Re: [expert] brouser gets redirected

[Daniel Anderson]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:29, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 05:39, Daniel Anderson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm having problems with mozilla,netscape and konqueror getting
> > redirected to "bad" sites when visiting certain sites such a
> > bandwidthplace.com. No problem with galeon. I,ve tried disabling java,
> > javascript and popups with no luck. Several windows friends using
> > explorer don't have this problem. Anyone know how this works and how I
> > can avoid it? I'm running mdk 9.1 on this box, but my suse and redhat
> > boxes have the same problem with all brousers.
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> 
> Dan,
> 
>I get the site.  Are you sure you don't have a "bug" in the works. 
> I'd do some checking.  (running mozilla 1.4 from texstar here.)
> 
> James

James,
 I have mozilla 1.3.1-4.1mdk and netscape 7.0-2tex on this machine,and I
have the same problem on a redhat box and a suse box, with different
versions of mozilla, galeon doesn't have the problem on this mandrake
box, but does on the others.I've seen this happen before on a windows
box on a different site. Never could figure out how it happens.

 Thanks,
 Dan
> 
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Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

[Dick Gevers]

Hi Jim and others,

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:32:34 -0700, Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake:

>There is an interesting article in Linux Magazine's June edition that 
>may pertain to this.  The subject is a project called RULE (Run 
>Up-to-date Linux Everywhere).
>It comes with an XFree86 replacement called Kdrive that may be of interest.
>
>Jim C.
>

Thanks very much for your answer. Unfortunately I was unable to find it in
the June issue table of contents, nor via search at linux-mag.com

http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-06/toc.html

Would you happen to have a closer reference?
Thanks very much beforehand.

Thanks also for the encouraging replies of several others on this topic.

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[expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

[T. Ribbrock]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 05:45:28PM +, Dick Gevers wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:01:15 +0800, "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> about RE: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake:
> 
> >Besides, what is the big deal? you can pick up a second hand 15 inch
> >monitor for about 30 dollars AUD..
[...]
> True, but I haven`t got the space to put it anywhere. I am already too close
> to the monitor with just the keyboard between me and the screen. A larger
> one I couldn`t accomodate.
[...]

The size of the monitor does not necessarily have anything to do with
the resolution. My first 14" bought in 1992 went right up to 1024x768
and even now I have a tiny 9" at home which happily does 800x600
(beautiful little monitor). Maybe you can look around for a second
hand one of the right size with a better reolution?

Other than that I do actually agree, that much is over the top at the
moment - for many things, there is no reason to force a high
resolution.

Cheerio,

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Re: [expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

[Dick Gevers]

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:21:58 +0200, "T. Ribbrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about [expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake:

>The size of the monitor does not necessarily have anything to do with
>the resolution. My first 14" bought in 1992 went right up to 1024x768
>and even now I have a tiny 9" at home which happily does 800x600
>(beautiful little monitor). Maybe you can look around for a second
>hand one of the right size with a better reolution?

Aha, I wasn`t aware of that. I thought it was all proportional and I can`t
accomodate a larger box between my keyboard and the wall.


>Other than that I do actually agree, that much is over the top at the
>moment - for many things, there is no reason to force a high
>resolution.

Exactly.

Thanks a bunch!

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[expert] Wacom tablets and linux

[Olaf Marzocchi]

I just installed in my Palm IIIc the opensource utility palmwac that turns 
the Palm into a Wacom (UD series) tablet.
Is there a way to have MDK 9.1 automatically recognize it and set the 
XF86Config-4 file?

Thanks

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Re: [expert] resolv.conf

[Bryan Phinney]

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 09:36 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:

> Dirty fix chmod /etc/resolv.conf to 444 (read only) and see what it
> is that "complains" when it can't write to the file.
Thanks all, I found the solution.  It turns out that the tmdns stuff that 
Mandrake loads for zeroconf is the cause of the rewrite.  I removed it and 
now everything is working fine.  
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Re: [expert] ATA RAID

[Bryan Phinney]

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 09:52 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:

> Could be a BIOS version.  On you on the latest.
>
First thing that I did when I had problems was update the BIOS.  No, I can 
clearly see the error where Linux is trying to load the 366 hpt driver when 
it detects the controller.  I did a lot of reading and everyone mentioned 
problems with the hpt driver included in the 24 kernel.  Alan Cox did a patch 
and put it out but it hasn't been implemented in the stock kernel.  

I can get past the kernel panic by recompiling with the actual highpoint 
driver from highpoint tech, only problem is it was unable to see the one 
drive that I hooked up to it.  Could be my fault though, the drive wasn't on 
that controller when I installed and I may need to do something further.  It 
just wasn't worth the effort of pursueing since I only have 4 ide devices 
hooked up currently and they all fit on the primary ide controller channels.

> Since we basically have the same board, it would seem you should be able to
> get them working.  Again, I'd check the BIOS for the latest.

I would the thrilled if it was something easy but after spending 5+ days 
trying to get it to work, constantly moving drives to different controllers 
and having to recompile the kernel, I am not sure that there is enough value 
in getting it to work to justify the time.

Obviously, I am not an expert with any of this, just a squirrel trying to get 
a nut.  ;-}

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[expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

[T. Ribbrock]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:34:10AM +, Dick Gevers wrote:
> Aha, I wasn`t aware of that. I thought it was all proportional and I can`t
> accomodate a larger box between my keyboard and the wall.

I just noticed that you're also in the Netherlands. Have a look at
www.marktplaats.nl and computer.2dehands.nl, both excellent sites to
find second hand computer stuff sold privately.

Cheerio,

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[expert] Re: brouser gets redirected

[Alex Fisher]

Daniel Anderson wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:29, James Sparenberg wrote:
>> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 05:39, Daniel Anderson wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I'm having problems with mozilla,netscape and konqueror getting
>> > redirected to "bad" sites when visiting certain sites such a
>> > bandwidthplace.com. No problem with galeon. I,ve tried disabling java,
>> > javascript and popups with no luck. Several windows friends using
>> > explorer don't have this problem. Anyone know how this works and how I
>> > can avoid it? I'm running mdk 9.1 on this box, but my suse and redhat
>> > boxes have the same problem with all brousers.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dan
>> 
>> Dan,
>> 
>>I get the site.  Are you sure you don't have a "bug" in the works.
>> I'd do some checking.  (running mozilla 1.4 from texstar here.)
>> 
>> James
> 
> James,
>  I have mozilla 1.3.1-4.1mdk and netscape 7.0-2tex on this machine,and I
> have the same problem on a redhat box and a suse box, with different
> versions of mozilla, galeon doesn't have the problem on this mandrake
> box, but does on the others.I've seen this happen before on a windows
> box on a different site. Never could figure out how it happens.

Well, Netscape 7.1 gets redirected, but Opera 7 and Mozzilla Firebird
didn't...
> 
>  Thanks,
>  Dan
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Re: [expert] ATA RAID

[Bryan Phinney]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 02:45 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:

> I also have a Highpoint controller and my Raid array is on itworking
> flawlessly under 9.1.  The Highpoint controllers provide better
> performance than a standard set of IDE channels.  They also leave your
> standard IDE channels open for other uses.

It is also possible that this is all a combination of other stuff.  When I 
first loaded up Mandrake, it was a brand new install after I just purchased 
my new system with the Dragon KT400 Ultra Platinum MB installed.  First I had 
major problems because I had a 128MB video card along with 1024MB of RAM.  
Mandrake 9.1 has major problems trying to boot from the boot disk if you have 
more than 1024 of RAM and a video card with more than 32 mb of memory.  

Couple those problems with the APIC issues and ACPI as well and simply getting 
a stable install  was a major undertaking for me.  At this point, with what I 
know now, I could probably do a much better install and perhaps get the RAID 
stuff working (although I am pretty sure that 9.1 does have problems with 
hpt372, at least, I am not the only one having those problems according to 
the forums), but I would have to go back and reinstall all the software and 
at this point it is simply not worth the effort.  Perhaps when 9.2 comes out.

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Re: [expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

[Dick Gevers]

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:25:08 +0200, "T. Ribbrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about [expert] Re: Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake:

>I just noticed that you're also in the Netherlands. Have a look at
>www.marktplaats.nl and computer.2dehands.nl, both excellent sites to
>find second hand computer stuff sold privately.

Great! Thanks very much.

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[expert] XMMS crashing

[Guy Van Sanden]

Hi guys

I have this weird problem with XMMS.
It crashes on one of my PC's with specific mp3 files, which is identical
in installation to the other one.  No special message is given.

The system runs Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3tex.
Packages installed (on both systems) are:
xmms-1.2.7-18mdk
mpg123-0.59r-17.1mdk
arts-1.1.3-1tex
xmms-arts-0.4-8mdk

mpg123 on that system plays them fine, but says (on both systems):
Playing MPEG stream from Ronan Keating - InThisLife.foutemp3 ...
Junk at the beginning 49443303
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo

A lot of my MP3 files have this problem, but they have always played
fine (they even worked on that sytem on Mandrake 9.0, and work fine with
noatun).

Any ideas on what the problem is?

Thanks

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[expert] Password Question

[Lawson, Jim]

Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz
password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset.
Say if you forgot it?

James S. Lawson
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Re: [expert] Password Question

[Bryan Phinney]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote:
> Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz
> password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be
> reset. Say if you forgot it?
>
> James S. Lawson
> Network Administrator

The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in Single 
User mode and reset root password from there.  You should be able to do that 
by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user mode.

If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the root 
password without some type of reinstall.

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Re: [expert] 2.4.21-0.25 hates my thinkpad

[Praedor Tempus]

I actually have now tried and failed to build
kernel-2.4.22-0.6mdk (from cooker).  I upgraded
kernel-utils (built from source rpm so it would be
cool with MDK 9.1) and then tried building the kernel.
 No go.  First off, xconfig doesn't work so I had to
go with menuconfig (no problem with 2.4.21-0.13mdk). 
It built just fine but when installing the kernel
(make install) it failed to find a bzImage and didn't
install a vmlinuz to go with the build.  No amount of
tinkering/manual file play would get around this.  I
haven't yet tried (again) to go to 2.4.21-0.25mdk via
your method.  At this point, I give up and will, I
suppose, wait for 9.2 and HOPE that the kernel is all
cool and functional on my laptop.

praedor

--- James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:29, Michael Lothian wrote:
> > Try one of the tmb kernels
> > 
> > http://www.netikka.net/tmb/
> > 
> > I use the cooker one and it's the most stableist
> I've used
> > 
> > Oh and remember to use the latest version of
> kernel utils
> > 
> >
>
ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel-utils-1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> Praedor I had the same trouble and found out that
> the initrd.img was
> bad.  Deleted it.  Recreated it, ignored the
> warnings and I was able get
> it running.  One note the only way I could create a
> working 25mdk kernel
> (or 18 for that matter) was to first boot into the
> stock 25mdk as
> distributed and then create my initrd.  For whatever
> reason from 13mdk I
> couldn't create a working initrd for 18 or 25.
> 
> James
> 
> > 
> > Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > 
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> > >I have an IBM Stinkpad that has been running
> Mandrake for several years 
> > >without problem.  It currently runs 9.1 and
> 2.4.21-0.13mdk without problems.  
> > >I have tried building -0.18mdk and, most
> recently, -0.25mdk kernels but 
> > >neither works.  Since 0.25mdk is the latest,
> here's the deal with it.  
> > >
> > >I used the same config as I did to build my
> 0.13mdk kernel which works 
> > >perfectly.  When I restart after the
> build/install, it refuses to bootup.  
> > >Instead, as soon as it loads linux, the screen
> blanks/goes black and the 
> > >system restarts.  No error message appears, or if
> it does it comes and goes 
> > >too fast to see.  I then rebuilt it from scratch,
> manually selecting or 
> > >deselecting options as always.  The main
> selection I go for vs the default 
> > >kernel is in GRSECURITY - I select a number of
> the network security 
> > >options...nothing that should in any way, shape,
> or form, prevent bootup.  
> > >
> > >I try rebooting after install and, as before, I
> select linux, the screen 
> > >blanks, it indicates its loading linux but then
> blank, reboot, ad infinitum.  
> > >The only way to get back up is to bootup my old
> 0.13mdk kernel.
> > >
> > >No error messages appear in any logs, it occurs
> too soon and too rapidly. 
> > >What's up with all the kernels beyond 0.13mdk
> that renders them unusable on 
> > >an IBM Thinkpad 1412 (celery 366)?  
> > >
> > >praedor
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Re: [expert] resolv.conf

[Mark Williamson]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:35, Todd Lyons wrote:
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> Bryan Phinney wanted us to know:
> 
> >I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks.  It appears that my 
> >/etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting built with 127.0.0.1 as the first name 
> >server.  Other network utilities appear to be able to bypass this and try 
> 
> rpm -e tmdns

Just a quick note on this..  I find it better to run the command
"service tmdns stop"  then "chkconfig --del tmdns"  as if tmdns was
removed with "rpm -e" it gets installed and enabled again, when one
configures their network with drakconf..  It's just better to switch it
off.. When it is just switched off, drakconf does not re-enabled it. 

One thing I never worked out why did mandrake go for Zeroconf stuff when
no-one knows what it is..I certainly did not make any of it work,
and if anything all it does is make a mess of the resolv.conf file..

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Re: [expert] Password Question

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On Wednesday 20 August 2003 16:55, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote:
> > Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any
> > windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user
> > be reset. Say if you forgot it?
> >
> > James S. Lawson
> > Network Administrator
>
> The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in
> Single User mode and reset root password from there.  You should be able to
> do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user
> mode.
>
> If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the
> root password without some type of reinstall.

You can mount the filesystem from a rescue cd like knopix and remove the 
passwords from /etc/passwd and shadow ;-)

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Re: [expert] Password Question

[Jack Coates]

trinity rescue kit

I love it.


On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 07:24, Lawson, Jim wrote:
> Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz
> password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset.
> Say if you forgot it?
> 
> James S. Lawson
> Network Administrator
> 
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[expert] urpmi dependancies issues?

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

I wanted to install a few LDAP packages on my 9.1 server.  Here's what I 
got.

urpmi pam_ldap perl-ldap openldap-clients openldap-back_passwd apache2-mod_ldap 
php-ldap ldapdns mod_auth_ldap openldap-guide openldap-back_sql courier-imap-ldap 
nss_ldap freeradius-ldap openldap openldap-servers
The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:
bind-9.2.2-1mdk (due to conflicts with bind)
caching-nameserver-9.0-2mdk (due to unsatisfied bind >= 9.2.0-0.a3.2mdk)
do you agree ? (Y/n) n
AFAIK -

bind-9.2.2-1mdk is more current than the unsatisfied bind >= 9.2.0-0.a3.2mdk

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Re: [expert] Re: brouser gets redirected

[Daniel Anderson]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 06:29, Alex Fisher wrote:

> >> > Dan
> >> 
> >> Dan,
> >> 
> >>I get the site.  Are you sure you don't have a "bug" in the works.
> >> I'd do some checking.  (running mozilla 1.4 from texstar here.)
> >> 
> >> James
> > 
> > James,
> >  I have mozilla 1.3.1-4.1mdk and netscape 7.0-2tex on this machine,and I
> > have the same problem on a redhat box and a suse box, with different
> > versions of mozilla, galeon doesn't have the problem on this mandrake
> > box, but does on the others.I've seen this happen before on a windows
> > box on a different site. Never could figure out how it happens.
> 
> Well, Netscape 7.1 gets redirected, but Opera 7 and Mozzilla Firebird
> didn't...

Any ideas why this redirection is happening or how to fix it?
> > 
> >  Thanks,
> >  Dan
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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Re: [expert] Password Question

[Ralph Crongeyer]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:55 am, Bryan Phinney wrote:
You have to re boot with disk1 of your Mandrake install disks and type 
"rescue". Then when the system comes up you will need to remount the 
partition that has your "/etc" dir on it in read/write mode. Go in to the 
/etc dir and edit the "/etc/shadow" file and delete the password portion of 
the root user and save the file. This makes root without a password. Reboot 
and reset your password.

Ralph

> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote:
> > Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any
> > windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user
> > be reset. Say if you forgot it?
> >
> > James S. Lawson
> > Network Administrator
>
> The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in
> Single User mode and reset root password from there.  You should be able to
> do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user
> mode.
>
> If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the
> root password without some type of reinstall.


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Re: [expert] 2.4.21-0.25 hates my thinkpad

[Charles A Edwards]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:54:09 -0700 (PDT)
Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I actually have now tried and failed to build
> kernel-2.4.22-0.6mdk (from cooker).  I upgraded
> kernel-utils (built from source rpm so it would be
> cool with MDK 9.1) and then tried building the kernel.


When you installed your re-built rpm you should have gotten a conflict
notice.
The kernel-utils rpm is only needed if you are running cooker or 1 of
the 9.2 betas.
In 9.1 or earlier all the necessary files are still included in the
initscripts rpm.


Charles

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Re: [expert] Any way to chroot jail a user?

[Jack Coates]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 21:50, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Tue Aug 19, 2003 at 07:31:02PM -0700, Jack Coates wrote:
> 
> > > > > I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process
> > > > > (Neverwinter Nights, if it matters :).
> > > > > 
> > > > > I don't know if it's possible for a remote user to crash the game process
> > > > > in a way which would leave them sitting in a shell, but since I don't know
> > > > > that the chances are 0%, I'm thinking that having the login name chroot
> > > > > jailed to its home directory would limit the damage that someone could do
> > > > > if they *did* somehow manage to end up in a shell via a server process
> > > > > crash.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there a way to to this?
> > > > 
> > > > Look at the user's line in /etc/password. At the end is the shell
> > > > they'll be given. chroot them there.
> > > 
> > > Er, all that does is just show me which shell they're logging in to use.  
> > > I'm at a loss as to how that will restrict them to their own home directory 
> > > as being / to them when logged in - thus keeping them away from the rest of 
> > > the system.  Could you please provide some specifics?
> > > 
> > >--Dave
> > 
> > how about changing /bin/bash to chroot /new/root /bin/bash?
> > 
> > Be aware that bash expects a whole lotta stuff to be around, which
> > you'll need to recreate under the new root.
> 
> I don't think that will work as you'll need to be root to chroot IIRC.  What
> you could do is write a script that does the chroot and call it via sudo,
> then do something like "/usr/bin/sudo /somescript/chrootuser" which does the
> chroot call as root.

good point -- last time I did this it was in inetd.conf and I was using
DJB's setuidgid as part of the trick.
> 
> You're right about the environment tho.  You'll need to have a /bin/bash in
> the chroot and then recreate the libs it wants or recompile it static.
> 
> You could also use /bin/rbash which is somewhat better than just bash, but
> not as nice as chroot (but a lot easier to setup).
-- 
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RE: [expert] Password Question

[Lawson, Jim]

thanks for everyones answer. Looks like linux is way more secure than
windoz.

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Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Password Question


On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote:
> Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz
> password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be
> reset. Say if you forgot it?
>
> James S. Lawson
> Network Administrator

The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in Single

User mode and reset root password from there.  You should be able to do that

by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user mode.

If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the
root 
password without some type of reinstall.

-- 
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Software Test Engineer



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Re: [expert] Password Question

[ed tharp]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:55, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote:
> > Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz
> > password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be
> > reset. Say if you forgot it?
> >
> > James S. Lawson
> > Network Administrator
> 
> The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer up in Single 
> User mode and reset root password from there.  You should be able to do that 
> by putting options in Lilo at boot to bring up Linux in single user mode.
> 
> If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can reset the root 
> password without some type of reinstall.

and you can password protect the BIOS. and lock the door to the room the
box is held in.


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Re: [expert] resolv.conf

[James Sparenberg]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:31, Mark Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:35, Todd Lyons wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > Bryan Phinney wanted us to know:
> > 
> > >I am having problems getting SA to do the rbl checks.  It appears that my 
> > >/etc/resolv.conf file keeps getting built with 127.0.0.1 as the first name 
> > >server.  Other network utilities appear to be able to bypass this and try 
> > 
> > rpm -e tmdns
> 
> Just a quick note on this..  I find it better to run the command
> "service tmdns stop"  then "chkconfig --del tmdns"  as if tmdns was
> removed with "rpm -e" it gets installed and enabled again, when one
> configures their network with drakconf..  It's just better to switch it
> off.. When it is just switched off, drakconf does not re-enabled it. 
> 
> One thing I never worked out why did mandrake go for Zeroconf stuff when
> no-one knows what it is..I certainly did not make any of it work,
> and if anything all it does is make a mess of the resolv.conf file..
> 
> Cheers
> Mark

What it is, is a re-implementation of Novel Network. And is supposed to
be (according the the website I was directed to by someone) in very
alpha form.  As for the why.  After watching the list on 9.1, I got the
feeling that they wanted to.  Nothing more.  I was an advocate of making
it "optional" not mandatory but lost out.  I've put it in my urpmi skip
list in fact.  

James



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Re: [expert] resolv.conf

[Bryan Phinney]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 11:31 am, Mark Williamson wrote:

> Just a quick note on this..  I find it better to run the command
> "service tmdns stop"  then "chkconfig --del tmdns"  as if tmdns was
> removed with "rpm -e" it gets installed and enabled again, when one
> configures their network with drakconf..  It's just better to switch it
> off.. When it is just switched off, drakconf does not re-enabled it.
>
> One thing I never worked out why did mandrake go for Zeroconf stuff when
> no-one knows what it is..I certainly did not make any of it work,
> and if anything all it does is make a mess of the resolv.conf file..
>
> Cheers
> Mark

I did just remove the service.  Funny thing is, I disabled some other device 
from zeroconf because of an earlier problem.  I just never noticed the 
problems from tmdns because all the other network stuff is more forgiving of 
a bad nameserver in the file.
-- 
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Software Test Engineer


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Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

[Jim C]

Thanks very much for your answer. Unfortunately I was unable to find it in
the June issue table of contents, nor via search at linux-mag.com
http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-06/toc.html

Would you happen to have a closer reference?
Thanks very much beforehand.
Thanks also for the encouraging replies of several others on this topic.

 

Lessee... It is the English (and therefore European) version... June 
2003 Page 88. Article title is "Run modern software on older computers; 
Linux on a diet" written by Marco Fioretti.
Googleing the word "Kdrive" provides this link:

http://www.rule-project.org/en/sw/kdrive.php



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[expert] GnomeMeeting

[Anne Wilson]

I see that on the GM webpages there are rpms for a version later than 
that included in 9.1  The packages offered are

gnomemeeting-0.98.0-1js.i586.rpm
openh323-1.12.0-1.i586.rpm
pwlib-1.5.0-1.i586.rpm

Has anyone installed these?  Should I expect any problems?  I imagine 
I should urpme the old version first?

Anne


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Re: [expert] Re: brouser gets redirected

[James Sparenberg]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:39, Daniel Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 06:29, Alex Fisher wrote:
> 
> > >> > Dan
> > >> 
> > >> Dan,
> > >> 
> > >>I get the site.  Are you sure you don't have a "bug" in the works.
> > >> I'd do some checking.  (running mozilla 1.4 from texstar here.)
> > >> 
> > >> James
> > > 
> > > James,
> > >  I have mozilla 1.3.1-4.1mdk and netscape 7.0-2tex on this machine,and I
> > > have the same problem on a redhat box and a suse box, with different
> > > versions of mozilla, galeon doesn't have the problem on this mandrake
> > > box, but does on the others.I've seen this happen before on a windows
> > > box on a different site. Never could figure out how it happens.
> > 
> > Well, Netscape 7.1 gets redirected, but Opera 7 and Mozzilla Firebird
> > didn't...
> 
> Any ideas why this redirection is happening or how to fix it?

Question here.  Do you,
1. Accept cookies
2. Accept cookies from a 3rd party server.

I wasn't doing either one.  

James

> > > 
> > >  Thanks,
> > >  Dan
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> __
> > >> 
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Re: [expert] XMMS crashing

[kwan]

> mpg123 on that system plays them fine, but says (on both systems):
> Playing MPEG stream from Ronan Keating - InThisLife.foutemp3 ...
> Junk at the beginning 49443303
> MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo
>
> A lot of my MP3 files have this problem, but they have always played
> fine (they even worked on that sytem on Mandrake 9.0, and work fine with
> noatun).
>
> Any ideas on what the problem is?

A couple things you can try:

1) Update xmms. One version had some problems that may be related.

2) Use a different decoder and convert the MP3 to wav. Then re-code back
to MP3. This will update the header.

3) Delete (or move) your .xmms directory.

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Re: [expert] urpmi dependancies issues?

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

Charles A Edwards wrote:

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:38:19 -0400
"Albert E. Whale, CISSP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

what am I missing here?
   

Sounds like you have may have Sources other than for 9.1 defined.

   Charles

 

No, I don't have non 9.1 Sources listed.  Besides the Installation CDs, 
here are my other source definitions:

update_source 
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS {
 hdlist: hdlist.update_source.cz
 with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
 update
}

contrib_mandrake.mirrors.pair.com_i586_9.1 
ftp://mandrake.mirrors.pair.com/mandrake/iso/../9.1/contrib/RPMS {
 hdlist: hdlist.contrib_mandrake.mirrors.pair.com_i586_9.1.cz
 with_hdlist: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
}

distrib_mirrors.secsup.org_i586_9.1 
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/iso/../9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS 
{
 hdlist: hdlist.distrib_mirrors.secsup.org_i586_9.1.cz
 with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist.cz
}

Besides that, the original Error was about the following:

The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:
bind-9.2.2-1mdk (due to conflicts with bind)
caching-nameserver-9.0-2mdk (due to unsatisfied bind >= 9.2.0-0.a3.2mdk)
I still think that this is a Problem with the recognition of Versioning 
within URPMI.  Not my selected Sources for URPMI.

Anyone else care to comment?  I think that the improvements in urpmi are 
Great, but I also think that there is another problem which needs to be 
resolved here.

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Re: [expert] resolv.conf

[James Sparenberg]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 04:17, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2003 09:36 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> 
> > Dirty fix chmod /etc/resolv.conf to 444 (read only) and see what it
> > is that "complains" when it can't write to the file.
> Thanks all, I found the solution.  It turns out that the tmdns stuff that 
> Mandrake loads for zeroconf is the cause of the rewrite.  I removed it and 
> now everything is working fine.  

Seems we need to add to the "Todd's List" of post install removals 

rpm -e tmdns 
rpm -e zcip
rpm -e msec 

(note this tongue in cheek observation is based on the number of times
I've seen replies from him that just said rpm -e , not intended to
be anything but humorous.)

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Re: [expert] Re: brouser gets redirected

[Daniel Anderson]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:20, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:39, Daniel Anderson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 06:29, Alex Fisher wrote:
> > 
> > > >> > Dan
> > > >> 
> > > >> Dan,
> > > >> 
> > > >>I get the site.  Are you sure you don't have a "bug" in the works.
> > > >> I'd do some checking.  (running mozilla 1.4 from texstar here.)
> > > >> 
> > > >> James
> > > > 
> > > > James,
> > > >  I have mozilla 1.3.1-4.1mdk and netscape 7.0-2tex on this machine,and I
> > > > have the same problem on a redhat box and a suse box, with different
> > > > versions of mozilla, galeon doesn't have the problem on this mandrake
> > > > box, but does on the others.I've seen this happen before on a windows
> > > > box on a different site. Never could figure out how it happens.
> > > 
> > > Well, Netscape 7.1 gets redirected, but Opera 7 and Mozzilla Firebird
> > > didn't...
> > 
> > Any ideas why this redirection is happening or how to fix it?
> 
> Question here.  Do you,
> 1. Accept cookies
> 2. Accept cookies from a 3rd party server.
> 
> I wasn't doing either one.  
> 
> James

I have disabled cookies in both konqueror and mozilla, and deleted all
cookies and history, still the same response.

Thanks,
Dan
> 
> > > > 
> > > >  Thanks,
> > > >  Dan
> > > >> 
> > > >> 
> > > >> 
> > > >> 
> > > >> __
> > > >> 
> > > >> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
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> 
> 
> 
> __
> 
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Re: [expert] resolv.conf

[Jim C]

Just a quick note on this..  I find it better to run the command
"service tmdns stop"  then "chkconfig --del tmdns"  as if tmdns was
removed with "rpm -e" it gets installed and enabled again, when one
configures their network with drakconf..  It's just better to switch it
off.. When it is just switched off, drakconf does not re-enabled it. 

One thing I never worked out why did mandrake go for Zeroconf stuff when
no-one knows what it is..I certainly did not make any of it work,
and if anything all it does is make a mess of the resolv.conf file..
 

I'll second this.  I sure would like to know what it is good for.  It 
must be good for something.

Jim C.




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[expert] memtest86 & other hardware testing utilities

[Jim C]

I've been looking for hardware testing utilities like memtest86.  It 
looks really great. Subsequent searches also lead me to 
http://www.utilitygeek.com/ Good stuff but it is Windows stuff.  Anybody 
know where I can find a Linux based hardware utilities site with goodies 
like this?  Sure would save me a lot of trips to the computer chop shop 
if I could test my own hardware.

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[expert] [OT] Microsoft advocates OSS

[Guy Van Sanden]

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=MICROSOFT-1BLK,65.52.0.0,65.55.255.255

This is an uptime report for the enitre Microsoft netblock, they sure
are using a lot of Linux and FreeBSD (not to mention moving a lot of
their sites to akamai on Linux).

But the funniest part are the average and maximum uptimes.
Linux shows uptimes arround 300-350, while the windows guru's seem
unable to keep their systems up for the same amount.  They peek at
arround 150!

Yep Bill is becoming a real fan ;-)

1 ngworldstats.com  344  380  348 Linux Apache/1.3.9 (Unix)
mod_fastcgi/2.2.2 2 stats.zone.com  328  383  384 Linux Apache/1.3.9
(Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.2.2 3 www.ngworldstats.com  326  382  348 Linux
Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.2.2 4 www.netgamesusa.com  324  383 
384 Linux Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.2.2 5
www4.ut.ngworldstats.com  309  346  347 Linux Apache/1.3.9 (Unix)
mod_fastcgi/2.2.2 6 isys.microsoft.com  129  154  155 Windows 2000
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 7 cuai-96.microsoft.com  121  153  154 Windows 2000
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 8 uncertainty99.microsoft.com  118  154  155 Windows
2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 9 cuai97.microsoft.com  117  153  154 Windows
2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 10 flexcomp.microsoft.com  116  154  155 Windows
2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 11 icassp.microsoft.com  115  153  154 Windows
2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 12 icassp98.microsoft.com  115  154  155 Windows
2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 13 cmt.research.microsoft.com  114  153  154
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 14 support.microsoft.com  70  183  20
Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 15 ask.support.microsoft.com  66 
150  20 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 16 www.threedegrees.com 
65  129  4 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 17 www.support.microsoft.com 
61  127  20 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 18 zone.msn.com  50 
233  97 FreeBSD Microsoft-IIS/5.0 19 www.zone.com  50  233  97 FreeBSD
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 20 zone.com  50  233  97 FreeBSD Microsoft-IIS/5.0 21
beta.windowsupdate.com  50  163  33 Windows Server 2003
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 22 www.mosha.com  48  103  31 Windows Server 2003
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 23 hotfix.microsoft.com  48  124  27 Windows Server
2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 24 www.technet.com  48  107  5 Windows Server
2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 25 directory.netmeeting.microsoft.com  47  92  3
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 26 search.communities.microsoft.com  47 
138  27 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 27 admin.zone.msn.com  45  135 
32 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 28 www.mycathatesyou.com  45  103  31
Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 29 mocl.one.microsoft.com  44  119
32 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 30 premier.microsoft.com  44  106  10
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 31 www.192.168.1.2.com.msn.de  43  111 
27 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 32 directory.microsoft.com  41  119 
20 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 33 microsoft.com.ar  41  65  27
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 34 officeupdate.microsoft.com  41  142 
12 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 35 uk.zone.msn.com  41  233  70
FreeBSD Microsoft-IIS/5.0 36 microsoft.be  41  110  27 Windows 2000
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 37 passport.net  40  122  30 Windows 2000
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 38 premium.microsoft.com  40  291  23 Windows Server
2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 39 ipv6.research.microsoft.com  40  207  84
Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 40 xbox.com  40  88  27 Windows
2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 41 search.msn.co.jp  39  129  12 Windows 2000
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 42 www.vicinity.com  39  268  66 Solaris
Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3 43 search.eu.microsoft.com  39  277  27
Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 44 register.microsoft.com  39  108
27 Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 45 sea2fd.sea2.hotmail.msn.com 
38  177  27 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 46 billing.microsoft.com  38 
113  28 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 47 h.msn.com  38  307  27 Windows
2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 48 www.zone.msn.com  38  168  97 FreeBSD
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 49 www.microsoft.co.za  38  103  27 Windows 2000
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 50 c.msn.com  37  268  27 Windows 2000
Microsoft-IIS/5.0


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Re: [expert] Password Question

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 6:10 pm, ed tharp wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:55, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote:
> > > Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset
> > > any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or
> > > any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it?
> > >
> > > James S. Lawson
> > > Network Administrator
> >
> > The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer
> > up in Single User mode and reset root password from there.  You
> > should be able to do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to
> > bring up Linux in single user mode.
> >
> > If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can
> > reset the root password without some type of reinstall.
>
> and you can password protect the BIOS. and lock the door to the
> room the box is held in.

Perhaps I'm being thick, but I thought he was concerned about 
passwords in his windows partition?

Anne

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Re: [expert] [OT] Microsoft advocates OSS

[chort]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 13:46, Guy Van Sanden wrote:
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=MICROSOFT-1BLK,65.52.0.0,65.55.255.255
> 
> This is an uptime report for the enitre Microsoft netblock, they sure
> are using a lot of Linux and FreeBSD (not to mention moving a lot of
> their sites to akamai on Linux).
> 
> But the funniest part are the average and maximum uptimes.
> Linux shows uptimes arround 300-350, while the windows guru's seem
> unable to keep their systems up for the same amount.  They peek at
> arround 150!
> 
> Yep Bill is becoming a real fan ;-)

In all fairness, I believe a number of those sites are merely being
protected by FreeBSD proxies will the actual site is W2K(3)/IIS.  I
guess that does go to show that even some people at Microsoft have the
common sense not to attempt to use Windows a proxy/bastion host OS.

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Re: [expert] resolv.conf

[Charles A Edwards]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:21:48 -0700
Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'll second this.  I sure would like to know what it is good for.  It 
> must be good for something.

And Why was it necessary to make it as the default in All network
set-ups?


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Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake

[Dick Gevers]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:42:01 -0700, Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake:

>Lessee... It is the English (and therefore European) version... June 
>2003 Page 88. Article title is "Run modern software on older computers; 
>Linux on a diet" written by Marco Fioretti.
>Googleing the word "Kdrive" provides this link:
>
>http://www.rule-project.org/en/sw/kdrive.php

Marvellous. Thanks very much!

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Re: [expert] [OT] Microsoft advocates OSS

[Jim C]

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=MICROSOFT-1BLK,65.52.0.0,65.55.255.255

This is an uptime report for the enitre Microsoft netblock, they sure
are using a lot of Linux and FreeBSD (not to mention moving a lot of
their sites to akamai on Linux).
But the funniest part are the average and maximum uptimes.
Linux shows uptimes arround 300-350, while the windows guru's seem
unable to keep their systems up for the same amount.  They peek at
arround 150!
Yep Bill is becoming a real fan ;-)
 

Well like anyone who can hire the very best business managers, Bill & 
co. can see the hand writing on the wall.  This is why that same group 
of folks owns huge shares in open source companies like RedHat.  Not 
because they want to shut these companies down but rather because they 
recognize that Windows market dominence wont last forever.  It can't 
simply because thier business model of selling media liscences will 
eventually be out of date i.e. static media (such as any sort of 
recording) becomes so cheap to manipulate and transmit over time that it 
becomes a loseing battle.  Microsoft knows this which is why they 
started really working hard to diversify thier assets.  I woudn't be 
surprised at all to evenually see an open source verison of Windows or 
to see them adopt Linux in the next 10-15 years.

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Re: [expert] urpmi dependancies issues?

[Charles A Edwards]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:27:52 -0400
"Albert E. Whale, CISSP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Besides that, the original Error was about the following:
> 
> The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:
> bind-9.2.2-1mdk (due to conflicts with bind)
> caching-nameserver-9.0-2mdk (due to unsatisfied bind >=
> 9.2.0-0.a3.2mdk)

The Error is the reason I thought you might have a non 9.1 source.

The Only reason which would require urpmi to remove bind-9.2.2-1mdk
would be that you are requesting it to install Another pkg which either
'provides' bind or 'requires' a 2nd pkg which does so, but in either
case said pkg conflicts with the currently installed bind-9.2.2-1mdk.

You do not have to actually install them, but answer y rather than n to
the removal and then post the listing of the pkgs which will be
installed.

and Please remove the Reply To from your postings.
All replys should go back to the list Not to the posters address.


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[expert] Mandrake RULE involvement Was: Worried about resolution...

[Jim C]

I really would like to see Mandrake get involved with the RULE (Run 
Up-to-date Linux Everywhere ) poject.
It would also really click with the CLIC project. ;-)  [place wince 
here] One of the bigest problems we had with our cluster was with trying 
to use out-of-date hardware with modern software.  RULE is a RedHat 
based project to eliminate this problem.

Jim C.

Dick Gevers wrote:

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:42:01 -0700, Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about Re: [expert] Worried about resolution requirements for Mandrake:
 

Lessee... It is the English (and therefore European) version... June 
2003 Page 88. Article title is "Run modern software on older computers; 
Linux on a diet" written by Marco Fioretti.
Googleing the word "Kdrive" provides this link:

http://www.rule-project.org/en/sw/kdrive.php
   

Marvellous. Thanks very much!

Regards,
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Re: [expert] Password Question

[Jack Coates]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:31, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 Aug 2003 6:10 pm, ed tharp wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:55, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote:
> > > > Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset
> > > > any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or
> > > > any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it?
> > > >
> > > > James S. Lawson
> > > > Network Administrator
> > >
> > > The only way that I know of to do this is to bring the computer
> > > up in Single User mode and reset root password from there.  You
> > > should be able to do that by putting options in Lilo at boot to
> > > bring up Linux in single user mode.
> > >
> > > If you have password protected Lilo, I am not sure that you can
> > > reset the root password without some type of reinstall.
> >
> > and you can password protect the BIOS. and lock the door to the
> > room the box is held in.
> 
> Perhaps I'm being thick, but I thought he was concerned about 
> passwords in his windows partition?
> 
> Anne
> 

and wanted to change them. Which is why I recommended TRK. It could be
done with a Mandrake disk if you were exceedingly clever and knew what
you wanted to do, but Trinity Rescue Kit has prebuilt tools for this
task
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[expert] Dynamic DNS service provider

[Miark]

I need to choose one, but I'm not sure _how_ to go about it.
All all the features pretty much the same from provider to
provider? Any recommendations?

Miark

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Re: [expert] Dynamic DNS service provider

[Jason Greenwood]

http://www.dyndns.org/

Have several friends who use and swaer by their service.

Cheers

Jason

Miark wrote:

I need to choose one, but I'm not sure _how_ to go about it.
All all the features pretty much the same from provider to
provider? Any recommendations?
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Re: [expert] memtest86 & other hardware testing utilities

[James Sparenberg]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 13:15, Jim C wrote:
> I've been looking for hardware testing utilities like memtest86.  It 
> looks really great. Subsequent searches also lead me to 
> http://www.utilitygeek.com/ Good stuff but it is Windows stuff.  Anybody 
> know where I can find a Linux based hardware utilities site with goodies 
> like this?  Sure would save me a lot of trips to the computer chop shop 
> if I could test my own hardware.
> 
> 
> Jim C.

Check out bonnie++ it's part of the distro.

James

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Re: [expert] resolv.conf

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 02:29 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:

> What it is, is a re-implementation of Novel Network. And is supposed to
> be (according the the website I was directed to by someone) in very
> alpha form.  As for the why.  After watching the list on 9.1, I got the
> feeling that they wanted to.  Nothing more.  I was an advocate of making
> it "optional" not mandatory but lost out.  I've put it in my urpmi skip
> list in fact.
>
> James

Hmm, for some reason I was thinking it was supposed to be the beginnings of 
something like what the Mac uses - you know, where you walk into an room with 
a wireless Mac laptop and it auto finds every other Mac in the room and they 
all recognize and configure with each other.

Might be wrong though - just got off a 12 hour shift. 

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Re: [expert] Dynamic DNS service provider

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

Miark wrote:

I need to choose one, but I'm not sure _how_ to go about it.
All all the features pretty much the same from provider to
provider? Any recommendations?
Miark

 

Mairk,

Agreed that DynDns.org is good, I am also running that tools, and 
supplying the SPAM Fitlering/Web Hosting Functions as well.  We're a 
small organization, and we want to promote it so we are trying our best 
for the Linux Mandrake Community.

Please feel free to contact me if your are interested.

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Re: [expert] memtest86 & other hardware testing utilities

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:15 pm, Jim C wrote:
> I've been looking for hardware testing utilities like memtest86.  It
> looks really great. Subsequent searches also lead me to
> http://www.utilitygeek.com/ Good stuff but it is Windows stuff.  Anybody
> know where I can find a Linux based hardware utilities site with goodies
> like this?  Sure would save me a lot of trips to the computer chop shop
> if I could test my own hardware.
>
>
> Jim C.

Have you tried cpuburn? Its another good one. Mprime will do mersene numbers 
and stuff - really stresses your hardware. Hdparm will test all your IDE 
drives. I'm sure there's more.  :-)

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Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 03:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I see that on the GM webpages there are rpms for a version later than
> that included in 9.1  The packages offered are
>
> gnomemeeting-0.98.0-1js.i586.rpm
> openh323-1.12.0-1.i586.rpm
> pwlib-1.5.0-1.i586.rpm
>
> Has anyone installed these?  Should I expect any problems?  I imagine
> I should urpme the old version first?
>
> Anne

Anne, I d/l'ed those files and installed them (removed ye "olde" versions 
first). Gnomemeeting now works here, at least it does give me a picture.

IF I run it as root. If I run it from my normal user account I get the same 
error message that you and I ran into before. It says that it can't read 
/dev/video0.

I su'ered, changed the permissions to 777 (yeah I know - just temporarily to 
see if I could get it to work), group and owner to my normal user account, 
and stillit won't let my normal user access video0. I went into userdrake 
and added every group I could find/think of that might affect this, still no 
go.

So...I'm stumped. I don't want to run any app as root that I don't have to, 
especially considering it would be connected online. 

You can try it there - maybe it will work for you? If so, please tell me what 

ls -al /dev/video0

shows for you.

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[expert] Switching from Apache2 to apache_mod_perl-1.3.27

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

I've not been able to successfully receive a subscription from the 
ADVX-Users list yet, so I figured that I would field the question here.

I have both the Apache2 and apache-mod_perl-1.3.27_1.27-7mdk packages 
installed.  I need to run the apache_mod_perl server instead of 
apache2.  Due to prerequisites, can I easily switch from the apache2 to 
the apache-mod_perl ?   I would prefer to not be forced to remove the 
apache2 rpms.  Is there a simple solution to this?

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Re: [expert] Re: Software to record DVD-R/RW?

[James Sparenberg]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:03, stefmit wrote:
> You haven't seen my post from Sunday, with all relevant links, have you?
> 
> http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ --> link to source inside this 
> article, worth reading, anyway, which is why I won't give the direct link ;)
> 
> Stef

No I hadn't  mainly cause I didn't get that one Thanks.

James

> 
> On Tuesday 19 August 2003 07:39 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 23:59, Helge Hielscher wrote:
> > > Am Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:03:22 +1000 schrieb Mark Williamson:
> > > > I tried using the cdrecord-dvdhack on a late very late model Sony
> > > > DVD-RW device, but all it did was failed, it just couldn't recognise
> > > > the media.. later i switched to growiosfs, and used that with Mondo
> > > > backup, with full success and excellent results.
> > >
> > > Do you have a link to growiosfs?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Helge
> >
> > here here!
> >
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[expert] make bzImage error

[a . ranu]

hi...

i am running kernel 2.4.19 but need to downgrade to 2.4.18 to run 
an application... installing the kernel source (linux-2.4.18.tar.gz)
did not produce any errors...

so i did a 'make dep' and 'make clean' and while executing 'make bzImage',
it says

smpboot.c:65: conflicting types for 'cpu_online_map'
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/smp.h:57: previous declaration of 'cpu_online_map'
make[1]: *** [smpboot.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/kernel] Error 2

previously, i have been able to recompile my 2.4.19 kernel many times witout 
any problem... can u pls tell me how to fix this?



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[expert] Font and icon problems

[James Conner]

I just installed MDK 9.1 on a friend's system and the fonts and icons have a 
shadow to the right.  This is in KDM, KDE, and GNOME and possibly more.  This 
was very noticiable right after install.  I updated freetype2 from texstar's 
site and installed the msfonts from there as well as imported all the fonts 
from the Win2000 dual boot side(on another hard drive).  I installed nvidia's 
latest drivers(with success).  I've searched mandrakes mailing list archives, 
the forum, nvidia's forum, google and anything else I could think of.  It 
makes it very hard to read anything and a real strain on the eyes.  I'm 
unsure of what to do or look at next.  This system had run MDK 9.0 before 
just fine.  I did a screenshot with KSnapshot and it shows up fine on my 
computer.  MDK 9.1 did detect the monitor and set the resolution at 1024x768 
with 24 bit color on install.  The monitor is a Dell(Samsung) 17", unsure of 
the model right now.  I could get it if needed.  Any ideas are appreciated.

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