Re: [expert] ftpd question
James wrote: > On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:10:46 -0600 > FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority >sounds like a cool ftp file program. stupid question: why is chroot >>a good thing? >> >>Jail? Scuse me i'm slow today :) > > Femme, > These are but a few reasons why programs get chrooted. Chroot is also > useful if you have rebooted without running lilo first. It allows you > to boot from a rescue disk, mount the HDD and run lilo as if your root > was the mount point instead of the real / > > James > Thx James, your concise & clear explanation did very well. I'd read about chroot before but it didn't strike me as all that important a command or one to come back to later. Don't remember which now. I shall have to investigate this now further being paranoid sort that I am. ;) Besides, my porn's valuable to me! -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts." - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2
Thanks for responding. Here's the command output - I hope that it helps to make sense of this: $su jennifer (password) $cd images $ls 2000/ 2001/ 2002/ lost+found/ photosite/ win98/ $vdir home total 12 drwxr-xr-x3 iusr iusr 4096 Jun 29 07:36 iusr drwxr-xr-x3 jennifer jennifer 4096 Jul 1 06:42 jennifer drwxr-xr-x 48 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jul 1 06:42 kmcgladr $vdir /home/kmcgladr total 11476 drwxr-xr-x3 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 29 22:02 Desktop drwxr-xr-x 13 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 23 19:35 Documents drwxr-xr-x2 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 23 19:36 ebooks drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Jun 23 19:13 home drwxrws---9 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Apr 12 17:25 images drwxr-xr-x7 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 28 21:44 incoming drwx--3 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jul 1 06:41 Mail drwxr-xr-x2 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 23 19:39 maps drwxr-xr-x 58 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 30 08:07 mp3 -rw-r--r--1 kmcgladr kmcgladr 647 Jun 29 21:03 plugin131_02.trace drwxr-xr-x2 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 23 19:40 pwcpp drwxr-xr-x3 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 23 19:40 recipedatabase drwxr-xr-x3 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 23 19:00 staroffice6.0 -rw-rw-r--1 kmcgladr kmcgladr 152514 Mar 4 19:31 syphon\ filter\ walkthrough.txt drwx--2 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 23 20:29 temp drwx--2 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 27 21:28 tmp drwx--2 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 23 20:29 users drwxr-xr-x3 root root 4096 Jun 23 19:19 vmware -rw-r--r--1 kmcgladr kmcgladr 11503466 Jun 23 20:04 VMware-workstation-3.1.1-1790.i386.rpm $vdir /home/kmcgladr/images total 36 drwxrws--- 14 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 2 16:11 2000 drwxrws--- 12 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Feb 21 12:22 2001 drwxrws---6 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 30 11:16 2002 drwxr-xr-x2 kmcgladr kmcgladr16384 Nov 16 2001 lost+found drwxrws--- 11 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jun 12 06:37 photosite drwxrws---4 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Feb 18 08:32 win98 $exit On Sunday 30 June 2002 12:52 pm, you wrote: > Kayne McGladrey wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 12:42:05PM -0700 : > > -= Client =- > > $su > > #mount pickman:/home/kmcgladr/images > > (no error message) > > #exit > > $cd images > > $bash: cd: images: Permission denied > > On the server, su to the user and see if that user can cd into the > directory on the the server. The reason I think this is your problem is > because you are exporting /home/kmcgladr/images. Give us the output on > the server of the following commands: > vdir -d /home > vdir -d /home/kmcgladr > vdir -d /home/kmcgladr/images > > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?
well that has certainly helped charles, my system hangs about every 16 hrs now instead of within minutes! however this length of time between hangs means i'm having great difficulty working out what the problem is, oh well.. cheers bascule On Wednesday 26 June 2002 6:50 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:41:48 +0100 > > > mem=nopentium is the append you want. > > >Charles > > --- -- "`The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...'" - The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.
James wrote: > Sorry it took so long to get back. I'm approaching stable.. I > removed devfsd. However all it's really done is lengthen the time > between reboots. The box can sit on but unused for about 10 hours or so > before it starts loosing stability. Lose of stability comes in the form > of programs won't start or die suddenly etc. Then when this starts to > happen I know to reboot the box and I'm back to normal. Top shows no > runaway programs CPU usage generally stays below 40% bit a mean average > of about 20% (I really don't do anything that intense) Hmm, your load sounds fairly high to me -- when I'm not doing anything the load sits around 1 - 1.5% system and 0% user, and depending on what I'm doing the user load varies significantly -- anywhere from 1 to 100%. Just an observation, don't have any idea whether it is a meaningful difference or is related at all to your problem. I run Mandrake 8.2 on a 700 MHz Duron with 256 MB Ram. Still at kde 2.2, not running sound or any servers. Randy Kramer > Swap never > occurs on this box as I have 384 megs ram. Ran MemTest for 12 hours and > memory checks fine. This same box ran 8.1 fine for about 4 months. The > kernel I'm using now and before under 8.1 is a win4lin kernel. Hardware > > 1. ASUS TUSL-2 Motherboard. > 2. 3c905c Nic > 3. SBLive Sound > 4. OnBoard Video > 5. Maxtor 80gb HDD > 6. 384 megs ram > 7. floppy > 8. ASUS CDRW > > Running XFree86 4.0.2 from the distro. KDE3 instead of KDE2.(texstar > version) All updates are current. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, bascule wrote: > well that has certainly helped charles, > my system hangs about every 16 hrs now instead of within minutes! > however this length of time between hangs means i'm having great difficulty > working out what the problem is, > oh well.. > On a couple of my systems, Mandrake 8.2 had been unstable until I rebuilt the kernel and cleaned out everything that I didn't need, especially almost all the "experimental" features. Since then it's been absolutely solid under moderately high load. You might also want to run lmsensors to make sure that your CPU is being cooled properly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] NVidia GeForce MX200 w/K7S5A Mdk8.2
Hello All: I've been running my new ECS K7S5A for a couple weeks now with great results, except for a couple little details: 1) Framebuffer console does not work. I've tried using the VESA fb and the Rive/GeForce fb from the stock Mandrake kernel but it still gives only 640x480 (80x25). I do get the boot Mandrake logo but it doesn't change anything if I specify "vga=788" or "vga=791". 2) If I switch to a console the X server hangs. The machine is still alive but at minimum I need to restart X to get back the display. I can live for now without the fb console, but the X-session hang is a show-stopper. I'm using the most recent NVidia drivers and the 2.4.18-6 kernel from Mandrake 8.2. Thanks for any tips. Kwan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?
On Sunday 30 June 2002 01:32 pm, you wrote: > I had trouble getting xine to work, well, it showed the movie but no > sound. I use Gnome and all other sound apps work ok. > > I installed ogle now using your mail as advice and everything works! It > took less than 10 minutes to download and install. Now I just look at a > travel dvd about Paris, France. Glad it worked! > One thing bothers me a bit: When I start ogle from a terminal I see > lots of lines floationg by while the dvd is playing. Those are debug > messages about resyncing, framerates and stuff. > Can I avoid those by using a cli argument with ogle? They don't seem to > cause problems, though. > > wobo Not sure about a CLI argument to do away with the debug stuff. Have you looked at the man page for options? (well, actually I just looked there and there wasn't a whole lot. I'd check for info on their website) You don't have to start it from the terminal. I opened a Konqueror window on /usr/bin/ogle, dragged the Ogle icon to my task bar, and installed it there. (you probably could place it on the desktop the same way). I'm not sure about Gnome, I don't use it. I'm sure you can do these same things though. Sorry. Just clicking the icon will start Ogle then. I also placed the Ogle GUI window towards the bottom right of my screen, right-clicked on the top border, and picked "store settings" so it will always open there. I did that because when ever I start a DVD it always opened on top of Ogle. Hope all this helps! :-) -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] troels.rsync2.pl - New Versions!
There is a new version of the troels.rsync2.pl components on my web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/ troels.rsync2.pl is a free automated downloader for all of mandrake's output and builds into the following directory structure which you must supply to it. |-- 8.0 | |-- 8.0-iso | |-- 8.0-tree | |-- 8.0-unsupported | `-- 8.0-updates |-- 8.1 | |-- 8,1-freq | `-- 8.1-updates |-- 8.2 | |-- 8.2-contrib | |-- 8.2-tree | |-- 8.2-unsupported | `-- 8.2-updates |-- cooker-tree |-- iso-1 | `-- 8.2 |-- iso-2 | `-- 8.2 It does not download 8.0 or 8.1 - these are for your archive. If you are a new setup, you must use rsync -av to copy your previously downloaded files into the above structure so that the file dating is preserved. Without this, they will be dowmloaded all over again. Read the readme.html from my web site. It is faster than any other ftp product because it only downloads English components and because it changes the name of any existing local matching components so that rsync uses its update-in-place facility rather than downloading the entire updated component. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] Web site: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] can someone tell me?
Todd Lyons wrote: > > Addendum: > > The dns resolver on the client end will randomly pick one of the > "AUTHORITY" servers. The end result is that your server will still get > on average 1/3 of the requests, so no, it's no ok. You need to remove > that dns server from being listed as authoritative. > Thanks for the info Todd. I was under the apparently wrong impression that the client resolver would use the first available server in the AUTHORITY SECTION, i.e. the first one that is not busy at the time of the inquiry. I did not understand it to be a purely random process. Thanks for disabusing me of a long standing misconception. Keep up the good work. It is nice to see postings from the Mandrake people. I dare say that civileme has been as busy as a one-legged man in a "ass-kicking" contest. drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] What kind of PC is recomended to use as firewall?
Hello, I am about to get the optimum online service and I am setting up a bastion firewall. In this respect I would need some advice from those of you who already have this kind of setup. First, what kind of PC do I need, should it be a supper fast computer or would my pentium ii 360 MHz laptop with two ethernet cards be a good choice? I dont know if I should take a superfast computer just to used as firewall. Second, is ipchain powerful enough or should I start thinking of any other firewall app? Third and last, is there anything wrong with the following hardware layout -- [outside line]-> [achine running firewall -> switch -> workstations] or should I change something to maximize security and performance? Thanks for your input on this matter, Roberto __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What kind of PC is recomended to use as firewall?
Primero, tu escribe ingles un poco comico, pero yo uso espanol mas comico porque mi espanol es muy mal. =] Second, any machine made after 1990 (386 or better) with 2 network cards will make a fine firewall. that laptop is a great choise because of the built in battery, convenient for power outages. jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?
I installed ogle and tried to get it to work. It plays the first 10-30 seconds of a DVD and then stops. I tried running it as both root as well as a regular user. Any sugggestions? Randy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:09:18 +0100 bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well that has certainly helped charles, > my system hangs about every 16 hrs now instead of within minutes! > however this length of time between hangs means i'm having great > difficulty working out what the problem is, > oh well.. Have no idea if this will be of any use. But I had 1 system with an ATI Xpert 2000 (rage128) which when running 8.2 would periodically and randomly lock-up in X. The cursor would still freely move but nothing else would work, keyboard dead etc. I installed the cooker snap isos on this system and I no longer had that problem, BUT if the system went into sleep/stand-by mode for longer than 20-30 mint it to come out. I was about to take the sledgehammer rectification approach but decide to try changing video drivers first. I switched form the default r128 to ati and I have had no problem since with that system. Charles -- You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk -- Murphy's Laws on Work n°22 -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 11:58 -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Sunday 30 June 2002 01:32 pm, you wrote:
>
> > I had trouble getting xine to work, well, it showed the movie but no
> > sound. I use Gnome and all other sound apps work ok.
> >
> > I installed ogle now using your mail as advice and everything works! It
> > took less than 10 minutes to download and install. Now I just look at a
> > travel dvd about Paris, France.
>
> Glad it worked!
Piece of cake, as I found it.
> > One thing bothers me a bit: When I start ogle from a terminal I see
> > lots of lines floationg by while the dvd is playing. Those are debug
> > messages about resyncing, framerates and stuff.
> > Can I avoid those by using a cli argument with ogle? They don't seem to
> > cause problems, though.
> >
> > wobo
>
> Not sure about a CLI argument to do away with the debug stuff. Have you
> looked at the man page for options? (well, actually I just looked there and
> there wasn't a whole lot. I'd check for info on their website)
Will do.
> You don't have to start it from the terminal. I opened a Konqueror window on
> /usr/bin/ogle, dragged the Ogle icon to my task bar, and installed it there.
> (you probably could place it on the desktop the same way). I'm not sure about
> Gnome, I don't use it. I'm sure you can do these same things though. Sorry.
> Just clicking the icon will start Ogle then. I also placed the Ogle GUI
> window towards the bottom right of my screen, right-clicked on the top
> border, and picked "store settings" so it will always open there. I did that
> because when ever I start a DVD it always opened on top of Ogle.
>
> Hope all this helps! :-)
I know how to have a graphic way to start an application, thanks. In
fact I have a small gkrellm bar with some monitoring panels and one
panel to start apps with a mouseclick. There's already emacs, mozilla
and eterm and xmms, now ogle will join.
wobo
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Re: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 13:18 -0500, Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA wrote:
>
>
> I installed ogle and tried to get it to work. It plays the first
> 10-30 seconds of a DVD and then stops. I tried running it as both
> root as well as a regular user. Any sugggestions?
Start it in an xterm as a cli command, like, 'ogle &'
Then you will see status and error messages floating by. Look for
errors. Then post them here. This may clear our now foggy crystal ball.
wobo
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[expert] compiling Licq CVS
after some trouble getting to compile licq's CVS with it's qt-plugin without getting any errors, i find i cannot launch it, and i'm clueless as to the error i'm getting. does anybody know what this means? 16:19:10: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile (pid 9465) 16:19:10: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (qt-gui): /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.soX : shared object not open. i tried linking libX11.so.X --> libX11.so but that didn't help... any ideas? thanks. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?
On Monday 01 July 2002 02:18 pm, you wrote: > I installed ogle and tried to get it to work. It plays the first 10-30 > seconds of a DVD and then stops. I tried running it as both root as well > as a regular user. Any sugggestions? > > Randy I just had this happen as well, with one DVD - Starcraft. Other DVDs continue to play just fine. This only happened after I upgraded from v8.2 to v8.3... I sent a report into the "bug" e-mail address on their website... -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?
thanks charles, but the box has an old s3 trio in it, it is intended to be a server - in the strict sense of serving files, it is hardly robust server class kit! - when i get a hang the console always shows a similar load of geek stuff and always mentions vm which i believe stands for virtual memory, hence my original question on lilo appends options; if it hangs again i will put the swap on a different disk, do you or anyone else know of a way to stress this part of an installation, the physical memory appears to be ok, i ran all memtest tests for over 24 hours with no probs, in fact if anyone knows of a suite of tools to stress other subsystems of a linux system that don't require one to be an uber geek that could be a useful thing to know thanks again bascule On Monday 01 July 2002 7:26 pm, you wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:09:18 +0100 > > bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well that has certainly helped charles, > > my system hangs about every 16 hrs now instead of within minutes! > > however this length of time between hangs means i'm having great > > difficulty working out what the problem is, > > oh well.. > > > Have no idea if this will be of any use. > But I had 1 system with an ATI Xpert 2000 (rage128) which when running > 8.2 would periodically and randomly lock-up in X. -- "OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah? " Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?
On Monday 01 July 2002 05:40 pm, bascule wrote: > if it hangs again i will put the swap on a different disk, do you > or anyone else know of a way to stress this part of an > installation, the physical memory appears to be ok, i ran all > memtest tests for over 24 hours with no probs, in fact if anyone > knows of a suite of tools to stress other subsystems of a linux > system that don't require one to be an uber geek that could be a > useful thing to know Cpuburn loads the whole system to the max http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] galeon problem
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:30, Todd Lyons wrote: > Get the mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm from the Cooker SRPMS directory and > recompile it on your machine with: > rpm --rebuild mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm > > It will tell you if you need to install additional development packages. > Make sure to use urpmi to install them and you should be ok. > > When it finishes, there will be a shiny brand new rpm in > /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586 Is this specific to 8.2 or will it work with 8.1? Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.
James wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:55:34PM + : > > before it starts loosing stability. Lose of stability comes in the form > of programs won't start or die suddenly etc. Then when this starts to > happen I know to reboot the box and I'm back to normal. Top shows no > runaway programs CPU usage generally stays below 40% bit a mean average > of about 20% (I really don't do anything that intense) Swap never Other suggestions: 1) 'killall artsd' (assuming you're running KDE, you won't be able to share /dev/dsp anymore) 2) Any Western Digital hard drives? 3) 'dmesg' Look for any kind of errors accessing the hard drive. 4) 'hdparm -t /dev/hda' or whatever your hard drive is. Do it right after bootup, and do it when it starts to slow down, and do it when it's barely crawling. 5) If you ssh to it from another box, is it strange there as well (trying to rule out the display as a culprit). Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55933/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] galeon problem
Gary Dunn wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:40:54PM -1000 : > On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:30, Todd Lyons wrote: > > > Get the mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm from the Cooker SRPMS directory and > > recompile it on your machine with: > > rpm --rebuild mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm > Is this specific to 8.2 or will it work with 8.1? Haven't tried it. You're my scapego^W beta tester :-D There are also RPMS in the unsupported subdirectory for various versions of the distro on the FTP mirrors. Those should be compiled for your system, keeping you from having to do rebuilds on your own, unless you want to. If you just "want to", I understand. I'm the same way. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55934/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2
Kayne McGladrey wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:47:15AM -0700 : > Thanks for responding. Here's the command output - I hope that it helps to > make sense of this: > > $su jennifer > (password) Try 'su - jennifer' > $vdir home > $vdir /home/kmcgladr > $vdir /home/kmcgladr/images > > vdir -d /home > > vdir -d /home/kmcgladr > > vdir -d /home/kmcgladr/images Do it with the -d. I want to see directory permissions rather than the permissions of the files/subdirs inside the directory. I'm mostly curious about the permissions of /home itself. If the permissions are 700, then it affects the rest of the directories underneath it. Second, as user jennifer, try to cat some of the files. The permissions that I am seeing, it should not allow you. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55935/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] rc.local question
David Relson wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 10:59:03PM -0400 : > Greetings, > > /usr/local/bin/check >/dev/null 2>&1 & > Prior to 8.2, the program would start and run detached, just like I > wanted. Now, in 8.2, the program isn't running. > Any ideas why this isn't working any longer? You're piping all of those ideas to /dev/null :) Get rid of that and see what it is complaining about when it dumps those messages to either the screen or syslog (ie /var/log/messages). Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55936/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?
reading the home page it seems that it is primarily a cpu loader, while i will try this the cpu/mobo combo in my box are a known entity as they were the basis of my main box before i upgraded just recently, i used extraneous hardware to make up a new box and i'm wondering if there isn't something amiss with say, the disks or something bascule On Tuesday 02 July 2002 2:16 am, you wrote: > > Cpuburn loads the whole system to the max > > http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ -- "Oh no, not again." - A bowl of petunias on it's way to certain death. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 8.2 reiserfs quota support
Jan Lentfer wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 09:14:57PM +0200 : > > does the Mandrake 8.2 Standard-Kernel habe build in quota support for > ReiserFS or do I need to patch the kernel? You'll need to patch the kernel. Reiser doesn't support quota out of the box. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55938/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] NVidia GeForce MX200 w/K7S5A Mdk8.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello All: > I've been running my new ECS K7S5A for a couple weeks now with great > results, except for a couple little details: > >1) Framebuffer console does not work. I've tried using the VESA fb and > the Rive/GeForce fb from the stock Mandrake kernel but it still gives > only 640x480 (80x25). I do get the boot Mandrake logo but it doesn't > change anything if I specify "vga=788" or "vga=791". > >2) If I switch to a console the X server hangs. The machine is still > alive but at minimum I need to restart X to get back the display. > > I can live for now without the fb console, but the X-session hang is a > show-stopper. I'm using the most recent NVidia drivers and the > 2.4.18-6 kernel from Mandrake 8.2. > >Thanks for any tips. >Kwan > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well, it sounds like you are using the latest commercial NVidia drivers. Framebuffer is not well supported by NVidia or their drivers. All I see on booting framebuffer with an NForce chipset is the blue bar along the bottom, though framebuffer worked outstandingly for the install. With XFree drivers I get good framebuffer results except when switching out to console where the vga= has been lost. This isn't apparently a fixable problem without some better tech info from NVidia. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2
Hello, Here's more command output - thanks for the help thus far. This is output from the server. $ su - jennifer (password) $ vdir -d /home drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4096 Jun 30 11:48 /home $ vdir -d /home/kmcgladr drwxr-xr-x 48 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Jul 1 19:28 /home/kmcgladr/ $ vdir -d /home/kmcgladr/images drwxrws---9 kmcgladr kmcgladr 4096 Apr 12 17:25 /home/kmcgladr/images/ $ cat /home/kmcgladr/images/photosite/header.inc Kayne McGladrey Photography Back $ cat /home/kmcgladr/images/2000/master.txt Action Animals Artsy Bicycle Buildings Camping Cats Caves Clouds Concerts Family Flowers Forest Friends Hiking Jennifer Kayne Landmarks Landscapes Lomo Mountains Panorama Snow Snowboards Sports Summer Travel Water Winter $ exit On Monday 01 July 2002 06:58 pm, you wrote: > Kayne McGladrey wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:47:15AM -0700 : > > Thanks for responding. Here's the command output - I hope that it helps > > to make sense of this: > > > > $su jennifer > > (password) > > Try 'su - jennifer' > > > $vdir home > > $vdir /home/kmcgladr > > $vdir /home/kmcgladr/images > > > > > vdir -d /home > > > vdir -d /home/kmcgladr > > > vdir -d /home/kmcgladr/images > > Do it with the -d. I want to see directory permissions rather than the > permissions of the files/subdirs inside the directory. I'm mostly > curious about the permissions of /home itself. If the permissions are > 700, then it affects the rest of the directories underneath it. > > Second, as user jennifer, try to cat some of the files. The permissions > that I am seeing, it should not allow you. > > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rc.local question
Poor form to respond to one's own posts, I know... Todd Lyons wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:00:23PM -0700 : > > > > /usr/local/bin/check >/dev/null 2>&1 & > You're piping all of those ideas to /dev/null :) Get rid of that and > see what it is complaining about when it dumps those messages to either > the screen or syslog (ie /var/log/messages). Not piping, "redirecting". My bad, my bad. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55941/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2
Kayne McGladrey wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:34:53PM -0700 : > Hello, > > Here's more command output - thanks for the help thus far. This is output > from the server. > > $ su - jennifer > (password) Run 'id jennifer'. I want to see what groups are there. And your /home being 755 nullifies the fears that I had about the /home being too restrictive. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55942/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] rc.local question
At 10:00 PM 7/1/02, you wrote: >David Relson wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 10:59:03PM -0400 : > > Greetings, > > > > /usr/local/bin/check >/dev/null 2>&1 & > > Prior to 8.2, the program would start and run detached, just like I > > wanted. Now, in 8.2, the program isn't running. > > Any ideas why this isn't working any longer? > >You're piping all of those ideas to /dev/null :) Get rid of that and >see what it is complaining about when it dumps those messages to either >the screen or syslog (ie /var/log/messages). An interesting idea! With luck it'll provide insight as to what's happening. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:50:43 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > James wrote on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:55:34PM + : > > > > before it starts loosing stability. Lose of stability comes in the > > form of programs won't start or die suddenly etc. Then when this > > starts to happen I know to reboot the box and I'm back to normal. > > Top shows no runaway programs CPU usage generally stays below 40% > > bit a mean average of about 20% (I really don't do anything that > > intense) Swap never > > Other suggestions: > 1) 'killall artsd' (assuming you're running KDE, you won't be able to > share /dev/dsp anymore) Did it already. No change. > 2) Any Western Digital hard drives? I've been around to long to make that mistake. *grin* > 3) 'dmesg' Look for any kind of errors accessing the hard drive. None. That's why the 80gig . hdparm has it at 56mbps This number stays relatively consistant. When the box starts "dying" however hdparm like other applications can't start. > 4) 'hdparm -t /dev/hda' or whatever your hard drive is. Do it right > after bootup, and do it when it starts to slow down, and do it when > it's barely crawling. No changes. It doesn't slow down... things just start dieing or being unable to start. Speed of the drives doesn't change a bit. > 5) If you ssh to it from another box, is it strange there as well > (trying to rule out the display as a culprit). Yes it can be strange. If X dies I have about 2 - 3 minutes before the box locks up totally. Can't even SSH into it but if I'm already in the session doesn't die... just the box is locked to input from keyboard. I've now got another box doing the same thing but not as often. It too has an intel all in one Mobo. What kind I'm not sure as this box is an HP Pavillion It's been running Mandrake Linux since 7.2. With RH 6.4 and SuSe 6.2 on it before that. The only commonality between them otherwise is that both run KDE3 instead of KDE2.2. That and the fact that they both use the i810 drivers (the pavillion is i810 the ASUS is i815 chipsets. or their drivers.) One point to note, when lilo is set to devfs=mount and I do ctrl-alt-f1(or any other f key) X dies within seconds of the switch and requires a reboot in order to restart it. (Same case on both boxes) One point to note. I've got 2 k-6's and 1 pentium running the same software setup that are rock solid. (the pentium is dog slow but solid.) Maybe it is the chipset. I've put in an older Voodoo video card I had (PCI) and a trident AGP without change. So it's probably not the onboard video. As always thanks for the help. My next step on this box is to install FreeBSD into a spare partition for dual booting and see if conditions are the same. > > Blue skies... Todd > -- > Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ > UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because > that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn >Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rc.local question
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:41:56 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > Poor form to respond to one's own posts, I know... > > Todd Lyons wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:00:23PM -0700 : > > > > > > /usr/local/bin/check >/dev/null 2>&1 & > > You're piping all of those ideas to /dev/null :) Get rid of that > > and see what it is complaining about when it dumps those messages to > > either the screen or syslog (ie /var/log/messages). > > Not piping, "redirecting". My bad, my bad. from you .. an allowable mistake... this time *grin*. (and don't let any of us tell you we haven't done the same thing.) > > Blue skies... Todd > -- > Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ > UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because > that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn >Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] galeon problem
At 09:53 PM 7/1/02, you wrote: >Gary Dunn wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 03:40:54PM -1000 : > > On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:30, Todd Lyons wrote: > > > > > Get the mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm from the Cooker SRPMS directory and > > > recompile it on your machine with: > > > rpm --rebuild mozilla-1.2.5.src.rpm > > Is this specific to 8.2 or will it work with 8.1? > >Haven't tried it. You're my scapego^W beta tester :-D > >There are also RPMS in the unsupported subdirectory for various versions >of the distro on the FTP mirrors. Those should be compiled for your >system, keeping you from having to do rebuilds on your own, unless you >want to. If you just "want to", I understand. I'm the same way. > >Blue skies... Todd I asked almost the same question a couple of days ago. Here's the answer I got: >> These files are available on any of any of our mirrors that >> maintain the /unsupported directory, like the one below: >> >> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/8.2/i586/mozilla-1.0/ >> >> downoad them into a newly created directory on your system >> named /mozilla-1.0 and then navigate to that directory in a >> console window and, as root, type: >> >> rpm -Uvh * I'm running galeon-1.2.5 on my Mandrake 8.2 system without problems. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as 'mem=nopentium'?
On Monday 01 July 2002 09:04 pm, bascule wrote: > reading the home page it seems that it is primarily a cpu loader, > while i will try this the cpu/mobo combo in my box are a known > entity as they were the basis of my main box before i upgraded just > recently, i used extraneous hardware to make up a new box and i'm > wondering if there isn't something amiss with say, the disks or > something > > bascule > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 2:16 am, you wrote: > > Cpuburn loads the whole system to the max > > > > http://users.ev1.net/~redelm/ It's not a cpu loader, no more than memtest86 is just a ram tester. There's no way for any software program to separate the cpu/cache/ram subsystem. If a system can run cpuburn (eg, 'burnk7' for an Athlon) for a hour without problems, then every bit of hardware on the motherboard, soldered in or installed (ie, cpu, ram, etc.), and probly the PSU too, is in fine shape. Hardware that can breeze by memtest86, might not pass cpuburn. It's an old overclocker's tool to test for stability, been around for years. As to disks, I dunno, maybe 'bonnie' (rpm is on your Cd's) or zipping up huge tar files, moving them across ide channels? When all the hoop'la about VIA IDE problems surfaced over a year ago, I made a ~700mb zip file and moved it cross ide several times checking the md5sum and contents (unzipping) after each transfer (no problems). Bet'ya Civileme knows how to test the pci bus/ harddrives ;>Take a look on http://www.civileme.com/ under 'crashtesting...' As far as 'nopentium' goes, I suspect (but don't know) this is already covered (ie, default to 4k pages) in the recent kernels. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2
Hi, Here's that output. I appreciate the continuing help. $ id jennifer uid=502(jennifer) gid=502(jennifer) groups=502(jennifer),100(users),501(kmcgladr) On Monday 01 July 2002 07:47 pm, you wrote: > Kayne McGladrey wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:34:53PM -0700 : > > Hello, > > > > Here's more command output - thanks for the help thus far. This is > > output from the server. > > > > $ su - jennifer > > (password) > > Run 'id jennifer'. I want to see what groups are there. > > And your /home being 755 nullifies the fears that I had about the /home > being too restrictive. > > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] VMware fullscreen problem
Hi, I'm trying to run VMware workstation 3.1 on Mandrake 8.2 with XFree86 4.2.0. I cannot get it to switch into fullscreen mode. Running xdpyinfo shows me that XFree86-DGA is enabled, which is one common problem. Any other suggestions? TIA niall Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.
James wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:32:44PM + : > > I've now got another box doing the same thing but not as often. It too > has an intel all in one Mobo. What kind I'm not sure as this box is an service apmd stop chkconfig apmd off Install another fan (ie keep the CPU/HD cooler than they are now). Compile a custom kernel removing some things that you know you don't use (saw that comment from someone elsewhere in the thread and I think it's a good idea). Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55950/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2
Kayne McGladrey wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:54:32PM -0700 : > Hi, > > Here's that output. I appreciate the continuing help. np Back to basics. What is in /var/lib/nfs/xtab? Is it what you expected? If you run 'exportfs -r' does it stay the same? I don't expect this to solve the problem, just making sure it's consistent. What is the suid bit set on that directory? Put the user in the same groups on both machines. Are you running quotas? What filesystem is /home? If it comes down to it, I suggest you: 1) make a directory in / and make it owned by you 2) put a symlink in your home dir if you like that points to it 3) export THAT directory You know you do have another option. You can start a samba server on one machine share the directory. Then she can use samba to mount the directory from the other linux box. Always an option... Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk msg55951/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
