Re: [expert] How to send mail between 3 comp LAN?
Dark, Why not just create e-mail accounts on the box with postfix/sendmail (whichever you use) on it for all of your users and then pop3 or imap it from there? Seems it would be easier than setting up 3 e-mail servers etc etc. Then create all the boxes hosts files identically. (btw windows does do hosts. look for HOSTS.SAM ) so that when you type A@b every box knows who b is... It also might make it work better if you drop the .com from names my sendmail is on jam1 and if I send to james@jam1 from my wifes winders box it shows up in my e-mail spool. James On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 06:59, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 07:28 am, you wrote: > > > I know you have all the correct info in etc/hosts > > Okay. I'll just keep hammering at it (my usual procedure!), reading all info > I can find. I tried playing with Webmin last night but still nothing seemed > to help. The error message I'm getting is: > >--- > If you do so, please include this problem report. You can > delete your own text from the message returned below. > > The Postfix program > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: unknown user: "zerocool" > >--- > > Oh well...I'll just keep at it. Thanks for your input though! > > -- > /\ > Dark< >Lord > \/ > > > > 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] ownership of mounted filesystems
i have amount point that is owned by the ordinary user 'bascule' when i mount my nfs share of mp3s on it - done by the following in fstab watson:/home/music/mp3s /stuff/mp3s/mount nfs intr,bg the mount point is shown - and all subdirectories and files - as being owned by another account on the system, the account is my daughters, rarely used and the group is xgrp, is there an easy to understand set of rules for how perms and ownership are set when mounting things? this has me foxed, it doesn't matter as such i can still play the mp3s and it's a readonly filesystem anyway but still, i would like to understand this bascule -- "Yes, it's the right planet, all right, " he said again. "Right planet, wrong universe. " Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Samba printing - Help!
I've found that the samba settings work best with options "use encrypted passwords" enabled and "allow null passwords" enabled as well. Also keep in mind that you may have to capture a printer port and browse to the network printer rather than installing the printer as a pure network printer (this applies when printing to a linux box from a windows machine). Some printers (esp HP laserjet) will not install in windows unless it first detects the printer on a "port". Shouldn't apply in the reverse situation though. Hopefully I don't confuse you more. I have less experience printing from linux to windows than windows to linux to be honest. Todd Can we cut the HTML mails from this list... All my printers are on a linux server, multiple io cards are fitted. I use CUP's for printing. My samaba config is quite basic, but the printers that are visible on the Windows network are all installable. I go into the 'Add printer' dialogue and it allows you to browse the network...just select the one that you want and the insaller does the rest. I have never had to capture the port to do this. If you guys want to see my config, let me know and i'll post it. I do agree about the encrypted password token, also are the printers browsable, this makes things easier.. David. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] j2sdk just a little help ...
hi, have downloaded the jDictionary and had to install first the java-runtime-einvironment - so far so good, but I don't have any idea nor experiences with java, so I should know, what I have to doafter a succesful install of this file : j2sdk-1_4_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin first I does a simple run on it then I got : j2sdk-1_4_0_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm after that I made aslo a simple rpm -Uvh j2sdk-1_4_0_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm the install-procedure shows a successfully installation, but what I have to do as a next step, so I van do such a thing like : java -jar jdictionary.jar was looking now for a few hours, where I can see some hints, but cannot find any useful hints - so I'm hoping to get some from here thanks in advance one more time bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ISP specific list
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Scott uttered these words of wisdom: >Does anyone know if there is an ISP specific list for Mandrake or > >1)It's cool to post questions here I think this is the correct forum for your questions. A lot of people here (including myself) are running their own web / email / etc... servers at home off of either dsl or cable internet. Not quite the scale of an ISP, but the approach should be similar. >2)I should start a new list on my Mandrake servers here :) Can't speak for that one, but there are also IRC channels devoted to mandrake as well as the several lists >I have more questions about Mandrake as I replace my BSDI boxes >at the ISP I am running, but not sure if it is cool to post those questions >on this list. I'm surprised to hear that you're switching from BSDI to Mandrake; why is that? (just curious) >-Scott /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com < "AOL for Dummies" is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] simple php -apache - mysql content management system
looking for someone's favorite php-nuke alternative Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] simple php -apache - mysql content management system
tarvid wrote: > looking for someone's favorite php-nuke alternative > > Jim Tarvid postnuke of course ! http://postnuke.com/ Nÿco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] j2sdk just a little help ...
unfortunately it installs in its own directory. try rpm -ql j2sdk to find the base directory on mine it's /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0 so, in my case I would do: export JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0" export PATH=JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH recommended to put those lines in your .bashrc or /etc/bashrc (or in a j2sdk.sh script in /etc/profile.d) /m - Original Message - From: "hans schneidhofer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mdk-expert-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 15:22 Subject: [expert] j2sdk just a little help ... > hi, > have downloaded the jDictionary and had to install first the > java-runtime-einvironment - so far so good, but I don't have any idea > nor experiences with java, so I should know, what I have to doafter a > succesful install of this file : > > j2sdk-1_4_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin > first I does a simple run on it then I got : > j2sdk-1_4_0_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm > after that I made aslo a simple rpm -Uvh > j2sdk-1_4_0_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm > > the install-procedure shows a successfully installation, but what I have > to do as a next step, so I van do such a thing like : > java -jar jdictionary.jar > > was looking now for a few hours, where I can see some hints, but cannot > find any useful hints - so I'm hoping to get some from here > > thanks in advance one more time > bye hans > > > > > > 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] j2sdk just a little help ...
I had to do this just last night in order to run a java program called Arachnophilia. Make sure that the java binary file is in your Path. It's probably in a directory similar to this: /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0_02/bin. That may not be the exact path but you should be able to track it down. Once you've found where the java binary is located, make a symbolic link to it. Make sure the link is in your Path. For example, I changed directory to /usr/bin. If this is where you want to put the link then create the link as follows: ln -s :: location where your java binary is :: java So, mine looked like: ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1/bin/java java After doing that, you should be able to run your jDictionary. Rick On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 09:22, hans schneidhofer wrote: > hi, > have downloaded the jDictionary and had to install first the > java-runtime-einvironment - so far so good, but I don't have any idea > nor experiences with java, so I should know, what I have to doafter a > succesful install of this file : > > j2sdk-1_4_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin > first I does a simple run on it then I got : > j2sdk-1_4_0_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm > after that I made aslo a simple rpm -Uvh > j2sdk-1_4_0_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm > > the install-procedure shows a successfully installation, but what I have > to do as a next step, so I van do such a thing like : > java -jar jdictionary.jar > > was looking now for a few hours, where I can see some hints, but cannot > find any useful hints - so I'm hoping to get some from here > > thanks in advance one more time > bye hans > > > > > > > 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] j2sdk just a little help ...
On 26 Sep 2002 15:22:06 +0200 hans schneidhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > have downloaded the jDictionary and had to install first the > java-runtime-einvironment - so far so good, but I don't have any idea > nor experiences with java, so I should know, what I have to doafter a > succesful install of this file : > > j2sdk-1_4_0_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin > first I does a simple run on it then I got : > j2sdk-1_4_0_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm > after that I made aslo a simple rpm -Uvh > j2sdk-1_4_0_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm > > the install-procedure shows a successfully installation, but what I have > to do as a next step, so I van do such a thing like : > java -jar jdictionary.jar > > was looking now for a few hours, where I can see some hints, but cannot > find any useful hints - so I'm hoping to get some from here > > thanks in advance one more time > bye hans > > i'm using this version of java: Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.4.1-beta) i run jdictionary_1.8 with it. all what you have to do is to add the path to java executable in $PATH by editing /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc or $HOME/.bashrc or... if you have no idea on where it could be, try this $ rpm -ql j2sdk-1_4_0_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm | grep /bin/java$ bye jipe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] simple php -apache - mysql content management system
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 09:54, tarvid wrote: > looking for someone's favorite php-nuke alternative > > Jim Tarvid Geeklog!! http://geeklog.sourceforge.net/ Here's my site: http://sildara.dyndns.org/thuria/html/index.php -- Dave Sherman| "They that can give up essential liberty MCSE, MCSA, CCNA| to obtain a little temporary safety | deserve neither liberty nor safety." |- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] ISP specific list
At 07:31 AM 9/26/2002 -0700, you wrote: >I think this is the correct forum for your questions. A lot of people >here (including myself) are running their own web / email / etc... servers >at home off of either dsl or cable internet. Not quite the scale of an >ISP, but the approach should be similar. Thank you, I think most of the questions would be related to most of the discussions on here. >Can't speak for that one, but there are also IRC channels devoted to >mandrake as well as the several lists What IRC channels and where? >I'm surprised to hear that you're switching from BSDI to Mandrake; why is >that? (just curious) Familiarity would be the main reason. The BSDI boxes are old and long past retirement age so it's time to move forward and Mandrake was the logical choice for me since I have been using it since the first version. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ISP specific list
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Scott St. John uttered these words of wisdom: >What IRC channels and where? irc.openprojects.net #Mandrake #Mandrake-Linux #mandrakefr (For those who are french) #mdk-athlon (Building an athlon specific Mandrake 9.0) #MDK-Cooker (For cooker-related questions, etc...) > >>I'm surprised to hear that you're switching from BSDI to Mandrake; why is >>that? (just curious) > >Familiarity would be the main reason. The BSDI boxes are old and long past >retirement age so it's time to move forward and Mandrake was the logical >choice for me since I have been using it since the first version. aahhh, that does make sense :-) >-Scott > Take care! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com < "AOL for Dummies" is kind of redundant, don't you think? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ISP specific list
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 09:47, Scott St. John wrote: [...] > > What IRC channels and where? irc.openprojects.net #Mandrake [...] -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] simple php -apache - mysql content management system
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Nicolas VERITE wrote: > tarvid wrote: > > looking for someone's favorite php-nuke alternative > > > > Jim Tarvid > > postnuke of course ! > http://postnuke.com/ > > Nÿco From a security point of view, both of these are not a good choice. Even Vincent Danen (Mandrake security updates) won't touch those. Check out his site using Geeklog at http://Freezer-Burn.Org/ Thanks... Dan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ADSL in RC3 installation
> My ADSL connection worked great with 8.2 > installation... > ...but I've just tested RC2 then RC3, > and both don't make ADSL work... Have you tried to kill the "shorewall" firewall? I had the same problem, i got the IP and connection running but when i tried to connect via mozilla it didn't let me establish the server connection. Hope it help you c ya Gonzalo Avaria from Chile...chilecito _ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] simple php -apache - mysql content management system
On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 08:54 AM, tarvid wrote: > looking for someone's favorite php-nuke alternative Geeklog. http://geeklog.sourceforge.net/ IIRC... much better than nuke. I run two sites on Geeklog and really really like it... I've tried php-nuke and post-nuke and both are buggy and security nightmares. http://anthill.vmlinuz.ca/ http://www.freezer-burn.org/ Both sites I run using Geeklog. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD} PGP.sig Description: PGP signature
[expert] No key repeating in GNOME2 ?
Hi, Installed Dolphin and GNOME2. Everything works wonderful except one annoyance: No matter how long I keep my finger on a key, it does not repeat. This makes scrolling through a text very annoying! I went to GHNOME's control center and looked at the keyboard settings. Key repeating is set. I tried several adjustments there but nothing works. key repeating works ok on the consoles but not in GNOME, not even in xterm or gnome-console. Is this a known thing? I haven't read anything about it so far. wobo -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ADSL in RC3 installation
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: >> My ADSL connection worked great with 8.2 >> installation... >> ...but I've just tested RC2 then RC3, >> and both don't make ADSL work... > > Have you tried to kill the "shorewall" firewall? I had > the same problem, i got the IP and connection running > but when i tried to connect via mozilla it didn't let > me establish the server connection. ie. Fron the command line, do: shorewall clear Dale Huckeby Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No key repeating in GNOME2 ?
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:29:59 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Installed Dolphin and GNOME2. Everything works wonderful except one > annoyance: > > No matter how long I keep my finger on a key, it does not repeat. This > makes scrolling through a text very annoying! > > I went to GHNOME's control center and looked at the keyboard settings. > Key repeating is set. I tried several adjustments there but nothing > works. > > key repeating works ok on the consoles but not in GNOME, not even in > xterm or gnome-console. > > Is this a known thing? I haven't read anything about it so far. Strange you should say that as I noticed it the first time I started up 9.0. I hadn't come across it in any of the 4 betas or 3 RCs ... However, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and login again cleared the problem (whatever it was) and it hasn't come back. Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virtual Hosting Question
At 05:08 PM 9/23/2002 -0700, you wrote: > ls -R | grep ":$" | sed 's#:$##' | awk '{print "\""$0"\""}' | xargs > chmod g+s Could I use something like this to set the proper ownership of a directory as well? I have copied all the user accounts from the BSDI machine to the Mandrake box, then I used a shell script to set the proper ownership of the directories, but I need to go in and set the sub directories. Here is the base script I am working off of, but I don't think it likes the -R option. grep /home/ /home/scott/homedirpass | awk -F: '{ print $1 " " $4 " " $6 ; }' \ | while read pwuser pwgid pwhome ; do [ -d $pwhome ] || ( chown $pwuser:$pwgid $pwhome ) done homedirpass is a copy of the Linux passwd file after I ran the script to convert the accounts to the new machine. Thanks, -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No key repeating in GNOME2 ?
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 18:39 +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:29:59 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No matter how long I keep my finger on a key, it does not repeat. This > > makes scrolling through a text very annoying! > > Strange you should say that as I noticed it the first time I started up 9.0. > I hadn't come across it in any of the 4 betas or 3 RCs ... > > However, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and login again cleared the problem (whatever it > was) and it hasn't come back. Logging ou/in was no help for me. I had to reboot and it was gone after that. Can't say, what it was. Gone. wobo -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ADSL in RC3 installation
On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:29 pm, Dale Huckeby wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: > >> My ADSL connection worked great with 8.2 > >> installation... > >> ...but I've just tested RC2 then RC3, > >> and both don't make ADSL work... > > > > Have you tried to kill the "shorewall" firewall? > ie. Fron the command line, do: shorewall clear So what are you guys using for iptables front-end/config? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Adjusting time crashed Dolphin!
Hi, Last time I experienced a *total* crash of my linux box was years in the past. And today! Installed 9.0 and missed the part where you give timezone and whether your hwclock is on UTC or not. OK, so I looked at /etc/sysconfig/clock and it was UTC=True. Good. I started GNOME and the clock said 15:20 In reality it was 17:20. As we are at GMT +0200 I thought, oh, well the timezone is missing. I started MCC and the time adjustment facility. I marked "GMT +0200" and hit the OK button. Crash! Screen went blank and the box REBOOTED! After I recovered from a near heart attack I repeated the same steps and this time only the X-Server crashed! Third time nothing happened but the clock still showed the wrong time. I adjusted it on the cli. wobo -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Virtual Hosting Question
Scott, > At 05:08 PM 9/23/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > ls -R | grep ":$" | sed 's#:$##' | awk '{print "\""$0"\""}' | xargs > > chmod g+s > > Could I use something like this to set the proper ownership of a directory as > well? > > I have copied all the user accounts from the BSDI machine to the Mandrake > box, then I used a shell script to set the proper ownership of the directories, > but I need to go in and set the sub directories. Here is the base script I am > working off of, but I don't think it likes the -R option. > > grep /home/ /home/scott/homedirpass | awk -F: '{ print $1 " " $4 " " $6 > ; }' \ >| while read pwuser pwgid pwhome ; do > [ -d $pwhome ] || ( chown $pwuser:$pwgid $pwhome ) > done > > homedirpass is a copy of the Linux passwd file after I ran the script to > convert the accounts to the new machine. For ownership, it is much simpler to use the -R option chown -R owner.group directory For file permission, that gets trickier because directories and executables need the 'x' bit set. But for regular files, use chmod -R 640 directory and then fix directories by using find directory -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \; For your example, I think this will work for you grep /home/ /home/scott/homedirpass \ | awk -F: '{ print $1 " " $4; }' \ | while read pwuser pwgid ; do \ [ -d ~$pwuser ] || ( chown -R $pwuser.$pwgid ~$pwuser ) \ done Thanks... Dan. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Virtual Hosting Question
>For your example, I think this will work for you > grep /home/ /home/scott/homedirpass \ > | awk -F: '{ print $1 " " $4; }' \ > | while read pwuser pwgid ; do \ > [ -d ~$pwuser ] || ( chown -R $pwuser.$pwgid ~$pwuser ) \ > done Dan- I was able to get it working, thank you! I had to add a /home in front of $pwuser after the chown! Thanks again. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't remember: For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives, it will hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing happens. After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS checksum, default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that nature. Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS. With Win2k and Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens. I'm running on an A7M266-M (Asus board OEM'd for HP configurable comps) with the latest BIOS version 3.33 for Bermuda/BoraBora boards, Tbird 1.4 Ghz Athlon, 256 MB PC2100 DDR, Geforce 2 GTS 64 MB DDR, SB Live! Value, and the hard drives are a 40GB 5400 Seagate and a 20 GB 7200 Maxtor, the Maxtor being the one where I'm putting 8.2 on (if I can ever get it to work :). And now, 9.0 is doing the same thing...yet 8.1 boots and reboots just fine. Win2k reboots just fine. Other CD installers, such as my Win2k CD, reboot just fine. So what could possibly cause this sort of problem? I probably am more of a newbie than expert, but I wasn't getting any responses to this problem on the newbie list. Again, any help would be more than appreciated. Joe
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
Joe, Did u check to see if there are any upgrades to ur BIOS, if so flash the BIOS and try. Sridhar - Original Message - From: Joseph Stegner To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 12:53 PM Subject: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't remember: For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives, it will hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing happens. After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS checksum, default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that nature. Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS. With Win2k and Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens. I'm running on an A7M266-M (Asus board OEM'd for HP configurable comps) with the latest BIOS version 3.33 for Bermuda/BoraBora boards, Tbird 1.4 Ghz Athlon, 256 MB PC2100 DDR, Geforce 2 GTS 64 MB DDR, SB Live! Value, and the hard drives are a 40GB 5400 Seagate and a 20 GB 7200 Maxtor, the Maxtor being the one where I'm putting 8.2 on (if I can ever get it to work :). And now, 9.0 is doing the same thing...yet 8.1 boots and reboots just fine. Win2k reboots just fine. Other CD installers, such as my Win2k CD, reboot just fine. So what could possibly cause this sort of problem? I probably am more of a newbie than expert, but I wasn't getting any responses to this problem on the newbie list. Again, any help would be more than appreciated. Joe
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joseph Stegner wrote: > Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't remember: > > For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the > 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and > the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives, it will > hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing happens. > After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS checksum, > default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that nature. > Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS. With Win2k and > Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens. It seems there should only be a couple places where Linux would interact with the PC BIOS that could possibly cause a problem: 1) /dev/nvram is enabled and something is doing something weird. But this would be highly unlikely. 2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (called during shutdown) is causing a problem when it syncs the hardware clock. If this is the case you can try disabling the sync by commenting out the line and then doing a test reboot. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
I've flashed it already, I'm on the latest BIOS (it's 3.34 now). Still nothing. And Mandrake 8.1 worked even on BIOS 3.10. - Original Message - From: Sridhar G To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error Joe, Did u check to see if there are any upgrades to ur BIOS, if so flash the BIOS and try. Sridhar - Original Message - From: Joseph Stegner To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 12:53 PM Subject: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't remember: For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives, it will hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing happens. After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS checksum, default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that nature. Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS. With Win2k and Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens. I'm running on an A7M266-M (Asus board OEM'd for HP configurable comps) with the latest BIOS version 3.33 for Bermuda/BoraBora boards, Tbird 1.4 Ghz Athlon, 256 MB PC2100 DDR, Geforce 2 GTS 64 MB DDR, SB Live! Value, and the hard drives are a 40GB 5400 Seagate and a 20 GB 7200 Maxtor, the Maxtor being the one where I'm putting 8.2 on (if I can ever get it to work :). And now, 9.0 is doing the same thing...yet 8.1 boots and reboots just fine. Win2k reboots just fine. Other CD installers, such as my Win2k CD, reboot just fine. So what could possibly cause this sort of problem? I probably am more of a newbie than expert, but I wasn't getting any responses to this problem on the newbie list. Again, any help would be more than appreciated. Joe
[expert] gkrellm on all workspaces?
Subject tells it all: How can I get gkrellm 'sticky'? I use GNOME2 and normal windows have a titlebar to klick on. So I can rightclick an choose 'sticky' from the context menue. gkrellm has no title bar. I used it on my 8.2 installation and there was an option to show up on all workspaces. I haven't found it in the new version. Do I need an extension? wobo -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Adjusting time crashed Dolphin!
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Hi, > > Last time I experienced a *total* crash of my linux box was years in > the past. And today! > > Installed 9.0 and missed the part where you give timezone and whether > your hwclock is on UTC or not. > > OK, so I looked at /etc/sysconfig/clock and it was UTC=True. Good. > I started GNOME and the clock said 15:20 > In reality it was 17:20. As we are at GMT +0200 I thought, oh, well > the timezone is missing. > > I started MCC and the time adjustment facility. I marked "GMT +0200" > and hit the OK button. Crash! Screen went blank and the box REBOOTED! > > After I recovered from a near heart attack I repeated the same steps > and this time only the X-Server crashed! Third time nothing happened > but the clock still showed the wrong time. > > I adjusted it on the cli. > > wobo wobo! that sounds really nasty. what-a-ya s'pose happened to cause it? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] java again
hi folks, one last (hope) question about java : was trying to make a ln -s /to/pat/java jave, and got a message, that java is existent, so I was looking in /usr/bin with cat java and saw this here : [root@hanna bin]# cat java #! /bin/sh # Pretend Kaffe is Java prefix=/usr exec_prefix=/usr exec /usr/bin/kaffe ${1+"$@"} what would you prefer here ? seems, that I have installed kaffee for any reason. Maybe, any package would need it - ? I doesn't know. or do I have no need for kaffee, if java is available ? thanks one more time bye hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Adjusting time crashed Dolphin!
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 17:01 -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Last time I experienced a *total* crash of my linux box was years in > >the past. And today! [] > > wobo! that sounds really nasty. what-a-ya s'pose happened to cause it? > Could be several reasons. What left me really disturbed is the first case. I never thought that Linux is that unstable that it reboots on it's own will. I don't really care for crashing X-apps. But reboot the whole box? Scary! wobo -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] dynamic dns
i'm looking into this and it occurs to me that through ignorance i may find that i end up espousing a service that doesn't necessarily 'play nice', i'm thinking about spamming policies etc. so, do people have any recommendations for an ethical dynamic dns service provider - free and paid for ? bascule -- "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. " Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] java again
Hans, I also had this happen to me last night. I simply deleted the existing file and then went ahead and created the symbolic link. Everything is working fine for me. Rick On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 17:08, hans schneidhofer wrote: > hi folks, > one last (hope) question about java : > was trying to make a ln -s /to/pat/java jave, > and got a message, that java is existent, so I was looking in /usr/bin > with cat java and saw this here : > > [root@hanna bin]# cat java > #! /bin/sh > # Pretend Kaffe is Java > prefix=/usr > exec_prefix=/usr > exec /usr/bin/kaffe ${1+"$@"} > > what would you prefer here ? seems, that I have installed kaffee for any > reason. Maybe, any package would need it - ? I doesn't know. > > or do I have no need for kaffee, if java is available ? > > thanks one more time > bye hans > > > > > > > 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
9.0 on edonkey (was: Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)
Hello. Sorry about cross-posting, but I thought this might be of interest and benefit for all and I had no desire to repeat myself. On Wed 2002-09-25 at 21:27:56 -0300, Damian G wrote: > > Guys! 9.0 is released. Really? ;-) > ( well you probably know this already ;oP ) > > but since the servers are pretty much jammed right now, > how about this idea i read about in a comment in PcLinuxOnline: > > "Any chance someone could put this up on edonkey, or other service > which allows multisource transfers?" > > how about it? i, for one, would pretty much apreciate it!! > ( besides i do think it's a great idea ) ;o) Done for edonkey: ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso|728334336|71c10521b12a2188946a3fcfa69cbb0d| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso|73358|7c613cc7b3b5e321e8977446ad5e2d23| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso|478511104|ec961e029a269b9e04f9475623c3788e| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-md5sums.txt|188|4de4a5e9eafd52812a5816b0c3fe14f0| ed2k://|file|Mandrake90-README.txt|2050|4cbd3435f96ca26cb91ab376fc4abcd2| (each URL should be a single line, i.e. 5 lines all together) I verified the md5sums to be sure my download was correct. Note that the md5sums file above is somewhat redundant, because edonkey has its own checksum mechanism. And if you want to test if the files are authentic, you will have to use the md5sums from the Mandrake site anyhow (if you do not trust my files, well, you do not trust my md5sum file either). Anyhow, I added it just for completeness. Mind, that I have a ADSL line with 128KBit upload, this means only about 10KB in average. That is about 3 days for the 3 ISOs. But at least you now have the exact files to look for and I hope that this will encourage others do the same and publish their downloads. Since it is the first time that I try to publish files (other than simply putting them in my shared folders), I am not sure that I did not miss anything. Let me know, if it works - or not. Bye, Benjamin. msg58102/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] Thoughts/experiences on tmpfs
Since upgrading to mdk8.2, I have been using tmpfs for my /tmp filesystem. Having experienced that sort of thing before on Solaris, I was very please to have it in Linux as well. But, I have been having problems with /tmp being 100% full at times, and causing other things to not work. (I have 320M of memory.) What experiences have other people had with this? Would more memory fix my problems? Would I be best reverting to using a regular disk-based filesystem? Brian. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] .xinitrc/startx weirdness
Hi gang, I have a little mystery going on here that isn't really distro or version specific as I've had it happen to me for many many mandrake releases and in Slackware. But something somewhere somehow for some reason is creating an empty .xinitrc file in my home directory on occasion, and of course the startx command won't work with it present. I delete it mot, but got the bright idea of just sticking a copy of the system xinitrc in ~ in hopes that it wouldn't happen again. But my curiousity driving me nuts as to what is doing this? I can not find a common denominator or see a pattern. So that's my question, anyone seen this? And does anyone have any ideas what could be doing this and maybe even why? I always run nvidia drivers and start X with startx from init 3 into kde. I have no idea what kind of clues I can offer, but welcome any and all questions in this matter. TIA, -srlinuxx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] simple php -apache - mysql content management system
Does anyone know of a good perl based variant of the geeklog/phpnuke/postnuke portals??? With CGI::Application and HTML::Template modules, a platform like that would be awesome, but I have yet to find one... I found perlnuke on sorceforge, but its still pretty basic.. I guess there is always the grandaddy perl portal.. slashdot code.. but its not really suitable from an ease of admin aspect.. What can I say, I am a perl junkie... If I can't find one to extend, I will probably release the one I am writing now... rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Danen Sent: Friday, 27 September 2002 1:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] simple php -apache - mysql content management system On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 08:54 AM, tarvid wrote: > looking for someone's favorite php-nuke alternative Geeklog. http://geeklog.sourceforge.net/ IIRC... much better than nuke. I run two sites on Geeklog and really really like it... I've tried php-nuke and post-nuke and both are buggy and security nightmares. http://anthill.vmlinuz.ca/ http://www.freezer-burn.org/ Both sites I run using Geeklog. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD} Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Adjusting time crashed Dolphin!
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 17:01 -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > >>Wolfgang Bornath wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>Last time I experienced a *total* crash of my linux box was years in >>>the past. And today! >> > > [] > >>wobo! that sounds really nasty. what-a-ya s'pose happened to cause it? >> > > > Could be several reasons. What left me really disturbed is the first > case. I never thought that Linux is that unstable that it reboots on > it's own will. > > I don't really care for crashing X-apps. But reboot the whole box? > Scary! > > wobo > that is very strange, however it's been my experience that it takes something pretty serious to cause a system restart like that. some where some instructions got very scrambled up. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] dynamic dns
I have always used dynamic dns... they offer free and paid for, whenever I set up a box using it, I send them 20dollars.. (or make the people I set it up for pay $20.) they seem pretty good, but no good for mail servers that post to the mandrake lists.. the mdk list server will reject messages from said boxes. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of bascule Sent: Friday, 27 September 2002 6:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] dynamic dns i'm looking into this and it occurs to me that through ignorance i may find that i end up espousing a service that doesn't necessarily 'play nice', i'm thinking about spamming policies etc. so, do people have any recommendations for an ethical dynamic dns service provider - free and paid for ? bascule -- "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. " Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] j2sdk just a little help ...
Marco Romeny wrote: > unfortunately it installs in its own directory. > > try rpm -ql j2sdk to find the base directory > on mine it's /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0 > > so, in my case I would do: > > export JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0" > export PATH=JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH > > recommended to put those lines in your .bashrc > or /etc/bashrc (or in a j2sdk.sh script in /etc/profile.d) > according to the information on Sun's site though the installation rpm's should be setting the path to where Java can be found. something I've noticed about 8.2 and 9.0 is that when issuing the "which java" command one is usually presented with the following output: /usr/bin/java I also noticed that before I even installed j2sdk1.4.0_01 that I was able to both compile .java source files, but also run them from the commandline which indicated to me that at least the most fundamental parts of java were already installed on the system. Heck! I'm not even sure if I'm using them when I do work on the system that requires the java compiler or run libs. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Print to PS or PDF
I am using LM 8.2. I want to set up a pseudo printer which converts my print jobs to PS or PDF. I tried with KDE Control center but was not able to. I am using this printer as a samba printer thro' w2k client and also as local printer to the LM box. TIA Sridhar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Myster of my own.
Is anyone else been receiving blank e-mails from people they don't know. I get 2 or 3 a week always blank no attachment just the header.. never from the same address... James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Myster of my own.
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:30, James Sparenberg wrote: > Is anyone else been receiving blank e-mails from people they don't > know. I get 2 or 3 a week always blank no attachment just the header.. > never from the same address... Are they really blank, or are they HTML messages with nothing but a dirty little JavaScript payload? Or, perhaps they are HTML messages with nothing but a 1 pixel image designed so the address harvester can cull a list... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Myster of my own.
Really blank... Evo shows nothing if I open it in vi it shows nothing. Wierd. James On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:59, Seth Zirin wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:30, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Is anyone else been receiving blank e-mails from people they don't > > know. I get 2 or 3 a week always blank no attachment just the header.. > > never from the same address... > > Are they really blank, or are they HTML messages with nothing but a > dirty little JavaScript payload? Or, perhaps they are HTML messages > with nothing but a 1 pixel image designed so the address harvester can > cull a list... > > > > > > 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] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error
I've commented out the runcmd line, then even commented every part of the clock code. No luck. Did 8.1 do this as well? 8.1 reboots just fine, no CMOS errors. Joe - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joseph Stegner wrote: > > > Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't remember: > > > > For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the > > 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and > > the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives, it will > > hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing happens. > > After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS checksum, > > default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that nature. > > Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS. With Win2k and > > Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens. > > It seems there should only be a couple places where Linux would interact > with the PC BIOS that could possibly cause a problem: > > 1) /dev/nvram is enabled and something is doing something weird. But > this would be highly unlikely. > > 2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (called during shutdown) is causing a problem > when it syncs the hardware clock. If this is the case you can try > disabling the sync by commenting out the line and then doing a test > reboot. > > > > > > 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