[expert] Color limiting icewm
I have a Xserver that has to work in 8bpp mode. Problem is that window manager is eating up all colours. kwin (KDE's wm) goes fine, but it's too big for the little machine to go smooth. icewm it's ok bat I haven't found how to color limit it or how to change the colour table it uses. Any help or simple URL are welcome. Thanx PS: fvwm2 has an option to colorlimit but mouse is not properly working there (??) ___ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versión: Webcam, voz, y mucho más ¡Gratis! Descárgalo ya desde http://messenger.yahoo.es Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] need help for Mesa ...
hi benjamin, first at all thanks for your answer. yes, I'm using blender as well as I would use mindseye. and especially for that mindseye I need OpenGL (Mesa, and glut) I'm planning to do some jobs in modelling, animations and pictures. Have done such jobs a few years ago on a Suns-Sparc 10 and an SGI-Indigo. on the Sun-Sparc-10 I had run the gig3dgo, its like blender, and on the SGI I was working with Alias-Animator. Have nothing seen which would have the same featers like that - a really first class tool for animations with a bones-tool and much more. So I'll try to do the same again on a linux-basis. Have seen some good tools. for shure, they have only one or two very good tools for itself, but having 10 or 15 tools, which are doing their jobs very good, maybe I can do good compisitions of all of that tools. I'll try. have seen a bones-tool in or for mindseye, but have to look again in the webspace, so I can be shure, what I say now. anyway, I am happy for your helps and ideas thanks and bye hans Am Montag, 19. August 2002 22:50 schrieben Sie: On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 21:09, hans schneidhofer wrote: hi Benjamin, a last question : which Rage 128 do you have ? rage pro 128 fury 32 Mb because was reading about ati rage 128 with a Mach64-chip will NOT be supported. exactly this rage pro 128 I have - 2-times for both of my 2 linuxboxes. I don't known anything about chipset ;) Maybe, I have it but I really don't know. how can i see that ? would it be a good idea to buy a new graphiccard like a FIRE GL or an nvidia-based GeForce ? so I had read, that the FireGL has 256 MB Ram and a very good driver for OpenGL. But I dont't have any experiences right now. Maybe but NVidia drivers aren't gpl. So it's a choice of you. What do you want to do with openGL ? if it's playing some cool games, your ati is very sufficient but if you want to develop openGL softwares/games or works with 3D software like blender, ... maybe try a more powerfull card than a rage 128. A friend of mine have a ati radeon 8500 and it's a really powerfull card. ati powa ;) thanks one more time bye hans yours, Benjamin Content-Type: text/plain; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time
In history, I used Red Hat from 5.2 till 6.2, then I switched over to Mandrake. However, with Mandrake (including 8.2) I sometimes have the effect that an application doesn't get killed, but instead eats 100% of cpu time. This happens to many console based applications, but one way to reproduce it: Install telnet, telnet into your own box, start ntsysv, kill the connection. Open X-Windows, open a console, start ntsysv, close the window by clicking the X button on the window. Other applications are our self-compiled ones, or icpcon (a configuration program for ICP Vortex RAID controllers). This app is statically linked (get it from http://www.vortex.de/ftp/download/rdrnrsrz/linux/icpcon.gz, it run's even when you don't have such a controller installed). The strange thing: this happens mostly with ncurses-based applications, but not with all. mc, the midnight commander, works very well. As I said, those applications where terminated correctly on Red Hat. I'm just puzzled. Any hints? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time
Es Dimarts 20 Agost 2002 09:24, en Holger Schurig va escriure: The strange thing: this happens mostly with ncurses-based applications, but not with all. mc, the midnight commander, works very well. Open a console, su to root, start mc... and then kill the console without having shut down mc. That keeps mc loaded and eating 100% cpu cycles. Tryed under Mandrake 8.2 and Debian Woody... -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time
Open a console, su to root, start mc... and then kill the console without having shut down mc. That keeps mc loaded and eating 100% cpu cycles. Tryed under Mandrake 8.2 and Debian Woody... Strange, not on my system. I have a self-compiled KDE 3.0.2, so my console is konsole. The used su is sh-utils-2.0.11-8mdk su calls bash version bash-2.05-16mdk which calls mc with version mc-4.5.55-7mdk mc is linked with libgpm.so.1 = /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x4001e000) libglib-1.2.so.0 = /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x40024000) libext2fs.so.2 = /lib/libext2fs.so.2 (0x4004a000) libcom_err.so.2 = /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x4006) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40063000) libncurses.so.5 = /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4019f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) which translates to libgpm1-1.19.6-3mdk libglib1.2-1.2.10-4mdk libext2fs2-1.27-1.1mdk glibc-2.2.4-25.1mdk libncurses5-5.2-23mdk glibc-2.2.4-25.1mdk But on my system this does NOT hang. Can you look at the versions of your RPMs? But others, e.g. icpcon, hang nevertheless. Can it be that something doesn't propagate a needed signal? Something may be - su when you do su as you mentioned - one of xinetd in.telned login when you telnet into your own box Greetings, Holger -- MN-Logistik GmbH http://www.mn-logistik.de Holger Schurig Dieselstr. 18 61191 Rosbach v.d.Höhe Tel: 06003/9141-0Fax: 06003/9141-49 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time
Es Dimarts 20 Agost 2002 15:42, en Holger Schurig va escriure: Open a console, su to root, start mc... and then kill the console without having shut down mc. That keeps mc loaded and eating 100% cpu cycles. Tryed under Mandrake 8.2 and Debian Woody... Strange, not on my system. I have a self-compiled KDE 3.0.2, so my console is konsole... It happened in my Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 boxes... but now I cannot reproduce it under 9 beta 3 (after having send my email!) O8-) I'll reboot to the 8.2 box to check for the packages' versions and will post them here... -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wondering about Bugzilla for LM 9.0beta3 bug reports
Even though I have read the documentation, I apparently don't know how to use Bugzilla. I obtained an account, submitted four bugs, received emails confirming their submission, but when I try to query them I keep getting zarro(sic) results found. Can anyone give me a clue about what I am doing wrong? Thanks for any help. Bruce __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Wondering about Bugzilla for LM 9.0beta3 bug reports
How are you searching for your bugs? If you give me the URL (don't have it handy) for MDK's Bugzill, I can try to help you out... David -Original Message- From: Bruce Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Wondering about Bugzilla for LM 9.0beta3 bug reports Even though I have read the documentation, I apparently don't know how to use Bugzilla. I obtained an account, submitted four bugs, received emails confirming their submission, but when I try to query them I keep getting zarro(sic) results found. Can anyone give me a clue about what I am doing wrong? Thanks for any help. Bruce __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Resend to LX on nobody's UID...
Damn sympa giving me fits again. Let try this one! Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I've noticed that the account nobody on this system has a user id of 65534. Is this correct? I'm asking because back in the day I used to make backdoor admin accounts using UID numbers higher than 65535. I thought it mighty odd to see a UID number this large naturally on the system. Comments...? LX LX, it depends on the OS, and, for linux, the distro. Earlier versions of mandrake used 99 as a uid for nobody, and Red Hat still uses 99 as the uid for nobody, at least as recent as v7.2. Most current UNIX systems also use 99 as the uid for nobody. You must be using some newer version of mandrake, and the uid of 65534 is correct for that version. Hope it helps, 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: [expert] Wondering about Bugzilla for LM 9.0beta3 bug reports
Thanks David It's qa.mandrakesoft.com. I just go there, login, and at the query page I just type in a word from the subject lines on the bugs I submitted where it says subject, with 'contains any of the words/strings selected'. Also, the status selected is 'new, assigned, reopen'. Bruce --- JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are you searching for your bugs? If you give me the URL (don't have it handy) for MDK's Bugzill, I can try to help you out... David -Original Message- From: Bruce Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Wondering about Bugzilla for LM 9.0beta3 bug reports Even though I have read the documentation, I apparently don't know how to use Bugzilla. I obtained an account, submitted four bugs, received emails confirming their submission, but when I try to query them I keep getting zarro(sic) results found. Can anyone give me a clue about what I am doing wrong? Thanks for any help. Bruce __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time
Joan Tur wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:24:51PM +0200 : The strange thing: this happens mostly with ncurses-based applications, but not with all. mc, the midnight commander, works very well. Open a console, su to root, start mc... and then kill the console without having shut down mc. That keeps mc loaded and eating 100% cpu cycles. Tryed under Mandrake 8.2 and Same thing with vi. 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-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-3mdk msg57131/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] Swap space
Hello. Does anyone know what is *exactly* the maximum size of a swap partition on an i386 platform? Some howtos say it is about 2 GiB, but I need to know the exact number of hd blocks as to optimize the space used on hard disks. And how many swap partitions can I have? Thanks. -- --Clorden Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to install a Usb Cable modem without network card...
Rui Maia wrote: Anyone knows how i can install an Motorola 4200 SurfBoard USB Cable Modem withou having a network card in linux ? Thank you -- Rui Maia * e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~rfpm http://mega.ist.utl.pt/%7Erfpm --- I have to same modem but have it connected via the ethernet. But you should be able to get this working via the USB ports. See: http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html for a starter. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Third Hard Drive
I'm in the process of downloading the 9.0 beta for a look. I'd like to put it on a third drive I have on this, my principle, system rather than on an ancillary system I'd typically use for testing. I'd be better able to keep an eye on it that way. I've hear that installation on a third drive is a no-no. It that true or just an old saw? John Lowell Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Third Hard Drive
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 07:23 pm, you wrote: I'm in the process of downloading the 9.0 beta for a look. I'd like to put it on a third drive I have on this, my principle, system rather than on an ancillary system I'd typically use for testing. I'd be better able to keep an eye on it that way. I've hear that installation on a third drive is a no-no. It that true or just an old saw? John Lowell it don't matter to linux, and as long as winders is on the first partition of the first drive, you can split linux over three hard drives, and it won't care Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Third Hard Drive
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 16:58 -0400, John Lowell wrote: What I had in mind here was booting from the 3rd drive, any problem in this respect? No, if you have your LILO in the MBR of the first disk. wobo -- ... and anyway, an html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #128612867 GPG-ID: A69882EE --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Third Hard Drive
Thank you, gentlemen! John Lowell - Original Message - From: Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Third Hard Drive On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 16:58 -0400, John Lowell wrote: What I had in mind here was booting from the 3rd drive, any problem in this respect? No, if you have your LILO in the MBR of the first disk. wobo -- ... and anyway, an html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #128612867 GPG-ID: A69882EE --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] What to use to analyse Apache logs?
Hi guys, the title pretty much says it all. I want to look at total traffic and be able to analyse the logs for intrusion attempts any suggestions? -- Andrew George --- Why are many scientists using lawyers for medical experiments instead of rats? a) There are more lawyers than rats. b) The scientist's don't become as emotionally attached to them. c) There are some things that even rats won't do for money. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] devMAKEDEV packages
Ok, maybe this is a dumb question but here goes If one is running the dev filesystem is it possible to upgrade these RPM's without using the installer?? I am under the impression that dev gets loaded fairly early on and it becomes a real pain to upgrade these as a result. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. I am running ML 9.0 B3 plus Cooker upgrades (minus dev and MAKEDEV =) Cheers, Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Asus A7V333 power supply question
Hello All, Because my present system is a bit sluggish with KDE 3 I'm interested in upgrading to an Asus A7V333 motherboard with an XP 2000+ CPU. However, I'm not completely sure what the recommended power supply is. The AMD site recommends many power supply brands but I couldn't find any information regarding the rating. Can someone help? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What to use to analyse Apache logs?
At 05:40 PM 8/20/02, you wrote: Hi guys, the title pretty much says it all. I want to look at total traffic and be able to analyse the logs for intrusion attempts any suggestions? -- Have you looked at webalizer? I believe it's pretty good for analyzing apache logs :-) However, it may not be intrusion oriented :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Asus A7V333 power supply question
On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 19:15, Phil wrote: Hello All, Because my present system is a bit sluggish with KDE 3 I'm interested in upgrading to an Asus A7V333 motherboard with an XP 2000+ CPU. However, I'm not completely sure what the recommended power supply is. Buy the highest watt PS from PC power and cooling you can afford. 300 should be fine, if you have a few drives in the machine, go 400. -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] devMAKEDEV packages
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:18:16 +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, maybe this is a dumb question but here goes If one is running the dev filesystem is it possible to upgrade these RPM's without using the installer?? I am under the impression that dev gets loaded fairly early on and it becomes a real pain to upgrade these as a result. More that /dev is mounted rather than that dev is loaded. You can boot with devfs=nomount. That being said there has been a change in the way dev/MAKEDEV install and call since the B3 release which was done to allow for the upgrade of these pkgs Even when /devs is mounted and devfsd is running. Because of this upgrading from the old to the new can be problematic. On 2 of my systems running current cooker the dev MAKEDEV upgrades caused difficulties when rebooting requiring that 'rescue' mode be used and I still had a hell of a time getting the systems back to where they would boot even near normally. My recommendation would be to add dev and MAKEDEV to your skip.list and use the RC installer to upgrade then when it is released the end of this week/first of next week. Charles -- Put your best foot forward. Or just call in and say you're sick. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What to use to analyse Apache logs?
David Relson wrote: At 05:40 PM 8/20/02, you wrote: Hi guys, the title pretty much says it all. I want to look at total traffic and be able to analyse the logs for intrusion attempts any suggestions? -- Have you looked at webalizer? I believe it's pretty good for analyzing apache logs :-) However, it may not be intrusion oriented :-( I agree with the choice of webalizer. It is very easy to install, has a very nice interface with apache, and mandrake delivers a rpm for your convenience. Intrusion detection would necessitate another kind of program altogether, i.e. NIDS. In this direction, I would suggest you take a look at snort. A very nice program that will provide you with numerous alerts for all http traffic to port 80. 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] frequent HD access in LM8.2
Hello, I've noticed on my last few installs of Mandrake 8.2, that I get a tiny bit of hard disk access, once every 4 seconds or so. I've looked in the logs, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary, and there is nothing going on. What would explain this? Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface
Randy Kramer wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: What if you just did something like this. 1) ping ISP... a) if icmp echo request == 'yes' then do the mail thing else run ifup command kick mailque fi what-cha think? daRcmaTTeR, Thanks very much -- it's a good start if not more! I guess I'll find out for sure soon ;-) , but is that if icmp echo request == 'yes' pretty close to the right syntax? (I assume it's checking for success of the ping.) Hmm, I looked up man icmp and man echo -- looks like I'll have to dig a little deeper or do an experiment or two. (Just for the record, I don't need (and can't use) the ifup command (effectively) as the dial up modem is on another box (running under dos). The ping should kick the modem (except that, occasionally, the modem hangs up and locks up so it won't redial). I'll probably arrange the script to ping, check for success, on success kick the mailqueue, on failure wait, then retry the ping.) So (thinking on paper), something like: maxtries = 3 (??) count = 0 start: ping ISP (with parameters to limit to say 4 pings instead of continuous) count = count + 1 if icmp echo request == 'yes' then fetchmail sendmail -q else if count = maxtries (wow, do I forget valid syntax ;-) ) then wait 30 (??) (give the modem a chance to connect) goto start else issue Internet connection lost, could not restart message (somewhere) fi fi I'll need to brush up on bash syntax and so forth, and if I'm clever I might get rid of the goto. regards, Randy Kramer Randy, it is written: thou shalt NOT use a GOTO...ever! ;) The force fed us that in assembler and COBOL classes till I thought it was gonna come outa my ears. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] lame server resolving
Hey, my syslog has a dozens of entries similar to the following lame server resolving 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa' (in 'xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa'?): xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53 all with different IP's... As far as I can tell, some client is asking my server for information on an IP but my server doesn't have that information? Is that what lame server resolving is? Jay -- Crowded elevators smell different to midgets. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface
Randy Kramer wrote: kwan, Thanks! I've got several choices now ;-) Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a script that I use to check connectivity: #!/bin/bash STATUS=`ping -c 2 -q 11.22.33.44 2/dev/null` CODE=$? if [ $CODE -gt 0 ]; then echo Link is down. else echo Link is up. fi Replace the 11.22.33.44 with a host on the internet. I use the nameserver of the ISP but you can use any reliable address. This script segment is part of a larger one to reboot my DSL modem via X10, but you can modify it for dialup. There are also other ways of dialing on demand such as diald that may be more effective. Randy, The above was the accurate rendition of the correct syntax for the earlier suggestion. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 Stupidity has no moral high ground...it can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface
Mark Weaver wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:04:16PM -0400 : So (thinking on paper), something like: snip if count = maxtries (wow, do I forget valid syntax ;-) ) then wait 30 (??) (give the modem a chance to connect) goto start else issue Internet connection lost, could not restart message (somewhere) fi snip I'll need to brush up on bash syntax and so forth, and if I'm clever I might get rid of the goto. it is written: thou shalt NOT use a GOTO...ever! ;) The force fed us that in assembler and COBOL classes till I thought it was gonna come outa my ears. [root@fiji /usr/src/linux/kernel]# grep goto.*\;$ * | wc -l 187 Comments? :) Don't tell me Linus doesn't know anything about c now :) 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-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-4mdk msg57149/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] 9.0 beta 3 bug report
Hey guys I'm tired and maybe a little cranky. It has gotten pretty darned hard to give bug reports. Maybe I've lost the proper URL to get there, but I just got a denied when I tried. So maybe one of the folks doing development will read this. Just tried the Beta 3 on an old ALR 4 processor box. It is using 200mhz Pentium pro CPU's, with a Mylex raid controller. Locks up solid right after the graphic hit enter or F1 to continue. No idea what is happening since it is so early in the boot up. I've tried passing text and vgalo. Makes no difference. 8.2 is just fine, so this is a serious problem. Something serious has changed between this and the old version. Hopefully somone see this. I'm off to bed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: [expert] lame server resolving]
oops, forgot about sending it to the list.. -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson ---BeginMessage--- Jay wrote: Hey, my syslog has a dozens of entries similar to the following lame server resolving 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa' (in 'xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa'?): xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53 all with different IP's... As far as I can tell, some client is asking my server for information on an IP but my server doesn't have that information? Is that what lame server resolving is? Jay Are you running a public dns server? What this message means is that some other dns server is running on the internet, and it does not have its namespace in an upstream dns server. This means that recursion is not working for this lame server's in-addr.arpa zone (reverse lookup). This is not your foul up, it is some other person's foul up, namely the person that setup the lame dns server. They did not do it correctly. The reason for asking you if your dns server was public, and, therefore, on the internet was because you need to have at least two other dns servers that have your dns server's namespace in their RR's (resource records). These two other dns servers will point back to your dns server, and they will provide your dns server with recursive functionality. Therefore, you will not be the lame server. I would assume that the x's in your ip address example, from your log file, are NOT your dns server's ip address, right? In this case, some other person has screwed up their dns setup. You can not do much about these messages, except to email the clown, and tell him/her to get their shit together (you will do this to no avail. Take it from one who has tried a time or two). -- Crowded elevators smell different to midgets. Now I have seen some sick sigs in my time but this one is certainly one of the sickest I have ever seen. You win, hands down, with this one. I certainly hope it is attached to all your mail, especially your important business correspondence. The world is in need of this kind of sickness. Keep up the good work :-) drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson ---End Message--- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lame server resolving
Jay wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:53:23PM -0400 : lame server resolving 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa' (in 'xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa'?): xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53 As far as I can tell, some client is asking my server for information on an IP but my server doesn't have that information? Is that what lame server resolving is? Some client equals YOUR machines. And no, it's not your server that has the problem, it's other people's servers. Let's say that whois on domain mrball.net results in dns entries: DNS15.REGISTER.COM 216.21.234.78 DNS16.REGISTER.COM 209.67.50.246 NIXBOX.NIXIT.CA24.101.148.92 If you query dns15 and dns16, you will get an answer for hostnames in the mrball.net domain. However, the proprietor of the third entry does not have any real information about mrball.net. (The real whois results are just the first two). When you try to ping/lynx/whatever to www.mrball.net, you ask your nameserver for the IP address, it gets the list of authoritative DNS servers, and then asks one of them. If it finds that one says I don't know anything about mrball.net even though the above records indicate it _should_, then THAT is a lame server and your dns server records it in your logs. The problem is much more frequent with reverse lookups than it is with forward lookups. 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-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-4mdk msg57152/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] 9.0 beta 3 bug report
Lorne wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:12:57PM -0700 : Hey guys Pentium pro CPU's, with a Mylex raid controller. Locks up solid right after the graphic hit enter or F1 to continue. No idea what is happening since it Something serious has changed between this and the old version. Hopefully somone see this. I'm off to bed. Try passing noacpi to the kernel. Barring that, I'll see if I can come up with a list of current kernel options that look promising. H, PPro? Probably don't have acpi on a mobo that old :( 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-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-4mdk msg57153/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] lame server resolving
Jay wrote: Hey, my syslog has a dozens of entries similar to the following lame server resolving 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa' (in 'xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa'?): xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53 all with different IP's... As far as I can tell, some client is asking my server for information on an IP but my server doesn't have that information? Is that what lame server resolving is? Jay Are you running a public dns server? What this message means is that some other dns server is running on the internet, and it does not have its namespace in an upstream dns server. This means that recursion is not working for this lame server's in-addr.arpa zone (reverse lookup). This is not your foul up, it is some other person's foul up, namely the person that setup the lame dns server. They did not do it correctly. The reason for asking you if your dns server was public, and, therefore, on the internet was because you need to have at least two other dns servers that have your dns server's namespace in their RR's (resource records). These two other dns servers will point back to your dns server, and they will provide your dns server with recursive functionality. Therefore, you will not be the lame server. I would assume that the x's in your ip address example, from your log file, are NOT your dns server's ip address, right? In this case, some other person has screwed up their dns setup. You can not do much about these messages, except to email the clown, and tell him/her to get their shit together (you will do this to no avail. Take it from one who has tried a time or two). -- Crowded elevators smell different to midgets. Now I have seen some sick sigs in my time but this one is certainly one of the sickest I have ever seen. You win, hands down, with this one. I certainly hope it is attached to all your mail, especially your important business correspondence. The world is in need of this kind of sickness. Keep up the good work :-) 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: [expert] Detecting an Active Network Interface
Todd Lyons wrote: Mark Weaver wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:04:16PM -0400 : So (thinking on paper), something like: snip if count = maxtries (wow, do I forget valid syntax ;-) ) then wait 30 (??) (give the modem a chance to connect) goto start else issue Internet connection lost, could not restart message (somewhere) fi snip I'll need to brush up on bash syntax and so forth, and if I'm clever I might get rid of the goto. it is written: thou shalt NOT use a GOTO...ever! ;) The force fed us that in assembler and COBOL classes till I thought it was gonna come outa my ears. [root@fiji /usr/src/linux/kernel]# grep goto.*\;$ * | wc -l 187 Comments? :) Don't tell me Linus doesn't know anything about c now :) 201 on my system... Ya, and who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks, even Linus is forever into change... 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] MandrakeSecure: Making the most of OpenSSH
Sorry for the cross-post, but I know there were a few people looking
forward to this and I think they are on either of these lists. My
paper on using, managing, and otherwise mucking around with OpenSSH is
now on the MandrakeSecure website. Comments welcome, contributions
with other info that can be added to it very welcome in the notes
section of the paper.
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php
I hope some of you find it helpful. =)
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Re: [expert] devMAKEDEV packages
Sorry, you're absolutely right, mounted is correct, poor terminology on my part. Yup, was going to wait till the RC as you suggested unless there was an easy peasy way round it but alas there seems not to be. Thanks anyway. Cheers, Jason Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:18:16 +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, maybe this is a dumb question but here goes If one is running the dev filesystem is it possible to upgrade these RPM's without using the installer?? I am under the impression that dev gets loaded fairly early on and it becomes a real pain to upgrade these as a result. More that /dev is mounted rather than that dev is loaded. You can boot with devfs=nomount. That being said there has been a change in the way dev/MAKEDEV install and call since the B3 release which was done to allow for the upgrade of these pkgs Even when /devs is mounted and devfsd is running. Because of this upgrading from the old to the new can be problematic. On 2 of my systems running current cooker the dev MAKEDEV upgrades caused difficulties when rebooting requiring that 'rescue' mode be used and I still had a hell of a time getting the systems back to where they would boot even near normally. My recommendation would be to add dev and MAKEDEV to your skip.list and use the RC installer to upgrade then when it is released the end of this week/first of next week. Charles -- Put your best foot forward. Or just call in and say you're sick. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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
