Re: [expert] ATI Radeon drivers

[John Haywood]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:01 pm, Gustavo Alberto Homem wrote:
> > No, the latest drivers include the whole schemozzle, right back to the
> > original Radeon - it says so in the post install script of the rpm, and
> > detects fine in the XFree log
>
> You mean that the latest binaries from ATI support the old radeons ?
>
> In the ATI website you aren't lead to the drivers if you choose an old
> radeon.

Try here, instead of  the "Powered by ATI" link, there are a heap of cards in 
the pop -up menu. Although my card is actually OEM, and a plain 9000, rather 
than a 9000Pro, it certainly uses the driuvers, and the changelog (which pops 
up during the install) mentions some fix or fixes for the OEM cards

Any way, YMMV, and all .



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Re: [expert] urpmi and cooker

[Steffen Barszus]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 03:56, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:14, Todd Lyons wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Adrian Golumbovici wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:27:50PM +0100 :
> > > does anyone know the paths to main and contrib? I saw that you must
> > > point to a hdlist thing and couldn't see any such files on the
> > > mirrors...
> >
> > Best webpage I've ever seen, re urpmi:
> >http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php
>
> Todd
>
>I agree,  wonder if this code could be rolled into the clubs version
> of this... Not saying that what the club has is bad... just that this
> one means fewer clicks of the mouse.
>
> James

And the urpmi-command-lines are better. I had a lot of times nonfunctional 
command-lines in the club. May be that it is fixed now, never tried again. Ah 
and as urpmi.setup is in 9.1 main its not really an issue anymore I guess ;)

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Re: [expert] Filter question

[g]

Anne Wilson wrote:

I presume this would be a script that would have to run before the mail gets 
to KMail?
negative. yet, if you want.

depends on what kmail filter figer will let you do.

that is, i am thru playing with kmail figer. i hope to get into
kmail filters tonight. i do not know layout of structure logic.
dif em clients handle dif ways. all will accept em stream.

if you understand logic of reasoning of filter used,
then basic logic terms can be adapted gui kis.
example, i just moved from netscape 4.5 to 7.0. something
in logic of 7.0 was bombing logic of 4.5 and em was hitting
wrong files. i had just added 3 new address, 1 worked, other
2 did not. other 2 where dif 'from', and similar other.
i tested 2 bombers by making 1 change to each, each change dif.
results of next em dl run, results proved remedy and verified
new structure used.
a minor problem, all spam in 'chat' file, indicated an error
in filter argument syntax. ie, a closing ')' error leaked
spam to 'chat' file.
'spam leak' did dribble out a winner who was up set by my
reply to his post. for some reason, he did not understand
what i had written in my reply. 3 bcc that went out with
it seemed to understand, as they did not reply.
matter of fact, i think that thread went dead. lshic.

did you have any problem understanding it?

??? ynm

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RE: [expert] Problems with cdrecord and scsi-ide

[Ken Walker]

You may think this a stupid question, but your not using a 8x re-writable
disk are you ?

If you put in a x2 re-writable, it'll only write at x2, if it's a x8, it'll
only write at x8, irrespective of what you want it to burn at ?

Ken

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Sent: 02 March 2003 1:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Problems with cdrecord and scsi-ide


On Saturday 01 March 2003 11:43 pm, Mark wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am having problems with what looks like scsi emu probs,  I am using
> mandrake 9 and a Duron 1.3g ..  the problem is I have a LG 48x16x48 cdr
> drive no matter what i try I can not burn quicker than 8x  with out
> having problem like
>
> ./cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error
> CDB:  54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 06 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 29 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x6 Unit Attention, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x29 Qual 0x00 (power on, reset, or bus device reset
> occurred) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 60.041s timeout 60s
> ./cdrecord: OPC failed.
> Writing  time:   65.709s
> BURN-Free was never needed.
> ./cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
> ./cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
>
> O.k. I have pulled down the latest cdrecord,compiled it, but does not
> look like the problem..  since it does work at 8x..   had a play with
> hdparm, switching off and on DMA, but it does not seem to make much
> difference...any ideas?
>
> Cheers

well there are only about 3 million reasons you could have such a problem,
and 
without asking a few more questions, I don't think you will be able to get a

clearer answer. 
are you using a command line or a GUI to burn? what command or GUI have you 
tried? are you burning a file from a local hard drive? cd to cd  "burn on
the 
fly"? what IDE bus is the CD burner on? I recomend burning no faster than 8x

anytime and anyway, for insurance against "overcoastering". (creating more 
coasters than my microwave can zap in one 24 hour period.)
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RE: [expert] Problems with cdrecord and scsi-ide

[Mark]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 22:10, Ken Walker wrote:
> You may think this a stupid question, but your not using a 8x re-writable
> disk are you ?
> 
> If you put in a x2 re-writable, it'll only write at x2, if it's a x8, it'll
> only write at x8, irrespective of what you want it to burn at ?


I wish it was that simple..  The CDs I was using have 2-40x on them, I
guess that means in theory I could burn up to 40x on those CDs..

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[expert] ASUS A7V8X KT400 AGP3.0 bios switch

[Adrian Golumbovici]

Hi,

Anyone know how I can switch my motherboard to work in 4x mode (so to fall
back to AGP 2.0)?

My bios (latest one) seems to lock itself to AGP 3.0 as soon as I put my AGP
3.0 compliant graphics card in it (Radeon 9700 Pro). :( That makes it that I
cannot use the official drivers as AGP 3.0 support is required and current
kernel doesn't. :(

I searched the entire net for how to do this (or which bios should I flash
to solve the problem) but no luck. I just found somewhere that some older
bioses allow to, and the newer one requires some funky secret key
combination to allow you to fallback to AGP 2.0, but couldn't actually find
the right combination.

Please help. I am pretty desperate. I cannot play anything on it as long as
I have the vesa drivers (only ones which would work) from X. :(

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Re: [expert] Rc2 is comming!!

[Greg Meyer]

On Monday 03 March 2003 10:44 pm, Salane King wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2003 22:22, Damon Lynch wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 16:07, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:58, Damon Lynch wrote:
> > > > Question: how come rsync is not more popular?  It seems like a
> > > > wonderful protocol to me, but it seems to get little publicity among
> > > > non-experts. Does it need a special graphical tool to make it more
> > > > popular?
> > > >
> > > > Damon
> > >
> > > Damon from what I've seen it needs more sites that support it.  Those
> > > that do severely limit it.(ie the number of connections allowed) you
> > > are right though... great tool.
> >
> > That's my experience also.  Why is this?  Maybe CPU costs more than
> > bandwidth for the servers?  I assume they all use rsync to actually
> > mirror their Mandrake content.  I wonder if the rsync authors have a
> > cache in mind to handle the CPU side of things.
> >
> > Damon
>
> Here is a great trick for rsync.  update the name of the old iso files to
> the new name then use rsync to update it. it cuts the download time by
> about 50%

HOWTO

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Re: [expert] Filter question

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 10:38 am, g wrote:
> 'spam leak' did dribble out a winner who was up set by my
> reply to his post. for some reason, he did not understand
> what i had written in my reply. 3 bcc that went out with
> it seemed to understand, as they did not reply.
>
> matter of fact, i think that thread went dead. lshic.
>
>
> did you have any problem understanding it?
>
> ??? ynm

g - I plead ignorance.  There are so many acronyms or whatever in this message 
that I only understand about half of it 

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Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

[Pierre Fortin]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:55:55 -0800 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Pierre Fortin wrote on Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 08:54:40PM -0500 :
> > > > 
> > > > So I would use /16 for a Class C network?
> > > Not quite:
> > > /8 is Class A
> > > /16 is Class B
> > > /24 is Class C
> > Not quite:)
> >   0...    is Class A
> >   10..    is Class B
> >   110.    is Class C
> >   1110    is Class D (multicast)
> >       is Class E (reserved)
> 
> He's asking about what /16 is, and you're talking about classful
> delegations.  I don't think you're answering the question he asked.
> However, enlighten me if I'm wrong.
> 
> > But, nowadays, Classes are mainly historical...
> 
> In reference to the IP block, yes.  But if he wants to block everything
> from 69.2.33.*, he will use a class C mask, regardless of the fact that
> the 69.0.0.0 network is historically a Class A.

Todd, 

I know you are pretty much up on this subject, hence the small smiley in
my post...  but it always helps to give people something to think on 
in that vein, expounding some more for those who are still unsure about
this stuff...

Scott actually asked about 209.8.161.0/24 which was a Class C in the old
days...  the "problem" is that people still insist on [mis]using the Class
[ABC] designators...  it makes more sense to use /0-/32, which is NOT
restricted to /8, /16, /24 and /32 and forget the Class X.

So, Scott and others should really think in terms of how many 2^N
addresses to block, determine the appropriate mask to do that...  there is
a down-side though...  it also means that people really need to learn how
to determine the proper MATCH address that will result from using a mask
that is not one of the traditional Class masks.  For instance (including
*cast addresses):
 209.8.161.0/24 blocks 209.8.161.0--209.8.161.255
 209.8.160.0/24 blocks 209.8.160.0--209.8.160.255
 209.8.160.0/23 blocks 209.8.160.0--209.8.161.255 (=above 2 ranges)
 209.8.160.0/25 blocks 209.8.160.0--209.8.160.128

Note that 209.8.160.0/19 would block more addresses above & below the /23
example above while using the *same* (209.8.160.0) match address...  this
is because 160 is coincidentally a nice binary number (0xA0) with plenty
of trailing 0s.  However, specifying 209.8.161.0/16 as Scott asked *may*
not work (depends on software which reads/uses it) because after the /16
mask is applied, the address to compare against 209.8.160.0 would be
209.8.0.0 -- not a match!  Though iptables does the Right Thing (using my
drop script):
# drop 1.2.3.4/16 all 
   ^^  wrong!  yet...
# iptables -L -v -n
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 764K packets, 520M bytes)
 pkts bytes target prot opt in out source  
destination
0 0 DROP   all  --  *  *   1.2.0.0/16  
0.0.0.0/0
   ^^
It's a Good Thing to understand what goes on...

When building match_address/mask pairs, one must be very careful that they
are a *matched* pair; after all, specifying address/mask in a config file
is not guaranteed to be corrected, as in iptables...  there are "subnet
calculators" available online to help with this...  YIKES!  A quick search
on google for "subnet calculator" gives 32,800 links -- BUT...  there are
many for sale, some for free download, and others online... 
unfortunately, I had to get to the 19th link (http://jodies.de/ipcalc)**
before I found one online (it's downloadable too) that is remotely helpful
for the novice in explaining the above address/mask pairing issue...

** enter say 209.8.161.1 and 23 and note the binary representations
returned...

Oh well...  hope I made the point that giving a /N answer is less than
helpful for many folk who most likely don't yet understand that the
*resulting* match address, after masking, is what belongs in this
address/mask pair.

HTH,
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Re: [expert] ASUS A7V8X KT400 AGP3.0 bios switch

[Adrian Golumbovici]

nevermind. I found it myself. You have to use the 1010 bios version in order
to be able to set AGP to 4x.

Best regards,
Adrian
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:52 PM
Subject: [expert] ASUS A7V8X KT400 AGP3.0 bios switch


> Hi,
>
> Anyone know how I can switch my motherboard to work in 4x mode (so to fall
> back to AGP 2.0)?
>
> My bios (latest one) seems to lock itself to AGP 3.0 as soon as I put my
AGP
> 3.0 compliant graphics card in it (Radeon 9700 Pro). :( That makes it that
I
> cannot use the official drivers as AGP 3.0 support is required and current
> kernel doesn't. :(
>
> I searched the entire net for how to do this (or which bios should I flash
> to solve the problem) but no luck. I just found somewhere that some older
> bioses allow to, and the newer one requires some funky secret key
> combination to allow you to fallback to AGP 2.0, but couldn't actually
find
> the right combination.
>
> Please help. I am pretty desperate. I cannot play anything on it as long
as
> I have the vesa drivers (only ones which would work) from X. :(
>
> Best regards,
> Adrian
>
>
>






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Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

[Pierre Fortin]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:28:40 -0500 Mark Weaver
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Pierre Fortin wrote:
> > On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:45:12 -0500 Mark Weaver
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Scott St. John wrote:
> >>
> >>>Until I can migrate my clients over to Postfix I have been using the 
> >>>access lists in Sendmail to block certain repeat spammers.  I am
> >>>wondering if I could just use iptables to block them and take the
> >load>>off Sendmail?
> >>>
> >>>My question would be 1)Is that practical 2)Is the proper way to block
> >>>an entire network this:
> >>>
> >>>iptables -A INPUT -s 209.8.161.0/24 -j DROP
> >>>
> >>>I added this, however traffic from this network is still reaching my
> >>>mail server.  I want to block EVERYTHING from that network as they
> >are>>sending porn mail to my clients.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>-Scott
> >>
> >>Scott,
> >>
> >>this method will work, but if you want to block the entire network
> >where>the junk comes from then you'll have to block the entire netblock
> >and>not just that part of it.
> >>
> >>iptables -A INPUT -s 209.0.0.0 -j DROP
> > 
> >^
> > Mark, this is a single address...  to drop the entire block, you need
> > a netmask:
> > either 209.0.0.0/8 or 209.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
> 
> Hi Pierre,
> 
> Interestingly enough I ran a simple test on my firewall that Scott was 
> attempting to use:
> 
>   iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 205.216.60.167 --dport 22 -j DROP

Did you verify with?:  iptables -L -v -n

# iptables -L -v -n
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 775K packets, 529M bytes)
 pkts bytes target prot opt in out source  
destination
0 0 DROP   tcp  --  *  *   205.216.60.167  
0.0.0.0/0  tcp dpt:22

I did a similar test the other day and it worked as indicated in a
previous post...


> And you know what I found? the blasted thing was ignored and I got right
> 
> in! That really knoted my shorts for even when I appended the netmask in
> 
> long and short forms to the --source address,
> (-s 205.216.60.167/255.255.255.0 ) I got the same results. I was still 
> able to get right in. I shouldn't have been able to do that; I shouldn't
> 
> have been able to connect at all from the machine I was attempting to 
> connect from. What's up with that? what am I missing here?
> 

Again, seeing your iptables would be useful...

Pierre

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Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

[Scott St. John]

At 03:57 PM 3/3/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> iptables -A INPUT -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -j DROP
> I logged out and then tried to ssh back in and I was in just fine!  Tried
> to reach the web site
> and again, no trouble.  I then switched to this:
Most likely, something before it is allowing it.  I suggest that you
change "-A" to "-I" to make it insert the rule at the beginning of the
INPUT chain instead of appending it to the end of the chain.
Oh that is IT!  Thank you!  With Bastille running I could not use -A, had
to use -I.  Of course I went to flush the rules with -F and made my machine
disappear from the network and had to reboot it this morning :(
Thanks Todd.

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Re: [expert] UT2003 help?

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:34 am, David E. Fox wrote:

> Well, first start your app. Note the process id (PID) by top or ps or
> other method.
>
> Start up gdb in a terminal window, and then do 'attach PID' where PID
> is the process id you wrote down in step #1.
>
> Now if the process crashes you will be able to do an analysis of it in
> gdb. However, if the app doesn't come with source and (more
> importantly) isn't compiled in debug mode, it's often not very helpful
> doing this.

Thanks David. I'll try this later. Its a commercial game, so I dunno about 
source or debug mode with it. Still, it won't hurt to try! :-)

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Re: [expert] Problems with cdrecord and scsi-ide

[et]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 06:52 am, Mark wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 22:10, Ken Walker wrote:
> > You may think this a stupid question, but your not using a 8x re-writable
> > disk are you ?
> >
> > If you put in a x2 re-writable, it'll only write at x2, if it's a x8,
> > it'll only write at x8, irrespective of what you want it to burn at ?
>
> I wish it was that simple..  The CDs I was using have 2-40x on them, I
> guess that means in theory I could burn up to 40x on those CDs..
>
> Cheers
> Mark
in my opinion it has much less to do with the speed of the burn of the cd (but 
is MUCH more applicable when it is a Rewritable CD) than the abilities of the 
burner. 
now about this statement "If you put in a x2 re-writable, it'll only write at 
x2, if it's a x8, it'll only write at x8, irrespective of what you want it to 
burn at ?"
It has also been my experience that it is VERY possible to (_attempt_ to) burn 
at speeds (both higher and lower) than either what is rated on the disk, or 
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Re: [expert] Problems with cdrecord and scsi-ide

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 1:40 pm, et wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 06:52 am, Mark wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 22:10, Ken Walker wrote:
> now about this statement "If you put in a x2 re-writable, it'll only write
> at x2, if it's a x8, it'll only write at x8, irrespective of what you want
> it to burn at ?"
> It has also been my experience that it is VERY possible to (_attempt_ to)
> burn at speeds (both higher and lower) than either what is rated on the
> disk, or what is rated on the burner.

It certainly is possible to burn at lower speeds - I have never tried higher 
ones because I'm not in need of new coasters.  Perhaps, though, the statement 
was meant to imply that the rating on the disk is the max that you could 
burn?

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[expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

[Norman]

Hi all,
I have been asked if I can set up a Linux box to replace an NT server.
What has been requested is that it be file server, mail server, print server and firewall 
and that external users should be able to access their mail and data.

I think that as the PC's ( 10 ) are running win95 and win98 I can use Samba without 
problems and that the printer, which is a nearly new Samsung, Linux compatible Laserjet
can be accessed under cups.
I have recommended that they use a separate PC for the firewall and am thinking of using 
smoothwall. I do not know whether the free version would be ok or whether I should get the 
commercial version.
What I am puzzled about is the mail server. I have not used one myself and do not know if 
any of them, qmail, sendmail etc can talk to outlook or messenger.I have not seen the 
setup they have so am relying on the guy having given me the correct information at this 
stage. They would be happy for me to set up a new PC to do this job and I am keen to have 
a go. As far as I know this will be the first one in my area and want to encourage the use 
of Linux.
Any ideas?
tia

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[expert] Mdk 9.0 on old tack

[Anne Wilson]

I have tried without success to install onto a very old box, IBM/Cyrix cpu.  
It really isn't worth fighting too much, but I'd like to have one more go at 
it.

All I have got, so far, is as far as the initial screen, F1, and first try, 
typed 'linux nopentium noapic'.  This brought just a blank screen.

I then tried to run one of the alternative kernels(?), but putting alt1 into 
the same statement, but this was obviously wrong, because just before the 
blank screen I saw that it was loading the alt0 kernel.

a)  What is the correct syntax for trying the alternatives?
b)  Is there anything else worth trying - before I kick the box out? 

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Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

[Scott St. John]

At 02:32 PM 3/4/2003 +, you wrote:
What I am puzzled about is the mail server. I have not used one myself and 
do not know if any of them, qmail, sendmail etc can talk to outlook or 
messenger.I have not seen the setup they have so am relying on the guy 
having given me the correct information at this stage. They would be happy 
for me to set up a new PC to do this job and I am keen to have a go. As 
far as I know this will be the first one in my area and want to encourage 
the use of Linux.
Any ideas?
Norm-

Outlook and Messenger have POP3 capability so you would need:  1)An email 
server 2)A pop3 server.

You can use sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim, whatever you want for email.  I 
am migrating from Sendmail
to Postfix.  One word of caution - an email server needs careful planning 
and you need to make yourself
familiar with setup and security.  While Postfix is pretty secure by 
default one wrong setting and the spam
world can use your system to get their messages out.  So take the time to 
review the docs and spend some
time getting comfortable with one email server.

-Scott

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Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

[Mark Watts]

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> At 02:32 PM 3/4/2003 +, you wrote:
> >What I am puzzled about is the mail server. I have not used one myself and
> >do not know if any of them, qmail, sendmail etc can talk to outlook or
> >messenger.I have not seen the setup they have so am relying on the guy
> >having given me the correct information at this stage. They would be happy
> >for me to set up a new PC to do this job and I am keen to have a go. As
> >far as I know this will be the first one in my area and want to encourage
> >the use of Linux.
> >Any ideas?
>
> Norm-
>
> Outlook and Messenger have POP3 capability so you would need:  1)An email
> server 2)A pop3 server.
>
> You can use sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim, whatever you want for email.  I
> am migrating from Sendmail
> to Postfix.  One word of caution - an email server needs careful planning
> and you need to make yourself
> familiar with setup and security.  While Postfix is pretty secure by
> default one wrong setting and the spam
> world can use your system to get their messages out.  So take the time to
> review the docs and spend some
> time getting comfortable with one email server.
>
> -Scott


http://www.mrw.demon.co.uk has a detailed how-to for installing qmail and 
qmail-pop3d on mandrake (Vince Danen maintains qmail packages for mandrake)

qmail + qmail-pop3d works just fine with windows mail clients.

There is also a qmail mandrakesecure mailing list if you are so inclined.

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Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0 on old tack

[Mark Watts]

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> I have tried without success to install onto a very old box, IBM/Cyrix cpu.
> It really isn't worth fighting too much, but I'd like to have one more go
> at it.
>
> All I have got, so far, is as far as the initial screen, F1, and first try,
> typed 'linux nopentium noapic'.  This brought just a blank screen.
>
> I then tried to run one of the alternative kernels(?), but putting alt1
> into the same statement, but this was obviously wrong, because just before
> the blank screen I saw that it was loading the alt0 kernel.
>
> a)  What is the correct syntax for trying the alternatives?
> b)  Is there anything else worth trying - before I kick the box out? 
>
> Anne

I have this nagging suspicion that the IBM/Cyrix chips you speak of may not be 
supported under mandrake due to not being fully i586 compatible (the 
architecture mandrake is built/compiled for)

Mark.

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Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0 on old tack

[et]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:29 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have tried without success to install onto a very old box, IBM/Cyrix cpu.
> It really isn't worth fighting too much, but I'd like to have one more go
> at it.
>
> All I have got, so far, is as far as the initial screen, F1, and first try,
> typed 'linux nopentium noapic'.  This brought just a blank screen.
>
> I then tried to run one of the alternative kernels(?), but putting alt1
> into the same statement, but this was obviously wrong, because just before
> the blank screen I saw that it was loading the alt0 kernel.
>
> a)  What is the correct syntax for trying the alternatives?
> b)  Is there anything else worth trying - before I kick the box out? 
>
> Anne
also if it has an onboard video card, giving the "mem=xxxM" statements where 
xxx= the amount of installed memeory minus the amount "shared" with the 
video. as well as remembering to turn off Plug and play aware OS?

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Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

[Scott St. John]

At 02:49 PM 3/4/2003 +, you wrote:
http://www.mrw.demon.co.uk has a detailed how-to for installing qmail and
qmail-pop3d on mandrake (Vince Danen maintains qmail packages for mandrake)
qmail + qmail-pop3d works just fine with windows mail clients.
There is also a qmail mandrakesecure mailing list if you are so inclined.
Mark-

As one who is not familiar with qmail how do you rate it against 
Postfix?  I am seeing
more and more sites using qmail, but sadly I don't know much about it.

-Scott

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RE: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

[Franki]

I've used both.. but qmail only briefly..

if you know postfix, stick with it...

also, if you want to use something like amavis with your mta.. then you
can't go past postfix's content_filter.

rgs

Frank

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At 02:49 PM 3/4/2003 +, you wrote:
>http://www.mrw.demon.co.uk has a detailed how-to for installing qmail and
>qmail-pop3d on mandrake (Vince Danen maintains qmail packages for mandrake)
>qmail + qmail-pop3d works just fine with windows mail clients.
>There is also a qmail mandrakesecure mailing list if you are so inclined.

Mark-

As one who is not familiar with qmail how do you rate it against
Postfix?  I am seeing
more and more sites using qmail, but sadly I don't know much about it.

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[expert] libGLcore.so.2 -- Where are you??

[Ken Thompson]

I have been trying to install several needed programs on 9.0 and 9.1 betas and 
keep gettong the failed dependency message for libGLcore.so.2.. A google 
search sent me to rpmfind.net and a further search turned up nVidia kernels 
and drivers. When trying to install these I get a message saying that an 
nVidia card is required. I have tried both the rpm, src.rpm and tar.gz 
methods all with the same results.. Where can libGLcore be found??
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Re: [expert] Novell Client for Mandrake

[Jack Coates]

On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 23:02, Eko Budiharto wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new with Mandrake. I am using Mandrake for users as a client in my 
> office. I would like to ask how to access Novell v. 3.12 from Mandrake 9.0.
> How can I do that?

NetWare 3.12? A, sniff. That was a pretty nice setup, my very first
server.

I know this is all on the distro, but for the life of me I can't
remember the package names. First you'll need IPX/SPX support, which you
should be able to do in /etc/sysconfig. This looks promising:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Intranet-Server-HOWTO.html
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Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

[Jack Coates]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 07:05, Scott St. John wrote:
> At 02:49 PM 3/4/2003 +, you wrote:
> >http://www.mrw.demon.co.uk has a detailed how-to for installing qmail and
> >qmail-pop3d on mandrake (Vince Danen maintains qmail packages for mandrake)
> >qmail + qmail-pop3d works just fine with windows mail clients.
> >There is also a qmail mandrakesecure mailing list if you are so inclined.
> 
> Mark-
> 
> As one who is not familiar with qmail how do you rate it against 
> Postfix?  I am seeing
> more and more sites using qmail, but sadly I don't know much about it.
> 
> -Scott

http://www.monkeynoodle.org/lrp/unix-mail-intro.html -- getting a little
dated, but hopefully still helpful.

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Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0 on old tack

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 3:05 pm, et wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:29 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I have tried without success to install onto a very old box, IBM/Cyrix
> > cpu. It really isn't worth fighting too much, but I'd like to have one
> > more go at it.
> >
> > All I have got, so far, is as far as the initial screen, F1, and first
> > try, typed 'linux nopentium noapic'.  This brought just a blank screen.
> >
> > I then tried to run one of the alternative kernels(?), but putting alt1
> > into the same statement, but this was obviously wrong, because just
> > before the blank screen I saw that it was loading the alt0 kernel.
> >
> > a)  What is the correct syntax for trying the alternatives?
> > b)  Is there anything else worth trying - before I kick the box out? 
> >
> > Anne
>
> also if it has an onboard video card, giving the "mem=xxxM" statements
> where xxx= the amount of installed memeory minus the amount "shared" with
> the video. as well as remembering to turn off Plug and play aware OS?

The on-board video is turned off - I have always preferred separate sound 
cards, though I believe on-board audio is improving.

I'm beginning to suspect that Mark is right, and it simply doesn't support the 
cpu.

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Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

[Mark Watts]

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> At 02:49 PM 3/4/2003 +, you wrote:
> >http://www.mrw.demon.co.uk has a detailed how-to for installing qmail and
> >qmail-pop3d on mandrake (Vince Danen maintains qmail packages for
> > mandrake) qmail + qmail-pop3d works just fine with windows mail clients.
> >There is also a qmail mandrakesecure mailing list if you are so inclined.
>
> Mark-
>
> As one who is not familiar with qmail how do you rate it against
> Postfix?  I am seeing
> more and more sites using qmail, but sadly I don't know much about it.
>
> -Scott

I can't really comment about postfix Vs qmail as I don't (and haven't) used 
postfix.
In my experiance, qmail is very easy to setup and can be extended with such 
things as mailing list management (ezmlm) and integrated with A/V filtering 
(such as amavis).

- From the sound of your initial mail, you basically want to setup a small 
office mail server - qmail is more than adaquate for that.
As long as you have a mail domain for this, you should be just fine.

Also, for only 10 people, a resonably specified box should be able to handle 
mail/file/print serving without breaking a sweat.
Firewalling is always better on a separate box and Smoothwall is ideal for 
that (or even Mandrakes Single Network Firewall)

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Re: [expert] libGLcore.so.2 -- Where are you??

[Luca Olivetti]

Ken Thompson wrote:
I have been trying to install several needed programs on 9.0 and 9.1 betas and 
keep gettong the failed dependency message for libGLcore.so.2.. A google 
search sent me to rpmfind.net and a further search turned up nVidia kernels 
and drivers. When trying to install these I get a message saying that an 
nVidia card is required. I have tried both the rpm, src.rpm and tar.gz 
methods all with the same results.. Where can libGLcore be found??
Ignore the dependency and bugger the packager to fix the problem (which 
I think it's really an rpm problem in determining automatic 
dependencies, but then I may be wrong).

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Re: [expert] libGLcore.so.2 -- Where are you??

[Greg Meyer]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:25 am, Ken Thompson wrote:
> I have been trying to install several needed programs on 9.0 and 9.1 betas
> and keep gettong the failed dependency message for libGLcore.so.2.. A
> google search sent me to rpmfind.net and a further search turned up nVidia
> kernels and drivers. When trying to install these I get a message saying
> that an nVidia card is required. I have tried both the rpm, src.rpm and
> tar.gz methods all with the same results.. Where can libGLcore be found??
> Thanks all,


It is actually a bogus error created when somebody with an nVidia card 
compiles on their machine.  There is a fix to apply, but if that is your only 
error, I have found it is safe to install with --nodeps.  What package are 
you trying to install?
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Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

[J.P. Pasnak]

Norman said:

> Hi all,
> I have been asked if I can set up a Linux box to replace an NT server.
> What has been requested is that it be file server, mail server, print
> server and firewall
> and that external users should be able to access their mail and data.
>
> What I am puzzled about is the mail server. I have not used one myself and
> do not know if
> any of them, qmail, sendmail etc can talk to outlook or messenger.I have


The default mailserver in Mandrake is postfix, and I highly recommend
using it.   You will also need to decide if you want imap access,
especially if you want them to have access to some sort of webmail (pop3
works with some, but none that I would recommend :)).   By simply
installing standard 9.0/9.1, postfix and imap2002, setting your hostname
and configuring your firewall to redirect smtp through to your postfix
box, you should be up and running in no time.


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Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

[tarvid]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:53, J.P. Pasnak wrote:
> The default mailserver in Mandrake is postfix, and I highly recommend
> using it.   You will also need to decide if you want imap access,
> especially if you want them to have access to some sort of webmail (pop3
> works with some, but none that I would recommend :)).   By simply
> installing standard 9.0/9.1, postfix and imap2002, setting your hostname
> and configuring your firewall to redirect smtp through to your postfix
> box, you should be up and running in no time.

I use postfix too. The first time in my life I have had human readable config 
files.

I recommend maildir, courier imap (with pop3), squirrelmail and RAV antivirus 
($). RAV is $300/year but will save you that in time and aggravation.

Search the postfix archives and you will find plenty of starting 
configurations.

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[expert] Find /dev -type f command hangs

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

Does anyone have any idea why this command will hang?

find /dev -type f

I would like to find/correct this issue.  

TIA.

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Re: [expert] Novell Client for Mandrake

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 4:31 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 23:02, Eko Budiharto wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am new with Mandrake. I am using Mandrake for users as a client in my
> > office. I would like to ask how to access Novell v. 3.12 from Mandrake
> > 9.0. How can I do that?
>
> NetWare 3.12? A, sniff. That was a pretty nice setup, my very first
> server.
>
> I know this is all on the distro, but for the life of me I can't
> remember the package names. First you'll need IPX/SPX support, which you
> should be able to do in /etc/sysconfig. This looks promising:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Intranet-Server-HOWTO.html

I'm pretty sure I've seen something on Mandrake docs site about connecting to 
Netware.  Try a search there.

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Re: [expert] mailman problem

[Jack Coates]

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 21:16, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Fri Feb 28, 2003 at 10:17:59AM -0800, Jack Coates wrote:
> 
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ sudo grep -r vdanen /var/lib/mailman/ | grep -v logs
> > > > vincent.txt
> > > 
> > > produces the attached
> > > 
> > > needless to say this plays hell with the cron jobs.
> > 
> > more info, sorry I was in a hurry last time. MDK9.0,
> > mailman-2.0.13-2mdk.i586.rpm, the cron jobs fail because they're trying
> > to find lockfiles and such in /home/vdanen.
> 
> Can you grab mailman -3mdk from cooker and rebuild it and give it a try?
> You might even be able to use the binary, although I'm not sure.
> 
> IIRC, I did some fixes to clean that up, but I don't really use mailman, or
> even particularly like it, so I didn't do anything more than grep for my
> name in the pyc files.  They should be gone in -3mdk.

yeah, it's a pain in the butt compared to Majordomo. I was seduced by
the sexy web GUI's wily ways. Darn the web GUI, darn it all to heck!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ sudo urpmi mailman-2.0.13-3mdk.i586.rpm 
The following packages have bad signatures:
./mailman-2.0.13-3mdk.i586.rpm
Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y
installing ./mailman-2.0.13-3mdk.i586.rpm

Preparing...   
##
   1:mailman   
##
Post-install compilation...
...
...
Mar  4 13:44:00 felix CROND[29741]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S
/var/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner) 

looks like it's working. Cool!
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Re: [expert] libGLcore.so.2 -- Where are you??

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:25 am, Ken Thompson wrote:
> I have been trying to install several needed programs on 9.0 and 9.1 betas
> and keep gettong the failed dependency message for libGLcore.so.2.. A
> google search sent me to rpmfind.net and a further search turned up nVidia
> kernels and drivers. When trying to install these I get a message saying
> that an nVidia card is required. I have tried both the rpm, src.rpm and
> tar.gz methods all with the same results.. Where can libGLcore be found??
> Thanks all,

Hmm, I'm using a Nvidia TI4200 Geforce here, with the 4191 drivers and I don't 
have that exact file. I do have:

/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.4191

If you have that  then you can make a softlink so that apps looking for 
libGLcore.so.2 will find and use libGLcore.so.1.0.4191.

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Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0 on old tack

[civileme]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 08:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 3:05 pm, et wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:29 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I have tried without success to install onto a very old box, IBM/Cyrix
> > > cpu. It really isn't worth fighting too much, but I'd like to have one
> > > more go at it.
> > >
> > > All I have got, so far, is as far as the initial screen, F1, and first
> > > try, typed 'linux nopentium noapic'.  This brought just a blank screen.
> > >
> > > I then tried to run one of the alternative kernels(?), but putting alt1
> > > into the same statement, but this was obviously wrong, because just
> > > before the blank screen I saw that it was loading the alt0 kernel.
> > >
> > > a)  What is the correct syntax for trying the alternatives?
> > > b)  Is there anything else worth trying - before I kick the box out?
> > > 
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > also if it has an onboard video card, giving the "mem=xxxM" statements
> > where xxx= the amount of installed memeory minus the amount "shared" with
> > the video. as well as remembering to turn off Plug and play aware OS?
>
> The on-board video is turned off - I have always preferred separate sound
> cards, though I believe on-board audio is improving.
>
> I'm beginning to suspect that Mark is right, and it simply doesn't support
> the cpu.
>
> Anne

Actually the 6x86 is fully i586 compatible  But remember

The Pentium had the f00f bug 

The AMD K6 had a bug which had no linux kernel workaround

The Cyrix had the coma bug  (the two execution units could be bus-locked in a 
loop each waiting for the other to complete, and both masking ALL interrupts)
Note that his is a hardware/microprogramming/architecture flaw, not a kernel 
limitation.  When certain code hits the processor at the right time and gets 
split between the two execution units in the wrong way, a logic interlock 
occurs.

Most likely the newest kernel is not set up to avoid the coma bug--it is 
subtle and cannot be avoided in compiled languages, only by inspecting the 
assembly or machine output could we see if it is invoked, and that is a LOT 
of machine code to examine.

I have used Cyrix processors extensively.  They were all 6x86 or M series and 
all performed well on most tasks though they had a tendency to run hot.

The non-i686 compliant Chips one might be thinking of is the continutaion of 
the IDT Winchip series -- the VIA C3 which is actually emulated by the 
Transmeta.  There We DO have a problem with the kernel not properly 
identifying the processor (i686 when it is only i586) but only the 9.0 kernel 
and there is a workaround.

Yes an earlier kernel (alt1,alt2) is certainly worth trying.

You do not need "nopentium" which is a dodge for the K6/K7 to avoid a memory 
paging error.

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[expert] No internet avalaible with rc2 for my cable modem

[Francisco Alcaraz Ariza]

Must of the test I could do with rc2 will be impossible without internet 
runing.

Any clues to activate the internet conection for the cable modem will be very 
welcome!!

All the tips I used for rc1 (put the name servers in resolv.conf, install 
initscript from 9.0) doesn't run under rc2 :-(

Could anyone help me?

Thanks in advance
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Re: [expert] Find /dev -type f command hangs

[Adolfo Bello]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:36, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea why this command will hang?
> 
> find /dev -type f
> 
> I would like to find/correct this issue.  
> 
> TIA.

Not in my box. It works Ok.
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Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0 on old tack

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 9:51 pm, civileme wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 08:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 3:05 pm, et wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:29 am, Anne Wilson wrote:

> Yes an earlier kernel (alt1,alt2) is certainly worth trying.
>
> You do not need "nopentium" which is a dodge for the K6/K7 to avoid a
> memory paging error.

So after F1, what exactly should I type to try alt1 etc?  My effort didn't 
work (it still loaded alt0).

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Re: [expert] Find /dev -type f command hangs

[et]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 05:01 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:36, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote:
> > Does anyone have any idea why this command will hang?
> >
> > find /dev -type f
> >
> > I would like to find/correct this issue.
> >
> > TIA.
>
> Not in my box. It works Ok.
works good here too, maybe the reasons it would freeze would be a corrupt 
find? did it give any clues? an error message? could it be killed with top?

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[expert] RC2 internet, solved uninstallin shorewall

[francisco]

I have saw that from DrakConf is impossible to configure shorewall (that 
happened also under rc1), so I have uninstalled shorewall and op!, internet 
runing. 

This problem must be solved before the final release.

Thanks so much to Dennis Myers and Charles A. Edwards for the help
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Re: [expert] RC2 internet, solved uninstallin shorewall

[Damon Lynch]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 12:31, francisco wrote:

> This problem must be solved before the final release.
> 

It probably will be if you have submitted a bug report :-)  Florin is
good at fixing these reports, in my experience.

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Re: [expert] RC2 internet, solved uninstallin shorewall

[francisco]

I am going to report this to bugzilla immediately


El Miércoles, 5 de Marzo de 2003 01:46, Damon Lynch escribió:
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 12:31, francisco wrote:
> > This problem must be solved before the final release.
>
> It probably will be if you have submitted a bug report :-)  Florin is
> good at fixing these reports, in my experience.
>
> Damon

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Re: [expert] Defragging

[David E. Fox]

> Hmmm... mine wouldn't compile and died with this error:
> 
>   make: *** [display.ext2.o] Error 1

Were there lines before that? That one line alone isn't all too
helpful.

Also - for the other poster - check reiserfs out for your news
spool ;).

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Re: [expert] RC2 internet, solved uninstallin shorewall

[Damon Lynch]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 15:01, francisco wrote:
> I am going to report this to bugzilla immediately
> 

That's good.  I guess it's not easy for Florin (or anyone) to come up
with a model of what a secure network should look like that fits all
shapes and sizes, and have the whole system be free of bugs.  There were
bugs in 9.0 RC1 relating to printing within a LAN (for instance) and
shorewall blocking the related network traffic because of Internet
connection sharing.  However these were fixed after the bugs were
reported.
 
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[expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

[Jim Hubbard]

I think that now is a really good time for Mandrake to reconsider their "end
of life" policy.  Here's how I see it: Redhat has effectively shut out the
very folks who made their distro popular by changing their update system to
a paid service and by saying that they'll only support a release for 1 year.
So now no admin in his right mind would download Redhat and install it on a
server or even purchase the standard box set for a server installation.  In
fact, really the only viable Redhat server solution today is the "Advanced
Server" product.  It's been a real double barrel slap in the face for many
loyal Redhat users.

Mandrake right now has the opportunity to gather many of those disillusioned
Redhat users in one fell swoop by announcing that they will provide security
updates for the upcoming 9.1 release for 3 years.  Mandrake uses a superior
system for distributing updates (one that doesn't overload their own
servers), so that, coupled with Mandrake's excellent utilities, puts the
equation already in Mandrake's favor as opposed to Suse and other distros.
Now all that is needed is a clearly longer and reasonable support term and
Mandrake will be THE choice for small time admins wanting to leave Redhat.
This should be done before a group forms to build free updates for Redhat
products after EOL, which will happen I think in about a year when dead
versions start piling up.

I realize that supporting an old distro costs a lot of money and Mandrake is
currently broke.  I also realize that Mandrake has already stated their own
EOL policy.  However, I believe that if Mandrake can see this opportunity
and capitalize on it, their user base will expand greatly.  Otherwise, many
admins will simply bite the bullet and learn how to live with Debian.  I
like Mandrake's commitment to open-source, and I think they have the best
distro out there overall.  But for now, I have to choose Debian.  I hope
Mandrake can give me a reason to do otherwise.

Oh and one more thing.  For God's sake please don't release iso's this time
until AFTER the retail product is on shelves.


Sincerely,
Jim Hubbard

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[expert] Routing Question

[Sevatio]

OS: Mandrake 9.0

I'm not sure if this is possible but I'll see if any of you guys know 
how to do this.

I have a cable modem connected to a hub.  Then two linux boxes connected 
to that hub.  They each have their own IP addresses.  When I transfer 
files from one to the other, the speed is limited by the speed of my 
internet connection (which is around 256kbps).

How do I make it so that my linux boxes can transfer files at the 
maximum LAN speed of the hub?  Or to rephrase:  how do I route the 
packets so that they don't have to go out to the internet and then come 
back to the other pc but instead go straight through the hub from one pc 
to another?

Thanks,

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Re: [expert] Routing Question

[Greg Meyer]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:35 pm, Sevatio wrote:
> OS: Mandrake 9.0
>
> I'm not sure if this is possible but I'll see if any of you guys know
> how to do this.
>
> I have a cable modem connected to a hub.  Then two linux boxes connected
> to that hub.  They each have their own IP addresses.  When I transfer
> files from one to the other, the speed is limited by the speed of my
> internet connection (which is around 256kbps).
>
> How do I make it so that my linux boxes can transfer files at the
> maximum LAN speed of the hub?  Or to rephrase:  how do I route the
> packets so that they don't have to go out to the internet and then come
> back to the other pc but instead go straight through the hub from one pc
> to another?
>
DO both boxes have public ip addrresses from your isp?  One of those SOHO 
router/switches translating private addresses to public would allow this.  
Are you sure it is a hub, or is it a swtich?

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Re: [expert] Routing Question

[Pierre Fortin]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:35:06 -0800 Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> OS: Mandrake 9.0
> 
> I'm not sure if this is possible but I'll see if any of you guys know 
> how to do this.
> 
> I have a cable modem connected to a hub.  Then two linux boxes connected
> 
> to that hub.  They each have their own IP addresses.  When I transfer 
> files from one to the other, the speed is limited by the speed of my 
> internet connection (which is around 256kbps).
>
> How do I make it so that my linux boxes can transfer files at the 
> maximum LAN speed of the hub?  Or to rephrase:  how do I route the 
> packets so that they don't have to go out to the internet and then come 
> back to the other pc but instead go straight through the hub from one pc
> 
> to another?

Are the IP addresses in the same subnet?  What are the IP addresses _and_
netmasks on each* host?

* asymmetric routing is a possibility if all hosts don't agree on their
view of the subnet.  
 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sevatio
> 
> 
> 

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[expert] Weird time/mouse bug

[Pierre Fortin]

Anyone wanna see if this still exists in upcoming 9.1?

I had set my laptop's system clock off by 12 hours (AM vs PM).  When i
noticed it, I issued a date command to correct it; but forgot to issue "
hwclock -w"...  Tonight, the power plug fell out and when I noticed it,
the system had already reported:
Mar  4 22:54:14 gypsy apmd[1192]: User Standby
Mar  4 10:54:08 gypsy apmd[1192]: Standby Resume (54% 1:38) Battery power

Note how the time got reset!  WHY is apmd messing with the time?

Worse...  when this happens, ALL mouse dragging functions stop working --
can't scroll, can't resize windows, etc.  In the past, I'd tried
restarting X to no avail...  only a reboot appeared to fix the mouse's
dragging.  This time, I simply reset the correct time and wrote it to the
h/w clock and mouse dragging is OK again...

Weird!!

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Re: [expert] Routing Question

[Pierre Fortin]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:41:52 -0500 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:35 pm, Sevatio wrote:
> > OS: Mandrake 9.0
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is possible but I'll see if any of you guys know
> > how to do this.
> >
> > I have a cable modem connected to a hub.  Then two linux boxes
> > connected to that hub.  They each have their own IP addresses.  When I
> > transfer files from one to the other, the speed is limited by the
> > speed of my internet connection (which is around 256kbps).
> >
> > How do I make it so that my linux boxes can transfer files at the
> > maximum LAN speed of the hub?  Or to rephrase:  how do I route the
> > packets so that they don't have to go out to the internet and then
> > come back to the other pc but instead go straight through the hub from
> > one pc to another?
> >
> DO both boxes have public ip addrresses from your isp?  One of those
> SOHO router/switches translating private addresses to public would allow
> this.  Are you sure it is a hub, or is it a swtich?
> 

The problem is most likely in the setup of the hosts.  Hubs and plain
switches operate at Layer 2 and this is a Layer 3 (routing) problem among
the hosts -- they're probably not in the same subnet as viewed by EACH
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Re: [expert] libGLcore.so.2 -- Where are you??

[Ken Thompson]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:31 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:25 am, Ken Thompson wrote:
> > I have been trying to install several needed programs on 9.0 and 9.1
> > betas and keep gettong the failed dependency message for libGLcore.so.2..
> > A google search sent me to rpmfind.net and a further search turned up
> > nVidia kernels and drivers. When trying to install these I get a message
> > saying that an nVidia card is required. I have tried both the rpm,
> > src.rpm and tar.gz methods all with the same results.. Where can
> > libGLcore be found?? Thanks all,
>
> It is actually a bogus error created when somebody with an nVidia card
> compiles on their machine.  There is a fix to apply, but if that is your
> only error, I have found it is safe to install with --nodeps.  What package
> are you trying to install?
Komba2 and Knoda 0.55...
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Re: [expert] Routing Question

[Sevatio]

Greg Meyer wrote:
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:35 pm, Sevatio wrote:

OS: Mandrake 9.0

I'm not sure if this is possible but I'll see if any of you guys know
how to do this.
I have a cable modem connected to a hub.  Then two linux boxes connected
to that hub.  They each have their own IP addresses.  When I transfer
files from one to the other, the speed is limited by the speed of my
internet connection (which is around 256kbps).
How do I make it so that my linux boxes can transfer files at the
maximum LAN speed of the hub?  Or to rephrase:  how do I route the
packets so that they don't have to go out to the internet and then come
back to the other pc but instead go straight through the hub from one pc
to another?
DO both boxes have public ip addrresses from your isp?  One of those SOHO 
router/switches translating private addresses to public would allow this.  
Are you sure it is a hub, or is it a swtich?




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Re: [expert] Routing Question

[Sevatio]

Pierre Fortin wrote:
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:35:06 -0800 Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


OS: Mandrake 9.0

I'm not sure if this is possible but I'll see if any of you guys know 
how to do this.

I have a cable modem connected to a hub.  Then two linux boxes connected

to that hub.  They each have their own IP addresses.  When I transfer 
files from one to the other, the speed is limited by the speed of my 
internet connection (which is around 256kbps).

How do I make it so that my linux boxes can transfer files at the 
maximum LAN speed of the hub?  Or to rephrase:  how do I route the 
packets so that they don't have to go out to the internet and then come 
back to the other pc but instead go straight through the hub from one pc

to another?


Are the IP addresses in the same subnet?  What are the IP addresses _and_
netmasks on each* host?
* asymmetric routing is a possibility if all hosts don't agree on their
view of the subnet.  
 

Yes, same subnets (255.255.255.248) for both pcs.


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Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

[James Sparenberg]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 19:52, Jim Hubbard wrote:
> I think that now is a really good time for Mandrake to reconsider their "end
> of life" policy.  Here's how I see it: Redhat has effectively shut out the
> very folks who made their distro popular by changing their update system to
> a paid service and by saying that they'll only support a release for 1 year.
> So now no admin in his right mind would download Redhat and install it on a
> server or even purchase the standard box set for a server installation.  In
> fact, really the only viable Redhat server solution today is the "Advanced
> Server" product.  It's been a real double barrel slap in the face for many
> loyal Redhat users.
> 
> Mandrake right now has the opportunity to gather many of those disillusioned
> Redhat users in one fell swoop by announcing that they will provide security
> updates for the upcoming 9.1 release for 3 years.  Mandrake uses a superior
> system for distributing updates (one that doesn't overload their own
> servers), so that, coupled with Mandrake's excellent utilities, puts the
> equation already in Mandrake's favor as opposed to Suse and other distros.
> Now all that is needed is a clearly longer and reasonable support term and
> Mandrake will be THE choice for small time admins wanting to leave Redhat.
> This should be done before a group forms to build free updates for Redhat
> products after EOL, which will happen I think in about a year when dead
> versions start piling up.
> 
> I realize that supporting an old distro costs a lot of money and Mandrake is
> currently broke.  I also realize that Mandrake has already stated their own
> EOL policy.  However, I believe that if Mandrake can see this opportunity
> and capitalize on it, their user base will expand greatly.  Otherwise, many
> admins will simply bite the bullet and learn how to live with Debian.  I
> like Mandrake's commitment to open-source, and I think they have the best
> distro out there overall.  But for now, I have to choose Debian.  I hope
> Mandrake can give me a reason to do otherwise.
> 
> Oh and one more thing.  For God's sake please don't release iso's this time
> until AFTER the retail product is on shelves.
> 

No one point you made is more loudly echo'd by me than the last
boxes first iso's second.  Possible exception... Club Members.  They
have paid for this so to speak.

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[expert] 8.2 -> 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

[David Whiting]

Hi,

I've just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 (just as everyone else is getting exited
about 9.1 :-) and have a printing problem.  msec_find ran this morning
and now cups is unable to bind to socket 631.  I am not sure if this is
a coincidence but I remember seeing previous posts about woes with msec.
I have tried to google the error message but have not found anything
that worked.  I have tried assigning a higher port in
/etc/cups/cups.conf but that did not work.  I tried:

Port 1631
Listen localhost:1631

I am running at standard level security.  As I said, I recall seeing
similar posts in the past but can't quite find the solution.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Dave


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Re: [expert] No internet avalaible with rc2 for my cable modem

[James Sparenberg]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:56, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote:
> Must of the test I could do with rc2 will be impossible without internet 
> runing.
> 
> Any clues to activate the internet conection for the cable modem will be very 
> welcome!!
> 
> All the tips I used for rc1 (put the name servers in resolv.conf, install 
> initscript from 9.0) doesn't run under rc2 :-(
> 
> Could anyone help me?
> 
> Thanks in advance

Francisco,

  I don't have an answer per se but If you are able to detail the bug in
bugzilla (I'm sure your problem is not unique) then let us know the bug
number some of us will be willing to "vote" for your bug... pushing it
to the forefront so to speak.

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Re: [expert] Find /dev -type f command hangs

[James Sparenberg]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:19, et wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2003 05:01 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:36, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote:
> > > Does anyone have any idea why this command will hang?
> > >
> > > find /dev -type f
> > >
> > > I would like to find/correct this issue.
> > >
> > > TIA.
> >
> > Not in my box. It works Ok.
> works good here too, maybe the reasons it would freeze would be a corrupt 
> find? did it give any clues? an error message? could it be killed with top?

What version of find are you running?  I've got findutils-4.1.7-5mdk
here.

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Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

[Bill Mullen]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 22:52, Jim Hubbard wrote:
> I think that now is a really good time for Mandrake to reconsider their "end
> of life" policy.  Here's how I see it: Redhat has effectively shut out the
> very folks who made their distro popular by changing their update system to
> a paid service and by saying that they'll only support a release for 1 year.
> So now no admin in his right mind would download Redhat and install it on a
> server or even purchase the standard box set for a server installation.

I agree wholeheartedly with this assessment.

Certainly something could be worked out that would appeal to the admins
of whom Jim speaks, while still meeting MandrakeSoft's needs for cost
containment - perhaps tying availability beyond one year to Silver-level
MC membership, or narrowing the list of apps thus extended (in a method
that is clearly delineated right from the outset, of course) so that a
sysadmin can see, for example, that while they can still choose Sendmail
over Postfix at install time, only Postfix will be supported beyond the
standard EOL date ... there must be a workable solution in there
somewhere, one would think, and the potential upside to such a move
makes it worthy of serious consideration IMHO. Ideas, anyone?

Another possible benefit of Jim's proposal is the shift it could bring
in the (wholly inaccurate, but unfortunately all too common) perception
of Mandrake as a "limited" distro that is exclusively aimed at the
desktop user and the Linux newbie; by making plainly clear that Mandrake
has a strong commitment to the server space and the long-term user, the
company will be saying to the community, in effect, "Not only do we damn
well plan to still be around in three years, thank you very much, but we
also plan on being there /for you/ when certain other distros we could
mention will have long since forgotten that you even exist, except as
someone they can extort more revenue from for whole-distro upgrades that
you truly neither need nor want. That is the way of the Dark Side, and
we will have no truck with it."

Just my $0.02USD ... ;)

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Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0 on old tack

[James Sparenberg]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:00, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 9:51 pm, civileme wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 08:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 3:05 pm, et wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:29 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> > Yes an earlier kernel (alt1,alt2) is certainly worth trying.
> >
> > You do not need "nopentium" which is a dodge for the K6/K7 to avoid a
> > memory paging error.
> 
> So after F1, what exactly should I type to try alt1 etc?  My effort didn't 
> work (it still loaded alt0).
> 
> Anne

Anne

   If I remember right  typing a  at the prompt after doing f1 will
give you the available kernels.  There are additional ones available in
the past on disk 2 ... you might also try a text install.  It could well
be that the problem is the video card not being able to do Frame Buffer
( I ran into this recently ) and could explain the blank screen.

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Re: [expert] libGLcore.so.2 -- Where are you??

[James Sparenberg]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 01:25, Ken Thompson wrote:
> I have been trying to install several needed programs on 9.0 and 9.1 betas and 
> keep gettong the failed dependency message for libGLcore.so.2.. A google 
> search sent me to rpmfind.net and a further search turned up nVidia kernels 
> and drivers. When trying to install these I get a message saying that an 
> nVidia card is required. I have tried both the rpm, src.rpm and tar.gz 
> methods all with the same results.. Where can libGLcore be found??
> Thanks all,

Dang, I know this one.

   It's caused when the builder of the application has an NVidia video
card and you don't  I've had good luck with these by doing a nodeps
install.  This is I fear going to become an increasing problem as more
and more builders have this card installed and since rpm has no way to
say "ignore this dependency" I don't know a way around it. Like I've
said the program itself doesn't need this lib... but rpm building
creates the dependency just because it's on the box of the builder.

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Re: [expert] No internet avalaible with rc2 for my cable modem

[James Sparenberg]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:56, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote:
> Must of the test I could do with rc2 will be impossible without internet 
> runing.
> 
> Any clues to activate the internet conection for the cable modem will be very 
> welcome!!
> 
> All the tips I used for rc1 (put the name servers in resolv.conf, install 
> initscript from 9.0) doesn't run under rc2 :-(
> 
> Could anyone help me?
> 
> Thanks in advance

Francisco 

   Saw this one in the Cooker thought it might help.


Same problem exist in RC2 as in RC1 and all Betas

Home LAN 
6 systems, 5 connecting to internet though gateway system via dhcp with
each system needing a static IP.

During clean RC installation/Networking, either automatic or if manually
configured during Summary, all hardware component are detected and
properly configured and the pkgs dhcp-common, dhcp-client, and tmdns
are installed.

The problem is that this Does Not properly set-up this type system.
Once the new install is booted even though everything appears in order
and drakconnect even tells you that your network is properly configured 
No Internet connection is possible.

/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORK=yes

/etc/host
127.0.0.1localhost

You can start editing files galore if you aren't a Newbie, and even have
a clue as to what files to even look for, or if you are a Newbie and
this your first taste of Linux you could and might just say fuck-it and
boot back to Windows where everything works.

The solution is really quite simple.
For this type of network connection you do not need dhcp-common.
You do not need dhcp-client.
You do not need tmdns.

You Need dhcpd.
Once installed you need only run 
# dhcpcd -d 
the system will be assigned a static IP address, in my case it is
192.168.0.6 for machine #6 on the chain.
On subsequent boots dhcpcd will be auto started during boot.

/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/host will not be changed but a new
config file will be present /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info

[EMAIL PROTECTED] charles]$ cat /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info
IPADDR=192.168.0.6
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
DNS=192.168.0.1
DHCPSID=192.168.0.1
DHCPGIADDR=0.0.0.0
DHCPSIADDR=192.168.0.1
DHCPCHADDR=00:50:2C:01:64:87
DHCPSHADDR=00:04:5A:5E:A0:85
DHCPSNAME='ICS '
LEASETIME=86400
RENEWALTIME=43200
REBINDTIME=75600
INTERFACE='eth0'
CLASSID='Linux 2.4.21-0.11mdk i686'
CLIENTID=00:50:2C:01:64:87


If the network configuration, this also applies to the stand alone
drakconnect, is not going to be fixed to resolve this issue could there
not at the least be an errata posted that addresses it.


Charles




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Re: [expert] 8.2 -> 9.0, msec ran and now cups unable to bind socket

[Alan]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 01:12, David Whiting wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 (just as everyone else is getting exited
> about 9.1 :-) and have a printing problem.  msec_find ran this morning
> and now cups is unable to bind to socket 631.  I am not sure if this is
> a coincidence but I remember seeing previous posts about woes with msec.
> I have tried to google the error message but have not found anything
> that worked.  I have tried assigning a higher port in
> /etc/cups/cups.conf but that did not work.  I tried:
> 
> Port 1631
> Listen localhost:1631
> 
> I am running at standard level security.  As I said, I recall seeing
> similar posts in the past but can't quite find the solution.
> 
> Any ideas?

This may sound unrelated, but bear with me...

Are there any kernel panic messages in /var/log/messages?

Do you have an ide-zip drive?



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[expert] Zip disk question

[Alan]

I upgraded a system from 8.0 to 9.0.

Now I cannot find the Zip disk device.  My old /dev/zip symlink has been
blown away and I cannot find the scsi->ide device it is supposed to be.

Any ideas on how to make this work again?





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