Re: [expert] Cannot guess host type error - solved
On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:27, you wrote: Hello all, After a fresh install of MDK 8.2 I'm now getting can not guess host type errors when I run configure. I had this error a couple of years ago and I cannot remember how I corrected it. Host type is a configure option. Another error is , cannot create executables, and is probably related. I have libstdc++-devel installed. I had two versions of gcc installed, 2.96 and 3.0. I deleted 2.96. -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
: Re: [expert] Still problomes...SSH or X [Rewrite]
Thanks for the help Vox, I got it working right now, unfortunately running the insecure variant, xhost + ip.of.remotehost did the trick. But I will take a look at the page about OpenSSH later this night. ---Ursprungligt meddelande--- Från Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum 25/08/2002 01:10:52 Stefan Sten writes: Sorry, I mixed the error messages I got before. This is how it is: Ok, here the problem is that you are *not* doing Xforwarding through ssh, but trying to do remote-X-display, which runs on a wholly different protocol and port. The secure way to do it is with Xforwarding through ssh...if you want to do it the secure way, go to http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/openssh.php and start reading :) The other way is using X's protocol, which you do as this: Open a terminal on your workstation. As the user that is running X, do xhost + and then do your ssh connection. In this option, you need the DISPLAY thing set as you had it so far. Run your program and it *should* display on your workstation. Vox -- Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their messenger For info on safety in the BDSM lifestyle http://www.the-vox.com Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Spela Spray Quiz med Motorola och vinn en Motorola Talkabout 191. http://quiz.spray.se/motorola Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fax gui frontend
Is there any such beast as a graphical frontend to the hylafax package? It would need to deal with received faxes too, not just sending faxes (be nice to preview what the fax program is planning to send). ksendfax (part of kde) might be a possibility, but I don't know if it would tailor itself to hylafax, although in a awy I don't see why it wouldn't. sendfax (or 'fax send') itself is a 'front end', and in reality, hylafax is more like sendmail, a transport agent, than an app that sends faxes (applies to mgetty+sendfax too). I ran hylafax for a little while, but now I don't have a modem (just DSL) and therefore can't send faxes :(. I did experiment with methods of sending faxes in Star Office, but that didn't work all that well - multiple page faxes were a problem. Still, sending a fax is 1% (or less) actually transmission, and the rest is editing/previewing, which can be done in any editor, somewhat like printing is. And receiving - the fax subsystem (hylafax) should do all that auto- matically, all the user needs to do is see what was faxed and/or print it - and there are several tiff / g3 type viewers available. praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Spam protection
OK guys, I played it safe. I spent more time on trying to discover why Postfix was not working, at 5 AM on Saturday morning I noticed that my AV scanner was dumping scanned mail into sendmail. What I thought it was doing was dumping it via smtp on a backdoor port to postfix. Although I had entered the data in /etc/services, I failed to tell the AV scanner where to send it, and also failed to enter the /etc/postfix/master.cf entry for the backdoor service name. I had just commented out the smtp line. As I run in a protected network, the backdoor was a safe option. The end result is that I can now reject mail that I now is dodgy and use the RBL. Thanks for all your comments. David. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim C Sent: 24 August 2002 03:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Spam protection On August 23, 2002 16:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to disagree. I've been using SpamAssassin for a while now, and the number of false positives have made me turn it off. (And I've go the level set at 10) Hmmm. That's odd. My experience has been completely opposite. I had a couple of False Positives in the first week I started using it , but they were all from HTML newsletters that I subscribe to. I simply whitelisted all of the newsletters and I haven't had a FP since.( I use the default level 5) -- Tim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Postfix SpamAssassin
Greetings, I'm struggling to get SpamAssassin working properly with Postfix. I think I'm close, but things aren't working quite right. I've read the helpful documents at http://advosys.ca/papers/postfix-filtering.html, http://advosys.ca/papers/filter.sh.txt, and http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/postfix+spamassassin+razor.txt and made the changes that seem needed. I have defined a new user and a new group 'filter' for the use of SpamAssassin, have changed /etc/postfix/master.cf, created a filtering script in /usr/local/bin for running spamassassin, and created spool directory /var/spool/filter for use by the filtering script. I'm using the sample-spam.txt and sample-nonspam.txt messages that come with spamassassin-2.20 for my testing. When run from postfix, both sample messages are classified as non-spam. If I simply run spamassassin sample-spam.txt or spamassassin sample-nonspam.txt, the results are correct. Any thoughts on what I've (probably) missed? If desired, I can post the X-Spam-Status and X-Spam-Level messages generated, as well as the system changes I made. TIA. David David Relson Osage Software Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ann Arbor, MI 48103 www.osagesoftware.com tel: 734.821.8800 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?
Hello All, I have been looking at various distributions on the net but have always liked Mandrake and have used it in the past with great success. What I need now is a small minimalist distribution of Mandrake that would have the latest supported kernel 2.4.x and latest Xfree 4.x windowing system. My project will be connecting to the internet as well via NFS and Samba along with not needing things like KDE nor GNOME and will be installing my own window manager. The trick to this is that although I will have either an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, I need the whole distribution to be initially small, something like under about 5 - 10 Meg if possible. I will be adding other packages as they are needed. I have come across a few other distributions on the Internet that claim to be able to offer a kernel and xwindows on only 2 floppy disks but would prefer to work with Mandrake if possible. does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this task accomplished easily with Mandrake? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance, Lonnie
Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?
On Sunday 25 August 2002 17:04, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: What I need now is a small minimalist distribution of Mandrake that would have the latest supported kernel 2.4.x and latest Xfree 4.x windowing system. My project will be connecting to the internet as well via NFS and Samba along with not needing things like KDE nor GNOME and will be installing my own window manager. The trick to this is that although I will have either an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, I need the whole distribution to be initially small, something like under about 5 - 10 Meg if possible. I will be adding other packages as they are needed. I have come across a few other distributions on the Internet that claim to be able to offer a kernel and xwindows on only 2 floppy disks but would prefer to work with Mandrake if possible. does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this task accomplished easily with Mandrake? I don't think that a stock Mandrake is up to this small of an installation. If you select expert mode during the install, then select none of the package groups, you will be asked if you are trying to install a barren system, and if you tell the installer to use the minimal package set, it still comes out right near 100 MB. (I think it was 101, or there about...) This minimal installation footprint does not include any XFree86 packages, and doesn't even include urpmi and friends! If memory serves, none of the network servers (NFS, SMB, etc) are inclused in the minimal footprint, either, so they would have to be added in during individual package selection (next). The installation proceeds to the individual package selection, where one can (de-)select additional packages, but I don't know if trimming things down to 10 MB is feasible with Mandrake. Best regards! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+--+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \Charles A. Shirley\ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody --+--+ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?
Thanks for the response Chuck. I guess that I'll just have to keep investigating the problem a little more. Thanks again, Lonnie - Original Message - From: Chuck Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size? On Sunday 25 August 2002 17:04, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: What I need now is a small minimalist distribution of Mandrake that would have the latest supported kernel 2.4.x and latest Xfree 4.x windowing system. My project will be connecting to the internet as well via NFS and Samba along with not needing things like KDE nor GNOME and will be installing my own window manager. The trick to this is that although I will have either an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, I need the whole distribution to be initially small, something like under about 5 - 10 Meg if possible. I will be adding other packages as they are needed. I have come across a few other distributions on the Internet that claim to be able to offer a kernel and xwindows on only 2 floppy disks but would prefer to work with Mandrake if possible. does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this task accomplished easily with Mandrake? I don't think that a stock Mandrake is up to this small of an installation. If you select expert mode during the install, then select none of the package groups, you will be asked if you are trying to install a barren system, and if you tell the installer to use the minimal package set, it still comes out right near 100 MB. (I think it was 101, or there about...) This minimal installation footprint does not include any XFree86 packages, and doesn't even include urpmi and friends! If memory serves, none of the network servers (NFS, SMB, etc) are inclused in the minimal footprint, either, so they would have to be added in during individual package selection (next). The installation proceeds to the individual package selection, where one can (de-)select additional packages, but I don't know if trimming things down to 10 MB is feasible with Mandrake. Best regards! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+--+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \Charles A. Shirley\ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody @--+--+ 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]
Report from the field (so to speak) I just downloaded and installed 9.0 beta 4. the box seems to be sitting here like a rock... 5 hours and no even a hint of a crash. In short I can find bugs, but it's a lot more solid on this box than 8.2. Feels like 8.1 so far. Some notes for the release would be. DON'T release this version with KDE 3.0.0 At least make it 3.0.3 It's out it's stable and the rpms are built so why not? In Fact if you can try to send it out with 3.1.1. The difference between 3.0.0 and 3.0.3 is dramatic in terms of speed and stability. PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, and on a disk in every version of the release (Download PowerPack etc etc) Oh and if you do make sure to put the cron job back in slocate. Zero your efforts in on the i815 and Via all in wonder boards. NVidia and ATI are better, but All in Wonder is WalMart and nothing you have going right now will do more for Mandrake than this WalMart deal. If and whenever you have the chance, push for the Mandrake Menu system to become a standard for LSB. Not necessarily the method but the taxonomy. After 5 minutes with Red Hat I find myself saying the heck with the menu I know the start command give me a shell. (Did you know there are 3 places that say internet and each one has a different set of apps?) Take a strong look at some of the backwards compatible libs that RH is putting in 7.3 They go a long way to easing the transition from glibc2.x to glibc3.x. As well as allowing more and more KDE2.2 apps to work in KDE3.x Release 9.0 with glibc3.2 not an earlier one. Worked with all 3 of the versions. 3.2 is head and shoulders above the others. Why does the second partition in the Mandrake installer HAVE to be an extended one? I do multi-boot. (8 or 9 distro's per box) Cutting out 2 partitions does affect me. (Yep on a 80 gig drive I can use all 19. 3 primaries 1 extended and 16 logical) cutting out 2 means one less distro and I do notice this. Oh well enough soapbox All in all 9.0 is shaping up to be the most solid release since 7.0. Don't be afraid to have a beta 5 or even 6 if it makes increases stability and saves developer sanity it will be worth it. How about a 4th ISO with the beta's This one only contains the rpm's that have been updated since the last beta... Mandrake Control Center could handle this no problem so why not do it? Not only would it make the mirrors happy (it drops the bandwidth usage.) but it would keep me from becoming a power user in ATT's eyes (My Cable provider.) *grin* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?
Lonnie. If you are looking to get that small embedded Linux will carry you further than any of the desktop dirsto's. At that size you are not going to be dealing with the same needs as you would with a full desktop. The /bin directory alone is larger than what you need. (6.8 megs) Peanut Linux Pee Wee Linux and MicroWindows or Tiny X will start to get you down to the small footprint you need. Busybox isn't a distro but it does allow you to have /bin /sbin and all of your base utilities in under 600k The other thing to look at is do you really need the 2.4 kernel? 2.0 kernel is still around and it's current. And very well may provide you with all the features you need, at about half the size or less. But if you do need the 2.4 kernel in the early days of Embedded Linux Magazine Bruce Perens did a 3 part series on building a floppy based Linux using BusyBox and 2.4. You can access the archives via www.linuxjournal.com. Take that add Tiny Login (he covers that) and one of the small windowing systems I mentioned and you could easily be under the 10 meg limit you need. James On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 14:39, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Thanks for the response Chuck. I guess that I'll just have to keep investigating the problem a little more. Thanks again, Lonnie - Original Message - From: Chuck Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size? On Sunday 25 August 2002 17:04, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: What I need now is a small minimalist distribution of Mandrake that would have the latest supported kernel 2.4.x and latest Xfree 4.x windowing system. My project will be connecting to the internet as well via NFS and Samba along with not needing things like KDE nor GNOME and will be installing my own window manager. The trick to this is that although I will have either an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, I need the whole distribution to be initially small, something like under about 5 - 10 Meg if possible. I will be adding other packages as they are needed. I have come across a few other distributions on the Internet that claim to be able to offer a kernel and xwindows on only 2 floppy disks but would prefer to work with Mandrake if possible. does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this task accomplished easily with Mandrake? I don't think that a stock Mandrake is up to this small of an installation. If you select expert mode during the install, then select none of the package groups, you will be asked if you are trying to install a barren system, and if you tell the installer to use the minimal package set, it still comes out right near 100 MB. (I think it was 101, or there about...) This minimal installation footprint does not include any XFree86 packages, and doesn't even include urpmi and friends! If memory serves, none of the network servers (NFS, SMB, etc) are inclused in the minimal footprint, either, so they would have to be added in during individual package selection (next). The installation proceeds to the individual package selection, where one can (de-)select additional packages, but I don't know if trimming things down to 10 MB is feasible with Mandrake. Best regards! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+--+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \Charles A. Shirley\ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody @--+--+ 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size?
Hi James, Thanks for the information and I will look into those distributions to get a feel for what they can do. I have also found the Linux Terminal Server Project as well and it might be a good starting point as well because the project is close to an advanced terminal which will be running some graphics programs and thus any latest kernels and xfree will allow me to take advantage of the hardware acceleration that the machines may have. Cheers, Lonnie - Original Message - From: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size? Lonnie. If you are looking to get that small embedded Linux will carry you further than any of the desktop dirsto's. At that size you are not going to be dealing with the same needs as you would with a full desktop. The /bin directory alone is larger than what you need. (6.8 megs) Peanut Linux Pee Wee Linux and MicroWindows or Tiny X will start to get you down to the small footprint you need. Busybox isn't a distro but it does allow you to have /bin /sbin and all of your base utilities in under 600k The other thing to look at is do you really need the 2.4 kernel? 2.0 kernel is still around and it's current. And very well may provide you with all the features you need, at about half the size or less. But if you do need the 2.4 kernel in the early days of Embedded Linux Magazine Bruce Perens did a 3 part series on building a floppy based Linux using BusyBox and 2.4. You can access the archives via www.linuxjournal.com. Take that add Tiny Login (he covers that) and one of the small windowing systems I mentioned and you could easily be under the 10 meg limit you need. James On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 14:39, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Thanks for the response Chuck. I guess that I'll just have to keep investigating the problem a little m ore. Thanks again, Lonnie - Original Message - From: Chuck Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Minimalist Mandrake Distro Size? On Sunday 25 August 2002 17:04, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: What I need now is a small minimalist distribution of Mandrake that would have the latest supported kernel 2.4.x and latest Xfree 4.x windowing system. My project will be connecting to the internet as well via NFS and Samba along with not needing things like KDE nor GNOME and will be installing my own window manager. The trick to this is that although I will have either an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, I need the whole distribution to be initially small, something like under about 5 - 10 Meg if possible. I will be adding other packages as they are needed. I have come across a few other distributions on the Internet that claim to be able to offer a kernel and xwindows on only 2 floppy disks but would prefer to work with Mandrake if possible. does anyone have any ideas on how I can get this task accomplished easily with Mandrake? I don't think that a stock Mandrake is up to this small of an installation. If you select expert mode during the install, then select none of the package groups, you will be asked if you are trying to install a barren system, and if you tell the installer to use the minimal package set, it still comes out right near 100 MB. (I think it was 101, or there about...) This minimal installation footprint does not include any XFree86 packages, and doesn't even include urpmi and friends! If memory serves, none of the network servers (NFS, SMB, etc) are inclused in the minimal footprint, either, so they would have to be added in during individual package selection (next). The installation proceeds to the individual package selection, where one can (de-)select additional packages, but I don't know if trimming things down to 10 MB is feasible with Mandrake. Best regards! -Chuck -- +-% He's a real UNIX Man $-+--+ \ Sitting in his UNIX LAN \Charles A. Shirley\ \ Making all his UNIX plans \ cashirley (at) comcast (dot) net \ +--# For nobody @--+--+ -- -- 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 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]
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote: PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, and on a disk in every version of the release (Download PowerPack etc etc) Oh and if you do make sure to put the cron job back in slocate. slocate is there. Apparently there was a big discussion on [cooker] some time ago and the decision was made to make the update weekly (in 9.0) rather than daily (in 8.2) as the daily update tied up older machines too much, particularly if people were switching them on and off. This seems sensible. Zero your efforts in on the i815 and Via all in wonder boards. NVidia and ATI are better, but All in Wonder is WalMart and nothing you have going right now will do more for Mandrake than this WalMart deal. As an owner of a machine with an i815 chipset I strongly second this ;) [snip] Oh well enough soapbox All in all 9.0 is shaping up to be the most solid release since 7.0. Don't be afraid to have a beta 5 or even 6 if it makes increases stability and saves developer sanity it will be worth it. Indeed, although the lack of documentation of the burgeoning drak* utilities is a problem. For example, lspcidrake is very useful for listing all devices - or what Mandrake thinks are devices - yet you wouldn't know about it until somebody told you ... How about a 4th ISO with the beta's This one only contains the rpm's that have been updated since the last beta... Mandrake Control Center could handle this no problem so why not do it? Not only would it make the mirrors happy (it drops the bandwidth usage.) but it would keep me from becoming a power user in ATT's eyes (My Cable provider.) *grin* This has been discussed on the [cooker] list. The discussion got rather confused but I _think_ that, if you keep on doing rsync or urpmi --auto-select with a cooker host, you pick up the up-to-date packages anyway although no flag shoots up with 'this is now beta 4' on it (so one of those now on beta 3 would give you beta 4 + updates until tonight ...). Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert]
At 03:44 PM 8/25/02, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote: PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, and on a disk in every version of the release (Download PowerPack etc etc) Oh and if you do make sure to put the cron job back in slocate. slocate is there. Apparently there was a big discussion on [cooker] some time ago and the decision was made to make the update weekly (in 9.0) rather than daily (in 8.2) as the daily update tied up older machines too much, particularly if people were switching them on and off. This seems sensible. I'm happy with the daily runs. It's not so important on my firewall, but it counts on my two development and test machines where file come, go, and move quite regularly. FWIW, on my P133 (with 4GB drive) the combination of slocate, msec, and tripwire does take a while, but the machine has sufficient available CPU cycles that running all three _every_ day is fine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert]
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 12:44, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote: PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, and on a disk in every version of the release (Download PowerPack etc etc) Oh and if you do make sure to put the cron job back in slocate. slocate is there. Apparently there was a big discussion on [cooker] some time ago and the decision was made to make the update weekly (in 9.0) rather than daily (in 8.2) as the daily update tied up older machines too much, particularly if people were switching them on and off. This seems sensible. Note Yes I did get it out of cooker but urpmi slocate on the 9.0 beta 4 disks yeilded a no such file error. Then urpmi locate --fuzzy got the same result. The cooker version is hower missing the cron job for this ... had to manully put it in. Zero your efforts in on the i815 and Via all in wonder boards. NVidia and ATI are better, but All in Wonder is WalMart and nothing you have going right now will do more for Mandrake than this WalMart deal. As an owner of a machine with an i815 chipset I strongly second this ;) [snip] Oh well enough soapbox All in all 9.0 is shaping up to be the most solid release since 7.0. Don't be afraid to have a beta 5 or even 6 if it makes increases stability and saves developer sanity it will be worth it. Indeed, although the lack of documentation of the burgeoning drak* utilities is a problem. For example, lspcidrake is very useful for listing all devices - or what Mandrake thinks are devices - yet you wouldn't know about it until somebody told you ... Go ya one better I was told the command was lspci... without the drake... it does exist but when you had the drake the output is a lot nicer. How about a 4th ISO with the beta's This one only contains the rpm's that have been updated since the last beta... Mandrake Control Center could handle this no problem so why not do it? Not only would it make the mirrors happy (it drops the bandwidth usage.) but it would keep me from becoming a power user in ATT's eyes (My Cable provider.) *grin* This has been discussed on the [cooker] list. The discussion got rather confused but I _think_ that, if you keep on doing rsync or urpmi --auto-select with a cooker host, you pick up the up-to-date packages anyway although no flag shoots up with 'this is now beta 4' on it (so one of those now on beta 3 would give you beta 4 + updates until tonight ...). There is a really good discussion on pclinuxonline.com with texstar (he advocates rsync) on this. The problem seems to be that most of the download sites either don't support rsync or limit the number of rsyncs to such a low number of users it's dang near impossible to get in. I know I've been able to download an iso via ftp before I could ever get logged in via rsync. ie IF I start both at about the same time by the time I get in via rsync I'm ready to fix any errors in the original download. rsync is a wonderful tool but if no one is supporting it... it's problematic. Alastair 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] Mandrake 9 beta 3 bug report
I installed Beta 3 on a brand new Gigabyte 2.2 P4 box. It has a promise raid controller with a Radeon ATI all in wonder card. The Boot loader thrashed my MBR. My guess is because I'm installing this on a standard IDE drive and the boot loader is on the promise mirrored drive. I CAN boot using the Floppy with no problem. I had to redo my MBR though for my XP partition. Support for the LS120 is MUCH MUCH better. Before it didn't work at all. Now it detects, and even allowed me to make my boot disk directly to the LS120 drive! COOL! I used the newest hardware accelerated xwindows and am seeing some very odd display bugs. For instance, I cut and paste from one Mozilla browser window to another. A bash window I had open filled up with some cut data! ?? I atttemped to set up a cups printer (VERY COOL from the past). I thought perhaps I needed to restart the cups daemon to get it to start working. I attempted to go to a bash prompt. I couldn't get out of X, and I when I went to ALT-F1 the cursor wasn't in the right place and I couldn't tell what I was typing. I finally had to do a CTRL-ALT-Delete. ?? I attemped to do a updatedb for locate and got a segmentation fault. I ended up having to reset the computer. If no one is having any troubles in this area, then perhaps it is just my hardware and can follow up further if details are requested. Still no support added in the video setup section for the ViewSonic A110. Lorne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert]
On Sunday August 25 2002 02:44 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: This has been discussed on the [cooker] list. The discussion got rather confused but I _think_ that, if you keep on doing rsync or urpmi --auto-select with a cooker host, you pick up the up-to-date packages anyway although no flag shoots up with 'this is now beta 4' on it (so one of those now on beta 3 would give you beta 4 + updates until tonight ...). Alastair I've got cooker current. Comparing to an 'ls' of beta4's /RPMS dir a friend emailed me, cooker current is several days ahead of beta4. MOF, when B4 first went on the mirrors, it was already several days old, and missing (IMO) some important fixes/improvements since. So that leaves me wonderin what the point is in releasing stale beta's ?? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert]
On Sunday August 25 2002 01:41 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Report from the field (so to speak) I just downloaded and installed 9.0 beta 4. the box seems to be sitting here like a rock... 5 hours and no even a hint of a crash. In short I can find bugs, but it's a lot more solid on this box than 8.2. Feels like 8.1 so far. I've been usin 9.0 since the June alpha release and found it to be better than 8.x with a kde3 upgrade. Solid. Currently I'm past beta4 (which has had many updated packages since it was mirrored on Fri.), usin current cooker. DON'T release this version with KDE 3.0.0 At least make it 3.0.3 It's out it's stable and the rpms are built so why not? In Fact if you can try to send it out with 3.1.1. The difference between 3.0.0 and 3.0.3 is dramatic in terms of speed and stability. ?? current kde is kde*-3.0.3 in 9.0. MOF, if you watch the CHRPM list, Mandrake's 3.0.3 contains some 3.1 back ports (eg, flash is back for Konqueror, 3.1 mem leak fixes, etc). I doubt you'll see 9.0 Final with kde 3.1 tho. Altho, I'm a KDE user/fan, kde3 probly won't be release grade til 3.3.3 ; Still better than Gnome 2.anything ;) PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, ?? ?? (it's never been missing), slocate-2.6-5mdk -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] E-mail conversion
Ok I'm convinced evolution is a great tool. One question does anyone know of a way to convert Sylpheed Mail to Evlolution Tried exporting as mbox but evo can't read that, and no direct conversion is available. Any ideas anyone? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] rpmrc
I've read the RPM Howtos and I'm trying to get an .rpmrc setup so I can build rpms as normal user. I had this setup before but I dont have my old config files to go by. I have this in my ~/.rpmrc topdir: /home/skidley/rpm and I get this error: bad option 'topdir' at /home/skidley/.rpmrc:1 Is my syntax wrong or is the option changed in latest rpm? I'm using rpm-4.0.4-16mdk from 9.0 beta 4 -- I mean they are gonna kill ya so like if ya give em a quick, short, sharp, shock they won't do it again. Dig it! I mean he got off lightly cuz I would have given him a thrashing. I only hit him once. It was only a difference of opinion but really... I mean good manners don't cost nothin do they. Eh? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Proper UID for Nobody ?
It is not unusual for nobody to be 65535 (16 bits) on various systems. On an MDK system, I might get worried a little as nobody is usually 99. Woody On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 21:51, 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Woody --- Gatewood GreenWeb Developer/Systems Admin Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linif.org/ Linux in Idaho Falls Linux User Group --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpmrc
skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read the RPM Howtos and I'm trying to get an .rpmrc setup so I can build rpms as normal user. I had this setup before but I dont have my old config files to go by. I have this in my ~/.rpmrc topdir: /home/skidley/rpm That stuff now goes in .rpmmacros here's mine: %_topdir /home/vox/tarballs/rpms %_tmppath /home/vox/tarballs/rpms/tmp %_signaturegpg %_gpg_name Mandrake Linux %_gpg_path ~/.gnupg %distribution Mandrake Linux %vendorMandrakeSoft Vox -- Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their messenger For info on safety in the BDSM lifestyle http://www.the-vox.com Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpmrc
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 23:06, skidley wrote: I've read the RPM Howtos and I'm trying to get an .rpmrc setup so I can build rpms as normal user. I had this setup before but I dont have my old config files to go by. I have this in my ~/.rpmrc topdir: /home/skidley/rpm Try removing the space so that it says topdir:/home/skidley/rpm. James and I get this error: bad option 'topdir' at /home/skidley/.rpmrc:1 Is my syntax wrong or is the option changed in latest rpm? I'm using rpm-4.0.4-16mdk from 9.0 beta 4 -- I mean they are gonna kill ya so like if ya give em a quick, short, sharp, shock they won't do it again. Dig it! I mean he got off lightly cuz I would have given him a thrashing. I only hit him once. It was only a difference of opinion but really... I mean good manners don't cost nothin do they. Eh? 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] Re: rpmrc
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:06:26AM -0400, Skidley wrote: I've read the RPM Howtos and I'm trying to get an .rpmrc setup so I can build rpms as normal user. I had this setup before but I dont have my old config files to go by. I have this in my ~/.rpmrc topdir: /home/skidley/rpm and I get this error: bad option 'topdir' at /home/skidley/.rpmrc:1 Is my syntax wrong or is the option changed in latest rpm? I'm using rpm-4.0.4-16mdk from 9.0 beta 4 -- I mean they are gonna kill ya so like if ya give em a quick, short, sharp, shock they won't do it again. Dig it! I mean he got off lightly cuz I would have given him a thrashing. I only hit him once. It was only a difference of opinion but really... I mean good manners don't cost nothin do they. Eh? Never mind I realized topdir is a macro and not meant for rpmrc files -- I mean they are gonna kill ya so like if ya give em a quick, short, sharp, shock they won't do it again. Dig it! I mean he got off lightly cuz I would have given him a thrashing. I only hit him once. It was only a difference of opinion but really... I mean good manners don't cost nothin do they. Eh? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] auto logout
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 22:24, Mark Weaver wrote: Dan Cox wrote: Is there a way to auto logout inactive users? I have seen something about TMOUT variable, but when I set it in /etc/profile and login at console I get bash: TMOUT read only or something similar. So my question is how do I get TMOUT to work? Also does TMOUT work for users who are using X, gnome, kde, ect.? If not how could I set an auto logout for those applications? Thanks for all the help. Dan Cox Dan, I can't help but wonder. Why would you want to? Increase security a little and save resources by kicking out inactive users. This is actually rather common on multi-user systems and the default behavior of MDK if you engage one of the higher security levels. To answer the original question though, msec will do this for you; edit /etc/sysconfig/msec and add: TMOUT=900 Replace 900 with the number of seconds of grace you would like. There is a catch though. It only dumps truly inactive users. If a user walks away with an editor running, or any program for that matter (tailing a log file for instance) the system will not see the user as idle. If resource conservation is what you are seeking, see: /etc/security/* Short of writing a frequent cron job that scans the logged in users and checks for the time logged on and true activity, I cannot see a way to kick someone off automatically if they are idle, but 'active' (running a command). I could have overlooked something though. -- Woody --- Gatewood GreenWeb Developer/Systems Admin Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linif.org/ Linux in Idaho Falls Linux User Group --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Video Memory and the i815 Chipset.
Ok one box 4 distro's Mandrake 8.2 Mandrake 9.0beta 4 RedHat 7.3 SuSe 8.0 In my never ending quest to find out why 8.2 crashes so often I've run across this ... Mandrake 8.0 claims I have only 4096K of video ram Mandrake 9.0 claims I have only 16384k of video ram RedHat and Suse both see the full 6554k of video ram. The video is via an Intel i815 chipset onboard video from an ASUS TUSL2 motherboard. In BIOS Video Ram is set to 6554k as is recognized by SuSe and RedHat. What gives. If I manually adjust XF86Config-4 in either Mandrake distro to the correct number ... X will not start. It simply respawns until the system decides to stop it. The only error message is that X is respawning too fast. When I set it back ... It works just fine. The result is that under Mandrake I can only get 16 bit color and 3d acceleration bites. In RH and SuSe it sings and 32bit color at 1280 x 1084 is fine. I've tried installing and telling it mem=448M (512 - 64) but it still insists I have only the smaller amount. Any thoughts? James PS I'm running 4.xx XFree86 with the SVGA server in all 4 distro's Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
