iggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 07:51 pm, you wrote: i thought the same thing, maybe i was being impatient. so when i was shutting down earlier today i waited until i got the same error message then left (took my mower to the repair shop). when i arrieved i still had the error message and the machine was locked. Yeah, that sounds like a lock to me. I only suggested the wait because I've killed the computer shutting down and had to sit through 35 minutes of e2fsck, with my fingers crossed. [It found no errors... but still.] when running the sync command, do i run just 'sync' or does it need any paramaters? (can you tell i'm a little new?) Just sync on its own: [web@eventhorizon web]$ sync [web@eventhorizon web]$ I run it a couple of times just to make sure its put all of the buffers out to disk. Hope that helps, though I think 'PlugHead' has some better solutions. :-) G -- Gavin Laking 12:36am up 2:50, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 http://www.gavinlaking.co.uk/ -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...
and do you _NEED_ netfs? what sorta network are you on? maybe the answer would be to turn off services you don't need to have running. and not have them start at bootup On Tuesday 18 June 2002 06:30 pm, you wrote: my system locks when shutting down/rebooting with this error message umount: /net: device is busy. reinstalled to make sure i didn't have a bad install (it did happen, once). got the same error message. my system is a: amd athlon xp 1700 w/ 256 mb ram, msi motherboard, 40 gb hard drive, cd and dvd rom drives, dlink network card (and hub) any help will be greatly appreciated. -iggy ps, not afraid of RTFM, but have been unsuccessful in finding any references to my particular problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Strange error from rpm
When I do rpm -bb --target i586 somfile.spec on my install I get Finding Requires: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires)... sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression snip_ with the sed line repeated for a couple of minutes then it goes ahead and finishes the build of the rpm This happens no matter what rpm I'm building or no matter who the spec comes from.. I'm running 8.2 with the stock rpm packages from the powerpack edition. Anyone else see this or have any idea what is happening? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lost keyboard mouse
this could be a plug and pray problem, is plug and pray aware OS set to off in the computer BIOS? post the output from cat /proc/interrupts (with out the quotes) On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:16 pm, you wrote: This is a follow-up on my previous message |Just installed 8.2 on a p200MMX machine. Everything installed fine until |after reboot. I lose the mouse AND keyboard at graphical login. | |If I start in maintenance mode, both function normally. I can log in, |run linuxconf and other programs no problem. But the moment I go into X, |I lose them. | |Any info greatly appreciated | |Ken |PS KB and mouse work fine in winblows and on other linux comps I tried XFdrake, and everything is fine until I go to test the settings, then I lose KB and mouse again. I can't CTRLALTF1 to a console or anything. I haven't had to perform this many hard resets since Winblows 95, and it's hard to sell other on MDK, when it there is so much trouble with something as simple a generic standard PS/2 mouse KB. Hardware: Intel P200MMX 160mb RAM S3 Virge/DX** could this be the culprit? 3 hdd's 1Cdrom I will note that ALL of the hardware is detected and runs fine under winblows 98, and the KB and mouse in question have tested fine on other comps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lost keyboard mouse
is this an IBM laptop? what is the effect of a cold and hard reboot? (shut down, let cool, 10 mins reboot) On Tuesday 18 June 2002 01:16 pm, you wrote: This is a follow-up on my previous message |Just installed 8.2 on a p200MMX machine. Everything installed fine until |after reboot. I lose the mouse AND keyboard at graphical login. | |If I start in maintenance mode, both function normally. I can log in, |run linuxconf and other programs no problem. But the moment I go into X, |I lose them. | |Any info greatly appreciated | |Ken |PS KB and mouse work fine in winblows and on other linux comps I tried XFdrake, and everything is fine until I go to test the settings, then I lose KB and mouse again. I can't CTRLALTF1 to a console or anything. I haven't had to perform this many hard resets since Winblows 95, and it's hard to sell other on MDK, when it there is so much trouble with something as simple a generic standard PS/2 mouse KB. Hardware: Intel P200MMX 160mb RAM S3 Virge/DX** could this be the culprit? 3 hdd's 1Cdrom I will note that ALL of the hardware is detected and runs fine under winblows 98, and the KB and mouse in question have tested fine on other comps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Opening URL's in Sylpheed
Okay, so i now have the latest version of sylpheed and i want to be able to open URL's in Mozilla 1.0 because manually copying is a PITA. =) Anway i did some research and looked up www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html which says that the command to open up a new URL in a currently open mozilla session is: mozilla -remote openurl(http://www.whatever.com) So that's what i put in under Configuration - Common Preferences.. - Other - Web Browser. I also tried entering the url part of openurl in lower and upper case. (I replaced the www.whatever.com with %s of course) Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. Is it possible that Sylpheed doesn't support Mozilla 1.0 or am i doing something wrong? KIRT -- Where'd you get your CPU? A box of Crackerjacks!? - Wierd Al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 07:42 pm, you wrote: thank you for your time. i am a newbie whose been doing research trying to learn by purchasing books and magazines, reading on line, etc... i did not have this problem when using mandrake 8.0 powerpack. started having this problem when i upgraded to 8.2 download edition. the problem is that i do not know which services i need and which i can do without. is there any references that i can research to guide me? and which service do i need to disable to disable netfs? thanks again, to everybody -iggy post script, thought this might be to advanced for the newbie mailing list so i thought i'd give you folks a try. and do you _NEED_ netfs? what sorta network are you on? maybe the answer would be to turn off services you don't need to have running. and not have them start at bootup On Tuesday 18 June 2002 06:30 pm, you wrote: my system locks when shutting down/rebooting with this error message umount: /net: device is busy. reinstalled to make sure i didn't have a bad install (it did happen, once). got the same error message. my system is a: amd athlon xp 1700 w/ 256 mb ram, msi motherboard, 40 gb hard drive, cd and dvd rom drives, dlink network card (and hub) any help will be greatly appreciated. -iggy ps, not afraid of RTFM, but have been unsuccessful in finding any references to my particular problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 05:30 pm, iggy wrote: my system locks when shutting down/rebooting with this error message umount: /net: device is busy. I noticed that when I disabled Supermount and installed my own mount/umount desktop icons, this problem appeared. The cause was related to the binding of Konqueror, which I was using to access the mounted CDROM, to the mounted drive. Changing the display to another subdirectory other than /mnt or anything underneath didn't help. I had to close Konqueror before the CDROM before the umount would work.Konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon have children thread services which can stay in memory, locking a mounted device, or a kio_uiserver deamon. Try closing those with KDE System Guard. -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:02:29 +0100 Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 9:46 pm, ollyplaine wrote: - Tue Jun 18 15:40:59 CDT 2002 No g, they are telling you the truth...there is no way to disable HTML in the latest AOL packages...your way of kill filtering is I think the best way,,,you probably are not missing much. A work around for aol people seems to be to send from one of the free web based mail systems for anything on a mailing list that does not appreciate junky HTML. Why would someone using AOL be posting a linux mailing list? In many areas it's the ONLY way to get on the net.. ask my brother. It's AOL or carrier pigeon for him. James - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- cassandra.no-ip.org - Linux Kernel 2.4.18 + Preempt + ppSCSI-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9DxNIXCpWOla2mCcRAppjAKDP+w5kYgih24LHeHKgvsfsbB/joACfdNJU uN216U9SUxLhPmWzcQ+yGRo= =gJB9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 msec security issue
700 is fine as long as you don't want your users to have webpages. If you don't plan to allow them to have a website (or no one uses it but yourself), then you can have it set to 700. If you have the user as a member in the apache group, and have the directory owned by the apache group, then you can remove the execute permission from other (not sure what mode that is). Basically: user part of apache group - can enter the directory, but not list anything. Even if they do know the specific name of a file in the directory, they won't be able to write to it unless it is both owned by the apache group and writable by the apache group (or has write permission enabled for other). user not part of apache group - cannot enter directory, can't list anything. If you want to keep websites enabled for your users, that's basically the best you're going to do, other than locking down any unneeded services. [root@server home]# su - mvirontest [mvirontest@server mvirontest]$ ls tmp/ [mvirontest@server mvirontest]$ cd .. [mvirontest@server home]$ cd mviron [mvirontest@server mviron]$ ls ls: .: Permission denied [mvirontest@server mviron]$ ls -al ls: .: Permission denied [mvirontest@server mviron]$ Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer Manager of Online Operations General Education Online At 02:42 PM 6/18/2002 -0700, you wrote: content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mandrake 8.2 has a default security setting that leaves users' home directories world readable. I just read that you can enter other user's home directories and subdirectories and read the files. The Mandrake msec level by default choice is Standard. If you chmod each user's home dir to 700, upon reboot it reverts back to what it was before. If setting are changed in the Mandrake Control Center from Standard to High then users home dir is 711, 700 would be better though. Any thoughts? 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] Strange error from rpm
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 06:26 pm, James wrote: When I do rpm -bb --target i586 somfile.spec on my install I get Finding Requires: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires)... sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression sed: -e expression #1, char 4: No previous regular expression snip_ with the sed line repeated for a couple of minutes then it goes ahead and finishes the build of the rpm This happens no matter what rpm I'm building or no matter who the spec comes from.. I'm running 8.2 with the stock rpm packages from the powerpack edition. Anyone else see this or have any idea what is happening? James What does rpm --rebuilddb do, as root? -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
Why not just install xntpd, run it as a daemon, and it will update every few seconds. From what I can tell it has a light footprint or demand on system resources. That doesn't solve the original problem though. Whatever the problem, it sounds like you need to do a: #hwclock --hctosys after you have reconfigured your system time to set the hardware clock to the correct time. And -- what is this about rebooting a server? This is Linux: [david@Nemesis david]$ uptime 7:53pm up 359 days, 4:34, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Jerry Kreps wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 June 2002 11:01 am, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies and Gents, I'm having the following problem: Time changes every time I reboot the server. I keep changing it back, but the problem still persists. I did work with hwclock, tzselect and all that. I can do export TZ=MDT to change the timezone, but as soon as I log out, it kicks back so it seems that this is only for the user. This is really messing my day up. Can someone point me in the right direction so I can RTFM about this. Again, here is the problem: 1.) I can't keep the timezone set correctly on the server. Does it get its values from the hardware clock? THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! Regards, Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. Installed xntp, if it wan't already installed. I have a script in /etc/cron/cron.hourly called settime with the execute attribute set. The script contains: #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/ntpdate -b 199.240.130.1 In the config file /etc/ntp.conf I added the two server lines below 'fudge' server 127.127.1.0 # local clock fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 server 199.240.130.1 # ntp1.kansas.net server 199.240.130.12 # ntp2.kansas.net in case I ever make xntpd an active service. But, once an hour, my clock gets the latest setting from a time server. - -- JLK -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9D52uq1Ef6ZbWHeERAi0oAJ0fKud1yNEn5+c49qcWrvfouOCq+QCg426V 6dfP4uzOnrp+L12CdjgSiE0= =+XUO -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4 Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jun 2002 1:32 am, James wrote: In many areas it's the ONLY way to get on the net.. ask my brother. It's AOL or carrier pigeon for him. Can he not just use any standard dialup isp? What country is this you live in where dialup depends on location? - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- cassandra.no-ip.org - Linux Kernel 2.4.18 + Preempt + ppSCSI -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9Dy73XCpWOla2mCcRArJzAJ46zdkZy+h5I+B0aOaK6dDn69otFQCgr9nh pCnpwT69XCi63Fk9nU1+efU= =5ZWD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Using remote x server
Joan, try this one. http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Thinclient-HOWTO.html Should at least get you rolling. James On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:29:02 +0200 Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Hallo! I'm planning using old computers (P75) as X terminals of a higher-powered server (XP1600+). I'll have 3 clients connected to this server, all of them with 17 monitors. I'd like to find a tutorial for me to be able to do this... where can I find one (or some help)? 8-? Thanks! ;) -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Opening URL's in Sylpheed
I just use mozilla '%s' and right click on the link. Joe On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:41:38 -0400 Kirtis B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so i now have the latest version of sylpheed and i want to be able to open URL's in Mozilla 1.0 because manually copying is a PITA. =) Anway i did some research and looked up www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html which says that the command to open up a new URL in a currently open mozilla session is: mozilla -remote openurl(http://www.whatever.com) So that's what i put in under Configuration - Common Preferences.. - Other - Web Browser. I also tried entering the url part of openurl in lower and upper case. (I replaced the www.whatever.com with %s of course) Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. Is it possible that Sylpheed doesn't support Mozilla 1.0 or am i doing something wrong? KIRT -- Where'd you get your CPU? A box of Crackerjacks!? - Wierd Al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] galeon and new mozilla
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:01 am, James wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:09:36 -0500 Jerry F. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority On Sunday 16 June 2002 11:26 pm, James wrote: thanks james, ftp'd it down, put it where it wanted to be, but now I get this! /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/bin/galeon-bin: undefined symbol: _ZN13nsCOMPtr_base16begin_assignmentEv is the libc++mem.so not the correct one? texstar only made one.? jerry Jerry Are you running KDE3? I get this occasionally and it only happens when I am running KDE3 (unfortunately that's a lot lately I'm a sucker for empty desktops.) For me it seems to happen when KDE3 has recently had a long period of idleness. Mozilla and Sylpheed did that last night and not even a telinit 1 telinit 5 brought it back I had to pull a windows and gulp reboot. I'd like to throw this up to the crowd and say any ideas? Civilme HELP *grin* James yep. have kde3 only. but am running gnome in my account. -- Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary - Free yourself from the endless moneypit that is Microsoft -- do Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
ya can't fool us... we know the folks that run the internet... I bet you could get Earthlink any where you can get AOL, execpt the Time -Warner buildings. On Tuesday 18 June 2002 08:32 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:02:29 +0100 Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 9:46 pm, ollyplaine wrote: - Tue Jun 18 15:40:59 CDT 2002 No g, they are telling you the truth...there is no way to disable HTML in the latest AOL packages...your way of kill filtering is I think the best way,,,you probably are not missing much. A work around for aol people seems to be to send from one of the free web based mail systems for anything on a mailing list that does not appreciate junky HTML. Why would someone using AOL be posting a linux mailing list? In many areas it's the ONLY way to get on the net.. ask my brother. It's AOL or carrier pigeon for him. James - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- cassandra.no-ip.org - Linux Kernel 2.4.18 + Preempt + ppSCSI-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9DxNIXCpWOla2mCcRAppjAKDP+w5kYgih24LHeHKgvsfsbB/joACfdNJU uN216U9SUxLhPmWzcQ+yGRo= =gJB9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] how to shut off modem volume and other modem question
Greetings - I use /sbin/ifup ppp0 to start my dialup connection, and I'd like to figure out how to shut off the modem volume. Also, I can only start the connection currently if I switch to root. I'd like to enable other users to stop and start the modem connection. I configured everything during the install and didn't do anything unusual. Any ideas? TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Opening URL's in Sylpheed
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:41:38 -0400 Kirtis B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so i now have the latest version of sylpheed and i want to be able to open URL's in Mozilla 1.0 because manually copying is a PITA. =) Anway i did some research and looked up www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html which says that the command to open up a new URL in a currently open mozilla session is: mozilla -remote openurl(http://www.whatever.com) So that's what i put in under Configuration - Common Preferences.. - Other - Web Browser. I also tried entering the url part of openurl in lower and upper case. (I replaced the www.whatever.com with %s of course) Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. Is it possible that Sylpheed doesn't support Mozilla 1.0 or am i doing something wrong? KIRT it should work by then. hint: this option may be already functional, but the 'link' is still treated as simple text. no pointing finger in the mouse cursor. nothing. you simply get the url in green, right? well, double-click it right in the middle ( double click the word 'whatever' in www.whatever.com ) the word whatever should get selected in blue.. just wait a bit, it should launch the browser. at least that's how it reacts for me. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix and gnu_pop3d
daRcmaTTeR wrote: You know Randy...in light of our past conversations about WikiLearn I don't know why I didn't think of that to begin with. doh! sorry about that. No problem! That _is_ a wonderful idea though. I take that heads up and begin to post the information there. by the way...as an asside..sorry for the long absence. I've been busier then a long-tailed cat in a room full O rockin chairs lately and haven't had any time to spend on the WikiLearn project. No problem, we all get busy at times (or frustrated, or whatever ;-) a situation I intend to rectify shortly. :) Great! regards, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to shut off modem volume and other modem question
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 09:15 pm, you wrote: Greetings - I use /sbin/ifup ppp0 to start my dialup connection, and I'd like to figure out how to shut off the modem volume. what a pain in the a$$ to setup, have you tried kppp? Also, I can only start the connection currently if I switch to root. I'd like to enable other users to stop and start the modem connection. I configured everything during the install and didn't do anything unusual. Any ideas? TIA the modem speaker is part of the modem initalization string and is in relation to the number right after the M or L, try a 0 if there is a number between 1 and 5 to turn off the speaker. higer numbers are louder, most only have 3 steps Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to shut off modem volume and other modem question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jun 2002 2:15 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings - I use /sbin/ifup ppp0 to start my dialup connection, and I'd like to figure out how to shut off the modem volume. Also, I can only start the connection currently if I switch to root. I'd like to enable other users to stop and start the modem connection. I configured everything during the install and didn't do anything unusual. There is a script: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 You need to add: 'OK' 'ATM0L0' After the line that reads: '' 'ATZ' So your file now looks like: CRUFT '' 'ATZ' 'OK' 'ATM0L0' 'OK' 'ATDTnumber' 'CONNECT' CRUFT - -- Tom Badran - Imperial College, Department of Computing Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- cassandra.no-ip.org - Linux Kernel 2.4.18 + Preempt + ppSCSI -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9Dz7IXCpWOla2mCcRAj1EAJwJQJkAWOl1ynXs9ZL9G7bHvXwqwACfYWct e7pk06tQofjxlmow/0n99go= =c7Yb -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 msec security issue
Go into /usr/share/msec and edit the perm.3 file /home/* to whatever permissions you like, 700 for what you are looking to do... or alternatively, use the higher security setting in the mandrake control center although using the Mandrake control center will change permissions other than your home/* directories. -Jay Mandrake 8.2 has a default security setting that leaves users' home directories world readable. I just read that you can enter other user's home directories and subdirectories and read the files. The Mandrake msec level by default choice is Standard. If you chmod each user's home dir to 700, upon reboot it reverts back to what it was before. If setting are changed in the Mandrake Control Center from Standard to High then users home dir is 711, 700 would be better though. Any thoughts? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Opening URL's in Sylpheed
Ah HA! I figured it out, and it was really stupid too. When i downloaded mozilla i got the full binary install instead of the installer which downloads the necessary files and installs them in the default directories. So i have mozilla installed in /usr/local/mozilla1.0/mozilla/ which, of course, isn't in my $PATH. =P On a side note, does anyone know how to move the necessary files into a more standard location? (i tried making a link in /usr/local/bin to the binary but it said something about not being able to find some kind of resource when i ran it from there) Or am i just gonna have to use the installer when the next release comes out? KIRT On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:21:00 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:41:38 -0400 Kirtis B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so i now have the latest version of sylpheed and i want to be able to open URL's in Mozilla 1.0 because manually copying is a PITA. =) Anway i did some research and looked up www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html which says that the command to open up a new URL in a currently open mozilla session is: mozilla -remote openurl(http://www.whatever.com) So that's what i put in under Configuration - Common Preferences.. - Other - Web Browser. I also tried entering the url part of openurl in lower and upper case. (I replaced the www.whatever.com with %s of course) Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work. Is it possible that Sylpheed doesn't support Mozilla 1.0 or am i doing something wrong? KIRT it should work by then. hint: this option may be already functional, but the 'link' is still treated as simple text. no pointing finger in the mouse cursor. nothing. you simply get the url in green, right? well, double-click it right in the middle ( double click the word 'whatever' in www.whatever.com ) the word whatever should get selected in blue.. just wait a bit, it should launch the browser. at least that's how it reacts for me. HTH Damian -- Where'd you get your CPU? A box of Crackerjacks!? - Wierd Al Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to shut off modem volume and other modem question
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 08:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings - I use /sbin/ifup ppp0 to start my dialup connection, and I'd like to figure out how to shut off the modem volume. Also, I can only start the connection currently if I switch to root. I'd like to enable other users to stop and start the modem connection. I configured everything during the install and didn't do anything unusual. Any ideas? TIA http://www.lisa.univ-paris12.fr/Electronik/Hayes.htm If you lost your modem manual or never had one in the first place this reference might come in handy. I for instance finally found out how to turn my modems speaker off: ATM0 -- Finally: Silence ! -- JLK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems
Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies and Gents, I'm having the following problem: Time changes every time I reboot the server. I keep changing it back, but the problem still persists. I did work with hwclock, tzselect and all that. I can do export TZ=MDT to change the timezone, but as soon as I log out, it kicks back so it seems that this is only for the user. This is really messing my day up. Can someone point me in the right direction so I can RTFM about this. Again, here is the problem: 1.) I can't keep the timezone set correctly on the server. Does it get its values from the hardware clock? THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! Regards, Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies Inc. Well, if it is internet connected the simple way is to use ntp. You can do this by dropping in your install disk and running the Upgrade function in expert mode and selecting no packages and setting your adjustments with the clock on summary step. Most likely when it was installed GMT was set for the hardware clock and the right timezone was selected while your hardware clock was actually set for the time zone. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] my system locks when shutting down/rebooting w/ error...
iggy wrote: my system locks when shutting down/rebooting with this error message umount: /net: device is busy. reinstalled to make sure i didn't have a bad install (it did happen, once). got the same error message. my system is a: amd athlon xp 1700 w/ 256 mb ram, msi motherboard, 40 gb hard drive, cd and dvd rom drives, dlink network card (and hub) any help will be greatly appreciated. -iggy ps, not afraid of RTFM, but have been unsuccessful in finding any references to my particular problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Most likely you will find in the log that it actually stalled one step farther along at killing USB, but it may also have stalled at disabling ethernet card. If you have a NetGear FA311 or FA312 that is EXACTLY where it will stall. Remedy is to ditch the card and its weird driver. If it is instead USB, then look in /etc/modules.conf for a line that begins and ends this way alias . usb-uhci and change the ending to uhci without the usb- Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
