Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 03:13, Praedor Atrebates wrote: In any case, since I would expect that a lot of users, particularly new users, would start the update process from DrakConf rather than from a CLI, they would not tend to use command line switches, just icons. Autoresume should be builtin by default. Yes that's true. I was thinking of a user who is unfamiliar with Mandrake or Linux in general, and is confronted with having to load many MBs of packages to fix a bug or security problem. This can be stressful, and the process should be as easy as possible. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Jims 9.2 request mantra
Looks like I wont have to worry about it maybe. Found this in bugzilla:: After setting the paths for htdig in the help index control panel in kde, the build index button still doesn't seem to work. /--- Additional Comment #1 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3294#c1 From Mandrake Linux KDE Team mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-25 10:16 --- / This bug was fixed now in kde cvs. Too late for MDK9.1 Regards. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to set routing at boot?
Hi SainTiss, I am trying to work out what you are trying to do.. Sounds like your trying to route a live range through a private IP address range. 213.118.248.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 00 eth0 Do you really have a live Subneted B-class or 8 C-classes, I suspect that your ISP would have only given you a 213.118.248.0/29 or 213.118.248.0/255.255.255.248 or a range of .1-.6 leaving the .0 for Network address and .7 for Broadcast. O.K. where one can configure the extra needed static routes is via the /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/eth0.route or the eth1.route etc.. depending which interface you are binding your routes to. Have a look at the script /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes that may give you a hint what's going on. Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] is the list down or me kicked off
Hi all , nothing for a day, strange ?? -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] FIXED: No 3D with NVidia's driver
For no reason whatsoever, 3D is now working. At one point I installed the RPMs from MandarkeClub. They didn't work, so I uninstalled them and re- installed the drivers from the nVidia site. Still didn't work, of course, but this time my XFree config file had no trace whatsoever of the GLX in the module section, whereas it had alway either loaded glx or the path to the glx library file. Okay, so I added the Load glx line, re-started X, and voila: cube, in all it's glory. A very frustrating ordeal, but it's over. Miark On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:39:26 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in case this second line is important: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual I just installed the NVidia kernel and GLX RPMs from MandrakeClub. No difference. Miark On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:51:51 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My machine has never had a problem with using NVidia's proprietary 3D drivers. But after a fresh install this afternoon, I get this whenever I run a GL app: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. I get the same thing with glxinfo, glxgears, and cube. I've run and rerun the installer while running the win4lin kernel and the updated stock kernel, but to no avail. I checked XF86Config-4 and glx is a listed module. The modules.conf file has alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia. I've tried an ldconfig. How do I get GLX working? tia, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to set routing at boot?
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 23:29, SainTiss wrote: Ok, anyway, I've tried to change the IP addresses now so that they are in different subnets, but that doesn't really seem to help... pinging between the 2 client pc's doesn't even work anymore now... This is the config: gateway (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1): Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth2 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 213.118.248.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 213.118.248.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 client 192.168.0.2: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 the gateway address should be the address of the router on both machines client 192.168.1.2: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 192.168.0.1 I'd think this is supposed to work, no? Any ideas as to what is wrong with this setup? Thanks, Hans On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 21:59, Steven Broos wrote: Quick lesson in subnetworking, because I think the problem isn't your IPtables-settings but your network layout. 192.168.0.x is a class C network address. 192.168.0 is the network address, and the last number is the host-portion of the address. If all PCs have an address beginning with 192.168.0 and a netmask of 255.255.255.0 they are on the same subnet, and don't need routing. If you need to separate your LAN into difefrent subnets, use 192.168.0.x and 192.168.1.x etc... Creating a subnet with mask 255.255.255.255 isn't possible, because that way you don't have any broadcast/network-addresses. If you think this goes into the right direction, please give more details about your LAN and ask for more information :-) regards, Steven (CCNA) On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 20:47, SainTiss wrote: Well, what I *need* e.g. on the gateway is something like this: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.3 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth2 192.168.0.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth1 213.118.248.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 213.118.248.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 However, by default those upper 2 rules aren't there, and instead there's a rule like this: 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U0 0 0 eth2 So in other words, by default ALL LAN traffic is routed through eth2, while obviously traffic with 192.168.0.2 should be routed via eth1. Did that make it any clearer? Thanks, Hans On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 20:18, Bill Mullen wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, SainTiss wrote: I just changed my network configs here, and it seems the routing table got messed up... I know the solution (ie adding some rules and deleting some), but I was wondering if there was some file or something where I could specify the right rules, so that the table is setup correctly at boot? what's the default way to do this? I'm guessing some file which is then processed by ifup or something, but I'm not sure... Depends on what's messed up. :) Most settings draw on the information in the /etc/sysconfig directory, specifically the network file and the various ifcfg-interface ones in the network-scripts subdirectory. For simpler setups, these are all you'll need to adjust, but we have no idea how complicated your normal routing table actually is ... care to offer a hint? ;) __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- richard bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed
Thanks Tom and Olaf for your replies. I will have a play with Sandra and see what I come up with. Brian. At 01.24 27/06/2003, you wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to work out the rating of SDram (ie. 66, 100, 133)? Obviously, in cases where it isn't actually written on the stick. _ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=clickclientID=174referral=Hotmail_taglines_plainURL=http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 16 hours?
to get a response from the sympa mail-list server? Ann, did it take you this long to get a response? I sent 'help' to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 2:12am and finally got a response at 6:02pm. This IS ridiculous. I am changing which email account I subscribe to the list from. (Dropping my old ISP and now using my own, internal mail server. This mail server really is a POS... -- KevinO Hickory Dickory Dock, The mice ran up the clock, The clock struck one, The others escaped with minor injuries. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)
I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue that apparently applied to WD drives? There was a series of threads on the Mandrake groups - probably a year back now - in which some people including Civileme talked about WD drives relying on W$ drivers to implement ECC and therefore being subject to corruption when used with linux. If this has been fixed, or was a hideous slur on WD, or whatever, it would be great to know. As it stands I am reluctant to use them, but maybe I'm missing out on a great product. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Crongeyer wanted us to know: How can I allow a single client (IP address) besids the $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24 variable or can I do it with that variable like $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24, 333.444.555.10/24. Is that possable? 111.222.333.10/32 assuming that your ip address is 111.222.333.10. BTW, you really ought to use something close to real IP addresses when you do examples. 333 is not a valid octet (more than 8 bits). - -- Blue skies... ToddPublic key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc I like this world...billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs--Spike Linux kernel 2.4.19-24mdk 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE+/2uLIBT1264ScBURAlaVAKCJf0K+xwRjHfdBXsJWFmy7o8/ziwCggObA +LzsNmFtcYmqtTUCIP4MnB4= =pgmy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Again, no messages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So yet again the list is generating no traffic (for me at least). What's up? - -- The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public. - --Justice Hugo Black GnuPG fingerprint: D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/vxtaKr9sJYeTxgRAhG8AJ40itEwB7ew3e5I+kwX/U91nxU2fwCeMT3V mcKPcaG7qloKjeFaSwG51DM= =0FEK -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mount in fstab
Hi, how can i mount ISO image, from install CD in automatic from fstab i tried /mnt/data2/Instalacie/Programy/Linux/Mandrake-9.1/Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso iso9660 /mnt/inst3 loop=/dev/loop0 0 0 but it does not work. Thanks for help -- David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Of course I meant it should lie to the server. What else could I possibly have meant that would make any sense? It (MandrakeUpdate) should also be prudish and prurient (try to do both of those at the same time). praedor On Friday 27 June 2003 10:55 pm, Chris Grevstad wrote: ... It needs to have a wget-like mendaciousness. If during updating the internet connection goes down and is then re-established, like wget, MandrakeUpdate should get back to downloading. I think you mean tenaciousness, not mendaciousness, which means something characterized by lying and falsehood. Maybe you intended that MandrakeUpdate should lie to the server and say Not me! I didn't go down, so keep giving me the stuff. :-) --chris - -- The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public. - --Justice Hugo Black GnuPG fingerprint: D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/iOpaKr9sJYeTxgRApqKAJ9JJx5H1YyygACD1TUZr6EjEXe1nACggZSh xZGJIc/9KedSkvsAKSeHei4= =KIYX -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:51:35 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about giving MandrakeUpdate an autoresume ability? In the UK, ISPs who provide a fixed fee anytime deal for modem users tend to sever the connection whenever the user has spent two hours online. It's no problem reconnecting immediately, of course - but being cut off is bad news if one is part-way through a download at the time. I failed to get a kernel source package recently, because I was disconnected just 3 minutes short of the required time :( So the auto-resume suggestion is an essential feature from my point of view. It would save me much anxiety as I watch the transfer rate fluctuating. It could also mean I don't have to wait for stuff appearing on magazine cover cd's. It could even mean that UK people are less likely to consider MDK impractical unless they have broadband. Janet Blankfield The ideal love affair is one conducted by post. JBS - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... life's a beach ... - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:24 am, Brian Schroeder wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to work out the rating of SDram (ie. 66, 100, 133)? Obviously, in cases where it isn't actually written on the stick. Oh well, Google it is, then http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=179 http://www.chipmunk.nl/DRAM/ amongst the gazillion hits -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Bittorrent
Hi all Ive been using bittorrent on windows for a while, works fine So I thought I'd try the linux version of the client, so downloaded the rpm from cooker built it and installed the files and the gui. Its been written in python, and each of the binaries seems to do something. But what it dos'nt do is handle the download .ie. if you click on the download icon on say downloadparadise all you get is a screen full of garbage. The documentation I've found is'nt very helpfull. Has anyone tried this ,and if so how did they get it to work. Ive tried xmule and that works fine, the trouble is there most of the sites are just full of p0rn.. TIA Richard -- richard bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] adsl logging ip add changes live
On June 27, 2003 09:56 am, Steve Cox - dig wrote: Hi there, This might be a little bit newbie, not sure. I want to keep an eye on my ip address off my adsl line, as it changes I would like a scirpt to run, basically uploading to a hosted out website. Currently I use a cron job every 15 mins that checks if the current ip is the same as the last in /var/log/syslog, if not then and only then upload it. I do not run any mail services, I do however run apache live for webpages only. It is on a text only machine, Mandrake9.1, P1 100mhz, that doubles as my gateway for small lan at home. If anyone has pointers, please share. I dont really want to run dyndns just yet, but if this turns out to be the best solution, then so be it, I will. Oh, I am more a user, and not so good at bash scripting, so if there isnt an easy way, dont worry, I'll go the dyndns route. Best regards Steve Cox Hi Steve. First of all you need to understand how adsl, and indeed all dynamic IP works. You are assigned an IP when you first connect to the server. Not log on, not do anything except connect. For the duration of the connection your IP doesn't change. So, if you don't turn off your computer/router combination the IP should never change. If you do the chances are you will get the same IP back again, though there's no guarantee of that. At no time during a connection will the IP ever change. It's theorectially possible, of course, but in all my years of supporting and installing adsl I have yet to see it. And the reason is fairly simple. To assign everyone a new IP the dynamic IP server would have to take down your connection and initiate another handshake, then pass on the new IP, then, just to make sure it's you, ask for your password again. As a simple matter of customer relations telco's don't do this. Indeed, the telco will reserve the IP you already have for a period of up to 96 hours so that it can deal with such things as power failures either at the Central Office or in your area. You have to be shut down for quite some time before you'll get a new IP, as a rule. Running a cron job, as long as your connection stays up, is, then, a waste of time. If you want to check it do it immediately after bringing up the connection using ifconfig eth0/eth1 or whatever. BTW, restarting your network appears to have no affect..your IP will, 99.% of the time be correct. (Incidentially, this is how my home network works as well.) That said, I'm a bit unclear about what you're saying with respect to your web site. If you're hosting a web site on a dynamically allocated IP address you're asking, no begging, for trouble. Buck up for a fixed IP for that. ttfn John (Telco God, 3rd Class. :-) ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Setting up Cyrus-imapd/Posfix under Mdk-9.1
Hi Folks, I have a slight problem with the Cyrus Server n a box I have (Via EPIA 5000 running Mandrake 9.1). I tried the cyrus-imapd version 2.1.12 from Contrib. Actually - the cyrus-imapd works, and the postfix Server too - if both ae not connected - but I get the followig mssage in the Postfix logs: -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- 15AD9B26E 394 Sat Jun 28 18:34:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (connect to /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: No such file or directory) [EMAIL PROTECTED] However - I have configured the Imapd-postfix link as stated inthe docs Postfix maincf file: [...] mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp [...] Postfix/Cyrus gid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# id cyrus uid=76(cyrus) gid=12(mail) groups=12(mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# id postfix uid=72(postfix) gid=72(postfix) groups=72(postfix),12(mail),105(postdrop) [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ls -l /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp srwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jun 29 01:47 /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp= So - te socket should bereadable by both. Anyone got a hint in this direction ? I tried downloading the 2.1.13-src.RPM that was announced in cooker not too long ago - but can't reach it. All sites are not reachable - or the file itself ot downloadable (mandrake incoming-ftp). Thx for hints Joerg -- | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Alt2)| | PGP 2.6.3in Key on Demand : Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | Home-Page: http://www.solsys.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 20:20, Brian Parish wrote: I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue that apparently applied to WD drives? There was a series of threads on the Mandrake groups - probably a year back now - in which some people including Civileme talked about WD drives relying on W$ drivers to implement ECC and therefore being subject to corruption when used with linux. If this has been fixed, or was a hideous slur on WD, or whatever, it would be great to know. As it stands I am reluctant to use them, but maybe I'm missing out on a great product. TIA Brian Not only is it not fixed... I personally feel it's gotten worse. I was forced to install during a recent install fest on a number of WD drives and to be honest not a one of them worked worth a dang. I could never get one to work reliably above UDMA2 (nor could winders, which is how we got them for free.) If all of those drives hadn't been donated I personally wouldn't have done anything but trash them. James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition
Am Sonntag, 29. Juni 2003 04:36 schrieb kiosk: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:51:35 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about giving MandrakeUpdate an autoresume ability? This one is suggested and worked on. At least with rsync it should work allready in cooker if I'm not false. Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I am just now getting over having to live with a 26.4Kbps dialup connection for the last few years... Smoothwall took 2 hours or so download at THAT speed. Just start the download late in the evening and go watch a movie or something... - -- KevinO Hickory Dickory Dock, The mice ran up the clock, The clock struck one, The others escaped with minor injuries. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/AA5uWOfRC7Rnmv8RAuZoAJ9NaciyLhaTf1xFBWhBXQwCCUw7jgCfeSiy 9W44LrQQdR0phSMeCrx9FA8= =RLPu -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test
This is only a test... -- KevinO Hickory Dickory Dock, The mice ran up the clock, The clock struck one, The others escaped with minor injuries. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Security or lack thereof
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't have much hope that this message will actually make it to the list but what the hell (I haven't seen a single message all weekend...AGAIN...I think I will drop off the list, it is too broken to be of any more use). For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior/security (not) setting allowed all users to access all other user's home directories. No limits! What is this?! That is the same as no security at all. I went into DrakConf and set the security level to high and this fixed the horrific insecurity of the default setup, but it also unfortunately fired up shorewall with settings that prevented me from being able to access the system remotely - - I often connect my laptop via ethernet (crossover cable) to my desktop and transfer files, fix things that have frozen or broken on the desktop, etc. I found that I could no longer ssh into my desktop when I really needed to in order to correct an X freeze up. Unfortunately, because I couldn't get in I had to hard reboot. So...what is the deal with default (medium?) security settings in Mandrake 9.1 allowing all users to access all other user's home directories? This is windoze behavior for gawds sake. Then, why would it be necessary to block all ssh connections - a secure shell, afterall, with the next higher setting (required to get home directories cordoned off from prying user eyes)? praedor - -- The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public. - --Justice Hugo Black GnuPG fingerprint: D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/4oxaKr9sJYeTxgRAqLJAJ9Fx/XseCjcPe25PrPy7ytKdnDyvgCeOw+i KJSwCpHCk9S2yNL3wteTksk= =12GU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to set routing at boot?
On Sat, 29 Jun 2003, SainTiss wrote: Ok, anyway, I've tried to change the IP addresses now so that they are in different subnets, but that doesn't really seem to help... pinging between the 2 client pc's doesn't even work anymore now... This is the config: gateway (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1): Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth2 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 213.118.248.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 213.118.248.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 client 192.168.0.2: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 client 192.168.1.2: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 I'd think this is supposed to work, no? Any ideas as to what is wrong with this setup? Well, as for the pinging problem, do you have IP forwarding turned on? In the /etc/sysconfig/network file: FORWARD_IPV4=true Once the network service is restarted, they should see each other again. If you expect these other systems to have access to the WAN by way of this machine, however, you'll need to set up NAT, which is done using iptables (usually, by way of an iptables configuration front-end such as guarddog, firestarter, Bastille, or the Mandrake Control Center's applet, which uses the shorewall system). You can also set up your iptables rules manually, if you're so inclined, and use the iptables app itself to save them and to load them. Check the iptables man page, and such 'net resources as the Linux Documentation Project's HOWTOs and the home pages for the netfilter project (which includes iptables) and for shorewall. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/networking.html http://www.netfilter.org http://www.shorewall.net -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big as there is any need for it to be. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bittorrent
Hi. To use bittorrent with mozilla you have to add the mime-type x-bittorrent so that it launches the btdownloadgui. like in opera it is application/x-bittorrent filetype .torrent and laynces btdownloadgui.py I have not realy succedded with making it work well inside a browser. so i used to copy .torrent file to a folder and launched btdownloadcurses.py file.torrent this used to work. Havent tested bittorrent since the major article in BBC. Regards Torstein richard bown wrote: Hi all Ive been using bittorrent on windows for a while, works fine So I thought I'd try the linux version of the client, so downloaded the rpm from cooker built it and installed the files and the gui. Its been written in python, and each of the binaries seems to do something. But what it dos'nt do is handle the download .ie. if you click on the download icon on say downloadparadise all you get is a screen full of garbage. The documentation I've found is'nt very helpfull. Has anyone tried this ,and if so how did they get it to work. Ive tried xmule and that works fine, the trouble is there most of the sites are just full of p0rn.. TIA Richard 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] booting a kernel compiled with athlon results inkernel panick :/
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Golumbovici wanted us to know: Oh well... I did make clean. I didn't think that I need to do make mrproper or distclean just to compile for other target. is this really required?!? If you did anything that _changes_ the .config file, yes. If you did not change anything either in make xconfig or make menuconfig or by editing .config directly, then no it is not required. - -- Blue skies... Todd Public key: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc They dont need to adjust their pricing, they just need to lobby for new laws to protect their flawed business models. Oh wait, they just did that. --Dan Hollis Linux kernel 2.4.19-24mdk 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE+/22XIBT1264ScBURAmuZAJ9cSiAmCNuzOTbZE/S3D/SyCD+sTACfee6e sPBLO6YaNMmOXN3Nlws4qUg= =ou7G -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues UPDATE
In my /etc/fstab (due to k3bsetup) I have: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder1auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 I have downloaded cdrecord-prodvd and set k3b to use that as default. I still can't burn onto a dvdrw. I'm getting this dreadful emotional heartache just at the very thought that I'll have to install windows just to make my purchase not be a waste of money.. and it's not nice :/ I'm pretty much at a loss of what I should do now. Can anyone offer any enlightenment? On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 18:10, Azrael wrote: Just bought and installed a pioneer dvr-105 (dvd-r/rw burner). I've installed it as /dev/hdc. Two issues: 1) In xcdroast it only appears as an atapi device, rather than available as emulated scsi, unlike my plextor cdrw which appears as both. I tried to remedy this with adding 'hdc=ide-scsi' to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf but no change. Am I supposed to edit /etc/modules.conf ? This is what I already have in modules.conf: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi ataraid probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias eth0 eepro100 above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 options bttv radio=0 card=9 gbuffers=4 2) The second problem is actually using the dvd burner. I believe cdrecord-2.01-0.a16.1mdk supports dvd burning, and I am using it. But xcdroast fails to either burn anything onto a dvd-rw, or to blank it. No way I am making dvd-r coasters until I am sure it works, at which point I hope not to make coasters anyway. Advice/assistance very much welcomed -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Setting up Cyrus-imapd/Posfix under Mdk-9.1
Ok - answering to my own question. Due to the fact that the Mandrake-Maillist server did crash - I couldn't get Help from all of you :) Actually - it seemed to be a problem with the Version. after having upgraded the cyrus-imapd Server to 2.1.13 - it worked without a hintch. Also - I have to admit that having a Cyrus Imaps Server, Webmail and integrated Spamassassing-2.5.x Anomy-Sanitizer running on that box - with soon the Spam's to be 'in dumped mode' - makes me feel much better already :) Cheers Joerg Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Folks, I have a slight problem with the Cyrus Server n a box I have (Via EPIA 5000 running Mandrake 9.1). I tried the cyrus-imapd version 2.1.12 from Contrib. Actually - the cyrus-imapd works, and the postfix Server too - if both ae not connected - but I get the followig mssage in the Postfix logs: -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- 15AD9B26E 394 Sat Jun 28 18:34:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (connect to /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: No such file or directory) [EMAIL PROTECTED] However - I have configured the Imapd-postfix link as stated inthe docs Postfix maincf file: [...] mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp [...] Postfix/Cyrus gid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# id cyrus uid=76(cyrus) gid=12(mail) groups=12(mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# id postfix uid=72(postfix) gid=72(postfix) groups=72(postfix),12(mail),105(postdrop) [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# ls -l /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp srwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jun 29 01:47 /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp= So - te socket should bereadable by both. Anyone got a hint in this direction ? I tried downloading the 2.1.13-src.RPM that was announced in cooker not too long ago - but can't reach it. All sites are not reachable - or the file itself ot downloadable (mandrake incoming-ftp). Thx for hints Joerg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Alt2)| | PGP 2.6.3in Key on Demand : Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | Home-Page: http://www.solsys.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...
On Friday 27 June 2003 00.12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know of a way to limit it to a single host rather than a network. Why would you want to? Miark Cuz I use e-mail from home. And at home I'm using a cable connection and don't want to open up the server to everyone on my network. Ralph :-) On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:10:04 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, thanks to everyone's help it looks like I got my MTA configured right now. Good. How can I allow a single client (IP address) besids the $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24 variable or can I do it with that variable like $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24, 333.444.555.10/24. Is that possable? Can't you just use a /32? $mynetworks = 111.222.233.10/32 should be just one host. /Björn What is the best solution for this?? I don't know of a way to limit it to a single host rather than a network. Why would you want to? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- --- In a world with no walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Parent vs Child
No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I need is to have the parent process spawn the new process, then complete itself and die. While the child becomes independent and continues it's life until it completes it's actions. Basically what I've run into is versions of RPM on older (but still commonly used) versions of Linux that have trouble closing correctly if the rpm process runs to long. In this case I have a rather long automated installation that is hanging RPM. So if I can spin off a new child as a parent it will allow RPM to close faster and the parent can die without killing the child or turning the parent into a Zombie. (NOTE: For all who may be looking over someones shoulder, or FBI agents reading e-mail I'm not a terrorist, nor a pervert.. parent, child and zombie in this case are technical terms.) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Parent vs Child
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I need is to have the parent process spawn the new process, then complete itself and die. While the child becomes independent and continues it's life until it completes it's actions. man nohup. --Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I tried shorewall and setting it up via the nice drakconf frontend but it completely borked my ability to connect to the internet, seemingly regardless of what settings I made (as to allowing what to access, etc). http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/stronger-firewall-examples.html is about as low download impact as you can get... using it on a 21.6kb line at the moment -- sucks compared to my DSL; but the script tracks the dialup IP. The only problem I've had with it was a ~30sec delay each time I checked mail from my server... This was solved by adding a rule to allow ident from the server; I can provide the changes if you need them... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Parent vs Child
On Saturday 28 June 2003 07:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it I use nohup program to do this. This allows me to start a process fromthe command line in the background so I can still use the console, and then close the console when I'm done and not lose the app I started. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Parent vs Child
as David suggested, nohup is good for this -- but the daemon function in /etc/init.d/functions might also fit the bill. On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 16:17, James Sparenberg wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I need is to have the parent process spawn the new process, then complete itself and die. While the child becomes independent and continues it's life until it completes it's actions. Basically what I've run into is versions of RPM on older (but still commonly used) versions of Linux that have trouble closing correctly if the rpm process runs to long. In this case I have a rather long automated installation that is hanging RPM. So if I can spin off a new child as a parent it will allow RPM to close faster and the parent can die without killing the child or turning the parent into a Zombie. (NOTE: For all who may be looking over someones shoulder, or FBI agents reading e-mail I'm not a terrorist, nor a pervert.. parent, child and zombie in this case are technical terms.) James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues UPDATE
On 29 Jun 2003 23:36:40 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my /etc/fstab (due to k3bsetup) I have: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder1auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 I still can't burn onto a dvdrw. Can anyone offer any enlightenment? man fstab and look up ro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
Yes, Sympa sucks... but... I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about on the other thing. These two are both upgrades from 9.0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ grep home /usr/share/msec/perm.3 /home/ root.root 755 /home/* current 711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ grep home /usr/share/msec/perm.3 /home/ root.root 755 /home/* current 711 This one is a fresh install: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# grep home /usr/share/msec/perm.3 /home/ root.root 755 /home/* current 711 Oh, I see -- when ls'ing the home directory, it's clear that the default umask was picked up at directory creation. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# grep umask /etc/profile umask 022 So others can read files that are known to exist. Others cannot browse into the directory and look for unknown files though. On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 17:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't have much hope that this message will actually make it to the list but what the hell (I haven't seen a single message all weekend...AGAIN...I think I will drop off the list, it is too broken to be of any more use). For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior/security (not) setting allowed all users to access all other user's home directories. No limits! What is this?! That is the same as no security at all. I went into DrakConf and set the security level to high and this fixed the horrific insecurity of the default setup, but it also unfortunately fired up shorewall with settings that prevented me from being able to access the system remotely - - I often connect my laptop via ethernet (crossover cable) to my desktop and transfer files, fix things that have frozen or broken on the desktop, etc. I found that I could no longer ssh into my desktop when I really needed to in order to correct an X freeze up. Unfortunately, because I couldn't get in I had to hard reboot. So...what is the deal with default (medium?) security settings in Mandrake 9.1 allowing all users to access all other user's home directories? This is windoze behavior for gawds sake. Then, why would it be necessary to block all ssh connections - a secure shell, afterall, with the next higher setting (required to get home directories cordoned off from prying user eyes)? praedor - -- The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public. - --Justice Hugo Black GnuPG fingerprint: D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+/4oxaKr9sJYeTxgRAqLJAJ9Fx/XseCjcPe25PrPy7ytKdnDyvgCeOw+i KJSwCpHCk9S2yNL3wteTksk= =12GU -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Setting up Cyrus-imapd/Posfix under Mdk-9.1
Am Sonntag, 29. Juni 2003 02:14 schrieb Joerg Mertin: Hi Folks, I have a slight problem with the Cyrus Server n a box I have (Via EPIA 5000 running Mandrake 9.1). I tried the cyrus-imapd version 2.1.12 from Contrib. Actually - the cyrus-imapd works, and the postfix Server too - if both ae not connected - but I get the followig mssage in the Postfix logs: -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- 15AD9B26E 394 Sat Jun 28 18:34:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (connect to /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: No such file or directory) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, your solution solved one point. But I think you don't know the reason. In standard mdk9.1 postfix runs chroot, so does the lmtp process. That means, the file /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp is there but postfix/lmtp needs this file in /var/spool/postfix/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp. A hardlink should solve the prolem too. I think the new cyrus package solved this by adding the link or moving the socket into the postfix chroot jail. Martin -- H E L I X Gesellschaft für Software Engineering mbH Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 D-60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 http://www.helix-gmbh.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [expert] Parent vs Child
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I need is to have the parent process spawn the new process, then complete itself and die. While the child becomes independent and continues it's life until it completes it's actions. man nohup. --Dave also: man bash, see disown Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed
On Sunday June 29 2003 07:16 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote: Thanks Tom and Olaf for your replies. I will have a play with Sandra and see what I come up with. Brian. At 01.24 27/06/2003, you wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to work out the rating of SDram (ie. 66, 100, 133)? Obviously, in cases where it isn't actually written on the stick. Ram is what it'll do. Use Sandra if you want, but any info you get from it is suspect, probly incorrect. Memory most often runs at the same mhz as the FSB, cept for some motherboards that allow setting the ram mhz asyncronis to FSB. On those boards it's a serious performance hit to set mhz timing of the ram below the cpu's FSB speed (eg, 100mhz for the ram when usin a 133mhz FSB cpu). As I said before, the only ram timings that really matter are mhz, cas, and bank-interleaving. Best timings are highest mhz the ram (and cpu) can run at with -0- errors at cas2, 4-bank while keeping a reasonable PCI bus speed. Memtest86 is a decent check, very much better than Sandra, and memtest86 will display the ram's (as timed in bios) mb/sec in the upper left corner so you can see what is achevied by changing bios timing options. 'Cept for ram with SPD onboard the stick, and SPD enabled in bios (which IMO it never should be), ram doesn't dictate what speed it runs at, the motherboard and bios timings do. The only part left to the ram is whether or not it can keep up ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 19:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior/security (not) setting allowed all users to access all other user's home directories. No limits! What is this?! That is the same as no security at all. I went into DrakConf and set the security level to high and this fixed the horrific insecurity of the default setup, but it also unfortunately fired up shorewall with settings that prevented me from being able to access the system remotely 1) Mandrake Control Center 2) Security 3) Security Permissions 4) Choose editable from the drop down box 5) Add /home/* with the permissions you want. Next time msec runs, it will reset the permissions on the /home/* directories. And you won't need the higher security level (with shorewall). -- Robert W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. -- Revelations 21:6 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Got it! Re: [expert] Parent vs Child
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:01, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I need is to have the parent process spawn the new process, then complete itself and die. While the child becomes independent and continues it's life until it completes it's actions. man nohup. --Dave also: man bash, see disown Thankyou one and all. The obvious was staring me in the face and danged if I could see it. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 07:01 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I tried shorewall and setting it up via the nice drakconf frontend but it completely borked my ability to connect to the internet, seemingly regardless of what settings I made (as to allowing what to access, etc). http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/stronger-firewall-examples.htm l is about as low download impact as you can get... using it on a 21.6kb line at the moment -- sucks compared to my DSL; but the script tracks the dialup IP. The only problem I've had with it was a ~30sec delay each time I checked mail from my server... This was solved by adding a rule to allow ident from the server; I can provide the changes if you need them... I would appreciate it if you would provide your changes...just in case. I'll try the script as is and see how it goes, then try your changes as needed. Thank you for the link. praedor - -- Not a single 9/11 terrorist came from Iraq, nor did a single one train in Iraq. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AFbmaKr9sJYeTxgRArcYAJ0c2wZkPn5oe5hAuFbOemOO9q4AcgCfVjv3 41RJ4JoNb0wCy2UyaaWXfIY= =j0F3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm db problems
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:11, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is working. Any other suggestion? I cannot reboot the computer. Thanks in advance, cd /var/lib/rpm and remove files like __db.001 etc (note it's two leading underscores) then try again. James Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)
On Monday June 30 2003 04:37 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 20:20, Brian Parish wrote: I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue that apparently applied to WD drives? There was a series of threads on the Mandrake groups - probably a year back now - in which some people including Civileme talked about WD drives relying on W$ drivers to implement ECC CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check), not ECC and therefore being subject to corruption when used with linux. If this has been fixed, or was a hideous slur on WD, or whatever, it would be great to know. As it stands I am reluctant to use them, but maybe I'm missing out on a great product. TIA Brian Not only is it not fixed... I personally feel it's gotten worse. I was forced to install during a recent install fest on a number of WD drives and to be honest not a one of them worked worth a dang. I could never get one to work reliably above UDMA2 (nor could winders, which is how we got them for free.) If all of those drives hadn't been donated I personally wouldn't have done anything but trash them. James Brian, better than taking anecdotal opinions from various Mandrake lists (BTW, I believe James' opinion is valid), a better source than even civileme is the lkml (linux-kernel ml). WD's still continue to be reported as problem drives due to lack of proper CRC checking. Used with Linux the usual kernel guru's advice is to never use them above udma2 (ata/33), or disable udma altogether for WD drives. This will not alleviate the data corruption problems WD's inflict when placed on the same ide channel with certain other brand drives tho. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We have a single phoneline, my wife's a vet and is often on call so I cannot (very often) let my puter stay connected unattended for real long periods. Plus...my ISP (my job/university) loosely limits each connection to 90 minutes (primarily during high usage periods). I will try urpmi from the CLI with the switches...it would just be so much easier if MandrakeUpdate would do this too (I like to see a nice clean list of available packages that I can select or not and then leave it to do its thing). praedor On Monday 30 June 2003 05:18 am, KevinO wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I am just now getting over having to live with a 26.4Kbps dialup connection for the last few years... Smoothwall took 2 hours or so download at THAT speed. Just start the download late in the evening and go watch a movie or something... - -- Not a single 9/11 terrorist came from Iraq, nor did a single one train in Iraq. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AFVPaKr9sJYeTxgRApnZAKCSkpwZ6rxs7vxtxjW/YBvLlpG32gCdHGTm ogkTdH7YtCVT9CTPe0mHejc= =cuhi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix Relay question...
Hi all thanks for the responses. Yea /32 should work I'll give it a try later today. I don't know why I diden't think of that myself?? Anyway thanks for all your help. Ralph On Thursday 26 June 2003 08:39 pm, Björn Rhoads wrote: On Friday 27 June 2003 00.12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know of a way to limit it to a single host rather than a network. Why would you want to? Miark Cuz I use e-mail from home. And at home I'm using a cable connection and don't want to open up the server to everyone on my network. Ralph :-) On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:10:04 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, thanks to everyone's help it looks like I got my MTA configured right now. Good. How can I allow a single client (IP address) besids the $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24 variable or can I do it with that variable like $mynetworks = 111.222.333.0/24, 222.333.444.0/24, 333.444.555.10/24. Is that possable? Can't you just use a /32? $mynetworks = 111.222.233.10/32 should be just one host. /Björn What is the best solution for this?? I don't know of a way to limit it to a single host rather than a network. Why would you want to? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday June 30 2003 04:37 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 20:20, Brian Parish wrote: I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue that apparently applied to WD drives? There was a series of threads on the Mandrake groups - probably a year back now - in which some people including Civileme talked about WD drives relying on W$ drivers to implement ECC CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check), not ECC and therefore being subject to corruption when used with linux. If this has been fixed, or was a hideous slur on WD, or whatever, it would be great to know. As it stands I am reluctant to use them, but maybe I'm missing out on a great product. TIA Brian Not only is it not fixed... I personally feel it's gotten worse. I was forced to install during a recent install fest on a number of WD drives and to be honest not a one of them worked worth a dang. I could never get one to work reliably above UDMA2 (nor could winders, which is how we got them for free.) If all of those drives hadn't been donated I personally wouldn't have done anything but trash them. James Brian, better than taking anecdotal opinions from various Mandrake lists (BTW, I believe James' opinion is valid), a better source than even civileme is the lkml (linux-kernel ml). WD's still continue to be reported as problem drives due to lack of proper CRC checking. Used with Linux the usual kernel guru's advice is to never use them above udma2 (ata/33), or disable udma altogether for WD drives. This will not alleviate the data corruption problems WD's inflict when placed on the same ide channel with certain other brand drives tho. Tom, There is a reason why they are the cheap drives. I've not got hard evidence on this but indications that the Winders solution to the WD problem is to do the crc's in software rather than in firmware. Which to me means a greater CPU load and lowered performance IMHO. I believe Tom's Hardware has also done some benchmarking on Drives in the last year that might add data to the pile. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] radeon 8500
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:59:51 -0600 Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found something else that worked pretty good... I documented it on the wiki. Went from 320FPS to about 2200FPS... much nicer. EQ runs pretty good in winex now, and NWN looked pretty good for the 10s before it crashed. With a 9600Pro I had been settling for using vesa and its 320FPS. After theses discussions and looking at your wiki entry I decided to give the ATI drivers a shot. I can now get 4200FPS+ There are still a couple of caveats with fglrxconfig and the 9600. 1)If I use the actual horz and vert sync rate for my monitor, a 19' Hatachi CM751, either by manually entering the setting or by using XFdrake to select my specific monitor X fails to start with No usable screen found. If I select the max values given by fglrxconfig for both horz and vert sync X will start without problem. 2)I must still use vga=normal or the system will not boot. Charles -- I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment. -- Gotama Buddha - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21-0.1mdk http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] HELP - ext3 filesystem data loss?!
Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, My computer gave me a message during boot up saying that there were problems in my root filesystem. He proceeded to check them and then suggested that he could fix them but that some data might get lost. I pressed yes and let him proceed. During the recovery process some inodes and segments files seemed to have been identified as lost and deleted (I do not remember the exact message). After fixing the problem the computer booted up normally but now I get messages such as Can't write file /var/log/linuxconf/netconf.log I am running ext3 journalling filesystem which I thought would record the location of all my files every 5 sec. However, data was lost. Why?! Can you explain what happened? And should I take any special action? Thanks, Andrei Check to verify that the file exist and check write permissions. If no file then as Root do a : touch /var/log/netconfig.log This should set the file in place for writing. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 10:31 am, Robert W. wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 19:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior/security (not) setting allowed all users to access all other user's home directories. No limits! What is this?! That is the same as no security [...] 1) Mandrake Control Center 2) Security 3) Security Permissions 4) Choose editable from the drop down box 5) Add /home/* with the permissions you want. Next time msec runs, it will reset the permissions on the /home/* directories. And you won't need the higher security level (with shorewall). Danka. This nonetheless begs the question...why should this even be necessary? By this I mean why should it be necessary to actively alter default settings so that all users don't have access to each other's home dirs? I am not really faulting Mandrake here (unless their defaut settings and perms are more lenient than other distro defaults. To my thinking, the default should never be to permit even read access to another's home. There's no call for that unless some idiot user decides to give other people access to his/her home dir. This accessibility should be a no-no by default regardless of distro. praedor - -- Not a single 9/11 terrorist came from Iraq, nor did a single one train in Iraq. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AHdYaKr9sJYeTxgRAmMxAKCc4ZDXAVwk7tcvyB2mSRcofManzgCgp9Ti O7T4NI7YWKuDutQuU4ksuOQ= =XhHt -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)
I have 3 computers running Linux on WD HardDrives: 2 comps on 40gigs (1 UDMA3 because the MB doesn't support above this and the other at UDMA5) and 1 comp on 80gigs (UDMA5)without a problem. For now, they are the only drives that I didn't go through problems... Got a lot of problems with Maxtor and IBM HD... Don't know if I'm only lucky with WD or if I'm not with the other :P Albert -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 11:20 PM To: expert Subject: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC) I've seen a few recommendations for WD drives recently. Can anyone say anything definitive about the error correction issue that apparently applied to WD drives? There was a series of threads on the Mandrake groups - probably a year back now - in which some people including Civileme talked about WD drives relying on W$ drivers to implement ECC and therefore being subject to corruption when used with linux. If this has been fixed, or was a hideous slur on WD, or whatever, it would be great to know. As it stands I am reluctant to use them, but maybe I'm missing out on a great product. TIA Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Setting up Cyrus-imapd/Posfix under Mdk-9.1
En/na Martin Fahrendorf ha escrit: I think the new cyrus package solved this by adding the link or moving the socket into the postfix chroot jail. Nope, I didn't change that (and it shouldn't touch the configuration while upgrading anyway). But I don't know what got in cvs, since it's still at 2.1.12-7mdk while I'm at 2.1.13-2mdk Bye -- Que les importa a las viudas, a los huérfanos, a los desvalidos si las masacres se hacen en nombre del totalitarismo o en el sagrado nombre de la libertad y la democracia. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[expert] rpm db problems
Hi List! I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is working. Any other suggestion? I cannot reboot the computer. Thanks in advance, Cheers, -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bittorrent
Thanks Torstein maybe I'll wait a bit,as I can use bittorrent running windows in win4lin OK.. mvh Richard On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:47, Torstein Dybdahl wrote: Hi. To use bittorrent with mozilla you have to add the mime-type x-bittorrent so that it launches the btdownloadgui. like in opera it is application/x-bittorrent filetype .torrent and laynces btdownloadgui.py I have not realy succedded with making it work well inside a browser. so i used to copy .torrent file to a folder and launched btdownloadcurses.py file.torrent this used to work. Havent tested bittorrent since the major article in BBC. Regards Torstein richard bown wrote: Hi all Ive been using bittorrent on windows for a while, works fine So I thought I'd try the linux version of the client, so downloaded the rpm from cooker built it and installed the files and the gui. Its been written in python, and each of the binaries seems to do something. But what it dos'nt do is handle the download .ie. if you click on the download icon on say downloadparadise all you get is a screen full of garbage. The documentation I've found is'nt very helpfull. Has anyone tried this ,and if so how did they get it to work. Ive tried xmule and that works fine, the trouble is there most of the sites are just full of p0rn.. TIA Richard 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 -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 12:46:00PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up
'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior/security
(not) setting allowed all users to access all other user's home
directories. No limits! What is this?! That is the same as no security
[...]
1) Mandrake Control Center
2) Security
3) Security Permissions
4) Choose editable from the drop down box
5) Add /home/* with the permissions you want.
Next time msec runs, it will reset the permissions on the /home/*
directories. And you won't need the higher security level (with
shorewall).
Danka. This nonetheless begs the question...why should this even be
necessary? By this I mean why should it be necessary to actively alter
default settings so that all users don't have access to each other's home
dirs? I am not really faulting Mandrake here (unless their defaut settings
and perms are more lenient than other distro defaults. To my thinking, the
default should never be to permit even read access to another's home.
There's no call for that unless some idiot user decides to give other
people access to his/her home dir. This accessibility should be a no-no by
default regardless of distro.
This was done, IIRC, to allow people to have a ~/public_html/ directory and
allow apache to enter the home directory so as to read ~/public_html/ (which
would allow someone to do something like http://yoursite.com/~preador/).
That's pretty much the reasoning for it IIRC. That being said, there is
nothing stopping you from doing a higher security level or modifying the
defaults.
I also believe that a user can enter another user's home dir but will get a
permission denied if they do an ls. Other permissions protect the files in
the homedir. The homedir should have execute-only perms. But, taking a
quick look, it seems that is not the case. H.
That does kind of suck. msec used to do execute-only perms on homedirs... I
wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do.
I'll see if I can't find out.
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Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
--- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no call for that unless some idiot user decides to give other people access to his/her home dir. This accessibility should be a no-no by default regardless of distro. This was done, IIRC, to allow people to have a ~/public_html/ directory and allow apache to enter the home directory so as to read ~/public_html/ (which would allow someone to do something like http://yoursite.com/~preador/). That's pretty much the reasoning for it IIRC. That being said, there is nothing stopping you from doing a higher security level or modifying the defaults. I also believe that a user can enter another user's home dir but will get a permission denied if they do an ls. Other permissions protect the files in the homedir. The homedir should have execute-only perms. But, taking a quick look, it seems that is not the case. H. That does kind of suck. msec used to do execute-only perms on homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do. I'll see if I can't find out. Yes, this does sound serious. Haven't run into difficulties yet, but I would like to fix this on my system here when you find out what's going on. You da man, Vincent! :) --LX __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 12:10:00PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
[...]
I also believe that a user can enter another user's home dir but will get a
permission denied if they do an ls. Other permissions protect the files in
the homedir. The homedir should have execute-only perms. But, taking a
quick look, it seems that is not the case. H.
That does kind of suck. msec used to do execute-only perms on homedirs... I
wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do.
My mistake. I had msec level 2 on my workstation which is why it was
read/execute perms. Changing to level 3 gives back the appropriate homedir
perms.
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Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/
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Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
I also believe that a user can enter another user's home dir but will get a permission denied if they do an ls. Other permissions protect the files in the homedir. The homedir should have execute-only perms. But, taking a quick look, it seems that is not the case. H. That does kind of suck. msec used to do execute-only perms on homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do. I'll see if I can't find out. This behaviour was also in mandrake 9.0 or the one before that i believe, i remember reading it in a news group and being very surprised, mandrake should tighten the permissions up regarding users. dave Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1 / XFree86 4.3: choosing compose map
I am having a US keyboard but would like my Multi_Key to choose ligatures from the Latin 1 Compose map. How do I accomplish this? I have tried including the following in /etc/sysconfig/i18n SYSFONTACM=iso15 LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LANGUAGE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_ADDRESS=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_NAME=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_PAPER=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO-8859-1 SYSFONT=lat0-16 LC_TIME=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO-8859-1 LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.ISO-8859-1 I can see that I get the right settings after starting X, but I do not get any ligatures. I have also tried adding the following lines to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/compose.dir iso8859-1/Compose C iso8859-1/Compose en_US.ISO-8859-1 iso8859-1/Compose en_US to force a specific map. That has been in vain as well. Any help is appreciated. /Peter -- http://www.linearity.org/turtle/contact.html ``If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. If we're a humble nation but strong, they'll welcome us.''--George W. Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 at all. I went into DrakConf and set the security level to high and this fixed the horrific insecurity of the default setup, but it also unfortunately fired up shorewall with settings that prevented me from being able to access the system remotely I see...but is it really a good idea to permit execute perms to any and sundry? I used to think that if there were a linux virus/worm to be concerned about that the worst that could happen under normal circumstances is that a user who received and executed a viral script would possibly trash his own home and that's it. Now I see that this is not accurate...ALL users could trash their homes by executing a bad script/executable in ANY infected user's home. The default setup makes this possible...and most new users wont bother (or think to bother) to change home perms. praedor On Monday 30 June 2003 01:10 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 12:46:00PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior/security (not) setting allowed all users to access all other user's home directories. No limits! What is this?! That is the same as no security [...] 1) Mandrake Control Center 2) Security 3) Security Permissions 4) Choose editable from the drop down box 5) Add /home/* with the permissions you want. Next time msec runs, it will reset the permissions on the /home/* directories. And you won't need the higher security level (with shorewall). Danka. This nonetheless begs the question...why should this even be necessary? By this I mean why should it be necessary to actively alter default settings so that all users don't have access to each other's home dirs? I am not really faulting Mandrake here (unless their defaut settings and perms are more lenient than other distro defaults. To my thinking, the default should never be to permit even read access to another's home. There's no call for that unless some idiot user decides to give other people access to his/her home dir. This accessibility should be a no-no by default regardless of distro. This was done, IIRC, to allow people to have a ~/public_html/ directory and allow apache to enter the home directory so as to read ~/public_html/ (which would allow someone to do something like http://yoursite.com/~preador/). That's pretty much the reasoning for it IIRC. That being said, there is nothing stopping you from doing a higher security level or modifying the defaults. I also believe that a user can enter another user's home dir but will get a permission denied if they do an ls. Other permissions protect the files in the homedir. The homedir should have execute-only perms. But, taking a quick look, it seems that is not the case. H. That does kind of suck. msec used to do execute-only perms on homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do. I'll see if I can't find out. - -- Not a single 9/11 terrorist came from Iraq, nor did a single one train in Iraq. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AIukaKr9sJYeTxgRAsBHAJ9aLht9HHva/j9kNjSLZfUERpsBLwCdGx8h UoXf6OhcLfjX828l4QnSjSA= =1cdd -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm db problems
On 30 Jun 2003 James Sparenberg wrote:: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:11, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is working. Any other suggestion? I cannot reboot the computer. Thanks in advance, cd /var/lib/rpm and remove files like __db.001 etc (note it's two leading underscores) then try again. James Cheers, James, What are these files for? I've got two of them in my folder and one of them seems to contain info from some installed rpms, among other things. /Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Setting up Cyrus-imapd/Posfix under Mdk-9.1
Hi Martin, I had actually checked the chroot-stuff with Postfix and the cyrus-imapd/unixlmtp - but that wasn't the problem. I think it had rather something to do with the CPU I have in that system. The VIA C3 Ezra 533MHz CPU is actually not a fully compatible pentium class CPU - so there are some packages I do need to recompile - which in this case I did with Cyrus (Didn't ty the 2.1.12 recompile though). I had a similar issue with the usb-based WiFi (amtel) driver which crashed the system hard. However - I did perform some Hard-Stress Tests now - and even if the CPU goes up to 80 C, itis still rock stable (the C3 CPU can withstand much higher temperatures than the AMD/Intel CPU's. So - I'm nearly finished with my installation... Soon to go live :) Thx again for your Hint - though it was written in the README Files that the Postfix installation needed to be adapted, and this part was there too ... Cheers Joerg Martin Fahrendorf wrote: Am Sonntag, 29. Juni 2003 02:14 schrieb Joerg Mertin: Hi Folks, I have a slight problem with the Cyrus Server n a box I have (Via EPIA 5000 running Mandrake 9.1). I tried the cyrus-imapd version 2.1.12 from Contrib. Actually - the cyrus-imapd works, and the postfix Server too - if both ae not connected - but I get the followig mssage in the Postfix logs: -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- 15AD9B26E 394 Sat Jun 28 18:34:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (connect to /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp]: No such file or directory) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, your solution solved one point. But I think you don't know the reason. In standard mdk9.1 postfix runs chroot, so does the lmtp process. That means, the file /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp is there but postfix/lmtp needs this file in /var/spool/postfix/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp. A hardlink should solve the prolem too. I think the new cyrus package solved this by adding the link or moving the socket into the postfix chroot jail. Martin -- | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : [EMAIL PROTECTED](Alt2)| | PGP 2.6.3in Key on Demand : Voice Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | Home-Page: http://www.solsys.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] what now?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just tried using urpmi as some suggested here when I made feature request wrt mandrakeupdate. I know I am not 100% updated so I should get something to update. Instead I get: ]#urpmi --noclean --auto --auto-select medium Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) is not selected What does this mean? praedor - -- Not a single 9/11 terrorist came from Iraq, nor did a single one train in Iraq. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AKPyaKr9sJYeTxgRAi3DAJ4xjkBU1LAjKH6djQy2YsAr91R4OgCghF9k Tg6H0o9NyCDtp17n63b8Icw= =lImE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm db problems
Hi- These files comes from when rpm is killed without killing its child processes. Then the rpm database is open and locked for other rpm processes. There is more info on this on an errata at rpm.org. Regards Torstein On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Björn Olsson wrote: On 30 Jun 2003 James Sparenberg wrote:: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:11, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is working. Any other suggestion? I cannot reboot the computer. Thanks in advance, cd /var/lib/rpm and remove files like __db.001 etc (note it's two leading underscores) then try again. James Cheers, James, What are these files for? I've got two of them in my folder and one of them seems to contain info from some installed rpms, among other things. /Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] what now?
Am Montag, 30. Juni 2003 22:56 schrieb Praedor Atrebates: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just tried using urpmi as some suggested here when I made feature request wrt mandrakeupdate. I know I am not 100% updated so I should get something to update. Instead I get: ]#urpmi --noclean --auto --auto-select medium Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1) is not selected What does this mean? What you want is 'urpmi --update --noclean --auto --auto-select' or in case you want this too for other media you can specify them with --media switch. Hmmm otherwise this message should not come (tried here). As I understood you want load your updates with slow dialup. Maybe the cooksync.pl could be adapted for this. Greet Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
--- Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do. My mistake. I had msec level 2 on my workstation which is why it was read/execute perms. Changing to level 3 gives back the appropriate homedir perms. This sounds alot like that root window situation of mine recently. ;) g --LX __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Why is KDE better? (Re: [expert] 9.1 / XFree86 4.3: choosing compose map)
Playing around a little more, I realized that it works under KDE, but not under WindowMaker and IceWM. That leaves me more puzzled---I thought that this configuration worked at the level of the X server and thus should be independent of the window manager. What is it that KDE does that other Window Managers fail to do? Thanks /Peter -- http://www.linearity.org/turtle/contact.html ``If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. If we're a humble nation but strong, they'll welcome us.''--George W. Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.
Robert Crawford wrote: Waiting sounds wise- no use in messing up your current setup. However, if you really wanted to see if it will apply, what you could try is copying your stock MDK kernel sources directory from /usr/src to it's own directory in /home. (Compiling there is much safer than doing it as root in /usr/src, especially for people like me still learning).Then make a backup of your .config file, and cd in a console (as user) to the new directory in /home where you copied the MDK kernel sources to, and run mrproper. Then, try applying the Hz patch. If it applies OK, do a make xconfig and load the copy of your stock .config file into xconfig., Then change the value of the Hz line to =1000Hz, and save and exit. VERY IMPORTANT:Check the makefile extra version line at the top of the file to see if it added the -ck2 extra version when the patch applied, otherwise if you do choose to install this kernel and the name (version) is the same, it will overwrite your original modules directory, and not create a new -ck2 version. In your case, that would be a disaster. Then you can (as user) do: make dep make clean make bzImage make modules If you get through these with no error outs, you are probably OK, and will then know the patch probably didn't cause any problem. Up to this point, nothing you have done could possibly affect your current kernel setup. If you want to actually install, su to root and do: make modules_install This will put a new modules directory in /lib/modules with the new -ck2 version name, leaving the original untouched. I never do the usual final make install to call the kernel script after that if I'm not compiling in /usr/src. I did that once, and had huge problems. I manually copy System.map and bzImage to /boot, naming them to reflect the extra version, like System.map-2.4.21-ck2, and bzImage-2.4.21-ck2. I then edit lilo, and since I don't use an initrd file for the new kernel, I delete the initrd line in the new kernel's lilo stanza, so it looks like: image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.21-ck3 label=2421ck3 root=/dev/hda10 append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet vga=788 read-only Then save, and run lilo as root. Of course there's no way to know if doing all this will actually increase system response in a noticable way, even if the patch applies on the MDK kernel, without actually doing it. I can report that all the ck patches I've applied seem to work great on the vanilla 2.4.21. Well, I was following this thread over the weekend, and so today I went ahead and followed your directions. I installed the multimedia kernel and source, then booted into the Mandrake multimedia kernel to make sure it worked - it did, at least as good as the stock Mandrake kernel. So, I went ahead and downloaded the patch, and patched the mm kernel source, which I had copied and chowned into $HOME/src/. The patch had two minor failures, which I was able to manually fix (I've never even patched a kernel before, let alone had to manually patch some source code because the patch failed - but it was easy). I check the Makefile, and sure enough I also had to edit the extra-version info to indicate 'ck2' so I wouldn't blow away my existing multimedia kernel modules. Everything compiled without errors, so I went ahead and installed the modules and kernel. I am running the patched mm kernel right now, and it performs at least as well as the stock kernel and (unpatched) mm kernel. Not sure how to do any performance benchmarks, but at least nothing is broken! -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Serial ATA harddisk !!
Dear All I have been trying to install mandrake 9.1 on my new computer, ... .. it comes with a SerialATA Harddisk (Silicon Image 3112 controller) I did a clean mdk 9.1 installation, but when I reboot, the computer died ... ...I was reading about this particular issue, and It seems that mdk9.1 support Serial ATA disk ... It is true ? (mobo: Asus P4G8X deluxe ... ) Any Idea ? Rodrigo Sanchez DGF, UCH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:27:33 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 07:01 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:22 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in this lifetime. I tried shorewall and setting it up via the nice drakconf frontend but it completely borked my ability to connect to the internet, seemingly regardless of what settings I made (as to allowing what to access, etc). http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/stronger-firewall-examples.htm l is about as low download impact as you can get... using it on a 21.6kb line at the moment -- sucks compared to my DSL; but the script tracks the dialup IP. The only problem I've had with it was a ~30sec delay each time I checked mail from my server... This was solved by adding a rule to allow ident from the server; I can provide the changes if you need them... I would appreciate it if you would provide your changes...just in case. I'll try the script as is and see how it goes, then try your changes as needed. Thank you for the link. praedor # Setting a few other local variables # UNIVERSE=0.0.0.0/0 ### added addr of mail server here: SERVER=1.2.3.4/32 ### Added this: # identd - Enable the following lines if you need identd for your mailhost # echo -e - Allowing EXTERNAL access to the identd server $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTIF -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED \ -p tcp -s $SERVER -d $EXTIP --dport 113 -j ACCEPT ### just before this: # # - End OPTIONAL INPUT Section - Of course, I specified the various addresses to match my network... quite simple... just follow the instructions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I see...but is it really a good idea to permit execute perms to any and sundry? I used to think that if there were a linux virus/worm to be concerned about that the worst that could happen under normal circumstances is that a user who received and executed a viral script would possibly trash his own home and that's it. Now I see that this is not accurate...ALL users could trash their homes by executing a bad script/executable in ANY infected user's home. The default setup makes this possible...and most new users wont bother (or think to bother) to change home perms. But execute permissions on a /directory/ only affect the ability of the user/group-member/other to cd _into_ that directory - they have no bearing on the executability of the *files* therein, which must have their execute permissions set (for that level of user) in order to be runnable by them. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 The engineer is neither optimist nor pessimist. He sees the proverbial half-full/empty glass and says, The glass is twice as big as there is any need for it to be. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 02:12:35PM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
at all. I went into DrakConf and set the security level to high and
this fixed the horrific insecurity of the default setup, but it also
unfortunately fired up shorewall with settings that prevented me from
being able to access the system remotely
I see...but is it really a good idea to permit execute perms to any and
sundry? I used to think that if there were a linux virus/worm to be
concerned about that the worst that could happen under normal circumstances
is that a user who received and executed a viral script would possibly trash
his own home and that's it. Now I see that this is not accurate...ALL users
could trash their homes by executing a bad script/executable in ANY infected
user's home. The default setup makes this possible...and most new users
wont bother (or think to bother) to change home perms.
I don't think you understand the relevance of the execute bit on a directory
versus on a file. On a directory, execute permissions let you into the
directory. That's it. It doesn't allow you to execute stuff in the
directory, it doesn't allow you to get the directory contents, and it
doesn't allow you to write to the directory.
For all intents and purposes, you can do a cd ~vdanen and see, touch, etc.
absolutely nothing unless those permissions provided it *and* you know what
you're looking for. This is why it's used when people do the ~/public_html/
bit. apache needs to get into ~/ in order to get into ~/public_html.
Giving it the ability to do so is not, by itself, a security flaw.
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[expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk
Got the parts in to repair my laptop So the first thing I did was reload the OS as the / partition got mighty hosed by the IDE controller going south. After doing that I did the normal upgrades etc. Along the way I decided to try out the 2.4.18mdk kernel. This is where the sound fun began. Hardware. Compaq Armada M700 500mhz Celeron Coppermine Sound ES1978 Maestro 2E (ESS Technology) Running MDK 9.1 Ok with kernel build 13mdk xmms and sound work as expected. When I boot to 18mdk the fun begins. xmms can no longer play mp3's from the hdd. (noatune has the same problem) constantly complaining that something else has /dev/dsp. mpg123 from a command line can play it ok IF I first leave runlevel 5. If I try to listen to streaming audio with xmms via say shoutcast. I have to restart sound (/etc/init.d/sound restart) but only after first connecting with the site to hear the output. Note also that dev/dsp dev/dspx and dsp56k get created by devfs Now when I boot to 13mdk or to 16mm (the multimedia kernel) it (devfs) creates the devices in the correct place /dev/sound/[device name] and sound works all over. I can even play an mp3. Note too that I use the OSS sound drivers as they support my sound chip and alsa doesn't. No problem.. whatever works. The problem can be duplicated simply by rebooting into build 18mdk. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm db problems
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 13:19, Björn Olsson wrote: On 30 Jun 2003 James Sparenberg wrote:: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 08:11, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I had a problem with rpmdrake and now not even rpm --rebuilddb is working. Any other suggestion? I cannot reboot the computer. Thanks in advance, cd /var/lib/rpm and remove files like __db.001 etc (note it's two leading underscores) then try again. James Cheers, James, What are these files for? I've got two of them in my folder and one of them seems to contain info from some installed rpms, among other things. /Björn Olsson __ They are the temp files created when running rpm --rebuilddb. They should, when a successful rebuild is completed get deleted. The problem is that if something interrupts the rebuild (Human, segfault, whatever) they get left behind and wind up confusing rpm the next time around. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 01:11:34PM -0700, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms
was an ok thing to do.
My mistake. I had msec level 2 on my workstation which is
why it was read/execute perms. Changing to level 3 gives
back the appropriate homedir perms.
This sounds alot like that root window situation of mine recently. ;)
g
Sorta... =) I thought for sure I was using msec 3 since that's what I
always use. Not sure why I had msec 2 on that machine. Wierd.
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Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues UPDATE
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 14:33, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 29 Jun 2003 23:36:40 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my /etc/fstab (due to k3bsetup) I have: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder1auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 I still can't burn onto a dvdrw. Can anyone offer any enlightenment? man fstab and look up ro I'm aware ro means read-only. I don't see what this has to do with my problem, as I can record with the CDRW drive, but not the DVD-RW drive. Note also a previous respondent suggested letting k3b add entries to fstab, and that is what I did, and the above demonstrates this. I still can't burn onto DVDs. Note I spent all day sorting my system out to dual boot windows XP, installed it, and spent hours cursing as it crashed and hung every hour or so for one reason or another, reminding me exactly why I use linux, and teaching me a lesson for threatening (and carrying out) an install of windows. -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ICQ#52944566 Registered Linux User: 269002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] script help
Yeah, that might be a good idea :-) Well, I'm doing great; I answer my email about once a week! Well, I've thought about that occasionally - restoring that is. I guess I'd have to just reload the system and then copy the target files back to their original places. I'll have to play with that on a test box... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey thanks Mark! Sorry to take so long responding; I forgot to renew my domain name and wasn't getting any mail - please don't ask :} thanks again! mike No problem Mike. Glad I could help. I have yet to need to restore from any of the backups I've been making with it, ( thank God ), but I guess I should start working out just how to do that just in case. -- Mark If necessity is the mother of invention, then who's the father? --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Since 1996 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.2 9.1 ICQ# 27816299 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] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk
On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 10:27:23AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
Got the parts in to repair my laptop So the first thing I did was
reload the OS as the / partition got mighty hosed by the IDE controller
going south. After doing that I did the normal upgrades etc. Along the
way I decided to try out the 2.4.18mdk kernel. This is where the sound
fun began.
Hardware.
Compaq Armada M700 500mhz Celeron Coppermine
Sound ES1978 Maestro 2E (ESS Technology)
Running MDK 9.1
Ok with kernel build 13mdk xmms and sound work as expected. When I boot
to 18mdk the fun begins.
xmms can no longer play mp3's from the hdd. (noatune has the same
problem) constantly complaining that something else has /dev/dsp.
mpg123 from a command line can play it ok IF I first leave runlevel 5.
If I try to listen to streaming audio with xmms via say shoutcast. I
have to restart sound (/etc/init.d/sound restart) but only after first
connecting with the site to hear the output.
Note also that dev/dsp dev/dspx and dsp56k get created by devfs Now
when I boot to 13mdk or to 16mm (the multimedia kernel) it (devfs)
creates the devices in the correct place /dev/sound/[device name] and
sound works all over. I can even play an mp3.
Note too that I use the OSS sound drivers as they support my sound chip
and alsa doesn't. No problem.. whatever works. The problem can be
duplicated simply by rebooting into build 18mdk.
Hmmm... really strange. I wonder if something with the ESS drivers
changed... I can't duplicate this here; I've been using xmms quite happily
with the 18mdk and the other kernel we're working on. I've fwd'd this
message to Juan in the hopes that he has some ideas.
Can anyone else with this same soundcard duplicate this? Does devfs
correctly create /dev/dsp when you boot with 18mdk?
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[expert] Changes to the ps command
I have been running Mandrake since version 6. My recent install for 9.1 has developed a compatibility issue with PSAD (Port Scan Attack Detector). What is the reason (or Login) behind the deprecation of the dash on the ps -ax command? -- Albert E. Whale, CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant Founding Board of Directors of Pittsburgh FBI - InfraGard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working
Rick Salsa wrote: Hi, I've come across something that I haven't seen before, but my RPM binary doesn't seem to work. If I try to install or upgrade any RPMs, it just sits and doesn't do anything. rpm -qa, rpm --help, and rpm --version work, but that's it. I tried rpm --list to see if the last rpm installed might have done something, but that doesn't work either. Any ideas on what might be up or how to fix this? Mandrake 8.2 Thanks, /rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Try rpm --rebuild and repair your rpm database. That should fix what ails you. -- Albert E. Whale, CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com -- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer Networking Specialists Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant Founding Board of Directors of Pittsburgh FBI - InfraGard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.
Dave, Sounds like you had great success! So, we now know at least that Hz patch can be added to the already heavily patched Mandrake kernels. Could you please post some info on the two minor patch failures, and how you fixed them? The only benchmarking tools I know of for Linux are one called bonnie and glxgears, but there must be more. I haven't really investigated those things since I switched to Linux a year ago. I did run the Sandra benchmarks pretty often when I used Windows, and was learning how to tweak win98 and XP to the max. Robert On Monday 30 June 2003 18:07, Dave Sherman wrote: Robert Crawford wrote: Waiting sounds wise- no use in messing up your current setup. However, if you really wanted to see if it will apply, what you could try is copying your stock MDK kernel sources directory from /usr/src to it's own directory in /home. (Compiling there is much safer than doing it as root in /usr/src, especially for people like me still learning).Then make a backup of your .config file, and cd in a console (as user) to the new directory in /home where you copied the MDK kernel sources to, and run mrproper. Then, try applying the Hz patch. If it applies OK, do a make xconfig and load the copy of your stock .config file into xconfig., Then change the value of the Hz line to =1000Hz, and save and exit. VERY IMPORTANT:Check the makefile extra version line at the top of the file to see if it added the -ck2 extra version when the patch applied, otherwise if you do choose to install this kernel and the name (version) is the same, it will overwrite your original modules directory, and not create a new -ck2 version. In your case, that would be a disaster. Then you can (as user) do: make dep make clean make bzImage make modules If you get through these with no error outs, you are probably OK, and will then know the patch probably didn't cause any problem. Up to this point, nothing you have done could possibly affect your current kernel setup. If you want to actually install, su to root and do: make modules_install This will put a new modules directory in /lib/modules with the new -ck2 version name, leaving the original untouched. I never do the usual final make install to call the kernel script after that if I'm not compiling in /usr/src. I did that once, and had huge problems. I manually copy System.map and bzImage to /boot, naming them to reflect the extra version, like System.map-2.4.21-ck2, and bzImage-2.4.21-ck2. I then edit lilo, and since I don't use an initrd file for the new kernel, I delete the initrd line in the new kernel's lilo stanza, so it looks like: image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.21-ck3 label=2421ck3 root=/dev/hda10 append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet vga=788 read-only Then save, and run lilo as root. Of course there's no way to know if doing all this will actually increase system response in a noticable way, even if the patch applies on the MDK kernel, without actually doing it. I can report that all the ck patches I've applied seem to work great on the vanilla 2.4.21. Well, I was following this thread over the weekend, and so today I went ahead and followed your directions. I installed the multimedia kernel and source, then booted into the Mandrake multimedia kernel to make sure it worked - it did, at least as good as the stock Mandrake kernel. So, I went ahead and downloaded the patch, and patched the mm kernel source, which I had copied and chowned into $HOME/src/. The patch had two minor failures, which I was able to manually fix (I've never even patched a kernel before, let alone had to manually patch some source code because the patch failed - but it was easy). I check the Makefile, and sure enough I also had to edit the extra-version info to indicate 'ck2' so I wouldn't blow away my existing multimedia kernel modules. Everything compiled without errors, so I went ahead and installed the modules and kernel. I am running the patched mm kernel right now, and it performs at least as well as the stock kernel and (unpatched) mm kernel. Not sure how to do any performance benchmarks, but at least nothing is broken! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:38, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 01:11:34PM -0700, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: homedirs... I wonder why it decided that read/execute perms was an ok thing to do. My mistake. I had msec level 2 on my workstation which is why it was read/execute perms. Changing to level 3 gives back the appropriate homedir perms. This sounds alot like that root window situation of mine recently. ;) g Sorta... =) I thought for sure I was using msec 3 since that's what I always use. Not sure why I had msec 2 on that machine. Wierd. Betcha you'd upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1, because I just found out from today's festivities that both of the machine's I've done it on are now at msec 2. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Security or lack thereof
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:47, Jack Coates wrote: ... Betcha you'd upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1, because I just found out from today's festivities that both of the machine's I've done it on are now at msec 2. oops, spoke too soon -- only one of those actually changed its level. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems with 2.4.21-18mdk
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:47, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Jun 30, 2003 at 10:27:23AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Got the parts in to repair my laptop So the first thing I did was reload the OS as the / partition got mighty hosed by the IDE controller going south. After doing that I did the normal upgrades etc. Along the way I decided to try out the 2.4.18mdk kernel. This is where the sound fun began. Hardware. Compaq Armada M700 500mhz Celeron Coppermine Sound ES1978 Maestro 2E (ESS Technology) Running MDK 9.1 Ok with kernel build 13mdk xmms and sound work as expected. When I boot to 18mdk the fun begins. xmms can no longer play mp3's from the hdd. (noatune has the same problem) constantly complaining that something else has /dev/dsp. mpg123 from a command line can play it ok IF I first leave runlevel 5. If I try to listen to streaming audio with xmms via say shoutcast. I have to restart sound (/etc/init.d/sound restart) but only after first connecting with the site to hear the output. Note also that dev/dsp dev/dspx and dsp56k get created by devfs Now when I boot to 13mdk or to 16mm (the multimedia kernel) it (devfs) creates the devices in the correct place /dev/sound/[device name] and sound works all over. I can even play an mp3. Note too that I use the OSS sound drivers as they support my sound chip and alsa doesn't. No problem.. whatever works. The problem can be duplicated simply by rebooting into build 18mdk. Hmmm... really strange. I wonder if something with the ESS drivers changed... I can't duplicate this here; I've been using xmms quite happily with the 18mdk and the other kernel we're working on. I've fwd'd this message to Juan in the hopes that he has some ideas. Can anyone else with this same soundcard duplicate this? Does devfs correctly create /dev/dsp when you boot with 18mdk? Note ... 18mdk is working correctly on 5 other boxes with different Hardware. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 00:51, Albert Charron wrote: I have 3 computers running Linux on WD HardDrives: 2 comps on 40gigs (1 UDMA3 because the MB doesn't support above this and the other at UDMA5) and 1 comp on 80gigs (UDMA5)without a problem. For now, they are the only drives that I didn't go through problems... Got a lot of problems with Maxtor and IBM HD... Don't know if I'm only lucky with WD or if I'm not with the other :P Albert __ It may well be that this is no longer a problem, although anecdotal evidence as quoted earlier suggests that there are still issues with some WD drives. This thread is also running in parallel on the Linux Users Victoria group. Chris Samuels posted as follows: - The nub of the matter is explained in this kernel-traffic posting from 2000 at: http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt2214_54.html#2 to quote: # WDC drives blow off the CRC check of UDMA.This is BAD and STUPID. # Several of the OEM chipset makers have allowed this crap to exist. ATA-2 # (style) can not handle ATA-3/4 transfer rates without the CRC checks, you # end up continuing the DMA writing regardless if you lost data that would # have been saved if the UDMA CRC was intact. # # This is a pure hardware issueI do not know yet if there is a way to # check/recover with out death to DMAing for all WDC products. The best case # at the moment is to consider blocking all WDC products from using the ATA-3 # and newere standard. - Again though, this is old info and may no longer apply. In the absence of specific information to the contrary though, I will continue to avoid them, while recognizing that this could well be punishment for past sins. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:31, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: Rick Salsa wrote: Hi, I've come across something that I haven't seen before, but my RPM binary doesn't seem to work. If I try to install or upgrade any RPMs, it just sits and doesn't do anything. rpm -qa, rpm --help, and rpm --version work, but that's it. I tried rpm --list to see if the last rpm installed might have done something, but that doesn't work either. Any ideas on what might be up or how to fix this? Mandrake 8.2 Thanks, /rick I did this to myself one time... stupidly I'll admit (I actually did an rpm -e rpm -Uvh somerpm and yes deleted rpm) . What I did was boot to the rescue disk... then copied the rescue disks copy of rpm to the mounted home dir (for me that would be /mnt/home/james) where I also had a copy of the rpm rpm. Then I did chroot /mnt to make sure I was working/writing only on my HDD Finally I did ./rpm -ivh rpm.x.i586.rpm --force This rewrote my rpm files and I was back in business. A quick check would be to run a command like rpm -qil rpm or some similar command you couldn't run before. This should work and a reboot should get you going again. James PS Please turn off you reply to when mailing to the list... thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:43, Robert Crawford wrote: Dave, Sounds like you had great success! So, we now know at least that Hz patch can be added to the already heavily patched Mandrake kernels. Could you please post some info on the two minor patch failures, and how you fixed them? Yes please please please! *grin* The only benchmarking tools I know of for Linux are one called bonnie and glxgears, but there must be more. I haven't really investigated those things since I switched to Linux a year ago. I did run the Sandra benchmarks pretty often when I used Windows, and was learning how to tweak win98 and XP to the max. Robert On Monday 30 June 2003 18:07, Dave Sherman wrote: Robert Crawford wrote: Waiting sounds wise- no use in messing up your current setup. However, if you really wanted to see if it will apply, what you could try is copying your stock MDK kernel sources directory from /usr/src to it's own directory in /home. (Compiling there is much safer than doing it as root in /usr/src, especially for people like me still learning).Then make a backup of your .config file, and cd in a console (as user) to the new directory in /home where you copied the MDK kernel sources to, and run mrproper. Then, try applying the Hz patch. If it applies OK, do a make xconfig and load the copy of your stock .config file into xconfig., Then change the value of the Hz line to =1000Hz, and save and exit. VERY IMPORTANT:Check the makefile extra version line at the top of the file to see if it added the -ck2 extra version when the patch applied, otherwise if you do choose to install this kernel and the name (version) is the same, it will overwrite your original modules directory, and not create a new -ck2 version. In your case, that would be a disaster. Then you can (as user) do: make dep make clean make bzImage make modules If you get through these with no error outs, you are probably OK, and will then know the patch probably didn't cause any problem. Up to this point, nothing you have done could possibly affect your current kernel setup. If you want to actually install, su to root and do: make modules_install This will put a new modules directory in /lib/modules with the new -ck2 version name, leaving the original untouched. I never do the usual final make install to call the kernel script after that if I'm not compiling in /usr/src. I did that once, and had huge problems. I manually copy System.map and bzImage to /boot, naming them to reflect the extra version, like System.map-2.4.21-ck2, and bzImage-2.4.21-ck2. I then edit lilo, and since I don't use an initrd file for the new kernel, I delete the initrd line in the new kernel's lilo stanza, so it looks like: image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.21-ck3 label=2421ck3 root=/dev/hda10 append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet vga=788 read-only Then save, and run lilo as root. Of course there's no way to know if doing all this will actually increase system response in a noticable way, even if the patch applies on the MDK kernel, without actually doing it. I can report that all the ck patches I've applied seem to work great on the vanilla 2.4.21. Well, I was following this thread over the weekend, and so today I went ahead and followed your directions. I installed the multimedia kernel and source, then booted into the Mandrake multimedia kernel to make sure it worked - it did, at least as good as the stock Mandrake kernel. So, I went ahead and downloaded the patch, and patched the mm kernel source, which I had copied and chowned into $HOME/src/. The patch had two minor failures, which I was able to manually fix (I've never even patched a kernel before, let alone had to manually patch some source code because the patch failed - but it was easy). I check the Makefile, and sure enough I also had to edit the extra-version info to indicate 'ck2' so I wouldn't blow away my existing multimedia kernel modules. Everything compiled without errors, so I went ahead and installed the modules and kernel. I am running the patched mm kernel right now, and it performs at least as well as the stock kernel and (unpatched) mm kernel. Not sure how to do any performance benchmarks, but at least nothing is broken! __ 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] Changes to the ps command
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:11, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote: I have been running Mandrake since version 6. My recent install for 9.1 has developed a compatibility issue with PSAD (Port Scan Attack Detector). What is the reason (or Login) behind the deprecation of the dash on the ps -ax command? Personaly ... I think it was an application of the If it ain't broke, fix it. school of thought. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Again, no messages
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:48 am, Praedor Atrebates had this to contribute :- So yet again the list is generating no traffic (for me at least). What's up? same here for a day 30 June in Oz Charlie -- A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful dark treacle melted under the gate. Elizabeth Lemarchand This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HELP - ext3 filesystem data loss?!
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:31 am, Andrei Raevsky had this to contribute :- My computer gave me a message during boot up saying that there were problems in my root filesystem. He proceeded to check them and then suggested that he could fix them but that some data might get lost. I pressed yes and let him proceed. Hi Andrei, I am unable to explain what happens but can tell you what to do when it does, say yet to the first question, which i no longer recall. Within the 5 second limit, but on the second question, say no. Then I think Ctrl+d and the system will reboot and will again check the file system and continue without any problems. For various reasons my system has been exited uncleanly [power dropped out etc.] and I found that this is the way it will recover without any data loss. Works a treat. Charlie. -- A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful dark treacle melted under the gate. Elizabeth Lemarchand This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues UPDATE
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:36 am, Azrael had this to contribute :- I still can't burn onto a dvdrw. Maybe change your driver? -- A black cat dropped soundlessly from a high wall, like a spoonful dark treacle melted under the gate. Elizabeth Lemarchand This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
