RE: [expert] NFS permissions
Thanks for that Bill, but removing the entry from rmtab made no difference. regards Brian On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 14:15, Bill Shirley wrote: > Look at the files in /var/lib/nfs and edit the one that has the > incorrect entry (rmtab, I think). > > Bill Shirley > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 6:15 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [expert] NFS permissions > > > > > > showmount just showed everything exported to everyone. I have now > > removed the /data export and rebooted everything to see what happens. > > After this: > > > > # showmount -e server > > Export list for server: > > /public (everyone) > > /home/brian (everyone) > > and some more > > > > # showmount -a server > > All mount points on server: > > 192.168.0.253:/data > > 192.168.0.253:/home/brian > > 192.168.0.253:/public > > and some more > > > > /data still shows up on the -a list (but not on the -e list) after > > having been removed from exports and the server (and clients) > > rebooted. > > ...and of course if I put it back in exports and attempt to > > mount it, I > > get the same permissions error. > > > > Explicitly adding hostnames or networks in exports makes no > > difference. > > > > Seems like the /data export has been somehow corrupted in a way which > > persists between reboots. Is there some sort of cache on > > disk somewhere > > that needs to be flushed? > > > > I imagine that if I remounted the /data partition under another mount > > point and exported that, everything would work, but that's > > just avoiding > > the problem rather than understanding it, so I'd like to persevere for > > the moment. > > > > thanks for the interest! > > > > Brian > > > > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 01:10, Tru64 User wrote: > > > Check using "showmount -e systemname" and see which > > > files are expported to what hosts. > > > Seems like its having problems with perms.(but u > > > said others look same way and they work?) > > > Let us know what u find out. > > > Otherwise add /data hostname(rw),hostname(rw) > > > > > > _Thanks > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > --- Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This evening I found an export from my server no > > > > longer available. > > > > > > > > # mount -a > > > > mount: server:/data failed, reason given by server: > > > > Permission denied > > > > > > > > The server log shows: > > > > > > > > Dec 3 23:50:51 cnc-server rpc.mountd: authenticated > > > > mount request from > > > > 192.168.0.253:709 for /data (/data) > > > > Dec 3 23:50:51 cnc-server rpc.mountd: getfh failed: > > > > Operation not > > > > permitted > > > > > > > > The line in /etc/exports says: > > > > > > > > /data (rw) > > > > > > > > Permissions and ownership of the directory are as > > > > they were and > > > > identical with other exported filesystems. All the > > > > other are working. > > > > > > > > The security level here is Standard (this is mdk > > > > 9.0) > > > > > > > > Any ideas out there on where to look? > > > > > > > > TIA > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > > > MandrakeSoft? > > > > > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > = > > > > > > > > > __ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > -- > > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > __ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xine dvd playing
Hi, I have it working using xine-d5d now, so i just click on the d5d button instead of the DVD one to play dvds. Regards JG Steffen Barszus wrote: input_dvd: Sorry, this plugin doesn't play encrypted DVDs. The legal status of CSS decryption is unclear and we can't provide such code. Please check http://dvd.sf.net for more information. input_dvd: Unable to find >VIDEO_TS.VOB< on dvd. input_dvd: Unable to find >VIDEO_TS.VOB< on dvd. xine: cannot find input plugin for this MRL xine_stop Oh didn't read that :)) Try xine-d5d (plf) 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] Linux Backup
Hi Guys! I have a couple Mandrake boxes running on my network, and I would like to know peoples opinions on the best way (also cost effective) to do a backup. Now I know this depends on what the uptime that I require is but.. I have a firewall and another box that is a mail server (just relays to another mail server) Would you guys suggest getting into disk mirroring / RAID (does it work well?) if so what would the config have to be? 4 disks? 2 for boot (and to mirror it) and 2 for data (and to mirror it) What about just tar cvf backup.tar ./ Thoughts? Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] FW: professional server setup...
*** Sent this already, doesn't seem to have arrived so I'm sending it again *** Hi guys, I just got something of a promotion and I've been asked to change the network over to hardware/software/OS over to something more professional. my plans are: - Mandrake Linux on all box's that will take it. (I thought about a unix variant (Solaris specifically), but I'm now more familiar with Linux, and most familiar with Mandrake. plus I decided to support the movement :-) - Rack mount servers with Hotswap SCSI UW harddisks, two per box setup to mirror. (speed not that important, at least initially.) - Digital switch for single monitor/keyboard/mouse per rack tower. - Mail (postfix, amavisd-new, spamassasin), Web (apache extranet), DNS (DynDNS (if I can figure out how to change over from Bind9.x)) servers. - Master router/firewall, preferably hardware, but linux box if easier. must be able to handle NAT and straight routing at the same time on different interfaces. and must be able to handly two NET connections and switch between the two if one goes down. (say for example two ADSL connections, or a T1 and a backup ADSL.) My Questions are: 1. SCSI controllers/drives and hotswap... can linux handle hotswapping? And whats the best controller cards to use? I have heard many a complaint about Adaptec cards and the like.. whats the best supported trouble free card? 2. Hardware router/firewall setup, anyone have any suggetions here??? a box capable of handling multiple connections and offer NAT AND routing to different interfaces on the back of the unit? 3. Whats the best prefab backup system for linux box's??? (don't tell me its tar.. I was hoping for something more inclusive). 4. DYNDNS. I have working BIND9 installs, and I am not used to Dyndns, but the config pages on Bernsteins site read like gibberish to me, I want to edit a config file or two like with BIND.. is there a way of doing that?? 5. Multiple CPU's, I was thinking of using Dual AMD CPU's on the mail and web servers.. the mail and web will be doing all the mail and sites for about 100 websites and is likely to have some high usage statictics as time goes on.. Is this a good idea or should I just create multiple web/mail servers and configure them via round robin or similiar?? Any hardware tips, suggestions, flames etc about config and stuff from those of you using this stuff would be most appreciated. kindest regards Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ATI Radeon 7500 on mandrake linkux 9.0
Hello, I have a problem configuring X (Xfree86 version 4.2.1) on linux mandrake 9. I have a Philips 107X2 monitor (17'') and an ATI Radeon 7500 graphic adapter. When I try to start or configure X the monitor shuts down (the led passes from green to yellow) and I have to restart the system. Is it a known issue? What can I do? Thanks Federico __ Tiscali ADSL. Scopri la fantastica promozione di Natale: tutto Gratis fino al 9 gennaio! Abbonati ora: prima ti abboni, più risparmi! http://point.tiscali.it/adsl/index.shtml Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] pcmcia troubles mdk9 D-Link DE660+
Hi Experts I have just updated to mdk9 from mdk8.0 I must say I am very happy with the new OS fantastic effort . the only thing that it killed was my network card a D-Link DE660+ that has been working without fault until the upgrade. I have a compaq armada 7400 lappy. there are no lights at all on the dongle and when i type cardmgr at the command prompt i get [root@localhost **]# cardmgr cardmgr[21920]: no PCMCIA driver in /proc/devices I'm sure the drivers i used before were a kernal module?? and i had to edit the ect/pcmcia/netwokconfig file any help , a point in the right direction would be appreciated regards jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] NFS permissions
I don't know if it will fix it, but try re-booting after removing the entry. Bill > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 6:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [expert] NFS permissions > > > Thanks for that Bill, but removing the entry from rmtab made no > difference. > > regards > Brian > > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 14:15, Bill Shirley wrote: > > Look at the files in /var/lib/nfs and edit the one that has the > > incorrect entry (rmtab, I think). > > > > Bill Shirley > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 6:15 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [expert] NFS permissions > > > > > > > > > showmount just showed everything exported to everyone. I have now > > > removed the /data export and rebooted everything to see > what happens. > > > After this: > > > > > > # showmount -e server > > > Export list for server: > > > /public (everyone) > > > /home/brian (everyone) > > > and some more > > > > > > # showmount -a server > > > All mount points on server: > > > 192.168.0.253:/data > > > 192.168.0.253:/home/brian > > > 192.168.0.253:/public > > > and some more > > > > > > /data still shows up on the -a list (but not on the -e list) after > > > having been removed from exports and the server (and clients) > > > rebooted. > > > ...and of course if I put it back in exports and attempt to > > > mount it, I > > > get the same permissions error. > > > > > > Explicitly adding hostnames or networks in exports makes no > > > difference. > > > > > > Seems like the /data export has been somehow corrupted in > a way which > > > persists between reboots. Is there some sort of cache on > > > disk somewhere > > > that needs to be flushed? > > > > > > I imagine that if I remounted the /data partition under > another mount > > > point and exported that, everything would work, but that's > > > just avoiding > > > the problem rather than understanding it, so I'd like to > persevere for > > > the moment. > > > > > > thanks for the interest! > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 01:10, Tru64 User wrote: > > > > Check using "showmount -e systemname" and see which > > > > files are expported to what hosts. > > > > Seems like its having problems with perms.(but u > > > > said others look same way and they work?) > > > > Let us know what u find out. > > > > Otherwise add /data hostname(rw),hostname(rw) > > > > > > > > _Thanks > > > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > --- Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This evening I found an export from my server no > > > > > longer available. > > > > > > > > > > # mount -a > > > > > mount: server:/data failed, reason given by server: > > > > > Permission denied > > > > > > > > > > The server log shows: > > > > > > > > > > Dec 3 23:50:51 cnc-server rpc.mountd: authenticated > > > > > mount request from > > > > > 192.168.0.253:709 for /data (/data) > > > > > Dec 3 23:50:51 cnc-server rpc.mountd: getfh failed: > > > > > Operation not > > > > > permitted > > > > > > > > > > The line in /etc/exports says: > > > > > > > > > > /data (rw) > > > > > > > > > > Permissions and ownership of the directory are as > > > > > they were and > > > > > identical with other exported filesystems. All the > > > > > other are working. > > > > > > > > > > The security level here is Standard (this is mdk > > > > > 9.0) > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas out there on where to look? > > > > > > > > > > TIA > > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > > > > MandrakeSoft? > > > > > > > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > = > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > -- > > > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > -- > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OpenOfice & locales
OO included in mdk9 doesnt support international dictionaries, manual instal or OOodi setup. OO from .tar works. Does any body may advise me how to setup it? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] NFS permissions
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:26, Bill Shirley wrote: > I don't know if it will fix it, but try re-booting after removing > the entry. Rebooting should never be necessary on Linux, thats windows talk. A lot of services will re-read config if you send them a SIGHUP (kill -s SIGHUP pid). The nuclear option is to restart the service manually (/etc/init.d/nfs restart) > Bill > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish > > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 6:48 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [expert] NFS permissions > > > > > > Thanks for that Bill, but removing the entry from rmtab made no > > difference. > > > > regards > > Brian > > > > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 14:15, Bill Shirley wrote: > > > Look at the files in /var/lib/nfs and edit the one that has the > > > incorrect entry (rmtab, I think). > > > > > > Bill Shirley > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish > > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 6:15 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Re: [expert] NFS permissions > > > > > > > > > > > > showmount just showed everything exported to everyone. I have now > > > > removed the /data export and rebooted everything to see > > what happens. > > > > After this: > > > > > > > > # showmount -e server > > > > Export list for server: > > > > /public (everyone) > > > > /home/brian (everyone) > > > > and some more > > > > > > > > # showmount -a server > > > > All mount points on server: > > > > 192.168.0.253:/data > > > > 192.168.0.253:/home/brian > > > > 192.168.0.253:/public > > > > and some more > > > > > > > > /data still shows up on the -a list (but not on the -e list) after > > > > having been removed from exports and the server (and clients) > > > > rebooted. > > > > ...and of course if I put it back in exports and attempt to > > > > mount it, I > > > > get the same permissions error. > > > > > > > > Explicitly adding hostnames or networks in exports makes no > > > > difference. > > > > > > > > Seems like the /data export has been somehow corrupted in > > a way which > > > > persists between reboots. Is there some sort of cache on > > > > disk somewhere > > > > that needs to be flushed? > > > > > > > > I imagine that if I remounted the /data partition under > > another mount > > > > point and exported that, everything would work, but that's > > > > just avoiding > > > > the problem rather than understanding it, so I'd like to > > persevere for > > > > the moment. > > > > > > > > thanks for the interest! > > > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 01:10, Tru64 User wrote: > > > > > Check using "showmount -e systemname" and see which > > > > > files are expported to what hosts. > > > > > Seems like its having problems with perms.(but u > > > > > said others look same way and they work?) > > > > > Let us know what u find out. > > > > > Otherwise add /data hostname(rw),hostname(rw) > > > > > > > > > > _Thanks > > > > > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > > > --- Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > This evening I found an export from my server no > > > > > > longer available. > > > > > > > > > > > > # mount -a > > > > > > mount: server:/data failed, reason given by server: > > > > > > Permission denied > > > > > > > > > > > > The server log shows: > > > > > > > > > > > > Dec 3 23:50:51 cnc-server rpc.mountd: authenticated > > > > > > mount request from > > > > > > 192.168.0.253:709 for /data (/data) > > > > > > Dec 3 23:50:51 cnc-server rpc.mountd: getfh failed: > > > > > > Operation not > > > > > > permitted > > > > > > > > > > > > The line in /etc/exports says: > > > > > > > > > > > > /data (rw) > > > > > > > > > > > > Permissions and ownership of the directory are as > > > > > > they were and > > > > > > identical with other exported filesystems. All the > > > > > > other are working. > > > > > > > > > > > > The security level here is Standard (this is mdk > > > > > > 9.0) > > > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas out there on where to look? > > > > > > > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > > > > > MandrakeSoft? > > > > > > > > > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > = > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > > > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > -- > > > > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
Re: [expert] professional server setup... (fwd)
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 04:51, Franki wrote: > *** Sent this already, doesn't seem to have arrived so I'm sending it again > *** > > Hi guys, > > I just got something of a promotion and I've been asked to change the > network over to hardware/software/OS over to something more professional. > > my plans are: > > - Mandrake Linux on all box's that will take it. (I thought about a unix > variant (Solaris specifically), but I'm now more familiar with Linux, and > most familiar with Mandrake. plus I decided to support the movement :-) Solaris is a pain in the butt to work with, but it generally needs less working with if you get what I mean :-( > - Rack mount servers with Hotswap SCSI UW harddisks, two per box setup to > mirror. (speed not that important, at least initially.) Seriously consider hardware RAID. > - Digital switch for single monitor/keyboard/mouse per rack tower. Save yourself some money and build a rolling crash cart with all this on it. Also a handy place to put cable and crimping tools, screwdrivers, etc. > - Mail (postfix, amavisd-new, spamassasin), Web (apache extranet), DNS > (DynDNS (if I can figure out how to change over from Bind9.x)) servers. > - Master router/firewall, preferably hardware, but linux box if easier. must > be able to handle NAT and straight routing at the same time on different > interfaces. and must be able to handly two NET connections and switch > between the two if one goes down. (say for example two ADSL connections, or > a T1 and a backup ADSL.) > LEAF is quite capable of handling this and boasts a nice design -- check out Bering at http://leaf.sourceforge.net. But beware that this is an area where the rest of the corporation is most likely to kick back and insist on Cisco in my experience. > > My Questions are: > > 1. SCSI controllers/drives and hotswap... can linux handle hotswapping? And > whats the best controller cards to use? I have heard many a complaint about > Adaptec cards and the like.. whats the best supported trouble free card? > > 2. Hardware router/firewall setup, anyone have any suggetions here??? a box > capable of handling multiple connections and offer NAT AND routing to > different interfaces on the back of the unit? > PCI bus bandwidth is your bottleneck, not CPU or RAM (and if you use LEAF, disk doesn't play a role at all). Buy top quality bus-mastering NICs for a good motherboard and you should be able to match speeds with a 3660. One thing to note is that with a desktop or server CPU you'll have a lot more VPN horsepower than the average appliance. > 3. Whats the best prefab backup system for linux box's??? (don't tell me its > tar.. I was hoping for something more inclusive). > > 4. DYNDNS. I have working BIND9 installs, and I am not used to Dyndns, but > the config pages on Bernsteins site read like gibberish to me, I want to > edit a config file or two like with BIND.. is there a way of doing that?? > Personally I would just stick with BIND 9 -- you're biting off enough with the rest of this, and BIND 9 is not the same fish as 4 and 8. Avoid the political aspects of the argument and go with what's already working until you've finished and stabilized all these other changes. > 5. Multiple CPU's, I was thinking of using Dual AMD CPU's on the mail and > web servers.. the mail and web will be doing all the mail and sites for > about 100 websites and is likely to have some high usage statictics as time > goes on.. Is this a good idea or should I just create multiple web/mail > servers and configure them via round robin or similiar?? > Horizontal scaling (many small boxes) is always better than vertical scaling (big single box). With Postfix, your bottleneck is disk I/O, and everything else is relatively unimportant -- but amavis and spamassassin are CPU/RAM hogs and will need powerful dedicated boxes if you carry substantial amounts of traffic (say ~10K messages per day). Apache will easily saturate Fast Ethernet with a very modest machine if you're just serving static pages, so look at your application server instead of Apache -- and make sure it can support threading across multiple CPUs. Consider putting it on a separate layer of boxes and having two or three small Apache servers pulling from it. I'd say that the application server, database, and spam/virus filters are the only machines that need SMP -- though all would use it to some degree if it was there. > Any hardware tips, suggestions, flames etc about config and stuff from those > of you using this stuff would be most appreciated. > > > kindest regards > > Frank > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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
Re: [expert] Linux Backup
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 04:54, Belkie, Dan wrote: > Hi Guys! > > I have a couple Mandrake boxes running on my network, and I would like to > know peoples opinions on the best way (also cost effective) to do a backup. > Now I know this depends on what the uptime that I require is but.. > > I have a firewall and another box that is a mail server (just relays to > another mail server) Would you guys suggest getting into disk mirroring / > RAID (does it work well?) if so what would the config have to be? 4 disks? 2 > for boot (and to mirror it) and 2 for data (and to mirror it) > > > What about just tar cvf backup.tar ./ > > Thoughts? > > Dan > Here's what works for me -- Every night I copy important stuff into a local backup directory on a different partition or spindle. Really important stuff I rsync over ssh to another site. That first rsync is a killer, but it's hardly noticeable after that. Tape is the right way to go if you need to look for something very large and several months old, but if you just packrat everything into ~ like me, then all you need to do is backup /etc, /home, /usr/local, and /var. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Updating SNF
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 07:49, Mark Weaver wrote: > KevinO wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Mark Weaver wrote: > > > >>You mean you learned "nothing" about iptables and how to use them during > >>that time using SNF? > >> > > > > It was a learning experience. > > I stand corrected... > > > > > > - -- > > KevinO > > you know...I've heard peanut linux is quite interesting and fits on a > floppy. (course I could be wrong - it's happened before.) I wonder if > one could fit Peanut and iptables on a floppy and run the firewall thata > way? > > Mark > Looks like Peanut gave up on fitting into a floppy... I use LEAF when I need something like that. Really nice package. http://leaf.sourceforge.net. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Backup
Hello Dan RAID will make your machine more resistant against hardware crashes, but is no substitute for a backup (e.g. it does not protect against intrusions). If you do decide on mirroring, look for hardware raid (otherwise your system performance goes down the drain). Choosing a backup method is another cup of tea. First ask yourself some questions: 1. what amount of data needs to be backed up? 2. what kind of data do I need to backup (databases?)? 3. Do I need operating system backups for fast recovery, or only data and configuration files? 4. What is the frequency? e.g. Weekly full backups, with Nightly incrementals? 5. Do I want to keep/store historical backups (e.g. the full dumps). 6. The most important one: what is my recovery plan/need (recovering from a complete crash by re-installing the OS, patching, restoring the config files and then untarring the data can consume a lot of time). If you figured this one out, your needs will help you choose between simple backup scripts (often using tar/gz or afio), or a larger solution like amanda (on tapes) or even a commercial application. In the last category, I can recommend Arkeia to you. I hope this helps, please, don't hesitate to ask if you need further advice. Kind regards Guy On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:54, Belkie, Dan wrote: > Hi Guys! > > I have a couple Mandrake boxes running on my network, and I would like to > know peoples opinions on the best way (also cost effective) to do a backup. > Now I know this depends on what the uptime that I require is but.. > > I have a firewall and another box that is a mail server (just relays to > another mail server) Would you guys suggest getting into disk mirroring / > RAID (does it work well?) if so what would the config have to be? 4 disks? 2 > for boot (and to mirror it) and 2 for data (and to mirror it) > > > What about just tar cvf backup.tar ./ > > Thoughts? > > Dan > > > __ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Guy Van Sanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 7500 on mandrake linkux 9.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem configuring X (Xfree86 version 4.2.1) on linux mandrake 9. I have a Philips 107X2 monitor (17'') and an ATI Radeon 7500 graphic adapter. When I try to start or configure X the monitor shuts down (the led passes from green to yellow) and I have to restart the system. Is it a known issue? What can I do? Thanks Federico Federico, Try doing this: Select the highest resolution that the monitor can handle as per your monitor specifications. Reboot and when or if the same situation arises cycle through the various settings using "ctrl+alt + keys. You should find one setting that will work. You can the go back to settings windows in MCC and set the monitor resolution to the one which worked with your system. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Updating SNF
For a floppy firewall I'd use LRP myself but I really did want more... And after a fair amount of time at the command line I've finally got it working reasonably. For the moment. James On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 08:20, Jack Coates wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 07:49, Mark Weaver wrote: > > KevinO wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > > >>You mean you learned "nothing" about iptables and how to use them during > > >>that time using SNF? > > >> > > > > > > It was a learning experience. > > > I stand corrected... > > > > > > > > > - -- > > > KevinO > > > > you know...I've heard peanut linux is quite interesting and fits on a > > floppy. (course I could be wrong - it's happened before.) I wonder if > > one could fit Peanut and iptables on a floppy and run the firewall thata > > way? > > > > Mark > > > Looks like Peanut gave up on fitting into a floppy... I use LEAF when I > need something like that. Really nice package. > http://leaf.sourceforge.net. > > -- > 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
[expert] CD/DVD-CD/RW reading problems
Hi experts, Have the following problem, if i open a cd from the CD/DVD unit it reads the files but if i try to copy the files, only some of them appear to exist. What i mean is that, if i copy 5 files from a CD to my home directory, when i'm copying i recieve a "file not found" when i'm on the 3rd file. It doesn't occur always, but regularly. If i change for the CD/RW unit, it happens the same. I've been reading that SUPERMOUNT has some problems??, could be that?, because if i try to umount the drive i recieve the message: [gonzalo@host gonzalo]$ umount /mnt/cdrom umount: it seems /mnt/cdrom is mounted multiple times if i check /etc/fstab the cdrom only appears once. So , any ideas?? saludos (greetings) -- Gonzalo Avaria S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usuario LiNuX del sur del mundo... CHILE LiNuX user from the end of the world... CHILE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Some pointers to a secure postfix installation
Hello I am planning to install postifx in a way that I can create some email accounts for me and my group. As a big newbie, I have no idea on how to do that without leaving a huge security problem for all members of my network! Ok, let me fire the questions: a) Can I set up postfix so that only specific IPs can access both pop and stmp? How about secure connections (I have neither ftp or telnet but only ssh connections? Sorry if I am firing a stupid question (Please blame my completely ignorance on the subject). b) Where can I find a simple tutorial on how to set up postfix and related issues? That is, postfix for dummies. Many thanks for the help and patience. regards Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pcmcia troubles mdk9 D-Link DE660+
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 04:55, Jason Pearce wrote: > Hi Experts > I have just updated to mdk9 from mdk8.0 > I must say I am very happy with the new OS > fantastic effort . > the only thing that it killed was my network card a > D-Link DE660+ > that has been working without fault until the upgrade. > I have a compaq armada 7400 lappy. > there are no lights at all on the dongle and when i type > cardmgr at the command prompt i get > [root@localhost **]# cardmgr > cardmgr[21920]: no PCMCIA driver in /proc/devices > I'm sure the drivers i used before were a kernal module?? > and i had to edit the ect/pcmcia/netwokconfig file > any help , a point in the right direction would be appreciated > regards jason Jason, On mine the following was missing, From /etc/pcmcia/config... and I had to manually enter it then it started working. card "D-Link DE-660 Ethernet" version "D-Link", "DE-660" bind "pcnet_cs" card "D-Link DE-660+ Ethernet" version "D-Link", "DE-660+" bind "pcnet_cs" As you can see the driver is pcnet_cs other needed modules are. 8390 and ds which seem to be grabbed by pcnet_cs once it's loaded and of course pcmcia_core to start with. James PS runing an Armada M700 here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Updating SNF
LEAF is based on LRP -- it forked because LRP wasn't being actively developed and there was some bad blood with the people who were actively developing. If you use LRP, LEAF is really worth a look. Jack On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 09:34, James Sparenberg wrote: > For a floppy firewall I'd use LRP myself but I really did want > more... And after a fair amount of time at the command line I've > finally got it working reasonably. For the moment. > > James > > > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 08:20, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 07:49, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > KevinO wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > > > > >>You mean you learned "nothing" about iptables and how to use them during > > > >>that time using SNF? > > > >> > > > > > > > > It was a learning experience. > > > > I stand corrected... > > > > > > > > > > > > - -- > > > > KevinO > > > > > > you know...I've heard peanut linux is quite interesting and fits on a > > > floppy. (course I could be wrong - it's happened before.) I wonder if > > > one could fit Peanut and iptables on a floppy and run the firewall thata > > > way? > > > > > > Mark > > > > > Looks like Peanut gave up on fitting into a floppy... I use LEAF when I > > need something like that. Really nice package. > > http://leaf.sourceforge.net. > > > > -- > > 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 -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Updating SNF
James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 15:41, Mark Weaver wrote: KevinO wrote: I ran (fought with, suffered with) SNF for several months. Now we use Smoothwall. (IPCop should be similar) My suggestion: Use smoothwall or something similar. Don't bother with SNF. Sorry Mandrake. I like your distributions and I support you financially. But, SNF was a terrible product. Slow, wouldn't forward UDP (despite allowing you to configure that in without any warnings or complaints.), and too big of a distribution for a firewall. SNF > 300MB download Smoothwall < 30MB download (and it does pretty much everything SNF claims it will) Easier to use/figure out web interface too. I consider the time I spent with SNF to have been a total waste. KevinO James Sparenberg wrote: You mean you learned "nothing" about iptables and how to use them during that time using SNF? Mark No SNF is the 2.2 kernel and uses ipchains. ah...well thats no fun. I knew there wasn't reason I hadn't bothered with that. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FW: professional server setup...
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 04:51, Franki wrote: > *** Sent this already, doesn't seem to have arrived so I'm sending it again > *** > > Hi guys, > > I just got something of a promotion and I've been asked to change the > network over to hardware/software/OS over to something more professional. > > my plans are: > > - Mandrake Linux on all box's that will take it. (I thought about a unix > variant (Solaris specifically), but I'm now more familiar with Linux, and > most familiar with Mandrake. plus I decided to support the movement :-) > - Rack mount servers with Hotswap SCSI UW harddisks, two per box setup to > mirror. (speed not that important, at least initially.) > - Digital switch for single monitor/keyboard/mouse per rack tower. > - Mail (postfix, amavisd-new, spamassasin), Web (apache extranet), DNS > (DynDNS (if I can figure out how to change over from Bind9.x)) servers. > - Master router/firewall, preferably hardware, but linux box if easier. must > be able to handle NAT and straight routing at the same time on different > interfaces. and must be able to handly two NET connections and switch > between the two if one goes down. (say for example two ADSL connections, or > a T1 and a backup ADSL.) > > > My Questions are: > > 1. SCSI controllers/drives and hotswap... can linux handle hotswapping? And > whats the best controller cards to use? I have heard many a complaint about > Adaptec cards and the like.. whats the best supported trouble free card? > Not directly related but somewhat is this comparison of raid and raid vs scsi card article. http://tech-report.com/reviews/2002q4/ideraid/index.x?pg=1 > 2. Hardware router/firewall setup, anyone have any suggetions here??? a box > capable of handling multiple connections and offer NAT AND routing to > different interfaces on the back of the unit? > > 3. Whats the best prefab backup system for linux box's??? (don't tell me its > tar.. I was hoping for something more inclusive). Arkeia is about the most comprehensive product I've seen for backups and restore control. > > 4. DYNDNS. I have working BIND9 installs, and I am not used to Dyndns, but > the config pages on Bernsteins site read like gibberish to me, I want to > edit a config file or two like with BIND.. is there a way of doing that?? > > 5. Multiple CPU's, I was thinking of using Dual AMD CPU's on the mail and > web servers.. the mail and web will be doing all the mail and sites for > about 100 websites and is likely to have some high usage statictics as time > goes on.. Is this a good idea or should I just create multiple web/mail > servers and configure them via round robin or similiar?? Even more important than multiple CPU's is ram. Escpecially if those 100 sites are largely static content. The less the comp has to access the HDD the less it will be stressed out. And ram is cheap enough now that there is no excuse not to load up on it. > > Any hardware tips, suggestions, flames etc about config and stuff from those > of you using this stuff would be most appreciated. Don't go to the bleeding edge. Back off a notch or two and your reliability will shoot way up. The comp that served DiCaprio's web pages right after the Titanic moving was a K-6 233 and it managed to do this because it was 1. ram heavy 2. Well tested hardware. ( A good friend of mine hosted that site so I know the hardware.) At that time I was working for someone who insisted on the bleeding edge (which where 500mhz ATT ) and it was dropping on 1/10th the traffic. You'll go further with tweaking the standard than you will with hanging 10 on the edge. James > > > kindest regards > > 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] Linux Backup
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Belkie, Dan wrote: > Hi Guys! > > I have a couple Mandrake boxes running on my network, and I would like to > know peoples opinions on the best way (also cost effective) to do a backup. > Now I know this depends on what the uptime that I require is but.. Hi Dan: Like Guy Van Sanden wrote, it depends entirely on your needs. If this box can't ever go down you'll need raid. On our network here we use a 10 slot tape robot with 30G capacity per slot. On my home network I get by with a single DLT for the daily backups and a CD burner for the non-critical but not easily replaceable stuff (MP3s, pictures, etc.). > > I have a firewall and another box that is a mail server (just relays to > another mail server) Would you guys suggest getting into disk mirroring / > RAID (does it work well?) if so what would the config have to be? 4 disks? 2 > for boot (and to mirror it) and 2 for data (and to mirror it) > There's a timely article on ARSTechnica about raid at (http://www.arstechnica.com). If your machines are mainly static (and it seems so since one's a firewall and the other just relays) and you don't mind some downtime, you can probably get away with keeping backups of the configurationsi, installation CD and any necessary updates. My firewall, running on a Mandrake 7.2 system, takes up about 350M for the entire system, so I just dd it across the network to another system. > > What about just tar cvf backup.tar ./ > > Thoughts? > > Dan > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kde 3.05
Hi I cant seem to find any ML rpms for KDE 3.05. Previous releases were always up quite quickly on kde.org, any reason for this ? -- /Marek \\Pawinski.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NFS permissions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Bennee wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:13:37PM + : > > Rebooting should never be necessary on Linux, thats windows talk. A lot > of services will re-read config if you send them a SIGHUP (kill -s > SIGHUP pid). The nuclear option is to restart the service manually > (/etc/init.d/nfs restart) There are exceptions, one of which is nfs. If you are on a client that has mounted an NFS export from the NFS server and the server goes down and have not specified that it's a soft mount, you might as well reboot the client. The other notable exception is if supermount hangs on you. You can unload the module, you can't see new CD's, you can't do anything with removable media. See the pattern here? Anytime a bug causes something to die or hang in userspace, you just kill it off and restart it. Anytime a bug causes something to die or hang in kernelspace, the system is at best partially disabled, most likely unstable and approaching unusable, or at worst OOPSes and halts. 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 2.4.20-1mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE975Ujlp7v05cW2woRAhCUAJ9A8PXMDfXIQiSgJS49X72ReMfZSACfdo42 ywhA5OT0DvDsNxGgI1PN+lE= =7qxD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FW: professional server setup...
On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 05:51 AM, Franki wrote:
[...]
4. DYNDNS. I have working BIND9 installs, and I am not used to Dyndns,
but
the config pages on Bernsteins site read like gibberish to me, I want
to
edit a config file or two like with BIND.. is there a way of doing
that??
You're talking about DYNDNS then you mention djb. Which DNS software
are you looking at? djbdns?
And yes, you can. The data file is the "master" file. You can have
multiple files and then in the make process you can cat them to the
master file.
For instance, I have things like zone-linsec.ca, zone-danen.net,
zone-freezer-burn.org and each contains data for the domain. Then I
modified the Makefile so that I could issue a "make build" that
basically cats each zone-* file to a temporary file, sorts it, and then
calls make to build the cdb file.
IIRC, my djbdns rpms for Mandrake illustrate the same thing (I believe
I modified the Makefile to have the "make build" capability).
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Re: [expert] CD/DVD-CD/RW reading problems
/etc/fstab won't show you how many times a device is mounted... cat /proc/mounts will though IIRC... Hans On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 18:35, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: > Hi experts, > Have the following problem, if i open a cd from the CD/DVD unit it reads the > files but if i try to copy the files, only some of them appear to exist. What > i mean is that, if i copy 5 files from a CD to my home directory, when i'm > copying i recieve a "file not found" when i'm on the 3rd file. It doesn't > occur always, but regularly. If i change for the CD/RW unit, it happens the > same. I've been reading that SUPERMOUNT has some problems??, could be that?, > because if i try to umount the drive i recieve the message: > > [gonzalo@host gonzalo]$ umount /mnt/cdrom > umount: it seems /mnt/cdrom is mounted multiple times > > if i check /etc/fstab the cdrom only appears once. > So , any ideas?? > saludos (greetings) > > -- > Gonzalo Avaria S. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Usuario LiNuX del sur del mundo... CHILE > LiNuX user from the end of the world... CHILE > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [expert] Colortail. A wonderful tool for adding color to your syslog or any other text file!
Hi Lorne, Thanks for the reply. The patch worked brilliantly :) I've never used patch before, now I have coloured logs! Thanks, Jord Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Some pointers to a secure postfix installation
Ed, > a) Can I set up postfix so that only specific IPs can access both pop and > stmp? You have to for SMTP, so yes. But Postfix isn't a POP server. You'll have to install one separately. A standard POP3 server is part of the imap RPM that comes with Mandrake. > How about secure connections (I have neither ftp or telnet but only > ssh connections? I'm not sure about security. > b) Where can I find a simple tutorial on how to set up postfix and related > issues? That is, postfix for dummies. You can find good docs at Postfix's web site, actually: http://www.postfix.org/docs.html Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] openoffice
Can somebody please help me: I can't see any description in the openoffice toolbar any more. I don't know what happened because the software was functioning perfect for a long while. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] FW: professional server setup...
Thanks Vincent,
Yes, I did mean djbdns.. it was a mind typo :-)
I'll try your rpms on a test bench and swap over from bind once I understand
it properly.
and thankyou to everyone else that offered suggestions..
I have saved them all and will give them alot of thought over the next week
or two..
One benefit of this, they are relying on my to make all the decisions.. they
don't know Cisco
from a bar of soap, (they are predominantly bean counters :-) so I get total
control over everything..
Its great...
So presently, I am looking at the following:
1. Hardware Raid (mirror)
2. Single AMD 2400XP cpus (decided to just add more servers when the load
gets up.) the webserver serves about 50/50 static HTML and perl scripts..
(some mod perl) so it need atleast abit of grunt.
3. Standard 1 gig ram on all machines.
I don't know yet about suitable hardware raid setups or hotswappable issues,
so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
rgds
Frank
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Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 2:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [expert] FW: professional server setup...
On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 05:51 AM, Franki wrote:
[...]
> 4. DYNDNS. I have working BIND9 installs, and I am not used to Dyndns,
> but
> the config pages on Bernsteins site read like gibberish to me, I want
> to
> edit a config file or two like with BIND.. is there a way of doing
> that??
You're talking about DYNDNS then you mention djb. Which DNS software
are you looking at? djbdns?
And yes, you can. The data file is the "master" file. You can have
multiple files and then in the make process you can cat them to the
master file.
For instance, I have things like zone-linsec.ca, zone-danen.net,
zone-freezer-burn.org and each contains data for the domain. Then I
modified the Makefile so that I could issue a "make build" that
basically cats each zone-* file to a temporary file, sorts it, and then
calls make to build the cdb file.
IIRC, my djbdns rpms for Mandrake illustrate the same thing (I believe
I modified the Makefile to have the "make build" capability).
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[expert] Netscape 4.x on Mandrake 9
Hello guys Is there an easy way (like RPM's ;-) ) to get Netscape 4.x running on Mandrake? I recently switched to Mandrake from SuSE (because Mandrake is more GPL friendly). The only drawback is that I need Netscape 4.75 or higher for my internetbanking (I know, it's lame but it doesn't work on Mozilla/Netscape 6 & 7/Opera/... and it's about the only bank in Belgium that has something working on Linux). So, I get stuck running a prehistoric monster Thanks for your help. Guy -- Guy Van Sanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.x on Mandrake 9
might be faster/better to use a modern browser that allows you to set the ID string: Konqueror, Opera, I think some others. On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:09, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hello guys > > Is there an easy way (like RPM's ;-) ) to get Netscape 4.x running on > Mandrake? > I recently switched to Mandrake from SuSE (because Mandrake is more GPL > friendly). > > The only drawback is that I need Netscape 4.75 or higher for my > internetbanking (I know, it's lame but it doesn't work on > Mozilla/Netscape 6 & 7/Opera/... and it's about the only bank in Belgium > that has something working on Linux). > So, I get stuck running a prehistoric monster > > Thanks for your help. > > Guy > > > -- > Guy Van Sanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > 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
Re: [expert] kde 3.05
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:02, Marek wrote: > Hi > > I cant seem to find any ML rpms for KDE 3.05. Previous releases were > always up quite quickly on kde.org, any reason for this ? I asked the same question just a few days ago on the Newbie list. Never did find out why Official Mandrake RPMs weren't made, but a few people did recommend TexStar's RPMs. I decided to wait for 3.1. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Backup
> This backup script takes good care of the important things like > /home/$user > $user/document_folder(s) > /etc #to get all the system config files in the event something > #terrible happens and I've got to reload and recover ... snip ... Here's a simple backup script I wrote (found at bottom) to back up the directories and files that I care about, if disaster ever strikes. I put a copy of this in /etc/cron.daily to execute. Thanks... Dan. -- mybackup.sh script below this line. #!/bin/sh backup='/scratch/backup'# /scratch is a partition on disk 2 tar='tar cpzf' ext='.tgz' tmpfile='/root/tmp/b$$' dirs='root etc boot home/cvs home/dns home/dwoods home/httpd home/mysites home/sentry home/users usr/local/bin usr/local/jdk usr/local/logcheck usr/local/netpbm usr/local/portsentry usr/local/postfix usr/local/webalizer usr/local/whois var/log var/lib/mysql var/lib/mysql/data var/spool ' files='usr/bin/logcheck.sh sbin/bastille-ipchains sbin/bastille-netfilter ' if [ ! -d $backup ] ; then mkdir -p $backup fi cd / for i in $dirs ; do if [ -d $i ] ; then fix=`echo $i | tr '/' '_'` find $i -type d -o -type f -print | sort > $tmpfile $tar $backup/$fix$ext -T $tmpfile rm -f $tmpfile fi done cd / for i in $files ; do if [ -d $i ] ; then fix=`echo $i | tr '/' '_'` cp -pf $i $backup/$fix$ext fi done Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.x on Mandrake 9
Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello guys Is there an easy way (like RPM's ;-) ) to get Netscape 4.x running on Mandrake? I recently switched to Mandrake from SuSE (because Mandrake is more GPL friendly). The only drawback is that I need Netscape 4.75 or higher for my internetbanking (I know, it's lame but it doesn't work on Mozilla/Netscape 6 & 7/Opera/... and it's about the only bank in Belgium that has something working on Linux). So, I get stuck running a prehistoric monster Thanks for your help. Guy Hi, Yes, I can use netscape 4.78 in a mandrake 9. I have just used rpm's from a mandrake 8.1 (rpm -ivh ) Xavier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Low-Latency Patch for 2.4.20
Quick question... Does anyone know if there is a low-latency patch available for kernel 2.4.20? I was running 2.4.19 with BOTH the preempt kernel patch and the low-latency patch applied. I have applied the preempt patch to 2.4.20 but have been unable to find a low-latency patch for it. TIA, Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Low-Latency Patch for 2.4.20
Rick, Where did you get a preemptive patch for 2.4.20. Are you talking about the pre10, or the final 2.4.20 release? I've been looking for one, but maybe I just missed it. Robert C. On Thursday 05 December 2002 05:05 pm, Rick Friedman wrote: > Quick question... > > Does anyone know if there is a low-latency patch available for kernel > 2.4.20? > > I was running 2.4.19 with BOTH the preempt kernel patch and the > low-latency patch applied. I have applied the preempt patch to 2.4.20 > but have been unable to find a low-latency patch for it. > > TIA, > Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Low-Latency Patch for 2.4.20
low latency as in low latency audio? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick Friedman Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:06 PM To: expert Subject: [expert] Low-Latency Patch for 2.4.20 Quick question... Does anyone know if there is a low-latency patch available for kernel 2.4.20? I was running 2.4.19 with BOTH the preempt kernel patch and the low-latency patch applied. I have applied the preempt patch to 2.4.20 but have been unable to find a low-latency patch for it. TIA, Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?
rpmfind.net is listing packages, but when you click on any of them, you get a "page doesn't exist on this server" type of message. It seems that it's not just Mandrake packages that this is happening with, either. Anyone know what's going on over there? --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
[expert] named: lame server?
Of late, I've been getting TONS of "named: lame server resolving " messages anytime a DNS lookup takes place locally. I've got the caching nameserver package installed, with BIND9. ML 9.0. Anyone have any ideas what would be causing this? My syslog is starting to get really crowded :-) --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
[expert] linux on nvidia nforce
I've been a Mandrake user for quite some time now, and I'm considering getting a nVidia nForce(2) motherboard. There were rumors that installing Linux (not necessarily MDK) on nForce1/nForce2 systems was rather painful, largely due to nVidia's proprietary drivers. (I'm well aware of the oxymoronic nature of pairing Linux w/ proprietary driver/HW, but in this case the benefits may outweigh the negatives for me.) I'd like to get some comments from folks who went down this route, and what their experiences were. What are some of the gotchas? --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] openoffice
hgm wrote: Can somebody please help me: I can't see any description in the openoffice toolbar any more. I don't know what happened because the software was functioning perfect for a long while. Have you checked under "View" to see if they are turned on? :-) Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux on nvidia nforce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Chou wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:46:15PM -0800 : > > I've been a Mandrake user for quite some time now, and I'm considering > getting a nVidia nForce(2) motherboard. There were rumors that > installing Linux (not necessarily MDK) on nForce1/nForce2 systems was > rather painful, largely due to nVidia's proprietary drivers. (I'm > well aware of the oxymoronic nature of pairing Linux w/ proprietary > driver/HW, but in this case the benefits may outweigh the negatives > for me.) > I'd like to get some comments from folks who went down this route, and > what their experiences were. What are some of the gotchas? I've got a customer right now who can get neither RedHat nor Mandrake running on it. Be aware that you'll be up for a challenge. 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 2.4.20-1mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9797hlp7v05cW2woRAm/gAJoDAHeWP8nNGg/qINQ8HDutskYOKwCfVwf4 PdT3kgMfKFPYigXUR9la3cE= =ypTM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] named: lame server?
This time "David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > Of late, I've been getting TONS of "named: lame server resolving " > messages anytime a DNS lookup takes place locally. I've got the caching > nameserver package installed, with BIND9. ML 9.0. Anyone have any ideas > what would be causing this? My syslog is starting to get really > crowded :-) It's got nothing to do with your DNS, it's the DNS server of the domains you are accessing that are lame(ly) configured. You may want to add a rule to your syslogd.conf to get rid of the errors or send them to another file so they don't crowd your messages...you can ignore that error completely, from everything I've ever been able to find out. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. msg62226/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] named: lame server?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:47:21PM -0800 : Content-Description: Mail message body > Of late, I've been getting TONS of "named: lame server resolving " > messages anytime a DNS lookup takes place locally. I've got the caching > nameserver package installed, with BIND9. ML 9.0. Anyone have any ideas > what would be causing this? My syslog is starting to get really > crowded :-) Post the messages. Normally this is when your name server tries to lookup some domain, but a name server that the root servers says is supposed to be authoritative says "I don't know, that's not my domain." A good example is www.protocol-online.net. If you ask the root servers, it tells you to ask the gtld servers. next ask a gtld server for info on www.protocol-online.net: [todd@fiji ~]$ dig +nocomments @c.gtld-servers.net www.protocol-online.net ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2rc1 <<>> +nocomments @c.gtld-servers.net www.protocol-online.net ;; global options: printcmd ;www.protocol-online.net. IN A protocol-online.net.172800 IN NS NS17.CUSTOMER.LEVEL3.net. protocol-online.net.172800 IN NS SCA02.SEC.DNS.EXODUS.net. NS17.CUSTOMER.LEVEL3.net. 172800 IN A 209.244.5.20 SCA02.SEC.DNS.EXODUS.net. 172800 IN A 209.1.235.120 So there are two name servers listed as authoritative for that domain. But if you query them, both respond with "." domain entries, which are the root dns entries. Since the servers which are listed as being authoritative are really not authoritative, they're called "lame servers." 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 2.4.20-1mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE97+CKlp7v05cW2woRAievAKCA1LHPRg/wimHwD7Brj9vKP/F2AACbB7+m p2riP0I9uPHFMnYJHTDSaNk= =SpiI -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux on nvidia nforce
On Thursday 05 December 2002 17:18, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Chou wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:46:15PM -0800 : > > I've been a Mandrake user for quite some time now, and I'm considering > > getting a nVidia nForce(2) motherboard. There were rumors that > > installing Linux (not necessarily MDK) on nForce1/nForce2 systems was > > rather painful, largely due to nVidia's proprietary drivers. (I'm > > well aware of the oxymoronic nature of pairing Linux w/ proprietary > > driver/HW, but in this case the benefits may outweigh the negatives > > for me.) > > I'd like to get some comments from folks who went down this route, and > > what their experiences were. What are some of the gotchas? > > I've got a customer right now who can get neither RedHat nor Mandrake > running on it. Be aware that you'll be up for a challenge. > I received one of those earlier today and will be putting it into my case pretty soon ... please share any solutions that you may find to problems that may arise. I don't care if I can't use any of the peripherals until Mandrake 9.1 comes out, I have a sound card, controller card and a usb 2.0 card. However, if it doesn't even boot, ... then any advice will indeed be gratefully accepted .-) I guess I'll find out this weekend how it goes :-) Narfi. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux on nvidia nforce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H. Narfi Stefansson wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:29:13PM -0600 : > > > > > I've been a Mandrake user for quite some time now, and I'm considering > > > getting a nVidia nForce(2) motherboard. There were rumors that > > I've got a customer right now who can get neither RedHat nor Mandrake > > running on it. Be aware that you'll be up for a challenge. > I received one of those earlier today and will be putting it into my case > pretty soon ... please share any solutions that you may find to problems > that may arise. > I don't care if I can't use any of the peripherals until Mandrake 9.1 comes > out, I have a sound card, controller card and a usb 2.0 card. However, if > it doesn't even boot, ... then any advice will indeed be gratefully > accepted .-) I heard (haven't seen one for myself) that even the networking requires the proprietary binary driver. Can anybody confirm or deny? Blue skies... todd - -- Never take no as an answer from someone who's not authorized to say yes. --Ben Reser on Cooker ML Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-1mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE97+Silp7v05cW2woRAl8nAJ4snbSCEeB1G2Efx3B1Y1KBYHgW7ACglZCT WOEZI622K/xTy9up3YswYDg= =nq6O -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Colortail. A wonderful tool for adding color to your syslog or any other text file!
It's not actually that exciting :) It's tail but with colours, so your logs come out in colur when you view them. Get it from: http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html And the patch to make it compile on 9.0 from: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/colortail/colortail-0.3.0-gcc3.patch.gz?download Cheers, Jord On Thursday 05 Dec 2002 7:14 pm, David Guntner wrote: > Jordan Elver grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Hi Lorne, > > Thanks for the reply. The patch worked brilliantly :) > > I've never used patch before, now I have coloured logs! > > I missed the original message(s). What's colortail and where can I get it. > Sounds like it might be interesting, juding from the above :-) > >--Dave -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk "Software is like sex: It's better when it's free." --- Linus Torvalds, from FSF T-shirt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.x on Mandrake 9
You can find mandrake rpms for it (both src and i586) on rpmfind.net... You might also try netscape.com for a more recent version. -Jason On Thursday 05 December 2002 03:09 pm, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hello guys > > Is there an easy way (like RPM's ;-) ) to get Netscape 4.x running on > Mandrake? > I recently switched to Mandrake from SuSE (because Mandrake is more GPL > friendly). > > The only drawback is that I need Netscape 4.75 or higher for my > internetbanking (I know, it's lame but it doesn't work on > Mozilla/Netscape 6 & 7/Opera/... and it's about the only bank in Belgium > that has something working on Linux). > So, I get stuck running a prehistoric monster > > Thanks for your help. > > Guy -- = 'What good is a candle at noonday?' (Sourcery) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Low-Latency Patch for 2.4.20
Logic7, Rick is referring to basic kernel operating system functions, and performance characteristics, and improving them, which would apply to the entire linux system- it has nothing to do with audio per se, other than any audio functions would be improved also, as a result of a better operating system. At least that's my understanding. Robert C. On Thursday 05 December 2002 05:30 pm, logic7 wrote: > low latency as in low latency audio? > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] named: lame server?
Todd Lyons grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > David Guntner wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:47:21PM -0800 : > > > > Of late, I've been getting TONS of "named: lame server resolving " > > messages anytime a DNS lookup takes place locally. I've got the caching > > nameserver package installed, with BIND9. ML 9.0. Anyone have any ideas > > what would be causing this? My syslog is starting to get really > > crowded :-) > > Post the messages. Ok, here's a sample: Dec 5 16:19:43 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.opm.blitzed.org' (in 'blitzed.org'?): 66.45.120.62#53 Dec 5 16:19:43 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.opm.blitzed.org' (in 'blitzed.org'?): 207.8.219.201#53 Dec 5 16:19:43 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.opm.blitzed.org' (in 'blitzed.org'?): 194.196.163.7#53 Dec 5 16:19:43 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.opm.blitzed.org' (in 'blitzed.org'?): 205.158.174.201#53 Dec 5 16:19:43 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.opm.blitzed.org' (in 'blitzed.org'?): 140.186.128.222#53 Dec 5 16:19:43 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.opm.blitzed.org' (in 'blitzed.org'?): 192.148.252.53#53 Dec 5 16:19:44 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.opm.blitzed.org.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 166.90.15.234#53 Dec 5 16:19:44 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.opm.blitzed.org.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 166.90.15.235#53 Dec 5 16:19:44 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.opm.blitzed.org.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 64.39.31.103#53 Dec 5 16:19:44 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.korea.services.net.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 166.90.15.234#53 Dec 5 16:19:44 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.korea.services.net.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 166.90.15.235#53 Dec 5 16:19:44 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.korea.services.net.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 64.39.31.103#53 Dec 5 16:19:44 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.dnsbl.njabl.org' (in 'dnsbl.njabl.org'?): 209.208.0.97#53 Dec 5 16:19:45 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.dnsbl.njabl.org' (in 'dnsbl.njabl.org'?): 209.208.0.96#53 Dec 5 16:19:45 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.dnsbl.njabl.org.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 166.90.15.235#53 Dec 5 16:19:45 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.dnsbl.njabl.org.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 166.90.15.234#53 Dec 5 16:19:45 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '53.43.67.66.dnsbl.njabl.org.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 64.39.31.103#53 Dec 5 16:19:46 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '55.68.74.204.bl.spamcop.net' (in 'bl.spamcop.NET'?): 64.113.39.10#53 Dec 5 16:19:46 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '55.68.74.204.bl.spamcop.net' (in 'bl.spamcop.NET'?): 194.109.6.147#53 Dec 5 16:19:46 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '55.68.74.204.bl.spamcop.net' (in 'bl.spamcop.NET'?): 65.242.88.99#53 Dec 5 16:19:46 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '55.68.74.204.bl.spamcop.net' (in 'bl.spamcop.NET'?): 205.231.29.242#53 Dec 5 16:19:47 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '55.68.74.204.mail.services.net' (in 'mail.services.NET'?): 208.31.42.99#53 Dec 5 16:19:49 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org' (in 'relays.ordb.org'?): 194.239.134.82#53 Dec 5 16:19:49 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org' (in 'relays.ordb.org'?): 194.255.24.145#53 Dec 5 16:19:49 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org' (in 'relays.ordb.org'?): 130.226.1.4#53 Dec 5 16:19:49 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org' (in 'relays.ordb.org'?): 193.162.159.97#53 Dec 5 16:19:49 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org' (in 'relays.ordb.org'?): 216.240.41.21#53 Dec 5 16:19:49 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org' (in 'relays.ordb.org'?): 195.86.49.227#53 Dec 5 16:19:49 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org' (in 'relays.ordb.org'?): 212.242.41.170#53 Dec 5 16:19:49 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org' (in 'relays.ordb.org'?): 62.242.234.100#53 Dec 5 16:19:50 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 166.90.15.235#53 Dec 5 16:19:50 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 166.90.15.234#53 Dec 5 16:19:50 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.ordb.org.rhpsfan.org' (in 'rhpsfan.org'?): 64.39.31.103#53 Dec 5 16:19:50 janet named[1144]: lame server resolving '241.28.13.206.relays.visi.com' (in 'relays.visi.com'?): 209.98.9
Re: [expert] Colortail. A wonderful tool for adding color to your syslog or any other text file!
Jordan Elver grabbed a keyboard and wrote: (You need to set your mail program so that it doesn't set a Reply-To: line...) > It's not actually that exciting :) It's tail but with colours, so your logs > come out in colur when you view them. > > Get it from: > http://www.student.hk-r.se/~pt98jan/colortail.html > > And the patch to make it compile on 9.0 from: > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/colortail/colortail-0.3.0-gcc3.patch.gz?download Well, that could be useful. :-) Thanks for the information, I'll check it out. --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] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?
Dave, Try right clicking on the link, and then "save link as"- then you'll get a window with the choice of where to save your package. R.C. On Thursday 05 December 2002 05:38 pm, David Guntner wrote: > rpmfind.net is listing packages, but when you click on any of them, you get > a "page doesn't exist on this server" type of message. It seems that it's > not just Mandrake packages that this is happening with, either. > > Anyone know what's going on over there? > > --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?
Robert Crawford grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Try right clicking on the link, and then "save link as"- then you'll get a > window with the choice of where to save your package. The problem is that it's not the download link that's not working - it's the link that takes you to the package description. I.E., the one ending with a .html in the file/link name. I'm not sure how downloadable that will be... :-) --Dave > On Thursday 05 December 2002 05:38 pm, David Guntner wrote: > > rpmfind.net is listing packages, but when you click on any of them, you get > > a "page doesn't exist on this server" type of message. It seems that it's > > not just Mandrake packages that this is happening with, either. > > > > Anyone know what's going on over there? > > > > --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] named: lame server?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wrote on Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:29:30PM -0800 : > > > So there are two name servers listed as authoritative for that domain. > > But if you query them, both respond with "." domain entries, which are > > the root dns entries. Since the servers which are listed as being > > authoritative are really not authoritative, they're called "lame > > servers." > So out of curiosity, how does the name eventually get resolved in these > cases? Obviously, someone is finally deciding to report an IP address, or > I wouldn't be doing a lot of web browsing and so on :-) The one that I posted, none. That name doesn't resolve at all if you ask the servers that DNS wants you to. Most lame servers nowadays have to do with reverse dns not working properly, but sometimes forward DNS lookups get all fubar'd as well. 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 2.4.20-1mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE97/ZSlp7v05cW2woRAm0bAKCeATjFZ3mSfvOGF3dibe53sG03vwCfciji CQs1ehZ4y8MiHE6djM0Y4mY= =F0rg -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Updating SNF
On Thursday 05 December 2002 08:49 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > KevinO wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Mark Weaver wrote: > >>You mean you learned "nothing" about iptables and how to use them during > >>that time using SNF? > > > > It was a learning experience. > > I stand corrected... > > > > > > - -- > > KevinO > > you know...I've heard peanut linux is quite interesting and fits on a > floppy. (course I could be wrong - it's happened before.) I wonder if > one could fit Peanut and iptables on a floppy and run the firewall thata > way? > I've used coyte-linux for years. http://www.coyote-linux.com I am pretty sure. It all goes on a floppy disk. DHCP client on the outside interface and DHCP server on the inside SSH and much more. VERY cool. > Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Directive Help in Apache
I've been fooling with this for several days and I'm not making much headway. I could really use some expert help. I'm working my way through the ORielly book on Apache and they don't set things up like Mandrake. I don't want to mess up the Mandrake conf because I want to go back to it later. So I have a small website setup for testing. I can't get the DirectoryIndex directive to work. When I go to the website I can't get the index.html page to display unless I type it as part of the URL. For example, I have to enter the URL "http://www.domain.com/index.html"; in the browser and I should only have to type "http://www.domain.com";. I have the LoadModule directive in for dir_module and the DirectoryIndex was copied from the Mandrake installed httpd.conf. Other directives in the conf file work fine. Thanking everyone in advance ... Carter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.2.1
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:14, Mark Weaver wrote: > > James Sparenberg scribbled nervously after reading Mark's message: > > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:06, Vincent Danen wrote: > >> > >> On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 06:10 PM, James Sparenberg > >> wrote: > >> > >> > It's a little new eventually (meaning sometime probably in > >> the next few days) it will show up in the cooker for test > >> purposes and then once it's solid expect it to appear in > >> updates. Depending on the box of the person doing the build it's > >> a slow build for sure. > >> > >> What makes you think it'll be in updates? > > > > History more than anything else. Since in the past mandrake has put > > at least one edition above what comes with the cd's into updates. > > Yes it's a guess but one that does have some history behind it. > > > > James > > I was under the impression that Mozy 1.2 had been pulled till further > notice because of a bug in the code and wouldn't be back for a little > while. Correct 1.2 was 1.2.1 is the bugfix. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Backup
If you don't have a lot of megs to to backup the backup to cd feature in Webmin is a nice lightweight backup. It allows you to backup only those files/directories you need to backup. James On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 04:54, Belkie, Dan wrote: > Hi Guys! > > I have a couple Mandrake boxes running on my network, and I would like to > know peoples opinions on the best way (also cost effective) to do a backup. > Now I know this depends on what the uptime that I require is but.. > > I have a firewall and another box that is a mail server (just relays to > another mail server) Would you guys suggest getting into disk mirroring / > RAID (does it work well?) if so what would the config have to be? 4 disks? 2 > for boot (and to mirror it) and 2 for data (and to mirror it) > > > What about just tar cvf backup.tar ./ > > Thoughts? > > Dan > > > > 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] Low-Latency Patch for 2.4.20
Robert, I'm talking about the pre10 patch. You can apply it to 2.4.20 final with no problem at all. Rick On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:17, Robert Crawford wrote: > Rick, > Where did you get a preemptive patch for 2.4.20. Are you talking about the > pre10, or the final 2.4.20 release? I've been looking for one, but maybe I > just missed it. > > Robert C. > > On Thursday 05 December 2002 05:05 pm, Rick Friedman wrote: > > Quick question... > > > > Does anyone know if there is a low-latency patch available for kernel > > 2.4.20? > > > > I was running 2.4.19 with BOTH the preempt kernel patch and the > > low-latency patch applied. I have applied the preempt patch to 2.4.20 > > but have been unable to find a low-latency patch for it. > > > > TIA, > > Rick > > > > > 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] PPTP VPN with SNF
Has anyone implemented a PPTP VPN (such as PoPToP) with Mandrake SNF? If PPTP cannot be implemented on SNF (or can only with great difficulty) can anyone recommend another web-managed firewall product? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?
Two options... www.rpmfind.net is a different server from rpmfind.net... If that doesn't help pbone.net... many of the same functions different system altogether. James On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 16:53, David Guntner wrote: > Robert Crawford grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > Try right clicking on the link, and then "save link as"- then you'll get a > > window with the choice of where to save your package. > > The problem is that it's not the download link that's not working - it's > the link that takes you to the package description. I.E., the one ending > with a .html in the file/link name. I'm not sure how downloadable that > will be... :-) > > --Dave > > > On Thursday 05 December 2002 05:38 pm, David Guntner wrote: > > > rpmfind.net is listing packages, but when you click on any of them, you get > > > a "page doesn't exist on this server" type of message. It seems that it's > > > not just Mandrake packages that this is happening with, either. > > > > > > Anyone know what's going on over there? > > > > > > --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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?
Try this link http://rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/stable/9.0/contrib/RPMS/?M=D Then just right click and "save as" or "Save target as". Which rpm are you looking for ?? At YA later ! Donna http://silkythreads.com// - Original Message - From: David Guntner To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:38 PM Subject: [expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net? rpmfind.net is listing packages, but when you click on any of them, you get a "page doesn't exist on this server" type of message. It seems that it's not just Mandrake packages that this is happening with, either.Anyone know what's going on over there? --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] Updating SNF
KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Weaver wrote: You mean you learned "nothing" about iptables and how to use them during that time using SNF? It was a learning experience. I stand corrected... - -- KevinO you know...I've heard peanut linux is quite interesting and fits on a floppy. (course I could be wrong - it's happened before.) I wonder if one could fit Peanut and iptables on a floppy and run the firewall thata way? Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Backup
I did a lot of thinking on this one for my home system, and eventually decided that the most ecconomical way was to get one of those internal disk caddies and a couple of extra IDE disks to use in it. Given the use of compression on the backups (eg. tar -cjf), these backup disks don't have to be as big as the normal production disk(s). Depending on your circumstances, this may be worth considering. Brian. From: James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [expert] Linux Backup Date: 05 Dec 2002 20:08:11 -0800 If you don't have a lot of megs to to backup the backup to cd feature in Webmin is a nice lightweight backup. It allows you to backup only those files/directories you need to backup. James On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 04:54, Belkie, Dan wrote: > Hi Guys! > > I have a couple Mandrake boxes running on my network, and I would like to > know peoples opinions on the best way (also cost effective) to do a backup. > Now I know this depends on what the uptime that I require is but.. > > I have a firewall and another box that is a mail server (just relays to > another mail server) Would you guys suggest getting into disk mirroring / > RAID (does it work well?) if so what would the config have to be? 4 disks? 2 > for boot (and to mirror it) and 2 for data (and to mirror it) > > > What about just tar cvf backup.tar ./ > > Thoughts? > > Dan > > > > 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 _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Two options... www.rpmfind.net is a different server from rpmfind.net... > If that doesn't help pbone.net... many of the same functions different > system altogether. Weird that they're different. But it works. :-) Thanks. I'll check out pbone.net as well. --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] Updating SNF
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 18:46, Lorne wrote: > On Thursday 05 December 2002 08:49 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > > KevinO wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Mark Weaver wrote: > > >>You mean you learned "nothing" about iptables and how to use them during > > >>that time using SNF? > > > > > > It was a learning experience. > > > I stand corrected... > > > > > > > > > - -- > > > KevinO > > > > you know...I've heard peanut linux is quite interesting and fits on a > > floppy. (course I could be wrong - it's happened before.) I wonder if > > one could fit Peanut and iptables on a floppy and run the firewall thata > > way? > > > I've used coyte-linux for years. http://www.coyote-linux.com I am pretty sure. > It all goes on a floppy disk. DHCP client on the outside interface and DHCP > server on the inside SSH and much more. VERY cool. > > Mark > This is another fork from the LRP tree, with a GUI configger. Commercial. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?
I got that problem with rpmhelp when I tried to get the mdk9.0 colortail rpm... page cannot be found... never had a problem with rpmfind.. have you tried fr.rpmfind.net ?? or one of the other mirrors? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Guntner Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 6:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net? rpmfind.net is listing packages, but when you click on any of them, you get a "page doesn't exist on this server" type of message. It seems that it's not just Mandrake packages that this is happening with, either. Anyone know what's going on over there? --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] Anyone know what's up with rpmfind.net?
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 21:36, David Guntner wrote: > James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > Two options... www.rpmfind.net is a different server from rpmfind.net... > > If that doesn't help pbone.net... many of the same functions different > > system altogether. > > Weird that they're different. But it works. :-) Thanks. I'll check out > pbone.net as well. > www is on the west coast and sans www is east coast. Your right though weird way to make a difference. James > --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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FW: professional server setup...
Liquid Cooled Terminal Server Lets start with the specs: Msi K7D-Master-L Motherboard. Onboard 10/100 nic (for WAN) 2: 1GHZ AMD Athlon MP processors Copper shimmed Cold Spike All copper water blocks (avaliable from my websight www.hasty-solutions.com) 3 Enermax Ultra Cool temperature controlled fans. 7" x 12" transmission oil cooler 1 qt coolant with water wetter coolant pump (all coolant components are internaly plumbed and contained). 512 MB DDR 266 CL 2 Samsung ram Usb 2.0 Usb 1.1 External Usb 2.0 30G ibm backup hard drive. Broadcom bcm5701 64 bit 66 mhz copper gigabit nic (for terminals usning eepro100 nics) Intel SRCU32 2 channel u160 64 bit 66 mhz raid controller w/ 256 MB pc-133 CL 2 micron/crucial ram 6+1 Raid 5 Seagate cheta 10k rpm u160 4 MB cashe SCSI Drives, in removable sca drive trays. DVD-rom Sony CDRW 24X Int zip 250 1.44 Floppy Soundblaster Live ATI Rage 128 Pro 32 MB 21" ncd monitor ATX Full Tower case with red racing stripes. 350 Watt ATX Pentium 4/AMD approved powersupply. The only trouble I have found is the smp kernel and usb, particuarly one hp officejet G85 usb device, locks it up even beond the help the the alt sysreq routieen. Some simple drive performance stats of the raid 5 array for you [root@h2o brent]# hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.22 seconds = 52.46 MB/sec [root@h2o brent]# hdparm -T /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.66 seconds =254.94 MB/sec As you can see by the cashe reads I am getting pretty good use of the extra bandwidth the 64 bit 66 mhz pci slots this particular motherboard has avaliable. You might want to consider somthing similar for your disk I/O intense servers. If you know of any other decent benchmarks that can be run on mdk 9.0, let me know about them and I will be glad to share results. A Note to bear in mind about SMP, when for whatever reason you have a process run away and max tax your processor rather than bringing a whole uni-processor machine to its knees. With smp you end up with one cpu stressing at 100+% load, while the other is availiable to respond to user demands, such as killing the runaway process. and yes my intel raid controller under mandrake hot swaps the sca drives just fine. > *** Sent this already, doesn't seem to have arrived so I'm sending it again > *** > > Hi guys, > > I just got something of a promotion and I've been asked to change the > network over to hardware/software/OS over to something more professional. > > my plans are: > > - Mandrake Linux on all box's that will take it. (I thought about a unix > variant (Solaris specifically), but I'm now more familiar with Linux, and > most familiar with Mandrake. plus I decided to support the movement :-) > - Rack mount servers with Hotswap SCSI UW harddisks, two per box setup to > mirror. (speed not that important, at least initially.) > - Digital switch for single monitor/keyboard/mouse per rack tower. > - Mail (postfix, amavisd-new, spamassasin), Web (apache extranet), DNS > (DynDNS (if I can figure out how to change over from Bind9.x)) servers. > - Master router/firewall, preferably hardware, but linux box if easier. > must be able to handle NAT and straight routing at the same time on > different interfaces. and must be able to handly two NET connections and > switch between the two if one goes down. (say for example two ADSL > connections, or a T1 and a backup ADSL.) For your in house network go gigabit over copper, you will appriciate the significant performance increase, and the cost has become more and more negligable between quality 10/100 nics and the newer 10/100/1000 nics. Just an investment inthe future. > > > My Questions are: > > 1. SCSI controllers/drives and hotswap... can linux handle hotswapping? And > whats the best controller cards to use? I have heard many a complaint about > Adaptec cards and the like.. whats the best supported trouble free card? The intel card I am using seems to be doing quite well, though it would be nice to do some thourough benchmarking to do some real world comparisons. > > 2. Hardware router/firewall setup, anyone have any suggetions here??? a box > capable of handling multiple connections and offer NAT AND routing to > different interfaces on the back of the unit? > > 3. Whats the best prefab backup system for linux box's??? (don't tell me > its tar.. I was hoping for something more inclusive). are you asking about network backup utilitys? Or will drakebackup work (simple lightweight and GPL)? > 4. DYNDNS. I have working BIND9 installs, and I am not used to Dyndns, but > the config pages on Bernsteins site read like gibberish to me, I want to > edit a config file or two like with BIND.. is there a way of doing that?? > > 5. Multiple CPU's, I was thinking of using Dual AMD CPU's on the mail and > web servers.. the mail and web will be doing all the mail and sites for > about 100 websites and is likely to have so
Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!
Jack Coates wrote: I know the shorewall question can be resolved, but as KevinO points out it shouldn't be resolved by someone who's not fully aware of the issues at stake. In the last five days I've gotten nearly a thousand denied attempts to relay spam mail through my server clogging up my logs right now in chunks of thirty messages per server, mostly coming from home Windows boxes on cable and DSL networks. This is clearly a worm, and the few boxes that I've bothered to nmap all have IIS on them and ports 137-139 wide open to the world, allowing anonymous SMB browsing. Since the worm only sends 30 messages at a time, it will probably go unnoticed for months or years because it isn't going to have a big effect on bandwidth or CPU -- the only way these ditzes are ever going to know that they are hosting a spam worm is if someone gets annoyed enough to track them down and slap them upside their pointy little heads. When you don't secure your home box with nothing important on it, there is a chance that your neighbor's snot-nosed brat will go delete your files that you don't care about. However, the odds are much higher that the snot-nosed brat will use your box to download and serve up porn and warez that are illegal to possess in your state, and in the current USA climate this is likely to earn you a visit from the Feds. When uncapping your cable modem can earn you this (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/013226&mode=nested&tid=123) do you want to find out what they do when you're mirroring kiddie porn and copies of .Net Server? An even higher probability exists that your box will be nailed by a worm and turned into a zombie node for the next big DoS or spam flood attack. So, if you're not able to figure out how to get shorewall to do what you need to do (and it is not an easy package), try removing it and working with one of the others, like MonMotha, and if you can't get that to do what you want then for goodness sake go spend $100 on a commercial firewall appliance. My mail logs will thank you for it. Jack Damn! Jack!! All right...I give...I'll uninstall Bastille and give shorewall another try. Geez! you make a good argument and scare the hell out of a person. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!
Jim C wrote: Jack Coates wrote: I know the shorewall question can be resolved, but as KevinO points out it shouldn't be resolved by someone who's not fully aware of the issues at stake. In the last five days I've gotten nearly a thousand denied attempts to relay spam mail through my server clogging up my logs right now in I don't have a mail, web or ftp server. I access only through SSH and SFTP. I am single and live with a Creative Writing major who is not a techy. That I know of, there has never been a "snot nosed brat" in my apartment in the 5 years that I have lived here, unless fraternity brothers count and I know that the guys in question are far more interested in hedonism than anything technical. ;-) You've also not considered that as a graduate student, I might literally have more important things to do. Security is on my hit list but unfortunately it is not at the top. Graduation is. ;-) I do use firewalls on my some of my clients that are windows based but the learning curve for linux based firewalls prevents. I tell you what. :-) If it concerns you so much I will be happy to use any configuration you are willing to provide that allows samba on the intranet and blocks it from the internet and also does internet connection sharing and SSH/SFTP. Eventually I would like to use tcp wrappers for this sort of thing, though. There are some fairly decent config howto's at the Shorewall site that may help you out here. If you are able to install and configure your Mandrake system then you should be able to grasp the guides at the Shorewall site ok. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Updating SNF
Jack Coates scribbled nervously after reading Mark's message: > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 07:49, Mark Weaver wrote: >> KevinO wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Mark Weaver wrote: >> > >> >>You mean you learned "nothing" about iptables and how to use >> them during that time using SNF? >> >> >> > >> > It was a learning experience. >> > I stand corrected... >> > >> > >> > - -- >> > KevinO >> >> you know...I've heard peanut linux is quite interesting and fits >> on a floppy. (course I could be wrong - it's happened before.) I >> wonder if one could fit Peanut and iptables on a floppy and run >> the firewall thata way? >> >> Mark >> > Looks like Peanut gave up on fitting into a floppy... I use LEAF > when I need something like that. Really nice package. > http://leaf.sourceforge.net. > > -- > Jack Coates > Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... cool! thanks for the Link. -- Mark "Stupidity has no moral high ground. It can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Backup
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Belkie, Dan wrote: > >> Hi Guys! >> >> I have a couple Mandrake boxes running on my network, and I would >> like to know peoples opinions on the best way (also cost >> effective) to do a backup. Now I know this depends on what the >> uptime that I require is but.. > > Hi Dan: > Like Guy Van Sanden wrote, it depends entirely on your needs. If > this box can't ever go down you'll need raid. On our network here > we use a 10 slot tape robot with 30G capacity per slot. On my home > network I get by with a single DLT for the daily backups and a CD > burner for the non-critical but not easily replaceable stuff > (MP3s, pictures, etc.). >> >> I have a firewall and another box that is a mail server (just >> relays to another mail server) Would you guys suggest getting into >> disk mirroring / RAID (does it work well?) if so what would the >> config have to be? 4 disks? 2 for boot (and to mirror it) and 2 >> for data (and to mirror it) >> > There's a timely article on ARSTechnica about raid at > (http://www.arstechnica.com). If your machines are mainly static > (and it seems so since one's a firewall and the other just relays) > and you don't mind some downtime, you can probably get away with > keeping backups of the configurationsi, installation CD and any > necessary updates. My firewall, running on a Mandrake 7.2 system, > takes up about 350M for the entire system, so I just dd it across > the network to > another system. >> >> What about just tar cvf backup.tar ./ >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Dan Hi Dan and all, what I've found entertaining at first and then quite useful and productive was to write a simple bash script to take care of nightly backups. this is initialized every night by a cronjob and then emails me the particulars of the job when it's finished. If I had a tape drive I could have it store the resulting .tgz files to a tape, but since I don't have one that currently works I'm just shooting them to a seperate partition set up just for backups. This backup script takes good care of the important things like /home/$user $user/document_folder(s) /etc #to get all the system config files in the event something #terrible happens and I've got to reload and recover /var/lib # cause there's lots O goodies in here. especially # all the MySQL stuff. /var/spool/mail/* # gotta have good backups of all the mail # don't bother with the newsgroups stuff # just keep the config file and download the # messages later when system back up again. /var/ftp/* # everything on the FTP server gets backed up # every night. just to make sure... I'm a packrat. /var/www/* # everything on the web server gets backed up as well. and that about it does it. Mark -- Mark "Stupidity has no moral high ground. It can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.2.1
James Sparenberg scribbled nervously after reading Mark's message: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:06, Vincent Danen wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 06:10 PM, James Sparenberg >> wrote: >> >> > It's a little new eventually (meaning sometime probably in >> the next few days) it will show up in the cooker for test >> purposes and then once it's solid expect it to appear in >> updates. Depending on the box of the person doing the build it's >> a slow build for sure. >> >> What makes you think it'll be in updates? > > History more than anything else. Since in the past mandrake has put > at least one edition above what comes with the cd's into updates. > Yes it's a guess but one that does have some history behind it. > > James I was under the impression that Mozy 1.2 had been pulled till further notice because of a bug in the code and wouldn't be back for a little while. -- Mark "Stupidity has no moral high ground. It can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
