Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails
hi Toshiro, are you shure, which services hosts.allow and hosts.deny are providing ? the only thing you can do with that entries are : allow or deny internetservices like ftp or analogical services ! the other reason, this service is NOT designed for accesses like CDROM's or flopyy or hd's : if I can export any partition of a harddrive to a wellknown host, then it should be possible also to export a CDROM or a floppy-drive to that same host. Isn't it ? And exporting a harddrive or partitions of about a harddrive are okay so why NOT the CDROM - and I don't have a need for some entries in hosts.allow or hosts.deny. and for shure I have tested a lot of time before, that a connection to my remote hosts are up and running. bye hans Am Son, 2002-10-27 um 20.27 schrieb Toshiro: El dom, 27-10-2002 a las 06:58, hans privat escribió: hi, cannot find out, why my exported CDrom cannot be mounted on my remote hosts (neigbourhood in the same IP-sequences like 19.168.10.0) have an entry like this in/etc/exports : /mnt/cdrom/ mozart(ro) jojo(ro) and after doing a : service nfs restart I get this message : [roothanna /]# service nfs restart jojobaer.develop.business-conzept.at:/mnt/cdrom: Invalid argument OK ] mozart.develop.business-conzept.at:/mnt/cdrom: Invalid argument and for shure on the remote host I get an errormessage like : /mnt/cdrom failed reason given by server : no right Are your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny in the nfs server configured properly? Are you sure that your server can resolve mozart and jojo to an IP address? Toshiro 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] Network Profile swiching With MDK 9.0
All, Trying to find a way to switch network profiles on the fly with MDK 9.0 I've found a number of them that work at boot time, but since I don't always know what I'm going to do until after a boot they are for the most part useless. (Unless I want to do the Windows reboot dance.) Using the profile tool in MCC doesn't work either as it keeps getting things confused and since it immediately tries to connect with the last profile I get tired of waiting 5 minutes for it to figure out it can't connect so that I can set up a new one. (Then when I try to switch back later it's hell all over again.) Does anyone know of a tool like the old drakprofile that just lets me make the changes and restart the network without rebooting and waiting for all kinds of help to time out? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Consultation
I'm not sure that XP/2000 meed this (they might though, I think the boot loader needs to be on C:), but I don't think it would hurt. Windows 9x needs to be on the C: drive so if windows is on the second drive(hdb or D: if you prefer) or up, you need to map it down to the C: drive. The first 2 lines map the C: to the D: and lines 3 4 map the D: to the C:. On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 06:06, Mcleod, Ian wrote: What is this for? map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 .Kiran Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RH 8.0 memory leak? MDK 9.0 ok?
Todd, I must say you must know a lot! Sorry, shame on me really, I sign GMX mailing list but simply didn't think to ask them and I don't know why. I'll suggest these lines bellow to her and henceforth we'll ask to GMX guys. Cheers, On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: First of all, shame on you for not taking this to a gromacs mailing list. Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:24:37PM -0200 : I asked her about that. She's running gromacs (www.gromacs.org), a programme for molecular dynamics. I asked for the commands lines she's executing, but she didn't send me it yet. Assuming the commandline is 'gromacs arg1 arg2 arg3', then have her run 'strace gromacs arg1 arg2 arg3 ~/gromacs.log 21' don't run it for very long because it will grow large very quickly. then process it with 'cat gromacs.log | grep map gromacs2.log' Now look through gromacs2.log and see if there is a pattern of mapping memory and not unmapping it when it's done with it. A return result of 0x is a success. That hexadecimal number is the address of memory of the first byte that was allocated (ie a pointer). Wouldn't hurt to look through gromacs.log to see what all is happening around those memory map and unmap requests. There might be some other obscure failure that's occurring that is causing the program to hang and not complete that portion of its program. More than likely it's just a poorly written program. Blue skies... todd -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] importing X / watching TV via local net
Hi James, I'll take a new round-up trying to optimise VNC and see what happens. Anyway, X -query offers me a very good solution, even to 3D modelling. Since I do my experiments at home before implementing at work, what I got now is good enough to work. However, at home, some computers have TV card and we have cable tv just to one. I tried but I couldn't watch TV via VNC or importing X and I can figure out why (pci bus, overlay or something like this ...?). However, does anyone have any idea of how to achieve it? But don't bother yourself too much, it's just for fun now. MDK 9.0 is wonderful. BTW GNU/Linux is always fun! Cheers, On 25 Oct 2002, James Sparenberg wrote: If you found VNC to be slow try the tightVNC that MDK is now putting on it's disks. I've been using it for about a year. In fact I'm typing this e-mail on my desktop from the living room via VNC right now. No problems with speed at all. What I have found is. Over the net DON'T use kde or Gnome as your wm use ICE or some other lightweight wm. Don't do true color 16 bit is best. Ideal situation is linux --- or Linux--- windows. Windows -- Linux tends to crash Windows. Plan on about 32 megs per user minimum of ram + 64 for the base OS so that a 128meg ram system would only be good for 1 console and 2 remote users. (This is assuming you are using ICE or it's equiv + tightVNC) I've found also that 128kbps upstream is the minimum bandwidth needed per user for Just like being there response. (Although using it over a 56k connection does work just feels like an old 386) Over a 100Mbps Lan it really sings. The speed with which the page refreshes is directly related to the quality of the video card of the box you are on. Not the box you are coming from. So it's best to not try to run a VNC session from a 386 12mhz with a 1meg video card (Although I've run the client on a 486 100mhz CPU and found ICE to be pretty responsive although VNC does tend to max out the CPU a lot when doing full page refreshes. Set your VNC to not export the remote cursor. It saves an amazing amount of bandwidth. James On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 11:59, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi! Thank you very much. I played with VNC before and found out it a litle bit slow. Since I used LTSP once, such solution is really great. On 25 Oct 2002, ddc_prueba wrote: Easy ;-) As far as you say, the ones that will lend their desktops are already ready as you can do it through Windows+XWin32 so all you need is to configure the remote-clients. So just start X on remote-clients with query option: X -query host (being host the IP/name of the main box) Just FYI: the remote that connects to the main box is an X-server and the main box is the client in X terms (just think who is the one that requests the service of drawing something and who actually does the job by drawing it...). Curious, isn't it? ;-) Another option you can use (both in Linux and on Windows) is to use VNC. Tightvnc is a good option as you can connect from a native client or even connect to it throught a Browser (Netscape, IE, Konqueror, ...) and you can share desktops or cut the wire and some days later connect to it again and go on where you were... Play and enjoy ;-)) El vie, 25-10-2002 a las 16:33, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva escribió: Hi List, Here in our lab we still have some windoze boxes and they use X-Win32 from Starnet to access our Linux boxes (XDMCP). We also have some clean Linux box too and I would like to use such idea of importing X (with KDM and so on, like LTSP and X-Wind32 do) for these clean Linux boxes (they can use X by startx). So, could someone suggest me how to import X from my full Linux box server to these clean Linux boxes? Any idea would be very welcome. Many thanks in advance. --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 18:36, Jack Coates wrote: Hi, I have a machine (naturally a fairly important one) which I built and which is fairly unstable -- give it ten to twenty days, and it will suffer a video lock up or a disk error that forces a reboot. FIC AZ11 with a VIA KT133 chipset. Athlon 900 MHz 768MB PC100 RAM Voodoo3 3000 AGP card Maxtor 92049U6 (20G 7200 RPM disk), etx3fs on all partitions. Polaroid CD-RW IDE3212 (2) Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX PCI tulip NICs The system runs MDK 9.0 and ran 8.2 before that. I keep an eye on it with lm_sensors, and it doesn't go over 60C, so I've tentatively ruled CPU heat out as a cause. I've also run memtest86 several times for runs of up to 12 hours, with no RAM problems detected. today's reboot was caused by a corrupt wtmp that prevented logins. fsck fixed it. At this point, I'm suspecting the motherboard's IDE controller, the hard disk itself, the video card, the RAM, gremlins :-) I'm just not sure where to go next in troubleshooting the system, and I don't want to replace everything one part at a time. any ideas for narrowing this down? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Power Supply? THG continues to receive hundreds of e-mails regarding the causes of sudden and sometimes frequent crashes of users' computers and computer systems. As these computer crashes are random and unpredictable, users are losing important data and other critical information as a result. These issues of stability can cost hours of use time while the system is continued to be tinkered with in vain in an effort to resolve the issue. When this occurs, ambitious users are inclined to search for the cause in the processor settings, system memory or on the motherboard, since the Front Side Bus, CPU core voltage and GPU of the graphics card are often pushed to the limit to achieve maximum performance. This results in the user resetting all of the system parameters to default values - but to no avail. The computer continues to crash, eventually so frequently that it is no longer possible to continue using it. One possible cause of unreliability that is often overlooked by users is the power supply that is installed in their computer. Unless the computer was custom built and the user recently had the power supply upgraded, chances are that it may contain a less-than-capable power supply. Users who stand to fare the worst are those who have purchased their computer from a computer super store and/or discount retailer. These systems are generally fitted with cheaply made, low-cost power supplies, which often can sustain damage even under minimal loads. The power supply is something that many users overlook when they upgrade their PCs. Since upgraded components often require more power, a larger, more capable power supply should be a standard replacement when significant upgrades have been made to a computer. Only the lab test tells the truth - even if the maximum load is specified as 300 watts, the power supply often gives up the ghost long before reaching this load. Some manufacturers of power supplies apparently assume that computer users will never need maximum power from their power supply. Full Load and Overload - Power Supply Units Pushed to the Limits http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q4/021021/index.html Power supplies should be added to the troubleshooting list when tracking down gremlins. Gabriel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] importing X / watching TV via local net
On Monday 28 October 2002 12:08, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi James, I'll take a new round-up trying to optimise VNC and see what happens. Anyway, X -query offers me a very good solution, even to 3D modelling. Since I do my experiments at home before implementing at work, what I got now is good enough to work. However, at home, some computers have TV card and we have cable tv just to one. I tried but I couldn't watch TV via VNC or importing X and I can figure out why (pci bus, overlay or something like this ...?). However, does anyone have any idea of how to achieve it? But don't bother yourself too much, it's just for fun now. MDK 9.0 is wonderful. BTW GNU/Linux is always fun! I don't believe exporting raw video van be exported via lan. It is high to much traffice. Maybe capturing and send compressed video over lan will do the trick for you ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network Profile swiching With MDK 9.0
Hi, I posted a similar msg when using my laptop with multiple profiles, I use fixed IP now so i dont get the wait problem you have (assuming that is a dhcp DNS prob). There were some command line scripts to change the network IP etc etc or you could just use static IP and change IP with MCC. (I only tried in 8.2) JG James Sparenberg wrote: All, Trying to find a way to switch network profiles on the fly with MDK 9.0 I've found a number of them that work at boot time, but since I don't always know what I'm going to do until after a boot they are for the most part useless. (Unless I want to do the Windows reboot dance.) Using the profile tool in MCC doesn't work either as it keeps getting things confused and since it immediately tries to connect with the last profile I get tired of waiting 5 minutes for it to figure out it can't connect so that I can set up a new one. (Then when I try to switch back later it's hell all over again.) Does anyone know of a tool like the old drakprofile that just lets me make the changes and restart the network without rebooting and waiting for all kinds of help to time out? James 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] Can't get Zip drive to work. Can't get LICQ to work,possible permission probs..
Hi Ken, Re: LICQ I'm assuming you are not the Ken Thompson who developed linux and C with Dennis Richie? (I think that was his name) I gave up on Licq and now use micq.org, its very uptodate, workign with the v8 OSCAR protocol, runs from any shell so you can use it from any pc and even works with UTF-8! JG Ken Thompson wrote: Hello all and may I pull my hair out here? For the past week and a bit I've been trying to get my Zip drive and Licq to work. Licq will open and run OK from a root term window but nothing I can do or have done will allow it to run as normal user. I've reduced the security level, removed msec totally (and reinstalled when that made no difference), removed and reinstalled licq from the licq.org's rpm's changed perms on the executable in /usr/bin to rwx for everybody, removed and reinstalled from mdk rpm's and finally reinstalled the entire O/S. Result, same problem throughout. The Zip problem seems to be related, it won't allow me or any user access to the /mnt/zip folder.I've read all I could find and tried all the fixes, disabled supermount, disabled devfs, changed the fstab entry all to no avail. My Zip is an iOmega IDE internal Zip 100 and worked OK with 8.2 and back. During some changes to the mount point and fstab I'd get a bad superblock, or too many mounted file systems type of error, changing back to original configuration results in you don't have permissions to enter /mnt/zip.. These two thing are show stoppers for me and 9.0, anybody able to rescue me before the guy's with the white dinner jackets show up?? Thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] importing X / watching TV via local net
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 06:08, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Since I do my experiments at home before implementing at work, what I got now is good enough to work. However, at home, some computers have TV card and we have cable tv just to one. I tried but I couldn't watch TV via VNC or importing X and I can figure out why (pci bus, overlay or something like this ...?). However, does anyone have any idea of how to achieve it? But don't bother yourself too much, it's just for fun now. MDK 9.0 is wonderful. BTW GNU/Linux is always fun! xawtv has a remote option that streams video over X. It's slow, however, and getting sound to work was a pain. I wouldn't recommend it for installations where the network is slow. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] importing X / watching TV via local net
Yes, I know this option (net streaming?) despite of not trying yet because I don't think that my PII 300 will be fast enough for the job :-). Anyway, if I'd try net streaming, from where should I start? Many thanks, Cheers, On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Steffen Barszus wrote: I don't believe exporting raw video van be exported via lan. It is high to much traffice. Maybe capturing and send compressed video over lan will do the trick for you ? --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] importing X / watching TV via local net
Great! I'll try it. I think about sound later. My net is 100mbps, I hope to be enough. On 28 Oct 2002, Kwan Lowe wrote: xawtv has a remote option that streams video over X. It's slow, however, and getting sound to work was a pain. I wouldn't recommend it for installations where the network is slow. --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] notebook intall freeze with ML 9.0
Hi all. I recentlly aquired a notebook P III, and tried to install ML 9.0. Unfortunately, after a smooth install, it refuses to boot, not with kernel panic, but freeze. First it was when trying to mount / (root) as REISERFS. I reinstalled as EXT3, and it corrected this trouble. But then, it freezes just after the following lines in booot: ... Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused memory: 136k freed ??? - nothing more Could it be an kernel incompatibility with my notebook? This because I was able to boot with kernel 2.2x series. Any help appreciated. Bodo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Can't get Zip drive to work. Can't get LICQ to work, possible permission probs..
I have Licq installed on my v9 box and all runs just fine. I did a fresh install of 9 though. What error do you receive when starting licq from command line? As far as the Zip internal, I have the same problem. If you find the answer to that let me know. I am starting to think it is kernel related, as my SCSI hd wont mount upon boot, but will after system is booted. I get the same error as you, on both the zip, and SCSI hd. I have stumbled a bit further though. Someone on here made mention to not put any entry into /etc/lilo.conf Taking that out, my zip will at least spin up, but Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: J. Grant [mailto:jg-lists;jguk.org] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Can't get Zip drive to work. Can't get LICQ to work, possible permission probs.. Hi Ken, Re: LICQ I'm assuming you are not the Ken Thompson who developed linux and C with Dennis Richie? (I think that was his name) I gave up on Licq and now use micq.org, its very uptodate, workign with the v8 OSCAR protocol, runs from any shell so you can use it from any pc and even works with UTF-8! JG Ken Thompson wrote: Hello all and may I pull my hair out here? For the past week and a bit I've been trying to get my Zip drive and Licq to work. Licq will open and run OK from a root term window but nothing I can do or have done will allow it to run as normal user. I've reduced the security level, removed msec totally (and reinstalled when that made no difference), removed and reinstalled licq from the licq.org's rpm's changed perms on the executable in /usr/bin to rwx for everybody, removed and reinstalled from mdk rpm's and finally reinstalled the entire O/S. Result, same problem throughout. The Zip problem seems to be related, it won't allow me or any user access to the /mnt/zip folder.I've read all I could find and tried all the fixes, disabled supermount, disabled devfs, changed the fstab entry all to no avail. My Zip is an iOmega IDE internal Zip 100 and worked OK with 8.2 and back. During some changes to the mount point and fstab I'd get a bad superblock, or too many mounted file systems type of error, changing back to original configuration results in you don't have permissions to enter /mnt/zip.. These two thing are show stoppers for me and 9.0, anybody able to rescue me before the guy's with the white dinner jackets show up?? Thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] docs for setting up mdk as a firewall
hi, have downloaded that script, but there are some enties I don't have an idea abot what to write in as there are : DNS : = what I have to write here ? is it the local DNS, but right now I don't have a setted up DNS - or is it the DNS of the provider ? AUTH_ALLOW=207.69.200.132 216.32.132.250 206.132.27.156 209.81.232.66 207.45.69.69 216.80.83.185 212.158.123.66 #IPs allowed to use the AUTH service (leave blank and put 113 in TCP_ALLOW for all) what I have to do with these entries ? have tried to send an email to the programmer of this script, but all my emails bounced back - seems to be undeliverable. So I'm hoping now, that anyone can give some assistance for write in the correct values in this script. thanks and bye hans Am Mon, 2002-10-14 um 13.06 schrieb Ron Stodden: Mandrake can install shorewall for you, but I don't like it, since it appears to be trying to make an inherently simple procedural task into a table driven mess, IMHO. It doesn't fit, but YMMV. My suggestion would be to install and try MonMotha's iptables firewall. Download the bash script: rc.firewall-2.3.8-pre7 from http://monmotha.mplug.org/firewall/index.php then edit the configuration section as explained and as you need, set ENABLE to Y and you are done editing. To install: 1. ./rc.firewall-2.3.8-pre7 2. iptables-save /etc/sysconfig/iptables/iptables from where it will be automatically loaded at boot time. You can do 1 above any time since the script starts with iptables flush commands. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] IMPORTANT! troels... for Mandrake GNU/Linux 9.0 now available. See my web site: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ 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] user sshd does not exist
i've just installed openssh-server and when i try to start sshd i get privilege seperation: user sshd does not exist before i create this user, what options should i create it with, obviously it's a system user and doesn't need a home etc. but what else, after all ssh is a security minded tool, no point having it if it's not set up correctly bascule -- 'Have you lost your senses?' 'Yes, but I may have found some better ones.' (Interesting Times) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Enemies Purchased by Gates
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 12:15, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Try listening to the following Realplayer link between 12 and 3:00 EST - rtsp://a271.l582920640.c5829.g.lr.akamaistream.net/live/D/271/5829/v0001/reflector:20640 This is a real good place to start getting informed on the forces at work against the common people in our society today. Good luck to us all in November. This link may be better than the one above. rtsp://a432.l582920641.c5829.g.lr.akamaistream.net/live/D/432/5829/v0001/reflector:20641 --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network Profile swiching With MDK 9.0
Viable alternatives If I always knew ahead of time what the IP would be. Problem is that I'm moving a lot to networks where either I don't know the intended IP structure, or if I did set up once it won't be the same this time.(customer sites). Right now I've got about 6 profiles in this laptop and expect to add more.(Never knew how much I'd need a laptop till I bought one.) James On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 04:04, J. Grant wrote: Hi, I posted a similar msg when using my laptop with multiple profiles, I use fixed IP now so i dont get the wait problem you have (assuming that is a dhcp DNS prob). There were some command line scripts to change the network IP etc etc or you could just use static IP and change IP with MCC. (I only tried in 8.2) JG James Sparenberg wrote: All, Trying to find a way to switch network profiles on the fly with MDK 9.0 I've found a number of them that work at boot time, but since I don't always know what I'm going to do until after a boot they are for the most part useless. (Unless I want to do the Windows reboot dance.) Using the profile tool in MCC doesn't work either as it keeps getting things confused and since it immediately tries to connect with the last profile I get tired of waiting 5 minutes for it to figure out it can't connect so that I can set up a new one. (Then when I try to switch back later it's hell all over again.) Does anyone know of a tool like the old drakprofile that just lets me make the changes and restart the network without rebooting and waiting for all kinds of help to time out? James 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] importing X / watching TV via local net
If you do find a solution let me know. Unfortunately this is one of two drawbacks to any remote solution like this. realtime Video and sound. The original VNC site talks about the fact that realplayer and similar products don't work over VNC. James On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 04:56, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Great! I'll try it. I think about sound later. My net is 100mbps, I hope to be enough. On 28 Oct 2002, Kwan Lowe wrote: xawtv has a remote option that streams video over X. It's slow, however, and getting sound to work was a pain. I wouldn't recommend it for installations where the network is slow. --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 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] user sshd does not exist
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 05:53, bascule wrote: i've just installed openssh-server and when i try to start sshd i get privilege seperation: user sshd does not exist before i create this user, what options should i create it with, obviously it's a system user and doesn't need a home etc. but what else, after all ssh is a security minded tool, no point having it if it's not set up correctly bascule -- Bascule, The line from my passwd file is sshd:x:75:75:system user for openssh:/var/empty:/bin/true I checked 3 MDK boxes and they all had exactly the same line. Hope this helps. James 'Have you lost your senses?' 'Yes, but I may have found some better ones.' (Interesting Times) 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] user sshd does not exist
FWIW, my 3 Mandrake boxes all have /etc/group - sshd:x:94: /etc/passwd - sshd:x:94:94::/home/sshd:/bin/true /var/empty exists on all 3 and two have /var/empty/sshd (which is empty - no files). At 11:08 AM 10/28/02, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 05:53, bascule wrote: i've just installed openssh-server and when i try to start sshd i get privilege seperation: user sshd does not exist before i create this user, what options should i create it with, obviously it's a system user and doesn't need a home etc. but what else, after all ssh is a security minded tool, no point having it if it's not set up correctly bascule -- Bascule, The line from my passwd file is sshd:x:75:75:system user for openssh:/var/empty:/bin/true I checked 3 MDK boxes and they all had exactly the same line. Hope this helps. James 'Have you lost your senses?' 'Yes, but I may have found some better ones.' (Interesting Times) 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
[expert] readline library and mdk 8.2
I was trying to install the mutella Gnutella client on my mandrake 8.2 machine and got the following when I did a ./configure: checking for readline/readline.h... no checking for readline in readline.h... no checking for readline in readline.h with curses... no checking for readline in readline.h with ncurses... no checking for readline in readline.h with termcap... no configure: error: You must have readline library! What is this readline library? George E. Jones IV Carteret Mortgage Mortgage Professional 734-340-4705 / 800-456-5610 office 734-507-5227 cell 786-513-8054 fax www.ezhomeloan.lenderhost.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 03:45, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: snip Power Supply? snip Power supplies should be added to the troubleshooting list when tracking down gremlins. Gabriel I've read that article too, and have had my share of cheapie power supplies release their magic smoke... The power supply is a good one, the 250W version on this page: http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=8Product_ID=2CATID=2 It's conceivable that I did my math wrong and this config needs more than 250W, but I'm inclined to doubt that since there's only one hard drive. Right now my bets are on the mem=nopentium switch and on heat problems -- I've got a 80mm fan that I'll stick in it when I get a chance, and I've already put the nopentium switch into lilo. thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] readline library and mdk 8.2
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:35:49 -0500 logic7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is this readline library? The Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. For readline.h you will need to install the readline-devel rpm. Version for 9.0 is readline-devel-4.3-4mdk Charles --- Do something unusual today. Pay a bill. -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] readline library and mdk 8.2
Nevermind. I just d/l'ed the source from the gnu ftp server. compiled it and everything is fine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of logic7 Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] readline library and mdk 8.2 I was trying to install the mutella Gnutella client on my mandrake 8.2 machine and got the following when I did a ./configure: checking for readline/readline.h... no checking for readline in readline.h... no checking for readline in readline.h with curses... no checking for readline in readline.h with ncurses... no checking for readline in readline.h with termcap... no configure: error: You must have readline library! What is this readline library? George E. Jones IV Carteret Mortgage Mortgage Professional 734-340-4705 / 800-456-5610 office 734-507-5227 cell 786-513-8054 fax www.ezhomeloan.lenderhost.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mirror
Hi guys! I have a new install of Mandrake 9.. I have 2 drives and I am trying to mirror them. I have my /etc/raidtab set up, but I don't think I have it correct. 1. Are you able to mirror the whole drive? Book record and all? 2. Do I have to have my second disk formatted? Or will it just sync it? Can someone send me some examples? TIA Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Server shuts down
When it shuts down what happens if you try to ssh into it. If it's a No response. Were talkin total lockup here. I have to restart. web server does it still serve web pages? If it does I'd be inclined to It is not a webserver. suspect that perhaps apm or APIC (hope I got the right acronym here.) is trying to put the box to sleep. If so turn off or even remove apm from the box and boot with an append of noapic. Done this already. It is covered in Mandrake errata. I'm thinking now that it may be a network issue that is causeing the problem rather than a video issue. Cable service in this town sux and is up and down frequently. Although I may be wrong, sometimes trouble on the network seems to coincide with the shutdown. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network Profile swiching With MDK 9.0
Why not just click Do not activate eth0 at boot time (or config it yourself in the boot up sequence? Then you can do as you wish. JG James Sparenberg wrote: Viable alternatives If I always knew ahead of time what the IP would be. Problem is that I'm moving a lot to networks where either I don't know the intended IP structure, or if I did set up once it won't be the same this time.(customer sites). Right now I've got about 6 profiles in this laptop and expect to add more.(Never knew how much I'd need a laptop till I bought one.) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dhcp-configuration fails ...
1. Check the disk for scratches, dirt, finger prints etc. 2. Is it not mounting the drive or is it seeing the drive and not getting the file? You could check to see what files rpmdrake is asking for and then try installing them from the command line. hi, was trying to install DHCP and share with mandrake-control-center but it seems, that some progs cannot be read from CD 2, so the install-procedure fails. now my question : does anyone know, which files should be there on CD 2 for install the step : share connection - and if I can or have downloaded the needed files, can I install the share-step without asking for the CD 2 from mandrake-control-center ? am using mdk 8.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mirror
On Monday 28 October 2002 12:59 pm, Belkie, Dan wrote: Hi guys! I have a new install of Mandrake 9.. I have 2 drives and I am trying to mirror them. I have my /etc/raidtab set up, but I don't think I have it correct. 1. Are you able to mirror the whole drive? Book record and all? 2. Do I have to have my second disk formatted? Or will it just sync it? Can someone send me some examples? I highly recommend you read the software-RAID-HOWTO and the hard disk upgrade Mini HOWTO first. -- /g ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
Jack, I looked at your PS specs at that link you gave, and then looked at your system componets you posted. In my opinion, your PS could definitely be problematic. Usually, the main problem is the power available on the 3.3v and 5v rails. This PS is pretty low (15A and 26A) with 150watt combined. If the heat doesn't prove to be the culprit, I would definitely suspect an underpowered PS. On my KT133, I had a 250w PS, and it proved inadequate- had to go to 300w, and I had less peripherals and ram than you do at that time. On mt KT266A DDR, I had to go to a 420W- even 300W wouldn't boot my Shuttle AK31A reliably. Maybe investigate your motherboard on some hardware forums/groups, and get some feedback/info as to how that board behaves- the Shuttle was very picky as to PS issues. Robert C. On Monday 28 October 2002 11:41 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 03:45, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: snip Power Supply? snip Power supplies should be added to the troubleshooting list when tracking down gremlins. Gabriel I've read that article too, and have had my share of cheapie power supplies release their magic smoke... The power supply is a good one, the 250W version on this page: http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=8Product_ID=2CATID=2 It's conceivable that I did my math wrong and this config needs more than 250W, but I'm inclined to doubt that since there's only one hard drive. Right now my bets are on the mem=nopentium switch and on heat problems -- I've got a 80mm fan that I'll stick in it when I get a chance, and I've already put the nopentium switch into lilo. thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Trobles with kodak dc280 USB camera
Hi I am running Mandrake 9.0 on a PIII 533 MHz machine and a Ausus mother board with Via chipset. In the USB Viewer I can se the camera com and go when I turn it on and off. I have loaded the following modules in the kernel: dc2xx, usb-storage, usb-uhci and usbcore. I have tried to acces the camera via gphoto2 and gphoto but it comes and says that it can not claim the USB device. I have the tried (as gphoto suggests) to removce the module dc2xx, but the same problem persists And as I sitting and writng this it suddenly starts to work OK I now need to get the graphical interface to work, but at leas I can get them. But how do you mount the camera filesystem??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ati radeon 7000 VE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hello, I bougth an ATI radeon 7000 VE (with the 2 outscreen) last week and I've got a problem with my XF86 config. The problem is I have some horizontal lines when I move a window, or I pass out an hyperlink. I've this problem with a resolution higher to 1024x768 (I work on 1600x1200 with a 19 screen). I use xf mods from gatos (ati.2) and XFree 4.2.1 Is someone has already had the problem ? thanks, Benjamin ps: I attach my XF86Config file. - -- default: assert(1==0); /* autant dire que j'ai pas envie que ca arrive */ -- pouaite, code de wmcoincoin Benjamin Michotte[EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.baby-linux.net homepage : http://www.michotte.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9vY17Ejhm4PB0YzkRAoFxAJ42jgAvq7Ff9tNaqumGwM7RMJhLqwCfZaOx IAx9Vi8zl7ygjfrGAK1GGKU= =qAiC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDevice Mouse0CorePointer InputDevice Keyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ #FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe SubSection extmod Option omit xfree86-dga EndSubSection Load type1 Load freetype Load speedo Load extmod Load glx Load dri Load GLcore Load dbe Load record Load v4l Load xtrap Load bitmap EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option AutoRepeat 500 30 Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout fr EndSection Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Buttons 3 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 HorizSync 30.0-102.0 VertRefresh 50-180 Option DPMS ModeLine1600x1200/75Hz 202.5 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync EndSection Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver radeon Videoram65536 Screen 0 Option AGPMode 2 ChipId 0x5159 BusID PCI:1:0:0 Option Accel EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200/75Hz ViewPort0 0 Virtual 0 0 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 03:45, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: snip Power Supply? snip Power supplies should be added to the troubleshooting list when tracking down gremlins. Gabriel I've read that article too, and have had my share of cheapie power supplies release their magic smoke... The power supply is a good one, the 250W version on this page: http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=8Product_ID=2CATID=2 It's conceivable that I did my math wrong and this config needs more than 250W, but I'm inclined to doubt that since there's only one hard drive. there is the type of ram, the video card, cdrom drives, looking at the system and saying just because I have 1 HD it's allright is false thinking. Right now my bets are on the mem=nopentium switch and on heat problems -- I've got a 80mm fan that I'll stick in it when I get a chance, and I've already put the nopentium switch into lilo. thanks, He is correct, 250W is not enough, the problem can stem from the initial power draw when a system is first turned on, AMD recomends that power supplys handle a least 180W initial draw from the power supply. most 250 ps only have a 135W max pull on power up of the computer. This was the case back when the first sloted athlons were being produced. There is a guide from AMD on how to find out all this and it's updated for socketed athlons. see amd site for info or read this article http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/26003.pdf I only install 300w ps these days for any athlon system I build for people. -- Will Merkens Suite 1103, 505 - 4th Ave S.W. Calgary, AB. Canada Primary E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Backup E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
Jack, Just read some stuff on FIC AZ11 groups search. People there are having the same problems you do. One guy fixed it by installing a little heatsink fan on the Northbridge heatsink (most KT133 chipsets do have one, factory installed). I would suggest taking off the case cover, and blowing a desk fan onto the motherboard for a day or two, and see if you experience any more problems. If they go away, you know it's a heat problem- probably the chipset or ram can't handle the 37C. you mentioned. If not, then look at the PS. UI'm betting it's that the Northbridge is getting too hot. Robert C. On Monday 28 October 2002 11:41 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 03:45, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: snip Power Supply? snip Power supplies should be added to the troubleshooting list when tracking down gremlins. Gabriel I've read that article too, and have had my share of cheapie power supplies release their magic smoke... The power supply is a good one, the 250W version on this page: http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=8Product_ID=2CATID=2 It's conceivable that I did my math wrong and this config needs more than 250W, but I'm inclined to doubt that since there's only one hard drive. Right now my bets are on the mem=nopentium switch and on heat problems -- I've got a 80mm fan that I'll stick in it when I get a chance, and I've already put the nopentium switch into lilo. thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trobles with kodak dc280 USB camera
Hi I am running Mandrake 9.0 on a PIII 533 MHz machine and a Ausus mother board with Via chipset. In the USB Viewer I can se the camera com and go when I turn it on and off. I have loaded the following modules in the kernel: dc2xx, usb-storage, usb-uhci and usbcore. I have tried to acces the camera via gphoto2 and gphoto but it comes and says that it can not claim the USB device. I have the tried (as gphoto suggests) to removce the module dc2xx, but the same problem persists And as I sitting and writng this it suddenly starts to work OK I now need to get the graphical interface to work, but at leas I can get them. But how do you mount the camera filesystem??? I have a different brand (Olympus C-4000 USB) and it is mounted as SCSI device. Take a look at your /var/log/messages it should say something there. Mine was mounted under /dev/sda1. YMMV. Something likes 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mn/whatever' should do it . I can only access thru Konqueror. gphoto2 and gtkam are no go. -Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] usernames
Hi, How do I disable login names on the login screen? I think msec does it. But I don't want all there features. Is there a config file I can edit? Regads, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] usernames
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 11:53, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, How do I disable login names on the login screen? I think msec does it. But I don't want all there features. Is there a config file I can edit? Regads, Norman it's a gdm or kdm thing, depending on which you use. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] usernames
: How do I disable login names on the login screen? I think : msec does it. But I don't want all there features. Is there : a config file I can edit? : : it's a gdm or kdm thing, depending on which you use. I'm using kdm. Which file do I edit? Am I in right folder with /usr/share/config/kdm/? Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FYI: WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC...
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:05, Pierre Fortin wrote: This is a quick overview of what I ran into after my friends got their WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC... [SNIP] the modem from the mobo and reseat it -- now works... but it has never connected at a rate faster than 21kb -- will check into this after installing 9.0. Phone lines provided by a DLC (Digital Loop Carrier) generally limit modem connections to 21 or 22 Kbit/s. These are frequently found in industrial parks, townhouse communities and other places where there is dense demand for phone lines. Seth Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] usernames
On Monday 28 October 2002 03:02 pm, Norman Zhang wrote: : How do I disable login names on the login screen? I think : msec does it. But I don't want all there features. Is there : a config file I can edit? : : it's a gdm or kdm thing, depending on which you use. I'm using kdm. Which file do I edit? Am I in right folder with /usr/share/config/kdm/? Regards, Norman The settings are in kde control center, I'm not able to give you the exact section name, but it is near the bottom of the left hand tree. -- /g ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] usernames
At 02:53 PM 10/28/02, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, How do I disable login names on the login screen? I think msec does it. But I don't want all there features. Is there a config file I can edit? Regads, Norman My recollection is that a right click will bring up a preferences dialog that allows those silly icons to be turned off. It also seems to me that the setting wasn't remembered - making it not very useful. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] usernames
I do it through KConfigurationKDESystemLogin Manager You can do it from there. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of David Relson Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 3:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] usernames At 02:53 PM 10/28/02, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, How do I disable login names on the login screen? I think msec does it. But I don't want all there features. Is there a config file I can edit? Regads, Norman My recollection is that a right click will bring up a preferences dialog that allows those silly icons to be turned off. It also seems to me that the setting wasn't remembered - making it not very useful. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Creating network install bootable cdrom
I have a NFS server that has all versions of mandrake that we support. Each workstation has access to this NFS volume with amd. DHCP is also running on this server to dole out IP addresses. I run the following command to re-install or upgrade a machine. rekickstart mdkversion. For example, to install mandrake 8.1 on a machine I just type (as root) rekickstart mdk8.1 or for 9.0 rekickstart mdk9.0. This is the script: #!/bin/sh umask=077 timestamp=`date +%Y%m%d` serv=servername location=/net/$serv/export/jumpstart/$1/install mountdir=/network.img-$timestamp if [ ! -d $location ]; then echo Sorry, bad kickstart version. echo Try ./rekickstart mdk8.1 exit; fi # copy network.img to /var/tmp. rm -rf /var/tmp/network.img cp -f $location/images/network.img /var/tmp # create a directory to mount the image too. mkdir $mountdir # mount image to directory mount -o loop -t auto /var/tmp/network.img $mountdir # copy the kernel and initrd files to /boot cp -f $mountdir/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-jump cp -f $mountdir/network.rdz /boot/network-jump.rdz #umount image and rmove directory umount $mountdir rmdir $mountdir #add entry to lilo cat /etc/lilo.conf EOF # rejumpstart stuff image=/boot/vmlinuz-jump label=jump read-only append=kickstart=/tmp/image/auto_inst.cfg automatic=method:nfs,server:serverip,directory:/export/jumpstart/$1/install,interface:eth0,network:dhcp, ramdisk_size=32000 vga=788 initrd=/boot/network-jump.rdz EOF # modify lilo.conf to have default=vmlinuz-jump-$timestamp cat /etc/lilo.conf | sed s/default=.*/default=jump/ /var/tmp/lilo.conf cp -f /var/tmp/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf rm -f /var/tmp/lilo.conf chmod 600 /etc/lilo.conf #run lilo lilo # run sync several times so when we do a forced reboot everything # works sync sync sync # reboot instantly reboot -n -f -i There is no need to get up from your desk to reinstall the OS. Obviously this will require a working kickstart auto_inst.cfg file for Mandrake kickstart... but those are easy to make. Lieven Van Acker wrote: Thanks Dianne, I also came to this idea, but it is quite a hassle to disassemble harddisks from about a 100 workstations and then reassemble them. I got some feedback from Jack Coates, on how to create a network boot CD. This is a lot easier to roll-out. Here's my complete setup: I have 1 image-server, containing images of the different computer types (hardware + software config) Each workstation has a dual boot config, defaulting to W2K - needed for some course specific applications. The second boot option is linux, password protected from lilo. I also have an extra partition which stores a local copy of the image of the W2K partition. A normal boot from harddisk defaults to W2K, except when an administrator chooses to boot linux (provided the password), to perform some maintenance tasks (updating images, ..) All workstations are equiped with a bootrom. De boot sequence of a workstations is network, harddisk. CDROM and floppy boot are disabled in the password protected BIOS-setup. The image server is also a dhcp+bootp-server, in which workstations - identified by networkcard MAC-address - can be selectively enabled to boot from network. When network booted, an automatic restore is performed: the network booted linux system finishes init by a script that first checks if the local image is identical to the image stored on the server (using MD5-SUMS), if the local image needs to be updated, the local image is rsynced with the server image, and the up to date local image is copied to the W2K partition. The script finishes up by disabling the network boot entry in the bootp-server en shutting down the workstation. The next time the workstations starts, it's in sync with the image on the imageserver. I'm currently tweaking this setup for performance and do some fine-tuning; also have to deal with domain members that share images; ... But currently, the system is stable and is a great help in maintaining a lot of workstations. Regards, Lieven On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:08, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: hi lieven if the workstations have same configurations like make/model, hard disk, memory, etc ... you can install linux on one system only, then 'dd' the hard disk to the other disks. well you will have to collect the hard disks from all the workstations though. just adding to your ideas dianne --- Lieven Van Acker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there a way to create an iso9660 equivalent of the network.img bootable install disk? We have quite a number of workstations to install in our school, but a lot of floppydrives suffer from wear. This is how I want to rollout: 0. Create a bootable CD from network install floppy image 1. Install from network from a bootable CD containing the network install image. 2. Generate an autoinstall floppy 3. Generate a second iso image containing auto-install info 4. Use the second CD to automate installation
Re: [expert] usernames
Norman Zhang grabbed a keyboard and wrote: : How do I disable login names on the login screen? I think : msec does it. But I don't want all there features. Is there : a config file I can edit? : : it's a gdm or kdm thing, depending on which you use. I'm using kdm. Which file do I edit? Am I in right folder with /usr/share/config/kdm/? From the K menu, select Control Center. If you're in a shell window, you can start it by typing kcontrol (without the quotes, of course :). In your tree menu on the left side, expand System and then select Login Manager. Go to the Users tab, and check None under Show Users. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
On Monday 28 October 2002 01:53 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: Jack, I looked at your PS specs at that link you gave, and then looked at your system componets you posted. In my opinion, your PS could definitely be problematic. I agree,,, jack if you keep smokin that stuff we will demand you share, every box needs at least 350 watts of a good (tested clean) power supply and for a box you need. 450 watts would not be a bad thought, far better (in this case) to have and not need than to need and not have. Usually, the main problem is the power available on the 3.3v and 5v rails. This PS is pretty low (15A and 26A) with 150watt combined. If the heat doesn't prove to be the culprit, I would definitely suspect an underpowered PS. On my KT133, I had a 250w PS, and it proved inadequate- had to go to 300w, and I had less peripherals and ram than you do at that time. On mt KT266A DDR, I had to go to a 420W- even 300W wouldn't boot my Shuttle AK31A reliably. Maybe investigate your motherboard on some hardware forums/groups, and get some feedback/info as to how that board behaves- the Shuttle was very picky as to PS issues. Robert C. On Monday 28 October 2002 11:41 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 03:45, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: snip Power Supply? snip Power supplies should be added to the troubleshooting list when tracking down gremlins. Gabriel I've read that article too, and have had my share of cheapie power supplies release their magic smoke... The power supply is a good one, the 250W version on this page: http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=8Product_ID=2CATID=2 It's conceivable that I did my math wrong and this config needs more than 250W, but I'm inclined to doubt that since there's only one hard drive. Right now my bets are on the mem=nopentium switch and on heat problems -- I've got a 80mm fan that I'll stick in it when I get a chance, and I've already put the nopentium switch into lilo. thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] usernames
Thanks everyone for your help. I found out that you can edit /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and change ShowUsers=None under [X-*-greeter] Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
Just ordered a 300W and two cooling fans -- now you're saying 350W? Not sure that I'm following the justification, unless it's rule of thumb. On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:10, ET wrote: On Monday 28 October 2002 01:53 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: Jack, I looked at your PS specs at that link you gave, and then looked at your system componets you posted. In my opinion, your PS could definitely be problematic. I agree,,, jack if you keep smokin that stuff we will demand you share, every box needs at least 350 watts of a good (tested clean) power supply and for a box you need. 450 watts would not be a bad thought, far better (in this case) to have and not need than to need and not have. Usually, the main problem is the power available on the 3.3v and 5v rails. This PS is pretty low (15A and 26A) with 150watt combined. If the heat doesn't prove to be the culprit, I would definitely suspect an underpowered PS. On my KT133, I had a 250w PS, and it proved inadequate- had to go to 300w, and I had less peripherals and ram than you do at that time. On mt KT266A DDR, I had to go to a 420W- even 300W wouldn't boot my Shuttle AK31A reliably. Maybe investigate your motherboard on some hardware forums/groups, and get some feedback/info as to how that board behaves- the Shuttle was very picky as to PS issues. Robert C. On Monday 28 October 2002 11:41 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 03:45, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: snip Power Supply? snip Power supplies should be added to the troubleshooting list when tracking down gremlins. Gabriel I've read that article too, and have had my share of cheapie power supplies release their magic smoke... The power supply is a good one, the 250W version on this page: http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=8Product_ID=2CATID=2 It's conceivable that I did my math wrong and this config needs more than 250W, but I'm inclined to doubt that since there's only one hard drive. Right now my bets are on the mem=nopentium switch and on heat problems -- I've got a 80mm fan that I'll stick in it when I get a chance, and I've already put the nopentium switch into lilo. thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Module get autoloaded?
Hi the module dc2xx prohibits gphoto2 to work as it can not get exclusive rights to the USB device. Does anybody know how i can remove it permanently. If I do a rmmod dc2xx it goes away, but comes back as soon as the usb device is turned on Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FYI: WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC...
On 28 Oct 2002 12:04:02 -0800 Seth Zirin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:05, Pierre Fortin wrote: This is a quick overview of what I ran into after my friends got their WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC... [SNIP] the modem from the mobo and reseat it -- now works... but it has never connected at a rate faster than 21kb -- will check into this after installing 9.0. Phone lines provided by a DLC (Digital Loop Carrier) generally limit modem connections to 21 or 22 Kbit/s. These are frequently found in industrial parks, townhouse communities and other places where there is dense demand for phone lines. Thanks for the info... my friends' house is just up the road in the sparsely populated SC mountains and in the same exchange; I get 50,666bps here... The x-connect boxes for the lines are just across the highway from me... I doubt the extra 3 miles (straight shot) is a problem... Cheers, Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
On 28 Oct 2002, Jack Coates wrote: Just ordered a 300W and two cooling fans -- now you're saying 350W? Not sure that I'm following the justification, unless it's rule of thumb. Besides the excellent AMd guide that someone has mentioned, you might also want to check the pcpowerandcooling.com website. It has a web interface to a power supply guide. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Audacity on 9.0
On 28 Oct 2002 14:26:13 -0600 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten any version of audacity to work under mdk9.0? It's complaining about deps I have installed, both in rpm and src form. It will not build so does not work in 9.0 Use hackaudacity. Charles --- For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism -- Murphy's Military Laws n°33 -- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FYI: WalMart/Microtel/Mandrake8.2 PC...
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 17:22 -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: Thanks for the info... my friends' house is just up the road in the sparsely populated SC mountains and in the same exchange; I get 50,666bps here... The x-connect boxes for the lines are just across the highway from me... I doubt the extra 3 miles (straight shot) is a problem... Hire a trailer and haul your friend's computer over to your house. Let him connect via your phone line and you'll see whether this is the problem or you just have to seek further. Nothing better than experimental science! wobo (I wonder what this red button is for...) -- 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] Module get autoloaded?
you can remove the file dc2xx.o in the module tree somewhere in /lib/modules/ but do a backup of that file first. Le mar 29/10/2002 à 22:41, Lars Ole Christoffersen a écrit : Hi the module dc2xx prohibits gphoto2 to work as it can not get exclusive rights to the USB device. Does anybody know how i can remove it permanently. If I do a rmmod dc2xx it goes away, but comes back as soon as the usb device is turned on Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ___ Haut Débit: Modem offert soit 150,92 euros remboursés sur le Pack eXtense de Wanadoo ! Profitez du Haut Débit à partir de 30 euros/mois : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/w Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Audacity on 9.0
many thanks. On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:28, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 28 Oct 2002 14:26:13 -0600 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone gotten any version of audacity to work under mdk9.0? It's complaining about deps I have installed, both in rpm and src form. It will not build so does not work in 9.0 Use hackaudacity. Charles --- For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism -- Murphy's Military Laws n°33 -- 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
Re: [expert] docs for setting up mdk as a firewall
hans privat wrote: hi, have downloaded that script, but there are some enties I don't have an idea abot what to write in as there are : DNS : = what I have to write here ? is it the local DNS, but right now I don't have a setted up DNS - or is it the DNS of the provider ? Your provider. What else? AUTH_ALLOW=207.69.200.132 216.32.132.250 206.132.27.156 209.81.232.66 207.45.69.69 216.80.83.185 212.158.123.66 #IPs allowed to use the AUTH service (leave blank and put 113 in TCP_ALLOW for all) what I have to do with these entries ? There are no such entries in MonMotha's latest (rc.firewall-2.3.8pre7). What did you download? have tried to send an email to the programmer of this script, but all my emails bounced back - seems to be undeliverable. See: http://monmotha.mplug.org/firewall/index.php Email is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (works for me) BUT, he prefers you use his mailing lists: Mailing lists are up. These lists are being hosted by the University of Hawaii ICS department and the Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group (they also host my firewall). Thanks a lot guys for all that you've done for me! Anyway, here are the lists: * monmotha-announce - Announcements of new versions, security and other errata. This is a low traffic, moderated list. * monmotha-discuss - Open, general discussion about the script. [http://mailman.mplug.org/mailman/listinfo/monmotha-discuss to join] * monmotha-devel - Developer/Development related discussion about the script. Please feel free to subscribe to the ones you feel appropriate for your usage of the script. So I'm hoping now, that anyone can give some assistance for write in the correct values in this script. -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use sunet.se server. See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Consultation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 27 October 2002 11:23 pm, Kiran wrote: I'm not sure that XP/2000 meed this (they might though, I think the boot loader needs to be on C:), but I don't think it would hurt. Windows 9x needs to be on the C: drive so if windows is on the second drive(hdb or D: if you prefer) or up, you need to map it down to the C: drive. The first 2 lines map the C: to the D: and lines 3 4 map the D: to the C:. On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 06:06, Mcleod, Ian wrote: What is this for? map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 .Kiran It needs it because I use XP on the other partition. - -- - Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited Chicago Based and Operated http://pgp.mit.edu - When camping in late fall or winter, your underwear will stay at approximately 35 -- Murphy's Laws of Camping n°23 - 2.4.19-16mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9vdYdxjybQmhmUgYRAjZvAJ9BMi2H4aUl+8OIPxy5tQ7mk9CEqgCgirf6 0B7VXT0OZpQ8STV+5tM3vBQ= =hzB3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails
El lun, 28-10-2002 a las 04:59, hans privat escribió: hi Toshiro, are you shure, which services hosts.allow and hosts.deny are providing ? the only thing you can do with that entries are : allow or deny internetservices like ftp or analogical services ! Try to put the line below in hosts.deny and then tell me if you can access any share on that server :) portmap:ALL Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails
El lun, 28-10-2002 a las 04:59, hans privat escribió: hi Toshiro, are you shure, which services hosts.allow and hosts.deny are providing ? the only thing you can do with that entries are : allow or deny internetservices like ftp or analogical services ! Try to put the line below in hosts.deny and then tell me if you can access any share on that server :) portmap:ALL Hans: Let me make myself a little more clear regarding this issue: hosts.[allow|deny] configuration is not needed for sharing a directory, but if they are misconfigured can certainly restrict you from accessing the shares (it happened to me a couple of times); I asked about it because in your original message you reported this error: /mnt/cdrom failed reason given by server : no right Regards, Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] user sshd does not exist
El lun, 28-10-2002 a las 10:53, bascule escribió: i've just installed openssh-server and when i try to start sshd i get privilege seperation: user sshd does not exist before i create this user, what options should i create it with, obviously it's a system user and doesn't need a home etc. but what else, after all ssh is a security minded tool, no point having it if it's not set up correctly You should have a look at http://www.sunfreeware.com/openssh8.html; although is for Solaris, in STEP THREE, you have the proper way to create the sshd user (that also applies to Linux). Toshiro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] trouble with wireless card
Yesterday, I installed ML 9 on a Compaq Presario 1200T notebook with a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card. Also, I installed the linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre4 package. The prism2_cs and p80211 modules get loaded and the wireless card LED indicates that it sees the AP (steady LED light) which seems to indicate that the config files are properly set up. But the AP doesn't show it associated . Using ifconfig to configure wlan0 gives an error that no such device exists but it does give it an IP address. ifconfig wlan0 shows that it is up and running. But, I can't ping the AP (network is unreachable). I can ping the address for wlan0 though. I've spent hours researching how-to's and faq's but I'm at a loss as to how to get this card to work. Any suggestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Scanner! Should be simple, but...
Hi! I've posted this msg on the newbie list as they were talking abou UMAX, but no one could help me wih my Scanner: It's a Microtek Slim Scan C3 (paralell), the problem is that I've use MCC and installed the necessary software but signal This scanner is supposed to be supported by sane and mdk! (I'm using mdk 9) Is there any kind soul to give some directions! Sane... I've read all the site and some links! So far. nothing! TIA Ricardo -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Setihome user == http://counter.li.org/ Get Counted! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] floppy timeout and I/O error
I wanted to mount /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy and that was completely unsuccessful. My /var/log/messages got filled with the messages listed below. This is with supermount disabled. Does anybody know how I can get around this? Thanks, Narfi. Below are my /etc/fstab and a short segment of /var/log/messages /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda10 /archive xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 /opt xfs defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /projects reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hda11 /tmp xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/memory_card auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: floppy driver state Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: --- Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: now=131363 last interrupt=131063 diff=300 last called handler=e28231a0 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: timeout_message=floppy start Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: last output bytes: Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 0 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 13 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 0 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 1a 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 0 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 3 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: c1 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 10 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 7 80 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 0 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 8 81 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: e6 80 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 0 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost last message repeated 2 times Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 1 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 2 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 12 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 1b 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: ff 90 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: last result at 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: last redo_fd_request at 131063 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: 20 0 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: status=50 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: fdc_busy=1 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: DEVICE_INTR=e2822060 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: fd_timer.function=e2821fb0 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: cont=e282bb50 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: CURRENT=d798e920 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: command_status=-1 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector Oct 28 23:30:48 localhost kernel: FAT: freeing iocharset=iso8859-1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] user sshd does not exist
One question my install of sshd has the shell as /bin/true while the solaris instuctions specify /bin/false Anyone know if this will make any difference? James On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 17:12, Toshiro wrote: El lun, 28-10-2002 a las 10:53, bascule escribió: i've just installed openssh-server and when i try to start sshd i get privilege seperation: user sshd does not exist before i create this user, what options should i create it with, obviously it's a system user and doesn't need a home etc. but what else, after all ssh is a security minded tool, no point having it if it's not set up correctly You should have a look at http://www.sunfreeware.com/openssh8.html; although is for Solaris, in STEP THREE, you have the proper way to create the sshd user (that also applies to Linux). Toshiro. 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] Creating network install bootable cdrom
Brian Parish wrote on Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 02:49:04PM +1100 : I have seen this advice before, but it don't work for me. Perhaps you can tell me where I'm going wrong... I boot from CD2 I stand corrected. It used to work that way. It doesn't now. It looks like you need to make the floppy now from network.img. Blue skies... Todd -- ...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg60235/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions
For me it depends on what the box does. I've got a box that runs 150w (New VIA EPIA motherboard) and that meats specs for it. For a gammer 350W is the lower end. My main box runs 300w and rarely ever pushes it hard. (In fact never) James On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:40, Jack Coates wrote: Just ordered a 300W and two cooling fans -- now you're saying 350W? Not sure that I'm following the justification, unless it's rule of thumb. On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:10, ET wrote: On Monday 28 October 2002 01:53 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: Jack, I looked at your PS specs at that link you gave, and then looked at your system componets you posted. In my opinion, your PS could definitely be problematic. I agree,,, jack if you keep smokin that stuff we will demand you share, every box needs at least 350 watts of a good (tested clean) power supply and for a box you need. 450 watts would not be a bad thought, far better (in this case) to have and not need than to need and not have. Usually, the main problem is the power available on the 3.3v and 5v rails. This PS is pretty low (15A and 26A) with 150watt combined. If the heat doesn't prove to be the culprit, I would definitely suspect an underpowered PS. On my KT133, I had a 250w PS, and it proved inadequate- had to go to 300w, and I had less peripherals and ram than you do at that time. On mt KT266A DDR, I had to go to a 420W- even 300W wouldn't boot my Shuttle AK31A reliably. Maybe investigate your motherboard on some hardware forums/groups, and get some feedback/info as to how that board behaves- the Shuttle was very picky as to PS issues. Robert C. On Monday 28 October 2002 11:41 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 03:45, Gabriel Phoenix wrote: snip Power Supply? snip Power supplies should be added to the troubleshooting list when tracking down gremlins. Gabriel I've read that article too, and have had my share of cheapie power supplies release their magic smoke... The power supply is a good one, the 250W version on this page: http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=8Product_ID=2CATID=2 It's conceivable that I did my math wrong and this config needs more than 250W, but I'm inclined to doubt that since there's only one hard drive. Right now my bets are on the mem=nopentium switch and on heat problems -- I've got a 80mm fan that I'll stick in it when I get a chance, and I've already put the nopentium switch into lilo. thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... 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] Network Profile swiching With MDK 9.0
h interesting thought... On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 10:23, J. Grant wrote: Why not just click Do not activate eth0 at boot time (or config it yourself in the boot up sequence? Then you can do as you wish. JG James Sparenberg wrote: Viable alternatives If I always knew ahead of time what the IP would be. Problem is that I'm moving a lot to networks where either I don't know the intended IP structure, or if I did set up once it won't be the same this time.(customer sites). Right now I've got about 6 profiles in this laptop and expect to add more.(Never knew how much I'd need a laptop till I bought one.) James 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] serious problem in mandrake 9.0
Well i this is the 2nd time it has happend to me i just installed mandrake 9. last night i shutdown my pc home pc this morning when i opened the pc Xwindows is not starting ... only command promt comes, in the place of gui a blank dark gray screen come . i try to configure it with drakconf but it gives out strange error i am dissapointed worried as i really think that now mandrake 9 was ready for desktops i invited some people over to view this but .. wat can i show them now ? please tell me wats the problem solution? the only salution i think of was a reinstall :-S it worked the last time ;-) thanks for reading this take care = *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Quiero salir
como me quito de esta lista? __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Possibe to use jigdo or emulate it on Mandrake CD's?
Can jigdo be used to download Mandrake CD's? If not possible, I guess mounting the iso and rsync'ing it would be ok, but what have to do then to make the boot sector be there when burning it again? If a better method can be used, please tell me. Thanx. -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ ___ 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
[expert] PATH for $QTDIR , etc.
I downloaded the tar.bz2 file for qt-x11-free-3.0.6, configured,compiled and installed it. Works nicely. One problem. The INSTALL file indicated that I needed to create a .profile in my user directory and add four lines defining PATH for it's main directory, libs directory, etc. and then log out and back in for the paths to be loaded. I followed the instructions...didn't matter whether the .profile was in the user home directory or the root home directoryit didn't load the PATH as indicated. As long as I typed in the PATH lines individually (enter after each) and the typed in the export command at the end (followed by enter), it worked fine. However, each time I log out, reboot, etc, I have to type in the PATH and export commands again! Where can I add these commands so they become 'permanent' (at least until I remove them) ?? Thanks for any light you can shed on this. Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PATH for $QTDIR , etc.
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:34, Frank wrote: I downloaded the tar.bz2 file for qt-x11-free-3.0.6, configured,compiled and installed it. Works nicely. One problem. The INSTALL file indicated that I needed to create a .profile in my user directory and add four lines defining PATH for it's main directory, libs directory, etc. and then log out and back in for the paths to be loaded. I followed the instructions...didn't matter whether the .profile was in the user home directory or the root home directoryit didn't load the PATH as indicated. As long as I typed in the PATH lines individually (enter after each) and the typed in the export command at the end (followed by enter), it worked fine. However, each time I log out, reboot, etc, I have to type in the PATH and export commands again! Where can I add these commands so they become 'permanent' (at least until I remove them) ?? man bash for bash shell. If you want the path vars to be global, put them in /etc/profile; if you want them visible only to one user, put them in ~/.bash_profile. Cheers, Randy Thanks for any light you can shed on this. Frank 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] Mutt via KDE: flashing status line
Philip Webb wrote on Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 01:02:46PM -0400 :
xterm is ok; konsole is the one which creates the flashing status line.
For some reason, konsole shows some of the mutt colors flashing. None
of the other terminals do this, only konsole. It seems to be _some_ of
the bright{color} combinations. Some, but not all. (brightcyan seems
to be one that does it). I have a color combination that works very
well. Feel free to snarf it. It's at
http://www.cerritoslug.org/tutorials/color.muttrc.
Feel free to check out the whole tutorial at
http://www.cerritoslug.org/tutorials/mutt.html.
--
| MandrakeSoft USA | Sometimes you get what you want. |
| http://www.mandrakesoft.com | Sometimes you get experience.|
| http://www.mandrakelinux.com |--unknown origin |
Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk
msg60243/pgp0.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] exporting the local CDROM fails
Toshiro wrote on Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:48:08PM -0300 : /mnt/cdrom failed reason given by server : no right exportfs -r Blue skies... Todd -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible. --Larry Wall Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg60244/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Using Kmail with postfix/fetchmail/procmail question
Philip Webb wrote on Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 02:09:44PM -0500 : LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail Only exception here is the LOCKFILE line. I did not have that. well, actually ... (grin): it doesn't exist! i just checked for ~/.lockmail there's no such file! From 'man fetchmail': Only one daemon process is permitted per user; in daemon mode, fetch-mail makes a per-user lockfile to guarantee this. So it's being generated dynamically. Blue skies... todd -- | MandrakeSoft USA | Security is like an onion. It's made | | http://www.mandrakesoft.com | made up of several layers and makes | | http://www.mandrakelinux.com | you cry. --Howard Chu| Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg60245/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] user sshd does not exist
bascule wrote on Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:53:31PM + : i've just installed openssh-server and when i try to start sshd i get privilege seperation: user sshd does not exist before i create this user, what options should i create it with, obviously it's a system user and doesn't need a home etc. but what else, after all ssh is a security minded tool, no point having it if it's not set up correctly Run 'rpm -q --scripts openssh-server' and you'll see the command that is normally used to create that user. Run that command (type it in manually) and then it will start properly. Blue skies... Todd -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com Mandrake: An amalgam of good ideas from RedHat, Debian, and MandrakeSoft. All in all, IMHO, an unbeatable combination. --Levi Ramsey on Cooker ML Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-16mdk msg60246/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Scanner! Should be simple, but...
Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi! I've posted this msg on the newbie list as they were talking abou UMAX, but no one could help me wih my Scanner: It's a Microtek Slim Scan C3 (paralell), the problem is that I've use MCC and installed the necessary software but signal This scanner is supposed to be supported by sane and mdk! (I'm using mdk 9) Is there any kind soul to give some directions! Sane... I've read all the site and some links! So far. nothing! TIA Ricardo Ricardoin the below web document: http://www.mostang.com/sane/man/sane-microtek2.5.html it says, If your scanner is not working properly you also should create a logfile and send it to the author. the author's email address is (also in the above document): Karsten Festag [EMAIL PROTECTED] the above document also tells you how to create a logfile. -- Alan :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dhcp-configuration fails ...
Am Mon, 2002-10-28 um 19.40 schrieb Jim C: 1. Check the disk for scratches, dirt, finger prints etc. 2. Is it not mounting the drive or is it seeing the drive and not getting the file? You could check to see what files rpmdrake is asking for and then try installing them from the command line. Exactly this was my question : how can I find out, which files is rpmdrake awaiting for ? any ideas ? thanks and bye hans hi, was trying to install DHCP and share with mandrake-control-center but it seems, that some progs cannot be read from CD 2, so the install-procedure fails. now my question : does anyone know, which files should be there on CD 2 for install the step : share connection - and if I can or have downloaded the needed files, can I install the share-step without asking for the CD 2 from mandrake-control-center ? am using mdk 8.2 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] Audacity on 9.0
Has anyone gotten any version of audacity to work under mdk9.0? It's complaining about deps I have installed, both in rpm and src form. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Opening Gray Scale Raw Images in the Gimp
Hi all, I need to learn now to vizualize gray scale raw images .raw, images with no header information in The Gimp. Adobe and Paintshop pro recognize the extension .raw and prompt for the dimensions. The Gimp I cant get it to do this. I would appreciate some help. Rob. __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
