Re: [expert] Deleting printers
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:44:48 -0800 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:13 -0800, civileme wrote: > > > >>Praedor Tempus wrote: > >> > >>>Running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1... > >>> > >>>How does one go about deleting printers? > >>> > >>>praedor > >>> > >>Well the easiest way at the moment is probably > >> > >>urpme cups > >> > >>then > >> > >>printerdrake > >> > >>which will bring cups back in but with no printers... > >> > >>works, tested, etc. > >> > >>Civileme > >> > > > >Meaning: I have a system with 4 printers set up with cups. Now > >to remove 1 printer I'll have to urpme cups and do the setup of > >my 3 remaining printers all over again? > > > >I just imagine what I'd do if I had a flat tyre I want to > >remove and the car is like the cups system > > > >wobo > > > > > >-- > >-- > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > There are easier solutions, but based on the history of the > respondent, this is the answer I would give... simple and proof > against dingbats with an attitude. Civilme, Never underestimate the power of a dingbat with a pocket knife. *grin*...Although I do sorely miss Kups. James > > Civileme > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Deleting printers
I find it much easier to just run 'printerdrake', double click the printer, select the 'Remove printer' option, and click the 'Do it!' button. On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 23:44, civileme wrote: > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:13 -0800, civileme wrote: > > > >>Praedor Tempus wrote: > >> > >>>Running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1... > >>> > >>>How does one go about deleting printers? > >>> > >>>praedor > >>> > >>Well the easiest way at the moment is probably > >> > >>urpme cups > >> > >>then > >> > >>printerdrake > >> > >>which will bring cups back in but with no printers... > >> > >>works, tested, etc. > >> > >>Civileme > >> > > > >Meaning: I have a system with 4 printers set up with cups. Now to > >remove 1 printer I'll have to urpme cups and do the setup of my 3 > >remaining printers all over again? > > > >I just imagine what I'd do if I had a flat tyre I want to remove and > >the car is like the cups system > > > >wobo > > > > > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > There are easier solutions, but based on the history of the respondent, > this is the answer I would give... simple and proof against dingbats > with an attitude. > > Civileme > > > > > > > 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] Deleting printers
civileme wrote: > > There are easier solutions, but based on the history of the respondent, > this is the answer I would give... simple and proof against dingbats > with an attitude. > > Civileme > Now any solution that is both "simple" and "dingbats with an attitude" proof is a solution I want to use. I would also hope that it keeps such people from pestering me as well... 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
Re: Maxtor 4G120J6 okay? (was: Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?)
> As for the new IBMs, I'll try them when they take down that advisory > about not running 24/7. Til then, they are welcome to their > technological innovations without me. Does that advisory just recommend against leaving them on full time or are they expecting 80-90% actual use (as in head movement, drive light on) during that 24/7? I run my 30 G Destkstar 24/7 and it actually doesn't just sit idle - it does some work for news/mail and other stuff, but may be idle (i.e., just spinning) for some lengths of time. > Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Deleting printers
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: >On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:13 -0800, civileme wrote: > >>Praedor Tempus wrote: >> >>>Running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1... >>> >>>How does one go about deleting printers? >>> >>>praedor >>> >>Well the easiest way at the moment is probably >> >>urpme cups >> >>then >> >>printerdrake >> >>which will bring cups back in but with no printers... >> >>works, tested, etc. >> >>Civileme >> > >Meaning: I have a system with 4 printers set up with cups. Now to >remove 1 printer I'll have to urpme cups and do the setup of my 3 >remaining printers all over again? > >I just imagine what I'd do if I had a flat tyre I want to remove and >the car is like the cups system > >wobo > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > There are easier solutions, but based on the history of the respondent, this is the answer I would give... simple and proof against dingbats with an attitude. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 8.2 Install errors
> > Trying to install 8.2 on a system with 500Mhz Celeron/192MB/20GB. Here > are the consistent problems: > > During install, at least one package fails. > Disk 2 is not accepted, even though it takes just fine on other > computers. > On first boot, I'll get the first "L" in lilo and then a repeated 2 > digit number sequence. > If I change IDE controllers, it will say invalid system disk. > Changed out the IDE cable, no change. > From bootdisk I get "Kernel panic: some syncing error thats too long > for jason to remember haha :-p" > Change out hard drives and will boot off one controller (until kernel > panic) but not the other. > > I'm inclined to think MOBO, but I'd like a second opinion. > > Thanks > > > -- > jason > gmaestro.org I've seen this often myself. I can get around the CD switching problem by an FTP install. I do it so often it is conveninet to set up an image on one machine largely for this purpose,. I recertify drives if I have any doubts. I've tossed more than one motherboard in the trash lately. We seem to be pressing things. In at least one case I think the problem was inadequate (marginal power supply) and in another inadequate cooling (small CPU fan)but 500Mhz Celerons are usually kind in this regard. I'd turn off DMA in the BIOS before I gave up. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 8.2 Install errors
Trying to install 8.2 on a system with 500Mhz Celeron/192MB/20GB. Here are the consistent problems: During install, at least one package fails. Disk 2 is not accepted, even though it takes just fine on other computers. On first boot, I'll get the first "L" in lilo and then a repeated 2 digit number sequence. If I change IDE controllers, it will say invalid system disk. Changed out the IDE cable, no change. >From bootdisk I get "Kernel panic: some syncing error thats too long for jason to remember haha :-p" Change out hard drives and will boot off one controller (until kernel panic) but not the other. I'm inclined to think MOBO, but I'd like a second opinion. Thanks -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to export fonts to thin client
you need to set up a font alias. Or import some font aliases from Hummingbird's website. Basically each Xserver needs a "font server". Exceed has its own "font server" -> windows. The problem is translating X font names to windows font names. Exceeed has a database that mataches them up... but the databases get outdated everytime X changes a bit (new version of mandrake or solaris...). You could configure your xfs font server to export to your network, and not just on a named pipe, and then configure exceed to get fonts from your linux box. But I think the fonts will look like crap... just like they do in X... ;) M.S. Hughes wrote: > I am running MDK 8.2 on a machine with IP address 192.168.0.5. > > I've edited my /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file to have: > > [Xdmcp] > Enable=true > > so that I may log into 192.168.0.5 from a windows machine running > Hummingbird Exceed. (There are no firewall issues here since both > machines are behind the same firewall) > > My problem is that applications like kterm and mathematica report they > are unable to find the fonts they need. > > I've checked the e-mail archives and can't find anything that seems to > directly relate to this > > I've tried editing the /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs file so that xfs uses port > 7100 instead of port -1 > > X wouldn't even start. So I changed things back and added edited the > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to contain: > > FontPath "unix/:-1" > FontPath "unix/:7100" > > and things still don't work.(but at least X still works) > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OS's in space
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:21 pm, you wrote: > 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 Reminds me of a true story with the US Navy. They were testing a version of Windows on one of their cruisers/destroyers, and it crashed. Left them dead in the water for hours with no defenses. Yea, go Navy. :-) -- /\ Dark> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] WD hard drives- response from WD
Here's a recent response from WD concerning their drives and Linux or UNIX. Take it for what it's worth. -- Jonathan Dlouhy Tuesday, July 23, 2002 Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.1 -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Incident 020721-58] usingWDharddriveswithUNIXorLinux Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:58:31 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email Subject - Brief Description (100 chars max) --- usingWDharddriveswithUNIXorLinux Discussion Thread --- Response (Barb G) - 07/23/2002 07:58 AM Greetings Jonathan, Thank you for your email. We have no issues with Western Digital drives being installed with Linux or Unix. If you have more detailed information on specific issues, I would be happy to address them. Or, if you can provide the web site where these issues are being discussed we can address them to the customer. If your friends are having issues with a drive they should be contacting our technical support desk, or test the drive with our utilities. We do not warranty a drive based on the operating system used. Western Digital will honor the warranty on any drive in the event of a drive failure, as long as the drive is in warranty. If the drive carrys no warranty, or the warranty has expired, we cannot replace the drive. If I can be of further assistance, please let me know. Kind Regards, Customer (Jonathan Dlouhy) - 07/21/2002 08:38 PM Otherthanthefactthatyoudon'tsupportUNIXorLinuxwiththedisksoftwareyouprovide ,isthereanyreasonyourdrivescan'torshouldn'tbeusedwiththeseoperatingsystems? IhavealwaysusedWDharddrivesforallvariationsofWindowsaswellasmanydistributio nsofLinuxwithnoproblem.ThereisquiteadebategoingintheLinux-Mandrakecommunity claimingthatWDdrivesarenotsupportedwithLinuxandifthedrivefailswhileusingitW Dwon'thonorthewarrantee?Isthistrueornot?You'regettingslammedprettyhardthese daysandifit'sunfoundedIwouldliketoclarifyyourpositiontomyLinuxcolleagues.Th anks! You may update this question by replying to this message. Because your reply will be automatically processed, you MUST enter your reply in the space below. Text entered into any other part of this message will be discarded. [===> Please enter your reply below this line <===] [===> Please enter your reply above this line <===] Barb G Western Digital Customer Service and Support --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Deleting printers
try this: 1) Please ask politely. 2) Go to KDE control center -> system -> printing manager and you should be able to add/delete/modify printers to your heart's content. All without logging in as root. The only time I needed to do anything as root was to access the test print page. In that case, I was presented with a nice dialog. I could probably get rid of that if I set myself up as a CUPS administrator on my machine. I'm using the tekstar 3.01 RPMs. David -Original Message- From: Praedor Tempus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 7:27 AM To: Mandrake Expert Subject: [expert] Deleting printers Running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1... OK, this should be simple but I am finding it is not as simple as it should be (SHAME on you KDE developers in particular). I want to delete a host of defunct printers (CUPS). I have tried running kups and printerdrake and DrakConf. In no case am I given an option to delete a printer. In kups, if I try to run it as superuser, it dies with an inability to connect to the DCOP server or some crap, and I REFUSE to logout and login as root to do this - this should flat-out not be required EVER. In kups, the button that would otherwise permit the deletion of printers is greyed out when I run it as user, which is apparently my only option. If I run printerdrake, there is no option to delete printers, only add printers, modify the printing system, etc (this appears to be an oversight by Mandrake developers - that one might actually want/need to delete a printer as well as add one). How does one go about deleting printers? praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Deleting printers
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:13 -0800, civileme wrote: > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > >Running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1... > > > >How does one go about deleting printers? > > > >praedor > > > Well the easiest way at the moment is probably > > urpme cups > > then > > printerdrake > > which will bring cups back in but with no printers... > > works, tested, etc. > > Civileme Meaning: I have a system with 4 printers set up with cups. Now to remove 1 printer I'll have to urpme cups and do the setup of my 3 remaining printers all over again? I just imagine what I'd do if I had a flat tyre I want to remove and the car is like the cups system wobo -- Registered Linux User 228909 Powered By Mandrake Linux sum(8.1+0.1) It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks. (Linus Torvalds, 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT, comp.os.minix) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Deleting printers
Praedor Tempus wrote: >Running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1... > >OK, this should be simple but I am finding it is not as simple as it should be >(SHAME on you KDE developers in particular). > >I want to delete a host of defunct printers (CUPS). I have tried running kups >and printerdrake and DrakConf. In no case am I given an option to delete a >printer. In kups, if I try to run it as superuser, it dies with an inability >to connect to the DCOP server or some crap, and I REFUSE to logout and login >as root to do this - this should flat-out not be required EVER. > >In kups, the button that would otherwise permit the deletion of printers is >greyed out when I run it as user, which is apparently my only option. If I >run printerdrake, there is no option to delete printers, only add printers, >modify the printing system, etc (this appears to be an oversight by Mandrake >developers - that one might actually want/need to delete a printer as well as >add one). > >How does one go about deleting printers? > >praedor > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well the easiest way at the moment is probably urpme cups then printerdrake which will bring cups back in but with no printers... works, tested, etc. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OS's in space
I can't in good conscience submit this anywhere because I'm not the author, just a carrier. Got it from a friend gave it to some of mine. James On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:05:54 -0400 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:21 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > 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 > > James: > Are you going to submit this to next year's Bulwer-Lytton > competition (see www.bulwer-lytton.com)? > There was a thread on slashdot last night on a report that the > F22 fighters sometimes require rebooting during a mission. There > has to be a reference to a whole new meaning of BSOD somewhere > in those 557 replies. See > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/0615221&mode=nested&tid=126 > -- cmg > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OS's in space
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:21 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > 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 James: Are you going to submit this to next year's Bulwer-Lytton competition (see www.bulwer-lytton.com)? There was a thread on slashdot last night on a report that the F22 fighters sometimes require rebooting during a mission. There has to be a reference to a whole new meaning of BSOD somewhere in those 557 replies. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/22/0615221&mode=nested&tid=126 -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] NFS LM8.1 server, AIX client problems
Has anyone been successfull in using LM8.1 for NFS mounting CD-Rom drives (on LM8.1, kernel 2.2) from an AIX 4.3.3 server ? Does NFS mounting work better with LM8.2 and kernel 2.4 ? I was only able to get something working (mostly) with the 2.2 kernel. I can remote mount from the AIX login by sending ssh commands to LM8.1, however I can't remote un-mount it. I have to unmount locally (AIX), and then login to LM8.1 to force an un-mount and restart NFS services. Thanks... Dan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Using X over SSH
Rob, > 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. The 'allow' is valid... example: sshd : 24.61. 163.195. 192.168.1. : allow Thanks... Dan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel header package?
OK! I get into this thread a little late. And have the same question: What is the reason to link the kernel headers with glibc? I compile a 2.4.18 kernel src.rpm from mandrake with glibc 2.1.3 tweaking the specs of course I realize the mandrake guys dump the kernel header section. I use the src package Luke to rebuild some stuff that needs the headers but to me is insane. I never use Suse my self. but I think that the consistensy that show Suse for their users is incredible. I found that you could update even to KDE 3 in the oldest of the versions of Suse (I think is 6.0). So... Mandrake (and redhat) have a sofisticated way of build a rpm ( I was reading a little about it in Mandrake site). but all this breaks a very important rule in programming and system administration KISS keep it simple stupid If something works. why change it??? I mean what is the difference between having that the kernel headers come from glibc instead from (the logic place) kernel src. ?? May be some problems when you upgrade?? I repeat... I could compile the new kernel with an old glibc. I don' t understand some decisions. Another is the change in the name of the packages.. That's another nightmare it depends wich versions are you using (8.0 8.1 8.2 or 7.0) the same package have different names (???) I hope that mandrake since this last versions ( I mean 8.0 and up ) take this consistency more seriously And try not be so tight with some dependencies in the build process... I download a lot of packages from the cooker and tweak the specs to make all of them compile in a mandrake 7.2 system (now is a kinda of mandrake 8.x runninng with glibc 2.13 and gcc 2.98.3) even kde3 and very stable by the way. See ya PD: dr jung... you got a point on this. El Dom 14 Jul 2002 18:40, J. Craig Woods escribió: > Charles A Edwards wrote: > > kernel headers are now included as part of glibc. > > > > > > You need to install kernel-header-xxxmdk.i586.rpm for your version of > > glibc unless you also wish to build it from source. > > > > Charles > > Okay, let's try to simplify this situation. As previously stated, I am > attempting to upgrade my kernel on a LMDK 8.0 box. The Mandrake security > recommendation states to upgrade to kernel-2.4.18.8.2mdk-1-3mdk. OK, > simple enough, I wget the kernel src rpm, and build my rpm binaries. OK, > so far? Now I realize there are is NO kernel headers rpm. My LMDK 8.0 > has the upgraded glibc rpms, i.e. glibc-2.2.2-6.1mdk (glibc, profile, > and devel included). OK, so far? Now where do I find the version of > kernel headers that match my glibc level? And, Charles, are you saying > that is must be named kernel-headers with the current glibc version > numbers in the name, i.e. kernel-headers-2.2.2-6.1mdk? Mandrake has lost > me, please refer me to the documentation on this radical change in > building a set of kernel rpms. I have searched high and low only to find > nothing, not even on the mandrake kernel upgrade page. Thanks to all who > are contributing to this thread. I fear James may be right in saying > that mandrake has foobarred us with this new strategy. I hope I am > wrong > > drjung -- = Lic. Alfredo Carlos López INIFTA - UNLP Phone: +54-221-425 7430 Instituto de InvestigacionesFax: +54-221-425 4642 Fisicoquímicas Teórica y Aplicada. Suc. 4 C.C. 16 1900 La Plata, Argentina Calle 68 nro.74 (e118/119) Dto. 15Phone: +54-221-423 6240 1900 La Plata, Argentina Cell-Phone: +54-221-(15) 455 0141 = "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Deleting printers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 Jul 2002 2:26 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: > Running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1... > > OK, this should be simple but I am finding it is not as simple as it should > be (SHAME on you KDE developers in particular). > > I want to delete a host of defunct printers (CUPS). I have tried running > kups and printerdrake and DrakConf. In no case am I given an option to > delete a printer. In kups, if I try to run it as superuser, it dies with > an inability to connect to the DCOP server or some crap, and I REFUSE to > logout and login as root to do this - this should flat-out not be required > EVER. > > In kups, the button that would otherwise permit the deletion of printers is > greyed out when I run it as user, which is apparently my only option. If I > run printerdrake, there is no option to delete printers, only add printers, > modify the printing system, etc (this appears to be an oversight by > Mandrake developers - that one might actually want/need to delete a printer > as well as add one). > > How does one go about deleting printers? Have you tried http://localhost:631/ (and logging in as root after clicking on the Administration button)? This gives you a rather nice Web interface and allows CUPS printers to be deleted from there. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9PWMoXzGCRjP1DsMRAhMhAJ9zzfKolEegrmRBWkdsawUCDGA/OwCeJNnu UrZU7Sy8nlZF2qO5F7XaSOI= =ASj2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Deleting printers
Running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1... OK, this should be simple but I am finding it is not as simple as it should be (SHAME on you KDE developers in particular). I want to delete a host of defunct printers (CUPS). I have tried running kups and printerdrake and DrakConf. In no case am I given an option to delete a printer. In kups, if I try to run it as superuser, it dies with an inability to connect to the DCOP server or some crap, and I REFUSE to logout and login as root to do this - this should flat-out not be required EVER. In kups, the button that would otherwise permit the deletion of printers is greyed out when I run it as user, which is apparently my only option. If I run printerdrake, there is no option to delete printers, only add printers, modify the printing system, etc (this appears to be an oversight by Mandrake developers - that one might actually want/need to delete a printer as well as add one). How does one go about deleting printers? praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk - any problems?
g wrote: > some search sites respect boolean in uppercase. Thanks, I'll try that. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OS's in space
Real World parallel, and the right solution: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4487 David On Tuesday 23 July 2002 16:21, James Sparenberg Wrote Thusly: > 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 -- "Entropy Requires No Maintenance" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Vulnerability in PHP 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 (CERT Advisory CA-2002-21)
Hello, I just wanted to know when the patch to PHP 4.2.1 will be available from Mandrake? I know that Mandrake Linux does not ship with PHP version 4.2.x and as such is not vulnerable but I'm using the cooker PHP 4.2.1. Thanks! Cheers, Orlin CERT Advisory CA-2002-21 Vulnerability in PHP Original release date: July 22, 2002 Last revised: -- Source: CERT/CC A complete revision history can be found at the end of this file. Systems Affected * Systems running PHP versions 4.2.0 or 4.2.1 Overview A vulnerability has been discovered in PHP. This vulnerability could be used by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or crash PHP and/or the web server. Mandrake Linux does not ship with PHP version 4.2.x and as such is not vulnerable. The Mandrake Linux cooker does currently contain PHP 4.2.1 and will be updated shortly, but cooker should not be used in a production environment and no advisory will be issued. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Status of highmem problem for LM kernels?
Alan Cox writes about 2.4.19rc3-ac2: The SMP problems some people are having are not fixed yet. The summit changes still need some debugging work. What is that?? -- Bjarne On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 01:03, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > The assumption that the RedHat 7.3 kernel is based on 2.4.0 > is all WRONG. Look what I found in > ftp://sunsite.uio.no/linux/RedHat/updates/7.3/en/os/i686/ > kernel-2.4.18-5.i686.rpm > kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-5.i686.rpm > kernel-debug-2.4.18-5.i686.rpm > kernel-smp-2.4.18-5.i686.rpm > > So, at least if you update, RedHat 7.3 is using a kernel based on > 2.4.18, just like ML 8.2, only that a problem with highmem has been > solved. Again, I attach the discussion on the kernel list about > this problem with regards to the RedHat kernel. > > But my real question is, of course, if it has been solved > for the kernel in the Mandrake cooker. > > -- Bjarne > > On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 04:00, James wrote: > > On 17 Jul 2002 09:51:30 +0200 > > Bjarne Thomsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > > > > > > > > In the spring I encountered a problem (system freeze) with the > > > LM 8.2 enterprise kernel. The problem never happened with the > > > standard stock kernel of LM 8.2. That it was actually a highmem > > > problem was verified by compiling the kernel with the standard > > > options + the highmem option. The problem was solved by using > > > the stock enterprise kernel from LM 8.1. > > > > > > From a discussion on the kernel list that I happened to find > > > it looks as if the Red Hat 7.3 kernel had a similar problem > > > for memory above 896MB. This has now been solved in the > > > Red Hat 7.3 kernel for memory below 4Gb. > > > But it is not clear to me if RedHat's 7.3 kernel is based > > > on Rik van Riel's VM or Andrea's VM. > > > > >From reading the enclosed commentary (Thanks for enclosing it by the > > way) it seems that RH is using the pre Linux being struck by cosmic rays > > VM... Meaning the original VM from 2.4.0. or so it would seem to me. > > > > James > > > > > > > > > There seems to be some confusion, even on the kernel mailing > > > list, so could somebody, please, explain the situation for the > > > various Mandrake kernels. Has the problem been solved in > > > the latest enterprise kernel in the cooker? Will it be solved > > > in the new 2.4.19 kernel? > > > > > > To illustrate the situation, let me finish with a citation. > > > > > > Martin J. Bligh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > >There are definitely good things in both trees for this problem area > > > >at the moment. If you're interested in fixing this Alan and Andrea, > > > >let's start a > > > >mergefest. I'm sure I can volunteer some IBM resources to help port > > > patches,>and test the hell out of it if you're willing to > > > consider taking things, > > > >I'll drawup a list of what the issues are, what patches are > > > >available, and which trees they reside in (often none). > > > > > > So, where are the Mandrake kernels in this discussion? > > > > > > For easy reference I have attached an abreviated version of the > > > discussion on the kernel mailing list. > > > > > > Dr Bjarne Thomsen > > > > > > Department of Physics and Astronomy > > > University of Aarhus > > > Denmark > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > -- > A few months ago, there was a flurry of reports from people having > difficulties with memory management on large machines (ia32 over 4 GB). I've > seen a lot of 2.4.x-yy kernels go by and much VM discussion, but what I'm > *not* seeing is reports of either catastrophic behavior or its absence on > large machines. I haven't had a chance to run my own test cases on the > 2.4.18 kernel from Red Hat 7.3 yet, so I can't make any personal > contribution to this discussion. > > -- > M. Edward Borasky > -- > RedHat has fixed the problem in its kernels. There are fixes out there, but > Linus is not applying them. I would venture that this is because they would > fix the problems *for the moment* and take away interest in revamping VM for > real. > > It might help if Linus would actually state his intentions. So far the > problem has been that the AA vm was badly documented and a big chunk of > patches. Andrew Morton split them up nicely and documented each patch, so > that is resolved. > > Regards, > > bert > -- > 7.3 has some of what is needed but not all. To go past 16Gb you need highmem > mapped page tables which I'm pretty sure did not make it in. > > Alan Cox > -- > > 7.3 has some of what is needed but not all. > > Can you outline the change
