[expert] RPM looks like it's turned it's toes up
hi, never run into this error before...anyone know a fix? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery. error: db4 error(-30981) from dbenv-open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30981) I've tried rpm --rebuilddb and rpm --initdb but get the same message Andrew George --- The universe is an island, surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
Umm...for a server, use desktop to connect to the win box and the select shutdown. I usually have a toolbox set up somewhere with all the fun little reskit tools. Theres one called shutdown.exe that works a treat on a workstation or server - easiest way is connect to the toolbox and then run shutdown from there to shutdown the target. Format C: is probably the best way though On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:33, Tony S. Sykes wrote: That would be nice, but my Infrastructure Manager would not be impressed. -Original Message- From: Christian Jul Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:20 AM To: Expert (E-mail) Subject: Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Does anybody know how to shut a w2k box down remotely from MDK9.0 (needs to be a clean shutdown). Format c: ? (that'll save you from a lot of future grief as well :) ) -- Andrew George --- Memory fault - where am I? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Has anybody tried to install NVidia Drivers for mandrake 9.0?
Weird, I just bought a TI-4400, I ran the 3123 drivers from the tarfile fully expecting them not to work, then XFdrake and manually selected the video card and it worked straight up (XFDrake even edited XFConfig-4 correctly...go fiigure) On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:50, Lorne wrote: I have, but I had a heck of a time. I just wouldn't work. If you look back through this list you might still find the thread. I have an MSI 128mb Nvidia 4400 chipset card. Someone suggested I roll back to the next to last driver release and voilla! It works just fine. Something about that latest driver is bad. Maybe this will work for you too. ?? On Friday 11 October 2002 12:53 pm, Roberto Armenteros wrote: Nvidia has drivers for MD 8.2 not for 9.0. In case anybody has successfuly installed the 8.2 drivers successfuly please I would appreciate if you can tell me how everything went. THanks a lot, Rob. __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com -- Andrew George --- Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc. -- Dave Barry, In Search of Excellence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Silly RPMdrake Question
Hi, I've never really bothered about this before but recently I was wondering. I've always noticed in rpmdrake (or variations therein) whenever I specify an FTP source for packages, I never see a summary or description. With the increasing reliance on off-Mandrake sources it would sort of be handy to see that these days, I was wondering if I'm being thick and missed something or if everyone else notices the same thing? -- Andrew George --- Your mode of life will be changed for the better because of new developments. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] compile-error please help !!!
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:25, hans schneidhofer wrote: Try: which cc It should respond with /usr/bin/cc. If not, make sure that gcc and the related packages are installed. hi again, have discovered a seldom thing here : was looking in /usr/bin and found cc as well as gcc. doing a ls -al I saw, that cc is a link to gcc and gcc is a link to /etc/alernatives/gcc and that is a link to gcc-3.2 is this correct or something of stupid ? calling gcc within the directory /usr/bin/gcc says not found or better as an origin message : [root@hanna bin]# gcc bash: gcc: command not found but as you can see in detail, the file gcc is there in /usr/bin : [root@hanna bin]# ls -al gcc* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 21 Sep 17 22:06 gcc - /etc/alternatives/gcc -rwxr-xr-x1 root root80876 Aug 17 11:52 gcc-3.2* -rwxr-xr-x1 root root21 Aug 17 11:52 gcc3.2-version* whats going here ? am sorry, but cannot understand such a stupid behavior. do you have a glue about ? thanks and bye hans Interesting, On my box [root@vlad andrew]# ls -al /etc/alternatives/gcc lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 Oct 1 06:17 /etc/alternatives/gcc- /usr/bin/gcc-3.2* and [root@vlad andrew]# urpmf /usr/bin/gcc gcc:/usr/bin/gcc-3.2 gcc:/usr/bin/gcc3.2-version gcc2.96:/usr/bin/gcc-2.96 gcc2.96:/usr/bin/gcc2-version so I'd say theres a script in the gcc packages to setup the symlnks and allow multiple gcc's to be used on the same box (on via $path and the other explicitly) try going into usr bin and running the command ./gcc and see what you get -- Andrew George --- Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. -- H.L. Mencken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: PDA Question
bascule i have a friend who uses a zaurus and a linux desktop, not sure of the nature of the connection between the two usb/whatever but i know he connects the two, i believe that the zaurus can become part of his local network and he can simply ssh into whatever box and 'sync' that way The Zaurus uses FTP over IP over USB if that makes any sense. It took me about 30 minutes of websufing to get the details of how to do it. Fortunately the stock Mandrake Kernels come with USB codepages that are almost exactly like you need so in short... Set up a usb0 interface in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts with the right IP change the usb codepage so it recognises the Zaurus Download and install qtopia desktop (or evosync.pl of you like evolution), theres a kaddressbook synch but I havn't tried it off you go Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] What to use to analyse Apache logs?
Hi guys, the title pretty much says it all. I want to look at total traffic and be able to analyse the logs for intrusion attempts any suggestions? -- Andrew George --- Why are many scientists using lawyers for medical experiments instead of rats? a) There are more lawyers than rats. b) The scientist's don't become as emotionally attached to them. c) There are some things that even rats won't do for money. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] new kernel update and supermount
Hey is it me or did the last Kernel update (2.4.18-8.1mdk) break supermount? -- Andrew George --- I'm going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear. -- John Foreman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LVM or RAID duiring install
Hi, Anyone know how to configure RAID or LVM during a mandrake install? The options are there during diskdrake setup but I've always wondered about how well it works (and my best chance to try it turned out to be hardware raid so I didn't wind up using it) -- Andrew George --- The faster we go, the rounder we get. -- The Grateful Dead Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problem with Graphical Login
I had a couple of hard reboots recently on an ext3 filesystem. since then GDM and KDM have been weird, gdm started authenticating me without a password (just type in a name and log on) and recently, both GDM and KDM have been giving an Authentication failure after I try to log in. I can get into runlevel 3 and startx so I guess x is working and the system authentication is fine. Any ideas why graphical logins might have gone ga-ga on me? -- Andrew George --- Maintain an awareness for contribution -- to your schedule, your project, our company. -- A Group of Employees Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)
On Sat, 18 May 2002 19:01, you wrote: Now I'm back and things are better (although not perfect), but I wonder how many people vowed _never_ to go back after that sort of treatment? Yeah, thats pretty much why I'm happy to install and use just about any form of Linux except Debian...the treatment on the mailing list made it never worth the effort -- Andrew George --- Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher says: Imagine what it does to your TEETH! So Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to improve ... -- Dave Barry, In Search of Excellence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)
On Sat, 18 May 2002 19:48, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sat, 18 May 2002 19:01, you wrote: Now I'm back and things are better (although not perfect), but I wonder how many people vowed _never_ to go back after that sort of treatment? Yeah, thats pretty much why I'm happy to install and use just about any form of Linux except Debian...the treatment on the mailing list made it never worth the effort I actually advise new Linux users _not_ to use Usenet to post (searching groups.google.com is mandatory, though). A disproportionate quantity of 'arrogant and supercilious' people seem to frequent Usenet; I'm surprised you were attacked on a mailing list as, in my experience, they're much less problematic. Alastair I agree about usenet...Mailing lists have a habit of going through cycles (or at least some do). Redhats list a few years ago was so full of flames you couldn't actually find anything, Mandrake expert has been consistantly well mannerred though :) -- Andrew George --- Creativity is not always bred in an environment of tranquility; sometimes you have to squeeze a little to get the paste out of the tube. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] how to make a hdlist
probably a silly question but I'm braindead. If I coupy a whole bunch of Mandrake RPM's to a directory, how can I make a hdlist file? -- Andrew George --- If you put your supper dish to your ear you can hear the sounds of a restaurant. -- Snoopy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Vodoo3 in 8.2
Hi, I've done a vanilla MDK 8.2 install and everything seems to run as expected, except when I try to run a 3d accelerated app (tuxracer, nethack-FE, etc) the x server goes into reset. Can't find an error message ion the X log so I'm not sure if I'm missing something or if XFree4.2 just doesn't like me. I compared the XF86Config-4 file to a known working one under Mdk 8.1 and couldn't see any differences Anyone got any thoughts? -- Andrew George --- Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Palp M500
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:50, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Has anyone had any luck getting a Palm Pilot to work? I have a M500 with a USB cradle. Ther USB is recognized on my machine because I have a printer working on one of the two ports. Any ideas would be appreciated. I think the latest version of j-pilot (99.2) has USB support (never tried it, I've got a palm Vx). I would download the source and recompile it becasue I've been pretty underwhelmed by the jpilot rpm that came with 8.1 (actually I needed the jpilot source and pilot link source to get advantgo working properly) -- Andrew George --- A Smith Wesson beats four aces. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mirror / backup
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 04:09, Rob wrote: was after. An a slightly different but similar note Anyone got any ideas about making a disk image suitable for then putting onto new machines, a bit like norton Ghost, I thining of OEM linux or corprate situations here where you might have a lot of machines and dont want to install the same software on each. Rob Partimage or systemimager if you really want to go the whole hog (it runs like ghost server) -- Andrew George --- Don't hit the keys so hard, it hurts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kvm switch
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:19, Robert Goshko wrote: On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 17:23, Michael Holt wrote: Yeah, I sorta figured that would be the answer :( It's not that big a deal I guess - I can live without the wheel. I really thought the kvm was supposed to be transparent though. I think it is transparent, if you buy one of the good switches (raritain(sp)), but who wants to spend $800+ on a KVM for the home. I have two of the Belkin 4 port switches, and I have the same type of problem with my Kensington trackball. Such is life... I bought a 4 port for $400 bucks...the internal chipset on the switch was set to two-button ps/2, there was a config option to change it to ps/2 wheelmouse and after I did...I've never had a problem -- Andrew George --- Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. -- Maek Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No such file or directory message from bash
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:36, Aleksey wrote: Sorry for muddying the waters with the script example, this problem is really is not a scripting one -- the only reason I mentioned it is that I only saw this problem before for my Python scripts. I don't think this is a scripting thing either, I SUSPECT its a filesystem artifact check this out [root@darkwing cache]# rm -rf f/ rm: cannot remove directory `f': Directory not empty [root@darkwing cache]# cd f [root@darkwing f]# ls ls: www.freezez-burn.org_images_dcs-button.jpg:21156a00: No such file or directory [root@darkwing f]# rm www.freezez-burn.org_images_dcs-button.jpg\:21156a00 rm: cannot remove `www.freezez-burn.org_images_dcs-button.jpg:21156a00': No such file or directory I assume, that no-ones going to tell me this is a bug in ls or rm Personally I need to rebuild the box the disk is on anyway so I'm just gonna reformat the partition...if I wasn't, I'd be thinking seriously about a fsck right now. -- Andrew George --- Are you a turtle? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:12, you wrote: At 09:53 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, J. Craig Woods wrote: At 08:18 PM 1/21/2002 -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:15 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, Mike White wrote: I think Firestarter is the easiest to set up and run. It too closes up your box real well. And yet another firewall script that does NOT do a thorough job... Hell, could you have been any more enigmatic? How about fleshing this critique out? Are you alluding to Firestarter, and what exactly are you saying? I do not use it but I love to learn about things unbeknownst to myself I've used tiny firewall, bastille firewall, and firestarter. When I go to sygatetech.com for port scans, none of the UDP ports are blocked and some UDP ports are open (most of the UDP ports are closed - not blocked). The TCP port blocks are set up, though, except for TCP port 53 which I have manually blocked. I guess it's a good thing I don't have anything important on the Linux box yet. Odd...I've got Bastille running and the UDP scan at sygatetech.com can't find one open port -- Andrew George --- The meek are contesting the will. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:34, Allen May wrote: I am used to using Mandrake 8.x. I just installed FreeBSD on a test machine and find it less intuitive to use. Can someone explain the big difference between Mandrake and FreeBSD? In Mandrake, the current running DAEMON's are in the init.d directory.. were are they in FreeBSD? I don't have an /etc/init.d directory. I use locate a lot.. I could find locate on my FreeBSD machine.. what's the equivelent? Thanks for any info. -Allen May The differences are many for example Mandrake uses SysV style init scripts - BSD used to use old style rc scripts but they've been evolving that in a different direction. BSD is designed for a very rigid Filesystem Hierarchy, Any linux has had changes to its Hierarchy in the last couple of years to meet the LSB recommendations. BSD defaults to csh, Linux Bash About the locate, BSD's base install is a lot slimmer than any standard Linux install, it won't include things in the base system that everyone else seems to take for granted. To install other stuff off the CD's run /stand/sysinstall and select post-install, that should get you to the menu to install additional packages (I think locates one of those) OH..that reminds me...the software installation design philosophy is VERY Different -- Andrew George --- The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright -- And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night. -- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X Login Manager
Anyhow, I have just WINDOWMAKER in mine, no DESKTOP= part at all. Again, iirc, startx ignored the file when it said DESKTOP=WINDOWMAKER and would always start KDE. Granted, this is startx from runlevel 3 and not a graphical login manager from level 5, but should it really make a difference? Does `DESKTOP=' include the meaning `and use the associated gui login manager'? The file is dtructured so that just the name of the WM means thats the default WM when you start X (Which can be overridden from your home directory) and the DESKTOP= parameter defines which graphical login manager the system starts in runlevel 5. If neither exist (or the file dosn't) then the defaults kick in (KDE in both cases) -- Andrew George --- The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason that He makes so many of them. -- Abraham Lincoln Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:21, you wrote: Could it be possible that I have something set up wrong in windows. Or maybe I need to name all my users on @BOGGS in some place. The HOMES section seems to give permission to get in. All my Hard drives are identified. It seems the windows machines just cannot see them. HELP! RB how about posting your smb.conf ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] trick with /etc/issue
#btw, can anyone explain the different between /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net? Thanks in advance /etc/issue happens to local terminals /etc/issue.net happens to remote terminals Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DNS problems
And here's the contents of my resolv.conf: search earthlink.net nameserver 207.217.126.82 nameserver 207.217.77.81 nameserver 207.217.120.83 The original problem is this. When the box is set to use DHCP, it can resolve domains and surf the web just fine. When I manually assign it an IP and DNS servers it can't. It used to work just fine manually but sometime this week it just stopped working for some reason. The manual IP I use for this box is 192.168.0.2. I have already put my other comps on this IP and they can use it just fine. OK Sounds to me like its picking some info up off dhcp that is wrong in the static set-up try running ifconfig as both static connection and dhcp and see what the differences are Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boot Floppy Created During 8.1 Installation
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:46, Felix Miata wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding it's purpose. When chosing Grub as boot loader during install, the last menu choice is to boot from floppy. I set the BIOS boot order to C,A,SCSI on a SCSI-less system. When the boot floppy is inserted into the drive and boot brings up the Grub menu from HD and I choose to boot from floppy, an error message comes up: Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img. If I change the BIOS to boot order A,C,SCSI, I still get the same error message. Doesn't 8.1 know how to make a usable boot floppy? What am I doing wrong that I can't initiate boot from the floppy? Can you boot at all? What filesystem are you using for your /boot or / partitions (some just don't work) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No space left on device when device is not full?
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 04:27, David Guntner wrote: This is a weird one. My logs started showing messages saying No space left on device for things like postfix and fetchnews, although a df -k shows plenty of space on all filesystems. A reboot of the system seems to have taken care of it, but I'm still wondering what would cause processes to think that /var was full when it wasn't Anyone run into this before? Or have any ideas what could have caused the messages to start showing up? --Dave try looking at df -i you may have run out of inodes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't login?
I am not running Bastille firewall, so I didn't lock myself out of the computer with that. Only thing I have implemented is IPChains on the computer, but nothing major. Only thing I can think of is that I maybe am denying packets from 127.0.0.1, although I'm not sure if this makes any difference. Umm...denying 127.0.0.1 is a bad idea (actually it's way past bad).the system uses that for internal communication (Like asking PAM if the user is authenticated, running X, sound, for example) I'm actually astonished that the box is doing anything Reboot with a rescue CD, remove that rule and reboot, then give it a try to login Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dumb Question
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:49, jtannenba wrote: Ok- Mandrake 8.1- changed the mouse, now what util do I run to tell X it's been changed. I don't have a cursor in X right now. Thanks, Joe mousedrake Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SB Live! - no midi devices in kde
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:39, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: The loaded module list you have is way too small. Check out mine... Module Size Used by nfs75072 0 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4400 0 (autoclean) smbfs 34624 0 (autoclean) agpgart26752 3 (autoclean) NVdriver 715200 17 (autoclean) joydev 6176 0 (unused) emu10k1-gp 1456 0 (unused) analog 7488 0 (unused) gameport1856 0 [emu10k1-gp analog] input 3648 0 [joydev analog] snd-synth-emu10k1 4432 0 (autoclean) snd-synth-emux 26784 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emu10k1] snd-seq-midi-emul 4944 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] snd-seq-virmidi 8304 0 (autoclean) [snd-synth-emux] snd-seq-midi3552 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss28944 0 snd-seq-midi-event 3216 0 [snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq41856 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss18624 0 snd-pcm-plugin 15792 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 4800 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-card-emu10k12368 0 snd-emu10k122320 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-card-emu10k1] snd-pcm31616 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 8528 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi10048 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-emu10k1] snd-emux-mem1776 0 [snd-synth-emux snd-emu10k1] snd-ac97-codec 25056 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-mixer 24544 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec] snd-seq-device 3984 0 [snd-synth-emu10k1 snd-synth-emux snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd35248 1 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-emux-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-seq-device] soundcore 4208 9 [snd] parport_pc 20240 1 (autoclean) lp 5808 0 (autoclean) parport24768 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] nfsd 70464 0 (autoclean) lockd 51440 0 (autoclean) [nfs nfsd] sunrpc 66480 0 (autoclean) [nfs nfsd lockd] autofs4 9600 0 (autoclean) af_packet 12560 0 (autoclean) appletalk 21072 0 (autoclean) ipx16640 15 (autoclean) ip_vs 62000 0 (autoclean) acquirewdt 1504 0 (unused) softdog 1584 0 (unused) usb-uhci 21232 0 (unused) usbcore50752 1 [usb-uhci] 3c59x 25952 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2880 1 (autoclean) nls_cp850 3632 1 (autoclean) vfat9968 1 (autoclean) fat32192 0 (autoclean) [vfat] tuner 4784 1 (autoclean) bttv 57200 0 (unused) i2c-algo-bit7328 1 [bttv] i2c-core 13600 0 [tuner bttv i2c-algo-bit] videodev5056 2 [bttv] ide-scsi8096 0 scsi_mod 91072 1 [ide-scsi] rtc 5600 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 158304 2 Heh, I almost jelous...I've got exactly three modules loading for sound...for some strange reason, when I go though harddrake, my sound just stops working (even though it loads all the modules). Whats happening currently is sound starts at boot, alsa dosn't even try (though it did when I tried the harddrake option)...the only thing I've noticed that dosn't work right is esd dosn't work go figure Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to know in what memory a certain programme/data resides?
I don't know if what you say is true, and if it is, there's really a regression in Linux performance. Before, it was possible to run Linux in a 16MB machine. Kernel using less than 4MB and X less than 4MB too. I can't imagine that kernel and X alone could use up to 64MB. Imagine it... If you want, you could always go back to RH 4.2, or Mandrake 6.4... If you want to run the latest apps, you need to have the hardware to handle it. Just the way it is. Ummnot really If you want to run a window manager that does everything and has all sorts of bells and whistles then you need the hardware KDE and GNOME are both very memory and CPU intensive as they have their own window managers, sound servers, font control systems, application hooks...well you get the idea. If you want a sleeker resource footprint, try xfce or windowmaker or afterstep Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: Port Denial noted esound-localhost
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:06, you wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:22:08PM +1100, Andrew George wrote: Anyone ever seen this before? Andrew -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Port Denial noted esound-localhost Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 22:10:30 +1100 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (test ID) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I get that everytime i run xlock. How strick is your firewall set up? It started showing up on my box after i installed bastille. Thats what I thought might be caiusing it, so I stopped bastille before I got this - I got this when I went into gnome and tried to play a sound though the control panel I'll check bastilles config again...It might not be one of the active firewall components Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Partition imaging...
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 17:49, you wrote: You don,t have to look that far. It is included in 8.1. Just not installed by default. dd is just fine for that and it's in there too :). Charles Hey that reminds. me.I was trying to image a fat32 partition a few weeks back and while it worked, the written image wouldn't boot to win98 (which I only keep around for games)anyone come across a howto for imaging? I think I mucked up copying the bootsecrtor of the partition somehow Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Remote Login and VNC
Hi, I was trying to set up some remote access to a Mandrake box and had a couple of questions that I can't seem to find in the VNC docs. 1) Is anyone using the VNC service in the initscripts to start VNC-Server for two or more people. The initscript looks fairly straightforward for one user, but I can't work out what teh delimiter is for multiple users (I tried tabs, spaces, Returns and and semi-colons - no luck) 2) Is there anyway of exporting the graphical login to VNC so a user on a VNC client logs in to teh box, and I don't have to start a vnc server for each specific user that needs remote access? (Thus giving me a more terminal-services style arrangement that the windows users seem to be more comfortable with) any help would be appreciated Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SU File size limit exceeded
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:15, Eric Ekong wrote: Why is this, what does Bastille do that causes this error? Eric One of the questions in Bastille asks if you want to set limits (can't remember the exact one). it then writes a few parameters in /etc/security/limits.conf to set limits for file size, core sizes and open files size. (usually at the bottom of the file) Bastilles actually doing exactly what you tell it to...SU'ing to root by doing su means your taking on root without flushing your limits settings, so you exceed your limits. you can try su - (Never tried it but wondered if it work in that situation) or just go into limits.conf and get rid of the size limits Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How can change the from part
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:20, you wrote: But I need use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for this specific applicatin only. can modify only this to work with the logcheck only ? - Original Message - From: Dianne Marie Montesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [expert] How can change the from part Umm...vi /usr/bin/logcheck.sh change line 42 to SYSDADMIN=alert :wq assuming that mail defaults to service.mydomain and that alert is a real acount., otherwise put an entry into /etc/aliases to redirect to a real account That changes the To header, which you can use with a filter on your favorite mail proggy...The script is actually getting run as part of a root process so the only way I can think of changing the From header is:- create an account called alert give the user alert full access to /etc/logcheck and /var/log/ log into the account and set up a cron job to run logcheck.sh use an alias to redirect the mail to your normal account seems like overkill to me Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cable modem
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 20:32, you wrote: A word of caution with the rtl8139. They work well with Mandrake 7.2, but the drivers that are available at this time for the rtl8139 cards do not work with Mandrake 8.0, and i have been unable to locate any drivers for the rtl8139 cards that will work in LM80. Umm...have you tried looking in the kernel source? or /lib/modules? I've got two rt8139's working, you may have missed the change in name in the 2.4 kernel (it's called rt8139too now). If you used linuxconf to set up your network you may have troubles becasue it seems to be a version built for Kernel 2.2 Mandrake networking picked it like a charm though :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where does it find what modules to load?
This is one of my personal pet peeves with Mandrake/Redhat, as much as I do like it. I was getting quite used to all of the idiosyncrasies of Linuxconf, to the point that it became my preferred way of managing setting up systems. This after Mandrake seemed to be incorporating it into their grand scheme of things in 7.0+... Well of course, now in 8.0 they appear to be moving away from it again. I know the feeling...my major bitch is undocumented executables that use text scripts (mandrake seems to now has several). It's fairly easy to tell what sysconfig\network-scripts does based on how the rc scripts call it...but I'm still trying to figure out what a number of interesting files access and what they are for because I just can't find any reference to them. Andrew
Re: [expert] eth0 hangs on bootup
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:33, Michael W. Hall wrote: I downloaded and installed the MandrakeFreq 8.0 version of LM8.0. However, when the system boots it hangs on the bring up eth0. Is there a way to start the system without it trying to bring up eth0? I have a Linksys network adapter. My computer is a AMD-K6-2 500MHz, 386MB RAM, and an FIC VA-503+ MOBO. Thanks, Michael Hall Mechanical Engineer Microsoft Certified Professional You could try an interactive startup (hold down the I key when it asks for it)
Re: [expert] Recommended Reading?
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 23:17, George Abdo wrote: Hello all, I am thinking of going into Linux/Unix in a more serious manner (leading to certification). Can you recommend reference books that are handy as a system admin reference. Also, for those who have done certification, would you recommend classroom training, or online/personal training? Thanks George Hi, Actually I got a lot out of the RHCE study guides (Mandrake's basic architecture is still closely related). The SAIR guides are a good start, I can't wait for the level 2 and level 3 books to come out (The Level 1's are a little basic) Most of all the books that worked for me were the ones by O'Reilly Runnig Linux and Network Administration are good basic groundings. After that, they have books on just about any specific facet. Most of the average books (Linux Unleashed, Linux Special Ed) were pretty dismal Another book I was fond of was Linux Servers 24x7...the level of information in it varies (some of it was pretty crappy) but it had a good bit on DNS Last but by no means least...never underestimate the fine work of the Linux Documentation Project as well as the on-system documentation. As far as training is concernedI did the RHCE course and did the examMy main reason for doing the course was as a brish-up to see if there was anything I'd missed in my reading binge - I did get something out of it, manly from the instructors anecdotes. Best training (for me at least) was self study. In those days I didn't have a spare ethernet card, so I was using VMware to simulate two pc's and (4 sometimes but that really thrashed it) and ran through all the networking possibilities and trying things. I was considering doing RedHats online Perl course (to see how it was and becasue I can never come up with ideas on what to write) but I got a job 6 months ago supporting win2000 so I'm currently studying the ways of the dark-side (Can't bring myself to load it on my home network though) Hope this helps Andrew
Re: [expert] kernel
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 23:58, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:43 -0600, Praedor S. Tempus wrote: On Monday 02 July 2001 09:33 pm, you wrote: [...] I have a working kernel. It's the plain kernel after the installation process is done. Now I'll have to compile a new kernel, more custimized to the hardware I have. The routine is easy: make mrproper make menuconfig included but it will not boot the new kernel. Instead, if you select your new kernel, you will get an error message about not being able to find the root device (because the default root=306 entry is nonsense). You would either need to add a boot parameter root=/dev/whatever your root is or boot up your old kernel and fix the lilo.conf problem. If you don't do the make install step at the end, then you will simply need to move the new kernel manually to your /boot directory and name it whatever you want. I know that, but what I mean is existing kernel = vmlinuz.1 existing modules = /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk Now I customize the kernel and will have: new kernel = vmlinuz.2 existing modules = /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk.old new modules = /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk When I boot the new kernel it's ok. But what happens when I boot vmlinuz.1? It will look for the modules and take the modules from /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk. This will result in some nice error messages b/c this set of modules is installed for vmlinuz.2 wobo Oh that...err, I usually go into the make file and change the minor version so the new modules are not going to be installed into a directory called 2.4.3-20mdk Andrew
Re: [expert] Tape Backup
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 08:36, DStevenson wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 15:16, David E. Fox wrote: backup in order to re-instate my old system from tape. I would always backup the directories /root and /home, but if I restored say /usr, would I have all my old programs again...this is what I would like, but is this correct. Yeah, unless something went wrong, you'd have the old stuff still there. You'd at a minimum want to backup /home, /etc, /usr/local and other places where you'd typically make changes after the system is installed (a reinstall shouldn't touch /home or anything under /usr/local, but it certainly might put system defaults into /etc.) If any of you are using tape drives...what systems do you use. I've had a 2gb (not a whole lot for today's standards) 4mm DAT tape for a few years. During the time I've used it, I've tried a few different methods. I gave BRU and Arkeia a spin, thought they were pretty good. I tried Perfect Backup, which is pretty much a look feel clone of the old DOS Fastback Plus program (which is what I used to use when I had Windows). Unfortunately, I couldn't get the dmn thing to restore, so out it went. I've pretty much settled on tar and/or dump. Tar is pretty much the easier of the two, but dump isn't all too difficult either. The one important thing is that your data should be easily restorable. For most (especially X-based) backup systems, that means nearly a complete reinstall of the system plus the backup software, whilst tar/dump/restore can be put on a rescue floppy. I am using tar at the moment...is this the best choice? I can retrieve single files this way, but is there alternatives? Yes, but slowly. It's ok for select directories but if you are trying to resture a single file you might have to slog through the tape to get to it. Some of the alternative ones have waysto speed this process up: they can put index files on the tape, for instance. restore (the companion to dump) has a neat interactive shell where you can see what's on the tape, change directories, etc. The tape unit size is 14Gig, but this is with compression of 2:1, how do I get this compression, do I have to tar -zcvf for example. Is this a bad idea though? The drive might have a jumper you can set to enable compression - at least IIRC there's one on my HP DAT. But I would advise against compressing the whole stream, since a bit error in the middle can make the rest unusable. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Thanks for the tips, I have now installed the dump rpm and will set about learning how to use it. I have looked at some of the software you mentioned, but it was way way overkill for my humble peer to peer linux network. Thanks again, Dave. Out of curosity...has anyone been using dump with a reiser fs? The reason I'm asking is I just looked at the first line of the man page and that made me wonder Andrew
[expert] Supermount not supermounting?
Hi, I've got a problem after Freqing my 8.0 install If I've got a CDROM in the drive at boot, it mounts OK, But if I try to change the CD I get the following shoing in my logs Jul 2 00:01:58 darkwing kernel: cdrom: open failed. Jul 2 00:01:58 darkwing kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 An earlier message that may be relevant is Jul 2 00:01:00 darkwing kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media. Meanwhile KFM shows the ever-popular locked folder. I checked the symlink, and device permissions, and fstab/mtab...can't see a problem Any thoughts anyone? Andrew
Re: [expert] Supermount not supermounting?
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:39, Oscar wrote: I had the same problem. Here is my fix: My original fstab (CDROM and FLOPPY lines only) after upgrading: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 With this configuration I had the same problem as you. I writed to this list and Steve Kieu wrote: I would suggest you check the /etc/fstab ; may be some *stupid* :-) configuration tool modify it and it is not right. But the lines he writes don't work, but gives me an idea: I done this sequence: - supermount -i disable - supermount -i enable And with some minor changes I had a correct lines in fstab for cdrom and floppy (but incorrect for windows partitions, but, hey, I solved it with my backup copy of fstab :-) And now, the correct lines for cdrom and floppy (in my system): /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermountfs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,nosuid,nodev 0 0 Salu2 Oscar. -- El Dom 01 Jul 2001 16:05, escribiste: Thanks I've noticed the problem goes away when I use the 'old' mdk 8.0 kernel (2.4.3-20mdk) and using the old kernel actually fixes some iptables problems I'm having (as well as a usb crash) so I think I'll stick with that Andrew
Re: [expert] Using GDM
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 03:31, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: That dosent do the trick on my LM 8.0freq So sprach Lars Roland Kristiansen am Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:57:00PM +0200: where can i change the loginmanager from KDM to GDM Type GNOME in /etc/sysconfig/desktop Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 0 hours 30 minutes ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Umm...I think that should be DESKTOP=GNOME
Re: [expert] Help please: file size limit exceeded
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:15, s wrote: Hi all, I sure could use some help. As the subject states this is my problem on my gateway machine. I have used reiserfs and interactive bastille. I tried to reconfigure bastille and told it not limit number of process and I put 'ulimit -f unlimited' in my /etc/profile file (per the only english suggestion I could find on google). This occurs when I try to su to root (pretty important task for me). I can still open other apps and even log in as root and do stuff, but not su to root (is the only thing I've identified as a problem as of yet). Anyone know how I can fix this, even at the risk of giving up a tad of security? TIA, -s Yep, had the same problem two weeks ago if you look in /etc/security/limits.conf you'll find a line at the bottom that says * hard fsize 10 put a # in front of the line to disable it and your laughing
Re: [expert] GNU-Cash nightmare..... Pls Help me out .
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:17, Steve Kieu wrote: Hi, It is really a nightmare. I downloaded gnugnucash-1.6.0-1.i586.rpm from gnucash site and happy to see that it is packaged for LM 8.0; Install it using rpm, after satisfying all dependancies ; But when I start gnucash it says: about not defined PYTHONHOME bla bla..; I search and find that many people having the same and I did try to compile guppi with the hope that I could --disable-python in guppi But when I configure the source Guppi 0.35.5 I got the error message checking for GDK_PIXBUF - version = 0.8.0... yes checking for GnomeCanvasPixbuf libraries = 0.8.0... Unknown library `print' configure: error: You need at least GNOME Canvas Pixbuf 0.8.0 for this version of Guppi3 What should I do next? Thanks in advance. Hi This is all part of the dependancy extravaganza that is the current Gnucash release (and I've got a major fear that other gtk based apps might get their in future). All I can suggest, move over to Moneydance or start installing libraries and packages by the truckload (or even keep the existing version of gnucash perhaps?) Andrew
Re: [expert] / gets smaller and smaller !
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:01, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I just rebootd out server, and noticed something really odd. the root partition was full before the reboot, showing 100% in use, and no free sectors in "df" . After reboot, it says its only 20% full (!) but I noticed that its creeping back up, its now at 38%, and free sectors decreasing! The machine has Mandrake 7.1 on it, and has 5 disks - 2 IDE, 3 SCSI. The SCSI disks are mounted to the root partition, like mount /dev/sda1 /scsi1 mount /dev/sdb1 /scsi2 mount /dev/sdc1 /scsi3 Any ideas? Many thanks, -turgut Just a thought, but a reboot usually clears /tmp files (can't remeber when Mandrake started with that, I noticed it in 7.-point-something though). If /tmp is mounted under root maybe something is writing there? Another thought is have you got the mother of all logging happening (webserver, squid, etc) and the cron job at startup is rotating it out
Re: [expert] duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog
oops, forgot to cc the list -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:13:43 +1000 From: Andrew George [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jesus Roncero [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:50, you wrote: I get this message: -- Mensaje Reenviado -- Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:40:43 +0200 (CEST) From: root@terminus (Anacron) To: root@terminus error: syslog:181 duplicate log entry for /var/log/syslog --- ¿Any Idea? Umm...in logrotate.conf if you scroll through the whole file, you'll notice that syslog has two entries Andrew ---
Re: [expert] File Size Limit exceeded
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:49, Andrew George wrote: Hi, Anyone seen this happen before? [andrew@darkwing andrew]$ su Password: File size limit exceeded [andrew@darkwing andrew]$ df shows plenty of free space and it only seem to be affecting this user in a graphical console? any ideas? Andrew Figured it out/etc/security/limits.conf had a limit of 100mb and that user has 190mb. Odd that it picked that way to tell me about it though Andrew
[expert] File Size Limit exceeded
Hi, Anyone seen this happen before? [andrew@darkwing andrew]$ su Password: File size limit exceeded [andrew@darkwing andrew]$ df shows plenty of free space and it only seem to be affecting this user in a graphical console? any ideas? Andrew
Re: [expert] cute RPM output..
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:47, you wrote: [root@tk-laptop RPMS2]# rpm -e kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm error: package kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm is not installed [root@tk-laptop RPMS2]# rpm -i kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm package kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk is already installed now what :) -t try rpm --rebuilddb just for laughs Andrew
Re: [expert] compile errors for plex86 on Mabdrake 8.0
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 23:52, you wrote: I am far from being any kind of compiling guru. In attempting to compile plex86 on my Mandrake 8.0 machine, I get the following errors: x.cc:21:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory x.cc:22:23: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory x.cc:23:21: X11/Xos.h: No such file or directory x.cc:24:23: X11/Xatom.h: No such file or directory x.cc:25:24: X11/keysym.h: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [x.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/hoyt/Downloads/plex86/plex86-kevin/user/plugins/bochs/gui' make[3]: *** [gui/libgui.a] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hoyt/Downloads/plex86/plex86-kevin/user/plugins/bochs' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hoyt/Downloads/plex86/plex86-kevin/user/plugins' make[1]: *** [ALL] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hoyt/Downloads/plex86/plex86-kevin/user' make: *** [all] Error 2 Obviously, I need some headers for X.. What file contains these? Thanks, XFree86-devel-4.0.3-7mdk on my 8.0 box
Re: [expert] SYS MAIL
On Mon, 28 May 2001 09:43, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: On Mon, 28 May 2001, Chris Spackman wrote: On my machine, it is postfix. Make sure it is running. The only change i had to make was to get roots mail delivered to my normal account. That was an option in one of the postfix config file (in /etc/postfix/ iirc). It says something like: # who gets roots mail # root = marc uncomment, change the name and you are set. can also put in in /etc/postfix/aliases. Or /etc/aliases (they are symlinked) for postfix don't forget to run postailias /etc/postfix/aliases to that the changes make it into the hash tables postfix uses Andrew
Re: [expert] vmnet1 ?
On Thu, 17 May 2001 12:09, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! If i do a ifconfig i get i'm running eth0, lo and... vmnet1 ?! Samba doesn't start because of vmnet1 is working... and i don't know how to stop it (nor what it is for). Note: I'm configuring everything manually, because DrakConf says that after 15 seconds network configuration hasn't started 8-? Thanks! VMNET is how it reports the VMware bridge interface, you should be able to close it down by looking for appropriate lines in /etc/rc.local
[expert] error during compile
Hi, stumped again (seems to be the story of my life recently) I keep getting the following error message when I try to build a source /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I tried to look up libldb1 at rpmfind...but didn't have much luckanyone know what I've missed?
[expert] Re: error during compile
On Thu, 10 May 2001 22:46, you wrote: Hi, stumped again (seems to be the story of my life recently) I keep getting the following error message when I try to build a source /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I tried to look up libldb1 at rpmfind...but didn't have much luckanyone know what I've missed? Never mind...found it...thought I'd already installed db1-dev - Doh Andrew
Re: [expert] reiserfs
On Mon, 7 May 2001 06:28, you wrote: Hi I use reiserfs, but when i compiled the kernel i couldent bot Mandrake any more... It was something about couldent mount root fs.. Hmm what did i wrong..i dident find anything about reiserfs when i compiled Tommi After you compile the Kernel and install it, do a mkinitrd (look at the man page for the syntax). You can't boot from reiser directly Andrew
[expert] Jpilot in MDK8
Heres a cute one I just figured out Jpilot version .99 shipped with MDK8 jpilot-syncmal plugin 0.52 shipped with mdk8.0 However on the syncmal site...you can find the ever popular line of synchmal version 0.60 or greater is required for Jpilot .99 D'Oh Andrew
Re: [expert] 8.0: cannot boot into Linux after the install
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:06, Kevin Tambascio wrote: I have tried three times to install 8.0 on a box that previously ran 7.2. The only difference is that I am installing to the second IDE harddrive instead of the first, nothing else has changed. Here is what my system looks like: Dell PII-450 20 GB Quantum HD RIVA 128 TNT Video Card 128 MB Ram Linksys 10/100 eth card The install works fine, and I set up linux partitions like this: / - ~12 GB, reiserFS /home - ~8 GB, resiser /swap - 400 MB, swap When I reboot for the first time, and anytime after that, during the Aurora bootup, it says Starting X Font Server, and it just hangs for ever. Had something similarthe problem was that VNCServer needs a password to start., it kicks off right after XFS and dosn't pop up on Aroura until after it's successfully started If you've installed VNCServer, do a single user boot and either play with VNC's config file or stop it starting at boot time Andrew
[expert] Registering Plugins in Konquerer
Dumb question.. I recently put the shockwave application into Netscape, then looked at the KDE manual to find out how to get Konquerer to use it. The kde manual suggests go into Preferences/web-browsing from the K menu, then select plugins and push the button marked scan. Thats a cool idea...but it isn't happening (K menu dosn't have a preferences - I think Mandrake is using their own)...KDE control and Konquerers prefs have a web browsing secion, but the only option there is to enable plugins globally Have I missed an easy one or is this something that won't see the light of day until KDE 2.2? Andrew
Re: [expert] Install Works, kernel panic on boot
I think (suspect) the problem is with the Promise controller I've got an A7V that is running MDK8.0 with reiser and isn't having much troubleMy drives are connected through the ata66 controller onboard instead of the onboard ATA100 controller Andrew On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:34, Charles A Edwards wrote: Civlieme The problem I had with booting the 8.0 final using the 2.4.3-20 kernel and the ASUS A7V only occurred if I used the ReiserFS for all partitions. When I use an Ext2 /boot I have no problem booting or running 8.0 All hds on the 2 A7V systems (3on 1, 2 on the other) are connected to the onboard Promise ATA100 controller and I have the lastest BIOS update which is from 3/2001. Are you saying that I should not be able to use this kernel, or, that I will never be able to use a later kernel. Charles -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Install Works, kernel panic on boot Some folks mentioned this problem, and had it disappear when they upgraded their AMD BIOS (There was a hardware bug) Others have the Plug-In board from Maxtor or Promise (both use the same chipset, and so does the ASUS A7V. Kernel 2.4.3-ac5 or later does not work with this chipset. The chipset was never developed fore anything but windows and no support for linux, not even information, was ever released. The result is that in fixing known bugs and adhering to the specs for ATA/100, the linux kernel team has created kernels that do not support this chipset. 7.2 and 8.0 beta 1 and RedHat 7.1 (without an upgraded kernel) seem to work with this Promise Ultra-2 Mass Storage Chip with varying degrees of success. Others do _NOT_. If you have just purchased the board, return it immediately to the place of purchase, or use it as intended, as a winIDE controller. Civileme
[expert] MDK 8 and kernel useage
HI, Just wondering, I installed MDK 8 on a spare partition and took it for a test drive. Overall it didn't look to bad, but I noticed that cpu usage seemed pretty high Anyone know if thats from the 2.4.3 Kernel or something gaga with the various monitoring tools? (K system monitor acted really bizzarlythree processes at 99% Kernel usage) Thanks Andrew
Re: [expert] MDK 8 and kernel useage
Thanks Phew! Andrew On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 07:26, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi The process that takes about 50% cpu all the time (that is when the computer is resting) is kapm-idled. I also was alarmed when I saw that the first time, so I searched for it in the kernel mailing list and I've learned that this is an idle process (some unix kernels use this method but until now not linux). the 'bug' here is a cosmetic one. in order to figure out how 'idle' is your computer you have to add the kapm-idled cpu with the idle cpu (on the third row in 'top'). On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:18:08AM +1000, Andrew George wrote: HI, Just wondering, I installed MDK 8 on a spare partition and took it for a test drive. Overall it didn't look to bad, but I noticed that cpu usage seemed pretty high Anyone know if thats from the 2.4.3 Kernel or something gaga with the various monitoring tools? (K system monitor acted really bizzarlythree processes at 99% Kernel usage) Thanks Andrew Bye
Re: [expert] Samba Gotcha
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:05, Daryl Johnson wrote: I've run into one of the Samba gotchas which is to say I am using samba as the pdc on my linux box. The Win 95 client is perfectly happy with this. I have a win NT4 client though that refuses to log on to the domain on account of the net logon service failing to start. Does anyone have a workaround for this or am I limited to waiting for Samba v3 Umm...you have done all the encrypted/cleartext password stuff when you set up Samba? ie...which did you do...told NT to run Clear passwords or told 95 to run encrypted?
Re: [expert] Samba Gotcha
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:11, Chris Slater-Walker wrote: The last time I looked (Samba 2.07) it was _not_ capable of functioning as a PDC or BDC for NT/Win2000 clients - only Win9x. I think you will find that this functionality is due for release with Samba 2.1 Chris Slater-Walker Err...2.0.7 will function well as a PDC for anything before w2k, with the exception that it can't replicate the database (so it can't act as a BDC or talk to any BDC's). Samba TNG and 2.2 can act as a PDC on win2k - Original Message - From: "Daryl Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 9:05 AM Subject: [expert] Samba Gotcha I've run into one of the Samba gotchas which is to say I am using samba as the pdc on my linux box. The Win 95 client is perfectly happy with this. I have a win NT4 client though that refuses to log on to the domain on account of the net logon service failing to start. Does anyone have a workaround for this or am I limited to waiting for Samba v3 regards Daryl Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates
Re: [expert] Building an install floppy
Ok, If I understand it you want to build your own installer and install your own set of packages. You can do this with debian (Maybe), Mandrake and Redhat...Bad news is you cant do it the same way with any of them. Mandrake has a fairly good howto on http://www.linux-mandrake.com/drakx/auto_inst.html Redhat has some docs on it's site...look for any references to Anaconda What you are going to want to do (I think) is make up a package set, including build an RPM for your new kernel, set up all the install options and cut your disk. If you want to set up a specialised CD, your also going to have to build a package list Hope this is what your after On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:27, David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: I'm still apparently having difficulty making myself clear. Support for what kind of device I need in my install kernel is immaterial, because the basic problem is that I don't know hat needs to go into the image beside the kernel itself. It's obvious that beside the kernel, there is some kind of install program that gets executed. Whether that install program is part of the image on the install floppy, or whether it's a program executed from the CD is unclear to me. So, you see, my problem is still as I stated it in my original post: Is there a HOW-TO or other instruction on how to build an install floppy with a kernel you've built yourself? I'm, looking for generic instructions, if possible, not something related to a particular distribution. I'd like to be able to install any distribution from any CD, but using a kernel I've built to support particular devices. Thanks in advance for any enlightenment on the subject - Original Message - From: "FreezeR" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "David C. Hoos, Sr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 27, 2001 12:15 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Building an install floppy On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: Maybe I should have said it this way: I need to be able to create my own image file with support for different devices may i know...what kind of different device do you mean ?? as i know there are few devices for installing the LM from the image file network, cdrom, hd, pcmcia, etc.. than those that come in any of the standard image files. did you have your own image file ?? did u make your self ?? well if you did...you can use fips or rawwrite too... just load your image when it's ask for the image file Am I yet making myself clear? perhaps...
Re: [expert] ppp0 script
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:57, Steve Young wrote: can anyone recommend a good script for bring ppp0 up? -- registered linux user #190334 How about using the sample scripts included with ppp look in /usr/share/doc/ppp-xx/scripts (x is the version number of course) Andrew
Re: [expert] ppp0 script
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:39, Steve Young wrote: ifup ppp0 Failed to activate ppp0 with error 32 it's broke thats whats wrong with it, and i haven't been able to figure out what is wrong with it Hmm...you might want to look at the parameters in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
Re: [expert] highest inode number
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:00, Pierre Fortin wrote: Dawid Michalczyk wrote: Since I'm going to have many, many *small* files on a 15GB partition, I was wondering if one can actually run out of inode numbers, and thus be left with unused space. So my question is: what is the maximum amount of files one can have under ext2fs? Yes. man mke2fs Pierre The other thing is that the overheads on a 15 gig partition running dense inodes can be prohibitive Andrew
Re: [expert]
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 05:59, Collins Richey wrote: Some questions 1) Is there any documentation anywhere about the processes that Mandrake chooses to start via the init scripts - reason for being, sequencing, etc.? The scripts are the standard sysV scripts, I havn't actually run across a beginning linux book (and I read a few when I was starting out) that dosn't go though the init process ad-nauseum. The only thing I've ever seen documentation a bit light on is where /etc/sysconfig comes into it 2) What is the recommended procedure for shutting down the starting of some of the processes without permanently removing them in case I want them again later? On other distributions, there's usually an ONBOOT=YES/No in the scripts to do this. If you prefer a graphical interface, theres Drakconf, Linuxconf, tksysV, or Ksysv The command line offers a powerful tool called chkconfigread the man page for all the things you can do with it..I always prefer that becasue it's simple, fast and works. 3) on Beta 8.0 there appears to be a complete duplication of scripts in /etc/init.d and /etc/rc.d/init.d. Why? Havn't seen 8.0 but as a guess they would be symlinks (like in MDK 7.2) where /etc/init.d is symlinked to /etc/rc.d/init.d This is to comply with LSB requirements, allow older RPM's to still install correctly and lets Mandrake users install redhat RPM's :) Hope this helps Andrew
Re: [expert] RE: PMfirewall...
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 06:06, Franki wrote: Hi all, I installed PMfirewall yesterday and it went flawlessly, just answered the questions and off it went,, they have done great in that respect... however, upon setting up the server, I noticed a heap of ipchains errors, like this: Feb 19 09:50:31 gshop1 pmfirewall: Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or SNIP As you can see, at the end it says it suceeded.. so I don't know what that is all about, It is set to autodetect the IP address, and at the time it starts ppp0 isn't up,, could that be the problem? Sounds Likely, and if your starting it at boot then most of the IP based stuff on the ppp0 interface won't be right when you start your dialup. It depends what your interested in firewalling. if it's just ppp0 that your concerned about, I'd be inclined to move the PMFirewall startup from rc.local to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local that way it starts right after the ppp interface comes up. If your interested in covering your ppp and eth interfaces from boot. What I did was get PM firewall started (with the ppp0 interface up), write down the ipchains rules and amend them to use the ppp0 interface rather than it's ip address (soembody probably has a better answer) and run an ipchains script (getting rid of PMFirewall) Andrew
Re: [expert] recommendations for LM
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 07:16, goldengull.net administrator wrote: i'm not sure where do post this, or email it to. i have some comments about postfix, which ships with LM7.2 it should contain a series of sample files that ship with the source, but not with postfix for mandrake. one file is "sample-virtual.cf" which explains the process of maintaining virtual hosts in postfix. any reason why they were omitted from LM7.2? whoever maintains the RPM/package for mandrake should consider putting these sample files back in. cheers! mg umm.../usr/share/doc/postfix-19991231_p108/sample (at least thats where that file was installed by the package on my system) Andrew
[expert] Grub'ing to init 1
Hi, Was helping a friend install Mdk today on an old laptop and had a slight problemhe didn't know his root password (long story involving an arcserve license, another guy, and trying to log a call to IBM technical support). No problem thought (when we got back to the laptop) I, just do a linux single boot to runlevel 1. Then I discovered he'd installed GRUB instead of LILO (I'm a confirmed LILO user) and discovered I didn't know how to get to init 1 via GRUB Eventually we reinstalled, he was happy but it's got me curious. I couldn't find anything in the documentation. How do you boot to single user mode via GRUB? Andrew
Re: [expert] Lovely...no sound with the latest kde2.1- and kcontrol is STILL dicked up
KDE 2.1 had a bit of a change in the sound system...it's now a seperate package (arts-2.1-0.20010118.1mdk) as well as a library package. The fun thing is that this package is new, so if you upgraded by doing an rpm -F *.rpm than it won't be installed. Likewise, if you only downloaded packages starting kde, you missed it Hope this helps Andrew On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 06:18, you wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, s wrote: I, too, lost sound when going over to the latest KDE - it worked perfectly well with the old version. As a result I started looking closely at other window managers. I found XFCE3 - sound great - much quicker too use and much kinder to system resources = much happier me. Stephen I think it's just you. Mine is great, working the way it should have before. I can have system event sounds and still get game sounds or cd sounds immediately after. I think each machine has it's own unique problems. My windows are not maximized when called up from the taskbar. Must manually maximize each time. I've heard other say they have this problem while others don't. Go figure. -s On Monday 29 January 2001 05:11 am, you wrote: Is it just me or is the newest kde2.1beta screwed for sound? I installed the new kde2.1 and viola! No more sound! Artsd will not start, there are no system sounds. Beyond that, kcontrol still wont work right. It starts with the blank selection window. There is nothing to do with it. I am so frickin' tired of having to delete my .kderc file and .kde/ directory in attempts to get things working the way they are supposed to. For god's sake, IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T "FIX" IT! Don't f*ck with the sound system in the new kde's - it did work and didn't need to be "tweaked" or "improved".
Re: [expert] Palm IIIxe
Make sure you've got the pilot-link package installed :) On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 06:56, you wrote: Yes, I have no problem syncing my IIIc at 115,200 bps in Linux Mandrake 7.2 -- provided I use the pilot-xfer program at the command line. I've had no luck with either jpilot or kpilot, and I haven't bothered trying Gnome-Pilot. Pilot-xfer does everything I need so I haven't pursued the problems with other apps. First, I'd suggest determining whether you really do have a flaky serial port. Then read the INSTALL doc in /usr/share/doc/jpilot-0.98.1 which tells you how to set up the serial port and permissions (although it sounds like you're on the right track there). Then print out the man page for pilot-xfer. Everything you need to know is right there. Once you're able to sync with pilot-xfer, you'll know that any further problems you have using jpilot or Gnome-Pilot are with those apps and not with your basic configuration. It's hard to troubleshoot when there so many variables. M. On Saturday 27 January 2001 11:20, you wrote: I have been trying for nearly a month now to get my Palm Pilot to sync with Linux. I have had absolutely no luck at all. I can get it to sync with a Windows system but that isn't the point. I use Linux for 99% of my work and I need to sync with my linux applications. I believe I may have one bad serial port on my computer. I have tried using both of them, adjusting BIOS settings as well as file permissions on /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1. I have also run the setserial program in hopes of making things work but with no luck. Has anyone successfully synced their Palm using the cradle with Linux Mandrake 7.2? I would appreciate any help. I have all of the latest updates and I'm attempting to use both jpilot and the Gnome Palm utilities. Thanks in advance.
Re: [expert] Trying to download mail from a server running postfix
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 03:35, you wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Christian A Strmmen [Number1/NumeroUno] wrote: - I've setup postfix on a mdk 7.2 server but I'm having problems downloading - mails from it, when I try to download via fetchmail I get: - snap - [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail -p POP3 -u number1 borg.deltacomputers.no - Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - 1 message for number1 at borg.deltacomputers.no (768 octets). - reading message 1 of 1 (768 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost - failed - fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from borg.deltacomputers.no - fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP) - /snap - - Anybody got a clue what might be wrong or what logs I should look at to find - it out ? - - Do I have to setup something in the postfix configs to allow downloading of - mail? Your config as installed should be able to handle sending mail and local delivery. I postfix running? Like sendmail it can send mail from a command line but has to be listening on port 25 to handle local delivery. Since you are getting a connection failure, that is my best first guess. Use "ps ax | grep postfix" to see if it is running. If not, as root do "/etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start" Umm...whats fetchmail fetching the mail to? That looks more like an error you get when fetchmail can't find a local mailsystem to hand what it's getting to. just a thought Andrew
Re: [expert] More on Menus
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:44, you wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2001 02:02, you wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2001 10:31 am, you wrote: For those of you who don't have extensve edits to try to merge, I omitted the following lines from my earlier post inadvertantly. In a terminal # menudrake --ecit-system-menu should do what you want, but it does it for all users. Civileme I just tried that a couple days ago. It worked like you said - but - that broke the control panel. My control panel can't access any of it's menu items now. As of a matter of fact it doesn't come up with any menu items at all. The left window is completely blank. I've tried to fix it but I can't. How do I fix it ??? Kelley Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, the simple way to fix the control panel is linux 3 at boot login as the user with the broken control panel $ rm -r ~/.kde -f $ startx and use .gnome instead if it is the gnome panel you refer to. more complicated is $ su - password: # updatedb # rpm --rebuilddb # update-menus log out and back in Civileme Nope...dosn't work (at least with the KDE 2.1 stuff - which I know is unsupported). What I noticed (after blowing away my .kde several times) is that any menu entries via menudrake or the menu editor item on control panel basically trashes the kcontrol the items are still runnable from a command line (with a bit of tweaking) Andrew
Re: [expert] sharing swap
Slackware yes Solaris probably (havn't used it so I'm not sure) FreeBSD I don't think so, The impression I get is BSD slices aren't exactly partitions (could be wrong)...I never saw any definitive doco either way (and never got around to looking at the Partition table of an installed BSD system) Sorry I can't be more help On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:37, you wrote: Hello can anyone tell me i use 1 harddirve to dual boot for both redat / mandrake so can i use the same swap parttion for both of them if yes does it implies for other linux/unix flavours ? e.g FreeBSD Solaris , Slackware . thanks Faisal
Re: [expert] linux and ghost 2001
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:34, you wrote: sorry for sending this again, but it seems i lost my subscribtion from the list , could be been when our domain at work was being switched from one service to another an waiting on info to update in the net routers. if anyone responded could you send me them again, thanks jack I'm fixing to upgrade my linux box hd to a bigger one, going from a 6.4 gig to a 10 gig drive.I noticed that ghost wanted to expand the partitions that i had setup when it copied the old drive to new one. I'm wondering if this will work an how safe will it be. Any thing that I should lookout for when i try to boot off of the new drive. Known problem with the latest version of Ghost...I think there was a review about it on Linux Today earlier this week.
Re: [expert] yet another /usr/sbin/update-alternatives problem
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:15, you wrote: Grrr... in order for this to work, I have to find a menu of 2.1.29 first because apparently rpm is IGNORING my --force command so I can install one and then the other (menu and rpm, co dependant and a pain in the ass), suggestions? am I using --force wrong? rpm -Uvh --force -Uvh package name err shouldn't that be rpm -Uvh --force packagename ?
Re: [expert] 256K ADSL line user capacity
Well what I usually do in this case is:- Line speed = 256 Kbit/sec Page size = 150 kbytes = 1200 Kbit so max number of hits per sec = 256/1200 = 0.21 = 12 hits per minute (MAXIMUM) It depends on the pages from there...and how often each user will hit the site by requesting a page.. This is only rough, I usually halve it for operational work, and it only involves the pipe itself, though 12 hits/min is fairly low as webservers go. Another point...ADSL is Asynchronous, I'm assuming you've got something like a 256k uplink and an 1024 downlink If it's a 256K downlink then it's probably a 64k uplink...which means your down to 4 hits a minute. Hope this helps Andrew On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:59, you wrote: Hi, I have a web server and a 256 ADSL line at home. How can I calculate the amount of users that my server can serv? Let's suggest that the average size of a page is 150K. Probably it don't depends on the server because the line seems to be the bottleneck. Any link would be appreciated... Br, Steve
Re: [expert] RPM updates
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:04, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2001 10:06 pm, you wrote: On Mandrake's website, for each rpm update, it states to use rpm -Fvh *.rpm If you use that for a large quantity of rpm files, as I just tested, it works just fine. rpm -Fvh *.rpm Thanks What is the "F" for? Freshen, it goes through all the files matching the wildcard (in this case any rpms in the directory) and if the RPM is newer than the one installed on your system it installs it.. It's handy for when you've got a directory full of RPM's and don't know which ones are Upgrades (like an FTP archive for example), oh thats another thing, it also works over FTP/HTTP and (from memory but I can't find it documented) NFS...very handy if your mirroring an archive and then running an FTP server on your network which you can upgrade all the workstations on. For less ambitious setups...you can download all your RPM's to one spot and then use Freshen to update without specifying which RPM's your interested in (or can't be bothered). The gotcha is (of course there is one) that RPM dosn't handle dependancy problems that well and you can run the command and just get a screenfull of broken dependancy links thrown back at you for your trouble Hope this helps Andrew
Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 20010115 - observed problem solution
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:17, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. As root, open /usr/lib/menu/ksysctrl 2. Change 'needs="x11"' to '"needs="kde"' 3. save 4. run update-menus, or use the graphical interface menudrake 5. enjoy! Regards, Michel Salim Hmm, I seem to recall that that was frowned upon in the update-menus doco I read (mind you that was MDK 7.1). Safer option (for the paranoid) would be to copy /usr/lib/menu/ksysctrl to /etc/menu/ and then proceed as above
Re: [expert] Linux worm...?
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:23, you wrote: that's good to know. I too hope that Mandrake has something to say about this. Theres a fairly good analysis of the worm at http://members.home.net/dtmartin24/ramen_worm.txt Note a few key points. -It's targeted for RH 6.2 and 7.0 -It's using exploits that were several months old -The involved applications have all had security updates when the race conditions were revealed by both RH and MDK -It's a fairly obvious rootkit (/usr/src/.poop) - It actually closes the hole it came in on!!! As ever...do your security updates and keep smiling Andrew
Re: [expert] More on the Gnapster thing
Downloaded lopster from freshmeat and compiled it last night...works a treat (actually seemed to work better than gnapster) Andrew On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:47, you wrote: On Monday 15 January 2001 04:04 pm, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote: ** Reply to message from Laurent Duperval Just now I was trying to get gnapster to work and I got a popup saying that I have an invalid password. Seems as though my user isn't registered to the service... Hmmm... That happens from time to time. Last time for me was a coup'la months ago. Problem seems to be Napster's Same here with Gnapster as of five minutes ago. I saw here that knapster was still working, but that link is dead at freshmeat. There's a mdk rpm on any /contrib mirror knapster-0.13-1mdk is what I have.
Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 04:58, you wrote: On Mon Jan 15, 2001 at 08:40:23AM -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote: I was on with Gnapster last night myself, so it seems to be working here. You could try logging in a few times - Napster uses dns round robin for loab balancing, so if one of the servers was down a timeout could occur that may not happen the next time you try. Just tried connecting six times right now. It connects and then disconnects. No reason, but I can't maintain a connection. =( Hmmm... Makes me think that unless you have an "approved" client, you'll get kicked out. That would be a bummer. If that's the case, then they must have just implemented it because this was working about 3 weeks ago. Jerks. =( Having the same problem with Gnapsteroddly when I user KopenNap (KDE2.1) it worked - hassle is KOpenNap is a little ugly to use right now (IMO) YMMV
Re: [expert] (Dumb question time) to improve the yield from my sendmail
Hi I think you did something gaga when you used it last time, Postfix delivers to /var/spool/mail/Username and I've never had a hassle with using pine with it. Tom's got a very good article on setting it up at Mandrake-User.org, theres also a very nice howto on the Redhat site (which put me on to sender-canonical maps). Most of the time it will work straight out of the box and only need a bit of config tweaking. Andrew On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 05:04, you wrote: Sorry for the dumb questions. I once tried postfix and I think I must have cocked it up horribly. It was the version from Mandrake 6.0 or 6.1 I think, does the new version work better or did I schplum something up when setting it all up? What happened was, I noticed that pine and any other e mail app would not be able to pick up e mail, does the mail arrive in /var/spool/mail as in sendmail or another folder and is it in the same plain text format? Where might I have gibbled up the config for postfix, as I would like to try it again and see if I can have a little newer running system and make some improvements, and what would be a safe way to migrate from sendmail to postfix without losing any mails? Many thanks for your patience. Vic On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How? Replace it with Postfix. I believe 7.2 COMES with postfix, and if not, its easy to compile. Almost scary easy. Really, sendmail contains so much legacy code that it's become a bloated, insecure horrible horrible service. Postfix is MUCH faster (you should be able to push a million email a day on that box of yours), and its easy to configure. If you can configure apache, then you can do postfix.
Re: [expert] /usr/sbin/update-alternatives
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:56, Tib wrote: I'm trying to compile a program and it's complaining that my standard gcc can't compile executables. I installed ecgs c++ and running ./configure ends up still giving the same error. So I try installing the gcc update, but it says it requires /usr/sbin/update-alternatives... um I can't find an rpm for that. EOL Tib [root@darkwing andrew]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/update-alternatives rpm-3.0.5-27mdk [root@darkwing andrew]# Hope that helps Andrew
Re: [expert] /usr/sbin/update-alternatives
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 23:06, Tib wrote: [sigh] hate to be a pain on this, but even for THAT it wants more and I'm not exactly with rpm yet. Help again? :] [root@unica seq]# rpm -ivh rpm-3.0.5-27mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libbz2.so.1 is needed by rpm-3.0.5-27mdk menu 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-27mdk EOL Tib well the package for the bz2 library is bzip2-1.0.1-6mdk on my system Menu's up to 2.1.5-42mdk from memory (when I was upgrading bz2 on 7.1) I wound up doing an install and not an upgrade because there was some dependancies breaking (but it was a while ago so that could be wrong) Andrew
[expert] Unattended installs
Ages ago...(I think it was 7.0 days) I came across some mandrake documentation on how to create an unattended install disk for mandrake. Since then I've lost the link (of course). Can anyone point me to any information about doing unattended installs...from memory is was run the installer and select "Make install disk" at the end, but I'm curious about a couple of things and thought I'd better refresh my memory. Thanks Andrew
Re: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal
Don't think so...the tarball I installed created a linux directory and then looks like it linked everything under it correctly. Mine compiled OK without an error (havn't installed it yet...got sidetracked) Actually theres also a huge warning in the readme about the gcc version which makes me wonder Andrew On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 02:52, you wrote: I'm fairly certain the source has to be placed in /usr/src/linux for the symlinks within to work. Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Cannot make config for 2.4 kernal I've d/l'ed and decompressed the 2.4 Kernal to /root/linux. When I try to make config, it tells me "No such file or directory". What gives? I'm running LM7.2.
Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 16:46, you wrote: It's taken a little while, but I finally managed to get all the packages for KDE2.0.1 to install and it's running. However, there seems to be something missing. A program that I really came to know and love is gone. Kpm! It doesn't seem to be amongst the menu-living any longer. Is that the way it's supposed to be, or could there be something wrong with this installation of KDE? I noticed that (well with the 2.1 packages at least). The kpm packages are still there, but you need to do a menu-edit to get them back on the menu - Make sure you've configured everything you like that because using the menu editor will make kcontrol (the KDE Control centre) unusable (I forget the bug number but it's been reported to KDE's bug tracking system already). The only thing I miss is the kpm applet (which crashes on startup now). Hope this helps Andrew (PS scan your menus, from memory a few other old K-applications dissappear with the new packages as well, on the other hand -with 2.1 at least- some very nice things showed up :)
Re: [expert] CHMOD Question
Call me twisted... but whats wrong with using the -R switch? I thought thats what it was there for Andrew On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:27, Sevatio Octavio wrote: Yes, "chmod 0750 /directory/*" would work but... What if there were many directories in "/directory" and you wanted to chmod all the files in those directories at once? Seve Original Message On 1/4/01, 4:08:48 AM, jean-philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [expert] CHMOD Question: Sevatio Octavio wrote: From the Console: How do you chmod just the files in a directory tree without going into each directory? Seve "chmod 0750 /directory/*" should work HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~! Gois Jean-Philippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Systems information technology 22 Av Jean Mermoz B-6041 Gosselies
Re: [expert] 2.4 and ReiserFS
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 09:57, Tom Massey wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Vidyut Luther wrote: you can't have / as a reiserfs filesystem. everything else can be. If you go to the resierfs website, the install docs say so explicitly. You can have / as reiser, and you can do it with kernel 2.4. When compiling 2.4 just turn off 'High memory support' in the 'Processor type and features' section. Works for me anyway. I always thought the way around it was to make an initial ramdisk with mkinitrd Andrew
Re: [expert] 'Use hard drive optimizations' does what?
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 13:57, A V Flinsch wrote: On Thursday 21 December 2000 21:17, you wrote: So the burning question is: Does anybody have the hdparm command in their rc scripts or elsewhere??? I have the following at the end of rc.local # hdparm stuff echo -n "Harddrive optimizations" /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hdb /sbin/hdparm -c 1 -k 1 /dev/hde Oddly enough I discovered that even though I had a hdparm line in rc2.d, rc3.d and rc4.d...I had to add the line to rc.local to get it to work
Re: [expert]
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 09:57, you wrote: I see that kernel 2.2.18 has been released in final version. Has anyone tested an install of this kernel on mdk 7.2 yet? I'm debating on compiling it this evening, just to try out, any specific tips on how I could compile and install it without killing my existing kernel install? [...] Consider exactly what you are using before you do this...MDK and all of the distros backport a lot of stuff from the 2.3 kernels and patch heavily. All of that stuff is probably not going to be in 2.2.18. Andrew Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Kernel-linux won't mount reiser volumes
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:58, Stephen Boulet wrote: I installed the kernel-linus, only to have it panic on boot up since it couldn't mount the root partition, which is reiserfs. Anyone know how to solve this? Thanks! -- Stephen Don't know if Kernel-linus supports reiser (I always assumed that was a vanilla kernel) However, assuming it does, look at the man page for mkinitrd to make a ramdisk. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Use of make oldconfig while compiling a new kernel.
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:49, Mark Weaver wrote: But isn't the whole reason for compiling a new kernel so that you can "reconfigure" the kernel more to your liking and needs rather than having the new kernel configured exactly as the one you're currently running? Why even bother if you're going to have it look the same. It will be doing exactly the same thing. It is, but you've got to consider your starting point. 2 Possibilities :) Doing it with the kernel source from the distribution The kernel-source RPM only contains the default config that normally ships with vanilla kernels, so you grab the config file for the mandrake Kernel you happen to be currently running from the srpm package, copy it into the appropriate spot...and make changesyou don't have to try to figure out and emulate every line of Mandrake Kernel config, and you know that everything else your working with is going to work - its a lot easier (and less stressful) to just delete or add the bits your changing in make config than it is to go through every option (though I keep forgetting to change the subversion in the makefile). Using a new source Say 2.2.18 comes out and you don't feel like waiting for the RPM to be distributed. One of the great things about make oldconfig is if the configuration file dosn't match the source tree (due to new stuff being added or patches being removed) it updates the kernel config to match the new tree For example...a vanilla 2.2.18 source won't have reiser support, but almost all of Mandrakes configs do (the Mandrake kernel source has the reiser patch applied)..make oldconfig will zap the reiser section of the config file - needless to see, this can cause trouble if your really going over the top with what your using - as a check I usually keep a copy of the original config and then do a diff check between that and the config after make oldconfig. AG Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Any pointer to where the kernel SPEC file is?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 10:57, you wrote: There is nothing wrong with the MDK kernel. I have to recompile the kernel because of the WinModem in my boss' laptop. If you follow up on the WinModem HOWTO, it suggested the kernel re-compilation. If I want to get myself fire, I would suggest what sprach skidley said. Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach skidley am Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:44:02PM -0400: I hate kernel rpms and think thye shouln't exist as rpm, it sucks, get the tarball and do a "real" kernel compile. Any particular reason why you don't like the enhancements and bugfixes done by the Mdk people? Also, what's bad about using a compiled kernel that's also used by a lot of other people, and thus may create more bugreports? Alexander Skwar Grab the Kernel srpm and install it...it should have everythign you need -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjofDD4ACgkQlU43rLZfkqv2nwCfQEqMrduaHXE8W/PnltE9XDkg KycAn1Jj43K2po94COje4AHfDCt4Ifsq =Da0C -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Use of make oldconfig while compiling a new kernel.
Um...I think it's a little more complex than that (unless something changed in 7.2's kernel-source rpm) What I did was download the kernel srpm grab the config files out of that (forget where they are) copy the kernel config file of your choice to /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig make oldconfig Make xconfig (or menuconfig or config) to make any changes you like then go from there (note, I didn't include all the make clean make mr proper stuff) Andrew On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:31, you wrote: Ok here's how it works. You'll need the .config file from the Mandrake install you have. I forget offhand what dir it is in but I belevie it is /usr/src/linux. Copy that file to the new source tree and the type make oldconfig. The new kernel will only prompt you for items tht are new to the kernel in regard sto rentries in the .config file. I compiled many a kernel on my redhat 6.0 box this way. The kernel might not have been "optimized" but it worked. :) *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/20/2000 at 12:49 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled: Hello everybody: I would like to compile a new kernel for the computer I use. Since I really don´t know much about the configuration options the "make menuconfig" offers, I would like to keep the configuration of the current kernel. How can I tell the "make oldconfig" commnad where to look for the configuration parameters of the current kernel? Is there a standard directory that file is usually placed? If it is the case that the new kernel has new configuration options, will the "make oldconfig" commnad ask me automatically for the needed information? Thanks in advance. Fabián Peña. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
