Re: [expert] VNC Server Mandrake Control Center
msh wrote: I'm running MDK 8.2 and I don't have a /etc//etc/sysconfig/vncservers file Is there anyplace else I should look. that sure sounds like the vnc-server packages are not installed, type: urpmi vnc-server enter -- Alan :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] firewall config?
Didn't there used to be a firewall config utility in Mandrake? I need to open 1 port. Anyone know how to do this form the command line if it can't be done from the control center? Darren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dhcpd.conf of woe
Jason Guidry wrote:
dhcpd keeps complaing that I have not made a subnet declaration for
my the
NIC connected to the modem (eth1). I'm obviously not serving connections
from this interface, and it isn't listed in dhcpd.interfaces. how do I make
a declaration for this interface? is DHCP _really_ the easiest way to go
about sharing my connection?
--my
dhcpd.conf-
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option domain-name home.net;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.3, 192.168.1.5;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
range 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.127;
}
#wireless net
subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 10.0.0.1;
option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255;
range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.127;
}
There are two ways to approach this...
1) Start dhcpd specifying the interface(s) you want it to work with on
the command line - it will ignore all others.
dhcpd -q eth0
In this example -q is quiet and dhcpd monitors only eth0.
2) Put an empty subnet declaration for your other network - no range or
other statements in that subnet declaration. This method will allow the
normal dhcpd startup scripts to work unmodified and has the benefit that
if your network changes later you only update dhcpd.conf and go - you
won't have to remember to also change the startup script.
subnet 10.74.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
}
This declares a subnet but with no range dhcpd will not respond to
requests yet your default startup scripts will work ok.
Hope this helps.
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Re: [expert] OT: Billing System?
Hi Tim, We have been using SQL-Ledger, and found it very good.. http://www.sql-ledger.com , we had looked at about all the other options, can consider this is be one of the better option. Cheers Mark On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 10:25, Timothy R. Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Does anyone know of a good balance tracking/invoicing software program (preferably Free Software or at the least, free software)? I'd like an efficient way to keep track of what my customers owe me and also automate electronic invoicing. Being web based is a BIG plus. Ideas? Thanks, Tim - -- - Timothy R. Butler[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz = Christian Web Services Since 1996 == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9OK3mK37Cns9gJ0gRAjcbAKCT/jEnOiS8rC4S7mAkpwOX9A8uVACgjdvk 1cnUNHwFlgICRFB8UPSh4A0= =F3wN -END PGP SIGNATURE- 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] dhcpd.conf of woe
Jason Guidry wrote:
dhcpd keeps complaing that I have not made a subnet declaration for
my the
NIC connected to the modem (eth1). I'm obviously not serving connections
from this interface, and it isn't listed in dhcpd.interfaces. how do I make
a declaration for this interface? is DHCP _really_ the easiest way to go
about sharing my connection?
--my
dhcpd.conf-
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option domain-name home.net;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.3, 192.168.1.5;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
range 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.127;
}
#wireless net
subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 10.0.0.1;
option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255;
range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.127;
}
There are two ways to approach this...
1) Start dhcpd specifying the interface(s) you want it to work with on
the command line - it will ignore all others.
dhcpd -q eth0
In this example -q is quiet and dhcpd monitors only eth0.
2) Put an empty subnet declaration for your other network - no range or
other statements in that subnet declaration. This method will allow the
normal dhcpd startup scripts to work unmodified and has the benefit that
if your network changes later you only update dhcpd.conf and go - you
won't have to remember to also change the startup script.
subnet 10.74.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
}
This declares a subnet but with no range dhcpd will not respond to
requests yet your default startup scripts will work ok.
Hope this helps.
--
Mike Rambo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: [expert] dhcpd.conf of woe
Jason Guidry wrote:
dhcpd keeps complaing that I have not made a subnet declaration for
my the
NIC connected to the modem (eth1). I'm obviously not serving connections
from this interface, and it isn't listed in dhcpd.interfaces. how do I make
a declaration for this interface? is DHCP _really_ the easiest way to go
about sharing my connection?
--my
dhcpd.conf-
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
option domain-name home.net;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.3, 192.168.1.5;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
range 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.127;
}
#wireless net
subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 10.0.0.1;
option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255;
range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.127;
}
There are two ways to approach this...
1) Start dhcpd specifying the interface(s) you want it to work with on
the command line - it will ignore all others.
dhcpd -q eth0
In this example -q is quiet and dhcpd monitors only eth0.
2) Put an empty subnet declaration for your other network - no range or
other statements in that subnet declaration. This method will allow the
normal dhcpd startup scripts to work unmodified and has the benefit that
if your network changes later you only update dhcpd.conf and go - you
won't have to remember to also change the startup script.
subnet 10.74.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
}
This declares a subnet but with no range dhcpd will not respond to
requests yet your default startup scripts will work ok.
Hope this helps.
--
Mike Rambo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[expert] memory problems with pptp-connection
hi list, have a mdk8.0-box and a pptp-connection. my box is running over 24 hours a day. everytime I'm running Mandrake-Control-Center and there the connection for internet over pptp, the memory becomes slower and slower, equally, if the connection is on or off. After a few hours every action with the mouse takes minutes - in the range of 1 to 240. That is really crazy. So I'm hoping,now, there is anyone on this list, who could giove me a hint or as experiences with such a behavior. Have 128 MB RAM, so it should be enough for running linux with only X, mailbox, mozilla and sometimes kwrite - nothing else. Looking in the memory-management, the memory is ALWAYS USED AT ABOUT 99 % - FROM STARTING THE X-SESSION to the end. It is really very very horrible to work with such a big behavior. Thanks for helping and spend some ideas bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftpd question
James, I have taken the liberty of quoting this post on WikiLearn, at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/preview/Wikilearn/ChrootJail Please see: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/QuotedEmailsLetter regards, Randy Kramer James wrote: In the past script kiddies have used some of the original capabilities of ftp to login, and take over computers. ie ftp up a program (root-kit, etc) then login to the ftp directory compile it and run it. When you chroot the program root gets set to the directory the user is in. As far as they are concerned there exists nothing higher on the directory tree than where they are This means that if they do manage to exploit something the damage they can do is limited to the jail that they are in. Other advantages include, but not limited to, 1. They can only use utilities that exist in that chroot jail ie ls ps etc are local and any changes made to them aren't going to affect the box as a whole. 2. Nib Nosers can't poke around your box and find your secret stash of Britney Spears photo's 3. breaking out of the jail is one more line of defense. 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 / Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ftpd question
I'm Flattered... to say the least. James On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:55:46 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, I have taken the liberty of quoting this post on WikiLearn, at: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/preview/Wikilearn/ChrootJail Please see: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/QuotedEmailsLetter regards, Randy Kramer James wrote: In the past script kiddies have used some of the original capabilities of ftp to login, and take over computers. ie ftp up a program(root-kit, etc) then login to the ftp directory compile it and run it. When you chroot the program root gets set to the directory the user is in. As far as they are concerned there exists nothing higher on the directory tree than where they are This means that if they do manage to exploit something the damage they can do is limited to the jail that they are in. Other advantages include, but not limited to, 1. They can only use utilities that exist in that chroot jail ie ls ps etc are local and any changes made to them aren't going to affect the box as a whole. 2. Nib Nosers can't poke around your box and find your secret stash of Britney Spears photo's 3. breaking out of the jail is one more line of defense. 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 / Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] memory problems with pptp-connection
Hans could you have top running on this box. Then as it starts to slow down, grab a copy of top and post it to the group. Top will tell you what the process is that is consuming more and more memory and CPU kill that process if you can to restore things to normal without a reboot. Again posting top will help us in finding out what is causing your problem. James On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:34:38 +0200 hans schneidhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi list, have a mdk8.0-box and a pptp-connection. my box is running over 24 hours a day. everytime I'm running Mandrake-Control-Center and there the connection for internet over pptp, the memory becomes slower and slower, equally, if the connection is on or off. After a few hours every action with the mouse takes minutes - in the range of 1 to 240. That is really crazy. So I'm hoping,now, there is anyone on this list, who could giove me a hint or as experiences with such a behavior. Have 128 MB RAM, so it should be enough for running linux with only X, mailbox, mozilla and sometimes kwrite - nothing else. Looking in the memory-management, the memory is ALWAYS USED AT ABOUT 99 % - FROM STARTING THE X-SESSION to the end. It is really very very horrible to work with such a big behavior. Thanks for helping and spend some ideas bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Using ipchains to block an address?
I was checking my logcheck report this morning and found that yesterday, someone actually tried to brute-force attach my FTP server. The attacks all came the same address within .prodigy.net.mx. My first reaction was to put a 551 GO AWAY line into my hosts.deny file for .prodigy.net.mx. But I'm thinking I might just want to just drop the packets silently instead. I think that's where ipchains come into play. Can someone give me the syntax for doing that? Also, it's easy enough to just put the IP address that attacked yesterday into it (BTW, does putting it into a command-line ipchains call survive through a reboot, or do I need to add it to my rc.local file to make sure it's there after every reboot?), but is there a way to specify a range of addresses with ipchains? --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
[expert] mounting win2000 ntfs partitions
Well how can i mount my win2000 ntfs partitions ? there arent any ntfs supported partitions in the mount command ? thanks = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Sendmail relaying
If sendmail is denying the relaying on my end, which log file should that deny be in? I've (seemingly) configured pop-before-smtp to authorize relaying after someone logs in with their pop account but I still get denied type messages on the client end. I am trying to figure out if my work is blocking the smtp or if my home machine is. Thanks -Ryan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X over SSH
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Chuck Lalli wrote: Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I get the same result: xterm Xt error: Can't open display: simplesolutions.com:10.0 Take a look at your sshd_config on the remote server and make sure that it is allowing X11 forwarding. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Screen capture - XawTV WebCam problem
I'm able to use XawTV and see through my webcam. However, when I try to do a screen capture, the images I get has a bunch of squiggly horizontal lines in it. I'm able to get screen captures from my tv card but not webcam. Is there a solution to this weirdness? Thanks, S Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Using X over SSH
You might want to try removing those lines in your hosts.allow on your RedHat machine and replace it with only this line: sshd : ALL That will allow TCP connections to sshd on all of your network interfaces. Of course, if you want to limit SSH connections to only those from caltig, then you can change the ALL to caltig. Not sure if what you had is actually legal (there is no ALLOW operator). You can check with the tcpwrappers man page for more info (man hosts.allow). Also, you probably don't need the sshdfwd-* stuff in there. As far as I know, all the forwarding functionality is built into sshd. Rob Chuck Lalli wrote: I have read all the relevant messages over the past year and still cannot get this to work. I can run command line and text stuff, edited my files with vi for example over ssh but X does not work at all. I have a RH7.2 server I am trying to SSH into from my MANDRAKE 8.2 box. On both I have sshd_config and ssh_config set to allow X forwarding. caltig is the Mandrake box, simplesolutions is the RH box here is the output cal@caltig cal]$ ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Sat Jul 20 12:14:58 2002 from dslxxx-xxx-xxx-.xx [cal@simplesolutions cal]$ xterm (SEVERAL MINUTE WAIT) xterm Xt error: Can't open display: simplesolutions.com:10.0 In /etc/hosts.allow I have entered as recommended by someone last October on this list sshd : ALL : ALLOW sshdfwd-X11 : ALL : ALLOW sshdfwd-port : ALL : ALLOW I am running the mandrake box from behind a dlink dsl router and the RH box is on a separate static IP, but from what I understand this should not matter. If anyone can help me I really appreciate it 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] mounting win2000 ntfs partitions
faisal gillani wrote on Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:49:33AM -0700 :
Well how can i mount my win2000 ntfs partitions ?
there arent any ntfs supported partitions in the mount
command ?
mkdir /mnt/whatever
mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/{devicename} /mnt/whatever
You cannot mount ntfs as read-write, only read-only.
Blue skies... Todd
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Re: [expert] mounting win2000 ntfs partitions
faisal gillani wrote: Well how can i mount my win2000 ntfs partitions ? there arent any ntfs supported partitions in the mount command ? thanks = *^(o)?., ??,.?^(o)*???*? Allah-hu-Akber*^(o)?., ??,.?^(o)*??*? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, the NTFS isn't one filesystem but three mutually incompatible ones under the same name. NTFS4 we have read and experimental write(Winnt4) NTFS5 is a different system, and conversion is required for NTFS4 (Win2k) NTFS5.1 is still another version and conversion is required. (WinXP) All the versions are SECRET and proprietary. Reverse engineering of the latter two is _probably_ a violation of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) and don't expect a free software company to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Microsoft (which Microsoft will not even offer) as their licensing agreement has specific language prohibiting IP Impaired use or basically any app that makes provision to be provided in source. This is also true for KDE which is discovering they cannot legally provide support for ASF files, even though the format _is_ known. Microsoft has also established patent on the Common Internet File System and again their published standards prohibit use to provide compatibility with IP Impaired software. They may make a legal challenge in the near future to the open source community to cease and desist using Samba, which reads and writes the CIFS. Basically if it isn't in the kernel by now, don't expect to see it any time soon. Microsoft is out setting its own standards and erecting barriers of secrecy and legal intimidation to keep others from being compatible. ntfs IS supported READ_ONLY for all three versions. There is _EXPERIMENTAL_ write support that can be compiled into the lernel for NTFS4 ONLY. Now what I am about to give you cost three hours of my time since the XP installer plays with the order of partitions in an existing partition table and really destroyed my linux boots, by pointing /var at a swap partition and saying my real /var was a swap partition. I reinstalled without losing any data, but it took a while to puzzle out what had happened. To all of your others out there, it is no kidding DEADLY to install windows second. My recovery here was not for the faint of heart--23 partitions on two hdds were thoroughly scrambled by XP renumbering. I had to rescue boot and find root and edit fstab, and that still didn't work because my old /var partition was renumbered where swap was so my logs disappeared at swapon... A reinstall was necessary formatting /boot / and /usr fortunately I keep /home /usr/local and /opt separate. I could have used expert mode on fdisk to recover--redoing my old partition table-- but that still would not have covered the destruction of /var. /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,user,umask=0 1 1 That will mount and read ntfs systems and it was tested NTFS5.1, so the kernel has read-only support for all three, Just drop that (renumbered for your system, if necessary), to /etc/fstab, and it will mount and support reading from winsux(I have never called it that before, but I think I will follow that nomenclature henceforth). Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kernel 2.5?
Just out of idle curiosity, has anyone got the 2.5 kernel working with MDK? If so, what's involved? Are we talking about just building the kernel, or does everything else have to be rebuilt from source? (And how much just doesn't work?) Finally, anyone know if/when 2.5 might find it's way into cooker? (Or, is it a development only build?) Thanks, -Jason = Something wonderful, if you took the long view, was about to happen. If you took the short or medium view, something horrible was about to happen. It's like the difference between seeing a beautiful new star in the winter sky and actually being close to the supernova. It's the difference between the beauty of morning dew on a cobweb and actually being a fly. (Reaper Man) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel 2.5?
PlugHead wrote: Just out of idle curiosity, has anyone got the 2.5 kernel working with MDK? If so, what's involved? Are we talking about just building the kernel, or does everything else have to be rebuilt from source? (And how much just doesn't work?) Finally, anyone know if/when 2.5 might find it's way into cooker? (Or, is it a development only build?) Thanks, -Jason = Something wonderful, if you took the long view, was about to happen. If you took the short or medium view, something horrible was about to happen. It's like the difference between seeing a beautiful new star in the winter sky and actually being close to the supernova. It's the difference between the beauty of morning dew on a cobweb and actually being a fly. (Reaper Man) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It is a development only build... In order to make 2.5 work with mandrake, you will need to compile it for your machine so that /lib/modules has the right modules for your use. In the process you WILL break Win4Lin VMware NVidia binary drivers And these may not be recoverable for that kernel since they are binary-only built for a specific kernel (we have enough trouble with lernel updates) or you may accomplish something with a tweak. NVidia used to have a srpm for its kernel module on site, and once you have rpm working, rpm --rebuild on that srpm should produce an rpm that will install a kernel module. It is a source wrapper around their big binary. Now the next question is What Compiler? I think gcc3.1 would be for Cooker or 2.96 for 8.2, else you will break binary compatibility altogether.. And, yes, Cooker is where the next release is developing, and software that is supposed to be stable is what is included there. So don't look for a development kernel there. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] users can't check their quota (from newbie list)
Hey everyone, I am posting this question, cause I haven't had any replies to it on the newbie list, I hope it's ok. I am running LM 8.2, and all my partitions are XFS. I am also running the system with msec level 5. The machine's Kernel is : kernel-secure-2.4.18.8 Today I setup quotas for my users. I added the lines that were needed in fstab, and the quotas are being enforced. My problem is that I would like my users to know what their current quota is, and for some reason typing quota doesn't work. If a user types "quota", they get something like: "Disk quotas for user XXX(uid ): none" If they type "quota -v" they get something like: << Disk quotas for user XXX (uid ): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/hda5 0 0 0 0 0 0 /dev/hdc7 0 0 0 0 0 0 >> Yet, if I check their quota as root, I get the accurate values. In other words, the quota command works as expected only if I am running it as root. I am guessing it might be that quota can't read something that contains the quota info when it is run as a user. What else could it be? What should I try? I read the XFS info about the quota system on SGI's site (and in the docs), but they all seem to imply that it should be possible to run the quota command as a user and get the proper result. My second and last question is that I would like the quota info to be displayed for each user when they log on through ssh. How do I make that happen? Thanks in advance! gikoreno Join Excite! - http://www.excite.comThe most personalized portal on the Web!
Re: [expert] Using ipchains to block an address?
Actually, if you want it to survive a reboot, put the line, minus the ipchains into /etc/sysconfig/ipchains. You can specify netblocks by doing something like 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 or /24. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer General Education Online http://www.findaschool.org At 11:24 AM 7/22/2002 -0700, you wrote: I was checking my logcheck report this morning and found that yesterday, someone actually tried to brute-force attach my FTP server. The attacks all came the same address within .prodigy.net.mx. My first reaction was to put a 551 GO AWAY line into my hosts.deny file for .prodigy.net.mx. But I'm thinking I might just want to just drop the packets silently instead. I think that's where ipchains come into play. Can someone give me the syntax for doing that? Also, it's easy enough to just put the IP address that attacked yesterday into it (BTW, does putting it into a command-line ipchains call survive through a reboot, or do I need to add it to my rc.local file to make sure it's there after every reboot?), but is there a way to specify a range of addresses with ipchains? --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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?
Alexander Skewer wrote: et wrote: Western Digital does NOT support linux, the newer drives (ata100) do NOT do proper CRC error checking, does and will not warrenty any drive used in Linux for problems with any filesystem other than fat16, NTFS, fat32, ok, et, who does warranty hdd in linux?? not intent to offensively question your knowledge, just that i have read it elsewhere, ??linuxhardware.org?? ;) Ah, yes, that's what I remembered. Thanks a lot; so I'll not buy WD. ata100 was not around back in the days with WD harddisks. Do these problems still exist? ata100 is 'current days'. :) ata100 is not ata100 thru _all_ ata100 'standard' systems along with other problems by chipset oems, mainboard oems, hd oems, wd among. when in doubt, ask, search... i recall civ's comments. have on this system in oos archives. problem of searching, do not have a good branching filter for msbsos. could run in linux if nothing pops up for you and their is desire need. wmrtgt. mbs. do trust wd to know if they have an ata100 interface problem. trust it to be a problem they are working on. no sales in linux is not good, tho they may not admit openly to it. they will not stay 'non-compatible'. irc, search zdnet site for article. eweek ran it. serveral zdnet news list ran links to wd/ata100/?linux?. peace out, rocky. 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
Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?
Randy Kramer wrote: Thanks, looks like it didn't make any difference in this case (looks like the search doesn't recognize and or or as combining words. In other words, the and is implied. So, dropping the saves some typing. some search sites respect boolean in uppercase. peace out, rocky. 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] OS's in space
Kirk's mind raced as he quickly assessed his situation: the shields were down, the warp drive and impulse engines were dead, life support was failing fast, and the Enterprise was plummeting out of control toward the surface of Epsilon VI and, as Scotty and Spock searched frantically through the manuals trying to find a way to save them all, Kirk vowed, as he stared at the solid blue image filling the main view screen, that never again would he allow a Microsoft operating system to control his ship. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mounting win2000 ntfs partitions
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:04:59 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: faisal gillani wrote: Well how can i mount my win2000 ntfs partitions ? there arent any ntfs supported partitions in the mount command ? thanks = *^(o)?., ??,.?^(o)*???*? Allah-hu-Akber*^(o)?., ??,.?^(o)*??*? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, the NTFS isn't one filesystem but three mutually incompatible ones under the same name. NTFS4 we have read and experimental write(Winnt4) NTFS5 is a different system, and conversion is required for NTFS4 (Win2k) NTFS5.1 is still another version and conversion is required. (WinXP) All the versions are SECRET and proprietary. Reverse engineering of the latter two is _probably_ a violation of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) and don't expect a free software company to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Microsoft (which Microsoft will not even offer) as their licensing agreement has specific language prohibiting IP Impaired use or basically any app that makes provision to be provided in source. This is also true for KDE which is discovering they cannot legally provide support for ASF files, even though the format _is_ known. Microsoft has also established patent on the Common Internet File System and again their published standards prohibit use to provide compatibility with IP Impaired software. They may make a legal challenge in the near future to the open source community to cease and desist using Samba, which reads and writes the CIFS. Basically if it isn't in the kernel by now, don't expect to see it any time soon. Microsoft is out setting its own standards and erecting barriers of secrecy and legal intimidation to keep others from being compatible. ntfs IS supported READ_ONLY for all three versions. There is _EXPERIMENTAL_ write support that can be compiled into the lernel for NTFS4 ONLY. Now what I am about to give you cost three hours of my time since the XP installer plays with the order of partitions in an existing partition table and really destroyed my linux boots, by pointing /var at a swap partition and saying my real /var was a swap partition. I reinstalled without losing any data, but it took a while to puzzle out what had happened. To all of your others out there, it is no kidding DEADLY to install windows second. My recovery here was not for the faint of heart--23 partitions on two hdds were thoroughly scrambled by XP renumbering. I had to rescue boot and find root and edit fstab, and that still didn't work because my old /var partition was renumbered where swap was so my logs disappeared at swapon... A reinstall was necessary formatting /boot / and /usr fortunately I keep /home /usr/local and /opt separate. I could have used expert mode on fdisk to recover--redoing my old partition table-- but that still would not have covered the destruction of /var. /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,user,umask=0 1 1 That will mount and read ntfs systems and it was tested NTFS5.1, so the kernel has read-only support for all three, Just drop that (renumbered for your system, if necessary), to /etc/fstab, and it will mount and support reading from winsux(I have never called it that before, but I think I will follow that nomenclature henceforth). Civileme Civlilme, First My condolences on the hassles. Shouldn't be allowed to happen to someone as helpful as you. Second ... The new EULA does state that M$ has the right to do anything they want to any software on your computer that will disable, or otherwise render inoperable any non M$ software they find. Unfortunately we now know one of the methods they employ. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
